Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 25448, Trobridge Crossman, Conn.
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SERVICE
Conn

Crossman, Trobridge
Phebe

NUMBER
W. 25448
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29,847
Connecticut
Trobridge Crossman, Private of 
Iveston in the state of Connecticut who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Tho. Nash of the ___ commanded by ________ in the Connecticut Line for thirteen months and an half.

Inscribed on the Roll of the Connecticut Agmey at the rate of 45 dollars per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 13th day of March A.D. 1835 - and sent to Hon G. Tomlinson
Fairfield, Connt.

Arrears to the 4th of March, 1835  $180.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4th Sept. 1835  22.50

$202.50
{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.      }

Recorded by C.W. Kelso Clerk, 
Book E 2  Vol. 3  Page 8

Vertically:

March 14, 1835
date to pension (illegible)
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State of Connecticut }
County of Fairfield    }  ss.

On the 3rd day of August, 1832 personally appeared before the Court of Probate now in session at Weston in and for the District of Weston in said County in open Court and being a Court of record, Trowbridge Crossman a resident of the town of Weston, in the District, County and State aforesaid, aged sixty six years and a few months, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress session June 7th 1832 - namely that in the spring of the year 1781, either in the month of March or April he cannot recollect which, at Fairfield in said county, he enlisted under Captain Thomas Nash in a company of Connecticut State [illegible] [troops?], for the term of nine months, that said company was (illegible) the town of Fairfield aforesaid in the (illegible) of (illegible) to protect the inhabitants living on the (illegible) the in (illegible) of the enemy from Long Island Sound, during the revolutionary war.  That he actually served in said company under said enlistment the full term of nine months and was then honorably discharged then was (illegible)      , while serving under Captain ash, he stated (illegible) every (illegible) night and night while he was under said Nash, the enemy
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landed at Corps and burned the quarter guard house they also set fire to said Nash's dwelling house, the fire however was extinguished, at the same time one (illegible) man of Greenfield County, who was a volunteer was killed and one Mendalany was wounded; we took one of the enemy and one of our men was taken.He  further says that he had been on guard the day before the night on which said guard house was burned, and on that night by leave of the commander he slept at home. at his parents, they then living in the aforesaid County of Greensfarm, He well recollects that on that night, near day light in the morning his mother awoke him from sleep & said to him, "Trowbridge there is an alarm and you must go". He immediately got up dresssed himself & stated, not knowing where the enemy was. His devotion sworn to the guard house & came within a few yards of the enemy before he discovered them. and had like to have been taken - His father, now dead, was then in the artillery company nearby after some fighting the enemy was driven off - He also says that in the year 1782 he enlisted for the term of nine months in a company of Connecticut State troops, and actually fought under said enlistment during four months and
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4 1/2
a half and was then honorably discharged he received pay and retain regularly during the time of his service last above mentioned, enlisted at Fairfield (illegible) for the purpose of guarding the shore, & the company in which he was, was stationed at Camps in said Fairfield. A part of the time during said four months & a half service, he with their belonging to said company, was stationed at Fairfield near where the court house now stands. Samuel Taylor was the lieutenant & Grammon Markasen was the ensign of the company last mentioned & Daniel Lacy the Captain; that he served as aforesaid in an embodied corps, called out by proper authority & in the whole thirteen months & a half, as a private & for this he claims a pension; that he has here produced all the evidence in his power.

To the following interrogators propounded by the court he gives the answers substained - vix-
By the court where and in what year were you born? Confirm by the declarant - that he was born in the town County of Fairfield aforesaid, on the 19th day of February 1766, as he always understood & believes - 
By the court - Have you any record of your age, & if so, where is it _
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confirm - that he has no other record of his age, there are which he copied, about thirty years ago, from one made by his father- he does not know that the record made by his father is now in existence, he has not seen it within thirty years, it was made in a blank leaf of an old bible-
By the Court - Where were you living when called into service
Where have you lived since the revolutionary war, & where do you now live?

