Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 348, Samuel Craig, Penn.

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Service                                                                Number

Penn.                   Craig, Samuel                          W 348
                            Jane Innis                                B.L.Wt.411_300_Capt.
                                                                            Issued Nov. 4, 1789
                                                                            No Papers

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6.400 [underlined by hand]
Tennessee Jones [handwritten]
Janes Innis Craig [handwritten]
widow of Samuel, Craig [handwritten]
Capt [handwritten with ditto]
who served in the Revolutionary
Penn [handwritten]
war, as a Captain, [handwritten]
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 480---,  [handwritten] Dollars 00 [handwritten]
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension, issued the 4th [handwritten] day of November 1856 [handwritten] and sent to W. E. Jones,
Care of Judge Nicholson, Union Office, [handwritten, remainder illegible due to tear]
Recorded on Roll of Pen [torn]
February [illegible due to tear], 1848, Page [torn]

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May 10-1858 AB [handwritten]

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Declaration
State of Tennessee
Greene County

On this twelfth day of February 1844 (eighteen hundred and forty four) personally appeared in open court before the honorable Seth J. W. Luckey on of the circuit judges for the state of Tennessee Jane Innis Craig a citizen and resident in the county and state aforesaid, aged seventy four years who being first duly sworn accord to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obatain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July the 7th 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows.

That she is the widow of Samuel Craig who was a caption in the continental line of the 1st Pennsylvania Regiment of infantry in (1780) seventeen hundred and eighty and served as she believes to the end of the war
she further declares that the she was married to the said Samuel Craig on the     day of seventeen hundred +      That her husband the aforesaid Samuel Craig died at his residence in Greene County afresaid on the      day of July (1807) eighteen hundred and seven. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four, namely at the time stated, and that she has not been married since the death of her late husband Captain Samuel Craig. Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year [all handwritten]

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Above written in open Court before the honorable Seth J W Luckey and one of the Circuit judges of the State of Tennessee aforesaid
Jane Innis Craig (“X” marked)
Sworn to in Open Court
12th Feb 1844
Val Sevier
Clerk
Court of  Green County
State of Tennessee
Greene County

We the subscribers being personally acquainted with the late Samuel Craig (Captain) as also his widow Mrs Jane Innis Craig do certify on our o that’s that the said Capt Samuel Craig departed this life at his residence in Green County aforesaid on the day of July (1807) eighteen hundred and seven and we likewise further certify that we are well acquainted with his widow Mrs Jane Innis Craig the present applicant for a pension and know that she has never been married since the death of her late husband Capt Samuel Craig. Sworn to and subscribed in open Court this 12th day of February (1844) eighteen hundred and forty four.
Val Sevier Clk
Circuit Court Greene County

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Penn.
Craig, Samuel
Jane Innis Craig
W348
BL.Wt. H11 _300_Capt.
Issued Nov. 4, 1789
No papers

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District
County
of Columbia ⎬
Be it remembered that
of Washington on this the 24th day of
April A.D. 1852, before me the subscriber an act
justice of the Peace in and for said County person
ally appeared William Anderson a person well
known to her as one of strict truth & veracity
who being duly sworn deposes and says. That he
will be fifty eight years of age tomorrow, and
that in the year 1808 according to his last will ┃
his he entered Greenville College, in Green County
and State of Tennessee, man which place, about
a mile there from Mrs Jane Innis Cray resided with
her family, and being fifteen months of his Col
legiate course he boarded with the said Mrs
Craig. That during that time he always
understood from pray, that she was the

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1812. His wife always told him that she was born
the 4th day of April, and as
she supposes in 1795 and her mother always said that at the time of her marriage she was between 17 & 18. But owing to the [lofs?] of the Family Bible about the time of the sale which took place soon after
the Death of Capt Craig, & which family Bible
contained the record of her birth, she could not
give the year of her birth with certainly. I considered that my wife, was between seventeen & eighteen years old at the time of our marriage and that was the age, her mother said
she was - I am satisfied that their oldest child
was born in the year 1793 - [illegible] states
that he always understood that her husband
Capt Samuel Craig was a native of Pennsylvania, and that they were married in the State of South Carolina and as he thinks
in [illegible] District in said State - [illegible]
states that to the best of his knowledge [illegible]
Jane Innis Craig is still living, and he [page cut off on edge]satisfied from his intimate acquaintance
with his family, that Mrs Craig is the wid[page cut off] of Capt Craig and that they were married as early as the year 1792.
Sworn to & Subscribed
before me this 24th April 1852

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Being called upon in the matter of Mrs Jane
I Craig pension to make a statement as to
the time when they were married. I state
that I am the oldest child of my parents
Samuel Craig and the said Jane I Craig and to the last of my knowledge
and belief on the 3 day of December
last I was fifty two years old and
I have always understood from my mother and father that they were married four years
before they had any child or before I was born.
Sworn to in Open Court
19th Oct 1844
Mary Farnsworth
Mrs Sarah Mc[illegible] states that she
lived in South Carolina before Samuel
Craig and Jane I Craig his wife moved to
the State of [illegible]. That they then
lived and cohabited together as man
and wife and were so [illegible] there. She
knew them before their first child was
born. They then moved to the State of
[illegible]. She then remained the some
years and then moved to [illegible] and
has been here for forty years. I have
known them ever since I came to [illegible]. They have always been [illegible] and esteemed
so far as I ever heard or believed as husband
and wife.
Sworn to in open court.
19 Oct. 1840 
Sarah Mcdelland

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State of Tennessee
Greene County Circuit Court
October Term 1844.
His honor Seth J. W. Sucky, Judge presiding
"Mary Farnsworth and Sarah McDelland appeared in Court and were duly qualified to their respective affidavits relative to the marriage
of Samuel Craig and Jane I Craig preferatory to the obtaining a pension by the said
Jane J. Craig - with which testimony the Court is satisfied."

Valentine Sevier, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Greene County
certify that the above is truly copied from the record of the court. 
Witness my hand and seal of Office, at the
this 6th day of November 1844
[signature]
Evidence of Marriage

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                                                 Pension office
                                               Jany 7th 1845

I do certify this Mary Farnsworth and Sarah Mc Lelland are ladies of the finest respectability

                                       [ signed] A, Johnson 


M. Johnson is a member of the House of Reps }

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Mr. Donald V. Gnau
Phi Sigma Kappa
State College, Pennsylvania

November 17, 1938
BA-J/AWF
Samuel Craig
W. 348

Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which
you request the Revolutionary War record of
Samuel Craig of Greene County, Tennessee, a
pensioner.
The data furnished herein were obtained
from papers on file in pension claim, W. 348
based upon the service of Samuel Craig, in the
Revolutionary War.
Samuel Craig was a native of York County,
Pennsylvania, date of birth not given, nor are the
names of his parents stated. His father was a
resident of York County, Pennsylvania, during the
Revolutionary War.
While a resident of "near Yellow Breeches
Creek" in York County, Pennsylvania, Samuel Craig was commissioned January 16, 1777, Captain in Colonel Chambers' First Pennsylvania Regiment, was in the Siege of Yorktown, and served until the close of the war. It was stated that he was wounded on his face by a sword, and that he was one of Genereral Washington's Life Guard.
Shortly after the close of the Revolution,
Samuel Craig moved to South Carolina, and married between the years 1785 and 1790, in Chester District,

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South Carolina, Miss Jane Innis Burns, the daughter of John Burns of Chester District, South Carolina; the name of her mother is not given. It was stated that the family of " Burns" was formerly of Pennsylvania.

Samuel Craig died in the month of July, 1807
at his residence in Greene County, Tennessee.

The widow, Jane Innis Craig, was allowed
pension on her application executed February 12,1844, at which time she was aged seventy-four years, and living in Greene County, Tennessee, where she continued to live in 1848, 1852, and 1856. She died May 10, 1858.

Samuel Craig and his wife, Jane Innis Craig,
had eight children, the eldest four were daughters, and the youngest four were sons:

Polly or Mary, the eldest, was born December 3, 1791; she married about 1809 in Greene County, Tennessee, James Temple in 1844, she signed Mary Farnsworth, and was then of Greene County, Tennessee.

Eleanor, the second daughter, was born April 4, 1795, and married December 23, 1812, William Anderson; the said William Anderson stated on April 24, 1852 that he would be " fifty-eight years old tomorrow, he was then of Washington, D. C.

The papers on file in this claim contain no
further discernible data in regard to children.

John Purnell in 1856 aged about ninety-one years, and a resident of York County, Pennsylvania, stated that he was a relative of the widow, Jane Innis Craig; degree of relationship not given.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator

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                    CRAIG, SAMUEL
                        ( PA.)
                      w_ 348

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5949.
Tennessee
Jane Innis
widow of Samuel
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Captain
====
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of 480 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of July 1852 and sent to

J. Bryan
Present

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CRAIG SAMUEL
(PA)
W-348

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Hon P. Phillips Jany 30/56
W. E. Jones Oct. 28/56
5.949

[illegible]
Jane Innis Craig
widow of Samuel
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Captain
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
480 Dollars 00 cents per annum to commence
on the 4th day of March 1848.

[page broken]
July 
[illegible]
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 286 Vol. 3

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Brief in case of
Jane Innis Craig,
Widow of Samuel,
Act July 7th 1838.

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Pension Office,
November 1st 1856.

Brief in the case of Jane Innis Craig.

Claim to pension under the Act of July 7th 1838.

Declaration made 12th February, 1844, in Greene
County, Tennessee. Aged 74. Is the widow of
Samuel Craig, Captain, Continental Line, 1st Pennsylvania regiment of infantry, in 1780, and served as she believes, to the end of the war, was married prior to the 1st of January 1794.
Samuel Craig died in Greene County Tennessee, in July 1807; remains a widow.

Daniel Allen, E. Wilson, and Thomas Temple, were personally acquainted with Samuel
Craig (captain) and also with his widow Mrs.
Jane Innis Craig, that Samuel Craig died in
July 1807.

Samuel McKeown, of South Carolina, 1st
December, 1840. was well acquainted with Samuel

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2

Craig and his wife, Jane I. Craig; that they were
married in South Carolina, (Chester district) by
John Bell, between 1785 and 1790; he was at the wedding:; that Samuel Craig and his wife, Jane I. Craig removed to Kentucky or Tennessee some time between 1790 and 1800; had heard Samuel Craig say he served as one of General Washington's
Life Guard, and showed him a buff rest he wore in the service, and certain papers which, he thinks, were a discharge, Ye; recollects that Mrs. Mary McAllsley was present at the marriage

Mrs. Mary McAllsley 1st December, 1840:
swears she was; that it took place 1st day of
January some year between 1789 and 1792; were married by John Bell; heard Craig say he was in the Life Guard, and was present at Yorktown; had a discharge after the surrender of Cornwallis thinks Craig and
his wife, Jane I. moved to Tennessee about 1795; recollects that McKeown and Elizabeth McDane were at their marriage.

Mary Farnsworth, 19th October, 1844: Is the ┃
oldest child of Samuel and Jane I. Craig, believes

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she is 52, and has heard her parents say they were married four years before she was born.

Mrs. Sarah McClelland, 19th October, 1844:
Knew Samuel and Jane Craig in South Carolina,
and after they moved to Tennessee; they always
lived together; and were believed to be man and
wife.

Hon. A. Johnson, January 7th 1845. Certifies
to respectability of two last witnesses.

Mrs. Jane Innis Craig: Declaration 2nd
November, 1848, to obtain benefit of Act of 2nd February, 1848; refers to former proof.

It being known that a Samuel Craig of
the Pennsylvania Line, was a captain, as stated,
and supposing him to be her husband, she was pensioned under the Act of 7th July, 1838, at $480 per annum. 

