Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35,585, for Joel Prindle, Connecticut
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  SERVICE                                           NUMBER
Continental (Conn,)  Prindle, Joel      S. 35,585
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                       No 19786

                    Connecticut
                     Joel Prindle

of Litchfield Co in the State of Connecticut who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Hoagland of the regiment commanded by Colonel Sheldon in the Connecticut line, three years from October 1780 to 1783.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 5th day of April 1827.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 19 of July 1827 and sent to Ansel Sterling, Esq.
               Sharon, Connecticut
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Arrears to 4th of ....................................................
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 1 Sep 1827    $ 40.00
                                                           ________
                                                           $ 40.00
                     {Revolutionary Claim
                      Acts March 18, 1818,
                      and May 1, 1820.
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                       20.377
   Joel Prindle

on first set certif.
    Vol 2
    Page 96  No 34,533

Com of Pen    5 Apl 1827
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                           Original Claim
County of Litchfield for Joel Prindle on this fifth day of April 1827, personally appeared in open Court being a Court if Records for the County of Lichfield, resident in said County aged seventy five years, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on his Oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Act of Congress on the 18th of March 1818 and the first of May 1820, that he the said Joel Prindle enlisted for & during the War of the Revolution, on or about the 15th day of October 1780, in the State of Connecticut, in the company commanded by Captn  Teronamen Hoagland, in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Elisha Sheldon, of which Regiment Benjamin Tallmaster was Major- in the line of the State of Connecticut, on the Continental establishment - that he continued to serve in said corps untill the close of the War, when he was discharged from service in Danbury in Fairfield County in the State of Connecticut, that he hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension that his name is not in the roll in any state except Connecticut & the following are the reasons for not making an earlier application for a pension - viz - that he has lived in the State of New York and New Jersey for the greater part of the time since the close of the War, without the reach or knowledge of any person who had any knowledge of his revolutionary services - & that he has not been worth any property at any time -& had no friend to aid him until the present time - and that without the aid of Zebedee Sturdevant, he should not at this time be able to make this application - and in pursuance of the Act of the first of May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a
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resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 818, & 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 any property or securities, contracts or Debts due me nor have any income other than what is retained [?] in the schedule hereunto annexed, & by me subscribed, and that I have no property of any kind except what I have now on my person which  is nothing but [illegible] clothing, and that I had no more of either since the 18th of March 1818, & I have no wife but three children, that I have no means of support but what is derived from my daily labour, that I am lame with the rheumatism & otherwise in poor health, that no changes have taken place in my property for the last ten years for I have had none,-
                                     his
        {Signed]     Joel      X   Prindle
                                    mark

Sworn to & declared on this fifth day of April 1827. before the County Court for the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut.

   Attest   Frederick Wolcott, Clerk
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I Frederick Wolcott, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Litchfield within the State of Connecticut, certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the said Court that the said Joel Prindle did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding Declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months under one agreement, on the Continental establishment, I also certify that the forgoing Oath and the schedule there to annexed are truly copied from the Records of said Court & I do further certify that the said Joel Pringle is not worth one cent of property.
  In testimony whereof I have set my hand & affixed the Seal of said Court this fifth day of April AD 1827.--
    [Signed]   Frederick Wolcott, Clerk
                         of the said Court.

[Seal affixed lower
left corner]
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                                           February 7, 1927
Mrs. Francelis Peek
Broadalbin
N.Y.

Madam:

       I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 35585, it appears that JOEL PRINDLE enlisted in Connecticut October 15, 1780, as a private in Captain Jeronimus Hoogland's Company  in Colonel Elisha Sheldon's Second Regiment of Light Dragoons and served until the close of the Revolution.

      He was allowed pension on his application executed April5, 1827, at which time he was sixty-five years of age and was a resident if Kent, Litchfield County, Connecticut.

       In 1827 he referred to his three children and stated his wife was then dead but he didn't give any names.

                            Respectfully,

                                                               
                               Winfield Scott
                                      Commissioner
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C.5       35585


                     Revy  INVALID

File No.........................................35,585........

Joel Prindle

Pri   Rev War 

Act:  18" March 18"

Index: - Vol. 2, Page 331
           [Arrangement of 1870.]


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June 23 - 1903 - His
Admiral, F.C. Prindle
______________________________  
1927, Feb. 7, hist to 
Mrs. Francelia Peek
    M.C.S.
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O. W.& N. Div.
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Respectfully returned to
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                        35,585

Joel Prindle
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Apl. 5, 1827
Litchfield Co. Conn
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Oct 15, 80 --------  Conn
Capt. Hogeland [sic]
Col. Elisha Sheldon
Pvt   3 yrs
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no Bat. men
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                    FRANCELIA PEEK
                    BROADALBIN, N.Y.

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:-

Will you  please send me the abstract of military history any additional items of interest of the papers in file for application for Pension of
      Joel Prindle Conn Line
      File No 85585
               Yours Very Respectfully
                Mrs. Francelia (Prindle) Peek

Pension Office stamp, 
bottom left
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OWTH     OLD  WAR & NAVY       THE CAIRO 
  ECL           JUN 22  1903        Washington, D.C.
                        FILES                    June 17, 1903.

