Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 2481, William Crego, New York
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State of New York ss.Otsego County 
 On the 9th day of October 1833 personally
appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County, now sitting William Crego of the Town of Decatur in the County of Otsego and State of New York aged Seventy three, who being first duly
Sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. 
That he entered the service of the United States
under the following named officer and served as herein stated
That in the Summer of 1775 he was residing with his father about one and a half mile from Fort Edward on the West side of the Hudson River in the State of New York. - that on the last of June or first of July of that year a company of Militia residing near the fort volunteered into the service for the purpose
of Garrisoning the Fort, and that he the said William Crego was appointed Ensign of said Company, and that said Company was commanded by Capt Gideon Dudley and Lieutenant Joseph Dudley - And he further states that said Company went into actual service at Fort Edward as early as the first of July 1775 for the purpose of guarding said Fort, which was then under the command of Major Chipman who belonged to Col Warner's Regiment which was at that time stationed at Fort George except sixteen men of that Regiment under Major Chipman, and Lieutenant Brown with a Surgeon by the name of Smith, who were stationed of Fort Edward and the said William Crego further states that the remained in actual service in said Company of Militia stationed at Fort Edward and served as the Ensign of said Company under Capt Dudley from the first of July 1775 until about the first of January 1776 - and that he the said
William Crego about the first of January aforesaid was
ordered with a part of Capt Dudley's Company to the House of a Whig by the name of Isaac Doty within about half a mile of the Fort, and was there stationed for the purpose of guarding the House and property of said Doty against the Indians and Tories who were then committing depredations upon the inhabitants and their property in that section of country and he further states that he
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continued at the House of said Doty with the men under his
command for the purpose above stated, until some time in
the month April 1776 when he again returned to Fort Edward
and was soon thereafter dismissed from the service by Major
Chipman who shall continued in command of the troops stationed at said Fort and to the said William Crego further States that he was in actual service in said Company and served
therein as Ensign of said Company for at least the full period
of nine months and a half and he further states that he was
acquainted with Ensign Pulman of Col Warner's Regiment
and well recollects that he was killed by the Tories and
Indians, during the summer of 1775 - that he was within about three miles of Fort Edward and was brought
into the post and there buried. And he further states that
Commissary Bates furnished the troops which were station at
at Edward during the service above mentioned and he the
said William Crego frequently saw the said Bales while
in the same as aforesaid -
And he the said William Crego further declares in manner
aforesaid that he has no documentary evidence, and that
he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure
who can testify to his services above set forth -
and he further declares in answer to the interrogatories put
to him by the said Court in conformity with the instructions
prescribed by the War Department in manner following
that is to say
That he was born in the Town of Canaan, Connecticut on the
third day of January 1759
that he has not now any record of his age
That he resided within one mile and a half
of said Fort at the time he was called into the service as above
stated -  that since the Revolution he has resided at Skeensburgh  [Keansburg?] and in the Town of Cambridge both in the State of New York - from Cambridge moved to Salem Vermont from thence to Onion River in the same State, from Onion River to
Coxsackie New York and from thence to Worcester
in the County of Otsego New York, and now resides in