Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22862, Tilden Crooker, Mass Navy
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Service - Mass. Navy


Crooker, Tilden
Priscilla


W. 22862
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10,315

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Massachusetts

Tilden Crooker

of Hanover in the State of Massachusetts 
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Bailey of the Massachusetts line, 
for the term of two years.

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on
the 4th of May 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of May 1818 and sent to Nahum Mitchell
East Bridgewater, Massachusetts

Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1819  79.99
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1819  48.00

$127.99

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

Hanover

Private
Col. Bailey Mass. Regt.

Apr. 1775 2 years

Ship Hague Mariner
Captain Nicholson 

1779 4 years

Admitted
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Plymouth ss.

On this fifth day of May 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, personally appeared Tilden Crooker of Hanover, Co. of Plymouth, aged sixty three years, resident in the said Circuit, who being by me first duly cautioned according to law, on his oath made the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war."  That he enlisted in April 1775 into Capt. Hawkins' Company and Col. Bailey's regiment in the Massachusetts line and continued to serve in said regiment two years and until the last day of March 1777, and was then discharged at Morristown in New Jersey, and received a paper which he has lost, it being burnt in Major Tilden's house at Boston.
That he was on the battle on Long Island, Harlem Heights, White Plains, and Trenton, that in 1779 in July he entered on board the United States Frigate, Warren, commodore Salstontale, Commander and continued to serve through the Penobscot expedition and after she was burnt he travelled home thru the wilderness and arrived in September, that on the first of October 1779 he entered on board the Dean Frigate, afterwards called the Hague, Samuel Nicholson Commander, and continued to serve therein till July after the peace - that he has no further evidence now in his power of his services.  if he
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can obtain the testimony of any officers or soldiers who knows of his services he will forward it - that from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his country for support.
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Massachusetts 579

Priscilla Crooker

widow of Tilden Crooker

who died on the September 1818
of Plymouth Co. in the State of Massachusetts
who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain  of the Regt. commanded by Col. Bailey in the Massachusetts line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 10th dayf of March 1837 and sent to J.H. Loud
Plymouth, Mass.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1837   $480.00
Semi-anl, allowance ending 4 September   $40.00

$520.00

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act July 4, 1836,}
{Section the 3}

Recorded by D. Brown  Clerk
Book   Vol. 1  Page 47

Copies of Declaration Under Act Mar. 18, 1818 sent to J.H. Loud
March 14, 1857

Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6th April 1838
from 4th Sept. 1838 to 14th Oct. 1838
the day of her death 
Agent notified  11 Sept. 1840
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1420 

Priscilla Crooker

widow of Tilden

Mass.
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State of Massachusetts
Plymouth County ss.

On this fourteenth day of January 1837 personally appeared Before the Hon. Willis Wood Judge of the Court of Probate for said County of Plymouth, Priscilla Crooker a resident of Hanover, in said County of Plymouth, aged Seventy five years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration; in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4, 1836.  That she is the widow of Tilden Crooker who served in the Navy of the Revolution as hereafter set forth and was a pensioner of the United States under the Act of Congress passed March 18,1818.
She believes her husband the said Tilden Crooker to have served on board the Dean Frigate prior the time mentioned in the Deposition of Benjamin Bates as at the time of said Bates enlistment her said husband was a recruiting officer for said ship, but the length of said service and the grade in which he served she is unable to state but she is told he was at that time an officer and she trusts the Rolls of said ship will establish said service.
The said Crooker served as a Midshipman on board said Frigate for a cruise about nine and a half months to the West Indies and other places, from the fall of 1781 to the summer of 1782, under Capt. Nicholson.
The said Crooker served on board said Frigate under Capt. Nicholson and Manley from the expiration of said former cruise until the summer of 1783 in the capacity as hse believes of Midshipman and Captains' Cockswain.
She is also informed by those who were initimate with her said husband in his earlier life that he served
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in what was termed the Penobscot expedition but she is unable to state in what capacity or for what period. For this service she is unable to produce any proof but if the rolls of that expedition furnish any evidence she hopes to receive the benefit of it.  She further believes that  previous to the above mentioned service her said husband served as a soldier in the United States armies in the Revolution for the ? she refers to his declaration in the War Office.
She further declares that she was married to the said Tilden Crooker on the twenty fifth day of November in the year seventeen hundred and eighty one; that her husband the aforesaid Tilden Crooker died in September in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. 

