Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 27,402, Hosea Crandall, R.I.

SERVICE
NUMBER
R 9
Grandall, Hosea
N. 27.402
Sarah
B.L.W. 1308-100
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12.078
New York
Hosea Canamae
of Danneville in the state of New York who was a Sergeant in the regiment commanded by Colonel Green of the R Island line, for the term of Six Years
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 2nd of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 21st of June 1819 and sent to Hon: Daniel Engr...
Bath New York
Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1819. 80.77 Semi-ann. all'ce ending Sep. 1819. 48.00 Mo. 3/31 $128.77
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Deach. See letter to E. B. P...
1820 Park St. New York

Hosea Crandall Sergeant 77 to 83
62 Volume prior Green R Island Augt Court
Admitted
Admitted 1871

It appears by the Regimental Book, That Hosea Crandall, (now said to reside in the Town of Dansville, County of Steuben and State of New York,) on the twenty ninth day of April 1777 enlisted into the Army of the United States to serve during the War; — That he did faithfully serve from the time of his said enlistment, the greatest part, if not the whole time a Sergeant in the Regiment successively commanded by Colonels Israel Angell, Christopher Greene and Jeremiah Olney in the Rhode Island Line, on the Continental Establishment, until the fifteenth day of June 1783, when he received a Furlough granted in pursuance of General Orders, which on the ratification of the definitive Treaty of Peace became an absolute discharge from said Regiment then stationed at Saratoga in the State of New York.
It further appears by said Regimental Book, That said Crandall had conferred on him Two Honorary Badges, for Six years faithful Service. —
Wm. L. Dexter Maj. r of said Reg. t at the close of the War.
Providence Sept. r 28. th 1818.
Monument Com.

New York } Sen County } Ss: On this 2 d day of May 1818- before me the subscriber First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Steuben in the State of New York personally appears Hosea Crandal aged sixty three years resident in the Town of Dansville in the said County of Steuben 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 the said Hosea Crandal on the first day of January May 1777- in the State of Rhode- Island he enlisted as a sergeant in the Company commanded by Captain Elie- zer Flegg of the first Regiment Com- manded by Col. Christopher Green of the Rhode Island line on the Continental Estab- lishment- That he continued in the ser- vice of the States United under his said Enlist- ment in said line until the month of June in the

year 1783 - when he received a Furlough at Saratoga in the State of New York which specified that the same should be a full discharge of from the Army at the definitive treaty of peace which was then expected soon to take place unless the said Hosea Crandall should sooner be called to join the said Army - That he was never thereafter called upon to join the said Army - he was in the That Battle of Red Bank in October 1777 - in Germantown Battle - in in the Battle at New Port on Rhode Island in 1778 - the Battle of Springfield in New Jersey and in the battle of York Town in Virginia at the taking of Lord Cornwallis - and that he is in reduced circumstances and needs the assistance of his country for support - and that he has no other evi- dence now in his power of his said services - Given to the said before me the day and year aforesaid Thos. M c Burney

I Thomas M c Burney, First Judge of the Court of Common pleas of the County of Steuben in the State of New York do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Hosea Grandal did serve in the Revolution- ary War, as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common enemy and I now transmit the testimony and proceedings taken and had before me to the Secretary for the department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid act of Congress - Dated this 2 nd day of May 1818 - Tho s M c Burney
State of New York Steuben County } ss- I John Metcalfe Clerk of the County of Steuben in the State of New York do certify that Thomas M c Burney whose signature appears to the preceding Declaration and Certificate is now the First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County duly commissioned as such Given under my hand and the seal of my office the 2 nd day of May A. D. 1818 - John Metcalfe

Steuben County N.Y. - Be it Remembered That state of newyork on the 25 th Day of November 1878 Personally Appeared before me the M c Burney Esq r first Judge in and for said County Silah Barnard and Robert Harrison after being duly sworn Hath Powed to my satisfaction that the within named Maria Gandal is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of aid from his Country for his support Bath November 25 th 1878
W. M c Burney Esq r

State of New York
Steuben County.
Clerks office - }
I Edward Howell Clerk of the County of Steuben in the State of New York do hereby certify that Thomas McKimney whose name appears to the annexed affidavit and before whom the same appears to have been made, was, on the day of the date of the same First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County duly commissioned and qualified that full faith & credit are due to all his official acts as such -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the County seal this 24 th Nov 1818
E Howell

