Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2142, Samuel Cole, Md.
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Service                                                    Number
Md.                  Cole, Samuel                  R. 2143
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State of Ohio
County of Harrison
On this, 2nd day of June 1835, personally appeared in open court before the judges of the Court of Common Pleas now sitting Samuel Cole a resident of German township in the county of Harrison & state of Ohio
 aged seventy two years who being first duly sworn according to law on his oath made the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed on June 7th 1832,  that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers (illegible) as (illegible) of he stated.  In October (he thinks the fore part of that month) A.D. 1778 he was drafted for two months, He marched with his company to a magazine containing arms and ammunitions of war seven miles from Baltimore on the road leading to Little York in Pennsylvania and also seven miles from where he was living in Baltimore County in the state of Maryland the object of the draft was to guard the magazine  there was no other troops at that place except his company which was commanded by Captain Benjamin Tolbert  The name of the Lieutenant he has forgotten,  the Ensign's name was Neil Hale He continued  to serve with his company until the two months for which  they were drafted expired which was in the fore part of December in the same year when they were all discharged he received a written discharge  by his Captain but it has been long since lost,
In the early part of August 1779 (but he cannot remember the date of the month) he volunteered with his whole company at said Baltimore County in Maryland where he was then living, & marched with them to the City of Baltimore,(than called the town of Baltimore) the
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British Ships of war were then lying in the Chesapeake Bay below Baltimore and he thinks the object of this call upon the militia was to prevent them landing.  He continued to serve with his company until the expiration of two months which was in the (illegible) of September 1779 (but does not remember the day of the month) when they were discharged, but received no written discharge.  The officers of his company under whom he served were Captain Nicholas Merrryman; Lient. Humphrey Chilcoat and Ensign Darby Inzer.  The regiment was commanded by Col. Thomas Gess and General Andrew Buchanan had command of all the troops who were there; amounting he thinks to five or six thousand.  There were no regular soldiers there except a few in the Fort  and he does not know who were their officers.
In March 1782 (he thinks about the middle but does not remember the precise day of the month) he was drafted again, at said Baltimore County for the term of two months. He marched with his company to Fredericktown in the State of Maryland, where they were employed in guarding Fort of Cornwallis, army which had been taken at Yorktown and were then (to the number of 700 or 800) quartered at Fredericktown.  He thinks there were no other American troops except his company which was commanded by Capt Madery.  The Lieutenant was Randolph.  The name of the ensign he cannot remember.  He served this tour two months and he thinks as day of two over, but is not certain as to that.  The whole period of his service, in the three tours, was six months; all of which time he served as a private soldier.
He has no documentary evidence and he knows of no person living whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services except his brother Ezekiel Cole.  There is no clergyman in his neighborhood or with whom his is acquainted whose evidence he can obtain as to his belief respecting his age and the (illegible) belief in his neighborhood relative to his Revolutionary services.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except this pursuit and declares
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that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State, or (if any) only on that of the agency of the State of Maryland. 
And in answer to the interrogatories put by the court he states:
I st:  He was born in North Hundred, Baltimore County in the State of Maryland on the 20th of September 1762.
II nd: He has no record of his age but derives his knowledge as tort form one which was left by his father. 
IIIrd: He was living at Each time (?) when called into service, in Baltimore County in the State of Maryland and continued to live there till he was thirty years old when he moved to the state of Ohio and has resided there ever since, and now lives in Harrison County in said State. 
IVth: The first and third time he entered the service he was drafted; the second time he volunteered.
Vth: This interrogatory he has answered in the body of his declaration as fully as his memory will recollect him to do. 
VIth: He received a discharge signed by his captain from each of his first tours of service; which has been long since lost. He could received none, that he recollects from the other.
VII; He gives the names of the following persons, vis; John Hoover, Luke Lipton, John Grubertson and John Barrett.  
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. 
Samuel Cole 
William Tingley John Barrett and Luke Lifton residing in the County of Jefferson Ohio hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Cole who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy two years of age; that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood which he reside, to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.  
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. 
William Tingley Clerk 
Luke Tipton
John Barrett
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatorie3s prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he sates. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Luke Tipton and John Barrett who have signed the preceding certificate are resident in the County of Jefferson and State of Ohio and in German Township and are credible persons and that their statements is entitled to credit.
Attest Wm TIngley Clerk of said court
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The State of Ohio
Harrison County
I William Tingley clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said Harrison County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Cole for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Cadiz this 30th day of June AD 1835
Wm Tingley Clerk
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Power of Atty
in case of 
Saml Cole of 
Ohio

