Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 49439, for Oliver Randell, Massachusetts
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(3 - 1776)

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SERVICE
Mass.
and War of 1812

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Randell, Oliver
or Randall

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NUMBER
S. 19439
Old War Inv. File 5967
B.L. Wt. 21760-160-'12
War of 1812
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CONTENTS
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Massachusetts

Oliver Randall 107.
a Corporal

Capt Joseph Treats Compy.
21st Regt. U. States Infy.
 
Ratio [?] of Dischg. Totally
date of Disch.e 5th March
1815. -

Imio. on the roll Massachusetts at $5-00 per month to
commence 6th March 1815.

Transf to Maine 15 April
1826 from 4 March 1826

Genuineness ]sic] of the Surgeon's certificate
[torn off] be [?] assertained from the adjt. Gen.l

see letter to Hon. G. Parks
15 Jan. 1836.


Papers sent to Mr Stephens, section of B.Y. [?] Lands
12 July 1879

Returned 12 July 1879
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AGO [later hand, top left corner[

Warrant No. 21.460

160 Acres
WAR OF 1812.

Act of Dec.24th 1811
Jany 11: 1812 & [or initials?]

Warrantee Oliver Randall

Service Corporal
21st Infty.

Nature of claim Bounty Land
Single

Consolidated with Rev. War
Sur. File 19439
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No 32.396.

Maine

Oliver Randall

Of Bangor in the State of Maine,
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Howard of the Regt: commanded
by Col. Bailey in the Massachusetts
line for 23 mon: 13 days

Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of 78 Dollars 09 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of
November, 1845 and sent to Jos: Leavitt
Bangor, Maine

Arrears to the 4th of Sept: 1845        $1132.30
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 March 39.04
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                                                          $1171.34

{Revolutionary Claim,
{Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by Nell [?] Stewart -  Clerk
Book E -- Vol. 1 -- Page 49.

[right page - new hand]
Died Sept.24.1846
(AC) [?]
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DECLARATION.

In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th June, 1832.

STATE OF MAINE, }
Penobscot            } ss. [=scilicet]

On this fourteenth day of November A. D. 1845 personally appeared before the Supreme Judicial Court
of said State, Oliver Randall a resident of Bangor
in the County of Penobscot and State of Maine, aged Eighty four
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 provision made by the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States, in the year 1778 with Captain Joseph Cole and served in Col. Jacobs regiment of and served in Col. Jacobs
regiment of the Massachusetts line or troops under the following named officers; the said Cole and Jacobs and Gen Spencer and Gen. Sullivan, that he served under this enlistment more than five months, that he enlisted again in the year 1778 in the same company and
regiment and served under the same officers under, this enlistment more than nine months, 
that he enlisted again in the continental servic [sic] in Capt Howards Company and Col 
Baileys Regiment and served under this engagement more than six months. that
and served under the other enlistments each cade [?] of between twenty and thirty days but he does not recollect the particulars of either do as the be able a state them or the names of the [illegible] and [?] under whom these terms of service were performed but the place of each was at Howland ferry and Seconnet [=Skonnet] Point, that he cannot state the month or day of the months
of the said several enlistments, but is certain that he is right in the years of service: that
he lived in the town of Easton in the County of Bristol in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: at each time of service above stated, that he enlisted at some of the times and volunteered at other times. That his service was at West point and vicinity in 1780, and at all the other times of service in the State of Rhode Island and neighboring parts
of Massachusetts. that he was in the engagement on Rode Island on Sept 1778, and in some 
other skirmishes the particulars of which from the great lapse of time and his
extreme old age he is not able to state

