Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 16917, Daniel Cole, R.I.
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SERVICE
Cole, Daniel
Zilpha

NUMBER
W. 16917
CONTENTS
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Daniel Cole of Lafayette in the state of Neww York who was a private in the company commanded by Captain [Teffelt] of the [Regs]command by Col [Teffelt] in the state of Rhode Island for 2 years. Inscribed on the roll of New York at the rate of 80 dollars per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831. Certificate of Pension issued the 9th day of November 1832and sent to ????  Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $120.00 and allowance ending 4th of March 1833 $40.00 total $160.00. Revolutionary claim June 7 1832. Book D Vol 5 page 76
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 Albany 3410

Zilpha Cole
widow of Daniel Cole, who was a pensioner under the act of 1832 who died on the 6 May 1840 of Onondaga Co. in the State of N. York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Allen of the Regt. commanded by Col. Lippett in the R. Island line for 2 years  R. I. 

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rage of 80 Dollars  ------- Cents per annum to commence on the 7 May 1840

Certificate of Pension issued the 5 day of Sept. 1840 and sent to Johnson Hall, Syracuse, N. Y.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1841            $66.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 6 Sept. "  40.00
                                                               $106.00
{Revolutionary Claim,  }
{Act of July, 4, 1836,  }
{Section the 3            }

Recorded by D. Brown  Clerk
Book C   Vol. 1  Page 109
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State of New York
County of Onondaga  ss  On this twelfth day of September 1832 personally appeared in open Curt before Daniel Moseley Esquire Vice Chancellor of the seventh circuit of the State of New York at a Court of Chancery now sitting at the town of  Onondaga in said County. Daniel Cole a resident of LaFayette in said County aged seventy five years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832.  That entered into the service of the United States under the following named officers and several herein stated.  In 1775 he being a minute man went into the service in Captain Borworth's company in Colonel Lippett's Regiment the Lieutenants name was Barton and under him this applicant volunteered; marched on to the island of Rhode Island, and remained there till (sic) late in December, where he was ordered and went on to Prudence Island and was then stationed till (sic) sometime in February 1776 when he was discharged having served in this tour at least three months; in the month pf September 1776 he enlisted for three months under Captain Thomas Allen in Colonel Coob Regiment of (illegible) , his Lieutenants name was Reynolds and his (illegible) Wescott, that he marched immediately to Newport in Rhode Island, where he was stationed till (sic) the arrival of the British fleet, when his company retreated to Bristol, and that he was then stationed doing duty till (sic) the close of the three months in December 1776 when he was dismissed.  Soon after the the expiration of the last mentioned service probably early in February 1777 he entered the service as a volunteer for (illegible) (illegible) militia and served a month in Captain Throops Company in Colonel Martin's Regiment
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stationed in the town f Bristol Rhode Island which was then used principally used as Barricade that at the close of the month service as a substitute for his father Daniel  Cole, he again entered the service for one month and served out that whole period at Bristol aforesaid, in Captain (illegible) company in said Colonel Martins Regiment.  In the spring of 1777, the month he cannot recollect, he enlisted in a company under the command of Captain Duvall, Lieutenant Gifford in a Regiment raised by the General Assembly of Rhode Island for the purpose of guarding  the boats employed in the service of the United States for transporting provisions & munitions of war in Mount Hope Bay, that he enlisted for one year and less sooner discharged by the General Assembly that the said Assembly discharged the company sooner but he served in this service nine months, and more, when he was discharged at Warren in Rhode Island.  In the month of June 1778 he again enlisted in Captain Allen's company in Colonel Crays Regiment of Rhode Island State Troops, and immediately joined the Regiment at Bristol Rhode Island where he remained in service till the arrival of the French Fleet, that the Regiment then crossed Mount Hope Bay to Howland Ferry's in Tiverton, where he was stationed about one weeks and then on the eighth day of August being this applicant's birth day, Colonel Toppings & Colonel Crary's Regiment's this applicant among them crossed Howland Ferry to Butts Hill Fort and took possession without any engagement and after staying on the Island through the storm, he was taken sick and was carried on Bristol Ferry to be taken care of and went to his father's house, after he recovered, he joined the Regiment at Howland Ferry after the Retreat of General Sullivan from the Island and continued then in the service till the army went into winter quarters.
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that then this applicant went into winter quarters at Little Compton and was discharged the 16th March 1779 at Tiverton.  In the summer early in June 1779, he served at Swansey one month under Generals Chase in a guard of about twelve men on the waters of Mount Hope Bay to guard against the incursion and depredations of the British from the Island; later in the same summer in July or August that year he served a month as a boat guard at Warren Rhode Island under Samuel Reed who acted as Sergeant commanding the guards.  In July 1780 this applicant was called out as one of the Militia for the Company of getting off cattle and other property off from Prudence Island to prevent the same from being taken by the enemy and served about two weeks in Captain (illegible) Allen's Company; In March or April 1781 he volunteered in Captain (illegible) Alen's Company at Warren went to Newport, and served in Captain Allen's company om Colonel Miller's Regiment.  That he remained in service at or near Newport one month. This applicant in answer to the interrogatories of the Court saith, that he was born at Warren State of Rhode Island 8th August 1757.  That there is a record of his age at Warren Rhode Island a certificate where of is annexed, that he was living at Warren aforesaid at all the period of entering into the service and continued to live there till 1780 then removed to Swansey Massachuesetts then in 1787 removed to Pittstown New York State, then six years after removed to Galway, then 15 years after he removed to Pompey now LaFayette where he still resides, that he volunteered in the  service, was called out with the Militia, or as a substitute for his father as above particulary stated.  That he was war drafted that during his service in 1778 he knew General Sulllivan, General Varnum & others officer, then at Rhode Island  General Varnum's
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Brigade paraded at the right of the Brigade of General Cornell to which this applicant belongs and General Glover Brigade at the left General Johnson Canadian Regiment paraded to the right of the line on the west of the Island next the Bay; Colonel Webb in various Brigade commanded a Regiment uniformed like the British.  That he never had a written discharge and that he has no documentary evidence of his service, and that he knows of no persons whose testimony he can procure, who can testify as to his service, except Seth Cole, William Bowen and Samuel Short, whose testimony he has procured and which with other testimony is hereto annexed, that Johnson Hall, and Asahel King of La Fayette are persons in his present neighborhood who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any States; This applicant further states that W. Conning the nearest clergyman but resides in LaFayette only about a year & a half and is not particularly acquainted with this applicant.

