Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,472, for Joshua Kendall, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Kendall, Joshua or Hendal
S. 44,472
CONTENTS

9422 R
New Hampshire
Joshua Randall
of Concord in the state of N. Hampshire who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Briley of the Massachusetts line, for the term of 9 months
Inscribed on the Roll of N. Hampshire at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 9 th of April 1812.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 th of April 1819 and paid to  Ebenezer B. Hall, Esq. Concord Hill, N. Hampshire
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 - 10 \frac{22}{31} 06.89 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Sept 1819 40.00
134 89
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 14th March, 1818. }
Continued Grafton County
Letter to Bro Goodale 22 Aug 1838.
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of March 6 th 1838 from 4 th March 1837 to the 29 th June 1837 the day of his death age Note for a 18 Sept 1838.

Treasury Department,
Second Comptroller's Office,
September 13. 1838.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The sum of Jas. M c Donald deceased a Pensioner on the Roll of the Concord, N.H. Agency, at the rate of " eight Dollars and " " Cents per month  month , under the law of the 18 th March 1818 has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March 1837 to the 29 th of June 1837, the day of his death.
Respectfully, yours,
William H. Parris Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.

copy Joshua Randal -

State of New Hampshire
County of Grafton.
At the Superior Court of Judicature May term A.D. 1820. On this 30 th day of May A.D. 1820 - personally appeared in open Court being a Court of record for the said county of Graft- -ton by the laws of this State established Joshua Pencil aged 74 years resident in Landaff in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare, that he served in the revolutionary war as follows viz a private soldier in Col. Manshab's regiment in Capt. William Warner's Company Massachusetts line and that his original declaration was made & dated April 9 th 1818 that he has received a pension & that my certificate is numbered 9422 And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March A.D. 1818 & that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposal of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide "for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the "United States in the revolutionary war" passed on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income or property other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed & I further state that I am by profession a farmer & my ability to pursue the same is very uncertain being old & very infirm & I have no family residing with me excepting my wife, she is aged 70 years & very feeble & un- -well most of the time. we are really unable to support ourselves & I have not five dollars worth of property except my bedding & clothing in the world & no child on whom to lean for support nor any way of being supported except by my pension. I have several children, they are all of age & have left me. They are poor & live abroad -
Joshua Pencil -

We the subscribers selectmen of said town of Penderuff do hereby certify that the within affidavit is in our opinion a correct & full statement of the said Rendals circumstances and that he possesses no property to any value more than within named -
Jonathan Brannan Selectmen of said Daniel Clarke } town of Penderuff -
Grafton ss | Penderuff May 25 th 1820 -
Personally appeared the above named Brannan & Daniel Clarke selectmen & made oath that the above certificate by them signed is just & true -
before me John French Justice Peace.
Schedule of Joshua Rendals property - May 25 th 1820 -
no land
no stock
  one axe — — — —  1.00    one hoe — — — —  .50    one pitch fork — — —  .25    one scythe — — — —  1.00    1 pot 2 kettles — — —  1.75    all old & worn    and some other old articles    tiles in kitchen — — —  .50     5.00  
a true & full inventory of all my property witness my hand Joshua Rendal —
I sworn to & declared before the Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature for the State of New Hampshire in open Court on this 30 th day of May 1820 -
Attest J. P. Webster Clerk

Stephen P. Webster Clerk of the the superior Court of Judicature for the county of Grafton do hereby certify that the foregoing oath & the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is five dollars. in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court on this 31 st day of May Anno Domini 1820—
S. P. Webster Clerk

Joshua Kendall
Private Col. Marshall's Regiment Massachusetts Line 1775 - 9 months
9 April 1815 -
at Brattleboro -

I John Brooks of Sterling in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts do testify and say, that on or about the first day of June 1778, I enlisted into Capt. William Warren's Company in Col. Marshall's Regiment being the tenth on the Massachusetts line for the term of nine months, which time I served out faithfully and was honourably discharged in March or April 1779. — That at the time I enlisted Joshua Hendall formerly of Lancaster in this county, but now said to belong to Landaff in the county of Grafton and State of New Hampshire, also enlisted into said company, and served out said period of nine months, and was honourably discharged at West Point at the time aforesaid, to wit in March or April 1779. — During all the period of nine months, the said Hendall was a messmate of mine, and I have known him from my boyhood
John Brooks
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Worcester ss. July 13. 1818. Personally appeared John Brooks the aforesaid deponent and made oath to the truth of this affidavit. Isaac Goodwin Jus. of peace.

Jonas Bailey of Sterling in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts do testify and say that in the month of June 1778, I enlisted for nine months service into the Continental army in Captain W m Warren company in the tenth Massachusetts Regiment under Col o Marshall, Johnathan Wendell then of Lancaster in this county, and now said to belong to Landaff in the County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire. Then belonged to said company, and also enlisted for nine months, I always under- stood that he served his country faithfully and was honorably discharged, after completing his said term of nine months — But as I was taken a prisoner on the last of January 1779 — I cannot speak positively to the discharge, but have no doubt of the fact as I lived in the same parish with him and John Brooks the within deponent Jonas Bailey

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Worcester ss. July 14. 1818. Personally appeared Jonas Bayley the deponent aforenamed, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him submitted. And I certify that the aforesaid John Brooks and Jonas Bayley were satisfactorily identified to me as the persons described in the said affidavits. and they are well known to me as persons of truth and credibility.
Isaac Goodwin, Jus. of peace.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
WORCESTER, ss.
I, ABIJAH BIGELOW, Clerk of the Judicial Courts holden within and for said County of Worcester, certify, that Isaac Goodwin Esq. before whom the annexed Affidavits have been made, as Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly qualified for the purpose, acting under the authority of this Commonwealth, and that his name subscribed thereto is his own proper signature.
IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the County seal, this Twenty second day of July A. D. 1818.
Abijah Bigelow, Clk.

STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
Grafton ss.)
ON this ninth day of April — 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said County personally appears Joshua Kendall
aged 72 years, resident in
Landaff in the said State, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war:" That he the said Joshua Kendall enlisted in June 1778
in the State of Massachusetts
in the company commanded by Captain William Warner of the Massachusetts line in Col Marshalls or 10 th M s Regiment
; that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States, until the month of March or April 1779
, when he was discharged from service in West Point State of New York ; that he was in the battles of
and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support ; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.
Ezra Bartlett
I, Ezra Bartlett Judge of the Court of Common Pleas as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Joshua Kendall is very indigent & very needy & did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy ; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
Aug t 10 th 1818.
Ezra Bartlett

Re Wars Section AWP/eel
January 11, 1929
Miss Alice M. Priest 16 Brewster Terrace Brookline, Massachusetts
Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 44472, it appears that Joshua Kendall or Kendal , while residing at Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, enlisted, June 1, 1778 and served nine months as a private in Captain William Warner's Company, Colonel Marshall's Massachusetts Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 9, 1818, at which time he was living at Landal , Grafton County, New Hampshire, aged seventy-two years.
In 1820, he referred to his wife as aged seventy years and to several children, "all of age", no names are given.
The soldier died, June 19, 1837.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 192_____
In reply to your request of _____, for the history of _____, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, the following is taken from the _____ claim for pension.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____   _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____   _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____   _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____   _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____   _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____   _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____   _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____  
Battles engaged in, _____  Residence of soldier at enlistment, _____  Date of application for pension, _____  Residence at date of application, _____  Age at date of application, _____
Remarks: _____  _____  _____  _____  _____  _____  _____  _____
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
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44472
Rev INVALID.
File No. 44472
Joshua Kendall Private Rev. War
Act: 18 March 1818
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 269
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Apr. 15. 1897 - History to Mr. J. B. Goddard. New England Building - Kansas City - Mo.
1923 - June 13 - Hist - to Mrs. E. B. Parker - and 1923 - Sept 26 - Hist - to Mrs. A. F. Brumley - and 1929 - Jan. 11 - " - Miss Alice J. Priest - and

Bathwick August 15 1828
Rev. J. L. Edwards
Sir
England are the papers to decree the annals of Joshua Rendalls pension to his daughter June 1837-
As the time has elapsed to draw it at the agency without your order we will thank you to pass your order to pay it if all is right as we believe it is -
most respectfully Ever yours
Chas Goodall of Bathwick

GENERAL AGENCY, Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Co., OF HARTFORD, CONN. WILLIAM H. REED, General Agent, Rooms 409, 410 New England Building, KANSAS CITY, MO.
Mar. 3, 1897.
Hon. U.J. Murphy,
Washington, D.C.
MAR 13 1897 REC'D
K
Dear Sir, -
Please send me a Certificate of the Revolutionary Record of Asa Kendall of New Hampshire, as same may appear on the records of your office to perfect my application to the Sons of the Revolution.
Respectfully
J B Goddard

GENERAL AGENCY,
Phœnix Mutual Life Insurance Co.,
OF HARTFORD, CONN.
WILLIAM H. REED, General Agent, Rooms 409, 410 New England Building, KANSAS CITY, MO.
Mar. 3, 1897.
Hon. D.J. Murphy,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir,--
Please send me a Certificate of the Revolutionary Record of Joshua Kendall of New Hampshire as same may appear on the records of your office to perfect my application to the Sons of the Revolution.
Respectively
J.B. Goddard
K

Springfield Ret. w Franconia N.H. Apr. 19, 1923.
Pension Bureau, Department of the Interior Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen
I am trying to get the military record and other information of one Joshua Wendall, a Revolutionary soldier for seven years and on

the pension pay-roll at Washington. He received his last pension in 1835, the year of his death. He died at Easton N. H. I want statistics for D. A. R. application.
He was my great, great, grandfather, and my grandmother, born in 1828 remembered him well, and used to tell stories that he told to her of the terrible winter with Washington at Valley Forge.
I want to know where Joshua Kendall was born where he was married to Dorothy (—?) his wife's maiden name. When he

enlisted etc.
Joshua Kendall and his wife Dorothy are buried in the old Easton cemetery, but the tombstones show scarcely anything beyond the names.
That an expense is entailed in looking up this record, I will gladly pay. Thanking you in advance - I am, Gratefully Yrs. Minnie E. Parker
address Mrs. E. B. Parker, Franconia, N. H.

BRÜMMER PLACE LISBON, NEW HAMPSHIRE
Aug. 7. 1923
To the Pension Bureau, Washington, D.C.
I would like information concerning Joshua Kendall who was a Revolutionary War pensioner. He was probably a Massachusetts soldier, and from either Acton or Stone. He died in Easton, N.H. in 1835. The given name of his wife was Dorothy.
Please tell me what there is on your records concerning him. I want this for a D.A.R. application.
Very truly yours (Mrs. R. J.) Mary C. Brümmer

12 Dear Pension Department:- Washington - D. C. Dear Sir:-
The Revolutionary soldier, Joshua Kendall, born June 20-1744, died June 29-1836, East Londonderry, New Hampshire, received a pension. I am informed by a descendant, for whom I am writing. Will you please tell me, for her, if the above is the correct date of birth; and above all if he gives the place of birth ?
This Joshua Kendall married Dorothy Warner, of Harvard, Mass., April 16-1771. His home was Leicester, Mass., during most of his Rev. War service -
Thanking you in advance, I am.
Very truly yours,
(Miss) Alice L. Priest