Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2068, John Cole, Conn.

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Service Conn.

Cole, John
Mary [Cole, Mary]

Number W. 2068
B. L. [illegible] 30,595-160-55

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10,817

Vermont

John Cole
of Orleans Co. in the state of Vermont who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Parson of the Connecticut ne, for the term of one year 1776

Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 8 of May 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the [illegible number] of May 1819 and senet to the Judge Sam Cook Orleans Co. VT.

Arrears to 4th of March 1819. 9 months 28/30 79.22
Semi-anl. all'ce [allowance] ending 4 [illegible] 1819 48
$127.22

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805

Vermont Burlington
Mary Cole
widow of John, Cole

who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private
Connecticut Mil [Connecticut Militia]

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 dollars 00 cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853

Certificate of Pension issued 15th day of August 1853 and sent to Joshua Sawyer Hyde Park, VT

[illegible text written vertically]

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173054 Vermont
January 18 55
Mary Cole, widow John Cole
Ent Loas

Rev war Pensioner
AD 160 Agrm, 6/56
 
Boynton
Claimant care of E. B. Samp
Hyde Park, [illegible]
Vol C=2-25
[written diagonally over above] No 30595 if June 13/56

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John Cole
76 - 1 year
Parson's Connect.
Regt.

Admd

[written vertically on left side "John Coles Declaration for pension"]

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State of Vermont ⎬
Orleans County ss

On this eighth day of May AD eighteen hundred and eighteen, before me the Subscriber one of the assistant Judges
of the County Court, within and for said County of Orleans, personally appears John Cole aged sixty five years, resident in Morristown in said County of Orleans 
who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision, made by the late act of Congress, entitled "an Act to provide for certain persons, engaged in the land and Naval Service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," that he the said John turned out at the alarm at Lexington, State of Massachusetts under Capt Waterman & left that immediately, after said Battle was over, in the latter part of April 1775 he enlisted in a company commanded by 1st Lt Jedediah Waterman. 2 Leut Thomas
Grovesnor & ensign James Sprague all of the State of Connecticut.

Said Company was attached to a Regiment commanded by Col Durky [Durkee] of the Continental establishment and Connecticut Line of troops, that he served in said Company till the middle of January 1776, at
which time he was honorably discharged, at Cambridge Massachusetts according to the usual custom - that he then returned home & continued there for a few days and enlisted in company of Militia commanded by Capt Shepard of Plainfield Connecticut for three months that he was released, in about two months, on account of Joining the regular service in the Militia he served on Dorchester Heights near Boston, that on the Seventeenth or eighteenth of March 1776, he enlisted into a Company by Capt John Darrow of New London State of Connecticut for the Term of one year, which company was attached to a regiment commanded by Col Parsons of the Continental establishment and Connecticut Line that he continued to do duty in said Company regiment & Line (said regiment was afterwards commanded by Col. Tyler)  at Boston and New London - at City of New York - at Long Island - at City of New York again - at Kingsbridge and at Greenwich where he was taken sick, and then sent to Stamford Hospital in said State of Connecticut, and not recovering his health as as to do duty before his term of service expired he was Honorably discharged from said Hospital and returned home - that during said last term of enlistment he was in the battles of Flatbush on Long Island and Frogpoint at Morrisania near Kingsbridge in the State of New York

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That he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now now in his power except was is herewith transmitted and the said John Cole hath hereto subscribed his name.
[signed] John Cole
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid 
[signed] Samuel Cooke Asst Judge Orleans County Court
I Samuel Cook, one of the assistant judges of the County Court within and for the county of Orleans in said state of Vermont as aforesaid do certify that it offers to my satisfaction that the said John Cole did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceeding [preceding] declaration against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary of the War depart [department] persuant [pursuant] to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress
May 18th 1818
[signed] Samuel Cooke Asst Judge Orleans County Court
I Samuel Cook Judge of the County Court in Orleans as aforesaid do hereby certify that the above named John Cole from reduced circumstances on life stands in need of the assistance of his county for support. (now worth three hundred dollars after his debts are paid)
[signed] Samuel Cooke Asst Judge Orleans County Court
State of Vermont
Orleans County ss.
I certify that the Hon. Samuel Cook is an assistant Judge of Orleans County Court and that the above is his signature.
Att. Ira H. Allen Clerk and notary public

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John Cole's Cole
declaration
Morristown, Orleans County, Vermont
[underline]

[scribble at bottom of page]

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State of Vermont
Orleans County ss.
On this 12 day of June 1820 personally appeared before me Samuel Cooke one of the judges of the County Court within and for the County of Orleans, said Court being a Court of Record so constituted by the constitution and Statute laws, of the State of Vermont, John Cole aged sixty seven years, resident in Morristown in said County, who having first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, In 1775 served in Col Darby's regiment and company commanded by Lieut. Jedeh Waterman and in 1776 in Col. Persons regiment and company of Captain John Dorrow, Connecticut line, agreeable to an original declaration by me made dated May the 8 1818 and have received a pension certificate from the war office of the United States dated May the 6 1819 number ten thousand eight hundred seventeen And I do solemnly swear that  I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner dispose of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bringing myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war passed on the 18 days of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contract, or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
Schedule a lease of a lot of land together with the appurtenances worth yearly - our house, two saws, old furniture of no great value say worth ten dollars.
Occupation a Farmer unable to do any labor
Family - my wife Jemima Cole aged sixty unable to support herself. Son Daniel Cole aged nineteen a cripple from his birth in his feet, no learning the sharmsher's trade, daughter Betsy Cole aged thirty six in a weakly situation. Do Anster Cole aged seventeen healthy as common.
And I have demands against me which I justly owe to the amount of one hundred and six dollars.
[signed] John Cole

