Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22866, for Garret Kroesen, Pennsylvania
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(3-1776)

SERVICE     Penn.

Kroesen, Garret

NUMBER  S.22866

CONTENTS  [blank]
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See letter 12 Feb
1835 to Howard. K.
Mann

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25.826
                        Pennsylvania
___________________________________________________
                       Garret Kroesen

of Bucks. Co. in the State of Penn.a [Pennsylvania]
who was a Pri [Private] in the Company commanded 
by Captain Lot of the Reg.t [Regiment] commanded
by col [Colonel] Kirkbride in the Pennsylvania
line for Militia--
of Gr Knisle  $40.00
_____________________________________________________
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of 40 Dollars 0 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
_____________________________________________________
Certificate of Pension issued the 9th day Jan.y [January]
and Sent to
1834 Hon [Honorable] Robt. Ramsey, Ho of Rep [House of Representatives]
______________________________________________________
 
Arrears to the 4th of Sep.t [September] 1833        $100.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 9March0 '32     20.00
                                                                               _________
                                                                                $120.00
                                                                              __________
                                                          {Revolutionary Claim,}
                                                           {Act June 7, 1832.     }

Recorded by John J. Sprague, Clerk,
Book  E.   Vol.   5   Page  31
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Adm 1 year
$40


Hon Robert Ramsey
  H. R.   [House of  Representatives]
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        Declaration of Garret Kreosen in order to obtain
the benefit of the act of Congress passed 7th of June 1832:---

State of Pennsylvania   }
County of Bucks-----    }   Ss.--

                             On this fifth day of June in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and thirty three, personally appeared in
open Court before the Honourable John Fox President and his Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas now sitting in and for the said County, Garret Kroesen a resident of Northampton Township in the said County of Bucs and State of Pennsylvania, aged between seventy three and seventy four 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 Provision made by the act of Congress -passed June 7th 1832,-
                            That on the first of August in the year one thousand
seven hundred and seventy six, he entered the service of the United States as a volunteer for two months, under the following named officers and served as herein stated, - on a tour of duty in the Pennsylvania Militia, the name of the Colonel commanding the Regiment is not positively recollected but is believed to have been Kirkbride, under Captain Henry Lot, the Lieutenants were Gerardus Wynkoop and John Kroesen, and the Ensign was John Thompson;  he marched to Trenton and then to Amboy and from there to Bergen.-  At Bergen he enlisted in the State Troops for six months and marched back to Amboy under Captain McKissec and Lieutenants Vanhorn and Bennet and Ensign Carter; he remained at Amboy for some weeks, the exact time not recollected, and afterwards
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went to Staten.. Island, and thence to a place call Cuckolds,,town, where they fell in with some British Troops, had a skirmish and took eight regulars of the Enemy and eight Hessians which was supposed to be the first of the Hessians that were taken.-  He then march back to Amboy and remained there for some weeks, when Colonel Baxter was appointed Col.. [Colonel] of the Regiment; he then marched to Fort Washington which was in the Beginning of the month of November in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six.- He was at Fort Washington until the sixteenth of November of that year when Fort Washington was surrendered to the British, and the present applicant and deponent became a prisoner to the Enemy which accounts for his not having any discharge.- They were then marched to Newyork [New York] and put into confinement, where he with the other prisoners remained until the last of
February following being more than six months actual service from the time he first entered the service- The deponent was then permitted to go home on his parole.- As well as his recollection serves him, he was not exchanged for more than two years after that time, but after being on parole for two years and upwards he was required to March under Captain Jamison to Trenton in the State of Newjersey [New Jersey], where he staid [stayed] out his tour for two months; Afterwards upon another tour of two months he was required to March to Coryell's' ferry as it was called, and now called Newhope [New Hope] in the State of Pennsylvania, in which service he served also his full tour of two months, but, the names of his officers he has forgotten- The period where he left the service is not-recollected but he was in actual service one year, and upon his parole two years and upwards.- The said applicant and deponent
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Garret Kroesen was born in Northampton Township County of Bucks and State of Pennsylvania, where he has always resided except when absent as above stated and still resides there, he
has no documentary evidence to which he can refer. - He the applicant does not know of any person now living who was with him when he first entered the service, or who can possibly state the fact. - Afterwards when he was marched to Trenton Newjersey [New Jersey] under Captain Jamison, Isaac Craven who now resides in Warminster Township Bucks County Pennsylvania, was in the same Company and can state something of the circumstances and testify in part to  his services.- The time during which the applicant was in the service during the war of the Revolution was as follows-- First,- as a volunteer for two months, second as an enlisted Soldier for six months, during which time he was taken prisoner and released upon his parole; the third, for a tour of two months, and lastly for another tour of two months making a period of one year, but between the time of his being taken a prisoner and released on parole untill he performed his later tours of service, more than two years elapsed, when he stood in the character of a prisoner-making his whole tour, including the time of his parole three years and upwards.-
                                      Garret Kroesen
Sworn and subscribed in open
Court the 5th day of June A.D. 1833.-
Wm.. Purdy  Protho [Prothonotary]

