Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22196, John Cruse, Penn.
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(S-1776) 
SERVICE  NUMBER
Penn. Cruse, John  S. 22196

CONTENTS
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22.6.48 
Pennsylvania 
John Cruse 
of Huntingdon in the State of Penn who was a Private in the - Co commanded by Captain Henry of the Reg't  commanded by Genl Wayne in the Penn for seven months 
Inscribed on the Roll of Penna at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of Nov 1833 and sent to C Galbraith Funkstown, H.Q. Penn. 
 Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833 - 53.33 
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 3 11. 67 $70.00 
  Revolutionary Claim, Act 
June 7, 1832.
Recorded by  M. Palmer, Clerk 
Book E. Vol. 5 Page ten
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28.388
John Cruse
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State of Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County Ss
On this ninth [crossed out fifteenth] day of Nov [crossed out October] 1833 personally appeared before me and a [illegible] Judge of the court of common pleas in and for the said county and commonwealth  John Cruse a resident of Kinkstown in the said county and commonwealth aged Seventy two years who being duly sworn according to court doth on his solemn oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the seventh of June 1832. That in May 1780 he belonged to a company of militia commanded by Captain Mowerlark, in Berks County Pennsylvania that he enlisted for seven months, and was marched from Reading to Philadelphia and from thence to where the army was  encamped between Morristown and Trenton in the state of New Jersey that he was there placed under the command of a Lieutenant Sord the the Battalion he belonged to was commanded by Major Falhert that he belonged to a Lieutenant of the army that was marched to attack a Block house erected by the British in the state of New Jersey not far from New York and the detachment had to retreat  that a second attack was ordered by General Wayne and when they arrived at the Block house the British had evacuated it that he continued in the service until the expiration of the seven months he had enlisted for when the army went in to winter quarters and he then returned home to Berks County aforesaid that in the spring following he again joined the army in a company commanded by a captain Henry that on their march from Berks county he took sick of a bad fever, and continued sick for upwards of three months, and as soon as he was able, he set out to join the army that he got a pass in York Pennsylvania, and still being weak he could travel but slow, and when he got as far as Stanton in Virginia he was told by the people
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there that Cornwallis was taken and there was no more need of his services, whereupon he went no further that from the time he entered the service the second time until he was well of sickness was upwards of three months, and from that until his arrival in Stanton was two months, making altogether five months the second year he was in the service that he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service  He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except than present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state or Territory
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid } [illegible]
Joseph M Cune

Interrogatories propounded by me then said Judge to the said applicant the said ninth day of November 1833
as follows Vis
Where and when were you born Answer I was born in Berks County Pennsylvania eighteen miles from Reading in the year 1761
Have you any record of your age if so where is it  Ans I have no record of my age, my parents having died when I was young the [illegible] I know my age is from other relatives with whom I lived
Where were you living when called into service
where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live  Ans I lived several years in Berks County near where I was born, I then moved into the state of Maryland, and afterwards I lived several years in Louder Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and I now reside in Frankstown Huntingdon County and state of Pennsylvania
How were you called into service were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom  Ans I estined the service as an
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enlisted soldier for seven months, the first period of my service -and the second time I enlisted the service was for during the war.
State the names of some of the singular officers who were with the troops when you served; such 
continental and Militia regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service -
I know Generals Wayne and Irwin, they were both pretty country men, also Major Talbert who [illegible] [illegible] the battalion I belonged to he was a very tallman.
The second time I enlisted the service I had not an opportunity of knowing any of the Field or General officers, the Company I belonged to not having joined the army at the time I took sick-The circumstances of my service are as fully expressed in the forgoing declaration as I can now recollect-
Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it. Answer. I never received a regular discharge as the army was going into winter quarters at the  time my term of service, and that of a number of others had explained, we were allowed to return home, unless we would engage for a further length of time.
State the names of persons in your neighborhood  to where you are known, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution-
I would state a number of persons who could testify to the above, but will only refer to Joseph Patton and John Stewart Esquires  who can fully testify to my character for  veracity, and to their belief of my services as a Soldier of the Revolution-
The foregoing [illegible] sworn to and subscribed on the said 9th day of Nov. 1833} Johannes Grus
Joseph McCune
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22196
Revolution
INVALID

File No. 22196
John Cruse
Priv Rev War

Act: June 7 62?

Index:- Vol. D, Page [illegible]
[Arrangement of 1832.]
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Frankstown Pa Nov 18

J. L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pension
Washington City
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Franks town, Huntington County, Penna. 18th Nov. 1833

Honored Sir

Any communications on the subject of the within application for a Pension I wish to be addressed to me through Ephraim Galbraith Esq. of Frankstown aforesaid—Frankstown Post office Penna.

Yours &c.
J.L. Edwards Esq. 
 
