Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31,624, James Coiel, S.C.
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(8-1776)
SERVICE
S.C.

Coiel, James or Coile

NUMBER
S. 31.624
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Inscribed on the Roll of Georgia
at the sale of 380 Dollars ___ Cents per annual
to commence on the 4th day of March 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 17th day of April and Sames Law
Gainesville - Ga

Arrears to the 4th of Mar 34
Semi-anl. allowance ending In Sept; 

1140 [In margin]
 190
$1330-

{Revolutionary Claim,
 Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Math Rier - Clerk
Book E Vol. G. Page 87
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James Coile
21761
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State of Georgia
County of Hall
On this third day of September eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court before the Justices of the Inferior Court now sitting as a court of ordinary James Coile a resident in the county of Hall and State of Georgia aged eighty two years who being first duly sworn according to laws doth on his oath [obscured] the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed 7th June 1832
That he entered the Service under following named officers and served as herein stated:
He entered the service as a drafted militia man in the year 1775 (the day and month not recollected) under genl Richardson in a company commanded by Capt Wade this was a three months tour and at the end of which time he was discharged the next year he again entered the Service as a second lieutenant in the volunteer company commanded by Capt Wade and was discharged from said Service at the end of three months at Charleston So Car he next entered the service for fifteen months as second lieutenant still under Capt Wade and during the service towards the end of the time was promoted to first lieutenant and was discharged there from at Tacaw on Santee River near Nelsons ferry So. Carolina he then joined the Continental Service in the South Carolina line in a regiment Commanded by Col Sumpter who was shortly thereafter promoted to the office of Genl as a Captain in said regiment and served about [crossed out word] eleven months in that service. I was well acquainted with major Brown Capt M Linton Capt Tayler Capt Duff Capt Risbow & Col Henderson who commanded the regiment to which I belonged after Sumpter was promoted
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I had command of the guard on goat Island at the time of the Battle at Fort Moultrie on Sullivans Island was at a battle with the Cherokees at Blackhole at Rocky mount with the British and tories at hanging Rock and Kings mountain in which last engagement he was wounded by having his leg broke and never rejoined the army as before he was able to do so the battle at Yorktown had been fought and hither the War ended resigned his commission [crossed out line] to Col Henderson in Charleston by delivering the same to Wade Hampton then paymaster of the regiment that he has no documentary evidence [begin insert line] he hereby relinquishes every claim to a [insert continued below] pension except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension rolls of the agency of any State [end insert] and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can now procure who can testify to his service

his
James Coile
mark
Thos. S. Fate J.J.C

We James Rylee a clergyman residing in the County of Hale and  [crossed out] Benjn R. Mc Cutchen residing in the same, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with [crossed out] James Coile who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be [crossed out] eighty two years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sword and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
James Rylee
Thos S Fate B.R. Mc Cutchen
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State of Georgia
Hall County

Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Inferior Court in & for the said County James Coil who being duly sworn deposeth (sic) 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 - In the year 1775 I entered the Service as a private drafted Militia man under the command of Capt George Wade & was attached to Col Richardsons Regiment and joined the army under Genl. Richardson and marched to Hollinsworth's Mill on Rayburn Creek in the State of South Carolina.  He remained at this place two or three weeks during which time the scouting parties belonging to our army brought in considerable number of tories which they had taken as prisoners and amongst the number was a Col Fletcher and a Col. Bill Woffard we were then marched towards the high hills of Santee but our time of service having expired before we reached the hills we were discharged by Genl. Richardson I returned home having served three months

In a few months after getting home Capt Wade turned out and [unknown] volunteer company into which company I returned and was elected by the company 2nd Lieutenant and served a tour of three months but for which service I only claim the pay of a private Soldier as I was not commissioned I think Col. Richardson had command of this Regiment.

