This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Crandell, Crandel, Crandall Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VRB.2ACE/1739.2 Message Board Post: Hi Larry, I check a couple of CDs from Family Tree Maker and found a Samuel Crandel on CD #132 New York in the Revolution. He is listed under Dutchess County Militia-Land Bounty Rights, 5th Regiment under Major Brinton Pain and signed the Association in 1775 also in Dutchess County, Beekman's Precinct. I then checked the book Dutchess County, N.Y. Tax Lists, 1718-1787 and on page 212 in the Beekman Precinct, 1738-1778 it lists: Crandall, Azariah, Ezra - June 1766-1769 Crandall, Henry - 1770-1771 Crandall, John - June 1748-June 1763 Crandall, Samuel - Feb 1754-1788 Crandall, Samuel Jr - June 1765-1788 On CD #214 Vital Records: New York Deaths 17002-1900s lists: Samuel Crandell, age 76, date of death: 1 June 1820, Town of Stanford from "Old Gravestones of Dutchess County, NY by J. Wilson Poucher and Helen Wilkinson Reynolds. And Samuel Crandel, age 18 date of detth 24 March 1840, Town of Stanford, father: Jonathan Crandell, mother: Elizabeth Crandell, same source as above. Also on CD #132 Samuel Crandell and Samuel Crandell Jr both signed the Association in the North East Precinct, Dutchess County on July 5, 1775. And on the tax list for the North East Precinct, 1746-1779 page 40: Crandall, John - June 1763-1779 Crandall, John Jr - 1767 Crandall, John Jr - 1770-1779 Crandall, John son of John - 1773-1779 Crandall, Joseph - 1775-1779 Crandall, Laban - 1770-1779 Crandall, Samuel - June 1763-1779 Crandall, Samuel Jr - 1770-1779 There seems to be two families with a Samuel either of which could have moved to Hillsdale. I hope this will help and not confuse you. Susan