Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 781, Nathaniel Crittenton, Continental Mass.
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(8 - 1776)
SERVICE
Continental
Mass

CONTENTS
Crittenton, Nathaniel
or
Crittendon
Born in Conn
Jerusha
NUMBER
W. 781
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[left side] 
Aug. 20 1821 ---This day Nathaniel Crittenton again applied (in person) at the Pension
office for a continuance of his pension, and was refused. He stated that he had no property and yet he and his wife were then on their way in a one horse carriage from South Carolina to Connecticut! - (a little suspicious.)

See letter to Hon G. Lorne Linson, Fairfield, Fairfield Co. Connecticut Mar 17 1823

[along side]

Certification sent the 26th June 1820 
David Burr, Esq.
Fairfield Court

[right side}
4,340
Connecticut Roll
Nathaniel Crittenton
Lieutenant Massachusetts Line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of twenty Dollars per month, to commence on the 3d of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 12 of Nov 1818 and forwarded to Pierpont Edwards
Bridge Port, Fairfield Co. Ct.

Arrears to 4th of Sep 1818   101.33
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 May 19 120.00
+ $221.33
5 mo /30

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818 }

76 One year
not entitled
decision confirmed by
Hamden C's 19 Feb
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Nath Crittenton
2d
Enld Capt W. King Company 8th May 1775
2 months and one day allowed as an Ensign
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District of Connecticut
On, this 3 day of April AD 1818 Nathaniel Crittenton of Hamden in said District under oath declares before Pierpont Edwards District Judge of the United States for the District of Connecticut in which district the declarant now resides and since the end of the war of the revolution hath resided that being in the town of Great Barrington in Massachusetts as a minute man, returned to the camp before Boston immediately on hearing of the Lexington battle April 19th 1775 and a few days after his arrival in said camp enlisted from & until the first day of January AD 1776 in Captain William King's Company & Colonel John Fellow's Regiment about enlistment to faithfully serve out in [illegible] and that from the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & seventy six received an second Lieutenant commission in Captain Joseph Thompsons Company in the fourth Regiment of  Foot in the Massachusetts line on the continental establishment commanded by Colonel John Nixon issued by the Congress of the United (Colonies) now States bearing date the same first day of January 1776 and signed by John Hancock President which regiment was in past raised for one years service only And that on the same first day of January 1776 the declarant under his said commission again entered into the service of the said United States (then Colonies) as an second Lieutenant in the Massachusetts
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Line on the continental establishment of the armies of the United States (Non Colonies) in the war of the Revolution and second Lieutenant in said company Regiment in said line on said establishment of said armies in said war he the declarant faithfully served for the term of one year from the said first day of January 1776 until the said first day of January 1777 when though the term for which said Regiment was in enlisted & raised [illegible] yet the declarant voluntarily continued in said service till some time in the month of February AD 1777 whereupon the ***ings being before not filled up by now recounts the Declarant was permitted to leave the same all which services he is put forward as a second Lieutenant was in the Massachusetts line on the Continental Establishment as being under his said  commission from the Continental Congress 
And the Declarant further maketh oath that he now is and ever since the declaration of Independence hath been a resident citizen of the United States and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his country for his support 
Another declarant now exhibits his said com[illegible] unto said Judge 
Nathaniel Crittenton (signature)
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District of Connecticut ss 
April 3d 1818 the aforenamed Nathaniel Crittenton came before me & in my presence subscribed the aforesaid declaration & made Oath that the Same is true
Pierpont Edwards (signature)
District Judge of District
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Nathaniel Crittenton
(6340)
(March 1819)
not entitled
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At a County Court, held in and for the County of Fairfield - in the District and State of Connecticut, on the 15th day of June 1820 the same being a Court of Record, and having a seal, by virtue of the laws of said State.

PERSONALLY APPEARED, in open Court, Nathaniel Crittenton late of Hamden in New Haven County but now a resident in the town of Stratford in the County of Fairfield in said State, and exhibited and subscribed the following Schedule, and made oath that the same is a true and perfect Schedule of all his income and property, necessary clothing and bedding excepted) vis.
1 chest of drawers - 2 chests - 16 chairs. 10 kitchen chairs - 1 broken set of china - 15 large plates 13 small plates-24 do. do. 3 sallad dishes - 4 pitchers, 6 bowls, 3 platters- 2 decanters - 4 tumblers -10 wine glasses- 1 looking glass - 2 waiters - 2 carpets- 1 wooden clock- 2 brass Kettles - 
1 lot of tin ware - I do bottles 1 do. Stone Jugs - 1 do. pewter - 1 do. stone pots- 1 do books & basket - 2 tables, 1 large iron Kettle - 2 iron pots 2 Kettles - tongs peal and iron, steelyards gridiron 1 frying pan - 1 Warming Pan - 1 lot wooden ware
2 Hatchets & coffee-mill - 1 Saddle - 3 wheels-  & reel - 1 lot of farming tools - 1 do baskets & 1 half bushel - 1 do brooms - 1 tin oven - 6 cider barrels -  6 dry casks - 60.00 old iron.
1 pail -1 cutting box- 1 horse - 1 waggon - 1 cask -  sundry articles of tin ware - cash 113 Dollars, 5 flour bags- 14 oz. 8 penniesworth 12 qr do silver- 13.00 old brass-
Nathl Crittenton  (signature)
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District and State of Connecticut, ss.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That in the County 
Court, held in and for Fairfield County
in the District and State aforesaid, on this 15th day of June AD 1820, the same being a Court of Record, and haivng a Seal, under the Authority of said State, personally came and appeared in open Court, Nathaniel Crittenton
aged sixty eight years, next August late of Hamden in New Haven County but now resident in the Town of Stratford in the County of Fairfield and being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his Oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: to wit that he entered into the service of the United States (then colonies) in April 1775 and continued in said service in different grades in the Massachusetts troops until 1st of January AD 1776 when he received a commission as Lieutenant from the Continental Congress signed by John Hancock, President, in Capt.
Joseph Thompsons company & Col. John Nixon's regiment in the Massachusetts line on the continental establishment raised for one year by served out that term & several weeks more as a volunteer by desire of his Colonel & left the service with honor and that the date
his original declaration for a pension is the 3d day of April 1818 and that the certificate from the war office for his pension is numbered 4340

