Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23,578, Sisson Cole, R.I.
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Service
R.I.

Cole, Sisson

Number
S23,578
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New York 24.701

Sisson Cole
of Otsego Co in the State of New York
who was a private in the Company commanded
by Captain Davis of the regt - commanded
by Col. West - in the R.J. main
line for 12 mos:

Inscribed on the Roll of New York 
at the rate of 40 Dollars 00 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 8 day of July:
1834 and Sevnth (?)
Hon S. Page H Rep.

Arrears t the 4th of Sept 1834 $100.00
Semianl. allowance ending 4 March '34 $20.00
total line - $120.00

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk
Book E Vol. 4 Page 130
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(Written on the side)

February 1833
Horace Lathrop Clerk

164206

In the Matter of the
application of Sisson 
Cole for a pension
Amended valuation

V. Green
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Otsego Common Pleas
State of New York
Otsego County 

Of the Term of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two

On this fifteenth day of October 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Comon Pleas now sitting Sisson Cole a resident of the Town of Richfield in the County of Otsego and State of New York aged eighty five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, with said oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officent (sic) and served as herein after stated

That he entered this service of the United States from Scituate in the County of Providence and State of Rhode Island on the twentieth day of April 1775 in a company of malitia (sic) commanded by Captain Jeremiah Davis Lieutenant Isaac Hopkins Ensign Oziah Smith, as a volunteer in said company That he marched with said company to Bowden a few days after the Lexington Battle and was engaged in the sworn act and duty four days - 

That he again on the first day of June 1775 marched with the above company from Scituate to Warwick park and remained there doing sentry in service company as a volunteer fifteen days Captain Jeremiah Davis has the command of said company - 

That he again entered the service of the United States as a volunteer about the fifteenth day of September 1775 in a company of Militia commanded by Captain Stephen Sheldon Lieutenant George Dorrance Ensign Peter Tift General William West has on Newport Island and have the command of the Troop where this deponent
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[lay?]. That he [illegible] from the Town of Scituate in the State of Rhode Island with said company and went on to [Connecticut?] [Island?] about two miles from Newport and [illegible] there doing duty in said company two months.

That he again entered the service of the United States as a volunteer on the fifteenth of March 1776 in a company of Malitia [sic] commanded by Captain Isaac Hopkins. Oziah Smith was Ensign once marched from Scituate to Warwick [arch?] and was then doing duty fifteen days. Major Joseph Knight had the command.

That he again on the fifteenth of August 1776 entered the service of the United States in a company of Malitia [sic] commanded by Captain Isaac Pain as a volunteer and marched from Scituate to [illegible] and was on duty & in service fifteen days that he [illegible] in [illegible] for [illegible] at [illegible] during this last service. 

That he again entered the service of the United States as a volunteer in a company of militia commanded by Captain Jeremiah Davis   Lieutenant Isaac Hopkins and Ensign Oziah Smith. That he marched from Scituate to Bristol about the first of December 1776 and was on duty in said company thirty five days. That he [assisted?] during this service in removing the munitions of War & from Rhode Island to the mainland. Colonel Stephen Kimbell and General William West had a command of the troops to which this [illegible] belonged.
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That he again entered the service as a volunteer in a company of militia commanded by captain Hopkins and Ensign Oziah Smith and marched from Situate to Providence in June 1777 and continued there doing duty in said company for two days. 
That in September 1777 he again entered that services of the United States as a volunteer in Captain Isaac Hopkins company of militia and marched from Situate to Providence and marched then doing duty in said company fifteen days. 
That above the fifteenth day of August 1778. He again entered into the service of the United Sates in a company commanded by Captain Isaac Hopkins and marched with said Company as a volunteer from Scitate to Rhode Island Guard west commanded the militia and General Schyler commanded the continental troops at that pace. That he was in the fort called Butts Hill in Newport Island during the battle and retreated off with the main army during the night in Boats & landed at Howland's Ferry was in the service about 25 days during the last engagement. 
That during the above services from June 20th 1775 to September 10th 1778 he was actually engaged as a soldier in the service of the United States doing duty in the several company above mentioned at the last six months, 
that from October 1778 to the Spring of 1782 he was actually engaged in
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in the service of the United States as a volunteer in the different militia companies, in Sitiuate at least six months, but he is unable to give the particular services with any company. His tours of duty was frequent and short and his business was to [illegible] to guard the shores from Providence to Newports. 
That he always joined the army when ever allowed of danger that reached him - that he asked himself and was fully [equfied..] deceasing the war. 
That Colonel Lippett Colonel Cornwell and Colonel Kimball have the commanded of the regentry to which he belonged during the war - Colonel Cornwell had the command a short time when he joined the continental services Colonel Lippett then had the commanded be short time and then colonel Stephen Kimball who continued in the command to the close of the war. 
That Joseph Knight was was the major and commanded had the command of the regiment and company when this deponent served. 
This deponent further says that he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can precure who can testify to his service.
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This deponent saith that he was born in the Town of [illegible]. Bristol County. Massachusetts June 20 1747

That he had a record of his age in his bible 

That he resided [where?] call into service, in the the Town of Situate Providence County R.I. since the Revolutionary War he had principally resided in the Town of Richfield. Otsego County New York and now resided there.