Answer - When he enlisted he lived in Fairfield aforesaid, during two years immediately after the revolutionary war he lived in the state of New York, & ever since he has lived in said Weston & ow lives in that town- 

By the court - How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute-

Answer - that he enlisted as before stated, was not a substitute.

By the court - State the names of some of the regular officers, who were with the troops when you served, such continental & militia regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service - 

Answer - that Thomas Nash was the captain of the company first above mentioned as he has before stated; that he believes David Duncan was Lieutenant & Jonathan Squire Ensign, when he served, & the officers of the other company he has before mentioned.
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He does not recollect the Colonel or the General. The companies were never embodied in a regiment while he was in them. Dimon was a Colonel & Lillimand General but whether they had the command of the companies in which he was enlisted, he cannot say. The nature of the service was such as not ordinary to require but few men together. a few men were stationed along the court to repel plundering parties & with them plundering parties we had frequent petty engagements, when the enemy landed the sentry stationed on the shore would fire his gun, the cannon which was stationed about a mile back would then be discharged; this would give the alarm, the enlisted men & volunteers to aforesaid would turn out & drive them off - during almost the whole of the war the inhabitants living near this part of the coast were very much harrowed by plundering parties - He recollects no conscriptions of any great moment, which occurred while he served aforesaid four months and a half under Captain Lacy, he does not recollect that the Captain was ever present, the acting commander were the Lieut K. Ensign - a (illegible) around when he was on guard at Fairfield, as above stated, He stood sentinel on very dark night. He
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thought he heard some persons walking toward him at a (illegible) he could see nothing. having the length of his gun, he put his head to the ground, could hear more distinctly, at length he heard whispering, he hail's, required them to ground their arms & give the countersign & approach - he found them to be a young man & two girls who said they were returning from a frolick, he took then (illegible( & pt them all into the guard house, - 

By the Court - Did you ever receive a discharge from the garrison & if so by whom was it given & what has become of it?
Answer - That he never received any written discharge and believes that no other in Third company ever did. He was discharged verbally & honorably - all the aforesaid service was performed by him during the war of the revolution - 

By the Court - State the names of the persons to whom you are known in your neigbourhood where you now live who can testify as to your character for veracity & their belief of your service as a soldier of the revolution.
Answer - Samuel Rowlin (Illegible stuck out) Morehouse Coley Daniel Dikeman & others
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Andrew Luis Cropman. further says that the whole time he served uner both said enlistments in the war of the revolution was thirteen months & a half, and that length of time he did serve in the companies above mentioned in the service of the United States - that he has no documentary evidence, & he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the company of any state
Trobridge Crossman
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open court
Oliver C. Sanford Clerk
We Daniel Dikeman of Norwalk in Fairfield County residing in the neighbourhood of Trowbridge Crossman and Morehouse Coley residing in the Town of Weston hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Trowbridge Crossman who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be of the age by him (illegible) stated, that he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the revolutionary war, that we concur in that opinion, that he has always sustained the character of a man of truth & veracity & his oath may by relied on. Morehouse Coley Daniel Dikeman
Sworn to and subscribed this 3rd day of August 1832 at said Weston in open court
Oliver C. Sanford Clerk.
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I John Noyes of the County of Fairfield in the town of Weston & County of Fairfield, a clergyman, being duly sworn depose & say, that I was settled as a minister of the Gospel in said County in 1786. That I have personal knowledge of the events which took place during the war, but not of the personal services of any of the men in said County now living, who were in the war of the revolution; that the center of said County, is about seven miles from the coast in Long Island Sound, & northerly of the westerly part of the county of Fairfield in this county. That it has commonly been reputed, ever since the revolutionary war, that the enemy during ^nearly the whole of the war of the revolution, made frequent incursions upon the inhabitants on the shore. & I also have some personal knowledge of it; and it has been a common report that there was a guard kept on the coast in fairfield County; and that offered every man capable of bearing arms, in the Counties about said coast, was in the service somewhere, a part of the time, during the revolutionary war but I cannot say that I can distinguish so far as to say that any one particular individual is reputed and believed to have been in the service more than others. except some persons who obtained pensions some years ago - I was not living in said County during the war which is probably the reason that I cannot make such distinction, I have been well acquainted with said Crossman who has sworn to & subscribed the above declaration, for many years & he has always ^(as far as I know) sustained the character of a man of truth & on whose word the public might rely - John Noyes
Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year aforesaid in open court - 
Oliver. C. Sanford Clerk
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3.591
Connecticut
Phebe Crossman
widow of Trobridge Crossman 
Conn
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 45 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issues 4th day of February 1854
and sent to 
Geo. A. Davinport
Norwalk CT
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1858, Page 58 Vol. Ct
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State of Connecticut }
County of Fairfield    }  ss.
Probate District of Norwalk} 

