Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 22929 And R.2137, Gale Cole, Continental Mass. N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental
Bole, Gale
W 22929
Mass.
Gail
and P. 2137
N. 26.
Dennett, Cynthia
CONTENTS
Also served in 1798.
His name, Samuel
(Former widow)
Mary bole also applied for pension as the widow of Gale or Gail bole, and was rejected - R. 2137 See papers within.

V Maine 4216.
Cynthia Dennett formerly widow of Gale Dole who was a private in the N Hampshire line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the fifth day of Jan'y 1844 and sent to
Saml J Brown Buckfield Maine
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. / Page 3

P.M. Buckfield Me

Monmouth 7 th July, '43
Sir,
The marriage between Samuel Sperrit & Cynthia Cole was solemnized October 25 th 1806, as per record Ms. B. I believe I have given the day of the month correctly, the year is rather obscure.
Respectfully your obed Servt,
J. M. Heath, Down Clerk

Declaration
in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows & acts amendatory thereof.
State of Maine: County of Oxford ss
On the third day of July in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred & forty three, personally appeared before me, the subscriber, Lyman Rawson, Judge of the Court of Probate, within & for said County of Oxford, Cynthia Dennett aged seventy nine years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of congress passed July 7. 1838, entitled an act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows. That she is now the widow of Samuel Dennett to whom she was married on the 25th day of October 1806, at Rockport Monmouth in the County of Kennebec State of Maine - That previous to her said marriage to said Dennett, she was the widow of Gail Cole, late of Monmouth, in said County of Kennebec, deceased, who served as a soldier, in the American army, in the revolutionary war, for several campaigns - That according to her best knowledge & belief, he first entered the service in the New Hampshire troops, into Captain Marcy's Company of Col. James Reed's Regiment, about the middle of July 1775, for three months which he served through - That in January 1777 he enlisted, a volunteer, at Cornish, in New Hampshire, where he then resided, into the Company commanded by

Captain Stevens in Col. Scitney's Regiment for three years, which term he served through - (that during that service he was in the battle at the taking of Burgoyne and was in the hospital sick with the small pox at West Point and that he was with the Army at the South) I believe from recollections of his statements to me, that he was in the Army doing service as a soldier, during a large part of the war, but of his account of his other particular enlistments I do not remember. I remember well that he told me he was a Sergeant in the Artillery at the taking of Burgoyne.
She further declared that she was married to the said Gail Cole on the 30th day of August 1785 in Atleborough in the County of Bristol & Commonwealth of Massachusetts and that her husband, the aforesaid Gail Cole, died at Monmouth, in the County of Kennebec & State of Maine on the 13th day of December 1799 - that she was not married to said Cole prior to his leaving the Army, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred & ninety four, viz at the time abovenoted and that she was a widow at the time of the passing of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1830.
For proof of the foregoing declaration, the applicant

refer to documents & testimony accompanying this declaration —
her Cynthia Pennott Mark
Subscribed & sworn to at a special Court held at Burkfield in the County of Oxford on the day and year above written Before Zimri Peterson judge

I Lemuel May of Attleborough in the County of Bristol & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, certify under oath and say that I am Town Clerk to said Town of Attleboro' & keep the town records thereof. that the the following is a true copy of the record of marriages of said town viz. "August Thirtieth one thousand seven hundred & eighty five. married Gale Cole resident in Attleborough. to Cynthia Fisher of Attleboro' by me John Daggett Justice of the Peace,, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record, in fair legible figures as follows. August 30 th 1785.
Lemuel May Town Clerk
Commonwealth of Mass ts . County of Bristol ss. { June 28 th 1843
Then the above named Lemuel May made oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate by him signed.
Before me Apollos Cushman Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts -
Bristol ss. I James Sprague, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Bristol, do hereby certify that Apollos Cushman Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the foregoing certificate, is a Justice of the peace in & for said County of Bristol, and duly qualified to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, at Taunton, this twentieth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three.
J. Sprague

I, Abigail Marrow of Wintnook in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine testify and say: That in the year seventeen hundred and eighty five I lived in Attleborough in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and was acquainted with Gail Cole who was married to my sister, Cynthia Fisher, in the month of August in that year. I was then fourteen years old and recollect distinctly of being present at my sister's wedding. Her marriage with Gail Cole was solemnized by John Daggitt Esq. of said Attleborough. In August 1791 I came to Monmouth with my sister and her husband, Mr. Cole, who then moved to said Monmouth where he resided until he died on the 13 th day of December 1799. I was married Jan y 5 th 1792 and lived within a half mile of said Cole until he enlisted into the United States Service in the fall of 1798. He was a healthy man ever after I became acquainted with him until he went into the Service in 1798. He enlisted as I understood in Portland in Capt. Stoddard's Company and immediately after came home as a recruiting officer and enlisted a number of men and in a short time went back to Portland with the men. After a few months absence he came home on furlough quite unwell with a very bad cough which he said he caught camping out while out in

pursuit of some men who had deserted from the Army. He remained at home a short time and then went back to Portland and getting no better came home again wearing his uniform and said he had a purlouche. I do not recollect when he last came home but it was before the 16th day of April for his son Artemas F. Cole was born on that day and he was at home then sick and I will recollect of conversing with Dr. Benson about his case. He did not again return to his company but grew worse until he died with a consumption as I have already stated.
Abigail Morrow
Kennebec G. May 12. 1843. Personally appeared Abigail Morrow and made oath to the truth of the foregoing statement of facts by her subscribed before me
Sam l H. Benson Jas. of the Peace
I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Mrs Abigail Morrow, the deponent aforesaid, and believe her to be a person of truth and her statements entitled to full credit
Sam l H. Benson.

No 7195
Mary Cole died Mrs of Gale
81
on 4 July 1836
See Catalog

State of Vermont, Addison County, ss. On this 17 th day of June 1848, personally appeared before the Probate Court for the District of Addison, Thomas Cole, a resident of Monkton in the said County of Addison, aged Sixty Seven years, the coming August, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the follow- ing declaration, in order to obtain the pension due to his mother, Mary Cole, as widow of Galt Cole, late a soldier and Officer in the Revolutionary war, under the act of Congress of July 11 th 1836: That he is the son and only child living, of Mary Cole, who was the widow of Galt Cole, who was a soldier and officer in the army of the Revolution; that he learned from the said Galt Cole, in his lifetime, and from the general understanding and conversation in the family, that the said Galt Cole enlisted at the commencement of the Revolutionary war, at Ipswich in the County of Essex, Massachusetts, - he then living at Cape Ann, Massachusetts - for during the war; that he was in the battle of Bunkerhill, and in several battles and skirmishes, during the war; that he was principally employed, under the direc- tion of the officers, on scouting parties, and as a spy; that he was at different times, at Charlestown, - called Number four, - Haverhill and Coos, in New Hampshire, that he was a spy in the camp of Burgoyne for several days, and being suspected, escaped about ten days, before his surrender; that he served to the close of the war; that he was married, in the month of June 1780, while he was in the service at Coos, New Hampshire; and the marriage took place in the fort at that place, by Jeremiah Ames, a Justice of the peace; that the region of country where he lived was in an unsettled and an organized

