Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 2491, Richard Hazelwood Crittenden, Va.
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(3--1776)
Service                                                     Number
Va.   Crittenden, Richard Hazelwood    R 2491                       
                   Sally
Contents
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[Left side is handwritten, but is crossed out]

13746

Indiana

Richard Crittenden

of Bartholomew in the State of Indiana who was a private in the company command by Captain Dilyard of the Reg. commanded by Col. Patrick Ross in the Virginia line for 2 years. 

Inscribed on the Roll of Indiana at the rate of 80 Dollars [marked out] Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued day of June 1833 and sent to Heon W Hendricks Madison

Arrears to the 4th of March $160
Lemi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept. $40

$200

[Stamp: Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832]

Recorded by Daniel Boyd Clerk, Book E, vol. 7, Page 107
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[Faint Handwriting]

Richard Crittenden
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Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

State of Indiana}
Bartholomew County} set

On this twelfth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in the Probate Court in and for said County now open and held before the Hon William S. Jones Judge thereof, and being a Court of record and now sitting, Richard Crittenden a resident of the township of Columbus in the County of Bartholomew and State of Indiana aged Seventy one years who first being duly sworn according to law and 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 on the 15th day of March in the year 1778 then about 17 years he was a substitute for his father, who had been previously drafted in the Company commanded by James Dilyard, or Dillard, Leut William Martin, Col. Patrick Rose and served three months and was during that time in the battle at Guilford Court house, Genl Greene was commander in chief at that battle.

In August afterwards or the August subsequent my memory does not now directly serve me, I was drafted for Eighteen months by Col. Nicholas Cavell who was then as he belies was then Col. of the Regiment within whose bounds and whose bounds be then lived in Amherst County, State of Virginia  and served the said Eighteen months, I was in the company of Isaac Rucker, the name of the  
Ensign or Leut is not recollected, but thinks Gidion Cruise, was Leut but does certainly know.  In this service was in the battle of the Island ford of the Big Catawaba he served the Eighteen months aforesaid.
Then months before Cornwallis was taken at the siege of Yorktown Virginia, he was drafted, and was in the company of Capt. Charles Christian, Leut. & Ensign not recollected.
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In this last service he does not mention his Col. Leut or Ensign, but Genl. Washington & Greene were present and Col. Bullet at the Battle of Yorktown.  He had an honourable discharge for each of the above services, but had them all burnt up with his house in the year 1789.  In answer to questions asked by the Court, he makes the following answer, to wit.

Was born in Charles City County, Virginia in the  year 1761.  Has a record of his age under my fathers hand in the bible of my father which I have now in my possession which is now in my possession.  When first called into service was living in Amherst County in Virginia.  He has lived since the Revolutionary War five years in [Carth], [Bollomters] Co. Virginia, one year in Salem North Carolina, then in Union Co. South Carolina nine years then in Kentucky twenty odd years the exact number not recollected, then In Indiana, Bartholomew County six years where he now resides. He knows of no other person by whom he can prove his services. He is known to the Rev Joseph Pownal and
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 and State or Territory.
R Crittenden 

Sworn to and subscribed the date and year aforesaid.
Joseph McKinney, Clk

We Joseph Pownall a Clergyman and resident of the County of Bartholomew and State of Indiana and Wm. P. Kiser of the same place, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Richard Crittenden who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be Seventy One years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
W. P. Kiser
J Pownall

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Joseph McKinny Clk.
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And the Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation
Of the matter, and after putting the interrogations prescribed by
The War department, that the above named applicant was a soldier
Of the revolutionary war and served as he states. And this 
Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Joseph
Joseph Pownale who has signed the proceeding certificate, is a
Clergyman resident in the County of Bartholomew, and is a
credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit
William Long
State of Indiana
Bartholomew County Set
I, Joseph M. Kinney Clerk of the Bartholomew
Probate Court certify that the foregoing contains
the original proceedings in the matter of the
application of Richard Crittenden for a
Pension. In witness whereof I have here unto
set my hand and affixed the letters
in a scrawle, the adopted
seal of said Court no other
having been ye obtained, this
14th day of November 1832
Joseph McKinney Clk
I certify that the above named Joseph
McKinney is Clerk of the Bartholomew  Probate court 
And that the aforesaid scrawle is  the existing existing seal
Of said  court
William Landrick
Made May 18th 1833
Chustian
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The additional declaration of Richard L Crittenden
in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed
June 7th 1832.
On this 15th day of May in the year 1833 personally
appeared before me William Chapman a Justice of
the peace in and for Bartholomew County and State of
Indiana, Richard Crittenden and a Resident of
said County, and being duly sworn according to
law maketh the following additional declaration
in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress
passed June 7th 1832. That as stated by him in his
declaration made on the 12th day of November 1832
and herewith returned, on the 15th day of March in the
year 1778. being then about 17 years he became a
substitute as a private soldier for his father in the
Virginia State line of troops, his father having been
previously drafted as a private soldier in the Company
by James Dilyard, or Dillard, William Martin Lent
Col. Patrick Rose commanded the Regiments to which
his company belonged and he served three months, and was
during that service in the battle of Guilford Courthouse
Genl Green was commander in that battle. In the
month of August in the year 1778 he was drafted as
A private soldier for the term of eighteen months in
the same time of troops, by Col. Nicholas Covell and
served as a private soldier for and during eighteen
months then next following, in a company commanded
by Capt. Isaac Parker, the names of his Lieut.  and
Ensign are not remembered, but he thinks the name of
the Lieut was Gideon Cruise During this service
he was in the battle of Island Ford and Big Catawba
In the month of July the day of the month he cannot remember
but think it was before the 20th of the month, he was again
drafted as a private soldier in the same line of troops
and served in three months in a company commanded by
Capt. Charley Christian, but cannot remember the name of
his Lieut. or Ensign, nor does he remember the
name of his col. In this service he was in the battle of
York Town, which was commenced on the 9th
October 1781, and eventually capitulated on the 19th C.W.
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Genl Washington and Genl Gwinn were both present during the battle. After the battle he voluntarily remained eight days at the request of his officer, which was several days longer period than he was drafted for. At the expiration of cart of his time aforesaid he received an honorable discharge for the last term his discharge by Genl Washington as he testifies. This was all being together with his house in the year 1789. During the War was issued a Pension he was drafted for the time of Eighteen months broadly the service aforesaid, his his father being a substitute, but he is informed he can require no benefits from the service of a substitute.
Rich. Crittenden

