Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8236, Daniel Cole, Va.

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(3-1776)

[column headings: SERVICE. [blank]. NUMBER]

Va. Cole, Daniel. S. 8236

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32.398
Virginia
Daniel Cole
of Culpeper C in the State of Virginia who was a private in the company 
by Captain Bret -- of the --- 
by Genl [General] Stevens on the Virginia 
line for 6 months
lnscribed on the Roll of Richmond
at the rate of 20 Dollars -- Cents per an [annum] to commence on the 4th day of March 1831
Certificate of Pension ifsued [issued] the 21st day of Nov 1845 and sent to Coleman
Payne, Harrisonburgh, Va -
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 45 $290.00
Semi-annual allowances ending 4 Mar 10.00
See Agency Book
He died July 17, 1851 $300.00
Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by [illegible] Stewart --- Clerk
Book [illegible] Vol 672 Page 8 -
See letter Dec 10, 1846
suspending payment-
For this letter see David Bobo
R981 Rev.
Let [Letter] of John Thom Aug
Let [Letter]  to Hon. J. S. Barbour
January 4th 48
Let [Letter] to Pensioner
Octr [October] 20th 48 [illegible]
to P Hagner Esq
Letter to Anthony Robinson
July 5, 1849
Duplicate Certificate 
issued [illegible - Dec?] 3, 1830
and death
Hon. J. S. Barbour
Culpeper
Va
Died July 17, 1851
 Agency book

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9453
Va
2nd declaration
Daniel Cole
Act 7 June '32
[illegible - aom?]
[illegible - bino. pre?]
20.
Coleman Payne
Harrisonburg
Va
[crossed out] E Broadus Esq
[crossed out] Culpepper
C.H.

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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832

State of Virginia
County of Culpeper

On this 19th day of March 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of the Court of Culpeper County now sitting Daniel Cole a resident in the said County and State aged 70 years [illegible] upwards, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following Declaration in  order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress as passed June 7th 1832.

That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
 
That he was born in the County of Prince William Virginia on the 20th Feby. 1763, and removed to Culpeper forty years ago.

That he first entered the Service in 1780 he thinks and in the latter parts of the year under command of Capt. John Bret [Britt] of Prince William Lieut's [Lieutenants] Farrow, Cath Payton, Solomon Ewell, that he does not know the number of the [illegible] [begin cross out] [regiment] or line to which he was attached that General Edward Stevens [end cross out] was the officer who had command of the whole Troop to which he belonged _  that he marched to a place called Roanoake [Roanoke] in Virginia where he remained for about twenty odd days, that then he marched to a little place called Charlottesville or Charlotte in North Carolina and thence to Hillsborough in the same State, and thence to the Cheraw Hills in South Carolina, that he remained there at Head quarters for the full term of three months, that he returned to Virginia under the same General and Officers, and brought under guard to the Barracks in Albemarle County Virginia a number of tories so called who had been taken by General Morgan he thinks that he does not recollect for how long he was at the Barracks _ that he does not recollect how long he was gone from home in that tour, but believes it in all to have been six months being detained by Officers for the want of troops _ that he was called on directly he returned to assist in making a road for Washington's Artillery between Fredericksburg and Alexandria Can't remember how long he was employed about the road _ that when he was discharged from that employment he received a Certificate for nine months pay as a Common Soldier, which he not regarding as worth any thing has

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has long since lost _ that he knows he was in the Service more than six months, but cannot tell how much more and must be content to receive for that time.

That he can prove the above service by William Legg who was with him in Service.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any State.

Daniel Cole

Sworn and subscribed in open Court.


The Court then proceeded to propound the following interrogatories to the applicant he being under oath, which he answered as is herein after recorded accordingly.

Ques 1. Where and in what year were you born?
Ans. I was born in the County of Prince William Virginia 20th Feby. 1769?
Ques. Have you any record of your age and if so, where is it?
Ans. The register in the family Bible which I have seen.

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Ques. Where were you living when you were called into Service, where have you lived since, and where do you now live?
Ans. In Prince William County Virginia, and for the last forty years have lived in Culpeper.

Ques. How were you called into Service, were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a substitute, and if a substitute for whom?
Ans. I went to the South as a substitute for Philip Conner, the last time I was drafted.

Ques. State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served, such Continental and Militia Regiment as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your Service?
Ans. I name some of the officers in my Declaration. I recollect General Green, and saw Genl. Washington between Alexandria and Fredericksburg. I state my service in my declaration.

Ques. Did you ever receive a discharge, and if so by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
[illegible] I did receive a written discharge  [illegible]

Ques. State the names of the persons to whom you are known in your neighbourhood [sic] who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your Service as a Soldier of the Revolution?
Ans. I refer to Col. Stanton Slaughter, Hon. John S. Barbour prove my Service. 

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and served as he states, and the Court further Certifies that it appears to them, that Daniel Cole who has signed the foregoing Certificate is a resident in the County of Culpeper, and is a credible person, and that his statement is [illegible] to Credit. 

I Francis T. Lightfoot Clerk of the Court of Culpeper County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains a true Copy of the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Daniel Cole for a pension.  

In testimony whereof I have [illegible] my hand and seal of office this 15th day of June 1833 and in the 57th year of the Commonwealth.

F. T. Lightfoot

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Rev. & 1812 
Wars Section
EEL: MLB [illegible initial added by hand to the left]

June 6, 1930 

Mrs. F. H. Waldo
Bismarck, North Dakota

Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 8236, it appears that Daniel Cole, the son of Daniel, was born February 20, 1763, near Dumfries, in Prince William County, Virginia.

While residing in Prince William County, Virginia, he enlisted in the latter part of the year 1780, and served about nine months as a private in Captain John Britt or Bret's Company of Virginia Troops.

