Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12621, Gideon Crandall, New York R.I.
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SERVICE
New York
RI
Crandall Gideon
NUMBER
S.12621
carded
CONTENTS
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[left side]
Paid at Treasury, under act 6 Apl 1838. From 4 Sept 1843 to 19 Oct 1843
Agent notified 21 Ap 1845
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20.545. 
New York
Gideon Crandall
Of [illegible] in the State of New York who was a [illegible] &c in the Comp. commanded by Captain Parks of the Regt by Col. Nies on the Rh. Island line for 1 Mo [illegible] }
19.
$4.16
63.33
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$67.49
$134.98
33.74
[underline]
$168.73
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 67 Dollars 49 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of Sep. 1833 and sent to A.G. Hammond [illegible]
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 33 $168.73
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 34 33.74
[underline]
$202.47
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Go. A. Stiles Clerk,
Book E. Vol. A, Page 52.
R. I. and N. Y. Records completed Nov. 20/25
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In the matter of
Gideon Crandall
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Application for a
Pension
14656
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Admd
1 mo matross
19 mo pri [illegible]
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Under Captain Amos [obscured] a substitute for one Paul Niles
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[seal]
Declaration, in order to obtain [obscured] the act of Congress of June 7, 1832.
Form for State Troops, &c. Printed & Sold by Kemble & Hooper, 8 State st. Troy, N.Y.
State of New York,
County of Rensselaer} SS.
On this Ninth day of August 1832 personally appeared in open Court, before the Judge of-- the Troy Mayors Court now sitting, Gideon Crandall a resident of Grafton county of Rensselaer and State of New York, aged Seventy three years, who being first duly sworn 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 year 1776 he resided in the Town of Charlestown in the State of Rhode Island- That in the month of April of this year he entered the service and was drafted as a militiaman in said town under Captain Jonathan McCumber and was engaged under this draft in garding the shore at Quanacontage in said town of Charlestown for three months. That also in the same year in the fall or winter at the time the British took possession of Rhode Island he was again engaged as a drafted man under Captain Edward Bliven on Boston Neck in the town of South Kingston for one month. That in the year 1777 in the month of January he was again engaged as a drafted man under Captain John Parks at Point Judith in said Town of South Kingston one month. That in March of the same year he was again drafted and performed one Month service under Captain Joseph Congal who commanded a company of Artillery at little neck beach in said town of South Kingstown. that during all the above recited services he was engaged in garding the sea shore-- That about the 16th of May he enlisted into the Rhode Island State service in the year last aforesaid under Captain Peleg Hoxey for Nine months. William Gardner was his Lieutenant and John Welch Ensign in Colonel Stantons Regiment, that he entered this last said service at
Charlestown aforesaid and marched from then to Warwick neck when he remained about one month when they went to Tivertown and then remained till he was discharged the 16th of March 1778 - having served ten months one month over his term - That in May of the same year he was again drafted and served one Month under Captain Parks at Point Judith and that in June of the same year he again entered the service under Captain Amos Green as a substitute for one Paul Niles of Charlestown aforesaid and served as such one month at Point Judith as aforesaid - That in August of the same year he again went on to Newport in Sullivans expedition and served one month as a substitute for Benjamin Hoxey under Captain John Parks in Colonel Neis Regiment and that he continued in this same service after his said first month had expired in Newport and served one month more for [obscured]
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engaged as a drafted man under [top of page torn off several illegible words] in the town of South Kingston for one month - That the year 1777 in the month of January he was again engaged as a drafted man under Captain John Parks at Point Judith [Rhode Island] in said Town of South Kingston [Rhode Island] one month- 

That in March of the same year [1777] he was again drafted and performed one month service under Captain Joseph Congal who commanded a company of Artillery at Little neck beach in said town of South Kingston [Rhode Island] That during the above recited services he was engaged in garding [guarding] the see [sea] shore -

That about the 16th of May he enlisted into the Rhode Island State service in the year last aforesaid [1777] under Captain Peleg Hexey [Heath] for nine months- William Gardner  was his lieutenant and John Welch Ensign in Colonel [Augustus] Stantons -

that he entered this last said service at Charlestown [Rhode Island] aforesaid and marched  from then to Warwick neck [Rhode Island] where he remained about one month when they went to Tivertown [Rhode Island] and then remained till he was discharged the 16th of March 1778-having service ten  months one month over his term

that in May of the same year he was again drafted and served one month under Captain [John] Parks at Point Judith [Rhode Island] 
and that in June of the same year he again entered the service under Captain Amos Green as a substitute for one Paul Niles of Charlestown [Rhode Island] aforesaid and served as such one month at Point Judith [RI] as aforesaid - 

