Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 39375, Joseph Crandal, Continental (R.I.)
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[typed] (3-1776)
SERVICE [written] Continental (R.I.) Crandal, Joseph [typed] NUMBER [written] S 39375
[typed] CONTENTS [blank]
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[written on the side of document] The declaration sent September 26 182[?] 
Amos Cross Westerly Rhode Island
[written] 13,645
Rhode Island
Joseph Crandal
[typed] of [written] Hopkinton [typed] in the state of [written] Rhode Island
[typed] who was a [written] private [typed] in the regiment commanded by
Colonel [written] Hitchcock [typed] of the [written] Rhode Island
[typed] [illegible] for the term of [written] One Year
[typed] Inscribed on the Roll of [written] Rhode Island
[typed] at the rate of [written] 8 [typed] Dollars per month, to commence on
the [written] 2 [typed] of [written] January 1819
[typed] and [written] Sent to Amos Cross Esq
Westerly Rhode Island
[typed] Arrears to 4th of [written] March 1819 2/34 16: 77 / 1.8/ $64:77
[typed] Semi-anl. all'ce ending [written] 4 Feb 1819
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
[written on the bottom of document]
Contested
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[written] State of Rhode Island & Providence
Plantations
Washington Sc} Clerks Office Court Common Pleas & Govt
Divsions of the Peace Jan 5 1818.
I certify that the Honble Amos Cross Esq. whose
certificate is hereto annexed is Chief Justice of [illegible]
Court aforesaid Legally chosen and Qualified
as the Law requires & that full faith & Credit
ought to be given to his certificate throughout
The United States & Elsewhere. and that the Seal
here impressed is the true Seal of the Court [illegible]
[illegible] Sam Helme Clerk
[seal affixed & illegible]
State of Rhode Island Sc  As was hereby in the Countyof Washington on the 13th Day of July 1819
personally appeared before the subscribing authority
Joseph Crandal who subscribed the preceeding
declaration and who further deposith & saith that
according to the best of knowledge & belief
that the Company in which he enlisted & the Regiment to which said Company was attached
as stated in the foregoing declaration
were Rhode Island troops and contributed
a part of the Rhode Island Line
Joseph Crandal
Sworn to before the subscriber the Day & Year
[illegible] within  
Amos Cross C. J. C. C. Pleas
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[typed] (3-1776)
SERVICE [written] Continental (R. I.) Crandal Joseph [typed] NUMBER [written] S 39375
[typed] CONTENTS] [blank]
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[written] State of Rhode Island Sc
Washington Couty  Sc.
In the County of aforesaid on the Second Day of
January one thousand eight hundred & nine
teen before the ssubscriber Chief Justice
of the Court of Common Pleas for said 
county of Washington personally appears
Joseph Crandal aged ninety eight years
resident in Hopkinton in the said District 
who by me bring duly sworn according to
Law, doth on his oath make the following
Declaration  In order to obtain the Provision
made by the law and of Congress entitled and
act to prove a certain pension engaged
in the land & naval service of the United
States in the Revolutionary War  That
in the said Joseph Crandal enlisted in the United States Service at Prospect Hill [illegible]
Boston in the state of Massachusetts in the com
pany commanded by Capt John Spur in Col
Daniel Hitchcocks Regiment the time served
command on the final day of January 1776
during which term of service he was stationed atRhode Island City of New York & at the White Plains
at the last places was taken sick
of [illegible] from [illegible] was carried to the 
Hospital at Norwalk{?} in the state of Connecticut
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[written] where he continued until the 4th Day of January
1777 was then discharged  And that
he is in wound circumstances and stands in
[illegible] of the asistance of his country for support
and that he has no other evidence now in his power
of his said service enough this corroborating 
testimnoy transmitted herewith
Joseph Crandal
At was hereby the Day & Year first written Joseph
Crandal subscribe to the preceeding declaration
made solemn oath in the truth of the same
Before Amos Cross C. J. C. C. Pleas  
I Amo Cross Chief Justice & as aforesaid do certify
that is appears to my satisfaction that the said Joseph Crandal did serve in the Revolutionary
War as stated in the providing declaration against
the common enemy and I now transmit the