Soon after the expiration of this service he aided in building a road for the army, from Fredericksburg, to Alexandria, Virginia, and was so occupied for fifteen or twenty days.

He was allowed pension on his application executed March 19, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Culpeper County, Virginia.

His wife was Miss Whitehead, of Prince William County, Virginia; the date of their marriage is not given.

A son, RIchard Cole, was a resident of Culpeper County, Virginia, in 1850. It is not stated whether there were any other children.

Daniel Cole died July 17, 1851.

The Revolutionary War records of this bureau fail to afford any information in regard to William Cole of Northumberland County, Virginia.

Very truly yours 
E.W. Morgan
Acting Commissioner

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Supplemental Declaration  of Daniel Cole taken in open Court
and applicant [illegible] 
examined by the President of the Court
Jones Green Esq.

C. Payne

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State of Virginia
Culpeper County - [illegible]

On this 20th day of October 1845 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of said County now sitting Daniel Cole a resident of said County and aged 82 years next 20th day of February who be being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following names officers and served as herein stated  amounting to the period of nine months in the Virginia Militia. That of the length of his service he has no doubt the first tour being one of six months and the second one of three months and than as the end of his said second tour he received a written discharge which has been lost. That as well as he can remember first tour of six months commenced in the year 1780 between the middle of the summer and the first of the [illegible]  [fall?]: that he is positive of the year in which said first tour began but of the precise day and month he cannot say with any degree of accuracy - the he wells remembers it was a six months tour and was so proclaimed to be before the company marched off - that the call for men was made by one Captain John Britt of Prince William County whom he knew intimately [illegible] before and after the war: that of said company one William Farrow was first  Lieutenant and he thinks Cuthbert Peyton was Ensign and Solomon Ewell from his neighborhood was second Lieutenant all of whom he remembers very well and were his acquaintances. Thus said company was raised as he understood at the time to go South against the enemy their in lower Virginia and in the upper part of the State of North Carolina - and accordingly said company did march South and was

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under the command of General Edward Stevens as he supposes of the regular army is of this he is not positive, he might have been a State officer, our company [illegible]  together with numerous other companies of militia were under his command during the aforesaid four of six months - that it now thought the soldiers under General Stevin numbered about 4,000 strong; That his men under Cap. Britt were ready in a short time and marched toward the Southern portion of Virginia & in their [illegible] passed near Fredericksburg  in Spotsylvania County.
that his company was detained some three weeks or more on this road awaiting reinforcements from other counties through which they passed until all [illegible] had gotten as far as Roanoke in Virginia when [illegible] were erected and the soldiers were stationed. That to the best of his recollection he was [illegible] at Roanoke nearby. not quite one month. That from their his company were ordered still further to the South and after a toilsome and lengthy march reached the State of North Carolina as the said at
the time - that his company marched a short distance in of that entire of that State and quartered at a place he thinks called Charlottsvill [sic] or Charlotte. it was quite a
a small place from the best of his memory- that at the [illegible] place his company was stationed about 3 weeks he thinks and hearing in that time of the operations of the enemy it was thought advisable to advance further which his company did and went to a place called Hillsborough in that State a few days travel from Charlotte or Charlottesville--this after reaching Hillsborough and remaining
their a week or [illegible] his company was ordered as he heard at the time to head quarters in South Carolina called Cheraw Hills he thinks or some such place - that at head quarters his men were stationed for the space of about three months probably a few days over that time-- thus these facts subscribe the outlines of the said six months service but that he was often called out whilst at
the [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] to check the enemy, that whilst

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at Cheraw Hills he performed [illegible] trips into this Country in search of the enemy known by the name of  Tories but that his company never captured any of them. 
That whilst at Cheraw Hills his term of six months expired and all hands were about coming home-- some prisoners however were brought in and it was thought advisable for their safe keeping to carry them out of the reach of the British who it was thought would retake them if possible accordingly
a company of volunteers was used to carry them to the Charlottesville Barracks in Virginia and then he volunteered under his former officers Captain Britt and his [illegible] from Prince William likewise volunteered because it was in the direction of home, as soon as the volunteer was ready the march begun and were closely pursued by the enemy - his company reached Pittsylvania Col. [County Va]
and new enlistments their 40 days, he thinks, from the order of the general. That whilst at that place General Stevens left us together with the prisoners and went on home as I understood he said that  [illegible] [he?]  should never pay for nine months services as the time of his leaving us at the above place we deed her absent from Cheraw Hills some considerable time, not quite three months
however we then proceeded in to the Barracks and delivered the prisoners there and I reached home in completing time about the first of May I think. Afterwards I was called out to make a med in [illegible] [illegible] with a 
person of Capt Leighton's army might pass in doing were delivered over 15 or 20 days. I do saw the Army pass but cannot say that Capt Leighton was along, it might have been general Waynes branch of  the army
that he did receive a written discharge from this service and is one for nine months - he is [illegible] positive of [illegible] but it is now lost and probably has not do kept by him
more there a few days. That he knows of no person now living by whom he can prove his services. one [illegible] did prove his six months there and filed to sign

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his name to the affidavit in consequence of which it was returned by the Department for his signature or deed before it was [illegible] to his heirs. Thus he can prove by his brother
Benjamin Cole of Prince Wm [William] his absence from home for nine months
and his claim, but that  do is not aware of any
living person who was with him in service.
He hereby relinquishes his every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares his name is not on the Pension roll of the agency of any state whatever
Daniel Cole
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court on the day and year
first herein written
Testi. F Mauzy Clk of the county court of Culpeper
We Henry Field residing in the neighborhood of Mr. David Cole and Henry Cole hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Mr Cole who has sworn to and subscribed the above declaration: That we believe him to be 82 years of age; that do 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.
Henry Field [seal]
age 75 [seal]
Henry Cole [seal]

