Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 984, Richard Crawford, New Jersey
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
New Jersey
Crawford, Richard
NUMBER
S. 984.

carded
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CONTENTS
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9:475
New Jersey
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Richard Crawford

Monmouth in the State of N. Jersey
who was a Private in the Company commanded 
by Captain Smock of the Regt. commanded 
by Col. Holsey in the N. Jersey Ma[Militia]
for 2 years

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Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 80 Dollars_____Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of May
1838                              and sent BP Monmouth
                                          N. Jersey
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Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833            $160.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep 33  $40.00
                                                                 $200.00
               {Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832.}
  
Recorded by Geo. B. Whiting Clerk
Book E   Vol. 3   Page 105
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State of New Jersey}
Monmouth} on this 10th day of July 1832 personally appered [appeared] before one John Patterson, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Monmouth, Richard Crawford who cannot from bodily infirmity attend Court. A resident of the Township of Middletown in the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey, aged 76 years on the 13th day of July last past, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the Benefit of the act of Congress Paid the 7th day of June 1832 - that he entered the Service of the United States under the following Named officers and served as herein after stated:

1 Q - Where and in what year were you born?
A - I was born in the Township of Middletown, County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey on the 13th day of July 1756.

2 Q - Have you any record of your age and if so Where is it? 
A - His age is set down in his father's old account Book; that is, the day and year of his Birth in his fathers hand Writing and now in his Paper and here Shune [shown].  

3 Q - Where Were you living when called into Services?  Where have you lived since the revolutionary War -- and where do you live now?
A - He was living in the Township of Middletown with his father when called into Service and has continued to live in the Same Place ever since.

4 Q - How was you called into Services?  Was you drafted?  Did you vollenteer [volunteer]-- or was you a Substitute, and, if a Substitute for whome [whom]? 
A - He was first drafted to go to meet the British who had made there [their] landing on Long Island -- under Capt John Smock.  This was, he thinks, about the Time he become old enuff [enough] to be called.  

5 Q - Is your name on any Pension Role of any Agency of any State?
A - His Name is Not in any agency of any state and that he hereby relinquishes every clame [claim]whatever to a pention [pension] or ennuity [annuity].
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Except the present -- that he has no Documentary evidence as he known of John Eldrige, John Nawlen, John Bennett, James Herbert, are all Sholders [soldiers] of the revolution Were out With this Deponent and can Testify to his Services.  

State the Names of Some of the regular officers who were with the Troops where you Served -- such Continentle [continental] regiments or Militia regiment, as you can recollect, and the general Curcomstances of your Services.
-- A -- He recollect of Seeing General Washing, Lord Starlen, General Putman at Trinten When he Was out there.  His first Capt. Was John Smock.  He Was under the Command of Smock 6 or 7 months in his regular Ture [tour], one Month out, and the Next he remaned [remained] at home.  So month and month about and the month he Was off Duty He Was every Night either in some place of Safty [safety] or With the Scout.  His next Capt. Was Jos. Stillwell.  He Was out 4 or 5 months in the Same Way as he Was under Smock.  His Next Capt. Was Peter Schenck about 3 Months.  This Service Was Performed in the Same Way as it Was under Smock.  His next Capt. Was Carhart.  He was out under him 2 or 3 Munts [months] in the Same Way as above Stated. His next Capt. Was Shepherd.  He Was about 4 ments [months] With him. The truth is, he, this diponent Says he Was cut either on his Monthely [monthly] Tower [tour]--or a Night With the [ill.] Nerely [Nearly] all the Ware [War] for he Dare not stay at home for fear of the refugees and Toreys [Tories] taking him off.  They Were first marched to amboy and then they were order back to monmouth as a g[u]ard to the Shores. He was in the Battle of Monmouth under the Command of Asher Holmes as there [their] Colonel.  Capt. Smock was his Capt.  There was a man Shot by his Side. The British had Several killed. This Was in a Small Scrimmage with a Small party on the flank of the mane [main] army.  He Was out With the Militia When Wm Stephens Was Taken at the Gut near Sandy Hook. He Was out When 1500 [ill.] of and in the Scrimmage. When the houses at Middletown Were burnt and at Garretts Hill.
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This deponent further sayeth that, through the Whole of the revolutionary War, he Was from his first being called out, to the end of the war, either out in his monthely [monthly] Tower [tour]or With the Scout at Nights or in Some Swamp or barn Secreted from the Enemy for he Done not Stay a Night in his fathers [ill.]. 
                                 Richard Crawford

