COILE/COYLE pension app.
by Ernie/Jeanne Arguelles
Dear List Admin: Here is a COILE/COYLE pension application from Oglethorpe
Co, GA. Maybe it will help someone on your list.
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Oglethorpe County Superior Court
Book 1820-1823
(Pages not numbered)
Georgia
Oglethorpe County
In the Superior Court of said county, October Term 1820, before the
honorable Augustus S. CLAYTON, one of the judges of the Superior Court of
said State, presiding therein on this 16 day of October 1820, personally
appeared in open court, being a court of record according to the
constitution & law of said State, James COYLE, aged seventy years, who being
first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following
declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of congress
of the 18th March 1818 and the 1st May 1820; that he, the said James COYLE
entered the Sixth South Carolina Regiment which was a Rifle Regiment, as a
2nd Lieutenant in George WADE's Company, the regiment being in the beginning
of the year 1776 commanded by Col. Thomas SUMPLES. That at the time of his
entering said regiment and for 15 months thereafter, the said regiment was
in the State Service as he then understood & believes. That while in this
service & during the 15 months State Service he was promoted to a 1st
Lieutenant; that at the expiration of the 15 months aforesaid, the said
regiment was placed on the Continental establishment in the South Carolina
line as he then understood & believes. And shortly thereafter he was
promoted to Captain in the same Regiment and was sent to the recruiting
service with orders to enlist men for 3 years or during the War, and under
those orders he filled his Company until it was two thirds filled or
thereabout; that he continued in said service until the beginning of the
year 1779, when he resigned his commission unto the hands of Col. Or Maj.
HENDERSON of said Regiment. That while in Continental service, he was at
Goat Island near Sullivans Island when attacked; he was also present at
engagements at Hanging Rock and Rocky Mount; he was also present at the
Battle of Kings Mountain, but not while in commission, and this deponent
states that he has now no other evidence in his possession of his said
service except his own oath, having lost his commissions of Lieutenant and
given that of Captain.
And in persuance of the act of the 1st May 1820, I do solemnly swear that I
was a ______ citizen of the United States on the 18 day of March 1818 and
that I have not since that time, by gift, sale or manner disposed of my
property or any part thereof with the interest 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 during the Revolutionary War passed the 18th day of March
1818. And that I have not nor has any person _____ for me any property or
securities, contracts, or debts due to me nor have I any income other than
which is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
200 acres of poor land 3rd quality, 5 head of horses, 2 cows & calves and 3
yearlings, 2 head of sheep, 10 head of hogs, 1 old waggon, some small
household furniture, exclusive of bedding and clothing.
The declarant further states that he is by occupation a farmer, that he is
now so old and infirm as not to be able to pursue it. That he has a wife 61
years old and a wife's sister named Margaret MARGRABY about 58 years old, a
young man about 17 years old named Henry WARE whom this deponant has raised
from a child and who will shortly leave him, and little girl named Sally
STRICKLAND over whom this deponant has no legal control.
Sworn to and delivered in open court this 16 October 1820.
James COILE
Augustin S. KAY, Judge
I form of the opinion from the best information I can obtain that the
property mentioned in the foregoing schedule is worth $3050.00.
Augustus S. CLAYTON, Judge
I, Isaac COLLIER, cleark of the Superior Court of Oglethorpe County Georgia
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 _____.
The testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this
the 16th day of October 1820.
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Jeanne Arguelles
ejarguelles(a)msn.com