Sworn and subscribed to by Richard Crittenden before me the day and year first above written
Given under my hand and seal
William Chapman {Seal}

The undersigned also states that the above named Richard Crittenden is entitled to full faith and credit and is generally believed to have been a soldier of the revolution in this neighbourhood in which he lives 15th May 1833
William Chapman Justice of the Peace

The State of Indiana
Bartholomew County ss} I Joseph McKinney Clerk of the Bartholomew Circuit Court do certify that William Chapman Esquire before whom this written and foregoing Instrument of Marking was sworn to is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for Bartholomew Court duly qualified and commissioned and entitled to full faith and credit, in his official act and his signatures above are genuine. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at Columbus this 15th day of May A.D. 1833
Joseph McKinny CLK
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State of Indiana
Bartholomew County} ss
On this 9th day of October one thousand Eight hundred and Forty three before the subscribed Associate Judge of the Circuit Court in and for said County personally appeared Sally Crittenden a resident of said County aged seventy years on this 30th of October 183 who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 entitled an Act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows that she is the widow of Richard Crittenden Who was a second Lieutenant in the army of the Revolution that she is not able to state the particulars in relation to his service but refers therefore to the Original Declaration of her said husband on file at the war office of the United States that her said husband was a pensioner on the Roll for the state of Indiana at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum she further declares that she was married to the said Richard Crittenden on the 12th day of February seventeen hundred and Eighty nine and that her husband the aforesaid Richard Crittenden Died on the 22 day of June one Thousand Eight hundred and forty one that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place prior to the first of January Seventeen hundred and Ninety four at the time above stated
Sally Crittenden
x her mark

Subscribed and sworn to this 9th day of October 1843
Before me Akin A Wiles Associate Judge of the Circuit Court
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I Certify that Sally Crittenden who has this day subscribed and sworn to the foregoing Declaration before me is so infirm of Body owing to sickness and old Age that it is impracticable for her to attend Said Court given under My hand this 9 Day of October 1843
Akin A. Miles Associate Judge of the Circuit Court

State of Indiana
Bartholomew County ss Be it know that on the 9th Day of October 1843 before the subscribed associate Judge of the Circuit Court in and for said County Personally appeared Mary W Singer who being duly sworn according to law says that Richard Crittenden the husband of the above named applicant Sally Crittenden Died sometime between the tenth and Twenty fifth of June 1841 she cannot tell the exact day and that said Sally Crittenden has not intermarried but continues the widow of the above named Richard Crittenden that the annexed leaves was taken from the family bible of said Sally & Richard Crittenden and is as she verily believes a true record so far as it purports to set forth and show that I seen my father Richard Crittenden write a part of it thirty seven years ago and believe it to Be in his own handwriting except the new leaf which was drawn from a leaf of the old record which was taken out of the Bible a few weeks ago and has got misplaced that we cannot find it and that the Old record has ever since my Recollection
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Been in the possession of Richard and Sally Crittenden
Mary W Singer
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 9th day of October 1843
Akin A Miles Judge

I certify that Mary W Singer who has this day subscribed and sworn to the foregoing Deposition is a credible Witness Given under my hand this 9th day of October 1843

Akin A Miles Judge

State of Indiana
Bartholomew County I Isaac S. Boardman Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for said county do certify that Akin A Miles is associate Judge of the Circuit Court in and for said county and that the several foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said Court at Columbus in said County this 10th day of October one thousand Eight hundred and forty three

