Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17,907, Charles Croxall, Continental (Penn.) Penn.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE 
Continental (Penn.)
Penn.
CONTENTS
Croxall, Charles.
NUMBER 
S. 17.907
B.L.W 2300-300
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CROXALL, CHARLES
(CONT, PA.)
S - 17907
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From 1744
New Jersey roll
To Maryland

Charles Croxall 
Colo Hartley Captain
Continental & 
Pennsylvania Sixth 

In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey 
at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence the 1 of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 30 [illegible] and
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District of New Jersey
Sussex County S

on this first day of April Eighteen hundred and Eighteen before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County.

Personally appeared Charles Croxall aged Sixty three years resident in the Township of Oxford
in the County of Sussex in said district. who
being by me first duly sworn according to Law
doth on his oath say and make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress Entitled an
act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Navy Service of the United States
in the Revolutionary War.

That the said Charles Croxall entered the Continental service as a Commissioned Officer in one of the sixteen additional Regiments in the month of January or February 1777 and after [illegible] his quota of men he marched them to Camp and found his destined Redgement [regiment] commanded by Col Thomas Hartley, in May, that being requested
by General Wayne and his [illegible], to return on the recruiting service he did so, and in June
following returned to Camp with an other
supply of recrutes [recruits] to his said
Redgement [regiment].

This deponent further sayeth he was in the Battle at Iron Hill and Cooches [Cooch's] Bridge the same day. that he allso [also] was in the Battle at Chads [Chadds] Ford on 
the Brandywine, and also in Command
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in the memorable Battle at the Piola under Brig. General Wayne, where he this deponent was wounded and made a Prisoner of War, and so Continued a Prisoner of War in the Gove at Philadelphia and sick quarters the winter of 1778 and then was put on board a prison ship at Sea and off New York untill Landed on Long Island where he remained a prisoner untill he thinks fall 1780 or January 1781.

This deponant sayeth he was striped [stripped] of Every thing about him when taken prisoner, and that he had no commission to show when exchanged to settle by with the accountant But that the aforesaid Colonel Thomas Hartley gave him a Certificate of his rank as [illegible] Captain dated after the Battle of Brandywine, and that he left the same with the accountant at Annapolis in Maryland when he drew his Certificate after the war was over. This deponent sayeth he went to Camp where exchanged and found his said Redgement [regiment] attached to the Sixth Pennsylvania and on waiting on his Excellency General
Washington he thinks he had leave to go to see his friends in Maryland untill called, but that he did not resign a was he called into serve again ... This deponent sayeth he has met great adverse fortune and much perversness in his affairs and is dependent and inreduced circumstances and needs the assistance of his country for Support in return for his Sufferings Expenditures and Services in her cause, that he has no other Evidence to offer now in his power except the
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recollection of his services by the honorable General Smith General John Swain of Baltimore and Capt N R Moore of Maryland.

Charles Croxall
Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year aforesaid

John Summers

I John Summers one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Sussex do certify that it appears to my
satisfaction that the said Charles Croxall did
serve in the revolutionary War as stated in
the aforesaid declaration against the Common
Enemy . . and I now transmit the proceedings
and testimony taken and had before me
to the Secretary for the war Department
pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned
act of Congress 
April the first 1818 -
John Summers
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District of New Jersey
Sussex County

I Ephraim Green [illegible] Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County
do certify that John Summers Equire has
taken the before mentioned deposition
and who has thereto subscribed his name" was
in the taking and Signing the same one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County of Sussex duly Commisd. & Sworn and to all his acts as such full faith & credit is and
aught to be given "In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the
Seal of Sussex County Court this 6th day of May A.D. 1818.

E Green Judge
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Charles Croxall, Pensioner
Copy of Affidavit
&

1744. Septr [illegible]

Notification sent to Ephraim Green Esq. Newton A.S
28 Sept 1820.
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District of New Jersey; Sussex County,

On this seventeenth day of August, at a Session begun at Newton on the third Tuesday in August, of the term of August, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty; Personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Sussex, and State of New Jersey, the said Court of Common Pleas, being a court of record in the
said County, being a court constituted and established by the Laws of the State of New Jersey as a Court of record, having
a seal, with power to fine and imprison, and an unlimited jurisdiction in civil cases, and whose Judgments are only reversable by writ of Error at Common Law,

Charles Croxall, of the age of Sixty four years, resident of Belvidere in Oxford township, in the County of Sussex and State of New Jersey - who being duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath declare that he served
in the revolutionary war, as follows.

He received a Commission as First Lieutenant, in the Regt called Hartley's, one of the additional Regts ordered raised in the
fall of 1776, on the Continental establishment-- rec'd a Certificate of rank as Captain the day after the battle of Brandywine. says he recruited eighty six men marched them to Camp, in the Spring of 1777.