Sir:-
  I have the honor to respectfully request a statement of the military history of the following named soldiers of the Revolutionary war [last two words underlined], should they or their widows appear upon your records as pensioners or applicants for pensions or bounty land, etc.- reference to whom is made as follows:
    In "Rolls and lists of Connecticut in the Revolution."  [title underlined]
ABIEL or ABEL PRINDLE:  3rd Regt., Col. Wyllys, authorized June 30, 1780 to meet requisition made by Gen. Washington.
EZRA PRINDLE:  of Capt. Peck's Co., on sick list   
                            in 1775
    In "New York as Colony and State in the 
             Revolution"  [title underlined]
JOTHAM PRINDLE: 1st Regt. - The Line.
JOSEPH PRINDLE: 3rd Regt. - The Line.
ENOS J. PRINDLE:  2nd Regt. Artillery. - The 
                               Line
JOEL PRINDLE: Additional Corps. - Green 
                        Mountain Boys. - The Line.
JOEL PRINDLE: 13th Regiment Albany County 
                          Militia
BENJAMIN PRINDLE: 1st Regt. Orange Co. 
                          Militia (Land Bounty Rights.)
DAVID PRINDLE:  1st Regt. Orange Co. Militia  
                           (Land Bounty Rights.)
 
                   Very respectfully, 
                          F.C. Prindle
                              United States Navy,
                                   Rear Admiral, retired

The Hon. Commissioner of Pensions,
                Washington, D.C.

[NOTE:   "O" precedes the names Abiel, Ezra, Joseph Benjamin and David Prindle; a checkmark is before Jotham, Enos and the first Joel Prindle. Joel Prindle of the 13th Regiment has no mark.]
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Lemuel Orton of the Town of Newmilford in Litchfield County and State of Connecticut of the age of ninety seven years come before me one of the justices of the Peace for County of aforesaid & upon his oath deposes and says that he served his country in the War of the revolution about six years in the Regiment commanded by Col. Sheldon     That he with said Regiment was discharged A Danbury in Fairfield County and State aforesd at the close of the War      That during his said service as aforsd he became acquainted with one Joel Prindle since about two years in said Regiment at he close of the War in the Company commanded by Capt. Jeronamous Hoagland & in the same company that deponant belonged & this Deponant is perfectly confident of the service of said Prindle as afsd for more than one 2 as he thinks & believes two years for he perfectly recollects that said Prindle was Known & frequently called the black Monkey by way of nick name for his dark complexion & straight black hair-
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Deponant further recollects that said Prindle during said service was sometimes drafted as a waiter and sometimes as a Waggoner & further sayeth not
                 [Signed]  Lemuel Orton

Litchfield County Js Sharon, July 13th 1827 personally appeared before me Lemuel Orton subscriber to the forgoing Deposition & made oath to the truth of the same   I further certify that I am not acquainted personally with said Orton but from the representations of Men to me well known of undoubted integrity & veracity.  I certify that in my service full credit is due to the testimony of said Orton

    [Signed]  Ansel Sterling Justice of Peace
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Litchfield County of Litchfield April 3d 1827, personally appeared before me one of the Justices of the Peace for said Litchfield County Joel Prindle to me well-known to ascertain the character of a man of truth & veracity & whom upon his oath deposeth & Saith that during the two last years of the revolutionary war he was well acquainted with Joel Prindle now of Kent in said  Litchfield County and that during said two years in the company commanded by Capt .Jeronamus Hoagland & in the regiment commanded by Col. Elisha Sheldon  that he said Prindle now a {illegible] for the service is rendered in the same regiment during said period in the company commanded by Capt David Elgar & that after the close of the War the whole of the afrsd Regiment was discharged in Danbury in the County of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut

        [Signed] Zechariah Hull

Sworn before me the
subscriber this 3d day of April 1827

   [Signed] Ansel Sterling Jud of Peace
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Frederick Wolcott, Clerk of the County Court within & for the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut certify to whom it does concern, that Ansel Sterling & Nathan Slosson, signers now are  and  for more than one year last past have been Justices of the Peace within & for sd County, and that the signatures to the preceding Certificates which purport to be theirs respectively are as I verily believe genuine and their  proper handwriting - And that full faith & merit are due to their attestations & acts.
Witness my hand & the Seal of said Court this 5th day of April A.D. 1827.

                  [Signed]  Frederick Wolcott -
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES            DIVISION OF
FORM YAM-51                                VETERANS
    12-5-41                                ADMINISTRATION                        
                                                               ARCHIVES

          BOUNTY LAND RECORD CARD*

NAME... Prindle, Jonas Enos   GRADE... Private  
            LINE... Lamb's Artillery  (New York)

WARRANT NUMBER.... 7655     ACREAGE ...100.....
      ISSUED.... Aug. 1, 1795  
            To ___________ not shown

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The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2-4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to  1800" which are  registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates,. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in the National Archives.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES          DIVISION of
      FORM VAM-51                       VETERANS'
                                                ADMINITRATION
                                                    ARCHIVES

    BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

NAME....Prindle, Jonathan  GRADE.... Private
     LIST.... New York

WARRANT NUMBER..... 7634... ACREAGE.... 100
    ISSUED .... July 19, 1792
         To  Jesse Atwater, assignee

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The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in the National Archives.