I remain [ill.] before me
the day and year above.┃
John Patterson

State of New Jersey, Monmouth} 
Before me, John Patterson, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Monmouth, Personally appered the under Subscribed Solder [soldier] of the Revolution, Who being duly sworn on the holey [holy] angles [angels]of almity [almighty] God, Did Depose and say that they know Richard Crawford, the Within applicant, and knew him as a Solder [soldier] in the Militia at that Time - Saw him out in arms -- but how long they can't say.  But from What they knew of his Statement to be true, and from there [their] knowledge of his being out and from the Correcter [character]he then Bene [been] and now [ill.], They Believe the Statement he has made is entitled to full credit.
John Nowlan
John Carhart
Sworn and Subscribed
before me the 10th day of August 1832
John Patterson

And the said John Patterson, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Monmonth, doth hereby certify that the said Richard Crawford is the within applicant, is not able to attend Court by reson [reason] of Bedyle [Bedle] infirmity, and I am of the oppinioning [opinion] after the investigation of the Matter - and after Putting the interrogatories                         
                                             (over)
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Richard Crawford 20220

Prescribed by the Ware [War]Department
that the above applicant was a Revolutionary Solder [soldier] and Served as he States.  And
I do further Certify that it appears to me
that John Nowlen and John Carhart who
have Signed the preceeding affidavit are old Soldiers of the Revolutionary War - Residents in the Township of Middletown, County of Monmouth, Credable [credible] Persons,
and that there [their] statement is Intitled  [entitled] to Credit under oath or other wise.
                            John Patterson
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State of New Jersey Supplementary affidavit of Richard Crawford 
Monmouth [ill.], [ill.]

Personally appered [appeared] before me the undersigned, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Monmouth, this 9th day of March 1833, Richard Crawford, Who being Duly Sworn - deposeth
and Saith that, by reason of old age and the Consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the Precise Length of his Service, but according to the Best of his recollection, he served not less than the Periods mentioned below and in the following grades -- For six months as a privat[e] under Capt Smock. For four months as a privat[e] under Capt. Stillwell.
For three months under Capt. Schenk as a Privat[e].
For two months under Capt. Carhart as a Privat[e].
For four months under Capt. Shephard as a Privat[e].
For four months under Capt. Henderson as a Privat[e].  
This he Did not Recollect under his first Examination.  For two mont[h]s under Capt. Horn as a privat[e], not Recollected in his first Examination - For two mont[h]s under Capt. Walling as a privat[e], Not Recollected at the first Examination.  He is tenable that the Time mentioned is much Within the time he serviced in the Ware [War] of the Revolution. 
                                            Richard Crawford
Sworn and Subscribed
the Day and year above
Mentioned before me
John Patterson
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I, the Subscriber Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the County of Monmouth, in the State of New Jersey, do hereby Certify that John Patterson to whom this annexed application was made and before whom the foregoing affidavits were taken was at the
several times of taking the same & now is one of the images of the said Court duly enrolled in my office & that full faith & credit are due & ought to be given to all his official acts as such & that the name of John Patterson, subscribed thereto, is the proper handwriting
of the said image.
In testimony, whereof I have
hereunto set my hand & affixed
the seal of said Court at Freehold
this sixteenth day of March, 
Eighteen hundred & thirty three
D. H. Ellis Clerk
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Rev War.   INVALID. [ill].
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File No. 984
Richard Crawford
Priv. N.J. Mil. 
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Act: June 7, 1832.
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 20
{Arrangement of 1870.}
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Richard Crawford

[in light pencil]: 
[ill. ill.]



[in light pencil]: 
Per 2 years - $80
Capt. Smock
Col. Holmes

[ill.)
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of
Richard Crawford, which require further proof or explanation.

I.  Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?
III.  If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?
V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amout [sic] of pension he is entitled?
No, see Quere 5
VI.  Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?
VII.  Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? 
No, he has by the 5 [ill.] Look at it.  
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?
No
IX.  Has the Clerk given his certificate?
No
X.  Is the Clerk's seal affixed?
 And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? 
No
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to
their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
XIV. + If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath,
certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
No.  See Quere 14
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?
No.
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. ++ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?
No. see Quere 11. [The number '11' is handwritten over a faint number '16']. 
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
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EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For____year____months, and_____days, I served as a____________; For______months, and_____days, I served as a____________; and for such service I claim a pension.
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     It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service.  The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable.  It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either
in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.

+QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged.  The magistrate, who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
++QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
>In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of
office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.