Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20295, for Joshua Kendall, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
3
Kendall Joshua Kendall
N 20295
Bulah
CONTENTS

1832. Vermont Montpelier Beulah Kendall. widow of Joshua Kendall M aj who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
Reported
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 64 Dollars 33.
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 day of Sept. 1848 and sent to
Sabra Jones. Dover N.H.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 66 Vol. 3.

525 1 Beulah Kindall Yt
act 7 July 38
M 81. d. 16.
Vol 15 p 71 - Capt Mellen - 75. X - 4. 101. 1780 - mob. 214. 24. 24. Winch 3. 25 21. 94 Mellen 81 - 2. 114 28. 161. ch ncc 9.
19. 09
Chipman Lucain Brattleboro Yt

State of Vermont ss Mortimer Probate District On this 15 th day of January A.D. 1889 personally appeared before the Probate Court of the District of Mortimer Mrs. Abigail B. Kendall a resident of Danby in the County of Windham and State of Vermont aged eighty one years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to entitle the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows" That she is the wid- ow of Joshua Kendall who was a private in the Army of the Revolution at several different times and according to her best knowledge and belief from what she remembes from said Kendall's statements in his life time he enlisted at Hattisbon Massachusetts and went to Cambridge or Roxbury Mass as she thinks eight months under Capt. Francis Mitchell in the year A.D. 1775 - that he again enlisted in the A.D. 1776 for one year under the same Capt. Mitchell (who was afterwards a Colonel) and went and went to Long Island New York and other places - that in the year A.D. 1777 he was in the service three months or more at Bennington Vt. and at the taking of Bur- goyne as she thinks under Lieut. Robert Murray - that in the year A.D. 1778 he was in the Army nine months but does not recollect at what places or under what officers - that in the year A.D. 1779 he enlisted into the Army under Lieut. John Suggers for three months and went to Albany and Troy in the State of New York - that in the year A.D. 1780 in the month of June he enlisted into Capt. Dyer and Lieut. White's Company in the Second Massachusetts Regiment for six months and went to West Point in the State of New York and was there detached into the Light Infantry under the command of Gen. Lord Howe and was discharged at the end of said six months at West- point - that she has heard him tell of being in Battles during the War at Rhode Island Long Island White Plains Bennington and at the taking of Burgoyne and of being at Ticonderoga and has heard him relate the particulars of many skirmishes the places she does not remember

and also says she has no documentary evidence in support of her claim
She further declares and says that she was married to the said Joshua Kindall on the twentieth day of August in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty nine that her husband the aforesaid Joshua Kindall died on the second day of June in the year eighteen hundred and sixteen that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January, Seventeen hundred and ninety four at the time above stated Bulah my Kindall mark
Witness Anna 18/1000
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year above written herein
Dana Hyde Judge.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of said Court at Brattleboro in said District this day and year above written
Sam l Elliot Clerk Register

I Elias Bullard of Holiston in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Esquire, do certify that there is on the Books of said Town the following Record. viz. "Joshua Hindall and Beulah Knowlton were joined together Marriage August y e twentieth Seventeen hundred and eighty one p r Joshua Prentiss Clerk" that this is a true Copy of the Record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the Record in fair legible figures as follows: "August y e 20 th 1781"
I Elias Bullard above named depose and say that I hold the Office of Town Clerk in the County, Town, and State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town with the exception above named as certified by me. Elias Bullard. Town Clerk.
Middlesex. S.S. Jan. 4. 1839. Sworn to before me -
Thomas Dickinson Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Me a Clerk of Elias Prentiss Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Middlesex do certify that Thomas Dickinson Esq r is a Justice of the Peace within said County and that his name subscribed to the foregoing Certificate is believed to be his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court the ninth day of January 1839.
E. Prentiss

5287-
See Chapman Swain
Aug 22: '39
to same 17. Aug. 1839
Act F. July 38.

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. _____ _____
Act: _____
Index:—Vol. _____ Page _____
[Arrangement of 1870.]

