Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 14,542, Simon Crosby, Continental (Mass)
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Continental (Mass)
Crosby, Simon
Hepzibah

NUMBER
W. 14.542
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AW
Aug. 8, 1906
[EVGFi]
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Crosby, Simon
His name appears on a list of claimants to be placed on the pension list returned by the Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on April 25, 1794, and printed in the American State Papers, class q, page 114.
Rank:  Dragoon
Regt:  Sheldon's
Disability:  Wounded in his right wrist, by a party of light horse.
When and where disabled: 1779, Poundridge.
Residence:  East Windsor.
Monthly allowance:  $4.17
Arrearages: $150.00
Remarks:  Enlisted May 7, 1777; discharged August 1, 1780.
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AW
July 13, 1706
S,M.H.
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Service
Continental (Mass)
Crosby, Simon Hepzibah
W.14.542

Crosby, Simon

     His name appears on a list of applicants for invalid pension returned by the Circuit Court for the district of Connecticut, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on Dec. 14, 1792, and printed in the American State Papers class 9, page 64.

Rank:  Dragoon
Regt.:  Colonel Sheldon
Disability:  Badly wounded in the right wrist in 1779.
Date of certificate:  Oct. 3, 1792
Monthly allowance:  $4.16 2/3
Arrears due:  $150.00
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To [?]ou: W. B. Calhoun
[?]: 29th1840. {?} to J Charlton
Safe, June 8 1840 
S June 10 1840 do to [?]
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4389
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row of [faded]
who was a pensioner under the Act of [faded]
and who died on the -- [faded]
of [faded] in the State of [faded] commanded
who was a [faded] in the [faded] commanded
by Captain [faded] of the [faded] commanded 
by [faded] in the [faded]
line for [faded] -2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of [faded]
at the rate of 100 Dollars [faded] Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the [faded] day of [faded]
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Arrears to the 4th of [faded]
Semi=annual allowance ending [faded]
{Act July 7, 1838.}
Recorded by D M Moody, Clerk,
Book [faded] Vol. [faded] Page 81
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[section 1]
From. Connecticut to [Mapt]
Simon Crosby,
Private
in U. S. Army
Inscribed on roll of the Connecticut Agency, at
$3 33 1/3 /100 and increased to $5 33 1/3 /100 
per month, by Act 24 Apl 1816.
Formal certificate issued 22 Sept. 1823, and sent to Samuel H. Parsons, Esqr. Middletown, Cont.
Increased to $8 per month, from the 9th of September 1825 _ and new certificate issued and sent to Saml. H. Parsons, Esqr. Hartford, Con. on the 20th Jan. 1826.
Originally paid at $2:50 per month, under the act of April 20. 1796.
[section 2]
Increased Jany 20, 1826 to $8 per month,
commencing [9] Sept 1825, and new certificate issued same day and sent to Saml. H. Parsons Esqr. Hartford, Cont. Transfr to Massachusetts, 11 March 1826 from 6 March 1826.
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[illegible initial word]

Married August 2 178[?]

my Son Samuel Born a Thursday [4] January 1781

my Son Elisha Born a Monday the 21 October 1782
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[This is a page out of a Bible]
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District of Connecticut-ss--Hartford
On this 25th day of June 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Superior Court for the State of Connecticut [for the said district,-crossed out] personally appeared Simon Crosby aged sixty one years resident in Russell, Massachusetts [in the said district-crossed out] who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service in the United States in the revolutionary war." That he, the said Simon Crosby on the 7th day of May 1777 enlisted in Boston in the state of Mass'tts in the company commanded by Captain Crafts afterwards Capt Webb of the 2nd Regt of Lt Draggoons, commanded by Col Elisha Sheldon; that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States until the 5th day of Aug. AD 1780, when he was discharged from service in North Castle state of N. York, that he was in the battle[s-crossed out] of Poundridge, when he was wounded there and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services, except what is [subjoined].
Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid. John J. Peters [signature] Judge of the [document damage]
I, John J. Peters [signature] Judge, &c. as afore  [document damage] appears to my satisfaction, that the said Simon Crosby [document damage] serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, on the continental establishment; [inserted line] where he is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of this Country for support. and now I transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
Hartford June 25th 1818 John J Peters [signature] Judge Supr  Ct
June 25th 1818. Sealed with the seal of said Court by direction of the Honorable John J Peters who is a Judge of said Superior Court.
Thomas Chester Clerk [signature]
[Seal affixed but appears to be missing]
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I Simon Crosby being now inscribed on the Pension Roll of the U. States at the rate of sixty four dollars pr. an. on account of disabilities incurred during the war of the revolution, do hereby relinquish the paid pension same [same is crossed out] to the U. States in case I shall be placed on the pension roll so as to obtain the provisions of the late act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain pensions engaged in the land travel [illegible] of the Whales in the revolutionary war- Simon Crosby [signature?]
N.A. Phelps
Personally appeared before me the above named Simon Crosby & acknowledged the above instrument to be his free act of deed
John J Peters [signature[ Judge of the [illegible] at the State of Connecticut
Hon [Secy] of War
Sir. Should the within application received, I wish to be inscribed on the Pension list, Roll  of the Connecticut Agency, as I live much nearer Middletown than Boston.
Hartford June 25, 1818.-
Simon Crosby [signature]
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State of Massachusetts 
County of Hampden ss
On this sixth day of June in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty seven personally
appeared before the Judge of Probate in and for the County of Hampden and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hepziba Crosby a resident of Russel in said County of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, aged seventy [six] years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836 that she is the widow of Simon Crosby late of said Russel deceased who was a member of the 2nd Regiment of Lt. Dragoons commanded by Col Elisha Sheldon and served in the Company commanded by Capt Crafts, afterwards by Capt Webb and continued in the service of the United States until he was discharged on the 5th day of August AD 1780 having been in the battle of Pound Ridge when he was wounded. That his wound disabled him and continued to disable him more or less till the time of his death. And she has always understood and has no doubt that her said Husband entered the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War in the month of May 1777 and served therein till the aforesaid time of his discharge and that he was discharged in North Castle in the State of New York, but that he enlisted in Boston in the State of Massachusetts that her said Husband Crosby always drew a pension during Her time she lived with him an amount of said [named] as near as I can remember, and for several years before his
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death said pension was increased under new pension law of The United States She further declares that she was married to said Crosby on the second day of August A D 1780 in East Windsor in the State of Connecticut and during the time [during the time is crossed out] before the expiration of the service of said Crosby in the service of the Revolutionary War. That her name previous to said marriage was Hepzibah Gaylord. That her said husband died in said Russel on the 4th day of January A D 1827. And that she has remained a widow since his death - that she had no children under sixteen years of age at the time of said Crosbys death that she had eight children by said Crosby, four of whom are now living, (to wit) one son and three daughters the youngest of said children being thirty nine years old. That said Crosby moved with his family from East Windsor in Connecticut to said Russel about twenty years ago. When [When is crossed out] on a [plain] where he died and when the said Hepzibah still resides - that she has reason to believe, as said Crosby has been a pensioner that documentary evidence of his service is in the war department. 
And the said Hepzibah further declares that she was married to said Crosby on the day before mentioned by Joseph Perry the settled minister of East Windsor long since deceased. That [That is crossed out] diligent search has been made for his ministerial records of marriage and none can be found and that no parish records of marriage can be found in said East Windsor - that she knows of no person living who was present at her marriage - that she entered a moment of her marriage with said Crosby on her Mothers Bible which she now
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has in her possession. That she has seen the entry of her marriage so made within a few years and that the leaf [le?aing} said Entry has been torn from the bible and that the same entry of her marriage has been copied into another bible now in her possession 
Hepzibah Crosby [signature]
Hampden ss at a Probate Court holden at Westfield within [afor] the County of Hampden June 6 1837 Hepzibah Crosby personally appeared and subscribed and made oath to the foregoing declaration before Oliver B Morris Judge of said Court
and I the said Judge after investigating the whole matter do now declare my opinion that the said person Crosby was a soldier of the revolution, that
he [lived] as heard filed in the declaration of said Hepzibah, that on the second day of August AD 1780 he married the said Hepzibah, that on the fourth day of January AD 1827 he died, and that the said Hepzibah has not since been married and that she is now the widow of said Simon Crosby decd
In testimony whereof I have hereunto at my hand and office the seal of said Court this twentieth day of June in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & thirty seven
Oliver B Morris Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Hampden
[seal affixed]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Hampden SS.
I Justin Willard Clerk of the Probate Court within & for said County do hereby certify that that this foregoing together with the annexed papers & proofs & documents contain the original proceedings of said Court in the matters of the applications of of Hepzibah Crosby for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed this seal of said Court at Springfield this twenty third [second-crossed out] day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred thirty seven
Justin Willard [signature] Clerk
[Seal affixed]
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Hepzibah G Crosby of Russell in the County of Hampden and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age deposes and testifies that she is the Daughter of Simon and Hepzibah Crosby of said Russell - that her father the said Simon Crosby died in said Russell January 4th 1827. That her Mother the said Hepzibah still living a widow -  that the deponents age is now forty two years and that she now lives with her mother the said Hepzibah. That she has from her earliest recollection understood from her parents that they were married in East Windsor Connecticut on the 2nd day of August 1780 - that she well remembers the paper hereto annexed, and has seen it often when it was in an old Bible the greater part of which is still preserved in her Mother's family. That she has often read in said Bible when the leaf hereto annexed formed a part of it - that the said leaf was torn out of said Bible by some child and by accident as she supposes, some years ago. That she has always understood that her Mother made the Memorandum of the date of her marriage and the births of her sons on said leaf - and she has no doubt of the fact from the resemblance of handwriting to letters and other minnits made by her said Mother in her younger years - that the minnits on said leaf have since been copied into another bible now in her Mothers possession and the births of the rest of the rest of the family were also entered in the same - that said copying and entering were made by Betsey  Crosby the Deponents Sister and was done a number of years ago - she can not state how many. 
Hepzibah G. Crosby [signature]
2240
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Hampden SS on the 10th day of June 1837 personally appeared the above named Deponent Hepzibah G Crosby to me personally known and made oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition by her subscribed in my presence - and I also certify that said Deponent is a credible witness and possesses a fine character for truth
Patrick Boise [signature] Justice of the Peace
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[top line of document is cut off}
for a statement of the military history of Simon Crosby a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his and (or [or is crossed out] his widow's) applications for pension on file in this Bureau. 
Mid. F. 14,542
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. May 7, 1777 to
LENGTH OF SERVICE. Aug. 5.1780
RANK. Pri.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN. John Webb
COLONEL Elisha Sheldon
STATE. Continental.
Battles engaged in, [check mark]
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Enlisted at Boston, Mass.
Date of application for pension, June 25 1818 His cl. mas. al.
Residence at date of application, Russell Hampden Co. Mass.
Age at date of application, { 61 yrs., place of birth not stated
Remarks:{ He died Jan. 4, 1827, at Russell, Mass.
Soldier married Aug. 2, 1780, at East Windsor, Conn. Hepzibah Gaylord. She was allowed pension on an ap. [?] June 6, 1837 while 76 yrs. old and a res. of Russell, Mass. They had 8 children, the only names stated being Samuel (the oldest), Elisha, Hepzibah G., Betsey, and Sarah O. Kellogg.
Very respectfully, 
Geo. R Smith [Geo. R Smith is crossed out]
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Mass
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 14,542
Hepzibah Crosby
Widow of
Simon Crosby
[Drag] [Commissioner]
Act: July 7th 1836
Index : ---Vol. a, Page 154
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Mch. 15: 1910. Hist.to
Geo. R. Smith.     F.M.
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The coming of Christ.   Chap I.

