Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17327, Samuel Candee, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Candee, Samuel
S. 17327
CONTENTS
carded

Connecticut 17, 844
Samuel Gander 17844
Markham in the State of Conn who was a Serjt in the Conn commands by Captain _____ of the Regt commands led Wooster in the Conn Troops time for 11 1/2 mo _____
Inscribed on the Roll of Conn at the rate of 37 Dollars 50 Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of Sept 1831 and Cert - 6. B Shepard, Woodbury Conn
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1835 $163.75 Semi-ant. allowance ending Mar 4 - 28.75
$172.50
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by E. D. Beecher Clerk Book C Vol. 3 - Page 30
1882 March 15 John D Gander with military family history
C. B Died Jan 3-1841-

State of Connecticut,
Probate Court
ss. District of Woosley
On this 25 day of July, 1832 personally appeared, in open Court, before the Court of Probate for the District of Woosley comprising the Towns of Woosley, Bethlem & Roxbury in Dukes County and Martha's Vineyard County.
I now sitting, at Southwick Samuel Canoe a resident of Southwick in the County of New Haven and State of Connecticut, aged Eighty Eight years, who being first 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 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers, and served as herein stated.
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I entered the service of the United States on the first day of May 1775 by enlisting into Connecticut Menagerie Rifles Company of Infantry at Derby in Connecticut. This Company belonged to Col Wooster's Regiment. Major Thompson was Major and Samuel Osborne was Ensign and the next day was mustered and marched to Boston Massachusetts. This enlistment was for seven months. I was appointed Sergeant immediately on my enlistment and during all my service in said company acted as such. I continued to serve at Boston and the vicinity until the first day of January 1776. I was then permitted by my officers to stay twenty days longer. I served duty in the same capacity during said twenty days. I was then discharged at
1775
May 20, day
and received a written discharge, what has become of it I cannot now tell it is lost. I have looked over my papers but cannot find it
I received also a Sergeant's warrant signed by Col. Wooster but have also

lost that. I have such a duty for it to no purpose. I was discharged from the Service the 20 th or 21 st January 1776 as near as I can remember.
I have no other proof of this fact than the annexed depositions of Benjamin Lakin and Edward Bapton.
In July 1776 I was a Sergeant in the Company of Militia at Woodbridge Con- then a part of New Haven. The whole company was called out and marched to New York and there joined Col. Thomp- sons Regiment. I left Woodbridge on the 23 rd July as near as I can now ascertain. This company was commanded by Lieut Baldwin. In three two or four weeks after we left home and have arrived in New York. We moved on to Long Island and remained there until about 27 August when we returned to New York. We had several skirmishes with the British while on Long Island. I was the was in the retreat from New York and a few days after saw the British when they sailed up the East River and harbor at Turtle Bay. I was employed with others in digging intrenchments. On Sunday 15 Sept. The encounter at
5776 3 mo.

I was in that part of the army engaged in the battle at Fort Tunkle or Fort Bay on Sunday 15 Sept and situated towards Harlem
Our Regiment Col Thompson was the last Regiment that retreated out of New York. Col Thompson was killed. My Brother Bob Canale & myself were near him when he was shot. we were talking with him a minute before he was killed. I was in the engagement at Harlem next day after the retreat. The British retreated towards New York & continued doing duty in and company until the last of October. I was there three months in this town.
I served throughout this town as a Sergeant . I know of no other proof than Bob Canale. He is my Brother and we often saw each other in the town at New York. He belonged to Capt. Bucher's company in the same Regiment.
3 In 1779 I went as a volunteer under the Command & in the company of John Riggs of Oxford. This company was raised or called out when the British landed at New Haven & burnt Fairfield. It was on the 15 th of July about the 9 th A.M. our company did not reach Fairfield until it was burnt. The British were retreating. This company went left on duty six weeks and more
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1 st 15 th July

Stationed at Hanford that force and Mr Hearn as clergy was apprehensive. The action as a quorum.
In this company I served as a Sergeant  transferred in Offord when I commenced service in this company.
I do not know of any person by whom I can prove the fact  fact in this company. I have enquired but they are now dead whom I knew in the company.
I was born Dec 15 1753
I was born in Derby Co. & my birth is there recorded. When I volunteered in 1775 I lived in Mr Hearn's that part near Woodbridge and in the same place when I returned from in 1776. I in Offord in 1779 when I returned from.
Since the War I have lived in Derby & Offord and now live in Offord. I was acquainted with the Col Wootton Col Thompson Capt Barker Capt & Lieut Hill and am now acquainted with Mays Mr Hearn Rev Abraham Nason Mark Stone Esq Rev Ashuel Nason

