Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21,564, Ebenezer Cole, Mass.
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SERVICE
Mass.
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Cole, Ebenezer
Leighton, Elizabeth
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NUMBER
W. 21564
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Former Widow.
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CONTENTS
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11100
Maine
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Elizabeth Leighton died, widow of Ebenezer Cole who died on the __________ of Cumbd. Co. in the State of Maine who was a Sergt. in the ----- commanded by Captain ----- of the ----- commanded by ----- in the Revolution for two years.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Portland at the rate of 120 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1836.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 5th day of April 1852 and sent to Dickens + Coombs
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Arrears to the 4th of Present Semi-annual allowance ending [illegible] $100

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act July 7, 1838.}

Recorded by [Signed: H.R. Weightman] Clerk.
Book D, Vol. 1.
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State of Maine

Cumberland}
County} SS.
     On the fifteenth day of February in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight personally appeared before the Honorable Josiah Pierce, Judge of the Court of Probate, within and for the County of Cumberland in the State of Maine. The same being a Court of Record - In open Court Hannah Leighton a resident of Falmouth in the State and County aforesaid, aged fifty-seven years, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration for herself and in behalf of her sisters Abigail Barton and Polly Lunt are all children of Ebenezer Cole, late of Portland, deceased and all children and only children of Elizabeth Leighton late of Falmouth, deceased, who was formerly wife of said Ebenezer Cole, who was a soldier of the Revolutionary Army and served therein
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three full years as a private, and one full year as a Sergeant, as will appear from the Certificate of the Secretary of State, Massachusetts, dated December 16, 1847. And this declarant further states that her mother whose maiden name was Elizabeth Field was married to her father, the said Ebenezer Cole, by Peter Noyes Esq. in the Town of Falmouth, on the 28th day of October 1788. - And that said Ebenezer Cole died at sea on some day of the year 1797 the exact day of his death she does not know. - That after his death my mother was married to Robert Leighton of Falmouth, who died on the sixteenth day of November 1835. That my mother survived and did not intermarry after the death of her second husband, but died the widow of the said Ebenezer Cole, and the said Robert Leighton, on the 12th day of August 1845, as will appear by the proof hereto annexed.
Attest [Signed: Hannah Leighton]

Subscribed and sworn before me
[Signed" Josiah Pierce] Judge of said Court
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State of Maine

Probate Court}
Cumberland County, ss}

Be it known, that on this fifteenth day of February A.D. 1848, it has been satisfactorily proved in open Court, being a Court of Record, that Ebenezer Cole, late of Portland, was a Revolutionary Soldier of the United States, and that he died at sea on the _____ day of _____ 1797. And that his widow whose maiden name was Elizabeth Field survived. That said Ebenezer Cole was married to said Elizabeth Field on the 28th day of October 1788, and that after her husband's death she the said Elizabeth was married to Robert Leighton, who died on the 16th day of Nov. 1835. That his widow that said Elizabeth did not intermarry after her second husband's death, but died the widow of the said Ebenezer Cole and said Robert Leighton, on the 12th day of August 1845 and that Hannah Leighton, Abigail Barton and Polly Lunt are the children and the only surviving children of the said Ebenezer Cole, deceased, and the only surviving children of Elizabeth
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Leighton, his former wife.

In witness whereof, I have here unto affixed the seal of said Court, and subscribed my name, this fifteenth day of February in the year 1848.

[Signed: C.C. Tobie]
{Register of Probate for
{Cumberland County
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State of Maine, Cumberland County ss - On this 18th day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, Hannah Leighton a resident of Falmouth in said County, aged sixty-one years, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration supplemented to the one she made before the Honorable Judge Pierce on the 15th day of February 1848, in order to obtain for herself and her sisters the benefits of the Acts of Congress penned July, 7th 18385 - March 3rd 1843 and June 17th 1844 - And this declarant states that she the said Hannah Leighton, Abigail Barton and Polly Lunt are the only surviving children of Ebenezer Cole, deceased, and only surviving children of Elizabeth Leighton, formerly the wife of said Ebenezer Cole. That said children received a pension certificate in May 1857, granting to said Elizabeth Leighton, widow of said Cole, $100 per annum, payable to said children, and this declarant states that she has been advised that her father if living would have been entitled to $120 per annum. That he served as a Sergeant more than two full years in the
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Revolutionary Army, up to the close of the war, as will appear from [redacted: the application of] Polly Lunt's application to the Secretary of State Massachusetts for said Cole's review - From the affidavit of Capt. James Goff, John Mountfort, and Jeremiah Prince - Also from the letter of Commission of Pension directed to our attorney and [illegible] September 24th 1849 - all of which are now supposed to be on file in the Pension Department. She therefore makes this declaration in order to obtain an [illegible] of will pension due her mother from $100 to $120. [Signed: Hannah Leighton]
Attest, [Signed: Jacob Herrick]

State of Maine, County of Cumberland ss.
Sworn and subscribed the day of the year first above written before me
[Signed: Daniel Hall] Just. Peace

I hereby certify that the signature of Hannah Leighton was written by Hannah Morrill at Miss Leighton's request on account of her information in my presence.
[Signed: Daniel Hall]
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State of Maine, County of Cumberland ss. 
Be it known that on the 18th day of December 1857, before the subscriber a Justice of the peace, in and for said county, personally appeared Daniel Leighton Jr. + Hannah Morrill, two disinterested and respectable witnesses and made oath in due form of law that they were well acquainted with Elizabeth Leighton, deceased, formally wife of Ebenezer Cole, who was a Sergeant in the Revolutionary Army, and that Hannah Leighton, Polly Lunt, and Abagail Barton are her only surviving children, and that she the said Elizabeth Leighton departed this life on the 12th day of August 1845 - Given under my hand this day of the year [illegible] above mentioned.

[Signed: Daniel Hall] Just. Peace
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State of Maine,
Cumberland ss. Clerk Office Judicial Courts
Portland December 21, 1847.
I hereby certify that the following marriage appears in the list of marriages returned to this office by Peter Noyes Esq. from the town of Falmouth for the year 1788 and recorded in the "sessions records" to wit, "Seventeen hundred and eighty-eight. October twenty-eighth, Ebenezer Cole (Portland) + Elizabeth Field."
And I further certify that the foregoing is a true extract from said records of said marriage excepting the words "Seventeen hundred and eighty-eight October twenty-eighth." which are plainly and legibly expressed in the words and figures following to wit "1788 Oct. 28."
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court.
[Signed: Chas. C. Hannon] 
Clerk pro tem of Judicial Courts}
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Rev. & 1812
Wars Section
ILL

October 20, 1930.

