Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2465, Isaac Crawford, Mass.
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(3 - 1776)

SERVICE
Massachusetts

Crawford, Isaac
Katharine

NUMBER
R. 2465

CONTENTS
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New York 32,369
Isaac Crawford, deceased
of Cattaraugus County. in the State of New York
who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Smith of the regiment commanded by Colonel Woodbridge in the Massachusetts line for 6 months and 9 days.

Inscribed on the roll of Albany at the rate of 21 dollars and [blank] cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831 and end 4th June 1833 when died.

Certificate of Pension issued the 25th day of August 1845 and sent to Arad Joy, Ovid, New York.

Arrears to the 4th of 
Semi-annual allowance ending 
Payable to William S. Crawford, Isaac Crawford, Katherine Beard, Sarah C. Gillett and Betsy M. Jackson, only children.

{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }

Recorded by  Clerk, 
Book E2, Volume 4, Page 13

Reported secretary letter
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Vide 
letter To Shepard and Lyman
China
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary. Claim.
I CERTIFY, that in conformity with the Law of the United States of the 18th of March 1818
Isaac Crawford, late a private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New York Agency, at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this twenty third day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
J C Calhoun 
Secretary of War
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State of New York County of Cattaraugus } ss.
On this 3rd day of October, 1832 personally appeared in open court before the judges of the court of Common pleas in afor sd County now sitting Isaac Crawford, a resident of Freedom, in said County and State, aged 74 years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit  act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. viz: He volunteered in April or May of 1775 (cannot recollect which month) at Pelham, Hampshire County, Massachusetts for nine months under Colonel Woodbridge, Captain Smith, marched from Pelham through Worcester to Cambridge Massachusetts and here joined the Army with General Putnam.  He was in Bunker Hill battle June 17, 1775.  Was discharged in January or February 1776 at Cambridge fort Number 2 by Colonel Woodbridge.  
For the above term of service, he has had a certificate and drew a pension for almost 11 months thereon, but  was then struck off the pension roll on account of the service being performed prior to the Continental establishment.
Again , he volunteered at Pelham, Massachusetts. for 6 months, in February 1776, under Colonel Woodbridge, Captain Dwight, Lieutenant Thompson. marched through Worcester to Cambridge Massachusetts was stationed at Cambridge till September 1776 and then discharged at Cambridge by Coonel Woodbridge, having served 6 months.

Again, he volunteered at Pelham Massachusetts in February 1777 for 9 months under Captain Thompson, marched through Northampton and Williamstown and Bennington Vermont. to Tyconderoga after arriving there served under different officers, (names not recollected). After remaining at Tyconderoga about 4 months went to Mt. Independence thence to McNeills Ferry, thence to Stillwater New York. Continued at Stillwater till November 1777, was then discharged by Generall Gates - having served 9 months.  
He was a private, never received a written discharge, he knows of no person living who can testify to his services.  General St. Clair was his General at Tyconderoga.  He was born at Pelham, Hampshire County. Massachusetts on March 9th 1758.  Has record of his age in his Bible at home taken from the town record of Pelham, Massachusetts Has lived in Washington County New York most of the time since the revolutionary war - now lives in Freedom in Cattaraugus County State of New York
[signed] Isaac Crawford
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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever, to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state, except as set forth in his pension Certificate hereto annexed.-
[signed] Isaac Crawford 
Sworn and Subscribed to, the day and year aforesaid.
[signed] Israel Day a Judge 

We David Wild and William Price of the Town of Freedom hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Isaac Crawford, who has Subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration, that we believe him to be 74 years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion.
[signed] D Wild 
[signed] William Price 
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Before me Israel Day Judge in the aforesaid Court}

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states,
And the Court further certify that it appears to them that David Wild and William Price - who have signed the preceding Certificate, are residents of the Town of Freedom in said county and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
[signed Israel Day 
[signed] Don Allen  
[signed] Alson Leavenworth  
Judges of the Court of Common Pleas as aforesaid. 

