Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2521, Lemuel Cross, New York

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New York
Cross, Lemuel
R.2521

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September 8 1779
Truman Beeman

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[?] of Lemuel Cross five Dollars __ which is in full for the [?] of [?] [?] Polaskie [illegible] -
March 6th 1798 Peter Curtis
[?] Peter Curtis

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Lemuel Cross was born March 10th 1762
Sarah Cross was born october 15th 1762
Caleb Cross was born july 8th 1783
Jonathan Cross was born February 5th 1785
Daniel Cross was born September 20 1786
Susanna Cross was born October 28th 1788
Seth Cross was born November 5th 1790
Nathaniel Cross was born December th 9 1792
Nancy Cross was born December th12 1794
Charlotte Cross was born february th5 1797
Lawry Cross was born february th 1 1800
John Cross was born June th 21 1802
Lucy Cross was born December th 4 1804
Lemuel Cross was born May th 11 1807
Sally Cross was born August [illegible]

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for value Received & Due promise to pay unto Lemuel Cross on the bairrer the full sum of four dollars on demand as witness my hand
February the 13 1805
William Havilano
Jonathan Cross

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John Cross was born July 30 1830
Nancy Eliza Cross was born August 23 1833
Jacob William Cross was born June 23 1838

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Deaths
Caleb Cross died October 1815
Johethan [Jonathan] Cross died Dec 7 1813
Sara Cross died No 15 1836
Charlott Basset died Oct 9 1838
Lemuel Cross died July 3 1839

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Feb 11th 1827 deed of Lemuel Cross thirty two dollars

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State of New York}
County of Albany} ss Samuel Dyer of said county being duly sworn, deposes & says that he is fifty six years of age, that he has for thirty five years, & ever since this deponent was a young ^[insert] man and before he was of age, he has been personally acquainted with Lemuel Cross of said county who has quite recently made application for a pension, that at the time of this deponents first acquaintance he learned that the said Lemuel Cross has been a revolutionary soldier, that he bore that character in the neighborhood, that his general reputation was that , of having been a revolutionary soldier, that during the late war in 1812 to 1815 the said Lemuel Cross was tasked upon as having discharged his duty to his country in the Revolutionary struggle, that he was then an [?] man
Subscribed & sworn before me this 31st day of July 1846}
Samuel Dyer [signature]
Lewis Reynolds Justice of the peace 
I certify that the above named Samuel Dyer is a respectable person
Lewis Reynolds

State of New York}
County of Albany} ss Botsford Lake of said county aged fifty two years, being duly sworn deposes & says that for thirty five years, & before the late war, he was personally acquainted with Lemuel Cross of said county who has recently applied for a pension, that at this deponents first acquaintance and during the late war of 1812 to 1815 he had at all times understood & believed that the said Lemuel Cross had served in the war of the Revolution, and that the general understanding & general & universal reputation of the said Lemuel Cross at that time was that he had served in the Revolutionary war, that he had been a Revolutionary soldier, had thus served his country
Botsford Lake [signature]
Subscribed & sworn before me this 31st day of July 1846
Lewis Reynolds Justice of the peace 
I certify that the above named Botsford Lake is a respectable person
Lewis Reynolds

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State of New York}
County of Albany} ss Seth Cross of said county aged fifty five years, deposes & says, that Lemuel Cross who has this summer made application for a pension is this deponents father, that this deponent has at all times from his first recollection learned from his said father, that he had served in the war of the Revolution, that the subject of his said fathers Revolutionary Services often came up when this deponent was a lad, that it made a deep & lasting impression upon his mind, that this deponent has from a child heard & believed, that his said father the said Lemuel Cross had served a long time in the war of the Revolution, that his said father had the general reputation of having served in the war of the Revolution, of the fact this deponent has no doubt
Sworn & subscribed before me this 31st day of July 1846
Seth Cross [signature]
Lewis Reynolds [signature] Justice of the peace