Mr. Warren Benjamin Hackett
1315 West 9th Street
Los Angeles, California.

Dear Sir:

You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 21564, that Ebenezer Cole, a native of Falmouth, Massachusetts, enlisted there January 1, 1777, served as a private in Captain A. Willams' Company, Colonel Sprout's Massachusetts Regiment and was discharged December 31, 1779. He enlisted at North Yarmouth January 1, 1780, and served as a sergeant in Captain J. Pray's Company, Colonel Sprout's Massachusetts Regiment and was discharged December 31, 1780.

After the Revolution soldier lived in Falmouth, Massachusetts (Maine), as did also his father, whose name is not shown.

Soldier married October 28, 1788, in Falmouth, Massachusetts, Elizabeth Field, both parties then of Falmouth. They had three children.

It is stated that soldier was an excellent singer and would entertain his friends far into the night with his sweet songs. He went from Portland, Massachusetts (Maine), and died at sea in 1797, exact date not known, on board a vessel commanded by one Captain Mortimer.

Soldier's widow, Elizabeth, married May 6, 1814, in Falmouth, Massachusetts (Maine), Robert Leighton of said Falmouth. They had no children. Robert Leighton died November 16, 1835, in Falmouth, Maine.

She was survived by her three and only children; Hannah Leighton, born about 1790, wife of Daniel Leighton, at whose residence
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she died, Polly Lunt, a resident of Brunswick, Maine in 1851, and Abigail Barton.

On February 15, 1848, Hannah Leighton of Falmouth, Maine, applied for pension due her and her sisters on account of the Revolutionary War services of their father, Ebenezer Cole. The pension was allowed.

Josiah Lunt, Jr., son of Polly Lunt and grandson of Ebenezer Cole, was living in Brunswick, Maine, in 1849 and was aged twenty years.

This is the history of the only soldier named Ebenezer Cole, who served with the Massachusetts, troops found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.

Very truly yours,

E. W. MORGAN,
Acting Commissioner.

Zachariah Field (1848, of Freeport) brother of Elizabeth Field, native to Falmouth - 71 years old - 1848 -
John Mountfort married widow's cousin, Jerusha, Soldier had brother - Thomas, + sister Jane or Jenny
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J.L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
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State of Maine, [illegible] Falls, Nov. 20th, 1848
To the Commissioner of Pensions

Sir
Herewith are depositions, additional proof in the claim of the children of Elizabeth Leighton, formerly the wife of Ebenezer Cole.
One affidavit is backed by Governer Dunlap and another by Joseph M. Gerrish Esq. of Portland, with both of whom the Commissioner is personally acquainted - I respectfully request that their papers may be filed with the original claim of the children of Elizabeth Leighton and entered upon with as little delay as possible. I am very respectfully your obedient servant
[Signed: Jacob Herrick]
Goff's Corner
Maine

J.L. Edwards Esq.
Washington
D.C.
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No 13574
Elizabeth Leighton and
Mr
[illegible] Jacob Herrick, May 18, 48
let to same May 31, '49
"   "   " 24the Sept 1849
"   "   same - 24th Oct. 1849
" Joshua marston 19th July 1850
" lat J. Herrick 14 Sep 50

Act 7 May 1838
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March 18, 1880

Add: [illegible];
late
Elizabeth Leighton
Pensioner
Ebenezer Cole

[mailing stamp for Goff's Corner]

James L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

Washington
D.C.
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8997
Maine
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Elizabeth Leighton [illegible]
widow of Ebenezer Cole
who was a Private + Sergeant
in the Revolution

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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 100 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. & Endg. 12 August 1845
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Certificate of Pension issued the 15th day of May 1837 and sent to Dickins & Coombs
Present
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[Acts of March 3, 1843, & June 17, 1844.]

Recorded in Book: A
Vol. 2, Page 6
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8997
Maine
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Elizabeth Leighton
widow of Ebenezer Cole
Mass.
who was a Sergeant
in the Revolution
In + from $100
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of 120 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843 & Endg.
12th August 1845
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Certificate of Pension issued the
5th day of April 1852 and
sent to
Dickins + Coombs
Present
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[Acts of March 3, 1843, & June 17, 1844.]

Recorded in Book: A
Vol. 2, Page 6
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11100
Maine
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Elizabeth Leighton dec'd
widow of Ebenezer Cole
who died on the 
of Cumberland Co the State of Maine
who was a pvt + sgt in the Comp 3 commanded 
by Captain Williams of the Regt commanded
by Col Sprouts in the Mass
line for 1 year private and
" " Sergeant
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Inscribed on the Roll of Portland
at the rate of 100 Dollars 00 Cents
per annum, to commence on the 4th day of
March, 1836.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 15th day of
May 1837, and sent to
Dickins & Cooms
Present
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Arrears to the 4th of
Semi-annual allowance ending

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{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act July 7, 1838.}

Recorded by [Signed: H.R. Weightman] Clerk,
Book D, Vol. 1 Page 15
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Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
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Lewiston Falls Village, Maine, August 11th/69
To the Commissioner of Pensions
Sir, 
I herewith forward to your office additional papers in the Pension claim of the Mrs. Elizabeth Leighton, formerly wife of Ebenezer Cole and respectfully acquest that the same may be files with Mrs. Hannah Leighton's declaration forwarded to the Pension Department in February, or March 1848, and with the papers in the same claim sent to Washington subsequent to that time, and that the [illegible] may service this same attention from the Department as though an agent personally appeared for the Claimants.

Very respectfully your obedient servant,
[Signed: Jacob Herrick],
Goff's Corner
Maine

J.L. Edwards
Commr. of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
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J.L. Edwards Esquire
Comms. of Pensions

Washington
D.C.
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Lewiston Falls, Maine, March 13th 1850.
To the Commissioner of Pensions
Sir, herewith are [illegible] to your Department additional papers in the claim of the Children of Mrs. Elizabeth Leighton, formerly wife of Ebenezer Cole, a Revolutionary Sergeant. I respectfully request that they may be filed with the papers in her claim, forwarded to your office in February or March 1848, and noticed in their proper order.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

{signed: Jacob Kerrick]
Goff's Corner
Maine

J.L. Edwards Esq
Comms of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
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p. 82
West Falmouth, ME
July 1/50

Joshua Marston,
Rel to the claim of
Hannah Leighton to
pension, for services of
her father, Ebenezer Cole
a Revolutionary Soldier.