Pearson and Hays, 1st March, 1848. Wrote
Hon. A. Johnson respecting Donation lot 163 for 500 acres; say it was sold by Samuel Craig and Rachel,

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his wife, 25th November 1794, to John Nicholson of Philadelphia. Pearson and Hays, in subsequent letter of May 29th 1848: Have examined the record of the decd from Samuel Blain and wife to John Nicholson and find that Rachael is the name of the wife; tract now referred to must be the one before alluded to ; is No. 163 for 500 acres, and no two of same quantity are numbered alike. Here they repeat the name of the wife Rachael but call Captain Samuel Craig Samuel Blain. John Laporte, 3 February 1848: Sends to C.J. Ingersoll the copy of survey No. 163 for 500 acres, marked on the back Captain Samuel Craig. It being found from these papers, that Captain Samuel Craig's wife's name was Rachael, the claim to pension of Jane Innis Craig, under act of February 2nd 1848 was discontinued. Claim renewed in 1852 and these additional papers filed by Judge Bryan. William Anderson (illegible clerk in illegible) about 58 years old on 24 April 1852, testifies that in 1808, he entered Greenville

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College, Greene County, Tennessee, near which place was living Mrs. Jane Innis Craig; boarded with her 15 months; always understood from her, that she was the wife of Captain Samuel Craig; he (Anderson) married Mrs. Craigs’ and daughter; says he always understood that Mrs. Jane Innis Craig’s husband, (Capt. Samuel Craig) was a native of Pennsylvania, and that they were married in South Carolina, and as he thinks, in Chester district. 
 
Mrs Jane Innis Craig, aged about 83: 26th March, 1852, in Tennessee, testifies (in order to get the benefit of the Act of February 2, 1848) that she is the widow of Samuel Craig, who was captain in the United States service in the Revolutionary War; is the same who applied for and got a pension under the Act of 1838, 3rd of March, 1843, and 17th June, 1844, was married in South Carolina.

William P. Sharp, the Justice of the Peace, certifies that he knows Mrs. Jane Innis Graig; that she is the widow of Captain. Samuel Craig, late of

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Said county, (Greene) who drew a pension, as she states; that she is a woman of veracity, and entitled to credit, (written below this paragraph were the initials: JC)

Mr. Secretary Stuart, says, 13th August, 1852 he has examined the papers, and is strongly impressed with the belief that the claim is unfounded and directs, therefore, that payment be suspended until further of the Department. Question: (abbreviated) How did it get before him, JC? Argu: Pension Cert submitted to him for signature.
     1st. Affidavit of David Morrow of Chester District, South Carolina, dated 25th September, 1856, aged 82 years: resides now where he was born; has lived there all his life; was an early day well acquainted with Capt. Samuel Craig, late of said district, first acquaintance was shortly after the close of the war, when he came to South Carolina from Pennsylvania; that he was called Capt. Craig; understood he commanded a company in the Revolutionary War, in Pennsylvania; had a scar in his face, which Craig informed him was from a sword while in the

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Service; that some time after he came to South Carolina, he was married to Miss Jane Burns, of Chester district, as he understood; was not at the wedding; soon after the marriage, he recollects Capt. Craig and his wife went to Pennsylvania, on a visit to his relatives, as he understood at the time; that they returned, and then moved West; does not know whether to Kentucky or Tennessee; can’t give date of marriage or removal, but is certain the marriage was before January 1, 1794, and that the removal was few years thereafter, Craig was understood as having been a captain in the Revolutionary War, from Pennsylvania.
     Mrs. Margaret Kennedy, of Chester district, South Carolina, aged 75, testifies 25th September, 1856 that she was well acquainted with Capt. Samuel Craig ate of that district, who intermarried with Jane Innis Burns, of same district, as she has been informed became acquainted with Capt. Craig in 1802; her husband’s first wife and Mrs. Jane I. Craig were relations; has always understood Capt. Craig served in the Revolutionary War from Pennsylvania

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often heard him speak of his service as a Captain in the Pennsylvania Line, [ineligible].
John Kennedy of Chester District, South Carolina, aged 81, on 24th September, 1856, testifies that he became acquainted with Capt. Samuel Craig, in South Carolina, about 1792 or 1793; that about that time, he married Jane Innis Burns, of that district; he understood Craig came from Pennsylvania; that he understood from him that he was engaged in
the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War, from Pennsylvania, and that he was under General Washington, and one of his Life Guard; and that he often related personal events of the Revolutionary War, which he names; kind of capt[ain]
effect of sun on face consequent upon shape, [illegible]; that
some years after his marriage, Craig, as he understood moved to Greene County Tennessee, and there died many years ago.
George S. Sherman, of York County, Pennsylvania, aged 73. On 2d October, 1856, testifies that he was well acquainted with the Craig family of that county; they frequently stopped at his father's house;

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9 that one of said Craigs, he recollects, was called Captain, who, he understood, had been a captain in the Revolutionary War. He also knew a family of Innisses who lived in said county at a very early date, some of whom, he thinks, still reside there. John Purnell of York County, Pennsylvania aged about 91 years, on 2d October, 1856, testifies that he is a pensioner of the United States; that he was well acquainted with various officers who were engaged in said service, from this State; ([illegible]: Why was "in the Revolutionary War" stricken out of affidavit?) that he was well acquainted with Capt. Samuel Craig, who commanded a company in the 1st Pennsylvania regiment, and served, as he thinks, to the close of the War; Craig was a native of York county, and after the War, he went to South Carolina, then a single man; this was prior to 1790. Some years afterwards, he returned on a visit, accompanied by a wife, who, he said, he married in South Carolina; that he called her Jane Innis, formerly Burns. He knows said Craig to be the identical Samuel Craig who was a captain of the 1st Pennsylvania regiment;

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that he is not certain as to the particular date when
said Craig returned to York with his wife from South Carolina,
but thinks it was in 1793 or 1794; that during this visit, Craig was several times at affiants house, and he distinctly recollects that Craig was making efforts to recover his bounty land due him
for his Revolutionary services, and went several times to Lancaster or Harrisburg, to see about it; that when he returned, he informed affiant he had lost it by some means; that some one had cheated him out of it, but particularly how, he does not now recollect. Says that in 1795 or 1796, said Craig made a second visit to York county, and was still in pursuit of his land, as he stated to affiant, had been located in Cumberland County, as well as he recollects; that Craig spoke about going to see about
the land, but does not know whether he did so or not. This was the last time he ever saw Craig; understood that he died many years ago. J.C. Calhoun, Secretary of State, says 12th June 1844; there is evidence in the Department, that on 16th January 1777, General Washington granted a commission

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As a captain in the 1st Pennsylvania regiment, to Samuel Craig,  but that there is no list of the officers of the Life Guard among the Washington Papers.
     The third Auditor certifies, 11th March, 1848, that Captain Samuel Craig has received his commutation - final settlement certificates therefor, amounting to $2,060, were issued 13th July 1784.
     A Captain Samuel Craig is shown to have served in the Revolutionary War from 1777 to the close, or to have become  supernumerary, the present claimant, Mrs. Jane Innis Craig, of Tennessee, has pretty clearly shown that she is the widow of that Capt. Samuel Craig.  The only doubt of the fact originates from the execution of the deed to John Nicholson, for the 500 acres of land supposed to be that set apart for said Craig.  The parties to that deed are said, in one letter, to be Samuel Craig and (underlined) Rachael (instead of Jane Innis) his wife; in another Samuel Blain, and Rachael, his wife. These are merely unauthenticated letters, and manifestly not prepared with care.  They do not rank as (underlined) evidence.  
     If the clearing up of that discrepancy should show

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That that tract was set apart for Samuel Blain, all doubt will be removed.

(At the end of the above sentence another person started to write and it is extremely difficult to read due to both poor penmanship and the lightness of the words.)

The evidence filed by the parties since the foregoing statement was prepared, show not for 163 for 500 acres in his 2nd Donation district acres (underlined) set apart for Capt. Samuel Craig.   The deed for it was signed by Samuel Craig and Rachael, his wife.   (Initials are unclear) is shown (not legible word) Mr. Nicholson’s purchases were all impeached as fraudulent and that they (3 words too light to make out) papers in 1839) underwent scrutiny the (word not legible) in some incidences, and are settled by compromise. But independent of this consideration, I cannot (not legible) his testimony and now can. Said named times and her connection that she satisfied (too small and faint to read) laws and Nicholson found of the ——-real Capt Samuel Craig. 

(At this point I cannot make out several sentences. Writer shows a hurry to complete, and with the age of the letter, and faintness of ink, I could not decipher what he was ending the letter with. Possibly another more experienced archivist may be able to help with it.)
The end of this letter was with The initials GCW

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South Carolina
Chester district }
On this 25th day of September A.D. 1856 personally appeared before the undersigned and acting justice of the peace in and for said district Mrs. Margaret Kennedy, a resident of said district aged seventy five years and made oath in duly form of law that she was well acquainted with Captain Samuel Craig late of said district who intermarried with Jane Innis Burns of said district (as she was informed) some years before her acquaintance with him - that her first acquaintance with Capt. Craig was in the year 1802 - that he then had moved from this district to Greene County, Tennessee - and the officiant first acquaintance was here and a visit - that officiant’s husband’s first wife and Mrs. Jane I. Craig were relations - that officiant’s frequently heard Mr. Craig and 2nd wife spoken of by her husband the late George Kennedy and Mr. Craig’s relations - that officiant’s not always understood that Capt. Craig was a procurement while in the Revolutionary War and that he was a captain in the United States service from Pennsylvania, that he was so reputed and

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recognized in this community at that date and never heard it disputed that affiant often heard Capt. S. Craig speak of his said service in the United States Army as a captain of the Pennsylvania line. that he came to South Carolina shortly after the close of the Revolutionary war that he was a highly respectable man & looked to be of about forty or forty five years of age. that affiant was well acquainted John Burns the father of Miss Jane Innis Craig & that he died in this district many years ago. that Capt. Craig as affiant heard also died many years ago in Green County Tennessee & that his widow was living at the last accounts. that affiant is in no wise interested in the claim that this deposition is taken to support- Sworn to & signed before me the Sept 25 1856- Giles J. Patterson Margaret Kennedy Magistrate South Carolina S. Giles J. Patterson Chester district an acting justice of the peace in & for the said district do hereby testify that Miss Margaret Kennedy is well known to me & that her

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she is a woman of veracity & her declaration is deserving of full faith & credit & that I have no interest whatever in the claim. This deposition is taken to support Sept. 25 - 1856
Giles J Patterson
Magistrate

The State of South Carolina
Chester District
I Wm. H Anderson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas & General xxx for Chester District do hereby certify that Giles J. Patterson Esq. whose name appears officially to the foregoing affidavits & certificate, is now and was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said district and complies and qualifies that the signatures there to pertaining to be his are xxx

In testimony whereof I have unto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court at Chester Circuit decree this twenty fifth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight-hundred and fifty-six. and in the xxx. In xxx of the United States of American, this eight first
Wm. H Anderson 
xxx

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Surveyor Generals Office of Pennsylvania
Harrisburg November 1 1856

I do herby certify that on yesterday in answering a telegraphic dispatch of Wm E. Jones I confounded the names of Samuel Craig and Samuel Blair.  that the names are both on the same page and follow each other in the Donation Book but it appears that Samuel Craig drew Lot No 163 of 500 acres in the 2 Donation Dist or rather that said Lot No. 163 was Donated to him, and that Samuel Blair drew a Lot of 300 acres in the 2 Donation District No. 89.  And I do further state that many of the Books, reports and papers relative to the Nicholson Lands at one time in the [illegible] of the Nicholson Commissioners are not now found amongst the papers, delivered to the Surveyor General.  The acts of assembly in relation to the Estate of John Nicholson, authorizing the appointment of Commissioners and the establishment of the Nicholson Court was to report all the lands to which John Nicholson had any claim at the time the State Lien took effect.  the court to investigate and pass upon such lien or title as may have been in John Nicholsons dc 
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and the sine of the Surveyor Generals Office of Pennsylvania at Harrisburg the 1 day of November 1856
Hon J Porter Brawley SG
Tho J Rehrer

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In the matter of the application of Jane Innis Craig to be _ to the pension _.
This party was pensioned at rate of $480 per annum under act of July 7, 1838, as the widow of Daniel Craig, an alleged captain in the revolutionary war. Her claim was admitted when the evidence then adduced (papers marked A.) it being known that a man of her husband's name was a captain in the Pennsylvaina line to the close of the war--and it being assumed that she was his widow. A mere glance at these papers will show that the allowance was made upon evidence altogether insufficient to identify her husband with the Pennsylvania service. The office, consequentially, upon re-examination of the case, refused to continue her allowance under act of January 2, 1848, and upon investigation it was found that the land (Lot. N. 163) donated by the state of Pennsylvania to Samuel Craig, the captain in the Pennsylvania line was sold in 1794 to John Nicholson by Samuel Craig--his wife Rachel (Mrs. Jane Innis) joining in the conveyance (papers marked 13.) In 1852 this case was again urged, and additioned.