On this eight day of December in the year 1853 before the Court of Probate for the District of Norwalk in said State of Connecticut personally appeared Phebe Crossman a resident of the town of Norwalk in the District and State aforesaid aged seventy eight years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the Act of Congress session on the 3d February 1853 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War; that she is the widow of Trobridge Crossman who was a private in the revolutionary army and received a pension of forty five dollars per annum under the Act of the (illegible) 1832 which was paid at the pension agency in the State of Connecticut.

She further declares that she was married to the said Trobridge Crossman on the thirtieth day of December in the year eighteen hundred and twenty one that her said husband then said Trobridge Crossman died on the twelfth day of March in the year eighteen hundred and forty that she was not married to him prior to that (illegible) day of January Eighteen Hundred but at the time above stated.

She further declares that she is now a widow.
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She further declares that she was married to said Trobridge Crossman in that part of the town of Fairfield which is now embraced in the town of Westport by the Rev  Look a minister and preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church that said Rev Cook gave her no certificate of her said marriage and that she does not know that her said marriage was ever entered on the records of said town of Fairfield or in the records of either of the Parishes of said town of Fairfield

Phebe Crossman

Sworn to and subscribed this day and year first above written before (illegible) the undersigned the (illegible) and acting Judge of said Court at Norwalk in said District and I further certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that said Phebe Crossman is now the widow of said Trobridge Crossman and that said Trobridge Grossman is the identical person who drew a pension as noted in the foregoing declaration
In testimony whereof I have hereunto put my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at said Norwalk,
George A. Davenport, Judge as a Peace
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Widow, &c.
File No. 25448
Phebe Crossman
Widow of
Trowbridge Crossman
Priv. Rev. War
Act Feb. 3, 1833
Index: Vol A, Page 157
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Trowbridge Crossman
Pension Papers
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I Stephen Allen of Danbury in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut aged sixty nine years being duly sworn, do depose and say that I am well acquainted with Trowbridge Grossman of Weston in said County and I have known him ever since we were boys.
In the year 1781 or 1782 on the 1st day of April the said Trowbridge Grossman are enlisted as a private soldier in a corp of Connecticut Troops raised for the defense of the Coast along Long Island Sound in the company commanded by Captain Thomas Nash for the term of nine months.  The said company was stationed at Green and farm and in the (illegible) of Fairfield in said County and was an embodied corps during said period of his enlistment.  I cannot be positive of the regimental officer and a whose orders the said captain Nash acted, but believe it was Colonel Walker of Hartford in said County.  The said Crossman entered the said service in the said company immediately after his enlistment and served therein as I faith believe the whole term of which he enlisted as aforesaid.  I enlisted in the said Company at the same time he did and continued with him in the said service until the 12th day of July following when I was taken prisoner and carried to New York and did not return home until some time in the month of January following, when the said company was discharged, having served the full period for which they were enlisted.  Of my own personal knowledge therefore, January day that the (illegible) served in said company after the 12th day of July (illegible) , near informed and have ever
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understood and believes that he did.  I further depose and say that having myself served three years said service in the Coast Guard twice under Captain Bennett once under Captain Jarvis and one term under said Captain Nash, I cannot now definitely say whether said service was in the year 1781 or 1782.
In April following the said last mentioned term of service, the said Trowbridge Crossman enlisted for the term of nine months in and the Company of Troops raised by the State of Connecticut for the defense of said coast.  Commanded by Captain Daniel Lacey - said company was stationed in said Green Farms and was an enlisted corps.  He commenced the said service on the 1st day of April and served the full term of his enlistment as a private soldier.  I was not myself in the said service in the last mentioned term, but resided at the time the said Green Farms and was in the habit of seeing the said Crossman in the performance of his duty as a soldier, frequently - almost daily.  In each of said term of service, the said Crossman attended only to his duty as a soldier, and was not engaged in any civil pursuit.  And although he was young at the time of performing the said service, yet he was a stout, athletic able bodied man.
Stephen Allen
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State of Connecticut  }
County of Fairfield     }On this 25th day of October 1833, before the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury in said County and State personally appeared Stephen Allen of Danbury in the said District and County well known to the Court and a person of good character for truth and a credible witness, and subscribed the foregoing deposition and being duly sworn made solemn oath to the truth of the same