unorganized State, and on the frontier, and that the fort was built and maintained for the protection of the few inhabitants, settled there, and that they resorted to and remained, at times, in the fort for protection from the Indians: and that in such situation no regular records could be kept: that the name of the said Mary Cole, to whom the said Gale Cole was married as above mentioned, and the mother of this declarant, before her marriage was Mary Blodgett, then residing at said Coos; that the said Gale Cole and Mary Cole, after their marriage resided together as husband and wife, at the fort, of which he was the commander; that Archibald Blodgett, the father of the said Mary resided about a mile from the fort; that I was born at his house on the 11 th day of August, my mother then residing in the family of her father; that my father continued in the command of that fort to the close of the war; and that he was then called Lieutenant Cole; that my father and mother resided together at the same place for sometime after the war, and had a daughter, named Deborah, born two years and two months after myself, who has since died, and my father and mother had no other children: Sometime after the war, my father went to the State of Maine, and resided there principally, occasionally returning to Stratford in the Coos County, where my mother still resided with her father; and died in that State in the year 1799: I came from Stratford New Hampshire in the year, I think, 1806, and resided in Charlotte Vermont about fifteen years; I then removed to Hartsborough, and resided there about seventeen years, and for the last ten years, I have resided in Monkton, Addison County, Vermont; While I lived in Charlotte, my mother the said Mary Cole

came to that place and made her home with me; She also made her home with me in Stockborough and Monkton, a considerable part of the time; and died October 29 th 1839. A short time, - a week or two - before she died, she went on a visit to the family of James Sanborn in Monkton, where she was taken sick and died.
About the year 1790, in a conversation between my father, and Henry Blodgett and Howard Blodgett, two brothers of my mother, my father took some papers out of his pocket, and said to them, that he had got his discharge, and that he was entitled to 320 acres County Land; and proposed to them, that if they would go with him to Ohio, he would give each of them one hundred acres, and retain the other 120 acres for himself; but on account of the Indian troubles in that country my uncles declined to go; and I have no knowledge, that my father ever obtained his County Land. Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written before the said Cole the words Thomas Cole my father in the 17 th line from the top on the second page having been interlined before signing
Horatio Seymour Judge of the Probate Court for the District of Addison in the State of Vermont I further certify that the said Thomas Cole is a credible Witness Horatio Seymour Judge of said Probate Court

State of Vermont District of Addison ss. }
I Jeremiah S. Brashnell Register of the Probate Court for the District of Addison do hereby certify that the within and foregoing are the original proceedings of the said Probate Court in the matter of the application of Thomas Cole for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 28 th day of June A.D. 1848. Jer. S. Brashnell Register

Clifford Lohs deposition
Ques
Affidavit of Clifford Lohs

I Clifford Cole of Stark in the County Coos and State of New Hampshire of lawful age testify and say that about the year 1782 or three that I saw my Brother Gale Cole at my fathers the Massachusetts and heard him say that that he was going to his wife and children in Stratford N H and the after years from the time that I saw my Brother in Massachusetts I saw his wife and children in Stratford N H and I heard my Brother say that he married Mary Blodgett of the afore said Stratford his Clifford X Cole Mark State of New Hampshire County of Coos
At Stark in said County of Coos this 5 day of March A D 1850 Personally appearing Clifford Cole and made oath that the foregoing disposition by him subscribed contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth
Aaron Potter Justice Peace

I James M c Neil, Clerk of the Court of Com- mon Pleas, within and for the County of Lees, State of New Hampshire, do hereby certify that Aaron Potter, is a Justice of Peace within and for said county, as within and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine, In witness whereof I have here- unto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this sixteenth day of March, A. D. 1849.
James M c Neil Clerk.

This is an exceedingly mixed up affair.
This much is clear - Gale Gale went through some kind of a marriage ceremony with Mary Blodgett in June, 1780, at a Fort in Coos. N. H. - Several yrs. after the war he left her there and went to Me. to live, returning occasionally to Coos. N. H. He died in Maine in 1799. This from R. 2137
Gale or Gail Gale married Dymithia Fisher Aug. 30, 1785, at Attleboro, Bristol Co., Mass. where he then lived; moved to Monmouth, Kennebec Co., Me., in Aug., 1791, and died there Dec. 13, 1799, after having enlisted in fall of 1798 in Capt. Stoddard's Co. N. H. afterwar d married Samuel Denny.
Allegations of service are mixed, but N. H.

service and serv. in Brave's Artj are al- leged or shown in both cases - Mass- serv. only alleged, in Rejt. claim. As our pencil captions are only tentative, I have used all 3 on envelop. -
Of course if the marriage with Mary was valid, the Bu- reau erred in allow- ing Cynthia's claim - If this were a mod- ern claim, nothing but Spl. Ex. would settle it, and I am unable to come to any definite conclusion in the state it now presents -
I have kept the pa- pers separate, and thought in this way the actual status could be shown -
MAY 18 1911
W.W.P.

2.137 Mary Cole - rejected
22.929 Cynthia Bennett - Admitted
both claiming to be widows of Gale Cole who died in Maine in 1799 while a Soldier of U S Army - having enlisted in 1798 during the war with France.
Although some of the evidence of military Service in the Rev war as furnished by the Secy of St H & of Mass apparently conflicts yet it is believed it applies to one & the same Soldier - Col o Jonathan Chase who lived at Cornish N H where was a depot of military Stores, had Command of the reg t or forces in the forts & the minutemen for the protection of the northern frontier & is doubtful of his being in the Continental line - Col o Chase took troops to Bennington or N Y state to join the Northern army opposing the advance of Burgoyne from Canada - When Genl Stark with his brigade in 1777 marched for Western Vermont he was at Cornish & appointed Doctor Chase, son of Col o Jonathan Chase, to take charge of the sick at Cornish who went from his brigade - The official evidence shows that Gale Cole was transferred from Col o Chase regiment to Col o Crane's arty - from which latter he deserted. Doing this once, gives rise to a presumption that he may have done it other times of which there may be no record. It is alleged that his local reputation was not good & it is doubtful if he ever married Mary (Bridget) it is certain he deserted her by going to Maine & was absent to his death - she had but 2 children by him -
J. M. Foster
March 21. 1782

1939 Oct. 20 - Mr. E. R. McKay adir cost of photo stat mm#9 B
Ready to enlist 1798 during French war WIDOW, &c.
File No. 22929
Cynthia Dennett formerly wid of Sale Cole Pr. N. H. Line
Act March 3 rd 48
Index: Vol. A , Page 178
[Arrangement of 1870.]