Isaac S. Boardman Clerk
I william J Brown member in Congress from the fifth Congress [illegible] the County of Bartholomew County to be a [illegible] I do certify that Isaac S. Broadman at the date of [illegible] above Certificate is a Clerk of the Bartholomew County Court that the above signature is genuine
Given under my hand this 14 Feb 1844
Wm J. Brown

State of Indiana
Johnson County ss
Be it known that on the 12th day of October 1823 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Personally appeared Martha Lemasters, who being duly sworn according to law says that the said Richard Crittenden and Sally Crittenden his wife The persons spoken of in the foregoing Declaration was
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Isaac S. Boardman Clerk

I William J Brown member in Congress from the fifth Congress Sinai district of the state of Indiana  in the County of Bartholomew County it being a part of said district. I do certify that Isaac S. Bartholomew at the date of time above Certificate was clerk of the Bartholomew Circuit Court and that the above signature is genuine
Given under my hand this 10 Feb 1844
Wm J. Brown
State of Indiana
Johnson County ss
Be it known that on the 12th day of October 1823 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Personally appeared Martha Lemasters, who being duly sworn according to law says that the said Richard Crittenden and Sally Crittenden his wife The persons spoken of in the foregoing Declaration was married at her house in Spartinburgh County South Carolina on the 12th day of February 1789 by a Justice of the Peace whose name she says she cannot Recollect
Without a License she says she seen and heard the marriage of the said Richard Crittenden and Sally Crittenden his wife solemnized and that it was Done according to law
Martha Lemaster
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 12th day of October 1843
Jacob Doggs, Justice of the Peace
I certify that Martha Lemasters who has this day subscribed and sworn to the foregoing Declaration is a credible Witness given under my hand this 12th day of October 1843
Jacob Doggs Justice of the Peace
State of Indiana
Johnson County I David Allen Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for the County and state aforesaid do Certify that Jacob Doggs is a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly Commissioned and qualified and that the foregoing signatures Purporting to be his are Genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed The official seal of said County and subscribed my Name this 15th day of October one thousand Eight Hundred and forty three
David Allen Clerk
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I William J Brown member in Congress from the fifth Congressional district of the State of Indiana (the County of Johnson County taking a part of said district) do certify that David Allen Esquire at the date of the foregoing Certificate was Clerk of the Johnson Circuit Court and that the signature thereto is genuine
Given under my hand this 14th day of February 1844
Wm J Brown

9921.
Sally Crittenden
Richard
Indiana
Act 7 July 38
msg a 41
Act '43
A
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Richard Hazelwood Jr
The Ninth was born the 7th of January - 1806-

Then Josiah My firstborn Deced - July 22nd- 1796

And Matthew our 5th deced. August the 5th -  1795

And Martha our 7th Deced - December 29th 1818

James Harva Singer was born July the 20th 1819
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Matthew Taner Crittenden the fifth was born the 14th of January - 1797 - 

Samuel Crittenden the sixth was born the 24th of December - 1798 - 

Martha Crittenden the eleventh and second daughter was born the 22nd of June 1801

Clancy Crittenden the Eighth & third daughter was born the 16th of August 1803
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Richard Crittenden Was Born March [illegible] 1761
Sally Crittenden his wife was born October 30th 1773
Was Married February 12th 1789

Josiah Crittenden was Born October 24th 1789
John Crittenden was Born December 23rd 1790
Charles Crittenden Was Born January 11th 1793
Mary W Crittenden Born Dec 15th 1794
Matthew Samuel Crittenden Born January 14th 1797
Samuel Crittenden was Born December 24th 1798
Martha Crittenden Was Born June 22nd 1801
Nancy Crittenden Was Born August 16th 1803
Richard H  Crittenden Born January 7th 1806
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Richard Hazelwood Crittenden was Born march 6th 1761

Sally Crittenden his wife was Born October 30th 1773

Was married February 12th 1789

Was Baptized in the Befirate Baptist Church September 13th 1801

Josiah Crittenden the First was Born October 24th 1789

John Crittenden Born December 23rd 1790

Charles Worde Crittenden Born January 11th 1793
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December 22, 1936.

Mrs. Roscoe Haymond
920 Lafayette Avenue
Columbus, Indiana.

[illegible writing]

BA-J/ILL
Richard Hazelwood Crittenden- R. 2491

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Richard Crittenden, a pensioner of Bartholomew County, Indiana, in 1833.

The data given herein were found in pension claim, R. 2491, based upon service of Richard Hazelwood Crittenden in that war.

Richard Hazelwood Crittenden was born March 6, 1761, in Charles City County, Virginia; the names of his parents are not shown.

Richard's father was drafted as a private in the Virginia troops, and March 15, 1778, Richard Hazelwood Crittenden, then a resident of Amherst County, Virginia, entered service as substitute for his father and served three months as private under Captain James Dillard and Colonel Patrick Rose. He afterwards enlisted and served as private under Captain Isaac Parker and Colonel Nicholas Cavell in the Virginia troops; he was in the battle of Guilford Court House; length of service eighteen months. He served three months as private in Captain Charles Christian's company and was in the Siege of Yorktown.