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And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the
United States in the Revolutionary War,” passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust
for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule herein annexed, and by me subscribed. And I do further declare that my occupation was in early life that of a gold & Silver Smith but that at the close of the war of the revolution I found myself so encumbered with debt that I was obliged to sell my house & land, and had nothing left wherewith to carry on my trade, and that the expences of bringing up a large family that I have never since been able to resume my trade or own a dwelling
house, but have supported myself and family by taking upon shares or hiring land or peddling tin ware until the commencement of my pension, and that at present by reason of age & infirmities of body, especially the rheumatism, I am unable to do much of importance towards the subsistence of myself -- and have a wife named Jerusha Crittenton aged 61 years next August, also troubled with
infirmities which render her unable to do much
to any profit -- and one daughter named Jerusha Crittenton aged 18 resident with me. The rest of my children, five in number, are gone from me & support themselves, and that he is indebted to different persons in the sum
of fifty one dollars and fifty cents. 
all of which is subscribed by me the day and year aforesaid. 
Nathaniel Crittenton

Sworn to, and declared in the Court aforesaid. Whereupon said Court is, on satisfactory proof exhibited in Court, of opinion that the total amount in value of the property contained in the aforesaid Schedule is two hundred & Seventy eight Dollars and thirty four Cents, and doth order these proceedings to be entered in the Records of said Court.
Attest David Burr Clerk
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State of Connecticut, ss. Fairfield County
I DAVID BURR, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Fairfield, in the said State,
do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is two hundred seventy eight Dollars & thirty four cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at
Fairfield, this 15th day of June AD. 1820.
[signed] David Burr -- Clerk of the County Court for said County of Fairfield


District and State of Connecticut, ss Fairfield June 15 1820
I ROBERT FAIRCHILD, Chief Judge of the County Court for the County of Fairfield, in
said State, do certify that DAVID BURR Esq. is the Clerk of said Court, duly appointed and sworn; and that the said Court is a Court of record, made so by the statute laws of said State; that it proceeds according to the course of the common law, has a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, with the power of fine and imprisonment, and keeps a record of its proceedings.
[signed] Robert Fairchild
Chief Judge of the County Court for the County of Fairfield
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1742 New Jersey 
Gerusha Crittenton widow of Nathaniel Crittenton who was a Lieut & Ensign in the Mass line for 1 year Lieut 3 month Ensign 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 190 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd day of Sept 1843.  and sent to James R. Meeker Elizabeth Town N. J. 

[Act of March 3, 1843]

Recorded in Book A Vol. 1  Page 120.
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1830, entitled an act granting half pay and Pensions to certain Widows.
State of New Jersey
Essex County ss 
On this Thirteenth day of August In the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight hundred and Thirty eight. Personally appeared Before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common pleas
In and for the said County of Essex. Jerusha Critendon [Crittenton] A Resident of the Township of Elizabeth in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey. Aged Seventy nine 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 7th 1838 [?], Entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to Certain Widows. -- That she is the Widow of Nathaniel Critendon [Crittenton] late of the County of New Haven in the State of Connecticut Deceased. Who was a Lieutenant in the Massachusetts line in the war of the Revolution; and a pensioner under the act of Congress passed March 17th
1831, at the rate of Twenty dollars per month. And the said Jerusha Critendon[Crittenton]  further declares that she was married to the said Nathaniel Critendon [Crittenton] on the sixth day of January in the year of our Lord one
Thousand seven hundred and seventy nine by the Revd John Foote. - And that her husband the aforesaid Nathaniel Critendon [Crittenton] died on the Twenty second day of May Eighteen hundred and Twenty eight.  - That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the Marriage took place previous the first of January Seventeen hundred and Ninety four. Viz at the time above stated.

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written Jerusha Crittenton [signed]
E Van Arsdale - Jr Crk
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I Elias Van Arsdale Junior Clerk of the Inferiour Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Essex in the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings of the Court in the matter of the application of Jerusha Crittendon for A. Pension

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this thirteenth day of August In the year of our Lord one thousand
Eight hundred and Thirty eight.

[signed] E Van Arsdale
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In the Matter of the application of
The Widow Jerusha Critendon [Crittenton] for a
Pension under the act of Congress passed
July 7th 1838 [?] 
State of New Jersey ss 
Essex County
Personally appeared before me Samuel B. Miller a Justice of the peace in and for said County Joseph Dick of the County of Fairfield
in the State of Connecticut Known to me by general Reputation to be a Man of good Character and in all Respects entitled to credit as a Witness, and being By me duly sworn on his oath saith that he is fifty one years of age That he was Well acquainted with Nathaniel Critendon [Crittenton] at the time of his death and had been Well acquainted with him for a number of years past. - and that the said Nathaniel Crittendon [Crittenton] died on or about the Twenty second day of May in
the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred one Twenty eight and that he left a Widow Named Jerusha Critendon [Crittenton] who is still living and is as much as seventy years of age. - And that she has Remained
a Widow and unmaried ever since the death of her said husband and further saith not. Joseph Dick
Sworn to and subscribed at Newark
in said County this Ninth day
of August A.D. 1838 [?] before me ⎬