Priscilla Crooker

Sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year first above written and I certify that said Priscilla Crooker is a credible person and unable to travel to attend the Court by  reason of bodily infirmity.

Wilkes Wood Judge of Probate

Plymouth ss.  I Jacob H. Loud Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Wilkes Wood Esq. is Judge of Probate for said County of Plymouth and that the above is his true and genuine signature.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of this Probate Court for said County this sixteenth day of January 1837.

Jacob H. Loud
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Certificate of the Marriage of Tilden Crooker and Priscilla Barker
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Tilden Crooker and Priscilla Barker both of Pembroke were married by the Reverend Thomas Smith November the 25th 1780.

The above is a true copy from the Town Records of Marriages in Pembroke Plymouth County Massachusetts.

Dated at Pembroke Dec. 28th 1836


Attest. Seth Whitman
Town Clerk of said Pembroke


Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth County 

December 28th, 1836

Then personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace for said County the above named Seth Whitman and made oath that the above certificate by him subscribed is true and that he believes it to be the records of the Marriage of Tilden Crooker and Priscilla Barker Both of Pembroke . I hereby certify that the above named Seth Whitman is Town Clerk of said Pembroke and a person of good reputation for truth.

David Oldham
Justice of the Peace
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Treasury Department 
Second Comptroller's Office

September 25th, 1840

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States", the children of Priscilla Crooker, a Pensioner on the Roll of Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of Eighty Dollars per annum, under the law of the 4th July 1836, has bee paid at the Department, from the 4th of September 1838 to the 14th Oct. 1838, the day of her death.

Respectfully yours,

Albion K. Parris
Comptroller



To the Commissioner of Pensions
Present
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Revy Widow, &c.


File No. 22862

Priscilla Crooker
widow of
Tilden Crooker
Pri Rev. War


Act  July 4th 1836

Index:-Vol. A, Page 166

[Arrangement of 1870]
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Plymouth March, 1, 1837

Hon. Daniel Webster

Dear Sir:

Capt. Crooker has handed me the enclosed depositions to be sent to the Pension Office in and of the claim of Mrs. Priscilla Crooker.
In the report of Mr. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions which you forwarded to me, on this claim, it was desired that all the evidence that can be discovered of Tilden Crooker being a Midshipman on board the Deane Frigate should be forwarded, especially as Mr. Crooker in his application for a Pension did not name that he served in that capacity. Mr. Crooker was pensioned under the Act of March 18,1818 ad as it would not have enhanced his pension to have set forth his service as a Midshipman it was probably considered immaterial.  
The enclosed depositions are by persons who served on board the Frigate in different campaigns or cruises and each testified that Crooker acted as Midshipman in said Frigate.  These
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are in addition to the depositions sent on by Mrs. Crooker with her application.  Mrs Crooker's son supposes that whenever he can find a person living who was on board he could procure similar evidence.  He does not know of any documentary evidence.

Joseph Smith Esq. a Post Captain in the Navy of the U.S. was born and brought up in the immediate neighborhood of Mr. Crooker's family. He has undoubtedly heard Mr. Crooker in his lifetime state his services on board said Ship as a Midshipman and as he is now in Washington, Mrs. Crooker thinks if Capt. Smith would call on the Commissioner of Pensions it might aid her in her application.
If the decision can be had before you leave Washington, Mrs. C will feel greatly obliged for your attentions. 

With great respect, your obedient servant,

Jacob H. Loud
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Deposition of
Josiah Barker 
in case  of
Tilden Cooper
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I Josiah Barker of Charlestown in the County of Middlesex, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged seventy three years depose and say I served in the army of the revolution by my declaration on file in the War Department will appear.
In the summer of AD 1782 I was living in Pembroke Mass, my brother-in-law, Tilden Crooker, also lived in said Pembroke, and was recruiting men for service on board the Dean Frigate. I enlisted under him, as the one  13 year Philips and Hatch, whom I recollect he went on board the Frigate, then commanded by Capt. Nicholson, but afterwards by Capt. Thanley, I well remember said Tilden Crooker who served on board said Frigate as Midshipman, and Captains Cockswain. we sailed from Boston Harbor and cruised in the West Indies  - I left the ship and returned home in the prize ship called the Baylees.  I served about ten months when I arrived home.  
Said Crooker did not return with me but I left him serving as above on board said Frigate, which did not return untill the summer after Peace was declared - I was then in said Pembroke and well
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recollect the time when said Crooker returned to Pembroke which was in the summer of 1783 as aforesaid.

