Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2122, Ebenezer Cole, R.I.
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(3-1776)
Service R. I     Number R. 2122
Cole, Ebenezer
Contents [blank]
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State of Rhode Island
& Providence Plantations
County of Providence

On this 17th day of April AD 1839 personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the Court of Probate for the town of Glocester in said County of Providence now sitting Ebenezer Cole a resident of said Glocester aged 75 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832....
I the said declarant was born in said Glocester on the 15th day of August AD 1763. In June 1778 I enlisted at Providence to serve in the State troops and joined the Company commanded by Captain Philip Traffan in Colonel Topham's regiment Rhode Island State Troops and served as a private in said company nine months we were stationed at Tiverton Rhode Island and on the Island of Rhode Island during said term. Ezekiel Cornell was our General. The name of the Lieutenant in the company in which I served with Helme. The British had possession of Rhode Island during said term. I was on the Island with the Company to which I belonged during the battle which took place in the latter part of August of the same year (1778) and was in the engagement. At night after the battle the regiment in which I served retreated to Tiverton where I remained until March 1779 when the term of my enlistment having expired was discharged & I returned to Glocester. In November 1779 I was drafted as a private in Capt. Daniel Mourys company Colonel Peleg Arnold's regiment Rode Island militia and was stationed at Butts Hill on R. I. one month, the British had left the Island a few days before we marched on. Benjamin Sheldon was the Lieutenant of said company commanded by Moury. In July 1780 I was drafted in the same company and served as a private [therein] and was stationed at Brentons Point R. I. one month. In August 1780 I was hired as a substitute for some one whose name
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I do not now recollect said service as a private
in Capt Philip Teaffaic’s company one month [“one month” underlined]
We were stationed at the same place (Becetous Point)
In September 1780 I was drafted in Capt. David
Mourys company and served as a private therein one
month [underlined], we were stationed at Warwick R.I.  In
December 1780 I was called out on an alarm & served
as a private in the same company (Mourys) one [“one” is crossed out]
month [“month” is crossed out] twenty days and was stationed at Tiverton R.I. In March
1781 I was drafted & served as a private in said 
company twenty five days and we were stationed at Pappoon
Squash near Bristol R.I.  Near the close of the war
I was drafted and served as a private in Capt. Jickoneys
Company, Colonel Alwells Regiment R.I.
Militia and was stationed at Bristol R.I. one [“one” is underlined]
month. I hereby relinquish every claim whatever
to a pension or [illegible] except the present and
do declare that my name is not on the pension
roll of the agency of any state
Ebenezer Cole [name is signed]
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in 
open Court
Attest                Clovis H. Bowen Probate Clerk
And the said Ebenezer Cole here in open court
in answer to the interrogatories, prescribed by the war
department and propounded to him by this court
on oath as aforesaid saith — 
In answer to the first interrogatory he saith
That he was born in said Gloucester August 15. 1753 [year is smudged out]
In answer to the second interrogatory he saith
That he has no record of his age, he thinks however
that the same was recorded in a family bible
formerly belonging to his father but he does not 
know what has become of it — — — —
In answer to the third interrogatory he saith
That when first called into service he resided in
Smithfield in said County of Providence, and that since
the Revolution he has lived & resided in said Smithfield
Glocester and in Burrillville in said County of Providence
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and now resides in said Glocester — — — — —
In answer to the fourth interrogatory he saith
That he served as an enlisted soldier, was drafted and 
served as a substitute in his foregoing declaration 
In answer to the fifth interrogatory he saith
That General Ezekiel Cornwall commanded when he
served as an enlisted soldier with the State Troops
Tophum and Crary were Colonels, Traffan commanded 
the company to which he belonged and
his lieutenants name was Helme — In the Rhode
Island Militia he served under Colonels Peleg Arnold
and Amices Atwell Major William Aldrich
Captain David Moury Captain J Mosey Lieutenant
Benjamin Sheldon. He also recollects
on the Island of Rhode Island Major General
Gates.  Colonels Chad Brown and Christopher 
Greene; his service was generally with the R.I.
State Troops, and R.I. militia
In answer to the sixth interrogatory he saith
That he never received any written discharge
from the service.
In answer to the seventh he saith and state —
That Hon. Ira P. Evan’s, Samuel W. Hunt, Jenckes
Brown, Moses Cooper are persons to whom 
he is known in his present neighborhood who 
can testify as to his character for veracity and there [their]
belief of his services as a soldier of the 
revolution
Ebenezer Cole [signature]
Sworn and subscribed in open Court the day
and year aforesaid
Attest.    C.H. Bowen Probate Clerk
We Ziba Ohrey and Simon Baker — — residing
in said Glocester thereby certify that we are
well acquainted with Ebenezer Cole of said
Glocester who has subscribed and sworn to the
aforegoing declaration, that we believe him to be
the years of age that he is reported and believed
in the neighborhood where he resides to have
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been a soldier of the revolution and that we
Concur in that opinion     Ziba Onley [signature]
Simon Baker [signature]
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court the
day and year aforesaid 
Attest.    Clovis H. Bowen Probate Clerk,
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion
after the investigation of the matter & after putting
the interrogatories prescribed by the war department,
that the aforenamed applicant was a 
revolutionary soldier and served as he states
And the Court further certify that it appears
to them that Ziba Ohrey Esq and Simon Baker
are residents in said Glocester and are credible
persons and that their statements are entitled 
to credit and that no Clergyman resides in the
vicinity of said applicant — excepting one who from
his short residence in the neighborhood of the applicant
could not be able to testify in the matter as
required by the rules of the War Department 
I Clovis H. Bowen Clerk of the Court of Probate with
in and for the town of Glocester in said County of
Providence do hereby certify that the aforegoing
contains the original proceedings of said Court in the
matter of the application of Ebenezer Cole for a
pension
In testimony whereof and by the order of
said Court I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of said Court
this seventeenth day of April in the year One
thousand eight hundred & thirty nine
Clovis H. Bowen Probate Clerk
[seal is affixed to the bottom left of the page]
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30,799

