Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 21151, Jesse Crandall, R.I.
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RI
Crandall, Jesse
or Crandal
S. 21151
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274940
Rhode Island
Jesse Crandall
of Charlestown in the State of RI
who was a first Sergeant in the Comp commanded by Captain Park- of the Regt, commanded by Colo. Varnum in the RI line for 
12 Months Private
8 Months Sergeant
Forwarded on the Roll of RI at the rate of 80 Dollars [ empty line] cents per annum 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834

Certificate of Pension issued the 25th day of June 1834 and sent to Wm P Newell Esq Kingston RI.
[Illegible] to the 4th of Mar 1832          $80
amount due at his death [Illegible] allownance ending 18 July .... $16
$96
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by George Taylor Clerk
Book E Vol. 2 page 105
Certificate issued to his wife Hannah and [Illegible]
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832.
State of Rhode Island, County of Washington, Town of Charlestown. on this 3d day of March 1834, personally appeared in open court before the judges of the court of probate now sitting within & for said town of Charleston Hannah Crandall & Mary Crandall residents of said Charleston who being first duly sworn according to law do in their several oaths make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed June 7th 1832 - that they are as they have ever understood & believe the legitimate children of Jesse Crandall late of said Charleston who then departed this life on the eleventh day of July 1832; their mother Zilpha the wife of their said father died before his said decease that their said father at the time of his decease life no widow; that at the time of his decease he left no children except these declarants within their knowledge though he formerly had a son by the named of Asa Crandall who about eighteen years time removed to some part of the state of Pennsylvania of whom for a number years was passed they have seen nor heard nothing Y of whose life on death at the present time they know nothing; that one of these statement sis fifty five & the other
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is fifty three - years of age and from the time of this enlistment [illegible] up to the time of their father's decease they lived with him & have often found the said of this early youth ... to never the time of his death had him stated that he served against the enemy in the war of the revolution; particularly that he served in Col. Varnum's reg.t at Diospert Hill near Boston in the year 1775 eight months that he subsequently during the revolutionary war belonged to Capt. Parks company of the militia in said Charleston  & served guarding against the enemy at the [illegible] Park at Zuma on [illegible] Neck in Charleston & in its vicinity on this canon gunsett shore eighteen months on [illegible] & they also think they heard him say he served against the enemy at Princeton & in Rhode Island Sullivan's Expedition but they can not say they heard him state how long he served at the two last above mentioned places. They [illegible] stated that his services at Baton [illegible] Neck in Namagansett were in Col. Wayne's Reg.t what grade he served in these ...day say, but they reamin her of ...him say that in his eight moths service near Prospect Hill he drew on death out the the rations to the soldiers. These