Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 45,093, for Joseph Randall, Vermont
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SERVICE
Green Mountain Boys
Vermont.

Randall, Joseph

NUMBER 
S. 45,093
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4637 New York

Joseph Randall
or Owego in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Potter of the Regt commanded by Col Warner in the Vermont line for 21 months & 5 days & 
Green Mt. Boys

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 70 Dollars 55 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 25th day of January 1833 - and sent to Tho. Harrington Owego N.Y.  

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 - $105.82 0/-
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 33 35.27 0/
------
$141.10

d. May 22-1836

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Tho Cromwell Clerk, 
Book D Vol 5 Page 132
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In the matter of the application of Joseph Randall for a Pension
Declaration 

No. 5599.

declares he is 88 years old - & that he was does not know in what year he was born
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. -

State of New York
County of Tioga }
ss. On this 22 day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared before me John D. Drake a Judge of the Court of Commons Pleas in & for the County of Tioga aforesaid at my office in the village of Owego in said County Joseph Randall a resident of the town of Owego in the County and state aforesaid aged eighty eight years last May 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 7, 1832. -
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That he entered the service as a private soldier in Captain Oliver Potter's Company in Colonel Seth Warner's Regiment under General Montgomery. Joseph keeler was a Lieut. in said Company. That Captain Potter and Lieut. Keeler both died with the smallpox at Quebec, after which the company was commanded by Captain Waite Hopkins. That he entered in the service for the first time in April 1775. This Regiment was called "The Green Mountain Boys" That he continued this engagement till in November following. That he knew at the time he entered the service in the town of Clarendon now in Vermont which was then, he thinks, a part of the colony of New York. And that he enlisted for the company. That he was at the taking of Crown Point under Colonel Warner; and also at the taking of Montreal. It
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was late in the fall when St. Johns and Montreal were entered by the American troops - in the year 1775 - That he was also at Quebec during the winter following; and was stationed near the River above the town within he thinks, a mile and a half of the town. That General Schuyler he believes had something to do about the expedition against Quebec. That the Company to which he belongs and some other New York troops, were stationed at the same place above Quebec hill he thinks, some time in May 1776, when the British ships arrived at Quebec. Some of the American troops were stationed at the same time on the island of Orleans below Quebec. When the ships arrived they retreated; all that cant got away. Some of the sick were left, he could not get away - a good many had the small pox - He knew two persons who were left sick by the name of Powers - David Powers and Asahel Powers of Springfield. The Americans retreated up the river to Montreal. They remained a short time at Montreal. And the said declarant further declares that he was in the service under two different engagements, one immediately succeeding the other - The first terminated at Montreal in the fall of 1775 he thinks in the month of November. He then returned home to Clarendon & then enlisted again under the same Captain & Lieutenant and in the same regiment, as before and went on to Montreal again. He thinks he arrived there some time in the fore part of January 1776; and from there he went to Quebec with Col. Warner. The regiment did not all go from Montreal at the same time, but went in detached portions at different times. And he thinks some of the regiment remain at Montreal, but is not certain. This was his second