And to the interrogatories propounded under the instructions of the war department, he answers:
1. That he was born in August 1761. to the town of Easton in Massachusetts
2. That he has no record of his age
3. That he lived in Easton at each time of his being called into the service, that after the war of the
revolution, he removed to the town of Leeds in the State of Maine, and resided there several
years, and then removed to Bangor, in the State of Maine, and has lived there ever since, now [?]
more than forty years
4. That he enlisted, or volunteered, at each time of his said service and did not so far as he recollects
serve as as substitute for any person
5. That he recollects the names of Col Toppan & Col Gray, in the troops [?] with which he served
in Rhode Island, and that of General Larned at West Point; that he was present when Andre was hanged, and [illegible] the circumstances
6. That he does not recollect receiving a discharge except at the close of his service at
West Pint, that he does not remember by whom it was signed. that he left at Easton
when he removed to Leeds more than fifty years ago. and has not seen it since, and does [?]
not know whether it is in existence 
7. That he is acquainted with Gen Joseph Treat. Allen Gilmer Esq. Jewl [?] McGrew [?] Esq. [illegible] & 
Williamson,  & Joseph [?] Carr [?] Esq. to any and all of when he refers for his character for veracity, and for their belief in his service, as a soldier in the Revolution

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except ["the present, and" crossed out] his pension as an Invalid for wounds in the last war with Great Britten, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State, except as an Invalid as above said

[signed] Oliver Rendell

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
John S. Tenney, Justice of Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

lutionary Soldier, and served as he states.

And the said Judge does hereby declare his opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.

John S. Tenney Justice, as aforesaid
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We [original name struck out] Reuben S Prescott residing in Bangor, Merchant and John Maker residing
in Bangor, Physician and surgeon, hereby certify that we are well acquainted
with Oliver Randall, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration
that we believe him to be eighty four years of age that he is respected and
believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the
Revolution and that we concur in that opinion

Reuben S Prescott
Mason

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Hon [?] J Tunney } Justice Supr Jud Court of state of Maine

I certify that the name of Joseph Smith in the regory aspect and
affidavit was erased and that of Reuber Prest was met before it was
signed
John S. Finney
State of Maine.
AND the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and
putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a
Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears
to them that Reuben Park
who has signed the preceding certificate, is a
resident in the Bangor
and that John Mason on her
who has also signed the same, is a resident of the City of Bangor
and an
creditable persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Just Supt And Court
John S. Curry of State of Maine
certify that in the above certificate the name of her kindell at craman that be
tinseld do the word clergymen or market with the city of
interlined, and the words are and are not before the son was signed
John S. Forney
State of Maine.
Penobre SS. I, William T. Hilliard Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court
for the County of
Penrich hereby certify that the said John G Tenney
before whom the within proceedings was had, is age of the Infencial bond
of said State; I also certify that the within contains the original proceedings of the said Judge, in
the matter of the application of Oliver Randell for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto at my hand and the seal of the
said Court, this fourteenth day of November
A. D. 1855
T. Hilliard
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Oliver Randall
Discharge
of Bangor in the
District of Maine

NB. Certificate of Pension to before to
the above address.

To be returned
to the Pension
Office.
12 July 1879
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Massachusetts [illegible]

A pension has been granted on this Discharge

L Office [written top right corner]

BY COMMAND OF
Brig.r Gen.l Henry Burbeck.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Know Ye, That
Oliver Randall a Corporal of Captain Joseph Treat's
Company twenty first Regiment of U.S. Infantry who was enlisted the twenty fourth day of November
eighteen hundred and twelve - for the period of five years - is hereby honorably discharged from the
Army of the United States, on the Surgeon's certificate, as being disqualified to perform the duties of a soldier by
reason of a wound rec.d by a Cannon shot in his right arm when on Guard at Fort Erie on the 13 Aug.t 1814.

Said Oliver Randall was born in the town of Easton in the State of Massachusetts, is about forty five-years of age, five feet seven inches high, Light complexion, Blue eyes, dark hair, and by occupation, when enlisted, a Farmer.

Given at Greenbush Cantonment this fifth day of March - 1815.

[illegible] Burton 
Major & Inz. [?] Officer

H Burbeck {Brig.r Gen.l Commg.

