Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 12764, Landal Cole, R.I.

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(8-1776)
Service | | Number
R.I. | Cole, Landal | W. 12764 [handwritten]
 | Elizabeth [handwritten] |
Contents

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1738
Rhode Island
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Elizabeth Cole
widow of Landal Cole decd.
who died on the 5th February 1832
of Bristol Co in the State of R. Ia.
who was a Sgt & Priv in the Company commanded
by Captain Munro of the _________ commanded
by _______________ in the R. Ia.
line for 9 mos Sergeant
	12 "   Private
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Inscribed on the Roll of R.Ia.
at the rate of 95 dollars _____ Cents, per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of Jany.
		1838 and sent Hon. R.
B. Cranston Hou of Reps.
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1837  		   $617.50
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 Mar '38  $ 47.50
					                        ________
					                          $665..00

			               Revolutionary Claim,
			               Act July 4 1836,
			               Section the 3.

Recorded by D.D. Addison Clerk
Book A		Vol. 2d.		Page 84

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Declaration,
In order to obtain the benefit of the 3d section of the act of
Congress of the 4th July, 1836.
The State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations
County of Bristol                                Ss. on this twelfth day of
September A.D. Eighteen hundred thirty six, personally appeared before this
Court of Probate holden with and for the Town of Warren in the County and
State aforesaid, being a Court of Record, Elizabeth Cole, ^a resident^ in said Warren in said
in said County of Bristol and State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,
aged Eighty years and upwards being in the eighty first year of her age,
who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath
make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit
of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 4, 1836.
That she is the widow of Landal Cole, late of Warren in
the County and State aforesaid, deceased, who was a soldier in the
militia and Army in the war of the Revolution; that said
Landal Cole at the time he entered the service resided in the said
Town of Warren; and she further declares, that according to the best 
of her knowledge and belief the said Landal Cole, her said
Husband performed the following services in the war of the
Revolution; that at the commencement of said war he was enrolled
as a private soldier in the company of Militia in said Town of 
Warren and continued enrolled in said company until the close
of said war, and served in said company whenever the same
were drafted or order out, except when he was engaged in other
service; and that some time in the month of October 1775, /the 
precise day she cannot recollect,/ said Landal Cole enlisted into
a company of militia commanded by Captain Benjamin Bosworth,
and served as a private soldier in said company three months on 
[3 -] the Island of Prudence in said State and on the shores about Bristol and
was discharged in January 1776; she cannot recollect the names of the other
officers: and that after his discharge from the service he again
joined said company of Militia in the Town of Warren, and
served as a private soldier in said company whenever called
out from January to June 1776 at least six weeks in guarding 
[112] the shores about Narragansett Bay, /Wallace with his fleet having
come into said Bay;/ said company was drafted or ordered out by
turns to perform said service on or about the 6th of December 1776
said Company of Militia in said Town of Warren were again ordered 
out and served in guarding the shore, about Bristol in said State

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through that winter and until the spring of 1777, /the British
Troops having taken possession of the Island of Block Island,/ that
after said company had been in said service about one month,
about one half of said company were detached and relieved from service
for a time and then took the place of the other part of said
company and so served by turns during the time aforesaid, and said
Landal Cole served as a private soldier in said company three
[3-] months or more during said time. Ezra Ormsbee was Captain of 
said Company and Nathaniel Martin was Colonel of the Regiment.
On or about the first of June 1777 said Landal Cole enlisted
into a Company of State Troops raised for guarding and managing
the boats employed in the military service in Narragansett Bay, and
served as a Sergeant in said Company nine months and was
[9] discharged in March 1778. Major Nathan Munro had command
of this Company. David Davol was next in command and David
Gifford third. Said Landal Cole after he was discharged for this 
service again joined Capt. Ormsbee's company of Militia in said
Warren and was called or ordered out from time to time in the
spring and summer of the year 1778, and he served as a Sergeant in
said company not less than three months and a half in guarding
[3] the shores in said County of Bristol. After this service about the 
first of August 1778, said Landal Cole was drafted and served
as a Sergeant in said Company one month in the expedition of
General Sullivan against the British Troops on Rhode Island. Curtis
Cole was Captain, Thomas Easterbrook Lieutenant, and Ichabod
Cole Ensign of said Company at that time said company belonged
to Col. Nathan Miller's Regiment. From this time until late in 
the fall of the year 1779 said Company of Militia was drafted or 
ordered out to guard the shores in said County of Bristol; they were
drafted by detachments, a part of said Company serving for a 
length of time and then being relieved by another part of said company,
and during this period said Landal Cole served as Sergeant in 
[5] said company more than five months. Curtis Cole was Captain,
Thomas Easterbrook was Lieutenant & Ichabod Cole was Ensign of said
Company during this period.  From this time to the close of the
Revolutionary War said Company were from time to time ordered
out to perform guard service about the shores in said County for short
[4] periods of time, and said Landal Cole served as Sergeant of said
company of Militia four months more at least during this
time. /the precise period of said service or the precise times, the said Elizabeth