That in August of the same year [1778] year he again went in to Newport [Rhode Island] [John] Sullivan's expedition [of Rhode Island] 
and served one month as a substitute for Benjamin Hexey under Captain John Parks in Colonel Nois Regiment and that he continued in this same service after his said first month had expired on Newport [Rhode Island] and served one month more for himself as a drafted man

That during the same fall he performed one month more service as a drafted man at Point Judith [Rhode Island] under Captain [John] Parks - That in the fall of the year 178?
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he resided in the Town of Petersburgh in the County of Renssalaer and State of New York for a season and was drafted and entered the service as a militia man under Captain Samuel Shaw and served about three weeks and was during this time at Fort Edward & Schuyler Mills &c. That he has no documentary 
evidence of his services and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can certify to his services except what is hereunto annexed-
To the prescribed Interrogatories put by the Court he answers
1. He was born in the town of Westerly the State of Rhode Island in the year 1759 -
2. There is a record of his age in said town of Westerly in the Town Clerks office-
3. He resided when he entered the service in the town of Charlestown aforesaid and continued to make it his home then till the year 1795 when he removed to where he now lives in the Town of Grafton County of Rensselaer & State of New York when he has since resided
4. He entered the service & service as above stated
5. To this interrogatory he refers to the above statement
6. He never received a written discharge-
7. He is known in his present Neighbourhood to Gen Aaron Worthington P.M. and T Hewitt Esq., who can testify as to his character for Veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution
Gideon Crandall
State of New York
Renssalaer County SS.} William Hall of Petersburgh in the State last aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was well acquainted with the above named Gideon Crandall during the war of the revolution that he knows he was engaged and enlisted for nine months in 1777 and served as he has above stated and he also knows or expects that he was in the service at other times & believes his statements made above to be true-- and further says not-
William Hall
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid-
Archibald Bull Clerk
William Hall
For answer to the fifth interrogatory returned the applicant make the following affidavit
Rensselaer County ss. Personally appeared before me the undersigned Justice of the peace of the county of Rensselaer aforesaid the above applicant Gideon Crandall, who being duly sworn  deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively to the length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades For one year and six months & twenty one days I served as a private and for three
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State of New York
Rensselaer County Ss.} William Hall of Petersburg & in the state last aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth and said that he was well acquainted with the above named Gideon Crandall during the war of the revolution that he knows he was engaged and enlisted for some months in 1888 and served as he above stated and that he also knows (illegible) that he was in the service at other times & believes his statement made above to be true. And further says not.
William Hall
Sworn & Subscribed this day & year aforesaid
Archibald Bull Clerk

For answer to the fifth interrogatory returned the applicant makes the following affidavit
Amendment to Declaration
Rensselaer County Ss. Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace of the county of Rensselaer aforesaid the above applicant Gideon Crandall who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his reccollection he served not less that the periods mentioned below and in the following (illegible). For one year and six monthe & twenty one days I served as a private and for three months I served as a corporal and for such services I claim a pension.
Gideon Crandall
Sworn & Subscribed before me 
this 25th day of May 1833
Joseph Crandall Justice of the Peace}

State of New York Rensselaer County Ss. I hereby certify that Joseph Crandall Esq. &c. before whom the above affidavit purports to have been sworn was on the day of the date of the same one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County And that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verly believe his signature above subscribed to be genuine/
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 29th day of May 1833.
Henry R. Bristol Clerk for (illegible)

and the said Gideon Crandall
hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State, or (if any,) only on that of the agency of the State of 
Gideon Crandall
Sworn to, and susbscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Archibald Bull Clerk

We, William Satterlee, a Clergyman, residing in the town of Berlin and Ziba Hewitt residing in the town of Grafton hereby certify that we are acquainted with Gideon Crandall who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy three 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 we concur in that opinion.
Wm. Saterlee
Ziba Hewitt
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Archibald Bull Clerk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above name applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that William Satterlee who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman, resident in the Town of Berlin and the William Hall & Ziba Hewitt who has also signed the same are residents in the town of Petersburg & Grafton and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I Archibald Bull Clerk of the Tory Mayors Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Gideon Crandall for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this ninth day of August 1832.
Archibald Bull Clerk.
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14656
Gideon Crandall
Rensselaer Co.
N. York

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Comd.

5-16 ol
May 6 1833
P. 377

A.G. Harmmond
Berlin 
N. York
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BRIEF in the case of Gideon Crandall
of Rensselaer Co. 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? 73

4 State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period.
Drafted In 1776
to ---
to 1777
Enlisted ---
Drafted 1778
substitute for Paul Niko
Benjamin Harvey
Drafted

Duration of Service.
Years, Months, Days.
3
1
1
1
9
1
1
1
1
1 
about 21
20 Mos.