He the above named Garret Kroesen the applicant hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. -
                                 Garret Kroesen
Sworn and subscribed in open Court
December 9th.. 1833-- Wm Purdy  Protho [Prothonotary]
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                             Interrogatories propounded by the Court

1st    Where and in what year were you born?
2nd   Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3rd    Where were you living when called into service, where have you
         lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4th    How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you       
          volunteer or were you a substitute?  And if a substitute for whom?
5th    State the name 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. -
6th    Did you ever receive a discharge from the service; and if so, by 
          whom
was it given, and what has become of it?
7th    State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present
         neighbourood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity
          and their belief of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution? -

                           Answers to the above Interrogatories

Garret Krosen [Kroesen] the within applicant being duly sworn in answer to the above Interrogatories. --
           To the first Interrogatory he saith, he was born in the Township of 
Northampton in the County of Bucks and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
in the year one thousand seven hundred and fifty nine. -
            To the Second Interrogatory he saith that there is a record of his age in the family Bible of his father's family and that according to that record he was born on the 9th day of September A. D. 1759.-
            To the Third Interrogatory he saith, that when he entered the service, he lived in the Township of Northampton, County of Bucks and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, has lived there since he left the service, and now lives there. -
             To the fourth Interrogatory he saith he first entered the Service as a Volunteer and continued in it as related in his statement. -
             To the fifth Interrogatory he saith that his statement contains the names of such Officers, Troops, regiments and general circumstances of his service as he supposes to be material. -
             To the sixth Interrogatory he saith, that he never received any discharge from the service in writing. the reason of which is given in his statement. -
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        To the seventh Interrogatory the applicant refers for answer to the certificates and affidavits hereto attached. -
                                                            Garrett Kroeson
Sworn and subscribed in open
Court December 9th. 1833.
                      Wm Purdy Proth [Prothonotary]


                                     Certificate of the Court
     And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the
interrogation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department, that the within and above named applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. - And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Jacob Larzelere who has signed the certificate hereto attached is a Clergyman resident in the Township of Northampton- and County of Bucks----and that Thomas Craven who has also signed the same is a resident in the Township of Warminster and County of Bucks and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit. -
In open Court December 9, 1833, -
                                        John Fox Presdt Judge
                                        Wm Watts - Associate
                                          [flourish]
                                         Willliam Long Associate
                                           [flourish]
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Isaac Craven being duly sworn according to Law doth say that he is now between seventy three and seventy four years of age; that he now resides in the township of Warminster and County of Bucks in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and has always resided there and is a near neighbour to Garret Kroesen the applicant for a pension in the paper hereto attached; that he is well acquainted with the said Garret Kroesen that the deponent was out as a drafted militia=man on a tour of duty for two months in the same Company with the said Garret Kroesen under Captain Jamison, as the said Garret Kroesen states in his declaration hereto attached; that this deponent was not out upon any tour of duty during the revolutionary war except the one above stated, but he knows of Garret Kroesen having been out for several tours and from the reputation among his family and in the neighbourhood he firmly believes the statement of the said Garret Kroesen as hereto attached is correct and true.
                                             Isaac Craven  his X mark
Sworn and subscribed
in open Court Sept. 10th, 1833
            Wm.. Purdy Proth [Prothonotary]

We Jacob Larzelere -------a clergyman residing in the township of Northampton County of Bucks and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Thomas Craven --------residing in the township of Warminster---------County Bucks and Commonwealth aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Garret Kroesen who has subscribed and sworn to the within declaration; that we believe him to be between seventy three and seventy four year of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion. -
                                                               Thomas Craven
Thomas Craven sworn in open Court
September 10th 1833. -
                 Wm .. Purdy Proth [Prothonotary]
And the aforesaid
Jacob Larzelere further certifies
that the said Garret Kroesen is a
man of veracity---
                                                               Jacob Larzelere.
Jacob Larzalere sworn in 
open Court. - October 21st 1833.
      Wm.. Purdy Proth [Prothonotary]
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State of Pennsylvania}
County of Bucks Ss   }

                                       I William Purdy Prothonotary of the Court of
                                       Court of Common Pleas in and for the County     [partially covered by seal on left] cks [of Bucks], in the Commonwealth  
                                       of Pennsylvania do hereby Certify that the  
                                     foregoing contains the original proceedings of 
                                     the said Court in the matter of the application of
                                     Garret Kroesen for a pension. -
             In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the Prothonotary's Office this ninth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three. -
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                                                                          February 26, 1940.

