Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 18,960, Nathan Cole, Mass. R.I.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Cole, Nathan
18,960
R.I.
Judith
B.L.H. 19536-160-55
CONTENTS

Left to Roll over March 17/51
Reported
568 New York, Albany Judith Cole widow of Nathan Cole Mass who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 20 Dollars //
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st day of June 1848. and sent to
Hon E. B. Holmes Hof R
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 39, Vol. 4
Reg 3 m 55-148438

148.438 lect Mar 3 3/55
May 25th
In with Col. 15.0 Nathan Cole 2 15.0  15.0  15.0  15.0  15.0  15.0
New Session at $20.11 per hour, lect 2 o Feb 1948
Private Col. Gerrish
Map Line Troops MS. Feb 48-568
ad. 160 ac's Mar 21/56
Dr. J. P.
H. Chubb Nunda Livingston Co. N York
Vol. Co-16.

State of New York Albany County } ss
In this 25 th day of October 1845 personally appeared before me the undersigned one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, Judith Cole, a resident of the town of Hamble in the County of Albany aforesaid, aged Seventy Eight years and upwards, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress, passed July the 7 th 1838, that she is the widow of Nathan Cole who was a soldier in the army of the Revolution, and that her husband the said Nathan Cole resided in the town of Swansey or Freetown in the State of Rhode Island. That he was in the Rhode Island Service, for six months, or a year in the year 1775 or 1776 as she learned from him, her said husband and others; his officers names or the particular service he performed she cannot now particularly state. And about the year 1778 he removed from thence to the town of Hancock in the State of Massachusetts, where he enlisted for six months, and was at Springfield she thinks under Captain Ezer Parker and was one of the guards stationed there to guard the military stores, and was brought home sick, and was not able to return to the service, from which he never recovered. That she believes that at one time in the State of Rhode Island while in service there her husband was under Captain Douglass.
And she further declares that she was married to the said Nathan Cole at the town of Stafford in the County of Tolland in the State of Connecticut on the Fifteenth day of January 1788 by a justice of the Peace of the name of Kinney and that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but was married to him prior to the first day of January 1794 namely at the time above stated. And that her husband the said Nathan Cole died at the

town of Galloway in the County of Saratoga in the State of New York, on the 29 th day of December 1826
And she further declares that she has no documentary evidence of her husband the said Na- than Leek's services in the army of the Revolution nor has she any family record of her marriage to the said Nathan Leek or of the ages of her eight children which she had by her husband the said Nathan Leek
And she further declares in positive terms that she is still the widow of the said Nathan Leek and has not since married and further this deponent saith not
Subscribed and sworn to before me the day and year first above written
Judith Leek
Reuben Weed a Judge of the Allegany County Courts
I hereby certify that Judith Leek the same person who here signed her name to the foregoing declaration before me is unable by reason of age and bodily infirmity to appear in open court. Dated October 25 1845
State of New York ————— Reuben Weed a Judge of Allegany County Clerk's Office. The Allegany County Courts I William Windsor Clerk of said county do hereby Certify that Reuben Weed Esq. before whom the above Deposition was taken was at the date of the same one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county duly commissioned & qualified that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed thereto is genu- ine my hand the seal of said county this 25 th day of Oct. A.D. 1846 William Windsor Clerk

148.1138
Application of Judith Cole of Dansville N. Y. for Bounty Land under act of Mch. 3. 1855
H. Chalker Atty. Nunda N. Y.

State of New York Livingston County ss.
On this 10th day of May A.D. 1855 personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace within & for the County of State aforesaid Judith Cole aged 87 years, a resident of Dansville in the afore- said County of State of New York, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the Widow of Nathan Cole deceased who was a private in the Revolu- tionary War - that she now holds & regularly draws a pension upon a certificate now in her possession of which the following is a copy, to wit, —
“ War Department
Widow's Pension
I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2 nd 1848 Judith Cole Widow of Nathan Cole who was a private in the Revolutionary War, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Twenty Dollars and Eleven cents per annum commencing on the 4 th of March 1848 and continuing for life unless she should again marry, in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage —
Seal War Office
Given at the War Office of the United States this 29 th day of June one thousand eight hundred and forty eight —
W. L. Marcy Secretary of War
Examined and countersigned J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions

(Endorsed)
Payment to be made at Albany by Thos. W. O'Callaghan Esq. Agent for paying Pensions in the Agency of New York —
Payable on the 4 th September and 4 th March — Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under Act of February 2 nd 1848 page 39 Vol. 4 —
Leo. Strumf Heubner
For proof of the service & other necessary facts respecting the said Nathan Cole, this applicant refers to the evidence on which the aforesaid Pension certificate was granted & which is on file at the proper department in Washington — She also refers to the same source for proof of her marriage & of the death of the said Nathan Cole, & she further declares that she has never married again since the death of the said Nathan & that she is now his Widow —
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the Act approved March 3. 1855 — & she hereby appoints H. Chapman of Nunda in said County her attorney to prosecute her said claim & receive a Warrant for said land —
A.
Judith Cole