they shall call on my name and I will hear them. I will say, it is my people; and they shall say, The LORD is my God.

CHAP, XIV.
The coming of Christ, &c.

Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.

2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

4 ¶ And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.

6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:

7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD , not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.

8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.

9 And the LORD  shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD , and his name one.

10 All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin’s gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king’s winepresses.

11 And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter dest [page folded over, can't read] usalem shall be safely inh [page folded over, can't read] 

12 ¶ And this shall be [page folded over, can't read] with the LORD will smite [page folded over, can't read] that have fought against Jerus [page folded over, can't read] flesh all consume away while [page folded over, can't read] upon their feet, and their eyes[page folded over, can't read] sume away in their holes, and th [page folded over, can't read] shall consume away in their mouth.

13 And it shall come to pas [page folded over, can't read] day, that a great tumult from the L [page folded over, can't read] shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.

14 And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem [faded can't read]; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, [faded can't read] silver, and apparel, in great abundance.

15 And so shall be the plague of [page torn, can't read] horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of [page torn, can't read] ass, and of all the beasts that shall [page torn, can't read] in these tents, as this plague.

16 ¶ And it shall come to pass, th [page torn, can't read] very one that is left of all the nations [page torn, can't read] came against Jerusalem shall even [page torn, can't read]  from year to year to worship the King, [page torn, can't read] Lord of hosts, and to keep the [page & faded torn, can't read] tabernacles.

17 And it shall be, that who [page torn & faded, can't read] come up of all the families of the  [page folded over itself, can't read] to Jerusalem to worship the [page folded over itself, can't read] of hosts, even upon them [page folded over itself, can't read]

18 And if the family o [page folded over itself, can't read] Egypt go [page folded over itself, can't read] and come not, [page folded over itself, can't read] no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up [page folded over itself, can't read] keep the feast of tabernacles.

19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nat [page ripped, can't read] that come not up to keep the feast of 
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20 ¶ In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS U [page ripped, can't read] TO THE LORD; and the pots in the Lord’s house shall be like the bowls before the altar.

21 Yea, every pot in Jer [page faded, can't read] Judah shall be holiness [page faded, can't read]  of hosts: and all they that sacrifice [page faded, can't read] come and take of them, and seethe th [page faded, can't read] in: and in that day there shall [page faded, can't read] Canaanite [page faded, can't read] hosts.

MALACHI.
CHAP. 1

Malachi complains of Isreals unkindness:

The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.

2 I have loved you, saith the LORD . Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the LORD : yet I loved Jacob,

3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

4 Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The bor [ink faded, can't read] of wickedness, and, The people against wh [ink faded, can't read] the Lord hath indignation for ever.

5 And your eyes shall see, and ye [ink faded, can't read] say, The LORD will be magnified fro [ink faded, can't read] border of Israel.

6 ¶ A son honoureth his father, [ink faded, can't read] servant his master: if then I be a [ink faded, can't read] where is mine honour? and if I be a [ink faded, can't read] ster, where is my fear? saith the [ink faded, can't read] of hosts unto you, O priests, that [ink faded, can't read] my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?

7 Ye offer polluted bread [ink faded, can't read] altar; and ye say, Wherein h [ink faded, can't read]

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In that ye say, The table of [page is torn, and is faded, can't read] contemptible.

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10 Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither [page is torn, and is faded, can't read] ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

11 For from the rising of the sun even un [page is torn, and is faded, can't read] the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in [page is torn, and is faded, can't read] very place incense shall be offered unto my [page is torn, and is faded, can't read], and a pure offering: for my name [page is torn, and is faded, can't read] all be great among the heathen, saith the [page is torn, and is faded, can't read]D of hosts.

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[page is folded, torn, and is faded, can't read] But cursed be the deceiver, which hath [unreadable] le, and vow [word cut off] and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, [page is folded, torn, and is faded, can't read] my name is dreadful among the hea [page is folded, torn, and is faded, can't read] 

CHAP. 11.
Priests reproved for neglecting theif co [ink faded, can't read] nant &c.

[ink faded, can't read] Nd now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.

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[ink faded, can't read]I will corrupt your seed, and [ink faded, can't read] even the dung [ink faded, can't read] ll take you away with it.

And ye shall know that I have sent [ink faded, can't read] commandment unto you, that my co [ink faded, can't read] might be with Levi, saith the [ink faded, can't read] D of hosts.

My covenant was with him of life and [ink faded, can't read]; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was [ink faded, can't read] before my name.

The law of truth was in his mouth, and [ink faded, can't read] uity was not found in his lips: he wal [ink faded, can't read] with me in peace and equity, and did [ink faded, can't read] any away from iniquity.

[ink faded, can't read] the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his [ink faded, can't read] for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.

[ink faded, can't read] e are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.

9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.

10 Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?

