Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34704, George Cole, Md
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Service
MD

Name
Cole, George

Number
S.34704
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Notification sent September 6th 1820 to Philip Moore, Baltimore, Maryland 

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(2405)

Maryland

George Cole Ensign German Regiment commanded by Col. Nicholas Housaker in the army of the United States (Maryland) in the revolutionary war.

Inscribed on the roll of Maryland at the rate of 20 dollars per month to commence on the 10 of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 17 of Sept 1818 and sent to the care of Nicholas Brice, Esq in Baltimore, MD

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 $96.66
Semi-anl all'ce ending 4 March 1819 $120.00
$216.66

4 Mo 25/30

{Revolutionary claim act 18th March 1818}

76 to 78
Two years
City of Baltimore
Continued
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State of Maryland
City of Baltimore

On the 10th day of April in the years of our Lord one thousand eight hundred an eighteen personally appeared before me the undersigned George Coale residing in the city of Baltimore aged sixty years an applicant for a pension under the act of congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engage in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" and then and there made the following declaration on oath by my administered viz - that he enlisted at Baltimore in the state of Maryland as a private on the 15th July 1776 in a company of Infantry then commanded by Capt. George Peter Keeports - and attached to what was then called "the German regt" under the command of Col. Nicholas Housaker and afterwards commanded by Col Stricker - after joining the said reg't was appointed "Orderly Sergeant" and served as such for twelve months at the end of which time say about the middle of the year 1777 deponent together with John Mackenheimer, Herny Shrope & some others belonging to said Reg't was recommended and did receive a commission as Ensign which commission he held until he left the army in the early part of the
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Spring 1778 - making a term of about two years in the service of the army - among other engagements deponent was present and bore a part in the battles of Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, and Germantown - and that his name hath never been inscribed on any pension list therefore hath none to relinquish; that from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his county for support.

George Cole

Subscribed and sworn to before me.

N. Brice - Chief Judge of Balt City Court
10 April 1818

State of Maryland
City of Baltimore

I hereby certify that the said George Coale (Cole) in addition to the above declaration under oath brought before me a certain John Mackenheimer also residing in the city of Baltimore whose deposition is hereto annexed and also a paper purporting to be his discharge signed
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Rob't H Harrison - Secy also hereto annexed from which it appears to my satisfaction that said George Coale served in the revolutionary war against the common enemy for the time therein mentioned - & is entitled to a pension under the late act of congress.

N. Brice Chief Judge of Balt City Court
10 April 1818

State of Maryland - City of Baltimore

On this 10th day of April in the year eighteen hundred and eighteen personally appeared before me the subscriber John Mackenheimer aged sixty-four years and then and there made oath that he is well acquainted with George Coale mentioned in the foregoing declaration that he served with him in the same regiment in the revolutionary war; knew him to have served in the ranks and afterward commissioned as ensign which took place at the same time deponent received a like commission - at this remote period he is enable to be certain to exact dates and time - but to the best of deponents knowledge and belief he the said George Coale served to the extent of the time there
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named and that all other parts of said declaration are correct

John Mackenheimer

Subscribed & sworn to before me.

N. Brice - Chief Judge of Balt City Court

City of Baltimore

I Thomas Harwood clerk of Baltimore City Court do hereby certify that the Honorable Nicholas Brice Esquire before whom the foregoing proceedings were taken and certified and who has thereto subscribed his name was at the time of taking and certifying the same and still is Chief Judge of Baltimore City Court, duly commissioned and qualified and to all his acts a such full faith and credit is and ought to be given.

In testimony I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said court the tenth day of April eighteen hundred and eighteen.