1st was in the Skirmish at Atkins tavern near Elk.
2d was in the Skirmish at Iron-Hill, same day.
3d was in the battle of Cooch's Bridge-- same day.
4th was in the battle at Brandywine all day.
5th was in the battle at the Piola, was there wounded and left on the field of action, and made a Prisoner of war, was sent to Phila'a by the enemy, was a prisoner in the State-house, prisoner in the Stone-Poal, thence on board
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a Prison ship, then put on Long-Island-- remained there untill exchanged in the fall of the year 1780, or Spring of 1781, cannot say which - went to camp and found his regt joined to the 17th Pensyl'a Regt having no immediate Command went to Maryland but did not resign.

And I do Solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th 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 himself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land & Naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War, passed on the 18th day of March 1818. And
that I have not, nor has any person for me in trust, any property, or securities, contracts or debts due me, nor have any income-- says further that he has no property of any kind whatever, but is wholly dependant on the clemancy [clemency] and charity of his family for support; says that he was by misfortune and unforeseen casualties compelled in the year 1811. to take the benefit of the insolvent act of the State of New Jersey, and has not acquired any property since, or has his assignee or any one else settled his affairs so as to see if the whole he possesses and assigns is or is not sufficient to discharge his
debts-- he says, he has a wife, her name is Mary, that she is fifty seven years old, that she has a negro man servant, and a girl, and a property deeded by her Father, the late
Robert Morris of Philadelphia, in the year 1794 to Trustees, and is to her sole and separate use, and finally to go to her Children, Thomas, Daniel, Ann Maria, and Morris, among whom she has divided it in anticipation of the provisions of the above mentioned deed, they being grown up, and who have the whole of it now in possession, paying her by act of Assembly, $500. each per year, an annual sum
for her support, which she takes, as the times & property will admit-- now set by the Trustee $150. per year each, as two
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of them have families-- also says the surviving Trustee of his wife, residing in Trenton 55. miles from her, has obliged him to act in some family necessary small business at times for her in purchases to amt of $80. to $200. or about, and with the trust means,-- and has also acted for his two Sons now at their studies, in receiving their money, and pay it over to them for their board & over which he has no ownership or claim-- so that he has no property whatever to make a Schedule of under his oath -  says that in compliance with the requisition of the Hon Sec'y at war,
that he has no profession, nor no trade, he entered the army young, at 19 years or about, which took him from his studies and deprived him in youth of preparing for the casualties of
life, and that having spent so large a portion of his younger days and patrimony in the Struggle for his Country and having now no occupation to procure a livelihood, and unable
to labour, and no means of his own, he needs the assistance of his Country for support. That he has no income, rights, or claims for himself, except those most justly on his country
for his services, sacrifices, and expenses while in the army and a Prisoner of war - and by virtue of the acts or resolves of the honorable Congress of 1778, and 1779. and the act of the
honorable Congress of March 18th 1818 on which he has received the Certificate of Pension No 1,744 from the Hon'l Sec'y at
war, and on which certificate he has received the following payment, to wit: 4th Sept 1818. $120. 4th March 1819 $120.
4th Sept'r 1819. $120. 4th March 1820. $120.

Sworn & Subscribed in open Court
this 17th day of August, A.D. 1820.
Charles Croxall.

Gab. H. Ford
Schedule of the property of the said Charles Croxall
Real property - none. Personal property - none -
17th August 1820. Gab. H. Ford
Charles Croxall.
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I, Ephraim Green Jun'r Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas afore, do hereby certify that the
foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said Court.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this thirtieth day of August, A.D. 1820.

E Green Junr Greenport Clerk of the Court
for the County of Sussex
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Charles Croxall
No. 2,330.
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Certificate of Judges
of Orphans Court
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Baltimore County State of Maryland - February 20th 1844

Thomas J Hall Esqr and David G. Weems Esq. make oath before us the subscribers to the best of their knowledge and belief, that Charles Croxall a revolutionary officer of Anne Arundel County departed this life several years ago in said County, and that Thomas Croxall of the City of Baltimore, Daniel C. Croxall in the employ of the United States at some port in France and Anna Maria wife of Claudius T. Legrand of the State of Louisiana, are his children, and only theirs at Law.

Wm Baker
James B. Price
John H. Briscoe
Justices at the Orphans Court of Baltimore County

Maryland

I hereby Certify that William Baker, James B. Price and John H Briscoe Esquire whose signatures are above subscribed, were
at the time of so doing. Justices of the Orphans Court for Baltimore County duly commissioned and qualified according to Law

In Testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix Seal of said Court this 22d. day
of February 1844 
[illegible] D.M. Perine Reg
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Power of Attorney
of Thos Croxall
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Know all men by these presents that I Thomas Croxall of Baltimore City and State of Maryland do hereby constitute and appoint Henry Northup of Washington City my true and Lawfull Attorney with power of substitution for me and in my name to prepare papers and collect the proofs and vouchers necessary to
enable me to obtain a Warrant from the United States for the bounty land due my late father Charles Croxall for his services as
Captain of Hartleys Regiment of the Army of the Revolution or of the Pennsylvania line in the said war of the Revolution, and to prosecute the same or cause it to be done before the proper Office department at Washington City. And if allowed to ask demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States for the County land thus allowed. And to deposite the said Warrant
when so received with the Commissioners of the General Land Office at Washington City for land Scrip. And to ask demand receive
and receipt for the certificates of land scrip due thereon (and to endorse assign transfer and make sale of the same) and to do and perform all manner of things touching the same which I myself might do were I personally present. Witness my hand and seal this 20th day of February
1844
Thomas Croxall
seal

State of Maryland
Ballimore City [illegible]
February 20th 1844 Then came Thomas Croxall before me who subscribes one of the Justices
of the peace in and for the the City aforesaid and acknowleges the above instrument of writing to be his act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned.