Shortly after the end of this service Capt Wade raised a company for fifteen months of what was called provincial, State, or continental troops, I joined his company and immediately after reaching head quarters I received from Capt Wade
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a 2nd Lieutenants commission and was attached to Col Sumpters Regiment we marched up the County from Charleston to where Genl. Williamson [unknown] and joined his army.  We then marched to a place called the home show or hell hole by some called the Black hole situated in the Cherokee nation at which place we had a scout engagement with the Indians and succeeded in driving them and remained on the ground that night; We then marched to the Valley Town and buried them all but the com.  We then returned to South Carolina and built a Stockade Fort near Rayburns Creek called Fort Riply from this place I was marched to Charleston and had command of the guard at Goat Island at the rime of the battle at Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island.  After the battle I was marched to Fort Burrington on the Altamahaw River remained there three months and then marched to a place on Santee River called Toccaw - and was then discharged I received a first Lieutenants commission after the battle at Charleston which I held three months and had previous to receiving it acted in the capacity and under commission of 2nd Lieutenant twelve months.

Shortly after returning home I joined Col. Sumpters Regiment in the South Carolina line called the 6th Regiment of South Carolina Riflemen in the continental Service.  I was appointed Capt of a Company and immediately after joining head quarters at Charleston received a Commission from Col. Henderson who had just been promoted from Majr; Col Sumpter was also promoted about the same time to Genl. this was a time of Eleven months during which I remained at Charleston & Haddrell's Point and nine months of the time held a
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Captains commission and at the end of the term I resigned my commission to Col Henderson by handing it to Wade Hamilton (?) and returned some time after I with several others went to where Genl Sumpter lay (?) at [unknown] mills and joined his army I was requested by the Genl to act as adjutant but received no commission and marched to Ramsour's Mills for the purpose of attacking the tories under the command of a Col. Moore but the engagement was brought on by a Majr. Falls before we reached the ground who defeated them but was killed himself from there marched to Rocky mount had an engagement lost some of our men but could not succeed in dislodging them  We then marched to the hanging Rock had another engagement and defeated them from there we marched to where Col. Campbell & Col. Shelby lay joined them and marched to the Kings Mountain I went into the engagement and received a ball which broke my leg and after some little time was taken off the ground.  I was fourteen months in this Service and it not being such service as to entitle me to pay agreeable to the Rules and regulations of the War department have merely stated it in order to corroborate my former declaration.  I further swear that for the time during which the Service was performed I was not employed in any civil pursuit and for such service I claim a pension

1. I was born in August County State of Virginia in the year 1758
2nd I have had a record of my age which is lost
3 I lived in the State of South about thirty five miles above Camden & in the neighbourhood (sic) of the Warsaw settlements when called into service
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after the war I remained in Lancaster District
South Carolina until
about forty years 
ago when I removed to Braud
River Franklin County & State of Georgia
and from there removed to Hall County
State of Georgia where I have lived about
Six years and where I now live
I was drafted into the first tour of duty and
Volunteered into the other tours
I never received any discharge for my service
I received 1st Lieutenant commission a 2nd Lieutenants Commission and a Capt Commission all of which are lost
I am acquainted with the Reverend James
Riley Benjamin McCutchen Esqr Andrew
McCo Esqr and Jacob Pichle Esqr in my
present neighbourhood

Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 2nd day of September 1833
his
James X Coil
Mark
 Joseph Dunagan JJC
State of Georgia
Hall County
I John B Nichols Clerk of the
Inferior Court of said county do
hereby certify that Joseph Dunagan before whom the
above affadavit was made is an acting Justice of
the inferior court and that the signature
annexed is his genuine signature
Given under my hand and
seal of office this 3rd day of September
1833
John B. Nichols Clk
⎬
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the Investigation of the matter and after putting the Interrogatories presented 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 James Rylee who has signed the preceeding (sic) certificate is a Clergyman resident in Hall County & State of Georgia and that Benjamin R McCutchen who has also signed the same is a resident of the above named County & State and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.

