Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2120, Seth Cole, Mass.
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Service                              Number                                                         
  Mass        Cole, Seth      R2120
                    Celea
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6119
Celia Cole
NY      Seth

married 15th Sept 1780
Husband XXXXXX   XXXXXXXX

act of 7 July '38

m 80 d 10
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State of New York
Chautaqua  County ss: On this 20th day of march A.D. 1839 personally appeared before me Benjamin Wolworth, am one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas  in and for the County of Chautauqua, Celea Cole, a resident of the town of Pomfret in the County of Chautauqua aged seventy five years, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath with the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 entitles " an act granting half pay and Pensions to certain widows" that she is the widow of Seth Cole, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army, that according to her best knowledge and belief, the said Seth Cole entered the service of the United States as a private soldier in the month of June or July 1775 & served eight months at Roxbury and other places not far from there, when he returned home and stayed a short time when he again entered the service as a private soldier in company with his brother Barnabas Cole and was about one year in the service when he again returned home-to Chesterfield, his residence from where he had previously gone into the service-that after remaining at home a few months and as this deponent thinks in the summer of the year 1777 he again went into the service with said Barnabas Cole and was about on this tour of duty at least three months when he again returned home- that the said Seth Cole was frequently called out on alarms after that time & was sometimes about more than three months at a time-that she cannot tell the particular terms of service of the said Seth Cole and she was too young to know much about it and her memory has failed so much that it is with the utmost difficulty that she can recollect enough of the particulars to get the length of time of his service-she understood from said Seth Cole at the close of the war that he had served in all about two years and six months- This claimant can
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can not tell the names of the officers under whom the said Seth Cole served nor all the places where he went-She recollects distinctly that he was in the service eight months previous to the enlistment for the year and during that time he was at Roxbury. She recollects hearing him tell of the British firing a great many Balls at Dorchester Heights while he was there, and of his assisting in building the fortifications and breastwork at Dorchester-Recollects hearing at the time that he was in "the works" as a black smith for the government- That the shops were situated on the North  river & he saw the British fleet when they went up the river- He was at Bennington Battle, was present at the Capture of Burgoyne and in the service at the time-He was also in the service and present at the execution of Andre. She cannot tell whether he entered the service as a volunteer or was drafted, nor can she tell the country through which he marched- any further than she has stated-She further states that the  said Seth Cole was a brother to Barnabas Cole, now deceased who was at his decease a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States and that the said Seth Cole was with the said Barnabas Cole during nearly  all his service in the Revolutionary Army and she thinks by refering to the proofs on file of the service of said Barnabas Cole, a very accurate account of the said Seth Cole can be obtained, as the said Seth Cole and Barnabas Cole were in the service together the most part of the time- She has no documentary evidence of his service 

She further declares that she was married to the  said Seth Cole on the 15th day of September in the year seventeen hundred and eighty at the town of Norwich in the county of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts- That
said marriage was solemn-
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can not tell the names of the officers under whom the said Seth Cole served nor all the places where he went-She recollects distinctly that he was in the service eight months previous to the enlistment for the year and during that time he was at Roxbury. She recollects hearing him tell of the British firing a great many Balls at Dorchester Heights while he was there, and of his assisting in building the fortifications and breastwork at Dorchester-Recollects hearing at the time that he was in "the works" as a black smith for the government- That the shops were situated on the North river & he saw the British fleet when they went up the river- He was at Bennington Battle, was present at the Capture of Burgoyne and in the service at the time-He was also in the service and present at the execution of Andre. She cannot tell whether he entered the service as a volunteer or was drafted, nor can she tell the country through which he marched- any further than she has stated-She further states that the said Seth Cole was a brother to Barnabas Cole, now deceased who was at his decease a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States and that the said Seth Cole was with the said Barnabas Cole during nearly all his service in the Revolutionary Army and she thinks by refering to the proofs on file of the service of said Barnabas Cole, a very accurate account of the said Seth Cole can be obtained, as the said Seth Cole and Barnabas Cole were in the service together the most part of the time- She has no documentary evidence of his service