11 ¶ Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

12 The Lord will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the Lord of hosts.

13 And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand.

14 ¶ Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

15 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

16 For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

17 ¶ Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?

CHAP. 111.
Of the majesty of Christ, &c.

1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the LORD, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.

2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:

3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.

4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord, as in the days of old, and as in former years.

5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those
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CROSBY, SIMON (CONT., MASS.) W-14542

Simon Crosby,, 
S/s & 150 Dols
Voucher-
No. 52-
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duplicate of image 22, but upside down.
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Danbury Sept 20th 1779

Simon Crosbee of Colo. Sheldings Troop of Light-Horse, wounded in ye late Action at Pound-Ridge is dismissed the Hospital, tho not fitt at present for the duties of ye field recommend that he have Liberty to return home till he recovers fitt for duty

[signed "L. Turner Surgn. Genl"]

To whom it may concern

[on the right of the page is a faded ink stamp can read "THE NATIONAL ARCHIVE" printed on it.]

Downing 22 Sept. 1779

The above mentioned Crosbee his leave of absence until the first Day of December [unreadable] Regiment

[signed "Elisha Sheldon [unreadable]
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I Benjamin Cook of East Windsor in Hartford County & State of Connecticut aged 71 years depose & say that I resided near the family of Simon Crosby while they were inhabitants of East Windsor. I knew his wife that She was married to said Crosby Sometime in the Summer of the year 1740 while a soldier of Capt. Webb's company

[signed "Benjamin Cook"]

Hartford County SS East Windsor Feb 13 1837

Personally appeared Benjamin Cook Signer of the foregoing deposition a respectable inhabitant of said town and made oath to the same in due form of law before me

[signed "Horace Newberry Justice of Peace"]
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I Amasa Loomis of East Windsor in Hartford County & State of Connecticut, aged 73 years, depose and say, that I was acquainted with Hepzibah Gaylord formerly an inhabitant of said Town of East Windsor, & that she was married to Simon Crosby a Soldier of the revolutionary war sometime in the summer of the year 1780. She had a family of children and she was a woman of good character               Amasa Loomis [signature]

Hartford County ss East Windsor Feb. 13th 1837
Personally appeared Amasa Loomis Signer of the foregoing deposition a respectable inhabitant of said town and made oath to the same in due form of law before me
Horace Newberry Justice of Peace
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I Abigail King of East Windsor in Hartford in County aged 77 years depose & say that I knew Hepzibah Gaylord that she was married to Simon Crosby in the summer of 1780
Abigail King her X mark
Hartford County ss East Winds Feb 10th 1837
Personally appeared before me Abigail King Signer of the foregoing deposition a respectable inhabitant of East Windsor & made oath to the same in due form of law
Horace Newberry [signature] Justice of Peace
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State of Connecticut County of Hartford ss}
I Philo A Goodwin Clerk of the County Court for said County of Hartford do herby certify that Horace Newberry Esq whose name is subscribed the annexed certificates is an acting Justice of the Peace within & for said County of Hartford regularly commissioned & sworn, that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and that the annexed are his genuine official signatures, and that full faith and credit are due to his official acts
Given under my hand and the seal of said County Court this 22nd day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty seven
Philo A Goodwin [signature] Clerk
[seal affixed]
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5995
Sec Jesse Charlton
Oct 3 - '39 -
Act 7 July 38
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Connecticut 25 [35?] June 18[blotted out]
Simon Crosby
Private
7th May 1777 to 5 August 1780
Col. Sheldons Regt
Lt Dragoons - Mass [ts]
Judge [blotted out]
Hartford
Returned, - AS the law requires, that the declaration shall be taken "before a judge or court of record of the county state or territory, in which the applicant shall reside.
31 July 1819
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Litchfield Apl. 29th. 1818
This Certificate that Simon Crosby enlisted into the 2d Regiment of Lt. Dragoons commanded by Col'o Elisha Sheldon, on the Continental Establishment, on the 7th of May 1777 & was discharged from sa'd Regiment on the 5th of August 1780 - Extracted from my Sup [?] mental Book, now before me Benj'n Tallmadge 
Late Major 2nd Reg't L.Dr [cut]
State of Connecticut County of Hartford July 19th-1819
I hereby certify that Simon Crosby who made the forgoing dubration [word crossed out] is in reduc,d ins[?] Form and Stands in need of the assistance of his Country for Support
Jonathan Brace [signature] Judge of the County Court for the County aforesaid
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5995
[underlined]
Hepzibah Crosby
[Con crossed out] Mass -
Act 7 July 38.
on Sheldon's rolls 3 yrs from '77 to '80 [underlined]
m 80 d 27
admd
2 years Dragoon
100 $
no deduction
Jesse Charlton
E. Windsor Hill Con
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State of Massachusetts Hampden County} ss
On this 15th day of August 1839 personally appeared before Oliver B Morris Judge of the Court of Probate for said County of Hampden Hepzibah Crosby, a resident of Russell, in the County & State aforesaid aged seventy eight years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress [word too faint] July 7th AD 1838, " entitled and not granting half pay & pensions to certain widows.
That she is the widow of Simon Crosby, late of said Russell, who was a private Soldier & a member of Col 'o Sheldons Regiment of Light horse, during the War of the Revolution: and for proof of the length of his services she begs leave to refer the Commissioner to the Roll of Col'o Sheldons Regiment.
And she furthermore declares that she was married to her said Husband in the Summer of the year 1780, two or three months after the dark day her memory has so much [declined] that she cannot name the day of the month or she has no record of it She was married by the Rev Joseph Perry, then Pastor of the First Congregational Church, in East Windsor in Hartford County, Connecticut, nor first Child, Samuel Crosby, was born in January 1781, and she remembered that [Lord] Charles Mathers wife had a
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Son Born about two months before her son Samuel viz the present John Mather Esq of Manchester in Hartford County Conn & that the wife of Mr John Watson had a son born about three months after the Birth of her son Samuel; Viz Henry Watson Esq, of said East Windsor, and she was intimately acquainted with Ruth Staughton, who well remembers her Marriage the said Ruth Stoughton was married, herself to Joseph Elmer, the next year after Declaimant was married.
By reason of the great decay of her memory, she declines to swear in positive terms that all his services were performed before her intermarriage with him, the said Simon Crosby; but she waves all claim under any act except that of July 7th 1838.
She furthermore declares that her said husband, the said Simon Crosby, died in said town of Russell, on the fourth day of January 1827 and that she has remained his widow ever since that period 
Hepzibah Crosby [signature]
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day & year five above said and I certify that the said Hepzibah by reason of bodily [on this - crossed out] infirmity is [day of- crossed out] unable to attend the [1834 - crossed out] Court
[In testimony whereof I - is crossed out] [work of the ? - crossed out]
Oliver B Morris [signature] Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Hampden
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State of Massachusetts Hampden County} ss
On this 15th day of August 1839 personally appeared before Oliver B Morris [signature] Judge of the Court of Probate for said County Sarah Kellogg of W=Southwick in said County a credible person, who being first duly sworn according to Law, deposes & says, that she is well knowing to the fact that Simon Crosby the husband of the present widow, Hepzibah Crosby, who was an invalid pensioner, died in said town of Russell, in the County & State aforesaid, on the 4th day of January 1827 [1829 -crossed out] And that his widow the said Hepzibah Crosby has never again Married - this deponent is the daughter of said widow Crosby 
Sarah Kellogg [signature]
{hereunto} and [?unto] before me and I certify that the said Sarah is a credible witness
August 15th 1839
Oliver B Morris [signature] Judge of the Court of Probate for said County of Hampden
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampden County SS.
I Justin Willard Clerk of the Court of Probate within & for said County do hereby certify that the Honorable Oliver B. Morris [Judg -crossed out] before whom the foregoing declaration of Hepzibah Crosby was made & sworn to & before whom the foregoing Deposition of Sarah Kellogg was taken, is the Judge of Probate within & for said County and that his signature [?joined] to the several certificates of said declaration and said [captions] is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court of Springfield this fifteenth day of August AD 1839
Justin Willard Clerk, [?]
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I Henry Watson, a resident of East Windsor in Hartford County, State of Connecticut aged Fifty Eight years, do hereby depose, and say; that at the earliest period which I can remember; Simon Crosby, now deceased, lived in the Marriage relation with the present Wido Hepzibah Crosby, and their eldest son Samuel Crosby, he was a few months older than I was; I was Born in 1781, And have a record of my age, in my fathers family Bible
I am well knowing to the fact, that the said Simon Crosby, was universally reputed & believed, to have been a Soldier, in the Continental Army, in the Revolutionary War; And there can be no reasonable doubt that the present Widow is justly entitled to a pension for the services of her said husband.
Henry Watson [signature]
State of Connecticut Hartford County] SS East Windsor
On this17th day of August 1839 personally appeared, before me Jesse Charlton, a Notary Public, of and for, the State of Connecticut Henry Watson Esq a credible person who has been several years a Justice of the Peace in & for said Hartford County, who then & there made Solemn Oath to the truth of the above certificate by him subscribed In testimony Whereof, I do hereunto subscribe my name, affix the Seal of my said office at said East Windsor on this 17th day of August 1839
Attest Jesse Charlton [signature] Notary Public
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I John Mather, a resident of Manchester in Hartford County Connecticut, aged fifty Eight years in Oct last, do hereby depose & say; that I was Born in East Windsor in Hartford County, Connecticut & lived for the first years of my life in the immediate neighborhood of Simon Crosby, & his family, and I am well knowing to the fact that they lived together as man & wife, from my childhood and their oldest son, Samuel Crosby, was a school mate of mine, and very nearly of my own age; My age is recorded & from that record it appears that I was born in the month of Oct 1780.
I have understood and believed from my childhood, that the said Simon Crosby, was for a considerable time a Soldier in the Revolutionary War, And I am well persuaded that this was the universal opinion and belief.
I removed out of the neighborhood, where the said Simon Crosby and his family lived, in the year 1797 they had then six --- children
I heard of the death of the said Simon Crosby, several years ago, & I know that the present widow Hepzibah Crosby is the identical person who lived with the said Simon Crosby as his wife all the time I lived in that town, from my first acquaintance with that family in my childhood, and I have never heard, nor do I believe, that the said Widow, has ever again intermarried since the decease of her said Husband.
John Mather [signature]
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State of Connecticut Hartford County } ss Manchester
On this 7th day of June, 1839 Personally appeared, before me Jesse Charlton a Notary Public of and for the State of Connecticut John Mather Esq, who has been several years a Magistrate of Hartford County who then and there made Solemn Oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate, by him subscribed, Before, in before me In testimony whereof, I do hereunto subscribe my name, & affix my Seal of Offices, to these presents at East Windsor in sd' County on this 7th Day of June -----1839 & I certify that before the Signing and Oath the Word November was erased in two places, and the Word October [intersted] in its [?oom].
Attest Jesse Charlton [signature] Notary Public
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I Abner Reed, Clerk of the first Congregational Church, and keeper of its records, (as there is not, at this time any settled Pastor over said Church: Do hereby Depose and say; That there are no records of any Marriages, celebrated, or Solemnized, in this society, previous to the year 1786
That there are no records of the Reverend Joseph Perrys, who was a settled pastor of this Church from the year 1755 to the year 1783 and if he ever made any records of the Marriages he solemnized, it is fully believed that they are, now, entirely lost.
I further certify that I have the custody of the Records of said Church & that I have not been able to find any entry of the Marriage of Simon Crosby, and Hepzibah Gaylord, under any date, that the foregoing certificate is true
Abner Reed [signature]
Sworn and subscribed, on this 17th day of August 1839
Before, me Jesse Charlton Notary Public, of and for the State of Connecticut; & I certify that Abner Reed, who has signed & sworn to the above certified is a Credible  person; Clerk of said Church, and keeper of its records, as is well known to me.
In testimony whereof, I do hereunto subscribe my name, and affix my Seal of Office, at said East Windsor on the day year above written.
Attest Jesse Charlton [signature] Notary Public
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I James Moore, do hereby Depose and say, that I have carefully examined the Town record of Marriages in the Town of East Windsor, in Hartford County Connecticut, but cannot find an entry of the Marriage of Simon Crosby and Hepzibah Gaylord, under any date.
Previous to the year 1820, There were but four marriages recorded under the letter C, for Fifteen [?] years, But [illegible] under the letter A and but thirteen under the letter B, for the same length of time.
I James Moore, above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk & Register of the Town of East Windsor aforesaid, & have the keeping of all its Records, and that the foregoing certificate is true.
Attest James Moore [signature] [I Conn} Town Clerk
State of Connecticut Hartford County} SS East Windsor on this 17th day of August 1839 personally appeared, before me Jesse Charlton, a Notary Public of and for the State of Connecticut, James Moore Esquire, who is Town Clerk and Register of said Town of East Windsor, & a credible person, and then and there made solemn Oath to the truth of the same, In testimony whereof, I do hereunto subscribe my name and affix my Seal of Office at East Windsor aforesaid on this 17th day of August 1839
Jesse Charlton [signature] Notary Public
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I Ruth Elmer, of the town of Hartford in the County of Hartford, & state of Connecticut, do hereby declare and say: That I was born and bred in East Windsor, in Connecticut, and that I lived from my childhood in said town until I was 36 years old when I moved from said East Windsor to the West parish of the town of Hartford.