Thos S Fate
E Buffington
Joseph Dunagan

Georgia Hall County
I Geo Hawpe Clerk of the Court of [unknown] of said do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of James Coile for a pension.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this 34d day of Sept. 1832

Geo Hawpe C.C.O.
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Georgia
Hall county

This day personally came before me John Hamilton who being duly sworn saith that he was well acquainted with James Coiel

While the applicant in the foregoing declaration for the space of about two years during the revolutionary war during which time he was a first Lieutenant in which capacity he thinks he served about thirteen months and afterwards he was promoted to the rank of Captain in which capacity he thinks he served about eleven months and then resigned his commission he served as a soldier under the said James Rile 

Sworn to and subscribed this 4th day of Sept. 1832

John Hamilton (his x mark)

Joseph Dunagan, JJC

I hereby certify that John Hamilton the above named deponent is a credible person 

Given under my hand this (paper fold) 1833

Joseph Dunagan, JJC
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Georgia
Hall County

I John B Nichols Clerk of the Inferior Court of Said County do hereby certify that Joseph Dunagan before whom the within affadavit (sic) was made is an acting Judge of the Inferior Court and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature

Given under my hand and seal of office this the 8th day of September 1832

John B. Nichols
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19.338

James Coiel
Madison Co. Ga

Wm Sanders
Danielsville, Ga

Recd. 28 July 1824.

Honble. John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington City
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Georgia
Madison County

Inferior Court July term 1824 sitting for and [unknown] persons Personally appeared in open Court James Cile Who resides in the State of Georgia Madison County being duly sworn saith that during the revolutionary War he served in various capacities of second and first Lieutenant and as a Captain in the Sixth regiments of riflemen of South Carolina line and Commanded at that time by Col Thomas Sumpter that he entered the said Regiment some time in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six as a second Lieutenant that in the space of fifteen months he was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant and shortly afterward to that of Captain but the time of either promotion he does not now recollect that he was in the battle of Kings Mountain at which time he was wounded in the leg also had the command of the guard at the time of the Battle on Sullivans Island that he continued in the sixth regiment till shortly before the Capture of Charleston by the British that he afterwards joined Genl. Sumpter near Salisbury North Carolina and served with him in various capacities till the end of the war.  This deponent further saith that he resigned his commission of Captain and gave it to Wade Hampton who was then paymaster of said regiment to deliver to William Henderson who was then a major in said regiment that he has now lost his commissions of second and first Lieutenant and has no other method of establishing the facts contained in this affidavit than his sworn oath and other testimony herewith transmitted this deponent further saith that he is so reduced in his circumstances as to stand in need of aid of his Country of the act of the first of May 1820.  I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United Stated on the Eighteenth day of March Eighteen hundred and Eighteen and that I have not since that time by gift sale or any other manner dispersed of my property -
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Or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring my self within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act of provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval service of the United States during the revolutionary war passed the 18th March 1818 and first of May 1820 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed

200 acres poor land 3rd quallity (sic)
1 horse
1 year old heifer
4 head sheep
5 head hogs
1 Pot
1 Oven

Some small household furniture exclusive of beding (sic) clothing and a few plantation tools that the deponent further state that the above property is subject to a judgment of upwards of Eighty Dollars which this deponent became necessarily indebted that he is by occupation a farmer that he is now so old and infirm as not to be able to pursue it that he has a wife sixty four years of age and his wifes (sic) sister named Margaret Magrady about sixty one years of age and that this deponent is now seventy three years of age and that his wife is infirm and palsied sworn to in open Court this 5th July 1824

James Coriel

Allen Daniel JJC
Bozeman Adair JJC
James Eberhart JJC
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We are of opinion from this byts information. We can obtain that the property mentioned in the foregoing schedule is worth one hundred and sixty one dollars.
Allen Daniel IJC
Bozeman Adan IJC
James Eberhart IJC
I William Sanders Clerk of the said Inferior Court when siting for ordinary purposes of Madison County in the State of Georgia do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed are truly copyed from the records of said Court and I do further certify it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is worth one hundred and sixty one dollars.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 5th July 1824 and the above named Allen Daniel, James Eberhart and Bozeman Adan are acting Judges of the Inferior Court of the  County of Madison in Georgia.
William Sanders CCC
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James Coile
Georgia
No. 21761
Admit as 
Lieutenant 15 mo 200
Captain 9 mo.       180
                             $ 380
e.j.m.

