Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22869, Daniel Crawford, New York
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State of New York Putnam County ss:  

On this tenth day of October A D 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Sullivan County being a Court of record Daniel Crawford of Thompson in said County of Sullivan and State aforesaid aged about seventy two 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 7, 1832 That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated to wit: That on or about the first of May 1779 he en listed for the term of nine months in a company of volunteers commanded by Captain Jonah Hallett, which company was in the service of the Continental Congressthat he enlisted at a place then called Fredericksbaugh in Dutchess County - That said company and himself as a member thereof, served for several months along the lines in Westchester County, New York. In the month of October then next he with said Company went to Stoney point on the Hudson river & there joined their regiment, the Colonel of which was absent at the time and the name of the Colonel he has altogether for gotten, but the name of the Major was Benschoten He was employed at Stoney Point with other troops in building a block house, and while there he obtained per mission from his captain for about half a day to go to one Joshua Fowler, who was a half brother to the applicant, and while going was wounded by a broad sword & taken prisoner by a party of British and taken to the City of New York, and was then kept in confinement between eight and nine months when he was put on parole, and continued there as a prisoner to the British, two years or more when he ran away and escaped to his home, at a
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place called Philips Patent at the red milly in Dutchess County - That he never had any discharge from any officer under whom he served. That at place called Fellers Point on the North river about 11 four miles below Peekskill, about the first of September 1779 he with six others while on a volunteer scouting party from his company took prisoners, fourteen of the British marines, who had landed from then ships to get feel and brought them with their arms into the American Camp. That he was in eight different skirmishes with the enemy during his service, the most important one was at a place called Colleback, in Westchester County near the lines. That by reason of his captivity he never received any pay for his services that one John Brown was Lieutenant of the Company in which he served, and Enoch Crosby was orderly Sergeant & and Thomas Cobreath was second sergeant - That he has no documentary evidence of service nor does he know of any of his fellow solding who are alive, but Enoch Crosby aforesaid, whose deposition is hereto annexed that he has forgotten the names of any general officers who were in command when he was in service that he was born at the Red Mills in the County of Dutchess and State of New York in the month of April 1760 -- That he resided at the red miles until about the year 1780 - From what place he removed to New Marlborough and resided there 12 or 14 years -- from thence removed to Neversink in Sullivan County and from thence to Thompson Sullivan County where he now resides - That he has a memorandum of his age that the clergyman residing in the immediate vicinity where the applicant resides - but his character & reputed revolutionary services are well known to his neighbors & especially to Mahan W. Horton & John Dorrance He has no documentary evidence, nor does he know of any body living, except Enoch Crosby. as he has before stated
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from the day of He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension list or roll of the agency of any State to & Subscribed Daniel Crawford & year aforesaid mark Foster Clerk of Court of Com. Pleas We Mahan W Horton & John Dorrance residing in Sullivan County, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Daniel Crawford who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be at least 70 years of age: that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldin in the Revolution, and we concur in that opinion that he is of good charactersum & subscribed before me Maharle Horton in open Court this 10th of October 1832 Jesse Faster