State of New York
Cattaraugus County  ss.} 
I John W Staunton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Isaac Crawford for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 3rd day of October 1832
[signed] John W. Staunton Clerk
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Northern District of New York
County of Seneca ss: On this 4th day of February 1821 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of common pleas holden in and for the City of Seneca in the district aforesaid and a court of Record proceeding according to the course of common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount keeping a Record of its proceeding and having a common Seal, Isaac Crawford Resident in the Town of Galen in the County of Seneca aforesaid aged 62 years who being first duly sworn according the law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 and of the 1st of May 1820 that he the said Isaac Crawford Enlisted some time in the spring 1775 in the town of Pelham in the State of Massachusetts in the company commanded by Captain Gray in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Woodbridge in the Massachusetts line continental establishment that he enlisted for the term of Nine months and served in said Company Ten Months when he was discharged in Cambridge in the State of Massachusetts and that he has drawn a pension under the act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 and that the number of his certificates is (2895) and and that he is in Reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for Support and that his occupation is farming and that he is unable to labor a great part of the time and that his family consists of himself and wife and one daughter of 15 years of age. My wife is 59-years of age and a very infirm woman and unable to labor and in pursuance of the act of the 1st of May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the united States on this 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner whatsoever disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any other income than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
Real Estate I have a lease for one acre of land for four years with a small log house upon it which I have built and am to leave it at the Expiration of Four years in good Repair and well fenced
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Personal property 1 Cow - 12.00     Two Swine - 1.50
1 Loom & Harness  -   6.00     Two wheels - 3.
One foot wheel - 2.00    five old chairs - 1.25
1 Shovel & tongs - 1.00   1 hat - 1.00
1 Teakettle - .75    1 old Chest - 1.25
1 Axe [?] - 1 Set of harrow leather - $4.00  4.75   1 set of Plow Irons - .75
1 Broad Axe 4, Hoe 3/ - .87    1 piece of chain - .75
2 tubs 4/ 2  huils - 1.00    6 knives & forks - .75
15 Spoons of crockery 8 - 1.75    1 Churn  37 1/2
1 Trammel & some old irons 75
[first row total] 30.87 1/2                                                  
[2nd row] totals 10.02 1/2, 50-87 1/2
41.50

And the said Isaac Crawford further states that he is indebted to divers persons in the just and full sum of $142.57 - And that he has no debts due to him
[signed] Isaac Crawford 

Subscribed and sworn this 7th day of February 1821 in open Court
[signed] 
J H Halsey Clerk  

Amt of inventory 41.50
[signed] J H Halsey Clerk  

I Jehiel H. Halsey, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Seneca County do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of said Court. And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is forty one dollars fifty cents.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 7th day of February 1821 -
[signed] J H Halsey Clerk
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In the Matter of Isaac Crawford }
Con
J L E

Amount of inventory 41.50
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Isaac Crawford was born in Pelham Massachusetts on the 9th day of March 1758

Katharine Selfridge was born in Pelham on the 23rd day of January 1761

Isaac Crawford and Katharine Selfridge was married on the 27th day of December 1787

Nancy Crawford was born october the 1st 1790
died at 6 weeks 3 days old

Hannah Crawford was born Nov 20th 1791
died August 7th 1823

Susannah Crawford was born July 25th 1793
Dead

William S. Crawford was born October 25th 1794
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Katharine M Crawford was born May 11th 1796

Isaac Crawford Jr was born May 9th 1798

Sarah C. Crawford was born April 5th 1800

Betsey M. Crawford was born March 9th 1805

Isaac Crawford Died June 4th 1833  aged 75 years

Katherine Crawford Died May 13th 1841 aged 80 years
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress [illegible section] of May 15, 1828 [illegible] half pay and [illegible section] 
  
State of New York
County of Cattaraugus ss.    On this 29th day of January 1845 [illegible] in court holden in and for said County at Ellicottville in said county personally appeared before the court Isaac Crawford of Freedom in said County aged over forty five years and after being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision dictated by the act of congress passed July 7th 1832, entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain persons - 
That this deponent is a son of the late Isaac Crawford who was a soldier in the War of the Revolution and a pensioner of the United States under the law of 1818, and who died on the 4th day of June 1833, eighteen hundred and thirty three, in the County aforesaid, leaving at his death, to his widow Katharine Crawford, this deponents mother, who remained a widow till her death, and that this deponents mother, the aforesaid Katherine Crawford the said widow, died on the 11th day of May 1841, eighteen hundred and forty one in the aforesaid County, that she was married to the aforesaid Isaac Crawford on the 27th day of December in the year 1787 Seventeen hundred and and eighty seven, as per the attached family record, the record of the ages of this deponents aforesaid father and of their marriage, and the record of the ages of their children; that the said family record as the identical family record kept by this deponents aforesaid father and mother, that the aforesaid marriage took place after the last record of service of the aforesaid Isaac Crawford in the war of the Revolution    that the aforesaid marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four. Viz. [namely] at the time above stated; this deponent makes the aforesaid declaration and application for and in behalf of all the surviving children of the aforesaid Mother Katharine Crawford, for the [illegible]  of Pension and to the deponents aforesaid mother at the day of her death. as aforesaid the aforesaid widow  Katherine Crawford the deponents mother being the widow of the aforesaid Isaac Crawford at the time of her death who was as aforesaid; a pensioner of the United States. That the following named children are the only children of this deponents aforesaid mother, now surviving.  And that each of them is of the age of twenty one years and upwards, to wit,
William S. Crawford and Isaac Crawford residents of Freedom, Cattaraugus County, New York 
Katherine, who is the wife of John C. Beard, of Galen, Wayne County, New York,
Sarah C. who is the wife of Samuel Gillett of Truro Raynoldsburg in Franklin County Ohio, and 
Betsey M. who is the wife of Seth Jackson of China Wyoming County New York, -
Isaac Crawford (Signature)

Subscribed and sworn to before the Court in open Court at the day and date last above written }
B Chamberlain (Signature)
first Judge