And I further depose and say that I was intimately acquainted with Hepzibah Gaylord from my childhood[.] I have been in company with her a great deal in my youth. She was one of my most intimate companions.

I well remember that Simon Crosby a soldier who was stationed one winter with other of the troops in the Town of East Windsor paid his addresses to her and married her, in the summer time the year before I was married my self, I was married myself in September 1781 you will see the proof of that in the papers sent with my Declaration from Hartford County on which a pension was granted me under the Act of 1838[.]  I perfectly well remember that when I was married Mrs. Hepzibah Crosbys oldest Child Samuel was several months old I cannot be mistaken in this for I saw the mother and her babe several times together before I was married myself.

[signature of:] Ruth Elmer

State of Connecticut Hartford County SS Hartford on this 21st
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of August -- 1839 personally appeared before me Jesse Charlton Notary Public of and for the state of Connecticut, Widow Ruth Elmer a credible person well known to me who then & there made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by her subscribed in my presence.

In testimony whereof, I do hereunto subscribe my name, and affix the Seal of my office on the day and year above written.

Attest Jesse Charlton Notary Public 
And I further certify that the figure on thirty six the age at which she left East Windsor which was first a 2 is altered to a 3, was made by her direction before the signing & oath.

Attest Jesse Charlton Notary Public
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I Elijah F Reed, a resident of East Windsor in Hartford County Connecticut aged seventy two years do hereby depose & say that I am a Native inhabitant of said East Windsor and that I was acquainted with Simon Crosby at an early period.

I well remember that before the close of the Revolutionary War the said Simon Crosby past the Winter in this town with a portion of Col. Sheldons Regiment of Lt Horse, my impression & belief is that it was one company, & it might have been more: they were under the command of Lieut King, the said Crosby was a member of the Company, & I well remember to have at the time it took place a few months after the company left this town that the said Simon Crosby returned and married Hepzibah Gaylord, this I well remember was before I left East Windsor, to go to the academy at Ruinfield, a town fifty miles from this where there was then, a celebrated School.

I went away in the fall of Seventeen hundred & Eighty one, after I returned in 1782, I was employed some time in teaching a school, and in the year 1786 I commenced the study of Medicine with Doct Charles Mather, of East Windsor, this was in the immediate neighborhood of the said Simon Crosbys dwelling not 10 rods distant.

The said Crosby at this time lived with his present widow, in the family state and had several children, and he continued to live in the same place until he left the state. In the year Seventeen hundred & ninety seven, I purchased the said Doct Mathers
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House and took the business he left from that time I was family physician to the said Crosbys family, at this time the said Crosby's oldest children Samuel & Elisha could not have been less than sixteen & fourteen years of age.

The said Simon Crosby received a pension many years before he left this town as an Invalid of wounds received in the service.

With respect to the dates I have given I have recurred to my records and have not given the dates by force of memory alone, but agreeable to what I found in my journal made at the time the events to which I have alluded took place.