2145 June 20 1843.
Vt
Mar 3 d 1843.
Beulah Kendall
Hydeburgh June 16
Yrs
Edw. Lewis Esq. Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

Newport June 15-1843
J. G. Edwards Esq.
Sir —
Inclosed is the declaration of the widows British Fund — They are requested to send a pecuniary Certificate to Laban Jones Esq. 7 Dover Windham, Co. Vt.

75 Jas. Mellen
Royle vol 15-71 X $ mo 12 -
76 } Carlos Winch 77 } Robt Muzzy - 1
Kenney ton Hy. 3 -
78. Officers not recalled
9 3.
79. Lt John — Capt Miner
1780 - Capt Dix —
vol 4. 101. on 6-14

Joel Cookledge of Framingham in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged Seventy nine years - Coelefies and declares that in the year Seven hundred and sixty seven in the month of August I joined the Town of Sherborn adjoining said Framingham which was my native place I then entered into the service of the United States in a company of Artillery commanded by Capt Joseph French of Framingham in Colonel Samuel Bullock's Regiment the time of enlistment was Four Months I joined at Holliston Enlisted at the same time and was in the same Company with me - And we served out the time together - We first went to Bellington in the State of Vermont Next to Lake George Landon Next to Stillwater - We were at the taking of Burgoyne - Then to Albany - Then to White Plains where we were discharged and we came home together and further I say not -
Joel Cookledge
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex on this Sixteenth day of April in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty nine Joel Cookledge who is personally known to me as a man of Truth subscribed the foregoing affidavit and made Oath that the same contains the Truth the whole Truth and nothing but the Truth relative to the subject matter thereof according to his best knowledge and belief -
Capt W Ballard, Justice of the Peace

Brattleboro Vt April 28-1839 Sir- enclosed I send you the applications of Elizabeth Andrews Sarah Winchester Nutt Winchester Beulah Winchester Huldah Mather under the act of July 7 th 1838 and Bethiah Munroe under the act of July 7 th 1836 and Resolutions of July 7 th 1838 for pensions
Respectfully
Chisholm Searin
Hon J L Edmonds Comm r of pensions.

Aug 14
Ph
Proof of Phil. Mather's death add proof Hulda Mather
re: Beulah Lindall's Case
Hon. S. L. Edwards Esq Chairman of Pensions Washington City D. C.

Brettabona Ct August 9 th 1839
Sir
Enclosed I send you the certificate of the proceedings concerning the death of Phoebe's Mother -
In case of Benjamin's Will need of Joshua's Will and you write me if the name of the last from Hattiesburg is furnished in the 8 months since in, 78 - you that right his service might be established by the records as he is not on the roll of Capt. Merlins Company of that year - I am informed that Capt. Jas. Daniels went with us a left from Hattiesburg that year - will you have the goodness to examine the roll of his company - if you find such a left
The other service which you say you cannot dis- cover the names of the officers I will state - (which will be in part from recollection as I have not full copies of the discharges) 1 st the years service in, 76 under Capt. James Millins - I think that Dearley Greenleaf in his discharges says that he knows as he has no doubt of this service in a letter to me since the receipt of yours he says he is sure he was in the years service in, 76 under Capt. Millins - that he knew when he went and returned and has since heard him relate many anecdotes of that service - he thinks that Stephen Perry late of Dover in this county and was a pensioner under the

Oct 18.18 and afterwards under the act of 1832 was in the same company that year - The Second Service not determined as 3 months went to Troy and Albany in the State of New York. Perry Fairbanks and Nathan Knowlton were both in the company with him but they disagree as to the year Mr Knowlton Says it was in 78 under Capt Miner. and Mr Fairbanks says in his deposition it was in 79 under Lieut Sanger. he did not remember the Capt's name he is allowed in his pension for the same Service the 3d Service is mentioned by Nathan Knowlton 2 months at Lake William in 79 - and in front he does not mention the name of any officer
As you do not in your letter of July 22 d to me mention any examination of the roll of Capt Mithins Comp in 76 and Capt D. Fairbanks is supposed as to that Service I would request an examination of it if not done - if necessary I can forward you the roll or other deposition of D. Fairbanks if he has not testified fully as to that Service
Very Respectfully y r obedt Servt
Chipman Searle
Hon. S. L. Edwards Esq. Chairman of pension