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Sworn to and subscribed on this 12 day of June 1820 Before Samuel Cook Judge of the Orleans County Court
Ira H. Allen Clerk of Orleans County Court do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed an truly copied from the records of the said Court. And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is ninety six dollars. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 15 day of July 1820
[signed] Ira H. Allen Clerk of the Court of the County of Orleans
It has been satisfactorialy [satisfactorily] made to appear to us that the signer of the within declaration is indisposed  an unable to appear in open Court to give his declaration.
[signed William Howe
Timo Stanley  Judges

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State of Vermont
Lamoille County ss

On this ninth day of March AD 1853 personally appeared before Stoughton S. Pike Judge of Probate and for the District of Lamoille Mercy Cole, a resident of Morristown in the county of Lamoille and State aforesaid aged sixty nine years, who being duly sworn according to Law - doth under oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Provisions made by the act of Congress passed the 3rd day of Febr 1853 and all other acts come therewith that I am the widow of John Cole late of Morristown deceased who was a Revolutionary ^soldier and drew a Pension until he died. (Therein further particularized) under the act of  AD 1818 of ninety ^six dollars per Annum and that I have not his original Certificate in my possession - but verily believe it was surrendered to the pension agent for paying pensions of the Vermont agency  designated upon sd Certificate and is now in the proper office of deposit of the United States - If it is not - It is lost or mislaid-  for I have it not, neither do I know where it is - but verily believe it was

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disposed of as above Stated. I am not particularly informed as to his service, and I have no papers in my possession to inform or direct me about them - further than what I have above Stated - I therefore beg leave to refer the Hon Commissioner of Pensions to
the accompaning [accompanying] document from the Hon. James L. Edward Late Commissioner of Pensions of the U. States to my late husband John Cole dated January 19th 1821. and my said husbands original
declaration, and various papers connected
therewith remaining in your War department - the basis of his pension of his pension, for full proof of my claims under said act-

She further declares that she was married to the said John Cole on the 3rd day of November AD 1830 that her husband, the aforesaid John Cole died at Morristown on the 26th day of July AD 1842 and that she was not married to him prior to the time of his
serving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the 1st day of December
AD 1834 to wit at the time above Stated - She further swears she is now a widow

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and that she has never before made any application for a Pension - 

Mercy Cole X her mark [signature]
H.G. Grain [signature]
Hannah Cole [signature]

Witness Sworn to & and subscribed before me on the day and year above written
 

Before me 
Stoughton S. Pike Judge [signature]


State of Vermont
Lamoille County ss⎬
I Carlos S. Noyes, Clerk of the  County Court, for the County of Lamoille State of Vermont, do hereby certify that Stoughton S. Pike of Johnson in said County who has above subscribed his name as Judge was at the time & still is, the Judge of Probate, within and for the county of & district of Lamoille
duly qualified and commissioned according to
law; and that his signature thereto is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have affixed the seal of the County Court, and set my official hand at Hyde Park, this 11th day of March A.D. 1853

Carlos S. Noyes, Clerk [signature]

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173054

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State of Vermont
Lamoille County ss.
On this 22d day of March A.D. 1855 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid Mary Cole aged 71 years resident of Morristown in said County and State who being duly sworn declares that she is the widow of John Cole deceased who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain [blank] in the Regiment of [blank commanded by [blank] in the war of the Revolution [strike out "with Great Britain declared by the United States on the day of A.D. 17"] that her said husband enlisted at Amhurst Conn on or about the [blank] day of A.D. 17[blank] as will appear by the muster rolls of said company, [blank] She further states that she was married to the said John Cole at Morristown in the State of Vermont in [strike out "or about"] the 3d day of November A.D. 1830 by one Alial Eaton a Justice of the Peace and that her name before her said marriage was Mary Gilbert that her said husband died at Morristown on the 26th day of July A.D. 1842 and that she is now a widow. See previous declaration (for pension) on file in the Pension Department She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the act passed March 3d 1855 now having record Bounty Land or knowing

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that she is entitled except for the above service and she believes that no Bounty Land was ever record by her husband. She hereby [illegible] any application for Bounty Land previously made or that may have been presented in her name and she hereby constitutes and appoints E.B. Sawyer of Hyde Park her true and lawful attorney to prosecute the above mentioned claim and to receive for her benefit the Bounty Land warrant to which she may be entitled. She further states that she now receives a pension from government of 96 dollars for per year for the aforesaid services of her husband and refers the department to the proof in their possession for further evidence of the aforesaid services.
[by] her mark X Mary Cole
[signed by] Huldah Beardman [and] Heman Cole
Sworn to, subscribed and acknowledged before on the day and year first above written and in the same day personally came before Mr. Heman Cole and Huldah Beardman residents of Morristown in County and State above named to me known as credible witnesses who being duly sworn declare that they are personally acquainted with Mary Cole widow of John Cole who has made an subscribed the foregoing declaration that they were personally acquainted with John Cole and his wife during the lifetime of the former and know that they lived together as man and wife, and to be as expected and they believe that the husband of the said Mary Cole was the identical person who performed the military services mentioned in the above declaration that the above named Mary Cole is now

