Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17,902, Charles Crook, Continental N.H.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE Continental  N. H.
Crook Charles 
NUMBER S. 17902
carded
CONTENTS
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( left page ) Letter to A Cronley  & 3rd Auditor  13 Aug  1839 , Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6th April 1838 from 4th  Sept. 1857 to 4 Sept .1838  the day of his death. Agent notified 31 Aug. 1839.  1872 April 27  Hon  W S Sessions - that children or heirs have no claim  for arrears to  date of death  & rep'd ( see above )  precluded by Act  April 2 1842  ( vertical note ) ( Letter to Hon. M. Fillmore 27 Jny '34 ( right page ) 24,441 Buffalo Charles Crook Erie co. in the State of New York  who was a private in the company commanded by  Captain  __ of the reg't commanded by Col. Beattle  in the N. York line for 20 mo 20 dys N.H.  Inscribed on the Roll of Buffalo at the rate of  68 Dollars and 86 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831. Certificate of Pension issued  the 21 day of Dec.  1833   and sent Hon . M. Fillmore H Reps. Arrears to the 4th of Sept.  1833  $ 172.1 _ Semi-anl. allowance ending  4 March  '34 $ 34.4 _ ( total $ 206.5_ )  {Revolutionary Claim  Act June 7, 1832. } Recorded by W.L. Williams  Clerk Book E Vol. 4 Page 8
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( left page ) Charles Crook  2yrs & upwards 8217 Admitted Private 20 mo  & 20 days  If placed on the Pension Roll Mr. Crook will be asked to be pd at Buffalo . N.K. Hall Agt. Buffalo N. Y.  found on Post Comp  Roll for 2 mo & 4 ds  alleges 3 yrs in Hagen's  Reg't  See affidavit of Moody Bald 6 mo & 16 days  Hon  .. ( illegible )  misc. numbers  ( right page and vertical  )  the said affidavit and certificate . this deponent further says that he   has certified the said Charles Crook   & also signed  & sworn to   by a  ...  the said  Ephriam Rose who is now dead, And further this deponent  saith not.  Sworn and subscribed  before me  this 29th day of August  1832.  Deloss Warren  ( signed ) James Stryker ( signed ) Judge of  Erie County Court
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[ State of New York County of Erie ] On this the 25th day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and  thirty two  before the Honorable James Stryker one of the Judges of the Court of Common  Pleas  of said County  at the  Town of Aurora in said County  personally appeared  Charles Crook a resident of the Town of Holland in said County of Erie and State of New York aforesaid  aged seventy  seen years and upwards , 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  & served as he states. That on the first day of June 1775  he enlisted in the   Town of Piermont  in the  County of Grafton in the  State of New Hampshire under  Captain  Nelson , Lieutenant Abraham Palmer, Ensign Clapp, for six months and  was stationed at  Haverhill and stayed there 6 weeks under the command of Col. Timothy Beattle  , can't recollect the names of the other  Regimental officers and then marched to Burlington on lake Champlain where we took the  boats and  men down the lake to a place called  Aux Noix where we joined the Brigade under the command of General Richard Montgomery  and the next morning  we passed down the river until we arrived and landed and encamped and the next morning we marched down the river about a mile and a half before  St. John which was then in possession of the enemy where there was a small party of the enemy  and proceeded to dislodge the enemy   and then encamped in the same place where the enemy had been encamped and remained there 5 or 6 weeks engaged in  trying to recapture the fort at St. John during which time there was more or less commanding  in the fore part of November .. ( illegible )  the 3rd or 4th day of the month  the enemy surrendered and gave up the fort where he this deponent  remained in consequence of being taken sick until the six months  for which  I enlisted had expired at which I returned home. This deponent further says that  on the 16th day of July  1777 he this deponent volunteered under Captain Post, Lieutenant Ephriam Patterson , the Ensign he cannot recollect in the  Town of Orford in the County of Grafton  New Hampshire
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and engaged for three months and marched from Orford  aforesaid under the command of Col. Charles Johnson to  Charlestown in New Hampshire on the  Connecticut river where we joined General Starks' Brigade and remained there about 4 days  when we crossed the river and in  the afternoon we were ordered to march to  of  Bennington in  Vermont  where we remained 2 or 3 days when we were ordered to march to half moon to join the Continental army and we were embodied  and moved out of  Bennington about 3 miles when we were  halted and ordered to march back to Bennington  and on our return and after we had arrived at Bennington we were ordered to take off our packs and then take our places in the ranks  when  Colonel Gregg beat up for volunteers to go with him to Saratoga - who  obtained I think about 90 and started off. The next morning we were embodied and marched towards Saratoga about 4 or 5 miles when we met the enemy under the command of Col. Baum in his entrenchments and carried the entrenchments and took or killed most of his men in preparing for the attack on Col. Baum  our army was divided into three parts , two hundred and fifty on each wing and the remainder in the center division and he this deponent was under the immediate command of Col. Nichols White in the engagement and thinks that there was about 300 Hessians taken prisoners. The engagement was from the best of this deponents recollection on the 16th August 1777.  and a few days after the Battle at Bennington we marched under General Starks and soon joined General Gates at Saratoga where I remained until the 3 months for which I had engaged expired which was on the 16th  of October  1777 and which was on the same day that the Battle at Saratoga commenced & at the time of the surrender of Burgoyne. We were called up by General Starks and told by him that we hade served our time and that we were discharged and he this deponent then returned home.
