Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23,171, James Cole, Conn.
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SERVICE
Conn

Cole, James

NUMBER
S. 23.1717
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[left page]
4730 New York
James Cole
Fowler in the State of New York 
who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Stanton of the Regt. commanded by Col Meand in the Connecticut line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of New York
as the rate of 80 Dollars [strike through] Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March 1834.
Certificate of Pension  issued the 28 day of [  Jany] 1833 and sent to  Hon S Wright [   ] 
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832 - $120.00
Semi= anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 33 40.00
============
$160.00
{Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832}
recorded by Ira Cromwell Clerk, 
Book D Vol 5 Page 158

[LEFT PAGE]
Dead
Paid at the Treasury under
the Act of the 16th April 1838
from the 4th Sept 1833 to 5 March
1834. Agt. notified 20th March
1841
Let to A.I. Hazelton
August 19 47
Sent to same Aug 20 '47
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In the matter of James Cole
Declaration in order
to obtain the benefit of
the act of Congress passed
June 7, 1832
11842
admitted
24 mo priv:
80$
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1882
State of New York
County of St. Lawrence ss.
On this twenty fifth day September 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the aforesaid County of St. Lawrence, now sitting James Cole a resident of the town of Fowler in the County of St. Lawrence and State of New York aged seventy one years, also 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 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. He was born in the town of Cornwall in the County of Litchfield in the state of Connecticut on 18th day of June 1761. At Cornwall aforesaid in the month of May 1779 he was drafted fro the militia to serve as a soldier in the Revolutionary was and served as such draft nine months from the 1st day of June 1779 to the first day of March 1780 in a company commanded by Capt. Joshua Stanton, Lieut. Benjamin Seeley; Ensign Ambrose Redfield; in a regiment under Matthew Mead Colonel Major Shipman. The regiment was Connecticut state troops raised to protect the sea coast from Cornwall his company marched 1st June 1779 to Horseneck where he joined his regiments where he was stationed the whole term of nine months, and was discharged with the whole regiment at Norwalk Hill on the last (29th)  day of February 1780 but none of the soldiers received written discharges. During this service, a regiment Pennsylvania Cavalry under Col. Myland and Lieut. Cl. White were a part of the time at Horseneck. Col Webb's regiment of Continentals in Gen. Parsons Brigade were stationed near his regiment several times. The applicant's regiment was employed as a guard and in scouting parties during that service headquarters at Horseneck.
After this service he went home to Cornwall aforesaid and there resided until November 1780 when he again entered the service for three months as a substitute for one Amos Johnson Junior who had been drafted from
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he militia to serve three months. He served three months as such substitute in a company under Lieut. Goff and Ensign Abel Kemp. One Toby was captain of the company but never served with us. He entered this service in the latter part (about the 20th) November 1780, and served all the time at Horseneck in a regiment under the command of Gen. John Mead. He does not recollect any other field officers, the service was the same as the year previous. At the expiration of this three months service in the latter part of February 1781 he inlisted [enlisted] as a private for one year, at Horseneck in a company of Connecticut Troops under Capt. Jabez Fitch, Lieut. Joseph Hull the father of Commodore Hull, Ensign Andrew Mead. The company was called the Independent volunteers and were not attached to any particular corps of troops. The duty of the company was to defend the frontier by land and water and to observe the movements of the enemy. He was employed a great share of this years service on the water in a gunboat of sixteen oars with one gun and two swivels. His company united with a body of Continental troops under Major Talmadge in an expedition to Long Island in the fall of 1781 and took the British Fort Slongo on the Island and took 60 or 70 prisoners and one brassfield price. We too the fort by surprise in the night. He also was under another continental officer Lieut  Dr. Forest in an expedition to Shogsneck where we took a Brittish sloop of eight guns called "the Shuldam". At another time whilst in this service he went on an expedition under ensign Mead to take prisoner, a Brittish officer who was supposed to have come on shore from a man of war on City Island, We succeeded in taking a Brittish barge and crew but the officer escaped, not having landed as he supposes. He served one year in this company and was discharged by a written discharge from his Captain in February 1782. He cannot state the day of the month. His discharge was lost or destroyed many years ago.