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Cole cannot now recollect;/ and she, said Elizabeth Cole further declares
that from the peculiar nature of said service and the great time which
has elapsed she cannot state more specifically and definitely
the times, period, and circumstances of the military services of her
said Husband and the names and rank of the field and company
officers, but from the best of her knowledge and belief, her said
Husband, said Landal Cole, served in the manner and during
the whole of the several periods before stated ,and that he served
as a private soldier not less than seven and a half months,
and as a sergeant not less than [unreadable cross-through] twenty two and a half
months for which she claims a pension, and that she has not
and cannot procure any documentary evidence of said service, except as annexed.
And she further declares, that she was married to said Landal
Cole, /before the last term of his said service expired,/ on the twenty fourth day
of August in the year Seventeen hundred seventy seven; that her
Husband the aforesaid Landal Cole died at said Warren on the
fifth day of February in the year Eighteen hundred thirty two,
and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as
will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
And she further declares that she has not the original certificate
of the clergyman who joined them in wedlock, but for proof of
the said wedding, and decease of her said Husband, and of his said services
refers to the depositions, affidavits, certificates and proof hereto annexed.
And she further declares that her maiden name was Elizabeth Vose
that she was married by Soloman Townsend then Pastor of the Church
in Barrington, and that she is the identical person named in the 
copy of the record of marriage certified and attended by Samuel Randall
Town Clerk of said Town of Warren hereto annexed.
			her
		Elizabeth  X  Cole
			cross


I Samuel Randall, Clerk of said Court of Probate
do hereby certify that on the twelfth day of 
September, A.D. Eighteen hundred thirty six
before said Court of Probate as aforesaid, the
above written declaration was sworn to by
the above named Elizabeth Cole, and she
subscribed her cross thereto, in open Court
being unable to write her name, and
I further certify that it appears to said Court

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that said Elizabeth Cole is a credible person
and that her declaration is entitled to credit.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
[section of wax seal appears to the left] my hand and the Seal of said
[section of wax seal appears to the left] Court, the day and year aforesaid

		Samuel Randall Clerk

I the above named Samuel Randall being
sworn according to law, do testify and say
that I am Clerk of the above named court
of Probate, for said town of Warren, duly
appointed and legally qualified, to officiate as 
such, and I further certify that the above
written certificate, signed by me as Clerk of 
said Court of Probate is true
		Samuel Randall


The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Bristol County  Ss. in Warren September the 16th A.D. 1836.
This day the above named Samuel Randall personally
appeared before me, the Subscriber, and being sworn according
to law made oath to the truth of the above written
affidavit, to which he subscribed his name, in my 
presence. And I hereby certify, that I am well acquainted
with said Samuel Randall, and that he is a credible
person and his statement is entitled to credit.

