Joseph Odell

A Patriot of the American Revolution for NEW YORK with the rank of Private. DAR Ancestor #: A085621

From:

ODELL GENEALOGY

United States and Canada (1635 -1935) Ten Generations in America in Direct Line.

Compiled by a Descendant Minnie A. Lewis Pool, (Mrs. Sherman Ira Pool) of Waverly, Iowa, Past State Historian Iowa D. A. R.; Past State Registrar Iowa D. F. P. A-

Valued assistance given by many correspondents in United States and Canada over a period of twenty-five years is here gratefully acknowledged.

Published 1935 by EMERY A.ODELL Monroe, Wisconsin

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Revolutionary War Service:

"Joseph Odel enlisted as private in Fourth Regiment of Dutchess County Militia. entitled to land

bounty rights,"Roberts "New York in the Revolution as Colony and State." Vol. 1, p. 244.

"Certificate No. 47369 for t 4, 3s 0 d issued (date burned) to Joseph Odel for services as

Private in Capt. Lemuel Conklin's company from the 4th Regiment of Dutcbess County Militia in Col. Morris Graham's Regiment (1st) of Dutchess County Militia."-From Certificates of Treasurer (manuscript record) Vol. 10, p. 49, New York State Library, Albany, N. Y.

"1785, April 20, Claim of Matthew Conklin and Joseph Odell for land."-From Calendar of Land Papers, p. 658 in Land Office, Albany, N. Y.

Joseph Odell was a man of large property, who, like many of the colonists on the east side of the Hudson in Revolutionary days, met with great losses, not only from the war but also from the raids of "cowboys and skinners"-bandits would be the name today-who preyed upon the defenseless people at that time. Those who lost heavily expected the state of New York to compensate them for their losses, by grants of land at least, since the state was too impoverished by war to grant them money, but New York was as lax about this as she was in granting promised bounty land for services, so in the 1790s, some years after the close of the war in 1781 and the Treaty of Peace in 1783, there was a general migration across the border into Canada where lands could be obtained readily for the asking. So Joseph Odell, who by his statement had "lost a very considerable property by the late war and not having received lands or other compensation for his losses" in 1793 petitioned the Lieutenant Governor of Lower Canada for a grant of land for himself and "for each of his six sons: John Odell, Joshua Odell, Joseph Odell, Jr., James Odell, Charles Odell and Jacob Odell, most of them having family," and they would settle on them immediately.