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engagement - During the time of his first - engagement - the troops embarked at Ticonderoga and went down Lake Champlain by water & down the river south to St. Johns under the command of General Montgomery. They all landed on a point above St. Johns, and the next day Colonel Warner's regiment and Colonel Bedel's regiment went across the wood and to their station on the river a little below St. Johns. General Montgomery accompanies them to this station & then went back to the point above St. Johns, as he understood. Here they remained he thinks about three weeks and then he with Warner's regiment & Bedel's regiment went to Souguisle and there remained until St Johns had surrendered - & then they entered Montreal - the army having left it on hearing the news of the surrender of St Johns. - Soon after this his first engagement terminated. And that he then returned home and reenlisted and went to Quebec as before stated. He further states that he knew Colonel Waite's regiment- That there were troops at Quebec at the time he was there from New Jersey & from New York and he thinks from New England. That Captain Potter and Lieut. Joseph Keeler died while at Quebec with the small pox; and after their death he served under Captain Wait Hopkins, but don't recollect the Lieut's name. He knew Captain Bronson of Warner's regiment, and other the names he does not now recollect. That he was in several skirmishes about Sanguile and at Chandler and the White House. They took the House & one or two prisoners - That he continued in the service as a soldier under the second engagement until some time in June after his
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re-enlistment; when he was discharged at Montreal and then entered the service as a teamster; and so continued till March or April 1778 when he became a soldier in Captain Sawyer's Company of Minute Men in Clarendon aforesaid. That he continued in said Company of Minute Men till the end of the war. That while he was in said company as a minute man he was called out several times into actual service and as such was frequently out from two to forty days at a time. That he was at the Battle of Bennington in said company as such minute man. That the whole time that he was actually on duty as a minute man in the aggregate amounts to about a year. That he has no documentary evidence of his having served in any capacity or in any service during any time of the Revolutionary War. And that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service. That he had a written discharge which was accidentally lost - by leaving it with other papers at Johnstown Montgomery County while moving into this country. That he does not recollect in what year he was born. He had a record of the ages & of the family but it was lost at the time he moved into this Country with his discharge. He was born in Old Providence Rhode Island. The precise dates in the above declaration he cannot state. They are according to his best recollection. 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll agency of any state. 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Joseph Randall
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before me
John R Drake Judge ⎬
Tioga Com Pleas
State of New York
State of New York
Tioga County (??.) Henry Thompson of Owego in the County
aforesaid and Richard Hemstraught of the same place being duly sworn do severally
depose and say that they are well acquainted with Joseph Randall who has subscribed and
Sworn to the above declaration; that they believe
him to be about 88 years of age; that he is re =
(Jrut?) [illegible] and believed in the neighbourhood where
he resides to have been a soldier of the revolu-
tion, and that they concur in opinion.-
Subscribed and sworn this
22nd day of August 1832
before me.-
John R Drake Judge
Henry Thompson
Richard Hemstraught
Tioga Com. Pleas N.Y.
And I the said Judge do hereby declare my
opinion after the investigation of the matter
and after putting the interrogatories prescribed
by the War Department that the above named
applicant was a revolutionary soldier and
served as he states. And I the said Judge further
certify that [it appears to me that (this part lined through)] Henry Thompson
and Richard Hemstraught who have sworn to
and subscribed the preceding affidavit are both
personally known to me and that they are residents
of the said town of Owego and that they are both
credible persons and that their statement and
affidavit are entitled to full credit. - And that
it satisfactorily appears to me that the clergyman
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residing at the said Joseph Randall, the
above named applicant has resided in that
neighbourhood but a short time and is but
sightly acquainted with the said applicant &
that it is for this reason that the certificate
of the said Clergyman has not been procured.
And I do further certify that the said Joseph
Randall by reason of bodily infirmity
and old age is unable to attend the sittings of the Court in this County. Dated August 22 1832.-John R Drake Judge 
Tioga Common Pleas, N.Y.