Elijah F. Reed

State of Connecticut Hartford County  SS East Windsor
On this 17th day of August 1839 personally appeared, before me Jesse Charlton, a Notary Public of and for the state of Connecticut [illegible] Elijah F Reed, a resident of said East Windsor, a credible & a respectable person, and the principle physician in this place, who then and there made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed before me wherefore I affix my name & seal of office the day & year last named 
Attest Jesse Charlton Notary Public
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I Royal R Hinman, Secretary of State do hereby certify that Jesse Charlton before whom the annexed deposition of John Mather and Henry Watson and [Do-ct] Elijah F Reed and Abner Reed and James Moore & Ruth Elmer
were taken is at this time and has been for more than one year last past a lawful Notary Public for said State duly authorized by Law to the depositions and administer Oaths, throughout said State, and that the Signature of said Charlton to each of said certificates is his genuine Signature well known to me.
State of Connecticut Hartford County
In testimony whereof I do hereunto subscribe my name and affix the Seal of said State at Hartford in this State of Connecticut on this 21st day of August AD 1839
R R Hinman [signature] Secretary
{seal affixed]
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United States of America} 
District of Connecticut}
To J. L. Comstock and Wm H Morgan both physicians and surgeons residing in the City & County of Hartford, within said District & State of Connecticut. 
Pursuant to an Act of Congress of the United States passed the 4th day of February A.D. 1822, entitled an Act to revive and continue in force "An act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the Revolutionary War & for other purposes" you are hereby appointed and authorized to examine Simon Crosby of Russell Hampden County & State of Massachusetts, who is inscribed on the pension List of the United States, and is claimant for an increase of pension, conformably to the 5th section of the Acts of the 10th April 1806 revived as aforesaid.
And you are to report in writing and on oath or affirmation your opinion of the nature of his disability, and in what degree it prevents him from obtaining a subsistence by manual labor; And in your proceedings in the premises you are to be regulated & governed by said act. 
Given under my hand & seal at Bridgeport this 1st day of September 1825 -
District Judge [J Coms?} [signature illegible] 
[seal affixed]
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State of Connecticut County of Hartford Ss: Hartford

On this first day of March A.D. 1826, before me, the subscriber, a Notary Public, duly commissioned and qualified, residing in said Hartford,  personally appeared Simon Crosby of Russell in the County of Hampden the state of Massachusetts, who on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Captain John Webb, in the regiment commanded by Colonel Elisha Shelden in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the roll of the State of Connecticut from whence he removed about 12 years ago, that he now resides in the State of Massachusetts, where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension be there payable, in future; and his reasons for removing to the State of Massachusetts were for the pecuniary benefit of his family by cultivating a small landed estate-

Sworn & Subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid
Simon Crosby

Witnesses my hand & Official Seal,
Samuel H Parsons
Notary Public
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I Thomas Day, Secretary of the State of the State of Connecticut, and keeper of
the Seal thereof, do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern, that Samuel A. Parsons, Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate, in his proper handwriting to me well known, is, and for more than one year last past has been, a Notary Public within and for the County of Hartford in said State, duly appointed, commissioned and sworn; that the seal affixed to said Certificate is his genuine Seal of Office; and that full faith and credit are due to his official acts and attestations.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of said State, at the City of Hartford, the first day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.
Thomas Day
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State of Connecticut County of Hartford SS Hartford

On this first day of March A.D. 1826 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace 
in and for the County of Hartford, personally appeared Samuel H. Parsons and made oath that he is well acquainted with Simon Cosby an invalid pensioner of the United States on the roll of the Connecticut agency and well knows him to be the same person described in the above affidavit
Isaac Spencer Justice of Peace

I Thomas Day, Secretary of the State of Connecticut, and keeper of the Seal thereof
do hereby certify, that Isaac Spencer Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the above certificate in his proper handwriting to me well known, is, and for more than one year last past has been, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Hartford in said State, duly appointed commissioned and qualified; and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to his official acts and attestations

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said State, at the
City of Hartford, the first day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.
Thomas Day
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It is hereby certified that Simon Crosby formerly a private of Captain John Webb's company, in the regiment commanded by Colonel Elisha Sheldon, who it appeared by the accompanying certificate was placed on the pension roll at the rate of five 33/100 1/3 dollars permonth, on account as he states, of having received a wound by a sabre on the joint of the right wrist, in consequence of which an anchylosis of the joint has been formed, and the rotary motion of the forearm destroyed; while in the line of his duty, and in the said service on or about the 10th day of June 1779, at a place called Pound-ridge, in the State of New York, is not only still disabled in consequence of the said injury but in our opinion is entitled to 1/3 more than he already receives as a pensioner, being totally disabled from obtaining his subsistence by manual labor.

J.L. Comstock MD. [signature]
W.H. Morgan M.D. [signature]
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State of Connecticut County of Hartford} SS Hartford
On this 9th day of September AD 1825, before me the Subscriber, a notary Public duly commissioned and qualified, residing in said Hartford, personally appeared Doctor J. L. Comstock and Doctor Wm H. Morgan both to me well known as respectable surgeons & physicians practicing in said City of Hartford, and made solemn Oath that the within Certificate by them subscribed in my presence is true
In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & notarial seal the day & year above written.
Samuel H. Parsons [signature] Notary Public
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East Windsor Hill, Hartford County, Conn
Oct 8th 1839.
Sir.
Yours of the 3rd, in relation to the application of Mrs Mary Rowe, Widow of Isaiah Rowe, is received: I know not where to look for any more proof at present.
The same letter containd to observasions concerning the identity of Simon Crosby; with the Husband of Hepzibah Crosby the Declarant.
I could sent you many deposisions establishing that fact: but I think I can point to what will satisfy you as fully without making the Widow any additional expense.
From the Deposision of Doctor Elijah F Reed, & I think from the others, you will be satisfied that the Husband of the present widow was a wounded man, & an invalid pensioner;
And by examining the Massachusetts Roll, of Pensioners I believe you will find that Simon Crosby the invalid pensioner got his half pay exchanged for full pay under the act of 1818; & that he drew a full pension to the time of his Death. & probably you will find his pension certificate returned after his death
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The town where he last lived & where he died is in the limits of the former County of Hampshire in the State of Massachusetts, but in the division of that County it fell within the limits of Hampden County.
There is found on the Roll of Col'o P B Bradleys Reg, the name of Simon Crosby from the 2nd March "77 to Dec 31 1780, & then in Col'o Swifts Regiment to Dec 31; "81: But this the widow Hepzibah Crosby, knows nothing of, & never has pretended any claim, for the services of any other, than her crippled husband, whose serviced were in Col'o Sheldons Regiment, & who drew a pension to the day of his Death. I myself knew the man well, & know he was an invalid pensioner for his wounds which I have seen in their tear Made by a Cutlass on his arms. You may rely on it Sir, that there is no attempt here to deceive the Department by trying to appropriate the services of another man, to the benefit of his Widow.
I am Sir, most respectfully your obd't Servant.
Jesse Charlton. [signature]
Hon. J L Edwards Esq. [signature]
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington D. C
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I Jemima Steele, widow of Doct James Steele, do hereby depose & say; That I was born in East Windsor, in Hartford County Connecticut, in the year, 1763 as my family record shows; that I continued to live there, until my intermarriage with Doct Steele, in the year 1782. And I further depose that I was acquainted with the officers & soldiers of a part of Colonel Sheldons Regiment of Light Dragoons; They were under the command of Lt King, & this was in the hard winter as it has always been called, of the year 1779 & 80. I remember well that Simon Crosby, was one of the men, or Privates in that Company, at that time: and that he is the identical person who married Hepsibah Gaylord, then of said town of East Windsor; after my marriage I removed to what was called Windsor Goshen, now the town of Ellington, eight miles distant from the center of East Windsor where the said Crosby and his family lived; I have not seen them for several years past; and have heard that they removed to Massachusetts several years ago.
Jemima Steele [signature]
State of Connecticut Tolland County, } SS Ellington
On this 9th Day of October AD 1839 personally appeared, before me Jesse Charlton Notary Public of and for the State of Connecticut Widow Jemima Steele, a resident of Ellington aforesaid a credible & respectible woman, & a pensioner for the services of her husband in the Revolutionary War, who then & there made Solemn Oath to the truth of the foregoing deposision by her subscribed before me, In testimony whereof I do hereunto subscribe my name & affix my Seal of Office the day above named.
Attest Jesse Charlton [signature] Notary Public
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East Windsor Hill, Hartford County Conn
Oct 10th 1839
Sir. 
I herewith transmit the certificate of Mrs Jemima Stelle to the Identity of Simon Crosby the Dragoon in Col'o Sheldons Reg't in 1779 & "80, with the Husband of Mrs Hepzibah Crosby, formerly Hepzibah Gaylord before marriage: as she well knew them both before & after their Marriage, I thought best to send it, though I supposed the letter of yesterday, could not fail of satisfying your mind on that point.
Most Respectfully, your Obed't Serv't
Jesse Charlton [signature]
Hon J L Edwards [signature]
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington
[Bower]
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Sally O Kellogg
in
Simon Crosby
{illegible]
1839
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Southwick. Feb 16th 1839
Sir - Agreeable to the request of my Mother (Mrs Hepzibah Crosby of Russell) I write a few lines to inform you that she wishes for [her- crossed out] your assistance, enabling her to draw a pension if possible, I suppose it will be needly to mention particulars reflecting the thing, as you are better acquainted with the [bussings -crossed out] business than any other person of our knowledge, and likewise being an old acquaintance, she thought that she should prefer your assistance to any other person; she wishes you to come and see her as soon as possible, and she will be willing to reward you for your services to your satisfaction
Sarah O Kellogg [signature]
P. S. The reason of my Mothers requesting me to write is because that my sisters, Betsey and Hepsibah, are both married and left home, and she is very infirm and almost without help of any kind. ---S. O. K.
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Crosby
Col
8
[Four]
Hon J. L. Edwards
Comm'r of Pensions
Washington City 
[written sideways - On ab Oct 11
Mass]
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[Westfield] Oct 5th 1838.
Hampden. Co. Mass.
To Sir.
Hepsibah Crosby has sent to me to assist her in procuring a pension as the widow of Simon Crosby deas'd of Russell, who enlisted in Boston, during the revolution. An application was made & the papers, to wit her declaration & diverse depositions, & to enable her to obtain a pension under the act of '32. But as i am inform'd the decision of the department was that as the marriage took place as only these days before the discharge, the departmen't was not satisfied that the marriage took place at the time alleged. If the question is still open, I am opened by several very respectable witnesses of their belief of the facts as stated in the papers & evidence of the reputation of the declaimant can be had from the best part of the community, as also of their belief of the fact as so stated. The explanation given to me is, that his wife was uneasy at having a new husband liable to be called to the army - & as he had stated that he could his discharge & would do so, he started immediately on his marriage for it. His children say that they have often heard him say that he saw Genl Washington walking in the {illegible] as he rode up & that
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being well acquainted with Gen'l W.. as having made [express] frequently for him, both before & after his wound, as papers now in possession of the family will show, he walked up to him & said " has your Excellency given orders for the discharge of Simon Crosby" Washington replied "I have" He answered " I have not rec'd it" Washington then went into the house & brought out the paper & gave it into his own hand. 
As I have not seen the papers & can only judge if the case from the representations of persons who are not fully acquainted with it, I should like to know what facts are to be supplied either to enable her to obtain her pension under the act of 1832 in the late act.
With much respect
[illegible word] obt
Wm G Bates
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East Windsor Hill Hartford County Connt.
June 12 1840.