In testimony thereof I have therunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 25th ay of October 1833
Allert Edward Taylor Clerk

State of Connecticut  }
Fairfield County          }  ss.

I Reuben Booth of Danbury in the County of Fairfield, Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury in said County and State do hereby certify that Edward Taylor, Esq. who hath certified the caption of the foregoing deposition of Stephen Allen in Clerk of said Court duly appointed and sworn and that the signature above written purporting to be his is in his proper handwriting and in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand at said Danbury this 25th day of October 1833
Reuben Booth Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury.
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Personally appeared Joshua Couch and William Allen both of the town and county of Fairfield aforesaid and being duly sworn according to law, deponents do say that they have been well acquainted with the above named Trowbridge Crossman applicant for a pension who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing declaration.  They well know that said Crossman enlisted and served in Captain Thomas Nash's company of Connecticut state troops in the War of the Revolution in 1781.  Both men deponents served with him in the said company for the same time and were discharged at the same time with said Crossman and said Crossman was honorably discharged at the end of nine months from the time of his said enlistment.
Joshua Couch
William Allen

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year aforesaid in this Court
Oliver C. Sanford Clerk
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the before named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states - And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that John Noyes who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman residing in the Town of Weston and is a credible person.  That Monhoun Coley and Daniel Dikeman both residing in the neighbourhood of said applicant that they are credible persons and their statement is entitled to credit.

Bradford Winton Judge of said Court

I Oliver C. Sanford Clerk of the said Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Court in the application of Trowbridge Crossman for a Pension - I further certify that Joshua Couch and William Allen who have signed the immediately preceding deposition hereto (illegible) appeared in open Court and made oath to the truth of the same that they are both credible persons and their deposition is entitled to full credit and testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office on the day and year aforesaid
Oliver C. Sanford Clerk
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State of Connecticut  }
County of Fairfield     } ss

On the 21st day of November 1833, personally appeared before the Court of Probate now in session at Weston in and for the district of Weston in said county, in open Court and being a court of (illegible), Trowbridge Crossman a resident of the town of Weston in the District, County and State of Fairfield, the foregoing applicant for a pension, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in addition to the one made by him on the 30th of August 1832 and hereunto annexed in order to obtain the benefit  of the Act referred to in his declaration of the 3rd of August aforesaid - (illegible) that on the first day of April 1782 he enlisted at Fairfield in said County in a company of Connecticut State Troops, raised for defending the coast, under Captain Daniel Lacy for the term of nine months and commenced service in said company under said Lacy on said 1st day of April 1782 as a soldier and served in said company during the full term of said enlistment as a private soldier, that said company was station at Green Farms, in said town of Fairfield and was an embodied corp.  Samuel Gaylor was Lieutenant, and Crossman Monhoun ensign, both of whom are dead, and said Lacy is dead; that he does not recollect the name of the Colonel of the regiment to which said company belonged that when he made the declaration to which this is an addition, he was not fully satisfied in his own mind that he had served under said Lacy in the  enlistment aforesaid, mine this four months and a half and was so informed, although he was not there
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justified that the had not served another full term of nine months on further reflection he is now confident that he did served under the enlistment last aforesaid the full term of nine months and he claims in the whole a pension for eighteen months service.