Subscribed & sworn to the day and year aforesaid     Daniel Cole
Daniel Moseley    Circuit Judges & Vice Chancellor
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Daniel Moseley  (illegible) Judge

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 mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states, and the court further certifies that it appears to them that Johnson Hall and Asahel King who have signed the preceding certificate are residents of the said Town of LaFayette and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.

Daniel Mosely     }
Vice Chancellor   }

I David T Moseley Deputy Clerk of the Court of Chancery of the Seventh Circuit for the State of New York, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of David Cole for a pension

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 12th day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty two,

Daniel T Moseley
Deputy Clerk
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I Samuel Short, of Barrington in the County of Bristol in the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations, of the age of seventy seven years and upwards, being sworn according to law, on (illegible) oath, do testify and say, that Daniel Cole, formerly of Warren in the County and State aforesaid but now resident in the Town of Lafayette in the County of Onondaga in the State of New York, some time in the fore part of the month of June A.D. 1778, I think I enlisted into Captain Thomas Allen's Company in Colonel Archibald Canary's Regiment of the Rhode Island Line, for the term of nine months, and said Daniel Cole served as a private soldier in said Company during the whole of said terms of nine months, at Bristol, and a part of the time on Rhode Island during the expedition of Major General Sullivan; and the remainder of the time at Tiverton;  Major Manchester was Major of said Regiment; and Nathaniel Humphrey was Lieutenant of said Company.  I served as a private soldier in said Company during the same time. 
Samuel Short

The State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations
Bristol ss:  in Warren, August the 23d A. D. 1832.