[illegible]

[running down right edge of page]
No 21.760 of Land Warrant issued on this Discharge.
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Acc.t of Clothing rec.d by Oliver Randall per [?] his Descriptive List. viz.t

two Caps Complete - two coats - one woolen vest - one linen vest - three wolen [sic] overhauls - four summer pantaloons - 
six shirts -["two" crossed out] five pr stockings - six pr shoes - two stocks - three pr Socks - two Blankets - one frock & one trowsers [sic] - one
pr Gaiters - & one pr Linnen [sic] gaters - one knapsack and
one Round Jacket - one pair pantaloons - one pair stockings - & one knapsack.

Cant. [= Cantonment] Greenbush,
5 March 1815.

[written sideways in lower left corner]
Massachusetts
Oliver Randall
21.760
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I do hereby acknowledge to have received from the United States my Pay Subsistence ["and" illegible crossed out] in full from the date of my Enlistment to the date of my Discharge

[signed by mark]
his
Oliver X Randall
mark

Witness

[illegible]
[illegible]
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OLIVER RANDALL, S. 19439
The data contained herein were obtained from the papers on
file in pension claim, S. 19439, based upon the Revolutionary War
service of Oliver Randall, the spelling of the surname under
which he was pensioned. He signed Oliver Randell.

He was born in August, 1761, in Easton, Bristol County,
Massachusetts; the names of his parents are not shown.

While residing in Easton, Massachusetts, he volunteered in
May or June, 1777, and served six months as private in Captain
Joseph Cole's company, Colonel John Jacobs' Massachusetts regiment,
and was in General Spencer's expedition to Rhode Island. He
enlisted in the winter or spring of 1778 and served nine or ten
months as private under the same officers, was in General Sullivan's Rhode Island expedition, was in the engagement in Rhode
Island and some other skirmishes not named. He enlisted in June
or July, 1780, served as private in Captain Abner Howard's company, 
Colonel Bailey's Massachusetts regiment, was present at the
execution of Andre, and was discharged in January, 1781.

About 1795 the soldier moved from Easton, Massachusetts, to
Leeds, Kennebec County, Maine, where he lived many years, then
moved to Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine.

Oliver Randell also served in the War of 1812. He enlisted
November 24, 1812, for five years, served as a corporal in Captain
Joseph Treat's company, 21" Regiment U. S. Infantry, and while on
guard at Fort Erie in Upper Canada on August 13, 1814, received
a wound by a cannon shot in his right arm, fractured the bone and
causing amputation of the arm below the elbow which rendered him
unfit for duty and he was discharged March 5, 1815.

On account of disability resulting from the above noted
injuries in the War of 1812, he was pensioned from March 6, 1815.

On April 4, 1826, the soldier stated that he was of Dutton,
Penobscot County, Maine. In 1845 he was a resident of Bangor, in
the same county.

On account of his service in the Revolutionary War, Oliver
Randell was allowed pension on his application executed June 12,
1845, at which time he was living in Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine.

Oliver Randell died September 24, 1846, place not shown.

No reference was made in the claim to wife or children.
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1933.Aug.22. Hist. [?] to Albert S Bryant
(see ltr [?] in clus. [?] W.22469 of Wm Turner)
NLA [?]

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5967 [by hand]

War 1812 & Rev. War [also by hand]


INVALID.
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File No. 5967
Oliver Randall
Corp.l 21st U.S.I. [?]
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Act: [left blank]
Index: -- Vol. M, Page 308
Arrangement of 1870.]

Consolidated with
Rev. War Sur. File 19439
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Washington City,
20th November 1845.

Sir:

I addressed you a note some days
since, requesting to be informed if the application
of Oliver Randall, of Bangor, Maine, for a
pension for services in the Revolution, had been
received in your office, and your reply stating that
no such application had been received, came duly
to hand.

The application referred to, was sworn
to before R.S. Prescott, Esq. a Justice of the Peace for
the County of Penobscot, Me., and duly forwarded
by mail, to your address, some months since.
But as I understand it is required that it should
have been authenticated before a Judge
of a Court of Record, I presume you might
not have considered it as coming within your rules
as an application.

