Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 14,987, for Noah Kendall, [Blank]

SERVICE
Kendall, Noah Joanna
NUMBER
W. 14.987
CONTENTS

Letter to Hon. C. Hudson 31 March 1846.
1663.
Massachusetts
Noah Wendell
of Wrentham in the State of Mass who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain [blank] of the [blank] commanded by Col [blank] in the [blank] time for [blank]
Inserted on the Roll of [blank] at the rate of 20 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th day of [blank] 1832 and sent [blank] [blank] percent per annum Arrears to 14th of Sept 1832 $ 36.90 Semizant allowance ending [blank] 12.33 $ 49.22
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by [blank] Clerk. Book [blank] Vol. [blank] Page 62.

Reporter
1855.
Walsachusetts.
Joanna Hendall widow of Noah Hendall
who served in the Revolutionary
war, Mass. as a Private.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 23 Dollars 33
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7. day of Sept. 1848 and sent to
Samuel Lee Templeton Mass
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 79 Vol. 2.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester County, ss.
I, Charles W. Hutsborn, — Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the County and Commonwealth aforesaid, do hereby certify, That Samuel Lee, Esquire, on the twelfth day of March, 1846, and Joel W. Fletcher, Esquire, on the twenty seventh day of December, 1847, were, and still continue to be, —
Justices of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; and that their  the signatures to the certificates on the deposition of Jeremiah Lord and Hiram Wilington, — hereunto annexed, are  are genuine.
GIVEN under my hand, and the seal of said County, this twenty seventh day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.
Chas W Hutsborn

I Jeremiah Lord of Templeton in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts. To testify and declare that I am now 70 years of age - and I have been acquainted with John Kendrick late of Templeton deceased - having lived in his family and a near neighbor to him for fifty years - I also testify and declare that the said John Kendrick was a Member of the United States for several years in the War of the Rebellion - That he died at Templeton aforesaid on the fifth day of December 1845. That I was with him at the time of his death - I also testify and declare that Joanna Kendrick whose name is signed to the annexed Declaration is the widow of the said John Kendrick.
Jeremiah Lord
State of Massachusetts
County of Worcester ss Be it known That on the twelfth day of March 1846 Jeremiah Lord made oath - That the above declaration by him subscribed is just and true - and I also certify that he subscribed the same in my presence -
Before me -
Solomon See. Justice of the Peace for the County of Worcester

Transcript from the records of the First Congregational Church in the Town of Westminster in the County of Worcester, Commonwealth of Massachusetts. viz:
"Noah Kendall of Templeton was married to Joanna Stearns of Westminster January the Third One Thousand Seven Hundred and eighty two" I hereby certify that it 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. January ye 3 d 1782.
Hiram Withington
I Hiram Withington above named do hereby certify that I held the Office of Pastor of the First Congregational Church in the Town of Westminster in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Church with the exception above named, as certified by me
Westminster Dec r 29 th 1847 Sworn before me
Hiram Withington
{ Pastor of the First Cong l Church in Westminster
Joel W. Fletcher Minister of the Gospel

15.573
Hanna Rendall
wid of Noah
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State of Massachusetts,
Worcester County ss. On this Third day of December 1847 personally appeared before me Samuel See a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts. Joanna Kendall a resident of Templeton in the County of Worcester aged Eighty five years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision 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 widow of Noah Kendall who was a private in the army of the Revolution. That she has means of proving the services of her said husband excepting the evidence furnished by him to the War Department at the time he procured his pension certificate, which certificate is dated Nov r P te 1832. and numbered 1663. and the certificate of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts accompanying this declaration. -
She further declares that she was married to the said Noah Kendall on the Third day of January in the year seventeen hundred and eighty two, that her husband the aforesaid Noah Kendall died on the fifth day of December Eighteen hundred and forty five. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four - viz at the time above stated.
Seen to and subscribed on the day and year above written
Before me
Samuel See Jus. Peace }
Joanna Kendall

I Samuel Lee, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts. To hereby certify that I am personally and well acquainted with Joanna Kennebec the within Declarer, and that from age and bodily infirmity she is unable to attend a court of Records; and that there is no Judge of any such Court residing within Twenty eight Miles of her residence.
Witness my hand this Third day of December A. D. 1814.
Samuel Lee. Justice of the Peace.

