Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43407, Ebenezer Crittenden, Continental Mass.
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(8-1776)
Service          Number
Continental Mass   Crittenden, Ebenezer
S.43407
Contents
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[Illegible]  20.039
New York
Ebenezer Crittenden
of Ontario Co in the State of  New York who was a private in the [ company], commanded [b]y Captain Wilhin[sar] of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Reed in the N[ew] Hampshire line , for the term of one year [.] from 1776 to 1777 inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of eight Dollars per month to commence on the 15 day of Jan[uary][:] 1829 Certificate of Pension issued the 24 of January 189 and R.M. Bayly Esq-
Geneva, N.Y.
Arrcars to 4th of March 1829 $13.41
Semi-anl. all'ce ending[.]
$13.41Revolutionary Claim, Acts March, 18,1818 and May 1, 1820 [ Recibul. 5 the 77]
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[R]en : to com: 15 Jan. 1829 Reeds' reg]
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This Indenture made the first day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty [seven ] between Ebenezer Crittenden of the Town of Gorham in the County of Ontario and State of New York of the First Part and Elizabeth Bennett of the Town of Phelps and County [ and] State aforesaid of the second part witnesseth , that the said party of the First Part for and in 
Consideration of the Sum of Five hundred and fifty dollars to him in hand laid by the said party of the Second Part, the receipt whereof is here by confessed and acknowledge, hath granted bargained sold remised release aliened and Confirming; and by these Present, doth grant bargain sell remise release alien and confirm, unto the said party of the Second Part and to her
Heirs and assigns  for ever all that certain tract or parcel of land situate in Cannons location in the yore between the Old and new preemption  lines in the town of Phelps and county of Ontario aforesaid ( to Wit) Lot number thirty seven and part Of Lot number fifty two containing [jointly] fourteen areas one [r]oad and thirty two perches of Land be the same more or less and bounded as follows [:]
on the North by lot number twenty two , on the East by lot number thirty eight , on the West by Lots number thirty six and fifty one and in the South by the road as i[t] now [runs] or highway leading from Oak[s];Easterly to Cayuga bridge as surveyed by John Smith - Together with all and hereditaments the appurtenances thereunto belonging or many wise appertaining and the reversion and reversions remainder [and] remainders rents issues [and] profits thereof and all the estate right title interest claim or demand whatsoever of the said party of the first part either at law or in equiequity of in to the above bargained premises with the said hereditaments and appurtenances to have and to hold the above  granted bargained [ and ] described premises unto then said party of the second part her heirs assigns to the sole and only proper use benefit [and] behoof of the said party of tye srcond part her heirs [and] assigns forever and the said party of the first part of the first part will forever Warrant and Defend . In witness whereof the said party of the frist part hath hereunto set his hand seal on the day [ and] in the year first above written 
Sighnthat  Sealed [and ] delivered in the presence of New Rittende. 
Elenezer Crittenden
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Ontario
County Came before me this 7th day of April 1827 the within names
Ebenezer Crittenden to me known to be the person described in and who
executed the within Deed and acknowledged he signed sealed and delivered
the within Deed for the uses & purposes therein mentioned. Let it be recorded
(Signed)
Chester Andrews Commissioner
Ebenezer Crittenden
To
Elizabeth Bennett
Deed
Ontario County [ illegible]
Received for record 12 th
April 1827 at 2 oClock PM
and recorded in Liber 4 5 of Deeds
at [ illegible] and examined
Ralph Lester Clerk
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State of New York
Ontario County [U.S.]
Be it known that before me Richard
M. Bayly a Public Notary in said County, personally appeared William V. I. Mercer and made oath that the foregoing
is a true copy of the Deed from Ebenezer Crittenden to Elizabeth Bennet as copied by him this 15th day of January 1829
Sworn and subscribed before
me this 15th day of January 
W. V. I. Mercer 
R. M. Bayly
Notary Public

State of New York
Ontario County Ss.
Be it known that before me Richard M.
Bayly a Public Notary in the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Ebenezer Crittenden and made oath in due
form of Law that, at the time he went home on furlough while in the service of the United States, he was sick
and remained sick for a considerable length of time, and that
after his recovery he returned and joined the army and
served out his enlistment- and that he has no other
evidence that that herewith furnished
Sworn & subscribed this 15th day of January 1829 before me
R. M. Bayly
Notary Public
E. Crittenden
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20.519
Ebenezer Crittenden
N[ew] York
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Declaration in order to be placed on the Pension list under the Act of the 18th of March 1818.

