Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10,505, Enoch Crosby, Conn. Ney York

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[Form] (3-1776)

Conn.
New York
Crosby, Enoch     Number S.10505
Carded

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Died June 26, 1835  (AB) [left side of page, handwritten]

[Note:  This handwritten death date contradicts what his daughter attested to in Rhoda Crosby's application]


20.712 [right side of page, handwritten]
New York
Enoch Crosby
Putnam CO in the State of New York
Who was a Seargent in the comp. commanded by Captain Benedict of the Reg. commanded by Col. Waterbury in the [illegible] line for 1 [illegible]

Continental Army
Oct . 30 [illegible)
[handwriting illegible]

Inscribed on the Roll of N. York [handwritten] at the rate of 100 [handwritten] dollars cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 [handwritten] day of 
Sep 1833 [handwritten] and [illegible] Morehouse Clk Putnam Co.
Arrears to the 4th of Sep [Illegible] $250 [handwritten]
Semi-ant. Allowance ending [illegible] 50
$300
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June June 7, 1832.
Recorded by [Illegible] Clerk.
Book E Vol H [4?] Page 93

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State of New York
County of Putnam
On this 15th day of October in the year 1832 personally appeared before the Court of Oyer Terminer and general jail delivery of the said county of Putnam Enoch Crosby of the Town of Southeast in the County of Putnam and State of New York aged eighty two years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed June 7, 1832. That he entered in the service of the United Staes under the following named officers and served as herein stated – that in the month of April or in forepart of May 1775 he enlisted in the town of Danbury in the state of Connecticut into Captn Noble Benedict Company in Colonel Waterbury’s regiment of troops to defend the Country for eight months service. The Regiment [met with?] Greenwich in Connecticut staid there two or three weeks then went to New York under General Wooster staid in New York a few weeks the regiment was then carried to Albany in sloops & went directly to Half moon was there a few days went then to Ticonderoga and staid there a few days to have the [batteans? illegible] finished which were to convey them further, General Schuler had the command to the Isle and [Nor? Illegible] where Genl. Schulre being unwell General Montgomery had the command the declarant [?] went to St. John’s which being [illegible insert] at time besieged by the Americans in about five weeks surrendered & the fort was taken the declarant then went to Montreal that he came from there with Colonel Waterburys regiment to Albany and having served the eighth months was [illegible] place (Albany) was permitted to leave the regiment and return home & that he has no written discharge and this declarant further says that in the latter part of the month of August in the year 1776 he enlisted into the regiment commanded by Col. Swarthaut [spelling?] in Fredericksburgh now Carmel in the County of Putnam…and started to join the army at Kingsbridge the company had left Fredericksburgh before declarant started & he started alone after his said intestment [?] & on his way at a [place?] in Westchester County about two miles from Pines bridge [illegible]

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fill in company with a stranger who accosted the deponent & pushed him if he was going down, declarent [illegible] he was; the stranger then asked if declarent was not afraid to venture alone, & said these were my rebels below & he would meet with difficulty in getting down. The declarent perceived from the observation of the strangers that he supposed the declarent intended to go to the British & willing to encourage that misapprehension & turn it to the best advantage. He asked of these was any made which he the stranger could point out by which the declarent could get through safely, the stranger after being satisfied that declarent was wishing to join the British Army. Told him that there was a company raising in the vicinity to join the British Army. that it was nearly complete & in a few days would be ready to go down & I that declarent had better join that company & go down with them. The stranger finally gave to the declarent his name, it was Bunker, & told the declarent [illegible] the house in which he lived and also told him that Fowler was to be the captain of the company their raising and having learned this much from Bunker the declarent told him that he was unwilling to wait until the company could be ready to march & would try to get through alone & parted from him on his way down. & continued until night when he stopped at the house of a man who was called Esquire Young. & put up there for this night in the course of conversation with Esquire Young in this evening declarent learned that he was a member of the committee of safety for the county of Westchester & then communicated to him the information he had obtained from Mr. Bunker. Esq. Young requested the declarent to accompany him the next morning to the White Plains in Westchester County as the committee of safety for this county were on that day to meet at the court house in that [illegible]  The next morning the declarent in company with Esq Young went to the White Plains & found the committee there sitting after Esq Young had had an interview with the com

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[from scan of last line of another page] sitting after esq Young had had an interview with the com