DECLARATION, in order to secure the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
COUNTY OF WORCESTER, ss.
ON this Oct 15 16 th day of October in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty two Nathaniel Kendall personally appeared in open Court, before Nathaniel Kendall a Justice of the Peace now sitting at Worcester a resident of Worcester in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged sixty six 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 act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832.
THAT he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
That on the 20 th of April 1775, being the next day after the British march from Boston to Concord in the County of Middlesex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and there had a battle, I enlisted as a private soldier in the Company of Militia, com- manded by Capt. Ephraim Wilson, then of the 12 th Regt. in Lowell in said County, and on the same day with others marched to Cambridge, and upon our arrival there orders came from near Boston Cambridge, that orders were com- pany out of the two Companies, and that day had marched from said West. Park was ordered, and on the 20 th 20 th day of April again volunteered as a private soldier for the term of eight months in the Company of Militia commanded by Capt. Ephraim Wilson, then of said West. Park, and the next day we marched to said Cambridge, where I remained for the term of five months and a half, and constantly was on duty until until the morning of the battle at Bunker's Hill, when I was ordered to go as a musketeer into the Trenches, where I continued to perform the duty as a musketeer the day of said five and a half months, when I lived in said Park through the war, and in said County of Middlesex, as my substitute, to serve the remainder of said eight months, and then was discharged. In the month of July of 1777, I enlisted as a private soldier in the Company of Militia com- manded by Col. John White, then of said Lancaster, and was mustered there for the term of five months, and marched to Bennington in the State of Vermont, where we remained a short time, then marched to Half-Moon where we were mustered, and then remained under the command of Col. Cushing in the vicinity of Saratoga, until orders came to us to return to said Bennington in order to aid Gen. Stark, and accordingly marched to Bennington and there arrived on Sunday, being the day after the battle at Bennington. We remained there in the vicinity of said place, until the close of said term when we were discharged. I was born in said West. Park, now Sterling, and have lived about twenty six years, then moved to Templeton, and there have lived until the present time.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. J. H. Haine Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester
Nathaniel Kendall

We Charles Wellington a Clergyman residing in the Town of Templeton and Jeremiah Lord residing in Templeton aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Noah Kendall who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy 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 we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Besne Nathan Paine Judge of Probate For the County of Worcester
Charles Wellington Jeremiah Lord
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that Charles Wellington who signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the Town of Templeton and that Jeremiah Lord who has also signed the same is a resident in the Town of Templeton and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Nathan Paine Probate For the County of Worcester
I Theophilus Wheeler Reg'or, Clerk of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Noah Kendall for a pension. That Alexander Dutton & Samuel Lee before him their usual affidavits were made, one before the said Court in the County of Worcester, that the signature is genuine. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said Probate Court this 10th day of October in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty two.
Theophilus Wheeler Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester in Massachusetts
Theophilus Wheeler Noah Kendall Charles Wellington

Joseph Kendall a Native in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of the age of eighty three years, testifies and says, that on the Sunday next after the Battle at Concord in the County of Middlesex in said Commonwealth, which was the 19th day of April 1775. I marched alone to Cambridge near Boston and there volunteered as a private soldier for the term of eight months. I then remained but a short time, when I hired Noah Kendall then of Leominster to serve in the remainder of the term, & then returned home; but did not see my brother Noah Kendall, while I was there, at I am certain that he was there then and there remained through the remainder of the term, as was supposed and believed by me and the remainder of our family; but how long he was there I do not know. I understood that he enlisted for eight months. He said Noah Kendall now lives in Lancaster in said County but at the time of his going to Cambridge as aforesaid he lived in the West-Parish of Leominster in said County, now Sterling.
Joseph Kendall
Wife
Sworn to April 3. 1832. Then Joseph Kendall subscribed in my presence subscribed his name and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit; I certify that said Joseph Kendall's character for truth is good.
Herbison Justice of the Peace

I Nathaniel Houghton of Shelburne in the County of Chittenden and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of the age of seventy three years, testify and say, that in the month of July 1777, I think for the space of two months, I volunteered as a private soldier in the company of Artillery commanded by Capt John White then of Samsonville in said County. Andrew Haskell was the Lieut., that Noah Kendall then of the West Parish of Shelburne joined at the same time volunteered in said Company and marched in company with me to Brattleboro in the state of Vermont where when we remained a few days, then we marched to Half-Moon where we were encamped and then we remained under the command Col. Cushing of Manchester, where we remained until order came to us to return to said Brattleboro in order to aid General Stark, and we marched to Brattleboro and there arrived on Sunday the next day after the battle at said Brattleboro - we there remained scouting about in that vicinity until the close of said term, when we were discharged. Said Noah Kendall continued and remained in said Company until the same was discharged, and said Kendall and myself set off for home, and left together until we arrived at Deofield when we separated.
Nathaniel Houghton
Witness my hand Sept. 3. 1832. Then Nathaniel Houghton in my presence subscribed his name, and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit; also certify that said Nathaniel Houghton's character for truth is good.
Hen Dutton Justice of the Peace.