		Levi Haile  Justice of the 	
				Supreme Judicial Court.
X

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Landal Cole and Elizabeth Vose was married
August 24th 1777 by Solomon Townsend Pastor
		of the Church in Barrington.
	A true copy
	Witness,     Samuel Randall Town Clerk

State of Rhode Island  }         Town Clerks office
& Providence Plantations  }  Warren  Sept. 12th 1836.
I Samuel Randall of Said Warren, on
oath do testify that I am the town clerk of
said town of Warren, legally appointed and
duly qualified to act as such; that the laws of
this state require all marriages to be recorded
in the town Clerk's office of each town, and
that the aforegoing is a true copy of the record
of the Marriage of Landal Cole and Elizabeth
Vose, as appears by the records in this office.
		Samuel  Randall
			Town Clerk

The state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Bristol County Ss.  In warren, September the 12th A.D. 1836
This day the above named Samuel Randall personally appearing
before me, the subscriber, and being sworn according to law,
made oath to the truth of the above written affidavit, to which
he subscribed his name in my presence. And I hereby certify, 
that I am well acquainted with said Samuel Randall,
and that he is a credible person and his statement is entitled
to credit.
			Levi Haile   Justice of the 
				Supreme Judicial Court

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V210
Elizabeth Cole.  R.I.
widow of Landall
Married 1777
     Died 1832

Allow  9 mos Sert. 45.
  "      15 mos pri    50
     per ann           $95

com . 4 Mar. 1831.


Hon R.B. Cranston
        HR

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I Seth Cole of Warren in the County of Bristol in the
State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations, being in the
seventy seventh year of my age, and now being a Revolutionary
Pensioner of the Unites States, and being sworn according to
law do testify and say, that I am the Brother of Landal
Cole, late of said Warren, deceased, and that said Landal
Cole served in the war of the Revolution, as follows, viz.
some time in the month of October  A.D. 1775 said Landal
Cole enlisted into a Company of Militia commanded by
Capt Benjamin Bosworth and served as a private soldier
in said company three months & was discharged in
January 1776.  He served on the Island of Prudence and
on the shores about Bristol in said state.  After his discharge
he returned home and being enrolled in the Company
of Militia in Warren served in said company whenever
called out until June 1776, from January to June 1776
said Landal Cole served as a private soldier in said
company of Militia six weeks or more according to the 
best of my recollection.  Ezra Ormsbee was Captain of
this company & Nathaniel Martin was Col. of the Regiment.
The British troops having taken possession of Rhode Island,
on or about the 6th of December 1776 said Capt Ormsbee's
Company of Militia were again called out & served
in guarding the shores about Bristol through that
winter & until the Spring of 1777.  The members of said
company serving by turns and said Landal Cole served
as a private soldier three months at least in said
company during that time.  I served in the same company
with him.  About the first of June 1777 said Landal 
Cole enlisted into a Company of State Troops raised
for guarding and managing the boats employed in the Military
service in Narragansett Bay, and served as a Sergeant
in said company nine months and was discharged in
March 1178, Major Nathan Munro had command of
this company, David Davol was next in command
and David Gifford third.  I served as a private soldier in
said company during the same period.  Said Landal Cole
after he was discharged from this service, served as a
Sergeant in said Capt Ormsbee's Company of Militia in
the spring and summer of 1778 in guarding the shores in

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said County of Bristol three months and a half
at least according to the best of my recollection.
I belonged to the same Company at that time.
About the first of August 1778 said Landal Cole
was drafted and served as a Sergeant in said Company
of Militia one month in [unreadable] Sullivan's expedition
against the British Troops on Rhode Island.  Curtis Cole
was Capt. and Thomas Easterbrook, Lieutenant of said
Company and Nathan Miller Col. of the Regiment.  I served
as a private soldier in the same company.
From this time to the close of the Revolutionary War
said Landal Cole was enrolled in said Company
of Militia belonging to said Warren, and whenever said
Company was drafted or ordered out during this
period he served as a Seargent in said Company
in guarding the shores in said County of Bristol
as I have always understood, and I frequently
saw him in said service; but I served in other
companies during a part of this period, and am unable
to state from my own knowledge the precise periods of
his service.  Said Landal Cole died at said Warren
on the fifth day of February 1832, and his widow
Elizabeth Cole now resides in said Warren and has not
married since the death of her husband;  Said Landal 
Cole was married to said Elizabeth in the month
of August A.D. 1777.  Her maiden name was Elizabeth
Vose.
			Seth Cole
  The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
  Bristol SS. 	In Warren, August the 16th A.D. 1836.
This day the above named Seth Cole personally appearing [strike through]
before me, the Subscriber, and being sworn according to law,
made oath to the truth of the above written deposition
to which he subscribed his name in my presence.  And I 
hereby certify, that I am well acquainted with said Seth Cole,
that he is a credible person and his statement is entitled
to credit.
			Levi Haile  Justice of the 
				Supreme Judicial Court

