Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,237, Samuel Yendell, Mass. Sea Service

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass. Sea Service
Yendell, Samuel or Yendall.
S. 30.237. B.L.Wt 26417-160-55-
CONTENTS

120461 acc Mar 3/55
May 7/55 Saynel Yesall.
Samuel G. Gandy.
Seaman Aboard Ship Salar Cape Horn
No Revolutionary Pension
Map Line 32 - 33212
100
John Campbell Boston Mass.
Let H Campbell Feb 28/56
Vol 1, page 51.

33.212
Massachusetts
Samuel Yendell Yendall
in the State of Massa who was a Seaman in the Eng: Fleet commanded by Captain Cathcart of the Mass commanded by _____ in the Revolution time for Sipmouly Mass Sea Service
Inscribed on the Roll of Boston , at the rate of 24 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of February 1834 and sent to J. M. Thayer
Arrears to the 4th of Present Semi-annual allowance ending
Recorded by J. B. Wrightman Clerk Vol. 2 Page 99 { Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Suffolk County.
On this 27 th day of April, 1855, personally came before me Samuel Yendell, who being duly sworn deposes and says that he is the identical Samuel Yendell who was a Seaman or "Boy" on board the ship Tartar, Capt. Southcatt, during the War of the Revolution, that he entered said service May 23 1782 and served about six months. That he is now a pensioner on account of said service under Act of June 7, 1832, & to the papers filed in the Pension Office with his application for which he now refers. That he has never received or applied for, and is not entitled to bounty land for any other service.
He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which he may be entitled by the act of March 3 rd 1855. Prays the certificate thereof may be sent for him to Thomas Campbell, Boston Mass.
Sam l Yendell
We Charles B. Leavitt and Charles Yendell residents of Boston in said County, upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Samuel Yendell in our presence & we know the applicant to be the person he represents himself to be.
Ch s B. Leavitt, Chas. Yendell

The within affidavit and declaration were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year first within written, and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons, that I know the applicant to be the person he represents himself.
Benson Leavitt Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, May 4, 1833.
I Hereby Certify, That at the date of the attestation hereunto annexed,
Thomson Leavitt was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Suffolk.
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
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In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
T. M. Wright
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

V34172
Samuel Gendall Mass.
Ship Tartar - 1782 Vol. 40. p. 10 ent. bay - 5 mo 28 days -

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Suffolk ss Boston
On this twenty-ninth day of May 1837 personally appeared before the Municipal Court of the City of Boston now holden in said Boston
Samuel Yendall a resident of said Boston aged sixty eight 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 th 1832.
That he entered into the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated viz.
In May 1782 he shipped as a mariner at said Boston in the ship of War Tartar a Frigate owned & equipped by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and employed in the public service. He soon after sailed in her on a cruise along the coast after British privateers infesting the Bay & other bays on our sea coast, after a short cruise returned to Boston, refitted & sailed on another cruise off Bermuda captured several prizes and sent them to Boston; the said Yendall belonged to the Carpenter's mess. He returned in the Frigate to Boston on her return from a six months cruise & was duly discharged in December following. John Calhoun was Commander. Messrs Seaman & Pilbrow Lieutenants & Seth Webber Master Carpenter & James Morgan his mate. From old age & the consequent loss of memory he cannot remember the particular days of the month on which he shipped or was discharged, he is certain however that he shipped in May & was discharged in December a period exceeding six months for which time he claims a pension. He has no documentary evidence except the depositions hereto annexed to prove his services. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State. In answer to the several Interrogatories pre-