James Law
Gainsville Hall Co.
Ga.
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WAR DEPARTMENT
Pension Office
Apl 17 1833
Sir,
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7th, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned.  The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form.  On comparing these papers with the following rules and the subjoined notes you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed before a pension can be allowed.  The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done.  These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brae, ( thus: } ).  You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim. 
A Statement, showing the service of James Ciole
Period when the service was rendered; duration of the claimant's service: years, months, days; 
Rank of the claimant; 
Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served; 
Names and Rank of the General and Field officers; 
Battles in which the applicant was engaged; Country through which he marched; 
Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period; 
Evidence by which the declaration is supported.
1775 drafted; 3 mo.; Private; Capt. [illegible];
General Richardson; 82 years.
Vol.; 3 mo.; 2nd Lieut.; Capt. Wade; Blackhole
       15 mo. 1st Lieut. (towards end of war); Hanging
Rockard                  } Traditionary
Kings Mountain
about 11 mo.; Capt.; Capt Liston, Capt. Tayler, Capt Duff, Capt. Risbow; Col Sumpter, Maj. Brown, Col Henderson.
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant, 
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
AS the name of the applicant is not found upon the S.C. rolls, he will be required to prove his service by the testimony of at least one credible witness.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line", " State troops," "militia", and "volunteers", all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but no those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c.  Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Rugular Troops
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers
3. Persons employed in the Naval service
4. Indian Spies
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary Was exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides.  And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832. State, Territory, or District of....
county of                              } ss.
On this  ____day of ____ personally appeared (a) before ______ of _______ aged (c) ____ 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 provion made by the act off Congress, issued June 7th, 1832.  That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d), with ____ and served in the _____(e) regiment of the ____ line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers:) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched.  This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of _____.
Sworn to and subscribed the day the year aforesaid.
[And th said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I __________of the Court of  ________do hereby certify (h) that the forgoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of ________ for a pension..
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this ______ day of ____ &c.
If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers, or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the forgoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the ______ and C. D. residing in (the same) herby certify, that we are well acquainted with _____, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be _______ years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[and then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatoris prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.  And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A.B. _______ who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman , resident in the  ____ and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the  _____ and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, ______ Clerk of the Court of _____ do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of _____ for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal ________ of office, this ______ say of _______ &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power.  This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at lease one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department.  A very full account of the services of each person
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case.  The facts state I will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected.  All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3.Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary was, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service.
6. To a Soldier: Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it?
To an Officer: Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that he answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons, one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is a the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have bee a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion.  If y=one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, the the character and standing of other persons, giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party.  And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination before a Judge of Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute =the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such persons is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides.  If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] the age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had.  Every claimant must state, 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.  In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by maing an 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 bet of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; for _____ year _____ months, and ___ days, I served as a ____ for ____ months and ____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each 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 the length of his service.  The use of the phrase "about three or four months", is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pension merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable.  It must, in every case, be clearly shows under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the said or is garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certification in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has so device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
Mode of authenticating papers;
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the paper is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece off tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service.
[j] In a case where the name of the applicnt 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 claimant's entering the service and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. 
The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops, the proof required by rule is note [j] applies to continental troops only.
[k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
The applicant must prove his service as an officer either by the exhibition of his commission, or direct testimony to the fact.
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March 27, 1935.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Mrs. Houston Potts
Kosciusko
Mississippi
BA-Jady
Jamel Coiel
S.31624