BA-J/ILL
Garret Kroesen
S. 22866

Mrs. Robert W. Shaw
224 9th Avenue
Haddon Heights, New Jersey.

Dear Madam:

                The data which follow were obtained from the papers on
file in pension claim, S. 22866, based upon service of Garret
Kroesen in the Revolutionary War.

              Garret Kroesen was born September 9, 1759, in Northampton
Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; the names of his parents were
not given.  He resided there during the period of the Revolutionary War.

              Garret Kroesen volunteered August 1, 1776, and served two months as private in Captain Henry Lott's company, Colonel Kirkbride's Pennsylvania regiment; one John Kroesen was lieutenant of that company, but no relationship between this officer and said Garret Kroesen was stated.  Garret Kroesen enlisted immediately afterwards, served six months as private in Captain McKissack's Pennsylvania company, stationed first at Amboy, afterwards on Staten Island and was in the battle of Fort Washington on November 16th, at which time he was taken prisoner, was carried to New York City, held, and was paroled in February; he was exchanged about two years later.  He enlisted later, served two months as private in Captain Jamison's Pennsylvania company, subsequently, served a tour of two months at Coryell's Ferry, no officers' names given.

               He was allowed pension on account of his service in the Revolutionary War, on his application executed June 5, 1833, at which time he resided in Northampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.  He had always resided there.  This soldier made no reference to wife or children.

               In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension,

[handwritten in right margin]
Service can be verified Pa Arch-Vol. 5- p. 305-321-lk
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name of person paid, and, possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, this city, and furnish the following data;

                                 Garret Kroesen
                                 Certificate #25826
                                  Issued January 9, 1834
                                  Rate $40 per annum
                                  Commenced March 4, 1831
                                  Act of June 7, 1832
                                  Pennsylvania Agency.

                                                                  Very truly yours,



                                                                  A. D. HILLER
                                                                  Executive Assistant
                                                                  to the Administrator.
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Hon. J. K. Mann
12. Febr 1835
O. C.









Recvd. Oct. 26. p. 369
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Revolution
                22866

              INVALID.
               ---***---
File No.    22.866
         Garret Kroesen
         Pri  Rev War
               ---***---
     Act:  June 7th 32"
Index:--Vol. 2    , Page  227

   [Arrangements of 1870]

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1940-Feb. 26-Hist. to Mrs. Robert
M Shaw-JLL
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Revolution
                22866

              INVALID.
               ---***---
File No.    22.866
         Garret Kroesen
         Pri  Rev War
               ---***---
     Act:  June 7th 32"
Index:--Vol. 2    , Page  227

   [Arrangements of 1870]

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1940-Feb. 26-Hist. to Mrs. Robert
M Shaw-JLL
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                                                                                             224 Ninth Ave.,
                                                                                              Haddon Heights, N. J.,
                                                                                              Feb. 19th, 1940
[stamp of pension office when 
letter was received-upper left]
 RECEIVED 
FEB 23 1940

Mr. A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
Veterans Administration,
Washington, D. C.                                                                [handwritten-only one in Pa-only other JT]                      
                                                                                            In Re: -RA-J/ILL
                                                                                            Joseph Tomlinson  -S.7744
                                                                                            Joseph Tomlinson  -O.W.W. File#13230
                                                                                            Eneas Tomlinson     -B.L. Wt.#56074-120-55

Dear Sir:-
               I wrote to you about 3 weeks ago about Eneas Tomlinson and his Father Joseph Tomlinson.  My ancestor Joseph Tomlinson fought in the Revolutionary War, that I am sure of but his record was destroyed and as there was no record of it in the Bible I have nothing to go by only in case if we can find the name of his parents on his paper or after hes was married his wife's name.  There were about ten or twelve Joseph Tomlinson taxed during the War.  Can you find any other War record for Joseph Tomlinson than the one mentioned? (S-7744)

               You mentioned also that Eneas Tomlinson referred to his parent as Enos also but I find that you sent me the record of both Eneas and Joseph Tomlinsons War of 1812.  Now Eneas and his sister got land grants on his father's name Joseph.  My Eneas was the son of Joseph and Catharine Tomlinson, born Sept. 18, 1787 which checks with the information you sent me.
[handwritten-Revolutionary     has had]
               My Joseph Tomlinson was around 18 or 20 when he went to War.  Now could he have served in both Wars?  Joseph Tomlinson died January 5, 1815 while in service.  Is there anyway that you can check his age that would help on any of his papers?  [handwritten] My records would make him 65.