knowings & testimony taken that before me
is the truth of the war department personal to the
observations of the aforementioned Act of Congress
I further certify that the said Joseph
Crandal is an aged infirm man who is
in indigent circumstances and in my opinion
in this [illegible] an object truthfully within the
provisions of the aforesaid Act of Congress
Given at Werterly [the rest of the sentence is illegible]
of January 1819 
Amos Cross C. J. C. C. Pleas
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[written] State of Rhode Island & Providenxe
Plantations
Washington Sc} Clerks Office Court Common Pleas & Govt
Divsions of the Peace Jan 5 1818I certify that the Honable Amos Cross Esq. whose
certificate is hereto annexed is chief Justice of 
Court aforesaid Legally chosen and Qualified
as the Law requires & that full faith & Credit
ought to be given to his Certificate throughtout
The United States & Elsewhere. And that the Sealhere impressed is the true Seal of the Court afored
[illegible] Sam Helme Clk
State of Rhode Island Sc  As was hereby in the County
of Washington on the 13th day of July 1819
peesonally apperaed before the subscribing authority
Joseph Crandal eho subscribed the preceding
declaration and who further depoisth & saidth that
according to the best of his knowledge & belief
that the Company in which he enlisted & the Regiment to which said Company was attached
as stated in the foregoing declaration
was Rhode Island troops and constituted
a part of the Rhode Island line
Joseph Crandal
Sworn in before the subscriber the Day & Year
[illegible] [illegible]
Amos Cross C. J. C. C. Pleas
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[written] Joseph Crandall
136[?]5
Sept 1819
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[typed] State of Rhode-Island & Providence-Plantations.
WASHINGTON, sc.--Court of Common Pleas, [written] Special [typed] Term, A. D. 182[written]0
[typed] ON this [written] fifth [typed] day of [written] July [typed] 182[written]0, personally appeared in open Court,
being a Court of Record within and for the Couty of Washington, in the State of Rhode Island, &c.
[written] Joseph Crandal [typed] aged [written] Seventy   [typed] Years
residing in the town of [written] Hopkinton [typed] in said [written] County [typed] who being first duly
sworn according to law, doth on his Oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War aa follows:-
[written] that he served in Col D. Hitchcock Regiment a private
of the Rhode Island Line One Year
[typed] That he mad a previous Declaration on the [written] Second [typed] Day of [written] January [typed] 18[written] 19, [typed] and
that he received a Certificate for a Pension, being No [written] 13645-[typed] And in porsurance of the Act of Con
gress, passe May1st, 1820, 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 since that time,by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever,
disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent therby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within
the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "As 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, and by me
subscribed.
[written]nJoseph [his X mark] Crandall
[typed] A SCHEDULE of Property and Income, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted of)
[written] Joseph Crandall said Crandall Declares that he has
no property of any Description whatever-   
And this declararent futher said that he is House
Carpenter but cannot work at that Trade in Consequence
of ill Health and that without his pension he must depend
on Charity
Joseph (his X mark) Crandall
[typed] Sworn to and declared, on the [written] fifth [typed] day of [written] July 1820 [typed] before [written] said Court
[written] Hon Sam  Helme Clk of the Court
[typed] Washington,sc. Clerk's Office of the court of Common Pleas. A. D. 182[blank]
I [written] Samuel Helme [typed] Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for the County of
Washington, in the state of Rhode-Island, &c. do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath and the Scedule
thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Records of said Court;-- And I do further certify, that it is the
opinion of the said Court, that the amount in value of the Property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, is
[written] Nothing [typed Dollars, and Cents crossed out]
In Testimony wherof, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this
[written] Tenth [typed] Day of [written] July [illegible]   [typed] 182[written] [illegible]
[written] Sam Helme [typed] Clerk of said Court.