scribed by the War Department he says. He was born in Boston March 15th 1769. His age is recorded in his mothers Bible. He has always lived in Boston except while at sea. He has enumerated the names of his officers & the particulars of his services. He had no written discharge that he remembers. Samuel Wendell
Sworn to & subscribed in open Court on the day & year first before written. Before me,
Peter O. Thacher, Judge of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston
We Eleazer Homer Surveyor & a resident in the City of Boston & Sebastian Streater, a Clergyman, residing in said City, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Wendell who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be sixty eight years of age & that he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a seaman of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion
Sebastian Streater
Sworn to & subscribed, on the day & year first before written, in open Court
Eleazer Homer
Peter O. Thacher, Judge of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston
And the said Court doth hereby declare its opinion, after the investigation of the matter, & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, the answers to which are embodied in the foregoing Declaration, that the above named Applicant was a Revolutionary Seaman, as he states. And the Court doth further certify, that the Rev. Sebastian Streater is a clergyman, settled in the First Universalist Church of the City of Boston, & that Eleazer Homer Surveyor & Scribe are residents within the said City, & are persons of undoubted truth & veracity, & that their statement, generally signed by them, is worthy of credit.
Boston, May 29 th 1837.
Peter O. Thacher, Judge of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
I Nathaniel Hayden of South Boston, in the County of Suffolk, Yeoman, on Oath depose & say, That I shipped on board the State Ship Tartar, John Calhoun Esq. Commander, bound on a Cruise against the Enemies of the United States, and continued in her until her Cruise was ended, which was not less than Six months. I recollect that there was a number of Boys on board said Ship, but do not know their names, and from the Information I have received of Samuel Gendell, and circumstances & occurrences, that transpired on board said Ship, together with his answers to many questions I put to him, I do fully believe that said Samuel Gendell was one of the boys that did belong to said Ship, during said Cruise.
Signed in presence of Ebenezer Homer.
Nathaniel Hayden
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Suffolk ss Boston Novr 1836. Then the above named Nathaniel Hayden personally appeared & made solemn Oath that the aforewritten affidavit by him subscribed contains the truth & nothing but the truth - Sworn to
Before me, Sam d D. Parker
Justice of the Peace Quorum Vnus, in & for the County of Suffolk
The above named Nathaniel Hayden is a credible Witness & I certify my opinion that his statement ought to be believed. -
Sam d D. Parker J. P.

I Wendell Phillips clerk pro tempore, having been duly sworn, of the Municipal Court of the city of Boston, the same being a court of Record duly established by law, do hereby certify that Samuel D. Parker whose signature is twice hereon written is and was at the said date of November last past a Justice of the Peace and of the Quorum for the County of Suffolk, and that said signatures are his own proper handwriting. In Witness
Whereof I have hereto set my hand and caused the Seal of said court to be affixed this thirtieth day of May in the Year eighteen hundred thirty seven
Wendell Phillips Clerk of Municipal Ct pro temp.

I Abijah Cheever of Saugus in the County of Essex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts Physician on oath depose & say that during the revolutionary war I was a surgeon in the Hospital Department of the United States Army & on an emergency I sailed as Surgeon in the Frigate Tartar armed & fitted out by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. We sailed about the month of May 1782 & my Commission bears date on that month. I continued in her until she was sold about seven months afterwards about December in the same year. = I have for the past year known Mr Samuel Gendall who resides in the Northerly part of the City of Boston. About a year since I stopped at his store to ascertain from him the house where Captain Bathurst the former commander of the Frigate Tartar lived, Captain Bathurst having died many years since. The said Gendall then told me he had himself sailed in the Tartar & readily pointed out Captain Bathurst's house. I have had several conversations with said Gendall from the occurrences & incidents in said Frigate with which he is familiar & from his present recollection.

answers to many minute inquiries which answers he could not have given unless he had been in said Frigate on her cruise I am well satisfied that he belonged to said Frigate as he states for the term of six months - & have no doubt whatever on the subject. Hiram Cheever formerly Dungeon of Ship Fortier
City and County of New York ss.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Suffolk ss. Nov r 1830 - Then the above named Abijah Cheever personally appeared & made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed, contains the truth & nothing but the truth - And I further certify that the said Cheever is well known to me, that he is a credible witness & that his statement is entitled to credit.
J Hasket Derby Justice of the Peace

STATE OF NEW-YORK, CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW-YORK, } ss.
I, Thomas Jeremiah , Clerk of the City and County of New-York, and also Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the said City and County, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That
Andrew Warner before whom the annexed affidavit was taken, was, at the time of taking the same, a Commissioner of Deeds in and for said City and County, duly commissioned and sworn, and authorized to administer oaths, and that his signature thereto subscribed is genuine, as I verily believe.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court and County, the 17 day of May 183 7 .
Th. Jeremiah
Clerk.

