Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2475, Charles Crawley, S.C. Sea Service
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S C Sea Service
Crawley, Charles or Crowly
Hannah
R 2475
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Declaration &c.
of Charles Crawley, Eleanor Glen, wife of John Glen and and of the said John Glen in right of his said wife and Mary Smith, widow of Samuel W Smith deceased, made to obtain from government the arrears of pension due to their Mother Mrs. Hannah Crawley at the time of her decease by virtue of the several acts of Congress, as widow of Captain Charles Crawley, their father, for his Revolutionary services.
Showeth that they, the said Charles Crawley, Eleanor Glen and Mary Smith are the only children of Captain Charles Crawley of the Revolution and Hannah Crawley, the said Captain Crawley was never married to any other wife but his said widow and they never had any other children but your petitioner except for an infant who died while two years of age then said Father intermarried with his said widow in the State of Pennsylvania, on the sixth day of July Anno Domini (1780), seventeen hundred eighty.  That he entered into the service at during the revolutionary war as a Captain in the Navy of South Carolina and faithfully and steadfastly served therein and more particularly, during the period from the year 1779 to the year 1783, as well appear by an indented certificate from the State of South Carolina, a true copy whereof is annexed.  Your petitioners further humbly represent the suffered in company with his
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and more particularly during the period from the year 1779 to the year 1783, as will appear by an indented certificate from the State of South Carolina a true copy whereof is annexed.  Your petitioners further humbly represent the suffered in company with his widow.  The difficulties and privations evident to the revolutionary warfare, they further show that the said Captain Crawley departed this life in the summer in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and three (1803) and that his said widow never intermarried after his decease, and that she departed this life on the ninth day of June in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty six (1836).  And your petitioners further show that the commission held by the said Captain Crawley, signed by John Rutledge as Governor of South Carolina was in the possession of your petitioner Charles Crawley and destroyed while the schooner Carolina was blown up on the 27th of December 1814.  He then being an officer of the said vessel. Your petition
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Humbly pray that their said case together with the accompanying  proofs may receive the due and favorable consideration of the Department, and the relief and recompense to which they are entitled in the premises be granted.
And they will ever respectfully Pray,

C E Crowly, ( signed ) 
Ellen C Glen ( signed ) 
Jno Glen ( signed ) 
Mary G Smith ( signed ) 

I, Jacob Axson, Recorder of the City of Charleston and Judge of the City Court of Charleston do hereby certify that Charles Crawley, Mrs. Eleanor Glen, John Glen her husband Mary Smith widow of S W Smith, [illegible] personally appear before me  severally sworn to & subscribed the foregoing declaration.
Jacob Axson ( signed ) 
Recorder of the City of Charleston and Judge of the City Court
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( top pf page is completed  from previous page with seal )  Office of the City Court of Charleston  I do certify that the  Honorable Jacob Axson , the Recorder of the City of Charleston  & Judge of the City Court of Charleston  & that his  signature attached to the  foregoing document is his true & genuine signature. Witness my hand a & the seal of the City of Charleston this 26th day of April in the year of  our Lord  one thousand  eight  hundred & forty one  & sixty fifth year of American Independence.  F.S. Ward ( signed / sealed ) Clk
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[ State of South Carolina City of Charleston ] Personally appeared before me  Charles E Crowley who being sworn in due form of law  made oath that he hath always understood from  conversations with his Mother Mrs. Hannah Crowley  that his father was engaged in the  naval service of South Carolina during the revolutionary war that he was in action before and at the siege of Charleston, in naval attacks upon the enemy , that he did command a ship called the  Marquis of Brittany  he further saith that such was traditional information  of the family  and his commission signed by John Rulledge was kept by the family & was afterwards put in possession of deponent, and was destroyed on 27th December 1814, by blowing up the British  st New Orleans, of the schooner Carolina in which the deponent was the Second Lieutenant and he further saith that the only children of  said Father & Mother , were Mrs. Eleanor  Glen , Mary G  Smith and himself, all of whom are now living in  Charleston the other child being an infant  who died when two years old.  and that his said parents were never married, but , in their marriage to each other , and her further deposeth that the annexed marriage certificate is their  true & genuine certificate of marriage and
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as such  has been carefully kept in the family since the earliest recollection of this deponent. C E Crawley ( signed )  The foregoing deposition  Sworn to  & subscribed before this 23rd day of April 1841  T. O. Elliot ( signed ) Magistrate  These are to certify  whom it may concern , that Charles Crawley & Hannah Marshall  made their appearance at that Parsonage house in the communion with the Church of Sweden, common called  W .. ( illegible )   in Pennsylvania and North America , and were pronounced man and wife the  Sixth day of July Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and eighty , by me  Andrew Goeransson ( signed )
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[ State of South Carolina City of Charleston ] Personally appeared before Jacob R. Valk who being sworn in due form of law  saith that he was well acquainted with Captain Charles Crawley  of the revolution and also his widow who was a relative of the deponent - Captain Chever had but this wife being but once married Mrs. Crowley  widow resided constantly in Charleston where  she died and continued the widow of Captain Crowley  to her death. this deponent  was well acquainted with the family all the children are the following - Mr. Charles Crowley ,  Mrs. Eleanor Glen wife of John Glen an officer of the  Planters & Mechanics Bank of Charleston  , and a Mary Smith  widow of Samuel W Smith  deceased all of whom are now settled residents of the City of Charleston . Jacob R. Valk ( signed ) The foregoing deposition Sworn to and subscribed before me this 23rd day of April 1841 Before me T. O. Elliot ( signed ) Magistrate
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REJECTED  2475 Hannah Crawley
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(post mark ) [ CHARLESTON S.C. ]  FREE  To J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C. ( vertical note ) ( March )
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Charleston April 26, 1841 Dear Sir, I have the honor to transmit by the same mail the claims of Mr. C E Crawley , Mrs. Glen & her husband Mr. John Glen and Mrs. Smith  to arrears of a Pension due to their Mother  also Hannah Crowley for the revolutionary services of her husband  & their Father Capt. Chs Crowley . the proofs furnished are 1st Marriage certificate  showing the marriage to have taken place in 1780 - connected with deposition  of Mr. Valk a relative of the family  And rec'd the Indented Certificate furnished by the Comptroller General showing that an Indent was issued to him for three years service in  Navy  of South Carolina during the Revolutionary War, the said proofs we respectfully submit establish the facts of a marriage during the service  the fact of a  three year service in the Navy  is established by issue of the Indent - I also procured the deposition of one of the oldest citizens of our City  & who I  understand is a Pensioner , as to his recollections as to Captain Crawley during the  Revolution I allude to the deposition  of Mr. John Cart .. ( illegible )  while  I respectfully
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call your attention to the favorable consideration  afore you that the high & unquestionable  respectability of the parties give to their claim every advantage said which this circumstance can afford and also to make the requests that if this inadvertently  a want of experience & skill in  preparing  these cases any imperfection or defect in the proof should be discovered that you would  suggest the same & enable us to supply such deficiency  . I  .. ( illegible ) to crave this indulgence in consequence of my full connection of the merits & truth of the claim  And remain respectfully your obt servant . T.O. Elliot ( signed ) Attorney for the Parties       Jas L Edwards Esq Comm of P...