I Certify that the above name Seth Cross is a highly respectable person
Lewis Reynolds [signature]
State of New York}
County of Albany} ss Anthony Dewett of said County aged sixty two years being duly sworn deposes and says that for forty five years and before the late war he was personally acquainted with Lemuel Cross of said county who has recently applied for a pension, that at this deponents first acquaintance and during the late war of 1812 & 1815 he had at all times understood & believed that the said Lemuel Cross had served in the war of the revolution and that the general understanding & general & universal reputation of the said Lemuel Cross at that time was that he had served in the Revolutionary war, that he has been a revolutionary soldier had there served his country
Subscribed & sworn before me this 31st day of July 1846
Anthony Dewett [signature]
Lewis Reynolds [signature]
Justice of the peace in the County of Albany
I certify that the above named Anthony Dewett is a respectable man
Lewis Reynolds

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State of New York}
Albany County} I William Mix Clerk of the said county do hereby certify that Lewis Reynolds whose name is subscribed to the jurats to the foregoing affidavits and the certificates of credibility was on the day of the dates of said jurats a Justice of the Peace in and for said county and that his name subscribed to said jurats and certificates are his proper hand writing & signatures ~
Given under my hand and seal of the said county this 13st day of July 1846
William Mix [signature] Clerk

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Lemuel Cross
History

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No 5
Lemuel Cross was born in the year 1762 in Connecticut moved into N York State when very young in the town of Lower Salem. He entered the service as a volunteer in spring of the year 1778 under Capt Lockwood he thinks Col Crane he then served about one year as a minute man was on the lines much of the time & held himself in readiness on every alarm - he lived near the enemies lines & alarms were frequent often staid [sic] out four weeks at a time was out when the enemy burnt Bedford & fought them he thinks Deliverance Plauson was with him at that time in that year was called out to fight the enemy near [illegible crossed out] White Plains Mr Cross also thinks it was in 1778 or 1779 when Enlisted under Capt Williams Col Thomas served under them ['six' crossed out] three months or more was out all the time was stationed at North Castle near Bedford He thinks he volunteered in the year 1779 under Capt Boughton Col Crane served under Capt Boughton one year or more as a minute man was out most of the time he thinks Deliverance Plauson was with him in the service was often on the lines was at North Castle part of the time - He thinks it was in the year 1780 when he served as a volunteer under Capt Stevens Col Crane was stationed then at Crumford now called Greenwich thinks he was under him three months or more was out all the time -- In the year 1781 he stood as a volunteer under ^[insert] Capt Schofield thinks he was under him one year or more was out to gard [sic] the lines much of the time = Mr Cross says that in the year 1780 or 81 he served one year or more as a night Gard [sic] to gard [sic] Lower Salem & Pound Ridge he distincly [sic] recollects he was then under Lieutenant Ebenezer Avery he cannot ['then' crossed out] ^[insert] certainly tell his Capt name but thinks it was [illegible crossed out] Boughton Col Crane 
Mr Cross is very old & his memory has failed he was certainly long enough ^[insert] in the service to entitle him to a pension any circumstances brought up to his mind often assists his recollection when his officers are named to him he recollects well of having served under them, but the time is very difficult for him to remember - he thinks he has got the right officers named & he thinks he has the right years but will not be certain = he will not be sure as to the time he served under each - but the statements are to the best of his recollection

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'Acts of July 14, 1802, and March 8, 1878' [crossed out]
2321
Samuel Cross
REJECTED [ink stamped]

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No 37.294
Lemuel Cross. N.Y. [underlined]
Letter to Hon. B.R. Wood
June 23. 1846.
Let to Arad Joy Nov 2:46
Act 7th June 1832

No 37294
Lemuel Cross
NY 2521
Let to Hon B R Wood June 23 '46
" " A Joy Nv. 2 46
" " [?] S. S. Ellsworth
December 5. 1846
to Arad Joy Jany 18th 1847
Act 7 June 1832

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Botsford Lake
Dec 1 46
Wrote you Dec 6

Paid 5
Joy Esqr
Ovid
[?] Co
N.Y.