Letter to J. Marston, July
15 1850

Ref to Claim of Pension
for [illegible]
Def. [illegible]}
July 15 1850
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West Falmouth, July the 1850
Sir,
Hannah Leighton has requested me to write to you concerning her father's pension. He died 50 years ago he was out during the War her mother died Aug the 12th - 1845. She employed Mr. Herrick of Lewiston 3 years ago to get the pension she has not heard from the man nor pension. Seh wants you to see if this man has received the pension, her father's name is Ebenezer Cole. If he has not received the pension, she wants you to send on the necessary papers for her and her sisters to sign. They were married before 1800. her mother has been married the second time she was married, May 6th, 1814, to Robert Leighton. Her mother never drew a pension. If Mr. Herrick has received the pension, please write.
Your obed. servant
[Signed: Joshua Marston]

Hon Thomas Ewing, Sec.
Department of the
Interior

Please direct West Falmouth, ME
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Lewiston Falls, Maine, Sep 12th 1850
To the Commissioner of Pensions.

Sir,
I respectfully would call your attention to the Pension claim of Mrs. Leighton - Mrs. Bird and Mrs. Knight - It is something like five months since I [illegible] additional papers in the two former claims, agreeably to the directions of your Department and have heard no information concerning them ----------
The Certificate of John Burbank from March 4th, 1831, to the time of his death was not sent to me at the time I received Mrs. Burbank's Certificates - I supposed at the time that it was an overnight and wrote immediately to the Department and have received no information on that subject. Us[?] there is a great movement here in Maine for the purpose of appealing from your decisions to the Secretary of the Interior and as the means used to obtain claims are not the most honorable - I solemnly protest against anyone having any right to intermediate with any claim of mine undecided by the Commissioner of Pensions. In particular I would protest against A.I. Waterhouse or Thomas Waterhouse claiming
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to act in any claim presented by me and undecided as aforesaid. And any power of attorney or other document purporting to authorize them or their attorney in Washington to act in any of my claims, I pronounce without hesitation to be a forgery or to have been obtained by the grossest [illegible]. I choose to let my claims take the [illegible] [illegible] as they will speak for themselves and need no [illegible] rolling or Lobby influence provided the Department's notice even be [illegible] to their examination.
I am very respectfully your most obedient servant,
[Signed: Jacon Herrick]
Goffs' Corner
Maine

J.L. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
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Washington Dec 29th, 1851.

Sir,
Enclosed I present the claim of the children of Elizabeth Leighton, dec'd for an increase of Pension, on account of the services of her first husband, Ebenezer Cole. The rolls in the Pension Office show that said Cole was a war's man, and a Sergt., 1st January 1780. He served to the end of the war and got Bounty [illegible].
Col. Niles has examined the rolls, and finds that he served more than 2 years as a Sergt. The Pension should therefore be $120 per annum.
Very respectfully,
Dickins + Coombs

J.E. Heath, Esq.
Comm. of Pensions
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Brief in the case of Elizabeth Leighton wid Ebenezer Cole
County and State of Maine
act s 7 July 1838 +6

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Claim, ("original" or "for increase.")

Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Parole and record evidence.

{If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?


Name and residence of Agent
Dickens + Coombs
Present.

Kirby
Examining Clerk.
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Maine
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Elizabeth Leighton dec'd
formerly wid Ebenezer Cole.
Maine
Act 7 July 1838 A.D.
2 years Sergt - $120
per an: to 12 Augt 1845
when she died, except 2 yrs.
Former payment, at the rate
of $100 per an: to be [illegible]
-ted. Payable to
Hannah Leighton, Abi
-gail Barton and
Polly Lunt, only 
surviving children

Dickens + Coombs
Present
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{MATH EQUATIONS}
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Elizabeth Leighton dec'd
formerly wid of Ebenezer Cole
Maine

Act 7 July 1838 
Add 1 yr Pri. $70
1 yr Sgt. $60
$100
Per annum from 4 Mar 1836, 
exact 2 yrs / to 12 Sep. 
1845, when she died
Payable to Hannah
Leighton, Abigail
Barton + Polly 
Lunt, her only surviving
children

[illegible line]
Dickens + Coombs
Present
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+ Mayor Term '77 Cape Morrison Col. Brown 1 mo
+ Dec '76 " " "
+ Nov '77 " " "
Jany '78 " " "
+ May '78 " " "
+ Aug '78 " " 2 mos
+ July or Aug '80 Mt. [illegible] (Lt. Reg)
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To the Commissioner of Pensions
Sir,
Herewith I transmit to your department the claim of the children of Elizabeth Leighton, formerly wife of Ebenezer Cole - Which I wish may be registered and enter upon in it's proper [illegible]. Very respectfully your obedient servant,
{signed: Jacob Herrick]
Goffs' Corner
Maine

J.L. Edwards, Esq.
Comm'r of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Lewiston Falls (Maine) June 8th 1849.
To the Commissioner of Pensions

Sir, 
Your letter of the 31st Ult.[?] informs me that a decision adverse to the claim of Elizabeth Leighton formerly wife of Ebenezer Cole, has been made by you - I think the decision a heard one and not justified by parts in the case. -
The identification was well made out in Mrs. Lunt's application for her father Cole's service, taking into consideration the explanation of Mrs. Field - If there had been a soldier by the same of Ebenezer Cole, from N. Yarmouth and another from Falmouth, the objections might have been well introduced, but the Secretary in his certificate says "The preceding is all the evidence of any one of the names shown by the Military Records in this Department.
Mrs. Lunt did not ask about the service of Cole of York or Cole of the County of Lincoln, but Cole of Falmouth a Town contiguous to North Yarmouth. Falmouth at that time was [illegible] of Falmouth proper and what is now the City of Portland, and the N.E. line of Falmouth was on the S.W. line of North Yarmouth. With regard to the death of Mrs. Leighton, I obtained with proof as I had been directed to by the Department in former cases. The Death can be proved by living witnesses - I think your decision would be reversed if you would review the case in all it's [illegible], and I respectfully ask you to do it, with the more evidence as I am well satisfied that there are documents
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in the Pension Department, which will still go further to prove the identity of the claimants further, when taken in connection with the proof addressed in [illegible] to his residence - I am Sir very respectfully your obedient servant
[Signed: Jacob Herrick]
Goffs' Corner (Maine)


J.L. Edwards, Esq.
Comm'r of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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13574

Elizabeth Leighton dw
formerly widow of
Ebenezer Cole
Me
Act 7 July 1838




Bounty Served 1787
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STATE OF MAINE.
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CUMBERLAND, SS.