Suspended under 
act of June 7th
1832

Col. Anderson well please 
retain the papers until
called for

Thompson G Venable
Attys
Washington
DC
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POWER OF ATTORNEY- Revolutionary Pension Claims.
Know all Men by these Presents, That I Thomas Cole one of the children and heirs of Samuel Cole deceased a soldier of the Revolutionary War of the United States of America do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint M Thompson esq. of Washington City D.C. my true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the claim of Samuel Cole decd. for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or increase of Pension, that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Agent to examine all papers and documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or arguments and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, and to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all that my said Attorney or Agent shall lawfully do in the premises, and revoking all former powers.
WITNESS my seal this 21st day of November A.D. 1853
Thomas Cole- his mark
Signed in the presence of 
Jacob Copeland 
Samuel  Forman
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Claim of Samuel Cole Act of ________
State of Ohio and County of Harrison
Be it known that on the 21th day of November A.D. eighteen hundred and fifty three before the  undersigned, a Justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Thomas Cole a resident of Germain   in said County and made oath according to law that he is the identical Thomas Cole who executed the foregoing power of attorney, and that he is directly interested in said claim and make this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as said Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Thomas Cole  his mark
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid, before
Samuel Foreman  J Peace

I Samuel Foreman, Justice of the Peace in and for said County do hereby certify that Thomas Cole who executed the foregoing paper is a respectable resident of this county and is I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth,
Samuel Foreman, J. Peace

The State of Ohio Harrison County'
I, Charles Patterson Clerk of the Comm Pleas Court in the County and State aforesaid, do certify that Samuel Foreman before whom the foregoing papers were executed was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized bylaw to administer oaths, and the name thereunto subscribed is his signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official  seal, this 22nd day of November A,D. 1853
Chas Patterson  clerk
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State of Ohio
County of Harrison
It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me Charles Patterson clerk of the court of common Plea for Harrison County that Samuel Cole late of Harrison County deceased was a Revolutionary soldier of the United States at the rate  of _____ per annum, that he died on the thirteenth day of February eighteen hundred and forty two leaving surviving  Thomas, Elizabeth, Meshal, Charley, Betsy Wright a widow Julianne Cole.  The living children of Tensa deceased intermarry with Luke Tipton, Sarah intermarried with John Ganet as his children & heirs at law that Julianne his wife died in the month of March AD 1842.
It further appears that the date of marriage of said parties is not known definitely but that the same took place in the year 1784.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my signature & my seal of office this twenty ninth day of November one thousand eight hundred and fifty three
Chas Patterson Clerk
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33145
Samuel Cole
Ohio
            FREE
Hon. L. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

13th July 1835

[date stamp]
CADIZ OHIO JUL 9

Chaner Dewey
Cadiz
Ohio
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Cadiz Ohio July 8th 1835
Sir
At the request of the applicant I enclose the declaration for a pension be made by Samuel Cole of this county
If the papers should on examination be found satisfactory (as I hope they are) I am requested to state that it will be more convenient for the applicant to receive his pension at Pittsburgh than at any other pension agency.
Very Respectfully 
Your Obt Sernt
Chauncey Dewey

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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2142
Samuel Cole 

REJECTED
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Rejected
did not serve six months,
See letter 15 July 35 to C Dewey
2142