I John Kilburn of the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of the age of seventy seven years, testify and say that on the twentieth day of April 1775, being the second day after the British came from Boston to Concord and there had a battle, I volunteered as a private soldier in the Company of Militia commanded by Capt. Daniel Robbins and Captain Hayer was the Lieutenant, who both lived in the West Parish in Lancaster in said County, and at the same time, Noah Kendall then of said West Parish, now of Springfield in said County of Worcester, volunteered as a private soldier then raised in said West Parish, commanded by Capt. Ephraim Hildreth, then of said West Parish, said Kendall and myself with others recruited to Concord aforesaid on said day, and upon our arrival at said Concord, orders came to said five companies that only one company was wanted at Cambridge near Boston; and when the question, who should go to Cambridge, it was concluded that said Robbins should take the command of the company, who upon the beat of the drum, volunteered out of the two companies sufficient for the new company, said Kendall and myself, with others volunteered at the same time & received orders said Robbins to said Cambridge when we performed duty for about five weeks, when said company was dismissed. a little before said company was dismissed Said Kendall then volunteered as a private soldier in another Company of Militia com- manded by Capt. Ephraim Hildreth, then of said West Parish; then returned home, leaving said Kendall in said Company & whether said Kendall con- tinued in said last named Company for the said term of eight months. I do not know.
I do hereby certify that the above is true to the best of my knowledge. John Kilburn Worcester Sept. 3. 1832. Then John Kilburn in my presence subcribed his name to the above affidavit and made oath to the truth of the same: I certify that said Kilburn's character for truth is good. Rev. Nathan Vinton of the Parish.

I, Judge receiver of Gardner in the County of Worcester, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby certify that I am knowing to David Kendall's now brought to common in the County of Worcester, being a soldier on the Revolution of War - that on or about the Twenty eighth of April 1775, at Cambridge in Massachusetts, he enlisted a Company of Militia, commanded by Capt. Ephraim Richardson of Leicester Independent Regiment commanded by Col. Asa Williams of said Regiment - That he enlisted for the term of eight months. That I belonged to the same Company and frequently saw and conversed with him during the first part of the war - Joseph Sawyer.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Worcester ss. Sept. 10 th 1832. Then personally appeared Judge Sawyer and made solemn be & that the above Declaration by him subscribed is just and true - and I do hereby acknowledge that full faith and credit ought to be given to his testimony.
Joseph Sawyer

501 Massachusetts Joanna Kendall widow of Noah Kendall who was a Private in the Revolution Husband died 5 Dec. 1845
Reported
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 24th day of March , 1845. Dec r .
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of June, 1848 and sent to
Wm. C. Woodson No 3 of Rep y
— [Act of JUNE 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book h Vol. 1 Page 32

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 14987
Joseph K. ... Widow Joseph K. ... Joseph K. ...
Act: March 29 18
Index:—Vol. A , Page 388
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Tempton Feb 7 th 1845
Hon. Charles Hudson.
Sir
Enclosed are papers relative to the case of Joanna Kendall for a pension. Heretofore on the application of widows for pensions (so far as I have had any thing to do) there has been no evidence of the services of the husband required, excepting that furnished by him at the time he obtained his certificate.
The enclosed certificate of the Secretary of Navy, shows two days less than 5 mo service - but I presume that there is other sufficient proof in the War Department to show that she is justly entitled to a pension - at all events there was sufficient to enable Mr. Kendall to receive a pension.
Unless the evidence were furnished together with what other there may be in the Department is sufficient, there is nothing more to be done. - Mr. Kendall is very old and infirm, and the services of her husband having been performed several years before their marriage she had no personal knowledge of the fact.
I am sorry to trouble you with this business, but presuming upon your willingness to attend to the business of others and assist the poor is the only excuse. - With much esteem and respect
I am respectfully your obedient Servt Samuel Dorr
Sir I forward you the papers in the case of Joanna Kendall. Please communicate with Dorr when they are received.
Feb 2 nd 1845
Yours &c Charles Hudson

Washington April 1845
Sir
I received last evening a note from you releasing the papers in the case of John Marshall of Del. and the "Comptroller Mass." in which you say, you enclose the "copy of the law and regulations, affording the necessary instructions, &c". But as the copy alluded to was not enclosed I suppose it was never in your possession, and hence I ask you to send me said papers (that I may forward it to the appropriate).
Yours Respectfully Chas. —
James L. Edmiston

Washington June 10. 1848
Sir
I send you the Declaration of Young- men's Committee for a pension, the papers are on file and were suspended for want of this Declaration.
Respectfully Yours
C. Sherman
Have you the Enclosed

