Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16,740, John Craig, Va.
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SERVICE    Va    
                                                                                                   Craig,   John   

NUMBER     S.  16740
                                                                                   
 		 		 		 

							carded

This Envelope Includes
FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER

Received from GAO
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4753

Alabama
John Craig
Madison Co in the State of Alabama
was a private in the company commanded
Captain Beaty of the Regt commanded
Col Campbell in the Virginia
Militia for 8 mo and 17 days
[illegible]  1780
Limestone County
Inscribed on the Roll of Alabama
at the rate of 28 Dollars 54 Cents per annum,
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of January
1833 and sent Hon C C Cray
H R

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832                     42.81
semi anl  allowance ending 4 Mar 1833 14.27
                                                                          .....................................................57.08
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.

recorded by Henry  H. Sylvester   Clerk

Book D   Vol 10  page 12    199   

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Paid at the Treasury under
Act of the 6 April 1838 from
Sept 1837 to 4 Sept 1838
Notified
July 1839
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Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832
The State of Alabama
Circuit Court of Limestone County SS
On this  ----- day of September personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of the said Circuit
Court held in & for the County aforesaid, now sitting John Craig a resident of said County of Limestone
aged sixty nine years 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
herein stated  

that in the latter part of May 1780, he then residing in the County of Washington State of Virginia,
Joined a company of mounted riflemen, as a volunteer . said Troops were called minute men & said Company was commanded by Captain Beaty whose Christian name he is not positive about but thinks it was David & by Robert Edmundson as Lieutenant, said Company at the time of his volunteering belonged to the Regiment commanded by Colonel William Campbell & Major Wm Edwardson. That he did not go into actual service untill the latter part of August following, when he marched in said Company with said troops to the battle of King's Mountain, that before said Battle, said Camphill assumed higher command & said Edmandson took command of said regiment that Colonel Shelby Levier 
[illegible] and said Campbell commanded at Kings mountain but as he understood said Campbell held
the chief command. that after the battle he marched with the prisoners into North Carolina to a moravian
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Town called Old Bethlehem, where he was dismissed and returned home. That to the best of his recollection he served during that campaign about three months from the time he was so called into service.  That same time afterwards & in the Spring following he was marched with a body of sixty men under the command of Leutenant Samuel Sewel against the Shawnee Indians who had made an incursion into Washington County & killed some people & he pursued said Indians down Big Sandy river, & that he was on this service upwards  of six weeks, that shortly afterwards he [illegible] with a body of about one hundred of said minute men under the command of Captain Reigh against a body of tories on New River & he was in service on this expedition about five weeks, that same time afterwards he was marched with the same volunteer minute men, James Dorsey being this Captain + said William Campbell being then General; a body of two hundred of said minute men went on this two expedition fom Washington County, there being two companies said Dorsey’s + the other commanded by Captain Montgomery.  After they joined another troop amounting in all to about seven hundred, said Campbell commanded them.  that while under said command he joined General Green between Hillsboro & Guilford & that same time after said Juncture he was in a skirmish with the enemy under Cornwallis at Whitsell's mill, where he lost his baggage and had his gun struck with a ball, and much injured& in consequence of not being able after waiting at quarters 5 or 6 weeks, to get other supplies
his company was ordered home. That while at General Green’s quarters he saw & knew Colonel Lee & General Green.  he was upwards of three months in service on this last expedition. He was born the 24th May 1764 in York County Pensylvania & he has a reccord of the same taken from his fathers family record that he continued about 2 years after the peace in said Washington County & removed thence
to Green County then in North Carolina sence belonging to Tennessee, he continued in Tennessee until he removed
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about twenty two years ago to Alabama where he now resides in Limestone, County.  that he has no
documentary proof of his service but has the certificate. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the
agency of any state. That he did not get a discharge service in consequence of said Campbell being killed

sworn to & subscribed the day
year aforesaid
                                    Jno Craig
F. H. Ford clk

we  John A Dewoody  a clergyman residing in the County of Limestone state af’d and John Allison residing in the same County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Craig who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration, the we believe him to be 69th year of his age, that he is
reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution
and we concur in that opinion
Sworn & subscribed the day                      John A Dewoody
year aforesaid
F. H. Ford Clk
…………..                                                          John Allison
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinon after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and served as he states and the court furthe certifies that John A Dewoody who has signed the preceeding certificate is a Clergiman resident in said County of Limestone and that John Alison who has also signed the same is a resident in said County and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit and the court further certifies
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 that it appears to them that Jeremiah Alexander who has given an affidavit of the services of the said John Craig sworn to and Subscribed by said Alexander before A. Harris a Justice of the peace is a credible
person and his statement is entitled to credit