The above named Samuel Short personally appearing before me the subscribed and being sworn according to law made oath to the truth of the aforegoing deposition, to which he subscribed his name in my presence, taken at the request of Daniel Cole resident in the Town of Lafayette in the County of Onondaga in the State of New York, to be used in his application for the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June the 7th, 1832, entitled an Act supplementary to the Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution.  And I hereby certify, that I am acquainted with said Samuel Short and that he is a credible person. 
Levi Haile  Justice of the Peace
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State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations.
TOWN-CLERK'S OFFICE,
WARREN, August 23d 1832
Daniel Cole son of Daniel Cole and Anne his wife, was born on the Eighth day of August A.D. Seventeen hundred fifty seven 
A true copy of record.
Witness Samuel Randall Town Clerk
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[vertically at left] hand writing signature
Witness my hand and seal of Office this 24th day of June 1840
William M. Clarke Deputy Clerk
5713
5713
Zilpha Cole widow
of Daniel Cole
New York
Act 4 July 1836
[vertically at right] Seventeen hundred and Eighty
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State of New York
County of Onondaga} Ss
On this twenty third day of June one thousand eight hundred and forty personally appeared before me Johnson Hall a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Onondaga and State of New York; Zilpha Cole a resident the town of Lafayette in the County of Onondaga and state of New York, aged Eighty three years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath, make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress,
passed July 4, 1836: that she is the widow of Daniel Cole who was a private soldier in the army of the Revolution, that she has frequently heard her late husband the said Daniel Cole say that he was in the service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War previous to the year 1780 that he served several campaigns previous to that year as she has been informed and verily believes to be true, that on account of old age and loss of memory she cannot state what particular years he served or under what officers; that she distinctly recollects his being in the service in the fall of 1780 but cannot recollect the length of time he served nor the names of the officers under whom he served. She thinks he was stationed in the neighborhood of Bristol Rhode Island. She further declares that her late husband Daniel Cole obtained a Pension under the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 of Eighty Dollars per annum, and continued to receive such Pension during his natural life. She further declares that she was married to the said Daniel Cole in the
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Spring of the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty (1780) thinks it was in the month of May but cannot be positive. That her husband the aforesaid Daniel Cole died on the 6th day of May one thousand eight hundred and forty, at the town of La Fayette aforesaid; and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. She further declares that according to the best of her recollection her husband the said Daniel Cole resided in the town of Warren Bristol County Rhode Island when he was called unto the service in the year 1780, but cannot state whether he was draughted, was a volunteer or a substitute that she has no documentary evidence, or proof in support of her claim except what is hereto annexed, but she would refer the proper officers to the declaration and proof made by her late husband the said Daniel Cole now on file in the proper office in Washington. The Pension Certificate of the said Daniel Cole was numbered 1747, and dated November 9th 1832-
Zilpha Cole
Her X mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me, and I certify that the said Zilpha Cole is a credible person, and that her statement is entitled to credit, and I further certify that the figure “7” on 35th line was made or on same, and that the words, Seventeen hundred and Eighty in first line of 2d page of the declaration were interlined, after the word “year”, also on same in 14th line between the words provision, and made, all done before signing and executing the above declaration 
Johnson Hall Judge of
Onondaga Common Pleas
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Samuel Cole of La Fayette in the County of Onondaga and State of New York aged Fifty five years, being duly sworn doth depose and say that he has known the said above named Zilpha Cole, and her late husband Daniel Cole, ever since his earliest recollection, being a son of the said Daniel and Zilpha Cole: that they lived together from that time to the day of his, the said Daniel Cole’s death which happened on the 6th day of May 1840 as husband and wife. That the said Zilpha Cole has remained ever since that period the widow of the said Daniel Cole she having resided ever since the death of her husband in the family of this deponent and that she could not as this deponent believes, have been married since the death of the said Daniel Cole without the knowledge of this deponent, and he has no knowledge of