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This deponent further says that in the year 1778 what season of the year he cannot recollect he enlisted under Major Hassentar but from age and infirmity  he cannot recollect the names of his company officers and was commanded by Colonel Moses Hazen  who commanded  what was commonly called the " Congress Regiment " in the New Hampshire line  , that he enlisted  with during the war or for 3 years that he continued in the service three years and until he was discharged by his officers , but did not receive a  written discharge , but that he was stationed most of the time at Newberry  in Vermont under the command of General Baily and that he was engaged in guarding the men that were engaged in cutting out a road from Newberry  in  Vermont to St. John community called the Hazen Road, and was employed in defending  the frontier and this deponent further says that in the year  1781 he was ordered with the other troops to proceed to join as he understood at the time  the  Southern Troops and proceeded as far as Windsor in Vermont in the Connecticut river at which time we were ordered to return back and did immediately return to Newberry . That he was out under the command of Col. Charles Johnson & Major  Whitcum to call off the retreat of the enemy after they had burned Royalton and before we had reached the enemy there was an express arrived with intelligence that the British  were about entering and to attack Newberry and we were ordered back and immediately returned. This deponent further says that  he never received any written discharge, and that he  was born in Haddam in Connecticut on the  19th day of September 1754 but has not any record of his age, but supposes there is one in the Town where he was born. That he lived in Piermont Grafton County when he was called into the service  where he resided about 6 years , and then removed to Corinth in Orange County  Vermont & resided there about 35 years when he removed to the Town of Holland in the County of Eries in the State of New York where he has ever since
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resided and now resides. This deponent  further says that he has no documentary evidence as to prove  the service above set forth except that of his brother Thomas Crook  whose testimony is hereto annexed  and that from bodily  infirmity  he is unable from   bodily infirmity  to attend Court at  Buffalo.   Thos.  Eliakim Howe  Esq. and Ezekiel Colby   with many others in this neighborhood who can testify  in relation to his character for veracity  and their belief of his services as a soldier of the  Revolution & that there is no clergyman  in the  Town or neighborhood where he resides. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present  and he declares that his name is not on the  Pension roll of the agency of any State. Sworn  & subscribed before me this 25th day of August 1832.  Charles Crook ( signed )  James  Stryker  ( signed )   Judge of Erie County Courts .  We Eliakim  Howe  Esq.   & Ezekiel  Colby   of Holland in the County of Erie  and State of New York  hereby certify that we are well acquainted with  Charles Crook who has subscribed  the foregoing declaration  , that we believe him to be seventy  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  & subscribed before me  this 25th day of August  1832. E. Howe ( signed) Ezekiel Colby ( signed ) James Stryker ( signed )  Judge of  Erie Co. Courts I, Johnathan Hoyt a practicing physician of  Aurora in said County  hereby certify that I am well acquainted with  Charles Crook who has subscribed the foregoing deposition , and from inspection  & his previous knowledge of his infirmity  he is clearly  of the opinion that from bodily infirmity  the said  Charles Crook is unable to   attend Court at Buffalo. Sworn  before me this 25th day of  August  1832. Johnathan Hoyt ( signed )  Practicing Physician  James Stryker ( signed )
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State of New York
County of Erie: 
Thomas Crook of Amora in said County being duly sworn depose and says that he is of the age of Eighty years and upwards and is a brother of Charles Crook who subscribed the foregoing declaration to obtain a pension, that in the early part of June 1775 in this deponent & the said
Charles Crook both resided at their fathers in Piermont in the County of Grafton in the State of New Hampshire; that in the early part of the said month of June in that year this Deponent and the said Charles Crook both enlisted under Capt Nelson and entered the service of the United Sates as stated in the foregoing declaration & proceeded to & staid at St Johns until after that place was taken as stated in past declaration. That when he left St Johns which was a few days after that place was taken the said Charles Crook remained there and that he knows nothing year of his service under his first enlistment for six months. And this Deponent further says that he has heard the foregoing declaration of the said Charles Crook that and that he was with the said Charles on their march to and at St Johns & knows he served as therein stated until this Deponent left St Johns