[Seal affixed/ illegible]
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[writtten] State of Rhode Island
Washington County Sc
On the fourteenth Day of 
in the year one thousand Eight Hundred & Eighteen
in his proper Person came before me
Amos Cross Esquire Chief Justice of [illegible]
the Court of Common Pleas for said County
of Washington  Elijah Crandal now residing
in Westerly [next four words crossed out] in 
the County aforesaid who on his solemn oath
testidied & saidth that he enlisted as a Soldier
in the service of the United States in the
Revolutionary War in the Company commanded
by Capt Elijah Rivers[?] in Col James M
Varrmims[?] Regiment for one year the home
of service commencing on the first Day of January 
1776  that while stationed at Prospect
Hill near Boston one Joseph Crandal of westerly
aforesaid with whom the [illegible]
was well acquainted who also enlisted as a soldier in [said revolutionary, crossed out] the United
States in the Company Commanded by Capt
John Spur in Col Hitchcock Regiment for
one year the time of service commencing
on the first day of January aforesaid from
Prospect Hill both Regiments were marched to
the City of New York and from there to Long
Island after the Evacuation of Long Island 
both Regiments were stationed at Harlem
on York Island and afterwards at the White Plains during which time
and until some time in the month of November
dollowing the date of his enlistment the defedent
frequently saw the said Joseph Crandal and
always understood that he was a faithful
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[written] at westeely the Day & Year first written
Elijah Crandal subscribed to the precieving declara
tion made solemn oath to the truth of
same before me
I further Certify that I Have been
Peesonally acquainted with Elijah Crandal the
above despondentfor about twenty years during
which time he has been considered as a Person
of credibikity and generally esteemed & respected
for his truth & veracity
Amos Cross C. J. C. C. Pleas
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[typed] RECORD DIVISION
REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTIONS 3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C., [blank], 19[blank]
[written] AWF
S39375
[typed] In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank]
for a statement of the military history of [written] Joseph Crandal
[typed] a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
information aa contained in hsi (or his widow's / crossed out) application for pen-
sion o file in thus Bureau.  
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. [written] Jan. 1, 1776
[typed] LENGTH OF SERVICE. [written] 1 yr
[typed] RANK. [written] Pvt.
[typed] OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. Captain. [written] John Spurr
[typed] Colonel. [written] Daniel Hitchcock
[typed] STATE. [written] R.I.
[typed] Battles engaged in, [written] none stated
[typed] Residence of soldier at enlistment, [written] Weterly Washington Co. R. I.
[typed] Date of application for pension, [written] Jan. 8, 1819 His claim was allowed.
[typed] Residence at the date of application, [written] Hopkinton, Washington Co. R. I.  
[typed] Age at date of application, [written] 68 yrs
[typed] Remarks: [written] Ther is no date on file as to family
[illegible]
[typed] Respectfully,
Commissioner.
[typed] [numbers blurry/illegible]
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[written] State of Rhode Island Sc
Washington Couty Sc
At weterly on the
thirdteenth Day of December (one thosand/ crossed out) In the
Year One Thousand Eight Hundred & Eighteen
Peesonally appeared before the subscriber Chief
Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for said
County of Washington Perry Edwards of
Hopkinton in the County aforesaid who
on solemn Oath testifies & says that he
enlisted as a soldier in the United States Service in the Revo
lutionary war at Prospect Hill near 
Boston in the common wealth of Massachusetts
for one year in the company commanded
by Capt John Spur in Col Hitchcocks Re
giment the time of service commanded
on the first day of January 1776 and that
he served his time out That while  
in said Company he was personally acqu
ainted with one Joseph Crandal now 
residing in said Hopkinton in the County
aforesaid. Who is now personally presentbefore the subscribing authority and
that the said Joseph Crandal did enlist
as a soldier at the same time and place in the 
Company commanded by the said John spur
in Col Hitchcock Regiment for the term 
of one year the term of service commencing on the said first day of Jan 7 1776 and that 
the respondent further will recollect that the said Joseph Crandal served faithfully in said
Company until towards the close of the Year
until according to his best recollection 
sometime in the month of November  that
he said Joseph was then taken sick & carried to the
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[written] I hereby testify that I have been personally
acquainted with Perry Edwards subscriber
to the persiding declaration for a number
of years and have always considered
him as standing upon a level with [illegible]
in general in point of truth & veracity
William Janner
As was truly this [illegible] Day of July [illegible]
personally appeared was [illegible] subscriber& the persuading certificate and made solemn
oath to the truth of the same
before Amos Cross C. J. C. C. PleasI hereby testify that I am personally
acquainted with William Janner Esquire
subscriber to the foregoing certificate
who I consider as a person standing in
high estimation in the opinion of mankind
in general as respects his truth & veracity
[illegible] Wseterly this 10th day
of Feb 7 1819
Amos Cross C. J. C. C. Pleas
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[written] Route #9.