Acknowled before
Rob A. Tate
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State of Maryland 
Baltimore County Sct

I hereby certify that Robert B A Tate Gentleman
before whom the within acknowledgment was made & who has thereto signed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace of the State aforesaid in and for the City of Baltimore duly commissioned & sworn

In Testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and affix the seal of Baltimore County Court this 20th day of February 1844
Thos Kell Clk
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Capt Pend line
Maryland
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Charles Croxall [illegible]
Act May 15, 1828
on will
at to T Croxall
May 24 1847
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Baltimore May 19th 1847.

J.L. Edwards Esqr 

Dear Sir,

I was informed a day or two ago, by a gentleman who appeared to know, that there was a balance of about one hundred dollars, due to my father Capt Charles Croxall a soldier of the revolution, this balance appears to be a portion of his last quarter he died November 6th 1831, and he drew up to Sept of the same
year, and this balance is for the 2 months and few days which he lived afterward, Will you Sir be good enough to write to me on the subject and inform me how I must proceed in order to obtain the money if it should appear, as I have been informed, I have a brother in Marsailles
our consul there and an only sister in  Louisiana, it is possible I would have to write to them for a power of attorney, in their case, this a part of his pension, under the act of Congress, please let me know as soon as convenient and give me all the information on the subject the case requires and you will confer a favor on your Obt Humble Servt
Thomas Croxall

[illegible] to Sept 31

May 21 '47
Ch Croxall [illegible] 1828

[illegible]
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Same as previous page
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Upper RH corner has number "653"

No. of Original Payment - 805

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

17 Nov 1828

Charles Croxall of Baltimore in the County of [blank] in the State of Maryland has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828.  He states that he was as an officer on the Continental line, and served as such at the time when the arrangement of the army under the resolved of Congress of the [illegible] 21st of Oct 1786 was carried into affect, when he was a Prisoner of War and at which period he was a Captain in Col Harley's regiment of the Pennsylvania line; and that he received commutation certificates for the five years full pay granted by the resolve of 23 March, 1783; and, furher, that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, Twenty dollars per month, paid to him by the agent in the State of Maryland.
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By Order of the Secretary 
[Ted?] Dickens

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Third Auditor's Office,
19th November 1828

It does not appear by the record in this office, that final settlement certificates have been issued for the commutation of five years full pay to Captain Charles Croxall in the Maryland line,
It appears that Charles Croxall is now on the pension list of the Maryland agency, and has been since the 3d March, 1826. . at the rate of Twenty Dollars per month.

It appears from the records in this office that Capt Charles Croxall had a settlement on the 29th April 1789 when he received the sum of $614 78/90 being for balance of rations due him whilst a prisoner and for one years pay as a super numerary [last two words underlined] Captain of Col Harley's Regiment in the Pennsylvania line.  
[Signature illegible]
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Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions,
Office of the Deputy Commissioner,
Washington D.C.

Mr. M. L. Croxall,
Navy Dept.,
Washington, D.C.

Sir:-
   In reply to your request for a statement of the services of Charles Croxall in the Revolutionary War, I have to advise you that it appears that he was commissioned in the early part of 1777 as a first lieutenant in the regiment of Pennsylvania troops commanded by Capt. Thomas Harley, and was subsequently promoted to captain.  He took part in two skirmishes, one at Atkins' Tavern and the other at Iron Hill, and participated also in three battles- Coochea Bridge, Brandywine, and the battle at the Piola, at which latter place he was wounded and taken prisoner, and remained such until the latter part of 1780 or early 1781.  At the time of his application for pension, which was April 1, 1818, he was 63 years of age, and resided at Oxford, Sussex Co., N.J.  The place of his birth is not stated.  While he was a prisoner of war he was confined at Philadelphia, then on a prison ship, location not stated, and finally on Long Island, at which place he was exchanged.  His wife's name he states was Mary, and she was one of the children of Robert Morris, of Philadelphia.
Very respectfully,  Commissioner.
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B L Edwards Esq.
Pension office
War Department
Washington
District of Cola
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APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER.