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dence filed in its support; (see paper marked C) but the proof was not deemed material to the real print in issue, and the claim was again suspended by [underlined] by an order of the Secretary of the Interior dated August 13, 1852 (paper marked "D")
The attorneys of the claimant, however, now adduce new and material evidence (paper marked "E") consisting of various affidavits:
That of David Morrow (numbered 1) and John Kennedy (2) show that the husband or claimant was reported at home was removed from Pennsylvania at the time he settled in South Carolina which was shortly after the close of the revolution - the affidavit numbered 3 is indefinite that of John Purnell, however, (numbered 4) is becoming of special attention.  If his memory and veracity may be relied upon, there could be no doubt (in the absence of the difficulty as to the parties to the sale of the land) that this claimant should be restored - But it will be observed that the Appliant states that Samuel Craig (claimants husband) returned twice (in 1793 and 96) to Pennsylvania from South Carolina (in a with his wife, Jane) and in both instances was engaged in investigating the very subject of his land claim upon the State of Pennsylvania for his revolutionary services.  It is at all probable, supposing him to have been the Captain in the Pennsylvania line

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am that another person had fraudulently, in his name, obtained his quota of land, that the error would not have been corrected, or at the least, another tract been given him and there is no evidence that he ever received other lands, although had he really been the Captain in the Penna line, there could have been no difficultly whatever in procuring it at so early a date.
There in, nevertheless, one feature in this case, which the papers in their present condition, do not explain, but which it is presumed that authority at Harrisburg might.  I find no reference to it in the action of the office, and the [illegible] in connection withi it is not on file - It is this:  you will observe among papers marked "B" a letter (numbered 2) in which it is stated: "We have again examined the record of the dec'd from Samuel Blain and wife to John Nicholson,  am [illegible] that Rachel is the name given to the wife in the dec - the deed is for lot no. 163 of 500 acres - now this is the same lot, which the other evidence shows was conveyed by Saml Craig and his wife Rachel to the same John Nicholson this may be a mens mistake as the name, or another certificate from the proper officer may rid the case of all difficulty.  Perhaps claimants husband got other land - if so, and it can be shown that lot no 163 was donated to Samuel Blain, it would probably remove all objection to the admission of

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this claim. If the husband of this claimant was not the Captain Craig who served in the Pennsylvania line, we have no evidence of his service in the revolutionary war. It is alleged in the proof originally filed that he belonged to "Washingtons' Guard" It will be seen by the certificate of the Secretary of State (paper marked [Illegible]) that there are no lists of the officers of the Life Guards remaining - Paper marked [Illegible] shows that Captain Craig of the Pennsylvania line received commutation, which is [Illegible] proof that he either served until the close of the war, or became supernumerary. This, it will be perceived, is inconsistent with the evidence filed in the original application under act of July 7 1838, as claimants husband is therein alleged to have been discharged after the battle at Yorktown [Oct 1781]
Of course, I am of opinion that the claim ought not to admitted upon the present proof Respectfully submitted Robt Geddes P.S. Is the claimant still living?
Saml Cole Esq Chief Clerk Pension Office

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Brief in case of Jane Innis Craig, wife of Samuel, 
county and state of [?], act 2 Feb 1848.
claim, ("original" or " for increase.")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls?    If either, state the substance.
She has been pensioned under '38    '43+ 44- 
how continues and 
2. Feb '48.
( if for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?

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                       Argument V
                        Fundse Nicholson

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Argument of Judge Nicholson,

I have examined your note to Mr. Jones
in regard to the application of Mrs. Jane Innis
Craig to be restered [restored] to the list of pensioners for services of her deceased husband, Saml. Craig, and respectfully ask your attention to a few suggestions which seem to me to be sufficient to remove all doubt as to the validity of her claim.
It is not now controverted that the husband
of the applicant was the Capt. Saml. Craig who perfermed [performed] the revolutiary [revolutionary] services which entitled his widow to the pension claimed by Mrs. Jane Innis Craig. Nor is it controverted that the applicant is the widow of Capt. Saml Craig and hence that she comes within the law law which secures to her a pension. These two facts are established by a chain of evidence which amounts to absolute demonstration and from them the validity of her claim is a necessary de- [deduction]

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duction [deduction]
But it seems that Capt. Saml. Craig, under the
laws, was entitled to a tract of land.
In his service as well as pecuniary compensation, and that a specific lot was designated and set apart by the proper authirtes [authories] for him. It is found now that this specific tract of land has been conveyed by one Saml Craig and his wife Rachel to one John Nicholson. This discovery, it is said, raises a doubt whether the Saml. Craig who executed the deed (in conjunction with his wife Rachel) was the Capt. Saml. Craig who actually performed the revolutionary services, and [illegible] Saml. Craig whose widow is the present
applicant is but in fact an imposter and counsquelty [consequently] this widow a fraudulent claimant. With all due deference I submit that the conclusin [conclusion] proof in the case as to the identity of Capt. Saml. Craig whose widow by the name of Jane Innis is the claimant with the Capt. Saml Craig who performed

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the resulting services under it ipossible to entertain a doubt as to the character of the discovery [? unreadable] about the deed. Is not the proof clear, definitely circulated, positive, which proves absolute conviction on the mind that the applicant is the widow of the genuine entity [? unreadable] Capt. Saml. Craig? 

To doubt on this point is to impeach one of the best proved chains of proof ever made out. On the other hand - the discovery [? unreadable] that a Saml Craig with his wife Rachel did carry the specific lot of land set apart for Capt. Saml. Craig, does not raise even a presuption [presumption] that he was the genuine party entitled to the land. 

All we know is that a man named Saml. Craig in the City of New York executed with his wife Rachel a deed to the land to a John Nichilon [Nicholson?], but did that Saml. Craig perform [? difficult to read] military services? Did he make any proof of his title except the fact that he happened to name the right name? Is there any proof except what appears on the deed that the

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Saml. Craid and his wife Rachel whose names are to the deed are not fictitious personages? Is the isolated fact that somebody who assumes to be Saml. Craig here [?] deeded away land that belonged to a Saml. Craig who had earned it by his services to throw doubt over the pensive [?] claim of an applicant who proves that her husband was the Saml. Craig who was provided for by law?

It cannot fail to occur as strange that Saml Craig and his wife Rachel should go to New York to execute a deed to land in Penylin [Pennsylvania?] and to a deeder who lived in Penylien [Pennsylvania?]. 

If the present application here [?] for the land in question could there run [?] for doubt that Mr. Jenn [?] Irvin [?] Craig and not Mrs. Rachel Craig is the true claimant? But in an application for a preuncing [pronouncing? can't read] pension which application is sustained by proof conceded to be sufficient, how can the probability [? unreadable] that the

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husband of the claimant has been cheated out of his land be made to operate as an obstacle to her encafe [escape? illegible]?

But if this view of the case is not conclusive it is a historical fact that John Nicholson was guilty of a series of frauds, upon writing land-owner in Pennsylvania which at once erases [?] all room for doubt. 

It is a part of the legislative history of Pennsylvania that John Nicholson's frauds were so extensive that a special tribunal was established for their investigation and that the frauds were fully established and the lands restored in all the cases, where the claimants came forward to assert their rights. 

Capt. Saml. Craig was in the few [?] best - probably ignorant of the whole preceding [?] - made the application over [?] his land as [?] appropriated by Penylva [Pennsylvania] for the satisfaction of [illegible] certification as a public office. 

Is not the presumption irresistable that the Saml Craig who made to him the deed was either a [illegible] or a fraudulent Sal. Craig?

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Washington City April 1844.
I herewith present the declaration of Mrs. Jane
Innis Craig, asking for a pension, which you will please examine and report on at your earliest convenience'
I am Sir,
Very Respectfully,
your Obt. Srvt.

W. Blackwell
J??. L. Edwards Esq. 
Comm. of Pensions

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HARRISBURG OCT. XXXIST . WM. E. JONES. WASHIN.  SAMUEL CRAIG.

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CAPTAIN. NO. ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY THREE. FIVE HUNDRED ACRES

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Sir,
Some time since I had the honor to present you the papers of Mrs. ---- Craig, widow of Capt. Craig--- given names not recollected.  Please report on it as early as possible, as the parties concurred are veru urgent and inpatient to har the decision of the case.
Respectfully yours,
J W Blackwell 

Hon. L Edwards Esq.
Comm of Pensions

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James S. Edwards Esqu 
Pension Commision 
D. Columbia
Jane S. Craig,
Term [?]

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Greenville, Ten
June 18, 1845
D. Sir
Mrs. Jane Innis Craig the widow of Capt. Samuel Craig late of the revolutionary  and who is entitled to benefits of pension under the several laws for the beneifts of widow  Requests me to write to you and enquires of you as to the amount of pension s  he is now entitled to. She has drawn ----- dollars but it seems to  have  been upon separate and detached laws. She is informed by some body that she is still entitled to a pension or arrearage of pension upon some general or special law 
let me know how the old lady's special case laws. Thanks
 If not too much trouble, I would thanks you to send me dockument no ...., which contains all the pension cases. V. V. 
I am frequently pestered by my neighbours who who want information on this subject.  I am not able to give it; and am frequently confused to [illegible ] the department and yours particularly 
Your compliance will

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[unknown] offers your old friend
                                    [signed]  Mr. D. Arnold.

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Mar 28, 46
James Craig 
WWy
Hon. J.L. Edwards
Comm.Pensions
Wash.D.C.