She further declares that she was married to the said Seth Cole on the 15th day of September in the year seventeen hundred and eighty at the town of Norwich in the county of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts- That
said marriage was solemn-
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nized by a Justice of the peace by the name of Kirkland, Don't remember christian name that her husband the aforesaid Seth Cole died on the tenth day of June A.D. 1810 at the town of Pomfret in said county of Chautaqua being fifty four years of age-That she has remained a widow ever since-That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January A.D. 1794-viz at the time above stated-she further declares that she has no XXXXXX of the marriage, she does not know whether there was any XXXXX of his marriage at the town when she was married or not- that she has not been married since the death of said husband-   Celea Cole
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year written before XXXXX

B Walworth
State of New York
 Chautuqua County ss
I. Benjamin Walworth, on of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said county, do hereby certify the Celea Cole, who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing Declaration is unable from bodily infirmity to attend in Court for the purpose of making her declaration, the Court HOuse being situated about twenty four miles from her residence. I further certify that I am well acquainted with th said Celea Cole, that she is a person of strict moral character, truth & veracity & that I believe her declaration XXXXX made to be true and entitled to full credit- Given under my hand the day & year XXXXXX written-
B Walworth Judge
Chau Com Pleas
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State of New York
Chautaqua County ss:
Mehittable Cole of the County of Ashtabula in the State of Ohio being duly sworn says that she is now in the 79th year of her age-that she became acquainted with Seth Cole, in the town of Chesterfield in Hampshire County Massachusetts in the month of June 1775-that in   January following (1776) the said Seth Cole enlisted into the service of the United States and went from Chesterfield to Roxbury-she does not remember the names of the officers under whom he enlisted and served-He went with Barnabas Cole, the husband of the deponent and the brother  of said Seth Cole-the husband of this deponent and the said Seth Cole went into the service together and both remained in the service for one year when they returned home-This deponent was not present to see the said Seth Cole in the service but she knows that he started to go into the service with said Barnabas Cole & she knows that they said they were going into the service and that it was well understood in the neighborhood of Chesterfield that they had gone into the service and when they returned, they said that they had been in the service for the year  and related the  particulars of the service but this deponent  can not recollect the whole and this deponent is as certain that the said Seth Cole preformed the said service as she is of any thing that she did not see in person-that she understood at the time that the said Seth Cole was a blacksmith and was engaged in what was called "the work" the most part of the time & she heard him say at the time that his  business was filing bayonets and making nails-that sometime after the return of said Seth Cole from the said years service, he again went into the service but she does not know whether it was by enlistment or not  nor does she remember in what company he served-
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she thinks it was in the summer of 1777, although it might have been 1778-She does not recollect what place he went to but she knows it was called going out west and was at the Battle of Bennington and at the Capture of Burgoyne as she understood at the time and believes true-The said Seth Cole was absent on this tour of duty three months and perhaps more, she cannot recollect with certainty-and this deponent further says that the said Seth Cole was in the service with his brother Barnabas Cole the most part of the time-that said Barnabas Cole died in August 1818 and at the time of his decease, he was a pensioner of the United States-He died at the town of XXXXXXXX, Asopus County, New York
that our Ghersham Sylvester was a witness to prove the services of the said Barnabas Cole, and this deponent thinks that among the papers proving the service of said Barnabas Cole may be found something to prove the services of said Seth Cole. That she was well acquainted with said Seth Cole and was present when the said Seth Cole was married-that the said Seth Cole was married to Celea Samson in the town of Norwich adjoining the said town of Chesterfield in Hampshire County  aforesaid on the 15tth day of September A D 1780-This deponent was present at the time of said marriage and saw them married-The marriage was solemnized by a Justice of the Peace by the name of Kirkland, but this deponent does not know his christian name-that te said Seth Cole dies on the 10th day of June A D 1810 in the County of Chautauqua aforesaid & town of Pomfret-This deponent further says that said Seth Cole was frequently called into the service at other times than those mentioned during said War but she cannot tell how long times he served but she has no doubt from what she can recollect
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that the said Seth Cole actually served in the Revolutionay Army as a private soldier at least two years and probably more-This deponent cannot say in what character he entered the service at any time whether as a volunteer, or whether hee was drafted or enlisted, this deponent knows that her husband Barnabas Cole served more than two years, and that the said Seth Cole was with him the principal part of all of the time during his swwervice- and this deponent further says that Celea Cole who has sworn to & subscribed the foregoing declaretion is the widow of the said Seth Cole deceased, and the same identical person who was married to the said Seth Cole in September 1780 as above stated- This deponent further says that she is now a pensioner under the act of July 7th 1838 as the widow of the said Barnabas Cole deceased-
Subscribed and sworn to before me March 20th 1839     Mehitabel Cole
B Walworth Judge
Chautauqua Com Pleas
State of New York
Chautauqua County ss: I Benjamin Walworth one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do certify that I am well acquainted with Mehitabel Cole who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing affidavit, that she is a person of truth and veracity and her statement above made is entitled to full credit- Given under my hand the 20th day of March A.D. 1839
B Walworth Judge
Chau Com Pleas
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State of New York
Chautauqua County ss:
I George W Tew of said County do hereby certify that Benjamin Walworth before whom the foregoing Declaration of Celea Cole and affidavit of Mehitable Cole purport to have been taken and who has subscribed the certificates thereto annexed was at the date of the same one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature to each is genuine and in his own proper hand writing. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court this 5th day of September AD 1839
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Norwich Mass
Hampshire Co April 30 1839