Josiah Barker



Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Middlesex

On this seventh day of January AD 1837 personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Middlesex, Josiah Barker, above named, well known to me and whose statements are at all times and places entitled to full credit and belief, and made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed is just and true according to the best of his recollection and belief.

William Wyman
Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Middlesex ss.

I Elias Phinney Clerk of the Superior Judicial Court, of the said Commonwealth, for the County of Middlesex, do certify that William Wyman Esquire is a Justice of the peace, within and for said County of Middlesex, and that his name subscribed to the foregoing certificate is his genuine signature.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, the seventh day of January 1837.

E. Phinney
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I Luther Hatch of East Bridgewater in the county of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts being in the seventy fifth year of my age and now a pensioner, do depose set forth and say that in the month of August in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred and Eighty two I enlisted into the naval service under Tilden Crooker, then of Pembroke, he then being a recruiting officer in the Frigate Dean or Hagues and in the fall we sail and cruised off the West Indies under Captain Manly, and I returned in February or March in the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty three in the prize ship Baylis under the ? Martin Daniels - And I further depose set forth and say that the said Tilden Crooker acted on board the Dean or Hague Frigate in the capacity of Midshipman and Captains Cockswain whether he had a warrant or not I cannot tell - When I returned I left the said Tilden Crooker in the service on board the Dean or Hague Frigate - at the same time I enlisted, Josiah Barker, Joseph Phillips, and Stephen Byram enlisted and were with me in the Dean or Hague Frigate.

Luther Hatch

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Plymouth County ss.

February 27th 1837 Then personally appeared before me the aforesaid deponent Luther Hatch and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed and I further certify that I am acquainted with the aforesaid deponent Luther Hatch and that he is considered a man of truth and veracity.

Welcome Young Justice of the Peace
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I John Osbourne of Pembroke in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the seventieth year of my age testify and say that I enlisted and served on board the Deane Frigate, Capt. Samuel Nicholson, Commander Dillaway, Lieut. Samuel Bright, Sailing Master, and served on board said Frigate nine months; I was enlisted  as a Mariner by Tilden Crooker, who was a recruiting officer, and acted as a Midshipman, while I was on board, and to the best of my recollection, I enlisted in the fall of  1781 and sailed from Boston in January following and cruised off the English Channel and elsewhere and took ? prizes, on board of one I was placed, which was called the Swallow's Tail.  we sailed for the United States, and incoming into the Bay and in sight of land we were chased by an English frigate, and findings we could not escape, we run the Brig ashore near the Brant Rock in Marshalfield, and abandoned her when    she was burnt by the British barges; This I believe was in May 1782 and the Frigate returned in July following  to Boston, I went to board, when returned and ? Tilden Crooker on board, who had remained in the Frigate, and the said Tilden Crooker who then resided in Pembroke returned with me several times on furlough while I remained attached to the ship.  I was discharged from the Frigate at my own request, and received a discharge from Capt. Nicholson, which is attached to my declaration to obtain the benefit of the Act of March 18, 1818, to which I would refer to correct the above dates which I have stated according to the best of my recollection.

John Osbourne (his mark)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth County 
February 28, 1837.
Then the above named
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John Osbourne, personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed and I further certify that I am well acquainted with said John Osbourne and he is considered a man of truth and veracity.

Anthony Collamore
Justice of the Peace


Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Plymouth ss.

I Jacob H. Loud Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Welcome Young and Anthony Collamore Esquires are Justices of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified and that the signatures to the annexed affidavits purporting to be signed by them are their true and genuine signatures.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the Probate Court for said County this twenty eighth day of February 1837.

