Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24920, for Zalmon Prindle, Connecticut
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SERVICE
Conn

Prindle, Zalmon
Polly

Number
W.24920
B.L.Wt. 2397-100
B.L. Wt. 26.771-160-55
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State of Vermont 
Bennington County

On this 30th day of May 1839 personally appeared before the Honorable Probate Court within & for the Probate District of Manchester in the County of Bennington & State of
Vermont, Polly Prindle now a resident of the Town of Sandgate in said County of Bennington aged seventy three 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 made by the act of Congress passed July 7. 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and Pensions to certain Widows." That she is the Widow of Zalmon Prindle late of said Sandgate deceased, who was a Sergeant as she is informed & verily believes  during the Revolutionary War. That as she is informed & verily believes, her husband the said Zalmon as early or before the year 1780 enlisted at Newtown in the State of Connecticut into a company of Infantry in the line of the State of Connecticut commanded (by Capt Kimberly as & has believe) in the 8th Connecticut Regiment so called, then commanded by Col. Chandler, & afterwards by Col Isaac Sherman, & which subsequently near the close of said war was transfered to the command of Col Samuel B. Webb, for the term of three years, or during said war that he afterwards faithfully served during said time enlistment & until the final close & termination of said war, but whether by a new enlistment or not she is not able to state, & as she is informed fully believes, he served during a part if not the whole of said time (was more than two years),in the capacity 
& did the duty of a Sergeant, & that he was finally, regularly discharged
as such at the end of said contest in June 1783 at West Point in the State of New York, but the particulars of his said service she is not able to state which [illegible] informed, having escaped her recollection
She further declares that she was lawfully married at South Salem in West Chester County in the State of New York on the 13th day of May in the Seventeen hundred & eighty five is ably to her best present recollection & belief that her maiden name was Polly Williams -- that she knows of no existing Record of her said marriage either public or private - That her husband the aforesaid Zalmon Prindle died at said Sandgate on the 19th day of August in the year eighteen hundred twelve, that since his death she has remained & still is his
widow, single & unmarried, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the ┃
first of January, Seventeen hundred & ninety four, to wit at the time above stated - That she has not in her possession, any documentary evidence
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to support her said claim, nor does she know of any to which she can have access
Mist. Thomas Peck
Polly Prindle (her mark X)

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year above mentioned before me
Loring Dean Judge of Probate Court

I Currance Kimberly a resident of said Town of Sandgyate aged sixty five years, do testify depose & say, that I was well acquainted with the above named Zalmon Prindle dec'd. from my youth - that our Parents [illegible]
theres & when I was young they lived within a short distance from each other in down in the State of Connecticut that fifty four years ago the foresaid of the ensuing June, when in my twelfth year, the said Zalmon brought the above named Polly Prindle formerly, as I then understood, Polly Williams, to his fathers house in said Newtown as his wife, & it was then said that they had been married in the State of
New York, about three or four weeks before -that the next day but one, after that my father with his family removed from said Newtown to said town of Sandgate in Vermont where I have ever since resided - that two years afterward the said Zalmon Prindle & Polly his wife removed to the same town of Sandgate, where they lived together & were reputed as husband & wife until his death which took place on the 19th day of August 1812. Since
which time she has remained his widow & unmarried that at the time they removed into & Sandgate they had one living child, & as I understood had lost one, & they afterwards arguably to my best present recollection, had seven more children, five of whom are now alive - that during the revolutionary war I well recollect, that the said Zalmon, as was said joined the Army of the United States, in the fore part of the war, as I now think, & continued in service until the close of it, & that during a part or the whole of which service he
was a Sergeant, as was then said. I more particularly recollect those facts, as his enlistment caused considerable disturbance in the family, as both our Parents were, as called [illegible]
Currance Kimberley