[signed] Saml B Miller Justice of the peace
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Mr. Joseph Dick
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In the Matter of the application of the
Widow Jerusha Crittendon [Crittenton] for a pension under the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 [?]
State of New Jersey
Essex County ss 
Personally appeared before me Samuel B 
Miller a Justice of the peace in and for
said County of Essex Laura Crittendon [Crittenton] of the Township of Elizabeth in the County & State aforesaid known to me by general Reputation to be a Woman of
Fair Character and entitled to credit as a witness. And being by me duly sworn on her oath saith that she is forty two-- years of age that she is the daughter of Nathaniel & Jerusha Critendon [Crittenton]. - That her father
the said Nathaniel Cretendon [Crittenton] was a Pensioner of the United States at the time of his death, at the rate of Twenty dollars per month, and died at his residence in the State of Connecticut on the Twenty second day of May in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and Twenty eight. In the seventy six year of his age. And this deponent further saith that her Mother the said Jerusha Crittendon [Crittenton] is still living and resides with this deponent at Elizabeth Town New Jersey, and has remained a Widow and unmarried
ever since the death of her Father the said Nathaniel Critendon [Crittenton] deceased and is seventy nine years of age this day, and
further saith not
[signed] Laura Crittendon [Crittenton]

Sworn to and subscribed at
Newark in said County
of Essex this Thirteenth day
of August A.D. 1838 [?]
before me
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Saml B. Miller Justice of the peace
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Jerusha Crittendon

Admitted
Lieutenant -- 12 mo -- 
[illegible] 15
[illegible] 40 Ensign    3 dollar[?] /day
                                   _______________
                                   15 dollar[?] / day

Math in his certificate
Hon [?] G. D. Wall 
Senate US
****************fold*************

State of New Jersey
County of Essex ⎬ Ss. 
I Elias Van Arsdale Jun. Clerk of the County of Essex Do hereby certify that Samuel B. Miller before whom the annexed affidavits of Joseph Dick & Laura Crittenden were severally made and taken at the time of taking the same was & still is one of the Justice of the peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn,
and that the name "Saml B. Miller", subscribed to the Jurats of said affidavits respectively, are genuine --
In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal of Office at Newark in said County the Thirteenth day of August AD. Eighteen hundred and thirty Eight

[signed] Van Arsdale Jr Clk


[near seal] Mrs Laura Critendon
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Seventeen hundred seventy-nine
January the sixth.  Nathaniel Critenden [Crittenten], Jerusha Lewis
A true copy of the record with the exception
of the date which is expressed in the record in
fair legible figures, as follows
1779
I am [?] Nathl. Critenden, Jerusha Lewis

[signed] Clement Peck
Clerk of Congregational Church
I Clement Peck above named depose and say
that I hold the office of Clerk of the Congregational Church in Cheshire, New Haven County, Connecticut, and that the above is a true extract from the records kept by John Foot of Marriages, who was for nearly half a century the Pastor of said church, with the exception above
as certified by me

[signed] Clement Peck
Clerk of Congregational Church
Sworn and subscribed on the 25th day of September AD 1838

Before me
[signed] Silas Hitchcock 
Judge of Probate for the District of Cheshire
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And I also hereby certify that Clement Peck
is the Clerk of the Congregational Church in
the Town of Cheshire and that the foregoing is
his official signature, and I further certify
that the said John Foot was the Pastor of said
church for nearly half a century, and that the
said Clement Peck is a credible Person

[signed] Silas Hitchcock Judge of
Probate for the District of Cheshire

I Burrage Beach Clerk of the Court of Probate
for the District of Cheshire in the County of New
Haven and State of Connecticut do hereby certify
that Silas Hitchcock is the Judge of said Court
and that said Court is a Court of record, and
that his name subscribed to the aforesaid
certificate is his genuine signature

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and seal of office this 25th day
of September AD 1838
[signed] Burrage Beach
[seal affixed]

[signed] J. S. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
3 -- 525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C. , [month/date entry line blank], 19 [year entry line blank]

In reply to your request of [date entry blank], received [date entry blank] for a statement of the military history of Nathaniel Crittenton or Crittendon [name filled in by hand] a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his ([^+] or his widow's) application for pension
on file in this Bureau. 
W. F 781. ["W. F. 781." handwritten on form]
[Column headings follow]
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. 
┃CAPTAIN.
┃COLONEL.
STATE.

1. Apr. 1775 : Jan. 1726 : [no entry]: William King : John Fellows: Mass.

2. Jan. 1. 1776 : Feb. 1777 : 2n Lt.: Joseph Thompson: John Nixon: [no entry]
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Battles engaged in, Harlem Hights [location filled in by hand]
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Great Barrington, Mass. [location filled in by hand]
Date of application for pension, Apr 3, 1818. His claim was allowed. [detail filled in by hand]
Residence at date of application, Hamden, New Haven Co, Conn. [detail filled in by hand]
Age at date of application, b. [born on ?] Aug 21 1752 in Southington, Hartford Co Conn. [detail filled in by hand]
┃Remarks: [remarks filled in by hand] He married in Cheshire New Haven Co Conn Jan 6 1779 Jerusha Lewis b. [born on ?] Aug 13 1759. He died in Conn. May 22, 1828 and she was allowed pension on an ap Ex. Aug 13, 1838 while a resident of Elizabeth, Essex Co. N J. They had 2 sons and 5 daughters, Laura, 42 yrs in 1838 and Jerusha 18 years in 1820, only names given,

Respectfully,
Commissioner.
6---2856
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[left side]
1914 Oct 3: history to Mrs. Ellis C. Bedell
1914 Decd: history to Miss Edith M. Kingsland


[right side]
Rev War
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 781

Jerusha Crittenton
Widow
Nathaniel Crittenton
Mass Line Lieut & ensign, RW.
-
Act: March 3, 1843.
Index: -- Vol.A , Page 152