-mittee, the declarent was sent for and went before the committee, then sitting in the court rooms. & there communicated the information he had obtained from Bunker. The committee after learning this situation of declarent, that he was a soldier enlisted in Col Swartwauts (Swarthout) regiment on his way to join it engaged to write to the Col & explain the reason why he did not join it if he would. consent to aid in the apprehension of the company then raising. it was by all thought [illegible]. that he should not join the regiment lest should act in a different character as he would thus be more useful to his country. He was accordingly announced to Capt Townsend who then was at the White Plains commanding a company of rangers - as a prisoner. & Captain was directed to keep him until further orders. In the evening after he was place as a prisoner under Capt Townsend, he made an excuse to go out & was accompanied by a soldier. His excuse  led him over a fence into a hive of coon thus nearly or quite full gardens, as soon as he was out of sight of the soldier, he made the best of his way from the soldier. & when the soldier hailed him to return he was almost beyond hearing, al alarm gun was fired but declarent was far from danger. In the course of the night the declarent reached the house of said Bunker. who got up & hid him in. declarent then related  to Bunker the circumstances of his having been taken prisoner - of his going before the committee at the court house. of being put under the charge of Capt Townsend & of his escape. that he had concluded to avail himself of the solutions of the company raising in his neighborhood to get down. The next morning Bunker went with declarent & interviewed him as a good loyalist to several of the  company. declarent remained some days with different individuals of the company & until it was about to go [illegible], when declarent went one night to the house of Esq Young to give information of the state and progress of the company the distance was four or five miles from Bunkers at the house

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of Esq Young. declarent found Capt Townsend with a great post of his company & offer giving the information he returned to the neighborhood of Bunchens. & that night with declarent with a great part of the company which was performing. to go

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a [illegible] signed by the committee which is now last, and a[illegible] to go to the house of Nicholar Brower near the mouth of Washingen Creek who would take him across the river.  and then to travel to the house of John Rupell about ten miles from the river & make such enquiries & discoveries as he could. He [illegible] according to his directions to said Browers, from there to John Rupell, I then hired himself to said Rupell to work for him for no definite time. This was a neighborhood of loyalists & it was expected that a company was there raising for the British army The delcarent remained about ten days in Rupells employment & during that time ascertained that a company was there recruiting but was not completed. Before declarent left Fishkill on this service a time was fixed for him to cross the river & give formation to some one of the committee who was to meet him, this time having around and the company not leaving completed. The declarent recrossed the river & met Jeremiah Platt one of the committee, I gave him all the information I had then obtained. Declarent was directed to cross the river to the neighborhood of Rupell, & on a time then fixed, again to meet the committee on the cont side of the river, declarent returned to Rupells neighborhood, soon become intimate with the Loyalists, was introducted to Capt Robinson said to be an English officer & was to command the company his serving. Capt Robinson occupied a cave in the mountains & deponent having agreed to go with the company was invited & accepted of the the invitation to lodge with the company was  the cave they slept together nearly a week in the cave. The time for the company to start having been fixed [illegible] designated half severns. To [illegible] whee they were to stop the first night. This time for starting having arrived before the appointed time to meet the committee on the cont side of the river. The declarent in order to get an opportunity to convey information to Fishkill, recommended that each man should the night before he started sleep, where he chose & that each should be by himself for they

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should be discussed that night together all would be taken which would be avoided if they were separated. this [illegible], and when they separated declarant not having time to go to Fishkill, and as th only and as it appeared to him this but means of giving the information, was to go to a all [illegible]. who was a stranger to declarent & all he knows of him was that the Tories. called him a weeked rebel & saw that he ought to die, delcarent went & found Piercly informed him of the situation of affairs of the time the company was to start & the place at which they were to stop the first night & requested him to go to Fishkill & give the information to the committee. Piercly [illegible] the declarent that the information should [illegible]. Declarent returned to Rupells & lodged in his woods. The following evening the company assembled consisting of about thirty men & started from Rupells house. Which was in the lawn of Marlborough [illegible] for New York & [illegible] of the night arrived at Bush Carrichs. I went into the boon was surrounded by American troops. The whole company including Capt Robinson were made prisoners. The troops who took the company prisoner were commanded by Capt Melanston Smith, who commanded a company of rangers at Fishkill his company crossed the river to perform this service. Col Buer was with Capt Smith's company on this [illegible]. The prisoners including the declarent were marched to Fishkill & confined in the stone church in which there was near two hundred prisoners, after remaining one night in the church the committee sent for declarent & told him it was unsafe for him to remain with the prisoners, as the [illegible] of the course he had hurried walled house fated to him & [illegible] him to have the village of Fishkill but to remain where they could call upon him if his services should be wanted. 
Declarent went to the house of a Dutchman a farmer whose name is forgotten about five miles from the Village of Fishkill & there went to work at making shoes.  After declarent had made