her being married since the death of the the said Daniel Cole.
Samuel Cole
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 23 day of June 1840.
and I certify that the said Samuel de is credible witness, and that his statement is entitled to credit, and further that the words “ the said Daniel Coles”, in 9th line, and the words “as husband and wife”, in 10th line, and [illegible] 4th him between the words, “then” and “above” were all done before signing and making oath to the above deposition
Johnson Hall Judge
of Onondaga Common Pleas
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I do hereby certify that the within named applicant Zilpha Cole cannot on account of old age and bodily infirmity attend the Court Dated June 23 1840
Johnson Hall
Judge of Onondaga
Common Pleas
State of New York
Onondaga County
Clerk Office} SS. I hereby certify that Johnson Hall before whom the within two affidavits purport to have been sworn, and also whose name appears to the above certificate, was at the date of the same one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavits and to the said Certificate to be his proper hand writing & signature.
Witness my hand and seal of Office this 24th day of June 1840
William M. Clarke Deputy Clerk
5713
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No 8470
Daniel Cole
Admitted
2 years
$80
Johnson Hull
Lafayette N. Yk
authentication
JLE
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[printed form with handwritten entries]
No. 8470
BRIEF in the case of Daniel Cole of Lafayette County of Onondaga
in the State of New York
(Act 7 June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Before a Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? Seventy five years 75
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period. | Duration of Service. Years, Months, Days. | Rank. As a | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Volunteered September In 1775 | 3 Months, | private | Gen. Col. Lippetts Regt Rhode Island State [illegible] Capt Bosworth’s company Lieut Burton
Enlisted Sept. 1776 | 3 months, | [illegible] | Col. Conley Reg Capt Thomas Allens Comp’ny
“ Feby 1777 | 1 month | do | Lieut Reynolds, Ensign Wescott
again entered the service for | 1 month | do | Col Martin’s Regt Capt [illegible] Comp’ny
Col Corley Roy Carl Thomas Allens comp
  |  | substitute | for his father David Cole, [illegible]
In the spring 1777 month not recollected | 9 months | private | Carl Bradford comp’y
June 1778 until 14 March 1779 | 9 months | private | Capt. Durrell Lt. Gifford Col Cincy, Capt Allen’s comp’y R. I. State troops
In summer of 1779 | 1 month | guard | [illegible] and Reid
In July 1780 & April 1781 and 1 month | 2 months | | Capt. [illegible] Company Col. Miller [illegible]
5. In what battles was he engaged? not any
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? at Warren Rhode Island
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By living witnesses as to his service, & respectable witnesses as to their belief in his tradition
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? no riband
Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Chas G Wilson Examining Clerk
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[stamp] WARREN R. I. JUN  16
37 1/2
Johnson Hall Esq.
Syracuse
New York
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State of Rhode Island &c.
I Samuel Randall of Warren in the County of Bristol in the State aforesaid, being duly sworn according to law, depose + say that I hold the office of town Clerk of the town of Warren, that the law of this State require all marriages solemnize in each town to be recorded in town Clerks office of that town, and that I have diligently & carefully examined the Records of Marriages in this Town and cannot find the record of the marriage of Daniel Cole Zilpha Toogood and am satisfied their marriage is not recorded in this office.
Samuel Randall Town Clerk
Sworn before me
Alfred Bosworth
Justice of the Peace
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I Seth Cole of Warren, in the County of Bristol, in the State of Rhode Island &c. being in the eighty first
year of my age and on Solemn oath do testify and say. That I was present at the marriage of my late brother Daniel Cole late of Lafayette in the State of New York, deceased, and formerly of Warren in the State of Rhode Island. He was married to Zilpha Twogood, who is now his widow, in the month of May (the day of the month I cannot recollect) in the year 1780, at the house of Constant Cole, in the town of Swanzey, by Elder Russel Mason pastor of the Baptist Church in said Swanzey: I was present at the marriage ceremony and saw them married. I further testify that said Daniel Cole was a revolutionary soldier in the State service and in the militia, during the revolutionary war. In the month of October 1775 said Daniel Cole enlisted into the company of Militia commanded by Capt. Benjamin Bosworth of Bristol and served in said company three months guarding the shores of the Island of Prudence and of Bristol during which time they were attacked by the enemy on said island of Prudence- On or about the first of June 1777 he enlisted into a company of State troops raised for guarding and managing the boats employed in the militia service in Naragansett Bay and served as a private in said boat service nine months and was discharged in the month of March 1778.