Sworn to and subscribed in open Court
testi F Mauzy clk [clerk]

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after their investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court doth further certify that it appears to them that Henry Field
and Henry Cole have signed the preceding certificate as residents of the applicants neighborhood and their statement is intitled to full credit
Testi
F. Mauzy Clk [Clerk]

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And the said Daniel Cole doth under oath say it is entirely out of his power to produce in Court a Clergyman any to the first
that now lives in his neighborhood
Daniel Cole

Sworn to and subscribed in open Court.
Testi F. Mauzy clk [clerk]

The following question was their propounded during [illegible] [illegible]
State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can certify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier the Revolution
Answer:
I have lived in my present neighborhood  for 56 years past and all of my neighbors know me. I refer to Hon. J. S. Barbour & John P. Kelly
and others all of whom have known me for many years.
Daniel Cole
Sworn to in open Court Daniel Cole
Testi
F Mauzy Clk Cty Cthse [Courthouse] [illegible]

Virginia
Culpeper County to wit I Fayette Mauzy Clerk
of the county court of Culpeper in the State 
aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Daniel Cole for a pension under act of June 7th 1832.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & seal of office this 20th day of October 1845
F Mauzy Clk [clerk]

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The following interrogatories made under oath in open Court by Daniel Cole were received and ordered to be certified to the War Department at Washington City.
Question 1. Where in which year were you born?
Answer: I was born in the County of Prince William on the 20th day of February 1763 as a place in said County called Dumfries or near that place.
Question 2. Have you any record of your age and if so where is it?
Answer:
I have no record myself-- my age was set down in my fathers bible and I frequently saw it to gave me many years ago a memorandum of my birth and I set it down in my bible. but I cannot find it now.
Question 3. Where were you living when called into service where have you lived since the Revolutionary war and where do you now live
Answer: At the time of my service in the war I was a resident of the said County of Prince William when I was born. after the close of the war I came to this County Culpeper and have been a resident of the same as near as I can recollect about 56 years past or more
Question 4: How were you called into service; were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute; and if a substitute for whom?
Answer: The first tour of six months in the militia I went as substitute and my father Daniel Cole was much opposed to my so doing - he endeavored after I enlisted to get me back and when I came

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home he informed me that he pursued my company as far as Richmond in pursuit of me Then never was never any douth [sic] in my mind as to this individual for whom I went as substitute he was named Jesse Davis who lived no miles from my father's and assigned as his reasons for not going that he did not like to leave his family. I was [illegible] and he gave me a horse bridle and saddle and some "continental money" to take his place. The horse remained at my father's till my return from the war.  I understand I was made to say in my former declaration I am substitute for Philip Conner and if such be the fact it is a mistake on the part of the individual who prepared my papers. Connor was in my company during the six months in the  South and he was "orderly Sergeant" [sic] of that company. This I know because his duty was to give out provisions to the soldiers and I remember him perhaps better than any other men of our company from that fact. And many a time he dealt me half pint of corn a day in place of meat or flour which at times was very scarce. It is impossible for me to be mistaken on this point.  Again I repeat I as substitute for Jesse Davis of Prince William County.
Question 5th: 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.
Answer:
I remember our company was associated at Cheraw Hills with the regulars under General Green - I saw him many times during our stay at he'd question his men as I understand a short time numbered 4000 or more during whilst their a man was shot for desertion
and all the soldiers were paraded in the field
to see the [illegible] a pen was built and filled it with

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said so as to prevent the for bullets from doing injury and I was more than six feet from this man when he was shot - 16 guns fired at the same time and he is put into a hole immediately and covered with dirt without [illegible]. On our way to Roanoke our company and was joined by various other companies of militia one from orange County I think and the other from Culpeper County and with these companies our xxx almost during
the entire tour of six months - one of the Captains I remember was called Cap. Mason but I cannot say whether he was from Orange or Culpeper - his company was with us as Cheraw Hills. Roanoke and Charlottesville in the Carolinas. in short his company was with us untill the Tories were surrendered at
the Barracks in Albemarle and then each man left for his own County I speak of Masons Company because I remember it distinctly. Their were other companies with us as various times but I formed no acquaintances will either the men or officers and therefore cannot name them.
The Tories were very numerous in the districts adjoining Cheraw Hills and our company whilst at that place went out in search of them as far as two or three times, sometimes we would get in eight of him but we never succeeded in capturing any of them. And our company was frequently at a place in that County called 96 about 25 miles distant from Headquarters and the trip was generally performed in one night we were never in any battle however I know the most of the men under Captain Britt and I do not know that any of them are alive at this time. they were in part Spencer Anderson, Spencer Colbert, Jacob Gardenhier and Harry Barrett, Lake Reed, Thomas Allison, William Ragan this Richard Cole, several of the Mr Evans Zachariah Martin & numbers of others whom it is useless to mention.
Spencer Anderson above named lived and
died near Fauquier Court House and and a pensioner