[Arrangement of 1870.}
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Declaration of Nathaniel Crittenden in order to be returned to the Pension list, under the act of the 1st of March 1828 - County of New Haven ss.- 
On this 24th day of June 1823, personally appeared in open Court, that is to say before the County Court in session at New Haven within and for New Haven County in the State of Connecticut, being a Court of record for said County, Nathaniel Crittenton, a resident in said County, aged seventy years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of the 18th of March 1818, the act of May 1820 and 1st March 1825 - that he the said Crittenton entered into the service of the United States (then Colonies) in April 1775 and continued in the Massachusetts line, in different grades till the first of January 1778. when he received a Lieutenant's commission from the continental Congress, signed by John Hancock President in the State of Massachusetts in the company commanded by Captain Joseph Thompson in the regiment commanded by Colonel John Nixon, in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the continental establishment; that he continued to serve in the corps, untill on or about the 1st of January 1777 when he was discharged from said service honorably (as the regiment to which he belonged had enlisted for one year, and then disbanded) at Morristown in the State of New Jersey; after which he volunteered for several weeks at request of his Colonel, retaining his rank, and left the service with honor. The commission of the applicant has been heretofore forwarded to the war department -- And I do solemnly swear that I was a
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resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth of March eighteen hundred and eighteen, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled" An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolution war" passed on the 18th of March 1818, and that I here not or has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me;  nor have any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed which schedule is as follows viz 
[first column]
1. Chest with drawers, value  $1
16. Wooden chairs -  old- $1-00 
10. Kitchen chairs -  old- $1-00 
1. Broken set china 1.50
12 Large Plates - .50
33. small bo - 60
3. Sallad dishes - 18
3. Pitchers 50
3. Boles - 12
2. decanters- 33
4. Tumblers 16
10. wine glasses - 50
1. Looking glass - 2.00
1. waiter - 50
1. wooden bo -  6
2. Brass Kettles - 4.00
1. Lot Tin ware - 3.00
1. do bottles - 50
1. do Stone Jugs - 45
1. do Pewter [illegible] - 2.34
1. do. Store pots - 1.00
1. do. books & baskets - 50
2. Tables - 3.00
1. Stand - 1.50
= 29.54

[second column]
Amount brought wh 29.54
2. Iron Lots - 1.00
2. do. kettles - .50
Tongs, Peal, andirons, gridirons -  2.00
1. Frying pan - .25
1. Warming pan - 1.00
2. Hatches & coffee mills 1.50
1. Saddle - .25
2 wheels & reel - 1.00
1. panel(?) old tools 3.00
1. do basketts & larg basket - .50
1 broom - 6
1 Tin oven - 50
1 pail - 10
1. cutting box - 1.00
4-bags - 30
= 45.50


All the foregoing articles are very old, and many of them broken & nearly worn out 
Nath; Crittenton - (signature) 

The said Crittenton has formerly and untill lately followed the occupation of a Pedlar for a living, but owing to his age and bodily infirmities he is now in no particular employment, can do little towards his support, and is unable
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 to support himself without assistance from his country - he has no other family than his wife residing with him her age will be sixty four in August next, her age and infirmities prevent her from doing but little both he and his wife are troubled with rheumatic complaints, which at times are distressing and more. That since the exhibition of my first schedule, the following changes have been made in my property- 
[here follows a chart with 4 columns, headed by the following:
Property disposed of 
To Whom
Time of sale
Amount recd for property sold]

1. Large in-- kettle  - Rufus Allen - 14 June 1823 - $2.50
1. Wheel - Mike Ford June 1822 - .75
6. Cider ??????- Henry Ford - Sept. 1820 - 2.00
60 lbs old iron - [illegible] - Sept 1820 - 2.00
Horse & Waggon - Step Crittenton - 20 Nov 1821 - 29.00
Tin ware {illegible] - to sundry **** ***ving the years - 1820 - 5.00
old silver - Laura Crittenton - August 1820  -  10.50
Old Brass - John Hubbard - August 1820 - 2.14
 1. waiter last 
= 53.92

2. Corsets were put in my first schedule by mistake, they being made by, and the property of my daughter - $113 in cash was in my first schedule, which has been since personally spent in the support of myself & wife; it was mostly pension money-

The avails of the property disposed of, has been all expended for our support, and to pay $51.50- debts which I owed when the first schedule was made out = 
Nathl Crittenton (signature)

New Haven County ss.
 County Court June Term 1823 
Sworn to and declared on oath in open out by the said Nathl Crittenton this 26th of June 1823 

Attest, Chas A Ingersoll, Clerk of the County Court for New Haven County
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I Charles A. Ingersole, Clerk of the County Court for the court of New Haven, do certify, that the said [?] shedule [schedule] and oath have been admitted to the record of said Court, and that the same, are truly copied therefrom and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount of value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is
forty three dollars and fifty cents. In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 28th day of June A.D. 1823
[attached seal]
Chas. A. Ingersoll Clerk of the
County Court for the County
of New Haven
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Schedule of Property of Nathl Crigttendon
(exclusive of bed and bedding - Appraised by Isaac Gilbert Esq.

Faro Table = 3.00
One Stand - 1.50.
One Chest of Drawers - 1.50
Three low chests - 1.00
Sixteen wood Chairs - 5.00
One dozen Kitchen Chairs - 2.00
One looking glass - 3.00
A lot of Earthenware - 3.50
A lot of Garden tools - 2.00
A quantity of Kitchen furniture consisting of Kettles Pots Tin ware Fire shovel tongs} -10.00
Andirons &c &c.   - 32.50
One Waggon Box - 4.00
= $32.50

Signed by Nathl Crittenton


New Haven County ss
Personally appeared Nathaniel Crittenden made solemn oath, that the above Schedule includes all his property except necessary bed and bedding
and wearing apparel, and that the prices carried out against each article, are the full value thereof, this 23rd of January 1822 Before me.
B .J. Ingersoll (signature)
Justice of Peace
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New Haven County ss
Isaac Gilbert and William Baldwin of the City and County of New Haven, being duly Sworn
depose and say, that they have examined the annexed Schedul [schedule] of Nathaniel Crittendens property and the articles described therein, and that the prices carried out against 
each article are in the opinion of the Deponents, the full value thereof, - the Deponent further say that they are well acquainted with the circumstances of said Crittenden and from their knowledge, have no doubt, and do believe, that the aforesaid Schedule of property, embraces
all the property of every name and nature of the 
said Crittenden, except bed, bedding, and necessary apparel, and further say not.
Isaac Gilbert
William Baldwin