After the Revolutionary War, Richard Hazelwood Crittenden lived five years in Fincastle and Botetourt County, Virginia, one year in Salem, North Carolina, then nine years in Union County, South Carolina, after that in Kentucky more than twenty years, and move thence to Indiana.

He was allowed pension on his application executed November 12, 1832, at which time he resided in Columbus Township, Bartholomew County, Indiana. He had resided in that county six years.

Richard Hazelwood Crittenden died June 22, 1841 in Indiana.
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Richard Hazelwood Crittenden married February 13, 1789, Sally Tanner, the daughter of Josiah Tanner and his wife, Martha: they were married at her father's house in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. Sally Tanner was born October 30, 1773.  She was living in Bartholomew County, Indiana, in 1845.

The names of the children of Richard Hazelwood Crittenden and his wife, Sally, are shown as follows:


Josiah (first born) born October 24, 1789.
John.                         "     December 23, 1790.
Charles                      "    January 11, 1793.
Mary W.                     "     December 15, 1794.
Matthew Tanner.      "     January 14, 1797.
Samuel                      "     December 24, 1798.
Martha                       "    June 22, 1801.
Nancy                        "     August 16, 1803.
Richard Hazelwood  "    January 7, 1806.

The following birth is shown also-

James Harva (?) Singer born July 20, 1819 (no relationship to the family shown).

In 1845, Richard Hazelwood Crittenden, Jr., and his sister, Mary W. Singer, were in Bartholomew County, Indiana; the name of the husband of said Mary was not given.  At that time, Martha Lemaster, former widow of Josiah Tanner and the mother of Sally Crittenden ( the widow) was a resident of Johnson County, Indiana.

In 1845, Patsey Tanner was in Decatur County, Indiana; she was born August 7, 1777.  She stated that she was present at the wedding of her sister, Sally, to Richard Crittenden: she stated also that she married Lucius Tanner January 15, 1793.

Very truly yours, 


A. D. Hiller, 
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.

2.
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State of Indiana
Decatur County
Be it Known that on this 30th day of June
1845 before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County personally appeared Patsy Tanner aged 68 years the 7th day of August [illegible] who being duly sworn
According to Law Says that Sally Crittenden who is an applicant for a pension as the Widow of Richard Crittenden was married to the said Richard Crittenden in her presence that she seen and heard the marriage
Solemnized says that she cannot recollect the month or day of the month that they was married but is Very Certain that the marriage took place in the year 1789 and further says that she the said Patsy Tanner was Married on the 15th day of January 1793 to Lucius Tanner
and that the marriage between her sister Sally
Crittenden and Richard Crittenden took place about four years previous to her marriage therefore she speaks positive of the fact that the Marriage between Richard and
Sally Crittenden did take place to her own personal Knowledge Some time in the year 1789
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 30th day of June 1845
Patsy Tanner
X
Her Mark
Joel Doolittle [seal]
Justice of the peace

I do hereby Certify that Patsy Tanner
who has this day subscribed & sworn to the
foregoing Deposition is a credible witness
Given under my hand this 30th day
of June 1845
Joel Doolittle 
Justice of the peace
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The State of Indiana
Decatur County
I Henry H. Talbott Clerk of the Circuit Court
of said County, do hereby certify that Joel Doolittle Esquire before whom the within deposition was made and sworn to was at the date thereof an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said County duly commissioned and sworn into office, and that to all his official acts as such full faith and credit are due and ought to be given, and that the within and foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court at my Office in Greensburgh this 20th day of June in the year 1845.
Henry H. Talbott, ck [clerk] DCC [Decatur County Court]

[handwritten] June 45    C    3
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State of Indiana
Johnson County
Be it known that on this 7th day of March 1845 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in said county personally appeared Martha Lemaster formerly Martha Tanner who is being duly sworn according to law says that Sally Crittenden who is an applicant for a pension as the widow of Richard Crittenden who was a Revolutionary pensioner is her daughter and that the said Richard Crittenden and Sally Crittenden his wife was lawfully married at her fathers the said Josiah Tanner house in South Carolina and further says that she was personally present when the marriage took place and that they were married previous to 1794 says she thinks the marriage took place in 1787 or 1788
Matcha Lemasterng deposition is a credible witness
Subscribed and sworn to  me this 7th day of March 1845
Thomas Gaunt JP
I testify that Martha Lemaster who has this day subscribed and sworn to the foregoing deposition is a credible witness given under my hand this 7th day of March 1845
Thomas Gaunt
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State of Indiana
Johnson County
Isaac Jones clerk of the circuit court do hereby certify that Thomas Gaunt is an acting Justice of the Peace duly elected and qualified and that the several foregoing signatures proporting to be his are genuine.

In testimony where I have hereunto
Set my name and affixed the seal of [Saie] County at Franklin
this 8th day of March A D 1845
Isaac Jones {?}
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Free [postage]

Pension Office
War Department
Washington City

Hon W Hendricks

Madison May 20

Inda [Indiana]
[illegible]
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W. Hendrick respects to Mr Edwards and requests his attention &
reply to the enclosed case
Madison May 18
1833
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June 1, 1842
Indiana

J.L. Edwards Eow
[Illegible] Pensions
[Illegible] City
D. Wallace 
HQ
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[Illegible] June 1st 1842
Sir

I enclose you a letter to me from the true  [unintelligible], making certain on queries. Will you please answer, so that I can reply to their [unintelligible].