We Joseph Cole of Nunda & Elijah Hill of Dansville both residents in the aforesaid county of Livingston & State of New York upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed & acknowledged by Judith Cole in our presence, that we have been acquainted with her ever since the death of Nathan Cole her husband, that she has never married again since his death & that she is now the widow of the said Nathan Cole, & that we believe from the appearance & statements of the applicant & we also know that she is the identical person she represents herself to be —
Joseph Cole Elijah Hill
B.
The foregoing declaration of applicant was sworn to & subscribed before me on the day & year above written, & I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons, that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, & that I have no interest in this claim
Willie Rose Spence of the State

State of New York, LIVINGSTON COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE. } ss.
I, John S. Cullen
Clerk of said County and of the County Court thereof, Do Hereby Certify that
Orville Searcy
Esquire, was at the date of the
foregoing or annexed Affidavit and Declaration, a Justice of the peace in and for said County, duly qualified and authorized to take the same; that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe that the signature of said Justice subscribed thereto, is genuine.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court and County, this 14 day of Decem A. D. 185 9
John S. Cullen
Clerk.

I hereby certify that I am acquainted with the writer named William Cole & do believe him a man of truth & veracity
B. Platt Smith
16 March 14
COLE, NATHAN (MASS., R.I.)
W-18960

Dear Brother to whom belongs these presents May know these may certify that J. William Cole of Portland in the County of Cumberland did on the day of of Edward Cole in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and as a free man and he turned home from the war of that year and in that year he found his health and he remains so to this day
William Cole
Given to this 27 th day of January 1824
Clatt B Smith Justice of the Peace

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. _____
18962
Judith Cole
Widow of
Nathan Cole
Rev Rev War
Act: _____
Feb. 2 nd
148
Index:—Vol. _____
8
Page _____
181
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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12.735.9205- 135-8.
Judith Cole. N.Y. Albany
Act 7 July '38.
Married before 1794
husband died 1826
Capt. Parker Col. Garrison Adm. 11 mo 1 day 7 mi $20 11 / 12 pr ann d. 29 Dec '26
Adm acts March 1843 and 17 June 1844 $20 11 / 12 pr ann
A. J. Lyon, Rushford, N.Y.

Free
July 31 '47
Hon. S. L. Edwards Pension Commission
On July 27 Washington City
Mr. Carey Judith Cole

New Cayuga Co NY 27 th July 1847
Dr Sir
I have recd your favor in reply to a communication addressed to you requesting certain information in regard to proof relative to the right the Widow Susannah Barry has to a pension for the services performed by her deceased husband John Barry. In your letter to me you mention the reason or object I have in view in soliciting information from your department. I will frankly inform you that John Barry was an enlisted Soldier & served in the Revolution there can scarcely be a doubt from what has been gathered from his acquaintances who knew him previous to his decease but I cannot obtain any information from any one not even his Widow whom he enlisted or when he served. I have no doubt but that he enlisted in one of the New England States but cannot tell which. I suppose you have the means in your power of informing me where he enlisted which information (if not incompatible with your duty) will you please give me it will give me a clue & I trust will enable me to furnish the necessary proof. The object of requesting the above information is to obtain a pension for a poor distressed old Woman.

Will you be so kind as to inform me how much is the yearly amount of the pension allowed to South Col-
ony
Respectfully
Your Obedt Servt
E. B. Everts
Hon. L. Edwards

V 12. 735.
Judith Cole N.Y.
Set. to A. J. Lyon, July 9, 46 to same Nov. 3, 46
Act 7 July '38.

Albany.
New York. 8097.
Judith Cole widow of Nathan Cole who was a Private in the Mass. Line
Husb. d died Dec 29. 1826
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 20 Dollars 11 / 12 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 d . day of Feby. 1847. and sent to
A. J. Lyon, Esq. Rushford, N.Y.
[Act of March 3, 1843.] and June 17. 44
Recorded in Book d . Vol. 2. Page 88.
7 to Ed. Sweets Aug 11. '47
2 certifs 1838 1843 1844.
Rep.

Judith Cook
as a sister
Mr. Cole
Home of Princess Washington City D.C.
4
FREE

North Danville New Co New York Feby 19 th 1837
Drp
A Pension Cert was issued to Judith Cole on the 29 th day of June 1848, for $20.11 per annum during her natural life under the act of the 2 nd Feby 1848, and I say she had there is a mistake of just that sum in her favor annually, as I am informed that she proved on her ap- plication six months service of her husband. Will you please turn to her papers and see how that is & inform me I am informed also that the muster rolls show six months service of her husband
Respectfully
Robt. L. Dorr

Rushford Jan 26:1847
Dear Sir
The enclosed papers has Been forwarded to me by Mr Sink to forward to you in support of the claim of Judith Cole widow of Nathan Cole under the act of July 7 th 1838 now on file in your office I think we are up to your rules in this claim which is respectfully submitted
I am very respectfully Yours Obedient Servant A Lyon
Hon J L Edwards Com of Pensions