Brattleboro. Vt. December 7 th 1839
Sir
I have of Benjamin Rindell willow of Nashua Rindell I perceive that you mistook the name of the Capt from Haverstown in -78 in your letter to me of August 17 th you wrote it Joseph Daniels in my previous letter to you I did or meant to have written it Joseph or Joseph Daniels the Senior name of the 3 d son of Noah - Pearly Fairbanks Esq. Still insists upon it that James Millins was in the Service in -76 that he was well acquainted with him & lived but a mile or two from him and says it was the same Capt Millins who was then  then  then  then commanded in the year -89 says that Joseph Rindell was in his camp - and if Oliver Perry was not in the same company that they were near together as he has often heard them talk together afterwards of things that transpired in that Service that they were both knowing to and so being in battles together - In your letter to me of the 22 d of July last in giving an account of his Service as found on the roll you do not mention a 3 d month Service as his right to By Pearly Fairbanks and Nathan Emery then to Troy & Albany they were both in the company and I understand are drawing a pension for the same Service - they disagree about the year - Knowlton says it was in -78 & Fairbanks that it was in -79 though they both agree that it was they were all three in the company - I do not know that we can get any more light on the subject and must leave to decide on what testimony there is in already
Very Respectfully
W. Stetson Shipman Swain
Dear I. L. Edmands Can't afford

Beulah Kindall Wid of Joshua p. 5
At July 7 1898 Married 1781 died 1816.
Allow 19 m. / 9 day pri $ 114.33 per ann. Capt. Nich. Col. Bullard Mch. Mch. —
Chymai Swan Battleboro p. 5

Joshua Kendall A. Holliston 1816.
Beulah M. 1781. S.
 75 8. J. Miller  76 12 "  ① 77 3 Lieut R Munay 3. 25 Vand. Vol 24 p 24  ② 78 9 no off. (Munay)  (3) 79 3 Lieut M. Sanger.  80. 6. " White Vol 4. p 101. 11. 14 
 ① S. Gordon Lieut.  ② A Knowlton "  ③ — 
21. 94

1 Puyallup 17 Aug 9
Mr. Cole
H J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D. C.

1845 Vermont cont.
Paulah Kendall widow of Joshua Kendall who was a private in the Massachusetts line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 64 — Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6th — day of September / 3 and sent to Saban Jones Dover Vt
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1 Page — 28 —

4586
James M. ...
Priscilla ... widow of James M. ...
who was a pensioner under the Act of ... and who died on the ... of ... in the State of ... who was a ... in the ... commanded by Captain ... of the ... commanded by ... in the ... line for ...
Inscribed on the Roll of ... at the rate of ... Dollars ... Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the ... day of ... ...
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1837 ... Semi-annual allowance ending ...
2257.93
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by D. W. ... Clerk. Book ... Vol. 2. Page ...

State of Vermont Windham County
On this 12th day of June A.D. 1843 Personally appeared before the Subscribers a Justice of the peace and for said County Betsy Rundell a Resident of Dover in said County aged 85 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of longness passed on the 3rd day of March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolution War That she is the widow of Gabriel Rundell who was a private in the army of the Revolution as set forth in her declaration under the act of July 7th 1838 for which she received a pension under said act at the rate of $64.33 per annum if she rightly remembers
She further declares that she is still a widow Witness Eliza Sparks, Betsy Rundell her mark
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year last above written before me, and I also certify that the above named Betsy Rundell is person- ally known to me to be the same person set forth in the above declaration
Salem June Justice sworn

State of Vermont Windham County ss I Marshall Miller Clerk of Windham County do hereby certify that Salem (Town) is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and that his signature as such Justice is genuine.
In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of said County at Bennington in said County this 15 th day of June A.D. 1843
Attest Marshall Miller Clerk
9416

