Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 45165, for Robert Randall, Rhode Island
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SERVICE  
R. I.
Va.
Va. Sea Service

Randall, Robert

NUMBER
S45165
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4 Mar 1819 [?]
4,799
New Hampshire Roll

Robert Randall
Private - 4
Virginia Line
[I]n the army of the United States during the Revolutionary Wa[r]

[I]nscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire
[a]t the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence o[n] [th]e 2d of May 1818

[Ce]rtificate of Pension issued the 8 of Decem'r 1818. and Sent to Edward Evans, Enfield, N. H.

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818. 3 mo. 30/31 + 4/30 - 32:80
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 March 1819  ------------- 48:
                                                                               $80:80
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}

Continued
Served above four years
Hanover.
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Notification sent Ben J. Gilbert 
Hanover N. H. July 20. 1820
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April 15th 1833. wrote to the Agent at Portsmouth N Hampshire, to pay whatever might be due
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Lebanon Dec 27. 1832
Gen L. Cass Secretary of War

Sir

At the request of Hannah Randall the widow of Robert Randall late of Hanover deceased a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States I forward to the Pension Office the accompanying paper with the following statements.

Robert Randall the husband of the sd Hannah, a Revolutionary Pensioner, died at Hanover May 24, 1823. At the time of his decease, the arrears of pension due at the decease of a pensioner would not be paid except to an administrator legally authorized, and as Randall left no other estate, the amount due on his pension would not pay the expense of taking out letters of administration. Mrs Randall soon after this, left the state of New Hampshire, on her return last summer, she being old, infirm, and very poor, applied to the overseers of the poor for assistance & was told that as there was some arrears of pension due her, which she could now obtain, she must apply for it, the necessary papers were made and sent to the agent for paying pensions at Portsmouth NH. but he said that as Randall had been so long dead, he could not pay it without directions to do so, from the Pension Office, her reasons for not applying before are above stated and she wishes that directions may be sent to the agent at Portsmouth to pay her the amount due her as soon as convenient, as she is in great need of it for her support.

Very Respectfully yours &c
Timothy Kenrick

If the money will be paid she wishes all the papers sent to Samuel Cushman Esq Portsmouth NH the attorney named therein
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Robert Randall personal
May 2d
Admitted
[faint & lined out: Suspended for]
[illegible]

Ed. Evans
Enfield N. H.
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District of New Hampshire
County of Grafton
At the Superior Court of Judicature of the State of New Hampshire holden at Haverhill within & for the County of Grafton being a Court of record of said County by law established on the thirtieth day of May in the year of our Lord 1820 personally appeared in open Court Robert Randall [inserted: a man of colour] aged eighty four years resident in Lebanon in said County in said District of New Hampshire, who first being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows Viz a private soldier in Capt J. Gurty's Company & Colo. [lined out: Lanes] Patterson's Regiment in the Rhode Island line, that his original declaration was made & dated second day of May 1818 that he has received a pension & that his pension certificate is numbered four thousand seven hundred ninety nine

And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 And that I have not 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 for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed I further declare that I am by occupation a farmer able to do a little. I have a wife weakly poor creature & two children at home with me named James Randall aged 15 & Edward Randall aged 12 years I have two children from home who do not help me they live at a great distance from me I am really poor & old
Robert (X his mark) Randall
Witness John Renchard
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Lebanon May 29 1820
To 1 Cow 20.00
To four Chairs .1.00
To 2 pots .2.50
To one bake pan .1.50
one tea kettle .1.00
To two skillets . .42
To one chain 1.25
To one Plow .1.50
To two axes .3.00
To one hog .5.20
To one saddle .3.50
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40.87

Robert (X his mark) Randall
Witness John Renchard

We being appointed to appraise the property of Robert Randall and appraised the property according to the best of our judgments

William Buck
John Stevens

Sworn to & declared before the Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature of the State of New Hampshire in open Court on this 30th day of May 1820

Attest S. P. Webster Clerk
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I Stephen P. Webster Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the county of Grafton do hereby certify that the foregoing oath & the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of said Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is forty dollars and eighty seven cents - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court on this 1st day of June Anno Domini 1820-

S. P. Webster Clerk
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Copy
Robert Randall
(a man of color)

4799
March 1819

Continued
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STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE
Grafton SS.)

On this second day of May 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Courts of Common Pleas for the second District in said State comprising the County of Grafton personally appears Robert Randall aged sixty years, resident in Hanover in the said State, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the hereunto annexed & by him subscribed declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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:" That he the said Robert Randall enlisted in the Revolutionary Army in the Virginia line, in the State of Virginia in the company commanded by Lemuel Rogers of the continental establishment: that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States, for more than four years, when he was discharged from service and received a written evidence thereof but lost; the same when afterwards a prisoner to the Indians - and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services. 
Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.

Wm H. Woodward

I, Wm H. Woodward Judge of the Courts of the Common Pleas as aforesaid, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Robert Randall, for a longer term than nine months at one period did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy; is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of  the assistance of his country for support and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. 

Witness my hand and the seal of said Court no particular imp[illegible] being used therefor the day and year before written.

Wm H. Woodward
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I Robert Randall of Hanover in the County of Grafton & State of New Hampshire a free black man of the age of sixty years testify & declare that I served as a soldier in the revolutionary war betwixt the United States of America & Great Britain for more than four years in the whole, on the Continental establishment. I enlisted in Fairfax County in Virginia under Lieut. Rogers who brought me to Rhode Island where I joined the regiment under Col. Patterson under the command of Gen. Gandlebuss & remained under his command for the term of two years, in which time I march'd to Fort Stanwix by order of Gen'l. Clinton, & was confined six months in the Hospital at Albany, by reason of a wound I received in my arm from a musket shot, after which (having serv'd out my time) I had a discharge from Col. Patterson ^at Albany & went home to Virginia. Afterwards, I enlisted under one Capt. Richardson & with a great number of other soldiers was put on board of a 70 Gun Frigate commanded by Capt. Monk at Williamsburgh in Virginia, & we were the next day taken by the British, & taken to the Isle of Wight & there detained six months, we were then brought by the British to York-Town & came to the forks of James' River, where I ran away from them, intending to go home; but met Capt. Sharpe & enlisted under him & went again into the service & remained about two months when we were dismissed by Col Lines. The money I received for my wages would not bring hardly anything & I about lost the whole of it. Afterwards I went to the Westward to get the land granted to me as a soldier, when I was taken by the Indians between Limestone & Fort Wheeling on the Ohio & ^who kept me a prisoner eighteen months. I then ran away
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from them & by way of Detroit went to Montreal & from there to the State of New Hampshire about twenty five years since & whilst with the Indians I lost my discharge. I further say that I am now a resident Citizen of the United States, & that from my reduced circumstances I need the assistance of my Country for support & I do hereby relinquish all claim I may have to any pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States - if any such there be

Robert (x his mark) Randall
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45165
Revy INVALID
File No. 45165
Robert Randall
Priv. Rev; War
Act: 18 March 1818
Index:----Vol. 3, Page 410
[Arrangement of 1870]