Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 21,716, William Crane, S.C.
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SERVICE
S.C.

Crane, William

NUMBER
S. 21.716

Borwin, S.C.
CONTENTS
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23172
South Carolina
William Crane of Grenville in the State of S. Car was a pr in the _____ commanded by Captain ______ of the Regt commanded by Col Fair-- in the So Car line for 6 months

Inscribed on the Roll of So Carolina at the rate of 20 Dollars - Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of Nov. 1832 and sent B. F. Perry - Greenville So. Car.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833 50-
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 34 10-
$60-

Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Nath. Rice Clerk.
Book E Vol.6 Page 64

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Pen Agt Apl 24, 1837
Order to pay 6 April 1838
Order to pay 5 April 1839
let to 3d aud & B F Ferry on 22d May 1840
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6th April 1838 from 4th March 1838 to 4 Sept 1839 Agt notified 9th June 1840
Paid as above from 4 March to 4 Sept 1840. Agent notified 22d June 1841
Paid as above from 4 Sep 1840 to 4 March 1841. Agent notified 27 Nov 1841
Paid as above from 4 Sept. 1841 to 25 March 1842. Agent notified 8 April 1846
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28.066
William Crane

Admd as a Private
6 months
$20
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State of South Carolina
Greenville District 
On this the fifteenth day of October in the year of our Lord 1833 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas now sitting William Crane a resident of Greenville District, State of South Caroline aged sixty seven years 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 7, 1832

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. He first volunteered for three months under Captain George Avery in the Spring of 1782 - was stationed at Orangeburgh in South Carolina under the command of Col William Fair of the South Carolina Militia. He served the whole of this tour at Orangeburgh. The second tour he volunteered again in the fall of the year 1782 for three months under the command of Lieutenant William Henby- This tour he served in an expedition against the Cherokee Indians under the command of Col William Fair He was stationed same time near a place called the "Pine Loy" the troops under Col Fair with the Georgia troops in the Cherokee Nation under the command of Col Clark. There was no regular engagement with the Indians but some skirmish-- He lived in Union
district, South Carolina when he entered the service - He volunteered both tours.  he was with no continental regiment, or regular officers. He has no documentary evidence and knows of no one, except Ira Farmer whose testimony he can procure as to his services. - John
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Farmer, who now draws a pension, served with this applicant the tour, in which he went against the Cherokee Indians, and will make affidavit to the fact. This applicant was born in Union District, State of South Caroline in the year 1766. He has no record of his age but knows that he was sixteen years old when he first volunteered in 1782 - was living in Union district when called into the service and has lived in Spartanburg and Greenville District ever since the revolutionary war. He never receive a written discharge- He is known in his present neighborhood to Robert Nelson, David Jackson, William King and others who can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution. He hereby relinquishes any 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
[signed William X Crane his mark

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Jno Daniel C.C.P.

We Thos Hutchings a Clergyman residing in the District of Greenville and Robert Nelson residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Crane who has subscribed and sworn to the above declared that we believe him to be sixty seven years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
[signed] 
Mos Hutchings 
Robert Nelson
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories presented by the war department that the above applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states - And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that  Thos Hutchings who signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the district of Greenville and that Robert Nelson who has also signed the same is a resident of
Greenville district and is a a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
J S Richardson Judge

I James McDaniel Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and General sessions of Greenville District do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of William Crane for Pension

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 15th day of October 1833-
J McDaniel C.C.P.
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Revolution 
21716
INVALID.
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File No. 21.716
William Crane
Pri Rev War
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Act: June 7" 32
Index:--Vol. 2, Page 85
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office
June 6th, 1840

Sir: 

Under the act of 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," William Crane, a Pensioner of the Roll of the S. Carolina Agency, at the rate of Twenty Dollars per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1838 to the 4th Sept. 1839. 

Respectfully yours, 
Albion K Parris
Comptroller

To the Commissioner of Pensions, 
Present.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
June 14th, 1841

Sir:

under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," William Crane, a Pensioner of the Roll of the South Carolina Agency, at the rate of Twenty Dollars per annum, under the law of the 4th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March, to the 4th Sept, 1840. 

Respectfully yours, 
Albion K Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions, 
Present.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
November 10th, 1841.

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," William Crane, a Pensioner of the Roll of the S. Carolina Agency, at the rate of Twenty Dollars per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department from the 4th of Sept., 1840 to the 4th March 1841, 

Respectfully yours, 
Albion K Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions, 
Present.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, 
October 31st, 1845

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, the Executor of William Crane, a Pensioner on the Roll of the South Carolina Agency, at the rate of Twenty Dollars per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1841 to the 25th March 1842. 

Respectfully yours, 
Albion K Parris
Comptroller.

To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS,
Present.