STATE OF VERMONT, )
Windham COUNTY.....SS. }
On this Twelfth day of July A. D. 18 78 , before Salmon P. Chase a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by the laws of the State to administer oaths, personally appeared Betsey Merrill a resident of Lyndon in said County, aged 78 years who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed the second day of February, 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War; that she is the widow of Parson Merrill who was a Minister of the Gospel in the town of Lyndon, Vermont, during the war of the American Revolution and he served in the town of Hallowell, Maine, in the service of the Continental Congress, and he received a pension for said service under the act of June 19, 1844.
She further declares, that she is still a widow.
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year last above written, before me.
Salmon P. Chase JUSTICE PEACE.
I also certify that the declarant is personally known to me, and is the same individual she represents herself to be.
Salmon P. Chase JUSTICE PEACE.
I, Marshall Miller , Clerk of the County Court in and for said County, do hereby certify that Marshall Miller  Salmon P. Chase is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signature, above written is are genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court, this
Twelfth day of July in the year A. D. 18 78
Marshall Miller , CLERK.
The above is a true & correct transcription made by me Marshall Miller, Clerk as aforesaid

9. Vatheu - Knowlton of Framingham in the County of Middlesex Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged seventy nine years, testifies & declare that in the year seventeen hundred & seventy seven, in the month of August I lived in the town of Hollis- ton adjoining said Framingham, which was my native place. I then enlisted into the service of the United States, in a Company of Militia (commanded by Capt. Joseph Wench of Framingham, in Colonel Samuel Bullard's Regiment. The term of en- listment was four months. Joshua Kendall of said Holliston enlisted at the same time and was in the same Company with me and served out the term together - We first went to Ben- nington in Vermont - next to Lake George landing next to Still Water - thence to Saratoga, and were at the taking of Burgoyne - thence to Albany, & thence to White Plains, where we were discharged, & came home together -
(In the autumn of the next year (1778) said Kendall & myself again enlisted, in the same capacity, in Capt. Miners Company of Militia, for three months. We went directly to Troy in N. York state, and remained there there during said term & were then discharged & came home together - Nothing in partic- ular occurred, as we had little or nothing to do. - I do not recollect the name of the Colonel

In the month of October in seventeen hundred & seventy nine said Kendall & myself again enlisted, in the same capacity for two months. We went together to Castle William near Boston and served out the term together there. Our business was building a fort - We belonged to no regular company, as there was no captain. We were under the command of an Officer whose name I do not remember. We were both discharged & came home together - We had not, on any of said three occasions, any written Discharge -
In the year seventeen hundred & eighty six, in the spring season - said Kendall told me that he had enlisted in to the service of the United States for one year. Soon after I saw him go away with his gun & pack, saying that he was going into the service & should be gone a year. I saw no more of him till the year was ended, when he came home & said he had been in the service and named many places where he had been. I have never doubted the truth of his statements, & have never known that any one did. It was not doubted that he had served one year, in what was called "the year service" and

further I say not
Nathan Knowlton
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex p. On this twelfth day of February in the year eighteen hundred and thirty nine, Nathan Knowlton, who is personally known to me as a man of truth, subscribed the foregoing affidavit, & made oath that that the same contains the truth the whole truth & nothing but the truth relative to the subject matter thereof, according to his best knowledge & belief.
Joseph Adams } Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex ss. I Elias Phinney Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for the County of Middlesex do hereby certify that Joseph Adams Esq. is a Justice of the Peace within & for said County of Middlesex and that his name subscribed to the foregoing Certificate is his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court, the twelfth day of February 1839
E. Phinney Clk

11 I Solomon Park of Waitsfield in the County of Wadsworth & State of Vermont of the age of eighty (80) years do testify & say that my native place was Holliston in the State of Mass. at which place I lived until after the close of the Revolutionary war that I was well acquainted with Jeremiah Randall then of said Holliston who after-ward lived in Dan- in the State of Vermont - we lived in the same neigh- hood - that I well remember that said Randall went into the Service early in the war and was out in the Service at different times during the war I cannot recollect the officers or Regiments he belonged to nor all the places he went but well remember he was at the battle at White Plains at- Tyendinaga at the taking of Bennington and have heard him relate the particulars of a number of other Battles and Skirmishes the places I do not recollect but well remember his relating the taking of a Rebel, where when the first Sergeant by the name of Smith was shot down by his side I know these things by knowing of his going and returning & his relating the particulars on his return but from age & loss of memory I cannot remember the particular years and times he was out but am confident he was in the Service more than one half of the time during said war or between three & four years in the whole I think he went to Tyendinaga under Capt. Chamberlain of said Holliston but am not certain - I was not myself in the Service during said war
Solomon Park