Sworn to in New Haven
this 26th day of January 1822.
Before me
B J Ingersoll
Just. [Justice] of Peace for
New Haven County
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The undersigned hereby certify that the within named Isaac Gilbert & William Baldwin Esqr are among the most respectable citizens of the Town of New Haven, in Connecticut 
Gideon Tomlinson (signature)
H. W. Edwards - (signature)
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[along side)
Nath - Crittenden


The Honorable John C. Calhoun
Secretary of the Department of War
Washington
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Pierpont Edwards District Judge District Connecticut do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that Nathaniel Crittenton who made & subscribed the declaration contained in the annexed Schedule did serve in the Revolutionary war against  the  common Enemy as stated in his said  declaration & I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me in his case to the Secretary of the department of War pursuant to an act of Congress in such case made & provided said proceedings & testimony are contained in the annexed Schedule May 20th 1818
Pierpont Edwards (signature)
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Nathaniel Crittenton,
lieutenant,
Massachusetts line,
3d April, 1818.



Admitted
Pierpont Edwards, Esq.
Judge,
Bridgeport, Fairfield Co.
Connecticut.
Rec'd 27. May, 1818.
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I was soon after my appointment ordered to take charge of thirty men and to cut down all the trees that grew on Boston neck near to the enemy's grand battery at the south end of Boston and by the help of ropes we felled them across the road in the night time and retired-- hearing nothing louder than the sound of our axes and the falling of the trees. this was more favourable to our party than could have been expected-- the regiment was ordered on to Governors Island on the same day that the English fleet came in at the brook. We remained there until Long Island was given up-- The next day in the afternoon we were summoned to give up Governor Island and ourselves as prisoners-- Our commander said they were too hasty. We should have boats to carry us to New York-- The officers left us saying we are nearly round you and the first boat that attempts to go to New York we will sink her. Our good General sent us boats and in one hour we arrived at New York with the loss of only one or two men - I take the liberty to mention these things although you know them - - I was at the Harlem Heights by the side of Col. Nixon we lost several of our regiment in the first onset - the enemy were posted behind a stone wall-- The Col. seeing his disadvantage ordered the regiment to retire a little back of a hill that we had just before descended when the top of the hill some few were deaf to his orders and eagerly contending with the enemy he ordered me to go down and order them back which I obeyed-- but in descending the hill to the men I sustained the enemy's fire as an individual.  All of my volunteer service in 1777 that I mentioned before when I sent on my claim, I only say as the few troops that were stationed at  Morristown and Chatham the great distance we were from Brunswick made our duty hard and difficult. I think we might be justly compared to a piquet guard set to watch their motion
Nathl Crittenton  (signature)
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Southington August 30th 1820

We whose names are hearunto subscribed do agree that the within statement Correct so far as it relates to his Residence in Southington   (signed) 
Robert Foot 
Heman Atwater 
Jacob Tyler

The above named Robert Foot Heman Atwater and Jacob Tyler Personally appeared & made oath to the forgoing statement before me  Royall Noone Just. of Peace 

I also state that the above warned witnesses are men of truth and varasity 
R. Noone

Berlin August 31st 1820 
We whose names are hereunto subscribed do agree that the within statement is correct so far as it relates to Mr Crittendons residence in Berlin to the best of our recollection 
Oliver Peck
John Lee
Luther Stocking jr.

Worcester County ss. Berlin August 31st 1820

Personally appeared  Oliver Peck John Lee and Luther Stocking Jun. and made oath to the foregoing statement before me 
Saml Hart Justice Peace (signature)


I hereby certify that Oliver Peek John Lee and Luther Stocking jun are men of truth and veracity 
Saml Hart Justice Peace (signature)
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We, whose names are undersigned inhabitants of Middletown in the County of Middlesex & State of Connecticut, do hereby certify & state that we have resided in said Middletown for more than eight years last past, & that to the best of our recollection, the preceding account of himself by Mr. Nathaniel Crittenton, & the exposition of his circumstances at various periods, are true, so far as they respect the time of Mr. Crittenton's residence in said Middletown,.
Middletown September 2d 1820. 

Jesse Pecks 
William Danforth 
Ephrm. (Ephraim) Bound 

Subscribed & sworn to, this second day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty, before me the Subscriber a Notary Public duly appointed & sworn residing in said Middletown. Witness my signature & Seal of office, 

Jonathan Barnes Jr. (signature) 
Notary Public 

[seal] 

I certify that the Deponents are credible persons.
 Jona. [Jonathan]  Barnes (signature)
 Notary Public.

