Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10,509, Joseph Crippen, Mass.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE

Mass.
Crippen, Joseph
NUMBER
S. 10.509
Born in Conn [Connecticut] 
carded
CONTENTS
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[combined printed form and hand written entry]
2270
New York
Joseph Crippen
[missing word in fold of page - county?] of Granville in the State of New York
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain [no name entered]
of the Regt. command
by Cols. [colonels - plural] Fellows & Ashly in the Massachuset [sic]
[illegible]  for 7 months & 14 days

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 24
Dollars 88 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of November 1832
and sent to J C Parker
North Granville N.Y.

Arears to 4th of Sept 1832 $37.32
Same=ant. [sic] allowance ending 4 Mar 33
12.44 [dollars]
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$49.76 [sum of $37.32 + $12.44]

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by John Cromwell Clerk,
Book D  Vol. 5  Page 76

[facing page]
Dead
Letter to Hon D. Rupole [may not be correct last name] 4 Mar [March] 1840
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State of New York
Washington County ss On this twelfth day of September 1832 personally appeared before John Moss -one of the Judges of County Courts in & for said County of Washington Joseph Crippen a resident of the town of Granville in the County of Washington and State of New York aged Seventy nine years on the 23rd day of November last past who by reason of bodily infirmity is unable to appear in open Court to make his declaration for a pension, 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. That on a call for troops he at Alford in the County
of Berkshire and State of Massachusetts adjoining Barrington he turned out
as a volunteer in the Company commanded by Captain George King
of Barrington, Massachusetts in Col Fellows Regiment he believes and that he
so volunteered the Latter part of August or first of September in the year 1776
and rode on horseback with his younger brother [?] him to Sharon in
Connecticut from whence his brother took the horse home and he found other troops
and with them marched into Dutchess County in the State of New York and
thence on to Westchester County New York and was stationed at Valentine Hill a part of the time and in various places in that vicinity and
was stationed near Kingsbridge part of the time and that he was at
the Battle of White plains, that he so turned out & volunteered for three
months and an half but at the request of the officers when his time
was out he staid the Term of four months and upwards and was
discharged he believes about the first of January That in this Company
he knew Col Rowleys Regiment he being made to this declarant and was
there with his Regiment by remembers often seeing General Washington
General Arnold and also knew Col Morgan of the Riflemen marched
under him to the white plains when the Battle took place

and he further states that a little before the battle of Bennington in the
month of August 1777 on another call for troops he volunteered in
the Company commanded by Cap. Enoch Noble in Col Ashley's Regiment
he believes went to Bennington and arrived there a short after the Battle from thence was marched to Arlington in Vermont where they
were stationed as a scouting party for some weeks and from thence he
was marched to Stillwater on the Hudson River in the State of New York
and was there at the taking of Burgoyne and until after his Surrender and continued in service in this campaign for three months &
one half when he was dismissed the last of November he believes

[notation bottom left margin with some illegible text and a line above "7 1/2 mo. total"]
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That in this campaign he knew Col Warner and his regiment & Captain Brown of that Regiment and many others whose names has has by reason of infirmity forgotten.
And he further states that he was at several other times out as a scout hunting Tories and guarding the frontiers and protecting the inhabitants from their deprovations but cannot state the time of service on these occasions, and he saith he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person other than Nathan Crippen whose affidavit is here is hereto annexed whose testimony he can procure to testify to his service.
And to questions put under the direction of the War Department he says-
1. That he was born in Sharon, County of Litchfield State of Connecticut on the 23rd day of November 1753
2. That has a record of his age at his house in Litchfield [?}.
3. That at the time he was called into the service as aforesaid he lived at Alford[?] as above stated
4. That he volunteered at the several times as above stated was not a substitute. 
5.  That in addition to his own company he knew Col Rowley of Massachusetts Col Morgan of the riflemen Col Arnold of Connecticut Col Warner & many other Regiments & officers but by reas [sic] of age & infirmity cannot now recollect names which were then familiar to him. 
6.That he never received a written Discharge
7. That he is known by the following persons Rev Samuel C. Dilliway Samuel Standish Jr Postmaster Leonard Gibbs Esq. Charles Chanthum[?] Byron Baker John C. Parker and many others who can testify to his character for truth and veracity & who reside in his neighborhood
That by reason of infirmity of Body he is in his opinion unable to go to the place of holding the County Court being more the twenty miles and appear to make in open Court his said Declaration
And he 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 or territory whatever
Sworn to & subscribed the day and year aforesaid
before me                     Joseph Crippen
John Moss
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State of New York
Washington County 
I Samuel C. Dilliway a Clergyman residing in North Granville in the County of Washington and State of New York do hereby certify the I am well acquainted with Joseph Crippen the declarant in the above Declaration named, that I believe him to be seventy nine 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 I concur in that opinion and I certify that I cannot conveniently attend Court to certify that above in open Court.
Affirmed and subscribed this
22nd day of August 1832
Before me                                     S.C. Dillaway

J.C. Parker (Re?)