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No 3
[illegible] Nov 29. 1845
Dear sir as I [illegible] with your letter I [illegible] under Capt Williams [illegible] stationed at North Castle and served there under him over [illegible] months year 1777 I [illegible] served at [illegible] I served under Capt [illegible] Lockwood in 1778 at Greenwich I served in [illegible] 1779 under Lieutenant Bouton Col Thaddeus Crane 
I served under Capt Stephens in 1780
I served under Capt Daniel Bouton in 1781
Thaddeus Crane the col I served under Capt Ruben Schofield 1781 in Greenwich
This is Lemuel Cross
Statement

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No. 37294
Lemuel Cross -
N.Y.
Act. 7. June '32

Act 7th June 1832
Lemuel Cross [written upside down]

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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of 7th June 1832
State of New York}
County of Albany} ss On this [blank] day of [blank] 1846 personally appeared Lemuel Cross of said county in open court, aged eighty four years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth in his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 - That he enlisted in the Army of the United in the war of the Revolution from Lower Salem Westchester County New York, in the Spring of 1778 under Capt Lockwood, served as a minute man & was on the lines guarding & preventing depredations, was at Beford in the battle there when it was burned, he was at  White Manes, was under Capt Williams, was stationed at North Castle three months, near Bedford Connecticut & was out under Capt Scofield, was often stationed in Connecticut & was under officers from that State, that in 1779 he was out under Capt Boughton, & Col Crane three months and in 1780 he was out under Capt Benjamin Stevenson two or three months and in the fall of 1781 he was out under Capt Daniel Boughton, Col Crane three or four months, that he did service in monthly tours, & in three, six & nine month tours, that he served in all at least three years, that having served upon the enemies Lines & in Connecticut & in New York & under so many officers, he has thought it at least doubtful as to being able to find service or to prove service & not having been in the standing army he has been discouraged from making an attempt to get a pension & not being able to induce the expense and many others who did short tours of service & others longer terms in the militia having applied & failed to get a pension he has never before made an attempts, but being poor & needy & unable to labour or support himself, although with one foot all but in the grave, he concludes to make his application
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or any annuity, excepting the present and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State
Sworn & subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Lemuel Cross [signature]
And the said court do herby declair [sic] their opinion that the above named applicants Lemuel Cross is a respectable person & that he was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states
William Mix Clerk
I William Mix Clerk of the Court of Albany County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the applicant or application of Lemuel Cross - and that the said Lemuel Cross signed his name in open court In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 9th day of June 1846
William Mix Clerk
Albany County

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State of New York}
County of Albany} ss Ira Lockwood of said County aged Seventy four years, being duly sworn according to law, deposes & says that he was acquainted with Lemuel Cross who is applying for a pension during the war of the revolution, that the said Lemuel Cross was a resident of Pound ridge or Salem Westchester County New York, that he did serve as a soldier in the war of the Revolution to have heard Lemuel Cross having served in the war of the Revolution that he has the general reputation of having served in the war of the revolution at that time, & before the deponent has full confidence to believe that the present applicant Lemuel Cross having served in the war of the revolution under that name & that he knew of no other of the name that did serve
Ira Lockwood [signature]
Sworn & subscribed before me this 20th day of April 1846}
Lewis Reynolds
Justice of the peace in the County of Albany
I certify that the above named Ira Lockwood is a respectable person 
Lewis Reynolds

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State of New York}
County of Albany} ss Jared Reynolds of said county aged Seventy Seven years after being duly sworn deposes & says that he has from a boy been personally acquainted with Lemuel Cross who is applying for a pension, that the said Lemuel Cross was a resident of Pound ridge, or other wise called Salem Westchester county during the war of the revolution, that this deponent from his first recollection, well remembers the said Lemuel Cross & of his having the name & reputation of having been a soldier in the Revolution, that this deponent knew of no other Lemuel Cross & that he fully believes that the present applicant for a pension the said Lemuel Cross did serve in the war of the Revolution, that he did perform the service under that name and that the said Lemuel Cross is eight years older than this deponent
Subscribed & sworn before me this 20th day of April 1846}
Jared Reynolds [signature]
Lewis Reynolds Justice of the peace in the County of Albany
I certify that the above named Jared Reynolds is a respectable person 
Lewis Reynolds