Trobridge Crossman
Sworn to and subscribed in open court on the day and year aforesaid before Bradford Winton Judge of said Court

I Oliver C. Sanford Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District aforesaid hereby certify that the above and foregoing contains the proceedings of said Court in the matter of application of Trowbridge Crossman above named to the amendment of his said Declaration for a Pension  I further certify that Bradford Winton is Judge of the Court of Probate for the District aforesaid and that the several forgoing signatures of his name to the papers hereto annexed are his genuine signatures.  I further certify that Eliphalet Swift Esq is a justice of the Peace for Fairfield County that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said Swift and that the signature of his name to the Deposition of Stephen Godfrey hereto annexed is his genuine signature.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the Office of said Court on the this 21st day of November 1833  Oliver C. Sanford Clerk
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I Stephen Godfrey of the town and county of Fairfield State of Connecticut aged eighty eight years, being duly sworn depose and say that in the year 1781 I enlisted in the shore guard, a company of Connecticut state troops commanded by Capt. Thomas Nash, I enlisted in the Spring of that year for the term of nine months and served the whole of that term under said Nash in guarding the coast in the town of Fairfield aforesaid and I enlisted at said Fairfield, I further say that I have been well acquainted with Trobridge Crossman of Weston in said County, the foregoing applicant for a pension (illegible) childhood and I know that said Crossman enlisted under said Nash and served with me in the same company under said Nash in guarding said coast, for the full term of nine months he was young when he enlisted but he was large for his age and a stout, athletic handy young man.  He always did his duty well and was well able to do service in the army as many who were said and twenty years of age.  He was full as good as the general run of the other men who belonged to the company and we had a good company of men, all able smart men - I was also in the same company under said Nash an enlisted soldier for the same term in the year 1782, I was a sergeant, in the years, which year in 1781 or 1783, it was that said Crossman did said service I cannot say with certainly, but I know it was one or the other and I know he did that service in the was.
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of the Revolution as aforesaid.

Stephen Godfrey

Sworn to and subscribed at Fairfield aforesaid this 24th day of October 1833 - 

Eliphet Swift Justice of the Peace

Fairfield County of Fairfield Oct 24th 1833

I certify that Stephen Godfrey the above deponent has (illegible) been personally known by me and that he sustains a fair character for truth and his (illegible) and his oath are entitled to full credit
 Eliphet Swift Justice of the Peace
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29.847 Roll No.
Trobridge Crossman

28.949 Index No.

Senfeid

$45 per ann.

Hon. G. Tomlinson
Fairgield Con.
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War Department,
Pension Office
18 Sept 1833

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 shew what is necessary to be done.  Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus:  } ).  You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by compling with this request; greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

A statement, shewing the service of Trowbridge Crossman.

I am, respectfully, 
Your obedient servant,
J.L. Edwards,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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Regulations Under the Act of June 7, 1832

. . .
(The Bracketed portion reads:)

"(k) 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 his reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion."

. . .
(The Bracketed Portion reads:)

"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 claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his . . ."

(Handwritten portion:)
From the age of the claimant, less then 16 when he alleges he entered the service and from the facts stated by him, the portion of his time in actual service must be distinctly proved.
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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 called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
   5. 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?
       To an Officer} Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
   7. 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 person - 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 of 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 of County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge of 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.