Horace Crandall
Feb 18th 1843
Mr. Crandall
Dear Sir
I have the honor
to inform you
that
the
same
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Steuben County } ss: on this 21 st day of June A.D. 1820. State of New York }
personally appeared in open court, being a Court of Record for the said County, Hosea Brandall, aged sixty four years nine months, resident in the Town of Dansville, in the County aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows; enlisted in April 1777 under Lieutenant Whitmarsh, Capt. Hays's Company Col. C. Greene's Regiment, Rhode Island line; that he served upwards of six years under various officers, and was discharged under Lieut. Col. Oney in 1783; that the original declaration of this deponent was made on the 3 rd day of May 1818; that his Certificate is numbered 12,073; and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident of the United States and a citizen thereof, on the 17 th day of March 1818; and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby 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 and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18 th of March 1818; and 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 in court, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed - Schedule of the Real and personal Estate of Hosea Brandall, as to Real estate I have a lot in the Village of

Dansville of which I have taken a deed and given a Mortgage, in the year 1876, for four hundred fifty dollars, of which I have paid two hundred fifty dollars, and the residue has been due two years with interest, and I am unable to meet the payments due, I owe other debts to the amount of one hundred and four or five dollars, My personal Estate is as follows; I have 3 year old Steers, 1 Cow, 1 hog, 3 old sheep, 3 Lambs, 1 bearean, 1 Table, 4 Chairs, 1 Three pail Kettle, one pot, 1 pail, 1 frying pan, 1 small Skillet, 1 Tea Kettle; My occupation is a Miller - My family consists of four besides Myself, My Wife is sixty one years of age, My oldest daughter is 17. Salina, My next daughter Sally is 15. My next a Grand daughter Clarisa, 5 years; I am unable to work being afflicted with the asthma; My Wife is infirm, Unable to do much work work having the Rheumatic Complaint -
Sworn to & declared in open Court this 20 th day of June 1870 Howell Clark of Steuben Co. Pa.
Nosca Crandall
Steuben County ss: I, Edward Howell, Clerk of Steuben County, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total

being afflicted with the asthma; my wife is infirm, unable to do much work work having the Rheumatic Complaint -
Sworn to & declared in open Court this 20 th day of June 1820 Powell Clerk of Superior Court Pleas
Nosa Crandall
Sturtevant County ss: I, Edward Howell, Clerk of Clerks office ss: Sturtevant County, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records 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 seventy two dollars & fifty Cents -
In testimony whereof, I have here- unto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this 10 th day of July 1820.
Powell Clerk

Deposited
Elizabeth L. Rice, Widow of John Randall Henry Maynard, & Salina Maynard Heirs - any thing else due
10384
Michigan
Sarah Randall, dec. Widow of Hosea Randall who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 25 December 1828 of Kalamazoo Co. in the State of Michigan who was a Serjt in the Company commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt commanded by Col. Green in the Revolution for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Detroit at the rate of 120 Dollars
per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1836, & continuing 12 months 1839 when she died
Certificate of Pension issued the 31 day of Dec. 1847 and sent to _____ 76 Pulteney
West St. Reps
Total amount, $
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by H. Rumpston Clerk Vol. 1 Page 461

N-6840
Sarah Grandall au Moan of Hosea
19
act 4 July 1836
rejected-married after the draft

John ... born ... 1785 ... 1787 ... 1789 ... 1792 ... 1793 ... 1797 ... 1798

State of New York } Wyoming County } ss
At a court of Common Pleas held at Harnady in for said County on this 15 th day of June 1846 personally came Levi Brandall who being duly sworn makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress of July 4 th 1836 That he is the oldest son of Hosea Brandall and Sarah his wife That said Hosea Brandall was a soldier of the American Revolutionary Army & a Pensioner of the United States at the date of his death That said Hosea Brandall was married to Sarah Graham at what is now called Hoosick in the State of New York in the month of November 1781. That said Hosea Brandall died at Opean in the State of New York on the 25 th day of December 1828. That said Sarah Brandall died at Hillsdale in the State of Michigan on the 14 th day of October 1838. That the said Sarah had not intermarried after the death of her said husband but was his widow at the date of her death That the annexed record is a just & true record of the ages of the children of the said Hosea & Sarah Brandall and was made by the said Hosea Brandall in his life time & is his own proper hand writing That the said Hosea & Sarah did not either of them leave any record of the date of their marriage
Subscribed & sworn in open Court the day & year first above written Wallis Howard Clerk of said County Levi his Brandall mark