Th Harwood - Clerk
Baltimore City Court
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George Cole
Rev Pensioner
$20.00

Con

(2405)
March 1819
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Schedule
Unites States of America

Maryland, District

ON this tenth day of July 1820 personally appeared in open court in the district Court in and for the district of Maryland, George Cole, aged blank years resident in the city of Baltimore in said district who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows:

That he enlisted at Baltimore in the state of Maryland on or about 15 July 1776 in Captain George P Keeports company  in the German regiment commanded by Col Housacker as a non-commissioned officer afterwar promoted to Ensign in Capt. Wilperts Company in said regiment and in Jun 1778 resigned his commission after having held the same upwards of ten months - that he hath been placed on the revolutionary pension roll of the Maryland agency as will appear by his pension certificate bearing date 17 Sept 1818 commencing on 10 April 1818 and numbered 2405 - at the rate of twenty dollars per month

and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident of the United States on the 18th March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of congress entitled "An act to provide for certain person engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" passed on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property, or securities, contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
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Schedule referred to within

That he hath no property of any kind either real or personal except his clothing - neither hath he any family but boards and lives with his nephew. That he was by trade a house carpenter but having been visited with a severe paratettic affliction he is rendered utterly incapable of performing manual labor of any kind or doing any king of business by which he might obtain a support - and that were it not for the kindness of his nephew & the assistance received from the government of his county as within stated, he would be incapable of supporting himself except by private or public charity - George Cole

Sworn to and declared on the tenth day of July 1820
Before the District Court
I Philip Moore Clerk of the District Court do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of said court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is not one dollar.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this second day of August 1820.

Philip Moore

Clerk of the District Court for the District of Maryland
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Cole, George
(MD) S-34704
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Ensign George Cole of the German Battalion is discharged from further services in the army of the United States of North America at his own request.

By his excellency's command
Robt H Harrison - Secy

Head Qtr
Valley Forge
June 2, 1778
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34704
Revy INVALID

File No 34,704
George Cole
Ensign Rev War

Act: 18 March '18

Index Vol: D Page 84

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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MAIL STAMP - Baltimore, MD Aug 31

Admitted

War Department
Pension Office
Revolutionary Claim
Washington 

Geo Cole
Ensign
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State of Maryland City of Baltimore to wit

I Nicholas Brice Chief Judge of Baltimore City Court do certify that on the day of the date hereof personally appeared before me Colonel Henry Shrupp aged sixty-two years & upwards who being by me duly sworn to declare the truth deposeth and saith that having enlisted into the service of the United States during the revolutionary war he this deponent together with George Cole of the city of Baltimore & several others received commissions as Ensigns in the German Regiment then commanded by Colonel Ludwick Wellner on the 20th day of August in the year seventeen hundred and seventy-seven and willfully appeared by reference to said Henry Shrupp commission lately filed in the war office, Pension office - that they continued to serve together in said regiment from that time until said Cole discharged from the army at Valley Forge in the month of June seventeen hundred & seventy-eight - being a period of nine months and upwards - that this deponent has seen Ensign Coles commission which was delivered to him the same day this deponents was delivered to him.

Henry Shrupp
Sworn to & subscribed before me

N. Brice Chief Judge Baltimore City Court
31 Aug 1818
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I hereby certify that from the aforegoing deposition of Henry Shrupp and from my personal knowledge of George Cole I am satisfied that he served as an Ensign in the army of the United States during the revolutionary war for more than nine months.

N Brice - Chief Judge Blt City Court
31 Aug 1818

City of Baltimore 

I Thomas Harwood Clerk of Baltimore City Court do hereby certify that the Honorable Nicholas Brice before whom the foregoing proceedings were taken and certified and who have thereto subscribed his name was at the time of taking and certifying the same and still is Chief Judge of Baltimore City Court duly commissioned and qualified and to all his acts as such full faith and credit are and ought to be given as well in court of Justice as thereout.

In testimony I have thereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said court this thirty first day of August one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

Th Harwood, Clerk
Baltimore City Court

Please send a pension certificate to care of Tho Bailey Esq Baltimore & obliged [illegible]

George Cole

Witness P G Hands