[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which the declarant will (page cut off) low the rule laid down for his guidance.
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No. 4,177
Phebe Crossman
 Wiv: of
Trobridge
Fairfield
A
$45.00 per ann.
Conn.  Feby 30, 1853

Revy
Act Feb 30 1853

Geo. A. Davenport
Norwalk
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E. Peri 13 March 40

R. Boynton
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Pension Off.
1 Feby 1854

Sir  (illegible)

Please certify the time to which the within named pension was paid, on the date of his death.
Very Respectfully,
S. Cole
For the Commissioner

Trowbridge Crossman, Act 1832
$45 per annum  Paid to
4 March 1839 No Death
F Burt 
Auditor

Francis Burt Esq
(illegible) Auditor Treasury
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Comptrollers Office
February 17 1834

I Elisha Phelps, Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Connecticut do certify that, under date April 6th, 1781, the payroll of Capt. Thomas Nash's company Coast Guards of Fairfield is charged to the United States upon the books of the Pay Table and that no roll of the company has been found, or evidence showing how long it was in service.  Mse, under date January 28th 1782, the pay roll of Capt. Thomas Nash's guards at Fairfield is charged to the United States and that no roll of the guard has been found, or evidence showing the duration of its services.

That the pay roll of Ensign Daniel Lacy guard at Fairfield is also charged to the United States under date January 30th 1782, and that no roll of that has been found, or proof of the duration of its service.

And that there is charged to the United States also, under date May 1st 1783
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1058, 6, 8 for guard at Fairfield in 1782 and paid to the Selectmen of that town.  No roll of the guard has been found, the name of it commander, or the duration of service.

It ought to be stated that there was a law of this state authorizing the Civil Authority or Selectman of towns upon the sea coast to establish guards for their protection, and at public expence.

E Phelps

Trowbridge Crossman
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I Joseph Wakeman of Fairfield Town and County and State of Connecticut of Seventy one years and being of age testify and say that I have long been acquainted with Trowbridge Crossman of Weston in the County and State aforesaid, that we were soldiers together in the Revolutionary War - That in the Spring of the year 1781 I enlisted into the shore guard for nine months stationed in said Town of Fairfield at Compo in the Society of Greens Farms on the western part of  said town under the Command of Thomas Nash Capt. under whom I enlisted and who had the command of said guard and I served under said Nash said nine months in full - I will recollect that the above named Trowbridge Crossman was in said guard with me under said Capt. Nash and served according to the best of my recollection the term of nine months.  The said Crossman was very large for his age and was able and did perform his regular duty with the rest of the guard.  At the time of this guard I lived within less than two miles of Capt. Nash and continued to live within that distance until the time of his death and was always intimately acquainted with him and know that I cannot be mistaken as to Capt. Nash having the command as above stated and further the deponent saith not. 
Joseph Wakeman

State of Connecticut  }
Fairfield County         } ss.
on this 23rd day of August 1834 personally appeared before me Bradford Winton Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Weston in the County and State aforesaid.  Joseph Wakeman above named and made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed  I further certify that the above named Joseph Wakeman is a man of truth and credibility and that his Deposition is entitled to full credit.  Certified by Bradford Winton Judge of the Court of Probate for the District aforesaid
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State of Connecticut  }
County of Fairfield     } ss.