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page 4 F Mauzy Clk [Clerk]
I think up to his death which was 6 or 7 years ago. 
He sent for me to come and he could prove my services and when I went he was dead. I refer the department to Anderson papers in order to shew the particulars of that [illegible] of in months as doubtless proof of all material facts and filed this declaration.
I also remember William Legg was in Capt. Masons 
company during this six months and he died a few miles from my residence in Culpeper County. I proved six months for the said William Leg at the time of his applying for a pension and I think my affidavit was all the evidence he had of his six months services I also refer the Department to Legs papers dated in 1832 I think and the precise month and day and year of the six months his will no doubt to found for Leg mess with me and we see each other every day
Mr Leg also proved for me that six months tour and my agent and his affidavit to Washington taken before a magistrate was I am informed by my Lawyer Martin Houghton at this C. H. [courthouse?] the Department sent it back for Leg's signature, and that affidavit must be signed by the witness.
I went and got Mr. Edmund Broaddus of this County a magistrate to get his signature but when reached Mr Legs  had just died. I do not know what became of that affidavit, it may be at this time in Mr Broaddus' possession.
I am confident I proved six months for him and I understand his pension is allowed, but I do not
know the fact the papers in his care will show
The men with us was under command of
General Edward Stevens of this County to joined us near
Roanoke I think and I know here after I [illegible] to his
County to line, and he also knew me.
He was  our General during the six months in the South
Whilst on Cheraw Hill the battle of Cowpens was fought and the weather was very cold for the climate. A company of volunteers was raised from the men stationed at Cheraw Hills and I was one of the number to march to the Cowpens and we

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Page 5 F Mauzy clk [clerk]
reached the battle ground the day after action. This was in January I think. That much made a lasting impression in my mind. The dead now piled in large heaps over the field and lightly covered with dirt - the field was apparently covered with blood, and the ground was covered with bullets. It is an awful sight from the heaps  I saw the hands and feet of the dead pregating from the sides of the mounds.
Our company after an absence of 4 or 5 days returned to Head Quarters at Cheraw Hills and we their remained till our draft of six months expired and we were so informed by our  officers.
We then left the South and had fallen into Virginia before the battle at Guilford Court House which place to law passed by on our return with the prisoners to the Barracks in
Albemarle - Before leaving the Cheraw Hill I was drafted or volunteered under Cap. Britt together with others to guard the
prisoners to Albemarle County and they numbered I believe 4 or 500 hundred and were said to have been captured by
General Morgan at 96 but I do not know any
thing of the capture. The prisoners we brought to our camp just after our six months expired and had been ordered to be carried to the Barracks in Albemarle County they might have been taken by Green and Marion for ought I know & the supposition of their capture at 96 may be [illegible] but I heard no at the time. We marched with the prisoners to Pittsylvania Court House and were there [illegible] for a few days
The first day of this march the British pursued
us and our march was rapid afterwards we did our average of 12 miles a day Our company went with the prisoners to the Barracks in Albemarle County and then left them, as to the time during said march I am not
prepared to give any precise period - on account of it was kept [illegible] [illegible] by my Captain and I can safely say it was two months and probably more. General Stevens left us at Pittsylvania Co. and to their said we should be allowed nine months pay. but I do not think we were 3

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months on the road-- our stay as Pittsylvania C. H. [Court House] was upwards of 40 days and the general might have supposed this three months march expired before we could reach the barracks in Albemarle, and to say we should [illegible] nine months pay. I think when I returned home from the South or from the Barracks the Spring of this year had commenced and as well as I can remember my father was planting corn. To be more particular I think it must have been early in May 1781. In proof of this I know that I saw Marquis De Lafayette with his army at Dumfries in Prince William County a few days after my return from Albemarle - to that place they came I think by [illegible] and I spent two days in Dumfries during his stay to witness the parade of his men. Not long after I saw Lafayette and his army at Dumfries in May 1781 I think a portion of Washingtons army did pass through Prince William and a company was raised I in number to clear the road for them to pass. Britt was my Captain at that time and we marched very hard this road was to be cleared between Alexandria and Fredericksburg and that portion which I and our company worked on were between Dumfries and again in Stafford County. I can easily say we were over 15 days at march on that road and when we finished I received a written discharge for nine months service from my captain who had been with me during all of my services. I saw the army pass and I distinctly remember a great many drunkards with long grey beards in the among them. I understood it was a portion of Washington's army under General Wayne
I think. I remember that I did not see as many men as I expected to have seen I do not think their could have been more than 1000 or 1500. I saw the general as he passed
he was pointed out to us, but I cannot say whether it was Washington or Wayne
I  was further more made to say in my
former declaration I am so informed by the Clerk of Culpeper)

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that the road was cleared a few days before this current of Lord Cornwallis. This is a mistake. I never said so.
The surrender I knew was some 8 months after I worked on the road and I was at home when the new cause.
Question 6th:
Did you ever receive a discharge from this service and if so by whom was it given and
what has become of it
Answer: I did receive a discharge from my service and it was for nine months service-
I have however lost it, and was not considered of any value at the time it was given by my Captain I hope the Department will allow my claim for I served my country faithfully during the nine months.
I can prove by my brother Benjamin Cole of
Prince William County a year or so my Junior [illegible] I entered the war and was about nine months and he also remember when I returned
Daniel Cole
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court
teste
F Mauzy Clk [clerk]
Virginia Culpeper County Towit:
I Fayette Mauzy Clerk of the County Court
of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of this application of Daniel Cole for a pension under act of
June 7th 1832.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal of office this
20th day of October 1845
F Mauzy clk [clerk]

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Interrogatories propound
[illegible]to Daniel Cole before
the Court of Culpeper County
and the applicant examined by the President
of the Court [illegible] Green Esq
C. Payne

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9453

Daniel Cole 
Va

Suspd.

Let. lo E. Broadus 28 July 1836

Act 7 June 1832

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To the Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D. C.