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[ State of South Carolina City of Charleston ] Personally appeared before me John Cart Senior -a witness  now in Eightieth year of his age - who being sworn in due form of law  saith that he was well acquainted with Captain Charles Crawley of the Revolution - and he  knew him as an  naval officer in the service of the State of South Carolina during the revolutionary war  and the deponent  here particularly remembers  him as commanding a galley  then employed in defense of Charleston and thinks that  I was at the time of the invasion a Prevost - at that time he was younger that  Captain Crawley , he afterwards  knew him  he was in mercantile business in Charleston after the revolution and conducted business in  firm of  Cross & Crowley and it  was always well known and understood  that he  had been in the naval service of the State in the revolution - He also  well knew  that he married and had a family in Charleston and that he  left his widow in Charleston after his death and that Mrs. Crowley  resided and died in Charleston .  John Cart ( signed ) The foregoing deposition  sworn to  & subscribed  this 23rd day of April 1841 before T.O. Elliot ( signed ) Magistrate
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[Office of Common Pleas ] I B.R. Carroll  Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the district of Charleston  do hereby certify that  Thomas O. Elliot  whose name is subscribed to the foregoing affidavit , to wit,  the affidavit of W.E. Crawley , Jacob R. Valk, and John Cart is a Magistrate for the  District aforesaid, and that the signature thereto purporting to be his is genuine. Given under my hand  and the seal of the said Court  this  twenty sixth day of April  in the year of  our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty one. B. R. Carroll ( signed / sealed )  C.C.P.
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[ South Carolina } Pursuant to an act of the General Assembly  passed the sixteenth of  March 1783 . We  the Commissioners of the Treasury  have this day delivered  to Captain Charles Crowley  this our Indented Certificate  for the sum of Four Hundred and forty four pounds seventeen shillings and one penny  half penny sterling for pay  due him as Captain in the Navy of this State in 1780, 1781, 1782, & 1733 pr acct. passed by the Comm. of accounts  the said Charles Crowley his Executors  Administrators or assigns will be entitled to receive from this  office, the sum of  thirty one pounds, two shillings  & nine pence on demand for one year  interest on the  principal sum of  Four hundred forty four pounds seventeen shillings and one penny &  1/2 penny  and the like interest annually. The said Charles Crowley  his Executors Administrators of assigns will be entitled also to receive , and shall be paid if demanded, the Principal sum of  Four hundred and forty four  pounds, seventeen shillings and one penny  , 1/2 penny  on the sixteenth of August  1787 . And the said  Charles Crowley  his Executor  Administrators or assigns may make any  purchases at any public  sales of confiscated
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Property ( except such as shall be ordered by the Legislature for special purposes ) ;  and this  Indent shall be received in payment. For the true performance of the several payments in manner above  mentioned, the Public Treasury is made liable  and the faith of the State pledged by the act aforesaid. Given under our  Hands at the Treasury Office in Charleston  the sixteenth day of August one thousand eight hundred & eighty five.  Peter Bocquet ( signed ) Commissioner of the Treasury                                               Lb 444. 17 . 1 1/2  Principal                                                                   Lb 31. 2. 9 . Annual Interest                                 [ No 382 Book W ] Comptroller's Office Charleston S.C.   I William Edward Hayne  Comptroller General of  South Carolina do certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the original Indent  granted by the State of South Carolina   to Captain Charles Crawley  for his pay as Captain in the Navy of South Carolina as therein  stated and that the said indent  is now in file in this office, the same having been  paid and cancelled. Given under  my hand this 18th day of March 1841. Wm. Ed. Hayne ( signed ) Comptroller Genl.
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Charles Crawley d. Hannah Crawley  m. 1780 in Pa. and died June 9, 1836  Capt in Navy  S.C. to 1783  Children Charles Crawley , Eleanor Glen  wife of Jno., Mary Smith  - etc.
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( left page ) 5355 ( right page ) ( check mark ) 5355 Crawley Hannah heirs of  South Carolina July 4 1836  ( Page overlapping  the above ) Hannah Crawley 5355 Let. to T. O. Elliot  May 6th .. Hannah Crawley 2475