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arrangements for working at [illegible]. He informed M Sacket one of the committee where he could be found if he should be wanted. In about a week declarent - a letter from the committee requesting him to [illegible] some one of the committee at the house of Doct Osborn about one mile from Fishkill [illegible] to the repent went to the house of Doct Osborn soon after John Jay committee, enquired for the doctor - who was absent, en [illegible] but none that he [illegible]. He came out of the house & went to his horse near which declarent stood & as he hoped he said in a last [illegible] it won't do. There are too many around. Return to your work. [illegible] went back & went to work at [illegible] but within a day or two was again notified. & a horse sent to him requiring him to go to Bennington in Vermont. [illegible] winterty to a place called Maloonocack. & there call on one Malyard Wilcox, a tory of much notariety & [illegible] if any thing was going on there injuries to the American court. Declarent followed his instructions. Found Wilcox but [illegible] not [illegible] that any [illegible] was there projected against the interest of the country at that house. but [illegible] from Wilcox a list of persons friendly to the British cause who could be safely trusted, from that place [illegible] to the south port of Dutchess County, declarent followed the directions of said Wilcox and called on the different individuals by him mentioned but could discover nothing of importance until he reached the town of Pawling, in Dutchess County where he called upon a Doctor whose name he thinks was Professor Tinfoomid [?} him that he wished to go below, but was fearful of some trouble. The Doctor  informed him that there was a company raising in that vicinity to go to New York to join the British Army. That the Captains name was Sheldon that he has been down & got a compion, that he proper was doctoring the Lieutenant, whose name was Chase. that of declarent would [illegible] a few days. He could safely go [illegible] with that company. that he could stay about the neighborhood & should be informed when

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the company was ready. That declarent remained in that [illegible].  He was acquainted with several of the persons who were going with that company, was acquainted with the Lieut Chase. but never saw the Captain to form an acquaintance with him. The season had got so far advanced that the company was about to start to join the enemy to be ready an early commencement of the campaign in 1777. It was about the cusp of February of that year. When a place was fixed and also a time for meeting. I was at a house situated half a mile from the raid & about three miles from a house & annexed by Col Morehouse a militia colonel after the time was fixed for the marching of Capt Sheldon's company The deponent went in the night to Col Morehouse & informed him of the situation of the company of the time appointed for meeting of the [illegible] & and Morehouse informed declarent that they should be attended to. The declarent remained about one month in the neighborhood. I once in the time met W Sackitt one of the Committee at Col Ludingtons & apprised him of what was there going on. and was to have given the committee intelligence when the company was to march but the short trip of its time between the final arrangement & the time of starting was that declarent was obliged to give the information to Col Morehouse.
The company consisting of about thirty met at the time there appointed and after they had been there an hour or two young men of the company came in [illegible] there was a gathering under arms at Old Morehouses, the [illegible] general. What could it mean. was there any traitors in the company. The Capt soon called one or two of the company out the door for the purpose of private conversations about the situation. [illegible] declarent heard the cry of stand. stand. Those out its door but were soon met by a company coming from a different direction. they were to have the house surrounded & the company all made prisoners.  The  Col then ordered them to be tied together, two & two, they came

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to declarent the [illegible] to acquainted from going as he was [illegible]   you shall go dead or alive & if in no other way you shall be carried on the horse with me, the rest were marched off & [illegible] hill onto the horse with Col Ellonehause, all went to the house of Col Morehouse. and when the prisoners were marched into the house the declarent with the [illegible] of Morehouse left them & made it [illegible] of his way to Col Ludingtons & there informed him of the operations of the night. We reached Col Ludingtons about daylight in its morning, from thence he went to Fishkill to the house of Leut Van Wyck where John Jay boarded & there informed him of all the occurances and that northern expeditions. said Jay requested the declarent to come before the committee the next night when they want to be ready to  [illegible] him he accordingly went before the committee where he detected there was no more [illegible] at that time in which [illegible] wished to [illegible] declarent. & he being somewhat [illegible] sure that a longer continuance in that employment wanted be [illegible]. & the time for which he enlisted in Col Swarthouts regiment having [illegible] he came home with the approbations of the committee. This was about the last of May 1777. and in the course of the fall after. The delcarent served Col Swortwout at his houe in Fishkill & then over the subject of this employment of the declarent by the committee. [illegible] the deponent that he had drawn his pay same as if he had been with the regiment. That the paymaster of the regiment lived in the Town of [illegible] in Ulster County. Deponent when to the paymaster and for his pay for nine months services or for the [illegible] the for which the regiment was [illegible]. The deponent was employed in the since services for a period of a full nine months
This deponent further says that in the year 1779 in the month of May he enlisted into a company commanded by Capt Jonah Follett for six months. deponent enlisted as a sergeant 