[seal]
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Stratford Connecticut 26th May 1820 
Nathaniel Crittenton
To be more particular when I left the army I resumed my trade (the gold and silversmith in Southington, my native town, in the County of Hartford State of Connecticut. I was enrolled with the old military officers and householders made liable to draft and to serve like other citizens - We were first in classes and lived men for three years or less time - this I was holden to do my part of the service to the end of the war and some part of that time was taxed for my trade in the grand [illegible] to the amount of one hundred dollars per year. I was much injured by the depreciation of the paper money and in the year 1794 found myself badly in debt and no money to carry on my trade - and if I had the people were unable to purchase. No alternative but hard labour. I let the house I built for the term of two years and removed to my fathers house have where I had much to do for a sick parent during nearly all that time-- I returned to my own house in the year 1786 and in the year 1788 I sold my house and land and since that time I have not owned either.-  I was crouded by my creditor and harrassed by the gatherers until the year 1792. I was then nearly exonerated from such troubles as mentioned above. - In Aug. 21st 1792 I was forty years of age - the same years in October I removed to Berlin an adjoining town where by the help of my industrious wife and children I made a comfortable living for twenty one years and seven months. In May 1814 being but poorly able to labour I was persuaded by my eldest son who lived in Middletown, to remove to that town and keep boarders since that time I have been unfortunate in my small undertaking as the peace soon took place many of the people who were wanting board left the town.
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This son of mine gave me part of his house rent free for one year -- I[n] May 1816 I hired a house and again kept a few boarders. In May 1817 I removed to Hamden- paid my debts in Middletown except fifteen dollars for the last years rent and some taxes which I was enable to pay until I received my pension money in March 1819.- The house I occupied in Hamden was purchased by three of my daughters where I lived until December 1819 free of rent- I[n] March 1819 hired part of a house in New Haven and drew my first pension money lived in the same hired house until May 1820 - One daughter boarded with us all the time I lived in New Haven she was very helpful in the family and paid to me all the time one dollar per week for board. One son made us a visit from South Carolina when we lived in Hamden and made us a present of eighty dollars.-- I have two daughters who keep a boarding school in Bridgeport (the town of Stratford) one daughter who has taught school four years in New Haven- One Myself & wife and youngest daughter a minor reside at Bridgeport with our daughters as I am unable to provide for myself and family.-- We have had two sons and five daughters all living excepting one daughter. My wife is sixty one years of age and I am sixty eight. I have been time with the Rheumatism for six years though better at some times then others-- It is with painful sensations that I speak of my childrens help and my inability to support myself. - Had it not been for the liberality of my country and the help of my children I cannot say what would have been my situation. - I have spent my pension money with caution and I still retain a few dollars. --- It is with disagreeable sensation that I am obliged now  that I stand in need of my country for help. I ask for a moment's more attention. I was appointed in June 1775 to act as second Lieut. by the General's orders & performed that duty without any other Commission until January 1776
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Nathaniel Crittendons affidavit Sept 23rd 1820
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Sept 23. 1820 since the 15 of June 1820
I have paid taxes & other small debts to the amount of fifty one dollars & fifty cents 51.50 
other expences forty dollars - 40.00
Sold my silver spoons for thirteen dollars - 13.00
tin ware seventeen dollars - 17.00
Paid for boot money betwixt old wagon & my new one - 030.00
 = 91.50

I do certify that I am at this time worth ninety one dollars and fifty cents less that I was when I made oath to my schedule in June 1820 which was forwarded to the Secretary of war with my declaration of that date made for the purpose of obtaining a continuance of my pension and the above statement of my expenditures is correct and that I have not expended any part of the above 91 Dollars & 50 cents unnecessarily or for the purpose of bringing myself within the provisions
of the Act of Congress of March 18, 1818 & May 1820 relating to pensions and I do further certify that all the money which I entered in my said Schedule as a part of my property was money which I had shortly before I received as pension money at the branch bank of the U. States at Middletown
Shatford Sept 23d 1820
Nathl Crittenton (signature)

I also certify that I am justly indebted to one creditor Seventy dollars, and to another creditor fifty dollars, which debts have been due from me about thirty years, and my s.d
creditors have exercised lenity toward me and have not pressed the collection of s.d debts on account of my having been in reduced circumstances & almost destitute of property ever since I gave my notes for sd [illegible] about 30 years ago
Nathl Crittenton (signature)

State of Connecticut ss Stratford in the County of Fairfield September 23rd 1820 
Personally appeared Nathaniel Crittendon of sd. Stratford to me well known and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing certificates by him subscribed in my presence, which certificates I am satisfied contain the truth, before me
Robert Fairchild (signature)
Chief Judge of the County Court
for Fairfield County
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Free


James L. Edward Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

sideways
N.J.
add foroof 
Jerusha Crittenton


of July 33.0
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Newark New Jersey October 3, 1831 
J. L. Edwards Esq 
Commissioner of Pensions 
Sir  I herewith Enclose to you the Copy of the Marriage Record Relative to the Marriage of Nathaniel Critendon to Jerusha Lewis with the certificate of the Clerk of Probate of the County of Newhaven in the State of Connecticut, to be annexed to Mrs Jerusha Critendon's Declaration and evidence enclose to you on the 14th August last for a pension under the act of Congress passed July 7th 1810. The old Certificate of Marriage having been returned to me with your Letter of Sept 11th 1831.- It being without date or seal of office. - I sent the old certificate with your Letter to New Haven with directions to presence the some so that the said Certificate might be returned to you if require. 
I Remain Respectfully yours 
AC. Saml B. Miller (signature)
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House of Rep.
January 2d 1821 

Sir ,
I request your attention to the application of N. Crittendon to be restored to the Pension list 

Mr Crittendon has represented to me that he is in very indigent circumstances.

I believe it will appear by an examination of the schedule, which Mr. Crittendon, made under the law of 1820, that if you deduct the price which he has expended for his support, price that schedule was made, & the amount of his debts which were due anterion to the 18th of March 1818, from the
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amount of his property, as stated, in his schedule & found by the court, which received said Schedule, he is now almost destitute of property.  

As the amount of money in his schedule included, in his schedule, was received  on account of his pension, it is pre-pinred, not the amount of his property as stated, in his schedule was thereby improperly [illegible].
I am. Sir, 
Your obnt. Servt.

Gideon Tomlinson (signature)



J. L Edward Esq.
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Hon. Garrell D. Wall
Washington City
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Elizabethtown Feb. 1st 1839-

Sir, 
Yours of the 29th alt. was received this morning and I therefore enclose to you my Mothers Certificate, in the expectation that the payment for the three months and one days service mentioned in Mr Edwards letter will be added to the present amount.
Yours Respectfully
Laura Crittenton
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Postmark: Jan 22 

Jan 25

Jn - - at -N.J.

James L. Edwards Esq
Comm of Pensions
Washington City
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Eliz Town New Jersey Jany. 22d 1838 
Lieut. Nathaniel Crittenden an Officer in the Revolutionary War from the State of Connecticut who died about ten years past was a Pensioner under the act of Congress He was married on the sixth of Jany. 1779 and his widow is now living in this Town and is depending for support upon a maiden Daughter. He served as I understand in the regular army, one year and ten months. May I trouble you in behalf of this destitute Widow to and me a copy of her Husbands Pension certificate or any other document that might aid her to decide whether she is entitled as his widow under the late act of Congress, with respect. 
(signed) Wm Cheetwood

J.L. Edwards Esqr. 
Com of Pens
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                          FREE
Hon J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.

