Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43420, Simon Crosby, Conn.
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Service
Conn.
Crosby, Simon
Number S.434210
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York Crosby [illegible] in the state of New York o was a private in the regiment commanded Colonel Bradley of the Connecticut ne, for the term of the war,1777 [illegible]scribed on the roll of N. York he rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 5 of May 1[illegible] 1[illegible] ertificate of Pension issued the 31st of July 181[illegible] and sent to L. Cushing, [illegible] [illegible] , N. York [illegible] rears to 4th of March 1819 [illegible] Semi anl. all'ce ending [illegible] Sept. 1819 48 {Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March 1818.}
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Simon Crosby [illegible] Pomsret Chautauque County New York 1777, [illegible] war Col. Bradley's [illegible]ugt [illegible] Joseph A Wrights Cons Connecticut Line 5 May 1818 [illegible] Admitted [illegible] Cushing [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] County [illegible] [illegible]
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State of New York County of Chaubauque On the fifth [illegible] day of May Eighteen hundred Eighteen before me the [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] of the [illegible] [illegible] Common Pleas in and for the County of Chaubauque State of New York personally appeared Simon Crosby aged fifty nine years [illegible] the Village of Tredonia County and State of [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] duly sworn according to [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] following Declaration in order to [illegible] the [illegible] [illegible] of [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] in the land and [illegible] Navel Service of the United States [illegible] Revolutionary War: That the said Simon Crosby enlisted in the [illegible] service of the United States [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] and Colonel Gays Regement in the connecticut Line [illegible] [illegible] Soldier and [illegible] as such [illegible] for [illegible] [illegible] of [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]
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State of New York County of Chautauqua On the fifth day of May Eighteen hundred Eighteen before me the [illegible] [illegible] of the [illegible] [illegible] Common Pleas in and for the County of Chautauqua State of New York personally appeared Simon Crosby aged fifty nine years [illegible] the Village of Fredonia County and State of [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] duly sworn, according to [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] following Declaration in order to obtain the pension [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] the late act of Congress entitled an act to [illegible] engages in the land and [illegible] Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War: That the said Simon Crosby enlisted in the [illegible] service of the United States in Capptain [illegible] [illegible] and Colonel Gays Regement in the [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] private Soldier and served as such willfully for [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] term of [illegible] [illegible] and he [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] I am the [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] that [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] the first of January Seventeen hundred Seventy [illegible] he is [illegible] as of late Soldier [illegible] Liutenant James Morris of Captain [illegible] [illegible] Company and Col. Bradley's Regiment in the Connecticut [illegible] for during the war and he may transfer to Colonel [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] where he served until honerably discharged with [illegible] Highlands in the State of New York in June on the [illegible] seven hundred eighty three at the close of the War  The [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] that by serves of [illegible] [illegible] is [illegible] to [illegible] [illegible][illegible] in [illegible] of the [illegible] of the country for support and that [illegible] evidence now in his [illegible] of his said [illegible] Simon Crosby Sworn to and declared before me the day [illegible] Year aforsaid Laltn [illegible]
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Service                           Number
Conn.    Crosby, Simon  S. 434210
Contents
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State of New York
Chautauqua County 
I, John Dexter, Clerk,
of the Court of Common Pleas, in & for the said county
of Chautauqua, do certify that Zattie Cushing is
first Judge of said Court, and was at the date
of the foregoing affidavit & certificate duly appointed Commissioned 
& sworn residing in said County and I do further certify that
I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said
Zattie & verily belive [believe] that the signature of Zattie Cushing to the
within acknowledgment & certificate are his genuine signature.
In Testimony whereof I have affixed the seal of said Court
to these present & signed the same with my own hand at Mayville 
in said County this twenty fifth day of June 1819.

John Dexter
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Simon Crosby
Chatauqua

Pensioner under the act of 
ngress [Congress] of 18th March 1818.

Schedule & under the act of Congress
approved, 1, May 1820.

X  Coppy.

Bradley's 13757
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State of New York
Chatauqua County