Dr Sir
I read yours requesting me to examine the Records of the town of Norwich to see if the Record of the marriage of Seth Cole and Celea Sampson could be found accordingly I have looked our records through but can find no record of their Marriage-but find the births of their children recorded and without doubt they were married in this Town but there is no record of it our books at that date are in a very imperfect state-You requested me if there was no record to certify to the fact. I have not consulted a Lawer in regard to it but have been informed by a Justice who has done of this kind of business that it is difficult for me to certify to the fact and make oath thhat I am the Clerk of the town at this time. If this is not correct just inform me and I will have it do. If you are obliged to write again just direct your letter to the Post Master and save you 25ct


Yours in haste
N Harwoode
I hereby certify that there is no record of the marriage of Seth Cole and Celea Sampson on the Records of the town of Norwich
N Harwoode Town Clerk

I N Harwood depose and say that I am the Clerk of the town of Norwich for the year 1839
Sworn before me Horace Taylor Justice of the Peace
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In the matter of Cela Cole's application for a Pension
__________________________________________________
affidavit of C. Cole
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State of New York
Chautauqua County ss: Cela Cole of Pomfret in said County being duly sworn says that since the
filing of her declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pension made by the Act of Congress passed July seventh eighteen hundred and thirty eight entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows she has taken much pains to investigate the circumstanced attending the service of her deceased husband Seth Cole as a soldier in the Revolutionary army; that she cannot speak with certainty as to the officers under whom his first tour of service in 1775 was performed: she recollects hearing the name of the Colonel in whose regiment he served frequently and it was either Col Ward's Regiment or Col Well's Regiment. She cannot recollect the name of the Captain of the Company in which he served, but she thinks it was the same Captain under whom his subsequent services were performed: that the year's service performed in the year 1776 was according to her best recollection and as she verily believes in Captain Kings Company and in Colonel Ward's Regiment, and that during the subsequent services mentioned in her declaration she has no distinct recollection of the names of the officers under whom he served, but thinks it very probable that he served the same officers as beffore; she further says that she is certain that the services of the said Seth Cole in the Revolutionary Army amounts in all to more than two years actual service.

Celea Cole

Subscribed & sworn before me
this 28th day of November 1840 
FH Ruggles J.P.

I am acquainted with Cela Cole who has subscribed and sworn to the forgoing affidavit and I certify that she is a credible person and that her statement made in the forgoing affidavit is entitled to full credit.

F.H. Ruggles J.P.
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State of New York
Chautauqua County  ss   I George W Tew Clerk of Said County certiify that Francis H Ruggles Esq was at the date of the preceedings within mentioned & now is a Justice of the Peace of said County, duly elected & sworn. & that the signatures " F.H. Ruggles" subscribed thereto purporting to be his are genuine. In testimony whereof  I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 2nd day of December 1840-

G.W.Tew clerk
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Norwich Ms             free
June 23                   
                                 A.B. Dimock
                                  P.M.