In 1818 he made an application for a pension which was rejected on the grounds that he did not serve
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in the Continental line. in 1822 he again made an application again for a pension and procured the annexed certificate of his Captain Jabez Fitch, who is probably not living now. This certificate with the proofs of its genuineness attached to it is all the documentary evidence & [illegible] of his services. He knows of no living witness whom he can procure to prove any of his services. He recollects perfectly all his two years service as above stated, he does not recollect the names of any other officers. He was out in the service [illegible] of Connecticut several times during the war on different alarms but does not remember the particulars of such services, and deems it unnecessary to state this as he served a full two years exclusive of them. From the close of the Revolutionary war he resided in Cornwall until the year 1787, when he removed to the town of Nassau, now in Rensselaer County in the State of New York at which place and in [illegible], in Steuben and in Champion and in Wilna he has since resided (all those places being in the state of New York) until about fifteen years ago when he removed to the town of Fowler aforesaid where he has ever since resided and now resides. He is acquainted with Benjamin Brown from Fowler aforesaid and Robert Conant of the same place also with Capt. Joseph Martin of Genesee in the aforesaid County of St. Lawrence who certify to his character and the belief of his neighbors respecting his services. There is a record of his age on the town books of the said Town of Cornwall. There is no clergyman residing in his immediate vicinity. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
[signed] James Cole
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[signed] A. C. Sow, Clk
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We Benjamin Brown and Robert Conant residing in the aforesaid town of Fowler and Joseph Martin residing in the town of Genesee in the aforesaid County of St. Lawrence hereby certify that we are well acquainted with James Cole, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy one years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood in which he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
[signed] Bengm Brown
Robert Conant
Joseph Martin
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
[signed] A. C. Sow Clk
and the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Benjamin Brown and Robert Conant who have signed the preceeding [preceding] certificate are residents of the aforesaid Town of Fowler and that Joseph Martin also has also signed [illegible] is a resident of the Town of Genesee in the aforesaid county and that their statement is entitled to credit they all being credible persons and further that the certificate of the said Jabez Fitch produced to the said court appears to the said Court to be genuine.
I, Alvin C. Sow, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the aforesaid County of St. Lawrence do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said Court in the matter of the application of James Cole for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the office this twenty sixth day of September One thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
A.C. Sow Clk
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December 2, 1937
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
James Cole, S2317[strike out "4"]1
BA-J/MCS

Mr. Roger F. Williams
2 Rock Street
Alexandria Bay, New York
Dear Sir,
Reference is made to your request for information relative to Revolutionary War soldier, James Cole, who was pensioned while living in St. Lawrence County, New York.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S.23171, based upon the military service of James Cole.
He was born June 18, 1761, in Cornwall, Litchfield County, Connecticut. The names of his parents were not given.
While residing in Cornwall, he served as a private with the Connecticut troops as follows: from June 1, 1779, until February 29, 1780, in Captain Joshua Stanton's company in Colonel Mathew Mead's regiment and was engaged in guarding the seacoast; from about November 20, 1780, served three months in Captain Toby's company and was engaged in guarding the seacoast; from February 1781, served one year in Captain James Fitch's company of "Independent Volunteers", as engaged in guarding the seacoast and a part of the time he served on the water, assisting in the capture of Fort Slongo and the British sloop "The Shuldam", and the crew of a British barge on City Island; also served onnseveral [on several] alarms but the particulars of this service were not given.
He lived in Cornwall until 1787 when he moved to Nassau, Rensselaer County, New York; he also lived in Princetown, Steuben, Champion and Wilna, New York
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James Cole was allowed pension on his application executed September 25, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Fowler, St. Lawrence County, New York, where he had lived for about fifteen years.