State that there is no record with the War Dept. of Samuel Canale's service in the Revolution in New York.
The said Samuel Canale 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.
H B Phelps Mayor of Probate Dist Woodbury
Samuel Canale
We, Ashbel Baldwin a clergyman, residing in the town of Offord and William Hinman residing in the same, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Samuel Canale who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 78 - 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 and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
H B Phelps Mayor of Probate Dist of Woodbury
Ashbel Baldwin
William Hinman
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 abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Ashbel Baldwin who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of Offord and that William Hinman who has also signed the same, is a resident in the town of Tadoussac and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
H B Phelps Mayor of Probate Dist of Woodbury
I, Nathan Preston Clerk of the Court of Probate for the Dist of Woodbury do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Canale for a Pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Office, 21 st day of June 1833
Nathan Preston Clerk

May 25, 1938.
Honorable Nehemiah Candee The City Court of Norwalk Norwalk, Connecticut.
BA-J/ILL Over Samuel Candee S. 17327
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of your ancestor, Samuel Candee, pension claim, S. 17327.
The data which follow are found in the papers on file in said pension claim, based upon service of Samuel Candee in the Revolutionary War.
Samuel Candee was born December 15, 1753 in Derby, New Haven County, Connecticut, where his birth was recorded. The names of his parents are not shown. At the beginning of the Revolutionary War, he resided in that part of New Haven, Connecticut, which was later Woodbridge.
Samuel Candee enlisted May 1, 1775, served as sergeant in Captain Bradford Steel's company, Colonel Wooster's Connecticut regiment, marched immediately to Boston and continued to serve in that vicinity until January 20, 1776, when he was discharged. He enlisted about July 23, 1776, served as sergeant in Lieutenant (or Captain) Baldwin's company, Colonel Thompson's Connecticut regiment, marched to New York, was in the retreat after the British occupied that city, was near Colonel Thompson when he was killed, was in the battle of Harlem and was discharged late in October. He enlisted July 9, 1779, at which time he resided in Oxford, Connecticut, and served six weeks as sergeant in Captain John Riggs' Connecticut company, during which he was stationed at Fairfield, Hartford and New Haven.
Col. Jerzy Thompson killed Sept. 15 1776 - Hart.
After his service, the soldier resided in Derby and in Oxford, Connecticut.
Samuel Candee was allowed pension on his application executed

July 25, 1832, at which time he resided in Oxford, Connecticut. He made no reference to wife or children.
In June 1833, Job Candee, of Oxford, Connecticut, stated that he served with his brother, Samuel Candee, in Colonel Thompson's Connecticut regiment in 1776, and that they returned together on foot to New Haven. This brother Job and Samuel were talking with Colonel Thompson just before he was killed.
Samuel Candee, the pensioner, died January 3, 1841. A. B.
In order to obtain the name of the person to whom the last payment of pension was made, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and furnish the following:
Samuel Candee Certificate #17844 Issued September 28, 1833 Rate $57.50 per annum Commenced March 4, 1831 Act of June 7, 1832 Connecticut Agency.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER, Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

17.327 INVALID.
File No. 17.327
Samuel Candee Sergt Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 63
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1907 Dec. 19, Recd James H Goodrill 1908 Apr. 11. Hist to Mrs. Ben Johnson d 1911 July 23 Hist. 15 Mr. Henry D Zurrgart
1938-May 25. Hist. to Nehemiah Candee. S.H.

State of Connecticut County of New Haven ss. New Haven June 17 th 1830 I J. W. Beach Clerk of the County Court in New Haven County hereby certify that Samuel Meigs, H. Brand Loomis and, inasmuch as the dates of the depositions thereto annexed respectively testify of the premises in New Haven County, duly qualified to administer Oaths, & their names by them written subscribed to the said depositions and sworn, are respectively their Genuine official signatures.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said County Court the day & date above written J. W. Beach Clerk.