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The State of Rhode Island and
Providence Plantations
County of Bristol

I Greenwood Reynolds Clerk of the Supreme Judicial
Court of said State, for the County aforesaid, being the
highest Court of Record in said State and holding its
sessions in each county in said State, do hereby
certify, that Levi Haile is one of the Justices of
said Supreme Judicial Court duly appointed by
the General Assembly and commissioned by the 
Governor of said State, and is fully authorized to 
act in his said capacity; and that his
signature written under the several certificates
hereto annexed is genuine.
		In testimony whereof I have hereunto
		set my hand and affixed the seal
		of said court at Bristol this
		seventeenth day of September one
			thousand eight hundred
			and thirty six. ~

		  Greenwood Reynolds   Clerk

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Rev'y Widow, &c.
File No.
12.764 Elizabeth Cole Wid. of Landal Cole Sgt. Rev. War [handwritten]
Act:
fuly i [illegible] 1836 [handwritten]
Index:-Vol.
A [handwritten],
Page
147 [handwritten]
(Arrangement of 1870.)

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State of Rhode Island and
	Providence Plantations

In General Assembly August AD 1777.

It is voted and Resolved, that Mr Daniel
Deval be chosen Captain and Mr David 
Gifford Lieutenant of Major Munro's
Company: and that they draw pay from the
tenth day of June last, they having been on 
duty form that time.
	True copy - witness
		Henry Bowen Secry.

At same session -
It is voted and Resolved that Major
Nathan Munro be and he is hereby empowered
to inlist Eighteen men, in addition to those
already inlisted into his Company, in the
Boat Services, to serve for the same term,
and be entitled to the same Bounty Pay
and Rations, as those who shall inlist into
the fifteen months brigade: That he inlist the
men aforesaid from any town within the State;
and that upon their inlisting and entering
the said Company, they shall be reckoned to
the Towns of which they are Inhabitants, in the 
same manner as though they had inlisted into
the Fifteen Months Brigade; and shall be so
reckoned towards discharging the Militia of such
town from present duty.
	True copy - witness	Henry Bowen  Secry

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BY HIS EXCELLENCY,
John Brown Francis [handwritten]
Governor, Captain- General, and Commander in Chief of the State of Rhode- Island and Providence Plantation.
BE IT KNOWN, that the name, "HENRY BOWEN," to the afore-written attestation subscribed, is the proper hand writing of Henry Bowen, Esquire, who at the time of subscribing the same was Secretary of the State aforesaid, duly elected and qualified according to law: Wherefore unto his said attestation full faith and credit are to be rendered.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of said State to be affixed at Providence, this 
sixth [handwritten]
day of
January [handwritten]
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-
eight [handwritten]
and of Independence the sixty-
second [handwritten]
John Brown Francis [handwritten]
By His Excellency's Command.
Henry Bowen Sec'ry [handwritten]

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Alfred Bosworth
Jany 12th   1838

in relation to
  Elizabeth Cole ,  pension

Return my letter

[the following lines appear upside down as an envelope address block]
Hon. R.B. Cranston
  Member of the House of Representatives
          Washington
                    D.C.