He died March 5, 1834, in Fowler, New York.
The name of the wife of James Cole is not shown. Children are referred to but the only name given is that of a son, Ira, who was a resident of Fowler, New York, in 1847, and he then referred to his wife but did not give her name. There are no further family data.
Very truly yours
A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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COLE, JAMES
(CONN.)
S-23171
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STATE OF NEW YORK
CITY AND COUNTY OF ALBANY
Clerk's Office, ss.
I DO CERTIFY, that Estes Howe whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the [strike out "acknowledgment or proof of"] the annexed [strike out "Deed"] affidavit was a Judge & Recorder at the time of taking the said [strke out "acknowledgment or proof"] affidavit and duly authorised [authorized] to take the same; that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe the signature to the certificate [strike out "of acknowledgment"} to be his proper hand writing.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said county, this 29th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty five.
[signed] Horatio Merchant, Dep. Clk. [deputy clerk]
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[circular stamp] The National Archives of the United States
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I hereby certify that James Cole inlisted [enlisted] February 1781, for the term of one year in my Company of Independent Volunteers, raised for the defence [defense] of the frontier, and to operate by land and water to [illegible] the movements of the enemy. He served his time out faithfully as a good soldier and obtained an honorable discharge and while he served therein, said Company cooperated with a detachment of Continental troops commanded by Major Benjamin Tallmage, in taking the British Fort Slongo on Long Island, and again with a detachment of Continental troops commanded by Lieutenant Samuel De[illegible] in taking a sloop of eight [illegible] called the Shuldam; a guard [next 2 lines are illegible due to fading and shadows] 
[signed] Jabez Fitch late Captain of Independent Volunteers
State of New York
Albany Coty [county] ss.
On this twenty ninth day of June 1822 cam before me Jabez Fitch Esqr and made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by him [illegible] 
truth [illegible] and that the said Jabez Fitch Esqr is justly entitled to the highest confidence and belief
[signed] Estes Howe
Recorder of the County of Albany [illegible]
[circular stamp] The National Archives of the United States
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Greenfield July 2d 1822
My dear sir
Yours of the 18th of last May was duly recd [recevied] I congratulate you and your family on your safe arrival in good health, my family are well except [illegible] who is gaining slowly
I have complied with your request with respect to my affidavit as near as I could should have done it before but was very busy and had to go seven or eight miles on purpose to find a judge and clerk and knowing I was going to Albany where my business called me and supposing you did not want to make use of it in the [illegible] of Congress I presumed to delay it. I most cordially hope you will serve in obtaining a pension [illegible] ever you come this way call upon me [illegible] me to be with very great respect your most obedient and most humble servant.
[signed] Jabez Fitch
Mr. James Cole
[circular stamp] The National Archives of the United States
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23171
INVALID
Revolution
File No. 23,171
James Cole Priv Rev. War
Act: June 7th 32
Index:[blank] Vol. 2, Page 78
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1893, June 30 - Hist. Mrs. A.L. Hazleton, Cit, J.S.
1910 Nov. 1 History to above 
1930, Feb. 12 Hist. to Mrs. Hugh Cassety, M.E.E.
1931 Dec 2 [illegible] 
Roger F. Williams MCS
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
March 2d, 1841
Sir
Under the act of the 6th of April 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The adm'or [administrator] of James Cole, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany NY Agency, at the rate of Eighty Dollars [strike out "and cents"] per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1833, to the 5th March 1834.
Respectfully yours,
[signed] Albion K. Parris
Comptroller
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present
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Washington October 135h 1847
Sir
Yours of the 19th August in reply to mine of the 31st of July on the subject of arrearages of pension claimed by the heirs of James Cole deceased late a Revolutionary Pensioner, was duly received a copy of which I forwarded to Ira Cole, one of the children of the late James Cole with a suggestion that your letter ended the matter unless it should appear that his father made application for a pension prior to the passage of the act of the 7th June 1832. This suggestion called out a letter from him, which I herewith enclose for your perusal from which it appears that application was made by Mr. Cole for a pension very soon after the passage of the act of 18th of March 1818 and that the application was made through the Hon. Henry K. Stores then a member of Congress from the State of New York, and that the same was rejected for the want of proof to sustain it.
