Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31320, for Job Randell, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Randell, Job or Randall
S. 31320
CONTENTS

Maine 11,324
Job Randall
of Oxford Co in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Crocker of the Regt commanded by Col Baily in the Massachusetts Troops
11 Mo Private — $ 36. 66
Inscribed on the Roll of — Maine at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of April 1832 and sent to Professor Sumner, Me
Arrears to the 14th of March 1832 73.32 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept " 18.33
$ 91.65
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. D. Sprague Clerk, Book E Vol. 1 Page 48

Declaration of Job Randall.
N o 3229

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT SS.
At a Special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland, within and for said District, on the fourteenth day of August A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty-two before the Honorable ASHUR WARE, Judge of said Court.
On this fourteenth day of August aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge Job Randall a resident of Turner in the county of Oxford in said Maine District, aged eighty nine 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 7th, 1832. That he the said Randall entered the service in the army of the United States sometime some time in the year of our Lord 1775 about five or six weeks before the battle of Bunker hill in the company commanded by capt Leopker of Wentworth field in the regiment commanded by Col. Baity of Honour and served under said officers for and during eight months . That he served five or six weeks of said time at Marshfield and the other part of the said eight months at at Roxbury near Boston .
That he the said Randall again enlisted sometime in the year of 1777, he thinks, or that year in which the British fleet came into Rhode Island and served three months in the company commanded by Capt Allen of Middlebury in the regiment commanded by Col Hull of Pembroke , and was stationed at Howland's Ferry the first part of the time and in the latter part of the time in Bristol .
That in the first enlistment he served eight months in the second enlistment he served three months making in the whole eleven months as a private soldier. That he has no documentary evidence of his service or any proof but what is annexed to this declaration.
Job Randall
he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on any pension roll of any agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the agency in the State of
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Before,
Asher Ware
} U. S. Judge for the District of Maine.

The said Randall further declares that he was born in the Town of Pembroke in the State of Massachusetts in A.D. 1743 Oct. 31 st
That he has a record of his age in an old family Bible that formerly belonged to his father
That when he was first called into the service he was living in Middlebury in State aforesaid and also at Middlebury when he was called into the three months service
That there were no continental troops stationed with the Regiment to which he belonged
Job Leland
Sworn to before me this 14 th day of August 1832 Thomas Allen Esquire
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatives prescribed by the War Department) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states
I, John Nussey Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Job Randal for a pension. And that Thomas Allen Esquire who took the annexed deposition of Nathaniel Shaw is a Justice of the Peace duly qualified & that his official attestations are entitled to full faith & credit
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this eighteenth day of August A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two
John Nussey { Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.
Job Leland

WE George Ricker a Clergyman residing in the town of Minot and Thomas Merrill of Hobbai Yemase County of Oxford State of Maine -
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Bowditch who has subscribed the foregoing declaration, that we believe him to be eighty nine 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.
Sworn to, and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Before
Ashe Wren
George Ricker Thomas Merrill U. S. Judge for Maine District
And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that said Ricker who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident of the town of Minot and that Thomas Merrill
who has signed the same is resident of the town town and is a creditable person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Ashe Wren Judge

Job Randall. base Aff: of Nathaniel Shorn

I Nathaniel Shaw of Buckfield in the County of Oxford and State of Maine of the age of eighty seven testify and say that I was personally acquainted with Job Randall now residing in Turner in the County and State aforesaid in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy five that the said Job Randall was then a soldier in the State service that he enlisted for eight months and served the said term at Roxbury and there abouts
Nathaniel Shaw
Exford July 19 th 1832 Personally appeared Nathaniel Shaw and made oath that the above deposition by him subscribed in my presence is just and true in all its parts Thomas Merrill Justice of the Peace Before me