CLERK'S OFFICE. JUDICIAL COURTS.}
Portland, February 15th A.D. 1848.}

I, Charles C. Harmon CLERK Protem of all the JUDICIAL COURTS in and for said COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, certify that
===== Jacob Herrick is an =====
acting Justice of the Peace, within and for the County of Cumberland as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that - he is - 
Duly qualified to act as such; that the Commission of the said Herrick is dated September 24 A.D. 1841. and will expire September 24th A.D. 1848,
and that the following SIGNATURES purporting to be his are Genuine.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said State, the day and year first above written.
[Signed: Chas. C. Harmon] CLERK Protem
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
__________
Secretary's Office, Boston,
December 16, 1847.

I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Ebenezer Cole is borne upon several Pay Rolls of Capt. Edward Grow's Company raised in York for defense of the Sea Coast, as a private from July 10 to December 31, 1775. 5 months + 20 days. Upon a Pay Roll by Capt. Reuben Dyer's Company in Col. Benjamin Foster's Regt. raised in the County of Lincoln to do duty at Machies[?], as a private from September 15 1777, 16 days. Upon an account in Army Books as a private of North Yarmouth in Capt. A. Williams' Company, Col. Sprout's Regt. and there credited by his service from January 1, 1777 to December 31, 1779, 36 months 40 per month. Upon another account in said Books as a Sergeant
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N. Yarmouth, in Capt. J. Pray's Company, Col. Sprout's Regt. and there credited by his service from January 1 to December 31, 1780, 12 months at 60 per month. Enlisted for During the War so stated upon the [illegible] 2nd account. The preceding is all the evidence of service of anyone of the same shown by the Military Records in this Department, as belonging to the Eastward.

And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.

[Signed: Wm. Tufts.] Deputy}
Secretary of the Commonwealth}
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To the Secretary of State, Massachusetts.
Polly Lunt, daughter of Ebenezer Cole, who was a soldier under officer in the war of the Revolution requests evidence of her father's service. She thinks that her father was a native of Falmouth and that he entered the Amry from that place - She believes that her father served three years, and she has good grounds to believe that he served twice that time - She does not know the length of his service, but traditions of the family say that he served the [illegible] part of the war - That he served as Sergeant and Sergeant Major some part of the time after his service under the State. That he entered the State service at first and that afterwards he was on Continental establishment. She therefore respectfully requests the Secretary to [illegible] the rolls and Revolutionary documents in his department to be examined and a certificate granted of all the service of Ebenezer Cole, of Falmouth aforesaid and the grade of his service.
[Signed: Polly Lunt]

Cumberland ss. Nov. 16th, 1847, subscribed in my presence.
[Signed: Jacob Herrick] Just. Peace
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State of Maine, Cumberland County, Town of Falmouth, Town Clerk's Office, January 26th, 1848, In the Book of Records of deaths in said town, the following is recorded viz Robert Leighton died November the sixteenth one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five and on same page Elizabeth Leighton wife of Robert Leighton died August the twelfth eighteen hundred and forty-five. The foregoing is a true copy of the Record excepting the dates, which are expressed in legible characters this Nov. 16th, 1835, and August 12th, 1845.
Attest [Signed: John Noyes] Town Clerk

State of Maine, Cumberland County. I, John Noyes on oath depose and say that I am Town Clerk of Falmouth aforesaid and have in my custody the Records of said Town - That the foregoing certificate was taken from said records and is a true copy of the same with the exception above named as certified by me.
[Signed: John Noyes]
State of Maine, Cumberland County SS. - June 26th, 1848, subscribed and sworn before me, Jacob Herrick, Just. Peace.
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I, Zachariah Field of Freeport, County of Cumberland and State of Maine, aged seventy-two years on oath depose and say that I am a native of Falmouth and removed to this place, forty-seven years ago - I was well acquainted with Ebenezer Cole of said Falmouth, who was a soldier in the Army of the Revolution, and served the principal part of said war - said Ebenezer Cole married my oldest sister, Elizabeth Field, of said Falmouth. Said Cole lived after he was married to my sister a dozen or fifteen years - He died at sea on board of a vessel commanded by a Captain Mortimer - He died very suddenly, and it was supposed that he came to his end by unfair means - After said Cole's death, his widow, my sister before named, married Robert Leighton - Said Leighton died about nine years ago - His widow did not intermarry after said Leighton died, but died the widow of said Ebenezer Cole and said Robert Leighton, two years ago last August - My sister had no children by her second husband, Leighton, but had three children by her first husband, Cole - They are all now living - Their names are Abigail Barton, Hannah Leighton, and Polly Lunt - I have often [illegible] with Ebenezer Cole about his Revolutionary services - He has told me time and
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again that he served during the greatest part of the Revolution - That he was put out by his father to one Deacon Chandler of North Yarmouth "free side" as it was called and that he left his muster and enlisted into the Army without the knowledge of the parents.
[Signed: Zachariah Field]
State of Maine, Cumberland County SS. December 31st, 1847 - Personally appeared Zachariah Field above named and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him signed before me.
[Signed: Jacob Herrick] Just. Peace
I Jacob Herrick a Magistrate of the County of Cumberland, hereby certify that Zachariah Field who has made the above affidavit has been personally known to me more than thirty years - That he is a person of respectability and that his testimony as a witness is entitled to full credit. I also testify that the word "death," in the tenth line from the bottom on the first page of his affidavit was interlined before he signed the name. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day of the year first above written.
[Signed: Jacob Herrick] Just. Peace
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STATE OF MAINE.
____________________
CUMBERLAND, SS.
Clerk's Office, Judicial Courts,}
PORTLAND, November 18, A.D. 1848}