[written up the left margin]
The committee then directed him to go to the house of Col Van [illegible] in Albany County [illegible] from him

Not done

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in said Malletts Company. The term of enlistment was performed on the lines in the county of Westchester moving from [illegible] to guard the country. I detect tories, that the company continued in this service until after Stony Point was when by Gen Wayne & abandoned & also [illegible] & abandoned the English troops.  When this company was ordered over the river & joined the regiment at Stony Point I continued there in making preparation for building a black house  until that time of the [illegible] of the service when the company was ordered to march to [Poughkeepsie?] [illegible] by the Governor. when they served the Governor was absent. The company was billeted [illegible] when the family of [illegible] after remaining a day or two and the governor not arriving, they where discharged. [illegible] this service Westchester county the following occurrence took place  a [illegible] vesel of war lay at anchor near Lillens Haunt & a forty of sailors or marines came on shore & wandered [illegible] from the water when a party of our men got [illegible] & the river & made them prisoners. They were marched to the place where the company then lay a little east of Lillens haunt, the number of prisoners declarent thinks was twelve & [illegible] six. The prisoners were afterwards sent to Poughkeepsie.
This deponent further says that in the month of May in the year 1780 he again enlisted for six months in a company commanded by Capt Livingston in Regiment. He enlisted as a sergeant. in the town of Fredericksburgh now of town of kent in Dutchess County. The organized & assembed at Fishkill & marched to West haunt & remained there a few days some time or fifteen. A call was made for troops to fall in with Brigade or brigades under the command of Gen de La Fayette, and they were to be raised by drafts or volunteers, a call was made for volunteers  the delcarent with others volunteered & made a company which was put under the charge of Capt Daniel Delavan, this

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declarant continued to be a sergeant in Delavan's company Col Philip Van Cortland commanded the regiment  in which Captain Delavans company was attached, soon after the company was formed they crossed the river from West Point & marched to Fishkill where they remained one night. The next day marched to to Verplants Point & crossed over to Stoney Point & from there made the rest of their way to New Jersey where they remained until late in the fall when the time of allotment having expired they were discharged. After having fully & faithfully performed the services of six months for which his intended. During this campaign in N Jersey Major Andre was arrested, condemned & executed, several of the soldiers of Capt Delavan's company went to see him executed. This deponent was sergeant of the guard that day & could not go to see it's execution. 
The declarent further that he has no documentary evidence of his service. and that he knows of no person who can certify to his services other than those whose declarations are hereto annexed.

The declarent hereby relinquishes every [illegible] whatever to a pension or annuity except the [illegible] & declares that his name is not on the pension roll agency of any state
The declarent was born in a house called Horwich in the County of Barnstable and State of Massachusetts in the year one thousand seven hundred & fifty.
The declarent was living in the town of Danbury in the state of Connecticut when he enlisted into the service. That since the revolutionary war the declarant has resided in the State of New York in what is now the county where he has lived for the last fifty years. The declarent always volunteered in every enlistment & to perform all the services which he performed as detailed in this declaration

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That the deponent was acquainted with the following officers who were with the troops when he served. General Schuyler, Gen Montgomery, General Woods. Col Waterbury Col Holmes, Gen de La Fayette, Gen [?] Van Borlton [?], Col Benehaute Col Ludington
The deponent never received any written discharge. If he were occurred a Sergeants warrant it is through time & [illegible] lost or destroyed.
This deponent is [illegible] to Samuel Washburn a Judge of Court of Common Pleas of the County of Putnam. Benaiah Morse a clergyman in his neighborhood and who he believes can testify to his character for verity & whatever this belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution.

[signed] Enoch Crosby

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
J Morehouse Clerk of the Court


We Benaiah Y Morse a clergyman in the town of Carmel & pastor in which the above name Enoch Crosby is a communicant, and Samuel Washburn a Judge of Putnam County Court of Common pleas also residing in Carmel do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Enoch Crosby who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be eighty two years of age, that he is reputed & believed in this neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. 