State of Michigan Hillsdale County ss
On this 28 th day of October 1847, personally appeared before the Circuit Court for said County Hosea Crandall, who being first sworn in due form of law, on oath makes the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, of July 7 th 1838, That he resides at the Township of Scipio, in the County aforesaid, — is of lawful age, and is a son of Sarah Crandall, who was the widow of Hosea Crandall, who was a soldier in the American revolutionary army, and at the date of his death, a pensioner of the United States. That the said Hosea Crandall, (as he has been informed, and believes,) was married to the said Sarah (then Sarah Graham) at Hoosick, in the state of New York, soon after the close of the revolution, and in the year of seventeen-hundred-and-eighty-three, or seven- teen-hundred-and-eighty-four,
That the said Hosea Crandall, died at Osian, in the state of New York, in the month of November, and according to his best recollection, in the year eighteen hundred-and-twenty-eight. That the said Sarah Crandall, widow of the said Hosea Crandall, died at the Township of Scipio aforesaid, on the twelfth day of December, in the year eighteen-hundred-and-thirty-nine, and at the date of her death, had not intermarried; but remained the widow of the said Hosea Crandall. That the marriage, of the said

Hosea and Sarah, abovementioned, did not (as he is informed and believes) take place, previously to his leaving the service; but, before the year seventeen - hundred - and - ninety - four,
Hosea Craddock
Sworn to, and subscribed in open court, at the Court House in the village of Hillsdale, the day and year first above written; in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and official seal,
John Sweezy Clerk

State of New York Wyoming County
I Abel Webster Clerk of said County hereby certify that at a Court of Common Pleas held in & for said County at Warsaw on this 21 st day of June 1847. Satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to me from that Hester Brandall who was a Pensioner of the United States & died at Osceola in said State on the 28 th day of November in the Year 1828 & left a widow whose name was Sarah Brandall That the said Sarah Brandall widow of the said Hester Brandall died at Scipio in the State of Michigan on the 12 th day of December in the Year 1839. Left 5. children whose names are Levi Brandall. Hester Brandall. John Brandall. Nancy Hayward, and Salina Van Scoter and that they are the only children of the said Sarah Brandall her surviving & that each of them is more than 21 Years old.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office at Warsaw this 21 st day of June 1847 Abel Webster Clerk

State of Michigan } Hillsdale County } p.
At the October term of the Circuit Court for said county, began and held, at the Court House, in said county, at the village of Hillsdale, on Tuesday, the 28 th day of October A.D. 1847, satisfactory evidence was exhibited to said court, to prove that Sarah Crandall, died at the township of Scipio, in the said county of Hillsdale, on the twenty th day of December eighteen-hundred-and thirty-nine.
That the said Sarah Crandall was the widow of Hosea Crandall, who was a prisoner of the United States, and died at Osborn, in the State of New York, when he then resided, in the year eighteen-hundred-and twenty-eight. That the said Sarah Crandall, left five surviving children, whose names are Levi Crandall, Hosea Crandall, John Crandall, Nancy Hayward, and Salina Van Scoter, and that each of them, is more than twenty-one years of age.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and seal of office, at Hillsdale in said county, on this 28 th day of October in the year 1847.
John Swoope Jr Clerk

State of New York Oneida County
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Before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in & for said County, personally came Clark Satterlee to me well known to me his oath by me to him duly administered according to law on his oath deponeth & says that he is Seventyone Years of age. That he is son of William Satterlee deceased and brother of Elden William Satterlee now living in Berlin Rensselaer County, New York. That at the close of the Revolution he lived with his father at the said Berlin then Hoosick. That among their neighbors at that time & place was one Levi Crandall who had formerly resided in & removed from Rhode Island. That soon after the close of the war in 1783, a son of the said Levi Crandall whose name was Hezekiah Crandall & who was alleged to have been a soldier in the Revolutionary Army & to have served until the war closed came home to his father in said Hoosick and brought with him one Sarah Graham with whom he lived as his wife. That after they had been at Hoosick a few months, deponent's father not believing them to be lawfully married, rebuked the said Hezekiah for his manner of life with the said Sarah & soon after that the said Hezekiah Crandall & Sarah Graham were married at deponent's father's house in said Hoosick now Berlin by Elden William Levan their Pastor of the 7th day Baptist Church at that place. That he saw them married & that from & after the said date of said marriage the said Hezekiah & Sarah lived together as husband & wife at said Hoosick for several Years & finally removed to other parts that he remembers the date of the marriage (which must have been in 1783 or 1784) from the fact that it took place soon after the close of the war & soon after the said Hezekiah came to said town to reside.
Subscribed & sworn to before me this first day of July 1847. I certify the above to be a true & correct statement of the facts to credit of the same.
Clark Satterlee Mark

