Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4557, for Joseph Linnel, Massachusetts
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passes June 7th 1832
The State of Ohio
Licking County Ss 
On this 29th day of October 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Licking and State of Ohio Now Sitting Joseph Linnell a resident of Granville Township in the County and State aforesaid aged 77 years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers Major Winslow Captain Job Crocker Luit Joshua Bangs, in the Militia of the State of Rhode Island, in the fore part of December 1776 served the month, left the service the fore part of March 1777 (as out at two different times, the second time under Captain Fowler, Lieutenant Buck (other officers not recollected) in the Massachusetts Militia)
When first entered the service he resided in then Eastham Massachusetts, was a volunteer both times Marched through Barnstable and Sandwich to Bristol. He has no discharge or documentary evidence And he is not shure that there is any person whose testimony he can procure. He resided when he entered the service the second time in the same place then called Eastham now called Orleans in Massachusetts, Marched from Eastham to Cambridge near Boston he was in this tour of duty employed in guarding the British troop taken with Burgoyne, he entered the service he thinks, in the spring of 1778 and served three months. 
He was employed as a guard at Bristol.
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The following circumstance happened at Cambridge while he was there
An american soldier by the name of Green was on sentry at the foot of the hill a Brittish officer attempted to pass in a carriage without having a written pass or showing any side arms (contrary to orders) the soldier ordered him to stop the officer refused the soldier shot him dead, the British soldier abused the sentinal. The sentinal was put in the guard house, tried by a Court and aquitted.

Questions put by the Court

1st Where and in what year were you born?
Answer he was born in Eastham Massachusetts in the year 1754 December 3d.

2d Have you any Record of your age and if so when is it?
Answer I have a record in my Bible

3d Where were you living when called into, where have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live?
Ans I lived when called into service in Eastham Barnstable County, Massachusetts, since the war I lived in Granville in Massachusetts, and since the year 1805 he has lived in Granville Ohio
4th How was you called into service were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a substitute? and if a substitute for whom?
Answer he was a volunteer both times

5th State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served such continental and militia regiments as you can recolect and the general circumstance of your service
Answer He does not recolect the names of any regular officer, nor of any continental or Militia Regiments. He was a soldier in the militia and was employed part the time guarding prisoners at other times at Bristol in guarding
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the coast and keeping garrison. (The British were on Rhode island). And the militia were employed to keep the British from crossing Naraganset Bay

6th Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it?
Answer, Hed never received any discharge

7th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your service as a soldier of the revolution
Ans. Jacob Little William Mead

He herby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and declares that his name is not in the pension roll of the agency of any State 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year afore said
A - Coffee Clk
Joseph Linnel

We Jacob Little a Clergyman residing in the Township of Granville in the County of LIcking and State of Ohio and William Mead residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joseph Linnell who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that he believes him to be 77 years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a solider of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year afore said
Jacob Little
William Mead