The court hereby certifies that the above named Isaac Crawford is a respectable person, that he proved to the satisfaction of the Court that Isaac Crawford late a pensioner of the United States, died on the 4th day of June eighteen hundred and thirty then leaving as his widow Katharine Crawford who also died on the 13th day of May 1841 eighteen hundred and forty one; that they were the identical parties set forth in the above declaration and application for a pension, that is further offered
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to the satisfaction of the County from the annexed depositions of William Crawford, John Worthington, Israel Crawford and Iain Crawford, together with the deposition of Isaac Crawford in his declaration and application that the following named children are the only children of the foresaid with Katherine Crawford her surviving which that each of them of the age of twenty one years and upwards, namely, William S. Crawford and Isaac Crawford residents Freedom, Cattaraugus County, New York. Katharine who is the wife of John C. Beard, of Galen, Wayne County New York, Sarah who is the wife of Samuel Gillett of Truro Reynoldsburg Franklin County Ohio, and Betsey who is the wife of Seth Jackson of China Wyoming County New York 
B Chamberlain first Judge (signature)

State of New York
County of Cattaraugus } ss.    Personally appeared before the [illegible] a justice of the court in and for the said county. William S Crawford of Freedom in said county forty nine years in October last, after being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith that Isaac Crawford late a pensioner of the United States one of the first pension act and probably under the act of 1818, was this deponents father and died on the 4th day of June 1833 eighteen hundred and thirty then leaving as his widow Katherine Crawford who was this deponents mother and who died a widow, on the 13th day of May 1841 eighteen hundred and forty one, that this deponents said father and mother had three children older than this deponent, all own sister to this deponent, and all of the same father and mother;  that the attached family record is the same family record that was kept by this deponents [illegible] father and mother, in their life time, and for the last fifteen or twenty years; that the following named children in the only surviving children of this deponents said Mother and that each of them is of the age of twenty one years and upwards to wit; William S. Crawford, and Isaac Crawford residents of Freedom Cattaraugus County, New York,  Katharine, who is the wife of John C Beard of Galen, Wayne County, New York, Sarah, who is the wife of Samuel Gillett of Turo Reynoldsburg Franklin County Ohio, and Betsey M. who is the wife of Seth Jackson of China in Wyoming County New York - 
William S. Crawford (signature)

Subscribed and sworn before me this 21st day of December 1844}
Lyman Scott Justice of the Peace  (signature)

I certify that the above named William S. Crawford is a respectable person 
Lyman Scott Justice of the Peace (signature)

State of New York 
County of Cattaraugus ss. Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County, John Worthington of Freedom in said County aged seventy seven years, after being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith that he has for sixty years been personally acquainted with Isaac Crawford late a pensioner of the United States under one of the early act of Congress, probably under the act of 1818, and with his wife Katherine Crawford, and with their family -
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This deponent aforesaid [illegible] saith that from his first acquaintance with the said Isaac Crawford he had understood and believed that he had been a soldier in the war of the Revolution - the deponent deposeth and saith that he was acquainted with the said parties before their marriage and at the time of their marriage and from the long acquaintance with said parties and with their children he deposeth and saith that he has no doubt of the attached  family record, as  expecting the time of the said parties and the true date of their marriage and the true ages of their children   This deponent further deposeth and saith that the said Isaac Crawford late a pensioner as aforesaid died on the 4th day of June 1833 eighteen hundred and thirty three leaving a widow, to wit, Katherine Crawford, who remained his widow till her death, which took place on the 13th day of May 1841 eighteen hundred and forty one; that the following 
named children on the only surviving children of the said widow Katherine Crawford and that each of them is of the age of twenty one years and upwards, Viz, William Crawford and Isaac Crawford, residents of Freedom Cattaraugus County, New York, Katherine who is the wife of John C. Beard of Galen Wayne County New York, Sarah C. who is the wife of Samuel Gillett in Reynoldsburg Franklin County, Ohio, and Betsey who is the wife of the Seth Jackson of China, Wyoming County New York 
John Worthington (signature) 

Subscribed and sworn before me this 21st day of December 1844 }
Lyman Scott Justice of the Peace (signature) 

I certify that the above named John Worthington is a respectable person- 
Lyman Scott Justice of the Peace (signature) 