Very Respectful
[unintelligible]
D. Wallace

Return the Letter
J L. Edwards Ev
[Unintelligble]
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you. D. Wallace
2 June 1842
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Pensi Officers,
June 2 1842

Sir

I herewith pictures the letter of Horn W Herod relative to the offices of the widow of Richard Crittenden's death and do have to inform you that she is not entitled to a pension under act of July 1838. That act provides for the widows only who were single at the time of its passage, and it would appear that her husband died alone or year since. It is not stated when she was married but from the tenor of Ms. Herod's letter, it is presented that the marriage took place after the termination of her husband's service. 

Hon. D Wallace
H Ro
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The pension of Sally Crittenden are herewith returned that her claim may be appealed before a court of ward at its regular session or before a judge of a court of ward if it can be made to appear that is in unpractcadee to attend court.

The alleged date of the marriage [illegible] by more satisfactory proofs such as in generally furnished by the books of paper of one or more aunty of a family.

By referring to the husband’s paying of service they do not furnish the urge which the rule requires under which her claim is adjusted- On the contrary, no proof whatever was furnished in behalf of [illegible] which exhibited the most glaring inconsistency with the cause of the service- his community, his [unintelligble], his service the spring of 1778 in form to in which he each expressed how the battle of Battle of Guilford
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(March 87) and in Aug 78 was drafted for 18 mo Capt Isaac Parker & served out his time
altho' the 18 mo' drafts were not authorized
untill 79 and his name is not found thereon, the only service which is not
undermined by his own statement is a three months tour in fall of 1781

C. H. Trabue
Frankfort Ken


act 7 July 1838
No 291

C H Trabue
Sep 23 1843
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Marshall [illegible]
15 May 1844
Sir
I wish to say in reference to the claim of Sally Crittenden widow of Richard Crittenden  [illegible] that probably sufficient weight is not given to the testimony of her mother Martha Lemaster  who swears to having been the [illegible] at her house-- the Department leans under the assumption that Mrs Lemaster was married in 1780 & consequently rather doubt her testimony in regarding the marriage to Daughter only 12 or 13 years of age. Now the fact is Mrs Lemaster was  married to  Josiah Tanner on the first of [illegible] 1771 & not in 1781.  I assume her declaration set forth is fact. Though it was likely her daughter Mrs Crittenden was
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more than 14, when she was married to Crittenden
At this late period it is almost impossible to find testimony of the services of Richard Crittenden.  If therefore the Department is willing to allow her claim for 2 terms of 3 months each as they intimate in the letter to you it will have to be paid be stated [illegible] to her.
It seems to me that if the proof is satisfactory to the Department that Martha Lemaster marries to Josiah Tanner before 1794 the same proof must be satisfactory that she married him before 1780
If I am not mistaken her family Records them regularly. The truth of the children in 177? [illegible] It will be recollected that
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Mrs Crittenden [illegible] in 1843 then she was 
70 year old - and the age of
her children [illegible] notes  that
statement so far as to antiquity
entitled it to credit
may not the mother be a witness
to prove the marriage of Crittenden?
who on earth so likely to remember
that event so dear to a mother's heart?
I make these suggestions for the
reason that I think the office
has taken up a wrong impression in regard to them two cases.
Mrs Tanner (Lemaster) insists that she should have been allowed in our Act of  "36 & says they had a number of children before her husband went into the Army.
Respectfully
You [your] obt [obedient]  svt [servant]
Uri Manly 


Hon. O. B. Licklin
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July 24th 1840
Dr [Dear] Sir

I herewith enclose you the declaration of Mrs Sally
Crittenden of Bartholomew County Indiana and evidence in support of her right to a Pension under the act of 7th July 1838
Please enclose to me at Frankfort  Kentucky the certificate of Allowance
I am Sir Vary Respectfully
your Obt [obedient]  servt [servant
C H Trabue


Hon. J. L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions
Washington City
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Pen of
May 19 '44
[?]
Since my letter of 27 March in the case of Sally Crittenden, I have the honor to inform you that it has been provided by act of Congress that no pension shall hereafter be granted to a widow for the same time her husband read one" and that her husband drew a pension during the 5 years to which [?] act of 7 july 38 is limited.
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Hon O. B. Ficklin
May 29 '44
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House of Reps[Representatives]
May 25th 1844

Dr [Dear] Sir
Enclosed I send you a line
from Mr Manley explanations of
the claim of Sally Crittenden
You may make out the
certificate for the two 3 month
tours if you shall not find the proof
to establish a longer service
yours respectfully
Orlando B Ficklin
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H. H. Sylvester Esq
Present