J.B. Wingam
HR

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Washington March 28, 1846

Sir:
I have request of you a copy of the {papery} in the case of Mrs. Samual Craig (widow of the late Grant Craig) who was a captain in the Revolutionary War.  In order to make application to the Legislature of Pennsylvania, for a pension from that State.  
Signed: {illegible }

Hanford Edwards
{ illegible }

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Harrisburg February 3 1848
 Hon. C J Ingersoll

Dear Sir
 Your note of this 31st  warrant  in reference to his donation land which Capt. Samuel Carig was entitled to; in refernce  to our books we  find that Capt. Craig Trust was among  the first drawn.  I herewith send you a copy of the Lunnery on file in his office, I am not certain, but I think the tract has been Patented, the endorsement of March 10th on the back of the [illegible] I am told by his old clerk in his office is an indication.  A hier  [illegible] Patenter.  The Master of Rolls officer was a fee office and by his Laws the old Soldiers were uncomplete from paying fees and consequently their patents  were not rescinded until they request it and can [illegible] for it. 
Col. Cram who has been long in their office informs me that many of the old Soldiers neglected their [illegible ] and never looking about them and they were eventfully sold for Taxes. 
John R Sherman respectable Lawyer of Beaver County wants a good man to employ
to look after the 
Respecftfully yours obt. Sevt.
John Laporte

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BEAVER, PA
FEB. 12

Honorable A. Johnson

Member of the House of Representatives in the Congress of the United States.  Washington City

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Beaver, Penn. Feb. 10, 1868

Honorable A. Johnson

Dear Sir:
I duly received your favor of the 7th {  } enclosing a certified copy of a survey from the Surveyor Grant office of the State of Penn. of a tract of land No. 163 in the second district of donation lands granted to the soldiers in the Penn. list for military serviced in the Revolutionary War containing five hundred acres and allowance for the purpose of ascertaining the location of this tract of land and whether it had been sold for taxes.  I should have been happy to have made the investigation you discussed but the tract of land by the survey is in the second district which is in the County of Mercer and would recommend you transmit the enclosed draft to John J. Pearson of Mercer County, Pa.  Mr. Pearson is well acquainted with the location of surveys in the second district and is perfectly able to make the investigation you desire.
Most respectfully 
Yours
John R. Shannon

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Hon. A. Johnson
March March 1st 1848
Dear Sir
Your letter to John S. Pearson
making enquiries relative to Donation lot
No 163 of 500 as in the 2d Dist, was received,
On making a search during the records
of this County we find that Samuel
Craig & Rachel his wife of New York, by
and dated
the 25th Nov 1794, conveyed
this land to John Nicholson of Phila
who arrayed to Thomas Astley, who conveyed
to Michael Lassum, in the presence of
whose heirs the trade is at this time.
The deed from Craig & wife to Nicholson
was recorded in this County July 20th 1804.
There is therefore no interest left in
the widow or hers of Capt Samuel Craig
(illegible) has long been held and
occupied which arrived available the present holders to  (illegible) it.
(illegible)
Pearson Hays

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Washington
May 24th 1848
Dear Sir
Will you be kind enough to permit me
to [illegible] one time more [illegible] a recent reading
of your letter, I find. that in referring to Capt
Samuel Craig & wife. you have her name
("Rachel)" the name of Capt Samuel Craig's wife is "Jane Innis"- perhaps there may have been another  Capt Craig and they may have been confused some
may- If you can explain this you will confer a
favor on me. You will please return this
letter if there if there can be no [illegible] manly to
satisfy the old lay that I have mad reasonable
exertor to obtain all the information possible
I have the honor to be &

A. Johnson

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MERCER MAY 29 [Round Post Mark Stamp]
FREE [Stamp]
Hon. A. Johnson, M. C.
Washington D.C.
(2 )

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Mercer May 29, 1848
Hon. A. Johnson
Dear Sir

We are in receipt of your letter of the 24th inst, [illegible]  ours to give of 1st
March last. We have again examined the record of
the deed for Saml Blain and wife to John
Nicholson, and find that Rachael  is the name
given to the wife in the deed.
The deed is for lot 80  163 of 500 acres in the 20 Dist, which
is the same tract about which you made
inquiry, we do not know how the mistake
could occur-- it may have been in the
recording, on the deed may have been a
forgery
We are of opinion however that
W Blair can never recover the land,
admitting that the deed was forged, as the present
occupies & then ancestors  have had [illegible]
it for more than 40 years, 21 years [illegible] [illegible] would give them an indefeasible
title. This must be the same tract as there ┃
is no other of the same number as the ┃
[illegible] lands. We have some four [illegible]
District in our county, but no two tracts
containing the same number of acres numbered  alike.
There is a tract of 300 acres
of land in the same district No 89. which
belonged to Samuel Blair a Chaplain, in
the army, but no other [illegible] acre had drawn by
any person of that name. The deed from

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Blair & wife to Nicholson was acknowledged before John Ray a master in Chancery, and is witnessed by the said Ray & Daniel D. Tompkins of which latter genteman you have no direct
some knowledge. We can give you no information further on the subject, but are willing do anything in relation to due matter you may hereafter need done.
[illegible]
Pearson Hays
-

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Treasury Department
Third Auditor's Office
11 March 1848

Sir
Your letter of the 6th inst. to the Commissioner of Pensions in relation to the Bounty Land and Commutation of Capt. Samuel Craig of the Pennsylvania Line, has been referred this morning to this office for an answer as to the
Commutation.
In reply I have the honor to state that it appears from the Revolutionary records in this office that Capt. Samuel Craig has received his commutation. Final settlement certificates therefore amounting to $2,000 were issued 13 July 1784.
With great respect
yr. mo. obt. sert.
Hon. A. Johnson
Peter Hagner And

Hon. A. Johnson
House of Reps

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Department of the Interior
Washington August 13. 1852.

Sir,

My attention having been called to the
case of June Ennis Craig, I have examined
the papers and am Strongly impressed with the belief that the Claim is unfounded-- You
will therefore Suspend the payment until further orders from this Department
I am very respectfully 
Your obedient Servant
Alex H. H. Stuart
Secretary.

F.F.C. Triplett Esqr.
acting Commissioner of Pensions

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SECOND DONATION DISTRICT.
T. J. ROHRER.

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Nashville
August 1492
Judge Bryan
Sir
I herewith send you the certificate of Mrs Craigs as required by you as a Tellegraph [telegraph?] dispatch of this money tho it reads {illegible] but as this is the ony [only] certificate receipt from you I supposs [suppose0 it is the one aluded [alluded] to  I have also tellegraph you this morning informing you of this encloser [enclosure]
your friend
Wm. E. Jones

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Joseph Bryan being duly sworn before [illegible] that he duly received the Pension Certificate in the forgoing letter mentioned, and that he had the same in his possession for a long space of time, always intending to request for a reexamination allowance of claim for a Pension, but that said certificate has by some means unknown to said depositor has been or so mislaid that he cannot now find it.  He pursed diligently search to no result for it.  
Sworn & subscribed before me this 3. Nov. 1806
L.S. Myer, J. Peace

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Nashville Aug. 1882
William E. Jones

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218
The Western Clegraph Company, 
MORSE LINE, to 
Pittsburg, Cleveland, Wheeling, Cincinnati, Louisville, Nashville & St. Louis, 
CONNECTING WITH
Lines to the Northwest, West, and Southwest, and all intermediate Stations. 
Office in Washington, Penn. Avenue 3 doors above Brown's Hotel, over Gilman's Drug Store.

 BY TELEGRAPH, 
Dated Nashville Aug 14 1852 
Rec'd, Washington Aug 14th 1852, 9 o'clock P.M. 
To Judge Jos Bryan
I mailed to you this morning Mrs, Craiphs certificate.
Wm E Jones

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Letter 
Wm Jones Esq
 Washington
District of Columbia

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York Act 3/56
Mr. Wm E Jones 
Sir I succeeded in getting the Certificate to the depositor which I 1 enclosed
Respt., 
John A Wilson

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Washington City
Oct 30th, 1856
George C. Whiting 
Cert. of Pensions 
Sir, In reply to your letter in relation to the claim of Mrs Jan Innis Craig the widow of the Capt. Saml Craig, I have the honor to state, that it is admitted that the five acres deeded and accd. to the laws in the State of Pennsylvania set apart for Capt. Sam. Craig for his service in the War of the Revolution, was conveyed to John N, Nickolson, by persons claiming to be Jane Craig known to be his wife and that there is no conveyance for said [illigible] by Jaml. Blair & wife. This deed however we contend this property to have been made by Craig & wife is a forgery.  The opinion of Judge Nicholson forthwith on this point I consider properly concluded.  Nicholson died In the year 1800, and died a default to the State of Pennsylvania this land claimed by him was claimed by the State, but. said was the feeling in that State

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in relation to the fraud committed by him, that in 1839 a Commission was appointed by the late of that or under the authority, for an investigation of his land letter in 1840, a special Court was created called the Nicholson Court for the investigation of all matters grown out of his indebtedness, and the manner in which he to became possessed of the land hereafter. 
It seems that Nicholson had sold the tract in fraud to come before the institution of either the Commission of the Court, and Craig having died in 1807 in a far distant State, an attempt was made by his kin to get back the land of which they were unjustly deprived.

With great respect
Your Obdt Servt
Wm. E. Jones

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Washington City
Oct 31st 1856
George C. Whiting Esq
Com of Pensions
Sir
Since my letter to you
of yesterday in relation to the claim of the widow of
Capt Saml Craig, I telegraphed to the Surveyor Genl
at Harrisburg Penn, in the following words " "Lot 163
for 500 acres 2nd District. To whom was it donated?
Samuel Craig or James Blair." I have since received
the answer which I enclose, "I find James Blair Captain. He drew lot No. one hundred & sixty three, five
hundred acres." From this it appears that Mr Pearson was right in his letter to the Hon A Johnson
dated May 29th 1848, in stating that the deed to Nicholson was from James Blair & Rachel his wife. If 
this statement be correct there cannot be any difficulty in the matter
Very Respectfully
Your obdt servant
W E Jones

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Washington
November 4, 1856
Wm E Jones Esq
Sir
In reply to your inquiry
whether Mrs J.I. Craig is alive or not, I
have to state that if she had been dead,
there is every probability that I &
my family would have heard of
it, unless it occurred within four
or five days past.
very Respectfully
Yours
Wm Anderson

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J.W. Geddes
Lodged by Maj Joseph
Bryan for  W.E. Jones 3 Mar 1856

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Purporting
to be theirs, are genuine-
Given under my hand and seal of office, at office in Greeneville, this
27th day of March AD 1852
Geo W. Forte, Clk. 
By E. N. Broyles, D.C.

Ap. 15/32
Mrs Jane Innis Craig
Attention Greene
County Tennessee
W E Jones
agent
Nashville Ten

Kirby
I
Joseph Bryan
afith

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Know all men by these persence that I
Jane Innis Craig of the County of Green
and State of Tennessee do hereby appoint
and impower William E Jones of the County
Davidson and State of Tennessee my true
and lawful attorney in fact for me and
in my name to demand and recover for me
the amount of pension to which is due
and coming to me from the United States
and to collect all proof necessary to recover 
the same and I do hereby direct the
commissioner of pensions to deliver my
pension certificate to my said Attorney the said
Wm Jones and to no one else hereby
ratifying and confirming all that my
said attorney may do in the premises by
future time of In testimony whereof I
hereto set my hand & seal this 26 day March 1852
witness
J H Craig
James Wright
Jane Innis Craig her mark
State of Tennessee ⎬ 
Green County
Be it known that on this 26th March 1852 personally appeared before
the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and
for said County Mrs Jane Innis Craig with
whom I am well acquainted and who acknowledged the insertion of the above power of attny to be her act and deed for the purposes therein contained and I certify that both
the above declaration and power of attny
was carfully red to Mrs Jane Craig and
fully understood by her before the same was assigned
witness whereof I hereto set my hand the date above Wm P Sharp JP

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State of Tennessee
I George W Forte, Clerk of the County Court
in and for the County of Greene in the State
aforesaid do certify that William P. Sharp and
William Boyce, Esqrs whose names appear
officially to the foregoing declaration, affidavit
and certificates are now and were at
the time of signing the same acting Justices of the
Peace in and for said County and Justices
of the County Court which is a Court of Record
and has by law a public seal, duly elected
and qualified and that the signatures thereto
purporting
to be theirs, are genuine
-
Given under my hand and seal,
Office at Office in Greenville this
27th
day of March A.D. 1852-
Geo. W. Forte Clk.
By E. N. Broyles, D.C.