State of Maryland
City of Baltimore  88.
On this fourteenth day of September 1826, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said city of Baltimore, personally appeared Charles Croxall who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by himself in the regiment commanded by Colonel Thomas Hartley in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the Pension Roll of the State of New Jersey from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in the State of Maryland where he intend to remain, and whishes his pension to be there payable, in future; and that his reasons for removing to the State of Maryland are to retire with and [illegible] his friends & relatives [illegible].
Sworn and subscribed to, before me, the day and year aforesaid. }  Charles Croxall
Geo Walsh
Justice of the Peace
of the State of Maryland and for the City of Baltimore

Notes - The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be authenticated by the certificate of the proper officer, setting forth that the person taking the testimony is a Justice of the Peace, Judge, or Notary Public, as the case may be, and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
The pensioner's oath must be supported by the evidence of another person as to identity.  The person must swear that he well known him to be the same person described in the above affidavit.  The magistrate must certify that the deponent is a person of veracity.  This oath must also have the authentication as above required.
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State of Maryland
City of Baltimore
On the 14th day of September 1826 before me a Justice of the Peace formally affirmed Martin Eichelberger of the City of Baltimore, who made [ ] on the holy Evangely of Almighty God and upon that oath doth [ ] and declare that [ ] knows the afore said Captain Charly Croxall to be the same person described in the written affidavit.
Sworn to and subscribed before
And I state [ ] before whom the above affidavit was taken do hereby certify that the aforesaid Martin Eichelberger is [ ] known to me as a person of veracity and to whose definition for faith and credit aught to be given witness
my hand this 14th Sep 1826 J. Walsh
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State of Maryland Baltimore County Set
I hereby certify that Jacob Walsh gentleman before whom the foregoing deposition were made and by whom the foregoing certificate was given and who hath thereto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the peace in and for the City of Baltimore duly commissioned and sworn. In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of Baltimore County Court this twenty seventh day of December Eighteen hundred and twenty six 
W Gibson
Baltimore City
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[Left side of fold]
17.907
INVALID
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File No.  17.907
Charles Croxall
Capt. Rev. War
Penn Line
No 805
Act: May 13" 28
Maryland roll
Index:- Val. 1 , Page 83
[Arrangement of 1870.]

[Right side of fold]
1893 - Apr 11 Hist. of M. L. Croxall  K.
1908 Dec. 10  Hist. Lo
A.L. Jones  of  [illegible]
1909 July 15  Hist. Lo- EC Barker VLM
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34715
Reg INVALID.
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No. 34715
Charles Croxall
Capt Rev War
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Act: 18th March 18""
Index:--Vol. 2, Page 88
[Arrangement of 1870.]

[Right side of fold]

Apr 11- 1895 History to Mr M. Croxall Navy Dept. Sec co
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New Jersey
Supra
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Revolutionary Claims.
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Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
13 Dec. 1828.

Sir:
   I have the honor to inform you, that Charles Croxall formerly a Captain in Col Hartley's Regiment of the Pennsylvania line of the Continental Army; and who has heretofore received a pension at the Maryland agency, has been admitted to the benefits of the abovementioned act.
I have the honor to be,
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant.

Richard Rush
The Hon. the Secretary of War
No 124.
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Revolutionary Claims.
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Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
13 Dec 1828.
Sir:
   I have the honor to inform you, that Charles Croxall formerly a Captain in Col Hartley's Regiment of the Pennsylvania line of the Continental Army; and who has heretofore received a pension at the Maryland agency, has been admitted to the benefits of the abovementioned act.
   I have the honor to be,
     Very respectfully,
        Your obedient servant,
Richard Rush
The Hon. the Secretary of War.
No 124
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Belvidere
Augt 22nd
The Hon

18 % [double lined out]
Free

James C. Calhoun Esqr
Sectary at War
Washington
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[illegible] 21st Aug. 1820

  The enclosed was attached to my application but the judges of the court thought unnecessary as well as any brief statement which is much shorter than the parts of my situation now, or the situation I was in when Exchanged, it is in the knowledge of Gen Smith that [  ] my laying in prison wounded and in New York harbour as well as [  ] that no money would help [  ] in specific and that my [ ] had to take [ ] in [ ] for his own time at the [  ] to change  Court to [ ] me, of which I sent many of suffering brother prisoners to amt. L 110.0.0 now Equal to $300-00  These sums was charged me and my part of any Letters [  ] in [ ] was retained by the [  ] and so assessed, and a loss to me [missing] pay in the Certificate of Final Settlement [missing] low, and this of so little value it came to near nothing - a [illegible] any five years Cert.. abomination.

I beg have to ask the favor of you Sir to look at the returns of Col Hartley and his letter respecting the men I took in the Army and express this to the War office many years ago.  I am so deep in debt to my children althrough my life by [  ] turned Sixty in the year 1810 that it obliges me to look to my country, for this did as [  ] any all by the Service, and my [rest illegible].  Gen. Bloomfield
I have the honor to be 
your loyal Servant

Charles Croxall
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[Upper RH corner of page is the number 653.]