V N o 9467. Cynthia Bennett wid of Gale Cole Maine Suspended
Set to A.K. Parris Oct 16 '43
Act July 7 th '38

Q. 1/2 Power of Attorney from Mr Thomas Gold of Monkton Vermont to G. H. McLean of Bristol

Know all Men by these presents that I Thomas Cole of Mendon County of Addison State of Vermont, have made constituted and appointed, and by these presents Do make constitute and appoint J. H. McLeod of the Town of Bristol County and State aforesaid, my true and lawful attorney to establish my property my claims against the Government of the United States of America for services rendered by my father, Gail Cole, in the War of the Revolution; and especially to examine or cause to be examined the Rolls in the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to establish such service and ascertain therefrom the nature thereof
Witness my hand this 3 rd Day of April 1788
Signed by said Thomas Cole in my presence
Thomas Cole
J. H. McLeod Justice of the Peace
The words "And presents" in the six line from the top was inserted before signing

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE,
SECRETARY OF STATE'S OFFICE.
I DO 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 office, it appears that the name of Gale Cole is borne upon the Pay Roll of Capt. John Mearcey's Company, as a private in said Company, with an allowance for nineteen days service commencing July 13, 1775 . Said Company belonged to Col. Reids Regiment . And the
name of Gale Cole is borne upon "A Return of the Continental men in Col. Jonathan Chases Regiment February 17 th 1779," - from which return the following is a true and correct extract -
   Names of those who engaged for service Place of Abode Regiment engaged in Time of engaging Time engaged for Time Mustered Capt. enlisted under     Gale Cole Barnesboro In 4 th Train Three years Jan'y. 1777 Stearns "  
And I further certify, That the name of Gale Cole is borne upon a "Muster Roll of Capt. Samuel Paines Comp y . of the State Troops in the service of the United States of America under the command of Major Benj a Whitcomb"; and that the following is a true extract from said Muster Roll
   No Appointed Serjeants What term Remarks     1 June 18 th Gale Cole Six months "    Said Roll is dated "Keenehill 15 th Nov. 1780 Then mustered Capt. Sam l . Paines Comp y . of State Troops as specified in above Roll. George Aldrich Capt."
And upon a "Pay Roll of Capt. Samuel Paines Company raised by the State of New Hampshire for the defence of the Western Frontier and placed under the command of Major Benj a Whitcomb Oct r 1780. made up agreeable to a vote of the General Court passed Sept r 1, 1781" is borne the name of Gale Cole as follows
   Balance in a Pay Roll made up as aforesaid Reduced to good money Interest from Jan'y 1, 1781 to Sept r 1, 1781 Amount in good money     "Gale Cole £ 1035 - - 15 9. 10 0 12. 5 16 2. 3  
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said State, this twenty-seventh day of May 1848 Thomas P. Dreadwell, Secretary of State.

See if admitted
Enlisted for 3 years 5 May 1777 in the 5 Newp Regiment. Trans- ferred to Col. Bruns Artillery Sept. 1777. Promoted to Captain 1779. discharged 17 Nov. 1779

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston,
April 11 th 1848.
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 Gale Cole is borne upon an Account in Simney Books as a private in Capt Gardner's Company, Col Putnam's Regt , and there credited by his service, from May 3 to July 31 1777 , 2 months at 40¢ per Month. Enlisted for 3 years. The following is noted in said account, viz: Transferred to Corps Artillery. Deserted from Col Evans Regt. " Upon another account in said books as a Matross of Beverly in Capt O'Connell's Company, Col Evans Regt , and there credited by his service, from July 28 1777 to November 18 1779 , 27 months and 20 days, at 50¢ per month. Enlisted for during the war. Deserted, November 18, 1779. " The preceding is all the evidence of service of any one of the name shown by the

Military Records in this Office
And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
W. H. Calhoun,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Application for Certificate of Revolutionary Service by the son of the party who rendered the service 
State of Vermont County of Addison Town of Monkton
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office, of the service of Gil Tole, who served in the War of the Revolution.
He was a native of the Town of Cape Ann in the County of Essex and State of Massachusetts,
He enlisted from the Town of Ipswich in the County of Essex and State of Massachusetts, in the year 1775 or 1776 as a private - in the Company commanded by Captain _____ in the Massachusetts Regiment commanded by General Putnam, and he served as follows, viz. - He fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill, and was in the several others; He went to Charleston S.C. & served at "Havil Corner" - was a spy in the camp of Burgoyne for several days, and left it about ten days previous to the surrender of that General, in consequence of being suspected. He was promoted, I believe, to a Lieutenancy in the Regular Army, and a Captain of the Militia I believe he was usually employed as a Scout or Ranger against the Indians on the Frontiers; - but sometimes in the Ranks. He was ordered by Gen. Putnam to "Fort Holbrook" on the Conn. River, the command of which he assumed and retained till the close of the War, or thereabouts. It is said he was recommended to that post by Gen. Washington.
I do not recollect the name of his Capt or Company in all the particulars of his service; but have always understood that he was actively engaged during the War, and took a part in most of the principal Engagements. I think he was in the

Battle of Bunkerhill but of this I am not certain
I am now sixty six years old, and my Memory does not enable me to state the services more fully than above stated
Witness my hand, this 3rd third Day of April A.D. 1848
Signed by said in My presence
Thomas Cole
W.H. Walling Justice of the Peace
3254
The signature of Thomas Cole is into and there
W.H. Walling Just Peace
I Thomas Cole of Montpelier County of Addison State of Vermont have appointed an empowered and by their presence to constitute and empower T. H. N. S. M. of Bristol County and State aforesaid my attorney and in my stead to examine the Rolls in the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for the purpose ascertaining the services and the natural heirs of said Cole, in the war of the Revolution
Witness my hand this 3rd third Day of April A.D. 1848
In the presence of W.H. Walling
Thomas Cole Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont Addison County ss, } I Ephraim Howe Burnham of the Town of Monkton, Addison County State of Vermont, now eighty two years of age but of sound mind and memory, first being duly sworn according to law, do upon my oath, certify, that I first became acquainted with Galt Galt, father of Thomas Galt of Town and State aforesaid, at a wedding party, at the house of Thomas Galt, a brother of said Galt, in the Parish of Chebacco, (now Essex) County of Essex State of Massachusetts, in the spring of 1777 or 1778; that the said Galt Galt did then belong, and had for some time previous, belong to the Army of the United States, and continued in said Army till the close of the war, tho' not in the same Division, but served in several different places under different Commanders; his principal employment being that of a leader of "scouting parties" and a spy, and for such purposes, he was under the special direction of the Superior Officers, who comm- anded the Army; that he was in the Army, and that such was the nature of his service as was well understood by his friends, and much of those who knew him, at the time; that at the time of the before named wedding party, I was residing at Chebacco aforesaid, with my father, whose residence was only a few rods from that of Thomas Galt, brother of the said Galt; that I was then about 12 years of age and remember many of the circumstances perfectly well; that the said Galt Galt had been on a visit then to his father, who lived in the Town of Cape Ann, and immediately after returned to the Army; that I saw him, the said Galt, two or three times a year from that time till the close of the war, and that he was then enlisted for during the war; that about the year 1780, the said Galt, went to the County of (600)

and was married at Fort Holbrook, soon after, to Mary Blodgett, of that place, by Jeremiah Amos, a justice of the Peace and resident of Coos, as was understood from persons from said fort, at the time, and so believed by myself and his friends residing in Massachusetts; that I understood in common with his friends generally, that the inhabitants of Coos was under the necessity of repairing to said fort for protection, from time to time, against the hostile Indians of that District, and that the said Galt was married as above stated, on one of these occasions, in the fort; that I never heard the fact of said marriage called in question or doubted by any, and I do most solemnly believe that it occurred precisely as above stated; that about the year 1789 I went to Fort Holbrook, Coos, to reside, and the inhabitants there related the circumstances of the marriage as above stated, and the said Galt and Mary Galt were then and there residing tog- ether as husband and wife, and were so reputed throughout the neighbourhood of Fort Holbrook; that I also , then became acquainted with the aforesaid Jeremiah Amos and have often heard him state that he married them, the said Galt and Mary, in the fort and relate the parti- culars relating thereto which relation corresponded with those that I had heard in Massachusetts; that I also became acquainted with the said Mary and her father's family, particularly with her two brothers, Henry and Howard Blodgett. The young men of about my own age, and he often went with them to their father's house, where they lived, and which was about a mile from the fort, from which place, my place of residence was somewhat farther off; that the said Galt and Mary continued to reside at Fort Holbrook for several years after the close of the war, when he went to the State of Maine, leaving the said Mary at home with her father, that he returned occasionally, from said State, to Coos, but died in Maine I believe about the year 1799, I think in the month of August; that at the time I went to Fort Holbrook to reside as before stated, Thomas Galt of