State of Vermont } Be it known that on the 24th Wineham County } day of December 1888 before the Subscribed a justice of the peace in and for said County, personally appeared the within named Solomon Bark, a person to whom testimony full faith and credence might be given and made oath in due form of law that the within deposition by him subscribed is true Stephen Warren Justice Peace

The Affidavit of Joseph Underwood of Mans- bers in the County of Windham and State of Vermont formerly of Holliston in the State of Massachusetts aged seventy nine years who tes- tifies and says that he was well acquainted with Joshua Kendall late of Dover in the State of Vermont deceased formerly of Holliston aforesaid that he well recollects that said Kendall was absent from his home a great part of the time during the time of the Re- volutionary War that it was then generally reported that he was in the Army of the United States, that he has often heard said Kendall and others tell of his being in the Army at various times and likewise of his being in several Battles but does not recollect the particular times and places
Joseph his Underwood mark
Sworn and subscribed this 28 th day of December 1838
Before me Asa Wheelock Justice of the Peace I hereby certify that the above named Deponent is a man of undoubted truth and veracity Asa Wheelock Justice of the Peace
Fees 24 cents

The Affidavit of Pearly Fairbank of Wind- brook in the County of Windham and State of Ver- mont aged seventy-seven years who testifies and says that at Holliston in the State of Massachu- setts the place of his then residence in the month of October 1779 he enlisted as a private in the ser- vice of the United States in Company commanded by Lieut. John Sanger for the term of three Months that Joshua Kendall then of said Holliston in like at the same time in the same company that he and said Kendall marched from said Holliston to Albany in the State of New York where they were discharged some time before the time their enlistment expired. That in the forepart of 1780 at said Holliston he and the said Joshua enlisted into the regular army of the United States for the term of six Months that he and said Kendall marched from said Holliston by way of Springfield to West Point in the State of New York under the command of Captain Dine and Lieut. White of a regular Army, that said Kendall at said West Point was detached into the light Infantry com- manded by General Steuben L. Fayette. That he the said Fairbank marched from thence by the way of Stony Point to Orange town in the State of New Jersey where and at several other places he was stationed till he went into winter quarters that he and said Kendall went into winter quarters together at West Point and further saith that he the Kendall he believes and has no doubt was in the year service for the year 1776 which for three months in 1777 at the taking of Gen. Burgoyne that the two last services he has no more doubt of than he has of former service.
Sincerely Fairbank
Sworn and subscribed this twenty seventh day of December 1838
Before me Iss. Wheelock Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that the above Deposition is true & undoubted truth and accuracy Iss. Wheelock Justice of the Peace
Witness
travel 6 miles 25 do attend 34 justice fees 34

I Daniel Wood 2 d of Brattleboro in the County of Windham & State of Vermont of the age of fifty seven years do testify and say that I was well acquainted with Deborah Kendall of Dover in said County that said Kendall died on the Second day of June in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and Sixteen - and that Deborah Kendall of said Dover is the widow of said Deborah Kendall and has not intermarried with any person since said Deborah's death David Wood 2 d Windham County
Subscribed and sworn before me this first day of March A.D. 1839 And I further certify that the deponent Daniel Wood 2 d is per- sonally known to me to be a person of truth & veracity to whose testimony full credence may be given
Asa Dyer Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont Windham County Court Clerk's Office New Fane April 23 rd 1839 I Marshall Miller Clerk of said County Court, do hereby certify that Asa Stickel and Asa Hayes are Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified and that their signatures within written are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have unto set my hands and affix the Seal of the said County Court, the day and year above written.
Collest Marshall Miller, Clerk.
David Merrill