State of New York 
County of Cattaraugus ⎬ SS. 
Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County, Israel Crawford, of Freedom in said County aged sixty nine years, after being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith, that Isaac Crawford, late a pensioner of the United States, under an early act of Congress and probably under the act of Congress of 1818 was this deponents brother, and that this deponent has from a small child understood and believed that the said Isaac Crawford had been a soldier in the war of the Revolution, this deponent has some fair personal recollection of that fact; that the said Isaac Crawford died on the 4th day of June, 1833. eight hundred and thirty then leaving at his death as his wife Katharine Crawford, who remained his widow till her death, and that she died on the 13th day of May, 1841, eighteen hundred and forty one, this deponent was personally acquainted with the said parties before their marriage and well recollects that they were married four or five years after the close of the war of the Revolution; that this deponent is also personally and intimately acquainted with the family, the children of the said parties has been so acquainted with them from their birth, and from his knowledge of their ages, he testifies that he has no doubt of the truth of the aforesaid family record, as expressing the true ages of the said parties, the date of the marriage and the true date of the ages of their children; that the following named children are the only surviving children of the said Widow Katharine Crawford and that each of them of the age of twenty one years and upwards, Viz, William S. Crawford and Isaac Crawford residents of Freedom Cattaraugus
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County New York, Katharine, who is the wife of John C. Beard, of Galen, Wayne County New York, Sarah C. who is the wife of Samuel Gillett of Truro, Reynoldsburgh, Franklin County, Ohio, and Betsey W. who is the wife of Seth Jackson of China, Wyoming County, New York 
Israel Crawford (signature)

Subscribed and sworn before me this 24th day of December 1844 
Lyman Scott Justice of the Peace (signature)

I certify that the within and above named Israel Crawford is a respectable person- 
Lyman Scott to Justice of the Peace (signature) 

State of New York 
County of Cattaraugus } SS. 
Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County, Jane Crawford of Freedom in said County, aged forty years, after being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and Saith, that she has from a child or young woman been personally acquainted with Isaac Crawford but a pensioner of the United States, and who died on the 4th day of June, 1833, eighteen hundred and thirty three, leaving at his death as his widow Katherine Crawford who remained his widow till her death and that she died on the 13th day of May, 1841, eighteen hundred and forty one; this deponent deposeth and Saith that she has been for fifteen or twenty years well acquainted with the attached family record, and that it is the identical record that was left by the aforesaid parties during their life time, as the true record of their ages, and as the true date of their marriage and of containing the true date of the ages of their children, that the named children are the only children of the said widow Katherine Crawford, her surviving, and that each of them is of the age of twenty one years and upwards, Viz; William S. Crawford and Isaac Crawford of Freedom, Cattaraugus, County New York, Katherine who the wife of John C. Beard of Galen, Wayne County New York, Sarah C, who is the wife of Samuel Gillett of Truro Reynoldsburg, Franklin County Ohio, and Betsy M. who is the wife of Seth Jackson, of China Wyoming County New York-
Jane Crawford (signature)

Subscribed and sworn before me this 21st day of December 1844 
Lyman Scott Justice of the Peace (signature) 

I certify that the above named Jane Crawford is a respectable person-
Lyman Scott Justice of the Peace  (signature)
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Rev. &1812 Wars Section  [written]: MMHF our
April 20, 1926

Mrs. Fred Noble 
Pipestone, R. R. No. 3 
MINN.

Madam; to  I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim R. 2485 it appears that Isaac Crawford was born March 9, 1758 in Pelham, Hamp shire County, Massachusetts. 
While a resident of Pelham, Massachusetts he enlisted in the spring of 1775, served nine or ten months as private in Captain Isaac Gray's of Captain Smith's Company, Colonel Woodbridge's Massachusetts Regiment and was in the battle of Bunker Hill. 
He enlisted in February 1776 and served six months as private in Captain Elijah Dwight's Company, Colonel Wood bridge's Massachusetts Regiment.
 He enlisted in February 1777 and served nine months as private in Captain Thompson's Massachusetts Company. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 15, 1818 while a resident of Argyle, Washington County, New York. He died June 4, 1833 in Cattaraugus County, New
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York. 
Soldier married December 27, 1787, Katharine Selfridge born January 23, 1761. She died May 12, 1841 in Cattaraugus County, New York. Their children were :
Nancy born October 1,, 1790, died aged six weeks, three days
Hannah born November 20, 1791, died August 7, 1823.
Susannah born July  25, 1793.
William S. born October 25,1794.
Katharine born May 11, 1796, married John C. Beard.
Isaac, Jr. born  May 9, 1798
Sarah C. born April 5, 1800, married Samuel Gillett. Betsey M. born March 9, 1805, married Seth Jackson. 
Respectfully, 
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner

[written] Sec. Bro Israel
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[Left Side]

thicken off August
See let. to Shepard & Lyman May 26. 1833 

[right side]
written above: 9 months in 1775 }

2895.
New York.

Isaac Crawford, private Massachusetts line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War 

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 15th of April, 1818.- 

Certificate of Pension issued the 23 of Sept. 1818 and sent to D. Shepherd Angel New York 

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 $ 20/30. 37. 33 
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4th Mar. 1819. 48. 00 
= $85.33 

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.} 

(written:) 
graciously
not Continental
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State of New York 
Washington County ss.} 
I Isaac Crawford of the town of Argyle in the County of Washington and State of New York being duly sworn upon oath saith that in or about the last of March one thousand seven hundred and Seventy five he enlisted in a company commanded by Capt Isaac Gray for Nine months and was discharged the first day of January One thousand seven hundred and seventy six that immediately he was marched to Cambridge and here served on the Continental establishment in the service of the United States and was commanded by Col. Woodbridge and that he received no written discharge in consequence of the whole company being discharged at one time and also that he is in reduced circumstances and lands in need of the aid of his country for support and now resides in the town of Argyle in the County of Washington and State aforesaid and is a citizen of one of the United States and is Rising Sixty Years of Ages 
Isaac Crawford  (signature)