[date & location stamp plus postal mark]


Hon. R.B. Cranston
                    HR

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Warren Jan. 12  1837

	Dear Sir.
		I received yours of the 9th inst.
this day.  In regard to the proof that seems to be
required, I can only say that I have forwarded
to the commissioner of Pensions the proof, and all
the proof,  I can obtain of the recognition of the 
Service by the authorities our state.  This I have
done since I wrote to you on the subject.
I have searched the State records in the office
of the Secretary of State diligently, and find
there no record of the original organisation
of the company refered to.  I find it however
refered to and provided for by our General
Assembly in August 1777, and distinctly
recognized as a company in the service and
pay of the State.  At that period the General
Assembly appointed Daniel Daval Capt. and
David Gifford Lieut. of said company "to
draw pay from the 10th of June last they 
having been on duty from that time"
	At the same session a Major Munroe

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[Munroe - struck through] was authorised by the General
Assembly to enlist into the boat service
eighteen men, "who should be entitled to the
same pay bounty & rations, as those who
should enlist into the fifteen months brigade"
	This is all the evidence I can
find in reference to the service from the
public records of any of the Executive officers
of the State.  I think myself it is singular
that there is no record evidence of the first
organisation of this company; but so it is:
and the evidence that we have, is conclu-
sive in my mind that the boat service,
was service deemed important and main-
tained by the State.
	Have the goodness to take such other
steps in this matter as your judgement shall
suggest as advantageous to Mrs. Cole in
the prosecution of her claim and oblige
		Very Respectfully,
			Yours Xc.
Hon. R.B. Cranston	  Alfred Bosworth

	P.S.  Is there any objection to the proof of other
services for which Mrs. C. claims?  If there is none
I think we have now all the evidence in her case
that we can obtain

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Warren  Jan. 8  1838

Sir,
	I herewith forward a certificate
of the Secretary of State, showing the na-
ture of the Boat Service in Major
Nathan Munroe's company in Rhode
Island, in which company the late hus-
band of Mrs. Elizabeth Cole of this town
Served as period of time in the Revolu-
tionary war.  Mrs. Cole desires me to
ask information concerning the proceed-
ings upon the subject of her claim.  If
you will have the goodness to inform
me how much service is proved accor-
ding to the rules established; and wherein
the cause of the delay in her case consists,
you will much oblige her.  She feels
confident that her husband performed suf-
ficient service to entitle her to a pension,
And is very solitous to know the cause of
the delay in respect to her claim, in order
that she may, if she can, procure further
testimony, to supply the deficiency, if any there
is, in the proof already provided.
		Please give the subject attention
as early as practicable and direct to
		Very Respectfully,
			Yours Xc.
Hon. J.L. Edwards		Alfred Bosworth
  Commissioner of Pensions
        Washington

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I Ichabod Cole, of Warren in the County of Bristol in the
State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations, being in the eighty
eighth year of my age, and now being a Revolutionary
Pensioner of the United States, being sworn according to law
do testify, and say, that I was well acquainted with
Landal Cole, late of said Warren, deceased, from his
childhood up to the time of his decease, that at the
commencement of the war of the Revolution said Landal
Cole was enrolled as a private soldier in the Company
of Militia in said Town of Warren, and continued
enrolled in said company to the close of the Revolutionary
war, and served in said company as hereinafter stated,
always, serving in said company when called out
except when he was enlisted into other service.
Some time in the month of October 1775 said Landal
Cole enlisted into a company of Militia commanded
by Captain Benjamin Bosworth, and he served as a 
private soldier in said Company three months and was
discharged in January 1776.  He served on the Island of
Prudence in said State & on the shores about Bristol.  I
served as a corporal in said company of Militia belonging
to said Town of Warren at this period.  After he was
discharged from said service, he again joined said Company of
Militia in Warren & served in said company whenever called
out until June 1776.  Said Company were drafted or ordered
out to guard the shores about Narragansett Bay, /Wallace 
with his fleer having come into said Bay,/ the members
of said Company were ordered out by turns to perform said
service, and said Landal Cole served as a private soldier
in said Company six weeks at least from January
to June 1776, the precise period of each term of service I cannot
recollect.  On or about 6th of December 1776 said Company
of Militia in Warren were again ordered out, /the
British troops having taken possession of the Island of
Rhode Island,/ and served in guarding the shores about Bristol
in said State through that winter and until the Spring of
1777; after said company had been in said service about one
month, about one half of said Company were detached &
relieved from service for a time & then took the place of
the other part of said Company, & in this way served by