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State of New York}
Albany County} ss Betsy Lockwood of said County aged about seventy years being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says, that she has for more than sixty years been personally acquainted with Lemuel Cross who is applying for a pension, that this deponent knew the said Cross in pound Ridge, or Salem, Westchester County, more than sixty years since, that the said Lemuel Cross was a resident of that place at the time and during the war of the revolution, that this deponent well recollects that at the time or about the close of the war of the revolution that the said Lemuel Cross had the reputation of having been a soldier in the war of the revolution, that this deponent knew of no other Lemuel Cross, and that she feels a confidence that this present applicant, Lemuel Cross did perform the revolutionary service in his name
Subscribed and sworn this 3rd day of June 1846 before me Lewis Reynolds}
Justice of the peace in the County of Albany}
Betsy Lockwood [signature]
I certify that the above named Betsy Lockwood is a respectable person 
Lewis Reynolds

State of New=York}
City and county of Albany, Clerk's office,} ss.
I, William Mix, Clerk of the said City and County, do hereby certify, that Lewis Reynolds whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of Proof or Acknowledgment of the annexed instrument in writing and endorsed thereon, was at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgement, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, dwelling in the said County, and duly authorized to take the same: And that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the Justice and verify believe that the signature to the said Certificate of Proof or Acknowledgment is genuine. 
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my official seal, this Ninth day of June 1846.
William Mix Clerk.

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Botsford Lake
South Westerloo
Albany Co
N.Y.
July 21.45
Lemuel Cross

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Mr Arad Joy
Ovid; Seneca County
State of N.Y.
[?]; haste

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No 1
Mr Joy as I have come a Crost [sic] your paper I take my opportunity to write to you Concerning a pension as I should be glad to apply to you for assistance the old pensioner Lemuel Cross says he Listed for six weeks and his servace [sic] was nearly two year and he lived on the line during the war in the county of westchester and I want you should serch [sic] your reccord [sic] and to do your part find Lemuel Crosses [sic] name there served under Capt Williams & Colonel Thomas the Evidence to prove this is in Mishegan [sic] at Ann Arbor the mans name in which we Shall apply to for evidance [sic] his name is Deliverance Masson Now if you think that you can git [sic] any thing I wish you would write to me as soon as you can
Botsford Lake}
July st21 1845 South Westerlo County of Albany, State, of, New, York
South Westerloo, Albany 60

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Botsford Lake
Nov 17.45

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Paid
Arad Joy Esqr
Ovid
Seneca Co
S Westerlo
Nov 11

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No 2
Nov 17 '45
Mr Arad Joy
I listed under Capt Williams his given name I have forgot I dont now wheres [sic] he lived he was a stranger to me I was stationed at north Castle I then from there I went to the white plains So on to wards [sic]  N. York we went in Scout/ing parties watching the lines and I went from place to place Where I was unacquainted I Cant name the places I Wood [would] guard a nights from time to time for five year I was Stationed ['to keep the brittish from' crossed out] at Green pond a long time to keep the brittish [sic] from comeing [sic] up Croton river I served under Capt isaac [sic] Lockwood in about the year 1778 I suppose I can not say Whether it was at greenwich I was un acquain/ted [sic] with the places I think that Capt Schfields [sic] given name was rubin [sic] I was in the service about 1781 Daniel Boughtin the Capt of the millitia [sic] and he Caled [sic] us and from time to time I was Caled [sic] out by Capt William Fancher a great many times I was on the Lines when bedford bernt [sic] ['by the the' crossed out] by the brittish [sic] This is the Statement of Lemuel Cross he is a old man and hes forgot a most all of his former [illegible]
Mr Botsford Lake

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In pursuance of a law passed the 27th of April, 1784, entitled "An act for the settlement of the pay of the Levies and Militia, for their services in the late War, and for other purposes therein mentioned," the following certificates have been issued, bearing interest at five per cent. per annum, viz:
|31st Augt 1779.|
|16th Dec. 1780.|
|15th Nov 1781.|

|Lemuel Cross priv|
|Do Do|
|Do Do|

|[British pound] 5|7|0
|3|4|0
|7|11|8 [underlined]
|16|2|8
2 [underlined]
40.30 [underlined]
20.15