               My ancestors settled in Bucks co. and surrounding country of Penna.

              The Penna Archives Vol 6, pg. 313 gives a short service but I feel that he was in the War longer than that.
         [handwritten-Garret in Bertie Co.]
               Can you help me with Leonard Kroeson, Penna.  Arch Vol5, pg. 309 and also his son John Kroeson who if I remember correctly was Captain but I am not sure.  They spelled their name Koreson also Krewson and Kroesen and the first emigrants spelled his name Garret Crusen, they came over in 1660.  My Aunt said that we are not related to the Leut. Krewson, I can't understand it.  Captain John Krewson would have to be a Leut before he could be a Captain.

               I would appreciate an early reply as I am waiting to fix my D.A.R. papers and I asked in my last letter to please reply before Feb. 1st as our Chapter wanted to have 50 members before their Congress Meeting in April.  Thanking you, I am,
                                                                                    Sincerely yours
                                                                                    Mrs. Robert M. Saw.
(over)
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Tomlinson came over around 1682
The French and Indian War was Thomas or John Tomlinson 5th Gr. Grandfather
Revolutionary War                "     Joseph Tomlinson 3rd Gr. Grandfather
  War of 1812 was                 "   Eneas or Enos Tomlinson etc.  Gr. Gr. Grandfather
Civil War was    Thomas Tomlinson}  brothers son of John Kreuson Tomlinson (Great Grandfather)
                          Enos Tomlinson} 
Spanish American   John Henry Tomlinson son of John Markely Tomlinson
                                known as Henry                       (grandfather)

          and of course the Worlds War
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                                                                                  224 Ninth Ave.,
                                                                                  Haddon Heights, N. J.
                                                                                   Dec. 28, 1939
[stamp of receipt at pension offfice]
RECEiVED
DEC 29 1939
[illegible]

Mr. A. D. Hiller,
Veterans Admin.,
Washington, D. C.
                                                                   In Ref=Revolutionary War Record
                                                                    of John Krewson
                                                                    Also the record of his Father 
                                                                    Leonard Krewson.

Dear Sir:-

               If I cannot straighten out the Tomlinson Line and establish it I am
aslo [also] intitled [entitled] to the Krewson Line.  I did promise[n crossed out]
my Grandmother that I would establis [establish] the Tomlinson Line but am very anxious to get in the D.A. R. and can do so under the Krewson Line and then keep on trying to get the Tomlinson Line fix [fixed] up.

               Enos Tomlinson Married Mary Krewson July 15, 1809, at Churchville, Penna.  she was the Daughter of John Krewson and Mary Titus Krewson.  The said John Krewson was the son of Leonard but I don't have the wife's name.

               John Krewson is I think Captain John as we always referred to him but I find so many John's I don't know which is which as I don't have his birht [birth] recorded in our Bible.  The Krewsons also come from Bucks Co. Penna.  Southampton Township.  Can you help me?

               Leonard Krewson was Batized [Baptized] 4th of 9ber, 1720 at Abington Pres. Church, Abington, Pa.    Died --------1806.  He belonged to the 6th Associated Co. for the township of Southampton, Bucks Co., Aug. Ye [the] 19th 1775 under Captain Folwell.  Penn Archives 5- Pg. 309 and is supposed to of served after that.  My Tomlinson ancestor served under the Northampton Township Co.  It appears that these safety Rolls were all burned at Harrisburg.  Would you be kind enough to help me?

               I want you to believe that I am interested and sincere in this and that I am the Great Great Grand-gaughter [daughter] of Mary Krewson and also Great Great Great Grand-gaugner [daughter] of Leonard Krewson her Grandfather.

               Now the Krewson name is spelled in the 2nd Generation as Kroeson and the first Generation in America as Crusen.  The first Crussen were born in Winschoten Netherlands or Holland 1609 and landed in this county in 1660.  This data is all authentic and I will send you the complete line if you desire it.  [handwritten in left border -Crewson etc.]