[illegible]
O. B. Ficklin
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Jan. 10. 1845
Dr [Dear] Sir,
I return the Mrs Barton's  Certificate to be
dated -  I enclose some Depositions in John Morrow's case - Martha Harris applied under act 7 July 36 &  is now entitled to $60 in
year from 1836. I wish the case of Mrs. Crittenden allowed [illegible]  for the proof
of service goes - her husband was pensioned at $80 but the proof of service is only for 6 months
No further proof can be had - a family Record and the Deposition of Mrs Crittenden's mother who saw the marriage at her own house is proof of the marriage
Catherine Massy widow of Jacob Massy
- husband was not a pensioner. There is 
on file a discharge which shows some service & I wish the claim allowed as far as the proof of service goes- as no more can be had. 
Those cases have been on hand a long time. 
Yours 
U Manley

H. H. Sylvester Esq
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Hon J. L. Edwards
Comm [Commissoner] of Pensions


Jan. 20 1845
Let [Letter] from Uri Manly
Reference to certain cases.
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January 17, 1845
Sir,
The enclosed letter of W Manly, you will [perceive], calls up the case of Martha Harris under the resolution of {?] paper Dec 30, '44
He also requests that the claim of  Mrs. Crittenden allow for such an amount of service by a
Also the case of Catharin Massey, [?]
of Jacob. In this, as [?] Mrs [Guthadeny], we accept such service as a foreman.
[? ?] Respectfully
.
Henry H. Sylvester
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June 13, 1845
[?]
Wm Crittenden

J. L. Edwards Esq
Com. of Pensions
Washington City D. C.
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[?]
6 June '45
Sir
Permit me to say in the case of Mr. Crittenden of Ind(iana) that I was apprehensive the the deposition of an old lady by the name of Harrold has been lost or overlooked in the situation.
the proof of the solution of man and wife prior to 1795 in the deposition of Mrs. H [?] of Ripley Colorado 2nd to that of Mr Lemaster of Johnson Colorado and that Mrs Lemaster is the mother of Mrs Crittenden and saw her married at her own house. Even [?] Mr L is about 90 years of age.
Very respectfully yours, Uri Manly

J. L. Edwards esq
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J L Edwards Esq
Am. of Pensions
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House of Reps July 15th 1844

Dear Sir

Enclosed you will find the papers of Mrs Sally Crittenden.

The authentication of the official character of the two certifying clerks is all that you require?

You say that she may be allowed for two terms [times] of three months each. You will have the [goodness] to know the certificate for that amount & forward it to me for I do not wish to embarrass the Dept with hunting up new proofs in such cases.

Your Obt Servt
Orlando B Finklin
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J. L. Edwards Esqr
Comr. of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.

case for Engleston

[Vertical]
March 24 1845.
Add to case
Sally Crittenden

[Stamp 1]
FREE

[Stamp 2]
MARSHALL
MAR
16
[illegible]
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Monhall M.
15th March 1845

Sir I have the honor to enclose a Deposition in the case of Sally Crittenden 2nd widow of Richd Crittenden It is impossible to make proof of for the service -
And as I understand that about 6 months service is proved in the papers on file with his Declaration, I have to request that her claim may be allowed for whatever is proved
Very Respectfully
U. Manly

J. L. Edwards Eq.
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COPY-

Pension Office
Mar. 29, 1845.

H. H. Sylvester, Esq.
Washington.

Sir:

For information in the case of Martha Harrison, etc. .. In the case of Sally Crittenden the proof of the date of the marriage is unsatisfactory, altho six months of service may be admitted. The claimant should prove that she was alive on the 23d of Jany. last to entitle her to the benefit of the resolution passed on that date. Similar proof in case of Kathrine Massey etc.

[handwritten below - the rest of the letter above is typed] 
J L Lerch - Sept 11- 1934.
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[Crossed out] to . B. Ficklin 12 Feby '4
" to O B. Flicklin 27 March 4
[Crossed out] " to H. H. Sylverla March 29th '46
[Crossed out] to Mr Manly May 12/45
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Sally Crittenden was daughter of Josiah Tanner W File 9503.
wife Martha
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Uri Manly,
May 12, 1845.
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Pension Office
May 12, 1845

Sir,

The testimony of Martha Lemaster in the case of Sally Crittenden is but a duplicate of a former statement made her, and does nothing to the evidence heretofore filed. Unless some better proof of the date of the marriage be furnish it entirely unnecessary to persecute the claim further.

Uri Manly Esq
Marshall
Ill.
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Washington D C
30 June 1845

Sir,

In the matter of the application of Sally Crittenden for a Pension as the widow of Richard Crittenden, we have the honor to present here with the affidavits of Richard H Crittenden Junior and Mary W Singer with a record of marriage, In the hope that the claim is now sufficiently established.

We are very respectfully
your old friend
TLY A Tho Smith.
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13 June 1845

Uri Manly.
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228
Pension Office
June 13, 1845

Sir.

In answer to your letter of the [??] in the case of Sally Crittenden, I have to inform you that there is no "deposition of an old lady by the name of Harrod" among the papers.

I am [?] 