Oct 21. 1846
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Wm. J. G. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
W.P. Kelly
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Kershford Oct 14 th 1846
Dear sir
I have with transmit Further evidence in support of the claim of Judith Cole widow of Nathan Cole for a pension under the act of July 7 th 1838 now on file in your Office
I have also enclosed a certificate made by W m Cole his Brother in 1826 who is now dead which was sent me by the old in order to give you all the information in my possession in relation to the claim The certificate is not authenticated but can be if it becomes necessary by having it returned
I have made several unsuccessful attempts to obtain his service in Rhode Island but have failed. should I succeed I will forward to you immediately on the receipt of it. I honestly believe this to be a just claim
I am very Respectfully Your Ob t Serv t A Lyon
Hon J L Edwards Com r of Pensions

12735.
May 4 1896
Judith Cole,
Aug 7. 1838.
Hon. J. J. Edward Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D.C.
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Rushford April 27 th 1866
Dear Sir
Enclosed I send the claim Of Mrs Judith Cole widow of Nathan Cole for a pension under the act of July 9 th 1838 and March 3 rd 1843.
This claim was sent me by my friend Mr Duke of Hurstda he has examined the claim and is acquainted with the old lady and says the claim is an honest one he has no doubt
Your decision in the case will be thankfully received
I am very respectfully Your Obedient Servant A H Lyon
Hon. J. Edwards Com. of pensions

Rep 7
10.204.
New York.
Judith Cole
Widow of Nathan Cole who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 29 Dec. 1826 of Alleghy in the State of N. York who was a Priv. in the Company commanded by Captain Parker of the Reg. commanded by Col. Gerish in the Mass. line for 6 mos. 1 dy.
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 20 Dollars 11 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 rd day of July. 1847 and sent to A. J. Syon, Rutherford, N. J.
Total amount, $100.55
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by D. A. Wood Clerk, Book 8. Vol. 1. Page 155.

State of New York }
Saratoga County } vs Betsey Hewit being sworn says that she was 62 years old on the 19 th day of February last. That she has one brother and one sister now living whose ages respectively are as follows viz. Edmund 58 years of age and Polly 48 years of age. That she has always lived in the town of Galway since she was 2 years old and became acquainted with Nathan Cole and Dndith Cole his wife and their family about fifty years ago viz in 1797. That before that time and before 1797 I had heard of said Nathan and Dndith by report living together as husband and wife. That in 1797 they came to reside about 60 rods from my father's house and resided there about 12 years and then moved about three miles off and resided there until the death of said Nathan about twenty years since. That after the death of said Nathan I was acquainted with said Dndith and her children who resided in said County until her departure therefrom about the year 1834 and have continued occasionally from that time to this to hear from said Dndith residing in the County of Livingston That by comparing the ages of said Nathan and Dndith's children with the ages of my brother and sister and my own, and from hearing their ages very frequently stated by themselves and their parents I can confidently state their ages to be as follows viz Luther about 55 Abner about 54 Nathan 52 Joseph 50 Betsey 48 Dndith 45 Roxena 43 and William 38 That I know by my own age the year they moved into the neighborhood and can state the ages of their three oldest children at that time to have been respectively about 6, 4, and 2 years of age That judging from the length of time I have known them and from their

size and other appearances when I first became acquainted with them I am very confident the said Luther Labaree and Nathan I must have been born before the year 1794. That I was the playmate and associate of the older of said children and knew them all intimately and that from my first hearing of said Nathan and Indith and during all the time of my acquaintance with them and up to the death of said Nathan they always lived together as husband and wife and were persons of undoubted respectability. That from the facts above stated and others learned during the last fifty years and more I have no doubt the said Nathan and Indith lived together as husband and wife before the first day of January 1794.
Subscribed and sworn to Before me this 11 th day of January 1847
Betsy Hewitt
E.O. Smith a Justice of the Peace
I certify that I am well acquainted with Miss Betsy Hewitt the same person who made the above affidavit and that she is a person of truth & veracity & well entitled to confidence & belief.
Dated Galway Saratoga County N.Y. Jan 7 11 th 1847
* The word Hewitt was interlined before my signature was hereunto affixed E.O. Smith a Justice of the Peace

State of New York Saratoga County p
Asa Cornell of Galway in said County being duly sworn says that he has read the annexed affi- davit of Miss Betsy Hewitt that he lived about three quarters of a mile from Nathan Cole and Judith his wife and children was intimately acquainted with them and says the facts stated in the annexed affidavit of said Betsy Hewitt are true to the best of his knowledge and belief and am confident that said Nathan & Judith Cole were married previous to the year 1794
Subscribed & sworn to before
Asa Cornell
me this 12 th day of January 1847
E. C. Smith a Justice of the Peace
I hereby further certify that I am well acquainted with Deacon Asa Cornell the same person who made the above affidavit & that he is a person of truth & veracity and well entitled to confidence & belief Dated Galway Jan'y 13 th 1847
E. C. Smith Justice of the Peace