I now enclose you herewith, the Declaration
of the said Oliver Randall " in order
to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of
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the 7th June, 1832, " which I trust is made
in due form; and also a communication from
J. B. Hill, Esq. of Bangor, Maine, dated
14th instant, in relation to the same.

I would also respectfully request you
to cause a search to be made in your office
for the papers in this case which have
been sent you as hereinbefore stated (among
which were the depositions of William Pettengill & 
Obed Pettengill and a certificate from the
Secretary of State of Massachusetts,) and file
them with the present application.

Your early action in this matter is
earnestly solicited, and should any further
proof be required, please apprise me.

I will thank you to acknowledge the
reception of the enclosed papers, and to inform
me if the missing ones be found.

I am, Sir
Very respectfully,
Your obedient Servant
Saml Harris [?]

James L. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
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1777 6 mos. Capt. Jos Cole _  Col Jacobs
went to Providence R.I.

78     9 mos  Cole              Jacobs
80     6 mos  Howard        Bailey  (Easton | W Point
["81" crossed out]

Secy's [? =Secretary's?] Certif
77     23dy  Wilbur Co.
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  "  5. 25   Jos Cole's Co
     9. 18   Coles [?]
["24" crossed out]
     6. 13  Howard
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     21.26


Pensioned for loss of his arm in last war
Can he get a pension now
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Oliver Randall's Cert.e
for a Discharge from the 
Surgeon March 5.1815
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Pension [written diagonally across upper right corner of page]

Ninty [? written in scroll over seal]

Military District.

Genl Hospital
Cantonment Greenbush March 5, 1815

IT is hereby CERTIFIED, that Oliver Randall a Corporal in the company of Capt Joseph Treat in the 21st Regiment of U.S. Infantry is rendered incapable of performing the duty of a soldier,  by reason of wounds or other injuries 
inflicted while he was actually in the service aforesaid, and in the line of his duty, viz:

By satisfactory evidence and accurate examination, it appears that on the
thirteenth day of August in the year 1814 being engaged on guard at or near a place called Fort Erie in the state, District, or Territory of Upper Canada he received a wound by a Cannot [=cannon] shot in his right arm which fractured the bony [=bone] and caused an amputation of the same below the elbow --

and he is [illegible] incapacitated for Military Duty, but in the opinion of the undersigned, is totally disabled from obtaining his subsistence by manual labor.

Surgeon of the Reg. of U.S. [crossed out]

Hospital Surgeon
Samul Shors [?]
U.S.Army
 

N. B. The blank in the last line but one is to be filled up with the proportional " DEGREE" of Disability; for example:--"three fourths"-- "one
half" -- "one-third," &c. &c. or,"totally," -- as the case may be.
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the
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2373
178.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Secretary's Office, Boston;

Sep. 10. 1845.

I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books
and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of
the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears
that the name of Oliver Randall of Easton
is borne upon a Muster roll of Capt Joshua Wilbur's [?]
Company, Col John Hathaway's regt, draughted from
the towns of Taunton, Raynham & Easton in
April 1777 as a private 23 days   Upon a Pay
Roll of Bounty due to Capt Joseph Cole's compy
Col Robinson's regt. which served in Rhode Island
as a private from July 6 1777, 5 months & 25 days
Upon a Pay Roll of Capt Joseph Cole's Company
Col John Jacobs regt as a private from March 15. 1778. 9 months & 18 days-- upon a Pay Roll of Capt Pelatiah Eddy's Company, Col John Hathaway's
regt. which marched from Taunton to Tiverton
Rhode Island in March 1779, as a private
from March 23 to April 15, 1779 inclusive. 24 days.
Upon a Pay Roll of the 6 months men [?] from the
town of Easton as a private from July 17 170
to
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[written]
January 20. 1781 [perhaps 1787?] 6 months & 13 days
including allowance of 200 miles travel
And the above is all the evidence of service
of any one of the name as shown by the
Records in this office.