Hond Sir.

I received yours in regard to Mrs Hepzibah Crosby's Pension certificate   And with much surprize.

Mrs Crosby has three daughters and the youngest one her favorite Daughter Sarah O Kellogg of Southwick was the person who wrote to me at her mothers request to undertake for her I have a letter also signed by Mrs Crosby's own hand in which she states her case.

As the money could not be drawn up to March until after the 4 of that month I notified them of the facts and I sent the Certificate [crossed out named"] in March to Mrs Sarah O Kellogg of Southwick Mass. the daughter through whom the correspondence had been carried on,  And I have never heard a word from her or Mrs Crosby since. As the old Lady was quite inferm and needed the assistance of one of her children and chose her youngest daughter the said Mrs Sarah O Kellogg as the chanel of her communication with me I consider it proper to send the certificate to her knowing that the money could not be drawn without her Oath of Identity & powr of attorney I think that there is no doubt that the money has been drawn by Mrs Crosbys powr of Attorney
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and that the fact is not known to her other daughters Betsey & Hepzibah, there seemed to be quite a spirit of Jealousy among the daughters & I presume it was one of them who informed Mr Sage that it was not received.

I send the first letter I received from her youngest daughter.

That the said Mrs Sarah O Kellogg received the certificate in March about the 12th there cannot be a doubt, I should have been notified by her if it had miscarried.

The Pension agent at Boston you know Sir can tell whether it is paid

I remain Sir very respectfully yours

[signed "Jesse Charlton"]

Hon J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.
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J. L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Westfield July 5 1837

J L Edwards Esq

Sir I herewith send you the papers and vouchers in a case of Hepzibah Crosby of our County. Who feels herself entitled to the benefit of the Case giving pensions to widows surviving their husbands who were soldiers of the Revolution. I hope they are sufficient to establish her claim. If so will you send me as soon as convenient her certificates

Respectfully Yours Honr Servt

[signed "Patrick Boise"]
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[written vertically "Hon Comal certificate 
Recd 22 Sept. 1823.

[something is scribbled out]

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J. L. Edwards Esquire,
Pension office
War Department
Washington D.C

[an oval stamp inside it "Sept 18"]
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Middletown Sept 17th 1823

Sir,

In pursuance of the recent regulations adopted by the War Department with regard to Invalid Pensioners, I have the honour of presenting the enclosed application in behalf of Simon Crosby, who has never read a formal certificate from the War Departments, having here to fore obtained by pension by means of a certificate or Memorandum from certain Commissioners appointd by the District Judge of Connecticut...

Allow me to request that the certificate be returned to me at the place

With the highest respect

I have the honour to be yr obt st

[signed "Sam H. Parsons"]

[signed "J. L. Edwards"]
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Hartford,

Ap. 20. 1840

Sir,

The widows pension paper related to a case, which has been before you we have desired to call your attention to them.

Respectfuly

Your Servnt

J. L. Edwards
W. W. Calhan
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[a giant splotch - as if someone crossed out things]

Simon Crosby [underlined "for Transfer"]

Recd March 6 1826

S. H. Parsons
Hartford
Cont

[written vertically "J. L. Edwards Esquire

[a very faint circular stamp - can't be read]

Pension Office
War Department
Washington.
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[a giant splotch - as if someone crossed out things]

Simon Crosby [underlined "for Transfer"]

Recd March 6 1826

S. H. Parsons
Hartford
Cont

[written vertically "J. L. Edwards Esquire 

[a very faint circular stamp - can't be read]

Pension Office 
War Department
Washington.
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Hartford March 1st 1826.

Sir,

I here with enclose Simon Crosby's application to be transfer'd from the Connecticut to the Massachusetts agency, and would request that the letter of Transfer, be directed to him at Russell, County of Hampden and State of [crossed out "New York"] Massachusetts-, His application is made in consequence of the instructions, requiring every pensioner to be transfer'd to the State in which he resides. Will Crosby be paid at the Massachusetts agency, the amount due him from Sept. 4 1825 to March 4. 1826? & can any pensioner on the roll of the Connecticut agency, but residing out of the State be paid at Hartford on the 4th March 1826, the amount due him from March 4 1825 to Sep. 4. 1825 or even to March 4. 1826? information on these points will -

oblige your obed Servt

[signed "Samuel H Parsons"]
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[written vertically "June 6"][crossed out "1820"] June 3

[written vertically "Hep. Crosby
Mass Juli 1-38
4383."]

Free O Sage PM
Blandford, Ms

J. L. Edwards Esq
Comr. of Pensions
Washington
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Blandford Ms. June 2 1840

Sir

I have before me your letter to the Hond. Wm B. Calhoun M. C. dated the 27th April last in which you say, "that the claim of Mrs Hepzibah Crosby was assisted on the 17th Octor last and a Certificate of 100 dollars per annum issued to her under the Act of July 7 1838"-

I am requested to inform you that no such Certificate has ever been received by her, or the attorney, employed by her - Will you be good enough to inform me to whom the Certificate was sent, if indeed it has been sent to any one, or whether it is still in your office -

J. L. Edwards Esq-

I am respy Yr Obt Servt.
[signed, underlined "Orrin Sage"]
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East Windsor Hill Hartford County Connecticut
August 22
AD 1839.