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter relative to John Gooch, William Cooch and James Coil, soldiers of the Revolutionary War.
Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension and bounty land based upon military service of soldiers in that war. 
A careful search of the records fails to show such a claim on file on account of the services of John Gooch as described by you, or William Gooch, all spellings of the surname searched.
The data contained herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim, S.3624, based upon the military service of James Coiel in that war. 
James Coiel, the name is also shown as Coile, was born in Augusta County, Virginia, in 1750, day, month, and the names of his parents are not stated.
While living in South Carolina, about thirty-five miles above Camden, in the neighborhood of the Waxhaw settlements, he enlisted in 1775 and served three months as private in Captain George Wade's Company, Colonel Dickson's South Carolina Regiment. He entered the service in 1776 and served three months as Second Lieutenant under Captain Wade and Colonel Richardson in the South Carolina troops.  He then entered the service, served under Captain Wade and Colonel Sumter in the South Carolina troops, twelve months as Second Lieutenant and after battle of
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Charleston he was commissioned First Lieutenant, and served as such three months. He was appointed Captain of a Company and served about eleven months in Colonels Thomas Sumter's and Henderson's South Carolina Regiments. He also acted as Adjutant under Colonel Moors in the South Carolina Troops. He has command of the guard at the battle of Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island; was in the battle with the Cherokees at " Black hole" ; was in the battles of Rocky Mount, Hanging Rock and King's Mountain where he was wounded and had his leg broken and before he was able to rejoin the army the war ended and he resigned his commission. 
After the Revolutionary War he remained in Lancaster District, South Carolina, until about 1793, and then moved to Broad River, Franklin County, Georgia. In 1824 he was residing in Madison County Georgia.  About 1827 he moved to Hall County, Georgia. He was allowed pension on his application executed September 3, 1832 while a resident of Hall County Georgia.
In 1824 soldier's wife, was aged sixty-four years her name not shown. In 1824 Margaret Magrady, was about sixty-one years old. She was a sister of the wife of the soldier, James Coiel. There are no further family data. Soldier dies April 20, 1836, place not stated. This is the  record of the only James Coiel, all spellings of the surname searched, that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this office.
Very truly yours
A.D Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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31624
Roy INVALID.
File No. 31624
James Coile
Capt. Rev. War
Act June 7th, 1832
Index: Vol. 2, Page 68
[Arrangement of 1870]
1935 Mar. 27 Hist. to Mrs. Houston Potts A.D.Y.
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State of Georgia
Hall County.        } Personally appeared before Me the undersigned an attorney Justice of the Peace in and for said County Joseph Gailey a resident of  said County and after being duly sworn deporeth and saith that he frequently saw James Coile (the applicant) in the fore going declaration, at his fathers house when deponent was a boy and always understood that said Coile was a good whig and a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and deponent further states that he has been acquainted with said Coile for the last eight or ten years during which time he has supported the character of an honest good citizen. 
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 2nd day of September 1833.
Fras Luck.          Jos. Gailey
I do humbly certify that Joseph Gailey to above named deponent is a highly respectable man.
State of Georgia
Hall County.        } I John B. Nichols clerk of the Inferior Court of said county hereby certify that Francis Luck before [illegible] the above affadant was made is an acting Justice of the Peace in afore said county and that the signature annexed id his genuine signature.
Given under my hand and seal of office this 4th day of September 1833.
John B. Nichols Clk.
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C23857  f 31624
James Coile of Ga.
January 21 1831
Referred to the Committee on Military Persions
Feb 27, 1832
Ref. to form. Rev. Pensions
Lte Rifle Col. Sumter
Capt.                          SC

(22)

Clayton 58. Rev. Pens.
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21st. Congress
2d Session
Congress of the United States
In the House of Representatives
January 21, 1831

On the motion of Mr. Thompson of Georgia 
Resolved that The Committee on military Pension be directed to inquire into the expediency of placing James Coil of Madison County in Georgia, on the pension list.