N 13573 Nanna Randal Maly Sister of Hon. C. Woodson Filed 28-48
act 7 July 1838

Noah Kendall, Mass. Act June 1832 #24 th per ann }
To what time was he last paid? G.B.A.
Pension Office June 17 1848 }
Died 5 th Dec r 1845 Paid to his death, B.I.B.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester County, ss.
I, Charles H. Hartshorn — Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the County and Commonwealth aforesaid, do hereby certify, That Samuel Lee Esquire, on the third day of December, 1847, was a _____
_____ Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; and that his signature to the certificate, on the deposition of Joanna Kendall, _____ herunto annexed, is genuine.
GIVEN under my hand, and the seal of said County, this sixth _____ day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven
Chas. H. Hartshorn Clerk

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston:
June 6 th 1875
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 [Faint, mirrored bleed-through text from the reverse side of the page follows, mostly illegible.]

roll of any Capt. Helder for 1875.
The proceedings of all the military of any one of the names shown by the military records in this Department.
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 appli- cation, 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.
Feb 9 1875,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF REVOLUTIONARY SERVICES,
made by the Widow of the party who rendered the service.
State of Massachusetts County of Worcester Town of Tempskelen
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office, of the service of Noah Kendall in the war of the Revolution.
He was a native of the Town of Sterling or Lancaster in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts .
He enlisted from the Town of _____ in the County of _____ and State of _____ in the year 1775 - 1777 as a Private in the Company commanded by Captain J. Wheeler Richardson's White Regiment in _____ and he served as follows, viz:—
Joanna Kendall
* Here describe as fully as may be, the length of service, the rank &c. of the claimant, or the capacity in which he served, and all other particulars known.

Joanna Kendall
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I am now 84 years old, and my memory does not enable me to state the services more fully than above stated.
Witness my hand, this Twentieth day of March A. D. 1847.
Signed by said Joanna Kendall in my presence,
Joanna Kendall
Samuel Lee JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.

State of Massachusetts } Worcester County } ss.
On this eighteenth day of May One thousand eight hundred and forty eight personally appeared before me Benjamin F. Thomas Esquire Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester in the State of Massachusetts, Joanna Kendall a resident of Templeton in the County of Worcester aged Eighty six years who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision 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 widow of Noah Kendall late of Templeton aforesaid, who was a private in the army of the Revolution. That she has no other evidence of her husband's services than that furnished by him to the War Department at the time he obtained his pension certificate and a certificate of service from the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts - all which is now in the Office of the War Department.
She further declares that she was married to the said Noah Kendall on the third day of January in the year seventeen hundred and eighty two. That her husband the aforesaid Noah Kendall died on the Fifth day of December eighteen hundred and forty five. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service - but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz. at the time above stated - She further swears that she is now a widow and has never before made any application for a pension -
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Joanna Kendall
Worcester ss. Jan 18 48
Subscribed and sworn to this day and year aforesaid

at her residence in Amherst in said county. The Miss Joanna Purdah being unable by reason of bodily infirmity to appear in open court
Benj. Thomas Judge of Probate
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Worcester ss.
I, Charles G. Brewster, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Wor- cester, do certify, that Benjamin G. Thomas is the Judge of said Court, duly commis- sioned and qualified - and that his signature above written, is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I do hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this eighteenth day of May in the year one thousand, eight hundred and forty eight.
Chas. G. Brewster, Register.

Declaration Joanna Kendall
22
Admitted
Sam d Lee Templeton Mass

State of Massachusetts } Worcester County } ss
On this Twenty Ninth day of July 1848 personally appeared before me Samuel Lee a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Worcester; Joanna Kendall a resident of Templeton in the County of Worcester aged Eighty Six 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 on the 2 d February 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Noah Kendall who was a private in the Revolutionary Army. That she is unable to produce any other proof of her husband's services, than that already in the Archives of the War Department. That the annual amount of the pension which she received under the act of the 17 th June 1844 was Twenty Three Dollars and Thirty Three cents. She further declares that she is still a widow.
In presence of Brook L Lord }
Joanna Kendall
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before me Samuel Lee. Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that the above named Joanna Kendall is the person she declares herself to be. That I am personally acquainted with her Samuel Lee. Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Norfolk County } ss.
I, Charles H. Warthorn, Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of the County and State aforesaid, do certify that Samuel Lee on the twenty ninth day of July last was and now is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified and that his signatures within written are genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said Court this first day of August A.D. 1848.
Chas. H. Warthorn Clerk

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Kendall, Oliver GRADE Private LINE Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER 4541 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Mar. 25, 1790 to — not shown —
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.