E. Tucker Esq
Fredonia
Chautauqua County
N.Y.
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Town of Norwich County of
Hampshire & State of Massachusetts

ss: I Nathan Harwood Clerk of the said town of Norwich do certify that I have examined the records of said town and do find therein the following record to wit:

Mary Cole daughter of Seth and Cela Cole was born January 8-1789
Samuel Knight Clerk

Cela Cole daughter of Seth and Cela Cole was born March 4 1791

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand at the town of Norwich aforesaid this twelfth day of June AD 1840

Town of Norwich County &
State aforesaid     Ss: I Nathan Harwood abovementioned depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the town of Norwich County and state aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town as certified by me: I further certify that I have examined the records of
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marriages in said town and that I find no record of the marriage of Seth Cole and Cela Sampson, that in the year 1780 and for sometime previous thereto the records of marriages in the said town are in an imperfect state and the marriages which took place in said town about that time were not all recorded or if they were recorded the same have been lost or destroyed.

N Harwood / Town Clerk


sworn before mw the
twelfth day of June AD 1840

A.B. Dimock Justice of the Peace
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December 12, 1939
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

E. May Christy
R. F. D. # 2
Silver Creek, New York
SETH COLE
R. 2120
BA-J/MLB

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Seth Cole who, you state, was born in 1756 in Chesterfield, Massachusetts, married Celia "Sanford", lived in Worthington, Massachusetts, during the Revolution, moved to Dunkirk, New York, in 1805, and died before 1812.
The record of Seth Cole follows as found in pension claim, R. 2120, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
The date and place of birth of Seth Cole and names of his parents were not given.
Seth Cole married September 15, 1780, in Norwich, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Celea Sampson or Samson. The date and place
of her birth and names of her parents are not shown. Seth Cole died June 10, 1810, aged fifty-four years, in Pomfret, Chautauqua County, New York.
Celea Cole, while living in Pomfret, New York, applied for pension March 20, 1839, which might have been due on account of the service of her husband, Seth. At the time of her application, she
was aged seventy-five years and stated that her husband, while living in Chesterfield, Massachusetts, enlisted in June or July, 1775,
and served eight months as private in Captain King's company, Colonel Ward's or Colonel Wells' Massachusetts regiment at Roxbury and other
places; soon after that tour, he enlisted again in 1776, served a year with brother, Barnabas Cole, as a blacksmith in Captain King's company,
Colonel Ward's Massachusetts regiment; that he enlisted in the summer of 1777, served three months, was in the battle of Bennington, at the capture of Burgoyne, also enlisted at various other times on alarms, dates of service and names of officers not stated; that he
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was still serving at the time of the Execution of Andre, and that his service in all amounted to two years six months.
Celea Cole's claim for pension was not allowed as she failed to furnish proof of the alleged service of her husband, as required by the pension law.
The following names of children of Seth Cole and his wife, Celea, were recorded in the Town Clerk's Office of Norwich, Connecticut, and appear also in the claim:
Mary Cole, born January 8, 1789
Cela  "  "  March 4, 1791

Seth Cole's brother, Barnabas Cole, married Mehitabel _________.  Her maiden name, date and place of birth and name of her parents were not stated. In 1839, Mehitabel Cole was aged seventy-eight years and a resident of Ashtabula County, Ohio. Her husband, Barnabas Cole, died in August, 1818, in Murray, Orleans County, New York.
No further family data are shown in the claim.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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REJECTED
P.O.
Celia Cole
Service

Enlisted:__________, 18
Discharged:__________,18

Application filed:______________18

PreXXXXXX list of 1852
gives cause of
suspension as: for further proof

VERTICALLY
1928-Sept 6, Hist to Mrs T McGee

1939 Dec 12- Hist to E May  Christy--MLB
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N. York                6119
Celia Cole-Seth
let. to C. Tucker, Esq; 20 XX 59
to same February 3, 1841
to same April 21st 1841
written S. G. Haven 7/53
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Hon S.G. Havem
Mch 7/53
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56
Pension Office
March 7/53

Sir
Five years having elapsed since the adjudication of the pension claim of Celia Jones widow of Seth of N.Y. I have to inform you that her case can not be reconsidered unless additional material evidence be adduced with satisfactory
proof of its discovery since the adjudication--
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S. G. Haven

Genl Johnson
Pension Office
Wash
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House of Rept.
Washington February 28, 1853

Sir 
Before the adjournment of Congress I am desirous of seeing the papers of the following cases

John Palmerston, a pensioner from N. York under the act of 1831, he is dead & his widow now receives the pension
A certif. is recorded in Book D Vol.2 page 359 in pension office.