And this deponent further says that in the year 1777 the said Charles Crook enlisted into the American service and that he was so continued by an order of officer by the name of Hossenton & into a Regiment commonly called the Congress Regiment commanded by Col. Hazen and that he understood that the said Charles Crook enlisted for during the was into the said Regiment of the New Hampshire line that the said Charles Crook as he understood and believed & now believes continued in the Continental service three years or more & until near the close of the War.

This deponent further says that the said Charles Crook was generally employed in the
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defence of the Northern frontier and was stationed for a time at Newbury Vermont and that this
deponent at that time resided about eight miles from Newbury aforesaid and at Newbury saw the said Charles Crook my frequently in the American service.

That the most of the time for about three years the said Charles Crook was stationed at Newbury aforesaid and during that time he saw him as often as once in four or six weeks and he recollects of taking his place twice and paying several days to let the said Charles Crook go home. That the said foregoing declaration of the said Charles Crook conforms in substance to what he has ever since the War understood from him & that the said declaration so far as this deponent has any knowledge of the facts therein set forth is strictly true. And further saith not
[signed] Thomas Crook

Sworn & Subscribed before me this 24th day of August 1832
Delos Warren
Justice of the Peace

And I the said judge do herby certify & declare my opinion after investigating the matter and after putting the interrogatories presented by the War Department that the above named applicant Charles Crook was a Revolutionary soldier as he states. And I the said Judge do further
certify that it appears to me that Eliakim Howe & Ezekiel Colly who has signed the foregoing certificate are residents of the town of Holland in said County and That Thomas Crook who has signed the foregoing Affidavit is a resident of the Town of Amora in said County that they an
a credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit. And I do further certify that it appears to me that there is no Clergyman resident in the Town or neighborhood in which the said Charles Crook resides that it would therefore in my opinion be greatly inconvenient for the said Charles Crook to obtain the testimony of a Clergyman in his behalf for the purpose of
showing his character for veracity and his reputation of having a soldier of the Revolution. And I the said Judge do further Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings
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in the matter of the application of the said Charles Crook for a pension

and I the said Judge do further certify after an examination of the said applicant and after hearing other proof offered before me that the said Applicant by reason of bodily infirmity is and won't be able to appear in any Court of Record in this County to make the above declaration and submit to the examination required in such cases the said Courts of Record being all held
in the City of Buffalo at a considerable distance from the residence of the said applicant.