Baltimore 21 July 1828

The Honorable Richard Rush Esq.
  Sir
   You will pardon my intruding on your time by incloseing [sic]  to you my claim to the [ ] of it of the late act of Congress for the relief of Sundry Revolutionary officers, and which claim is attested by an old and respectable Revolutionary officer.
   The object of this communication is Sir to induce you to place me on the list of officers receiving the benefit of the late act.  You will Sir Sec [ ] please to observe that at the passing the act of October 1780 could hardly include me then in pay until 1781 as W. Hagarty is inclined to think, but Sir ever so [ ] a hard case, that be who fought the Battles of 1777 was wounded and a Prisoner of War in the discharge of his duty in the field, should be cut off and abandoned the same reimbursement now given, many who only intered [sic] the Service in the Spring of 1780, and in many instances never saw the face of the Enemy.
   I never resigned or [ ] to resign, tho while a prisoner was by some arrangement of the Army left in a Supernumery Officer . . . .  I believe Sir from the returns and records I am the only living Officer, so circumstances and the act of the late Spring being under your sole discretion, dispartial, gives me hopes my [ ] and singular case may induce you to allow the act to extend imbrace and relieve me also.
   I have the honor to be Sir
 [abbreviation] Servant
please to turn over   Charles Croxall
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Mr. Hagarty is of the opinion that the Certificate of W. Howell in the Year 1789 a personal acquaintance lifelong as the same was, because it was a settlement.  In reply to this Sir you will please arrive that the Commutation Certificate for five years full pay, Given to those officers receiving the benefit of the present act also was a final settlement.  Now Sir as I never assigned or sent the Country to the payment of any Commutation of five years full pay it argues in my favor to give me now as they now receive in Justice to my Services which ware [sic] eaqual [sic] to any of my rank, a voucher of which was left in the War office many years ago by my Col. Thomas Hartley.  the fact is all I received on the sale of my Certificate did not half [ ] me the [ ] obtained in New York for my Brother officers than in 1778 or 1779 or 1780.  & which [ ] I was obliged to pay at the end of the War and as my noting to my [ ] .... George Anderson, the [ ] also knew me in the Army, if necessary I [ ] to him also.
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State of Maryland. City of Baltimore.
For the purpose of obtaining the Gen. file of an Act, entitled an Act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution, approved on the 15th May 1828.  I Charles Croxall of the City of Baltimore in Baltimore County, State of Maryland do hereby declare that I was an officer in the Continental Army of the Revolution and served as such and received pay as such up to the 7th of November 1780, at which period I was a Captain in Col Hartley's Regiment of the Pennsylvania line.  that I was not informed or do not recollect whether I was reduced when the arrangement provided by the resolved of Congress of the 3rd & 21st October 1780 was carried into effect being at that time a prisoner of war in Custody of the British but I believe that under that arrangement of the Army I was reduced from the fact that I received pay as a Supernumerary Captain until the 7th November 1781 as Certified by Peter Hagner 3d Auditor of Certification [ ] and I declare that I never did resign but held my commission to the end of the war. and I further declare that during the war of the Revolution I was in the Battles at Aikens, at Groa Hill, at Coochs Bridge, at Brandywine, and at Paoli, in which last battle I was wounded and taken prisoner by the British.
next
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to Philadelphia and kept there in close confinement.  From there removed to the Prison ship at New York and there kept for 15 months and from there we moved to Long Island and there kept until exchanged in the month of November 1780.  That during my Captivity at New York I obtained from the late Daniel Chamier Esquire on my own credit and Estate the sum of Two hundred and twenty eight pounds Fifteen Shillings 5 pense, a great part of which sum of money I used in supplying the immediate wants of my fellow prisoners, who were in the most destitute and distressed situation, and that for all my Pay Services, 
[ ]ations, Sufferings and experiences during the time aforesaid I received two final Certificates amounting together to the sum of {symbol for Pound] 720.  at a time when the said Certificates were worth two Shillings for the pound producing to me only [Pound] 72.10.02
  I do further declare that I have received of the United States as a Prisoner the sum of Twenty dollars per month paid to me by the Agent for paying Pensions in the State of Maryland since the 3rd of March 1826.  Witnessed my hand this 15th day of July in the year 1828.
Charles Croxall
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State of Maryland, City of Baltimore
   Before me a Justice of the Peace of the State aforesaid in & for the City of Balti.  Personally appeared Martin Eichelberger that he was an officer in Col. Hartley's Regiment of the Pennsylvania line, in the Army of the Revolution, and that Charles Croxall by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, was an officer in the same Regiment in the Army of the Revolution, that as an officer, he had then the character of having been usefull, and successfull in the recruiting service, and was an Honorable and active officer in the field.  that, the said Charles Croxall, served in the said Col. Hartley's Regiment with him, the said Martin Eichelberger, until the Battle at Paoli in which, the said Charles Croxall was made, and taken off as a Prisoner of war by the British. - that, he never saw the said Charles Croxall until near the end of the war, after he was exchanged.  That, he has been personally acquainted ever since with the said Charles Croxall and know him to have been an officer in the Army of the revolution, in manner as therein stated.  Witness my hand this 15th day of July 1828.  Jos Walsh
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Baltimore 10th Octo. 1828