I Chales C Harmon,
CLERK OF ALL THE JUDICIAL COURTS,
In and for said COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, certify that
George W. Chase is an
Acting Justice of the Peace,
within and for the County of Cumberland, as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is DULY QUALIFIED TO ACT as such; that the COMMISSION of the said Chase is dated September 25, A.D. 1847, and will expire September 25, A.D. 1854. and that the following SIGNATURE, purporting to be his is Genuine.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, for said State, the day and year first above written.
[Signed: Chas. C. Harmon] CLERK.
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I, Josiah Hobbs of the town of Falmouth, the county of Cumberland and the state of Maine, aged eighty-six years on oath depose and say that I was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army and am now a pensioner under the Act of Congress penned in the year A.D. 1834 and I further depose and say that I was well acquainted with Ebenezer Cole of said Falmouth at the close of the Revolutionary War and by general report as well as by conversations with him. I know that he was a member of Sprout's Regiment, which [illegible]. I joined [illegible] after he obtained his discharge. I further depose and say by general report I know that the said Cole married one Elizabeth Field, and that said Cole was afterwards lost at sea and his widow married Robert Leighton. I also further depose and say that Ebenezer Cole was called a Sergeant and was commissioned as during the wars [illegible] [Signed: Josiah Hobbs]
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State of Maine
Cumberland SS. 
Personally appeared before me, the written named deposed Josiah Hobbs, who is of respectable standing and of good character for truth and [illegible] and made oath that the foregoing affidavit by him, signed before me.
[Signed: George W. Chase] Justice of the Peace
November 10th, 1848
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STATE OF MAINE.
____________________
CUMBERLAND, SS.
Clerk's Office, Judicial Courts,}
PORTLAND, November 9th, A.D. 1848}

I Chas. C. Harmon
CLERK OF ALL COURTS,
In and for said COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, certify that
George W. Hunnewell is an
Acting Justice of the Peace,
within and for the County of Cumberland, as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is Duly QUALIFIED TO ACT AS such; that the COMMISSION of the said Hunnewell is dated February 8th, A.D. 1843, and will expire February 8th, A.D. 1850, and that the following SIGNATURES purporting to be his are Genuine.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, for said State, the day and year first written.

[N SIGNATURE] CLERK.
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I, Zachariah Field of Freeport, County of Cumberland and State of Maine, aged seventy-one years, on oath depose and say that I am a native of Falmouth in the State of Maine - That on the 31st day of December 1847, I made deposition in the matter of a claim for a pension die the children of Elizabeth Leighton and her former husband, Ebenezer Cole, on account of wid Cole's services in the Revolutionary War - In which deposition I stated that said Elizabeth was my sister - That Cole was put out to Deacon Chandler of North Yarmouth fore side (so called) and that he enlisted from there into the Army when he served the principal part of the war - That he, Cole, died at sea and that my sister after his death intermarried with Robert Leighton, who died leaving his wife a widow the second time - That she married her husband several years and that her only surviving children are, Abigail Barton, Hannah Leighton, and Polly Lunt - All of which deposition is there - I also depose and say that I have heard, read to me the deposition of Capt. James Goff of Auburn and I verily believe that the Ebenezer Cole he therein describes was the man who married my sister - Cole was about the height
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Goff states him to have been. Cole was an excellent singer and knew a great many songs and was very fond of entertaining his friends in that way. I also depose and say that he was commonly called Sergeant Cole. 
[Signed: Zachariah Field]

State of Maine, Cumberland SS. Oct. 7th, 1848.
Personally, appeared the above-named deponent, Zachariah Field, who is well known to me as a witness of respectability and veracity and made oath to the above affidavit by him signed, before me.
[Signed: George W. Hunnewell] Just. Peace

Portland, Nov. 9th, 1848. I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with the above name, "Zachariah Field " for more than forty years, and during all that time he has lived + dwell on his own farm in the Town of Freeport - That he has always maintained a good character for honesty, industry, sobriety, and integrity, and in my opinion anything what he may state under oath is entitled to full credit and belief.
[Signed: Jos. M. Gerrish]
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I, James Goff, of Auburn, in the County of Cumberland, and State of Maine, aged eighty-eight years, on oath depose and say that I am a native of Bridgewater, Massachusetts and resided there in the time of the Revolutionary War. I also depose and say that I was a soldier and under officer in that was and am now a pensioner of the United States. In 1775, I enlisted into Capt. Solomon Higgin's, Company, and served in said Company six months.
In 1776 I served in Capt. Thomas Mayhew's Company, on year - In 1777 I went to sea and was taken prisoner by the Pearl a 36-gun frigate from which I made my escape by swimming ashore at a place called English Harbor, in the Island of Antigua.
In 1779 I enlisted in Capt. Drew's Company, for nine months at the end of which I enlisted during was + was appointed a Corporal in which capacity I served one year - I was then appointed Sergeant and did duty as such, one year in Capt. Drew's Company and one year in Capt. Bailey's Company. In 1780, I became acquainted with Ebenezer Cole, of N. Yarmouth or Falmouth, who was a Sergeant in Sprout's Regiment, the same Regiment that I was in. Said Cole and I were intimate together, being both of us under officers and both singers, we often met evenings and [illegible] singing together. He was familiarly called "Sergeant Cole." The said Cole, resided in Portland after the war and died or was lost at
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sea many years ago. Said Cole was a middle-sized man, about my own height, which is about five feet eight inches. After the Revolution, and I had removed to the State of Maine, I visited Cole's father who resided in Portland, formerly Falmouth, and was treated very cordially by the family on account of my intimacy with the son while in the Army. Said Ebenezer Cole had a brother named Thomas and a sister named June, commonly called "Jenny." [Signed: James Goff]

State of Maine, Cumberland SS. July 31st, 1848.
Personally appeared James Goff, who has in my presence signed the above affidavit, and made solemn oath that the name is there before me.
[Signed: George W. Hunnewell] Just. Peace

I, George W. Hunnewell of Danville a Justice of the Peace, for the County of Cumberland, hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above affiant, James Goff, and have been a neighbor to him all my days, that he is a witness of respectability, and veracity and that his statements under oath are entitled to full credit.
[Signed: George W. Hunnewell]
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I certify that James Goff is a man of good standing in this community and may be believed under oath.
[Signed: R.P. Dunlap]

Nov 10, 1848
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JOHN W. DANA,
Governor of the State of Maine.
To all who shall see these Present,
GRETTING.
Know ye, That Ai Waterhouse and George W. Hunnewell, of Danville, and John W. Marston of Falmouth, whose signatures are borne upon the papers hereunto annexed, were at the date of their within attestations. 
Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Cumberland, and that they continue to hold said office.
[Signed: John W. Dana]
and that to their Acts and Attestations as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court.

In testimony whereof, I have caused the Seal of the State to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand at AUGUSTA, this ninth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine and in the seventy fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor.
[Signed: Ezra B. French] Secretary of State.
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I, James Goff, of Auburn, in the County of Cumberland, and State of Maine, aged 89 years, on oath depose, testify, and say, that I made deposition concerning Sergeant Ebenezer Cole, a Revolutionary Soldier on the thirty-first day of July 1848; which deposition was made for the benefit of his children in right of their mother, Elizabeth Leighton, I now depose and say in addition to what I then stated, that I served up to the close of the war and receive my bounty land. That Sergeant Ebenezer Cole, whom I described in my former deposition, married Elizabeth Field, of Falmouth, sister of Zachariah Field of Freeport and that after said Cole was lost at sea, his widow married a man in Falmouth by the name of Leighton.