Given under my hand & seal at Amora aforesaid this 25th day of August A.D. 1832
James Stryker
Judge of Erie County Courts

State of New York
County of Erie  Clerks Office 
I Noah P. Sprague Clerk of the County of Erie and of the Court of Common Pleas thereof do
hereby certify that the Hon. James Stryker before whom the foregoing proceedings are had in the matter of the application of Charles Crook for a pension was on the day of the date of the said proceedings a Judge of the County Courts of the said County duly appointed from and acting as such and that full faith and credit are to be given to his act in that capacity.

And I do further certify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and that the signature subscribed to the foregoing declaration of the said Charles Crook the affidavit of Ezekiel Colly & Eliakim Howe and the affidavit of Jonathan Hoyt and also to the above certificate of the said Judge are in the proper hand writing of the said Judge and are his genuine signatures
And I do further certify that [illegible] Warren Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit of Thomas Crook was sworn was
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on the day of the date thereof and still is a Justice of the peace of the said County duly elected and from acting as such and the full faith and credit and to legitimate his acts in that capacity
And I further certify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and that the signature subscribed to the Jurat of the said affidavit is genuine

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office the 7th day of August 1832

Noah P. Sprague Clerk of Erie County
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Genesee County ss
On this 5th day of March AD 1830 personally appeared before me Isaac Wilson first Judge of Genesee County Ephraim Root to me personally known to be a man of good moral character
a credible witness who being duly sworn on the holy Evangelist doth depose & say that he is seventy eight years of age, that his evidence during the revolutionary was was in the state of New Hampshire. That he become acquainted with Charles Crook now of Holland Erie Co. N. York in the winter of 1775 That this deponent & the said Charles Crook entered the American service under Col Beede that season, that they went into Canada to St Isle LaFrance &c. That some time in the season of 1777 I thinks in the fall this deponent and the said Charles Crook enlisted for during the war into the American Service under an Office as near as he can recollect 
by the name of Hoselton or Hassington in Col. Hazen's Regt. of the New Hampshire line, then commonly called the Congress Regiment. That for some time they were stationed at New Berry Vermont. That at one time they went down Connecticut River to Windsor on their way to join the army further south & were called back to defend the Northern frontier being at burning of Royalton, that they were generally occupied as Rangers & defenders of the Northern frontier. That towards the close of the war the said Charles Crook with this deponent having served two year or more rec. an honorable although not a written discharge & further saith not. Sworn & 
[signed] Ephraim Root his mark

Subscribed day above written before me
Isaac Wilson First Judge
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[This page was difficult to read and accurately transcribe.] 

State of New York  }
Genesee County    } SS.
I David C Miller Clerk of the County of Genesee
do certify that Isaac Wilson, before whom the within
affidavit appears to have been taken, was at the time of
taking the same. First Judge of Genesee County Court
Commissioned and sworn and duly authorized by the laws
of said State, to take affidavits and further that his
name subscribed to the certificate of [illegible] the same
his hand writing.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of said County this 8th
day of March 1830 -

Daniel C Miller Clk

[illegible] County [illegible]  Deloss Warren of [illegible] in said County being duly sworn
deposes and saith that some time in the spring of the year 1830
the within affiant and the above certificate one lot in the of
fice of this deponent and that Charles Crook of Holland a Friday since
came to this deponents  of the same with the intention of annexing
the same to the other papers & proceeding in his application for a pension
as this deponent then understood that this deponent then made
diligent search for the said affidavit and certificate but was then unable
to find them and did not find them until the 26th Inst. when he found
the said affidavit and certificate.

This deponent further says that he has [illegible]  be the said
Charles Crook & also by a son of the said Ephraim Root the
signed and sworn to the forgoing affidavit the the 
is now dead. And further this Deponent saith not.