I certify that Ephraim Burnham, the Deponent is a credible witness and that my name annexed to this instrument was signed by my own hand (Seth I. Dibble) notary of the River 
the Town of Monkton aforesaid and son of the man named Gale Gole, was living with his parents, the said Mary and Gale, at Coos; that he was then but a small child, and continued live with them till the death of his father, staying with his mother, the said Mary, during his father's absence; that about the year 1806, Thomas Gole, last mentioned came into Western Vermont to reside, a few years after his mother the said Mary Gole, followed, and continued to reside here till the time of her death which occurred on the 29 th day of October 1839, aged 70 years; that I obtained the above date and age from her tomb stone, in Monkton aforesaid, some years ago, and have retained the same; that when to Western Vermont about the same time that the said Mary died, from Coos, where I had resided for the greater part of the time after I went there to live; that I know the said Thomas Gole, son of the before named Gale Gole, residing in the Towns of Charlotte, Starksborough and Monkton; that I have lived, and did live in each of the above named Towns during part of the time that the said Thomas resided in the same, and knew his mother, the said Mary from the time that I came into Western Vermont till the time of her death; that she lived a considerable part of the time with the said Thomas, her son, but died at the the house of James Sanborn in Monkton, being on a visit of a few weeks to that family; that the said Thomas, at the time of the death of his mother, the said Mary, was residing in the Town of Starksborough, but for the last eight or ten years, has resided in the Town of Monkton, where he now lives; that the said Mary Gole aforesaid, remained the widow of of the said Gale Gole till the time of her death; that during

the former part of my acquaintance with Cole Galt, before named, he was called "Sergeant Galt" but during the latter part of the war "Lieutenant Galt" and conti-  ued to be so called, by way of compliment. after the war was ended; that during the latter part of the war I knew him, the said Galt, to be attached to the com- mand of Major Benjamin Whitcomb, and that with the said Whitcomb I was well acquainted, and have often heard him speak of the services of Galt Galt afore- said, frequently; that I remember many incidents that trans- pired in the Northern Division of the Army, being much interested in the success of the American Army; that my father was connected with the American Army as a "Minuteman" and performed service in the war, that I also served for Boston for several months previ- ous to the Disbanding of the Army but do not remember whether I was enrolled or not; that my father was in the service of the Americans when Gen. Howe was in the Eastern States, which I remember perfectly well, from the cir- cumstance that Gen. Howe was a near relation of my Mother and commanded the British forces while my father was fighting them, in the ranks of the American; that said Thomas Galt was the son of the said Galt and Mary Galt I never heard doubted or questioned; that I always understood from his Mother and father, the said Mary and Galt, that he was born about one year after they was married as before stated; that the said Galt and Mary, had one other child Deborah Galt, born about two years after the said Thomas; but since dead that these two children, the said Thomas and Deborah, were all the issue of the before described marriage of Galt and Mary Galt.
Sworn to and subscribed this 24 th Day of Sept r . 1848. before me H. B. Burnham Justice of the Peace
And I further certify that the words "at the time" in page 2 nd line four from the top, also the words "Galt" line 1 st page 4 th and since I read line 4 from the bottom of the same page, were inserted before signing, ————— Seth L. Dinsmore Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont } Addison County } p 3
I, George S. Swift, Clerk of the county court for the county of Addison in the state of Vermont, hereby certify that Seth L. Nimblet, whose signature is attached to the within certificate annexed to the deposition of
Ephraim H. Burnham, was, at the date of said certificate, a justice of the peace within and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified, and that I know said signature to be genuine; In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said court at Middlebury in said county this 28 th day of June A.D. 1848.
George S. Swift Clerk of Addison County Court.
2137

Sir,
Pension Office Septem 19 1848
I have the honor to inform you that the papers in the case of Mary Bide dec d W d ow of Gale Bide have been examined and filed under the act of 4 May 1836.
It appears from the application of Thomas Bide to the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for a pension on the service of his wife, husband that he belonged to that State. He could not therefore have been the deserter from Connecticut attached to Capt Pains Company of Col Reed Regiment in the New Hampshire Line. And as it appears from the Certificate of the Secretary of Massachusetts that the only one in service of that State bearing his name, deserted from Col Brown Regiment on 18 Nov 1779, and thereby for- feiting all claim to pay there and pension either for himself or his widow afterwards.
Unless it can be clearly shown that

My late husband returned joined his Regiment after his desertion and performed the faithfully, his engagement to serve to the end of the War, and that she was Mar- ried to him prior to the termination of that service she acquired no right to a pension under the act of 4 July, 1836, a claim to which can now be asserted by or paid to her children -
Mr. McCloud's letter is herewith returned.
Wm. T. V. Warfield Feb. 19. 48
Hon. S. S. Phelps U. States Senator

Affidavit of Howard Blodgett
Sworn

I Howard Blodgett of Newashstown in the County of Coos and State of New Hampshire of lawful age do testify and say that according to my best information and belief I was born the 14 th day of November A.D. 1769- in Stratford in the State of Connecticut and that about the Year 1774. I came with My Father and Family to Stratford New Coos County and State of New Hampshire and lived there during the Revolutionary war that same time during the war one Col Coh who belonged to a Company of Soldiers that were stationed at a Fort in said Stratford N.H. was married to My Sister Mary Blodgett and that Thomas Coh of Moulton in the County of Addison and State of Vermont was born same time I believe in the Year 1781- in said Stratford N.H. and is the Son of the said Col and Mary
State of Vermont
Howard Blodgett
Just County ss
At Lemington in the County of
On this 26 th day of February A.D. 1850
Personally appeared Howard Blodgett and made oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth
Before me Abiel Blodgett Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont } & William B. Northrop Clerk of the Essex County } Supreme Court and Courts within and for the County of Essex aforesaid. Do hereby certify that Abiel Blodgett is an acting justice of the peace within & for said County of Essex duly com- missioned & qualified by law to act as such, that his commission was dated November 30 th 1849 and will expire on the 30 th day of November A.D. 1850 and that his signature to the within instrument is genuine -
Given under my hand and the seal of said County at Guildhall This 13 th day of March A.D. 1850 Wm B. Northrop Clerk