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State of Tennessee
Green County
⎬
on this 27th day of March 1852
personally appeared before the undersigned
Justice of the peace in and for said County
James Wright a resident of said County and
made oath in due form of law that he is
well acquainted with Mrs Jane Innis Craig
and has been intimately acquainted with
her for the last twenty five years that she
is the widow of Samuel Craig late of said
County and the identical Jane Innis Craig
who was a pensioner of the United States at the
rate of four hundred and Eighty dollars
a year which pension was allowed to her
as affiant is informed under act of Congress
of 7 July 1838 3d March 1843 & 17 June 1844
and which she continued to receive up to
the year 1848 since which time she has not
received the said pension as affiant has
frequently understood both from her self and others
affiant would further state that
during his acquaintance with the said Jane I
Craig She has always been looked and
regarded as a woman of high respectibility
and is in all respects intitled to full
credit and belief that since the death of
her husband she has not again intermarried
but still remains the widow of the said
Samuel Craig and Sworn to and subscribed
before me the date above Wm Boyce JP
for Greene County
James Wright

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State of Tennessee⎬
Green County ⎬ I Wm Boyce
a Justice
of the peace in and for said County do hereby
certify that I am well acquainted with James
Wright who has this day appeard and made
Oath
to the foregoing affidavit before me that he
is a man of truth and veracity and that
full faith and credit is due and of right
aught to be given to his statements
In testimony whereof I hereto
set my hand and offer my Seal
this 27th day of March 1852
Wm Boyce JP

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State of Tennessee
Green County ⎬ On this 26th March 1852
personally appeared before the undersigned a
Justice of the peace in and for said
County and a Justice of the County Court
which is a Court of record Mr Jane Innis
Craig a resident of said County aged about
Eighty three years who on her oath makes the
following declaration in order to obtain the
benefit of the provisions made by the act of
Congress of 2d Feby 1848 granting and
continuing the persons of certain Widows
that she is the widow of Samuel Craig
who was a captain in the service of the
United States during the revolutionary war
and that she is the identical Jane Innis
Craig who applied for and was allowed a
pension of in date of her said husband the
said Samuel Craig at the rate of four
hundred and Eighty dollars a year under
act of Congress of 7 July 1838 and 3d March
1843 and 17 June 1844 which pension she
has record up to 4 March 1848 She further
States that she was married to her said
husband in South Carolina as stated by
her in her first declaration that her husband died in Green County Tennessee as
is also stated by her in her first declaration
that since the death of her husband she
has not again intermarried but still remains the widow of him the said Samuel
Craig diseast She therefore makes this
declaration in order to recover her pension
at the same rate $480 00 a year from the
date to which she was last paid up to the

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the present and to continue for durinng her
natural life she further declars that she
has no other documentary or record proof
in support of her claim
there was sent
to the department with her first application
that her pension certificate she surrendered when
she was last paid sworn to and subscribed
before me the date above written
Wm P Sharp JP
Jane Innis Craig
her mark
State of Tennessee
Green County
I Wm P Sharp
a
Justice of the peace and a Justice of the
County Court which is a Court of record do
hereby certify that I am well acquainted with
Mrs Jane Innis Craig who has this day
appeared and made oath to the above declaration before me that she is the widow of Capt
Samuel Craig late of said County and that
she is the identical Jane Innis Craig
who drew a pension of four hundred and
Eighty dollars a year
for the revolutionary
services of her husband under acts of Congress
of 7 July 1838 3d March 1843 & 17 June 1844
and that she is a woman of truth &
veracity and that full faith and credit
is due and of right ought to be given
to her statements and I further certify
that from old age and Bodily infirmity she is not able to attend at the
court house of the County in order to
make this declaration in open Court
In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand
to
and affixed my seal this 26th March 1852
Wm P Sharp JP

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Jane Innis Craig
widow of Capt Saml
Revo
1st Pa Regt
Certif
for $480. per annum
pay withheld
advise mr Phillips
Ten 5949 Feby 48

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J.D. Arnold June 28 '45
papers delivd to J.B. Wimmert, Mar 31 1846
2 Cents
Refd

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9045
Tennessee
Jane Innis Craig
of Samuel Craig
who was a pensioner under the Act of
and who died on the July 1807
of Green in the State of
who was a Captain in the Com
commanded by Captain of the
1st Reg commanded by  in
the commanded by
the Revo
line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Jonesboro
at the rate of 480 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day
of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 day of Feb -45 and sent to Hon A
Johnson Ho. of Reps
---
Total amount,  $2400.
(Act July 7, 1838.) 
Recorded by F.S. Swann, Clerk, Book D Vol. 1 Page 343

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6656
Jonesboro
Tennessee
Jane Innis Craig
widow of Samuel Craig
who was a Captain 1st Reg
in the Revolution-
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 480 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the
10 day of Feb 1843
and sent to

Hon. A. Johnson,
H.Reps
(Act of March 3, 1843.)
Recorded in Book A Vol. 2
Page 190
let to Hm
Copies of gard fr

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Papers of Mrs
Craig
to be presented to the
commission of pensions

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South Carolina Chester District Personally appeared in open Court before me Peter
Wylie Judge of the Court of Ordinary for Chester
Districts, Samuel McKeown who being duly
Sworn agreeable to law makes oath and saith
on his oath that he was well acquainted with
Samuel Craig and his wife Jane I Craig
who was married in State and Districts aforesaid
by John Bell Esqr Some time between the year
Seventeen hundred & Eighty five & the year seventeen hundred and Ninety this deponant saith he was at their wedding or Marriage and
this deponent further saith that the said
Samuel Craig & his wife Jane I Craig he
removed from this District to the State of Kentucky
of Tennessee Some time between the year Seventeen
hundred & ninety & year Eighteen hundred & deponant
heard said Samuel Craig Say he said Craig had
served as one of Genl Washingtons life Guard says
said Samuel Craig Shewed deponent a Buff
West coat that he Craig had worn in the Service & further
this deponant saith said Samuel Craig Shewed deponent
papers that deponant is under the impression was a
discharge and certificate of said same Craigs Conduct
as a soldier and believe the present applicant or declarant
Jane I Craig is the person he saw married to Saml Craig
this deponent further saith that he recollects that

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Mrs Mary McAllely was present the Marriage of
Saml Craig and Jane I Craig above named
Sworn to and signed in open
Court before me Peter Wylie Judge
of the Court of Ordinary this 1st
day of December 1840
Samuel McKeown his x mark
Peter Wylie Judge
State of South Carolina
Chester District
Personally appeared Mary
Mcalliley before me Peter Wylie Judge of the Court
of Ordinary in open Court who upon being duly sworn
Saith upon oath that she was well acquainted
Jane I Craig the declarant & her husband Sam
Craig and further saith she was at their marriage
which took place on the first day of January
of some year between seventeen hundred and Eighty
nine & seventeen hundred & ninty Two further saith
they were married by John Bell Esq deponant says
further that she heard said Samuel Craig say he served in 
the life Guard, of Genl Washington and that
he was present at York Town when Cornwallis surrendered
to Washington heard him say he had a discharge
& was discharged after the surrender of Cornwallis, says she thinks Saml Craig & his wife Jane I Craig moved to the State of Tennessee about
the year 1795 deponant further saith that she the deponant recolects
that Samuel McKeown above named & Elizabeth McDaniel of this district was at
the marriage
sworn to this 1st Dec 1840 & set in open Court 
before me Peter Wylie Judge or Ordry
Peter Wylie Judge Mary her x mark McAlliley

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Brief in the case of Jane Innis Craig, widow of Samuel
Greene County and State of Tennessee
act February 2, 1848.

Claim to be restored to pension roll
Proof exhibited, (if original)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls?  If either, state the substance.
Claimant was a pensioner under act of July 7.
1838, at rate of $480 per annum; but was refused
a continuance of her allowance under act
of February 2, 1848, as it appeared that the land donated by the state of Pennsylvania
for the service in the revolution for which she
declared, had been alienated 
by Samuel
Craig and
his wife Rachel to a certain John Nicholson. The unfavorable
presumption, however, they raised against the
claim, has been rebutted by new and important parol
evidence, (a synopsis of which will be found in the
accompanying brief prepared by the Commissioners,)
and by record and historical testimony now filed showing
that open irregularity and probable and attended
the
numerous purchases of Pennsylvania County lands by
said Nicholson
Claimant has been restored 
to the rolls
accordingly
Name and residence of Agent
W. E.
Jones
Esqr
present
R Geddes
Examining Clerk.

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Jane Innis Craig
wid of Samuel
Tennessee,
Act 2 Feby '48
$480 per an
J. Bryan
Present

Page 93

Copy
Jane Innis Craig,
Widow Samuel-
6.400.
Green County, Tennessee
Admitted. Act February 2, 1848
at rate of $480 per annum
Commencing 4th March, 1848
- Husband Captain Pennsylvania
line 2 years
- Pay if widow be living, if
not suspend payment and
notify this Office
---
Certificate to
W. E. Jones,
Care of
Judge Nicholson
Union Office
Washington.

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Jane Innis Craig
Widow
of
Capt Saml Craig
1st reg.
$480 per an
Act of 7 July '38
-act 43 also

Tennessee Roll
merborough agency
Married 1792
husband died 1807
Hon. A Johnson
H. Rep.
No 695 4 Oct. 1843
10767

Page 95


Department of States
Washington City,
June 12, 1844
Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 20th
 I have to state that there is no list
of the Officers of the Life Guards of the
Commander in Chief among the "Washington Papers" nor does there appear to
be any evidence of Samuel Craig's
having been an officer in that Corps
There is evidence that on the 16th January
1777,
General Washington granted a Commission as a Captain in the 1st Continental Regiment 
to Samuel Craig.
I am Sir, respectfully,
your Obedient Servant,
J. C Colborn
To, James L. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions

Page 96

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act
of Congress of 2nd February 1848 entitled an
act making further provisions for surviving Widows and soldiers of the Revolution
State of Tennessee
Greene
County SS

On this 2nd
day of
November one thousand eight hundred and
forty eight personally appeared before the
subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for
said County Jane Innis Craig a resident of
the County and state aforesaid aged about seventy
seven or eight years who being first duly
sworn according to law doth on her oath make
the following Declaration in order to obtain
the benefits of the provision made by the act
of Congress passed on the 2nd February 1848
granting pensions to widows of persons who
served during the Revolutionary War
That she is the widow of Capt Samuel
Craig deceased who was a Captain in the
Pennsylvania Line during the war of the
Revolution. For the particulars of his service
in said war - the Regiment to which he belonged etc she refers to proof and papers
now on file with her Declaration in the
Pension office upon which papers and proof
she was allowed a Pension of Four hundred and
Eighty dollars per Annum under the act of
Congress of 17th June 1844 it being the last
act under which she drew the further
declares that she is still a widow
attest
A. Rankin
S. J. Anderson
Jane Innis Craig x her mark

Page 97

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and
year above written before me and in presence
of the attesting witnesses I further certify
that affiant is personally known to me
that she is the same individual who drew
pension as stated by her in the foregoing
Declaration and that she is still a widow
Given under my hand this 2nd day
of November 1848
A. Rankin
Justice of the Peace
State of Tennessee
Greene
County ⎬ I George W Forte, Clerk of
the County Court in and for the County
and State aforesaid, do certify that Anthony
Rankin, Esq., whose name appears to the above
certificate, is now and was at the time of signing
the same an acting
Justice of the peace in
and for said County, and that his signature is
in his own proper hand writing
Given under my hand and seal
of Office, at Office in Greeneville,
the 6 day of November 1848.
Geo. W. Forte, Clk.