If the defect was only in the proof, I suppose the records of the pension office of that date will corroborate the statement of Ira Cole, that application for a pension was made by the father at the time he alleges.
May I be permitted to hope that you will cause a investigation of the facts of the case to the end that if arrearages are actually due
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that they may be paid to the children of the deceased who with one exception are really poor and want all that may legally belong to them.
Respectfully your obedient servant
[signed] Asa L. Hazelton
Hon. J. L Edwards,
Com. [Commissioner] of Pensions
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Washington July 31st 1847
Sir, 
The Heirs of James Cole late a revolutionary pensioner now deceased, claim that there is an arrear of Pension due from the United States to them in an amount of services rendered by said Cole during the revolution.
In 1831 or 1832 Mr. Cole was inscribed on the New York or Albany agency for paying pensions as a revolutionary pensioner of eighty dollars per year and died on the 5th of March 1834 when his certificate for the pension was returned to the pension office. Mr. Cole at the time of his deceased resided in Fowler St. Lawrence County NY [New York]  The Heirs of Mr. Cole claim that the arrearage of Pension are from 1818 up to te time that he commenced drawing it, which was in 1831 or 1832, and that it should be after the rate of ninety six dollars per year. They rely on the certificates of Capt. Jabez Fitch and others, to show that the pension should have been ninety six instead of eighty dollars per year. A son of Mr. Cole who has addressed me on the subject think his father served with the Connecticut Troops, two years at one time and one year at another.
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In regard to the claim of arrears I suppose they relay upon the terms of the law granting pension to that class of soldiers to which Mr. Cole belonged
May I rely on your reexamining the papers connected with Mr. Cole and at your earliest convenience inform me of the result.
Respectfully your obedient servant
Asa L. Hazelton
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of James Cole which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes.
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resided? Yes.
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? [blank]
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes.
V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? Yes.
VI. Has he given to names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulation?  Yes.
VII. He has made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? Yes.
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Yes.
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes.
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? Yes.
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XI.Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? No.
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, if there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? Yes.
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? Yes.
XIV. If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? [blank] Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office? [blank]
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have personal knowledge of the applicants service? [blank]
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? Yes.
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? Answered.
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely has long he served, he should amend his declaration by making and affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace &c. A.B. who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For [blank] year {blank] months and [blank] days, I served as a [blank]. For [blank] months and [blank] days, I served as a [blank], and for such service I claim a pension."
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It is important in all cases to determine which precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and he length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths much certify to the credibility of the witness, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of the office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
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Ira Cole Sept [September] 12th 1847
Rec'd [received] Sept 20th
Paid 10
To the Hon [Honorable] Asa L. Hazelton Esq.
Washington City 
Fowler VT
Sept 13th
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To the Hon [Honorable] Asa L. Hazelton Esq.[Esquire]
Sir
Yours of the 24th August was duly rec'd [received] in which you stated that if my Father had applied for a pension under the law of 1818 that you thought that there would be some chance yet. He did apply for a pension under that law but for want of testimony it was rejected as he know of no living witness at that time he gave it up until by chance he came a crost the old Capt [Captain] that he served under he met him in the road about 50 miles from Albany and the old Capt knew him took him to Albany and had his papers made out on which he drew his pension. This happened to be after the law of 1832. John L. Russell was the Attorney in the first application and he told me and my Father that he could obtain the full pension from 18 all the back pay but before we could get ready to do anything about it
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my father died and then I supposed there could be no more done about it until a year or so to [two] ago I was told by a number that the back pay might be obtained and I accordingly applied to you as it was the first chance I had in which I thought I could consider the first time he made application he was told that he could get his pension proving by acquaintances that had heard him talk about the war and being in it himself he therefore went to Wolcott Hubbell of Ogdenburgh whom he had been acquainted with for many years before the attorney that made out the papers I do not recollect the papers were sent to Henry R. Storm of Oneida County he was the only member of Congress that my Father was acquainted with and the papers came back rejected for want of sufficient proof this was done as soon as it could be after the law of 1818 the exact time I do not remember all I can find of the old papers now in the house is the wrapper that came back from Washington
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[illegible "Franked"?] by H. R. Storrs which is all the proof only my own and I suppose Eben [Ebenezer] will recollect the circumstances likewise and my wife to remembers well his going to Ogdensburgh when he first made application If there can be any thing done with the above testimony when he'd write back to me and inform me all about what to do on the premises an I will attend to it.
