Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 24719, for Joseph Randall, [Blank]
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE                                                 NUMBER

Continental (Canadian)                        W 24719
Randall, Joseph
Randall,  Judith
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CONTENTS
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re birthed 
Date of death not
on a birth 


Vermont 3859.     Bur..th
Judith Randall
widow of Joseph Randall N.Y.
who was a Private in the Revolution
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
80 Dollars--
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
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Certificate of Pension issued the
18th day of Dec. 1843
and sent to Wm Bridges
S. Alband. Atty
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[Act of March 3, 1843.]

Recorded in Book A
Vol. 6.  Page. 30
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Joseph Randall
Declaration
Copy of Record
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2200
Sept 1818
not entitled
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and a swelling on his left side which is extremely painful in addition is troubled with a Catarch in his head his will is fifty four years of age is considerably in him and unable to do but very little by reason of a lame and the ages of his children is 20. 17. 15 & 11 all daughters except one of 15 years and as he considers mostly dependant on him, their names
are Judith, William Betsey, Rhoda he is by birth a Canadian by occupation a farmer but is unable to pursue his profession he owns 50 acres of rough broken land a considerable distance from any road about 3/4 acre of plowed land and about twelve acres in a Bush Pasture In meadow he has an old horse apprised at 24 dollars which he purchased with
his pension money & the cows mentioned in his schedule are property left to his wife by her son and the declarant also made the following oath do solemnly served that I was resident citizen of the United States on the 18th of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale
or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as being my 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
persons in Trust for me any property or security 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
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V 4802
Judith Randall
widow of Joseph
VT
Act 7 July 1838
Married 1785
died 1822
Allowance $80 per ann


W Bridges
Sr. Albany
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                          Declaration
               ______________________

In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838, entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows;
State of Vermont}  
Georgia District }Be it known that at a Probate Court holden at the Probate office in St
Albans in said district on the 18th day of October 1838, personally appeared before the
Judge of sd court. Judith Bandell, a resident of
Franklin and State afsd aged seventy four years.
who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision incide by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows:

That she is the widow of Joseph Handell late of Franklin aforesaid who was a private in the army of the Revolution. Previous to, and at the commencement of the Revolution was the said Joseph Randell was an inhabitant of St Four in the Province of Lower Canadate when the American troops a ched to Quebec he joined the army aforesaid and served a short time with the American troops in Canada be when the American any left Canada being himself obliged to leave also he again joined the American army at Albany N.Y. and served in Col Livingstone's Regiment three years. The foregoing is according to the best of her recollection of the service performed by her sd
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husband as by him often related

In the year 1818 her said husband obtained a pension for his services aforesaid. I was placed on the roll of the Vermont Agency but was soon after chopped from said wel and was never afterward stated.

The further declares that she was married to the said Joseph Randell on the 25th day of August seventeen hundred and eighty five, that her husband the aforesaid Joseph Randall died on the 23d day of February eighteen hundred and twenty two; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz at the time above stated.

Sworn to and subscribe}
on the day and year above}
written} Judith Randell [Her X mark ]

In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed
the seal of the Probate Court at St Albans in said this 18th day of October AD 1838.

William Bridges
Judge of Probate.
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Joseph Randall's claim-
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State of Rhode Island, but has no recollection of having a written one if he had it is lost. This deponent does not know line of Col Livingstone's Regiment but believes it was
the the him of the State of New York, that he was in Battle of Huber of Burgoyne of Rhode Island and several him with the enemy, and that he is under circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his County
for support and that he has no other evidence
now in his power of his said Pensions.

Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid. Joseph Randall [his X mark]

Fredrick Bliss, Asst. Judge of Franklin County Court

I Frederic Bliss Judge of the County Court in & for the County of Franklin and State of Vermont do certify that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Joseph Randall did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common in my for more than nine months in the contend establishment
and the Court our whom I provide is a Court of Record and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the direction of the aforementioned act of Congress Allan, this 15th day of May, AD 1717

Frederic Bliss, Asst. Judge of Franklin County Court
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State of Vermont}
Franklin. County ss}

I Horace Janes Clerk of the County Court
aforesaid do hereby certify that Pender Bless by
before whom the annexed declaration of Joseph Randall was made was at the date thereof and now is a Judge of the County Court
within & for the County of Franklin & State of
Vermont duly qualified for that purpose
acting under the authority of this State and
his name subscribed should is his own proper
signature and also that the said County
Court or which he presides is a Court of Record.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and the seal of the County
of Franklin this 15 day of May 1818

Horace James Clerk
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This may certify to whom it may concern, that
with undersigned, have been intimately acquainted with Joseph Randall, for a number of years; and from his general condent, we do estume him to be, a man of integrity & uprightness, and it is our opinion from
all circumstances and particular information, that he served as a soldier in the American Revolutionary war with Great Britain a sufficient time to entitle him to be placed on the pension list, agreeable to an act of Congress, making compensation to needy officers, & Soldier, And furthermore we plege ourselves from all that we can torn he is in needy circumstances

Given under our hands at Franklin and Highgate this 17th day of April AD 1818 Samuel Peckham
Samuel Hubbard
Alfred Keith
Abel Drury
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Albany May 15th 1818 
I hereby depose & say that I am well acquainted with the within named Joseph Randall as also with the four persons who have certified within in his behalf-- and that and all contains the character of an honest man, and that the persons within certifying are all respectable citizens and that to each sustained for several
years the office of Justices of the Peace
for this County, and some of them are still
in Common Pleas

Sworn & subscribed before me this 15 day of May 1814  Stephen Royce Jr


Certify that the said Stephan Royce Jr 
Roger J. Crum is in my opinion as Caswell
Court
Frederick Bliss, Asst. Judge of Franklin County Court

S/Albans as Certificate in case of Joseph Randall
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Samuel Peckham's certificate
in case of Joseph Randall

Asahel Langworthy Attorney at Law
S. Albans
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Vir. I do now voluntarily take my pen to states the Carrcular of Mr Joseph Randall of Franklin as stripped his claim a pension told what I write is with fencerity for him the least entering
Mr Joseph Randall undoubtedly left his native land and mention as a private Soldier in the American War and this from the glorious prinitials of enjoying Liberty which he could not enjoy in his native country neither Give or Religion: And that he was no less than six
years an American Soldier whose footsteps might be part by their blover, and every other necessary but little better. Canary true American withhold his vote were it left to him justly to decide. No they will all say that he is justly entitled to compensation, Now if any
should say to the contrary let them come and for new him with a broken constitution the very effects of hard & Labouruon Serow. Beside his age their and no man would now give him his mutual for his work & he has one small son & there is an aged wife & two or three daughter liable every moment to take wing & fly
Beside all that can be said he is in debt & But little property & incapable of hard Labour----
Now Sir,  I hereby certify that I have lived in this tour with Mr Randall for twenty two years and he has been a hard labouring man and an industria but being power of a soldier like principal design man have had the advantage of him & general have taken their unjust portion of his carning and furthermore his needy circumstance & the fundship for his adopted Government (which he has never lost sight of induce him to confined that his for should enter the late war with Great Britain & one died therein. 
This from your friend, Mr. Lt. Samuel Peckham

Sworn & subscribed May 2 1818-
A. Langworthy Esq



I Asahel. Langworthy of St Albans being duly sworn upon and says that he has been for about ten years personally acquainted with Samuel Peckham the Signer of the our letter and consider him reputation citizen and a man of truth & further sent Asahel Langworthy-
Fred Bliss Asst. Judge of Franklin County Court

Sworn to and Subscribed before me this 18 day of May 1818 and I further certify that the Deponent is in handwriting.
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
                                                           April 5, 1926


Gilbert H. Doane
Office of Librarian
The University of Nebraska
Lincoln, Nebr.

Sir;
I have to advise you that from the papers in the
Revolutionary War pension claim W. 24719 it appears that Joseph Randall or Randall was born in Canada, date not stated.