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dead and the said Mary Cole is now a widow And they further swear that they are disinterested
[signed] Huldah Boardman [and] 
Heman Cole
Sworn to and subscribed before me and I certify that I am not interested in the claim or concerned in its prosecution.
S.M. Pennock Justice Peace
[partial view of printed certification of Pennock's signature that appears in full on next page]

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STATE OF VERMONT.

Office of the Secretary of State,
Montpelier, April 19th 1855

I Certify that S. M. Pennock Esq., whose name is subscribed in his own proper hand-writing to the foregoing Certificate, is and was at the date thereof, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the county of Lamoille, duly elected and qualified, with full power and authority under and by virtue of the laws of said State to administer Oaths and take Depositions, and Acknowledgments of Deeds, and that to his official acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given.

Given under my hand and the Seal of this office the 19th day of April A.D. 1855

Geo R. Thompson, Deputy Secretary of State.

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Revolutionary War Records Section 3-525
MMHF  W.2068
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D.C., July 12, 1923
In reply to your request of [blank], for the history of John Cole, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, the following is taken from [strike out "the"] his this widow's claim for pension.
[column headings]
Dates of Enlistment or Appointment | Length of Service | Rank | Officers under whom service was rendered [subtitles Captain - Colonel | State
Lexington Andrew | [blank] | Pvt | Waterman, Clift | Conn
Latter part of April 1775 | Middle of Jan 1776 | [blank] | Lt. Jedediah Waterman  - Durkee | [blank]
A few days after | 2 mos | [blank] | Gordon - [Durkee] | [blank]
Mch 17 or 18 1776 | 1 yr | Darrow - Parsons / Tyler | [blank]
Battles engaged in, Flat bush, Morrisawa
Residence of soldier at enlistment, not stated
Date of application for pension, May 8, 1818 his cl was al. [claim was allowed
Residence at date of application, Morristown, Orleans Co., Vt.
Age at date of application, 65 yrs.
Remarks: He died July 26, 1842 in Morristown, Vt. In 1821 he referred to his wife Jemima aged 61 yrs. Children Betsey 36 yrs, Harvey (who was 58 yrs in 1853 and resident of Morristown, Vt), Daniel 19 yrs and Anster or Anstres (dau.) 17 yrs. Soldier remarried Nov 3, 1830 in Morristown Vt Mary Gilbert who was al. pen on her ap. ex. Mch 9, 1853 while a resident of Morristown, Lamoille Co. Vt. aged 69 yrs. Sol grandson Hiram Cole aged 20 yrs. resident of Morristown Vt in 1853.
Respectfully, 
Commissioner
Government Printing Office

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District of Vermont ss. at Chasburgh in the county of Orleans on this 4th day of January 1821 personally appeared in open Court being a court of record for sd [said] district and county made such by the statute law of the state having a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and having the power of fine and imprisonment John Cole aged sixty eight years resident in Morristown in said county and district who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, In the year 1775 served in Colonel Derky's regiment and company commanded by Lieut Jeddidiah Waterman and in 1776 in Colo Person's Regiment and company of Capt John Dorrow, Connecticut line agreeable to an original declaration by him made dated May the 8th 1818 on account of which he has atained received a pension certificate from the war office of the United States dated May 6th 1819 Numbered 10.817. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby as to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts, or debts owed me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed The use of a farm during the natural life of the said John Cole granted to him by his son Harvey Cole in consequence of the needy circumstances of his aged parent at $36.00 yearly being one hundred acres with an old house and Barn thereon; one horse at $27.50 two cows at $32.50 with sundry articles of old household furniture to the value of $10.00 i the whole. I am by occupation a farmer or husbandman unable to labour at my occupation on account of age and infirmity my Family consists of my self and wife named Jemima aged sixty one unable to support her self one son Daniel aged 19 a cripple from his birth now learning the shoemakers trade, on daughter Betsy, aged 36 in a weak state of health, one daughter named Anstrus aged 17 healthy as usual and I honestly owe one hundred sixty dollars. 
[signed] John Cole
Sworn to and declared on the 4th day of January A.D. 1821 Before William Howe Judge of OC[illegible]

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I Ira H. Allen Clerk of Orleans County Court do herby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhbited in the aforesaid schedule is one hundred six dollars and [blank] cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court, on this 4th day of January 1821.
[signed] Ira H. Allen Clerk of the Court of the County of Orleans
John Cole Declaration