City & Co. of New York, Ys: James Morgan Ship Builder and a resident at No 126 Monroe Street in said City, being duly sworn with deponent and say that he belonged on board of the aforesaid Frigate Tartar as Carpenter's Mate, there, at the time mentioned in the foregoing certificate or affidavit. That he was well acquainted with the said Samuel Gendell, who was then (that is when on board of the said Tartar) commonly known by the name of Samuel Bulmore stepson and admiral Bulmore and a son-in-law of John Bulmore - who was then Gunner's Mate of the said Frigate now that the said Samuel Gendell the bearer of the affidavit for Certificate of Abijah Chew is the identical person that was on board of the said ship Tartar when deponent was also on board of the said Frigate at the time mentioned in the foregoing Certificate or affidavit of the said Abijah Chew -
Sworn this 17 th day of February  May 1837 before me Andrew Warner Commissioner of Deeds James Morgan
I certify that James Morgan the above deponent is a man whose statements are entitled to full credit - 17 May 1837
Andrew Warner Commissioner of Deeds New York City

I Wm Bell Phillips Clerk pro tempore, having been duly sworn, of the Mu- nicipal Court of the city of Boston, the same being a court of Record, duly established by law, do hereby certify that E Haskell Derby whose signature is hereon before written was at the said date of November last past is a Justice of the Peace for this county of Suffolk duly appointed and sworn, and that the signa- ture hereto written is his own pro- per handwriting - In Witness
Whereof I have hereunto set my hand & caused the seal of said court to be affixed this thirtieth day of May in the year of our Lord one hundred, & thirty seven
Wm Bell Phillips Clk pro temp. Municipal Ct.

INVALID.
WIDOW, &c.
Mary File No. 30237 Samuel Gendall "Seaman" Frigate "Tartar" Rev War
Act June 7. 1832
Index: Vol 2 , Page 99
[Arrangement of 1870.]

FREE
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12046 Commissioner of Pensions. Washington. D.C.

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Samuel Jencks
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26.417
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Boynton
Commissioner of Pensions.
Washington
D.C.
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Samuel Gendall.
Mass.
Lebanon,
J. M. Thayer 21 st Sept. 1853.
Derby & Andrews June 24 th 1837.
J. M. Thayer 21 st Sept. 1853.
Act y June, 1832.

Rejected
See let. June 24 1831 to Derby & Andrews
1832

Dear L. L. Waldo, Commissioner of Pensions, Washington , D. C.

Aug. 10, 1853.
Letter & Power of atty. in subject case of Samuel Gendall, Mass.
Act 1832.
J. M. Thayer, Present.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, PENSION OFFICE. OFFICIAL BUSINESS

Washington D.C. Aug 8 th 1833
Sir,
I enclose herewith a Power of Attorney in case of Samuel Yeendall of Mass. act-1832, rejected  discontinued , application on file.
He served under the name of Samuel Baltimore , and the service is proven, as appears by the letter from the Pension Office of 24 th June 1837 to Henry A. Andrews, from 23 rd May to 20 th November (inclusive) 1832, making, as alleged, but five months and 28 days.
Now, I think it can be plainly shown that this calculation of the time he served is erroneous.
I have counted the days from 23 rd of May inclusive, to the 20 th of Nov. inclusive, by the Almanack, and I find the number of days to be, 182 . Dividing this number by 30, the number of days in a calendar month, as invariably recognized by the Pension Office, and we have six months and two days over .
Yeendall was shipped on the 23 rd day of May and discharged on the 20 th day

of Spence following, I care not for what length of time he was paid, nor, whether, from 23 d of May to 20 th Nov. makes only five months and 28 days or not, He served 182 days , — this is indisputably proved and admitted by the Pension Office, I claim therefore for him a pension for the length of time he has is admitted to have served viz: 182 days for six months and two days . Please count the days by the Julian
I trust the Government of this great Confederacy will no longer shield itself behind an objection so entirely groundless in deciding the claim for Revolutionary services of one who still lingers in poverty on the shores of time.
Respectfully submitted J. M. Thayer attorney.
To commissioner of Pensions

Samuel Wendell Maps
adm d . June 7 1832
6 mos Sea $24
per annum from
4 March 1831
Asst to J. M. Thayer Esq Parent

Samuel Boalmore on Yendall
Service on board Ship Tartar
J. M. Thayer
Samuel Boalmore on Yendall Service on board Ship Tartar J. M. Thayer

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Secretary's Office Boston { December 5 th 1853. }
I hereby certify that it appears from the Records of the Council in this office that a warrant was issued December 18 th 1782 to pay Capt. John Catheast and men on his roll for their service on board ship Tarter in full to November twenty second seventeen hundred and eighty-two.
Witness the Seal of the Commonwealth hereunto affixed the date above written.
T. M. Wright Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Boston May 30 th 1837 4 State St.
Sir,
We have the honor to transmit to you the application of Samuel Gendall for a Pension under the Act of June 1832.
We trust that the papers are properly certified, & to prevent confusion would take the liberty to state that the applicant at the time of his service was known by the name of Samuel Bulmore from the fact that his Father in law, John Bulmore, was Gunners-mate in the same vessel.
If the application is satisfactory, you will confer a favor by forwarding the Pension Certificate to
Yrs. Very Respectfully Derby & Andrews
J. L. Edwards Esq.