State of New York.
Clerks Office Oneida County
I, Patrick Mahon Clerk of the said County certify, that Nathaniel S. Loomis Esquire, was on the first day of September A.D. 1847 a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Oneida, duly elected and authorized to act as such, and that his signature on the opposite side subscribed to the proof of the deposition thereon is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the said County & subscribed my name December 1 st 1847.
Patrick Mahon Clerk

N o . 1308
Hosia Crandall or Crandell
priv
Rhode Island
Att to Hon. Dr. Magee
N. York

DEPARTMENT OF WAR.
Regulations for the Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary War who acquired a right to Land from the United States, but have not received it.
By an Act of Congress, of the 16th September, 1776, it is provided, that the Officers and Soldiers who engaged for, and continued to serve, during the War, or until discharged by Congress, shall receive land in proportion to their rank.
N. B. Those who engaged for three years, or for any other period than during the war, are not entitled to land from the United States.
The following declaration must be filled up and sworn to by the claimant:
State of New York - }
County of Livingston - }
I, Hosea Grandall, of the age of Seventy three years, do, upon oath, testify and declare, that, in the year one thousand seven hundred and Seventy seven I enlisted for the term of "during the war," and served in the regiment No. one under the command of Colonel Christopher Green - of the Rhode Island line; and that I continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the war, when I was regularly discharged from the aforesaid - regiment, commanded by Colonel Jeremiah Olney -
I further declare, that I have never received a warrant for the Bounty Land promised to me on the part of the United States; nor have I ever assigned or transferred my claim in any manner whatsoever: therefore,
Know all men by these presents, that I, Hosea Grandall - aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint John Morse Member of Congress to be my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, a warrant for the quantity of Land due to me as aforesaid; and my said attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purposes above expressed.
Attest,
Saml. W. Smith
Hosea Grandall
I, Samuel W. Smith aged twenty nine years, do, upon oath, declare that I have been long acquainted with Hosea Grandall - who has subscribed the above declaration in my presence, and well know that he is the identical person he therein represents himself to be; and further, I know, or do believe, that he did perform the military service therein stated.
Attest,
Russell Day
Saml. W. Smith
Before me, Russell Day Justice of the Peace for the County aforesaid personally appeared the above named Hosea Grandall - subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined, to be his free act and deed; and, likewise, personally appeared Samuel W. Smith - who hath subscribed the above certificate of identity, both to me well known to be men of respectability and truth, and made solemn oath to the truth of the depositions by them respectively subscribed, this twenty second day of April 1828
Russell Day
Justice of the Peace.
State of New York Livingston County ss
In testimony that the abovewritten Russell Day - was a magistrate authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c., in the State of New York - at the above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the county seal, and subscribed my name and quality, at Geneseo - this twenty third day of April 1828
Levi Hovey C. Clerk, &c.
LT This law expires 24 March, 1827.

Do the vouchers upon which the arrears of pension of Hosea Brandall due? N.Y. act 1818 show whether he left a widow?
W. Hagner
Per
F. B. C.
G. W. Frank
6840
Lot. to A. L. Snyder, Oct. 12, 1840.
Lot to Sana Sept 11. 49

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
Rev
File No. 27/02
Sarah Brandall
Widow of
Hosea Brandall
Sergt Michols
Act July 7 th 82
Index: Vol. A , Page 157
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Hopea Randall N.Y. Oct 1885. to whom were the annuities paid when he died?
W. H. H. R.
G. H. H.
"Annuities paid" to Richard H. Randall of the City of New York as Attorney for Thomas D. Randall son of Richard H. Randall of the Government. W. H. H. R.

Sarah Grandell and daughter Hosea Grandell
  Joseph H. Hough  3/4 47    do  6/12 "    do  7/30 "    J. A. Dix  12/11 "    J. Johnson  12/29 "    Cunt  12/29 "    Scuto  7/7 '56  

2439
1818 Cot 12073 C. 1. 1.
Act 10 384 of Widow Sir,
Pension Office, Sept. 11. 1847.
In June 1846, a claim was asserted in Wyoming County, N. York, in the name of Sarah Crandall, dec d of Michigan, by her son Levi Crandall, who declared upon oath that claimant was the widow of Hosea Crandall, a pensioner on the N. York agency, under Act of March 18. 1818, that she was married to him in Hoosick, N. York, in November 1781, and died at Hillsdale, Michigan, on 14 th day of October 1838. The clerk of Wyoming County certifies under his official seal that "satisfactory evidence was exhibited" to the court that Sarah Crandall died at Hillsdale, Michigan, on 14 th October 1838. The declaration and clerk's certificate are drawn up by you.
The allegation of a marriage by a New York woman in 1781, with a R. State soldier, who served from April 1777 to June 1783, under an enlistment "for the war" was so extraordinary, that you were informed a very high grade of proof was necessary to establish it. The next movement in the case, is a declaration of the same Levi Crandall, who withdraws the claim founded upon marriage before expiration of service and asserts one for service after marriage. The paper purporting to be a family register asserts that Levi Crandall was born in February 1783.