Sworn & subscribed  before me
this 29th day of August 1832}
Deless Warren

James Stryker
Judge of the [illegible] County Courts
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
December 19, 1923.

Mrs. Nellie Cousins,
1230 5th Ave.,
Des Moines, Iowa.

Madam:

I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 17902, it appears that Charles Crook was born at Haddam, Connecticut, September 19, 1754 and while living at Piermont, New Hampshire, enlisted June 16, 1775, served six months as a private in
Captain Nelson's Company, Colonel Timothy Bedel's New Hampshire Regiment, and was at the siege of St. Johns,

He enlisted July 16, 1777, served three months in Captain Jeremiah Post's Company, under Colonels Charles Johnson, Gregg and Nichols, and was at the battle of Bennington.

He enlisted April 1, 1778 and served one year in Captain Ezekiel Ladd's Company, Colonel Timothy Bedel's Regiment.

He next served three years in Colonel Moses Hazen's Congress Regiment.
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He was allowed pension on his application executed August 25, 1832 while living at Holland, Erie County, New York. After the Revolution, he lived at Corinth, Orange County, Vermont, for thirty-five years.

It is not stated whether he was married.

Respectfully,
Acting Commissioner.
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[left side]
Mch. 29, 1904 Hist to Mrs. G. A. Wallace Buffalo, N.Y.

1916 Jan 3. To Mr Charles H. Leavitt See letter in S.F.12. 639 Thomas Crook
MBR

1923 Dec. 19. Hist. to Mrs Nellie Cousins, AW

1927 Feb.15. Photos to A.W. DeGoosh, W.S. Shipping Board, Wash. D.C. 
(see receipt for payment in Andrew Crook S15720 AW

[right side]
17902
INVALID.
File No. 17902
Charles Crook
Privt, Co Regt
Comd by Colonel Bentley
Act: June 7th 1832
Index: --Vol. 1, Page 440
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Charles Crook, Records corrected
Mar 26 '04
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New York
Revo:
Charles Crook
Suspended
let N K Hall 26 June 1833

$66
2. 20
68.86

137.72
34.43
172.15

Act 7 June 32
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller's Office,
August 17th 1839

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, Charles Crook a Pensioner in the Roll of the Albany N.Y. Agency, at the rate of Sixty eight Dollars and eighty six Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has
been paid at this Department, from the to the 4th Sept. 1837 to the 4th of Sept. 1838,

Respectfully Youra
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions
Present.
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Depos. Joseph Foord
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State of New Hampshire
Grafton

 I Stephen P. Webster Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature do hereby certify that Timothy
Kennick Esquire before whom the within Deposition was taken was on the 23d day of August
last and long before had been an acting Justice of the peace within and for said County-- that his
attestations as such are entitled to credit, and that his signature within written is genuine.
-
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Haverhill
in said County this fifth day of October Anno Domini 1833.
S. P. Webster Clerk
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I Joseph Foord a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States, do depose and say that in the month of June 1777 I enlisted into Capt. Jeremiah Posts Company, Col Hubbards Regt, and served in said Company at Bennington, Saratoga & other places for four months. Also I enlisted in March 1778 into Capt Ezekiel Ladds Company, Col Bedels Regiment, and served in said company one year. Our headquarters were at Newburg Vermont. Charles Crook then of Vermont, now of the State of New York, was a soldier with me in the same company and Regiments during the whole of the above mentioned services, which was full sixteen months. I was then well acquainted with him and have no doubt but that he is the same person. His age is about 78 years. 