[signed] Benaiah Y. Morse

Sworn to & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid. J. Morehouse Clerk of said court

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Putnam County  I Timothy Wood of the Town of Philipstown in the county of Putnam being duly sworn doth depose and say that in the year 1780, this deponent was in the service of the United States at West Point as a soldier, that whilst he was there he became [illegible] under General De La Fayette & some volunteered & others were ordered to join a company which was then organized & hut under the command of Captain Daniel Delavan, the deponent was one of the persons ordered into that company, after etc that company was organized they roped the river and marched to Pehohill [?] & then to Ver Planks point were they crossed the river to Stony Point from where they paraded to New Jersey, & [illegible] the campaign there. Enoch Crosby who has signed the annexed declarations was a member of said company. He was a sergeant in the company from the time it was organized until I was discharged late in the fall or in the winter, they were marched to [illegible] to be discharged. This deponent knew the said Crosby during the campaign & now known him to be the same person who whas a sergeant in Delavans company as aforesaid, that the services under Delavan was at least six months deponent things were seven months before they were discharged as to before.  

[signed] Timothy Wood

Sworn & subscribed this 12th day
of October 1832 before me 
Stephen Pinchnez a Justice of the Peace in the county of Putnam

Putnam County Clerk's office I do hereby certify that Stephen Pinkney before whom the foregong affidavit appears to have been taken was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in said county & duly authorized to administer oaths. That I believe the signature "Stephen Pinkney" is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my & affixed the seal of the County October 15, 1832  J Morehouse Clerk of said county.

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State of New York
Putnam County
I Jabez Berry of the town of Kent in the county of Putnam & State of New York being duly sworn doth depose & say that he enlisted into a company under the command of Capt James Rosencranz in the month of May 1775. for the southern campaign the regiment to which he was attached was commanded by Col James Holman. He enlisted in the town of Fishkill in Dutchess County. Soon after his [illegible] the company paraded to march to Albany & whilst at Albany he heard that Enoch Crosby said of South East & who has signed the annexed declaration was in the same company in Waterburys regiment. From that time until the surrender of the Fort at St Johns he repeatedly heard of [illegible] about him with his companies, but did not at anytime see him, during that campaign, he was acquainted with the said Crosby from early infancy & since the revolution - has lived within a few miles of him & always known him.
And this deponent further says that in the year 1776 this deponent was a sergeant in Capt William Clarks company of Rangers. Which was stationed at Fishkill in Dutchess County. The State convention was then the setting there.  That this deponent was the sergeant of the guard  the said Enoch Crosby was brought there as a prisoner with many other persons. He was put under guard in a hatter's shop, that  was said to belong to the widow Bloodgaad. Deponent can not tell how he [illegible] that afterwards in the same year whilst the deponent was in said company as a sergeant the said Enoch Crosby was again brought there as a prisoner & was again put under guard & in the stone church, he was soon after released & [illegible]   but how he [illegible] tell as this [illegible] also a number of prisoners

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were brought with the said Crosby thus into the church with him.
This deponent was seventy five years of age in const as he has always understood.  Sees it was recorded in the family bible.

[signed] Jabez
Sworn & submitted on the day & year aforesaid
Morehouse Clerk of said court

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State of New York
Putnam County  on [illegible] second day of September 1832 personally appeared before the undersigned Justice of the Peace in and foresaid county. Daniel Crawford of the town of Thompson in the county of Sullivan in said state aged seventy two years who being first duly sworn according to law coth on his [illegible] that this deponent [illegible] in a company of volunteers commanded by Capt Jonah Hallett on or about the first of June 1779 for a term of service and this deponent believes for six months at least and that Enoch Crosby now of the town of South East in said county of Putnam & state aforesaid also enlisted in said company that the said Crosby is now [illegible] that this deponent knows him to be the said Enoch Crosby aforesaid that this deponent [illegible] said Crosby served in said company for said enlistment along the line in Westchester County in the state till some time in the fall say in October and were there taken over the river to Stoney Point & there joined a regiment the Colonel was not there while deponent was there, the regiment was there employed to build a block house the major commandant was one Busehonton The deponent knows that the said Crosby served in said company until the deponent was taken prisoner by the British which was in November or late in the fall of 1779. The place where the deponent & Crosby enlisted was in Fredericksburgh Dutchess County State of New York now Carmel. Putnam County said State of New York and the deponent further states on his oath aforesaid that the said Crosby served the whole of the time he was with the said company as orderly Sergeant of said company.