Atten: M. J Clarke
Clerk

To be returned when acted upon by the committee
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Danielsville 5th, October 1830
D. Sir,
Enclosed you have an affidavit of my own and one of John Hamilton who served under me as you will see by his affidavit- and by reference you will see that the said Hamilton is drawing a pension from the General Government- who was precisely in the same situation as myself (regards rank).
Yours respectfully,
James Coile
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War Department Pension Office
January 21, 1831

Sir, 
In compliance with the request contained in your letter and that of W James Coiel, I herewith transmit his papers; and I have particularly to request that you will be so good as to acknowledge the receipt of them.
I have the honor to be very respectfully your good servant
J.L Edwards

Hon. Wiley Thompson
House of Representatives
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Georgia 
Madison County
Superior Court
September term 1830
James Coile came personally in open court and after being duly sworn on oath saith that he was Captain in the Continental Service in the old Revolution that he served his commission on the steps of the State house in Charleston from the [hanx] of May. [Henderson] and was shorty afterwards sent out on the security service with instructions to enlist men for three years or during the War in which time he enlisted a number of men and brought them into head quarters and so continued in the Continental Service for upwards of Nine months under the commission of Col. Thomas Sumpter in the sixth south Carolina regiment. 
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court this 13th September 1830
Wm H. Crawford J.S. C. N. C.
James Coile
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Georgia
Hall County } This day personally came before me William Blackwell and acting Justice of the Peace for said county John Hamilton and after being duly sworn saith on oath, that he was well acquainted with James Coile for two years after the fifteen months men were dismissed and I the said Hamilton do further certify on oath that I served under the said Coile about one year as near as I can recall as a Captain in the Continental Service in the Sixth South Carolina Regiment Commanded by Colonel Thomas Sumpter sworn to and subscribed before me this 4th day of September 1830
John  "X" Hamilton
      his mark
Wm Blackwell

Georgia
Hall County}  I John B Nichols Clk of the Inferior Court of said County do certify that Wm Blackwell whose name appears to the forgoing probate is an active Justice of the Peace in and for said County and full faith and credit is due his attestation as such given under my hand and seal of the County this 1st of October 1830
John B. Nichols Clk.
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Georgia
Hall County } I John Nichols one of the Justices of the Inferior Court of said County do here by certify that John B Nichols whose name appears in the foregoing certificate is the Clerk of the Inferior court of said County.
Given under my hand and seal this 1st of Oct 1830
John B. Nichols JIC
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Georgia
Hall County }  Personally came before me an acting Justice of the Peace for said County John Hamilton and after being duly sworn saith on oath that he was well acquainted with James Coile in the old Revolutionary War that he served under the said James Coile as first Lieutenant then as a Captain which the said Coile was  continental officer in the sixth South Carolina Regiment under Col. Sumpter for the term of two years as near as ch can recollect.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 27th day of November 1824
 John. "X"  Hamilton
         his mark