Joseph Foord

State of New Hampshire
Grafton Js Aug 23, 1833
Sworn & Subscribed to before me
Timothy Kennick Justice of Peace
I certify that the above deponent is a credible person
Timoth Kennick Justice of Peace
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Moody Bedell deposition for Charles Crook

Hon. M Fillmore
HR
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State of New Hampshire
Grafton s

I Stephen P. Webster Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature within & for said County do hereby certify that Jonathan Sinclair Esquire before whom the within Deposition was taken is an acting Justice of the peace within & for said County, and that his signature within written is genuine

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court at Haverhill in said County this 10th day of October Anno Domini 1833
S.C. Webster Clerk
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I Moody Bedel of Bath in the County of Grafton & State of New Hampshire of Lawful age being in my Seventy first year Testify & say that I am well acquainted with Charles Crook formerly of Piermont in the County & State aforesaid & latterly of South Wales in the County of Niagara & State of New York I was knowing to his serving one year in the Revolutionary war in a company whereof Ezekiel Ladd was Captain James Lal & Ephraim Patterson Lieutenants in a Regiment Whereof Timothy Bedel Esqr was Col John Wheelock Esqr Lieut & Josiah Stow was Major. he, the said Crook, I think enlisted on or about the first of April 1778 & was in said Company & regiment when I enlisted which I think was on or about the first of April 1778 - he, the said Crook, Continued in said Company & Regiment untill the first of April 1779 & was honorably Discharged at the end of his years Service. I can say he was a faithfull Good Soldier said Company & Regt was stationed on the Frontiers on & adjacent to Connecticut River during said term for the purpose of guarding & protecting the Frontier inhabitants Property & Building Public Buildings the Regiment was raised by order order of the general government - & paid by the general government in what was called Pierce's final settlement Notes by the hand of James Lucas paymaster to said Regiment and were called Continentals.

I further testify that I have in my possession a copy of the muster roll of my Father Col Timothy Bedel's Regiment for the year 1775 which Regiment was raised by the authority of the State of New Hampshire for the defense of American liberties joined the North Continental Army under General Montgomery in Timothy Bedel's Company Abraham Palmer Lieut & Charles Nelson 2nd Lieut the Company Regiment was commenced to be raised on the 15th day of June 1778 & on the 16th Day of June 1778 I find the name of the said Charles Crook as having enlisted on that day & as the roll States Discharged on the 3d Day of December following making six months & Sixteen Days both days inclusive & his Receipt for his pay on the Roll Lawfull Money L13.1.4. I saw the said Crook March from Haverhill in New Hampshire for Canada I being well acquainted with him at that time being the time said Regiment marched as aforesaid
[signed] Moody Bedel
"
State of New Hampshire St 
Grafton County
At Haverhill on this 7th day of October 1833 Then Personally appeared Moody Bedel Signer
of the above Deposition & made Solemn Oath that the above Deposition is true before me
the Subscribed & I further State & certify that I have been well acquainted with said Bedell for a great Number of years past & that he is considered a Person of Truth & Veracity & I concur
in that Opinion & believe him a disinterested Witness 
Jonathan Sinclair Justice of the Peace
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Daughters of the American Revolution
Buffalo Chapter
Commissioner of Purisima
Darlington, S.C.
Dear Sir,
Will you kindly send me a statement of the military history of Charles Crook, a soldier of the Revolution, enlisting from Piermont N.H. and given as a pensioner of Erie County N.Y. in 1835 residence probably Holland?
The information is needed to enable us to place a marker at his grave the coming summer.
Very truly yours
Frances {} Wallace
Secretary Revolutionary Records Committee
March 19, 1904
Mrs. G.A. Wallace
374 W Ferry St
Buffalo, NY

Pension Office
March 21, 1904

Old War and Navy Files
March 23, 1904
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Des Moines, Iowa
Nov. 5, 1923
Commissioner of Pensions,
Dear Sir,
Will you please send me the Revolutionary record of Charles Crook of Vermont. I think he came from Orange
He left Vermont and went to Cold Spring, New York in 1822.
He was my great grandfather and mother says he received a pension.
I would like to get the date of his birth and death if possible.
One of his sons is Nathan Crook my mother's father. If there are any fees connected with this pension record, I will gladly send them.
Very respectfully
Mrs. W J Cousin
1230 5th Ave
Des Moines, Iowa

Pension Office
Nov. 8, 1923