STATE OF NEW-YORK,
Comptroller's Office, Albany, 16th July 1846.}
I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No. 4 & 8. ___ now remaining in this office, and that the service for which the certificates above named were issued, were performed under the following officers, viz:
First-under Capt. Lt. Dan'l Bouton in Col. Thaddeus Crane Regt.
Second "Capt. Benj'n Stevenson " " Levies "
Third " " Dan'l Bouton " " Thaddeus Crane "

Philip Phelps
Dep Compt

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Col Edward

Dear Sir

The enclosed with the accompanying papers & letter to me will speak for themselves.

[illegible] with your [illegible]

B. R. Wood

Representive Hall
15 Jun 1846

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Ovid Augt 8th 46

My Dear Sir
Dont be allarmed [sic], I do not intend to tax you often, or much more with my communications, but I do respectfully beg leave to ask you to please enclose the enclosed lot of papers to the Com. of Pensions, asking a report made to you, which please enclose to me= I hope I shall have the pleasure of seeing you this Summer, if not in Ovid, I may come to Penn Yan
Your friend & Obt. Servt
Arad Joy

Hon S. S. Ellsworth
M.C
Penn Yan 10 Nov 1846
Hon JL Edwards
Comm Pensions
[illegible] I enclose the papers of Lemuel Cross relating to his application
Your [?]
S.S. Ellsworth

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Botsford Lake
Dec 22. 45

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No 4
South Westerlo Dec 29 1845
Dear Sir
I have recd yours of the 6 you ask Where Capt Stephens belonged he belonged in loer [sic] salum [sic] NY I served under him at North Cassel [sic] & I served under him in this same year 1780 at greenwich I have found a little more survis [sic] I dont no [sic] [illegible crossed out] weth [sic] it amounts to one thing Mr Cross says that he stod [sic] gard [sic] for 6 or 8 monts [sic] With the rest of Cap dannel [Daniel] Boutons company Lieutenant  Ebenezer avery was apointed [sic] Capt of this gard [sic] & this gard [sic] was to gard [sic] to towns Loer [sic] Salum [sic] & pound ridge to keep the British and torys from plundering the town & caring [carrying] off the united Sates [United States] property you ask the names of 2 or 3 [illegible] of the town of Westirlo [sic] Co albany a brother in law to mr Cross age 76 there Julia slauson the wife of deliverance Slauson the writing that I have you before She is a sister to Mr Cross he is age 76 She lives in misegen [Michigan] at an arber [Ann Arbor]
Mr Arad Joy
Respectfully
Botsford Lake
Susanna Reynolds Greenville 81

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Ovid N.Y. Oct 17.46
Sir
On the 8th Augt I forwarded to Hon S.S. Ellsworth to be enclosed to you some proof in the case of Lemuel Cross of New York, under same of 32
may I ask what disposition has been made of the proof in that case
Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
Arad Joy

Hon J L Edwards
Coms of Pensions
Washington 
DC

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Ovid N.Y. Dec 17th '46
Sir
In reply to yours of the 5th in the case of Lemuel Cross, I conclude to enclose 5 letters that I add in his case, I do not find in any of them, but one person named as supposed to be now living that he judges served with him, & that is Deliverance Slauson & he may be dead, as I have not heard a word from him
From all that I know of the case, I consider it a most richeous [sic] case, still I may be deceived & sure I am, I wish no pension, if there is not one honestly due - I do not believe the old man can comply with the requisition of yours of the 5th, and if the enclosed letters, together with the proof now in your hand, does not establish his claim, as just, dont grant the pension, but if it is not granted upon present proofs it must probably be abandoned - one word more, wont a certificate of the Compr of Ct, of the Service of the officers, under whom Cross alledges [sic] to have served, be required, & if furnished, accepted, or will you suggest the [?] proof that would be acceptable
Your Obt Serv
Arad Joy