Hond Sir.

I herewith transmit the application of Hepzibah Crosby; Widow of Simon Crosby, for a Pension, under the Act of July 7th, AD 1838.

And am with very great respect, 

Your Obdt Servant.

[signed "Jesse Charlton"]

Hon J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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[written vertically "In at Oct 22 CB"]

Crosby

J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Comr. of Pensions
Washington City 
D. C.
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East Windsor
Oct 19. 1838

Sir,

At your request I have carefully examd the records of marriages in the Clerks Office in this Town and have not found the names of Simon Crosby and Hepzibah Gaylord entered thereon under any date. But as there were but [underlined "Sixty one"] marriages recorded from 1767, to 1820, this fact seems to be sufficient evidence that the register was very irregularly kept during that period.

In regard to church records, I would refer you to the papers forwarded by Mr. Charlton in the case of Sarah Wells and also of Catherine Bowers - The Rev. Mr. Potwine and Rev. Mr. Perry were the only settled ministers of the gospel in this town in 1780, and if they made any record of marriages they are lost.

Respectfully Y. Obt. Sv.
[signed "James Moore, Town Clerk"]

J. L. Edw[underlined "ards"] Esq.
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I Eli Hall of Blandford in the County of Hampden & Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age testify & say that I was well acquainted with Simon Crosby the Husband of Hepzibah Crosby who now lives in Russell in said County & is the widow of said Simon. It has always been said, and I have no doubt of the fact that the said Simon & his wife came from East Windsor in Connecticut to Said Russell and my impression is that it was about 20 years ago. I have been their family Physician since they resided in said Russell. I attended the said Simon in his last sickness and was with him when he died. I was administrator in the Estate of the said Simon & know that he was a Pensioner, I have since been, and [a circle stamp is stamped here, too faint to read, only see the outline of a circle.] am now, the Physician of the said Widow & her family, and from the old Papers now in possession of said Widow I have no doubt of the truth of her declaration made and sworn to before Alanson Knox Es. on the 12th day of Dec- late, which statement is now before me; and I further testify that the said Hepzibah is a woman of good Character & Reputation and is now a Widow.

[signed, underlined "Eli Hall"]

Hampden Ss Feby 24. 1837 Personally appeared Eli Hall, Signor of the foregoing Deposition, to me well known as a gentleman of high respectability in his profession, and of [word crossed out] great purity of character and made solemn oath that said Deposition was true before me Alanson Knox - Just Pae.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampden Ss:

I Justin Willard Clerk of the Probate Court within & for said County do hereby certify that Patrick Doies Esq. before whom the annexed Deposition of Hepzibah G. Crosby was executed, is a Justice of the Peace within & for said County and that Alanson Knox before whom the preceding deposition of Eli Hall was executed is also a Justice of the Peace within & for said County, both duly qualified to act as such.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Probate Court at [unreadable] twenty third day of June AD. 1837

[signed "Justin Willard Clerk"]
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SOME EXTRACTS
FROM THE
RECORDS OF THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST
IN 
EAST WINDSOR, CONN.
TAKEN IN JUNE, 1833.
WITH OCCASIONAL REMARKS; A LIST OF MEMBERS; CONFESSION OF FAITH AND COVENANT.

[short decorative double line]

HARTFORD
PRINTED BY [underlined "P.B. GL"]EASON & CO.
1833.
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EXTRACTS, &c.

The first settlers of East Windsor came from Windsor, on the opposite side of the river, sometimes called West Windsor. Ancient Windsor contained within its bounds East Windsor and Ellington, on the East side of the river. Old Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield were settled about the same time by sundry families who came from the Massachusetts, (about Watertown and Cambridge,) in quest of new settlements, in the year 1635 and 6.

The meadow lands being better on the East than the West side of the river, there were improvements made on the East side, by the first inhabitants of Old Windsor, some years before any number of families removed to the East side. Some of the first settlers of East Windsor, who commenced moving over about the year 1675, were [written in italics "Nathaniel"] and [written in italics "Thomas Bissell, Capt. Thomas Stoughton, Israel Stoughton, John Porter, James Porter, Samuel Grant"] and [written in italics "Capt. Joseph Fitch."]

The first inhabitants for many years attended public worship on the West side of the river, and belonged to the church and congregation there. But finding it inconvenient to cross the river, and being grown sufficiently numerous and able to support public worship among themselves, they proceeded to build a meeting-house, which stood near the north burying yard, and invited Mr.
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Timothy Edwards son of ___ Edwards, Esq., Hartford, to preach to them, who was ordained in March, 1659. He studied under the Rev. Mr. Glover, of Springfield; and received the degrees of Bachelor and Master of Arts in one day at the College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which was an uncommon mark of respect paid to his extraordinary proficiency in learning. He married the daughter of the Rev. Solomon Stoddard, of Northampton, Mass., who was a divine of eminence in his day. By her he had ten daughters and one son - the Rev. Johnathan Edwards, President of New Jersey College, whose writings rank him high among the first geniuses and divines of that or any other age.

The second meeting-house was built in 1709, near the north burying yard. The new meeting-house was built in 1761; and in 1804, ground was purchased near it for a burying place.

This church early adopted the Cambridge Platform of church government and worship, and the Westminster Confession of faith; as the church in West Windsor, from which they originated, had also done; but has ever united in associations and ecclesiastical councils, with the neighboring churches, who are generally settled on what is called the Saybrook Platform.

East Windsor partook with the neighboring towns and churches in the great and general revival of religion through New England and America, in the years 1741 and 2. Some of the aged still among us (1791) date their conversion from that memorable period, and have maintained a Christian life to their old age. It began at Northampton under the ministry of the Rev. Jonathan Edwards.

[paragraph is circled in black ink "5
Mr. Joseph Perry was settled at the age of 23, as colleague of the aged and venerable Edwards, who lived about three years afterwards. Mr. Perry was a native of Sherburne, Mass.-- educated at Cambridge, and died at about the age of 50 years, distinguished for talents, learning and piety. The records of the church during the ministry of Messrs. Edwards and Perry are Lost, as also, in great part during that of Mr. Whelpley."] Watts' Psalms and Hymns are still in use in this church, and our seasons of communion are quarterly.

The practice of admitting persons into the church on what was called the half-way-covenant plan, continued here until March 27, 1808, when it was quietly abolished. Notwithstanding, a relation of Christian experience was required of all candidates for full communion from an early period. Members of other churches coming to reside among us are allowed occasional communion at four successive sacramental seasons, after which they are required, in order to continue communing at our table, to bring a letter and unite with us in form.  This church have repeatedly and solemnly adopted the Cambridge Platform and Westminster Confession, as the foundation of their union in discipline and doctrine, because, in their view, most agreeable to the word of God.

From the year 1786 to 1827, a period of 41 years, (during the ministry of Dr. McClure and Mr. Robbins,) a record has been kept by them, in the church book, of all the deaths that have occurred within the bounds of this society, with the ages and diseases of the deceased, which gives decisive proof of the remarkable solubrity of the place. 

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MINISTERS.

REV. TIMOTHY EDWARDS, settled March, 1695, died Jan. 27, 1758.
[underlined "JOSEPH PERRY, " April, 1755, " April 21, 1783."]

DAVID McCLURE, D. D. " June, 1786, " June 25, 1820.

THOMAS ROBBINS, " May 3, 1809, Dis'd Sept. 27, 1827.

SAMUEL W. WHELPLEY, " April 17, 1828, " Dec. 6, 1830.

CHAUNCEY G. LEE, " Aug. 8, 1832.

The following persons are all that our records name as having filled the office of Deacon in this church, but the time in which they were appointed is specified in only two cases.

JOSEPH SKINNER.
MATHEW ROCKWELL.
DANIEL ROCKWELL.
BENONI OLCOTT.
AMASA LOOMIS.
THOMAS SADD.
AMASA LOOMIS, Jr. appointed Sept. 27, 1793.
ABNER REED,}
DANIEL ROCKWELL,} appointed May 22, 1799.

