Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,198, William Udell, New York Vt.
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New York Vt. Udell, William  R.10.198
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In the matter of William
Udell a Soldier of the 
Revolution

Schuyler Crippen
Worcester Otsego Co
New York
Ice  to G Cripppen
Abt 18:34
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State of New York
Otsego County

4th day of February 1834 
personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Otsego now sitting William Udell a resident of the Town of Maryland in the County of Otsego and the State of New York aged seventy five years on the nineteenth day of February instant, 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 on the first of June 1776 he enlisted into a Company Commanded by Capt Powers according to his best recollection, in Col Baratts Regiment, in which Company there were two Lieutenants one by the name of Cook and the other by the name of Pettit- that he enlisted into said Company at Hartford in the State of Vermont and marched from Hartford to Rutland Vermont where he was stationed with the Troops under the Command of Col Barratt for about four months.  from thence marched to Ticondaroga on Lake Champlain, the principal part of the way through the wilderness and was stationed at Ticondaroga for some time and how long he cannot recollect- at this time Lance Genl Arnold at Ticondaroga. After remaining at Ticondaroga for some time marched from that place back towards Rutland and the troops under command of Col Barratt were engaged for a considerable time in cutting out and making a road between Rutland and Ticondaroga. After being thus engaged for three or four weeks the troops marched to Rutland where they were stationed and remained a short time and from thence marched to a place not far distant from what was then called No 4 on the Connecticut River. The name of the place not now recollected and was then discharged from the service, which was at the expiration of six months from the time he entered the service as above stated. And he also declares that he was in actual service under the above enlistment for the full period of six months in the company and regiment above stated. The officers above massed and under whom the said six months service was
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rendered were strangers to Miss [illegible] into the service under these understood they were from the easter states and whether they were continental officers or Militia officers he cannot state after being discharged from the service he returned home to [illegible] where he then resides with his father.
And he further declares that in the month of June 1777 he was drafted at Hartford [illegible] into a company of militia commanded by Capt Tracy and about the 20th of June marched from Hartford for Ticondaroga a distance of about one hundred miles
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Troops continued about Fort Ticonderoga for several days - and finally had orders to march back without making any attack on the Fort which was then garrisoned by the British Troops  - and he further states that the troops marched back to a place called Pollate and he was there dismissed from the services and he further declares that he was in actual service at this time for four weeks and he further states that he came to recollect the names of the officers who were with the troop during the services except he recollects that Col Lincoln or General Lincoln was the officer who gave orders for the Troops to march back before any attack was made on the Fort - that after being discharged from the service he returned home to his fathers aforesaid.
That sometime between the year 1777 and 1780 his father moved from Hartford in Vermont to the Town of Stephentown then in the County of Albany in the state of New York now the County of Renpelair.  That in the Summer of 1780 or 1781 an alarm was given that Sir John Johnson with a great body of Indians and Tories under his command were there.  They marched towards Schenectady down the Mohawk River and he further  declars that he was then drafted at Stephentown aforesaid in the Company of Militia commanded by Capt Turner and Lieutenant Moffat - that he marched immediately from Stephentown in said company to Albany, where the troops remained a day or two and there marched to Schenectady where a halt was made and where he was stationed with said Troops and continued there for little more than a week.  at this time other Troops were stationed at Schenectady but he cannot recollect the names of the officers stationed with the Troops at that place.  And he further declares that he was in the
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service at this time for two months, and was discharged from the service at Schenectady and returned home to his father in Stephantown of service. 
And he further declares that the following are the answers given by him to the several interrogatories prescribed by the War Department 
1st That he was home in the town and Fredericksbore (then called) in the County of Dutchep New York on the 19th day of February 1759
2 That he now has in his possession the Record of his age entered in his family Bible which was taken by him from the Record left by his father in his family Bible 
3 That he was living at the Town of Hartford in the State of Vermont and at Stephentown where he was called into the service as above stated. That since the Revolution he has resided in the Towns of Westerly and Rensselaerville of (illegible) County New York for the period of forty eight years. That he removed from Westerly in April 1832 to the Town of Maryland in the County of Otsego where he has lived and now resides 
4 That the manner of being called into the service was as he has herein before stated. That he did not serve at anytime as a substitute for any other person 
5 That the names of the officers who were with the troops where he served and the general circumstances of his service are above set forth as fully and particularly can now recollector state the same 
6 That he never received a written discharge from the service as he now can recollect 
7 That he is known to Abraham Mills, Amos H Brown, and Claudius Wilson and Joshua Lobdell of his present neighborhood and who can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution 
And he further declares that he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no
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person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services further than the testimony of Lionel Udell whose deposition is hereunto (illegible).
Also that there is not any clergyman residing in his neighborhood or vicinity, wherefore he cannot obtain the testimony of a clergyman in compliance with the instructions from the War Department in that behalf made and he further declares that he was not engaged in any civil employment whatsoever at anytime while he was in the service as herein before stated and that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of money he cannot secure more positively to the precise (illegible) of his services or more fully state the manner of the Officers with the troops where he served. But that he is positive and (illegible) that he actually rendered all the services set forth in the above declaration and further not 
William Udell