[sideways]
2068
June 14 1843
[faint postmark Jun 1x]

N.J.
Mar 3d 1843
Jerusha Crittenden

$190 per annum
James Meeker
Elizabeth Town
N. Jersey
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Elizabeth Town N.J. June 10/43
Sir,
Inclosed I send the papers required by law to be presented to your department to establish the claim of Mrs. Jerusha Crittenden of this place to a pension under the act of congress passed 3rd of March 1843. I  would thank you to send in return the usual certificate of her title thereto as soon as your engagements will allow.
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servant
James R. Meeker

Hon J.L. Edwards
Comr of Pensions

P. S. If these papers should not be satisfactory to the department or more should be required will you have the goodness to inform me.
Respfy (respectfully)
J R Meeker
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Payment to be made at Trenton by P. Dickinson, Esqr Agent for paying Pensioners in the Agency of N. Jersey 
Payable on the 4th March and 4th September in each year [thereafter is crossed out]. First payment to be made 31st December, 1838 
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book A. Vol. 2 Page 120 by 
Daniel Brown, (signature) Clerk.
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WAR DEPARTMENT
Five years Pension.

I certify that in conformity with the act of July 7, 1838, Jerusha Crittendon of the State of N. Jersey widow of Nathaniel Crittendon who was a Lieutenant in the War of the Revolution and died on the twenty second day of May 1828 is entitled to receive five years pension at the rate of One hundred and sixty  dollars    per annum, commencing on the fourth day of March, 1836; and in case of the death or marriage of said widow before the expiration of said five years, the pension will cease on the day of such marriage or death. 
Given at the War Office of the United States , this thirty first October day of one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight.
JRP (signed)
 
{seal}
Examined and Countersigned
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V330

Declaration of
Mrs. Jerusha Crittendon
for a Pension
Under the act of July 7th 1838


Saml B. Miller Newark
New-Jersey
Clerk Paid
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James L. Edwards Esq,
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Newark New Jersey August 14th 1838. 
J.L. Edwards Esq 
Sir I herewith enclose to you the Declaration and evidence of the Wid. Jerusha Crittendon for a Pension under the act of July 7th 1838. Your early attention to the papers would much oblige Mrs Crittendon as her Daughter is expecting to go to the State of Connecticut in the Course of Eight or ten days, and should there be any defect in her proof of Marriage she would have a convenient opportunity to have them rectified; There being no seal nor date to the Clerks Certificate [Iillegible edit] Although Mr Dick whose affidavit is enclosed, stated to me that papers had heretofore passed without the Seal of the court or the Clerk of Probate have no seal and requested me to send the paper as it is and get your decision on the same.  if the papers should not prove satisfactory please to return them to me with your directions as soon as Convenient. 
Respectfully yours &c 
Samuel B. Miller
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J L Edwards Esq
Comr of Pensions
Pension Office

[sideways]
Feb 5
amat NJ


Hon G D Wall
Sarado NS
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Senate Chamber Feby 4 1849
Sir
I enclose to you the Certificate already issued to Mrs Crittenton to have it altered or new one issued for the additional time which you intimated would be allowed.
Have the goodness to forward the renewed
Certificate to me.
Yours respcfy
Garret D Wall
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Jerusha Crittender
NS - 43 - 1742

13 1842
Mr Cole
March 20 1837


Ex by Mr Young
March 31-51
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New Haven 13th of March 1831 
Col J. G. Bennett  Washington City 
Dear Sir, 
I have a letter in my possession from R. W. Young of your City to Mrs Jerusha Crittenden Widow of Nathaniel Crittenden & to his legal Representatives formerly of Essex Co N.J. saying that they were entitled to more Pension than they had received   The daughters have left the claim with me  If you have the same facilities that Mr Young has & are willing to undertake it you can do to The evidence must be in Washington  They will give one half the amount received in lieu of all other charges,; "no cure no pay" I have the discharge of a Private soldier who served through the Revolution He never received any Bounty Land can the heirs now obtain it  They will give one half If we can get it 
I shall have Samuel Warrens invalid pension case ready soon. I have been pretty busy in Court this winter  I shall have more leisure to attend to Pensions &ct this summer
Respectfully Yours 
Geo Lindley
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Folded paper.  Nothing to transcribe.
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State of New Jersey 
Borough of Elizabeth SS. 
On this tenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three, personally appeared before James F. Meeker one of the Aldermen of the Borough of Elizabeth in the State of New Jersey and a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the same Jerusha Crittenden resident of said Borough aged eighty three 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 provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the third day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three, granting pensions to the widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War; that she is the widow of Nathaniel Crittenden deceased, who was a Lieutenant and ensign in the War of the Revolution; and that she received the sum of one hundred and ninety Dollars ($190) per annum for five years commencing the fourth day of March in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty six and ending on the fourth day of March in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and forty one, under the act passed the Seventh day of July in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty eight; and she further declares that she is still a widow 
Jerusha Crittenton (signature) 

Subscribed and sworn before me the day and year first above written

James F. Meeker Alderman
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Stat of New Jersey 
Borough of Elizabeth ss.
 I, James F. Meeker one of the Aldermen of the said Borough of Elizabeth and one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas and for the same, do hereby certify that the above named Jerusha Crittenden is a resident of said Borough, and personally known to me that she is a highly respectable person and her statements above and herein before made are entitled to the fullest credit.
James F. Meeker Alderman 

State of New Jersey 
Borough of Elizabeth SS.
[Seal to the left of text]
I, Maline W. Halsey Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the Borough of Elizabeth in the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify that James F. Meeker before whom the foregoing deposition of Jerusha Crittenden is taken, and by whom the foregoing certificate is made, is one of the Alderman of the said Borough and one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the same, and as such is authorized to administer oaths and take depositions; and further that the signature of the said James F. Meeker to the said deposition and to the certificate following is his proper hand writing; and that full faith and credit are to be given to his official acts as such Alderman and Judge 
In Witness whereof, I have hereunto Subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the said Court at Elizabeth Town in the said Borough this tenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and forty three.
M.W. Halsey Clerk
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The Hon. John C. Calhoun

[sideways]
Nathl Crittenden
Connt. Revo.