State of New York }
County of Ontario } ss    In this nineteenth day of November 1828, personally appeared in open court, being a court of record for the county of Ontario Ebenezer Crittenden resident in said county aged Seventy two years who being first duly sworn according to law; doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818, and the 1st of May 1820; that he the said Crittenden enlisted for the term of one year on the day of in the year 1776 n the State of Massachusetts, in the company commanded by captain James Wilkinson in the regiment commanded by colonel Reed in the line of the State of New Hampshire on the continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said corps until the expiration of his Enlistment when he was discharged from the service at Lake George in the State of New York, that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present; that his name is not on the roll of any States except New Hampshire; and that the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension: viz that he did not need assistance from his country.  And in pursuance of the act of the 1st May 1820 I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that being by gifts sales or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent 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 Untied States in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not  nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts,
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or debts due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.  That since the 18th of March 1818, the following changes has been made in my property.  a lot of fourteen acres sold Mr. Bennett for Five Hundred and fifty dollars, which has since been reduced for the necessaries of life and medical attendance.  
(Signed) E. Crittenden

Sworn to and declared on the 19th }
day of November 1828 before }
Samuel Rawson a Judge of the Ontario Common Pleas

Schedule of property belonging to Ebenezer Crittenden

Oren Crittenden Note for                      $200.00
Mr. Bennett         Note for                       100.00
1 Old Horse  20  1 Cow 10                        30.00
1 Old Broken Carriage                                 3.00
1  "   Clock                                                    3.00
2 Tables  6 chairs, old spoon }
1 knives & fork  crockery }
pots, Kettles spoons &c  }                            7.50
                                                                 _______
                                                               $343.50
1 Bed & bedding                                       10.00
                                                              $353.50

I am indebted
for rent                                                   50.00
to R. M. Bayley                                        20
"   Oren Crittenden                                 20
"  Bruce for wood                                     7
"  F. Vandemark                                        4
"  Shathuck for a pig                                 1.50
                                                               ________
                                                              $102.50

I am Seventy two years of age have a wife aged sixty seven her daughter aged Nineteen named Lucy Hurd and nearly Blind
(Signed) Ebenezer Crittenden
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I Ralph Lester Clerk of the court of common pleas of Ontario County do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the court, that the said Ebenezer Crittenden did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months under one engagement, on the continental establishment. I also certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto accounts are truly copied from the records 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 as labeled in the aforesaid schedule is three hundred and fifty three dollars and fifty cents.

The testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this twenty second day of November 1828.

Ralph Lester Clerk
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Rev.&1812 Wars Section

June 8, 1928.

Ruth A. Crittenden,
12 River Boulevard,
Ypsilanti, Michigan.

Madam:
I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 43407, it appears that Ebenezer Crittenden enlisted in Conway, Massachusetts in 1775 and served nine months as a private in Captain Robert Oliver's Company, Colonel Doolittle's Massachusetts Regiment.

He enlisted January or February 1776 and served one year as a private in Captain James Wilkinson Company, Colonel Reed's New Hampshire Regiment.

He was allowed pension on his application executed November 19, 1828 while a resident of Gorham, Ontario County, New York, aged seventy-two years.

In 1828 his wife, name not stated, was sixty-seven years of age and her daughter named Lucy Hurd was nineteen years old.

The above noted Ebenezer Crittenden is the only soldier of that name found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.

Respectfully,
Winfield Scott,
Commissioner.
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43407
Invalid
Revy
File No. 43[,]407
Ebenezer Crittenden
[ illegible] Rev [ illegible]
Act:18th March 18th
Index: - Vol. 3, Page 105 
Arrangement of 1870
[ illegible] June 8 Hist to Ruth A. Crittenden [ illegible]
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State of New York
Ontario County  } ss.

Be it known that before me Richard M. Bayly a Public Notary in the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Selah Belden of said County and made oath that he is now and has long been well acquainted with Ebenezer Crittenden of the Town of Gorham County & State aforesaid, and that in the year 1775 this Deponent was a Enlisted Soldier in the Company commanded by Captain Robert Oliver in Col. Doolittles Regiment in the Massachusetts line, that in the same year the said Crittenden enlisted in the same Company at the Town of Conway in the State of Massachusetts for the term of nine months and served for that time, that in the year following this deponent again enlisted in the Company commanded by Captain James Wilkinson in Colonel Reeds Regiment in the New Hampshire line in the months of January or February for the term of twelve months, that the said Ebenezer Crittenden enlisted in said Company and
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and Regiment at the same time and for the same time of service, that they served together.  That said Crittenden received a furlough at Fort George some time in the summer of 1776 in consequence of his sickness and that this deponent found him sick on his return home which was in the winter following.
(Signed) Selah Belding

Sworn and Subscribed before me
this 18th day of October 1828
Witness my hand & Seal of Office
[ SEAL ]    (Signed) R. M. Bayly
Notary Public

I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Selah Belden the subscribing witness to the foregoing affidavit and that he is entitled to full credit 
(Signed) R M Bayly  N. P.