[signed] Daniel Crawford 

Sworn & subscribed before me
September 22 1832
Jonathan Morehouse
Justice of the Peace

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State of New York
Putnam County Clerks office  I Jonathan Morehouse clerk of said county of Putnam do hereby certify that Jonathan Morehouse before whom this foregoing affidavit was taken was at the time of taking said affidavit a Justice of the Peace in and fore said county duly commissioned and sworn & duly authorized to administer oaths and further that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said further know that the signature of Jonathan Morehouse is genuine.

A testimony whereof I have here unto at my hand and affixed the seal of the said county this 22nd day of September 1832.  Morehouse.

And the said [illegible] do hereby certify & [illegible] interrogations

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No 14511
Enoch Crosby
Putnam County
New York

16.16.
Admitted 
Sergeant 12 mo
Private 12 mo

Jon Morehouse
Putnam Co N.Y. 

MAy 8 [illegible]

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[form] 
In the case of Enoch Crosby of Putnam Co in the State of N. York
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3. How old is he?  82

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period  /               Duration of Service  /Rank / Names of General & Field Officers under whom he served
                                             

Enlisted in 1775             8 months      Private  
Enlisted 1776 last of Augt 9 months
Enlisted 1779 May          6 months    Sergeant
Enlisted 1780 May          6 months     Sergeant

Schylis Montgomry/Capt Roth Benedict/Capt Waterbury Rept/Col Swarthout/Capt Jonah Hallitt,/ Capt Liverston/ Gen Lafayette/Capt Daniel [illegible] Col Philip van [illegible]

5. In what battles was he engaged?  None

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Town of Danty State of Conn
2 times in Fredericksburg now Carmel Putnam Co.

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[typewritten letter]

January 21, 1936

Lieutenant D. Crosby Lamoreaux
Post Office Box 431
Paw Paw, Michigan

ENOCH CROSBY
S. 10505
BA-J/MLB

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary war record of Enoch Crosby who served from New York during the Hudson River Campaign as a spy behind the British lines. 

You are furnished below the record of Enoch Crosby as found in the papers on file in pension claim, S. 10505, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.

Enoch Crosby was born in 1750 in Harwich, Barnstable County Massachusetts; the names of his parents are not given.

While residing in Danbury, Connecticut, he volunteered in April or May, 1775, served as a private in Captain Noble Benedict's company, Colonel Waterbury's Connecticut regiment, was at the siege of Saint John's and was discharged after having served eight months. He volunteered in the latter part of August, 1776, in Fredericksburgh which was later Carmel, in Putnam County, New York, served in Colonel Swartwout's New York regiment, engaged in spying behind the British lines, and rendered very valuable service to the American army, and was discharged about the last of May, 1777. He volunteered in May, 1779, served as a sergeant in Captain Jonah Hallett's New York company on the lines in Westchester County, New York, guarding the country and spying against the Tories; during this tour he assisted in capturing twelve sailors or marines who went ashore from a British vessel of war which lay at anchor near Teller's Point and who were carried to Poughkeepsie, length of this tour six months. He volunteered in May, 1780, at Fredericksburgh, New York as sergeant in Captain Livingston's company, Colonel Benschoten's New York regiment, was detached from his company and placed in Captain Daniel Delavan's company, Colonel Philip Van Cortland's New York regiment, and was discharged after having served six months.

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After the Revolutionary War the soldier resided in the part of Dutchess County which was later Putnam County, New York.

Enoch Crosby was allowed pension on his application executed October 15, 1832, at which time he was living in the Town of South East, in Putnam County, New York. He died June 26, 1835.

There are no family data shown in the claim.

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator

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Rev War 10505

INVALID.

File No. 10,505

Eoch Crosby
Serg Rev War

Act:  June 7" 1832

Index: - Vol A, Page 82

{Arranged of 1870.}

1916 July 28 12 pages, photostat
copies of declaration furnished
Miss Grace M. Pierce, Columbia
Apt. Wash D.C. See receipt
for payment in this claim.
1924 May 20 Copies mailed to
Mr. A.J. Wall, N.Y. Historical
Society, 170 Central Park W. N.Y.C.
1929 May 22 Photos to Lewis S.
Burchard & Fin. Div ntfd ADy
1930 Jan 16 hermaine Mo Dowell
aso. no further data than furnished 
N.Y. Hist. So MM
1936 Jan 21 Hist to D. Crosby Lamoreaux MLB