               Trusting this doesn't put you to very much trouble and wish to thank you sincerely for all the interest you have shown me, I am.
                                                                                    Sincerely yours,
                                                                                    Mrs. Robert M. Shaw

P. S.  By helping me you are helping me to keep a promise I made my Grandparents before they died.
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                                                                                     224 Ninth Ave.,
                                                                                     Haddon Heights, N. J.,
                                                                                      Dec. 28th, 1939.
[left hand side-stamp of receipt at Pension Office]
RECEIVED 
DEC 29 1939
MAH SUB DIV
[illegible]
                                                                                        In Re:-BA-J/ILL
                                                                                         Eneas Tomlinson
                                                                                         B.L.Wt. #56074-120=55.
                                                                                                Joseph Tomlinson
                                                                                                O.W.W. file #13230
                                                                                         Joseph Tomlinson
                                                                                         S. 7744

Mr. A. D. Hiller,
Veterans Admin.
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir: -

               Your letter of Oct. 5th, 1939 in which you so kindly replied to my request for information in regards to Eneas Tomlinson, my ancestor and the War 1812, received.

               You state that on December 14, 1850 he applied for the bounty land which was due under the Act. of Sept. 28th, 1850 and at that time he was 63 years old.  That agrees with the record in our Family bible.  He was born Sept. 18th, 1787, in Bucks Co., Penna.  Your also state that he referred to his parents as Enos also.  Will you write and tell me how.  The Eneas Tomlinson, I am interested in is the son of Joseph Tomlinson and Catharine.

               You under the same date sent me also Joseph Tomlinson's War record of 1812 where it showed that he died January 5, 1815 and that on May 30th, 1855 Enos Tomlinson and Sarah Tomlinson Severns, the only Children of Joseph Tomlinson and his Wife Elizabeth applied for the bounty of land due him if he were living.  Does this record show his date of birth?  I take it that the above Enos is our Enos and that said Joseph Tomlinson his father.

               Now, the War of 1776 record of Joseph Tomlinson born in 1756, in Lower Dublin Township, Phila. Penna could of been my Enos's Father but this Joseph Tomlinson died sometime around 1851 and the Joseph of the war of 1812 died Jan. 6, 1815.  So that make it hard to explain.  I think it could be possible for a soldier to serve in both Wars and as the D.A. R. Chapter is only interested in the soldier that served in the War 1776 I would like you to straighten me out if you can by giving me all of the information possible.

               The only thing I have to go on is the fact that my Grandparents said that we had members of our Family in all the Wars dating from the French and Indian Wars and the date of Joseph Tomlinson and Catharine, Father and Mother of Enos Tomlinson Born 1787.  that is the earliest date.  I don't know what Emos Tomlinson's GrandFather's name was, and he I am sure would of been in the Revolutionary War too.

               The Registor of the D.A. R. Chapter thinks that the above Joseph Tomlinson born in 1756 is the Father of my Enos.  She told me to again write you to see if some little thing which you might have on record would help us.
                       Thanking you, I am              Sincerely yours,
                                                           Mrs. Robert M Shaw.
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                                                                         February 26, 1940.

Mrs. Robert M. Shaw
224 Ninth Avenue
Haddan Heights, New Jersey.

BA-J/ILL
Joseph Tomlinson [handwritten-other letter]
S. 7744
Joseph Tomlinson [handwritten-other letter]
O.W.W.File #13230
Eneas Tomlinson [handwritten=other letter]
B.L.Wt. #56074-120-55

Dear Madam:

               Reference is made to your letter of February 19, in which you request further information in regard to your ancestors, Joseph Tomlinson of Pennsylvania, a Revolutionary War soldier, also Joseph Tomlinson and Eneas Tomlinson of the War of 1812, further, the Revolutionary War records of Leonard Kroesen and Lieutenant John Kroesen (variously spelled), also of Pennsylvania.

               The Revolutionary War record of Joseph Tomlinson-S. 7744, 
is that of the only Joseph Tomlinson of Pennsylvania found on the Revolutionary War records of this office.  The War of 1812 record of Joseph Tomlinson who died in service-O.W.W.File #13230-was the soldier designated by you.  The record of Eneas Tomlinson-bounty land warrant #56074-120-55, was furnished to aid you in your research.  This office has no further information in regard to said soldiers.

               A search of the Revolutionary War records has been made and no claim for pension or bounty land found based upon service of a John or Leonard Kroesen, variously spelled.  The record has been found of a Garret Kreosen of Pennsylvania, who served under Lieutenant John Kreosen; his record is furnished you herewith, pension claim-S.22866.  This record may aid you in your research.

                                                        Very truly yours,


                                                         A. D. HILLER
                                                         Executive Assistant
                                                          to the Administrator.