Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 38631, Abner Cole, Conn. Continental

SERVICE
Conn. Continental
Cole, Abner
NUMBER
S. 38631
{ P.L.W. 382-150 Ensign Issued Apr. 15, 1800. No papers.
CONTENTS
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Connecticut Roll.
1888
Abner Cole Capt Belcher Ensign, 4 Connecticut line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on the 11 th of April 1818 .
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th of June 1818 , and sent to Stephen T. Horner, Esq. Middletown, Conn.
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818 ,
Service allowed
4 months 24/30 . $96.00
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
June 1 st 1779
War
over three years
Nathan Medary Co
Not Entitled to a pension under law 1 May 1820
Notification sent to John Fish Esq.
5 July 1820
Middletown Conn

I Abner Cole of South Berne County of Mid- -Wessex, a State of Connecticut do hereby certify - That I belonged to the army in the war of the Revolution a little more than eight years; - That I served seven months in the Company commanded by Capt. Scott, Capt. Lieutenant in the Regiment commanded by General Willis Esd, in the Connecticut Line; This was in the year One Thousand, Seven Hundred & Seventy of our Lord; - That I enlisted about December in the same year, for one year, in the Company commanded by Capt. Asaph Dilly in the a- -foresaid Regiment of General Willis Esd, in the Brigade commanded by Genl. Joseph Spen- -cer, & served in said Company until the expiration of the year for which I enlisted, That, on the first day of January One Thousand, Seven Hundred, & Seventy Seven I enlisted during the War in the Company commanded by Capt. Belcher, in the Regiment commanded by Col. Jeremiah Han- -tington, in the Second Connecticut Brigade; and immediately entered said Service, and served part of the time in said Com- -pany, part of the time as a Leader master's sergeant, & part of the time as a sergeant Major until the 20 th day of October One Thousand, Seven Hundred & Eighty one, when I was appointed & commissioned

an Ensign in the Fifth Connecticut Regiment and served in the army in said capacity un- til the end of the War, That in the month of June One Thousand, Seven Hundred and Eighty Three I was permitted to leave the army, at the time the troops who enlisted during the war were discharged. My said Commission I have delivered to the Judge who takes this Deposition.
I further testify, That I am Sixty Four years of age, have a wife & Son to support, and have property, the whole of which is of the value of one Thousand Dollars, or in my judgment, no more; & by reason of my reduced circumstan- ces in life I am in need of assistance from my Country for support, further I do not. Chatham April 11 th 1888. Abner Cole State of Connecticut ss. Chatham April 11 th 1888.
A. Before me Stephen Fiter, Notary Public Judge of the Superior Court for the State of Connecticut, personally appeared Abner Cole of St. Chatham, the signer of the preceding Deposition and made so- lemn Oath to the truth thereof. Fiter, Notary.

I Nathaniel Markham of Chatham in the State of Connecticut do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Abner Fols, the Bearer of the preceding Depositors, & with his circum- stances; I know his property in many fragments is of the value of a Thousand dollars & no more, - further I know not
Chatham April 11, 1818
Nathaniel Markham
B State of Connecticut, p. Chatham April 10 th 1818.
Before me Stephen Fitch, Wymere a Judge of the Superior Court for the State of Connecticut personally appeared Nathaniel Markham of the Chatham, the Bearer of the preceding Depositors, and made solemn Oath to the truth thereof.
S Fitch Wymere
C. I Stephen Fitch, Wymere a Judge of the Superior Court for the State of Connecticut do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Abner Fols did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in his preceding de- -claration on the first page hereof, against the common enemy; and in order to obtain the pen- -sion made in the late act of Congress for the Revolutionary Soldiers, I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforemen- -tioned act of Congress. - - - S Fitch Wymere.
Connecticut to be read at Chatham April 25 th 1818.

I John Fisk Clerk of the Superior Court for the State of Connecticut do certify, That the Honorable Stephen Fitch, Mayor of Ansonia in the State aforesaid, is one of the Judges of the said Court, and that his name subscribed to the Certificate pre- ceding marked A. B. C. is his proper hand writing and signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court at An- sonia aforesaid on this 20 th day of April 1815.
J. Fisk Clerk

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Abner Cole Chatham
yp. 30 June 1818.
not entitled

United States of America.
DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT } ss. County of Middlesex. }
On this 21 st day of June 1820, personally
appeared in open Court of Common Pleas, holden at Middletown within and for the County of Middlesex; being a Court of Record, according to the laws of the State of Connecticut; by which it was created; and having the power of fine and imprisonment; Abner Cole aged Sixty six years, resident in Chatham in the County and District aforesaid, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath, declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: to wit: that the said Abner Cole, enlisted for the term of seven months in the month June in a Regiment commanded by Col. of May 1775 in the Company com- manded by Capt. Ezekiel Scott in company, as more particularly stated in his original declaration, dated the Regiment A. D. 18 ; that he was received a Pension, the Certificate of which, bears the Number commanded by Col. Samuel Wyllis in the month of Dec. 1775. in the Company com- manded by Capt. Amasa Wells in the Regiment commanded by Col. Samuel Wyllis & continued in service till January 1 st 1777 when I was discharged in Peekskill in the State of New York and in the month of Jan 7. 1777. during the war in the Company command- ed by Capt. Belcher in the Regiment commanded by Col. Jedediah Hun- tington and served in said Regiment as a Non Commissioned Officer up to the date of my Commission from that time to the first of June 1783 I was then permitted to retire from the service at West Point in the State of New York that he has received a pension under the act of Congress of the 18 th of March A.D. 1818. & that his original declaration was dated the eleventh day of April A.D. 1818 & that the number of his pension Certificate is 1.688
their unfiled in print of amount & keeping a record of its proceedings
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident
citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby 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 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.