Affidavit of Henry O'Loghlin
1866

I Henry Blodgett of Lemington in the County of Essex and State of Vermont of lawful age do testify and say that according to my best recd information and belief I was born the 14 th day of May A.D. 1767. in Stratford in the State of Connecticut and that about the year 1774. I came with my father and family to Stratford now Coos County and State of New Ham- pshire and lived there during the Revolutionary war that same time during the war one Col Cale who belonged to a company of soldiers that were stationed at a fort in S d Stratford N.H. was married to my sister Mary Blodgett and that Thomas Cale of Norton in the County of Addison and State of Vermont was born I believe same time in the year 1781. in S d Stratford N.H. and is the son of the said Col and Mary -
Henry Blodgett
State of Vermont } At Lemington in the County Essex County ss } of Essex this 26. day of Febru- -ary A.D. 1850. Personally appeared Henry Blodgett Senior and made oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth
Before me Abiel Blodgett Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont } I William H. Norton Clerk of the Essex County } County and Supreme Court within and for the County of Essex aforesaid, Do hereby certify that Abiel Beadnell is an acting justice within and for the County of Essex aforesaid - duly commissioned & qualified by law to act as such. That his commission was dated on the 30 th day of November A.D. 1849 and will expire on the 30 th day of November 1850. That his signature to the within instrument is genuine -
Given under my hand & the seal of said County at Guildhall this 13 th day March A.D. 1850 -
Wm H. Norton. Clerk

Richard Holbrook Disposition
Ans
copy me

I Richard Holbrook of Stratford in the County of Coos and State of New Hampshire of lawful age testify and say that in the year 1780 I lived in said Stratford and was well acquainted with Gale Cole I think from Mass. that said Cole was Married to Mary Blodgett By John French Esq. of Maidstone Vermont sometime in the fall of said year. That previous to his said Marriage he had enlisted into Captain Pains company of New Hampshire troops and did service as orderly Sergeant in said company and was stationed at a fort in said Stratford N. H. until the close of the Revolutionary war and was there discharged at or near the time. That afterwards I recollect that said Cole did duty at said fort as the Country was subject to frequent alarms from Indians. That Thomas Cole of Montitow in the County of Addison Vermont was born at said Stratford in the year of 1781 I think and is the son of the said Gale and Mary State of New Hampshire } Richard Holbrook County of Coos }
At Stratford in said County of Coos this 2 d day of March A.D. 1850. Personally appeared Richard Holbrook and made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth
Before me
Hiram Lucas Justice of the Peace

I James McRae, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for the County of Coos, State of New Hampshire, do hereby certify that Hiram Lucas is a Justice of Peace within and for said County, as within, and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this sixteenth day of March, A.D. 1850.
James McRae Clerk.

Affidavit of Tizah Day
Ans.

I Tizah Day of Stratford in the County of Coos and State of New Hampshire of lawful age depose testify and say, That in the year 1780 I lived with my Father in Mendon Vermont and was well acquainted with Gale Cole. That said Cole was Married to Mary Bladgett By My Father John French Esq. of said Mendon at that time on act- ing justice of the Peace in and for said County of Coos and State of Vermont, sometime in the fall of said year 1780. I was present at the wedding, saw them married and heard my Father pronounce them "Husband and Wife", I well recollect the marriage from the fact that my sister Bethsheba French was married at the same time to David Bradley. That previous to said Cole's marriage he had enlisted into Captain Peains Company of New Hampshire Troops and did service as orderly Sergeant in said company and was stationed at a fort in Stratford aforesaid until the close of the Revolutionary War, and was then dischar- ged at or near the time, that afterwards I recall- ect that said Cole did duty at said fort as the Country was subject to frequent alarms from Indians, I recollect that said Cole frequently went out as a scout while serving at said Fort as aforesaid, That Thomas Cole of Moulton in the County of Addison & State of Vermont was born at said Stratford in the year of 1781

I think, and is the son of the jail Gals & Mary Gale.
James Day
State of Vermont } At Montpelier in the County of Essex Essex County ss } This 13 th day of March A.D. 1850 Personally appeared Sir Gals Day and made oath that the foregoing Affidavit by her subscribed contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth - Before Me - Wm H. Northrop Justice of the peace
State of Vermont } I William H. Northrop Clerk of the Essex County ss } County and Supreme Court within and for the County of Essex aforesaid. Do hereby certify that William H. Northrop is an acting justice of the Peace within and for said County of Essex. That his commission was dated on the 30 th day of November 1849 and will expire on the 30 th day of November A.D. 1850 and that his signature above written is genuine -
Given under my hand and the seal of said County at Guildhall this 13 th day of March A.D. 1850
William H. Northrop - Clerk

has the one
Lauren Bush Nov 5th
Official Business
Nov 1 1836 Hon. L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions Department of the Interior Washington D. C.

Greenbush Warren County Ill. Nov. 5 th 1856
Hon. L. P. Waldo Commissioner of Pensions, Washington D.C. Dear Sir,
I have recently received a note from Mr. Darwin C. Smith Esq., of the Pension Office, stating that the case of Thomas Cole asking pay under an act of Congress for the services of his father Enoch Cole in the War of the Revolution, had been reexamined by the Department, and it had been found that nothing had been omitted or overlooked in the previous examination, the result of which had been reported to the Hon. S. S. Phelps, late a Senator in the U.S. Senate from the State of Vermont. You are probably aware that Mr. Phelps is dead, and since he never made any report of the case to me, who employed him, I am still ignorant of the particulars of the result of the examination. The possible reason why Mr. Phelps did not make any report to me on the subject may be that soon after I called his attention to the matter, we became engaged in a personal lawsuit in which his feelings were very much interested and our subsequent intercourse was very limited . In this state of things I shall be much obliged if you will have the kindness

to furnish me with the several results elicited by the examination of the Department, It may be proper to state here the condition of things when I spoke to Mrs. Phelps about them. The Department had decided that Gale Cole found in the Mass. Records and the Gale Cole found in the New Hampshire Records were two individuals, and I had procured testimony to show that Thomas Cole was the son of Gale Cole of New Hampshire, together with the evidence of the Marriage of Gale Cole and Mary Baladgett and the subsequent birth of Thomas Cole. The evidence was the testimony of persons who asserted that they were present at the Marriage above mentioned knew of the birth of Thomas Cole and had known him from that time up to the time they made oath to their statements. Perhaps there was some error in the form of their Affidavits which had its leg- itimate on the determination of the department, whether this was the case I know not as whether more testimony was wanting I have never been informed. If you will inform me on these and other points in the case, I shall be much obliged, and
Remain
Very Respectfully Yours
Thomas H. McLeod

State of Vermont:
Office of Secretary of State Montpelier May 19 th 1858
I certify that there is an file in this office, "A Pay Roll of a Party of Men raised for the defence of the Frontiers adjacent to the Upper Coos, whereof Ward Bayley is Lieutenant Commandant, commencing the 14 th of April and ending 2 d Nov. 1781;" on which Roll is the name of "Gale Cole," with an allowance for four months and three days service as a Sergeant -
Also, "A Pay Roll of Lieutenant Ward Bayley's Company raised for the defence of the Upper Coos, by order of the Assembly, at their Session in February 1782;" on which Roll is the name of "Gale Cole" with an allowance for eight months and eighteen days service as a Private: commencing March 12 th 1782 and ending December 1 st 1872 1782
Given under my hand and the Seal of this office, this tenth day of May A.D. 1858
J. M. Bailey Jr. Deputy Secretary of State

And Mr. Office, May 18 th 1858.
Sir:
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the Certificate of the Secretary of State of Vermont relating to the service of Gale Pease.
Mary Pease, as the widow of Gale, applied for a pension under the act of 4 th July, 1836. Her claim was disallowed for want of evidence of her husband's service.
Since the application for a pension under the act of 4 th July, 1836, was made Mrs. Pease has died.
By a decision of the Attorney General, No. 118 of a deceased Revolutionary soldier or of his widow is entitled to the amount of the unadjusted pension which such soldier or of his widow was entitled to at their decease under existing pension laws.
The claim of Mrs. Pease never having been adjusted, no allowance can be made to her children.
Hon: S. Foot, U. S. S.