Witness
[Signed: Ann Gatrell
Signed: Charles Goff
Signed: Ai Waterhouse]

[Signed: James Goff]

State of Maine
Cumberland SS., July 9th A.D. 1849, When personally appeared above named James Goff of Auburn and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed, he being a credible witness.
Before me [Signed: Ai Waterhouse] Justice of the Peace
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State of Maine, Cumberland County, Town of Falmouth, Town Clerk's Office, July 31st, 1849.
In a book of Records of Deaths, belonging to said Town, the following death is recorded Viz, Elizabeth Leighton died August the twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five - The foregoing is a Copy of the Record excepting the date which is expressed in words and figures this "August 12th, 1845."
Attest [Signed: John Noyes] Town Clerk

I, John Noyes, on oath depose and say, that I am Town Clerk of Falmouth aforesaid, and that the foregoing is a true copy of the Record with the exceptions above noted by me - I also depose and say that it does not appear from said Record when said entry was made nor is it within my knowledge when the same was made.
[Signed: John Noyes]

State of Maine, Cumberland SS. July 31st, 1849.
Subscribed and sworn before me.
[Signed: John W. Marston] Just. Peace
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I, Levi Hersey, of Freeport, County of Cumberland, and State of Maine. of lawful age, on oath depose and say that I am a Clergyman of the Freewill Baptist denomination - That in the month of July 1844, I moved into the Town of Falmouth, in this State and had the change of the Church and Society belonging to our denomination in that place. A short time after I removed to Falmouth, I attended the funeral of Mrs. Dolly Hicks, daughter of Samuel Hicks of said Falmouth. She, the said Dolly, had selected me to preach at her funeral, before I moved into the place. When I first moved to Falmouth, I resided in the neighborhood called "Black [illegible] Hill." In 1845, in the month of May, I removed into another neighborhood, about one third of a mile from Mr. Danial Leighton's. Daniel Leighton is the husband of Mrs. Hannah Leighton. Mrs. Hannah Leighton's mother, who was Robert Leighton's widow, resided with her daughter. In the month of August, said widow Leighton died and I officiated at her funeral and preached a sermon. One circumstance why I know it was in August 1845, in that the Methodist conference was held the latter part of July, and the minister appointed on that Circuit was at said formal, and I was first introduced to him at that time. His name was Clough and had been on the Circuit about three weeks, which would bring the time of
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the funeral about the middle of August 1845. At any rate, I know it was in the month of August 1845. And I know it was in 1845 because I moved into the Leighton neighborhood as I have before stated and removed there from to Brunswick in December following, and the death of Mrs. Leighton took place which I resided in that neighborhood.
[Signed: Levi Hersey]

State of Maine
Cumberland SS. August 6th, A.D. 1849, subscribed and sworn to oath the above date before me Geo. W. Hunnewill Justice of the Peace.
I George W. Hunnewill, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Cumberland, and State of Maine, hereby certify that the above named Rev. Levi Hersey is well known to me, and that he is a Clergyman of the Freewill Baptist denomination and that I have known his for the last fifteen years, and that his word alone aside from affidavit or under oath, is not doubted by any person of credibility.
[Signed: Geo. W. Hunnewill] Justice of the Peace
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I, Mary June Hersey, wife of Levi Hersey, who has made deposition in the matter of Mrs. Elizabeth Leighton's death, on oath depose and say that I have heard recent to me, my husband's deposition which is on this sheet of paper and the first herein stated are within my knowledge and I know them to be true, and I further testify that I was at Mrs. Leighton's house a few months after Mrs. Elizabeth Leighton died and assisted in laying out the corpse and prepared her grave clothes.
[Signed: Mary J. Hersey]

State of Maine
Cumberland SS. August 6th, A.D. 1849.
Subscribed and sworn on the day above written, and that she is a credible witness, and her word is considered by us all who know her to be good, in or out of Court, sworn before me
[Signed" Geo. W. Hunnewill] Justice of the Peace
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I, Samuel Hicks, of Falmouth, County of Cumberland, State of Maine, aged sixty-six years, on oath depose and say that I was well acquainted with Mrs. Elizabeth Leighton, widow of Robert Leighton and formerly wife of Ebenezer Cole. The maiden name was Elizabeth Field, and she was the mother of Hannah Leighton, Polly Lunt, and Abigail Barton. My acquaintance with her commenced nearly forty years ago. Mrs. Leighton died in August 1845. I attended the funeral in company with my wife. The reason why the time of her death is more particularly remembered by me is that my daughter, Dolly Hicks died, July 11th, 1844, and Mrs. Elizabeth Leighton died the next year in August. I have a family memorial on record of my daughter's death, which was made soon after her deceased put in a frame and has hung in my house ever since. Another circumstance that strengthens the date is that Mrs. Leighton's family, which have been procured by us while in mourning for our daughter. I also depose and say that gravestones were put up at my daughter's grave soon after her death, and that the date on said gravestones correspond with the date of my family record.
[Signed: Samuel Hicks]

State of Maine, Cumberland County SS., July 30th, 1849.
Subscribed and sworn before me.
[Signed: John W. Marston] Justice of the Peace
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I, Nancy R. Hicks, wife of Samuel Hicks, aged fifty-seven years, on oath depose and say that I have heard, read to me, my husband's deposition in the matter of Mrs. Elizabeth Leighton's death and that the faith stated by him are within my own knowledge and are true.
[Signed: Nacy R. Hicks]
State of Maine, Cumberland County SS. July 30th, 1849.
Subscribed and sworn before me.
[Signed: John W. Marston] Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Samuel Hicks and his wife, Nancy R. Hicks, who have made deposition in the matter of the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Leighton, and that this statement under oath are entitled to full credit. I also certify that I have seen the family record referred to by them, and that it confirms with this affidavit.
[Signed: John W. Marston] Justice of the Peace
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JOHN W. DANA,
Governor of the State of Maine.
To all who shall these Presents,
GREETING.