State of Connecticut
New Haven County } of Oxford
On it remembers that on the 5 day of June 1833 personally appeared before me a brother of the name within and for the County of New Haven to me personally known and whom I certify to be a credible witness and being first duly sworn on oath declare and say as follows. "I was in the year 1776 a private in Capt. Beecher's Regiment Company Col. Thompson Regiment Connecticut Militia and in July was marched with said company and marched to New York and was on Long Island at Battle Bay and was evacuated out of New York when the British took it. I knew my Mother Samuel Canoe in said Regiment He was a Sergeant in Capt. a Connecticut Volunteers Company Col. Thompson Regiment He went to New York and served in said Regiment as a Sergeant three months commencing in the month of July and ending in October He arrived in New York within a day or two of the time I got there I saw him almost every day and we returned to New Haven together on foot I knew we both served the full period of three months."
Room before me
Job Gander
William Osborn Justice of Peace

State of Connecticut, County of New Haven ss. New Haven June 17 th 1833 I J. H. Beach Clerk of the County Court in & for said New Haven County hereby certify that Deane Osborn is now on the 6 th day of June 1833 a Justice of the peace in & for said New Haven duly qualified to administer Oaths, & that his name by him within hereunto written and subscribed is his genuine official signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County Court the day & date above written J. H. Beach Clerk
Apply to R. B. Phelps Esq. Woodbury Conn.
Samuel Canoe 600 Milford

Samuel Candee
Con Militem
no 11 1/2 Lerg
$ 57.50
57.50
Reply to
W. B. Phelps Esq
Woodbury Con

I Benjamin Tadmanson of the Town of Derby New Haven County and State of Connecticut of humble age do depose & say that I was an enlisted soldier under Major Thompson in Col. Harkness's Regt in the year 1775 and was in the service of the United States at and in the vicinity of Boston in Massachusetts for seven months And I do further depose and say that Samuel Candler then of Woodbridge now of Offord in said County & State served as sergeant under Col Major Thompson and the Company to which I belonged was commanded by Bradford Steel Lieutenant & Samuel Osborn Ensign (both of State and County first above mentioned) and said Samuel Candler was sergeant in said company And I do further say that after said seven months had expired said Candler & Myself were by the Officers persuaded to serve about twenty days longer until our places were supplied with other troops and further this Deponent saith not Benjamin Tadmanson
New Haven County ss Derby February 29 th A.D 1832 personally appeared Benjamin Tadmanson subscriber to the foregoing deposition & made solemn oath to the truth of the same before me
Bennet Loom
Justice of Peace

I further certify that Benjamin Tomlinson who Subscribed the within foregoing deposition is personally known to me and is a credible witness entitled to full credit and belief
Durby February 29-1832 Bennet Loun Justice of the Peace
Deposition of Benjamin Tomlinson for Mabel Loun

Disposition of Edward Basset for Samuel Laman

The Deposition of Edward Bassett of Oxford in the County of New Haven & State of Connecticut of Lawful age is as follows to wit
In the year 1775 I enlisted under Major Thompson in Colonel Wooster's Reg. t The Company to which I belonged was commanded by Bradford Steel Lieutenant & Samuel Osborn Ensign. that Samu- el Cander now a resident of S. t Oxford but at s. t time a resident of Woodbridge in S. t New Haven County enlisted in the same Company with me & served as a Serj. t in said Company for seven Months. that after s. t term of service expired s. t Cander was with me persuaded by the Officers to serve about twenty days longer till our places were supplied by other troops. The above mentioned term of service was performed at Boston in the State of Massachusetts & further the Deponent saith not Edward Bassett
New Haven County ss Oxford February 28. 1832 Personally appeared Edward Bassett and subscribed the foregoing Deposition & made Oath to the same
Before me Samuel Meigs Justice of Peace I further certify that Edward Bassett who subscribed the foregoing Deposition is to me personally known and is a credible witness & entitled to full credit & belief Oxford Feb. 28. 1832 Samuel Meigs Justice of the Peace

17327
The Standard Association,
PUBLISHERS OF
THE DAILY AND WEEKLY STANDARD.
John D. Candee, } Editors. Geo. C. Waldo, } Louis C. Prindle, } Alex. Wheeler, Sec. and Treas.
Bridgeport, Conn., March 3 1882
Sir -
My Grandfather, Samuel Candee, of Oxford, Connecticut, who died in 1839 or 1840, was a pensioner as a revolutionary soldier. Can you tell me when his pension began, how much it was, & also send me a copy of his application, or any facts showing when he enlisted in the Revolutionary Army, & how long he remained in the service?
Respectfully Yours
John D. Candee, Bridgeport, Conn.