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State of New York, Putnam County Clerks Office  - 
I Jonathan Morehouse, Clerk of the County of Putnam do hereby certify that Stephen Pinkney before whom the annexed affidavit of Timothy Wood purports to have been taken, was at the time of the taking thereof & also at the time of giving the annexed certificate of credibility of the said Timothy Wood, a Justice of the peace in foresaid county duly commpioned. And that I am acquainted with his hand do verily believe his signature to said affidavit is to the said certificate to be genuine.
And I do further certify that I am the Jonathan Morehouse before whom the annexed affidavit of Jabez Berry & Daniel Crawford were taken, that I have also signed the annexed certificate of the credibility of the said Jabez Berry & Daniel Crawford, that at the time of taking the said affidavit & at the time of signing the said certificate of credibility I was a Justice of the Peace in for the county of Putnam duly commpioned & sworn.
And I do further certify that the other papers hereto annexed are the original papers upon which the application of the said Enoch Crosby for a pension was founded, and upon which the opinion of the said court was given 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed my said office as clerk of the county of Putnam this 4th day of June -1833

J Morehouse

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State of New York
Putnam County ss I Stephen Pinkney one of the Justices of the Peace in for the County of Putnam, before whom the affidavit of Timothy Wood was taken in the matter of the application of Enoch Crosby for a pension, and which affidavit with other hapens are hereto annexed. do hereby certify that the said Timothy Wood is a credible witness. Dated June 3 - 1833

[signed} Stephen Pinkney Justice of the Peace


State of New York
Putnam County ss I Jonathan Morehouse one of the Justices of the peache in for the County of Putnam, before whom the affidavit of Jabez Berry and the affidavit of Daniel Crawford were taken, in the matter of the application of Enoch Crosby for a pension, and which affidavits with other hapens are hereto annexed. Do hereby certify that the said Jabez Berry and Daniel Crawford are credible witnesses. Dated June 3rd, 1833.

[signed] Jonathan Morehouse

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[page cut off]
14511
Enoch Crosby Pension

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I Jonathan Morehouse Clerk of the court of Ayer & Termine & sail delivery do hereby certify that the foregoing contain the original proceedings in the matter of application of Enoch Crosby for a pension.

In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand & seal of the said office this 16th day of October AD 1832.

[signed] J Morehouse

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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Enoch Crosby which require further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?  Yes

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?  Yes

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?  Yes

V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amout of pension he is entitled?  yes 

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? Yes

VII.  Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?  Yes

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?  Yes

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?  Yes

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?  Yes

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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?  Yes

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?  [blank]

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?  [blank]

XIV. If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?  Yes
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? No
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? [blank]

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?  Yes

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?  No

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?  Yes

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[Regulations]

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Enoch Crosby   S.File 10.505
This man was the original of Harry Birch  in [….] spy.
See lassing Vol 1page 690 detailed account in this [….] of his service from Aug 1776 to May 1777 as a spy for the Committee of Safety at Fishkill

VLM  Oct 24,1905

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Rev & 1812

[form] 1-681   PHONE Branch 476

SUBMIT IN DUPLICATE.

All inquiries regarding this job should refer to Requisition No. 32255
Requisition for Dulicating, Addressopgraph. Photostat, and Blue Print Work.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
WASHINGTON
CHIEF, Division of Publications,   May 14, 1929.
Room G 137.
Please furnish work specified below.
Bureau ordering Pension Deliver to Room No 5033

(ALL COPY FOR DUPLICATING WORK SHOULD BE PLAIN AND WRITTEN IN ELITE TYPE. EXACTLY LINE FOR LINE AS IT IS TO APPEAR ON FINISHED JOB.)

Title and description of job photostatic copies of 18 pages from Revolutionary War pension claim of Enoch Crosby, Ne York Troops, S. 10505.

No. of copies 1 of each  Shall form be kept standing? [blank] days
For further information see M.s.M.M..H. Finch  Room No. 5033 Phone No. 541

Approved: [signature] A.D. Wilkinson Chief Clerk of Bureau.  
[signature] Margaret M.H. Finch Chief of Branch

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[BLANK FORM]

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May 14, 1929.

cash $2.70
[stamp] Finance Division Bookkeeper's Desk May 15, 1929 Bureau of Pensions

Acting Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, 
D.C.

Sir:
Please furnish me photostatic copies of eighteen pages from Revolutionary War pension claim of Enoch Crosby, New York Troops,  S. 10505, uncertified.