That he was called into service a [set?] forth in his Declaration 

That the names of officers that were with the troops where he served, such continental and militia Regiments as he can recollect and the general circumstances of his own service are set forth in his declaration as fully as he an recollect

That he never received a written discharge from the army.

That he refers the Court to Rev Wm B Curtis and Matthewson Eddy to whom he is known in his present neighbourhood and who can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution.

He hereby relinquishes his every claim whatever to a [pention [sic]] or annuity except the present and declared that his name is not on the pention [sic] roll of the agency of any state sworn to and subscribed [claim?]
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[illegible] Wim B. Curtis residing in the town of Richfield Otsego County New York Matthewson Eddy residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Sission Cole who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be eighty five years of age that he is reputed and believed in the nieghbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion. 
Wm B Curtis

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforsaid Mathewson Eddy
Horace Lathroh clerk

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the war department that the ab ove named applicant was a revolution soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that William B. Curtis who has signed the proceeding certificate is a clergyman is resident of Richfield Otsego County N.Y. and that Mathewson Eddy - who has also signed the same is a resident of the same place and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
G.O. Nom
S. Page
J.C. Warworth
} Judges

I Horace Lathrop clerk of the court of common pleas of Otsego County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of Sission Cole for a pension. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
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my hand and seal of office this 19th day of October 1832
Horace Lathrop
By J.K. Corgy Deputy

State of New York
Otsego County 
Personally appearance before me the undersigned a justice of the peace of the town of Richfield in Said county Sisson Cole who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory  he can not swear positively as to the pension length of his service but according to the but of his recollection he served not [illegible] there the periods mentioned below and in the following graces - for our year and fourteen days I served as a private solder and for said service I claim a pension. 
Sisson Cole

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 19th day of February 1833
Loring Dow Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Otsego County
I Horace Lasthrop clerk of the said County do certify that Loring Dow Esq.r before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Otsego, and that I am acquainted with his handwriting. & verify believe his name subscribed  to said affidavit to be his proper hands writing and signature. - In testimony whereof I have hereunto my hand and seal of office the 22nd days of February 1833.
Horace Lathrop Clerk
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Record Division

September 22, 1911.

Mrs. M.M. Hatch, 
South Columbia, 
Herkimer County, N.Y.

Madam: 
In reply to your letter dated the 15th and received the 19th instant, you are furnished the military record of Sisson Cole, Flavel Clark, Willard Eddy, Thaddeus Loomis, and Nathan Dow, and advised that the Revolutionary War records fail to show that pension claims were ever filed for Richard Schooley, Robert Martin, Israel Loomis, Lemuel Fitch or John Campbell, described by you. 
Sur. File. No. 23,578, Siksson Cole, born June 20, 1747, at Swansey, Bristol County, Massachusetts, enlisted at Scituate, Rhode Island, April 20, 1775, and served 1 year 14 days as a private of Rhode Island troops under Captains Jeremiah Davis, Stephen Shelden, Isaac Hopkins and Isaac Pain, Colonels West, Kimball and Hopkins, and was in the battle of Rhode Island. Resided at Richfield, New York in 1832 - date of death not shown.
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In the record of Sesson Cole a Revolutionary soldier - 
App. in addition to his declaration  on file. 
K. Green agent. 


