Individual Details

Probate

This is his will in which he leaves half to wifeRachel and half to Matthew Hawkins who was living with him in 1820 in thepension filehttps://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8800/images/005516945_00646?treeid=114784348&personid=182118723344&usePUB=true&_phsrc=Fgz56482&_phstart=successSource&pId=7078835

Military

On 12 June 1818, Benjamin Dole of the town ofJefferson in Schoharie County, New York, aged 73 years and 28 days, madeapplication for a Revolutionary War pension. On 1 March 1781, he enlisted fromJaffrey, New Hampshire for a term of three years in the company of Capt. Senterand Capt. Benjamin Ellis, regiment of Col. Henry Dearborn. He was discharged atNewburgh, New York 7 June 1783 having obtained a substitute for the remainingeight months of his term. On 7 June 1820, Benjamin provided additionalinformation on his circumstances. He had no real estate and listed a fewpersonal items. His household was his wife Rachel aged sixty-two years andMatthew Hawkins aged ten years old. The pension file includes Benjamin’sdischarge signed by Gen. George Washington.[1][1] U. S.Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, Case S43514

Biography

Jaffrey historyhttps://archive.org/details/historyoftownofj00cutt/page/304/mode/2up may leave Jaffrey about 1795 – seems to be toVermont

Property

On 10 April 1794, Benjamin Dole yeoman of Jaffreywith his wife Relief (deed witnessed by David French and Benjamin Dole, Jr.),in consideration of £40, sold to Asa Thompson lot number five in the fifthrange of lots containing twenty acres and a second lot that was part of lotnumber three in the fourth range containing six acres.[1][1] NewHampshire Land Records, Cheshire County, 98:111index for Jaffrey deeds – there are severalpossiblehttps://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS3L-33VZ-7?i=264&cat=56152deed bookshttps://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/56152?availability=Family%20History%20Library98:111 is 1794 Benjamin and Relief selling 6 acresin Jaffrey to Asa Thompsonhttps://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSRH-D3WX?i=62&cat=56152Benjamin Dole of Jaffrey, for payment of £12,purchased property from Ezra Edson on 29 May 1793, that being 46 acres from lotnumber fourteen in the fifth range. On 23 March 1795, Benjamin Dole of Jaffreypaid the delinquent taxes on this property. On 4 June 1796, Benjamin Dole, Jr.of Jaffrey (likely Benjamin’s son), sold a tract of land in Grafton toCornelius Baker of Grafton (who was the spouse of Benjamin and Relief’sdaughter Betty). On 6 October 1806, Thomas Dole of Grafton (likely son in thefamily) sold 41 acres in Grafton to James Rhoads.[1]      [1] VermontLand Records, Town of Grafton, 2:380, 3:56, 3:149, 4:296Grafton, Vermont deed index 2:380, 3:56, 3:149 –there is a deed for Thomas Dole at Grafton 4:296 – Benjamin buys property inGrafton and sells some – not sure he lives therehttps://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSVG-K4B5-X?i=79&cat=227491deed bookshttps://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/227491?availability=Family%20History%20Library Grafton, Vermont 2:380 – buying in 1793https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSVG-K4YK-D?i=579&cat=2274913:56 – 1795 – property in Grafton still in Jaffreybut may be about the property he already bought and has to do with taxes owedhttps://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSVG-LSHG-N?i=56&cat=2274913:149 – 1796 – still in Jaffrey sells in Grafton –but this is Benjamin Dole, Jr. and to Cornelius Baker who is one of thesons-in-lawhttps://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSVG-LSHK-T?i=102&cat=2274914:296 – Thomas Dole of Grafton sellinghttps://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSVG-LSHD-K?i=380&cat=227491