Ebenezer Cole's application for pension
Act of June 7th 1832

Ebenezer Cole
Act 1832
R Island
May 18
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State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations
Providence &c. I, John W. Smith Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within & for the County of Providence, in said State, being a court of record, do hereby certify that Job Armstrong Esquire, before whom one of the annexed affidavits was sworn is one of the Justices of our said Court of Commons Pleas; — that Abram Baker Esquire, before whom two of the annexed affidavits were sworn, is one of the Justices of the Peace for the town of Glocester in said county: —that by law said Job & Abram are respectively, authorized & qualified to administer oaths & take depositions: and that their aforewritten signatures are genuine. And I further certify that Clovis H. Bowen Esquire is Probate Clerk for the town of Glocester aforesaid, and that his aforewritten signatures are genuine.

[paper seal]
In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand & affix the Seal of our said Court, at the City of Providence, this fifteenth day of May AD 1859
John W. Smith clerk
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I Timothy Dean of Burrillville in the County of Providence and State of Rhode Island of lawful age being firstly engaged according to law do testify and say that I was a soldier of the revolution and am now a pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. During a part of the term of the Revolutionary ward I belonged to the Kentish Guards and was stationed in and about East Greenwich Ebenezer Cole with whom I am well acquainted and who now resides in Glocester in said County of Providence came to said East Greenwich with the troops. I cannot testify as to the particular time when this [?] took place. I had conversation with said Cole at the time having been somewhat acquainted with him before, he was then doing duty with the Rhode Island militia and I think most probably was stationed at Warwick R. I. which is the adjoining town with East Greenwich. I recollect that at the time of said meeting it was warm weather but cannot testify as to the day or year
Timothy Dean

State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations
Providence &c Glocester April 27th 1839 Then personally appeared the aforenamed Timothy Dean who in my presence subscribed the aforegoing deposition and made solemn oath before me to the truth of the statements therein contained. And I certify that said Timothy who is well known to me is a credible person and that his statements are entitled to credit
Job Armstrong Jus't C. C. Pleas
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I Joseph Place of Glocester in the County of Providence and State of Rhode Island in the 84th year of my age being firstly engaged according to law do testify and say that I was a soldier of the revolution and am now a pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. I further say that I am well acquainted and have been from my early boyhood with Ebenezer Cole of said Glocester who is an applicant for a pension under said act. In June 1778 I enlisted into Captain William Whipples Company Colonel Tophams regiment of Rhode Island State troops to serve until the 16th of March following. I served in Tiverton and on the Island of Rhode Island nine months. I knew the said Ebenezer Cole in said regiment, he was in Capt. Philip Traffarns company and served therein as a private until the term of our enlistment expired which was for the space of nine months. I was frequently on guard with the said Ebenezer and saw him almost daily during said term. We were both discharged on the same day to wit on the 16th of March 1779.  I further say that I have resided in the State of New York for the last thirty years excepting about eighteen months last past.
Joseph x his mark Place
Attest J. S. Tourtellot

State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Providence & Glocester April 17, 1839 Then personally appeared the above named Joseph Place who in my presence subscribed the aforegoing deposition by making his mark (being unable to write his name) and made solemn oath that the statements therein contained are true in all their parts before me. And I certify that said Joseph Place who is well known to me is a credible person and that his statements are entitled to credit.
Abram Baker Justices Peace
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I Simon Paine of Smithfield in the County of Providence and State of Rhode Island aged Seventy five years being firstly engaged according to law do testify and say that I was a soldier of the Revolution and am now a pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. I am well acquainted with Ebenezer Cole of Glocester in said County, who is an applicant for a pension under said act. I have been acquainted with said Ebenezer Cole ever since our youth. In July 1780 I served in Capt. Daniel Mourys company one month and was stationed at Brentons Point on R.I— The said Ebenezer Cole served with me in the same company during said term; said Cole and myself messed together at this time. In September 1780 I served one month in the same company and was stationed at Warwick R. I. Said Ebenezer Cole was in the same company during said time and served one month. At the time of the aforementioned service said Ebenezer Cole resided in the same neighbourhood with me in Smithfield he was absent from home other times than those above mentioned, and I understood at the time was in the service
Simon his x mark Paine
Attest Jesse S. Tourtellot

State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Providence & Glocester April 27th 1839 There personally appeared the above named Simon Paine  who subscribed the above deposition by making his mark being unable to write his name and made solemn oath before me to the truth of the statements therein contained. And I certify that said Simon Paine who is well known to me is a credible person and that his statements are entitled to credit
Abram Baker Justices Peace
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R. I'd
[?] J. S. Tourlettel [Tourtellot], Ag't
3 39
2122
Act 7. June '32
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[crossed out] Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
[stamp] Rejected
2122
P.O. Ebenezer Coles
Service: [blank]
Enlisted: [blank]
Discharged: [blank]
Application filed: [blank]
Alleges: [blank]
Re-enlisted: [blank]
Attorney: [blank]
P.O. [blank]
[blank] Recognized. [blank] [Contract?]
[blank] Cert. of Dis. Searched for [blank]
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Chepachet R. I. May 15th 1839

Dear Sir
I herewith send you the evidence in support of Ebenezer Cole's claim for a pension under the act of June 7 1932
Please direct to me at Chepachet Rhode Island.
Respectfully Your Obdt. Svt.
Jesse S. Tourtellot

To Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.