Celia Cole. Widow of Seth Cole, revolutionary soldier appl'ed for pension some years since under act of June 7 1838

Hannah Bird widow of Nathaniel Bird under act of June 7, 1832

Rufus Heminway under act of July, 7 1832

May I trouble you to have them looked up 7 laid out. I will call on Tuesday morning as soon as your office is open. 
Truly yours 
S.G. Haven

Papers P.C. J.
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C. Tucker
April 21st 1841
ac
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119
1400: 56.00           4. 1400
           5000           5. 1000
           1600            2.  800
_______________
         122.00Pen Off Apl 21st '41

In answer to yours of 7 inst
complaining of injustice done to Mrs Celia Cole in requiring satisfactory proof of the alleged service of 12 months in the Continental army in 76, I have to remark that the testimony of a woman in relation to the essential features of a soldiers enlistment & service  sixty five years ago cannot be rec'd as satisfactory- And is this case it is the less satisfactory because the other term of alleged service in 75 of which there are rolls in this office is discredited by them- The testimony of one or more respectable and credible comrads when there are no rolls is indispensable to establish a term of service-

G Tucker Esq
Fredonia NY
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Apl 16 1841.
N.Y.
[illegible]
Cela Cole

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FREDONIA
APR
8
N,Y,

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J. L. Edwards Esqr
Comm of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
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Fredonia April 7 1841
J.L. Edwards Esq
Court of Pensions

Dear Sir,
Your
Letter of the 3rd of February last came to hand
some time since & I was surprised to find that the supplemental statement of Mrs Cela Cole was unsatisfactory to you. You say that unless Mrs Cole can prove her late husband's service
by similar evidence to that provided to support the claim of Barnabas Cole deceased, She cannot be allowed a pension- I understand that the service of Barnabas Cole was proved by our witness with Ghersham Sylvester- Now Sir, if you will carefully examine the papers connected with the application of Cela Cole, you will find that her late husband's services are established by a disinterested witness viz Mahittabel Cole. If such testimony as this is to be rejected it is useless to make efforts to prove anything- I cannot XXXXX  XXXXXXXX the XXXXXXXXX of XXXXXXX as this XXXXXXX which was  intended for a humane purpose
requires all the technical precisions as a trial
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in court. I have labored hard to procure a pension for this poor widow and I cannot see her claim rejected with all the proof she has provided without feeling that injustice is done in her case at least. I do hope you will again review the testimony in this case, and that on such examination you will be satisfied of the Justice
of her claim- An early reply will oblige
I am your servant
C. Tucker
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C. Tucker, Esqr
Feb: 3. 1841
O.C.
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Pen Off
Feby 3 '41

Sir

The supplemental statement of Mrs Celia Cole has been examined & filed with the other papers-
It does not remove any of the objections heretofore communicates-Barnabas Cole served  8 mo in 75 under Capt Webster & 12 mo in 76 under Capt King of Col Ward's Regt- Seth Cole is not borne on Websters rolls for 75 and there is no roll of Capt King for 76-He established that term of service by parol evidence. Unless claimant can prove by similar
evidence her late husband's service she can not be allowed a pension-
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Dec 21. 1840
N.Y.
add proof
Cela Cole.

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Hon. J. L. Edwards
Com. of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Fredonia Chau. C0. NY
Dec. 12 1840