Nathaniel Crittenden
[illegible] reconsidered

Hon. Mr. Thomlinson. H.R.
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New Jersey   819 
Jerusha Crittendon widow of Nathaniel Crittendon was a pensioner under the Act of  18 March 1818 of Essex Co who died on the 22d May 1828  in the State of N. Jersey was a Lieut. & Ensign in the company commanded by Captain [blank] of the [blank] commanded by [blank]  in the Mass. line for 
1 year Lieut  - 160 
3 months Ensign - 30
= $190 

Inscribed on the Roll of N. Jersey at the rate of 190 Dollars --- Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836 

Certificate of Pension issued the 4th day of March 1839 and sent to Hon. G. D. Wall.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1839    570.00 
Semi-annual allowance ending Sep.   95.00 
= $ 665.00

{Act July 7, 1838.} 
Recorded by D. Brown  Clerk
Book A.  Vol. 2 Page 128

[right side]
Pension Agent notified 4th March '39.
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V330
Act of July, 1838
Let to Saml B Miller
September 11,1834
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New Jersey 819
Jerusha Crittendon widow of Nathaniel Crittendon was a pensioner under the Act of 18 March 1818 of Essex Co who died on the 22d May 1828 in the State of N. Jersey was a Lieutenant in the company commanded by Captain [blank] of the [blank] commanded by [blank] in the Massachusetts line for
1 year 

Inscribed on the Roll of N. Jersey at the rate of 160 Dollars --- Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 31st day of Oct. 1838 and sent to S. B. Miller Newark, N.J.

[right side]
Letter to Hon. G.D. Wall 5 Jan. 1839


Arrears to the 4th of Sep. '38   400.00
Semi-annual allowance ending Mar. '39   80.00
=$480

{Act July 7 1838.}
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk
Book A. Vol. 2 Page 120
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Connecticut
Nathaniel Crittenton
Lieutenant, 1 year (1776)
1st Schedule, dated June 1820.
No Real Estate.
Personal Property; a Horse & Wagon, &
sundry articles of furniture, & $113 in cash (pension money gen)
Amount of Schedule
$278.34
His age 70 - was a pedlar of tinware, but from age & infirmities unable to do much for himself
Wife 63 infirm - a Daughter
aged 20 - owes to sundry persons
$51.50
---------
Date of 2nd Schedule 24 June 1823
a few articles of furniture valued at $43.50.

Since the exhibition of his first schedule he has sold the horse and wagon & a few articles of furniture for $53 [cut off] names of persons to whom sold (gap) the $113 in cash [cut off]

[right side]
has been spent in the support of himself & wife, and the avails of the property disposed of, has all been expended for their support, & to pay $51.50 debts, which they owed when the 1st schedule was made out-

C.A. Ingersoll
New Haven
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Nov. 27, 1914.
Bureau of Pensions,
Dept. of Interior,
Washington, D.C
Gentlemen:
I am desirous of getting information
as to the military records of Nathaniel
Crittenden also Abraham Crittenden  (ancestors of mine)  which will entitle me to membership
in the society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, also the Colonial
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Dames,
Any information which you can give me from
the records of your Department will be gratefully appreciated. Enclosed please find stamp for reply.
Respectfully,
(Miss) Edith M. Kingsland
21 Liberty Dr.
New York City.

P.S. They may have enlisted from Massachusetts
or Connecticut
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IN CONGRESS.

The DELEGATES of the United Colonies of New Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, in the Counties of Newcastle, Kent, and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, and South-Carolina, to [hand entered] Nathaniel Crittenton, Gentleman 
WE reposing especial trust and confidence in your patriotism, valour, conduct and fidelity, DO by these presents constitute and appoint you to be [hand entered] Second Lieutenant of Capt. Joseph Thompson's Company in the 4th Regiment of Foot Commanded by Col John Nixon,
in the army of the United Colonies raised for the defence of American Liberty, and for repelling every hostile invasion thereof. You are
therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of [hand entered] Second Lieutenant 
by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly 
charge and require all officers and soldiers under your command, to be obedient to your orders, as [hand entered] Second Lieutenant
And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United Colonies, or Committee of Congress, for that purpose appointed, or Commander in Chief for the time being of the army of the United Colonies, or any other your superior
officer, according to the rules and discipline of war, in pursuance of the trust reposed in you. This commission to continue in force until revoked by this or a future Congress.
[signed] Attest Chas Thomson 

By Order of the Congress,
[signed] John Hancock President
January 1st 1776.
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Bureau of Pensions
Dept. of Interior
Washington D.C.

Gentlemen:-- Will you kindly inform me whether I can obtain through your Department, from Revolutionary and Colonial Records, any information of the service of one Nathaniel Crittenden or his father, Abraham Crittenden I enclose you copy
of certificate from Adj. Gen. of Connecticut
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concerning Nathaniel Crittenden Earlier mention will probably occur in Colonial records of either Massachusetts or Connecticut 
I am anxious to obtain all data possible to establish my eligibility to the society the Daughters of the American - Revolution and Colonial Dames . Nathaniel Crittenden was my great grandfather on paternal side.
Would be glad to get all that appears in records
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concerning any by the name of Crittenden 
Hoping to hear from you soon, and thanking you for any kindness you may be able to show me in this matter 
I am Very truly yours, (Mrs.) Ellis Crittenden Bedell 510 Townes St 
Greenville S.C. 
Sept. 28, 14.