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State of Vermont
Lamoille County ss.
I Harvey Cole of Morristown in County of Lamoille and State of Vermont aged fifty eight years testify and say that I am the son of John Cole late of Morristown deceased he was a Revolutionary Soldier and also he drew a pension from the United States Government under the act of eighteen hundred and eighteen untill his death on the 3rd day of November 1830. He was married to Mary Gilbert by Abial Eates esquire Justice of the Peace in and for the then county of Orleans and Morristown ow a part of Lamoille (Said Alial Eaton has been dead a number of years) The said Mary Cole immediately came to live with my said father John where and with whom she lived as man and wife untill he died at Morristown on the 16th day of July 1862 aged about 90 years. The said Mary Cole still lives on his homestead. She never again married but still remained his widow. I was present at his death, burial and funeral.
[signed Harvy Cole
and further your deponent saith not.
Morristown March 9th A.1883
Sworn to and subscribed on the day

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and year above written I further certify that I have long been acquainted with Harvey Cole who signed sd [said] affidavit and consider him to be man of truth and veracity and competent witness in any Court where called on to testify - all erasures and interlineations made before executing this instrument.
Before me W.G. Ferrin Master in Chancy [Chancery]
State of Vermont
Lamoille County ss.
I Carlos S. Noyes, clerk of the county courts for the county of Lamoille, state of Vermont hereby certify that W.G. Ferrin of Johnson in said county who has above subscribed his names was at the time and still is a Master in Chancery within and fore the county of Lamoille, duly qualified and commissioned according to law; that his signature thereto is genuine, and that he is authorized to administer on this. In testimony whereof I have affixed  the seal of the county courts, at Hyde Park this 11th day of March A.D. 1853 and set my official hand
[signed] Carlos S. Noyes Clerk

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Affidavit Jos Sinclair

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I Joseph Sinclair of Morristown in the County of Orleans and State of Vermont aged thirty two years do testify and say that I have been acquainted with John Cole of said Morristown who has made his declaration before Hon. Samuel Cook Esq for a pension under the late act of Congress, for some years and that I know him to be a man of unquestionable truth and veracity and that from reduced circumstances he stands in need of the assistance of his country for support.
[signed] Joseph Sinclair
State of Vermont
Orleans County ss.
Sworn to before me the subscriber one of the assistant Judges of the County Court within and for said County of Orleans on this thirteenth day of May A.D. 1818, and I do hereby certify that in my opinion he is a man of truth and veracity and to be believed.
[signed] Samuel Cooke Asst Judge Orleans County Courts

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Bassell Spaulding deposition

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I Barzilla Spalding, Morristown Orleans County of  lawful age do testify and say that John Cole now of Morristown Orleans County and State of Vermont, who has made his declaration before Samuel Cooke, Assistant Judge for the County Court, within and for the said Orleans County that the said John Cole did serve in the Revolutionary War of the United States against great Britain mainly in the year 1775 in Capt Waterman Company and Cole Durkey Regt of the Connecticut line of troops, under the continental establishment, eight months, and about the fifth of March 1776 he the aid Cole enlisted in a company commanded by John Darrow and Colo Persons Regt of the Connecticut line, and continental establishment and that he served the said term of [illegible] out, which term of enlistment was for one year.
[signed] Barzilla Spaulding
State of Vermont
Orleans County ss.
Morristown May 16th 1818 Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year aforesaid and testify that the said Barzilla is a credible witness.
[signed Samuel Cooke Asst Judge Orleans County Court

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Affidavit 
Earl Westgate

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I Earl Westgate of Morristown in the County of Orleans and State of Vermont aged thirty four years do testify, and say that I have been for sometime acquainted with John Cole of said Morristown who has made his declaration for a pension under the late act of Congress before Hon. Sam Cook Esq. and that I know him to be a man of unquestionable truth and veracity and that he stands in need of the assistance of his country for support from reduced circumstances.

Earl Westgate [signature]

State of Vermont
Orleans County ss
Morristown May 13th 1818

Personally appeared Earl Westgate above named before me the subscriber one of the assistant Judges of Orleans County Court within and for said County of Orleans and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true in all its parts and I do also certify that the said Eart Westgate is a man of truth & veracity and to be believed

Samuel Cooke, Asst. Judge Orleans County Court

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516
Mercy Cole, Widow of John Vt
Let [letter] to Joshua Sawyer May 17/53
Act Feb 3d 1853

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30.595
[illegible]

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Commissioner of Pensions, Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:
Will you please send me a copy of the Pension record of John Cole (Revolutionary War) he was granted a pension under Act April 8th 1818 at Orleans Co. Vermont. I think he served in Conn as private. 
Thanking you in advance for this information. I am Very truly yours,
(Miss) Myrtle Williams, Canton, Penn.
May 22/28

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Hist to Cora M. Strait Vedden Wid F. 9670, John Strait
1923 July 12 Hist to Myrtle Williams MMHS
Rev Widow, &c.
File No. 2068 
Mary Cole, Widow John Cole Priv Rev. War
Act Feb 3 1853
Index [blank] Vol. A, Page 142
[Arrangement of 1870]
Feb 24 '08 Letter with

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808
Vermont Burlington
Mary Cole widow of John who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the [strike out "4th day of March, 1848.] 3d February 1853 Certificate of Pension issued the 15th day of Aug't 1853 and sent to Joshua Sawyer Hyde Part Vt.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act [strike out "July 29, 1848"] 3 Febry 1853, Page 26, Vol A
1818