Dear Sir
In obedience to your request under date of Aug 24 1840 I have obtained a supplimental afft. of Cela Cole to annex to her  declaration which  you now have. In that communication you state that the name of the Capt & Col under whom Seth Cole served should be given in order to further investigation. She has supplied that deficiency as far as she is able. It cannot be expected that a woman of her age would be able to relate all the particulars of her husband's service with the same accuracy and certainty that the old soldier would do himself were he living. The terms of service to which she swears are as follows, 1st 8 months commencing July 1775. 2nd 1 year service in 1776: 3rd 3 months in 1777. 4th different terms of service enough to amount in all to considerable more than two years The services of Seth Cole are also proved by the testimony of Mahittable Cole. You will find her afft. annexed to the declaration of Cela Cole and now on file. These are all the proofs Mrs Cole is able to produce and I have seldom known a case supported by better proof than this. If this is not sufficient to obtain a pension for her under the rules of the pension department I have
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been very much mistaken in regard to those rules
Here an applicant swears to the services and  states many coroborating circumstances.  The fact
of the marriage is supported by XXXX evidence. The principal in the declaration are supported by the testimony of a disinterested witness swearing clearly & distinctly to the services, and to the fact that they were performed in company with Barnabas Cole a brother of the husband of the applicant, and the oof of B.Cole services is to be found upon your files, he having been a pensioner previous to his death. I trust that under this state of facts you will not hesitate to grant the pension of the applicant which has been already too long delayed, and which can be enjoyed but for a brief period at most.
an early reply will much oblige

your XXXXXXXX
C. Tucker

Hon J L. Edwards
Court of Pensions
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C. Tucker
24 Aug. 1840

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Pension Office
24 August 1840

Sirs
The certificate of the Town Clerk of the town of Norwich relative to the record of the birth of two of the children of of Celea Cole is recd- The evidence in regard to the revolutionary services of the claimants husband Seth Cole is insufficient- The names of  Captain & Colonel in each tour must in order to further investigation be given
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Augt 11, 40
N.Y.
addl proof 
Cela Cole


J.L. Edwards
Comm. of Pensions
City of Washington
D.C.


Fredonia NY
AUG 
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Fredonia Augt 5 1840
J L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions

In behalf of Cela Cole I write to you in answer to in answer to a Letter received from the Pensions Office dated Nov 20th 1839- In that letter it was stated that the proof of her marriage was insufficient- I have persued the instructions contained in that Letter and herewith send you a certificate duly authenticated of the record of the births of two of her children &  also the reasons why her marriage is not to be found upon the records-This proof with the positive testimony of Mahittable Cole who was present at the marriage must be sufficient proof of the marriage-
The testimony of Mahittable Cole as to the service of Seth Cole, the husband of the applicant is full and positive- She cannot tell the names of Officers under whom  he served but she swears that he served with her husband Barnabas Cole & the proofs on file show that at least one years service of Barnabas Cole was in Col Ward's Regiment under Captain King-the testimony of Mahittable Cole and of the applicant both show that he served one year in 1776 with Barnabas Cole & they swear to this from recollections before knowing any thing of the proofs on file in Barnabas Cole's case- Their story of the one year's service is therefore strongly corroborated & if they are right as to the one year's service it goes to prove that they are also right as to the rest of the service-
I therefore submit whether the proof under this circumstance is not sufficient to entitle the applicant to a full pension-
I will of course compare
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the papers first sent you, viz. the Declaration of Cela Cole & the Deposition of Mahittable Cole with the Certificate herewith sent & with the proofs on file in the case of Barnabas Cole & I trust on a careful review of the case you will have no doubt of the justice of the claim-
I cannot urge upon you too strongly the necessity of speedy action in this case as the old lady is in needy circumstances & cannot enjot a pension if she should obtain one but a brief period-

Very respectfully, your obt srvt
C. Tucker
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Hampshire ss.
I, Samuel Wells, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of Hampshire, do certify, that Aaron B. Dimock Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned, and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that
full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said Aaron B. Dimock and believe his signature to said certificate [blocked text].
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said Commonwealth, this twentieth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty
S. Wells  Clerk.
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C. Tucker
20 Nov 1839
O C
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210
War Department
Pension Office
20, Nov 1839
Sir
The papers of Mrs Celia Cole widow of Seth Cole have been examined & filed. The proof in
relation to the date of the claimants marriage is insufficient; that first should be established by record widower. the Claimants The record of the births of the claimants children may prove evidence in this case - The certificate of the Clerk of the town in which the record is kept should to authenticated in the manner pointed out in the enclosed sheet:  [crossed out text not added here] 
The evidence of service in the case of Barnabus Cole is referred to to show that of the claimants husband, but the papers of Barnabus Cole afford no means of investigating this claim It appears
that he Barnabus Cole served 12 months in 1776 in Col Ward rg under Capt King of that regiment then and it is understood no rolls now in existence
Chancy Tucker Esq
Fredonia
N. Y.
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6119     Sept 21
N.Y.
July 7. 1838
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FREDONIA
SEP
15
N.Y.
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FREE
J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington
D.C.
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Fredonia Chautauqua Co. NY
Sept 14,1839 -
Sir
Enclosed I send you pension papers for
Cela Cole, widow of Seth Cole, deceased - She is poor & needs what she is entitled to immediately- I think you will be satisfied with the proofs - No proof is made of the officers under whom the Service was performed & it seems that should not be required of a widow, especially when she was married after the service was performed - You can find under what officers he served by referring to the proofs in the case of Barnabas Cole who was a pensioner before his death as it is proved that the whole of Seth Cole's services were performed with Barnabas Cole his Brother -
The certificate of the Town Clerk of Norwich
is some what informal but taking his letter &
Certificate together you can have no doubt of
the facts - The marriage & identity are fully proved -
An early answer will much oblige
Your obt sevt
Chauncey Tucker