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I John C. Parker of Granville in the County of Washington & State of York having read the above certificate of Samuel C. Dilliway a Clergyman well known to me do hereby also certify under oath that I have been for more than twenty years acquainted with Joseph Crippen the above Declarant and believe him to be seventy nine years of age and that he is reputed to have served as a soldier of the Revolution in the neighborhood where he resides-- and I do concur in that opinion with the Rev Dilliway.

sworn on this 12 day                 |
of September 1833 before me  |       John C Parker
John Moss

And the said Judge does hereby declare his opinion after investigating
the matter and after puting the interrogatories prescribed by the war Department then the above and applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states and the said Judge further certifies that it appears to him that Samuel C. Dilliway
who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the Town of Granville aforesaid and that John C. Parker who has also signed a similar certificate  {ny?] below that of the
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said Clergyman is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit and
I do certify that the above Declarant
cannot from bodily infirmity attend Court to make the above Declaration
John Moss

Jesse S. Leigh Clark of the County Courts of the County of Washington do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the
original proceedings of the Honorable John Moss who is one of the Judges of the said Court duly empowered to perform the
duties of a Judge thereof and that his signatures to the said
proceedings is his proper hand writing
And further certify that John C. Parker before the above certificate of Samuel C. Dillaway the Clergyman purports to have been affirmed was at the said time a Justice of the peace duly authorized to administer oaths and affirmations in the said County and
that his signature to the Jurat therof is his proper hand writing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and seal of Office this nineteenth
day of September in the year one thousand
Eight hundred and thirty two -
J. S. Leigh Clk
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State of New York
Washington County
Nathan R. Crippen of the Town of Granville in said
County aged nearly sixty seven years being duly sworn saith that in Joseph Crippen of the Town & County aforesaid is his brother and he recollects that in the Latter part of August or beginning of September in the year one thousand Seven hundred and seventy six the said Joseph Crippen went into the army from Alford then in Massachusetts that this Deponent went with the said Joseph Crippen to Barrington and from thence to Sharon in Connecticut a distance of thirty miles to take the horse home  where he left him and returned home that the said Joseph Crippen was in Captain George Kings Company (of Militia as he believes) and that he went for the time of three months and a half and was gone from home four months or more he well recollects
there was snow on the ground where he returned-- and he well recollects that the said Joseph Crippen was the Battle of White Plains from information he received a short time after the said Battle. And he further saith that in the month of August in the year one thousand seven hundred and Seventy Seven a little before the Battle of Bennington on the sixteenth of August the said Joseph Crippen went again into the
army in the Company commanded by Capt Enoch Noble and he thinks in Col. Fellows Regiment and understood he went to Bennington and arrived there shortly after the Battle and from thence went to the Hudson River and was at the
taking of Burgoyne at Stillwater, that he was gone three months or more, that it was always understood and believed in the family that the said Joseph Crippen served faithfully in the militia against the common enemy during the Revolutionary war the term of seven months and this deponent from his his knowledge aforesaid stated verily believes that the said Joseph Crippen did serve in the militia the time and manner aforesaid further saith not
Sworn this 30 day of   |
June 1832 before me  |  Nathan R Crippen
S Gibbs Come to take affidavit
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State of New York
Washington County 

ss. I Jesse S. Leigh Clerk of the said County do certify that Leonard Gibbs Esq. before whom the within affidavit of Nathan R. Crippen and also the annexed affidavit of Joseph Crippen purport to have been sworn was at the date of the same a commissioner in and for said County duly authorized by law to administer oaths and that I am well acquainted with his hand
writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavits to be his proper hand writing and signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said County the fourth day of July one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight [1838]
JS Sleigh esq

COVER
Jos Crippen
To be sent from War Department to John C Parker North Granville Wash Co N York
7838   [?1838]
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No 7838
Joseph Crippen
omitted
J. C. Parker.
Agent
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No. 7838
Brief in the case of Joseph Crippen of Granville County of Washington in the State of New York (Act 7th June, 1832.) 

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? 
Before a Judge [handwritten]
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? 
Yes [handwritten]
3. How old is he? 
79. Years [handwritten]
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
Period | Duration of Service | Rank | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. [table]
In 1776. | 4 months | As a Volunteer | Col. Fellows [handwritten]
August 1777 | 3 Months. 14 Days | " | Col. Ashley. [handwritten]
5. In what battles was he engaged? 
Battle of White Plains [handwritten]
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? 
Alford County of Berkshire, Mass. [handwritten]
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? 
By one living witness & traditionary Evidence. [handwritten]
8 Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? They appear to be in due form. [handwritten]

I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned. 
James Ord Examining Clerk.
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10509
INVALID.
Rev War
File No. 10.509
.aw
Joseph Crippen
Priv Rev War
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Act: June 7" 1832
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 82
Arrangement of 1870.
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House of Reps D.C. March 2d 1840.
J. L. Edwards Esq
Sir: Allow me to ask your
attention to the enclosed letter and an
answer to the interrogators therein
propounded, with a
return of the enclosed
as early as you
the duties will permit.
I am with great
Respect
D Russell