Sworn & Subscribed before me this 18th April 1818, before me
J McNaughton (signature)
one of the judges of the court of common pleas or Washington County 

State of New York 
Washington County } ss

Robert Selfridge being duly sworn upon oath saith that he has perused the above affidavit and believes the facts there contained to be true and that full credit is to be given to the above named Isaac Crawford 
Robert Selfridge (signature)

Sworn & Subscribed this 15th April 1818 before me  
J. McNaughton (signature) 
one of the Judges of the court of Common pleas for Washington County
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State of New York 
Washington County ss.}

Be it remembered that on the 15th April 1818 before me James McNaughton one of the Judges of the court of common pleas for the County of Washington 
personally came Isaac Crawford in the first affidavit named and subscribed the same and being by me duly sworn on his oath declared that the facts therein stated were true also at the same time personally came before me Robert Selfridge in the second affidavit named, and being by me duly sworn on his oath declared that the first them set forth are true And I further certify that I have for about two years been personally acquainted with both the above named and have never heard their reputation for truth and Veracity impeached and from the within affidavits and their manner testifying am fully satisfied that the said Robert served in the Revolutionary war against the common enemy and that the facts therein set forth are true 
J. McNaughton (Signature)

State of New York 
Washington County } ss


I Daniel Shepherd Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the the County of Washington do certify that James McNaughton Esq by whom the above affidavit aforesaid was made is one of the  Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County acting under the authority of said State that the above [is] his signature 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this 14th day of April 1818 
D. Shepherd Clk (signature)
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Feb 14, 1845
Isaac Crawford
June 1, 1832


Hon J. L. Edwards
Com of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Ovid Feb 10th 1845
Dear Sir
I beg leave respectfully to enclose application for a pension Isaac Crawford - I have great confidence in the merits of the case; I ask no
more than justice - 
I am Respectfully Your
Most Obt. Sert.
Arad Joy

Hon J L Edwards
Court of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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No
Katharine Crawford dc
mow(?)  of Isaac
NY

Act 7 July 1838

Rejected husband died
1833. Widow in 1841
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832 

State of New York
County of Cattaraugus} ss

On this 29th day of January 1845 in open court holden in and for said County at  Ellicottville in said County appeared before the Court Isaac Crawford a resident of Freedom in Said county and State aged forty five years and upwards who being first duly sorn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.   
That this deponent is a son of the late Isaac Crawford who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution and a pensioner of the United States [illegible phrase] of 1818, and who made a declaration and application for a pension under the law of the 7th June 1832 of which the following is a true copy- 

State of New Your
County of Cattaraugus} ss
On this 3rd day of October 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Judge of the Court of Common pleas in and and for the County now sitting, Isaac Crawford a resident of Freedom in County and State and years who been first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated, viz. He volunteered in April or May 1775 cannot recollect which month, at Pelham Hampshire County Mass for nine months under Col Woodbridge, Capt Smith marched from Pelham through Worcester to Cambridge Mass. and then joined the army under General Putnam, he was in Bunker hill battle June  17th 1775, was discharged in Jan or Feb. 1776 at Cambridge fort no 2 by Col Woodbridge-- For the above term of service he has had a certificate and drew a pension for 11 months thereon but was then Struck off the pension Roll, on account of the service being performed prior to the continental establishment. Again he volunteered at Pelham Mass for 6 months in February 1776 under Col Woodbridge, Capt Durant, Leut Thompson, marched through Worcester to Cambridge Mass was stationed at Cambridge till September 1776, and was discharged at Cambridge by Col Woodbridge having served 6 months. Again he volunteered Pelham Mass in February 1777 for nine months under Capt Thompson, marched through North Hampton and Williamstown and Bennington Vt to Tyconderoga. After arriving then served under different officers (names not recollected), after remaining at Tyconderoga 4 months went to Independence thence to McNeils Ferry, thence to Stillwater N.Y. Continued at Stillwater till November 1777, was then discharged by Genl Gates having served nine months. He was a private, never received written discharge. He knows of no person living who can testify to his service. Gen. Gates was his Gen. at Ticonderoga, he was born at Pelham Hampshire County Mass. March 9th 1758. has a record of his age in his Bible at home taken from the town record of Pelham Mass. Has lived in Washington County N. Y. Most of the time since the Revolutionary war. Now lives in Freedom, Cattaraugus County New York 
Isaac Crawford  - (signature) 

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State except as set forth his pension certificate hereto annexed. Sworn and subscribed to the day and year aforesaid - 
Isaac Crawford (signature)