Uri Manly Esq
Marshall
Illinois
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Postmarked Jul 9
July 17,1845
[Adaeter] case of
Sally Crittenden
20
J L Edwards Esq
Comr. of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Marshall Ill
July 9th 1845

Sir I have the honor to enclose a Deposition in the case of Mr. Crittenden of Ind. which I do not doubt will be deemed satisfactory - 

In the case of Martha Harris of Ind. widow of Joshua Harris of Johnson Co. Ind I sent a deposition of Milly Horrota of Ripley County which was full and explicit - So it was probable that the Deposition has been placed [erronious?] the paper of some other claim of the same name?

Very Respectfully
U. Manly

J. L. Edwards Esq.
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? S L A T Smith
August 13, '45
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Pen off
Aug 13 '45
Sir

The addl. evidence in the case of Sally Crittenden establishes the date of the marriage before Jany 94 but as required by my letter to W Sylvester of 29 March it is necessary to file her deposition claiming the benefit of the Resolution of 23 Jany [last?] before a certificate for 6 mo service can be issued -

T.L. & A.T. Smith Esqs
Present
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Copy 1

Department of the Interior
October, 2nd 1850,
Sir,
I herewith return the papers in the case of Sally Crittenden, widow of Richard Crittenden, deceased, and I have to inform you that your report of the 2nd [?] has been affirmed.
I am, very respectfully 
Your Obd Servant,


J. L. Edwards. Esq.
Comm of Pensions
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Sally Crittenden
let to Sec. Int. 2nd Sept 1850
Decision affirmed by Sect. Int.
Oct 2nd 1850.

2491

Act 1838
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         State of Indiana }ss
Bartholomew County }

Be it known that on this 10th day of June 1845 Before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said county Personally appeared Richard H Crittenden Junr and Mary W Singer Who being first duly sworn according to law says that the annexed Leaf which contains the names and ages of Richard & Sally Crittenden the date of their marriage and the names and ages of their Children was in their presence taken from a very old Testament which belonged to the said Richard & Sally Crittenden and further say that it is in Richard Crittendens Own hand writing and that they have known it to be in the possession of said Richard & Sally Crittenden for thirty years and further says that the above named leaf they believe to Be the first record of the above mentioned Richard and Sally Crittendens Childrens ages and further says that the copy which is attached to the above named leaf was in their presence drawn from a plain Copy of the Old original leaf which is mentioned above and that they verily believe that it is a true copy of the old leaf with the addition of Our name and age.

Subscribed and sworn before me }  Richard. H. Crittenden Junr.
this 10th day of June 1845 }              
Mary W Singer
Robert T Hedges JP

I certify that Richard H Crittenden Junr and Mary W Singer Who has this day subscribed and sworn to the foregoing deposition is Credible Witness Given under my hand this 10th Day of June 1845
Robert T Hedges Justice of the Peace  [encircled seal]

State of Indiana          }ss         
Bartholomew County } I Isaac S Boardman Clerk of the circuit court of said county 
Do hereby certify that Robert T Hedges is one of the Justices of the peace of said County and that the [illegible] foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County at Columbus this 11th Day of June 10 AD 1845
Isaac S Boardman clerk
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1934-Sept 12 - Hist. to Mrs. Wm.
M. Sweeny. [ILL]
1936 - Dec 22 - Hist. to Mrs. Roscoe Haymond
[ILL]
2491
P. O.
Sally Crittenden
Service:
widow of Richard

Enlisted:     , 18  . 
Discharged: , 18  . 
Application filed:  , 18  . 
Alleges:
Re-enlisted: 

Attorney:
P. O.

Recognized.    Contract
Cert. of Dis.   Searched for. , 18
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postmarked as received August 24, [1934?]

126 Franklin Street
Astoria, L.I., NY
August 23, 1934

Veterans Administration,
Washington , D. C.,
Dear Sir:

Kindly send me the record of the military services in the War of the Revolution of Richard Crittenden, a soldier who applied for a pension from Bartholomew County, Indiana, November 12, 1832; also the Revolutionary record of Josiah Tanner, of Spartenburg, S. C., who died about November 1, 1807.  His widow, Martha, married Abraham Lemaster and she was living in Johnson County, Indiana, in March 1843.

Yours very respectfully,
Lenora Sweeny
(Mrs. William M. Sweeny)
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Joseph Hart Chapter

Date received December 5, 1936
Columbus, Indiana
December 3rd

Veterans Adm. Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:-

I would appreciate, very much, the Revolutionary services of Richard Crittenden - private- Virginia Militia. He is said to have been pensioned in 1833 while living here in Bartholomew, Co. The sincere thanks of

Mrs. Roscoe Haymond, Regent
Joseph Hart Chapter D.A.R.
920 Lafayette Ave.
Columbus, Indiana
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September 12, 1934.

Mrs. William M. Sweeny
126 Franklin Street
Astoria. Long Island, New York.

BA-J/ILL
Josiah Tanner
W. 9503
Richard [handwritten insertion "Hazelwood"] Crittenden
R.2491

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Josiah Tanner and Richard Crittenden.