Major Nathan Munroe was commander of said Company & David Davols was second and David Gifford
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third in command. On or about the first of June 1778 said Daniel Cole enlisted into Capt. Thomas Allen's company, Col. Archibald Caravys regiment of State troops for one year, and served in said company and regiment until the year draft was up and was discharged in March 1779 having served about nine months, he having entered the regiment later than those who first entered did not serve the whole period of twelve months for which said regiment was enlisted. In the month of September 1776 said Daniel Cole enlisted into Capt. Thomas Allen’s company of State troops in the regiment of Col. John Cook and served as a private soldier at Newport on the Island of Rhode Island three months and was discharged in December. In the month of August 1780 the militia was called out in Warren and Bristol and other parts of the State and marched to Bristol while the enemy's fleet lay off Block Island. My brother Daniel Cole then was enrolled in Curtis Coles company Nathan Miller's regiment of militia and served in said company one month. I was then on the Island in Col. Greenes regiment of Continental troops.
Seth Cole
State of Rhode Island &c
Bristol County} Ss
Town of Warren June 11th 1840 Then personally appeared the above named Seth Cole and made oath to the truth of the aforegoing affidavit before me.
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And I certify that I am well acquainted with said Seth Cole and that he is a credible person whose statements are entitled to full credit-
Done before me,
Alfred Bosworth
Justice of the Peace
State of Rhode Island &c
Bristol Ss Office of the Clerk of Probate
Warren June 15th 1840
I Samuel Randall Clerk of the Court of Probate for said Town of Warren being a court of record and having a seal do hereby certify that Alfred Bosworth whose proper and genuine signature is affixed to the aforegoing deposition is a justice of the Peace for said County of Bristol duly commissioned and qualified to act as such. 
In witness whereof I have unto set my hand & the seal of said court this fifteen day of June A.D. 1840
[seal]
Samuel Randall
Clerk of Pro
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Daniel Cole d 1 May '40
Zilpha Cole m 1780
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Act 1836-5713-N.Y.
Zilpah Cole _ of Dan
Let to Johnson Hall
6 Aug 1840
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Daniel Cole NY Albany Agency
Act June 7 1832 $80 d 40.. when paid
HHL
Aug 29 40
Died 6 May 1840 pd to that period
JLE
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Zilpha Cole
Wid of Daniel
NY
Ad July 4 1836
Allow $80 per an
from May 4 1840
Married. 1780
died May 6. 1840
Johnson Hall Esq
Syracuse
NY
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NY
July 4 1836
Hon. James L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington 
D.C.
Cole
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Syracuse N.Y. June 24th 1840
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Sir I enclose the papers of the widow Zilpha Cole, an applicant for a Pension under the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836
Yours Respectfully
Johnson Hall
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State of New York
Cayuga County SS}
On this twenty fourth day of August personally appeared before me Mr. William Bowen a resident of Sempronius County aforesaid, aged Seventy two years next September who being duly sworn according to Law, doth depose and say. That he was acquainted with Daniel Cole the person named and described in the foregoing affidavit before the war of Revolution. On or about the first days of September 1776 this deponent and said Daniel Cole enlisted under Capt Thomas Allen in Col Cooks Regiment of Malitia [militia], their lieutenants name was Joseph Reynolds, Ensigns name was Wescot, at the time said Daniel Cole enlisted he resided in Warren Bristol County State of Rhode Island. That immediately after being enlisted this deponent and said Daniel Cole were conveyed to Newport in that State were they were stationed until the arrival of the British fleet. When their Company retreated to Bristol aforesaid, and where there stationed untill sometime in the Month December in that year when he was discharged having served according to the [obscured] of this deponents recollection the term of three months for [obscured] said Daniel Cole enlisted and further said Daniel Cole served one month early in the year 1777 under Captain Throop in Col. Martins Regiment of Malitia [militia] in Bristol Rhode Island
Wm Bowen
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day & year aforesaid
Geo. H Brinkerhoff Justice of the Peace
This certifies that I have been personally acquainted for several years with William Bowen the person who subscribed to the above affidavit, that I believe him to be of the age of 72 years next September, that he is a man of truth and veracity, and in whose statements I do place confidence and whose character for truth as far as I know stands fair in Community Given under my hand,