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Set to Joshua Sawyer 14 Feb/54
" " [Set to} same Mch 24/57

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808 
Vermont Burlington
Mercy Cole widow of John who served in the Revolutionary war as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 dollars 00 cents per annum, to commence on the [Strike out "4th day of March 1848"] 3d February 1853
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of June 185[illegible] and sent to Joshua Sawyer, Hyde Park, Vt.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act July 29, 1848, Page 26 Vol !
1818

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Hon. L. P. Waldo
Comm. Pensions

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Hydepark June 22nd 1853
[illegible] L. P. Waldo Commr Pensions
Sir - I transmit to your [illegible] Department 2 additional affidavits of a negative character showing almost beyond the possibility of a doubt that no record of the marriage of Mrs. Mary Cole was ever made. I transmitted her additional declaration in conformity to the new requirements of the Department by yesterday morning's mail and think it also prudent but [illegible] necessary to send the affidavits of the ackn't of Abial Eatan the justice who married them and also the Town Clerk to set in the abundant [illegible] testimony or rather evidence remining in [illegible] of the marriage of Mary and John Cole already filed in your office.
With highest respect your obt sevt [obedient servant]
[signed Joshua Sawyer

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Hon. Comm of Pensions US

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Hydepark March 26th 1953
Hon. Commr of Pensions US
Sir - I hereby transmit two additional affidavits which are to be placed on file and used in the claim Mary Cole widow of John Cole a pensioner under the act of 1818 and which sd John Cole died in 1942. The widow's claim is under the act of Feby 3rd 1853 and the papers were recently sent by me
With respect your obt servt [obedient servant]
[signed] Joshua Sawyer
Agent and atty

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Hon. Commr of Pensions US

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Hydepark March 11 1853
Hon. Commissioner of Pensions U.S.
Sir - I transmit to your [illegible] Department te Declaration of Mary Cole of widow of John who was a revolutionary pension at [illegible] as an annexed letter from Mr. Edward late commr will indicate and would solicit the favor if a certificate  is granted it might be enclosed to me.
I am respectfully your obt sevt [obedient servant]
[signed] Joshua Sawyer
Agent & atty

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Hon. Commiss Pensions US

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Hydepark July 2nd 1853
[illegible] L P Waldo Commr Pensions - US
Sir - On the 30th day of Jnry 1853 I received the Certificate of the widow of John Cole - for a revolutionary pension granting or issuing it by the name of Mercy - the name is Mary Cole - which may have been illegibly subscribed by her. (I believe she made her mark) or blindly written by me. In my last communications to the [illegible] Department I intended particularly to notice the misapprehension that existed in regard to her name and intended to say her name was Mary not Mercy will the new commr cause the correction to be so made as otherways the drawing would be defeated when the true [illegible]
With high respect your obt sevt [obedient servant]
[signed] Joshua Sawyer

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Hon. Commr Pensions US

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Hydepark June 20th 1853
Hon'l L. P. Waldo Commissr Pensions N.State
Sir I hereby send you the additional on supplemental declaration of Mary Cole (not Mercy) as seemed was mistaken in the notes She received from your office. A new declaration was requested stating therein that no record existed of her marriage which this contains according to the requisition of the office I hope this may prove satisfactorily and an early examination be had in the case. I believe abundant proof of the actual marriage and de facto marriage exists among the papers first transmitted. This positive averment of the negative or non existence of the record was not required to be set forth in the declaration formerly 
'with high respect your obt sevt [obedient servant]
[signed] Joshua Sawyer agent and atty for Mary Cole
P.S. please to send the certificate when granted to me. J. Sawyer

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Brief in the case of [strike out "Mary, Mercy"] Mary Cole, widow of John
Lamoille County and State of Vermont
at 3d February 1853
Claim, ("original,") [strike out "or for increase."]
Proof exhibited, (if original)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
[illegible] husband was a pensioner under the Act of 18 March, 1818 & Cont'd
Marriage proven by record proof. Certified to be credible
(if for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what? [blank]
Joshua Sawyer Esq
Hyde Park, Vermont
Name and residence of Agent
S.C. Boynton, Examining Clerk

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Payment to be made at Burlington by Wm J. Odel Esq. Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of Vermont Payable on the 4th September and 4th March Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 3d 1853, Page 21, Vol A.
H. R. Weightman Clerk
[overwritten vertically] Cancelled

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Department of the Interior
Widow's Pension
I certify that in conformity with the 2d section of the act of February 3, 1853 Mary Cole widow of John Cole who was a private in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Ninety six dollars [strike out " and blank cents] per annum, commencing on the 3d of February 1853, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.
Given at the Department of the Interior this twenty seventh of June one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three
Examined and countersigned L. P. Waldo Commissioner of Pensions
[overwritten vertically] Cancelled

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The husband of this applicant was a pensioner, during his life, for ninety six dollars per year and she is now a pensioner for that amount and you are respectfully refered [referred] to her previous declaration on file in the Pension department together with the accompanying certificate and affidavits for proof of her marriage, husbands death &c.
Respectfully
E.B. Sawyer
To Hon. L. P. Waldo Commissioner
Washington D.C.