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To the Hon. Commissioner of Pensions, Dept of the Interior, Washington, D.C.,
Dear Sir: I am writing in behalf of my wife to ask you to kindly send me a statement of the military history of —
Samuel Candee, and I. 17327
Job Candee I. 13036
Both of the 2d Connecticut Regiment, soldiers of the Revolutionary War, whose applications for pension are on file in your Bureau.
In making up the abstracts, please include mention of the killing of Col. Jabez Thompson, commanding the 2d Conn. Regt. in

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the defence of New York, on Sept 15, 1776, — the reason for this special request being that my wife who wishes this information  has is descended from all three of the soldiers above mentioned.
If there is any record of pension applied for by or granted to the widow or children of Col Jabez Thompson, I should like that information included.
Yours very respectfully,
James H. Goodsell 406 Kossuth St.,
Weehawken, N. J.

1907 Dec 19. Jas H. Goodrell 406 Ross St. 3-595. Weehawken Q. W. AND N. DIVISION N.J. no claim Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Dec. 11, 1907.
Searched by Gill
Original No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant, _____
Soldier, Jabez Thompson
Service, Col. Conn. Service
Rev. War
Remarks: _____
No widow's claim as above

13036 1.17327

April 6, 1908.
Commissioner of Pensions:
Dear Sir,
Please send me Pension Records of Job and Samuel Candee, pensioners from Oxford Conn. in 1840.
Sincerely
Annie H. Johnson
Address Regent John Fitch Chap Mrs. Ben Johnson, Bardstown The Cochran, Ky. Washington, D. C.

Riverview, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
February 15, 1911.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.,
Dear Sir:
Will you kindly send me a copy of the record of service of Samuel Caudee , who fought in the Revolutionary War. He saw service before Bunker Hill and was from the state of Connecticut.
Very truly,
Henry J. Zwerghart.

The City Court of Norwalk
HON. NEHEMIAH CANDEE JUDGE JOHN J. CUNEO - PROSECUTING ATTORNEY MAX ROSENBERG CLERK
HON. PAUL R. CONNERY JUDGE DANIEL KEOGH, ASS'T. PROSECUTING ATTORNEY MRS. GRACE B. BARRETT, PROBATION OFFICER
Norwalk, Connecticut
May 11, 1938.
Hon. Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. Commissioner:
Re: Revolutionary Pensioner Samuel Candee Pension no. S 17327
For the purpose of obtaining the necessary information for a patriotic organization, I desire to obtain the Revolutionary War record of my great-grandfather, Samuel Candee, the above named pensioner.
I understand that he served in the Revolution, was in the army before Boston at the time of the Bunker Hill battle, and under an act of Congress was made a revolutionary pensioner.
Any other information you can give me will be very much appreciated. Thanking you in advance, I am,
Very truly yours,
C:H

for a statement of the military history of Samuel Bandee a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
Samuel Bandee 817327
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     May 1. 75 8 mos. 20 d. Sgt. Steel Lt. Brant Wooster Conn   July 23 76 3 mos " Lt. Baldwin Thompson *   July 9 79 6 weeks " John Riggs          
Battles engaged in, Several skirmishes on Long Island, in retreat from NY. Battle of Harlem
Residence of soldier at enlistment, New Haven Conn.
Date of application for pension, July 25, 1832. Sel. al.
Residence at date of application, Southbury, New Haven Co. Conn. or Groton
Age at date of application, Feb. 15, 1753 in Derby Conn.
Remarks: Soldier states that in the retreat from New York where Col. Thompson was killed, that he and his brother Job Bandee were near him.
A careful search of the records fails to show that a claim for pension was ever filed on account of the services of the said Jabez Thompson.
Very respectfully,

GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
National Archives and Records Service Washington 25, D.C. J Wright
February 13, 1961
IN REPLY REFER TO: NNWE
Mr. Mark Candee American Partition Company Milwaukee 10, Wisconsin
Dear Mr. Candee:
We have your letter of January 6, 1961, in which you inquired about the pension application file cited S 17327, for Samuel Candee, a Revolutionary War soldier.
Under our flat fee system we furnish reproductions of the documents we think most likely to be of interest to you. We do not maintain a record of these reproductions. If you will let us know which documents from Candee's file have been photocopied, we will be happy to cite the cost of reproducing the remaining ones.
A xerox copy of the deposition of Benjamin Tomlinson can be furnished for $0.50. Remittance should be made to the National Archives and Records Service by check or postal money order payable to the General Services Administration (NNWE).
Sincerely yours
Mabel E. Deutrich
Mabel E. Deutrich Archivist in Charge Early Wars Branch