Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13615, for Joshua Kendal, Connecticut
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Conn.

Kendal, Joshua
or
Kendall

NUMBER
S. 13615

carded

CONTENTS
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8439 
New York 
Joshua Kendall 
of Stephentown in the State of N York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Wright of the Regt. commanded by Col Willis in the Connt. line for 2 years 
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 80 Dollars per annum, to Commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 day of April 1835 and sent to A. Bull Troy 
Arrears to the 4th of Mar ‘35  $160 
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4th Sept ‘35  40  
$200 
{Revolutionary Claim. Act June 7, 1832.} 
Recorded by Geo. C Stiles Clerk, 
Book 6. Vol. 4. Page 23 
Examn'd with Orig. Rolls Aug. 1883. M.G.
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11, 142
Joshua Kendall
On Rolls
Aug 16 79 to 15 Jan'y 80
4 mo. 29
Aomd
26 Sept '32
12 Dec   "
14
Archibald Bull
Troy
N. York
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11,042
BRIEF in the case of  Joshua Kendall  in the State of New York 
(Act 7th June, 1832.) 
1. was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court 
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? 
3. How old is he? 71 years 
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
Period.  Nov. 1776  Duration of Service.  5 months   Rank.   private    Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Capt. Wright
Period.  May In 1777  Duration of Service.  8 months   Rank. private Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.  Capt. D. Allen. Col. Willis, Genl Parson
Period.  Jany 1778  Duration of Service. 3 months   Rank. private   Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.  Lieut. Lyon
Period.  March 1778   Duration of Service. 8 months  Rank.  private Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.  Capt. Allen, Col. Willis, Genl Parson
Period.   July 1779   Duration of Service.  5 months   Rank.  private  Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.  Lt. Jackson
Period.   Jany 1780  Duration of Service. 6 months  Rank.  Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.  Capt Allen, Lt. Walker, Genl. Parson
Period. July 1780 Duration of Service.  6 months  Rank.  substitute  Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.  Capt. McGregory, Col Durgy, Genl Parson
Period.   1781 Duration of Service.  “in service and prisoner one year” Bd ship Trippussy (prev officer mentioned)  Rank.    Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
5. In what battles was he engaged? 
6.  Where did he reside when he entered the service? Ashford Windham Conn 
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Witness for 3d, 4th, 6th & 8th terms  
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned  
W Trippett 
Examining Clerk.
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State of New York 
County of Rensselaer ss. On this fifth day of September 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of the Troy Mayors Court now sitting Joshua Kendall resident of Stephentown in the County of Rensselaer and State of New York aged Seventy one years who being first duly sum 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 in the month of November 1776 he enlisted in a company commanded by Captain Wright for 5 months and served his time out he resided at Ashford Windham County in the State of Connecticut when he enlisted. marched from there through Hartford, New Haven, Horseneck, New Rochelle to White Plains where he spent most of the winter.  That he enlisted in May 1777 in Captain Daniel Allens Company of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Willis in General Parsons Brigade to fill up the State troops - enlisted for Eight months and served his time out. Marched from Ashford aforesaid where he then resided through Hartford & other towns to Peekskill on the Hudson River in the State of New York.  That in January 1778 he enlisted in a Company (the Captains name he does not now recollect) the Lieutenant he was acquainted with whose name was Lyon for three months, marched from Ashford aforesaid where he then resided to Providence in the State of Rhode Island and served his three months out there.  That in the month of May of the same year 1778 he enlisted again in Captain Allen's Company of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Willis. General Parsons Brigade for Eight months and served his time out. marched from Ashford through Hartford, Danbury and other places to Peekskill on the Hudson River aforesaid. & from there to West Point and served his time out thereabouts. that in January 1779 he enlisted for Five months under Lieutenant Jackson & marched on Ashford aforesaid where he then resided, to Providence in the State of Rhode Island was stationed there to guard the shores during his Five months
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being the full time of his enlistment, that at the time that at the time of his enlistment under Capt Allen last above mentioned he resided at Ashford aforesaid that in the month of July 1779 went as a substitute for Jonathan Morris  for six months in Captain McGregorys Company of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Durgy of General Parsons Brigade marched from Ashford aforesaid where he then resided they Hartford and other places on to West Point in the State of New York served his time out there up and down the River built a Block house not far from Kings Ferry.  That in July 1780 he enlisted again under Captain McGregory & Colonel Durgy & General Parsons for six months as a substitute for Samuel Childs and served his time out.  Marched from Ashford aforesaid where he then resided in to West Point aforesaid, was present & saw Andre hung, was down as far as Morristown in the State of New Jersey that in June 1781 he enlisted on board of one of the American ships for a cruise, was taken prisoner by the British ship Minerva and took off the Coast of Ireland dock to Mill Prison in England & was there exchanged.  Was gone one year.  The name of the Ship that he enlisted aboard was Trippussy he sailed from Boston in the State of Massachusetts, that he has had written discharges from the service but they all lost.  Has not get any now.  That he knows of no person who can testify to all of his service.  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 of the agency of any State (or agency) only on that of the agency of the State of New York   
Joshua Kendal
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid Archibald Bull Clerk
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I Samuel Dean a Clergyman residing in the Town of Stephentown County of Rensselaer and State of New York hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Joshua Kendall who is named in the above declaration that believe him to be seventy one 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 I concur in that opinion
Samuel Dean
Sworn & subscribed this 3d day of September 1832 before me 
Nathan Howard Justice Peace 
I Nathan Howard residing in the Town of Stephenson County of Rensselaer and State of New York hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Joshua Kendall who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that believe him to be seventy one years age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have a soldier of the revolution and that I concur in that opinion 