State of New York Saratoga County ss Edmund Hewit of Galway in said County being duly sworn says he is the Brother of the depo- nent in the annexed affidavit Miss Betsey Hewit that he has read the affidavit by her subscribed and knows the contents thereof and that each and every of the facts therein stated are true to the best of the knowledge of the deponent that in addition to the facts therein contained this deponent further saith that he was play and school mates with the eldest children of Nathan and Judith Cole and intimate- ly acquainted with the family and from all the circum- stances is confident that said Nathan and Judith Cole were married previous to the first of January 1796 Subscribed & sworn to before Me this 11 th day of January 1847 } Edmund Hewit E.O. Smith a Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Edmund Hewit the same person who made the above affidavit and that he is a person of truth & veracity and well entitled to confidence & belief - Said Galway Saratoga County N.Y. January 11 th 1847 E.O. Smith a Justice of the Peace

STATE OF NEW-YORK, SARATOGA COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, } ss.
I, JAMES W. HORTON, Clerk of said County, do hereby Certify, that Ezekiel O. Smith before whom the annexed Affidavits and whose name is thereunto were taken subscribed, was at the day of the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and duly authorized by law to take the same; and that I am well acquainted with the hand- writing of the said Ezekiel O. Smith and verily believe that his signature to the said Affidavits is genuine.
an In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County, this 12 th day of January 1847
James W. Horton , CLERK.

State of New York, Livingston County } p. Orpha Dake of Portage in said county being duly sworn deposes and says that she was fifty six years of age on the 30 th day of October 1846 as she has always understood and believed, and as appears from the record kept in the Bible of this deponent's father, & by that in her own. That this deponent with her parents moved from Stockbridge in the State of Massachusetts halfway in the State of New York in the County of Seneca, in the year 1805, where she became well acquainted with Nathan Dake & Judith Dake his wife & their family, in the Spring of the year 1812, as this deponent recollects because of the declaration of war soon after. That in that Spring said Dake removed his family from a distant part of said town on to a piece of land sold to said Dake by this deponent's father, & in the same neighborhood. That they continued to reside there as husband & wife with their family of eight children for several years until this deponent left said County. That this deponent well recollects that Luther Dake the oldest child of Nathan & Judith Dake, was four months older than this deponent, & that Sabra the second child was near two years younger, from hearing the same stated by said Judith, & by said Luther & Sabra themselves. That in the summer or fall of 1812 said Luther Dake volunteered & entered the service and was gone till about March 1813, when he came back sick, & was doctored by my father at his own house, as this deponent recollects because of the death of one of this deponent's brothers, which occurred in March 1813. That this deponent from her earliest acquaintance with said Nathan and Judith, up to the time of the death of said Nathan which occurred about nineteen years since, has always known them
James M. Watson, CLERK.

living together as husband and wife, and has known the said Judith ever since, and has more or less acquaintance with all the children up to this time. That in the fall of 1812 this deponent was twenty one years of age, and from the facts above mentioned, and from hearing the said Judith talk of her son Luther while he was gone in the service that winter, and speak of his age, this deponent is perfectly confident that he is about four months older than this deponent, and that from the commencement of her acquaintance with the family, they have all sustained a good character, and been persons of high respectability. That she was the mother of all the children of said Luther and Judith who were near the age of this deponent, but more particularly of the said Luther and Sabra they being nearer the age of this deponent, and further saith not.
Alpha Dake
Subscribed & sworn before me
this 18 day of December A.D. 1846
Wm Dake Justice of the
Peace in and for Livingston County
I certify that I am well acquainted with Alpha Dake, who made & subscribed the above affidavit, and that she is a person of truth & veracity well entitled to confidence & belief. Dated December 18, 1846
Wm Dake Justice of the Peace in and for Livingston County
State of New York
Livingston County, ss. I William H Whiting clerk of said County do hereby certify that William Dake Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken and subscribed was on the day the same bears date a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly Elected and sworn and authorized to take the same, and further that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and merely believe his signature to the above affidavit to be genuine
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County this 21. Jany 1847. Wm H Whiting Clerk

for which under the Act of 1841, the said ...
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DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of 2d February, 1848, entitled "An Act making further provision for surviving widows of the soldiers of the Revolution."
STATE OF New York Sivington
COUNTY. } ss.
On this Sixth day of June 184 8
personally appeared before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said county, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, Mrs. Judith Cole a resident of Nunda in the county of Sivington
State of New York , aged 80 years, who being first 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 the 2d February, 1848, granting pensions to the widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war; that she is the widow of Nathan Cole who was a Private in the Massachusetts Line , under Capt. Parker , and also served for six months, in the Rhode Island Troops , in the war of the Revolution, and that she has drawn a pension at the rate of Twenty ($20.) dollars and eleven cents, per annum, under the Act of 17th June, 1844. She further declares that she is still a widow.
Judith Cole
SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBED on the day and year above written, before
William D. Hammond Justice of the Peace.
I certify that the declarant is personally known to me, and that she is the same individual she represents herself to be in the foregoing affidavit.
William D. Hammond Justice of the Peace.
STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF ...

also served for six months, in the Rhode Island Troops, in the war of the Revolution, and that she has drawn a pension at the rate of Twenty ($20.) dollars and eleven cents, per annum, under the Act of 17th June, 1844. She further declares that she is still a widow.
Judith Cole
SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBED on the day and year above written, before
William D Hammond Justice of the Peace.
I certify that the declarant is personally known to me, and that she is the same individual she represents herself to be.
STATE OF NEW-YORK, } ss. LIVINGSTON COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, }
I Certify, that William D Hammond. affidavit Esquire, was, at the date of the certificate of proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument in writing, a Justice of the Peace.
in and for said county, duly authorized to take the same; that I am well acquainted with his hand-writing, and verily believe that the signature to said affidavit is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said County, this 20 day of June. A. D. 1848.
Wm H Whiting Clerk.

