Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8259, William Crittengton, Va.
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Service Va.
Crittington, William
Number S. 8259

Carded
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[Left hand page both sides torn]
N. Carolina 16.&
Virginia [crossed out]
16425

William Crittington
Richmond in the State of Va [illegible]
was a  Pri: of Arty.  in the comp. com
by Captain Marshall of the Regt com
by Col. Maishaum the Va line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 100 Dollars --Cents per annum commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7- day of Augt. 33 and sent H. A. Claiborne Richmond, Va.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833
[Semi]-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 
200  50  $250
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

corded by Nath. Rice Clerk 
Book E Vol. 6 Page 5

[Right hand page] 
New Certificate issued & forw 
care of Herbert A. Claiborne Sept 6 1834
Tra. cor. Oct 6. ' 1836
Transfer to N. Carolina from 
4 March 1836 - Oct. 17 36
Sent to Wm. Hill Oct 31 36
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Joanna Blunt aged seventy three years or upwards of Hanover county and State of Virginia, having been first duly sworn in open court appears and saith that she has been acquainted with William Crittington now in court making his application for a pension ever since she was a school girl. 

He having married her older sister though she cannot say that she lmpws that je was em;osted in the Revolutionary war. Yet she heard his Uncle James, mom and others say so many years ago and she knows that when he returned as it was saw, _____
serving his time for which he enlisted he became a subsitute for James Mann in the militia. The regular service for which he inlisted as she always understood was for three years and was a soldier in the artillery. The said William Crittington, she thinks, went to North Carolina about forty years ago or more, but he has been in Virginia to see his relations twice since he moved to North Carolina. This _____ has this day heard the declaration of said Crittington and can have no doubt of the truth of the statements contained there in, not only from her knowledge of the character of said Crittington, but from the circumstances that the declaration contains the same statement of facts which he himself, his Uncle James, mom and other friends, now forty years ago in relation to his services in the revolutionary war. Joanna Blunt

Sworn to by Joanna Blunt in Richmond H____ings 

Court the 27th day of July 1833
The Honorable Cek
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State of Virginia 
City of Richmond to _______

On this 24th day of July 1883 personally appeared in open Court before the Hustings Court of the City of Richmond now sitting William Crittington a resident of Wake County in the state of North Carolina aged seventy three years who being first duly sworn according 
to law oath on his own make the following Declaration to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June 7th that he enlisted as a soldier in the Virginia [illeg.] War of the Revolution with Humphrey Book,  recruiting officer, for three years in 1776 and served as a drummer during the whole of that time under the following officers  command of David Pannel a captain of Artillery and with him in a vessel from Westpoint in King William County and State of Virginia to York Tow in said State & when he remained for for twenty three months serving as a Drummer. About twelve months after his inlistment ill health compelled Capt. Pannel to resign when his first Lieutenant William Spiller was promoted & took command of the company but not long after Capt. Spiller was ordered to the South when this affiant was placed under the command of Capt. Thomas Marshall Junr. Old Col. Thos. Marshall then having the command of the Regiment. Having become experienced as a Drummer he was sent from York to Hampton in Virginia to teach the young Drummers, remained therefore about five months and was then sent up to the City of Williamsburg in said State, remained there two or three months teaching the young drummers and then returned to York and remained there till the end of his term of service when hw got his discharge from both Thomas Marshall but which has been lost or mislaid & many years ago. After this he was almost constantly in the militia service till the end of the War generally acting as a substitute for James Mann, William Gilman, Ephraim Crittington, & others. Whilst in the militia service he was under the command of Captains Settlepage, Wesley and others whose names he cannot recollect. He was with Gen'l Lafayetter when in the Counties of Fluvanna, Culpeper &
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the Blue Ridge and helped to cut his road for the baggage waggons and recollects that the General had four goats which gave him as much milk as one cow. Said affiant did not take off his clothes for fourteen days when they were pursued by Lord Cornwallis [General Charles Lord Cornwallis], but when we wer reinforced we had the pleasure in our turn to give him a chase

Being placed under the command of Colo. Taylor he served the balance of the War on the Gloucester side of York River and at York Town. He resided in King William County in the state of Virginia at the time that he enlisted as aforesaid and removed to the state of South Carolina about forty years ago- lived there six years & then removed to North Carolina.
He was in no regular battle during his service though he was at the siege of York and never went out of the state of Virginia. 