Avalon, Wis.
Jan. 31, 1923
Pension Department,
Washington D. C.
Gentlemen:
If possible will you kindly
send me any service record in
Revolutionary War of following
men:
1. Jesse Brown born Stonington
Conn., Aug 18, 1731 wife is Lydia Brown
2. Joseph Crandal born Westerly
Rhode Island., about 1742, married
1761 to Esther Hall. 
Thanking you for your attention
to this I am
Yours truly,
Miss Irene O. Jones Avalon, Wis
Route #9.
[stamped seal/ typed] PENSION OFFICE
U S
G FEB 3 1923
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[written] Milwaukeee, Wis.
Oct. 6, 1922
[stamped seal/typed] PENSION OFFICEUS
Oct 11 1922
[written] Rev Sec 
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, S. C.
Dear Sir:-
I am desirous of proving
Revolutioinary War service on part
of following men, and havebeen referred to your offices, and
trust you will be able to give 
this your attention. These men
 are my grest 3 grandfarthers and
before to find record of service in
part of each. if possible.
1. George  Denison (Dennison) b.
Stonington, Conn. about 1746. m.
Bethia Crandall about 1765.
Known children: Jesse, Polly, Joseph
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[written] George, Palmer, Lucy. Believe he
died at or near Brookfield, Madison
Co., N. Y. His dau. Polly m Henry
Craudall and moved there about
1798.
2. Joseph Crandall b about 1740
in Westerly (or Hopkinton) R. I.
married Esther Hall about Jan. 1, 1766.
Known children : Henry, James, 
Gideon, Nancy, Abel, and Esther.
3. Jesse Brown b Aug. 18, 1731,
Stonington, Conn. married Lydia
Brown about 1764.
Known childre: Abigal, Anne, Jabez, Lydia, Jesse, Polly, John,
Sauford, Betsey, Phebe and 
Eunice.
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[writtten] 4. $amuel Hobart (Hubbard) Burdick
b. 1734, Stonington, Conn. m.
Oct. 31,1757, Annie Maccoon
known children: Stephen
Margret, Elizabeth, Samuel Hobart
Annie, James Coon, Charles.
He died at Five Corner, Brookfield
Iowa, Madison Co., N. Y. wherehis son Samuel H. Burdick b 1767:
m to Lydia Brown, lived and 
also died. 
Thanking you for your
kind attention to my letter, I
 am,
Yours truly
Mrs. Harry C. McDermott,
391 Kenwood Boulevard,
Milwaukee, Wis.
P. S. My great 4 grandfarther, Joseph
Craudall b about 1707 married
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[written] Edith Hiscox 1736 Born in Westerly
where he resided children were
Nancy Maria Gideon James
Joseph Bethia and Edith
[stamped] [typed] WIDOW DIVISION
Files
OCT 12 1822
[illegible] 
[illegible] DIVISIONS
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[written] 39375
[typed] INVALID
[written] Revy
[typed] File No. [written] 39375
Joseph Crandal
Piv Rev War
[typed] Act: [written] 18" March 18"
[typed] Index:- Vol. [written] 3, [typed] Page [written] 105
[typed] {Arrangement of 1870,}
[written to the side] 1922 Nov. 10 History to Mrs. Harry B. McDermontt [illegible]