Be it remembered that on this
thirtieth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred & twenty, personally appeared before the
Judges of the court of Common pleas held at the Courthouse
in the village of Mayville, in & for the County of Chatauqua
in the State of New York in open Court, (said court being a
Court of record in & for the said county, because it provides
according to the cause of the common law has a jurisdiction
unlimited in point of amount, keeps a record of its 
procedings [proceedings] & has a seal)  Simon Crosby aged about sixty
two years, resident in the said County, who being first duly
sworn according to law, doth on his oath [unknown] that he served
in the revolutionary war as follows to wit, That in the month
of February (according to his best recollection) in the year 1777
he enlisted in Capt. Joseph Wrights Company in the regiment
then commanded by Col. Philip B. Bradley of the Connecticut
line, it being the case, that he served some time in that [unknown]
when Col. Bradley left the service and by consolidation of
several Regiments, he the said Simon Crosby was transferred or 
belonged to a regiment in the said Connecticut line commanded
by Col. Heman Swift, where he served during the war and at its
conclusion was honorably discharged at the highlands in the
State of New York, making a time of about six years service
as saith the said Simon Crosby served in the revolutionary war.
That he was in the Battles at Seal Bash Long Island, Turtle
Bay, the one fought at the taking of New York, the one fought
a few days after at Harlem Heights, in the Battle of White Marsh
and several others of less consequence, the names of which he cannot
now recollect.  That on or about the fifth day of May in 
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & eighteen, he
made a declaration before his Honor Zattie Cushing Esquire
Just Judge of the Court of common pleas aforesaid in order
to obtain a pension under the act of congress entitled "an
act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval
service of the United States in the revolutionary war", for on
the Eighteenth day of March 1818, and that he has received
a certificate of pension. Marked 13/57. by which it appears
that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 18th of
March 1818, he is inscribed on the pension list, Roll of the
the York agency at the rate of eight dollars per month to 
commence on the fifth day of May one thousand eight
hundred & eighteen, which certificate was given at the war
office of the United States the thirty first day of July one
thousand eight hundred & nineteen.  And that the said
Simon Crosby did on this thirtieth day of June 1820
exhibit to the said court before the Judge then of in open Court
the following oath taken & subscribed by him before
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his how. Philo Anton [illegible] [illegible] at the Judges [illegible] [illegible] the said court and aid also at the same time to the said court the following schedule of his estate [illegible] insome also [illegible]scribes by [illegible] self State of New York Chautauqua County I Simon Crosby do Solemnly Swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March 1818, and that I have not [illegible] [illegible] the gift, sale or in any money whatever , disposed of any [illegible] or any fact there of with in[illegible] [illegible] so [illegible] diminish it, as to bring myself within the Provisions of an act of [illegible], entitled [illegible] to provide for certain [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] in the Land and Navel Service of the United 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 or debts due to [illegible] nor have any [illegible] other than what is [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] Schedule here unto annexed and by me [illegible] Simon Crosby Subscribed and Sworn by before me June 30th 1820 Philo Anton One of the Judges of the court of common [illegible] of Chautauqua County
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I have one note given by William Bigger & Co about 7 years ago for 24 pounds New York currency, but that firm has failed and become
insolvent & some of the partners are dead and I have no hope of ever getting any part of the money due on said note.  I have another note against William Bigger & Co. given
April, 1818, for 120 pounds New York Currency and consider it as worthless as the other.  I have also one note against Samuel Cooper, Given the 6th June 1816, for $200, but the
said Cooper after the making of the said note became insolvent & has since ran away and as I am informed been convicted of counterfeit money in some one of the Southern States, but i do not know which.  I have no expectation ever receiving any part of the money due on the said note, nor do I consider it worth anything.

My occupation when I was able to carry it on, was a distiller but I am now infirm & unable to support myself. I live in the house with one of my sons & depend on him for support except what little service I can render him by my labor. I have a wife who is likewise infirm & unable to labor much, and if it were not for the generosity & charity of our children, who have all got families of their own, we must suffer for want of necessary sustenance.

State of New York
Chautauqua County ss
I Simon Crosby do solemnly & sincerely swear
that the above statement regarding my occupation, my family & my ability to support them and regarding the situation of my property & the debts which I have are just & true.
[Signature Simon Crosby]

Subscribed & sworn to
before me on June 30th 1820
Philo Orton
One of the Judges of the Court of
Common pleas of Chautauqua County
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State of New York
Chautauqua County SS
I Thomas B. Campbell Clerk of the Court
of Common pleas held in and for the County of
Chautauqua do hereby certify that the foregoing providing oaths & 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 exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is fixty seven dollars seventy five cents.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and office the seal of the said Court, on this 28th day of July 1820

[Signature Thomas B. Campbell Clerk]
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Conn.
to your request of (cut off) for a statement of the military history of Simon Crosby a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) (struck out) application for pension on file in this bureau S. T. 43,420 
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
*check mark*
LENGTH OF SERVICE
 6 mos.
RANK 
Pri. 
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED
CAPTAIN
Bradley
COLONEL
Gay
STATE
Conn.

Feb 1777 to June 1783 
Joseph Wright Peter Robertson
Philip B. Bradley 
Herman Swift

Battles engaged in, Flat Bush, Long Island, Turtle Bay, New York City, Harlem Heights, (illegible)
Residence of soldier at enlistment, not stated
Date of application for pension, May 5, 1818. His climas at
Residence at date of application, Fredonia, Chautauqua Co. N.Y.
Age at date of application, 59 years Place of birth not stated
Remarks: In 1820 soldier had a wife and several children (names and ages not stated.)
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History
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43420
Invalid.
Revy
File No.  43420
Simon Crosby
Served Rev War

Act: 18 March 18

Index: - Vol. 8, Page 106

[Arrangement of 1870]

July 3/99 History to 
Crosby, Great Falls

December 19, 1900
Miss Julia T.E. Ma

April 20, 1910 History to 
Geo R. Smith F.W.