Know ye, That John W Goodkin and Zadoc Humphrey, of North Yarmouth, James Cox Brunswick, and Daniel Hall of Gray, all in the County of Cumberland, whose names are borne upon the papers hereunto annexed, are, and were at the date of their within alterations, justice of the Peace John W. Dana, and quorum within and for our said County of Cumberland and that to his Acts and Attestations as such full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court.

In testimony whereof, I have caused the Seal of the State to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand at AUGUSTA, this twelfth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty and the seventy-fourth year of our Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor.

[Signed: Ezra B. French] Secretary of State.
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I, William Osgood, on oath depose and say that I am Town Clerk of North Yarmouth in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine - That all the Records of said Town are in my custody - That I have at the request of Jacob Herrick Esq. of Lewiston Falls in this State, examined said Records for the name Ebenezer Cole, and find no person of that name on the Books, as having been born, living in, or dying in said Town of North Yarmouth aforesaid -----
[Signed: William Osgood]
{Town Clerk}
{of North Yarmouth}

State of Maine -
Cumberland SS. - Jan 17th, 1850-
Personally appeared William Osgood, Town Clerk of North Yarmouth, and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit before me --
[Signed: John W. Goodkin]
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I, John Mountfort, of Gray in the County of Cumberland, and State of Maine, aged eighty-three years, on oath depose do testify and say that I was well acquainted with Ebenezer Cole, who married Elizabeth Field of Falmouth. Said Elizabeth was cousin to my wife, Cole was a Soldier in the Revolutionary Army and served therein during the war. He was an Orderly Sergeant and was even after the war, called Sergeant Cole, in the time of the Revolutionary War. He was living with his relative Deacon Chandler in North Yarmouth from whence he enlisted into the Army and was gone until the close of the war. Said Cole was a great singer of songs and would entertain his friends until a late hour in the night without signing the same song over twice. I was well acquainted with said Cole both before and after the Revolutionary War. Said Cole died or was lost at sea and left three children, Abigail, Hannah, and Polly, after Cole's death his widow married Robert Leighton of Falmouth. Said Leighton died some fourteen years since. His widow survived him and died a widow some four years since. Teh said widow, Leighton, was partially deranged for many years and totally incapable of doing any business. I also testify and say that I was a native of Falmouth and removed to this place some forty
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years ago, I was well acquainted with the principal part of the men in the Town of Falmouth and never knew any other man by the name of Cole, than the one herein described either in Falmouth of North Yarmouth.
[Signed: John Mountfort]

State of Maine, Cumberland SS. Subscribed and sworn to before me January 7th, 1850.
[Signed: Daniel Hall] Justice of the Peace
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I, Jerushua Mountfort of Gray, in the County of Cumberland, and State of Maine, aged eighty-five years, on oath depose and say that I am the wife of John Mountfort, who has made deposition on this same sheet of paper. That I have heard, read to me the deposition of my husband in the matter of Ebenezer Cole, and his widow, Elizabeth Leighton, that the statements made by him are within my recollection and I know them to be true. I also depose that I was a native of Falmouth and removed to this place with my husband.
[Signed: Elmira W. Mountfort (Witness)]
[Signed: Jerusha Mountfort]

State of Maine, Cumberland SS. Subscribed and sworn before me, January 7th, 1850.
[Signed: Daniel Hall] Justice of the Peace

I, Daniel Hall, a Magistrate for the County of Cumberland aforesaid, hereby certify that John Mountfort + Jerusha, his wife, have been personally known by me for over thirty years past, that they are persons of respectability and that their statements under oath are entitled to full credit and belief in and out of Court.
[Signed: Daniel Hall] Jus. Peace
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I, Jedediah Leighton of Falmouth, in the County of Cumberland, and State of Maine, aged ninety-four years, on oath depose and say that I was acquainted with Ebenezer Cole, of the Town of Falmouth, who married Elizabeth Field. Said Cole was a Soldier in the Revolutionary War and went into the service from North Yarmouth, after the war he went to sea and died, and his widow married Robert Leighton of Falmouth. Said Robert Leighton died about fourteen years ago and his widow died about four years since and was in a deranged state of mind for a number of years before her death. Said Ebenezer Cole, had three children when he died: Abigail, Hannah, and Polly. I also testify and say that I am a native of Falmouth and never knew of any other man by the name of Cole either in Falmouth of North Yarmouth.
[Signed: Jedediah Leighton]

State of Maine, Cumberland County SS. January 12th, 1850. Subscribed and sworn to before me, Daniel Hall, Justice of the Peace. I, Daniel Hall, a Magistrate for the County of Cumberland aforesaid, hereby certify that the above named Jedediah Leighton has been personally known by me for thirty-four years last past, and that he is a credible witness and a man of good reputation and respectability.
[Signed: Daniel Hall] Jus. Peace
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I, Josiah Lunt JR., of Brunswick in the County of Cumberland, and State of Maine, aged twenty years, on oath depose and say that I am son of Mrs. Polly Lunt of said Brunswick and grandson of Mrs. Elizabeth Leighton, late of Falmouth, deceased. I also depose and say that some [illegible] years since I applied to Jacob Herrick, Esq. of Lewiston Hills to get information relating to my mother's claim to the Pension due my grandmother on account of the Revolutionary Services of my grandfather Ebenezer Cole. My father and mother supposed that the claim was lost by my grandmother's second marriage with Leighton, and that was the question my mother directed me to ask of Mr. Herrick, by whether or not her second marriage would destroy her claim. Mr. Herrick informed me that her second marriage would not vitiate the claim, and this was the first certain information that my mother had respecting her rights in the premises. I also depose and say that my grandmother, Mrs. Leighton, was deranged many years before her death and totally incapable of transcribing any business.
[Signed: Josiah Lunt Jr.]