The Department will indulged that I have been personally acquainted with the above named applicant for more than twenty years and from his acknowledged good character for truth and veracity I am induced to give the fullest credit to his statement of facts-J R. Drake

State of New York}
Tioga County Clerks Office.ss}  I David Riddle Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Tioga & Deputy Clerk of said County of Tioga Do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings had before John R. Drake Esquire a judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the said County of Tioga in the matter of the application of
Joseph Randall for a pension. And that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said John R. Drake and believe that the signatures John R. Drake Judge &c to the above foregoing declaration affidavit & certificate are the genuine signatures of the said John R. Drake, and that at the time of the dates thereof he was a judge of said Court duly authorized and commissioned to perform the duties of a judge
of said Court & that his acts as such are entitled to full credit-
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 22d day of August A.D. 1832-
David Riddle Depy Clerk
The Clerk being absent from the Co.
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admitted
21 mo. 5 days
private
$71.55
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State of New York}
Tioga County ss}

Personally appeared before me the undersigned
a justice of the Peace of the town of Owego in
the County and State aforesaid Joseph Randall
who being duly sworn deposes and saith that
by reason of old age and the consequent loss
of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of each period of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the period mentioned below and in the following grades for seven months I served as a soldier in Captain Oliver Potters Company. For months I served as a soldier in a company commanded by Captain Patter till his death and afterwards by Captain Wait Hopkins these are the first two engagements as mention in my declaration to which this is annexed as an amendment. while I was a teamster as stated in my said declaration and before my enlistment as a minute man in Captain Sawyers Company as there stated I was called from my employment as a teamster and served as a soldier under Colonel Lee from the 1st of July 1777 to the 20th of October 1777 making 3  months and 20 days! I inadvertently omitted to have this term of service inserted in my declaration to which this is annexed. In this
tour of service I was at the taking of Burgoyne
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3
& was during the time transferred from one com
pany to another two or three times-- Benjamin
Hopkins commanded the company I belonged to a part of the time I do not now remember
the other Captains companies were not reg
ularly organized and the men were collected from all quarters. I was also in Gideon Bronson's
company a part of the time. He was afterwards
promoted, & became a major-
My service as a minute man in Captain
Sawyer Company referred to in my said 
2.15  declaration is as follows; For two months and a half as a soldier from the 15th of January 1779 to the 1st of April 1779. I was stationed at Shelburn in Vermont on the shore of lake Champlain at the house of one Parsons. A part of the Company were stationed at Hoagland house a little distance off-- We had a skirmish here with a party who attacked us & killed two of our men. they Set Parsons house on fire but we put it out and drove them off and killed several of their party. We left there the next day.
3. -I also served as a soldier in said company for three months commencing on the 20th day of December 1780 and ending on the 20th day of March 1781-
Eight of us were dispatched by Captain Sawyer
from the alarm post at Clarendon Vermont with a sled and horses to go to Crown Point for a small first piece-- We got the first piece and while bringing it away we were attacked by a scouting party and taken prisoners and carried to Montreal. I escaped from man
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Montreal and returned home. We were taken on Christmas day. The rest of the 8 remained at Montreal as prisoners till May following-
The above periods of service are all that I
now recollect that I can distinguish by a
definite statement. I was in the service at
various other period some of a few days &
others of a few weeks but I cannot designate
the times. For the above services I claim a
pension under the act of Congress passed June
7. 1832.-
I omitted by accident in my declaration to
which this affidavit is annexed as an amendment, to state the names of persons to whom I and known in my present neighbourhood & who can testify as to my character for truth and veracity and their belief of my services as a soldier of the revolution.-- I now to supply that mission, give the names of Latham
A. Barrows Esq. John R. Drake Esq. Henry
Thompson Esq. & David Henstraught of the
town of Owega Tioga County, and James White
timore and Lewis Keeler of the town of Union
Broome County                    Joseph Randall

Subscribed and sworn to this 13th day of December, 1832 
Before me
E. Smith Judge Justice of Peace
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State of New York
Tioga County Clerk's office ss) 

I Certify that Ezra S. Sweet Esqr before whom the within deposition was taken was at the line of taking the same an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County of Tioga- and that I am well acquainted with his handwriting and verily believe the signature E. Smith Sweet subscribed to the same to be genuine
and that full faith & credit are due to all his
Official acts-Witness my hand and seal
of Office this 13th.

Day of December A.D. 1832
David Riddle
Deputy Clerk
Tioga County N. Y.
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.
ADY                         
                                                          July 31, 1929

Charles Cafferty,
Apalachin,
New York.


Dear Sir:

I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 45093, it appears that Joseph Randall was born in Old Providence, Rhode Island.
He enlisted in Clarendon, Vermont in April 1775,
served as a private in Captain Oliver Potter and Wait Hopkins' Company, Colonel Seth Warner's Regiment of Green Mountain Boys, was at the taking of Crown Point and Montreal. He then returned home and re-enlisted in same
company and regiment, returned to Quebec about January 1776 and served until June 1776, was in engagements at Longueuil, Chambly and White House, and was discharged at Montreal.
He entered the service as teamster, July 1, 1777,
served under Captains Benjamin Hopkins, Gideon Brownson and Colonel Lee, was at the battle of Bennington and the taking of Burgoyne and was discharged October 20, 1777.
On January 15, 1779, he joined Captain Sawyer's Company of minute men at Clarendon and served on various tours
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to the end of the war, amounting to over six months, during which period he was in several skirmishes, was taken prisoner
December 25, 1780 and carried to Montreal but made his escape.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 22, 1832 while a resident of Owego, Tioga County, New York, and on that date it is stated that he was "aged
eighty-eight years last May".
Soldier died May 22, 1836.
There are no family data.

Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH,
Commissioner.
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1929 July 31 Hist to Charles
Cafferty, A. D. Y.

Revy
45093
INVALID.
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File No. 45093
Joseph Randall
Priv. of the Vt Line

Act 7th June 1832
Index: -- Vol. 3 Page 410

[Arrangement of 1870]
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Apalachin, Tioga Co., N.Y.
April 11, 1929

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen,-
Would you kindly give me copy of pension application of the following pensioned Revolutionary soldier.
Joseph Randall
-
Born May 24, 1745 & Died April 21, 1836
Buried on the boundary of Owego, Tioga Co.
N.Y. and Vestal Broome Co. N.Y.
Wife Tryphosa--. Feb. 1, 1842 An. 79 yrs
---Probably a native of Vt.
Had son Samuel born 1775

Very Respectfully
Charles Cafferty

REVOLUTIONARY $ 1812 WARS SECTION
APR 4-1929
BUREAU OF PENSIONS