May 1. 1848
Dec. of Daniel Cole

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Declaration on Oath made by Daniel Cole in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress approved 7th June 1832: which provides for pensioning certain officers & Soldiers of the revolutionary War
The said Daniel Cole now in the Eighty fifth year of his age being fully examined by me on his Corporal Oath, without, aid or promptings from any one declares that when he was sixteen years of age he lived in the County of Prince William in the State of Virginia
which was he thinks in the year 1780 and then and there he was drafted for service in the war of the revolution & that he served accordingly in the Militia Service under that draft; that his Captain was John Britt his Lieutenant was William Farrer & his ensign was and Cud Peyton that after being so drafted and in actual service as a Militia man in the Company to officered as above he & his said Company mustered from Dumfries in Virginia
to Richmond in Virginia & from Richmond to Petersburg, and thence to Salsbury, and from there to the Yadkin or Atkin in South Carolina, that he this company were under the
command of General Edward Stevens of Culpeper County Virginia, and that under these officers, he served in South Carolina, the full term of Six Months and was discharged
by General Stevens then commanding the said Virginia Militia in South Carolina, after his said term of six months service was fully performed the said Company of Militia and the said Daniel Cole as one of that Company was
required to guard a body of Tories prisoners from a place called Ninety Six in South Carolina to the Barracks in Virginia and that this service was performed accordingly &
that three months of service in addition to the former six months was performed in this latter tour of duty making nine months in all of actual service performed by said Daniel
Cole 
Subscribed & sworn to by said Cole
Daniel Cole

Before me,
Wm T Humphrey J. P. [Justice of the Peace]

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And I certify that I am a Justice of the peace in
& for Culpeper County in the State of Virginia and in my official Capacity examined the aforesaid Daniel Cole his oath apart from all other persons that I put to him many questions to satisfy my mind of his accuracy & Veracity all of which were satisfactorily answered: I am confident that he did
serve as he states in the militia service in the revolutionary
His character is fair. He is an old man of unimpeached integrity. He has lived in Culpeper for more than fifty years and
he is truthful, honest, & respectable in the esteem and regard of the Community in which he has so long lived & is so well Known & esteemed:
Given under my hand & seal in my official capacity aforesaid & in my County aforesaid this the 26 day April 1848
Wm T Humphreys  [seal]
Culpeper County Sct I Fayette Mauzy Clerk of the County Court of said County do certify that William T Humphreys who hath made the foregoing certificate is and was at the time of making the same an acting justice of the
peace duly commissioned & qualified and that his signature the time in my opinion genuine.-
In testimony of which I have hereto set
my hand & affixed the seal of
the said court this 29th day of April 1848.
testi
F Mauzy Clk [clerk]

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For duplicate certificate

Hon J S Barbour
Culpeper
Va

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State of Virginia
County of Culpeper
SS
This day personally appeared before me a justice of peace within the State and County aforesaid Richard Cole a Citizen of the said County, and made oath in due form of law
that in the month of April last at request of his father Daniel Cole who is a pensioner of the United State for revolution he called on Mr. Jno. S. Barbour and delivered him his said fathers pension certificate and requested him to prepare the papers necessary to draw the arrears of pension due him thereon, which Mr. Barbour promised to do so soon as he can obtain the proper forms which he had not there by him: and he is now informed by Mr. Barbour that the said pension certificate is lost or mislaid and this affidavit is made for the purpose of obtaining a new certificate. {following words are crossed out]  from
the County aforesaid this November 1885

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who at the same time & place John S. Barbour
made oath also that said pension certificate was delivered him & that it is lost or mislaid.

Given under my hand & seal in said county aforesaid the 4th 
my person the 4th November 1850.

Francis J Thompson J.P. [Justice of the Peace]

Francis J. Thompson Esq.  who subscribed the
foregoing [illegible] is a justice of the peace for the county aforesaid duly qualified to administer oaths & his signature is genuine having been made in my presence
J. S. Barbour
[illegible] [illegible] of Culpepper County

I have no [illegible] or any [illegible] or interest in [illegible] [illegible] did have the [illegible] 
J. S. Barbour

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Novr [November] 4th 1850
Sir
I mentioned to you the lot of Daniel Cole certificate & have pursued the course you prescribed to  [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] 
With great respect
J. S. Barbour



[illegible] 
J. L. Edwards
Com [Commissioner] of pensions

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Stevensburg Va
July 31 

J L Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

Augs 24

Cert [Certificate] Daniel Cole
[illegible] [illegible] [illegible]

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Dear Sir
Daniel Cole of this County (Culpeper) holds a
pension certificate for $20 & has been recently informed by the agent in Richmond that payment had been suspended by order from Washington, please inform me why wherefore it is so. Mr Cole states to me, that he employed a man by the name of Payne to get this money agreed to give him one half, executed the power of Att [attorney] for that purpose, that Payne got all the money except the last payment kept it & has brought suit against Cole for the 1/2 which was promised. please let me hear from you, with sentiments of much Respect
Yr [Your] Oby [Obedient] Svt [Servant]
John Thom

Berry Hill 30 July 1847
Stevensbg [Stevensburg] P.O. Culpeper
Cole  sustains a fair character in his neighbourhood. If you have any blank forms in your office to spare, will you please do me the favour to enclose one one for Peter Triplett & one for Hannah Clark to fill up when their pensions become  due, my health is bad & I am unwilling to write much, if I can avoid it. in haste
John Thom

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1915 Dec. 9. History to H.S. Gibboney
1924 Dec. 16. Copies mailed to ┃
Mrs Wm Leon Brannan
1926 May 27. Hist to Mrs N. L. Randolph, au
1929, Aug 30 - Hist to Mrs Basil G. Culver Eth
1930 June 6 - Hist to  Mrs F.H. Waldo Letter
in case of Levi Dearborn
S. 18798. EEh

Rev [Revolutionary] War

8236
INVALID.
File No. 8236

Daniel Cole
Pri Rev War

Act: June 7th 1832
Index: -- Vol. 1st, Page 75
[Arrangement of 1870.}

I

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Jan 12 1846

[illegible] case
Daniel Cole
James L. Edwards Esq.
 DC.
PAID
PAID

No money in
Daniel Cole [illegible]

[postmark] WAR[illegible]

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Sir
The enclosed testimony of Ben Cole and North
Pearson as to the services of Daniel Cole I wish
filed in his supplemental declaration and the
decision made known to me
Yours Respectfully
Coleman Payne
Oct. 22" 1845.