In the matter of
Eben. Crittenden
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State of New York
Ontario County

Be it known that before me Rich M Bayly a notary public in the County aforsaid, personally appeared Isaac Amsdem and made oath that he is well acquainted with Ebenezer Crittenden of the Town of Gorham County of state aforsaid, that Crittenden enlisted at Conway in the state of Massachusetts in the year 1775 in the Company commanded by Captain Robert Oliver in Col. Doolittles Regiment in the Massachusetts line for nine months and served to the end of that term of time, that this deponent enlisted in the same Company about the same time and served with said Crittenden during nine months that in January, February or March 1776 the said Crittenden enlisted in what was called the years service, but what Company or Regiment this deponent cannot now state, but thinks it was Col. Reeds Regiment.

Isaac Amsdem
Sworn and subscribed before me this 18 day of October 1828
witness my hand and seal of office
RM Bayly
Notary Public
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I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Isaac Admsden the subscribing witness to the foregoing affidavit and that he is entitled to full credit.
RM Bayly
Notary Public
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Geneza  15 Jany 1829

J L. Edwards Esqr

Sir /   I herewith enclose you a certified copy of Crittendens deed to Mr. Bennett together with his affidavit as to the furlough.  The schedule shows what he has left of the proceed of the Land sold Bennett.

Respectfully Yours
R M Bayly
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Mr  Shapleigh

wrote June 27th '93
that no Hoperdall on 
record & that the only
Ebenezer enlisted in 
Conway Mass & was 
being in 1828 in Ontario Co. NY - no information
to identify him with the
within
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187 South Main St., 
Middletown, Conn.
May 24th 1893

The Hon,
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir,
I am anxious to learn regarding "Hopesdell (not found) Crittenden" and "Ebenezer Crittenden" who went from Middletown, Conn. to the "Carolinas" during the Revolutionary War and enlisted in the American Army.

Will you kindly refer to the records filed in your office of both North and South Carolina and if either one, or both of the above underscored names appear on record, give me the dates relating to enlistment, time of services and discharge, and any other information that may appear on record relating to their service in the Army.

The records here show that the two brothers went to the "Carolinas" during the War of the Revolution and "Common report" regarding both of them was, that they enlisted in the American Army.

I hope that you will be able to find their names on record.
Yours truly,
Mrs. W.W. Wilcox
187 So. Main St.,
Middletown, Conn.
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12 River Blvd
Ypsilanti Mich
August 30, 1927

Pension Bureau
Rev. War Dept., 
Washington, D.C.

To Whom It May Concern:
Can you give me any information as to Ebenezer Crittenden? only

Following is what I have succeeded in finding from relatives:
"Ebenezer Crittenden was one of a list of men returned as serving picket guard under Maj. Baldwin, dated May 23, 1775. This report states that he was detailed for this service under Capt. Rueben Dichinson."

"July 10, 1777, enlisted in Capt. Benjamin Phillips' Co of Colonel Elisha Porter's Regiment. Discharged Aug. 20, 1777, but was allowed credit for one month and eight days in the northern department, travel included."

Ebenezer Crittenden was a son of Samuel Crittenden. He was born Oct. 18, 1757, in Guilford, Conn.

Hoping to hear from you in the near future, I remain,
Yours sincerely,
Ruth A. Crittenden
(Miss) Ruth A. Crittenden
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information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.  Ebenezer Crittenden   See File 43407

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
1775

LENGTH OF SERICE.
9 mos

RANK.
Pvt.

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
Robert Oliver
COLONEL
Doolittle

STATE.
Mass.

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT
Jany or Feby 1776

LENGTH OF SERVICE.
1 year

RANK.

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
James Wilkinson
COLONEL.
Reed

STATE.
N. H.

Battles engaged in.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, enlisted at Conway, Mass.
Date of application for pension, Nov. 18, 1928, Has it was at Gorham.
Residence at date of application, Ontario Co. NY
Age at date of application, 72 years old
Remarks:  In 1828 his wife, name not stated was 67 years of age and her daughter named Lucy Hurd was 19 years old.  The above named is the only Soldier of the that name in NY (illegible) &c.