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turns during the time aforesaid, and he said Landal Cole
served as a private soldier in said company three months
or more, during said time.  Ezra Ormsbee was Captain
of said company.  Nathanial Martin was Colonel of the
Regiment.  Some time in the Spring or summer of 1777, said
Landal Cole enlisted into a company of State Troops
raised for guarding and managing the boats employed in 
the military service in Narragansett Bay, and served in this 
company until some time in the Spring of 1778.  The
precise time of his service I cannot recollect, I saw him
very frequently in the service.  Major Munro commanded
this company, and the company was under the general
command of General Spencer.  Said Landal Cole after
he was discharged from said company again joined said
Capt Ormsbee's Company of Militia in Warren, and was
called out from time to time in the Spring & summer of the 
year 1778 and he served as a Seargeant in said Company
not less than three months and a half in guarding
the shores in said County of Bristol, I served as a Sergeant
in said company during the same period & before.
After this service about the 1st of August 1778 said Landal
Cole was drafted and served as a Seargent in said
Company one month in the expedition of major General
Sullivan on Rhode Island against the British Troops.  I served as
Ensign of said Company, Curtis Cole was Capt & Thomas
Easterbrook was Lieutenant of said Company.  Said Company
belonged to Col. Nathan Miller's Regiment.  From this time
until late in the Fall of 1779 said Company of
Militia [was, struck through] were drafted or ordered out to guard the
shores in said County of Bristol, they were drafted by detachments
a part of said company serving for a length of time &
then being relieved by another part of said company, and
during this period said Landal Cole served as Seargent
in said company more than five months.  I served as
Ensign of said Company during the same period.  Curtis
Cole was Capt. & Thomas Easterbrook was Lieutenant
of said Company during this time.  From this time to the close
of the Revolutionary War said Company were from time
to time ordered out to perform guard service about the 
shores in said County for short periods of time.. I cannot

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recollect the precise periods of said service, and said Landal
Cole served as Seargent of said Company during this
time four months more at least.  I served as Ensign
of said Company until August 1781, & was then appointed
Lieutenant and served as such to the close of the war.
From the great length of time which has elapsed I cannot
state more precisely the several periods of service of said
Landal Cole but am confident that he served in said
Company of Militia belonging to said Warren not less
than eighteen months, & that he served three months
in said Capt Bosworth's company of Militia.  He served
in said Warren Company whenever called out during the
whole period of the Revolutionary War accept when in Major
Munro's Company and Capt. Bosworth's company.
Said Landal Cole died at said Warren on the fifth
day of February A.D. 1832, leaving a widow, Elizabeth
Cole, who now resides in said Warrant and has not
since his death been married.  Said Landal Cole was
married according to the best of my recollection, in
the month of August A.D. 1777 to said Elizabeth,
then Elizabeth Vose.
			Ichabod Cole

	The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Bristol County  SS. 	in Warren, August the 16th A.D. 1836.
Thise day the above named Ichabod Cole personally ^before me, the subscriber, ^ appearing, and
being sworn according to law, made oath to the truth of the
above written deposition, to which he subscribed his name in
my presence.  And I hereby certify, that I am well acquainted
with said Ichabod Cole and that he is a credible person,
and his statement is entitled to credit.
		Levi Haile  Justice of the Supreme	
				Judicial Court.

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Deposition to be used in the application of Elizabeth Cole
of Warren, R.I. for a pension, under the Act of Congress of July 4th 1836.