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State of Pennsylvania
York County SS
On this second
day of October AD 1856, before
the undersigned an
acting Justice of the Peace
in & for the said County personally appeared John Purnell
a resident of said County aged
92 [strikethrough] years ninety one or ninety two
who being duly sworn according
to law saith that he is a
Pensioner of the United States at
the rate of ninety six dollars
per annum for services rendered [in the Revolutionary War struckthrough]
that he was well acquainted with
Various officers who were engaged
in said service from this State to wit,
Major Grier Col Britt & Col Gibbs &
Col William Irwin, Col. Thomas Hartley
Col. Chambers of the First Pennsylvania
Regiment & that he also was well acquainted
with Capt Samuel Craig who
commanded a Company in said first Pennsylvania
Regiment & Served as affiant
thinks to the close of the War, that the
said Craig was a native of York
County aforesaid he also knew his
father who lived in said County and died
many years ago affiant recollects
that
some time shortly after the close
of said Revolutionary War, the said
Samuel Craig left this County & went
to South Carolina, that when he left
this County he was a single man

Page 99

the particular date affiant cant recollect
but it was shortly after the close of the
Revolution & before the year 1790. that he
remained their some years when he returned
to this County on a visit to see his
relations, his father was still living
that he said Craig brought with him his
wife & when he informed affiant he married in South Carolina, that he called
her Jane Innis who before her marriage
was Jane Innis Burns, this fact I learned
from said Samuel Craig & wife whilst
on said Visit, that he understood that the
Burns family were originally from this
State & were related to the Innis who
affiant knew at an early day & who
lived in an adjoining County & that it was
in consequence of the acquaintance
affiant had with the Innis family which
brought about the explanation of
said Craig's wife of her being a relation
thereof, that affiant was intimately and
well acquainted with the said Said
Craig & knows him to be the identical
Samuel Craig who was a Captain of
the first Pennsylvania Regiment as above
stated, that affect is not certain of the
Particular date when said Craig returned
to this County with his wife from South Carolina
but thinks it was in 1793 or 1794-
that during his first visit be remained here
some five or six weeks & was several
times at affiants house with his wife, that
they then returned to South Carolina, & that
during his stay affiant distinctly recollects

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3

that said Craig was making efforts to
recover his bounty land which was due
him for his services in the revolution
& went several trips to Lancaster or Harrisburg
to see about it, that when he returned
he informed affiant that he had lost it by
some means, that some one had cheated
him out of it, but the particulars as to how
affiant dont recollect, affiant further
States that in 1795 or 1796 said Craig made a
second visit to this County, that his wife
was not with him he thinks, that he bro't
same horses with him to sell & was still in
pursuit of his land as he informed affiant had been located in Cumberland
County as well as he now recollects & that the
said Craig spoke of going to see after
his land but whether he did so on
his return home affiant dont know this
is the last time that affiant ever saw
said Craig or knew any thing of him & that
he understood that said Craig died many
years ago. & affiant further states that
he is in no wise interested in the claim
which this affidavit is taken to sustain
Sworn to and subscribed
the day and
date above mentioned
before me
John A Wilson
John his X mark Purnell

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4
State of Pennsylvania
York County SS.
I John A Wilson a Justice
of the Peace in & for said County as hereby certify that I am well acquainted with
John Parnell who has this day appeared &
made oath to the foregoing
affidavit before me that he is a man
of truth & veracity that full faith & credit
is due and of right ought to be given to
his statements & I further certify that the
words" in the Revolutionary War" were
erased by me before the same was
Signed & sworn to that the whole
of said affidavit was carefully read to &
fully understood by the said Parnell
before he signed the same& I further
State that I am not interested in
said Claim
In testimony whereafter I
have hereunto set my hand & Seal this
Second day of October AD 1856
John A Wilson
State of Pennsylvania
York Co SS Joseph Holland
Prothonotary of the Court of Common pleas in said County
hereby Certify that John A Wilson Esq before whom the above
affidavit and certificate was taken is and at the
time of taking the same was a Justice of the Peace in
and for said County duly commissioned and qualified
that all whose acts as such full faith and credit are
the signature purporting to be his is genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal of said
Court at York this 2nd day of October AD 1856
J Holland Prothy

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State of South Carolina
Chester District
On this 24th day of
September 1856 personally appear
before the undersigned a Justice
of the peace in and for said
District John Kennaday a [unclear]
of said County aged Eighty one
years and made oath in due form
of law that he was well acquainted with Captain Samuel
Craig late of said District that
his first acquaintance with him
was in Garfield District in said
State some time in the year
Seventeen hundred and ninety
two or three (1792 or 1793.) That about
this date he intrmarried with
Jane Innis Burns whose fathers
hold in Chester district that the
said Samuel Craig removed
as affiant understood from the
State of Pennsylvania same year
previous to his marriage that
affiant knew him well and under
stood from him that he was engaged in the service of the United
States in the Revolutionary war
from said State that he was
under General Washington and one of
his life guards and distinctly notes that he often stated
the fact of having worn a capt
or that which he said was [unclear]
up before so that his face was

Page 103

much sunburnt and that on
one occasion the skin platted off
of his nose and also frequently
related various occurrences while he

was in said service the particulars of which affiant dose not recolect
that he dose recolect on
one acasion [occasion] that the said Craig
whilst at a regimental Muster
of in this district got up
in the crowd and publicly announced that he was a whig
and had fought the
Revolutionary war as a whig
and that if there was any
one in that crowd that was a
tory he could whip them that he
was always regarded as
having been engaged in the Revolutionary war under Genl Washington
that after his marriage with the
said Miss Jane I Burns they were
around in this district untill some
years thereafter whense they
removed to and settled in Green
County Tennessee as affiant was
informed where he died Many
years ago that he was a highly respectable

man while in this State and
affiant has no doubt from his statements but that he performed
considerable service in said Revolutionary war but the perticulars
of which of course affiant cannot

Page 104

say as he never knew him untill
after he removed to this Stateaffiant

is not now certain as to
the presise date of thare marriage
but knows that the said Samuel
Craig and Jane Innis Burns was
Marrid previous to the year
Seventeen hundred and my
four (1794) affiant further States
that he is not interested in anywise
in said claim to pension
which affiant is informed is set up
by Mrs Craig who is still living in

Green County as affiant is
informed Sworn to and
Subscribed before me
the date above
JP Jn. Kennedy
Giles J Patterson Magistrate
●
State of South Carolina
Chester district I Giles J Patterson an
acting Justice of the peace in and for
said District do hereby certify that I
am well acquainted with John
Kennedy who has this day appeard
and made oath to the above affidavit
before me that he is in all
respets a reputable and truthful citizen
and entitled to full credit & belief and
I further certify that I am in no wise
interested in said claim to pension which this
affidavit is taken to sustain this 24th September 1856
Giles J. Patterson
Magistrate
1856

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The State of South Carolina
Chester District
I Wm H Anderson Clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas and General Sessions for
Chester District do hereby certify that Giles
J Patterson Esq. whose name appears officially
to the foregoing affidavit and certificate is
and was at the date of signing the same an
acting Justice of the Peace in and for the
said District duly commissioned and qualified
that the signatures thereto purporting to be his
are genuine
In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and
affix the seal of the said Court
at Chester Court House this Twenty
fifth day of September in the
year of our Lord one thousand
Eight Hundred and fifty Six
and in the Eighty first year of
Amencan
Independence
Wm H Anderson

---

Page 106

Additional
Proof
since
preparation
of Briefs
30 Oct 1856 by Maj J
Bryan J. W. E. Jones

Page 107

State of Pennsylvania
York County SS
On this 28th day of
October AD 1856,
Personally appeared
before the undersigned a Justice
of the Peace in & for said County
Daniel Irwin who being duly sworn
according to law saith that he is
personally acquainted with John Parnell & have known him for twenty
years past that he is a reputable
truthful & respectable citizen, that
any statement he would make on
oath or otherwise, the deponent would
be bound to believe and affiant
further states that he was present
some short time since when
said Parnell gave his affidavit
in support of the claim of Captain
Samuel Craig & wife which was
drawn up by John A Wilson Esq at
the instance of said Purnell &
in accordance with his own dictation
which statement he would be
bound to believe as he is in all respects entitled to credit - & affiant
further states that the said Purnell
is a man of extraordinary mind &
memory for a man of his age
Sworn to and subscribed
October 28th
1856. before
John A Wilson
Daniel his X mark Irwin

Page 108

York County ss.
Commonwealth of Penn'a
Personally appeared before me the
subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in
and for said County George Horn
of the Borough of York in County
aforesaid, who being duly sworn
according to law saith that he
the deponent has had a personal
knowledge and intimate acquaintance
with John P Purnell, a Revolutionary
Pentioner, for the last 20 twenty years
and more, and that during all that
time he has sustained a good character for truth and veracity, and
that I have no hesitation in saying
that I would believe him in or off of
oath, as I would any other respectable citizen among us.
And I would further
State that said Purnell, for
a man of his age has an extraordinary memory, and that he the said
John Bunnell, is very aged, being some
ninety years, as deponent understands
Sworn & Subscribed
Oct 28, 1856, before Henry C Stroman Justice of Peace
George X his mark Horn
I Henry C Stroman, a Justice of the Peace in
and for York County, and State of Pennsylvania,
do hereby certify that I am well and intimately acquainted with Geo Horn, whose signature
appears above, and who made oath to the
above affidavit, that he is in all respects

Page 109

a reputable man and is entitled to full
credit
Witness my hand and seal, this 28th
day of October A.D. 1856
Henry C. Stroman Son
York County
Commonweath of Pennsylvania
Personally appeared before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace
in and for said County, Henry C Stroman who being duly sworn
according to law saith that he the deponent
has known John Purnell since childhood and
for the last fifteen years personally, and
intimately, and that he has no hesitation
in saying that he the said John Purnell
is in all respects reputable and worthy
of belief, and that his statements are entitled
to full credit
Sworn & Subscribed
Henry C Stroman
Oct 28, 1856 before
John A Wilson
State of Pennsylvania
York County ss On this 28th day of October
AD 1856, personally appeared
before the undersigned a Justice of the
Peace for the County aforesaid John
A Wilson who being duly sworn accordingly
to law saith that he has been acquainted with
John Purnell for about fifteen or twenty
years last past & that he has always
been regarded as a reputable & truthful
Citizen & that I should regards all his
Statements as being entitled to full

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faith & credit I further state that
about the first day of this month I
was called on to take or draw
up his affidavit in support of the
Claim of Samuel Craig & wife which
affidavit was drawn up at his
dictation and answered the severally
interrogatories
propounded
seemingly clear and understandingly
having a remarkable memory for
a man of his age
Sworn to and subscribed
before
Henry A Stroman J of Peace
John A Wilson

State of Pennsylvania
York County S.S. J. J. Holland, Prothonotary of
of the Court of Common Pleas of said County Certify
that John A. Wilson and Henry C. Stroman, Esqrs. whose
genuine signatures appear to the foregoing affidavits &
Certificate were at the time of signing their names Justices of the Peace in & for the County & State aforesaid
duly commissioned & qualified; that to all whose acts as such full faith & credit are due
In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand
& affix the seal of said Court this 28th day
October A.D. 1856.
J. Holland,
Prothy,

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State of Pennsylvania
York County SS.
On this second
day of October AD 1856. personally appeared before the
undersigned an acting Justice
of the Peace in & for the
said County George S Sherman a resident of said County
aged 73 years & makes oath
in due form of law that he
was acquainted with the Craig
Family
of this County who lived
near Yellow Breeches Creek
that affiant was very young
when he first became acquainted with said family that they
frequently stopped at his fathers
house, who kept tavern on the
Road, that one of said Craigs
was called Captain who affiant
understood to have been a Captain
in the Revolutionary War, but affiant
being very young of course could
give nothing of the facts of
his service, but only recollects of
there being such a man at that
date which was previous to the
year 1790- but what went with him or where he moved to affiant could not state &
he further states that he knew
a family of the Innisses who lived in
said
County at a very early date
some members of which family
affiant thinks still in this County

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2
he further
States that he is not
in any wise
which this
interested in the Claim
affidavit is intended
to support-
Sworn to and subscribed
on the day & year abovementioned
before me I certify
that the said George S.
Sherman is entitled
to full credit
John A Wilson
Geo. S. Sherman
---
State of Pennsylvania
York Co
I Joseph Holland Prothonotary of the
Court of Common Pleas for said County hereby
certify that John A. Wilson Esqr before whom
the above affidavit and certificate was taken is
and at the time of so doing was a Justice of the
Peace in and for said County duly commissioned
and qualified that to all whose acts as such
full faith and credit are due and the
Signature
purporting to be his is genuine
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal
of
said Court at York this 3rd
day
of October A.D. 1885
J Holland Proty

[Illegible] Mr E Jones 
M May Bryan
26 Oct 1856

Page 113

Cap Saml Craig 
N 163
 Mar 10th
 District  No. 2
500 Acres

copy $.50 paid

Page 114


On pursuance of an Act of the General Assembly of the State of
Pennsylvania
passed the 24th day of February
1785 entitled "An
Act for directing the mode of Distributing
the Donation Lands promised the troops by this Commonwealth" and by order of the
Surveyor General with the approbation of the honorable the
Executive Council, I have surveyed on the 10th day of June
1786 the above described tract of five hundred Acres of Land
and allowance for Roads & No. 165 situate in District No 2
on the west side of the Alleghany river in the County of
Westmoreland
To John Lukens Esqr S.G.
G. Evans D. Survey.
In testimony that the above is a true copy of the original on
file in the Surveyor General's Office, I have
hereto set my hand and the seal of said
office at Harrisburg the 1st day of Oct 1856
Hon J. Porter Brawley S. G.
Tho. J. Rehner

Page 115

[top]
Lot N 162
West 320                         pg asd

[left]
Lot 183
S 261                                pg asd

[right]
Lot No. 164
N 261                               M.O.