EDWARD KAVANAGH, GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF MAINE. To all who shall see these Presents,
GREETING.
Know ye, That Samuel P. Benson of Winthrop in the County of Kennebec Esquire, was on the eighteenth day of January A. D. 1839 appointed and Commissioned, and on the twenty second day of January A. D. 1839 qualified as a Justice of the Peace and Quorum thro' the State within and for our said County of _____ that he still continues to hold said office:
Edward Kavanagh _____ and that to his Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court.
In testimony whereof, I have caused the Seal of the State to be hereunto affixed. GIVEN under my hand at AUGUSTA, this twelfth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-three and in the sixty- seventh year of the Independence of the United States of America.
By the Governor.
Philip C. Johnson, Secretary of State.

STATE OF MAINE.
EDWARD KAVANAGH, GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF MAINE.
To all who shall see these Presents,
GREETING.
Know ye, That Olnathaw Woseby of Etna in the County of Penobscot Esquire, whose name is borne upon the paper hereunto annexed, was, on the eleventh day of March A. D. 1842 appointed and Commissioned, and on the twenty fourth day of March A. D. 1842 qualified as a Justice of the Peace & Quorum within and for our said County of Penobscot that he still continues to hold said office: And that his signature borne upon the paper hereunto annexed is genuine.
and that to his Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court.
In testimony whereof, I have caused the Seal of the State to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand at AUGUSTA, this twelfth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty- three and in the sixty- eighth year of the Independence of the United States of America.
By the Governor.
Philip L. Johnson, Secretary of State.

I, John Freeman, of Monmouth in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine a Revolutionary Pensioner depose and say, that I was well acquainted with Gail Cole who died in Monmouth in the fall or first part of the winter of the year seventeen hundred and ninety nine. I first became acquainted with said Gail Cole at West Point in the State of New York, he was then an Artillery man, and I think a member of Capt. Johnson's Company and Col. Cross's Regiment, and I think a Sergeant in said Company, but of this I do not feel quite certain. I had occasionally seen Mr Cole before in the army but did not become particularly acquainted with him until the month of January seventeen hundred and seventy eight, at West Point, where he was sick with the small pox, and I took care of him for about four weeks. I frequently saw said Cole during this winter in Albany, until the opening of the Spring Campaign when I left in the Infantry Service. He was in the Artillery Service and I did not see him again, that I now recollect, until the next winter when we went into winter quarters at West Point where I frequently saw him. Still an Artillery man during the principal part of the winter, after which I do not remember of seeing him until the close of the war.
In 1798 I lived in Winthrop near the line of Monmouth and was well acquainted with said Cole

who resided in Monmouth about three miles from me. In the fall of 1798 said Cole enlisted into the Army of the United States and left Monmouth to join the Service. I remember distinctly of seeing him just about the time he left home to go into the Service and of a conversation I had with him at that time. I asked him if he did not see hard times enough in the Revolutionary War to satisfy him, and he replied, that he believed he should try it again for he thought he should not fare so bad. I told him I thought it too far I did not believe the French would come over to fight us. I saw said Cole when he came home on a furlough and remember that he wore a uniform but do not recollect whither it was that of an Infantry or Artillery man. He came home sick and I saw him frequently during his sickness and was present at his funeral, but cannot remember the month when he came home nor the time when he died, but I do recollect that I went to said Cole's funeral in a sleigh and that was not a great while before I went to hear Parson Belden preach Gen. Washington's funeral Oration.
John Freeman
Kennebec Co. May 12. 1843. Personally appeared John Freeman and made oath to the truth of the foregoing statement of facts by him subscribed.
Before me,
Jam s P. Beman, Justice of the peace.

I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Mr John Freeman, the deponent aforesaid, and believe him to be a person of truth and veracity and entitled to full credit and belief.
Sam l H. Bensan

I Daniel Allen of Winthrop in the County of Kennebec testify and say:
That I was more than three years a soldier in the Revolutionary Army and when I returned home after the close of the war settled in Monmouth. I was well acquainted with Gail Cole who lived in Monmouth and although I did not know him in the Army I have no doubt he was a soldier in the Continental Army for I have often talked with him about the war and he has told me of the battles he was in.
I understood from him that he enlisted in New Hampshire and served three years in the war, and have no doubt that such was the fact, but as enlisted in Boston and was in a different part of the service I did not become acquainted with him. I know that he enlisted in 1798 and went off to Portland and was taken sick and came home sick and died of a consumption in the latter part of 1799.
Kennebec ss. May 12. 1843.
Daniel Allen
Personally appeared Daniel Allen and made oath to the truth of the foregoing statement by him subscribed before me
Samuel P. Bensman Justice of the Peace.

I hereby certify that I have been, for many years, well acquainted with Mr Daniel Allen, the afore- said deponent, and believe him to be a person of truth and veracity. John P. Bussey

I Joshua Davis of Canton County of Oxford & State of Maine, aged eighty four years, testify & say that I was a soldier of the Revolutionary Army and for my services, as such, received a pension under the law of the United States of the 18. March 1818, my certificate being No 5747 —
I further testify & say that a part of my service was in the battle at the taking of Bennington, at which time & place I saw a man by the name of Gail Cole, who was a soldier in the Artillery. I do not recollect to what company he belonged, nor am I sure that I ever knew him. I am confident I saw him then acting as a soldier in that battle. I further say that I saw said Cole in the Army, as a soldier, at the South, but I cannot say what company he belonged to.
Witness Samuel H Brown
Joshua Davis Mark
State of Maine Oxford County ss. June 21. 1843
Then the above named Joshua Davis to me well known to be a man of truth, made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit, by him subscribed, before me Samuel H Brown Justice of the Peace

I am personally acquainted with Samuel F. Brown, Esq. and am familiar with his hand of writing - The signature on the preceding page, purporting to be his, is genuine, and he is ap- pointed of the Peace duly commis- sioned and qualified under the laws of the State of Maine Nov. 2, 1843. William H. Garrison James [?]