In 1775 while a resident of Saint Tour, Lower Canada he joined Captain Laboteaux Company of American Army at Quebec and was in the battle of Quebec.
He returned home in March 1776 and in May 1776 assisted in taking a British frigate. He enlisted at Albany, New York in the fall of 1776 in Captain Livingston's Company, Colonel Livingston's Continental Regiment, served over
three years and was at the surrender of Burgoyne, battle of Rhode Island and several skirmishes.
He was allowed pension on his application executed March 31, 1818 while a resident of Huntsburg, Franklin County Vermont at which time he stated he was aged fifty-seven
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years. In 1830 he was living in Franklin, Franklin
County, Vermont and stated he was aged sixty-six years.
He died February 23, 1822 in said Franklin
Soldier married August 25, 1755 in Lebanon, Grafton County, New Hampshire, Judith Bowen, or Boin, She was allowed pension on her application executed October 18, 1838 while living in Franklin, Vermont aged seventy-four
years.
In 1820 soldier referred to his wife's son, and to
his children Judith, William, Betsey and Rhoda, their ages twenty-one, seventeen, fifteen and eleven years, but did not designate then respectively, and stated that he had sons in the War of 1812, one died in that service, their
names not given.

Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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1926 - Apr. - Hist to G.H. Doane
1934 May 10. Hist J. F 
Randall Limesay-Letter
in case Jonathan Randall
W. 18788-EEh for MM

Revy. WIDOW, &c
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File No. 2479
Judith Randall
Wid of Joseph Randall
Pri.  Rev. War
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Act: Mch 3rd 1843
Index: -- Vol. B, Page 151

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Vermont
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Judith Randall
widow of Joseph Randall, died who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818----
and who died on the 1822......
of Franklin in the State of Vermont who was a private in the           commanded
by Captain              of the regt commanded  by Col Livingston in the Vermont line for 2 years
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Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 80 Dollars ---Cents per annum.
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 15 day of August 1839 & sent to W. Bridges
St. Albany Vermont
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Arrears to the 4th of Mar 39                    $240.00
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 Sep 39   40--
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                                                                    $280.00
{Act July 7, 1838.}

Recorded by D M Cindy Clerk
Book A.  Vol. 2. Page 55.
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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.

I JOSIAH STEVENS, JR.. Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Elijah Blandellis
an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Grafton duly Commissioned and qualified: that his Commission was dated on the Eighth day of January 1835 and will expire on the Eighth day of January 1843 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.

Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this Eleventh day of July 1839

Josiah Stevens, Secretary of State.


50th
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Timothy Kenrick depose and say that I am
Clerk of the Town of Lebanon County of Grafton
& State of New Hampshire. that I have hold said
office for more than ten year past. that I was duly elected to said Offler on the second Tuesday of March 1839 for the year ending on the second Monday of and 1840 that I have examined the heads of Birth & Marriages
in my office from the year 1780 to the year 1820 and particularly for the year 1785. but do not find any record of the Marriage of Joseph Randall to Judith Randall, nor is there any read of the births of any of their children the records are not so regular and full as to raise any presumption against the alleged marriage
of Joseph Randall to Judith Bowen, but on the
contrary, in any marriages are known to have
taken place, which are not to be found on the
records, and where the ceremony was performed by the Rev. Isaiah Potter
Timothy Kenrick

State of New Hampshire
Erafton ss Lebanon July 1839 }

Personally appearing, the above named Timothy Kenrick whom I certify to be a witness entitled to full credit, and made oath in due form of law, that the above certified by him subscribed in my presence is just and true
Before me
Elijah Blosdell Jr
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Signature of the Magistrate
Elijah Blosdell [illegible] Jus Peace
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4278
Declaration of
Mrs. Judith Randall
to a Pension

$80 per ann

Wm. Bridges
St. Albans
Vt.
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of
the 3d March, 1843, granting pensions for One Year
to certain widows who have received pensions under the
Act of July 7. 1838.

State of Vermont
District of Georgia SS.

S. Albans August 17th 1843.
On this day personally appear-
ed before the Judge of the
Court of Probate in and for the district aforesaid Judith
Randall, a resident of Franklin in the County of
Franklin aged Seventy eight years, who being first
duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath make
the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits
of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed
on the 3d March, 1843 granting pensions to widows
of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.