[bottom]
Lot 1815 No.
East 220                         Maple

[center, drawing of river]
CLXIII
Big Beaver Creek
500 Acres & Allow

Page 116

State of South Carolina
Chester District
On this 25th day
of September 1856 personally appear
before the undersigned a Justice of the
peace in and for said County District
David Morrow a resident of said
District aged Eighty two years and
who is personally known to me
and who is a reputable and truthful man and entitled to full credit
who are duly sworn says that he
is now residing on the same farm
where he was born and has lived all
his life that he was in an early
day well acquainted with Captain
Samuel Craig late of Said District
that his first acquaintance was shortly
after the close of the Revolutionary
when he came to this country from
the State of Pennsylvania that he
was was called Captain Craig that
he had commanded a company in
the Revolutionary war in Pennsylvania
as affiant understood that
he was a fine looking man and
had a scar on his face which
he capt Craig informed affiant was
done by a sword while he was in
the service that same time after
he came to this Country he was
married to a Miss Jane
Burns of
this district as affiant understood but
affiant was not at the Marriage
that shortly after his marriage affi

Page 117

and
noted that Captain Craig and
his wife went last to Pennsylvania on a visit to his relations
as affiant understood at the time
that they then returned from
said visit back to this district and
Shortly than after he removed to
the west with his family affiant is
not certain whether he went
Tennessee or Kentuckey
nor can affiant give the particular dates
of his marriage or his removal
but is certain that the said Samuel
Craig and Jane Burns was married before the first of January 1794
seventeen hundred and ninety
four and in a few years there
after removed to the west which
removal was shortly after his
return from the visit to Pennsylvania.
affiant will recolect
that the said
Samuel Craig was
regarded as a highly respectable
man and a good Whig and
was so understood to have been
a captain in the Revolutionary war
from Pennsylvania but of
this fact of course affiant knows
nothing further than what he heard
from Capt Craig
and others & that he
is not interested in the claim Sworn to and acknowledged
the date above
David Morrow
Giles J. Patterson
Magistrate

Page 118

C .

South Carolina
Chester district }  Giles J. Patterson an acting
Justice of the peace in & for said district
hereby certify that I am
acquainted with David Morrow
who has this day appeared before
me & made oath to the foregoing
affidavit, that he is a man
of truth & veracity & that full
faith & credit is due & ought to be given to his statements & further that the interlineation
to wit "That he is not interested in this claim" was inserted by & sworn to before me by said Morrow & further that I am
in no wise interested in
said claim
Sept 25 1856
Giles J. Patterson
Magistrate

Page 119

Dec for Pension
By Jane Innis Craig
under the act of Congress of the 7th July
1838.-
Ten:
"A"

Page 120

State of Tennessee
Greene County
Be it remembered that at a Circuit
Court held for the County of Greene
in the second Monday in February 1844, His Honor Seth I. W. Lucky
Judge of the said Court within the first Judicial Circuit
presiding, the foregoing declaration of Jane Innis Craig and affidavit of Daniel O Allen Ephraim Wilson and Thomas Temple
were submitted to the examination of said Court - and the Court
having approved of said proceeding, ordered that the same
be certified by the Clerk thereof - In testimony whereof
I Valentine Sevier, Clerk of said Court
have hereunto set my hand and affixed
the seal of said Court at Office this
15th day of February 1844
V. Sevier
---
-
-
I, Andrew Johnson, Representative in the 28 Congress of the U.S. from Tennessee, do certify that V. Sevier, whose name
to the above certificate, was at the time it bears date, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Greene County Tennessee, and duly
elected, commissioned and qualified according to Law, and that
signature appeared to be genuine. Given under my hand this
4th. day of March 1844.
A. Johnson

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State of South Carolina Chester District⎬ John Kennedy of Chester District SoCar
came before me in open Court who being
duly sworn saith that he was acquainted with the within Named
Samuel Craig & Jane I Craig his wife before they left this state in 1793
I knew that they lived as husband & wife & further Saith that he is certain of her identity as she the said Jane I  Craig wrote to him this deponant to get the other two
depositions taken for her. this deponant further saith
that he heard the said Samuel Craig say he was of the
life Guard of Genl Washington
Jno. Kennedy
Sworn to [illegible] in open court
this 14th day of Dec. 1840 by 
Peter Wylie [illegible]
State of South Carolina Chester District}
I Peter Wylie Judge & Clerk of the ordinary of 
of Said District hereby certify that the three affidavits hereon
taken before me in open Court & further that the persons making them are all credible witnesses
In Testimony whereof I have here
unto set my hand and affixed
my seal of office this 14th day of December
1840
Peter Wylie [illegible]

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Cap Saml [Campbell Strikethrough] Craig
No 163
Mar 10th
District No 2
500 Acres
"B" (1)

Page 123

[drawn illustration of a 500 acre lot CLXIII]
Lot N 162
P ash  West 320  W Oak.
Big Beaver Creek
CLXIII
500 Acres fallow
Lot N.183  S 267 1/2   N 261 1/2  Lot N.164
P Ash   East 320  Maple
Lot 1815 No
In pursuance of an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Pennsylvania, passed the 24th day of February 1785, entitled,
"An Act for directing the mode of distributing the Donation Lands, promised the
troops by this Commonwealth;" and by order of the Surveyor General, with
the approbation of the honorable the Executive Council, I have surveyed,
on the 13th day of June, 1786, the above described Tract of Five hundred
Acres of land, and allowance for roads, &c, No 163, situate in District No 2
on the West side of the Alleghany river in the County of Westmoreland,
To John Lukens Esquire
Surveyor General
G. Evans
D. Survey
In testimony that the above is a copy of the original on file in the
Surveyor Generals Office I have hereto set my hand & the seal of said
office at Harrisburg the 2d day of Feby 1848
John Laporte S.G.

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Extract from "proceedings of the" Nicholson Court of Pleas" of Pennsylvania

fees 50 cts. paid

Page 125

March Term 1842
Harrisburg March 22 1842
William Primrose Esq on behalf of the Commissioners of the
Nicholson
Estate presented for conformation sixty two agreements
numbered from No 1 to No 62 inclusive & filed of record) for
compromise of lands alledged to be the Estate of John Nicholson
dec. by person claiming and alleging title thereto, which agreements were directed to be filed
On motion of John D Creigh Esquire Commissioner on part of
the State.
The Court grant a rule of Latham Gardner
and William Gardner, William and Robert Kerr, Horace
Thayer and Ferdinand Whipple to shew cause why the contract entered with the Board of Commissioners for the Compromise of tracts in the warrantee names of Catherine Coleman,
Benjamin Jordan, John Dunlap, Susan Woodrow, & Neal
McCoy, dated February 22. 1785 should not be rejected -
Notice of said rule to be given to the above named persons
at least fifteen before the next Session of this Court -
March 25 1852 Rule ifs
In testimony that the preceding is a true copy of entries in the
Book labeled "Minute Book Nicholson
Court of Pleas" remaining in the Surveyor
Generals Office of Pennsylvania. I have hereto
set my hand and the seal of said Office at
Harrisburg the 1st day of November 1856
Hon J. Porter Brawley S. G.
Tho. J. Rehrer

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Saturday March 26th 1842
Court met pursuant to adjournment
John D. Creigh & William Primrose Esquires Commissioners
request the Court to grant a Rule on Hiram Knapp
to show cause why the compromise entered into
by the Commissioner on the 10th November AD 1841
for the tract of land in the warrantee name of
Henry Kammerer dated 4th January 1793 & Situate
in Luzerne County shall not be set aside for
want of Sufficient evidence of possession or title
giving him the right to Compromise
March 26th. Rule granted returnable the
4th Monday of June 1842
The following
Compromises were then confirmed by the
Court to wit. No 6 being for 100 acres part of a warrant
in name of William Henderson, Compromise with John
Atherton for $200.
Also No 12 being for 814 ¾ acres two tracts in Warrantee names
of John Brady & Henry Goodhart, Compromise with Henry
Sevelly for $814.75
Also No 13 for 50 acres being part of a tract in the warrantee name of
James Moore. Compromise with Comer Philips for $100.
Also No 14 for 120 acres being part of a tract in Warrantee name of
James Moore Senr. Compromise with James S. Kennedy
for $240
Compromise No.3 with Obed Baldwin for a tract in Warrantee name of
Joshua Bump - held under advisement - the
following Rules were adopted by the Court & directed to
be entered-

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Rule 21st

In all compromises made or to be made by the Board of
Commissioners. Rules to take the depositions of Witnesses
within the Commonwealth before any person legally authorized
to administer Oaths & Affirmations, may be entitled of
Course by the Clerk, and in such cases as well as where
Rules may be granted by the Court it shall be sufficient
for the party his agent or attorney Entering or obtaining
Such Rule to serve or cause to be served a copy
of the same on the opposite party or his Attorney
of
Record giving at least fifteen days notice
In testimony that the preceding is a true copy of entries in the
Book labeled "Minute Book Nicholson
Court of Pleas" remaining in the Surveyor
Generals Office of Pennsylvania."I have
hereto set my hand and the seal of said Office
at Harrisburg the 1st day of November 1855
Hon. J. Porter Braly S.G.
Tho. J. Rehrer

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Friday November 5. 1841
Board Met pursuant to adjourment. Present Dean &
Primrose. Many persons called and made enquiry, several persons
settlers on the 168 tracts of desired to enter into compromises,
which we declined at present. In the course of the day S.
Meylert arived at the Hotel called at our room and desired
the Commissioner to meet in his room that evening, which
was agreed to. he presented a draft of Susquehanna County
and other drafts, but which did not show the Nicholson Warrantee
names. he also alledged that the matter of dispute between
Nicholson and Wallace relative to the 168 tracts or a part of
them had been settled in the life time of Nicholson, by a
Judgment in the Supreme Court in Wallaces favour, this was
by the Board denied and contended that the nonsuit taken
in favour of Wallace was after the death of Nicholson and without
notice to his representatives and that the lands had been publicly claimed by the Commonwealth in 1803 & 1804. That Mr Drinker
and all others concerned had been lawfully notified not to patent
or otherwise claims, that the Attorney General Auditor General
Surveyor General. Secretary of the Commonwealth Secretary of the
Land Office and his Excellency Governor Ritner had certified
the claim to attach, and once authorized the sale thereof. but in as much as the conflicting interest of Nicholson & Drinker to so a large a body of land, must necessarily disturb the peace and quietness of many innocent settlers. The Board desire & request
that the Agent of the Drinker estate assume the position of the
settlers or occupants of the lands, and that he formally asks
of the Board a posponement of the settlement of this claim
with a view of some future arrangement and adjustment to
be hereafter agreed upon by the parties. Mr Meylert dissented and said that he would would buy his peace, and give money
for it, but that he would not buy the land, after much discussion
it was agreed, that the matter should rest untill the meeting
over