Revolutionary pension of ally from Judith Cole N. York pension
Filed 16 June 1853
J. O'Hassle 100 weight
Andrew June 16/53

1853 65 17,88
1853 26 18,27
POWER OF ATTORNEY
For ascertaining whether any increase or arrears of Pension are due the Widow or heirs of Revolutionary Pensioners, &c.*
State of New York } County of Livingston }
Be it known that before me Antonia T. Lane personally appeared Judith Cole aged 85 years, who being duly cautioned and then sworn in due form of law, states that she is the Widow of Nathan Cole who was a Revolutionary Soldier, or Pensioner of the State of Massachusetts and that he died on the 29 day of December 1827 and that her mother named Elizabeth died on the 15 day of January 18 and that they were married on the 15 day of January in the year 1788 and that they were residents of Connecticut in the State of Connecticut and that they resided there years , and that she resides in Nuttall Longstock N.Y. and that furthermore BY THESE PRESENTS , constitutes, appoints and fully empowers and authorizes irrevocably and with powers of substitution— H. E. Hasele of Washington City, D. C., as my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name and stead, to examine into, to prosecute, to demand, and to receive from the U. S. Government Officers my rights in all and in any manner of claim for increase or arrears of Pension or Land, that may be due as of who died leaving the same undrawn, as in right of law, custom, or equity is or may be entitled. Fully overplus, for maintaining annually, & making good all other power of attorney by this power to appoint a successor annual due from the aged all powers of attorney hereafter made by me or after this one made to David Phillips Esq. IN WITNESS WHEREOF she has on this 8 day of May 1853 hereunto signed her name and affixed her seal.
Witness: Orville Morse } Witness: Henry C. Labe }
Judith Cole (L. S.)
Signed, sealed, acknowledged and sworn to before me, on this 8 day of May 1853
Orville Morse J. P. (L. S.)
BE IT KNOWN that before me personally appeared two credible and disinterested witnesses named Judith Hill and Rachel Westcott residents of the aforesaid County and State, who having been by me cautioned and then duly sworn according to law, do depose and say each for himself, that he has always heard it said and it is generally believed by the community that Nathan Cole was a Revolutionary Soldier, and that Judith Cole was by him always treated as and is by the witnesses believed to be the Wife of the said Revolutionary Soldier.
Judith Hill (L. S.)
Rachel Westcott (L. S.)
Sworn to before me the day and year first above written.
Orville Morse J. P. (L. S.)
_____ of _____ } to wit: County of _____ }
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That _____ Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavits and acknowledgment were made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature above written is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of _____ County Court, this _____ day of _____ one thousand eight hundred and _____
29 June 1848 July 2 1848 P 34 2 4
_____ Clerk.
* If a Widow applies state "the date of marriage, and date of death of her husband."

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston;
Sep. 12. 1845.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Nathan Cole is found upon a Pay Roll of Capt Enos Park's Company Col Jacob Gerrish; reg. detached from the County of Berkshire to guard the several Stores in Springfield for the term of 6 months from July 1. 1778, as a private from July 3 1778. to Jan-uary 1. 1779. 6 months & 1 day including allow-ance of 60 miles travel.
Not upon Rolls of Capt William Douglass And the above is all the evidence of service which can be identified as that of the individual named in the annexed application.
Large decorative flourish or signature mark.
hunc librum

And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the Commissioner's letter of the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said letter, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Parris, Secretary of the Commonwealth.

State of New York } To the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Albany County } Massachusetts. Town of Nunda }
You are hereby required to furnish evidence from the Rolls in your office of the services of my husband, Mr. Nathaniel Cole, in the war of the Revolution.
Mr. Nathaniel Cole resided in Swansey or Freetown in the State of Rhode Island in the year 1775 and went into the service of that State and served six months. I believe he also served another six months in Rhode Island, but of that I am not sure. I do not remember the name of any of the Officers under whom he served, though I have frequently heard him name them. And when he left the service in Rhode Island or not long thereafter he went to the Town of Hancock in the State of Massachusetts where in the year 1778 he enlisted for six months and was at Springfield in said State as one of the guard stationed there to take care of the stores & munitions of war. I believe he did not serve out the whole of the last mentioned six months, but was brought home sick before the end of the six months & never was able to return to the service. I also believe he was regularly discharged from the service at the end of his service. His sickness was occasioned by a cold from which he never recovered. Captain William Douglass was a captain in the service from the town of Hancock in the same year, and I am uncertain whether Nathaniel Cole served in his company or not.
I am now seventy seven years old and upwards and my memory does not enable me to state my husband's services more fully or particularly than I have above.
Witness my hand at Nunda aforesaid this 9 th day of June 1845 in presence of Simus Jones Peck
Judith Cole

W. Stafford Esq - April 11
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A. J. Lyon Esq
Rushford Allegany County N.Y.