I Oliver C. Sanford Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Weston in the County and State aforesaid hereby certify that Bradford Winton Esq. is Judge of the Court of Probate for the District aforesaid and that the signature of his name to the (illegible) depositions of Justus Disbrow and Joseph Wakeman within written are his genuine signatures.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the Office of said Court this 23rd day of August 1834

Oliver C. Sanford Clerk

Written Vertically:
Hon G. Tomlinson
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I Justus Disbrow of the Town of Norwalk in Fairfield County State of Connecticut of Eighty three years of age testify and say that I have been acquainted with Trowbridge Crossman of the Town of Weston in said Fairfield County from his childhood.  That we were soldiers in the Revolutionary War together. That in the Spring of the year 1781 I enlisted under Capt. Thomas Nash of Fairfield in said County for Six or Nine months and which for a certainty I cannot with precision state, stationed at Campo in said Town of Fairfield in the Society of Greens Farms.  That said Trowbridge Crossman was in said guard with me and served the whole time that I did and whether he left the guard when I did I am unable to say, but am certain the said Trowbridge Crossman was in said guard and I know that I cannot be mistaken as we have always lived within three miles of each other.  The said Crossman was at the time young but was as large as one half of the company and performed his duty faithfully - and further the deponent saith not
Justus Disbrow

State of Connecticut }
Fairfield County        } ss

On the 23rd day of August 1834 personally appeared before me Bradford Winton Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Weston in the County and State aforesaid Justus Disbrow above named and made oath to the truth of the above Deposition by him subscribed I further certify that the said Justus Disbrow is a man of truth and credibility and that his Deposition is entitled to full credit
Certified by
Bradford Winton Judge
of the Court of Probate
for the District aforesaid
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Trow. Cross
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I Thomas Day, Secretary of the State of Connecticut and Keeper of the Seal thereof, do hereby certify,

that at a special session of the Governor and Company of the State of Connecticut, in November 1776, Eliphalet Thorp was appointed captain in the first Battalion of the four Battalions ordered, by said assembly, to be raised for continental service until the 15th day of March then next.

that at an adjourned session of the Governor and Company of said state in January 1776, Joseph Bennet was established to be Lieutenant of the 6th Company or Gain-band in the 4th Regiment in said State.

And that at the session of the General Assembly of said State in October 1781, Daniel Lacy was established to be the Captain of the Third Company or Gain-band in the fourth Regiment in this State.

All which appears of record.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said said state at Hartford, the 4th day of February A.D. 1834.
Thomas Day
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T. Crossman


Geo Tomlinson
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Department of War
Pension Office
June 24 1834

Sir:

I have again examined the papers in the case of Trowbridge Crossman, but do not find his statement as to his service born out by facts well established in relation to that service.  The applicant alleges to have enlisted in the Spring of the year 1781, under Capt. Nash for nine months and that he served out his nine months at Fairfields.  From the records of safety under the date of July 25, 1781, I find that "the council of safety ordered Col. Dimon to detach a guard for Black Rock fort at Fairfield, because the guards ordered by the last general assembly to be raised therefor an by enlistment had not been obtained."

However this may be, if Mr. Crossman did perform the serves alleged altho' no rolls can be found of the records now in the Comptrollers Office, will there conclusively whether the Officers under whom he alleged to have served now engaged in that service.

In my letter to you of the 6th of January last, I referred the applicant to this source for evidence.
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The papers still remain on file. -

I have the honor to be
Your Ob Servant,
J.L. Edwards

Hon. Gid Tomlinson
U.S. Senate
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Phebe Crossman
Wiv. of
Trowbridge
Fairfield Con.
A.

Geo A. Davenport
Norwalk, Conn.
Filing 30 Jany 54
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State of Connecticut            }
County of Fairfield               } ss.
Probate District of Norwalk }

