Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39328, Ephraim Cole, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Col. Ephraim
NUMBER
839328
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Nov. 4, 1904 Mrs. M. E. McCon McGregor Texas.
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File No. 39 328
Ephraim Dole Rev Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 98
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Warren 3. April, 182—
Sir, Please to send by the Bearer, Ephraim Gole to the Town of Warren, an Account of the Wages that he has Received During the Nine Months that he has Inlisted for as the Town has Engaged to Pay what is Due When his Time is out; and your Compliance will much oblige yours To be Sir Jeremiah Olney John Child Committee

7076 Rhode Island
Ephraim Cole
of Warren in the state of Rhode Island who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel H. Jackson of the Massachusetts line, for the term of 3 years - Dec r 83
Inscribed on the Roll of Rhode Island at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 30 th of March 1818 -
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 th of March 1819 and sent to Daniel Bradford Esq r . Bristol Rhode Island
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 11 6 / 31 89. 54 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Sept. 1819 40. 00
137. 54
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued Bristol County
Notification sent October 16 1820 to Richard Smith, Bristol, Rhode Island

Ephraim Cole prob Jacksons. Mass. Regt 3 years service
Admitted

I Ephraim Cole of Warren in the County of Bristol in the State of Rhode Island do declare and say that I am a native citizen of the United States & served in the Revolutionary War upwards of five years that I first enlisted in the Company commanded by Capt. Mathew Allen in the Regiment commanded by Col. Thomas Church of the R.I. Line & served eight months, I again enlisted in Boston in the Company commanded by Capt. Sloan in the Regiment of Col. Patterson & served one year, I again enlisted without delay enlisted in the three year Service in the 16 th Regiment of the Massachusetts line commanded by Col. Henry Jackson in the 2 d Company commanded by Capt. William North and served my time of enlistment out and was discharged, I again enlisted under Capt. Ebenezer Macomber in the Regiment commanded by Col. Jeremiah Olney and was discharged at Saratoga at the disbanding of the Army, I further declare that I am in my seventieth first year of my age, entirely destitute of Property of every kind, and in indigent circumstances learning but a scanty living for myself & Wife who is unable to lend a helping hand for our subsistence. Ephraim Cole
State of Rhode Island &c March Bristol ss at Bristol this 30 th Day of April 1818 Personally appeared Ephraim Cole who subscribed the foregoing Declaration and made solemn Oaths to the truth of the same. Before me Daniel Bradford Chief Justice County of Bristol I have also affixed the Seal of the Court

We the undersigned Overseers of the Poor for the Town of Warren do hereby declare that Ephraim Cole who subscribed the within (foregoing) Declaration is an aged Man, extremely Poor, and depend wholly on his labour for the support of himself & Wife which is very scanty, that E Cole now resides in the Town of Warren
Stephen Mason Overseer of the Poor
Warren, April 1 st 1818. I certify that the within named Ephraim Cole served in the 15 th Mass ts (now 4 th Reg t ) commanded by Henry Jackson, & served in the 2 d 6 th commanded by W m North, for the term of three years or thereabouts, according to the best of my recollection.
Nath l Phillips, Quartermaster Genl. of S. Reg t .

Ephraim Cole
1076
Sept. 1019
Can

State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations. County of Bristol ss.
On this 26 th of June 1820. personally appeared in Open Court being the Court of Common Pleas for said County, and a Court of Record, Ephraim Cole Aged Seventy three Years, resident in Warren in said County; who being first duly Sworn according to Law doth on his Oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War three Years in the Regiment of Col. Henry Jackson in the Company of Capt. Drown & North, of the Massachusetts line, that my original declaration is dated 30 th March A.D. 1818. and that I have received a Pension Certificate N o . 7076. and Dated fifth day of March A.D. 1819 and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 th March 1818. and that I have not since that time, by gift, Sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18 th day of March 1818. and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or Debts due to me, nor have I any income, other what I receive from Government, agreeable to the above named Certificate, nor any property excepting necessary Clothing & Bedding contained in the annexed Schedule & by me subscribed, Viz, One small house which cost me forty Dollars, & paid from my pension Money excepting ten Dollars which I now owe towards it; 6 Old Chairs, 1 Old Table, some Brokery Ware, six knives & forks, 2 Iron Pots & 1 kettle; that I never learned any Mechanical Trade but have earned my living for myself & family by dayly labour; my family now consists of only my Wife Aged 72 Years who is now confined by Sickness and under the care of a Physician. —
(Signed) Ephraim Cole
Witness Daniel Bradford
Sworn to and declared in Open Court, on the twenty sixth day of June A.D. 1820. before said Court.
Witness Rich d Smith Clerk
Rhode Island District.
Bristol ss. Clerks Office of the Court of Common Pleas. for the County of Bristol. I Richard Smith Clerk of said Court, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath, and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Records of the said Court. and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the amount of the property exhibited in the foregoing schedule is forty five Dollars and that the said Ephraim Cole is indebted towards his house the sum of ten Dollars. —
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court, on this Twentieth Day of July A.D. 1820. Rich d Smith Clerk of s d Court.