and the present claim is reconciled with that previously asserted, and with the date of this birth, the statement and proof that some doubt attaches to the validity of the marriage in 1781, and that it was formally solemnized in 1783 or 1784. He also swore that he was informed and believes that claimant, his mother, died at Scipio in Hillsdale, Michigan, on 12 December 1832, and another certificate of the Clerk of Wyoming County, N. York, that satisfactory evidence had been exhibited to the Court that she died on that day is filed. This declaration and this certificate are also in your hand-writing. This recital of the measures taken to support this claim exhibits a loose and reckless mode of transacting the business of preparing it on the part of Declarant, Agent and Court, which will authorize the Department to withhold all confidence from papers so prepared.
Children are not entitled in their own right, and being mere recipients of arrears due to their deceased parents, are required to comply with the rules in asserting a parents claim.
If the claim should be asserted before the Court of Hillsdale, Michigan, when claimant died, agreeably to the rules herewith enclosed, and satisfactory proof,

from the records of Scipio, or the testimony of the Physician and Clergyman, in his own hand-writing adduced to establish the day of her death, with the depositions of the leading men of the neighborhood in which her husband died to identify her as the Widow of that Pensioner, the claim will be examined without prejudice from the proceedings in New York.
I am, Respectfully,
Your ob. Servt.
(Signed) J. L. Edwards
A. L. Lynde, Esq.
Warsaw,
N.Y.

State of Michigan } County of Hillsdale } ff
Before the subscriber, a justice of the peace in and for said county, personally came Samuel Stillwell, to me well known, and made oath in due form of law, — That about the year eighteen hundred and sixteen, he first became acquainted with Hosea Crandall, and Sarah his wife, that they then resided at, or near the village of Danesville, which is situate in the county of Livingston, and state of New-York, and this deponent then resided at the same place, — That he then also knew several children, of the said Hosea, and Sarah, whose names were Levi, Hosea, John, Hovey and Salina, — That the said Hosea and Sarah, were neighbors of this deponent for several years, and before the death of the said Hosea, he, and his said wife, removed into the town of Osborn, in the county of Allegany, and state of New-York, where he was informed and believes that the said Hosea died — That about eleven years since, this deponent, removed to the county of Hillsdale, in the state of Michigan, and that he then knew the said Sarah Crandall, widow of the said Hosea Crandall, for the space of about one year before her death — That the said Sarah died at Scipio, in the county of Hillsdale, and state of Michigan, on the twelfth day of December, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, and that he was present at her funeral. That he is now seventy-seven years of age, that the said Hosea Crandall was a pensioner

in the United States. That the said Maria Crandall, mentioned by deponent, as being one of the children of the said Maria, and Sarah, now resides at the township of Scipio, in the said county of Hillsdale.
Subscribed and sworn to before me This 28 th day of October A.D. 1847 and I hereby certify the deponent to be a perfectly credible witness
Samuel Stillwell
Andrew P. Rogart Justice of the peace
IN PRESENCE County, at Hillsdale, this
John

STATE OF MICHIGAN, } ss COUNTY OF HILLSDALE, }
Circuit Court for said County. Do Hereby Certify, That
I, JOHN SWEGLES, Jr. Clerk of the County of Hillsdale, and also Clerk of the whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of Proof of Acknowledgment of the annexed instrument and therein written, was at the time of taking such proof acknowledged date thereof a Justice of the Peace in said County, duly Elected and qualified, and by the law of this State duly authorized to take the same, act as such AND FURTHER, That I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said A. P. Kapooth and verily believe that the signature to the said present acknowledgment  writing signature to the same, and that the annexed instrument is executed according to the laws of this State.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand affixed the seal of said Court and County, at Hillsdale, this 22 o day of November A. D. 1847
John Swegles, Jr. Clerk.

18533 Sarah Brandell du 2 Michigan Ad 7. July 38.
m. 84. a 28.
adm
2 yrs Derg 1
120 to 12 Dec.
1839 when she died
To Levi - Horace - & John Brandall - Nancy Hay- ward & Salina Van Scoter - only children.
Hon. H. Putnam
H. R.