1923 June 2 - History to 
Mrs. L.L. Bottsford Aut
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I James Morris of Litchfield in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut was a Lieutenant in the year AD 1777 in Captain Joseph A. Wrights Company in the Regiment commanded by Col Philip B. Bradley of the
Connecticut line of the army of the United States, in the the revolutionary War, and that I enlisted Simon Crosby as a soldier in the Company aforesaid in the Spring of the year 1777 to serve during the war and that the
said Simon Crosby did serve in the army faithfully during the war, and at its close was honorably discharged when the Regiments in the Connecticut Line were disbanded and retired. The Company of Captain Joseph A Wright was placed in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Heman Swift and if I rightly remember the aforesaid, Simon Crosby was in the Company of Captain Peter Robinson in said Regiment.

[Signature James Morris]
Litchfield County of Litchfield 13th April 1819
Personally appeared James Morris Esq the Deponent aforesaid and took solemn oath to the truth of the facts stated in the foregoing
deposition by him subscribed before me 

[Signature Morris Woodruff Justice of Peace]
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I Samuel Waugh of Litchfield in the county of Litchfield and State of Connecticut of Lawful age certify and say that Simon Crosby enlisted as a soldier in the Spring of the year AD 1777 in the company by Cap Joseph A Wright in the Regiment Commanded by Col. Philip B. Bradley in the Connecticut Line of the Army of the United States in the revolutionary War and that the said Simon Crosby served faithfully during the War toward the close of the war the said Crosby was in Captain Peter Robinson's Company in Col. Herman Swift's Regiment and at the close of the war that Simon Crosby was honorably discharged from the service
dated Litchfield April 10th 1817    Samuel Waugh

I Jared Knapp of Litchfield depose and say that I know that Simon Crosby enlisted in the year 1777 in the Company commanded by Capt.n Joseph A Wright in the Continental Army of the United States in the Revolutionary War, and that he served during the War and that he was a faithful soldier, and was honorably discharged in the year 1783. Jared Knapp

Litchfield County Ss Litchfield April 12 1819
Personally appeared Samuel Waugh and Jared Knapp and made solemn oath to the above affidavits to which they have respectively sign'd their names before me James Morris Justice of Peace
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I Frederick Wolcott Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut, certify they James Morris Esq and Morris Woodruff, Esq at the date of the preceding instruments by them repectively subscribed were Justices of the Peace within said County, legally commissioned & qualified & that their signatures to it instruments respectively are their hand writing. 
Witness my had & the seal of said Court this 19th day of April 
A. TRAG  Frederick Wolcott
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(Some parts illegible) Recorder Trees Sheriff Martin Co Atty
David Rige Co Asessor
H.L. McIntyre Co Surveyor 
Geo S. Swan Supt. Schools

Commissioners:

S.S. Hawkins, Chairman
S.N. Dickey
Charles Wegner.

Cascade Co. Montana,

Great Falls Mont. June 17 1895

Hon Wm Lochren
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Sir,
In a pamphlet entitled "Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating a Transcript of the Pension List of the U.S. Shewing the number of pensioners in the several districts, also the amount allowed each pensioner," Published June 1, 1813, Referred to the Committee on Claims, I find under the State of Connecticutt, Number on Roll 53, private, annual stipend 40, the name of Simon Crosoby,
I believe I am descended from this Simon Crosby and would like what history you have of him, if it can be found on your Rolls, either Revolutionary or 1812, Trusting you can favor me
I remain Yours Respectfully 
Howard Crosby
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Silver Creek N.Y. Route 2
Thursday Apr 7th 1910
U.S. Pension Bureau
Gentlemen
I wish to acknowledge receipt of you letter of March 18th giving record of Simon Crosby Revolutionary Soldier. I regret to say that this person was not the man in whom I am interested. Since writing you I have obtained further information regarding this person which will doubtless make it easier for you to locate his service. Simon Crosby in whom I am intereted was born at or near Brewster Mass. in 1764 served in Revolutionary Army as drummerboy (I think) His pension stopped in 1836 in which year he died at Fredonia N.Y. where his grave now is. His wifes name was Huldah Gibbs and she is also
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buried in Fredonia. - A copy of his military record will be most gratefully received
   Regretting the necessity of again troubling you I remain
   Truly Yours
   George R. Smith
   Route #2
     Silver Creek
         Chautauqua Co.
             N.Y.

The only one of Simon Crosby's children of whom we have knowledge was Orris Crosby born 1794 at  South (illegible) Conn. died 1863
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59 Casterton Ave.
Akron Ohio 
April 16, 1923.
The Commissioner of Pension
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir
Kindly advise me if Simion or Simon Crosby of Hartland, Litchfield Co. Conn. is recorded as rendering any service in the ^American Revolution.
  Did Ezra Corning of Preston, who settled in Hartford render Revolutionary service?
   Simon Crosby married Lydia 4th Child of Ezra Corning.
   Very Truly
   Helen Crosby-Bottsford
   (Mrs. L.L. Bottsford)