Israel Day a Judge
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that this deponents father, the aforesaid Isaac Crawford died in the County aforesaid on the 4th day of June 1833 eighteen hundred and thirty three leaving at his death as his widow Katherine Crawford this deponents mother, who died his widow on the 13th day of May 1841 Eighteen hundred and forty one, and that this deponent makes the aforesaid application and declaration for and in behalf of all of the surviving children of his aforesaid mother Katharine Crawford for the pension due to this deponents mother on account of the Revolutionary services of her said husband Isaac Crawford, and being the pension due to this deponents father the said Isaac Crawford, at the day of his death, as aforesaid under the law of the 7th June 1832 aforesaid - that the following named children are the only children of this deponents aforesaid Father and Mother  then surviving, being the only children then surviving, 
 and that each of them is of the age of twenty one years and upwards, Viz. William S. Crawford and Isaac Crawford, residents of Freedom at Cattaraugus County New York, Katherine who is the wife of John C. Beard of Galen, Wayne County New York, Sarah C. who is the wife of Samuel Gillett of Truro, Reynoldsburgh Franklin County Ohio and Betsey M M. is the wife of Seth Jackson of China, Wyoming County New York 
Isaac Crawford (signature)

Subscribed and sworn before the Court in open court at the day and date last above written }
B Chamberlin (signature)
first Judge

The court hereby certify that the within and above named Isaac Crawford is a respectable person, that it appeared to the satisfaction of the court that Isaac Crawford, late a pensioner of the United States, died on the 4th day of June 1833, eighteen hundred and thirty three leaving as his widow Katharine Crawford, who died his widow on the 13th day of Mary 1841 eighteen hundred and and forty one, that they were the identical parties set forth in the foregoing declaration and application for a pension; that if further appeared to the satisfaction of the Court, from the [illegible] depositions of William S. Crawford, John Worthington, Israel Crawford and Jane Crawford, together with the deposition of Isaac Crawford in his declaration and application, that the following named children on the only surviving children of the aforesaid parties Isaac Crawford and Katharine Crawford their surviving and that each of them is of the age of twenty one years and upwards - William S. Crawford and Isaac Crawford, residents of Freedom Cattaraugus County New York, Katharine who is the wife of John Beard of Galen Wayne County New York, Sarah who is the wife of Samuel Gillett of Truro, Reynoldsburgh Franklin County Ohio  and Betsey, who is the wife of Seth Jackson of China Wyoming County New York- 
B Chamberlin (signature) 
first Judge
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that this deponents father appeared Isaac Crawford died in the county aforesaid on the 4th day of June 1833, eighteen hundred and thirty three, leaving at his death, as his widow, Katharine Crawford, this deponents mother, who died his widow on the 13th day of May 1841, eighteen hundred and forty one, in the aforesaid county, that his deponent of all of the surviving children of his aforesaid mother, Katharine Crawford, for the pension due to this deponents mother on account of the Revolutionary services of her said husband, Isaac Crawford, and being the pension due to this deponents father the said Isaac Crawford, at the day of his death, as aforesaid under the laws of the 7th June 1832, aforesaid, that the following named children, are the only children of this deponents aforesaid father and mother, them surviving, being the only children then surviving, and that each of them is of the age of twenty one year and upwards, Viz.
William S. Crawford and Isaac Crawford, residents of Freedom, Cattaraugus County, New York. Katharine, who is the wife of John C. Beard of Galen, Wayne County, New York, Sarah C. who is the wife of Samuel Gillett of Truro, Reynoldsburgh, Franklin County, Ohio, and Betsy M, wife of Seth Jackson of China, Wyoming County New York.
Isaac Crawford (signature)

Subscribed and sworn before the court in open
Court at the day and date last above written}
B. Chamberlain (signature)
First Judge

The court hereby certify that the within and above named Isaac Crawford is a respectable person, that it appeared to the satisfaction of the court that Isaac Crawford, late a pensioner of the United States, died on the 4th day of June 1833, eighteen hundred and thirty three leaving as his widow Katharine Crawford, who died his widow on the 13th day of Mary 1841 eighteen hundred and and forty one, that they were the identical parties set forth in the foregoing declaration and application for a pension; that if further appeared to the satisfaction of the Court, from the [illegible] depositions of William S. Crawford, John Worthington, Israel Crawford and Jane Crawford, together with the deposition of Isaac 
[overlayed across this letter (see previous page) is the following note:}