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State of Vermont
Lamoille County ss.
I V.W. Waterman of Morristown in the county and state aforesaid testify that I am aged about forty two years. That I was well acquainted with John Cole the elder late of Morristown deceased a Revolutionary Pensioner he died about eleven years past a very aged man he was the reputed husband of Mary Coe and while I have no doubt and neither do I doubt that they lived together as man and wife untill his death, She remains unmarried and is still his widow. I have lived in said Morristown over twenty years where the said John Cole and Mary Cole (now his widow) have lived the whole time that I have been there. My business has been Mercantile which has led to a greater or less degree of intimacy with the principal inhabitants of Morristown and vicinity and further your deponent saith not.
[signed] V.W. Waterman
Morristown Vermont AD 1853
Sworn and subscribed before me in the day and year above written I further certify that the above affiant is in the first dlass of Men for truth and veracity and a competent witness in any Court where called on to testify.
Joshua Sawyer Noty Public

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State of Vermont
Lamoille County ss.
I Carlos S. Noyes, clerk of the County Court for the county of Lamoille, State of Vermont, hereby certify that Joshua Sawyer of Hydepark in said county, who has hereunto subscribed his name, was at the time and still is a Notary Public within and for the county of Lamoille duly qualified and commissioned according to law and that his signature thereto is genuine and he that he is authorized to administer oath. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my official hand and affixed the seal of the county court at Hydepark this 11th day of March A.D. 1853. 
Carlos S. Noyes, Clerk

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State of Vermont
Lamoille County ss.
I Betsy Cole of Morristown in the County of Lamoille and State of Vermont aged sixty nine years testify and say that I am the daughter of the late John Cole of Morristown who was a Revolutionary Pensioner and husband of Mary Cole, my mother in law they were married at Morristown by Abial Eaton Esquire a Justice of the Peace within the County of Orleans of which Morristown was then a part on the 3rd day of November AD  immediately returned to my own and fathers home in sd [said] Morristown where my sd father & mother in law lived as husband and wife together until his death. The said Abial Eaton has been dead many years. My said father John Cole died at Morristown at his residence on the 26th day of July AD 1842. I was present at his death, funeral and burial and that my sd mother has not ever married again but remarried as widow Betsey Cole.

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The within and aforegoing affidavit sworn to and subscribed on this 28th day of January AD 1853. I further certify that I have been long acquainted with the reputation of Miss Mary Cole which is unimpeachable and her testimony ought to bear full faith and credit in any Court where called.
Before me
V.W. Waterman Justice of the P[illegible]
See Hiram Cole affidavit for Certificate forward

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Harvey Cole affidavit
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State of Vermont
Lamoille County ss.
I Hiram Cole of Morristown in the County of Lamoille aged twenty years [strike out "twenty years"] testify and say that I am grand son of the late John Cole husband of Mary Cole who lives at the homestead that my said grandfather died at Morristown on the 26th of July AD 1842 aged aleast [at least] 90 years. I was present at his death, funeral and burial. He was a Revolutionary Pensioner untill his death. They lived together as husband and wife as long as I can remember back. She has remained his widow and resides with my father's family in Morristown. Abial Easton Esquire whose name has been often time mentioned by my family and citizens died before my remembrance and further say not.
[signed] Hiram Cole
Morristown Jany 28 1853
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me. JV

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I further certify that the above affiant is a young man of good character and a competent witness in any Court where called on
Before me
V. W. Waterman Justice of the Peace
State of Vermont
Lamoille County ss.
I Carlos S. Noyes clerk of the county of Lamoille, State of Vermont, hereby certify that Vernon W. Waterman of Morristown in said county who has above subscribed his name to the Affidavit of Hiram Cole, and to the foregoing affidavit of Betsey Cole, was t that time and still is a Justice of the Peace within and fax the county of Lamoille duly qualified and commissioned according to law and that his signature to the two papers is well known to me and the same is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my official hand and affixed the seal of the county courts, at Hydepark this 11th day of March A.D. 1853
[signed] Carlos S. Noyes Clerk

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J.S. Edwards
516  Mar 14/53
Mercy Cole, Widown of John 
Vermont
Act Feb. 3d 1853
Joshua Sawyer, Hyde Park, Vt

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War Department 10.817
Pension Office, Jany [January] 19th 1821
Sir:  
You are hereby informed that the Schedule of your property has been examined, and the Secretary of War has directed your name to be continued on the Pension Roll.
You will be paid, at the ensuing semi-annual payment in March next, the sum that may be then due from the time of suspending your pension. Funds for the purpose will be transmitted at that time; but no arrearages will be paid previous thereto.
I am respectfully, Your obedient servant,
J.L. Edwards
To Mr. John Cole
Orleans County Vermont

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State of Vermont
Lamoille County ss.
I hereby certify that V. W. Waterman of Morristown in said county, before whom the two foregoing affidavits were sworn to and who has there unto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing and still is a Justice of the Peace within and for the county of Lamoille duly qualified and commissioned and that his signature's thereto is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my official hand and affixed the seal of Lamoille County Court at Hyde Park this 22d day of June AD 1853
[signed] Carlos S. Noyes, Clerk