On this fifteenth day of December A.D. 1853 before the Court of Probate for the District of Norwalk in the State of Connecticut personally appeared Susan Allen a resident of the Town of Norwalk in said District who being duly sworn doth on her oath depose and say that she is about 45 years of age that she was well acquainted with Trobridge Crossman and with his wife now his widow Phebe Crossman that she was present at the marriage of said Trobridge and said Phebe and saw them married that said marriage took place mor than thirty years ago the precise date she does not remember and believes she was about thirteen or fourteen years of age at the time - that Elija Hanford and others were also present at said marriage that the marriage ceremony was performed by a Rev. M. Cook a Methodist minister, at the dwelling house then occupied by said Phebe who was at that time a widow Allen in that part of the town of Fairfield now included in the Town of Metford that deponent lived with said Trowbridge and Phebe from the time of their said marriage and that time of the death of said Trobridge and was during all that time a member of the family of said Trobridge - that said Trobridge and Phebe lived together during said time as husband and wife that she was present at the death of said Trobridge which took place about twelve or thirteen years ago she cannot remember the exact date that she believes said Trobridge Crossman was a pension of the United States. She has seen
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Judge Isaacs bring money to him which she was told and believed was money received as pension money - that she verily believes that paper hereto appended purporting to be a pension certificate is the identical paper which she has seen in the possession of said Trobridge and which was in his possession at the time of his death - deponent further says that she has resided constantly with said Phebe since the death of said Trobridge and knows that said Phebe has not intermarried since that time and that she is now the widow of said Trobridge.
Susan Allen

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above written before me the sole and acting Judge of said Court at Norwalk in said District and I certify that said Susan Allen is a credible person and that her statements are entitled to belief and I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at said Norwalk
George A. Davenport Judge aforesaid
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State of Connecticut           }
County Fairfield                  }
Probate District of Norwalk }

On the eighth day of December 1853 personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the District of Norwalk in the State of Connecticut Elija Hanford a resident of the town of Norwalk in said District aged about 53 years who being duly sworn doth depose and say that she was well acquainted with Trobridge Crossman who was a revolutionary pensioner of the United States and with his wife now his widow Phebe Crossman - that she was present at the marriage of said Trobridge Crossman and said Phebe Crossman - that said Trobridge and Phebe were married at the dwelling house of said Phebe in that part of the town of Fairfield now included within the limits of the present Town of Metford by a Rev. Mr. Cook who a preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church there on the circuit which poplar plain meeting house is situated - that said marriage according to the best of the recollection of the deponent took place more than thirty years ago, she cannot recollect the precise date but thinks she was herself about twenty years old; that Trobridge and said Phebe from the time of said marriage lived together ever after as husband and wife until the death of said Trobridge which took place as she is informed in the Month of March in the year 1840 - that said Trobridge and Phebe were generally respected and believed to be
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husband and wife by all their neighbours and acquaintances = that said Trobridge is the identical person as she believes who was a pensioner as stated by said Phebe in her application for a pension as she has often heard said Trobridge when in life say that he was going to receive his pension from Judge Isaacs and saw him have money which he said he had received from his pension

Elijah Hanford

Sworn and subscribed this 8th day of December 1853 before me the undersigned and acting Judge of said Court at Norwalk in said District and I certify that said Elija Hanford is a credible person and her statements are entitled to believe and credit.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at said Norwalk
George A. Davenport Judge
as aforesaid
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Payment to be made
at Hartford Connecticut
By James Dodd Esq Pres Farmers & Mechanics Bank
Agent for paying Pension
In the Agency of Connecticut

Recorded in the Pension
Office in Book E 2 Vol. 3
Page 8 by C.W. Kelso
Clerk
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War Department
Revolutionary Claim

I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Trobridge Crossman of Weston of the State of Connecticut who was a private in the army of the Revolution

is entitled to receive forty five -- dollars per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th day of March 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and the 4th of September, in every year.

Given at the War Office of the United
States, this thirteenth day of 
March - one thousand eight
hundred and thirty five
Lew Cass, Secretary of War

Examined and  }
Countersigned.}

J.L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions.
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Brief in the case of Phebe Crossmand Wid: of Trobridge, Fairfield County and State of Conn;
act 3d. Febry: 1853

Claim, ("original")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
It is documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls?  If either, state the substance
Husband was a pensioner under the Act of 7th June, 1832,  
Two witnesses testify they witness the marriage

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim?  If so, what?

Geo. A. Davenport Esq.
Norwalk, Ct.
Name and residence of Agent

J.C. Boynton
Examining Clerk.