Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2450, Lewis Crane, Ga
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Ga    Crane, Lewis     R. 2450
                   Sophia
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Sophia Crane
            Ala
(illegible( 4th July 1836
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Th Lumpkin
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The State of Alabama
Pike county 
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On this 10th day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty two before the Probate Court in and for said county the same being a Court of Record, and so declared by the law creating it, personally appeared in open court William Crane a resident of said county aged 83 years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4th 1836, and July 7th 1838 and acts amendatory thereof that he is a Son of Lewis Crane, who was a private in the war of the Revolution and served as much as two years - that he entered the Service about the time of the Seige of Augusta in the State of Georgia - that he was under Captain Morrison and Captain Ellison or Allison and under Col Jackson, but he is unable to State how long he served under each, that he dose not know in what State he entered the Service, nor by what State the officer, aforesaid were Commissioned and employed 
that said Lewis Crane died in the State of Georgia about the first day of December in this year Eighteen hundred and nine - that said Lewis Crane left a widow whose name was Sophia and that said widow also died on the fifteenth day of June in year eighteen hundred and forty. That Lewis Crane and Sophia were married in the State of North Carolina
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but this affiant is not able to State in what county that he is informed and verily believes they were married as early as the year Seventeen hundred and sixty-five that her name before her marriage Sophia Leggett - that when said widow died she left two children and heirs and whose names are Jemima Smith and William Crane this applicant - and that he make this declaration for the purpose of obtaining for himself and the said Jemima the pension due their said mother when she died. 
Sworn to & subscribed in open court this 10th day May A.D. 185 [signature of William Crane]

[signature of Bird Fitzpatrick]
Judge of Probate
Pike Co Ala
The State of Alabama
Pike county SS

I Bird Fitzpatrick, Judge of the court of Probate in and for the county and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that at the Regular term of the probate Court in and for said court begun and held in and for said county on the 10 day of May 1852, Satisfactory proof was exhibited to said court that Lewis Crane died on the first day of December in the year Eighteen hundred and nine, that he left a widow whose name was Sophia Crane, and the said Sophia died on the fifteenth day of June Eighteen hundred and forty.
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and that she was the widow of the said Crane when she died she left only two Children and heirs who now reside in the county of Pike and State of Alabama and those names are Jemima Smith and William Crane - and I further certify that the foregoing are the original proceeding of said court in the matter of the application of the said William Crane for arrears of pension due to the said Sophia Crane when she died.

In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and offisced the official seal of said court this the 10 day of May A.D. 1852.

[seal affixed]

Bird Fitzpatrick
Judge of Probate
Pike Co Ala
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The State of Alabama
Pike county SS

Personally appeared before me, Jason Tyson, a Justice of the Peace, Thomas Smith, who being duly Sworn according to law deposeth and saith on oath that his age is about seventy-eight years that he first knew Lewis Crane and Sophia Crane in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy-seven (1777) & they were living together as husband and wife and lived together up to Lewis Crane's death, according to what he has hear Lewis and Sophia Crane say they were married in the year Seventeen hundred and sixty-five (1765) in the State of North Carolina and that he knew the Children William Crane and Jemima Smith in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy-seven (1777) and they appeared to be four or five years of age and that he has been well acquainted with them ever Since that time and that Lewis Crane died in the State of Georgia sometime in the year Eighteen hundred and nine (1809) that he was near him at the time of his death. That he has been acquainted with the family ever since his recollection and that Sophia Crane died on the 15th day of June in the year Eighteen hundred and forty (1840) according to the best of my recollection and remembrance and I verrily believe that she died on that day. That he has heard Lewis Crane say that he had served two or three years in the revolutionary war that he is not in position which that he has heard Lewis Crane say that he was at the Siege of Augusta and that he believes that Lewis Crane did serve as afore said. Sworn to and [ineligible] before me May 8th A.D. 1852. Jason Tyson J.P.  Thomas Smith 

{Thomas Smith's name has a cross off in between his first and last name, with an illegible word above the cross and the word mark below it]
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I Jason Tyson a Justice of the peace do hereby certify that Thomas Smith whose name appears to the within affidavit is a Respectable and credible witness and a man of sound Judgement. May 8th A. D.  1852. Jason Tyson J.P.

Know all men by these presents that I do hereby constitute and appoint Jason Tyson my true and lawful attorney for and in my name to prosecute and attend to the allowance of a certain claim which I have asserted against the United States for Pension William Crane being of Lewis and Sophia Crane before the Commissioners of pensions the Secretary of Interior and any department of the Government or the Congress of the United States and my said Attorney is authorized and empowered one or more attorneys under him to make and constitute for the purposes aforesaid hereby ratifying and confirming what my said attorney and those by him constituted may do in the premises Witness my hand and seal this 10th day of May A.D. 1852.
Signed, sealed, and delivered in the presents of attest Bird Fitzgerald Judge of Probate
The State of Alabama Pike county SS

[Seal is handwritten with a loopy box around it]
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personally appeared before me Jason Tyson a Justice of the peace William Crane and acknowledged the above Power of attorney to be his free act and deed. Witness my hand and seal this the 10th day of May A.D. 1852. Jason Tyson J.P. [handwritten seal]

[there is a large area that is cross hatched]