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State of Vermont
Lamoille County ss.
I Alfred C. Boardman of Morristown in sd [said] County of Lamoille and State of Vermont aged fifty one years depose and say that I have been Town Clerk of Morristown aforesd [aforesaid] Eleven years and have had the custody of the Town records of sd Town and have this day made a diligent search to find the marriage of John Cole to March Gilbert but there is not record of sd marriage in the Town Clerks Office of Morristown and further your deponent saith not.
[signed] Alfred C. Boardman
Morristown June 21 1853
Sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written. I further certify that the above affiant is a person of truth and veracity and entitled to belief in any Court where called on to testify.
[signed] V.W. Waterman, Justice of the Peace

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State of Vermont
Lamoille County ss.
I Lathrop Eaton of Morristown in the County of Lamoille and State of Vermont aged fifty [illegible] years testify and say that I am the son of Abial Eaton late of Morristown in said county deceased. Abial was a Justice of the Peace within and for the then County of Orleans now being a part of Lamoille County. That he has been dead many years about 18 years after his death I was appointed administrator upon his estate and his papers came into my possession and I was familliarly [familiarly] acquainted with his papers and often examined them for various purposes and I have no knowledge or recollection of finding any record of any marriage made by him and state most confidently that none existed of his marrying Mary Cole and John Cole who were our towns folks and neighbors in his lifetime and she has remarried so to the present time and any further search for any such record would be futile. I well remember the event of their marriage but whether married by my late father I did not recollect. Mrs. Mary Cole now remains in sd [said] Morristown the widow of sd John

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Cole and further the deponent saith not. Morristown June 21 1853.
[signed] Lathrop Eaton
Sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written. I further certify that I am well acquainted with the affiant and his reputation is good for truth and veracity and a competent witness in any Court were called on to Testify.
[signed] V. W. Waterman, Justice of the Peace

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State of Vermont
Lamoille County ss.
Probate office Lamoille District in sd [said] County. On the 21st day of June AD 1853 personally appeared before the Probate Court within and for sd [said] County of Lamoille in open Court Mary Cole a resident in Morristown in said County of Lamoille and State of Vermont aged 70 years who being 1st duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed Feby [February 3rd AD 1853 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War that she is the widow of John Cole who was a private in the Connecticut Line of Troops (She is informed and has no doubt) in the Revolutionary War. My sd [said] husband John Cole deceased was a pensioner under the act of Eighteen hundred and Eighteen at 96 [ninety six] dollars per annum untill his death. I have not his original certificate in my possession but verily believe it was surrendered up to the agent for paying pensions of the Vermont agency at Montpelier and if not Sud[illegible]

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done it is either lost or mislaid and it is not in my power to find or produce it I further state and declare that I have no further knowledge of my sd [said] husbands services than what I have stated and what is contained in the evidence heretofore transmitted to the Pension Office as I am informed and verily believe was so don by my attory [attorney] Joshua Sawyer. I therefore beg leave to refer the honorable commis [commissioner] to my sd [said]] husbands John Coles original papers upon which his pension certificate was allowed for a mere perfect description of his Revolutionary Services. She further declares and states she was married to sd [said] John Cole at Morristown in sd [said] County on the third day of November AD 1830 by Abial Eaton Esquire then a Justice of the Peace within and for sd [said] County of Orleans. Sd {said] Morristown now forming a part of Lamoille County and who was legally authorized by the state of Vermont to perform the marriage ceremony. She further states that there is no record of her sd [said] marriage remaining in sd [said] Justices office or files there is no family record of my sd [said] marriage nor is there any other record extant of

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my sd [said] marriages extant for all which I have made dilligent [diligent] search by myself and agents and cannot find any must rely upon whatever evidence is now filed in the pension office and upon what additional evidence documents may accompany this my last declaration to fully establish my said marriage. That has sd [said] husband died at sd [said] Morristown on the 26th day of July AD 1842 and that she was not married to him prior to the 2nd day of January 1800 but at the time above stated. She further declares that she is now a widow. She further declares that there is no public or family record of her sd [said] husband's death and must also refer to the evidence already filed in the Pension Office and accompanying evidence to prove the fact of my sd [said] husband's death.
Signed in the presence of W. G. Ferrin, Joshua Sawyer
[signed] Mary Cole by her mark X
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court on the day and year above written. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my official hand and seal the day and year wherein written.
[Signed] Stoughton S. Pike, Judge of the Probate Court

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Mrs. Cole
Mary Cole
Joshua Sawyer agent & atty
State of Vermont
Lamoille County ss.
I hereby certify that Stoughton S. Pike before whom the within affidavit of Mary Cole was subscribed and sworn to and who has there unto subscribed his name was at the time and still is the acting Judge of Probate within and fore the District of Lamoille duly qualified and commissioned, that his signature thereto I believe to be genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and [strike out "sael this 20th] affixed the seal of Lamoille County court at Hydepark this 20th day of June AD 1853.
[signed] Carlos S. Noyes Clerk