Nathan Howard
Sworn & subscribed this fifth day of September 1832 in open Court 
Archibald Bull Clerk 
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after pulling the interrogatories prescribed by the War 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 Samuel Dean who has signed the preceeding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the Town of Stephentown County of Rensselaer and State of New York and Nathan Howard who has also signed a like certificate is a resident of the town of Stephentown aforesaid and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
I Archibald Bull Clerk of the Troy Mayors Court hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court
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the matter of the application of Joshua Kendall for a pension 
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this fifth day of September 1832. 
Archibald Bull Clerk 
State of New York 
County Rensselaer SS} I Archibald Bull Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Nathan Howard Esqr. before whom the foregoing certificate of Samuel Dean purports to have been sworn was on the due of the date of the same one of the Justice of the Peace in and for said County and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe the signature Nathan Howard hereto subscribed to be genuine 
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this fifth day of September 1832 
Archibald Bull Clerk
Jushua Kendall
Declaration for a Pension
11.042
New York
State of New York 
County of Rensselaer ss} On the 24th day of January 1833 personally appeared before me Nathan Howard a justice of the peace in & for the said County Joshua Kendall the above named applicant for a pension who being duly sworn deposeth & sayeth in answer to the objections contained in a Brief for the War Department Pension office & in addition to the preceding Declaration by him made
1st he was born in Ashford Windham County & State of Connecticut in the year 1760 
2nd   Has no record of his age as he knows of
 3rd In Ashford in the above state when called into service that the after the War followed a sea faring life for some years, has lived in Stephentown Renssalaeur  County & State of New York for 44 years where he now lives
5th  were stated in the declaration all that he recollects.  In and to the service in Wyllys Regt part of the service he enlisted to fill up the Continental Troops as a State soldier & part of his service under him were time as a militia man, as a substitute under Wyllys he thinks there is no record further states that he served at the different times mentioned in his declaration in all a term of three years as a private soldier in the Revolutionary war.  
Joshua Kendall
Sworn & subscribed this 24th day of June 1833 before me Nathan Howard Justice of the Peace
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Ca Noles Willies Regt
Connt
2 years pri 
80 $
State of New York 
Rensselaer County ss }
I hereby certify that Nathan Howard Esqr before whom the annexed affidavit & amended declaration of Joshua Kendall purports to have been sworn was on the day of the date of the same one of the Justice of the Peace in and for said County and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his signature thereto subscribed is genuine. In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said County this 6th day of February 1833 
Henry R. Bristol Clerk 
for N. Howard Just, Depy
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I John Tufts of Ludlow in the County Hampden & Commonwealth of Massachusetts testify and say that I am well acquainted with Joshua Kendal of Stephentown in the State of New York. We first become acquainted in the year 1776 at Ashford in the State of Connecticut on which time I was with the said Kendal more or less every year till [unreadable] the last years. In the year 1778 the said Kendal enlisted as a volunteer, at said Ashford into the United States service in the company of Capt Daniel Allen, in Col. Wyllys Regiment, Gen Parsons Brigade of the Connecticut Troops and joined the American army at West Point about the first of May of the same year this deponent also a soldier in the same company & messed with the said Kendal during the campaign of Eight months the period for which they enlisted. The said Kendal served out the term of his enlistment & was honorably discharged & returned to said Ashford in company with this deponent.  This service was performed at West Point, Peekskill, White Plains & the vicinity and in New Milford, Tucker Hill, & Reading, Ct. The said Kendal & this deponent were discharged by a verbal order as he believes, about the first of January 1779
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Deponent will remembers that the said Kendal was in the service of the United States, at several other times during the Revolutionary War, and that this fact was well known & believed by his neighbors & never doubted by any one.  He remembers that the said Kendal had but just returned for a three months campaign in Rhode Island, when they enlisted & proceeded to West Point, as before stated. He also remembers that the said Kendal enlisted for six months in the year 1779 & went to Peekskill & understood at the time that he was at Stoney Point & vicinity knows that he returned home after an absence of about six months that the said Kendall in the year 1780 also was out as he understood, six months in the Jersey, along the North River & well remembers his going & returning home. This Deponent well remembers that during about the last two years of the war the said Kendal was in the Naval service & as he believe in armed vessels of the United States that he was a prisoner of war on board the old Jersey Prison ship at the time of the peace in 1783 and that during his
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service at sea, he was taken prisoner on the coast of Ireland & taken to the Mill prison in Plymouth, England, where he was afterwards exchanged. These stories this Deponent after heard about the service of the said Kendall in the War of the Revolution at the time the events transpired. 
Dated at Springfield Ms. the 20th day of September A.D. 1832  
John Tufts 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Hampden County SS  Sept. 20th 1832. 
Then John Tufts, above named personally appearing, subscribed & made solemn oath that the foregoing Deposition was true Before me James W. Crooks 
Justice of the Peace 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Hampden ss I John Ingersoll a Clerk of the Common Pleas Court being Court of Record in the County of Hampden do hereby certify that James W. Crooks Esq before whom the above deposition was verified is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Hampden & that his name thereto subscribed is his proper signation. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Common Pleas Court of Springfield on this 20th day of September A.D. 1832 
John Ingersoll Clerk
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I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with John Tufts he within named deponent that full faith & credit is and ought to be given to his deposition 
James W. Crooks Justice of the Peace Hampden Co. Mass
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Rev War 
13615 
INVALID. 
File No. 13,615  
Joshua Kendall 
Pri Rev War 
Act: June 7 1832 
Index: - Vol. 1, Page 203 
[Arrangement of 1870.].