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John Cruise in England
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We Joseph Patton and John Stewart Esqr. residing in the County of Huntington and State of Pennsylvania hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Cruse who has subscribed, and sworn to the foregoing declaration— that we believe him to be Seventy two Years of age— that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion—
Jo Patton
John Stewart

Sworn & Subscribed on the day
and year aforesaid—
Joseph McCune

And I the said Judge do hereby declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Soldier of the Revolution, and Served as he states— And I do further certify that it appears to me that Joseph Patton and John Stewart Esquires who has[sic] signed the preceding certificate, as credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit—And I do also further certify that the aforesaid applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity attend in Court, his place of residence being a considerable distance there from— In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal the day and year aforesaid .
Joseph McCune
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State of Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County, PA; 
I
 David R. Porter Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Hunting don Do Certify that Joseph McCune Esquire before whom the foregoing proceedings were held is one of the Judges of the Court of common Pleas of the said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and acting as such. And that the named "Joseph McCune" thereto subscribed, is his genuine Signature. In Testimony whereof have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Huntington the fourteenth day of November A.D. Eighteen hundred and thirty three.
D.R. Porter Proy
(seal in corner of paper)
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28.388.22.648
John Croner
Penn
Adam J Mouths
$23.33
Ephraim Galbraith
Funkstown
Huntingdon Co
PA

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JAMES L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions
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WAR DEPARTMENT
Pension Office
Sir,
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832 has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned.  The following  is a statement of your case in a tabular form.  On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed  before a pension can be allowed.  The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done.  These points to which your attention is more particularly directed you will find marked in the margin with a brave {thus}.  You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; you will, by compling with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim

A Statement, showing the Service of
{column headings}
Period when this service was rendered
Duration of the claimant's service
Years    Months   Days
Rank of the Claimant
Name and rank of the Fort officers under whom he served 
Age at present, name under which when he entered the services
Proof by which the declaration is supported
[form is blank]
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
JAMES L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This is to come, is well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army.
the State troops, "militia" and "volunteer," all
posed to the canal and who were bound to military service, but not those who
were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to
Store Keepers, Ann Times Bates, Mr. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are
also excluded from the heirs of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged
in guarding partial plies it might, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general phases of cases are embraced in this law:
1
The Regular Troops.
The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
Persons employed in the Naval Service.
Indian Spies.
As rolls of the report was in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claimthe
benefit of this is no mentioned officers, mucicians or privates, will, in the first
instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of
Record of the County wherewith applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is
considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
Tentory, or District of
County of
On this
day of
personally appeared (a) before
A.B. a resident of
in the County of
and State, Territory or District
of
aged
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 he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d)
with and
served in the
regiment of the
line, under the following named officers:
Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he servunder the
pay the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the
town or county and State in when he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged,
and the country through this is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons
who belonged to the
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he
declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of
the Agency in the State of
A. B.
And then will follow the certificate of the Court
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary
soldier, and served as he state of
the Court of
do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of
the application of
for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this
day of
on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be
found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who this a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia,
except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and
subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the
and C. D. residing in (the same)
hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with
who has
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be
years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier
of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.
And the willow the certificate of the Court
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after
putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary
Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A.B.
who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the
and that C. D. who has the signed the same is a resident in the
and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
1,
Clerk of the Court of
do hereby certify that the foregoing
contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of
for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal
of office, this
day of
& c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission
; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if
possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services
of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light
upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration,(l) and he will
also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful
in the investigation of his this, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
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alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal
means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted
; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected
. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and
there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his
case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of
service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State
troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war
, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute?
And if a substitute, for whom?
State the names 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 services.
6.
{To a Soldier
Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given
, and what has become of it?
Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what
To an Office has become of it?
State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify
as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are
requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court,
without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons--one of whom should be
the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from
their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed
and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion.
If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character
and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct
proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the
inquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before
required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper
county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform,
and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record,
or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper
Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a
Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is
his genuine signature,
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before
the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the
declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure
, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period
of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the
opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
The declarant must occur in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow
the rule laid down for his guidance.
The declarant mast make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not
conforming to the rule.
The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
contental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the
Every clamant must state, with precision, the birth of the herein which he served, in languages
as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the
of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason
of old age, and the consentent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according
the best of his
he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:--For---year months, and
months and served as and for such service I claim a pension."
important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law
the reason to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months,
and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years
in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officer, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is
every case be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement;
the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority
; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil
pursuit.
The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
The opinion of the Court is always required.
The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
The Clerk must he is, and has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no put
office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the
papers.
Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which conthe
habit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must
under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service.
it a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses
retired to set forth in the affiants the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well
the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the wife
nesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
to to are all equally applicable to the cases of Mintia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in
note applies to continental troops only
If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.