admd
12 mo pr
40$
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State of New York
Otsego County. 
Sisson Cole of the town of Richfield in the county of Otsego and state of New York being duly sworn doth depose and says in addition to his declaration now and files in the [washington?] office for a pension and in or can to give a more perfect and full account of his services as a private soldier during the revolutionary war. that he entered the services of the United States during the Revolutionary War as a volunteer in a company of militia on the 20th day of April 1775. That said company was commanded by Capt. Davis Lieutenant Hopkins & ensign Smith of Situate in the State of Rhode Island. That this deponent marched with said Company from Situate to Providence in said state that he served at Providence with said company during duty [illegible] as a private soldier until the 26th day of April 1775 when he was honorably discharged by his said Captain & returned home having performed six days actual service in said company. This deponent further saith that on the first day of June 1773 he again entered the service of the United States as a private solider & volunteer in a company of militia commanded by the above named Captain Davis Lieutenant Hopkins had ensign Smith and marched with said Company from Situate to Warwick [illegible] in the state of Rhode Island and remained there guarding the shores and doing the ongoing duty of a private soldier until the 13th day of June 1775. When he was again honorably discharged by his said Captain & returned home having served fifteen days during the last engagement
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This deponent further saith that on the 15th day of September 1775 he again entered the service of the United States as a private soldier & volunteer in a company of militia commanded by Captain Sherldan Leutinant Dorance and Ensign Tift, while company was attendance or belongd to a regiment commanded by Colonel or General West. That he marched with said company to Connanute Island and remained there doing ordinary duty of a soldier tow months and was verbally discharged on the sixteenth or seventeenth day of November 1775. 
This deponent further saith that on the 15th day of March 1776 he again entered the service of the United States was a private soldier and volunteer in a compnay of militia commanded by Captains Hopkins with company was attached to regiment commanded by Major Joseph Knight. That this deponent marched with said compaqny from Situate to Warwick  Fort Rhode Island and remained there doing duty as a private soldier until the first day of April 1776. When this deponent was verbally discharged having servced fifteen days in said company during this last engagement. 
This deponent further saith that on the fifteenth day of August 1776 he again entered the service of the United States as a private soldier and muster in a compnay of militia commanded by Captian Davis and marched to Providence and remained there doing duty until the 1st day of September 1776 which he was verbally discharged having served fifteen days during the last town of [Situate] This deponent  labored upon the fortifications which were there exciting at Providence, during its last [several] tours of service. 
This deponent further saith that on the first
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 December 1776 he again entered the service
of the United States as a private soldier and Volunteer
in a company of Militia commanded by Capt
Davis, Luntenant Hopkins and Ensign Smith
under General West & was attached to
regiment commanded by Coln Kimball
that this deponent marched to Bristol with
said Company that this deponent with his said
Company and regiment assisted in removing the
bar like stores from Rholland to the main
land, during the last tour of service and was
verbally discharged on the 10th of January 1777. having
Served ten days with said company during the
last tour of service 
This
deponent further with that on the first
day of June 1777 he again entered the Service
of the United States as a private soldier and
Volunteer in a company of Militia commanded
by Captain Hopkins and marched with said
Company to Providence and performed the
Service of a private soldier until the Eleventh
day of June 1777 in said Company when he was
again verbally discharged during this tour of Service
this deponent laboured upon the fortifications
at Providence. This deponent [illegible] during
this Tour of Service was Pain & his Ensign
Smith
This deponent further saith that on the 15th day
of September 1777 he again entered the service of
the United States as a private soldier and Volunteer
in a company of Militia commanded by
Captain Hopkins, Lieutenant Pain and Ensign
Smith, that he marched with said Company
to Providence and performed the duty of
a private soldier until the first day of
October 1777 having served fifteen days [illegible]

The above engagement, & was then verbally discharged
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This deponent further saith that on the 15th day of August 1778 he again entered the service of the United States as a private soldier and volunteer in a company of militia commanded by Captain Pain. That he marched with said Company to Rhode Island and was attached to a regiment commanded by Colonel Hopkins [illegible] General West. That he remained in said company doing duty until the 11th day of September 1778. When he was verbaly(sic) discharged. That this deponent was in the fort on the Island during the the Battle which Took place during his last Tour of Service and marched with said Company and Regiment from the Island to the Mainland. That this deponent saw General Sullivan and General Schyler on the Island during the above Battles. 
       This deponent further saith that Colonel Stephen Kimball Major Joseph Knight had the command the Regiment to which this deponent belonged during most of the above Tours of Service.
                  The deponent further saith that he performed more Service as a soldier during the Revolutionary War than those above particularly set forth but is now in consequences of old age and the consequent loss of memory (being now over Eighty six years old) unable to specify said services with accuracy since he may be somewhat inaccurate in detailing and specifing(sic) the above Services but has no doubt that he performed the full time of Services in the several Tours therein and above specified. And further this deponent saith not. 
             [Tyson Eoh?] 
Sworn to and Subscribed
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before me this sixth day of August 1833 Loring Dow Justice of the Peace
I further certify that I am well acquainted with the above Sisson Cole that he is a man of fair character & his statement is entitled to full credit. 
Loring Dow Justice

State of New York
Otsego County 
Bartram Rounds of Richfield in Swaince county of Otsego aged ninety one years and responds being duly sworn doth depose and say that he was well acquainted with Sisson Cole now of Richfield Otsego county during the Revolutionary War and that he has since three time been well acquainted with him - that he knows said Sisson Cole was a soldier actually engaged in the services of the United States during said tour. That this deponent of being said Cole on duty in Captain Davis Company in the state of Rhode Island. This deponent is unable to state with accuracy how long said Cole served as a soldier during the Revolutionary War as this deponent did not belong to the same regiment with said Cole but has no doubt  that said Cole served the United States as a private soldier during said Revolutionary War for the term of at least one year and further this deponent saith that said
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Sisson Cole is a man of fair character and his statement is entitled to the above confidence and report.
Bartram Rounds