Warsaw New York
19 th August 1847
J. S. Edwards Esq
Enclosed I send you a declaration proof of marriage, death & heirship in support of the Pension claim of Mrs Sarah Grandall widow of Horace Grandall deceased. You will perceive that the claim under the act of 1836 is withdrawn & new one presented under act of 1838
After the receipt of Your letter of the 12 th October last I visited Mr Isaiah Grandall a Pensioner residing in Almond New York with the expectation of obtaining from him evidence of the marriage of Mr Grandall & Sarah Graham as he had previously informed me by letter that he knew that Horace Grandall Sarah Graham were married before the close of the revolutionary war.
On seeing him I learned that he could only give evidence of the marriage of a nature that would not be satisfactory to establish it & that it was very doubtful whether any poss- itive proof of that marriage could be found. He also informed me that he learned from Horace Grandall who was his cousin that he became acquainted with Sarah Graham in the service & married her & lived with her but that after the close of the war they were again married to satisfy his friends who were religious people of the 7 th Day Baptist denomination. That Elder William Satterlee a son of W m Satterlee at whose house they were married was still living in Berlin.
Having satisfied myself that the marriage could be proved I have proceeded to do so by the evidence of Elder Satterlee who is a 7 th Day Baptist preacher & the only person now living in Berlin

who knew Grandoll & his wife. He informs me that there are only 2 other persons in town who were there as early as 1784.
I had no knowledge whatever about the 2 d marriage until I obtained it from Isiah Grandoll & if the family had any such knowledge they kept it to themselves.
I trust the evidence will be deemed satisfactory on all the points of this case.
Very Respectfully,
A. S. Lynde

Concord Dec 27
H Putnam me
Colo. J. L. Edwards, Pension Office Washington -
H. H. Putnam 11/2

Washington Dec 23 rd . 1847.
Colo J. L. Edwards,
Dear Sir, I forward the enclosed papers according to request of Mr Lynde -
With great respect
I am Sir
W. Putnam -

State of New York Wyoming County
Be it known that at a Court of Common Pleas holden in & for said County at Warsaw on the 20 th day of June 1847 personally came Levi Brandall & on his oath to him duly administered according to law makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision, of the act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838. That he is a son of Hosea Brandall & Sarah his wife deceased. That the said Hosea Brandall was a Pensioner of the United States & died at Olean in the County of Allegany & State of New York on the 25 th day of November in the Year 1828. That he has been informed & believes that the said Sarah Brandall widow of the said Hosea Brandall died at Scipio in the State of Michigan on the 12 th day of December in the Year 1839. That he has heretofore made a declaration as heir of the said Sarah Brandall under the act of July 4 th 1836. That he now believes that the said Hosea Brandall & Sarah Grahame did sustain the relation of Husband & wife previous to the close of the revolutionary war & that after the close of the said war the said Hosea & Sarah in order to satisfy their friends who had doubt as to the validity of their marriage were again married at Hoosick in the Year 1783 or 1784. That he supposes it will be impossible for him to prove the first marriage & therefore he withdraws his said claim under the act of 1836 & now makes this claim under the act of July 7 th 1838. That the said Sarah Brandall whose maiden name was Sarah Grahame had not intermarried after the death of the said Hosea Brandall but remained his widow. Subscribed & sworn in
open court the day & Year first above written (Witness my hand & Seal of Office. Subscribed before me this 20 th day of June 1847. Levi his Brandall Abel Webster Clerk mark

State of New York Wyoming County 3 d
I Walter Howard Clerk of said County do hereby certify that at a Court of Common Pleas held in & for said County at Warsaw on the 18 th day of February 1846 Satisfactory evidence was exhibited that Hosen Brandall died at Ophir in the County of Allegany in the State of New York on the 28 th day of December 1828. That the said Hosen Brandall was at the time of his death a Pensioner of the United States. That Sarah Brandall the widow of the said Hosen Brandall died at Hillsdale in the State of Michigan on the 14 th day of October in the year 1838. That she left the following Children which she had by the said Hosen Brandall, to wit, Levi Brandall, Hosen Brandall, John Brandall, Salina Van Scoter & Nancy Hayward who are the only children of the said Hosen Brandall & Sarah his wife her surviving & that each of them is more than twenty one years old. That the said Sarah Brandall has not intermarried but was the widow of the said Hosen Brandall at her death.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my official Seal at Warsaw this 28 th day of February 1846.
Walter Howard Clerk