Ranks.
As a
Artillery

Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Gen.
Capt McCumber
Capt. Blevin
Capt. Parks
Capt Coregal
Capt. Hoxey
Capt. Parks
Capt. Parks, Col. Nies
Capt. Shaw

5. In what battles was he engaged:

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Charlestown, Rhode Island

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary & living witness

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
Not connected as required

I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
F. E. Bradford
Examining Clerk.
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MMHF
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Rev. and 1812 Wars Section

February 11, 1924

Mrs. Frank Ulrich
1404 Sigsbee St.,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Madam:

I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 12621 it appears that Gideon Crandall was born in Westerly, Rhode Island in 1759.

While living in Charlestown, Rhode Island he enlisted in April 1776 and served three months in Captain Jonathan Macomber's Company, and in the fall or winter of said year he enlisted and served one month in Captain Edward Blivin's Rhode Island Company.

He enlisted in January 1777 and served one month in Captain John Parks' Company, and in March of the said year he enlisted and served one month in Captain Joseph Congal's (?) Company of Artillery.

He enlisted May 16, 1777 and served in Captain Peleg Hoxey's Company, Colonel Stanton's Rhode Island Regiment until March 16, 1778.
He enlisted in May 1778 and served one month
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under Captain Parks, and in June of the said year he enlisted and served one month in Captain Amos Greene's Rhode Island Company, and in August of the same year he enlisted and served in Captain John Parks' Company, Colonel Noyes' Rhode Island Regiment for two months and was in Sullivan's Expedition; he enlisted again in the fall of 1778 and served one month in Captain Parks' Company.
While living in Petersburgh, Rensselaer County, New York he enlisted in the fall of 1780 and served three weeks in Captain Samuel Shaw's New York Company. Three months of all the above service was as a Corporal (which three not specified) and the remainder as a private.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 9, 1832 while a resident of Grafton, Rensselaer County, New York. He died October 19, 1843. It is not stated that he ever married.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
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Rev. War
12621
INVALID.

File No. 12,621
Gideon Crandall
Matross Rev. War

Act: June 7" 1832
Index: - Vol. , Page
[Arrangement of 1870]

Dec. 1899
Mr. Chas A Smithy
Montclair, N.J.
1924. Feb. 11 Hist. to Mrs Frank Ulrich
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Gideon Crandall

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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Gideon randall of Rensselaer Co N.Y. which require further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period of periods of the war when he served? Yes

V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitle? No - Amended

VI. Has he given the names of officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes
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2
Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?
yes
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
XIV. * If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? Yes
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?
Yes
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? yes
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No- F. Amended
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? all answered
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
*QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For ____ year ____ months, and ____ days, I served as a ____. For ____ months and ____ days, I served as a ____ ; and for such service I claim a pension.
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3
It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c, without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering their service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who many administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which mush pass under the seal of the office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE.
March 6th 1846
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, The Executor of Gideon Crandall dec’d, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany N York Agency, at the rate of Sixty Seven Dollars and forty nine cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1843, to the 19th October 1843
Respectfully, yours
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS.
Present.
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Oct. 15/99              W
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington
Messers.
I am seeking information relative to my great grandfather, Gideon Crandall, sometime a private in Co. of Rhode Island troops in the Revolutionary War.  I think he was afterwards a Pensioner and lived in Vermont.
Any data you can give me from the records of your office will be of great service
very truly yours
Chas. A. Smith
Military Academy
Montclair
New Jersey
[handwritten diagonally over the body of the letter] The other pensioner should have been sent in 1899
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Mrs. Frank Ulrich
1404 Sigsber St.
Grand Rapids, Mich wishes me to apply for pension and service record of Gideon Crandall who enlisted from Rhode Island and afterward went to New York state. She would like to have all available data.
Alma F. Holt
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This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on tile in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.
O. W. & N. DIV.
Revolutionary.

L. W. R.
I. 12621.
Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

December 13th, 1899.

Sir:-
In response to your recent communication you are advised that Gideon Crandall made an application for pension on August 9th, 1832, at which time he was 73 years of age and residing at Grafton, New York, and his pension was allowed for twenty months' actual service as a private and matross in the Rhode Island troops, Revolutionary war. He enlisted at Charlestown, Rhode Island, and served under Capt. Parks and Col. Nies.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

Mr. Charles A. Smith,
Montclair, New Jersey.
Military Academy