I Francis H Ford Clerk of the circuit of Limestone County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains
the Original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Craig for a
pension. 
     In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said circuit
Court of office this 13th day of September 1832.
Fra. H Ford Clk
The State of Alabama
  I John White Judge of the Circuit Court held in & for the County of Limestone State of
Alabama do hereby certify that Francis H Ford whose name is subscribed to the foregoing
certificate was at the time of subscribing the same Clerk of the Court aforesaid and that
due faith and credit are due to his official act and deeds as such, and that the said
certificate is in due form of Law
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Given under my hand & seal this
4th September 1832
John White   (seal)

[sideways:  John Craig
Livingston County Alabama
C.C. Clay
20447]

I am acquainted with the hand writing of the
Judge & Clerk in this case-- and am confident the signatures are both
genuine
Jany 19th 1833.      C.C. Clay
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PENSION AGENCY HUNTSVILLE ALA.
     [scratched out:  June]   Octo 11th 1852

Received of W. H. MOORE, Agent for paying pensions fifteen dollars and eighty six cents, being for six
months + twenty days pension due to John Craig deceased from the fourth day of September, eighteen hundred and fifty one, to the twenty fourth day of March eighteen hundred and fifty-two for which
I have signed duplicate receipts.
Jane Craig
 
 $15.86
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4th qr   A.D. 8 1852
John Craig
Act of  7th June 1832
4 qr  52
Huntsville Ala,
4 q  1852
Box 19
C  19
 
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Received [illegible]
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State of Alabama 
Limestone County S.S.      Be it known that before me Daniel C. Benham, a Justice of Peace in &
for the County foresaid duly authorized by law to administer oaths personally appeared
Jane Craig, and made oath in due form of law, that she is the widow of John Craig the identical
person who was a pensioner, and is now did, and to whom a certificate of pension was issued, which is herewith surrendered.
   That the deceased pensioner resided in Limestone County in State of Alabama aforesaid, for the space of Thirty five years before his death, + that previous thereto he resided in the State of Tennessee 
 
Jane Craig

Sworn to & subscribed before me
this 16 day of Sept 1852
Daniel C. Benham J.P.

State of Alabama
Limestone County S.S    ….  I Thomas G. Tyus Judge of the
Probate Court, in & for said County and state, certify that Daniel C Benham is a Justice
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State of Alabama
Limestone County S.S   …   I, Thomas G. Tyus Judge of Probate (and by virtue of said office, Clerk also
of said Court of Probate) in & for said County of Limestone State of Alabama, holden at Athens in the said County do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court, that John Craig was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of Twenty eight dollars and fifty four cents,
per annum, was a resident of the County of Limestone, aforesaid in said State of Alabama, and died in said County and State, on the 24th day of March in the year eighteen hundred and fifty two; that he left a widow whose name is Jane Craig who still survives him
                  In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed my seal of office, at the [illegible]
of Athens in said County is 16th day of Sept in the year of our Lord 1852.
Thomas G. Tyus Judge
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of the Peace, as aforesaid in & for said County, duly commissioned and
qualified; that his commission was dated on the 29th day of
March 1841 and will expire so soon after the 1st Monday in March next as his successor shall have been duly qualified

In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my
name & affix my seal of Office in the town of Athens
in said County, this 16 day of September 1852.
Thomas G Tyus, Judge P.C.
 
FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO
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The State of Alabama
Limestone County       Before me, Archibald Harris  an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County, Jeremiah Alexander, who being sworn in due form of Law deposeth and saith he was in service with John Craig in the year 1780 and that he said John Craig belonged to a company of mounted riflemen as a volunteer and was commanded by a Capt Beaty and that he
the said affiant has read the declaration of said John Craig, and from the recollection of him, said affiant, he believes it to be strictly true and Correct so far as relates to his service during the campaign at which the battle of Kings Mountain was fought, and that he said affiant was also in service with the said John Craig in the year 1781, and believe his said John's declaration as
to his services during said year 1781 to be strickly true and that he said affiant recollects distinctly that the said John Craig, while in an engagement with the enemy under Cornwallis at Whitsell Mill in the State North Carolina on Haw river had his gun shivered with a ball from the enemy and that in the engagement the whole of the Troops under the command of William Campbell lost their baggage
 his 
Jeremiah   x Alexander
Mark
 
Sworn to and subscribed before
me this 12th Sept 1832
A Harris   J P
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I Robert Austin Jr Clerk of the County Court of the County of Limestone & State of Alabama do
hereby certify that Archibald Harris before whom the within affidavit was made and
Subscribed was at the date thereof acting Justice of the peace in & for said County and
that full faith & credit are due to all his Official acts & deeds as such

   In Testimony whereof I have hereto set
my name & affixed the Seal of Law
Court at office this 2nd  day of November
1832 & 57th year of American Independence
Robert Austin Jr  Clk
Clk

I  George  W Lane Judge of the County Court of the County of Limestone & State of Alabama do hereby
certify that Robert Austin Jr whose name is signed to the above certificate is & was at the
the date thereof Clerk of said Court and that full faith & credit are due to all his official
acts and Deeds as such & that his said certificate is in due form of Law Given under my hand
and seal this 2nd day of November 1832
G. W. Lane  [seal]
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Payments to be made
at  Mobile Alabama
by Pres  U S B Bank
Agent for paying Pensioners
in the Agency of Alabama

Recorded by Henry H Sylvester
Clerk,  in Book D  Vol. 10
page 199                
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					Received from GAO]
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States
of the 7th June, 1832, John Craig
of the State of Alabama 
who was a private in the Army of the Revolution
is entitled to receive Twenty Eight dollars
and fifty four cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year

Given at the War Office of the United States
this 24th day of January one thousand
eight hundred and thirty-three

Lew Cass
Secretary of War.

Examined and
Countersigned. }


J L Edwards
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,

June 26th 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
payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States,   John Craig
a Pensioner on the roll of the    Huntsville, Alabama    Agency, at the rate of twenty eight Dollars and
fifty four Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1837, to the 4th Sept 1838

Respectfully, yours,
Albion J E . Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions
 Present
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Hist to

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16.740
INVALID.
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File No.  16740 
John Craig
Pri Rev War

 Act   : June 7" 32
Index  Vol 1   Page 83
{Arrangement of 1870.}
 
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Mch 17- 1903
J. M. Craig  - City
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 John Craig
Battle Kings Mountain
a minute man
6 months
3 [illegible]
3 months [illegible]

3 mo
3 mo
2-17
8-17
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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 John Craig which require further proof or explanation

I.	Does the declaration show where the applicant resides   :    …..Yes
II.	Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides   :  …..  Yes  
III.	Did 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:…..    No
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 amount of pension he is entitled?    ….. No               
VI.	Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with regulations :     …..Yes
VII.	Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension that the one under the Act of June 7 1832       ……….Yes     
VIII.	Has the Court given their opinion    :   ….. Yes
IX.	Has the Court given his certificate   :    ….. Yes
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?    ….. Yes
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XI.	Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman or another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief of his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?        ….. Yes                    
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 has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she or they are persons of credibility?
Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office?
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 personal knowledge of the applicant’s service?  ….Yes
XVI.	Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?      …No        
XVII.	Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily?  And, if not, which of them is not so answered.       ….Yes        

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 services 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 __  year ____ 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 the applicant served, and the particular rank be 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.   

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 of his 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 authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape narrow ribbon, the end 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.
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[sideways:  WAR [illegible]
MAR 14  [illegible]

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
NAVY DIVISION
WASHINGTON, D. C.
                               MAR 11 1903

To the Com of Pensions:
Dear Sir:
Will you be kind enough to give me the enlistment record of John Craig
who was a soldier in the Line of the Continental Army of Virginia. If you will you will
greatly oblige the undersigned

Very respectfully,
J. M. Craig
1217 Princeton St. N.W.