Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,612, Joseph Craven, New Jersey
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New Jersey

Craven, Joseph

S. 34,612
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Joseph Craven's 
Declaration
Correct under the law ________
Correct
28 Apr
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District of New Jersey   SS

On this twenty-eighth day of April Eighteen hundred and eighteen, before me the Subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of the United States for said district personally appears Joseph Craven aged sixty years, resident in Elizabethtown in said district, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late Act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land of naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" that he the said Joseph Craven enlisted in December One thousand seven hundred and seventy five in Capt. Longstreet's company in the first Jersey Regiment, and served for one year, being the term for which that Regiment was at first engaged - that he enlisted again in March of the next year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-six for and during the war with Great Britain in Captain Voorhees's company in the first New Jersey Regiment commanded by Colo. Matthias Ogden, and continued to serve in said Regiment until the peace of seventeen hundred and eighty-three, when he was regularly discharged, after having served between seven and eight years upon Continental establishment - that he was in the several successive battles of the three rivers in Canada, of Short hills, Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, Springfield of the siege of Yorktown, and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support, and further that having long since lost his discharge, he is unable now to produce that evidence of his services.  
Joseph Craven

Sworn and declared the day and
year aforesaid, before me.
William S. Pennington
District Judge
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I, William S. Pennington, District Judge and as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the within named Joseph Craven did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the within 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, pursuant to the directions of the before mentioned Act of Congress.  Done at Newark in New Jersey this 28th day of April One thousand eight hundred and eighteen.  
William S. Pennington
District Judge

I, William Pennington, Clerk of the District of New Jersey do certify that the signatures to this instrument are the proper handwriting of William L. Pennington, Esq. Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.  

As witness my hand and the seal of the said District Court at Newark this twenty eighth day of April A.D. 1818.
Wm Pennington
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869

New Jersey Roll

Joseph Craven
Capt Longstreet   Private 4
New Jersey Line

In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month to commence on the 28th of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 5 of June 1818 and sent to Wm. S. Pennington, Esq.
Newark, N.J.

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818
4 months 7/30    $33.86

{Revolutionary claim,   }
{Act 18th March, 1818 }

Seven Years     War

Continued - 

Elizabethtown   Essex Co.

Sent to Amile S. Benton June 1, 1844
J.A. Willard May 2, '49

Sent Jona Dayton Esq.
Elizabthtown 
11th Aug 1820
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Joseph Craven
Elizabethtown N.J.

869

5 June 1818
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Borough of Elizabeth                       }
in the County of [illegible-Union?]  }
State of Jersey.   On this seventh day of June eighteen hundred and twenty  personally appeared in open court being a court of record in and for the Borough of Elizabeth aforesaid.  Joseph Craven, aged sixty one years, resident in the said Borough who being first duly sworn according to law.  Did on oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz - that he enlisted on the 22nd December 1775 in Capt. Longstreet company in the first New Jersey Reg't commanded by Colo. Winds for one year - that he re-enlisted in March 1777 in Capt. Voorhees's company in the first Jersey Regiment commanded by Colo. Matthias Ogden and continued therein until the end of the war, and was then regularly discharged with the rest of the army in the Autumn of 1783.  The date of the original declaration being in April 1818 and the number of the Pension Certificate being No. 869.  And I do further solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disproperof my property or any part thereof, with interest, thereby so 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" ______ on the 18th day of March 1818: And that I have not nor has any one in trust for me, any property or securities contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed - That my occupation is that of a Baker, but am too infirm to follow it up steadily and obtain a livelyhood by it, that I have a wife and one son only, at home residing with me, the latter being twelve years old has afforded, or can afford me very little assistance indeeds -
Joseph Cravens

Sworn to and declared on the seventh day of June 1820 in open court before me.  
[illegible] for Mayor
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Schedule of the personal estate of Joseph Craven, he having no real estate 
one soda water machine worth  $130
one bureau and two tables            23
one cupboard and thirteen chairs  11
one looking lass [illegible] crockery   9
bottles glass and baking pans  6
one pair of andiron shovel and tongs 2
   [shows total of ]     181 
Due to me from [illegible] Hall   12
Various other small dues   9
  [shows total of]   $202
one nag  5
  [shows total of]  207 
 
Sundry states which [illegible] viz:
John Gregory       92
[illegible] estate   17
[illegible]     26
[illegible] debts due
from Joseph Craven in
the City of New York   47
  [shows total of]  182.00

for Joseph Craven

New Jerey                     }
Borough of Elizabeth    }
I, George C. Beuber, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the Borough of Elizabeth 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 is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property indicated in the aforesaid schedule is two hundred and seven dollars.  
The testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this tenth day of June eighteen hundred and twenty.  
Geo C. Beuber, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the borough of Elizabeth
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ElizTown                     Free
July 8
Honorable
  J.C. Calhoun 
  Secretary of War
  Washington
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Elizabethtown  N.Jersey 1820

Sir,
In the representation which I took the liberty of making to you, respecting the claims of merits of certain soldiers of the revolution, I unintentionally omitted to mention one fact which has contributed not a little to add to the pressure of poverty of Joseph Craven and is now about to bear upon him more hardly of afflictively than ever.  He has a son who has been stricken with blindness and admitted into the New York hospital many months ago.  His case has been reported upon within a few days, and considered to be incurable, and the father is now required to take him away, and take care of him, that he may no longer be a burthen on that institution.  The pressure was before as great or greater than it was possible for Mr. Craven to support, but this last most afflicting stroke not only has produced very great despondency, but seems to have rendered him incapable of that exertion, which contributed somewhat to keep him above absolute poverty.  
I am sir very respectfuly
your most obed't servant
Iona Dayton

Honorable 
The Sec'y of War
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[stamp]  PAID

[stamp]  
TROY  N.Y.
6
SEP
10 cts

Pension Agent
Washington 
D.C.

Paid 



[written upside down]
Sept 9 '48
Widow of J. Craven died July 29
J.A. Willard
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[Same as Doc 11]
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Troy  Sept 6, 1848

Dear Sir:
By a recent Act of Congress approved 29th July last by which the widows of pensioners married prior to Jan'y 1st 1800 are to draw pensions of Revolutionary soldiers they are entitled to a pension from the 4th March last - now my object is to procure for the widow of Mr. Joseph Craven a revolutionary soldier the amount of pension that woud be due her under said Act - Joseph Craven drew a pension but died in 1825.  Will you be good enough to inform me what proof is requisite - I suppose we only need to establish the marriage prior to Jan'y 1st 1800 and that she is the person and the death of the husbands - An immediate answer will greatly oblige as the lady is very nearly dead with old age.  
Yours truly, 
J.A. Willard

Pension Agent
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34 612
Revy   INVALID

File No. 34,612
Joseph Craven 
Priv   Rev War

Act:  18th March 1800

Index:  Vol 2, Page 88
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Rev War

Joseph Craven
a native of Elizabethtown   N.Jersey
and a pensioner
Died in 1823  [Doc 13 shows died in 1825]

I wish to examine his paper 
A Gallup     present
Jan 22, '87