Of these, Amasa Loomis, Jr. and Abner Reed are all that survive and remain among us. They still continue to serve the church in the Deacon's office.

The following is a list of all the members of this church at the time of the Installation of Rev. Chauncey G. Lee, Aug. 8, 1832, together with those since added, set down in the order of time those since added, set down in the order of time as they were received into the church.

LEMUEL BISSELL
AMASA LOOMIS
ROSWELL ELMER
CHARLES ROCKWELL
SARAH ROCKWELL
ABNER REED

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Elisabeth W. Reed
Sarah T. Skinner (Loomis)
Deborah Cook
Simeon Loomis
Elizabeth Hayden
Azel Bower
John Bissell
Clarissa Allen
Abigail Loomis
Joel King
Oliver Cook
Miriam Cook
Jerusha Wolcott
Nancy Crosby
Bishop Johnson
Jesse Charlton
Esther McKinny
Benjamin Cook
Allice Gillett
Huldah Elmer, (Birge)
Sarah Bancraft
Hannah Elmer
Lucy Gillett
John Holman
Almira Wolcott
Julius Birge
Edwin Birge
Mary Birge, (Stoughton)
Mary Marble
Sally Rockwell
Abigail Rockwell
Anna Hill
Harriet Jones, (Charlton)
Samuel Waterman
Eunice Waterman
Mary Allen, (deranged)
Lucy Terry, (Newberry)
Nancy Hawkins
Sarah Burnham
Harvey Elmer
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Epaphras Grant
Lydia Grant
Samuel Bancraft
Olive Rockwell
Sally Bancraft
Joseph Williams
Naomi Williams
Daniel Hayden
Sally Birge
Amelia Loomis
Oliver Tudor
Minerva Bancraft
Fanny Filley
Sophia Newberry
Clarinda Newberry, (Goodwin)
Harriet Cole
Chloe Terry
Mary Williams
Anna Cole
Naomi Johnson
Chloe Wolcott
Nancy Bliss
Horace Filley
Ralph R. Rollo
Sybil Rollo
Lucy Ann Rollo
Abigail Olcott
Tirzah Filley
Eveline Rollo, (Drake)
Juliett Loomis
Almena Grant
Caroline Parmelee
Hannah Reed
Mary Clapp
Eunice Pelton
Nancy Anderson
Emeline Morton
Abigail Cook
Mary Cook
Frances Cook

9

Ann O. Verstille
Ann Grant
Rosanna Reed
Mary Rockwell
Emeline Bowe
Laura Bowe
Elizabeth Charlton
Mary Ann Tudor (Whelpley)
Sarah Gillett
Eli B. Haskell
John Pelton
Horace Morton
Samuel Wolcott
Oliver M. Cook
Aaron Williams
Susan Haskell
Abigail Tudor
Jemima Rockwell
Dimmis Bissell
Dimmis Bissell, Jr. 
Almira Marble
Mary Cahoon
Clarissa Williams
Julia Loomis, (Rider)
Maria Bissell
Lucy Strong
Mary Filley
Mary Gillett
Lucinda Rollo
Increase Clapp
Zenas Rider
Edward Hayden
Ralph R. Rollo, Jr.
Eliza Goodyear
Polly Bower
Phila Bissell
Charlotte Pelton
Charles Willey
Anna Willey
Horace C. Gillett
Harriet Tucker Hill
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Tryphena Hayden
Fidelia Filley
Edward Haskell
John S. Clapp
Lucia Lee
Thankfull Rider
James Moore
Erastus Ellsworth
Elizabeth Ellsworth

Males -  -  -  -  41
Females -  -  -  -  [underlined "95"]
Total [double underlined "136"]

The church in Wapping, (as it is called,) an eastern section of this town, was colonized from this, at their own request, and set up a separate condition, Feb. 2d, 1830. - 27 members, not mentioned in the above list have been dismissed from this church and united to that.

11

CONFESSION OF FAITH.

You believe in one only living and true God: subsisting in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

You believe your entire dependence on God, and his moral government of the world, over all his rational creatures.

You believe a future state beyond the grave, in immortality of the soul, the resurrection of the body, and a general judgement at the last day by Christ Jesus; which will assign you and all mankind to an endless state of happiness or misery according to your works.

You believe that by nature you are an heir of wrath, and justly condemned by God's holy law.

You believe the necessity of being born again to a holy and divine life, through faith in the blood of Christ; and that this is the gift of God and the work of the Holy Spirit.

You believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, who died for our offences, and rose for our justification, is the only Mediator between God and man; and hope for salvation through his merits and mediation alone.

You believe it to be your duty to give up yourself to God in an everlasting covenant; and to wait on him, in all the ways of his appointment, to obtain the saving benefits of his grace.

These you believe.
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A COVENANT.

You do now, in the presence of God and this assembly, solemnly avouch the eternal Jehovah- Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, to be your God, Redeemer, and Sanctifier; and give up yourself to him, in our Lord Jesus Christ, resolving and promising, by the assistance of the Holy Spirit, that you will conform yourself to all the rules and precepts of his holy word.

You also submit yourself to the discipline and laws of Christ's kingdom, as they are administered in this church; and will diligently study God's word to know your duty in all things, and faithfully seek all those qualifications which are required to the enjoyment of God in all his ordinances.

Thus you promise,

The minister then proceeds to declare them members of the church of Christ, - entitled to all its privileges - and to give them such counsel as inclination may dictate or circumstances allow.
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County of Middlesex Ss: Middletown

On this 17th day of September 1823 before me the Subscribed & Notary Public duly appointed and sworn residing in said Middletown personally appeared Simon Crosby of Russell, in the County of Hampden and State of Massachusa who as his oath declares that he is the same person who formally belonged to the company commanded by Captain John Webb, in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Elisha Sheldon, in the service of the United States that his name was placed with pension Roll of the State of Connecticut, but has never received a formal certificate, and now wishes to obtain one.

Sworn and Subscribed to, before me the [double underlined "day"] and year aforesaid.} [signed "Simon Crosby"]

Witness my signature and seal of office.

Matthew T. Russell
Notary Public
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Copy of Simon Crosbys certificate recd from
 [name is illegible] 
and Jon Ball Commissioner, appointed by the District of [not named]
Judge of Connecticut to receive application from
Pensioner
These certify that the subscriber being specially
authorized by Commissioner from Richard Law Esquire 
Judge of the County of Connecticut in pursuance of
an act of the said Congress of the United States passed at the
second session of the said Congress entitled the act
to regulate the Claims to Invalid Sessions did
within the time limited by said act examine the Claims
of Simon Crosby the resident in East Windsor in
the County of Hartford, to a Pensioner as an Invalid
Pensioner of the United States and that we transmitted 
the Evidence taken by us, [illegible] [illegible] of his
claim to the Judge of said District [?] Hartford
 4 March 1777
Certified by 
T Seymour [signature] Commissioner
John Ball [signature] Commissioner
Examined approved
[signature]
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V2240
Hepsibah Crosby
Widow of
Simon Crosby d
V. Mass
Re[p]eded. [underline] see let
Patrick Boise
July 28 1837
olo. Wm G. Bates, [County]
12'38
do to Town Clerk Oct 12
1838.
Act 4 July 1836
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AOT 3-871
RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Briefed by W.T. Conboye
Claim No. March, 5, 1910
Certificate No.
Claimant
Soldier Simon Crosby
Service Rev. War. Mass
Additional Service
No. claim, State records, 190
No claim, combination records, 190
REMARKS:
No claim as above
Try DWWidFile 14542
(Mass residence)
0-8 Chief Division
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Silver Creek N.Y.
Feby 20 - 1910
[image stamp] https://catalog.archives.gov/images/misc/drag.png U.S. Pension Office Feb 24 1910
Bureau Pensions
Washington D.C.
Gentlemen:
Have you any Record
of service in War of
Revolution of Simon
Crosby, State of Massachusetts
who is supposed
to have joined army 
from Brewster Mass
in 1775 and served
through war.  A copy of his
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Complete Military record
if your office
has it
would Greatly oblige
Geo. R. Smith
Silver Creek
Chautauqua, Co
N.Y.
Simon Crosby was native
of Brewster Mass; but his
place of Enlistment may
been have been Cambridge
Heights.