The records of these two soldiers are given herein as found in pension claims based upon service in the Revolutionary War.

JOSIAH TANNER-W. 9503

Josiah Tanner, while a resident of South Carolina, entered the service sometime in May, 1780, and served until the fall of 1781, as lieutenant in Captain Cardry McBee's company of Horse under Colonels Reebuck and Williams in the South Carolina troops; he was wounded in his right arm in the battle of Kings Mountain.

The soldier married December 1, 1771, in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, Martha; her maiden name, the names of her parents, and the date and place of her birth are not shown. They lived many years in South Carolina, and moved from there to Indiana.

Josiah Tanner died in October or November, 1807, in Jefferson County, Kentucky.

Martha Tanner, soldier's widow, married in September 1826, in Oldham County, Kentucky, Abraham Lemaster; he died November 3, 1837, in Indiana.

Martha Lemaster was allowed pension on account of the service of her former husband, Josiah Tanner, in the Revolutionary War on her application executed August 14, 1843; she was then a resident of Johnson
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Connty, Indiana, aged eighty-seven years.

In 1843, Sally Crittenden (born October 30, 1773), the daughter of Josiah Tanner and his wife, Martha, was a resident of Bartholomew County , Indiana: Her husband Richard Crittenden was then deceased.

The names of the children of Josiah Tanner and his wife, are shown as follows:

Sally Tanner born Oct 30, 1773.
Lucy                 "    April 25, 1775.
Martha             "    August 7, 1777.
Matthew          "    January 11, 1779. 
Samuel            "    August 15,1780.
Elizabeth         "    February 18, 1786.
Creed              "    February 24, 1788.
Mary                "    December 16, 1789.
Kesia                "    April 29, 1792.
John                 "    -------
Eleanor             "    March   , 1797.
Thomas            "    December 3, 1802.

[handwritten insertion: here next time]

RICHARD [handwritten insertion: Hazelwood] Crittenden-R. 2491

Richard Hazelwood Crittenden was born March 6, 1761, in Charles City County, Virginia;  the names of his parents are not shown.

Richard's father was drafted as a private in the Virginia troops, and March 15, 1778, Richard [handwritten insertion: Hazelwood] Crittenden, then a resident of Amherst County, Virginia, entered [handwritten insertion: service] as substitute for his father and served three months as private under Captain James Dillard and Colonel Patrick [Rowe]. He afterwards enlisted and served as private under Captain [Isaac] Parker and Colonel Nicholas Cavell in Virginia troops: he was in the battle of Guilford Court House; length of service eighteen months.  He served three 

                                                 2.

Side notation:
The service as stated by soldier is all wrong, VA mil probably-
Used officers he named
OK - Mrs Finch
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three months as private in Captain Charles Christian's company and was in the Siege of Yorktown.

After the Revolutionary War, Richard [handwritten insertion: Hazelwood] Crittenden lived five years in Fincastle, Botetourt County, Virginia, one year in Salem, North Carolina, then nine years in Union County, South Carolina, after that in Kentucky more than twenty years, and moved from there to Indiana.

He was allowed pension on his application executed November 12, 1832, at which time he resided in [illegible] Township, Bartholomew County, Indiana. He had resided in that county six years.

Richard [handwritten insertion: Hazelwood] Crittenden died June 22, 1841, in Indiana.

The soldier married February 12,1789, Sally Tanner, the daughter of Josiah Tanner and his wife, Martha; the wedding took place at her father's house in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. Sally Tanner was born October 30, 1773. She was living in Bartholomew County, Indiana in 1845.

In 1845, Richard H. [handwritten insertion: azelwood] Crittenden, Jr. and his sister Mary W Singer, were in Bartholomew County, Indiana; the name of the husband of said Mary is not shown.  At that time, Martha Lemaster, former widow of Josiah Tanner and the mother of Sally Crittenden (the widow) was a resident of Johnson County, Indiana

The names of the children of Richard [handwritten insertion: Hazelwood] Crittenden and his wife, Sally, are shown as follow:

Josiah (first born) born October 24, 1789
John                                December 23,1790 
Charles                     "    January 11, 1793.
Mary W.                    "    December 15,1794.
Matthew Tanner      "     January 14,1797.
Samuel                     "    December 24, 1798.
Martha                      "    June 22, 1801.
Nancy                        "   August 16, 1803.
Richard Hazelwood  "   January 7, 1806.

The following birth is shown also-

James Harva (?) Singer born July 20, 1819 (No relationship to the family shown)

                                       3.
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In 1845, Patsey Tanner was in Decatur County, Indiana; she was born August 7, 1777. She stated then that she was present at the wedding of her sister, Sally, to Richard Crittenden: she stated also that she married Imetus Tanner January 15,1793.

Very truly yours,

A.D. Hiller,
Assistant to Administrator.

Note.
In the Richard Crittenden claim - R-2491- the soldier's name is shown as Richard Hazelwood Crittenden on family record. He signed Richard Crittenden when he applied for pension.
Next time use Richard Hazelwood Crittenden throughout history -  Mrs. Finch.