Stafford April 9 th 1846
A. J. Lyons Esq.
Sir
Yours of the 20 th Ult. is rec d . in which you wish for a certificate of the marriage of Nathan Cole to Judith Colburn. I have examined the Records in my office, likewise the Church Records & find no such record. The Records of Esq. Pinney are not to be found, and it is not customary in this place to make a record of the publication, of course that cannot be found. I have been written to in relation to this subject before by you or some other person & have replied to it, but as you make no allusion to it, perhaps it may not have been yourself, & as the letter has not been preserved I could not say who it was. I have been to some trouble in making the examinations & replying to two letters. If you think it not unreasonable to remit me one  Dollar for my trouble, it will be thankfully rec d .
Respectfully Yrs, Abijah V Blodget
I herewith send you the certificate you ask for.
State of Connecticut
Tolland County } Town Clerk's Office Stafford April 9. 1846
I hereby certify that I have examined the Records in this Office for the marriage of Nathan Cole to Judith Colburn, and find no such marriage on Records.
Abijah Blodget Town Clerk

State of New-York, Hats County ss } Lydia Beal of Jerusalem, in the county and state aforesaid, being first duly sworn doth depose and say, "I am in the seventy-eighth year of my age. I am now drawing a Pension myself as the widow of the late John Beal, who was also a Pensioner, Fifty- eight years old I left Hancock I think it was, Berkshire county, state of Massachusetts, for Galway, Saratoga county, New-York. At that time and previous, even from my childhood, I knew Nathan Cole of Hancock, he was my Uncle. I also well knew Judith Colburn who also lived at the same place. We were young girls together. The said Nathan Cole and Judith Colburn were keeping company when I left Hancock, Within a year or so after I heard they were mar- ried. In the winter of 1793 I went back to Hancock on a visit. Then Nathan Cole and Judith Colburn were living together as man and wife and had two children. Some time after this, about four years, the said Nathan Cole and Judith his wife moved to Galway and lived neighbors to me a number of years, and had a family of eight children in the whole. Nathan Cole is dead. Died I should think about 19 years ago at Galway aforesaid. I have seen the widow since his death. The said widow, Judith Cole, now resides with her son Joseph in Vandalia, Allegany county, New-

York, or did when I visited her about two years ago. And further deponent says not.
her Sydia H Beal mark.
Witness to the mark. Edward J. Fowle Subscribed & sworn This 6 th day of March 1846 before me Robert Beal justice of the peace
12.735. I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Sydia Beal the person who made the above affidavit and that she is a person of truth and veracity and fully entitled to belief March 6 th 1846.
Robert Beal justice of the peace
State of New York } Dutch County S.S. }
I David H Beal clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Dutch do certify that Robert Beal is a Magis- trate as above and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this sixth day of March in the year of our Lord one thou- sand eight hundred and forty six
David H Beal clerk of the Court of Dutch County

In the matter of the application of Judith Cole, widow of Nathan Cole, to obtain a Pension. [Supplemental Affidavit of Lydia Beal.]
State of New York } Yates County, ss. } Lydia Beal of Jerusalem, county & state afore- said, being duly sworn says, that sometime in the month of March last according to her best recollection, she made an affidavit before Robert Beal Esq. as to her knowledge of the marriage of Judith Cole born with Nathan Cole. In addition to which, she would now state, that in addition to the fact, that the said Nathan Cole deceased was an Uncle of deponent, and the said Judith Coleborn an intimate friend that deponent's second child Sally Beal, was born the 30 th day of July one thousand seven hundred and ninety two, as will appear by the record in the Bible now in the possession

of the Pension Department having been sent on an application of deponent for her pension as the widow of John B. Seal, deceased. When the said child Sally was an infant, deponent carrying her in her arms, the winter following her birth, deponent went from Salway to Hancock in company with reets and then and there found the said Nathan Cole and Judith Cole formerly Judith Colburn living together as man and wife and having at that time two children. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 8 th day of October 1846
for Sydia X Seal mark
And I further testify that the deponent state under Oath that she cannot write her name owing to the want of Education and also that she is a woman of truth and veracity in whose statements full confidence can be reposed
Thos H Locke Justice of the Peace in and for Yates County

State of New-York,
COUNTY OF YATES, ss:—I hereby certify that Thomas H. Sche
Esquire, whose signature is subscribed to the certificate of Character of Lydia Buel and of the execution of the annexed Affidavit — and endorsed thereon, was at the date of said certificate a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, dwelling in said county, commissioned and sworn and duly authorised by the laws of said State to act as such. That I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his said signature to be genuine.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto affix the Seal of said County and of the County Courts thereof (my official seal) the 6 th day of October A. D. 18 46
David H Buel CLERK.