John W. Hamilton JP
I do here certify that I have been well acquainted with John Hamilton the subscribed witness for many years and that he is a man of credibility and old Revolutionary pensioner.
John W. Hamilton JP
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Georgia
Hall County } I David H. Mc Cleskey Clerk of the Inferior Court for the County aforesaid do certify that John W. Hamilton who has subscribed to the within affidavit and certificate is now an acting Justice of the Peace in said County and that due faith ought to be had to all his [proudings] as such sworn under my hand and private seal then bring no public seal of office this 29th of November 1824.
David H. Mc. Cleskey Clk
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James Coile
January 22, 1831
Ref by no. to the com.
or military pensions
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James Long
       v.
James Coile.    } Madison Inferior Court
                                   July tem 1823
Georgia
Madison County }. I John Phipps Clerk of the Inferior Court of said County do certify that on the twenty second day of July Eighteen hundred and twenty three James Long obtained a judgment against James Coile in the inferior Court of said County for the sum of  one hundred and forty four dollars twenty two and three fourth cents principle and six dollars six and three fourth cents interest also the further sum of eleven dollars fifty cents cost making in all at the time Judgment was entered up the sum of one hundred and sixty-one dollars seventy-nine and one half cents out of which amount these was paid on the twenty-fifth day of Sept. 1823.
fifty nine dollars which still leaving at this time unpaid by the said James Coile the sum of one hundred and two dollars seventy-nine and one half cents besides interest given under my hand and private seal having no seal of office 7th May 1824.
John Phipps CLDK. I.C.
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Georgia
Madison County } I Allen Daniel one of the Justices of the Inferior Court for the County aforesaid do certify that John Phipps who has subscribed the within certificate is acting Clerk of the Inferior Court of said County and that due further and credit ought to be had nad given to his attention as such given under my hand this seventh day of May 1824.
Allen Danile I.J.C.
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James Hannd
Affidavit
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Georgia
Madison County }. Superior Court
                                October seven 1819
Personally came into open Court James Hannd who being duly sworn to with that he was acquainted with James Coile during the revolutionary in Captain Wade's Company, of the sixth regiment of [illegible] commanded by Col. Thomas Sumpter, that the said James Coile acted at the time this defendant  knew him as a private and second lieutenant as perhaps in both stations in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six and seventy seven.  This defendant further saith that the said James Coile acted as Lieutenant as well as defendant recollects about sixteen months, that he afterwards knew him as a Captain in the same regiment but have being he served in that capacity this defendant does not recollect.
James "X" Hannd
           his mark
[illegible to in aforesaid court this 9th day October 1819
James Long C.I.C.
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Georgia
Madison County } I James Long Clerk of the superior Court of said County do certify that James Hannd who subscribed the within affidavit was sworn in open Court and that he was esteemed as an honest good citizen and that due faith and credit ought to be given to the within affidavit as such given under my hand and private seal having no seal of office May 7, 1824
James Long CLK. IC.
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Georgia
Madison Cty. }.  Thomas Glaze came personally before me and after being duly sworn saith that he is and was will acquainted with Lieutenant James Coile in the old Revolution and that he knew the Lieutenant James Coile to have served for the space of fifteen months in the regular service at which time he said Thomas Glaze was descharged but said Lieutenant Coile continued in service and that he  the said Thomas Glaze served under the said Lieutenant James Coile during the said time of fifteen months.  Sworn to and subscribed to before me this 14th day of April 1819.
John Cleghorn IJ.P
Charles Polk J.P.
Thomas Glaze
Georgia
Madison Cty.   }. I John Cleghorn a magistrate in and foresaid County do hereby certify that Thomas Glaze who subscribed the above affidavit, as far as I know or ever heard was an honest man and that due faith and credit ought to be given to the above affidavit as such.
May 7th 1824
John Cleghorn J.P
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Georgia
Madison County. }. I James Long Clerk fo the Superior Court for said County do certify that John Cleghorn and Charles Polk whose names appear to the within affidavit was at that time acting Justice of the Peace for said County and that John Cleghorn still is acting Justice of the Peace and that good faith and credit is justly due to their aforesaid act as such given under may hand and private seal having no seal of office. May 1824.
James Long C. S. C.
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Kosciusko, Miss
March 12 -35
U.S Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington D.C
Dear Sir:
Do you have the names of Capt John Gooch or William Gooch of Virginia or James Coil or Coyle F.S.E on your list as pensioners after the Revolutionary War? If so please write me any information you
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have about these men. Am enclosing a stamped addressed envelope.
Yours Truly
Mrs. Houston Potts
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The National Archives
Form VAM-51
1205041
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
Bounty Land Warrant Record Card
Name: Coins, Domini; Grade Private; Line Maryland
Warrant Number: s 11043 and 14051;
Acre Age 100
Issued: August 24 1793
to Domini Coins
*the information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 and 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolution of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates.  Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.  Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in the National Archives.