State of New York 
County of Cattaraugus . ss}
I, Francis E. Baillett Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Cattaraugus County, certify that Benjamin Chamberlain Esq. is First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, and that Lyman Scott is a Magistrate as above, and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be theirs are genuine. 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my seal of office, and subscribed my name this 29th day of January in the year 1845. 
F. E. Ballet Clk (signature)
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State of New York}
County of Cattaraugus Ss.} 
Personally appeared before this subscriber a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, William L. Crawford of Freedom in said County aged forty nine years in October last after being duly sworn
according to the law, deposeth and saith that Isaac Crawford late a pensioner of the United States under one of the first pension acts and probably under the act of 1818, was this deponents father and that he died on the 4th day of Jan 1833 eighteen hundred and thirty three. According to his widow, Katharine
Crawford, who was this deponents mother and who died his widow the 13th day of May 1841 eighteen hundred and forty one, that the following named children are the only surviving children of this deponents said father and mother, the said Isaac Crawford and Katharine Crawford, and that each of them is of the age of twenty one years and upwards, viz, William S. 
Crawford and Isaac Crawford residents of Freedom, Cattaraugus county New York, Katharine who is the wife of John C. Beard of Wayne County New York, Sarah C. who is the wife of Samuel Gillett of Truro Reynoldsburgh Franklin County Ohio, and Betsy M, who is the wife of Seth Jackson of China Wyoming County, New York.
  William S Crawford (signature)
Subscribed and Sworn before me}
this 21st day of December 1844}  
Lyman Scott Justice of the Peace  (signature)

I certify that the above named William S. Crawford is a respectable person. 
Lyman Scott Justice of the Peace  (signature)


State of New York}
County of Cattaraugus} Ss. Personally appeared
before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County John Worthington [illegible] of said county aged seventy seven years, after being duly sworn according to .law, deposeth and saith that he has for sixty years been personally acquainted with Isaac Crawford late a pensioner of the United States,  [illegible?] even of the early acts of Congress, probably further the Act of 1818 and with his wife. Hath herein Crawford, and with the family, this deponent deposeth and saith that from his first acquaintance with the said Isaac Crawford, he had understood and believed that as had been a Soldier in the War of the Revolution, this deponent deposeth and saith that the said Isaac Crawford died on the 4th day of June 1833 eighteen hundred and thirty three leaving a widow to wit, Katherine Crawford who remained his widow til her death, which took place on the 13th day of May 1941 eighteen hundred and forty one; that the following named children are the only surviving children of them Isaac Crawford and Katherine Crawford and that each of the is of the age of twenty one years and is primarily  Viz, William S. Crawford and Isaac Crawford, residents of Freedom, Cattaraugus  County, New York. Katherine who is the wife of John C. Beard of Galen Wayne County New York, Sarah C. who is the wife of Samuel Gillett of Trains Reynoldsbrush. Fran Rein County, Ohio and Betsey Ms who is the wife of Seth Stoakson of Shriner Wyoming County New York, Subscribed and Sworn before me this 21st day of December, 1844 [large signature] John Worthington
Lyman Scott Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above named John Worthington is a respectable person - Lyman Scott Justice of the Peace.
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State of New York 
County of Cattaraugus ss. Personally appeared before the Court Justice of the Peace {illegible] said [illegible] Isaac Crawford dec [illegible] in said County aged Sixty nine years after been duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that
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Rejected wid.
Set 7 Apr 45 to A
Joy Esq

2465
Page 30

No
Isaac Crawford died
NY


Act 7 June 1832
Page 31

No
Katharine Crawford died
NY
Rejected
Arad Joy April 7th 45


Act 7 July 1838
Page 32

Isaac Crawford, dec.
N.Y.
Act 7th June 1832.
Arad Joy, April 17th 1845
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Ovid July 23d, 45

Sir
Will you be so very obliging as to
answer mine of the 25 April in the case
of Isaac Crawford, whose case is filed
under law of 32. I believe my
letter is respectful and deserves an answer.

Hon J L Edwards            Respectfully Your
  Court of Pensions         Most Obt Servt
    Washington                    Arad Joy
           D. C.
Page 34

Hon J. L. Edwards
Court of Pensions
Washington
D. C.
Page 35

Isaac Crawford
Page 36

State of New York}
County of Cattaraugus Ss.}

I, Francis E. Baillet Clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas of Cattaraugus County, 
certify that Benjamin Chamberlain Esq. is First
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, and that Lyman Scott is a Magistrate as above, and that the foregoing signatures purpurting [purporting] to be theirs are genuine. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office and subscribed my name this 29th day of January in the year 1845.

F. E. Baillet Clk
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 7 June 1832, Isaac Crawford, died late of New York, who was a Private in the Revolution was entitled to a pension at the rate of Twenty one Dollars per annem, and having on the 4th of June 1833, the amount due from the 4th of March 1831 to the time of his death is payable to William S. Crawford, Isaac Crawford, Katharine Beard, Sarah C. Gillett, and Betsy M. Jackson, only children of said Isaac Crawford. died?



Given at the War Office of the United States,
the 25 day of August
one thousand eight hundred and forty five.

Examined and}               Secretary of War
Countersigned}


            Commissioner of Pensions.
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April 16, 1845
Recd. of Isaac Crawford,
-


Hon J.L. Edward
Court of Pensions
Washington D.C.

FREE [stamped on the face of the envelope]
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April 16, 1845
Record of 
Isaac Crawford.