I Ichabod Cole, of Warren in the County of Bristol in the 
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, being in the
eighty ninth year of my age, and being sworn according to law,
do testify and say that I belonged to the Company of
Militia in said Town of Warren from the commencement to
the close of the war of the Revolution, and that I was a 
non-commissioned officer of said Company for the commence-
ment of said war to August 1778, and that I was a 
commissioned officer of said Company from that time to the
close of said war.  And I further testify, that from the 
pecular location of said Town of Warren being situate
near Narragansett Bay and between two Rivers running
into said Bay, said Town was greatly exposed to the Enemy
during the principal period of said war, and especially during
all the time the British fleet were in said Bay and the British
Troops had possession of the Island of Rhode Island; and that
many of the inhabitants of said Town being enlisted as soldiers
in the Regiments raised by this State and in the Continental 
Army, said Company of Militia were kept constantly armed
and equipped, and were required at a moment's warning to
march and guard the shores of said Bay and the entrances of
the Rivers in said County of Bristol against the Enemy, and
that the Members of said Company when performing said guard
service were generally commanded by one of the commissioned
officers of said Company, and some times a guard was detached
and commanded by one of the sergeants of said company.  From
the great lapse of time I cannot recollect, t the precise day or time
of entering and leaving said service, for each particular period
thereof, nor can I recollect which officer of said company
commanded at each period of said service: Ezra Ormsbee
was Captain of said Company from August 1775 to some time
in the summer of 1778, when Curtis Cole was appointed Captain
of said Company and continued to hold that office until the
close of the war.  Said Company of Militia belonged to the Regiment
of Militia in said County of Bristol, and Nathaniel Martin was
Colonel, Thomas Grey, Lieutenant Colonel and Benjamin Bosworth
major of said Regiment until May 1777, when Nathan Miller
was appointed Colonel, Peter Church Lieutenant Colonel and Peleg Heath
major of said Regiment, and they continued to hold their said

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officers until May 1779, when said Nathan Miller was appointed
Brigadier General of the Militia of said County of Bristol and County
of Newport, and said Peter Church was appointed Lieutenant Colonel
Commandant and said Peleg Heath Major of said Regiment and
they continued in said offices, from the best of my recollection
to the close of the war.  And I further testify, that in consequence 
of the great exposure of said Town of Warren to the Enemy, and
the small number of men capable of bearing arms, the
Members of said Company did not claim any exemptions
from duty on account of the laws of this State requiring
the Militia to serve by turns, but that they faithfully
turned out and performed the service of guarding said shores
whenever they were drafted or ordered out, and that they received
pay and rations the same as regular troops, when in said
service; and that I now receive a pension for my service in 
said Company under the Act of Congress of June the 7th 1832.
And I further testify that Landal Cole, late of said Warren,
deceased, Husband of Elizabeth Cole, of said Warren, who is an
applicant for a pension under the Act of Congress of July
4th 1836, was at the commencement of said Revolutionary war
duly enrolled in said Company of Militia in said Town of Warren
and that he continued a member of said Company of Militia
from the commencement to the close of said war, with the
exception of three months from some time in the month of
October 1775, during which period he served as a private
soldier in a Company of Militia commanded by Captain
Benjamin Bosworth on the Island of Prudence and on the shores
in Bristol and nine months from on or about the first of
June 1777 to March 1778, during which period he served
as a Sergeant in a Company of State Troops commanded by
Major Nathan Munro, and raised for guarding and managing
the boats used in the Military service in Narragansett Bay;
and that said Landal Cole was not, at any time during
said war, incapacitated by sickness or any other cause from
serving in said Company whenever drafted or ordered out, and that
he was devotedly attached to the cause of American liberty and
that he, said Landal Cole served in said Company of Militia
at all the times and during the whole periods for which he was
drafted or ordered out, and the after mature reflection I
am confident that he served in said Company of Militia in
the manner and during the several periods by me stated
in my deposition taken to be used in the application of
said Elizabeth Cole his widow for a pension; and that I

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am unable to state more definitely the several periods of his
said service, or the times of entering and leaving said service,
than I did state in my said deposition, but that I
have no doubt from my own personal knowledge of
said service, that said Landal Cole served as a private
soldier in said Company of Militia not less than four
and a half months, and that he served as a sergeant
in said Company not less than thirteen months, in said
guard service ^and General Sullivan's expedition^ and within the several periods by me stated
in my said deposition.
			Ichabod Cole