State of Maine, Cumberland SS. November 8th, 1849. 
Subscribed and sworn before me.
[Signed James Cox] Just. of the Peace
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I, James Cox, a Magistrate in and for the County of Cumberland, hereby certify that Josiah Leighton, who has signed and made oath to the within affidavit is a near neighbor to me and that he is a witness of respectability and veracity and his statements under oath are entitled to full credit and belief.
[Signed: James Cox] Just. Peace
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I, Jeremiah Prince, of Yarmouth lately North Yarmouth, in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine, aged eighty-four years, on oath depose and say that I am a native of said North Yarmouth of that part called "The Foreside." I have followed the seas most of my days - When I was a boy, Ebenezer Cole came to live with a near neighbor of my father's, named Chandler. Said Cole left Chandler's and enlisted into the Army of the Revolutionary War and served therein up to the close. Cole and I met several times after the Revolution as we both followed the seas. I recollect once in particular of meeting him in the West Indies.
He has been dead; I should think fifty years. I am not positive where his native place was, but I think it was Falmouth, but Ivery well know he was not a native of North Yarmouth and lived there but a short time with Chandler as I before stated.
[Signed: Jeremiah Prince]

State of Maine, Cumberland SS. Subscribed and sworn to Fab. 28th, 1850.
Before me Zadoc Humphrey, Justice of the Peace.
I hereby certify that Jeremiah Prince, above named, is personally known to me as a witness of respectability and veracity. 
[Signed: Zadoc Humphrey] Justice of the Peace
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Mass.
Cole, Ebenezer
W21564
Leighton, Elizabeth
Former Widow
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STATE OF MAINE.
____________________
CUMBERLAND, SS.
Clerk's Office, Judicial Courts,}
PORTLAND, January 27, A.D. 1851}

I, Charles C. Harmon,
CLERK OF ALL THE JUDICIAL COURTS,
In and for said COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, certify that George W, Hunnewell, Esq. is an Acting Justice of the Peace,
within and for the County of Cumberland as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is DULY QUALIFED TO ACT as such; that the COMMISSION of the said Hunnewell is dated February 8th, A.D. 1844 and will expire February 8th, A.D. 1851 and that the following SIGNATURE purporting to be his Genuine.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, for said State, the day and year above written.

[Signed: Chas. C. Harmon], CLERK.
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I, Polly Lunt, of Brunswick in the County of Cumberland, State of Maine, hereby constitute and irrevocably appoint Jacob Herrick, Esq. of Danville/Lewiston Falls Village, in the County and State aforesaid, for myself and my sisters, Hannah Leighton and Abigail Barton, our true and lawful attorney for us and in our names and stead to prosecute a pension claim we hold against the U. States in right of our mother, Elizabeth Leighton, late of Falmouth, deceased on account of the Revolutionary services of her first husband, our father, Ebenezer Cole.
And for that purpose, the said Herrick, our attorney, is hereby empowered to manage said claim as he may think best for our interest within by appeal or otherwise, and to demand of and receive from the Commission of Pensions any and all pension Certificates we may be entitled to under any laws of the United States.
Hereby rectifying and confirming whatever our said attorney may lawfully do in the premises. Hereby also revoking all and any power of attorney which we or either of us have
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given to any person or persons whatever in the premises. In witness whereof, I, the said Polly Lunt, have hereunto set my hand and seal this 24th day of January 1851.
[Witness signed: Geo. W Hunnewill]
[Signed: Polly Lunt]

State of Maine, Cumberland SS. The above-named Polly Lunt personally appeared before me and acknowledged the above power of attorney by her signed to be her per act and Deed the day of the year first above written before me.
[Signed: George W. Hunnewill] Just. Peace
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Dec. 29 - 51

Elizabeth Leighton
died
For increase of Pension

Dec 29/81

Leighton

Dickins + Coombs
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STATE OF MAINE.
____________________
CUMBERLAND SS.

- Clerk's Office, Judicial Courts, - }
PORTLAND, December 20th, A.D. 1851 }

I, Charles C. Harmon,
CLERK OF ALL THE JUDICIAL COURTS,

In and for said County of CUMBERLAND, certify that Daniel Hall, Esquire, Is an Acting Justice of the Peace, within and for the County of Cumberland as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is DULY QUALIFED TO ACT as such; that his COMMISSION is dated May 2nd, A.D. 1846 and will expire May 2nd, A.D. 1853 and that the following SIGNATURES purporting to be his are Genuine.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, for said State, the day and year first above written.

[Signed: C. C. Harmon], CLERK.
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Know all men by their presents that, I, Hannah Leighton, of Falmouth in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine, for myself and on behalf of my sister Polly Lunt and Abigail Barton, children of Elizabeth Leighton, deceased, formerly wife of Ebenezer Cole, who was a Sergeant in the War of the Revolution, do hereby constitute and appoint, Misters Dickins and Coombs, of Washington D.C. our true and lawful attorneys for us and in our names to prosecute our claim to any increase of pension that may be found die on account of the services of said Ebenezer Cole as aforesaid. And I hereby authorize our attorneys to examine all papers and documents touching our claim on file in the Pension Department or elsewhere and file any additional evidence or arraignments they may think proper to ensure the recovery of the same.
Witness my hand and seal this 18th day of December 1851.
[Witness signed: Jacob Herrick]
[Signed: Hannah Leighton]

I hereby certify that the signature of Hannah Leighton was written by Hannah Morrill by the request of Mrs. Leighton on account of her [illegible].
[Signed: Daniel Hall]
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State of Maine, Cumberland County SS. 
On this 18th day of December 1851, before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, formally appeared Hannah Leighton and acknowledged the within power of attorney by her, signed to be her per act and deed - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day of the year first above written.
[Signed: Daniel Hall] Just. Peace
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[Witten vertical on left: 1930 - Oct. 18 - Hist to Mr. Warren B. Hackett
LI.L.L.

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
__________
File No. 21564
Elizabeth Leighton
Former widow of
Ebenezer Cole
Sergt. Rev War
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Act March 3rd 43 + June 17th 44
Index: Vol. A. Page 438.

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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[Written vertical on left: Let this stay with these papers]

It is also stated in the papers in this claim that Ebenezer Cole served in the close of the war and received his bounty land.

A search of the bounty land (old) books showed that Warrant no. 3843 for 100 acres was issued Aug. 1, 1789 to Thos. Cushing for service of Ebenezer Cole, mass. Troops, private.
Also, Warrant no. 3953 for 100 ac. issued May 17, 1792 to Moses Bissell for service of Ebenezer Cole, Mass. service, private.
I could not tell which one was for this [illegible] so did not put the number on jacket.
[Signed: unknown initials]
Oct. 21 - 30 -
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1315 West 9th Street,
Los Angeles, California.
Sept. 29, 1930.

Department of the interior
Pension Bureau

Gentlemen:
For genealogical purposes, I would like to know something of the family of Ebenezer Cole (Coal, Coale0 who was a Revolutionary soldier from Massachusetts.
If he made application for pension, will you please give me anything of information which may appear in the application?
It is possible that there was more than one Ebenezer Cole. In that case, will you kindly give me the information about each one?
Thanking you in advance for your favors, I am very respectfully yours, 
[Signed: Warren Benjamin Hackett]
Warren Benjamin Hackett

P.S. Ebenezer Cole was a Great3grandfather of mine.