Jacob H. Loud
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James L. Edwards

Commissioner of Pensions

Washington, D.C.
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Plymouth, Mass.
Jan.20, 1857


Hon. J.L. Edwards

Dear Sir:

Mrs. Priscilla Crooker the widow of Tilden Crooker late of Hanover in this County deceased who was a Revolutionary Pensioner under the Act of March 18,1818, supposes herself to be entitled under the Act of the General Court of this Commonwealth to 200 acres of land or the sum of $50.
Will you be pleased to send me from the files of said Crooker's papers copies of such parts thereof as would be necessary to enable her to obtain the land or the commutation.
She is also an applicant for a Pension but as you are already in possession of her papers I cannot perceived any objection to her being furnished by you with what is necessary to obtain from Massachusetts whatever she may be entitled to,

Yours truly,

J.H. Loud
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Benjamin Bates
Deposition in case
of Tilden Crooker
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I Benjamin Bates of Hanover in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged seventy six years a Revolutionary Pensioner depose and say in the year one thousand seventeen hundred and eighty one I was enlisted by Tilden Crooker of Pembroke in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts to serve on board the Dean Frigate then commanded by Capt. Nicholson the Frigate then lying in Boston Harbour.  I entered on board the Frigate in the summer or fall the year 1781.  I served on board the Frigate about nine and a half months.  we cruised in the West Indies and other places during the Voyage until the Frigate returned to Boston in the summer of 1782. Tilden Crooker above named served in the Frigate aforesaid during said Cruise as a Midshipman and ? Ramsdell and Simeon Ramsdell enlisted with me at the time aforesaid by the above said Crooker and served in the Frigate the above said time with me and the said Crooker.

Benjamin Bates (his mark)


Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Plymouth

On this tenth day of January AD 1837 Personally appeared before me David Oldham a Justice of the Peace within and for said County of Plymouth Benjamin Bates above named well known to me and whose statement are at all times and places entitled to full credit and belief and made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed is Just and true according to the best of his knowledge and belief

David Oldham
Justice of the Peace
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We Robert Eells, Samuel Eells and Sylvanus Percival all of Hanover in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth know Priscilla Crooker of said Hanover, the widow of Tilden Crooker of said Hanover, who died at said Hanover in the year Eighteen hundred and eighteen - and that said Priscilla Crooker, since the death of said Tilden Crooker, has always resided in said Hanover and still remains the widow of said Tilden Crooker.

Robert Eells
Samuel Eels
Sylvanus Percival

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Plymouth County ss.

On this tenth day of January in the year Eighteen hundred and Thirty seven, personally appeared before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County of Plymouth, Robert Eells, Samuel Eells, and Sylvanus Percival above named, well known to me and whose statements are at all times and places entitled to full credit and belief, and made solemn oath that the foregoing certificate by them subscribed is just and true.

Alexander Wood
Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth ss.  I Jacob H. Loud Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that David Oldham and Alexander Wood Esquires are Justices of the Peace in and for said County and that the signatures to the annexed affidavits purporting to be signed by them are their true signatures.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the Probate Court for said County this fourteenth day of January 1837.

Jacob H. Loud
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth ss.  

I Jacob H. Loud Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that David Oldham and Alexander Wood Esquires are Justices of the Peace in and for said County and that the signatures to the annexed affidavits purporting to be signed by them are their true signatures.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the Probate Court for said County this fourteenth day of January 1837.

Jacob H. Loud
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Priscilla Crooker





$80 per annum
Act 4 July 30
3rd Section


Massachusetts Roll


Certificate to J.H. Loud Esq.
Plymouth
Massachusetts
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I Luther Bailey of Hanover in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Gentleman, of lawfull age to give testimony testify and say that I well know Tilden Crooker of Hanover aforesaid, ? and knew him in the revolutionary war, while he served in Col. Bailey's Regiment in the year 1775 and 1776 and 1777.  I myself being an Adjutant in the same Regiment that the said Crooker served faithfully to my knowledge during said years and twenty one months and one half and was honorably discharged.

Luther Bailey Capt.
late of the 2nd Mass. Regiment


Plymouth ss.

Sworn to this ninth day of May Anno Domini 1818 before me

John Winslow
Justice of the Peace
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The within named Luther Bailey is son of Col. Bailey deceased within named and was a Captain and Adjutant in said Regiment during all the war, and is a credible witness, and his affidavit may be relied on - and the within named John Winslow is a respectable attorney and Magistrate in the County of Plymouth and the within is his true and genuine hand writing and signature

Nahum Mitchell
Judge
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Mr. Webster respectfully requests Mr. Edwards consideration to this good lady's case, as soon as he may find it convenient  - ? and want  our earnest ?, in her behalf


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