Hon J. L. Edwards
Court of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
Page 40

Ovid April 11th 1845

Dear Sir
Yours of the 7th Instant in the case
of Isaac Crawford I have recd. I may be
allowed with all defference and respectfully to say that I understand the law, to be, that two
years and three months pension was due to the
Isaac Crawford Senior, the husband of the widow and the late father of the children at his death,  which I had supposed was due the children under their application made before the court under the law of 32 which I mailed to you Feb. 10 last, at least this pension I presume will not be withheld. When the widow died, as the law was then explained, I ask very respectfully if she was not entitled  to.
Respectfully your
Most Obt. Servt.
Arad Joy (signature)

Hon J L Edwards                
Comm. of Pensions            
Washington                            
      D. C.
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Ovid April 25th 1845

Dear Sir
On the 10th Feby., 45 I mailed to you, such a certificate as I procured from the Sect. of State of Boston, if the claims
in with the declaration of Isaac Crawford, it will remove the objection, or the call for it named in yours of the 17th instant, I see no objection to submitting the case as it is and ask for a pension for all of the service proven, as I cannot furnish a different certificate from Mass. The papers under the law of 32 are all on file, as I believe correctly executed. I ask no more than justice to the parties on the proof now on file.
Respectfully your
Most Obt. Servt.
Arad Joy (signature)

Hon J L Edwards                
Comm. of Pensions            
Washington                            
      D. C.
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April 28, 1865
Record of 
Isaac Crawford.


Hon. J. L. Edwards
Comms of Pensions
Washington, D. C.
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Application for certificate of Revolutionary services, made by the party who rendered the service

State of New York
County of Seneca Town of Ovid

The secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested
to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office of my father Isaac Crawford services in the war of the revolution.

He enlisted or volunteered from Pelham in the County of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts in the year 1775 as a Private
in the company commanded by Captain Smith - he enlisted for nine months, under Capt Smith Col Woodbridge, marched from
Pelham through Worcester to Cambridge Mass. then [joined?] the army under Genl Putnam, was in Bunkerhill Battle June 17th 1775
was discharged in Jany [January] or Febry [February] 1776 at Cambridge Fort No 2. by Col Woodbridge [inserted text: again] enlisted or volunteered in Feby 1776 under Col Woodbridge Capt Dwight Lieut Thompson for 6 months, marched to Cambridge where he was stationed till Sept 1776 then discharged at that place by a Woodbudge having served
8 months, again he volunteered at Pelham, Mass in Feby 1777 for nine months
under Cap. Thompson, Marched through Northhampton & Williamstown & Bennington Vt. to Ticonderoga, then he served under diferent officers & was in service
at that place 4 Mo, went to Mt Independence, then to McNeils ferry then to
Stillwater N. Y. & remained there in service til November 1777 & was discharged
by Genl Gates having served 9 months
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My father Isaac Crawford (if living) would be eighty six years old in March next and I (his son) state his services as far as I am able
to, from his statement of his services, which living, which am from my best recollection as within stated. In my own behalf and in behalf of all of the surviving children of my father I do hereby constitute and approve Arad Joy of Ovid, Seneca County, New York, my attorney in the premises.
Witness my hand, this 16th day of February 1844
signed by said Isaac Crawford}    Isaac Crawford
in my presence. James Foster}
Justice of the Peace of Seneca County New York
Page 45

And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.

John G. Palfray
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston;
[too faint] 5 1844

I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Isaac Crawford of Pelham is borne upon the muster roll of Capt Elijah Wright Lt. J  Thompson without any date or l***g that [too faint] ; in fact a pay roll of Lt. Halbert, Col Porter of Pelham from July 10 1777 1 mo 9 days -

There are no rolls of Capt Wm Smith or Col Woodbridge in 1776 or Capt Thompson
for given service in 1777 in this Office
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No 35,993
Isaac Crawford decd
NY.
Act 7 June 1832
Admd.
G.9.00 pri
$21, to 4 June
'33 the day of his death
To Wm. S and Isaac Crawford, Katharine
Beard, Sarah B. Gillett and Betsy M. Jackson only children

Arad Joy Esq
Ovid
N. Y.
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2465
P.O. 
Katharine Crawford
Service: widow of Isaac
Widow died 1841 and was not
entitled because the relief to widows was not
Enlisted: passed until act of 1842, 18
Discharge: (see letter to A Joy in 1845),18

Application filed:                              ,18

Alleges:

Re-enlisted:

Attorney:
P.O.

Recognized.                      Contra
      Cert. of Dis.   Searched for              ,18
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R. R. 3
Pipestone, Minn.
Mar. 3rd 1926

The Pension Bureau,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sirs:
Did the following
receive pensions for their services
in the Revolutionary War?
1. Lucy Johnson Sweetser wife of
Capt Henry Sweetser of Wendell, Mass?
2. Abraham Demott, Born 1751 Redington, N. J.
3. Isaac Crawford, Born in Pelham, Mass, or Katharine Selfridge Crawford his wife.
                                  more inf
4. Robert Selfridge's father of Cambridge, 
Washington Co. N. Y.

Will greatly appreciate a speedy 
reply.
Sincerely yours,
Mrs. Fred Noble