The State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations
County of Bristol
				Ss.
		In Warren, February the 16th A.D. 1837.
There the above named Ichabod Cole personally appearing
before me, the Subscriber, one of the Justices of the Supreme
Judicial Court of said State, and being sworn according to
law, made oath to the truth of the above written
deposition, to which he subscribed his name in my
presence.  And I hereby certify, that I am well acquainted 
with said Ichabod Cole, that he is a credible person and
his statement is entitled to credit.
			Levi Haile   Justice of the Supreme
					Judicial court

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I Joseph Munro, of Bristol in the County of Bristol
in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, a
Revolutionary Pensioner, being in the seventy seventh
year of my age and being sworn according to law,
do testify, and say, that I was well acquainted
with Landal Cole, late of Warren in the County
and State aforesaid, deceased, Husband of Elizabeth Cole
of said Warren, from my childhood; that some time
in the month of October 1775 said Landal Cole
enlisted as a Private soldier in a Company of
Militia in said County of Bristol, commanded by
Capt. Benjamin Bosworth, for three months, and
served as private soldier in said Company in
removing stock & hay from the Island of Prudence, and
in guarding the shores about Bristol; I was in the
service a part of the time, and saw said Cole frequently
in said service, and always understood that he
served in said Company during said three months.
And I further testify, that on or about the first
of June 1777 said Landal Cole enlisted into a 
Company of State Troops raised for guarding and
managing the boats employed in the Military service
in Narragansett Bay, and said Landal Cole served
as a Sergeant in said Company nine months and
was discharged in March 1778; I served as a 
private soldier in the same Company during the
whole of the same period.  Major Nathan Munro
commanded said Company, Daniel Davol was
second in command and David Gifford third, and Benjamin
Howland served as Ensign; the Members of this Company
drew the same pay and rations, as Members of the
Artillery Companies in this State then drew.  And I
further testify, that said Landal Cole was enrolled
in the Company of Militia in the Town of Warren,
with the exception of the above mentioned periods, from
the commencement to the close of the War of the Revolution,
and that I frequently saw him serving in said Company
in guarding the shores in said County of Bristol, but
that I cannot now state the precise period of his
service in said Company;  he served as a Sergeant
in said Company one month from about the 1st of
August 1778 in General Sullivan's expedition on
Rhode Island, I served in the same Regiment at

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the same time.  I was a near neighbor of said
Landal Cole, and never knew him to be incapacitated
by sickness or any other cause from serving in said
Company of Militia whenever he was drafted or ordered
out.  He was a brave soldier and never to my knowledge
neglected his duty.
			Joseph Munro


The State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations
County of Bristol
			Ss.
		In Bristol, February the 24th A.D. 1837.
Then the above named Joseph Munro personally
appearing before me, the Subscriber, one of the Justices of the 
Supreme Judicial Court of said State, and being sworn according
to law, made oath to the truth of the above and aforewritten
deposition to which he subscribed his name in my presence.
And I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with
said Joseph Munro, that he is a credible person
and his statement is entitled to credit.

			Levi Haile  Justice of the 
				Supreme Judicial Court

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The State of Rhode Island and
Providence Plantations
County of Bristol
			Ss.
	I Greenwood Reynolds Clerk of the Supreme
Judicial Court of said State, in the County
aforesaid, being the highest Court of record in
said State; do hereby certify, that Levi Haile,
at the times of taking the annexed depositions,
was and now is one of the Justices of said
Supreme Judicial Court appointed by the General
Assembly and commissioned by the Governor
of said State, and then was and now is fully
authorized to act in his said capacity, and
that the signature of said Levi Haile written
under the several certificates hereunto annexed
is genuine.		In testimony whereof I have
			hereunto set my hand and 
			affixed the seal of said Court
			at Bristol this thirtieth day
			of August 	A.D. one thousand
			eight hundred and thirty
			seven. ~

			Greenwood Reynolds   Clerk