[printed form]
And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence
of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this
Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the
search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said
application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts
and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal
of the Commonwealth, the date above written.

[signed] John G. Farley [?]

Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF REVOLUTIONARY SERVICES, MADE
BY THE
OF THE PARTY WHO RENDERED THE SERVICE
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The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to
furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office of the service of myself. 
in the war of the Revolution.

[The from is written to search for a 3rd person, not the person who submitted it. Therefore, everywhere the pronoun "he" was printed, it was here crossed out and "I" written in its place. See original if this is important]

I was a native of the Town of Easton in the County of
Bristol and State of Massachusetts.  I enlisted
from the Town of Easton in the County of Bristol
and State of Massachusetts in the year 1777 as a private
in the Company commanded by Captain Joseph Cole in
Col Jacobs Regiment  for six months and I served
as follows, viz: - went into the State of Rhode Island
and served the time for which I enlisted.  I enlisted
again in Easton in the winter or Spring of
1778 for nine or ten months which I served
out in Capt Joseph Coles Company and Col Jacobs
Regiment in the States of Rhode Island and
Massachusetts  I afterwards enlisted again in
the month of June or July 1780 at Easton in
Capt Abena Howards Company Col Bailey Regiment and Genl Larneds Brigade which I served
at West Point in the State of New York and in
the State of New Jersey

I am now 84 years old, and my memory does not enable me to state
my services more fully than above stated.

WITNESS my hand, at Bangor this twelfth 
day of June A. D. 1845

Oliver Randall
Signed by said in my presence,

RS Prescott
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
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State of Maine.

Penobscot ss: [=scilicet]

I William T. Hilliard, Clerk of all the Judicial
Courts for said County of Penobscot hereby certify that
Reuben S. [?] Prescott Esquire, whose name appears in the foregoing
instrument is a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County
duly Commissioned and qualified, and the signature
purporting to be his is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affix the seal of our Supreme Judicial
Court, this thirteenth day of June, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty
five.

Wm. T. Hilliard

[seal attached]

1334. [number running sideways down right edge of page]
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[blank stationery page for years in the 1840s]
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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SECRETARY'S OFFICE, BOSTON;

184  .
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I Obadiah Pettengill of Leeds in the
County of Kennebec [now in Androscoggin County] and State of Maine of
lawful age on oath do testify ["and" crossed out] that
In the year of our Lord 1778 I served in the
Revolutionary war in the State of Rhode Island
in the Company commanded by Captain Joseph
Cole and in the Regiment commanded by
-
Col. John Jacobs; and I the said Pettengill
do further say that Oliver Randall than of Easton
in the State of Massachusetts but now of Bangor
in the County of Penobscot and State of Maine
served in said Company and Regiment with
me during the whole of the six months that I
served. And I the said Pettengell do further
say that after said war was over the said Oliver
Randall moved from Easton to the Town of
Leeds in the State of Maine where he resided
for many years, and that he afterwards left
Leeds and moved to Bangor in the County
of Penobscot and State of Maine where he now
resides.  And I the said Pettengill do further say that
After said six months service had expired I left
the Army and ever understood that said Randall
enlisted again and served during the remainder
of the war.
And
I the said Pettengell do further say
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that the said Oliver Randall now of Bangor is the
same individual who served with me as above
Stated

[signed] Obadiah Pettengill

State of Maine

Kennebec Ss [=scilicet]  May 17th 1845

Personally appeared the said Obadiah
Pettengill before me E K Prescott, one of the
Justices of the Peace within & for the County of
Kennebec and made solemn oath to the truth
of the foregoing statement

Epaphras K. Prescott, Justice of the Peace


State of Maine
Kennebec ss

I hereby certify that Epaphras K
Prescott named above is one of the Justices
of the peace within and for said County of
Kennebec, & that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine.

