Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2440, George Crandall, New York
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State of New York
Chenango County ⎬
On this 12th day of July
in the year of our Lord 1838. Personally appear
before me Hezekiah Reed Esqr one of the more
of our Court of Common pleas in and for said
County of Chenango in the State aforesaid,
George Crandell of Resident in the Town of
Smithville in the County aforesaid, and
State aforesaid, aged ninety four years who being
duly sworn according to law, doth on his
oath make the following Declaration, in order
to obtain the benefit of the provision made by
of Congress passed June the 7th 1832. 
That at the time General Burgoyne marched from Canada to the South in the 1777 he this applicant lived in the
Town of Bennington State of Vermont and fled with
his family into the County of Derby State of New York
unto the Town called Little Nine Partners to the
house of his Brother Samuel Crandall - and in
the month of July of the year 1777 he joined
a volunteer company of Rangers so called, under
the command of Capt. John Rouse who at this time
was gone with a part of the company to the North to meet the enemy as was retreating to the South down the Hudson River, - he this applicant on the third day after he came to the Little Nine Partners aforesaid joined the company aforesaid which at that time was commanded by his brother Samuel Crandell who was Lieut. and continued to guard the inhabitants of the place, and to serve as [illegible] guard, to
observe the movement of Gen, Tarlton's army that was expected to [illegible] the Hudson
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the
company was ordered to move a large quantity of
flour that was deposited at a place called Trumper's
Landing a short distance above Poughkeepsie in the
County of Duchess aforesaid, which near in danger
of falling into the hand of the enemy, and move
it into the Country, and was left there with the
balance of the company to guard it, until the continental officers ordered it to be conveyed to the army. After he has liberated from this service his
company was employed to search out and take
the Tories or other enemies, - this applicant further
States that he was marched to almost all parts
of the County of Duchess aforesaid up and down the
Hudson, on both sides of the river, and they took
and disarmed many and every suspicious
person, - their prisoners they look to a chapel that
lay in the mouth of Esopus Creek, and they were
there guarded by others in the chapel. The name of
the chapel not known, other than the company called it Lady of Washington, whether this was its real name, don't know, This Applicant further states that when Gen, Tarlton's force ascended the Hudson in the same year (1777) this company was ordered by [illegible] and on to take the prisoners from the chapel in Esopus to the Town of Salisburyand they were taken charge of there by continental soldiers, and we returned to Esopus, and  put under the immediate command
of Mayes Landon upon said, Whether he was a
Continental officer or not this affiant does not
know, - He further states that soon after he retired
to hopes the enemy advanced upon that place, and
they fought them four or five rounds, - and they
was then ordered to retreat to a small hill
in the wards here they halted, and this applicant
obtained leave to go down the River to a t
that made out into the River Hudson the latter
to observe the movement of the maiar my -
he here observed the landing a large fce
and they marched a circuitous route arround
the Town of Esopus, And he this Applicant
as soon as he apertained the objectationed
the