Sworn to, & subscribed in open Court, the day & year above mentioned before me. And I do further certify, that it hath been satisfactorily made to appear to me that both the above Affiants are respectable & Credible Persons,
& their statements entitled to full credit Attest
Loring Dean Judge of Probate Court
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Zalmon Prindle
W.2.397.
S. Swift Esq
Manchester
Vermont
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State of Vermont} Manchester Probate District Bennington County ss.} Probate Office June 2d AD. 1846
I Nathan Burton Judge of the Probate Court within & for the Probate
District of Manchester in the County & State aforesaid, do hereby certify that satisfactory
evidence was adduced to me to prove that Zenas Prindle of Sandgate in said County
of Bennington, is the son & heir at law, in fee, to Zalmon Prindle, late of said Sandgate,
deceased, who was a Private in the 2nd Regiment of Continental Troops, in the
Connecticut line, commanded by Col Swift, during the revolutionary war
& that Polly Prindle now residing in the Town of Greenwich in the County of Washington
& State of New York, is the surviving widow of the said Zalmon, deceased, the & mother
of the said Zenas, & now in the enjoyment of a Pension from the United States on account
of the services of the said Zalmon, during the revolutionary war
Given under my hand & seal of Office at Manchester this 2nd day of June 1840
And I do further certify, that it also appears that Cyrus Prindle & Abraham
Prindle of said Sandgate & Zalmon Prindle of said Greenwich & Sabra Dunning
wife of Lewis Dunning of the western part of the State of New York are the
only other legal heirs of the said Zalmon Prindle, deceased.
Nathan Burton Judge of Probate
State of Vermont, County of Bennington ss
I Zenas Prindle of Sandgate in the County of Bennington & State of Vermont son
& heir at law of Zalmon Prindle late of said Sandgate deceased do upon Oath
testify & declare, to the best of my knowledge & belief, that the said Zalmon Prindle
did enter the service, in or about the year 1779, for the term of the continuance of the
revolutionary war & in the Regiment of Connecticut troops commanded by Col
Sherman, or Col. Chandler, & that upon the dissolution of the said Regiment, he
joined & served as a Private or Corporal, in the Regiment No 2 of Continental
troops, in the Connecticut line, under the command of Col. Swift, & that he
continued in the service aforesaid, until the close or termination of the said war-
& that my mother Polly Prindle who survives the said Zalmon as his widow, & as
such, & for & on account of his said services now enjoys a Pension under the United States,
now resides in the town of Greenwich, in the County of Washington, State of New York
I further declare that I have never received a warrant for the Bounty land
promised to the said Zalmon Prindle, on the part of the United States, nor do
I believe that he ever received it, or any other one under him, or in his behalf,
or that he transferred his claim to it; in any manner whatsoever therefore
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476.8
Mrs Polly Prindle
$80 per an
A. Swift
Manchester
Vt.
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The widow of Salmon Prindle. was allowed a full pension in Virtue of the services
of her Husband who it appears from the Rolls and from testimony filed by
Mrs Polly Prindle in her pension papers, was a soldier of Webbs Regiment
of the Connecticut line, enlisted for the war, and served to the close of it
See printed list
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26.771
Coburg
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May 21- 1903- hist
Rear Admiral Franklin C. Prindle
Cls
Nov. 29 1921  hist to Vernon J. Holmes Es
1936. May 7 - Hist to Mrs C.L.A. Schmidt
MLB
24.920
Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 24920
Polly Prindle
wid of
Zalmon Prindle
Pri Rev War
Act Feb 2d 1848
Index: Vol. P., Page 142
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Ad
place on NY roll
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State of New York }
Washington County ss } I Henry Shepherd Clerk
of said County do hereby certify that
the date of the within [illegible] and certificate
David A Boies Esq was a Justice of the Peace
in and for said County duly elected and
sworn and that his signature thereto
subscribed are genuine
Witness my hand and official
seal this 13th day of Sept AD 1848
H Shepherd Clk
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Manchester June 3d 1839
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Hon Sir I forward to you herewith the
Pension Declaration & vouchers to support the same of the Widow
Polly Pridle As her marriage (& acquaintance [illegible]) [illegible] took place
after the close of the war she is not able to be very definitely exact as
to the time of his enlistment, or the period of time under officers service
&c be what she is able to state relative thereto, is gathered principally
from her recollection of his statements thereof to her in his lifetime
& from the Certificate of Col Haskin & [illegible] of Capt Sherman who
both belonged to diff Companies, [illegible], with her
deceased husband her efforts to find someone alive belonging
to the same Co., or more intimately acquainted with her husband,
during the war, have hitherto proved unavailing but the Rolls
if rightly referred to (which I have some
reason to doubt) will
show  explicitly all those facts, together with this [illegible] Rhode Island
The Affidvt of Col. Hooker to prove his identity & [illegible]
With due consideration
I am Hon. [illegible] respectfully,
Yours &c
S. Swift