Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34262, Jonathan Cressey, Continental (Conn.)
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In reply to your request of,  received 
for a statement of the military history of Jonathan Cressey
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below to
information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen-
sion on file in this Bureau.
S. File 34, 262
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT | 
LENGTH OF SERVICE | RANK | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
( CAPTAIN)/  (COLONEL) | STATE

Summer 1779 |  April 1783 | Dragoon | Jeronimus Hoogland | Elisha Sheldon | 2nd Continental Dragoons

Disch. at Danbury, Conn.

Battles engaged in,
Residence of soldier at enlistment,
Date of application for pension, April 9, 1818 
Residence at date of application, Rowe, Mass.
Age at date of application, almost 53 years
Remarks: In July 1820 he claimed to be fifty-six and referred to 
his wife prudence as 52 yrs + children Lovina age 20 Washington 18 years
Jonathan age 14 yrs + Noah 11 years
(office not cannot identify soldier with alleged service)
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State of New York 
Rensselaer County Elijah Janes
being duly sworn deposeth & says, that at
the close of the Revolutionary War
he was a Lieutenant & Pay Master of
the 2nd Regimennt of Light Dragoons comanded
 by Colone Elisha Sheldon, that
he finds the name of Jonathan Cresey
a dragoon belonging to the third Troop
of said Regiment commanded by Captain 
Jeronemus Hoogland  on the last muster 
Roll of said Trrop now in this deposeth 
possession, from which it appears
that the said Jonathan Cresey enlisted in
the said Troop on the first day
of May in the year 1782, & served therein until
the close discharged the War & was honorably
discharged 
---
Elijah James

Sworn & subscribed
the word "Regiment" obliterated & "Troop"
interlined before swearing the 
12th day of November
in the year 1818
before me W. Raleigh Justice of the Peace
for Rensselaer County in the State of

New York