Sempronius Cayuga Co.
August 24. 1832
Geo. H. Brinkerhoff
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State of New York
CAYUGA COUNTY
CLERK'S OFFICE,} ss.
I, MICHAEL S. MYERS, Clerk of the County of Cayuga, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County:
DO HEREBY CERTIFY that George T. Brinkerhoff Esquire, was on the twenty fourth day of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty two a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and that full faith and credit are to be given to his acts in that capacity: And that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe the signature to the annexed Affidavit to be his proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, and subscribed my name this 25th day of August A.D. 1832
W. S. Myers
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[entire page is Xed out, but here is the transcription nevertheless]
As a Boat Guard at Warren in Rhode Island and continued in such service for the term of one month, and that in the year 1780 he was called out as one of the militia for the purpose of clearing the cattle and other property belonging to the United States off of Prudence Island, to prevent the same from being taken by the enemy and was in the service for about two weeks. That in the year 1781 about the month of March he volunteered in Capt. [illegible] Allens Company at Warren, and was immediately conveyed to Newport and was attached to Colonel Millers Regiment. that he remained in service at or near Newport for the term of one month when he was discharged. The name of the Lieutenant in the last company was Joseph Reynolds and the Ensigns name was John Short. That during his service in 1778 he served with the Continental Regiment in Gen. Glovers Brigade. That he knew General Varnum of the Continental army. That he has no documentary evidence, and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can [illegible] who can testify to all of his service-
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever 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. or (if any) only on that of the State of New York.
Sworn to & Subscribed the day and year aforesaid
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Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 16917
Zilpha Cole
Wid of
Daniel Cole
Priv. Rev. War
-
Act: July 4, 1836
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 149
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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[stamp] SYRACUSE N. Y. AUG 2[?]
Aug 27 1840
add proof
Zilpha Cole
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Comm. of Pensions
Washington D. C.
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Syracuse 24th Augt 1840
Sir
Inclosed you will find documentary evidence of the marriage of Daniel Cole to Zilpha Twogood, who is now the widow of said Cole & an applicant for a Pension. Her other papers are on file in your office.
Yours Respectfully
Johnson Hall
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I James Sproat of Taunton in the County of Bristol, & Commonwealth of Massachusetts do testify and say that I am Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court Court of Common Pleas and seal of County Commissioners within & for said County and have the custody of the Records of said Court for said County from 1780 to the present time. That on examination, I find a record in the records & figures following, viz. “Daniel Cole of Warren and Zilpha Toogood of Swanzey were married May 28. 1780 by Russell Mason elder of a Church of Christ in Swanzey”
Jas Sproat
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Bristol August 19 1840 James Sproat a credible witness, made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him signed,
Before me
James P. Ellis Jus of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Bristol SS. I, James Sproat, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Bristol, do hereby certify that James P. Ellis Esq. whose signature is affixed to the within certificate is a Justice of the peace in & for said deed of Bristol, and duly qualified to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Taunton this Ninteenth day of August in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred & forty
J. P. Sproat
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I Seth Cole, of Warren in the County of Bristol in the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations of the age of seventy two years and upwards, being sworn according to law on solemn oath do testify and say, that Daniel Cole, formerly of said Warren, but now resident in the Town of Lafayette in the County Onondaga in the State of New York, some time in the month of September A.D. 1775 voluntarily joined Captain Benjamin Bosworth's Company in the war of the Revolution, and he served as a private soldier in said company during the term of three months; he was stationed a part of the time in Rhode Island &  a part of the time on the Island of Prudence: William Barton was Lieutenant of said Company: I do not know to what Regiment this company was attached [illegible] company I think was raised to guard the shores, Wallace with his fleet being at that time in Narragansett Bay. In the last part of the month of September or the first of October A.D. 