Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16733, Eli Cole, Continental Mass.
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SERVICE | | NUMBER
Continental | Cole, Eli | S.16733
Mass | |

CONTENTS
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503
Maine
Eli Cole

of Cumberland in the State of Maine
who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Hunt of the regt. commanded by Col. Greaton in the Masstts line for fifteen months from January 1782.

Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 50 Dollars - Cents per anum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 12 day of September 1832 and sent to John Makey, Portland Me.

Arrears to 4th of September 1832 $75.-
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 1833 25. -
$100

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by Hn L Allison, Clerk,
Book D, Vol. one, Page 52
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Eli Cole's
Application for a pension
July 1832
A private
Pension Office July 31 1832

$50 per ann.
[illegible]
act June 7, 1832
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United States of America.
Maine District SS.
At a Special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland, within the said District, on the twenty fifth day of July A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty-two before the Honorable Ashur Ware, Judge of said Court. On this twenty fifth day of July aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge Eli Cole a resident of Buxton in the county of York in said Maine District, aged seventy four years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath passed June 7th 1832. 

That he was placed on the pension list [afor] the District of Maine Agency and had a pension Certificate granted to him in his application made on the 14th day of April 1818. That he served as a private in a Company commanded by Capt. Naul in the regt. commanded by Col. Mellin. That he now resides in Buxton aforesaid and resided there when he made his first application for pension in 1818
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.  3-525

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19___


In reply to your request of ____, received ____
for a statement of the military history of Eli Cole
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension
on file in this Bureau.

        |                 |            |   OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED  | 
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. | LENGTH OF SERVICE. | RANK. | CAPTAIN | COLONEL | STATE
Jan 1782 |  | Pvt | Hunt |  Mellen | Mass
         |  | Sgt | Daniel Lee | Greaton | 
 
and was discharged from the American Regt.
on June 30, 1784.
 
Battles engaged in, none stated.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, enl. at Kittery, York Co, Mass (Me.)
Date of application for pension, Apr. 14, 1818  His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Buxton, York Co Mass (Me)
Age at date of application, about 60 years

Remarks: There is no data on file as to his family.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

8-285C
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16.733
INVALID.

File No. 16733
Eli Cole
Pri Rev War
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Act: June 7" 32
Index: --Vol. 1, Page 439
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1918 July 3. History to Beatrice Madden. AW.
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5699
Maine

Eli Cole
Private
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of the district of Maine
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on
the 14th of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 25 of Jan'y 1819
and sent to George Thacker Esq Judge
Saco, Maine

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818. 4m't 21/30 37:60
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th March 1819 48: -
H. 85:60

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}

Buxton -
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Rev Sec
[illegible]

Chicago, Illinois.
June 25th, 1918.

Hon. Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir.--

Would you kindly give me the service of Eli Cole with any family
history it may contain - who served from Kittery Maine in the Revolution
and drew a pension, and probably lived then at Buxton, Maine.

Full information will be very greatly appreciated.

Yours truly,

Beatrice Madden
855 Eastwood Ave. 2nd Apt.
Chicago.

[stamp] U. S. PENSION OFFICE. JUN 27 1915
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Eli Cole

Payable semi-annually -- the first payment
on this certificate will be made
on the 4th of March next,
At the Cumberland Bank -
Portland
Maine

Recorded
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I CERTIFY That, in conformity with the Law of the United 
States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
Eli Cole late a private
in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension
List, Roll of the District of Maine Agency, at the
rate of Eight dollars per month, to commence on the
14th day of April one thousand eight hundred and
eighteen.

GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, 
this 23 day of
January one thousand eight hundred
and nineteen.

[signature]J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.
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Eli Cole

Jany 1802
Greatons Reg't
Adm't
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I Eli Cole of Buxton in the County of York
and State of Massachusetts & a citizen of the United
States of America do declare that some
time in the month of January A.D. 1782 at
Kittery in said county I was enlisted as a recruit
and joined Capt Daniel Lee's company of foot
in Col. Grayton's regiment of the Massachusetts
line, in the Brigade there commanded by said
Grayton, at New Boston huts near West [illegible]
in State New York
during the summer following my enlistment 
the Brigade, to which I belonged, was
encamped at Kings Ferry, near Stony
Point. in the winter following went into
winter quarters at New Windsor, above West
Point on the west side of Hudson river &
in the next spring I marched with
one battallion of said regiment to Philadelphia
to silence the mutineers, thence we
marched back to West Point & there I served
in the same company till my discharge,
which bears date June 30 1784. I have no
pension - am in reduced circumstances in
life & need assistance from my country for
support

April 14. 1818
[signature] Eli Cole
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Be it known that on the 14th day of April 1818 before me
the subject or one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial
Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts personally
appeared the within named Eli Cole and being duly
sworn, made oath to the truth of the declaration by him, in
my presence submitted, in order to obtain the provision
made by the late act of Congress entitled an act to
provide for certain persons engaged in the land and
naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary
against the common enemy, which declaration
sworn to & subscribed as aforesaid, I George Mather Justice
do certify that it appears to my satisfaction
that the said Eli Cole did serve in the Revolutionary
War as stated in his declaration & against the common
enemy & that he is in reduced circumstances & stands
in need of the assistance of his Country for support
and I now transmit the proceedings & testimony had
before me to the Secretary of the department of war.
Pursuant to the directions in the said act of Congress
In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand
this thirtieth day of May Anno Domini 1818
[signature]George Mather
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Eli Cole Serjeant in
the American Regiment,
bein inlisted for Three Years, is hereby honourably DISCHARGED from
the Service of the United States.

Given in the State of New-York,
the thirtieth Day of June
1784
[illegible]
By the General's Command,
C. Seldon Capt. & [illegible]

REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
[signature] Charles Seldon
Adjutant