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Hydepark February 10th 1854
Hon. S. P. Waldo Comm' [Commissioner] of Pensions U.S.
Sir, I began many years past by contract to obtain a pension for Mary Cole widow of John by a written contract with a son in law with whom this old lady lived. She was married after 1800. I then after made a contract taking her power irrevocably to act executed before a very responsible magistrate. Hon. V. W. Waterman (well known) I [illegible] in the power what I was to have for past and future trouble one third of her drawings under back pay should came by the act (say from 4th March 1848) now this son in law Harvey Cole began to [illegible]. I directly told him as no back was allowed I wished nothing but a reasonable compensation and when that was done I would give the paper over. I last year paid her first drawing deducting 1/3 up to September 4th 1853. This would barely pay the expense. I made 6 journeys 7 or 8 miles. I called the Judge of Probate twice there 12 or 13 miles. They have been to no expense from first to last. I [illegible the original act granting the pension upon the marriage after 1800 and transmitted to [illegible] corresponded largely with
[In left margin] Will Comr [Commissioner] advise me what ans [answer?] to fw'r if any. "Boynton"

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friends and probably had some small influence in helping it along being [illegible] just comparatively the beginning of my exertions was Augt [August] 10 1850 and persued [pursued] more or less up to the time of the grant there were only 3 [three] cases of the above [illegible] which came into my beat. I was to have nothing if the act was not passed or the pension obtained. They pd [paid] not a portion even for the drawing nor did they move an inch now when this son in law Harvey Cole began to bristle I wished no trouble and told him what I had received would not pay the actual expenditures but I would take 1/3 of another drawing and give over the paper which has been once agreed to and supposed reaffirmed by this assumed agent. It will already be per[illegible] if I have given the truth that I have not disposition to exist it is the 1st beginning of complaint for the 35 years that I have assisted in getting Pension and it is not for the paltry amount 16.00 that I have presumed to trouble the department but to defend my own conduct before this board. I have no certainty that they have made a move to the affect above aluded [alluded] to. It was

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Unreturned and I cannot know except through your hon'l [honorable] department. The question is under the rule on [illegible] page of Pension regulations do. the Department of the Interior interfere where the certificate is held by the agent holding untill he has a reasonable compensation for obtaining it without reference to specific contract? or is this at all events such and illegal holding as compels the Hon'l [honorable] Commissioner dutywise, disregarding all circumstances to make a new issue and defeat the most just lien upon the paper. I know there can be no legal assignment but I might believe the department will not interfere to work injustice. Here is an attempt (if they have made it) to force a new certificate at an expense more than the sum demanded the 1/3 of another drawing) from [illegible the contract, which is not claimed to its extent was made with 5 or 6 adults. I will not, sensible beings if compatible with the rules and regulation.
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desire to show this matter [illegible] not for the 1/3 [one-third] 16.00 [sixteen dollars] but for the purpose of rebutting any charge that there has been the least attempt to wrong them. If I am not justified by your rules in making this appeal I request you will pardon and if I am when notice of their attempt to move in the dark I may receive the notice from the Pension office. 
With high respect your obt sevt [obedient servant]
[signed] Joshua Sawyer

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State of Vermont
Lamoille County ss.
I Jemima Goodale of Morristown in the County of Lamoille and State of Vermont aged 72 years. Testify and say that I was present at the marriage of John Cole of Morristown and Mary Gilbert of Morristown on the 3rd day of November AD 1830. They were married at my husbands and my house by Abial Eaton Esquire then a Justice of the Peace within and for County of Orleans [strike out "Lamoille"} now Lamoille, Abial Eaton has been dead a great number of years about 18. She, Mary Cole, has never married again but remains the widow of said John living on the homestead.
Morristown March 9th 1853
[by her mark] Jemima Goodale X her mark
witness W.G. Ferrin
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written. I further certify that the above [illegible] affiant is a respectable

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is a person of truth and veracity and a competent witness in any Court where called upon to testify.
Before me
W.G. Ferrin Master in Chancery

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State of Vermont
Lamoille Cy [County] ss.
I Cyrel Goodale of Morristown in the County of Lamoille and State aforesaid aged 74 years testify that I had long been a neighbor of John Cole the Elder late of Morristown deceased he was a Revolutionary Soldier and Pensioner and married Mary Gilbert on the 3rd day of November 1830. I was present at the Marriage they were married by Abial Eaton Esquire long dead and immediately went to keeping house at sd [said] Coles house in Morristown where they resided together as husband wife untill his death ten or eleven years ago. He died at Morristown near that time. She Mrs. Mary Cole is still living on the homestead when he died has never married again but ever since has lived his widow.
[signed] Cyrel Goodale
Morristown March 9 1853
Witness W.G. Ferrin
Sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written. I further certify that the sd [said] Cyrel Goodale who signed the above affidavit is a respectible

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person and a competent witness in any court where called upon to testify.
Before me W. G. Ferrin Master in Chancery
State of Vermont
Lamoille County ss.
I hereby certify that W. G. Ferrin before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn to and subscribed and who has thereunto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Master of the Chancery duly qualified; that his signature above is genuine and that he is authorised [authorized] to administer oaths for general purposes.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my official hand and affixed the seal of the county courts at Hydepark this 25th day of March AD 1853.
[signed] Carlos S. Noyes, Clerk
[in left margin] Affidavit