1776 said Daniel Cole enlisted for the term of three months in Captain Thomas Allins Company in Colonel John Cook's Regiment of the Rhode Island Line, and said Daniel Cole served as a private soldier in said Company during said term of three months. Said company were stationed at Newport until the British fleet arrived at that place, when said company marched to Bristol. On the last of May or first of June A.D. 1777. Said Daniel Cole again enlisted in the service of the Revolutionary war as a Boatman, and he served as a boatman in rowing, guarding and managing the boats which were used in the public service in the waters of Narragansett Bay for the term of ten months; Major Nathan Munro was chief officer in said boat service and Daniel Daval, David Gifford and Benjamin Howland were the other officers. I served in said boat service during the same time. Some time in the month of June A.D. 1778 said Daniel Cole enlisted into Captain Thomas Allen's Company In Colonel [illegible] Regiment of the Rhode Island line for the term of nine months, and said Daniel Cole served in said Capt Allins Company in said Colonel Archibald Cavavy's Regiment during the whole of said term of nine months. Said company and Regiment were stationed a part of the time at Bristol, and were
in Rhode Island during Major General Sullivans expedition, the remainder of said nine months they were stationed at Tiverton. Said Daniel Cole served as a private soldier in said Company. And I further testify that said Daniel Cole was enrolled in the Company of Militia in said Town of Warren during the whole war of the Revolution when he was not enlisted into the public service; and said Daniel Cole was drafted in said
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Company of Militia and served, the Militia under different drafts and at several different times during the war of the Revolution, I do not recollect the precise times or period of said service; he also served as a substitute for other persons who were drafted, and from the best of my recollection said Daniel Cole served in the Militia during the war of the Revolution as much as eight months.
Seth Cole
Seth Cole
The State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations Bristol Ss.
in Warren
August the 23d A.D. 1832
Then the above named Seth Cole personally appearing before me the Subscriber and being sworn, according to law, make oath to the truth of the aforegoing deposition to which he subscribed his name in my presence; taken at the request of Daniel Cole resident in the Town of Lafayette in the County of Onondaga in the State of New York, to be and in his application for the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June the 7, 1832, entitled an act supplementary to the Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution. And I hereby certify that I am acquainted with said Seth Cole, and that he is a credible person.
Levi Haile Justice of the Peace
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I Ichabod Cole of Warren in the County of Bristol in the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations of the age of eighty three years and upwards, being sworn according to law, on solemn oath do testify and say that I have been well acquainted with Daniel Cole formerly of said Warren, but now resident in the Town of Lafayette in the County of Onondaga in the State of New York from his childhood; that I resided in the immediate neighbourhood of said Daniel Cole during the war of the Revolution; and that I have heard the annexed deposition of Seth Cole distinctly read over to me, and that from the best of my recollection said deposition is true and correct, and that said Daniel Cole served in the war of the Revolution during the several periods of time and as stated by said Seth Cole in his said annexed deposition
Ichabod Cole
The State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations
Bristol Sc. in Warren, August the 23d A.D. 1832
Then the above named Ichabod Cole personally appearing before me the Subscriber and being sworn according to law made oath to the truth of the aforegoing deposition, to which he subscribed his name in my presence: taken at the request of Daniel Cole resident in the Town of Lafayette in the County of Onondaga in the State of New York, to be used in his application for the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832, entitled an Act supplementary to the Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution. And I hereby certify, that I am acquainted with said Ichabod Cole, and that he is a credible person.
Levi Haile Justice of the Peace
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The State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations
Bristol ss  I Ichabod Davis Clerk of the Court of Common in the County of Bristol in said State do hereby certify that Levi Haile who has certified the taking of the annexed depositions of Samuel Short Seth Cole and Ichabod Cole is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Bristol authorized by same to take Depositions and that the signature annexed to the certificates is the genuine signature of the said Levi Haile
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 25 day of August AD 1832
Attest Ichabod Davis Clerk
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