Respectfully

Prof. Lewis Sayre Burchard
Care Messrs Kountze Brothers
141 Broadway
New York N.Y. 



Received payment
$2.70
May 14, 1929

Margaret M H. Finch
Rev.&1812 Wars Section.

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pages not selected by Prof. Burchard:
Jonathan Moorehouse's [illegible]
of June 4, 1833 in re: stephen Pinkney
& Timothy Wood & page of Stephen 
Pinkney & Jonathan Morehouse
dated June 3 - 1833
Cty jacket

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January 4, 1936

Veteran's Administration
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:

I am very desirous of obtaining information and facts concerning one - ENOCH CROSBY who served with General George Washington during the Hudson River Campaign in the capacity of spy behind the British lines.

I believe that Enoch Crosby lived in New York City at the time of the Revolution.

I also have been informed that Enoch Crosby's exploits while a spy behing the British lines were used as a basis for James Fenimore Cooper's story "The Spy:. Perhaps that information may aid you in location the records of the man in question.

Any information you may give me in this connection will be appreciated.

D. Crosby Lamorear
2d Lieut., 2d Infantry.

Post Office Box 431,
Paw Paw, Michigan.

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University of Minnesota
College of Science, Literature, and the Arts
Minneapolis

319 Folwell Hall
January 13, 1930

Department of English

Bureau of Revolutionary Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:

In preparing an article on the relation between Enoch Crosby, Revolutionary soldier in Westchester, and the fictional character, Harvey Birch, in James Fenimore Cooper's novel, The Spy, I have found much helpful information in the deposition made by Crosby on October 15, 1832, and now in your files. I am indebted to the New York Historical Society for a reproduction of their photostatic copy.

I now write to ask whether you have any information Enoch Crosby in the town of Southeast, Putnam County, New York, in addition to his deposition mentioned above and the affidavits which accompany it. For example, was he granted a pension?

Thanking you for any aid which you can give me, I am
Very Truly yours,

Tremaine McDowell
Associate Professor of English

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Mr. A. J. Wall.
New York Historical Society
170 Central Park West
New York City.

paid for photostat copies of 18 pages from Rev War pension claim of Enoch Crosby. S10505
received $2.70  May 12

AE Wilson

[stamp]  FINANCE DIVISION MAY 12 1924  BUREAU OF PENSIONS

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Request for Photostating
(To be prepared in duplicate)  M6  Ex. Aw

Subject Enoch Crosby S.10505. Rev.
1 copies of 2 pieces consisting of 18 pages to be forwarded when completed to the Rev. War Section Division.

Remarks:

Approved:

A.E. Wilson Chief Div. 

Chief Clerk:  [blank]

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M 233
BUREAU OF PENSIONS

Finance Division

May 12, 1924

Chief Rev Sect
I have this day received from A.J. Wall
Cash no.
for $2.70, requesting copy 

1924 May 20
Copies Mailed
A. Francie DW not AW
Rev. War Section

Respectfully,
C.J. Randall
Chief Finance Div.

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[Receipts]

Received of Miss Grace M Pierce
the columbia Apt
Washington DC
$3.75 for copies of 
papers of six
Rev War cases per 
attached data
RWB Law

July 25, 1916
[Stamp]
Chief's Desk
Bureau of Pensions

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Miss Grace M Pierce     July 25, 1916
The Columbia Apartment Washington DC
Wants photo copies of      Photos delivered to Miss Pierce in July 28, 1916

13 pages in Rev War claim Enoch Crosby, N.Y.S. 10505
2 pages in Rev war Isaac Barker R.I. R.21772
4 pages in Rev war John D Alvey Conn R3460
2 pages in Rev War Michael Seckler VA W 1941
2 pages in Rev War Samuel Lapsley VA W9149
2 pages in Rev War John Jaimson PA W21447

25
15
12.5
25
$3.75
she paid for neg and pos. photostat of each paper except in clas of Enoch Crosby

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January 16, 1930.

Tremaine McDowell,
319 Folwell Hall,
Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Dear Sir:

In response to your letter of January 13, 1930, I advise you that Enoch Crosby of Southeast Putnam County New York was allowed pension on his application executed October 15, 1832.

The New York Historical Society was furnished photostatic copies of all the papers in this claim for pension (S.10505) of which you state you have the reproduction, so this bureau has no other information.

Very truly yours,

Earl D. Church,
Commissioner.