State of Michigan County of Hillsdale ss.
Be it known That on This tenth day of May Eighteen hundred and forty seven before the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for said County came Samuel Stillwell, and made oath in due form of law that he well knew Mrs Sarah Crandall, The widow of Hosea Crandall decea- sed, and that he also well knew the said Hosea Crandall, and became acquainted with said persons more than thirty years since, and that the said Sarah, resided at the township of Scipio, in said County at the time of her decease, and that she died on the twelfth day of December Eighteen hundred and thirty nine, and that he was present at the preaching of her funeral ser- mon, and also that he is Seventy seven years of age, and resides in the township of Scipio aforesaid, Subscribed and sworn to this 10 th day of May 1847, and I { Samuel Stillwell certify that I am person ally acquainted with the said witness, and know him to be entitled to full credit,
C. Andrew P. Hagar Justice of the peace,
State of Michigan } County of Hillsdale }
I John Smigles Jr Clerk of the County of Hillsdale and also Clerk of the Circuit Court for said County do certify that A.P.
Hagar the whose name is subscribed to the above instrument and therein written was at the date thereof an acting Justice of the Peace in said County duly elected and qualified and by the law of this State duly authorized to act as such that the term of Office of said

State of Michigan } County of Hilledale } ss
Be it known that on this third day of May eighteen hundred and forty-seven before me, the undersigned, a justice of the peace in and for said County, came Elijah Buck and made oath in due form of law that he knew Mrs. Sarah Crandall whom he is informed was the widow of Husea Crandall deceased. That at the time of her decease she resided at the Town- ship of Scipio, in said County, and died on the twelfth day of December eighteen hundred and thirty nine, and that he was the clergyman that preached her funeral sermon. Subscribed and sworn before me Elijah Buck me this third day of May 1847 And I certify that I am personally acquainted with said witness, and know him to be entitled to full credit.
Andrew S. Hagarth
Justice of the peace.

Syracuse New York Rensselaer County
Before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in & for said County personally came Truman J. Wallace & made oath in due form of Law that he is Town clerk of the Town of Hoosick in & for said County & that by virtue of his office he has custody of the records of said town. That upon application he has examined diligently the records of marriage in his office for proof of the marriage of Hosea Brandall & Sarah Graham & that he is unable to find any record of said marriage.
Truman J. Wallace Town Clerk
Subscribed & sworn before me this 30th day of July 1827. & I certify the said deponent to be clerk of said town of Hoosick David S. L. Nassau Justice

State of New York } Rensselaer County }
Be it known that, before the subscriber, a Justice of the peace, in and for said county, personally came Elder William Salterlee to me well known, who being duly qualified according to law, deposes & says, that he is eighty years old. That at the close of the Revolutionary war he lived with his father in the county  Town then called Hooick and embraced in the County of Albany, but now, in the Town of Berlin Rensselaer County, N.Y. That among his neighbors in said Hooick at that time, was one Levi Crandall, who had previously resided in, and moved from the State of Rhode Island. That soon after the close of the said war in 1783, a son of the said Levi Crandall named Hosea Crandall, (who was said to have been a soldier in the American Revolutionary army, and to have that he (the said Hosea) said that he served till the war closed.) came home to his father's in said Hooick, and brought one Sarah Graham, with whom, (by his, the said Hosea's admission) he lived as man & wife. That after they had been at Hooick some five or six months, his father William Salterlee, supposing them not to be lawfully married, admonished the said Hosea Crandall as to his manner of life with the said Sarah, and that shortly after, the said Hosea Crandall and Sarah Graham were married at his father's the said William Salterlee's house, in the said Hooick, by Elder William Coon who was at that time the pastor of the Seventh-day Baptist church in said Hooick, now Berlin Rensselaer County, New York. That it is his impression that the said marriage took place in the year 1784. That a present recollects distinctly that he was present at the said marriage and believes that it was in the year 1784. That he is satisfied as to the date of the said marriage from the fact, that it took place within a few months after the declaration of peace in 1783. That from, and after the date of the said marriage, the said Hosea and Sarah for some time resided in said Hooick, and lived together as husband and wife, and finally removed to other parts.
Subscribed and affirmed the 5 th day of March 1847
W. M. Salterlee
before me & certify the said William Salterlee to be a person of good moral character and entitled to full credit as a witness } Daniel D. Green Justice Peace

STATE OF NEW YORK, RENSSELAER COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, } ss.
I, AMBROSE M. SHELDON, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify, that David J. McNamee & Daniel B. Green before whom the annexed affidavits in more than one and whose names are thereunto subscribed, was at the day of the date thereof formerly Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and duly authorized by law to take the same; and that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Justices and verily believe that their signatures to the said affidavits are  is genuine.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County, this Seventh day of August 1847
A. M. Sheldon Clerk.