State of New York Cayuga County
Be it known that before me the Subscriber a justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Ely Manning of the town of Brasher and County aforesaid deposits and says that according to the records in his Father's Bible he was sixty five years of age last December and that he was well acquainted with Judith Colburn and that he was born in the house where she lived and lived there until he was Seven years old, then his father moved to Stephenstown State of New York and 2 or 3 years after Mr Ward his Aunt Judith Colburn's Sister moved to Hancock about nine miles from Stephenstown, where he says he visited often and often staid three or four weeks at a time and that Judith Colburn came there and lived a year or more and there formed an acquaintance with Nathan Cole and was to have been married to him in the fall of the year, but she was taken sick and remained so a year or more, and her Father came from Stafford Connecticut and carried her home with him and report was they was married there, and his Grandfather moved back to his uncle Ward's in Hancock by sleighing and said they was married and that they lived together and that he visited them often and knew of their living together until Nathan Cole's death, and of their having eight children and was well acquainted with them, and that his recollection is clear and distinct respecting the said Judith Colburn and her returning with the said Nathan as he lived in the house at that time and believes that he was then eleven or twelve years of age
Sworn and Subscribed this third day of Oct 1846
Sylvester Sheldon justice of peace
his Ely Manning mark

I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Ely Harrington the person who made the within affidavit and that he is a person of truth and veracity and fully entitled to belief
Sylvester Sheldon
STATE OF NEW YORK, Cayuga County Clerk's Office, } ss.
I, PHILIP VAN ARSDALE, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that Sylvester Sheldon Esq., whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof acknowledgment of the annexed instrument, and thereon written, was, at the time of taking such proof acknowledgment a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and authorized to take the same: And that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such Justice and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate is genuine. Also, that said instrument in writing is executed according to the laws of this State.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, this 3 d day of October A. D. 184 6
E B Root Clerk.

POWER OF ATTORNEY
For ascertaining whether any increase or arrears of Pension are due the Widow or heirs of Revolutionary Pensioners, &c.*
State of New York
County of Livingston
Orville Tousey
Judith Cole
then sworn in due form of law, states that She is the widow of Nathan Cole
who was a Revolutionary Soldier, or Pensioner of the State of Massachusetts & Rhode Island
and that he died on the 29th day of December 18 29 and that mother, named
She  Remains his widow died on the day of January in the year 1789 and that they were residents of town
of Hancock Mass in the State of Massachusetts and that they resided there 7 years , then in Stoona-
one years , and that She resides in Dansville  She further states that her husband
become disabled through life By a fever & ague and a consumption cough
which terminated in his death therefore she claims that she is entitled to
an increase of widow's pension and pension for said husband's
invalidity
And that furthermore BY THESE PRESENTS, constitutes, appoints and fully empowers, and authorizes irrevocably and with powers of substitution J. E. Hassler of Washington City D. C. of Livonia, Livingston County, N. Y. , as her true and lawful Attorney for her and in her name and stead, to examine into, to prosecute, to demand, and to receive from the United States Government Officers her rights in all and in any manner of claim for increase or arrears of Pension or Land, that may be due her as the widow of Nathan Cole who died leaving the same undrawn, as in right of law, custom, or equity She is or may be entitled, and for good and sufficient reasons do hereby revoke and countermand any and all other Powers of Attorney or other authority that may have been heretofore given by me.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF She has on this 13 th day of October 185 2 hereunto signed her name and affixed her seal.
Witness: O Tousey Judith Cole (L. S.)
Witness: Roseannah Westcott
Signed, sealed, acknowledged and sworn to before me, on this 13 th day of October 185 2
Orville Tousey J. P. (L. S.)
At the same time personally appeared before me Orville Tousey a
Justice of the Peace two credible and disinterested witnesses named Elijah Hill
and Judith Hill residents of the aforesaid County
and State, who having been by me cautioned and then duly sworn according to law, do depose and say each for himself and
her that They has always heard it said and it is generally believed by the community that Nathan Cole
was a Revolutionary Soldier and that Judith Cole
was by him always treated as and is by the witnesses believed to be the have
been the wife (now widow) of the said Revolutionary Soldier.
Sworn to before me the day and year Elizah Hill (L. S.)
first above written. Judith H. C. (L. S.)
Orville Tousey J. P. (L. S.)
*If a Widow applies state "the date of marriage and date of death of her husband."