Brookfield July 26
Free M c Hughes P.M.
Mr Benedict Brownstown N.Y.
ESD Sturges Dunham
Town Clerk of the town of Otsego Me
Etne Aug. 3, 1843
Dear Sir
In answer to this I need merely say that no such record can be found on the town books — Legal evidence of the time of S t Bennett Death could probably be obtained here Yours A. C. Moseley

Bucksport July 25 1843
Dear Clerk of the town of Etna
Sir
I some time since wrote Dennis Domett Esq of your town requesting to procure from you a certificate of the record of the marriage death of his father Sam d . Domett, who, (I am informed, by his brother Moses, died in Etna some years ago, but not having heard anything in answer, I fear he may be absent - Now Sir, will you oblige a poor old lady so much as to send me such certificate to assist in procuring a pension. I want it for his widow, who lives here, who is about to apply for a pension on account of the services of her first husband, Mr. Gail Col. By doing this, you will very much oblige a meritorious widow of a revolutionary soldier
Yours & Sam d H. Brown
I hope the letter

9467.
9467
Cynthia Bennett wid. of Gale Cole Maine
Am

State of Maine
Oxford County ss: I the Subscriber, Register of the Court of Probate, within & for said County, it being a Court of Record, hereby certify that Lyman Rawson, whose genuine signature is annexed to the foregoing Declaration of Cynthia Dennett, is Judge of the Court aforesaid - I also certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Judge in the matter of the application of said Cynthia Dennett for a Pension - I also certify that Samuel H Brown whose genuine signature is annexed to the foregoing Deposition of Joshua Davis is a Justice of the Peace within & for said County duly appointed & qualified, & full faith & credit are due to his acts as such.
In testimony of all which I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this eighth day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & forty three -
Geo. F. Emery Register -

Washington Aug. 14. 1843
Sir,
The inclosed papers have been sent to my care by the widow of Gale Boles a soldier in the Revolutionary army - She claims a pension under the Acts of 1830, and I have respectfully to ask, in her behalf, that the papers may be examined, and if there should be any defects in the proof that you will inform her through me
Respectfully &c
William N. Parris
J. L. Edwards, Esq. Comm: &c

Pension Office, October 16. 1843
Sir,
The papers in the case of Cynthia Dennett, formerly widow of Galt Cole, claiming a pension under the act of July 7. 1838 have been examined and filed. The official character of Samuel F. Brown as a Justice of the Peace is not properly attested, as a Register of Probate has no authority to use his seal for any such purpose. The death of the second husband Samuel Dennett, and the date thereof, should be certified under the seal of the Court. The service is proved for two years as a private, and the date of the marriage with Galt Cole established.
I am very respectfully, Your obedient servant G. W. Humphreys
Albin K. Parris, Esq., Present.

Penobscot SS on the 26. Day of October. A 1843 I Dennis Bennett of Etna in said County of lawful age do testify and say that my Father Samuel Bennett came to live with me some time in the winter of 1823 and died the 15th of December following leaving here his widow Said Samuel Bennett Married Cynthia Cole widow of Gail Cole formerly a revolutionary Soldier as I have always understood Said Gail Cole was formerly of Kennebec the Penobscot County in the State of Maine
Dennis Bennett
Penobscot SS on the 26th day of October 1843 the aforesaid deponent was examined and cautioned and sworn agreeable to law to the deposition aforesaid by him subscribed is true
before Me
Ebenezer D. D. justice of the
I hereby certify that the above claimed Dennis Bennett's character is good for truth & veracity
Ebenezer D. D.

STATE OF MAINE.
EDWARD KAVANAGH, GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF MAINE.
To all who shall see these Presents,
GREETING.
Know ye, That Samuel H. Brown of Bucksfield in the County of Aroostook Esquire, whose name is borne upon the paper hereunto annexed, was, on the seventeenth day of October , A. D. 1843. appointed and Commissioned, and on the thirtieth day of October A. D. 1843 qualified as a Justice of the Peace and Quorum within and for our said County of Aroostook that he still continues to hold said office: and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
and that to his Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court.
In testimony whereof, I have caused the Seal of the State to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand at AUGUSTA, this eighteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty- three and in the sixty- eighth year of the Independence of the United States of America.
By the Governor.
Philip L. Johnson,
Secretary of State.

STATE OF MAINE.
Oxford
County.
On this tenth day of November 1843 Personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of the Peace for said County of Oxford: Cynthia Dennett of the a resident of Brookfield in the County of Oxford aged seventy nine 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 on the 3d of March, 1843, granting Pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War—That she is the Widow of Samuel Dennett to whom who was a she married as widow of Gale Gole who was Private in the Revolution & served in that capacity for various terms, by whose service she became entitled to a pension under the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 and has received a Certificate thereof, dated Nov. 2. 1843, Number 7347, to the papers in which case, she refers for evidence of her said husband's service & all other necessary particulars, the pension to which she is entitled by her said Certificate being eighty dollars per annum she further declares that she is still a widow
Cynthia D. Dennett Mark
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written.
Before me I further certify that said Cynthia Dennett is personally known to me as the character described in her declaration above — Samuel J. Bangs Justice of the Peace
NOTE—After "who was a" insert the rank the husband held in the army, navy or militia, as the case may be, and the regiment, corps or vessel in which he served, and the annual amount of the pension which she received

7847
Maine
Lydia Dennett widow of Gale Cole
Rept of No 2
who was a pensioner under the Act of — and who died on the 13th Dec r 1799 of Oxford in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Marcus of the Regt commanded by Col Reed in the N. Hampshire line for —
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd day of November 1843 and sent to Hon. A. R. Parris, 2nd Comt te
Total amount, $400. —
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Thos A. Lunt , Clerk, Book D . Vol. 1 . Page 3

Mary Cook, mrs of Gale
Sec 136
Sec 136
quit
May 24/52 C. N. C.

2137  Quilt
P.O.
Mary Coble
Service: Widow of Gale Coble
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
REJECTED
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
229 29 Cynthia Dennett former

No 7195 Mary Cole do
Sub. to the V. D. S. etc.
Sept. 19. 48 to signed 22. May 1850
Caveat
Let. J. H. M. P. ... 1850 His S. Foot. May 18/58
act 4 July 1836

Thos A McLeod
Nov 19

quit
Sumner Office Nov. 19. 1856.
Sir:
In reply to your letter of the 3 rd inst. you are informed that the claim of Mary Cole, widow of Gale, first sale of Vermont, filed under the Act of July 4, 1836, has been suspended  refused by this office for the reason stated in the accompanying copy of a letter addressed to the Hon. S. S. Phelps on the 22 nd of May 1850. The on  on further proceedings of the claim can result in no practical benefit unless the requisitions of that letter are strictly complied with. It is believed to be a very doubtful case.
Thomas H. McLeod, Esq. Green Bay, Waukesha & Illinois

Pension Office 647 May 22 nd 1850
Quincy
Sir
I have the honor to inform you that the additional evidence in the case of Mary Cole and widow of Gale Cole, does not remove the objection to the admission of her Claim.
It is very Clear from all the evidence filed in this case that Gale Cole of the New Hampshire Line was not the foray of the Massachusetts Line bearing the same name.
Gale Cole of the New Hampshire Line, belongs to Corinth and enlisted in January 1777. in Col. Lehas's Regiment for Ithaca, was returned in service in July 1779, and no doubt continued to serve therein until the expiration of the time of his enlistment. He afterwards enlisted in the Capt Paine Company of Col. Whitecomb's Rangers in 1780 for 6 months.
The foray of the Massachusetts Line, who thence Cole alleged under Oath was the husband of Mary Cole enlisted for Ithaca in the 5 Mass Regiment in 5 May 1777. was transferred to Col. Cram's Regiment of Artillery in Sept 1777. Promoted to Corporal in 1779, deserted from Col. Cram's Regt 17 Nov 1779. Thus it appears that there were
Hon. J. S. Phelps 22 May 1850