To Jas [James] L. Edwards Esqr

Washington City DC.

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Oct 25/45.
Daniel Cole


Suppl dec
Daniel Cole
Juny 1832.
James
Fox
Washington
City
Commissioner of Pensions
S. Edwards Esqr

PAID

James L Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D. C.

Daniel Cole's case

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October 23rd 1845.

Sir

I have enclosed from this place a supplemental declaration of Mr Daniel Cole for a Pension under act of June 1832 - which I wish filed and not acted upon till the testimony of Benjamin Cole and North Pearson reaches you which I expect will be in a few days
That testimony was sent by me to Fauquier C.H. [Court House] for its authentication, with direction to be forwarded to you. Let me hear the result as soon as convenient
Yours very Respectfully
Coleman Payne
Harrisonburg 
Rockingham Va

To James S. Edwards Esqr
Washington City D.C.

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and 
When the papers are prepared again send this to Mr Robinson Pension Agent
Richmond


Payment to be made
Richmond
by James Coskie
Agent for paying Pensioners in the
Agency of
Richmond Va


Recorded
in the Pension
Office, in Book E. Vol. ½
Page 8
[illegible] Stewart Clerk.

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WAR DEPARTMENT [header, centered]

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM [centered]

I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 7th June, 1832, _Daniel Cole_ of the State of Virginia_ who was a private in the Revolutionary War_is entitled to receive _Twenty_ dollars and 
[blank] cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing
on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually, on the 4th of March and the 4th of September, in every year.

Given at the War Office of the United
States, this _24th_day
of November, one thousand eight
hundred and forty-five.

W. L. Marcy
Secretary of War

[illegible stamp or seal]

Examined and
Countersigned.

J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

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Culp. [Culpepper] County Virg. Nov. 11. /47

Dear Sir,
It seems that some difficulty has arisen which prevents the receipt of the Pension-money due to me by the Government of the U.S. 
You will oblige me by making the [crossed out] such inquiries at the Department at Washington as will enable me to take for the necessary steps for relief. I am satisfied that I have been betrayed by a former unfaithful agent (Mr. Coleman Payne) in this matter.

Yr. [Your] Obt. [Obedient]  Servant
Daniel Cole  

Hon
J. S. Barbour

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[illegible]  J. L. Edwards
Comm [Commissioner] of Pensions
Washington D. C.

on official duty
[postmark] [illegible]

Review 13147

Case of Daniel Cole
[illegible]

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Catacha [Catachan] Nove [November] 11th 1842
Dear Sir
The enclosed letter signed by a very old man, who is provably deeply wronged by a very unworthy man, offers the occasion of writing you a few lines in this & another subject which I take a leisure moment to send you. And first as to Mr Cole. Why is it that the agent at Richmond or elsewhere rejected his pension? He & Payne (his agent) are at law & it is manifest to me from proceedings his hearing is in a Superior Court, that Payne has defrauded him of his money [5 illegible words] & it is provable from what Mr Cole states that he interdicted on his receipt of [illegible] pension  is a sequel to this fraud & all the work of Payne. I will be  obliged by information from you
I have expected to hear from Judge Taney, for several days past on the matter of Gibbs half pay claim. As soon as I hear from him, I will communicate to you the result of my enquiries in the opinions by [illegible] T. [Taney] or atto [attorney] Genl [General] and his acts as Secretaryo f the Treasury in the half pay cases subsequently to those opinions which will shed useful light on given cases.

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Unless Gibbs' case receive from you, the Justice
which it obviously merits, it is my intention (for
such is my duty) to present the subject in
proper respect both to the Senate & the House of Reps [Representatives] at the approaching sepio [session]. and this communication is made to you in the frankness due you personally & officially & in no sense that is (intended to be) either discourteous or complaining
With all respect
Yr [Your] Obt [Obedient]  Servt [Servant]
J. S. Barbour


[Illegible]:  J. L. Edwards

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Culpeper July 5th 1851
Sir
In overhauling a loose mass of paper in my office, I put my hand on the enclosed certificate of Daniel Cole. You renewed it last fall and (I think) as evidence that this now sent was lost or mislaid. It is proper (in my belief) that the Original be restored you. This is done accordingly.
Very Resfy [Respectfully] Sir
J. S. Barbour



J. E. Heath Esq.
Comm [Commissioner] of Pensions
Washington

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Richmond, June 22, 1849

Sirs

Payment of the pension of Daniel Cole, a private, a pensioner under the Act of 1832, at $20. per annum, was suspended in December 1846. It is stated that the suspension has been removed, and application is made for payment of the amount due. As I do not find any information respecting it, be pleased to inform me if the suspension has been removed.

I am, very respectfully, 
Your obedient Servant,
Anty Robinson, Pens: Agent

J.L. Edwards, Esquire,
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington

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July 24 - 1848
J. S. Barbour
for Danl [Daniel] Cole
[illegible]
J. S. Barbour

J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.

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Dear Sir.
Allow me to remind you of the wish I expressed that you will not act on the case of Daniel Cole and that you will send  William Slaughter Esq of Fredericksburg certificates that on the list of Va continental officers.  John Slaughter recd [received] certificates for ranks of ensign & Lieut [Lieutenant]
With best Respects Sir
J S Barbour


Warrenton Va
July 22d 1848
I am here 4 a few hours only

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Oct 6, 48
Danl [Daniel] Coles
No ansr [answer?] required. S. Barbour

[postmark] CULPEPPER C. H. [Court House]Va.