Sir
  Honored you to find Gen. Smiths letter to my Research on the Subject of my Claim to the late act of Congress for the relief of the officers of the Revolutionary Army of which I was one - my case is a singluar and separate one, considering circumstances that gives me a peculiar right to this provision.
   In the year 1776 Gen. Washington or Congress [ ] sixteen additional Reg.s. of Infantry - I took a commission in one, and in the Winter of 1777 I recruited my full Comp[ ].  [ ] a first [ ] to Eighty six men, and on the 5th April following I march them to Camp, and joined the army under Colo. Thomas Hartley, in Gen. Wayns Brig.  When the Enemy landed at Elkton, I was dispatched on a special command with Capt. Simpson of the 7th [ ] to oppose the Enemy, [ ]ing [ ] and was in the Battle at Akins, near Elk, and in the Battle at Iron Hill, and the Battle at Cooches Bridge a few days after at the Battle at Brandywine all day . . [ ] days after that Colo. Hartley gave me the Captaincy, and was in the Battle at the Piola in which I was sounded and left on the field, and made a prisoner of War, in this situation, I was sent to Phila. and put under the care of Doc. Park of Phil.a.
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and when so recovered as to be able to work, I was put into  close confinement with sixteen other officer Prisoners - From thence on Board the Prison ship of New York, untill the Fall of 1778, and then on Long Island confined to one mile, untill Dec 1780  Was then Exchanged and immediately joined the Army, But joined by some arrangements of the Army, I was retained a Supernumerary, with the Prisoners generally dissatisfied to find my Company given to another, in my Captivity I applyed [sic] to Gen Washington in person who was [ ] to assure me I should be provided for in some Generals family, and go on to the South, so with Gen. Thompson, this I took and in the Spring he Died, I did not resign at all from or leave the army, untill the Fall of Cornwallis at York,  I remain in Baltimore having no command for order,  Thus serving my Country in all the worst stages of the War and doing what no one Captain did in the line, recruite and march to Camp to Compleat a Company, when only Nineteen years old Col, Hartely gave me his Certificate of it, in a complimentary letter - after my exchange-
 A[ ] to the [ ], When a Prisoner in New York, I rc -a- a Credit, from a friend of my Father's then in New York, recently of Baltimore, and on this Credit the Distress of myself & my Brother Officer Prisoners with me
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[ ] me to take up near the hundred pounds, and when dun, I lent to each [ ] myself, for the necessities of life I loathing to them distribute, all of which I lost by some Deicing, and when exchanged the County do saw as not to redeem a Dollar of the little supplyers to each of one given to Ten, that I had it all to refund.  This acrew to my own Expences at that time was of [ ].    For all my pay in the final settlement Certificate was only worth Twenty [ ] pounds [ ] pence
The letter aforesaid of Col. Hartley to me, said you 
Congress in the year 1800 through the aid of the Hon. W. Southard then in Congress praying some
return of the money lent the Prisoners, but I never
could obtain any-.
I have not all these services and sacrifices, place
me on a footing with the other officers now previous ten - ... M Hagner says [ ] with the [ ] in the year of 1896, I think, so did all those that recd the Commutation Certificates, they now are all provided for, why not myself- ..  because at the head of my Company in the field in discharge of my duty was wounded & suffered all that the human frame of mind could suffer as a prisoner or  War, at a time, when the Enemy, made a [ ] of Crualty.....
I have recorded the office, for the letter of Col. Hartley
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filed by W.M. Southard, as his presenting my memorial in 1800 - Bol M. Hagner tells me, it must be lost when the Enemy was at Washington,
I think if you present my respects to the same M Southard and who I have the pleasure of knowing he will be
of use to you in the application to W. Rush
respectfully [ ]
Charles Croxall
M Rush has my papers
[ ] the list from a
[ ] old officer who
served with me in the
revolution
Richard S Coxe & B P Smith
Attny & Counsel at Law
Washington City
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I do also certify that my kindsman the present Judge
Summers of Philadelphia County told me some years ago that he was a prisoner in the Revolutionary war, and knew the aforesaid Charles Croxall allso a prisoner
at the same time, was well acquainted with him
and knew him those very week and low from his
wound and sufferings in so much that he did not
Spent he would recover when landed on Long Island from the prison ship.  I therefore believe the recitation, here in transmitted true. . and from my own knowledge of his present circumstances believe him dependant on his family, as the property he had a life right in was sold from him to satisfy a debt he says he was only surety to John Summers
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I Ephraim Green Junr, Clerk of the Court of Common Foley
of the County of Sussex do certify that Charley
Croxall, was duly discharged under the
Insolvent Act of the Legislature of
New Jersey from confinement for Debt and
Damages by the said Court on the twenty
third day of Febry in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred
and Eleven - In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this
twenty third day of August, A.D. Eighteen hundred & Sixteen
E. Green Junr
Clerk
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I Certify that it appears from the Revolutionary
cords in this office, that Charles Croxall was settled with on the 29th April 1789 as a supernumerary Captain of Col. Hartley's Regiment of the Pennsylvania line, and received certificates for his pay & up to the 7th November 1780, and for one years pay as a supernumerary Captain -
Treasury Dept
3rd Aud office
June 7 1828
Peter Hagner Aud
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Peter Hagner letter
of the 26th of January
1839. showing Charles
Croxall a Supernumerary
Capt
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Treasury Department
3d Auditors
February
Office
26th 1839
Sir
In reply to your enquiry relative
to the services &c of your
Father Capt Charles
Croxall of the Revolutionary Army I have
to inform you that it appears by the
Revolutionary Records in this office that the
accounts of Capt. Charles Croxall were
settled in April 1789.  and that he received
a final settlement Certificate No. 94.984
for 614.73 being the balance of Rations
due him while prisoner & for one years
pay as a supernumerary officer in Col.
Hartleys Regiment of Pennsylvania as per
his receipt dated 29 April 1789.
Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
Peter Hagner Au
Mr Thomas Croxall
Washington City
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Act 1828
Settled at
Treasury
Convd with
Invalid file
34.715
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Rec'd 31 Dec 1828
Sir
Baltimore 1 Oct 1828
I mentioned by a letter I have from Major Charles Croxall, a Revolutionary Officer that he will not be considered as entitled to the remuneration authorized by the late act of Congress
in favor of the few in existence, who were actually in service at the expiration of the War. I have seen him perform. That he entered the service in 1777 as a Captain, was taken at Paoli and remained a
prisoner until 1780.  and that he never resigned.
- I have not the law before me, but his
having been a prisoner cannot be the cause of his
being returned. Perhaps in such cases it might be
well to submit them to military men, for them
to say whether he was according to military men, for them to say whether he was / according to military [ ] or was not an officer in the service at
the Termination of the war - Generals all [ ] and Col. Ogden might without [ ]
decide the question. My impressions are strong
that he is entitled, but I have not the whole law
before me. I have the honor to be
[ ]  your  [ ] 
S. Smith
Richard Rush
Dept of Treasury
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Claim of the heirs of
Capt. Charles Croxall
Supernumry-
Penna line
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Extract from Mr Kayners letter    23d App '35
I have to state that, it appears from the Records in this office that Capt Chas Croxall of Col. Hartley's Regt Penn line was finally settled with on the 29th April 1789.  and on that day Signed a Receipt for the balance found due him including the years pay to which he was entitled as a Supernumerary Officer  - Capt Croxall having become a Supernumerary Officer & having rec'd the years pay to which he
was entitled as Such, he was not entitled to the Compensation of 5 years full pay in lieu of half pay for life
P.H. Derd
Col. Chas Biddle

