Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,653, for Richard Pindell, Maryland
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Revolutionary Claim
For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution" approved on the 15th of May 1828, I Richard Pindell of Lexington in the county of Fayette in the state of Kentucky do hereby declare that I was an Officer in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution, and served as such from the spring of 1777 to the close of the War, at which period I was a Surgeon in the first regiment of  the Maryland line. And I also declare that I afterwards received certificates (commonly called commutation certificates) for a sum equal to the amount of five years full pay; which sum was offered by the resolve of Congress of the 22nd of March 1783 instead of the half pay for life to which I was entitled under the resolve of the 21st of October 1780. Witness my hand this 21st day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty eight R. Pindell 

Before me Waller Bullock a Justice of the Peace in the County of Fayette in the State of Kentucky personally appeared this day John Fowler and Thomas Bodley of the said county who did severally make oath that Richard Pindell by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed & believed to have been an officer in the army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated. Witness my hand this 21st day of June in the year 1828
Waller Bullock JP FC
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35669
Richard Pindell decd.
Ken:
Act 7 June '32
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State of Kentucky City of Lexington
On this the 18th day of March 1844 personally appeared before me the subscriber a Notary Public in and for the said city Thomas H. Pindell son of Doctor Pindell late of said city deceased, and made oath according to law, that his father Richard Pindell was a surgeon in the Maryland line of the army of the Revolution and was in receipt of a pension or annuity of four hundred and eighty dollars per year, from the United States for several years before his death and that he departed this life in said city of Lexington on the 20th day of March 1833 (his wife having previously departed this life) and that deponent and Eliza Ross are his sole and only surviving children. That he has been induced to believe that by an Act of Congress passed in the year (blank) his late father acquired a right to a greater amount of pension per annum than he received from the United States under the Act of (blank). Therefore he makes the foregoing affidavit for the purpose of procuring an allowance of such increased pension up to the day of his said fathers death. And this application is made in the name of the said Richard Pindell, and in behalf of those entitled to receive the increased pension here claimed 
T H Pindell

Sworn and subscribed before me, day and date above written
Bengi Keisy
Notary Public
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REVOLUTONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington D.C., ________, 19___

In reply to your request of ________, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Richard Pindell a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau.

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT
Spg 1777 to Nov. 10 1783

RANK
Surgeon of the Continental Line of the Maryland

Battles engaged in, none stated
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Anne Arundel Co. Md.
Date of application for pension, June 21, 1828.  His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Lexington, Ky.
Age at date of application, age and date & place of birth not stated. 
Remarks: C is wife whose name is not given died before he did.  He died at Lexington Ky.  Mar. 20 1833 leaving the following children Thomas H., Eliza Ross and Mary P. wife of James Shelby.  Three grandsons named Pindell are referred to one Richard the given names of the others are not stated. 

Respectfully,

Commissioner.

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O. W. & N Line.  J. R W

Revolutionary War Record
Dear Sir,

Your form of Dec 28th at hand.  thank you very much for looking up the Record but either you or I made a  mistake (illegible) name war Richard Pindell and you looked up Richard Prindell (my name was with out the R) maybe you looked up the Richard Pindell and made a slip in puttig the R in or are they different persons.  Please let me know as I am anxious
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to have more than one Ancestor in the Revolutionary War.

Yours Truly
Mrs. A. J. Odell
414 Chandler Ave
Evansville
Indiana

Jan 2nd 1901

Postmarked:
PENSION 
K
JAN 
4 
1901
US
OFFICE

Stamped:
O.W. & N. DIVISION
JAN 8 1901
RECEIVED.
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intervening between the semiannual payments directed to be made by said acts the proportionate amount of pay which shall occurred between the last preceding semi-annual payment & the death of such person shall be paid to his widow or if he leaves no widow, to his children. Pindell died about 1st March 1833 so that a very inconsiderable portion of this pay accrued between the last preceding semi-annual payment directed to be made by said acts & his death: out nearly the whole amount had accrued from the period between the 3d March 1826 from which time the act of 1828 took effect & the time of his death. what portion of this pay is given by the act of 1832 to Pindell's widow or children (widow he had none) after his death? Only so much as accrued between the last preceding semi-annual payments which refers to time & his death: the residue of the pay is to be distributed according to the course of distributing personal estate or goes according to the direction of his will. The two acts in the first place give the pensioner pay up to the time of his death. This investiture of right & property in him is perfect & in dictional except so far as it is limited by the 4th Sect. and that section limits by express words the right & property of this pensioner only by holding in abeyance so much of his pay as shall have accrued between the time of the last preceding semi-annual payment & his death & resting it upon his death first in his evidence if there be one & if there be now widow
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Hon Garret Davis Dec 23d
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Washington City 17th May 1844

J.L. Edwards 

Sir

I herewith forward the certificate of Mr. Brewer of the length of service of Rich'd Pindell as a surgeon in the Revolutionary war. I trust the preparation of the case is now completed.

Your obt
Servant

Garrett Davis