Witness my hand & the seal of the 
Sup. Jud Court the 19th day of
May A.D. 1845

Clerk of the Judicial Courts
for said County
Wm. M. Stratton
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State of Maine

[the following paragraph was struck out]

I hereby certify that Alanson Starks is the Clerk of the Judicial Courts within and for the County of Kennebec--

Augusta 
May 19th 1845
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Bangor 14 Nov 1845 [?] 

Hon H Edward
Com of Pension

Sir

Enclosed herewith I send
the declaration of Olive Randell or a pension for Revolutionary
service.  I am informed that he made and forwarded some
months since a declaration, by [or but?] which having been made before a Justice of the Peace was rejected.   Accompanying that
document were the certificate of the Secretary of State of Mass [?]
verifying copies and extracts from the records & rolls in his office
of the Revolution service of Mr Rundell, and shewing the
length of time of his service to be 13 [?] month 13 days.
also the deposition of sundry [?] persons who were in the
service in the Revolution and knew him and who
prove his identity.  The declaration now sent with the
documents above referred to complete the proof or [=of?] his
past, and I commend the same to your favorable
consideration. I will add a word of explanation to account for the late period of this application.  Mr Randell
was a soldier in the last war with Great Britain and
had the misfortune to lose his right arm by a cannon shot
for which he has received an invalid pension allowing him
full pay. The construction of the pension act of 1832 as five [?]
adopted, was as I am informed such that he could not receive a Revolutionary pension without relinquishing his invalid pension, which of course he chose not to do. But learn
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ing that recently a different construction has been adopted and that he is entitled to a Revolutionary Penn [=pension] and may receive it, and at the same time retain his invalid pension he now makes the present application, which I hope [?] will be found with the accompanying proofs sufficient both in form and substance

I am very respectfully yours
M Hill
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I William Pettengill of Leeds in the County
of Kennebec [now in Androscoggin County] & State of Maine being of lawful
age on oath do testify and say: That in
the month of May AD 1777 I enlisted and
served six months in the Revolutionary war,
and that during said six months service
Oliver Randall than [sic] of Easton in the State of
Massachusetts served with me during the
whole six month, campaign.

I and the said Randall enlisted under Capt
Joseph Cole and served in Col John Jacobs
Regiment - I do not recollect any other
name [?] by which the company and Regiment in
which we served were designated other than  Capt Cole's Company
and Col Jacob's Regiment.

The said Oliver
Randall after said war, was over left ["to" crossed out]
Easton and moved to the town of Leeds in
the State of Maine, and subsequently said
Randall moved from Seeds to Bangor in
the County of Penobscot and State aforesaid
when [sic] he now resides.

I have lived in the same town with said
Randall several years since said service [?] and know him to be
the Same Oliver Randall who served with me
said six months in said Revolutionary war.  The
field of our service during said time
was principally in the State of Rhode Island.
I know also that said Randall moved to and
now resides in Bangor aforesaid

[signed] William Pettingill
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State of Maine
Kennebec SS [=scilicet] May 17th 1845

I hereby certify that on the day aforesaid
the said William Pettingill personally appeared
before me E K Prescott, one of the Justices of
the Peace within and for said County, and made
solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing statement
by him subscribed

Epaphras K. Prescott Justice of the Peace


State of Maine
Kennebec SS  May 19th 1845.
I hereby certify that Epaphras K Prescott
above named, is one of the Justices of the Peace
and that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine
within and for said County of Kennebec and that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine. 

Witness my hand & the seal of the Sup. Jud Court
Wm. M. Stratton
Clerk of the Judicial Court for said County
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50 [large black stamp in upper right corner]

John L Edwards
Com of Pensions
Washington D.C.