I relation to the above, the missing forms for the heirs were given to Col. Biddle, who states that he would send them to N. Jersey to the son of the dead Capt C. Croxall
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Dr Sirs               Baltimore 1 Oct. 1878

I received your letter of 22 Aug part
in due time.  I was severely afflicted with a Lumbago and did not answer as soon as I ought to have done.  I now hand your letter to Mr.  Rush and return the letter from Col. Ogden and am 
With respect
your friendly Serv.
P. Smith

Major Charles Croxall
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I do hereby Certify that from my knowledge of the circumstances of Charles Croxall - I believe the above Statement of his affairs is true & Correct

Trenton July 11 1820.
Peter Gorden Trustee of 
Mary Croxall, wife of the
Dec'd Charles Croxall
-
Mr. Gordon is the Secty
of the Treasury of 
New Jersey . . .
and well known to 
Gen Broomfield
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J.L. Edwards Esq
Pension Office
War Department
City of Washington
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Baltimore Dec. 28, 1826
Sir
At the request of Capt. Charly Croxall I [ ] his application for transfer his half pay from the New Jersey Treas to the Maryland.
The enclosed Documents were prepared in Sept. on time, but finding that the application would be too late
to obtain the September payment at the Maryland agency, were detained until this time.
It is hoped that the forms and proof will be found sufficient and that the necessary order with be 
given by you to enable him to receive the Pension at this place in March next.  However should anything be informed Capt Croxal prays that he may be apprised
this of by Letter addressed to him here care of Hayne and Croxall 
Respectfully 
[ ] Walsh
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Charles Croxall
Maryland roll, Act
May 15, 1828, at $480 per annum
Be pleased to say to what time he was last paid 805
Pension Office
May 22d 1847
He appears from the Record Book in
the First Auditors Office to have been paid to 3d March 183[ ] Report 1/12
Referred to 1st Auditor no payment
made to him on 3d Auditors Books
BLB
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Rec'd Dec. 29. 1826
Charles Croxall
for transfer