The State of Alabama 
Pike county SS
I Bird Fitzpatrick Judge of the court of Probate {and exofficio Clerk and Redgister of Deeds) do hereby certify that Jason Tyson is one of the Justices of the peace in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified and the foregoing Signature purporting to be his is genuine. Witness my hand and seal of office this the 10th day of May A.D. 1852. 
Bird Fitzpatrick
Judge of Probate
Pike Co Ala

[seal affixed]
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Service
Georgia
Crane, Lewis
Sophia
Number R. 2450
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Ga
Crane, Lewis     R 2450
             Sophia
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State of Georgia
Richmond County
This is to certify, that Lewis Crane hath steadfastly done his duty, from the time of paping? an act at Augusta to wit: on the 20th day of August, 1781 until the total expulsion of the British from this state; and the said Lewis Crane can not, to my knowledge or belief be convicted of glundering or distreping the County; and is therefore, under  the said Act entitled to a bounty of two hundred and fifty acres of good land, free from taxed for ten years.
Given under my hand at Pleasant Hill the 26 day of March 1784.
G. C. Lee, Col.
Executive Department Ga.
Milledgeville February 18, 1852
I William Steele, Secretary of the Executive Department of Georgia, do hereby certify the above to be a true and correct copy of original certificate which is of file in this Department.
Given under my hand and the Seal of the Executive Department this the 18th day of February A.D. 1852.
Wm Steele
Secry Ex. Dept. GA
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State of Georgia,
To the Honorable the President and the Members of Council, now sitting in Augusta, for the purpose of granting lands in the two new counties of Franklin and Washington.  The petition of Lewis Craine a citizen of the State aforesaid, Sheweth, that your petitioner is entitled to 287 1/2 acres of Land as a bounty for his services, pursuant to the Certificate here into annexed: that your petitioner is desirous of taking up the said land in the county of Washington.
May it therefore please your Honorable Boars to grant your petitioner  two hundred and eighty seven and 1/2  acres of land in the county of Washington, on the right aforesaid, and on his complying with the terms mentioned in the late land act; and your petitioner will pray.
Lewis Craine
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Executive Department Ga,
Milledgeville
I certify that the within is a correct copy of the original petition of file in this office
Given under my hand and the deal of the Executive Department as the Capitol in Milledgeville this the 23d day of February 1882,
By the Governor.
Arthur Hood
Secry Ex. Dept.
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State of Georgia: Rich: County.
This is to certify, that Lewis Crane hath stedfastly done his duty,  from the time of [paping] and ach at Augusta to [nit] on the 20th of August, 1781, until the total expulsion of the British from this State; and the said Lewis Crane cannot, to my knowledge or belief be convicted of Plundering or Distreping [undiscernable] the country; and is therefore, under the said act entitled to a bounty of two hundred and fifty acres of good land, free from taxes for ten years.
Given under my hand at Pleast. Hill, the 21, day of March 1784.
G. C. Lee [Col]
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Executive Department
Milledgeville Ga.
I certify that the within certificate as a 
correct copy of the original of file in the office.
Given under my hand & [and] the seal of
the Executive Department this the
23 [questionable] a day of February 1882.
By the Governor,
Arthur Hood
Secy Ex. Dept.
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The State of Alabama
Pike County                          S.S.

Personally appeared before me Jason Tyson as Justice of the Peace Thomas Smith who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and says upon oath that his age is about seventy eight years that he first knew Lewis Crane and Sophia Crane about the year Seventeen hundred and seventy seven (1777) and that they were living together as husband and wife and that they lived in Wilks County in the State of Georgia and according to the information of Lewis Crane and Sophia Crane they were married as early as the year seventeen hundred and sixty five (1765) in the State of North Carolina.  The acquaintance with children William Crane and Jemima Smith took place at the same time it did with there [their] father and mother and they appeared to be about seven or eight years of age Lewis Crane died in the State of Georgia in the year eighteen hundred and nine (1809) which comes under my own knowledge and is time according to the best of my recollection, and that Sophia Crane died in the year eighteen hundred and forty. (1840) on the fifteenth day of June according to the best recollection and that he verrily [verily] believe she died on that day and that he has heard Lewis Crane say the he had served in the revolutionary war and that he was at the Siege of Augusta and that it was the general oppinion [opinion] of the people that knew Lewis Crane that he was a soldier in the revolutionary war. This the day of December A.D. 1851.
             his
Thomas X Smith
         mark
Sworn to and Subsenbed before me December the ninetenth [nineteenth] day A.D. 1851
Jason Tyson J.P.
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Service
GA
Crane, Lewis
Sophia
Number
R. 2450
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Service
GA
Crane, Lewis
Sophia
R. 2450
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Service
GA
Crane, Lewis
Sophia
Number
R. 2450
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Service
GA
Crane, Lewis
Sophia
R. 2450
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Service
GA
Crane, Lewis
Sophia
Number
R. 2450
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Service
GA
Crane, Lewis
Sophia
Number
R. 2450
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Washington
May 10th 1852
Wherewith under the declaration Wm Crane, son and heir of Sophia Crane, widow of Lewis Crane,
of Alabama.
Act 4th July1836 and the certificate Col See
and the petition of said

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Crane
Sophia Crane
Lewis Crane
Ala- 1838
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Washington DC January 22nd 56
Sir
The enclosed deed I found in my papers. I am under the impression that I filed same papers in the same case one year ago. If so be pleased to inform me what if anything you need and still urge to the allowance of the case.
Very [illegible]
W. Samuelson
H J. [illegible]