Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2426, John Craig, S.C.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
SC Craig, John R 2426
Barbary
CONTENTS
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4473
Barbary Craig
of John 
Tennessee

at the time of his being in service from Va port having a knowledge of his starting into
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State of Tennessee
Morgan County}
On this the 15th day of March 1839 personally appeared before me Thomas Jack a Justice of the peace for said county Barbery Craig a Resident citizen of the county of Morgan state of Tennessee she being aged seventy seven years from her best calculation having no record of her age who being first duly sworn for that purpose according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836 that she is the widow of John Craig deceased who was a private soldier in the army of the Revolution and entered service of the United States according to her best knowledge and belief as a soldier under Col Shelby as a volunteer sometime in the summer of 1780 as to the captain she is not prepared to state his name not being certain that she has in particular wer heard her said husband state the name of his captain his first service but of the Col she distinctly recollects that he served under Col Shelby that she in fact knew of her said husband being in the said service at the time of his being in service from Report having a knowledge of his starting into
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the same and returning from the neighbor hood having engaged in the service near the edge of Washington and sulivan counties now East Tennessee that her said husband served according to her best knowledge and belief six months service under col Shelby the fall and summer previous to her marriage to him in sulivan county Tennessee during which time he was in the battle at Kings Mountain and Ranging after the Indians whether her husband ever had a written discharge from said service or not she does not recollect of hearing him say nor does she recollect as to the precise time of his beginning or quiting said service she states that she was married to her said husband in Sulivan County East Tennessee by squire Gilbert Christy in sulivan county on the first day of January 1881 and sometime about three months after her marriage her husband volunteered in to the Indian service under captain John Miller and under Gilbert Chisty as a ranger and ragned the frontiers of Virginia and North Carolina and down to the Holstein River She believes was in no battle but buried some par white persons that had been [crossed out buried] killed by the indians and continued in service nine months untill after her oldest child was born to wit
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Thomas Craig she has no recollection of his saying that he had a written discharge she states she has no record nor Documentary evidence of her said marriage nor of his service she has no doubt she can prove by her husbands intimate acquaintance that he was understood and believed by all his intimate acquaintence to have been a Revolutionary soldier and that he was respected as a man of truth and that the subject of his being in the battle of Kinds Mountain and an indian soldier and of the officers to wit Shelby Miller and Christy were the subjects of his most social and friendly conversations that her said husband the said John Craig lived with her untill his death and died in Morgan County Tennessee on the 15th day of of October 1828 with old age and and a kind of stomack debility that she has remained a widow ever since his death as will more fully appear from defence to the proof hereto annexed she states she is unable to Labor or go to a neighbors house and has been ont he charity of the county for some months she knows of no person by whom she can prove his service
Barbary her X Craig
mark
sworn and subscribed the day and year above mentioned before me
Thomas Jack
Justice of the peace
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State of Tennessee
Morgan County
We Thomas Adcock and Archible Adcock Residing in the immediate neighborhood of Barbary Craig and being well acquainted with her said husband John Craig deceased in his life time and knowing of his death believe he died at the time specified in the foregoin declaration but not distivetly recollecting the precise time without some deliberation state that said deased was reputed as a man of good character and was reputed as having been a revolutionary soldier without doubt and that Barbary Craig the foregoing declarant was always reputed and respected as the wife of the said deceased and that the same never was doubted by any person to our knowledge and that she has remained a widow ever since the death of her said husband we further certify that from our acquaintance with the said family to wit the said Barbery Craig and her deceased husband and from our acquaintance with their oldest son Thomas Craig and from his probable age judging from his appearance and the ages of his children and from
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our best view and calculation of the probable age of said Thomas Craig who is now decd having died some years after his said father we have every reason to suppose that Mrs Barbary Craig the declarent was and must have been married at the time she alledges in her declaration and we concur in the openion that we are convinced is the general belief that John Craig was a revolutionary soldier and we are convinced that his said widow is 77 years old ashe has stated
sworn and subscribed this 15th day of march 1839 before me
Thomas Jack
Justice of the peace } 
Thomas hix X Adcock mark
Archible his X Adcock mark

State of Tennessee
Morgan County } 
I Thomas Jack Justice of the peace for said county certify that Barbary Craig the foregoing applicant for a pension is a pawper of this county and I believe is 77 years old from every account and from her appearance and from every I have heard Relative to the matter I believe her husband was asoldier subtantially as stated by her and from the appearance and from
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her oldes son Thomas Craig and from all the information I have is his family and every thing connected with the matter I have Just reasons to believe that said Barbary Craig knowig and her deceased husband were married at the time stated in her declaration I know said John is dead and died some years back and that said barboy has not intermarried since his death I further certify that Thomas Adcock and Archible Adcock are entirely respected and reputable and that their statements are entitled to full credit I further certify that siad Barbary Craig is inable to attend court from bodily infirmity and that it is wholy unlikly she will ever be able
Thomas Jack
Justice of the peace
State of Tennessee
Morgan County }
I Edmund G Kington clerk of the county court of Morgan aforesaid certify that Thomas Jack Esquire is a magistrate as above and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine 
In testimony where of I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this 18th day of March 1839
Edmund G Kington
clerk
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REJECTED
2426
PO 
Barbara Craig
Service wid of John
Enlisted 18
Discharged 18
Application filed 18
Alleges
Re-enlisted
Attorney
PO
Recognized Contract
Cert of Dis Searched for 18
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Barbary Craig
Tennessee
Rejcted
See let 5 Augt
1839 RA Dabney
did not prove six months in military capacity & by order of comptent authority
2426
Act 4 July 1836
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4473 Apl 24
Tenn
4 July 1836
Barbery Craig
wid of John 
Morgan C Ten
April 15 Free
James L Edwards Esqr
Washington City DC
War Dept 
pension office
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Morgan Courthouse
Tennessee March the 22nd 1839
Enclosed is the pension declaration of Mrs Barbery Craig widow of John Craig Deceased Claiming the benefit of the act of the 4th July 1836 granting pensions to widows 
your most obt
servant &c
Robert A Dabney

James L Edwards Esqr
Washington City DC
War Department 
Pension Office