Schedule of the real and personal estate of
above-named, comprising every article of the same, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted. to wit: & apparel excepted
  90 Acres land & old House & Barn $675, one Yoke Oxen $50 725.00   2 Cows $28. Two Yearlings $11. Two Calves $4. one horse $50. 93.00   12 Sheep & Lambs $13. one Swine $5. Two spring pigs $2.00 20.00   Small notes $199.50, one old base Drawers $4. 3 tables $4 207.50   6 Windsor Chairs $3.50 one sett old chairs $1.25 4.75   2 Old trunks and old Chest all $1.75, one old Clock $3. 4.75   2 pr. Iron Andirons $1.50 Two pr. Slice & tongs $2.00 3.50   1 Iron pott Two kettles all $1.25. 1.25   1 Tea kettle Spider & Bake kettle all $1.25 1.25   14 Plates 6 Tea Cups & saucers 60 Three old Tea pots & other Crockery all. 25 0.85   1 pr. Decanters & 5 tumblers all 25, Looking glass old ditto all $4. 4.75   1 Sett Silver Table spoons old $10. one sett tea ditto old $3. 13.00   Old tin & pewter $1.25 Gold bks. $1.00 One old Cart $7. 9.15   1 Old Plow $2 sold draft chains one ax one hoe all $3. 3.50   1 Waggon $33. Old Candlesticks $1. one old Candlestand $2 36.50   Old knives & forks $1. Old Paddle & Bridle $5. Old loom $1.50 7.50   2 Old yokes & Staple & rings $1. one Great Bible & Small do $2. 3.00   22 Dollars in Loan Office at 6 pr. cent 22.00   76 Dollars in Loan Office at 3 pr. cent 76.00   Amt. of my Wife's money from which I expect never to derive any benefit she being my second wife (it having been agreed between her and me that the same should forever remain at her own disposal 333.00 
Abner Cole
1570.35

And the said Cole further swears that he now is is and has been by occupation a farmer that by reason of ill health he has been unable to labour much for his support for several years past, has been that at his health has been; for the reason such the present year owing to a complaint (called the gravel) that he has been unable to labour for his own support that there are the year, and my family consists of three persons who steadily reside with me;
whose names, ages, and capacity to contribute to their own support, are, as near as can be
ascertained by me, as follows, to wit: Lydia Cole aged fifty seven Years wife of the the; ability equal to Declarant in her support. feeble health and not of ability to provide for a aged her; ability own support her support.
By Reason of Lameness caused by a Broken ankle Abner Cole a son aged Twenty two Years of a feeble constitution able to support himself at present Anna Hargo aged thirty five Years of a feeble constitution troubled with Bodily infirmities unable to support herself with labour who and wholly unable to contribute to that support. the Declarant is justly indebted to sundry persons as nearly as he can at present ascertain to the amount of Fifty dollars SWORN to and declared on the 21 st  Abner Cole day of June 1820 before the Court of Common Pleas for Middlesex County.
W. S. D. Clerk of said Court.
I, W. S. D. Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Middlesex County, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court: and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is Fifteen Hundred Seventy dollars and Thirty five cents.
IN TESTIMONY whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this 21 st day of June 1820.
W. S. D. Clerk of said Court.

38 631
Rev INVALID.
File No. 38, 631
Howe Cole
Ensign Rev. 1870
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 98
[Arrangement of 1870.]

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED
For Oliver Cole Gentleman Greeting . We, Reposing special trust and confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct, and Fidelity, DO by these presents constitute and appoint you, to be an Ensign in the Fifth Connecticut Regiment in the Army of the United States, to take rank as _____ from the first day of _____ 1775. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of an Ensign by doing and performing all manner of things thereinunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers, under your command, to be obedient to your orders, as are and you are to observe and follow such orders and directions, from time to time, as you shall receive from this, or a future Congress of the United States, or Committee of Congress for that purpose appointed, a Committee of the States, or Commander in chief for the time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your Superior Officer, according to the rules and discipline of War, in pursuance of the trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in force, until revoked by this, or a future Congress, the Committee of Congress forementioned, or a Committee of the States.
Entered in the War Office and examined by the Board
Attest [Signature]
Secretary of the Board of War
Witness my hand & seal. Thomas Mifflin Esq. President of the Congress of the United States of America, at Philadelphia the 23 rd day of October 1775, and in the _____ Year of our Independence.
[Signature] President