Com. 11 mos $ 36.66 Claimant Turner Mc

I Job Randall, resident of the town of Turner, in the County of Oxford & State of Maine, aged eighty nine years, having heretofore, on the 14th day of August last past, before the Hon. Asa Ware Judge of the District Court of the United States, for the District of Maine, made application for a pension pursuant to the provisions of the act of Congress, passed June 7. 1832. & there made my declaration of my services, do now make this my further declaration additional & subsidiary to the former & say that I enlisted into the American Army as a private soldier in the first instance at Marshfield in the County of Plymouth & Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the forepart of the year 1775 and as near as I can now remember about five or six weeks before the battle of Bunker Hill, into a company commanded by Captain Elijah Brooks of Marshfield Mass. belonging to Col. John Bailey's Regiment for eight months, which term I served completely through. I was firstly stationed at Marshfield but when the news of the Bunker Hill battle came our company marched to Roxbury where we were stationed the remainder of said eight months & when I was discharged sometime in the month of January 1776.
I further say that sometime in the month of January or February in the year, I think 1777, it being that year in which the British Fleet came into Rhode Island, I enlisted again into the Army as a private soldier at Middleborough in the County of Plymouth into a company commanded by Captain Deborah Allen of said Middleborough, belonging to the Regiment commanded by Col. Wall of Pownalborough Mass. for three months, which term I served through, being stationed at Howland's Ferry the former part of the time & at Bristol the latter part, in Rhode Island, six weeks of which three months I served as Barrack Master Job Randall.
Oxford J. December 25 th 1832. Then the abovenamed Job Randall personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the foregoing declarations by him subscribed before me, it being first his infirmity of body impossible for him to attend court & extremely inconvenient to procure a judge to attend at his home to take his declaration there.
Thomas Merrill Justice of the Peace

I Nathaniel Shaw, now residing in the town of Buckfield, in the County of Oxford, State of Maine, aged eighty seven years, testify & say that I served as a soldier in the American army during the revolutionary war, for several periods of service, one of which was at Roxbury, near Boston, under Captain Amos Wade of Col. Cottoms Regiment, for eight months, which I completely served through. I enlisted at Middleboro in Massachusetts and was discharged at Roxbury. That was in the year 1775. and my duty was guarding the town & helping to build forts on Dorchester Point. During this service, I knew that Job Randall now residing in Tufts in County of Oxford was also a soldier in the same & I now remember it well. He enlisted at said Middleborough. I think he first engaged to go under Captain Benson, but afterwards enlisted into Captain Brookes Company, of Col. Baileys Regiment, for eight months and served a part of the time on the south shore, but the greater part at Roxbury. Said Randall was well known to me, both of us being inhabitants of Middleboro & neighbors & I have continued my acquaintance with him ever since. He was discharged with me at the same time & I know that he served said eight months faithfully through.
NATHANIEL SHAW
State of Maine County of Oxford ss. November 24. 1852. Then the above named Nathaniel Shaw, to me well known as a respectable and credible witness, personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition, by him subscribed, before me, Samuel D. Brainard of the County of Oxford

State of Maine
Oxford
I, Rufus King Goodenow, Clerk of the Judicial Court in + for said County of Oxford, hereby certify that Thomas Merrill + Samuel F. Brown whose genuine signatures are annexed to the foregoing Depositions, the said Merrill to that of Job Randall, + the said Brown to that of Nathaniel Shaw, are severally Justices of the Peace in + for said County.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand + affixed my seal of office this first day of February in the year 1833 in Rufus King Goodenow, Clerk of Oxford County Court

State of Maine
Oxford ss
I, Rufus King Goodenow, Clerk of the Judicial Court in + for said County of Oxford, hereby certify that Thomas Merrill + Samuel F. Brown whose genuine signatures are annexed to the foregoing Depositions, the said Merrill to that of Job Randall, + the said Brown to that of Nathaniel Shaw, are severally Justices of the Peace in + for said County.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand + affixed my seal of Office this first day of January in the year 1853 in Rufus King Goodenow, Clerk of Oxford County Court

31320
Rev INVALID.
File No. 31,320
Job Randall Rev Rev War
Act: June 1 st 32 nd
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 885
[Arrangement of 1870.]

War Department Pension Office 1. November 1832.
Sir
The evidence in support of your claim to a pension under the Act of 7. June 1832. has been examined.
The statement of the declaration is not sufficiently minute, with regard to the particulars required by the Regulations. A precise detail of times, officers, services, &c o is required in those cases which depend upon the bare declaration of the claimant in part, or the whole.
The testimony of Nathaniel Shaw in its present shape is insufficient. It does not appear by the Certificate of the Magistrate that he is a credible person, nor

nor are his means of knowledge of the facts he states set forth in detail. The papers are herewith returned.
I am, respectfully your ob't serv't J L Edwards
Mr Job Randall, Turner, Oxford County, Maine.