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension & annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state 
Sworn to & subscribed the day and year aforesaid
William Crittington [his mark] X

Interrogations propounded by the Hustings Court of the city of Richmond to said William Crittington

1st Where and in what year were you born?
Answer Born in King William County State of Virginia  in the year Seventeen hundred and sixty one.

2nd Have you any record of your age and is so where is it?
Answer. The time of his birth was named in the family Bible- but he has not seen it for many years, and dont know what became of it.

3rd Where were you living when called into service. Where have you lived since the revolutionary War and where do you now live
Answer When he enlisted the army, he lived in Kings William County - after the war he lived in Hanover County State of Virginia about 
Ten years- and then moved to the State of North Carolina. where he has since lived and now resides there

4th How were you called into service: were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom?
Answer. I enlisted for three years I was not drafted - did not substitute - after served the three years I was a substitute for Samuel Ford - Billy Gilman - [illegible] Crittington, and for other not recollected.

5th State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served; such continental and militia regiments as you can recollect and the general  
circumstances of your service
Answer General [George] Washington, General [Marquis de] La Fafayette, Don't recollect the regiments I was a in [several words illegible] I served as a private in the line - was in no regular battles was of this
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against York

6th Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it .
Answer I received a discharge from Colo. Thomas Marshall  with which I lost soon after in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty

7th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the revolution  
Answer Samuel Norris - Nathan Norris, & Arthur Bransh - who reside in Wake County, North Carolina - can testify as to my  veracity, but not as to his services as a soldier of the revolution.

The foregoing sworn to in Court by William Crittington the 27th day of July 1833.
Th CHoward CRHC

Virginia, to wit:
At a Court of Huskings held for the City of Richmond at the Courthouse the 27th day of July 1833 William Crittingdon of Wake County in the state of North Carolina, this day produced in Court the foregoing declaration of his services as a revolutionary soldier, and made oath to the truth of the same; he also produced the affidavit of Joanna Blunt (which is hereunto annexed): and the Court do hereby declare their opinion, 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 further certifies that it appears to them, that Joanna Blunt above named is a resident of the county of Hanover in this state, and that she is a credible person, and her affidavit is worthy of credit.
I, Thomas C. Howard, clerk of the said Court of Huskings do certify that the above is a true transcript from the records of the said Court.
In
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In Testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court at Richmond aforesaid this 30" day of July in the year 1833.
Th. C. Howard Clk

[illegible round seal attached]

Virginia - City of Richmond, to wit:
I, Joseph Tate, mayor of the said City and presiding Justice of the Court of Hustings thereof, do certify that the foregoing attestation of Thomas C. Howard clerk of the said Court, is in due form. 
Given under my hand this 30th day of July 1833.
Joseph Tate, Mayor of, and presiding Justice of the Hustings Court of said 
Cty
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Virginia, City of Richmond, to wit:

This day William Crittenden [Crittengton] appeared before me, a Justice of the peace for the City aforesaid and made oath, that a Certificate was granted him from the United States Pension office at Washington about the first of August eighteen hundred and thirty three for a Pension as a Soldier in the War of the revolution for the sum of one hundred Dollars per annum payable Semiannually. 

That on the twelfth day of August eighteen hundred and thirty three he received of his Bradish at the United States [illegible] office in this city the sum of Two hundred Dollars arrear of pension due him by said Certificate and in March last he received at same office the further sum of one hundred Dollars being the instalments of his pension due in September eighteen hundred and thirty three and in March last - 

That on the 24th day of August last in  the town of Oxford North Carolina when on his way to this City he unfortunately lost the said Certificate and remained in Oxford two days to find it if possible but after making the 
most diligent search and every inquiry he has been unable ro recover his said  lost certificate 
William Crittenton [Crittengton]
[his mark] X

Sworn to and subscribed before me, in the city of Richmond a William 
Crittenton [Crittengton] (he making his mark, not being able to write his name)
this ninth day of Sept. Eighteen hundred & thirty four.
Joseph Tate, Mayor of & a Justice of the Peace, in & for said city.
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Application for a transfer 

State of North Carolina
Wake County S.S.
On this sixteenth day of September 1836, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Wake personally appeared William Crittenden [Crittengton] who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company of Artillery commanded by Capt. Pannell  part of the time, and by Capt, Speller in the Regiment commanded by Colo. Thomas Marshall in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Virginia from whence he has lately removed, that he now resides in the State of North Carolina where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future. 