State of New York County of Livingston }
Be it known that before me
Orville Tousey a Justice of the peace in and for the aforesaid County and State, duly authorized to administer oaths, personally appeared
Judith Cole aged 85 years and made oath in due form of law, that she is the identical person named in an original Pension Certificate a copy of which is hereunto annexed, No. 568 and bearing date the twenty ninth day of June 1848, and signed by
H. L. Marey Secretary of war and that she now resides in Dansville  at  Nunda and has resided there for the space of 18 years past—and that she makes
this declaration for the purpose of obtaining any arrears of pension that may be due her, under the laws of the United States; and that by these presents she does constitute and appoint F. E. HASSLER, of the City of Washington, her true and lawful attorney, irrevocably, with power of substitution for her and in her name, place and stead, to ask and receive of and from the United States, any bounty land, extra pay, pensions, money or moneys that now is or are due her on account of services rendered by her deceased husband; advances made, property destroyed or taken by the Government, or any claim arising from intercourse between the United States and any foreign nation, and the Indians, disbursements made, or expenses incurred by him while in the service of the United States, or on any other account whatsoever, and in her name to give receipts and other sufficient discharges for such bounty land, pensions, patents, claims, and money due as aforesaid, and to attend to and prosecute any and all business of whatsoever nature she may have with or before any of the Departments of the Government or Congress, or any legally established commission of the United States, and, generally, to do any and every other act or acts that she might or could do, were she personally present at the doing thereof, she hereby ratifying and confirming whatsoever her said attorney shall do in and about the premises, by virtue hereof.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF we have hereunto
Signed, sealed and delivered } Two witnesses. in the presence of
set my hand and seal this 13
1852 day of October
Orville Tousey Rebecca Westcott
Judith Cole
State of New York County of Livingston } ss.
On this 13 th day of October 1852, personally appeared Judith Cole before me, and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be her act and deed, for the purposes therein contained.
Orville Tousey
J. P.

Paper
Revolutionary
Suspended Claim
Nathan Cole
Meals & R. Island
Pensioner Claim
act 1848
New York -
No. 568 -
Mr. Cook
Mr. Haffer
Feb 1853

AND I HEREBY CERTIFY, that at the same time, personally appeared before me Roosenah Westcott and Russell Westcott known to me, to be two credible witnesses, and who being duly sworn, deposes and says, each for himself, that the above named widow Judith Cole now present, is to their knowledge, the identical person named in the above deposition, and that the said affidavit is correct, as they verily believe; that they are acquainted with the said Russell & Roosenah Westcott and that they are, each, wholly disinterested.
Subscribed and sworn to before me, } upon the day and year first above written. }
J. Westcott
Willie Louise Spence at the Place
Roosenah Westcott
{ ss :
I hereby certify, that Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavits were taken, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, a _____ in and for the said County and State, duly commissioned and sworn, and authorized by law to take the same.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of _____ County Court, (a Court of Record,) this _____ day of _____ A. D. 185_____
Clerk.
*The Pension Certificate must be attached to this paper by a piece of tape passing through both, and the ends placed under the seal of the County Clerk, and if the evidence is taken before a Notary Public having a seal of office, the same, but then the County Clerk's certificate is not required.

AND I HEREBY CERTIFY, that at the same time, personally appeared before me Rosannah Westcott and Russell Westcott known to me, to be two credible witnesses, and who being duly sworn, deposes and says, each for himself, that the above named widow Judith Cole now present, is to their knowledge, the identical person named in the above deposition, and that the said affidavit is correct, as they verily believe; that they are acquainted with the said Russell & Rosannah Westcott and that they are, each, wholly disinterested.
Subscribed and sworn to before me, } upon the day and year first above written. }
R. Westcott
Orville D. Dowsley of the Peace
Rosannah Westcott
STATE OF NEW YORK, } ss. LIVINGSTON COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, }
I CERTIFY, That Orville Dowsley  acknowledgment Esquire, was, at the date of the foregoing or annexed affidavit, a Justice of the Peace
In and for said County, duly qualified and authorized to take the same; that I am well acquainted with his hand-writing, and verily believe that the signature of said Justice to the Jurat thereto is gen- uine.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County, this 23 day of Oct A. D. 185 2
Israel G. Root Clerk.
in and for the said County and State, duly commissioned and sworn, and authorized by law to take the same.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of (a Court of Record,) this day of A. D. 185
Clerk.
*The Pension Certificate must be attached to this paper by a piece of tape passing through both, and the ends placed under the seal of the County Clerk, and if the evidence is taken before a Notary Public having a seal of office, the same, but then the County Clerk's certificate is not required.

War Department, Widows pensions
I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2 d . 1848
Judith Cole, widow of Nathan Cole Who was a private — in the Revolutionary war is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of twenty dollars and eleven cents per annum, commencing on the 4 th of March 1848 and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case the pension is not payable after the of such marriage.
Given at the War office of the United States this 29 th day of June one thousand eight hundred and forty eight
W m L. Marcy Secretary of war
Examined and countersigned J. L. Edwards Commissioner of pensions
No 568

State of New York } Livingston County } ss
I hereby certify that on the 13 day of October 1852 personally appeared before me Russell Westcott and Rosannah Westcott known to me to be the cred- ible witnesses and who being duly sworn depose & say that the said Russell Westcott for himself and the said Rosannah Westcott for herself depose and say that the within is a true copy of an original Pension certificate now in the possession of Lu- dick Cole widow of Nathan Cole deceased
Subscribed & sworn to before } me the day and year first above } written }
R Westcott Rosannah Westcott
Orville Fowler Minister of the Gospel