Your folks are all well except Harriet is quite ill with fever.
Yours respectfully
Ira Cole
Fowler Sept [September] 12th 1847
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2 Rock St. {street]
Alexandria Bay, NY {New York]
October 23, 1937
Veterans Administration
Washington D.C.
Gentlemen:
James Cole, Private in [strike out "Mass."] Conn. {Connecticut] line Revolutionary War was placed in the St. Lawrence Co. NY [New York] pension roll Jan. [January] 12, 1833 aged 71.
From records in your office I would like an abstract of his pension papers with all family data contained therein.
Thank you sincerely
Roger F. Williams
[circular stamp] Received Oct 25, 1937 [illegible] Jan 30 [illegible] 11:15
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Napoleon, Ohio, Dec [December] 21, 1929
U.S. Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir,
[Circular stamp] U.S. Pension Office Dec 26 1929
Will you please send ne a report of the Revolutionary War service of James Cole born in Cornwall, Conn. [Connecticut] 1761, died in Fowler, N.Y. [New York] 1834. He was granted a pension in 1832, and I wish to know his Rev. service, as I desire to join D.A.R. {Daughters of the American Revolution] as three cousins have, on his service.
Was Timothy Cole granted a pension?
Would also like to know if your Department can give me information about Daniel Bradley [interlineated] none of N.Y. who lived in Hartford, Washington County, N.Y., in 1785 who I think served in the Revolution. And Thomas Lawton who was a sailor, and lived in Providence and Newport, R.I. [Rhode Island] about 1780. Would have probably served as a sailor from R.I. Would like to know if Daniel Bradley, Timothy Cold and Thomas Lawton served in the Revolution. Thanking you very much for information. I am
Yours very truly
Mamie H. Cassety
Mrs. Hugh Cassety
[in left margin] If we have no records refer to AGO
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Send history to Mrs. A. L. Hazelton 38 St [Street] & Woodley Lane
James Cole S23171
Oct 31 1910
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Information is desired of James Cole a soldier of the Revolution probably in the Connecticut line who died March 5th 1834 in St. Lawrence County, New York.
Mrs. A. L. Hazelton, granddaughter of James Cole.
1215 Ninth Street, Washington D.C.
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Information is desired of James Cole a soldier of the Revolution probably in the Connecticut line who died March 5th 1834 in St. Lawrence County, New York.
Mrs. A. L. Hazelton, granddaughter of James Cole.
1215 Ninth Street, Washington D.C.
[Duplicate of previous page]
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National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Washington D C
Dear Miss Desha:
I inclose [enclose] the request for information about which I spoke to you.
It may be sent either to me or to Mrs. Hazelton. 
I received your special delivery note in good season.
Sincerely yours,
Mary Katharine Johnson
1214 Ninth Street
June 19, 1893
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Rev. [Revolutionary] and 1812 Wars Section
MEE/HMM
February 12, 1930.
Mrs. Hugh Cassety
Napoleon Ohio
Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim 3. 23171, it appears that James Cole was born June 18, 1761 in Cornwall, Litchfield County, Connecticut.