To Hon. J. L. Edwards }
Com. of Pensions }
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[partial postal stamp]
R CREEK
NOV 16
1939
1 30 PM
N. Y.
THIS SIDE OF CARD IS FOR ADDRESS

U.S. Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D. C.
Pension Dept.

[stamp on top of address]
RECEIVED
NOV 17 19[illegible]
MAIL SUB-DIV
Reader No. 11
VETS ADM
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Has your office any record concerning the
Revolutionary War soldier, Seth Cole,
He was born in Chesterfield, Mass in 1756.
came to Dunkirk N.Y. in 1805 & died before 1812
married Celia Sanford.
I think his residence during the Rev. war
Worthington, Mass.
E. May Christy,
R.F.D. 2
Silver Creek
New York.
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M. E. E.
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
September 6, 1928
Mrs. Harry T. McGee
1011 West Tenth Street
Amarillo, Texas
Madame
I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R. 2020, it appears that Seth Cole married, September
15, 1780, in Norwich, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Colon Sampson or Samson. He died June 10, 1810, in Pomfret, Chautauqua County, New York, aged fifty-four years.
His widow, Colea Cole, applied for pension March 20, 1839, at which time she was a resident of Pomfret, New York, aged seventy-five years; and stated that her husband, Seth Cole, while a resident of Chesterfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, enlisted in June or July, 1775, and served eight months as private in Captain King's
Company, Colonel Ward's or Colonel Wells' Massachusetts Regiment; that he enlisted in January, 1776, and served one year as a blacksmith in Captain King's Company, Colonel Ward's Massachusetts Regiment; that he enlisted in the summer of 1777, served three months
and was in the battle of Bennington and at the capture of Burgoyne; also, that he enlisted at various other times, dates and officers
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not given, and served until the entire length of his service amounted to two years and six months. He was in the service at the time of
the execution of Andre.
The widow's claim was not allowed as she failed to furnish proof of the alleged service as required by the pension laws.
The names of two children are given:
Mary, born January 8, 1789.
Celia, born March 4, 1791.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.

Sol. brother, Barnabas Cole, was in the year 1776 service with him, and Mehitabel Cole, widow of Barnabas, testified for this Celia Cole.
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Mrs. Harry T. McGee
1011 West Tenth Street
Amarillo, Texas [printed letterhead]

Department of Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington

May I have information or rile in the records of anything concerning the Revolutionary Soldier Seth Cole who was born in Chesterfield Mass. in 1756 and served [crossed out] enlisted in the Revolution from Worthington Mass. I cannot give you the date of his death. Would the records give the names of his children? His wife's name was Celia. I believe she recedered [sic] some assistance in the War of 1812 and also her two sons Evastus and Seth Jr. were soliders in the war of 1812. At this time they were
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living in Fredonia, New York or Couadaway [?] as it was there called.
I should like any record that you may have of Seth Cole Jr in the War of 1812. His wife was Lovina Cole. Perhaps you could give me the date of the death of either of these if they were on the pension roll.

From Jan 26, 1928 [in margin]

Seth Cole Jr. was born about 1785 but I do not know where. I think he died about 1864.

Thanking you for any information that you can give me and if there is any expense attached I shall be glad to pay it. I am,

Very truly yours,

Mrs. H.T. McGee
1011 West 10th St.
Amarillo, Texas