Samuel Judall
Respectfully executed by Samuel Judall

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston:
Oct. 7 th 1853.
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 Samuel Bulmer is borne on a Roll of the Ship Lutter, (Capt John Cabot) as a Boy from May 23. to Nov. 20. 1782. John Bulmer is also borne on said roll as Gunner's Mate.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
W. M. Wright
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Pension Office, September 21 st 1853.
Sir:
Yours of the 8 th of August 1853, in relation to the claim of Samuel Yendall, of Massachusetts, has been received.
There is no satisfactory evidence that Samuel served for a period as long as that asserted in your letter; but, if the admission were made, that he did serve on board of the Tartar, from the 23 d of May to the 20 th of November, 1782, six months' service could not be ascertained. Your method of computation cannot apply in the present case. Were a certain number of days' service proved, without the possibility of ascertaining the dates of its commencement and termination, then the division thereof by thirty days, (the ordinary calendar month,) would be the only means of arriving at a just estimation of the service in months. Here the day and month that his services began and ended, is given. By computation, he served five months and twenty-eight days, which is less than the smallest period of service for which a pension is granted. The claim must, therefore, be rejected.

I am, respectfully, Your Obt. Servt., J. M. M c Leod Commissioner.
J. M c Leod Thayer, Esqr. Present.

Know all Men by these Presents,
THAT
I Samuel Yendell of Boston in the State of Mass. do hereby constitute and appoint J. M. Thayer of Washington to be my true and lawful attorney for the purpose of prosecuting any claim I may have on the Government of the United States for pension or arrears of pension on account of the services of my services on board the ship Tartar, capt. Calhoun.
in the War of the Revolution, and the said Thayer is hereby authorized to take all necessary, legal, and proper steps in the prosecution of said claim in the same manner that I might do for myself.
Witness my hand and seal this Fourteenth day of July 1853.
witn: Benson Leavitt
Samuel Yendell
Signed and Sealed in presence of
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Suffolk County.
On this 13 day of July, 1853. personally came before me Samuel Yendell, to me well known, and made oath that he is the identical person who served on board ship Tartar, Capt Calhoun in 1782 under the name of Samuel Bulmore, and also acknowledged the foregoing power of Attorney to be his free act and deed.
Benson Leavitt Justice of the Peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, July 15 th 1853.
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation Benson Leavitt was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Suffolk
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
E. M. Wright Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Samuel Gendell act. Bks. Pres. Mass.

May _____ 8 days. June _____ 30 " July _____ 31 " Aug _____ 31 " Sept _____ 30 " Oct _____ 31 " Nov _____ 20 "
181 days

Brief in the case of Samuel Gendall County and State of Mass act June 7 1832
Claim, ("original," or " for increase ")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Readproof service, Identity shown by a number of wit- nesses, testified to be credible.
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Consulted Commissioner and Chief Clerk
Name and residence of Agent J. M. Thayer Esq Present
Thornton K. Phelps Examining Clerk.

Boston Mass. May 23. 1856.
Sir.
I have received your letter of Feby 28. 1856. suspending the application of Samuel Mendell, a revolutionary pensioner for bounty land under act of March 3. 1855 (N o 120. 461) until the said act should be so amended as to include Revolutionary Seamen .
As such an amendment was passed in Congress on the 14 th inst. I respectfully ask for a consideration & determination of this application at as early a day as possible.
Very Respectfully
Your Ob t Servant.
Thomas Campbell Atty.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington D.C.

Boston May 2 d . 1855.
Sir
I enclose three applications of Revolutionary pensioners and one soldier war 1812 for bounty land.
Very Respectfully
Your Ob lt Servt.
Thomas Campbell.
Comm. of Pensions. Washington D.C.