Sworn to and subscribed before me this sixth day of August 1833 and I furhter certify that Bartam Rounds who sworn to and subscribed the above affidavit before me is a  man of fair character his statement is entitled to full credit. 
Loring Dow Justice of the Peace

State of New York
Otsego County
I Horace Lathrop clerk of the said county do hereby certify that Loring Dow Esquire befoe whom the preceding affidavits of Sisson Cole and Bartram Rounds purport to have been severally sworn was at the date of the same one of the Justice of the Peace in and for the said county duly dated and sworn as such; and that I am acquainted with his hands writing and verity believe his name subscribed to the said several affidavits. To the certificates thereunder written to be his proper hand writing and signatures Lathrop my hand & seal of office this 20th day of August 1833. 
Horace Lathrop Clerk
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Mil to 1364
Ohio

23578 
Invalid
Revolution

File No. 23,378
Sisson Cole
Pri Rev War

Act: June 7" 32"
Index: Vol. 2, Page 78

[Arrangement of 1870]


Jan 30/95 Mil. Hist. 
Mrs. E. W. Ward. Fort Plain N.Y.

Apr 15 1897 history
Miss Clara K. Sheridan
Euclid, Ave. Cleveland.

1911 Sept. 22 to Mrs. M.M. Hatch

1920, Nov 16 Hist to 
Mrs. Carrie A. Wyganl - Eu.
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New York
revo: 

Sisson Cole
Suspended
Let. V Gree 26 June 1833


Act 7 June 1833
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MK
2cent stamp enclosed M.K.

Buffalo, N.Y. 
1259 Abbott Road
Rev./K

Oct. 9, 1920
Official in Charge
Bureau of Pensions Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir: 
Will you kindly inform me if Sisson Cole was a pensioner for service in the Revolutionary War. Genealogical record of the descendants of James Cole of Plymouth, 1683 page 92, give his birth at Foster Rhode Island June 20 - 1746
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and his death at Richfield N.Y. March 28 - 1845, and states that he was a Revolutionary soldier and moved to N.Y. state about 1812.
I will be very grateful if you can furnish me with the desired information. Would like date of enlistment capacity in which he served & if he was a pensioner. 
Very respectfully
Mrs. Carrie A. Wygant
1259 Abbott Road  
Buffalo, N.Y.
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S. 23,578

Sisson Cole died in Richfield N.Y. March 18, 1845 aged 98 years, 9 months and 8 days. 

Delight Ransom Keller - Chairman
New York Committee  Historic sites
D.A.R

To Mrs. M.M. Hatch
South Columbia, N.Y. 
Her letter Sept. 15, 1911
recd Sept. 19, 1911
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1364 Euclid Avenue

Cleveland, Oh March 15th '97

The old war & Navy dept. (Revolutionary/Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Gentleman: 
Will you kindly send me the pension record for Sisson Cole, a Revolutionary soldier and a pensioner for many years - dying at an advanced age at Richfield, N.Y. Where he no
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doubt received his pension for many years - 
I wish this record for use in the society of the Daughters of the American Revolution otherwise I would not trouble you - 
Very truly
Clara A. Sheridan
1364 Euclid Ave
Cleveland, Ohio
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Pension Department
Gentlemen
Will you please inform me of Sisson Cole served in the Revolutionary War. I understand that he drew a pension. He died in Richfield Otsego Co. N.Y.
Yours - 
Mrs. E.W. Wood

Fort Plain
Montgomery Co. 
N.Y. 
Jan 11th/95
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Pension Department

Gentlemen
Will you please let me know if Sisson Cole served in the Revolutionary War. He died in Richfield Otsego Co. N.Y. 
Yours 
Mrs. E. W. Wood

Fort Plain N.Y. 
Sept. 31st/94
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3-525
REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C. Nov. 16, 1920
In reply to your request of [blank]
received [blank] a statement of the military history of Sisson Cole a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired formation as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. S. 23578

DATES OF
ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT: 
Apl. 20, 1775

LENGTH OF
SERVICE: served at various times in all, 1 yr & 14 days

RANK.
Pvt

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAINs. Jeremiah Davis
Stephen Sheldon
Isaac Hopkins
Isaac Rain

COLONEL.
West
Kimball
Hopkins

STATE.
R.I.


Battles engaged in, Rhode Island 
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Ent. Scituate, Providence Co. R.I.
Date of application for pension, Oct. 15, 1832, et al
Residence at date of application, Richfield, Otsego Co. NY
Age at date of application, B. June 20, 1747 Swansey, Bristol Co. Mass
Remarks: No fam data

Respectfully,
Commissioner.