[written sideways on upper left quadrant]
Sept 27, 18_8 [3rd digit illegible]

Oliver Randall.
June 7, 1832.
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Bangor Sept 23 1845

Dr [sic] Sir

I herewith enclose you the
papers of Oliver Randall of Bangor in the
County of Penobscot & State of Maine assking [sic]
for a pension for service in War of the
Revolution should there be any informality or deficency [sic] in the papers which can be
supplied it shall meet with prompt
attention on the receipt of notice to that
effect from your office.  In behalf
of the applicant I would ask for action
upon the case at as early a day as
practicable as the applicant is as you
must be aware is advanced in age
and feels considerable anxiety about his
claim

Very Respectfully Yours

Hon J.L. Edwards
Com of Pensions
Washington
D.C.


Joseph Leavitt 
authorized by Power of atty in writing
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78 09
    14
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31 236
78 09.
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1093.26
    39.04
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1132.30

[note: first two lines are multiplied; the rest is addition]
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Invalid

Oliver Randell ["a" added above "e"] must
make an affidavit agreeably the within
form, and  transmit it
pro[perly au]thenticated, to
the war Department, before he can be transferred.

If the pensioner does
not remove to Maine
his name cannot be
transferred to the Main
Agency.

27 Jan: 1824.
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APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER.
State of Maine

County of Penobscot-- ss. [=scilicet]

On this fourth day of April 1826, before
me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace ["and of the Quorum" inserted above] for the said county of
Penobscot in said State personally appeared Oliver Randall of
Dutton County [now Glenburn?] & State aforesaid, who, on his oath, declares that he is the
same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded
Captain Joseph Treat in the regiment commanded by 
Colonel Ripley or 21st regiment of the Infantry in the late war with Great Britain in service of the United
States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of
Massachusetts although he has resided in Maine for about twenty years [printed phrase "from whence he has lately removed" crossed out]
that he now resides in the state (district, or territory) of Maine
where he intends to remain, and wishes his
pension to be there payable, in future. That he at present receives eight dollars per month, and that his reasons with others for 
requesting to be transfered [sic] to Maine is because he could not
receive his Pension in Massachusetts the 4 March 1826

Sworn and subscribed to, before
me, the day and year aforesaid.

[signed] Oliver Randell 

Joseph Carr Justice of 
the Peace & of the Quorum

NOTE. The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character
and signature must be properly authenticated.
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I Alexander Savage of Bangor County of Penobscot and
State of Maine of lawful age do make oath that I am well
acquainted with Oliver Randall within named and that
he is the same person who subscribed the aforegoing affidavit
Alexander Savage

State of Maine
Penobscot SS [=scilicet] Bangor 4th April 1826

Then personally appeared before me Joseph
Carr a Justice of the Peace and of the Quorum and commissioned
and qualified to discharge of said office in said County ["Alexander Savage above named" inserted above] -- and
took and subscribed the foregoing affidavit and I hereby
certify that I am well acquainted with said Savage and
know him to be a man of truth & veracity a Register of
Probate & a Magistrate in said County witness my
hand the day and year above said

Joseph Carr Justice of
the Peace & of the Quorum
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State of Maine

Penobscot SS [=scilicet]

I, Isaac Hodsdon of Bangor in the County of
Penobscot Clerk of all the Judicial Courts holden for & within
the County aforesaid -- do hereby certify that Joseph Carr is
a Justice of the Peace and of the Quorum within and for the
County aforesaid and duly commissioned to discharge the duties of
his office and that the foregoing signatures are his hand and
writing

In witness whereof I have hereunto
affixed the seal of our Supreme Judicial
Court at Bangor -- this 4th day of
April AD 1826

Isaac Hodsdon Clerk
aforesaid
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37 [or34?].125

[document is tri-fold]

[column 1]
76.66
  1 43
------
78 09

[column 2]
Oliver Randall
Maine
7 [?] June 1832

[following entries crossed out]
77 Wibben Co. 23 [illegible]
      Boler [?] Co    5.25
78- Cole [?] Co    9.18
80 - Howard Co    6.13
                --------------
        Mos             21.26 days

Admitted $72.87
Com 4 March 1831
[end crossed out entries]