While residing in Cornwall, Connecticut, he enlisted and served from June 1, 1779 to February 19, 1780 in Captain Joshua Stanton's Company Colonel Mathew Mead's Connecticut Regiment, guarding the seacoast.
He enlisted about November 20, 1780 and served three months in Captain Toby's Connecticut Company, guarding the seacoast.
He enlisted in February 1781, served as a private in Captain Jabez Fitch's Company of "Independent Volunteers" whose duty it was to protect the coast line. A part of the time he served on the water, assisting in the capture of Fort Slongo and the British sloop "The Shuldam", and the crew of a British barge on City Island, and was discharged in February 1782.
He was also out on several alarms but the particulars of this service are not given.
In 1787 he moved to Nassau, Rensselsaer County, New York; he also lived in Princetown, Steuben, Champion and Wilna, New York.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 25, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Fowler, St. Lawrence County, New York, where he had lived for about fifteen years.
He died March 5, 1834 in Fowler, New York.
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The name of the soldier's wife is not shown. Children are referred to but the only name given is that of a son, Ira, who was a resident of Fowler, New York, in 1847. referred to wife
There are no further family data.
The Revolutionary War records of this Bureau fail to afford any information in regard to a Daniel Bradley (Bradly) of New York, or to any Timothy Cole.
Very truly yours,
Earl D. Church
Commissioner
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Lt [Lieutenant] Benj Seely
Ens [Ensign] Ambrose Redfield
O.W. and N. Division 3-525 [strike out "69-221-232-562"]
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pension, Washington, D.C. [blank], 190[blank]
In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank] for a statement of the military history of James Cole a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his [strike out "(or his widow's)" application for pension on file in this Bureau. 
S. File 23,171
[Column headings] Dates of Enlistment or Appointment | Length of Service | Rank | Officers under whom services was rendered  [subtitles] Captain | Colonel | State
[strike out "May 1779"
June 1 1779 | Oct 29, 1780 9 mos | [blank] | Joshua Stanton [Captain] | Matthew Mead [Colonel] | Conn. [Connecticut]
Nov 20 1780 | 3 mos | [blank] | Toby [Captain] | John Mead | [blank]
Feby 1781 | 1 year | [blank] | Jabez Fitch Indpt Voluteers, Captured Ft. Slongo, L.I. , Captured Brit sloop "Shuldam" at Throgeneck, Captured Brit barge &  crew on City Island. | [Blank] | Blank | [blank]
Battles engaged in, [check mark]
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Cornwell, Litchfield Co., Conn.
Date of application for pension, Sept 25, 1832 Alld. [allowed]
Residence at date of application, Fowler, St. Lawrence Co., N.Y.
Age at date of application, b. June 18, 1761 at Cornwall, Conn.
Remarks: His claim was alld [allowed]. He died Mch [March] 5, 1834 [strike out "at Fowler"]
1847 son Ira Cole of Fowler
Very respectfully, (office note - service not verified by Conn. book.)
Commissioner
31793b5m1C-97
No Joshua Stanton (Staunton) in Conn. book
Lt. Benj Seely in Col. Meads regt 1780 Conn book p. 629
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[illegible]sion.
Department of the Interior
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Washington, D.C. June 30, 1893
Madam:
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of James Cole, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will please find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau.
[column headings] Dates of Enlistment | Length of Service | Rank | Officers under whom services was rendered [subtitles] Captain | Colonel | State
June 1 79 | 9 mo | Pri | Joshua Stanton | Matthew Mead | Conn.
Nov 1780 | 3 mo | Pri | Toby | John Mead | Conn.
Feb 1781 | 1 yr | pri | Jabez Fitch | not stated | Conn.
As a substitute for Amos Johnson
Battles engaged in, none mentioned
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Cornwall Conn.
Date of application for pension, September 25, 1832
Residence at date of application, Fowler, N.Y.
Age at date of application Born at Cornwall Conn June 18, 1761
Remarks: His pension was allowed.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner
Mrs. A. L. Hazelton
1215 Ninth St NW
City
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