That she is the widow of Joseph Randall who was
a Private (as she believes) in the Regiment com-
manded by Col. Livingston, and that she received
Forty Dollars per annum under the Act of
July 7, 1838.

She further declares that she is still a widow

Sworn to and sub
scribed on the day
& year above written

Judith Randell
her X mark

Before me
Wm Bridges Judge of Probate

Attest Mary Randall
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State of Vermont 
District of Georgia SS.

St. Albans Augt 17th. 1843.

I William Bridges Judge
of the Probate Court in and
for the district aforesaid, do hereby certify that I am
personally acquainted with Mrs. Judith Randell
widow of Joseph Randall late of Franklin in said
district deceased.

In testimony whereof I have here -
unto affixed the seal of said Probate
Court and subscribed my name
at St. Albans in said district on
the day and year above written

Wm Bridges
Judge of Probate
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Theoda Colburn of Fairfield in the County of Frank
-lin & State of Vermont aged Eighty one years testifies
& says that on the 25th day of August AD 1785 she was
married to John Colburn in the Town of Lebanon
in the State of Newhampshire by the Rev Isaiah
Potter the then titled minister of sd Lebanon
In the forenoon of sd day I attended the wedding of
Joseph Randall & Judith Boin  They were
married at the dwelling House of Mr Cook in
P. Lebanon by the same Mr Potter in my presence
& the presence of my husband & many others on the 
same 25th day of August 1785 one thousand Seven
hundred & Eighty Five we attended their wedding in
the forenoon & the said Joseph Randall & Judith his wife
attended our wedding in the afternoon I further 
that the sd Joseph & Judith lived together as husband &
wife up to the time of the death of the sd Joseph that I
visited them in Franklin in the County of Franklin
& State of Vermont and further I say not

Theoda Colburn
her X mark

State of Vermont
Franklin County ss

Fairfield January 22nd 1839 Then personally
appeared before me Theoda Colburn a
person to me well known and a person of truth  & veracity
and made Solemn Oath that the above affidavit by her
subscribed contains the whole truth & nothing but the truth

Joel Barber Justice of the peace
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State of Vermont
Georgia District

I William Bridges
Judge of the Court of
Probate in & for the County
of Franklin, do hereby certify that Joel Barber
who has certified and affixed his name to the
within afft was at the date thereof and now is a
Magistrate duly qualified to act as such.
I am well acquainted with his the sd Barbers
hand writing and am sure that the signature
within purporting to be his is genuine

In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of sd Probate
Court at St Albans in said
district this 16th day of February
1839

William Bridges Judge
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May 10, 1934

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F. Randal Livesay
20 Rosemont Avenue
Toronto, Canada

BA-J/EEL
Jonathan Randall-W.18788
Joseph Randall  -W. 24719

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request additional information in regard to certain Revolutionary War soldiers with names Jonathan, Benjamin, Joseph, Billings and Samuel Reynolds variously spelled Rannolds, Randol, Rendel, Rundle, Randolph, Rummals, etc.

An effort has been made to aid you in your research and several records furnished you, Jonathan Reynolds, W. 16692, Jonathan Reynolds, S.14258, Benjamin Reynolds, W.18806 and others.

There is no claim for pension on file based upon service in the Revolutionary War of a Samuel Reynolds who served in the New York 
Troops or who applied for pension while residing in that state, or of a Billings Reynolds. No other record has been identified of a Benjamin Reynolds. The records have been found of a Jonathan Randall and a Joseph Randall which may be of interest to you. All spellings of the surname have been used in search of the records. The data given herein were obtained from the respective claims for pension based upon service in the Revolutionary War of the two soldiers designated.


Jonathan Randall
W. 18788

Jonathan Randall was born March 27, 1759, at Rye, New Hampshire. The names of his parents are not shown in the papers in the pension
claim.

While residing at Chester, New Hampshire, he belonged to a company of militia commanded by Captain True and upon receipt of the news of the battle of Bunker Hill, was one of twenty men selected for service, marched to Winter Hill, near Boston, in Captain Hutchins' Company, Colonel Poor's New Hampshire Regiment, and served one month.