Soldiers, belonged to different States as well as Regiments, and were both in service at the same time for a period of more than two years.
In the original Application to the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Mass for evidence of the service of Cole, I repeat, it was alleged that he enlisted from Ipswich, and it was not until it was shown by the Certificate of the Secretary that Cole had described that the Certificate of the Secretary of New Hampshire was obtained. Under such circumstances, the most direct and positive proof from witnesses who were themselves in service with Mr. Cole must and who were so can swear clearly that he was the identical person from Ipswich, in the New Hampshire Line will be deemed sufficient to identify him with that soldier. Gale Cole of Col. Dinsmore's Regiment belonged to New Hampshire and was in service as early as 1775. The witness whose testimony is now introduced was none of them in service, and cannot therefore furnish the proof necessary to identify him. in the same Regiment In addition to this objection, it has also been stated in a communication which we have received that Mary Cole, was not the lawful wife of Gale Cole, that at the time they were married that he had a wife living in Vermont. Some explanation and further evidence upon this point also will be required. Mr. McLean's letter is herewith returned.
Hon. S. S. Phelps Senate N. States

Colebrook N.H. } Apr 24
as Official Business.
Ira
James L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
General

Ans
Colebrook Coos Co. New Hampshire April 2 nd 1850
Hon James L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
Sir
I have had some letters sent me sometime ago and lately last fall and this winter in Relation to a pension for one Thomas Cole of Bristol N.H. in right of one Galt Cole who it is alleged was a Revolutionary Soldier, whom one J. H. McLeod has been doing the business for - Said Thos. Cole is alleged to be the son of one Galt Cole who was said to be a Soldier. As far as I have looked into the business said Galt Cole was a Soldier in the Mass. Troops a short time, was a very bad fellow, stole something and run off and enlisted into the said Army then as by letter to me and then I found said Galt Cole deserted from the Massachusetts line in 1779 and had a Wife then living in Maine, and he came to Stratford N.H. after all that and was at a Fort there a short time and run about and acted very badly it is said through the country all around as you are told by old men that said they knew him Galt Cole and knew of him deserting from the Army and of his bad conduct and moreover he took in a girl near the Fort and got her pregnant it is said name Mary Blaggett or Blodgett when he had a mother wife living in Maine as you are informed. And he pretended to be married to her or was married or lived with her as such for a time and his other wife still living and in the course of this time this Mary Blodgett or Blaggett had two Children to this Galt Cole a son and a daughter and the daughter is dead and as I am informed this man Thos. Cole is the son

the said Gals Cole
of Said Mary Blaggett or Blagget to him at that time, Now whether they were Lawfully married or not, cannot find any one living that knows, they did not see it any of them, only heard they were married by a Justice of Peace not qualified to do it. And at any rate they could not be Lawfully Man and Wife if they had been Legally married according to Forms of Law, as he the said Gals Cole it seems had another Wife living same time this Thomas Cole & was born as I am informed, But this is not for me to say whether this is all facts or not on any of it. But I was written to, to take a trial of the case for this Thos. Cole as it had been rejected by the Commissr of Pensions (your Honor I suppose if at all) to the man Mr. Lead as I have informed.
Now Sir as by what I can find out of the case by those said they know as aforesaid I wish to have nothing to do with it as if it is facts as I fear am been informed of, Thos. Cole does not have any right to a pension by his said Father and especially by his said Mother no claim at all, And if he applies for one I should think it was proper to know the facts in all respects as mentioned before you grant it As I am informed said Thos. Cole has applied and was rejected on same thing. And was to try it again as I have informed as I want do it he is to try with Mr. Lead again or some one else - as I hear of it - I never saw this Thos. Cole in my life nor Mr. Lead. I have heard of said Cole only and has heard from Mr. Lead but never saw him, I know nothing of the Character of Thos. Cole or Mr. Lead, in any way. But as by the circumstances as aforesaid I only inform you of the case in fair terms as I have found it as stated,

for you to look into it before you grant it, and if you do grant it to know it is justly due him As I was applied to, to look into it and take hale of it and try to get the said pension for him, I have looked into it and taken time to do it and find it as I have informed you - and therefore I thought it my duty so far to inform you of what I have mentioned not as proof. But for caution on the matter, as he has been named I am told trying to get some sort of Testimony to try to get it if he can, whether justly or not if he gets it is more than I can say, But you will be the judge. by the Yards of proof you may get and circumstances accordingly as mentioned to consider it by and see to it by if you choose. I am your Friend and Wellwisher Very Respectfully your Obedt Servt Robert Mitchell

Airt
Bucksport Me Nov 21. 1843
J. L. Edwards Esq; Commissioner Vice
I herewith forward the declaration of Miriam Hall and Cynthia Dennett, for the purpose of proving under the act of 1843, granting pensions to widows - You will please to communicate as this case to me.
I have heretofore received the certificates for Hannah Burroughs & Abigail Reed - Elizabeth Fletcher & Mercy Holmes, and have twice forwarded powers of Attorney to procure the money, but am informed by the Agent, in Portland, that their names were not reported to him -
In case, that of Sarah Gardner, whose declaration was forwarded with those named above, I have heard nothing from -
Yours very respectfully
Saml H Brown

October 20, 1939
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Mr. E. R. McKay 6 Southgate Park West Newton, Massachusetts
GALE COLE W. 22929 and R. 2137 BA-J/MMHF:MLB
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to the personal request of Mrs. C. C. Collins, Roachdale, Indiana, of October 18, 1939, that you be informed the cost of photostatic copies of the papers on file in the claims for pension based upon service in the Revolutionary War of Gale Cole, particularly the papers in the claim, (R. 2137) for pension which might have been due Mary Cole as his widow.
Photostatic copies of papers designated above will be furnished at the rate of twenty-five cents a page. The number of pages to be copied in the claim for pension (R. 2137) which might have been due Mary Cole as the widow of Gale or Gail Cole, for his service in the Revolutionary War, is thirty-one. The number of pages to be copied in the claim for pension (W. 22929) which was made by Cynthia Dennett as the former widow of Gale or Gail Cole, and based upon his service in the Revolutionary War, is twenty-six.
Remittance should be made by money order drawn to the order of the Treasurer of the United States and mailed to the Veterans Administration, Arlington Building, this city. Upon receipt of your remittance, the copies will be prepared and mailed to you.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

Mr. E. R. McKay
Yale Cole ff. 22929 and R. 2137
6 Southgate Park, West Newton, Mass.
cited above
Please inform the above named the cost of photostatic copies of papers in the claims for pension based upon service of Yale Cole in the Rev. War, especially in the claim made by Mary Cole.
By - Mrs. C. C. Collins Roachdale Ind.
Oct 18, 1939
wid. mary 31 pp.