The following are his reasons for removing from Virginia to North Carolina. (Vizt) He was informed that No Carolina was a good country and he wished to better his condition in life.
William Criteniton [Crittengton] his mark X

Sworn and Subscribed before me the day and year aforesaid 
John  Babb J.P.
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State of North Carolina
Wake County
On this 16th day of September 1836, before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Wake, personally appeared Robert Williams, a person of veracity and of full age, and made Oath that William Crittenden [Crittengton], now present, is the person described in the with affidavit made and subscribed by him this day, and that he believes him to be the same person described in a pension certificate which he holds, allowing him one hundred dollars per annum, as a private of Artillery in the State of Virginia in the war of the revolution, he having seen said Crittenden draw his pension in Virginia on said certificate. 
Sworn and subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid. 
John Babb [initials]
Robert Williams

State of North Carolina, Wake County
J Alfred Williams Clerk of the Court of Pleas and  Quarter Spious in and for the County aforesaid do certify that John Babb Esqr. before whom the foregoing depositions were made and signed to [illegible], the deposition of Wm. Crittenden [Crittengton] and the deposition of Robt. Williams is and acting Justice of the Peace in afor said County that the signature thereby purporting to be his is genuine. 
Given under my hand and [illegible] of Office this 30th Sept. A.P. 1836.
Aw. Williams O.O.
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8259
INVALID.
File No. 8259
William Crittengton
[illegible] Rev. War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index: Vol. Art, Page 81
Arrangement of 1870.
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William Crittenden
Va to NC
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Land office Virginia
Richmond Aug 5 1833

I certify that it does not appear by the records here that any person of the name of William Crittendon (or Crittenton) [Crittengton] ever received from the State of Virginia a military Land County Warrant; except William Crittendon who drew 100 acres as a Private in the State Line of the Revolution
Wm Selden RI office Virginia

Audrs. ofice 3 July 1833.
I certify that it does not appear from the list in this office of said Officers and soldiers of the Virginia State Line, as settled their accounts and received certificates for the balance of their Full Pay/according to an act of Assembly passed November Session 1781 that any certificate issued in the name of William Crittington or Crittenden or Crittenton [Crittengton] other than a certificate issued on  the 22nd Oct. 1783 in the name of William Crillington as a soldier of artillery for L 81.7.1 which appears to have been delivered to Wm Reynolds and was given for services prior to the 1st January 1782.
Jas Meath 
audr. pub. accts
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Crittengton or Crittendon

JL Edwards esq
Commisr of Pensions
Washington City

Private Artillery 2 years
$100 per ann
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Richmond 5th August 1833
J S [illegible]
Dear Sir
Yours of the 2nd June was received this morning announcing the rejection of the application of Wm Crittengton or Crittenden for a pension stating that it is important to determine whether he was a drummer or a private, that in some of the papers it is alleged that he was a drummer, but from the records in the public offices at Richmond it would seem that he was a private only, that the discrepancy must be explained before the claim can be allowed. The poor old man was present when I opened your letter & you way well imagine his situation, the heavy disappointment which operated on his feelings when he understood that the boon which he had (too [illegible] perhaps) supposed have been granted by the benevotence [benevolence] or gratitude of his country to prop & support him in the down hill of life could not be obtained The apparent sufferings of the old man deeply intended my sympathies & though one of the courts in which I practice was is session I could not restrain myself from making every exertion to obtain the explanation desired by you- I have no earthly doubt that the truth of the case it this; that Crittengton entered with the idea that he was to be a drummer & in fact that he did act as a drummer, but that he was enlisted as as a private; nor can I have the least doubt but that his declaration is honest & true, for you will observe that though he made his statement in the [illegible]
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Hurtings Court of this City about ten days ago or more yet the Document which I obtained this day from the executive department of our State confirms the statement which he made from memory at seventy three years of age as to the Regiment in which he served, the Commander of that Regiment, that it was artillery service & that William Spiller the schoolmate you will recollect of Doctr Abraham whose affidavit is filed with the papers was at one time his Captain. I have moreover this day obtained the certificates of the Register of our Land office & one from the office of our first Auditor by which it appears that no other William Crittington, or Crittenden of Crittenton was ever in the Virginia State Line in the War of the Revolution & if it can have any effect I assure you I examined the records this morning most carefully with the officers to enable them to furnish the certificates which you will find inclosed. As to the differences in the name appearing now as Crittenden & then as Crittington as I have said to you in my former letter it is to be accounted for by the fact that the old man could never read or write & others wrote his name for him by the sound. I do fondly hope that all doubts on your mind will now be removed that you will consider this claim as well established as can be expected, indeed so fully that even a jury could not for a moment doubt that William Crittington was a souldier [soldier] in the Revolutionary War. [Illegible] of recent origin facts which transpired as it were but yesterday are seldom in my humble estimation supported by a powerful concatenation of circumstances. The frauds which have been attempted to be practised on the liberality of the County have very properly made you as careful as a faithful officer should be & I do not by any means con
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consider you as having been fastidious in the [illegible] notion of the evidence sent on heretofore to support Crittendens claim but I do flatter myself that I do now transmit to you such evidence as will enable you most conscientiously to award a pension for [ underline] three year service [end underline] to the applicant & [Crittengton] desires me to say to you that he will be perfectly satisfied with the pension of a private. As I stated before, he wishes the pension is allowed to be made payable in Virginia. Do let me hear from you as soon as possible as the old man will wait a week longer on my suggestion In haste

very respectfully
Yr Obt Scrot
Herbert A Claiborne
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Pri Sept 11th 34

Pensions Claim application
[illegible] of certificate

FREE
J L Edwards
Comr of Pensions
Washington

[left margin]
Sept 11th
No Bundled

[round black ink stamp]
RICHMOND 
SE 9
VA

Virginia 
William Crittindon [Crittengton] 16,425
lost certificate
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Virginia
William Crittinden [Crittengton]
16,425
lost certificate
Revd Sept 11" '34
Mr Burdine

Pension claim application 
[illegible] of certificate
[round stamp]
RICHMOND VA
SE 9
VA

FREE
J L Edwards
Comm of Pensions
Washington
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Richmond 9th Septr 1834

Dear Sir
My old friend a William Crittington or Crittendon [Crittengton] has again made  his appearance here to give me more trouble. The old man has not the Certificate issued from your office in his favour about the 1st 
August 1833. He has called at the Loan office and is advised that they cannot pay him that part of his pension which is due him this month without a renewall of his certificate and that the proper mode to obtain a renewel is to send an affidavit as to the fact of his having lost it & 

I am entirely ignorant myself of the proper mode to be pursued in such a Case but have directed the old gentleman to make such an affidavit as he was advised to make & which you will find enclosed.

If renewed certificate is issued be good enough to enclose it to me as to my care as 
speedily as possible as the old gentleman is here on [illegible]
Your Obt Servt
Herbert A Claiborne
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Copy
I do certify that William Crittenden [Crittengton] enlisted as a Soldier in Colo Marshall's Reg of Artillery the 27th day of ___1778 & served the term of three years 
Given under my hand this 10th of August 1783.
Wm Spiller Capt
Sv Artillery

a Coppy 
att Randolph

Executive Department
Richmond Va 5 August 1833
The above is a true copy of the voucher upon which Land Bounty appears to have been granted to Wm Crittendon - filed in this Department
Wm H Richardson 
Seal Comw
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I Charles Z Abraham a resident of the City of Richmond in the State of Virginia aged seventy do hereby certify that William Crittington [Crittengton] of Wake County and State of N Carolina having called on me to state what I know of him and his services in the Revolutionary War do state as follows.

That In the year 1777 or 1778 then being about fourteen year of age I was [illegible] by the directions of my father in transporting the mail from Fredericksburg to York Town in Virginia though principally from New Castle to York. and continued in that employment till the siege of York.

I recollect that James Crittington and said William Crittengton his son were both in the army and as I have been informed James enlisted in the continental service was under the command of Colo. Holt Richeson and was killed at the battle of Brandywine both of them were residents of King William County in which was born and lived till I was eighteen years old.

I recollect that William Crittington enlisted 
and was under the command of Captains David Pannel and William Spiller  of the artillery and that he was a drummer having heard him beat. William Spiller was a resident of King William and my schoolmate and I have no doubt Pannel was as I saw him there frequently but I cannot say positively as to him.  

I have not seen William Crittongton since the revolutionary war  that I recollect till he called on me but from my recollection of the features of his father and himself when young and from various conversations which I have had with him on varaous [various] subjects I feel confident that William Crittengton who has then called on me and who is applying for a pension as he states is the identical man that I knew as a drummer in the War of the Revolution .

Given from under my hand this 30th of July 1833.
Chs, Z Abraham
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Virginia 
City of Richmond, To Wit:

This day the within named Charles Z. Abraham, came before me Joseph Tate, Mayor of the said city, and made oath that
the matters stated in the within his summary by him subscribed are true - 
Given under my hand and the official seal of said city, this 30th July 1833.
Joseph Tate, Mayor
of the City of Richmond
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FREE
James L. Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington
In-at-
Mr Brudine
Oct 30

[round black ink stamp]
RALEIGH 
OCT ?8
N.C.
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Raleigh 27th Octor. 1836.
James L. Edwards Esqr
Dear Sir
The application for Mr. Wm. Crittington or Crittendon's pension has been returned from Fayetteville, the agent for paying Pension's there refuses to pay with out a copy of the Pension Certificate copied in his Deposition. You will please therefore forward me the certificate as soon as convenient. You will recollect it was sent on lately to you for a transfer of his Pension from Virginia to No.Ca.
Yours very respectfully 
Wm. Hill
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FREE
James L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

Oct 10
Burdine

[round black ink stamp]
RICHMOND OCT 8

William Crittenden
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Bank of Virginia 
Octo. 8 1836

Sir
The last payment to William Crittenton or Crittenden [Crittengton], Pri arty [artillery], a pensioner under the Act of the 7. June 1832,  at one hundred dollars per annum, was to the 4. day of March 1836.

I am, Sir, respectfully,
Your Obedt Servt
Anty Robinson 
for J. Brockenbrough.
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Land Office military warrant No 2284
To the principal Surveyor of the Lands set apart for the officers & Soldiers of the Commonwealth of Virginia

This shall be your warrant to survey & lay off in one or more surveys for William Crittenden his heirs or assigns the quantity of one hundred acres of Land due unto the said William Crittenton in consideration of his services for the three years as a Soldier in the Virginia State Line; agreeable to a Certificate of the Governor & Council received into the Land office this 26th day of January 1784

The foregoing is an [illegible] Copy of a warrant issued from the Land office of Virginia: as witness my hand & seal of 

[hand drawn seal at bottom]
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office hereto office this 5th July 1833
Wm Selden Rd offi Virginia

[illegible round seal attached]

Virginia City of Richmond to wit;
This day William Crittenden [Crittengton] appeared before me a Justice of the peace for the city of Richmond aforesaid and made oath that Virginia Military Land Warrant No 2284 for 100 acres of Land issued in his favour from the Land office of the State of Virginia on the 26th day of January 1784 of which the foregoing is a true Copy has been lost or mislaid by time or accident;

that to the best of his recollection, knowledge and belief the said original Land Warrant hath not been sold or transferred by him and now remains wholly unsatisfied and that he makes this Affidavit in order to surrender said Warrant to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States and obtain certification saith therefore under the provisions of the act of Congress passed on the 30th day of May 1830 for the relief of certain officers and Souldiers of the Virginia State line and navy and of the Continental army during the Revolutionary War. 

Given from under my hand this 6th daay of July 1833
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This is to Certify, That it appears from a List in this Office of such Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia State Line, during the Revolutionary War, as settled their Accounts, and received Certificates for the balance of their Full Pay, according to an Act of Assembly, passed the November Session, 1781, that a Certificate issued on the 22d day of October 1783, in the name of Wm Crittington as a soldier of artillery for [pound sign] 81.7.1., which Certificate appears to have been delivered to William Reynolds and was given for services to the 1st January, 1782.

{No Seal of Office}

Given under my hand at the Auditor's Office, Richmond, this 3d day of July 1883.
Jas. E. Neath Auditor.
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FREE
James L Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington 

Mr. Burdine
Oct 5

[round stamp]
RALEIGH
OCT 2
N.C.
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Raleigh 30th Septr. 1836
James L. Edwards Esqr. Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
Mr. William Crittenden our old Pensioner, called on me some time past for assistance to have the payment of his pension transfer'd from Richmond in Virginia to Fayetteville No. Carolina, gave me your letter of the 6th April last, and printed instructions sent him. I believe I have prepared his papers agreeable to the instructions and here enclose them, and hope he will succeed in getting his payments made at Fayetteville, as it will save the poor old man much trouble and expense
Very respectfully
Your Oft. Scrob
Wm. Hill