State of Michigan, Hillsdale County ss,
I do depose and say that Sarah Brandall mother of Hosea Brandall a citizen of said County that the said Sarah Brandall died at Scipia in the said County on the 12 th day of December 1839 and I was the clergyman who attended at the funeral and preached a sermon on the occasion —
Elijah Buck
Before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County, on this Eleventh day of January A.D. 1840 came the above named Elijah Buck, who is to me personally known, and made oath in due form of law, that the above statement by him subscribed is just and true,
Andrew P. Houghton Justice of the peace,

STATE OF MICHIGAN, { ss COUNTY OF HILLSDALE,
Circuit Court for said County, Do Hereby Certify, That
I, JOHN SWEGLES, JR. Clerk of the County of Hillsdale, and also Clerk of the whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of Proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument and thereon written, was at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment date thereof a Justice of the Peace in said County, duly Elected  sworn and qualified, and by the law of this State duly authorized to take the same , act as such AND FURTHER, That I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said A. P. Wogarth  Wogarth and verily believe that the signature to the said proof or acknowledgment is genuine, and that the annexed instrument is executed according to the laws of this State
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand affixed the seal of said Court and County, at Hillsdale, this 22 o day of November A. D., 1847 John Smedes Clerk

20 Aug 22. 1846
Adelphi con Saral Brandell
Adelphi con Saral Brandell
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Warsaw N.Y.
August 14, 1846
J. L. Edwards Esq
I send the enclosed papers in the case of heirs of Sarah Crandall Please examine & file
Respectfully Yours A. L. Lynde

Harvan New York Dec 2 d 1847
J. S. Edwards Esq o
I have to day received from Jonesville Michigan the proof required by your letter of the 10 th September 1847 in case of Sarah Crandall widow of Hosea Crandall. The papers are I believe liable to no objection except that the Clerks Certificate does not show that the Children named are the only Children of s d Sarah Crandall this is an omission to set forth a fact which was contained in my depositions but as the lost Certificate made before our County Court agreed with this & established that fact also I can hardly suppose it probable that you can require us to send it back to Michigan for correction
I trust the papers enclosed together with the proofs previously sent by me will be deemed satisfactory to establish this claim. It was impossible to obtain depositions of leading men as to the identity of Mrs Crandall as the widow of Hosea Crandall a Pensioner of A. S. H. as she had resided there but about one Year before her death & her neighbours excepting Mr Stillwell never knew her husband.
Mr Stillwells means of identifying the widow being ample I trust the proof on that point will be satisfactory
Very Respectfully Yours A. L. Lynde

Revolutionary Claims
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commr. of Pensions War Department Washington City
21 Feb. 1899
1820 61 57

Dansville Livingston County N.Y.
From Sir Hosea Crandall of Steuben County New York was a pensioner of the United States I hold in my hand a letter or certificate of which I will give you a copy -
"No 12073,"
"War Department,"
"Pension Office."
September 9 th 1820
"Sir you are hereby informed that the schedule of your property has been examined; and the secretary of war has directed your name to be continued on the pension roll."
"I am Respectfully
"Your obedient servant,"
"To Mr Hosea Crandall Steuben County New York," J. L. Edwards
The last pension drawn by this person was I believe about the 4 th day of March 1829 May I beg the favor to be informed whether the widow of this applicant will be entitled to the relief granted to widows under the Third Section of the Act of July 4 th 1836 - And if so whether it will be necessary to prove any other facts than that she is such widow and was married to such pensioner before he had closed his services in the Revolutionary war.

If she be entitled to a relief may I pray to have forwarded to me the necessary forms for making an application in her behalf
To J. L. Edwards Esqr
With great Respect Your Humble Servt
Edward O'Brien

Payment to be made at Liberty, by E. P. Usher, Agent for paying pension- ers, in the Agency of Me. L.
Payable on the 4th March and 4th September in each year.
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book C Vol. 1 Page 46 by H. Rumpkin,
Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Widow's Pension.
I certify that in conformity with the act of July 7, 1838, and 23 d August 18 Sarah Crandall, dec. d widow of Hosea Crandall, who was a Sergeant and died on the 25 th day of Dec. 1828, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of One hundred & twenty dollars and _____ cents per annum, commencing on the 4 th March 1836 & terminating 12 th Dec 1839, the day on which  and terminating on the 4 th of March, 1841, unless the Pensioner married or died she died before the last mentioned date; in which case the pension is not pay- able after the time of such marriage or death. Payable to Levi Hosea & John Crandall, Nancy Hayward & Salina VanScoten. Given at the War Office of the United States, this 31 st day of Dec. one thousand eight hundred and forty - seven.
Secretary of War.
Examined and } Countersigned. }
Commissioner of Pensions.