23.13
     24
-----
24.07

Joseph Leavitt Esq
Attorney
Bangor
Maine

[column 3]
Oliver Randall
Maine
17 June 1832

Admit 23 Mos 13 days
$78.09
Joseph Leavitt Esq
Attorney
Bangor
Maine

Commence 4 March 1831.
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I Oliver Randall of Bangor in the County of
Penobscot and State of Maine being of lawfull age
on oath depose and say That in the month of May
of June AD 1777 I enlisted at Easton in the County of
Bristol and Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the
Revolutionary War into a Company commanded
by Capt Joseph Cole and Col Jacobs Regiment I at
this time enlisted for six months monstes [?] and went
to Providence R I was afterwards at North
Kingston and South Kingston and from that to Howland Ferry.  I afterwards enlisted again at Easton in
the County of Bristol and Commonwealth of Massachusets in the winter or Spring of 1778 into the Company
Commanded by Capt Joseph Cole and in Col Jacobs Regiment
and marched again to Providence Rhode Island and from
there to Swansey [=Swansea] in the State of Massachusetts
I at this time enlisted for nine or ten months
which I served out as also the first six months
of my enlistment. I afterwards enlisted I think
in the month of June or July 1780 at Easton aforesaid
for the term of six months into a company commanded by Capt Abner Howard Col Baileys Regiment
and Genl Larneds [=Gen. Charles Larned?] Brigade and marched from Easton
to West Point in the State of New York and from
there we marched into the State of New Jersey and
returned again to West Point where I was regularly
discharged in the month of January following my
enlistment. I do not know of any person who was
with me during my last enlistment who is now
living.  I Resided in the County of Bristol and town of
Easton and Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1777
after my return from the Service in the Revolutionary War
I came to the State of Maine and for Several
years Resided in the town of Leeds in the County
of Kennebec [now in Androscoggin County] and from that place I removed to
Bangor in the County of Penobscot where I have
ever since and now reside I was born in August
1761 and shall be Eighty four years of age in August
next I enlisted in the war of 1812 for the term
of five years under Capt Joseph Treat and marched
to Canada and had my right arm shot off
in Canonading at Fort Erie after which I did
my discharge in about five months and applied to the Government for a Pension for the loss of 
my arm and have ever since [illegible] it after the
passage of the law granting a pension to Soldiers
of the Revolution I applied for a pension for my
services in the Revolution and was informed from
the office of Secretary of War that I was not entitled
to another pension. I having since that been informed
that I am entitled to a Pension for services in the
[page ends]
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in the Revolutionary war I now make my application
[signed] Oliver Randell

State of Maine
Penobscot Ss [=scilicet]    June 12th 1845

Then personally appeared Oliver Randall
before me and made oath to the truth of the
foregoing Deposition by him signed

RS Prescott Jus[tice] Peace

State of Maine
Penobscot Ss:

I William T. Hilliard, Clerk of all the Judicial
Courts for said County of Penobscot hereby certify that Reuben S. [?] Prescott Esquire, whose name appears in the foregoing instrument
is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly Commissioned
and qualified and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand, and
affix the seal of our Supreme Judicial Court this
thirteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and forty five.
Wm T. Hilliard

[seal]
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August 22, 1933
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Pomp Peters, S. 45062
Oliver Randall, S. 19439
William Turner, W. 22469
BA-J/MLB

Mr. Albert S. Bryant
North Leeds
Maine

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter of August 8, in which you
request the records of Joseph Freeman, Jr., Pompey Peters (Colored),
Oliver Randall and William Turner, soldiers of the Revolutionary War
from Massachusetts.

Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained
from claims for pension and bounty land made to the United States
based upon military service of soldiers in that war.

A careful search of the records fails to show a claim for pension
or bounty land on file on account of the Revolutionary War service
of Joseph Freeman as described by you.

You are furnished herewith in separate sheets the records of
Pomp Peters (the only soldier of that name or similar spelling
found in the records of this office), Oliver Randall and William
Turner as found in claims for pension based upon their service in
the War of the Revolution.

Very truly yours


A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator