Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22192, William Craigue, Mass.
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(8-1776)
SERVIC 
 Mass.  
Craigue,William  
Number 
S.22192
Contents
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No.3437
Vermont

William Craigue
of Cavendish in the State of Vermont
who was a Sergeant in the Company commanded by Captain Cushing of the Reg . commanded by Col. Vose in the Massachusetts line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont
at the rate of 120 Dollars _____ Cents per annum, commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 22, day of Dec. 1831 and sent to M. L. Hatch
Troy, N. Y. 

Arrears to 4th of September 1832  180.00
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4. March 1833 60.00
$240 

Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by D. Brown  Clerk
Book D. Vol. 4 Page 98

 Death not on O. B.
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William Craigue 
11535 
Cavendish 
[illegible]
Certificate 
Recruit 
[illegible]
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STATE OF VERMONT
WINDSOR COUNTY ...SS} 
At a Term of the County Court, [crossed out] begun and holden at  Woodstock in the County of Windsor, on the third Monday in September Anno Domini eighteen hundred and twenty. ON this 26th day of September 1820, being the ninth day of said term, personally appeared in open Court, (the same Court being a Court of Record agreeably to the laws of this State, having the power of fine and imprisonment, &c) William Craigue aged sixty four years, resident in Cavendish in said County of Windsor, who being first duly sworn, according to law doth on his oath declare, that he served in the revolutionary war, as follows: with the fall of the year 1780 he enlisted at    in the the state of ..... for the term of during the war and served in the light infantry company then commanded by Capt Cushing in the first Massachusetts Regiment under command of Col. Joseph Vose                                                                                                      until the close of the war in 1783, when he was honorably discharged at  New Windsor in the State of New York at the time of my discharge the company was commanded by Capt. Mills. 

that he made his original declaration on the twenty first day of April 1818 has received a pension Certificate, No 11.534 - And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818, and I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 13th day of March, 1818; - and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property of securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other that what is contained in the schedule here to annexed, and by me subscribed.

1 hog 6.00 - 1 old chest 1.75, 6  old Chairs 1.20
1 old wheel 34, 2 old rails, 31, 3 old barrels 30.        1 meal chest .05,  1 dish kettle, .50, 1 [illegible] .50, 1 flat iron, .34, 1 old fire [illegible] .25, cookery 1.00, 1 bottle .12 [illegible] .30 - 3 old axes 3.00 - old sickle 1.00 1 old harness 2.50

And the said Craigue owed the following debts viz. 
To Jacob Washburn 21.00 David [illegible] 21.00. Joseph Kidder 10.00
To John Wassen 3.00 - The Heirs of Paul Cook 26.00 - [illegible] Langcton 2.50
To Ms. Stearns 16.00. to [illegible] Bowen 3.00 - Dexter Frith 9.00
To Reuben [illegible] 1.40 - Henry Philbrick 12.00 -  Bnja Page [illegible] 8.86
To Isaac Gilbert 2.00 - Doc Josiah Parker 20.00 - Jack Wheeler  [illegible] 3.00
To Solomon Procter 1.50 - Ephraim Given 2.00 - Joseph White 2.00
To William Barnard 20.. - [illegible] Dutton  [illegible] 25.44

$7.95/2.18/2.39/6.50 $19.02

$57.00/31.50/28.00/22.26/25/5.50
27.46/$ 196.72

And the sd Craigue has the following family dependant on him for support, viz his wife aged fifty eight years, who has been for a long time and still is in a poor state of health -   William Craigue 

Sworn to and declared on the 26th day of September  1820, before said Court. 
Attest, Benjamin Swan Clerk.

STATE OF VERMONT.
WINDSOR COUNTY...SS}
I Benjamin Swan Clerk of the County Court for the County of Windsor, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court. -  And I do further certify, that it it the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in
value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is [word crossed out nineteen & 2/100 Dollars
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, at Woodstock, this second day of October 1820.
Benj Swan {Clerk of the County [crossed out]  for WIndsor County.
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STATE OF VERMONT
WINDSOR COUNTY ...SS}
At a Term of the County Court, [crossed out] begun and holden at Woodstock in the County of Windsor, on the third Monday in September Anno Domini eighteen hundred and twenty. ON this 26th day of September 1820, being the ninth day of said term, personally appeared in open Court, (the same Court being a Court of Record agreeably to the laws of this State, having the power of fine and imprisonment, &c) William Craigue aged sixty four years, resident in Cavendish in said County of Windsor, who being first duly sworn, according to law doth on his oath declare, that he served in the revolutionary war, as follows: with the fall of the year 1780 he enlisted at in the the state of ..... for the term of during the war and served in the light infantry company then commanded by Capt Cushing in the first Massachusetts Regiment under command of Col. Joseph Vose until the close of the war in 1783, when he was honorably discharged at New Windsor in the State of New York at the time of my discharge the company was commanded by Capt. Mills.

that he made his original declaration on the twenty first day of April 1818 has received a pension Certificate, No 11.534 - And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818, and I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 13th day of March, 1818; - and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property of securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other that what is contained in the schedule here to annexed, and by me subscribed.

1 hog 6.00 - 1 old chest 1.75, 6 old Chairs 1.20
1 old wheel 34, 2 old rails, 31, 3 old barrels 30. 1 meal chest .05, 1 dish kettle, .50, 1 [illegible] .50, 1 flat iron, .34, 1 old fire [illegible] .25, cookery 1.00, 1 bottle .12 [illegible] .30 - 3 old axes 3.00 - old sickle 1.00 1 old harness 2.50

And the said Craigue owed the following debts viz.
To Jacob Washburn 21.00 David [illegible] 21.00. Joseph Kidder 10.00
To John Wassen 3.00 - The Heirs of Paul Cook 26.00 - [illegible] Langcton 2.50
To Ms. Stearns 16.00. to [illegible] Bowen 3.00 - Dexter Frith 9.00
To Reuben [illegible] 1.40 - Henry Philbrick 12.00 - Bnja Page [illegible] 8.86
To Isaac Gilbert 2.00 - Doc Josiah Parker 20.00 - Jack Wheeler [illegible] 3.00
To Solomon Procter 1.50 - Ephraim Given 2.00 - Joseph White 2.00
To William Barnard 20.. - [illegible] Dutton [illegible] 25.44

$7.95/2.18/2.39/6.50 $19.02

$57.00/31.50/28.00/22.26/25/5.50
27.46/$ 196.72

And the sd Craigue has the following family dependant on him for support, viz his wife aged fifty eight years, who has been for a long time and still is in a poor state of health - William Craigue

Sworn to and declared on the 26th day of September 1820, before said Court.
Attest, Benjamin Swan Clerk.

STATE OF VERMONT.
WINDSOR COUNTY...SS}
I Benjamin Swan Clerk of the County Court for the County of Windsor, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court. - And I do further certify, that it it the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in
value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is [word crossed out nineteen & 2/100 Dollars
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, at Woodstock, this second day of October 1820.
Benj Swan {Clerk of the County [crossed out] for WIndsor County.
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William Craigue 
now in receipt of a pension 
Admitted
Sergeant 2 years
$120.00
U.C. Hatch Esq
Troy Vt
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State of Vermont
Orleans County Ss}
On this sixth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared before me the undersigned Uriel C. Hatch one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Orleans and State of Vermont William Craigue a resident of Westfield in the County and State aforesaid aged seventy six years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order, that his pension which is now eight dollars per month May be raised to the sum of ten dollars per month, as by the laws of the United States he believes himself to be entitled. That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and eighty at West Point in the State of New York for the term of during the war and served in the light infantry company as one its sergeants, which company was commanded by Capt. Mills and was in the first Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Joseph Vose, and he served under that enlistment as sergeant in said Light Infantry Company until the close of the war, and was honorably discharged at New Windsor in the State of New York, that he received a pension certificated dated the fifth day of June A.D. one thousand eight hundred and nineteen which allowed him a pension only as a private soldier, whereas it ought to have been as a sergeant, and for proof of these facts he refers the Hon. Secretary of War to the evidence on file in the War Department, which was forwarded, with his former
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declaration for a pension, at which time he was [crossed out] an inhabitant of the town of Cavendish in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont - William Craigue 

State of Vermont
Orleans County Ss}
{Seal illegible]
Troy September 6th A.D. 1832 Personally appeared William Craigue subscriber to the foregoing affidavits and made solemn oath at that the same contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth 
Before Uriel C. Hatch Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont
Orleans County Ss} I Ira H. Allen Clerk of Orleans County Court, do hereby certify that Uriel C. Hatch who has affixed his name to the within is a
magistrate duly qualified and that I believe the same to be his genuine signature. - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court at Irasburgh in the County of Orleans this 8 day of Sept A.D. 1832  Ira H. Allen Clk
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Troy  [illegible] September 1832
Hon. Lewis Case
Secretary of War
Sir, 
The undersigned William Craigue would respectfully state to the Hon. Secretary of War that the facts set forth in the foregoing affidavits are true in every respect - He therefore prays that he may receive a new pension certificate instead of his former one and that he may receive the additional two dollars per month which he considers he ought to have received from the time his name was first placed on the pension list until the present time and so long as he may live - and he herewith encloses his pension certificate requesting that a new one as above stated may be forwarded to him enclosed to the care of Uriel C. Hatch Esq, Troy, Vermont and that the additional two dollars per month May be allowed to him
I am with high Respect
Your Obt servant 
William Craigue
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January 28, 1938
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
William Craigue, S.22192
BA-J/MCS [illegible] 

Amy L. Perkins
242 South Main Street
Rutland, Vermont


Dear Madam: 
Reference is made to your request for information relative to William Craigue, a Revolutionary War soldier who applied for pension from Orleans County, Vermont.

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the  pension claim, S.221992, based upon the military service of the only
William Craigue of Vermont that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.

The date and place of his birth and the names of his parents were not given.

William Craigue enlisted at Ashby, Massachusetts, in June, 1780, and served three years as sergeant in Captains Nathaniel Cushing's, Hitchcock's,  Remick's and Mills' companies in Colonel Joseph Vose's
Massachusetts regiment.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 21, 1818, at which time he was sixty-two years of age and a resident of
Cavendish, Windsor County, Vermont.
It was stated that William Craigue, in 1819
had lived nine years in Cavendish and previous to that time he had lived in Weathersfield
(state not given) and that in February, 1826, he moved to Troy. In 1832 he was living in Westfield, Orleans County, Vermont.

In 1820 William Craigue stated that his wife was fifty-eight years of age but he did not give her name. There are no further data
relative to the family of William Craigue.
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One Reuben McCollester of Windsor, Windsor County, Vermont, stated in 1819 that he served in the Revolutionary War with William Craigue.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension of William Craigue, the name and address of the person to whom it was paid and
possibly the date of death of the soldier, it is suggested that you address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records
Division, Washington, D.C., giving the following data:

William Craigue, Certificate 3437, issued December 22, 1832, rate $120 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Vermont Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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22192
INVALID.
Revolution

File NO. 22,1921
William Craigue
Serg Rev  WAR 
Act: June 7TH '32
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 85

[Arrangement of 1870.]

1925 Feb. 24 Hist. to 
Mrs Wm. H. Perry [illegible]

1938 Jan 28 hist. to Amy L. Perkins [illegible]
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Notification sent January 9, 1821 [illegible]
Benjamin Swan Woodstock Vermont


11.534
R
Vermont
William Craigue
of Cavendish in the State of Vermont
was a private in the regiment commanded by
Vose of the Mass
line, for the term of two years 1780

Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 21 of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 5th of June, 1819, and sent to Uriel C. Hatch Esq
Cavendish, Vermont

Arrears to 4th of Mar [ illegible] 1819 83.69
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Sept 1819 48.00
$131.69
{ Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
Continued
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Hon. J. C.  Calhoun 
Secretary for the War Department 
City of Washington 
District of Columbia 

Old Case
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Cavendish VT  May 20 1819
Sir

Enclosed is the claim of William Craigue 
for a pension as a Revolutionary soldier

Judge Heald does not now hold the
office of Judge of the County Court -
the claimant therefore requests the pension 
certificate may be enclosed to me
Respectfully yours
Uriel C. Hatch
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William Craigue

Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of September next, in Burlington by Herman Allen Esq. Agent

Recorded 

Seal [illegible]
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War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
William Craigue late a private
in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed
on the Pension List, Roll of the Vermont
Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to commence on the twenty first day of April
one thousand eight hundred and eighteen

GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this fifth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
J. L. Edwards,

in the absence and on behalf
of the Secretary of War.
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Sept 4th 1819 Lt Craigue had resided 9 years in Cavendish & previous thereto in Weathersfield - 1826 February moved to Troy
[crossed out]
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Troy Vt  Sept 10th 1832

Sir

Herewith is enclosed the claim of William
Craigue of Westfield for an addition to his and
- I believe that when his pension was first granted
there was evidence forwarded with his claim which was then supposed to be sufficient to substantiate his present claim--

Should it be deemed necessary further evidence
can be procured, but the expence to Mr Craigue
would be such as he is poorly able to bear.

I am very Respectfully &
Uriel C. Hatch
Hon Lewis Case
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William
Craigue
80 to 83

Vose Mass Regt
Proof of Service wanted
Admitted
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State of Vermont
Windsor County ss

William Craigue of Cavendish in the County of
Windsor and State of Vermont, a resident Citizen of theUnited States, aged sixty two years and an applicant for a Pension from the United States, under the Act entitled " An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" maketh Oath that he served in the War of the Revolution on the Continen-tal Establishment principally, as a non-commissioned
officer about three years in the manner following;

to wit, that he enlisted  at Ashby in the State of Massachusetts for six months, and entered
the service in June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty, and served in the Light Infantry Company in the first Regiment in the Massachusetts Line, until the fall of the same
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year, and then enlisted for during the war and
served from that time in the said Light Infantry
Company in the said first Regiment in the
Massachusetts Line, until the end of the War,
that about the ninth of June in the year seventeen hundred and eighty three he received a discharge from the service at New Windsor in the State of New York and was honoured with a Badge of merit for three years faithful service, and left the Army, but he has since lost his Discharge - That the said Reg-
iment was commanded by Colonel Joseph Vose,
and that the said Light Infantry Company was commanded at different periods by different Captains, that when
he joined the said Company Capt Nathaniel Cush
ing commanded it, after him Capt. Hitchcock, next Capt Remick, and afterwards Capt. Mills, Capt Mills commanded the said Company when he the said Craigue was discharged. And he further mak- eth Oath that he is in such reduced circumsta-
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nces in life, as to be in need of assistance from his County for support: - and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said Services. 

State of Vermont
Windsor County, Ss
Cavendish April 21st. A,D, 1818
Subscribed & Sworn to and declared Before Me
Amos Heald One of the Judges of the County Court for the said County of WIndsor

I Amos Heald, one of the Judges of County Court  for the said County of Windsor, as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satis-
faction, that the said William Craigue did serve in the Revolution-
ary War, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the Common Enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuit - any to the directions of the aforesaid Act of Congress. 
Cavendish April 21st. 1818
Certified by Amos Heald Assistant Judge of Windsor County Court. 

I Amos Heald, Judge, as aforesaid, do further certify from evidence to me addressed, it appears to my full satisfaction, that the said WIlliam Craigue is in indigent circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support - 
Amos Heald Assistant Judge of Windsor County Court.
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State of Vermont} 
[illegible]  County}

Woodstock County Clerks Office June the 12.th 1818
I Benjamin Swan Clerk of the County Court
within for the County of Windsor, do hereby
Certify that Amos Heald is one of the Assistant
Judges of said County Court, and that the
within signatures are in the hand writing
of said Judge - 

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court the day above
Benj Swan
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William Craigue
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I Reuben McCollaster of Windsor in the County of
Windsor and State of Vermont testify and say that in the year 1782 and 1783 I was well acquainted with William Craigue now of Cavendish in the County and State aforesaid who I understand is a claimant for a pension under the late act of Congress that during the said two years 1782 and 1783. I was a private Soldier in the Light infantry company commanded in the first part of the time by Capt Remick and afterwards by Capt Mills in the first Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Joseph Vose that during said two years William Craigue aforesaid was a sergeant in said Company and was enlisted to serve during the war as I understood at that time and was
discharged from service at New Windsor in the State of New York with a badge of merit at the close  of the war for his faithful services
Reuben McCollester
 
I Uriel C. Hatch Judge of the Court of Probate
in the District of Windsor and State of Vermont
hereby certify that Reuben McCollaster subscribe
to the foregoing affidavit on this twentieth day of
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May in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and
nineteen personally appeared and made solemn
oath that the same contains the whole truth
and nothing but the truth and I further
certify that the said Reuben McCollaster is a
credible witness

In testimony whereof I hereunto set
my hand and have affixed
the seal of said Court of Probate
at  Cavendish  in the district
of Windsor this twentieth day
of May in the year of our
Lord Eighteen hundred and nineteen

Uriel C. Hatch Judge of the
Court of Probate
for the district
of Windsor
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Seal [illegible]
Daughters of the American Revolution 
ROCK RIVER CHAPTER
MRS. W. H. PERRY, REGENT
STERLING, ILLINOIS
Jan 19-1925.

Stamp - U S Pension Office Jan 22 1925
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.

Dear Sir:  - Will you kindly inform
me, if possible whether any of the fol-
lowing described persons' names appear
on the Pension list for Revolutionary
Daughters of the American Revolution
War
service:

Rev. Joseph Currier, b Mar. 19 - 1742-,  Amesbury, Mass, lived in Goffstown, N.H. 1771-1774,
m Ruth Copps, living in Corinth, St. in 1785,
d Corinth Vt. 1829 -
William Craig}
or
John Craig } 
of Corinth or Ryegate, Vt. or vicinity 
or
James Craig}
(over)
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Seal [illegible] 
Daughters of the American Revolution 
ROCK RIVER CHAPTER 
Mrs. W. H. Perry, Regent
STERLING, Illinois 

{Elias Davis m Ann -. 
d Frederick, Md. 1818
{ Walter Davis m Keziah Jones, Frederick, Md. 1776
d Frederick, Co Md. 1800
May have come from Virginia, and may have enlisted in Pa. or Md. 

Abraham Ferree of Pequea, Lancaster Co, Pa. 
Henry Leatherman, Frederick Co., Md. 
Andrew Shriver, Sr. Conewago, Pa.
Yours truly,
Mrs. W. H. Perry 
608 W. 3rd St
STERLING, Illinois 

Stamp US Pension Office Jan 22 1925
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AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS
RUTLAND COUNTY CHAPTER
RUTLAND, VT. 

CLARENCE H. MURDICK CHAIRMAN
AMY L. PERKINS, EX. SEC 242 SO. MAIN ST. 

Stamp RECEIVED Jan 17 1938
Mail Sub-Div. 
Vets. ADM Reader 17
3

Pension Dept., 
Washington, D.C. 
Sirs: 

     Will you please refer to the pension papers of William Craigue who drew a pension for Revolutionary service in  Orleans Co., Vermont. 
I am familiar with his service record  in Mass. in 1780-81. At the time of his inlistment, June 5, 1780, he gave his age as 21 yrs., thus placing his birth as in 1759.  There is some question as to this date, as 1754 has also been stated. 
Does his date and place of birth appear in connection with his application? Or any other information as to his service or family. Who were witnesses as to his identity etc., and what was their evidence? 
Traditionally, this man was one of the ex-British soldiers from Burgoyne's Army who were farmed out in Mass. after the action around Ticonderago, and his birthplace has been given as Carlisle, Eng. He died Dec 27, 1847 at Enosburg, Vt. leaving as widow his second wife, Eudora Phoebe Stebbins.  He resided previously in Troy, Vt.
I would be glad of any additional information which may appear from his pension papers. 
Very truly yours, Amy L. Perkins
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Rev. & 1812 Section 
February 14, 1925

Mrs. William H. Perry 
408 W. 3rd St. 
STERLING, Ill. 
Madam: I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.22192, it appears that William Craigue enlisted at Ashby, Massachuseets, in June, 1780, and served three years as Sergeant in Captain Nathaniel Cushings's, Hitchcock's, Remick's, and Mills' Companies, Colonel Jose Vose's Massachusetts Regiment. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 21, 1818, at which time he was sixty-two years of age and a resident of Cavendish, Windsor County, Vermont. 
x [check mark] In 1820 he stated that his wife, name not given, was fifty-eight years of age. In 1832 the solider was a resident of Westfield, Orleans County, Vermont. 
X There is no further data on file relative to his family. The noted is the only William Craigue of Vermont, searched under all spellings of the name, found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau. 
Respectfully,
Commissioner