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid 
Horace Lathrop Clerk

We Abraham Willse residing in the Town of Hartford, Otsego County and Gradius Wilson of the Town of Maryland in the same county do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Udell who has subscribed and sworn to the above declarations that we believe him to be seventy five years of age. That he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion. Also the said Abraham  Willse further states that that he has been well acquainted with the said William Udell for the period of forty years last part and that he is a man of good reputation and his statements written to full credit and belief. Also the said Gradius Wilson saith that he hath known and been well acquainted with the
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said William Udell for the period of twenty five years last past, and that he is a man of good character and entitled to full credit and belief

Sworn and [indecipherable] the day and year [indecipherable] 

+ [indecipherable] Mills Mark [indecipherable] Wilson

Horace Lathrop. [indecipherable]
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State of New York } Lionel Udell of the town 
Albany County } of Bethlehem in said County being duly sworn before me the under named one of the Justices of the said County doth depose and say that in his seventy three years of age that on the year 1776 he the deponent lived with his father Lionel Udell in the Town Hartford in the State of Vermont  and that William Udell a Brother of this deponent was then living with his father this deponent says that he believes said William Udell now lives in the Town of Maryland in the County of Otsego and State aforesaid and he the deponent recollects that in the spring of 1776 his father and his Brother William Udell enlisted into the service for the line of six months as he the deponent was then informed and were absent from home six months and he this deponent believes and understood at the time that his Brother was in the service during that time and I was said at the time that the said William Udell was marched to Ticonderoga.
This deponent further says that in the month of June 1777 his Brother William Udell was drafted and marched as was said at the time to Ticonderoga in a company commanded by Captain Tracy and Luis Brink does not recollect how long he said William Udell was absent thinks about three or four weeks .
This deponent further says that at the time for John Johnson marched down the Mohawk River he this deponent and William Udell his Brother lived with the family of his father in the Town of Stephentown there in the County of Albany, his Brother William Udell was drafted and marched from Stephentown and went as
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Was said at the time to Albany was gone about 2 weeks and further saith that

Sworn and subscribed 
this 28th day of January 
1854 before me Lionel Udell

I certify that I am personally acquainted (with) the above named Lionel Udell and believe him to be a man of a good moral character and maybe departed on for truth and veracity. 
dated Bethlehem January 28th 185?
Hiram Babcock 

City and County of Albany Clerks Office 
I Conrad A. Ten Eyck Clerk of the said City and County do hereby certify 
That Hiram Babcock before whom the foregoing affidavit passports to have been taken and sworn and whose name name is also subscribed to the certificate of credibility was on the day of the date of the same one of the Justice of the Peace in and for the said County. That I was acquainted with his handwriting and verily believe his name subscribed to the same is his proper handwriting and signature. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the Seal of the said County this 29th day of January 1834. 
C. A. Ten Eyek
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And the said court do hereby declare their 
opinion after the investigation of the matter and after puting the interrogatories prescribed by the department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Abraham Wilsey who (illegible) the preceding certificate is a resident of the town of Westford in the county of Otsego New York and that Gradius Wilson who has also signed the same is a resident of Maryland in the same county and that they are respectable person and that their statement are entitled to credit.
J. O. Mase
J. C. Watworth
Seth Chase, Judges

State of New York }
Otsego County } I Horace Lathrop Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said county of Otsego do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the manner of the application of William Udell for a Pension. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this 13th day of February 1834. 
Horace Lathrop Clerk
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Wm. Udell
Revy
Suspended
Sen. let to S. Grippen Esq
Apr 18 '34
10798
Act of June '32
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 8, 1873
REJECTED
10,198
P.O.
Willam Udell
Service: ___________
Enlisted: ___________, 18  . 
Discharged: ________, 18 .
Application filed: _______, 18 .
Alleges: ________
Re-enlisted:_________
Attorney : _________
P.O. _____
______Recognized.  _______Contract.
_____Cert. of Dis.  Searched for_______, 18. .