Staff of Haynes & Croxall
Baltimore, Md

Vertical text:
J.L. Edwards Esqr
Pension Office
War Department
City of Washington
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Duplicate of previous image
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J L Edwards Esqr
Sir you will please on returning the marpay papers directed the same
to Mssrs Haynes & Croxall-
Baltimore - 
Yours,
Respectfully
Charles Croxall
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[ ] Jos Bloomfield
Capt. Charles Croxall
Belvidere, Sussex Co
New Jersey
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Congress Hall, April 6. 1818.
Dr. Sir,
This moment I received News of my last &
letter by the return of the mail, to send you the
line instead & rules prescribed to obtain a pension_
As you will have to send to Newton for certificate of the Clerk & Seal of the County, it is probable the same may not reach Washington before Congress shall have adjourned, which will be on the 20th [ ] best request.  the Lendlaw Certificate, to be hand written to your place of residence - I have sent on a Certificate of pension to John Drawber Esq for Chs Stewart of Sussex - Mr [ ] prepared
the Deposition oy Stewart - Perhaps you had
better go direct to Newton & complete the affidavit - 
In must Lotte, in the midst of debate
Your friend morally
JS Bloomfield
Navy Rh
Charles Croxall
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The Hon.
J. C. Calhoon Esqr.
Sect. at War
Washington
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Baltimore 12th May 1818
Respected Sir
I beg leave to inclose you my application for the Pention allowed to the Old Revolutionary Army - and also include with it the several testaments of Right to the same which I hope will be satisfactory to you.
I beg leave to solicit your Examination of the papers of the Committee of Clames in the Office they are deposited and you will see the letters and papers Signed by my Col. of my Services and also the Papers of Dct. Park of Philadelphia attended me in the winter of 1778 when lay wounded and a prisoner -
I never [ ] about or Certificate or Commutation many who tho remained in Service after Exchanged a renited did us

I have the honor to be
for your [ ]
Charles Croxall
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3 -- 871.
RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Briefed by L.D.L.
Claim No.
Certificate No.
Claimant Capt.
Soldier Chas. Croxall
Service
Additional Service Rev. War

REMARKS:
No claim, except I# 17907
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Rev. War
Bureau of Pensions
Application No. 7# 34715 Inv.

NAME OF SOLDIER,
Chas Croxall
Capt Regt J.

INFORMATION DESIRED.
Chief Old War Div

Please send the usual statement of service etc to Mr. M.L. Croxall
Navy Dept
-
City
W.H. Bell
Deputy Comm
6 -- 061
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University of Pennsylvania
THE COLLEGE

208 South 37th St.
Philadelphia, Pa July 8, 1909

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir
On April 1, 1818, Charles Croxall
applied for a pension for services
in the Revolutionary war. He was
at that time a resident of Oxford,
New Jersey.
He stated that his wife's name was Mary, and that she was one of the children of Robert Morris of Philadelphia. 

This I learn from a letter written by William Lockren of your department to M. L. Croxall,
dated April 11, 1895.
What I now want to ask is this: Did Croxall take
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University of Pennsylvania
THE COLLEGE

PHILADELPHIA

oath to the statement made in his
application? More particularly, is the statement that his wife was one of the children of Robert Morris. Sworn to?

If you can, without too great trouble, give me this
information, I shall be very grateful to you.
Very truly yours
E. C. Barker
U.S. Pension Office
July 9 1909
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1627 N Calvert St
Balto. Nov. 28th 1908
Mr. Wm Lockren Commissioner.
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C
Dear Sir,
May I take the liberty of asking you to kindly furnish me with a statement of the services of Capt. Charles Croxall in the Revolutionary War -  I should like to know the Regiment in which he served and under whose command, also the Company he commanded as Captain & etc. Would thank you to give me the Records that
should be referred to in giving authorities for the above data-
Thanking you in advance for any information you may be able to give me. Respectfully
A.L. Jones
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information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau, Charles Croxall Sur File 17907
-
DATES OF
ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.

LENGTH OF
SERVICE.

RANK.
 
OFFICERS WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
Captain.   Colonel.
State.

Jany. or Feby 1777   commissioned 1st Lieut in Capt. Thomas Hartley's Regt. Pa Continental
and was commissioned as Capt. the day after the battle of Brandywine. Was wounded in battle at Paoli and taken prisoner, imprisoned in Phila in State House, Stone gral
and prison ship at N.Y., then sent to Long Island and remained there until 
exchanged in the fall of 1780 or spring of 1781.
and was paid as a supernumerary Capt. until Nov. 7, 1781.

Battles engaged in, Atkins Tavern, Iron Hill, Cooches Bridge, Brandywine and Paoli 
Residence of soldier at enlistment,
Date of application for pension, April 1,1818. His [illegible]
Residence at date of application, Twp of Oxford, Sussex Co. N.J.
Age at date of application, 63 yrs. Died Nov 6, 1831
Remarks: In 1820 Soldier's wife Mary, who was a daughter of Robt. Morris of Phila, was 57 years old. Children. Thomas, Daniel, Ann Maria, and Morris.