Document B.4 · military service card · transcription: verbatim
NJSA Revolutionary War service card — bounty roll entry no. 53: Capt. Benj. Cooper, 4 Hunterdon, 20 April 1778, £94. Abstracted from Auditor's Book B, p. 186.
- repository
- New Jersey State Archives, Trenton
- collection
- Revolutionary War card index — header "Est'b. Hunterdon. BRM."
- identifier
- Cites Auditor Book B, page 186. Handwritten "22 cards" at the top and "12/30/15" beneath the header — read as a filing date of 30 December 1915.
- date
- 1915-12-30
What is transcribed: The card, in full.
People named
| As written | Role | Identified as | What this document says |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capt. Benj. Cooper | subject | Benjamin Cooper 1741–1794 | |
| Jesse Hart | official |
What this document records
It abstracts b 5
NINE ENTRIES, THREE ORIGINAL SOURCES. Five of this cluster ([B.1], [B.2], [B.3], [B.4], [B.6]) are typed NJSA index cards of 1915-1927 abstracting the other four. A card is never independent corroboration of the manuscript it summarises. This card's source is [B.5] line 53, which it quotes almost exactly.
The date note is a reading
"12/30/15" is recorded as possibly a filing date of 30 December 1915 — that is the entry's own hedge and it stands. If it is a date, this card predates [B.1]'s stamped 21 February 1927 by eleven years, which is the only evidence the catalog has for how long the Hunterdon militia card index took to build.
What a bounty payment is
WHAT JESSE HART'S BOOKS ARE. Auditor's Book B holds the abstracts of the Paymaster to the Militia of the Counties of Hunterdon & Somerset. p. 186 abstracts the bounty rolls he discharged; p. 183 the pay rolls. They are payment records, not muster rolls — a line proves a warrant was settled, not that a man stood in a field on that date. [B.1]'s cataloguer read them as service; that reading is his.
Transcription and notes
Provenance, the 1915 filing-date reading, and the fact that this card abstracts [B.5]
rather than corroborating it are in the source: and coverage: headers and are not repeated
here.
- Data from the card (full transcription):
- "NAME: Cooper, Benjamin."
- "Residence: | County: (Hunterdon)."
- "Born: [blank]."
- "Ref. Auditor Book B, page 186."
- Quoted body: "Abstract of Bounty rolls discharged by Jesse Hart Paymaster to the Militia of the Counties of Hunterdon & Somerset: 'No. 53; Date, April 20, 1778; Officer's name, Capt. Benj. Cooper; Regiment, 4 Hunterdon; Amount, 94:0:0.'"
- Handwritten notes: "22 cards" (top); "12/30/15" (beneath header, possibly a filing date 30 Dec 1915).