J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington D. C.

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Culpeper Septr 28th 1848
Sir
Old Mr Danl [Daniel] Cole of this County was
admitted a pensioner under the act of 1812.
His claim was subsequently suspended and in
January last Mr Cole (or myself for him) recd [received] a letter from your office requiring that he should [illegible] a statement on oath before same in [illegible] Magistrate of his services- this was done, & the statement forwarded you by the [illegible] in April last as the clerk informed me; 
the Clerk of Culpeper County Suspicion
had fallen on Paine (the agent of the office here, Cole,) & the new statement was intended (I think) to lay with the old declaration prepared by Paine that they be collated & the accuracy & credibility of such tested by this comparison. Do me the kindness to let Mr Cole (or myself) know something of this matter
Last Monday I was requested by the
son of Colo [Colonel] Elias Edwards of our state or [requesting] to ask you what sum of money was drawn in 1872 by the rest of the
Reps [Representatives] of Colo [Colonel] Edwards under the Act 5th July 1832? A statement of the matter from you will oblige the family & settle a controversy like to wax into evil.

Very hastily in respt.[respect]
 J. S. Barbour

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I Benjamin Cole aged 72 years of Prince William County hereby certify under oath I am a brother of Mr Daniel Cole of the County of Culpeper. After the Revolutionary war the said Daniel Cole left his native County Prince William and he since lived and resided in his present County of Culpeper. As to his services in the as I can say nothing of my own  knowledge-- further have I remember when Daniel returned home the children raised a xxx for joy. I cannot say what year this return of his from the war was it probably was in the spring of 1781. I cannot remember the time of his leaving home & In regard to the dance among the children I am confirmed in my memory by this first having been spoken of from time to time by the members of the family my father and mother and this older brothers. I think
I was in my seventh year when this returned and in 1881 was same years old.
I have always understand from the family that
Daniel was in the war this information is derived from my father Daniel Cole Sr and my other brothers who from their age had an opportunity of knowing the fact and
furthermore I had so been informed by many old persons long since deced [deceased] - by tradition there is no doubt whatever of Daniels being in the war  This fact was never doubted to my knowledge, by any one. But I cannot [illegible]  his services - I was not with him. He was absent from home. I always heard nine months.
Benjamin Cole

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Fauquier County 
On this 23rd day of October 1845 personally
appeared before me the above named Benjamin Cole a resident of Prince William County adjoining Fauquier Cty [County] and made oath in due form of Law to [illegible]  of
the [illegible]  therein contained. and I certify to the Department that I have same the affiant for many years and he is a respectable person - a member of the Baptist Church at Brent Town meeting House
Witness my hand and seal the day and date above
James Payne [seal]
I North Pearson aged 75 years and a year or two older their my neighbor Benjamin Cole certify under oath I was acquainted with Mr Daniel Cole before he went into the old revolutionary war. we were raised in this same
neighborhood in my present County and remember distinctly he went in the war in 1780 but I did not go with him-- he was
absent from the neighborhood and I believe was in the war many months his captain was named John Britt and he is also from this county County Prince William. During Daniel Coles absence in the war I was frequently at his father Daniel Cole Sr [Senior] and I remember his wife was greatly disturbed on account of her son Daniel being in the war-
I saw Daniel after his return from the war and being intimate he told me a good deal of his sufferings-- for want of clothing and [illegible].
After the war he went in Culpeper County to live when I informed he still lives - where I am informed he still lives . I do not remember the other officers

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under whom Daniel xxx I think his brother Richard Cole was with him and if my memory serves me one William Ragan was also in with Cole and he lived not far from my from [illegible] residence -  also one Spencer Anderson whom I knew very well-- I am positive thus Daniel Cole was in service towards the close of the war and I think he returned here the spring before the war ended
Daniel Coles father was very much opposed to his going in the war and I have no doubt tried to prevent his going - I am an old man and never heard Daniels revolutionary services doubted by any man - I have know Daniel Cole ever since I was a youth. He married a Miss Whitehead of the county of Prince William
North Pearson

Fauquier County Virginia
On this 23rd of October 1845 personally appeared before me North Pearson Esq an aged and respectable citizen of Prince Williams County and made oath to the truth of the facts [illegible] forth in the foregoing affidavit and this said North Person does not live far from the division line between the
Counties of Fauquier and Prince William. The said Pearson being a man of respectability and veracity all which I certify is the Department at Washington
Witness my hand and seal the day and date
James Payne [seal]

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Virginia-Fauquier County, to wit:

I, Alexander J Marshall, clerk of Fauquier County Court, in the state aforesaid, hereby certify, that James Payne is a magistrate as above; and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his, are genuine.

In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and annex my seal of office, this 10th day of December 1845, and in the 70th year of the Commonweath.

A.J. Marshall, Clerk
of said Court

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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
EEL

August 30, 1929 [centered right]

Mrs. Basil G. Culver
206 Second Avenue
Leavenworth, Kansas

Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 8236, it appears that Daniel Cole, the son of Daniel, was born February 20, 1763, near Dumfries, in Prince William County, Virginia.

While residing in Prince William County, Virginia, he enlisted in the latter part of the year 1780, and served about nine months as a private in Captain John Britt or Bret's Company of Virginia Troops. 

Soon after the expiration of this service he aided in building a road for the army, from Fredericksburg, to Alexandria, Virginia, and was so occupied for fifteen or twenty days.

He was allowed pension on his application executed March 19, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Culpeper County, Virginia,

His wife was Miss Whitehead, of Prince William County,

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Virginia; the date of their marriage is not given.

A son, Richard Cole, was a resident of Culpeper County,
Virginia, in 1850. It is not stated whether there were 
any other children.

Daniel Cole died July 17, 1851.

Very truly yours,

E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.

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Rev. & 1812 Wars
Section.

May 27, 1926. [centered right]

Mrs. N. L. Randolph,
Carlsbad, N. Mex.

Madam:

I have to advise you, that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 8236, it appears that Daniel Cole, the son of Daniel, was born February 20, 1769, [1763 is handwritten above 1769] near Dumfries, in Prince William County, Virginia. While living there he enlisted in 1780 and served about nine months as a private in Captain John Britt, or Bret's Company of Virginia Troops.

Soon after, he aided in building a road for the army, from Fredericksburg, to Alexandria, Virginia and was so occupied for fifteen, or twenty days.

He was allowed pension on his application executed March 19, 1832, while living in Culpeper County, Virginia. His wife was Miss Whitehead of Prince William County, Va. He had a son Richard, there is no further data on file as to wife and it is not stated whether he had other children. He died July 17, 1851.
Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT,
Commissioner.

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Leavenworth Kansas
June 3. 1929

The Bureau of Pensions
Washington DC

I would like to have proof of service of Daniel Cole who married Miss
Whitehead in Culpepper Co Virginia He served in (I don't know) Regiment [illegible] years in the Revolutionary War. There he had charge of the building of a road for the Army from Culpepper Court House to Fredericksburg He received a pension. I would like to have this proof of service for entrance into the Daughters of the Revolution
Thanking you for this favor

Very Truly

Mrs Basil G. Culver
206 Second Ave
Leavenworth
Kansas

[black circular stamp U.S. PENSION OFFICE X JUN 7 1929]

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Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C. 

Sirs: - Will you kindly tell me if Daniel Cole of Culpeper, Va ever drew
a pension - for how long - and the amount. He served in the American Revolution.

Most Resp'ct
Mrs. N. L. Randolph
Carlsbad, N.M. 

March 27, 1926

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[Left side of document]

M 233
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Finance Division

Dec._1,_1924_

Chief Rev Sect_Division. [last word crossed out]

Sir: [crossed out]

I have this day received 
from _Mrs. Wm. Leon Brannan_
_cash_No. ____
for $1.05__, requesting 
copy [post office address cross out] as per
letter herewith.

[added by hand sideways Copies mailed to Finance Div AW. Dec 10. 24] [black stamp REV. WAR SECTION added just below] 

Respectfully,
O. J. RANDALL
Chief Finance Div.
KCL

[Right side of document, positioned sideways]

Request for Photostating   M6
(To be prepared in duplicate)   Ex. _AW_

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF CLERK
Date _Dec 6. 24__
Job. No. 1531_
Subject_Daniel Cole. Rev. S8236.__
_1_copies of _4_ pieces consisting of _7_ pages to be 
forwarded when completed to the _REV. WAR SECTION_ Division.
Remarks:___
Approved:
[illegible] Wilson__ 
Chief Div. REV. WA

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Mrs Wm Leon Brannan
1400 Washington Ave.
Fredericksburg Va.

paid for photostats of 7 pages,
from the Revolutionary War pension claim
of Daniel Cole.
Va Troops Surv File 8236.

$1 05/100 paid. Dec. 1. 1924
 recd by A. E. Wilson

[black stamp REV. WAR SECTION]

[black rectangular stamp FINANCE DIVISION DEC 1 1924 BUREAU OF PENSIONS]

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BLUE DIAMOND COAL COMPANY
INCORPORATED [header, centered]

Rev Dec 1 L.H M [handwritten, top right corner]

U.S. Pension Office DEC 2 1915 [black circular stamp, centered]

Typo, Ky. , Nov. 29th, 1915.

Mr. G.M. Saltsgaber, Commissioner, 
Washington, D.C.

Dera Sir,
Your favor of the 26th, in reference to John Kemper and Daniel
Cole.

Please give me the history of Daniel Cole of Culpeper Co.
this is the Daniel Cole that I have been tracing and I have recently
had the records of Culpeper Co. traced and found him in several places

In reference to John Camper (Camper, Kamper, Kemper, Kempe, Kemp) I find that Mr. Willis Kemper says that this is John Camper or Kemper #80 of his genealogy and died at Bellefontaine Ohio, is this correct, I have often herd my grand mother speak of her grandfather John Kemper and three brothers Moses, Tillman, and Chas, as rev. Soldiers, but I do not seem able to find any trace of John Kemper who married Elizabeth Morgan, Sister of Spencer Morgan and Cousin to Genl. Daniel Morgan, perhaps he was like some of the other Kempers and varied from the way of spelling the name Kemper Genealogy gives (Camper, Kamper, Kemper, Kemp, Kempe) would you kindly look over the above names and see if one is from Faurquire County and if possible his wife Elizabeth Morgan, mentioned.( If widows drew pensions maybe Elizabeth Morgan drew one she was born July 23rd, 1758, and died May 10th, 1860 102 years old. according to Kemper geneaology.

If you have no available data in your office that fits the description of this John Kemper, would you be kind enough to suggest some other
way of proving or finding this mans service as I am sure he was a Rev.
Soldier for I can prove his three brother records (Moses, Tillman, Chas.

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BLUE DIAMOND COAL COMPANY
INCORPORATED [header, centered]

Typo, Ky., [centered right]

and as he was the oldest boy of the family he was certain to have
been in the army especially so since his widow claims it and she lived
until 1860, also my grandmother who died in 1913 at 86 years old, so
you see that these people laped each other considerably.

Any kindness extended me in this matter will be greatly appriciated, Thanking you, I am, 

Your Very truly,
H. S. Gibboney [handwritten, centered right]