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of the Board at Montrose on the 16th in order to give Meylert an opportunity
to confer with Mr Dunker who is now in Philadelphia
and that we would now give the settlers now in waiting notice
to that effect - 11½ P.M. adjourned to meet tommorow at 8 A.M
In testimony that the preceding is a true copy from a Book labeled "Minutes of the Board of Commissioners constituted under the act of 1840" remaining in
the Surveyor Generals Office of Pennsylvania
I have hereto set my hand and the seal of
said Office at Harrisburg the 1st day of
November 1856 Hon J. Porter Brawley S.G.
Tho J. Rehrer
$1.12½ paid

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Harrisburg September 2d 1842
John Dunbar Creigh William Primrose & John Roberts
present a petition with a Schedule Containing a
list and description of certain tracts of Land of
which John Nicholson died seized or posesed in Law
or Equity for which no offers have been made to
the Board to Compromise the same or any part
thereof the Commissioners therefore request that a
process issue agreeably to an act entitled an
Act to settle the estates of John Nicholson and
Peter Baynton passed 16 April 1840 for the
Sale
of
said lands and interest therein of said
John Nicholson
filed September 2d 1842
In testimony that the above is a true Copy of an enty in the Book
labeled "Minute Book Nicholson Court of
Pleas" remaining in the Surveyor Generals Office
of Pennsylvania. I have hereto set my hand
and the seal of said Office at Harrisburg
the 1 day of November 1856
Hon J. Porter Brawley S. G.
Thos. Rehier

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22
Miss
per
vile Tenn
1911, Feb 24. Hist to ┃
Mr. Jas. L. Craig.
1916. July 14. Hist to ┃
Mrs J Vernon [illegible]
1929 - Oct. 1 1st
Miss Amanda
Bottorff away
1930 Apr. 16th Hist
to J. A. Davis [unclear]
1938 Jun 12 M
1938- Feb 25 - Mrs. A [illegible] 
report had been furn [illegible]
1938 Nov 18 hist to Donald V Gnau
1939 Apr. 25, Mrs A.C. Ellis requests to furn
more inf in re. to Saml Craig
348
Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 348
Jane Innis Craig
Widow
Samuel Craig
Captain Rev. War

Act: Feb 2, 1848.

Index: -- Vol. A, Page 152
[Arrangement of 1870.}

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1894 Me
Hist to Mary [illegible]
Kews

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Pension office Washington D.C.
March 7 1892.
Hon Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir
The undersigned is a decendant of Capt Samuel Craig of the Continental line
of the Revolutionary war
his widow Mrs Jane I. Craig was
allowed a Pension under the provisions of the
Pension Laws of the U. S. about the year, 1841. about the year 1848, said pension
was suspended by this office
for a number of years but was finally
restored to her legal rights.
Please inform me the reasons that
were assigned for said Suspension & by whom and in what year the
over

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restoration was made.
I am very respectfully
obidiant Servant.

M.S. Temple
Address
1111. 6 St N. W. Washington D.C.

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Morristown Tenn
Feb 15th 1911
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Dear Sir
As I have no family
record further back than
my Father and his Brothers
and sisters, I have decided
to write your department and
see if can learn any thing
there I want to know something
of my grand Father
I am not sure that
I know his given name
but am told it was

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(Samuel I) Samuel I Craig
he was a soldier in the war
for independence and it is
said he was a captain of
the personal guard of
General Washington, he was a
pensioner after the war
until he died I do not remember
him, my grand mother who
I rememer very well drue a
pension until her death
she lived to be about 92 years
old, her name was Jane Innis
Craig, it is said my grand
Father located in South Carlina
after the war from there he
came to Tennessee and

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Located four miles South of
Greenville where he died.
The information I
want is as to when my grand
father born where he was
born his age on entering the
army how long he served,
his rank and where he
located at the close of the
War. I am 67 years of age
and have cattaract, been
almost blind for two years
any information you can
give on the above subject
will be highly appreciated
very truly
James L Craig
Morristown Tenn

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July 1st 1916 
Quogue, L.I.
New York
Bureau of Pensions
New York
Washington D.C
Gentlemen,
Could you give me any information as to
a pension or land in lieu of pension given to Samuel Craig who I think was from Pennsylvania. He served in the 1st Penn. 1st Continental
Infantry & the Perm. Rifle

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Regiment. He was wounded at Paoli &
retired 17th Jan. 1781. Could you tell me anything at all about him I should be most
grateful. I especially would be glad of information as to where he was born or 
enlisted from, to whom the pension was paid
& when he died etc.
Yours truly
Mrs. J. Vernon Mann Jr

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Samuel Craig, W. 3075,
has also been furnished.
Miss Wilson says send both and
advise that they are all our file.
New Philadelphia O.
June 27 - 1918
The Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions

Sirs:- I received the statement of the military history one Samuel Craig for which
I thank you but as this man was Samuel Craig
Junior I cannot use it.
The record which I desire is his fathers record Samuel Craig Senior. This Samuel
Craig married first Elizabeth McDonald & second Jane Boyd
It is from this second wife from whom I descended

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II
According my genealogy I see that Samuel Craig Senior was with General Washington in the march east in 1776 and that he was captured by Indians
which [strikethrough] while acting commissary
on his way to Fort Ligonier.
His body was never found
This capture was Nov 1st 1777
This information is from
"Frontier Forts of Pa." Vol 2 Page 244
If you can furnish me with this information of
recorded in the war department
I would be thankful as thru it I would be able to join the D. A. R.
Yours respectfully
Mrs Martha F. Elliott
473 S. Broadway
New Philadelphia O.

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Box 355 Charlestown Ind.
July 8th 1929.
Dept of Interior
Rev. War Section,
Washington D.C.
Sec. of Interior. I am writing to ask for the
military service of the following
Revolutionary soldiers
Henry Stonecipher, York Co. or Berks Co. Pa
Joseph Thorn. Westmorland Co Pa (I believe)
Samuel Craig, Sr.
Samuel Craig, Jr.
Westmoreland Co. Pa.
only 2 with Pa service
Resp
Miss Amanda L. Bottorff
Box 355
Charlestown Ind.

If there were any other
Samuel Craigs from
Pa. please give them.
These two were father
and son.

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Chicago, Ill., Mar. 20 th. 1930
Chief of Pension Bureau,
Pension Department,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:-
I have letters and information which indicate beyond a doubt that certain papers were filed with the Pension Office in Washington,
C., by one MRS. JANE INNES CRAIG, who was the wife of Samuel Craig, of
South Carolina, and later of Green County, Tennessee.
Jane Innes Craig was the daughter of a John Burns, of Maryland and she was married to Samuel Craig about the year 1778 or 1780, and afterwards moved to Greene County, Tennessee, where she died in 1858 at the age of 90, having been born in Maryland in 1768.
I have in my possession certain papers over her signature which were filed in Greene County, Tennessee court in 1846 and this date leads me to assume that any papers filed in your office might have been filed about that year.
These papers may refer to some pension matter, or they may refer to other matters. I am not interested in the pension, should that
have been her object in filing said papers, but I am greatly interested in the records which she may have submitted or placed on file in your
office for whatever purpose, as I am making every effort to establish a
family tree which will go back through a direct line through the Craig family above mentioned and on back through her father, a John Burns, of Scotland. Unfortunately my family have lost many valuable documents touching upon this matter, prior to the birth of Jane Innes Craig, and it is this connection which we are desirous of establishing now.
I would greatly appreciate therefore if you will have the records in your office searched thoroughly for such information and advise
me at your earliest convenience of the result.
I would in particular appreciate any records which mention the names of Burns, Craig, or Innes, as it is through this line which I expect to establish the line I desire.
This is of utmost importance to myself and other living relatives of this lady and we will all greatly appreciate a thorough search of your
records and as full a line on the matter as your records may show.
Thanking you in advance, I remain,
Very truly yours
F. A Davis
2445 E 78th St.
full name
on Burns & Inness

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CHICAGO, Ill., Apr. 5 th. 1930

Commissioner of Pensions,
Pension Bureau,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir: -
On March 20 th., I wrote your department asking them to kindly search the records of the Pension Bureau and mail me any information
found relating to statements, records, etc., by one Mrs. Jane Innes Craig, wife of Samuel Craig, whom I have reason to believe were married in South Carolina about the year 1788 or 90, and who later moved to Greeneville, Green County, Tennessee, where Mrs. Craig died in 1858, at the age of 90.
To date I have received no reply from your department and am taking the liberty of making a second request for a reply to my letter as this information is of very great importance to me at this time,
in establishing a complete record of my family.
For your information and that it might expedite your search for such records I am submitting the following information regarding the above mentioned parties:
Jane Innes Craig was the daughter of John Burns who emigrated to America from Scotland in 1765 whose wife was Mary McCoy Burns, daughter of Samuel McCoy, of Ireland, whom John Burns married in Ireland
prior to sailing for this country.
In regard to Samuel Craig also Captain James Craig and John Burns I have just received the following information from the State
Library and Museum, Department of Public Instruction, of Harrisburg, Pa:
"James Craig appears as having served in the War of the Revolution, 5th Pennsylvania Continental Line. The reference found on
Page 74 of the Pennsylvania Archives, 5th Series, Volume III, states that James Craig was transferred to the Chief's Guard; re-enlisted
November 30th, 1781, his name appears on page 936 of the same volume, the Commander-in-Chief's Guards.
"The name of Samuel Craig appears in the same reference.
"If your James Craig resided in York County, I would suggest that you write to the York County Historical Society, York, Pa., for further information, and also to the Pension Bureau, Washington, D. C.
" The name of Major Temple would probably be found in the militia rolls of the State in which he resided at the time of his
service. You may probably be able to get this information from the Adjutant General, Washington, D. C.
"The name John Burns appears as having served in the Pennsylvania Continental Line, and also in the militia of Bucks, Chester and
Cumberland Counties."
The Major Temple mentioned above was related by marriage to Samuel and James Craig, and I mention his name in order to perhaps aid in locating these records.
The records in which I am vitally interested at present are any statements filed by either Jane Innes Craig, Samuel Craig, or
James Craig, or John Burns, which throw any light whatsoever upon the history of these three families prior to 1846, since which time we have a fairly good record.

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James Craig, son of Jane Innes Craig (but not the Capt. James Craig mentioned in the above statement) made a positive statement that his mother, Jane Innes Craig, had filed such information regarding the life records of Samuel Craig and herself with the Pension Bureau, in Washington, and that is the record we are trying to locate at this time.
I would greatly appreciate, at your earliest convenience, any reference your department might have on file regarding the family or war records of the above mentioned, namely, SAMUEL CRAIG, JAMES CRAIG, JANE INNES CRAIG (as I am informed all her documents were so signed) and JOHN BURNS.
I am not interested in this matter by reason of any prospective pension application upon the part of any one, but am very desirous of establishing a direct connection back, through Jane Innes Craig, her father John Burns and his wife Mary McCoy Burns, to the Innes family in Scotland, John Burns' wife nee Mary McCoy was a cousin of one Jane Innes, Spinster, of Edinburgh, Scotland, and it is to establish these records clearly that I desire this information, and it is of great importance that I do this at the earliest possible moment.
Thanking you for any help your department may be able to give me in the matter, I remain, 
Very truly yours, 
H.A. Davis
2445 E. 78th Street

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This is an addressed envelope that shows the following:

Round stamp that shows the post office lines through it. There is the side view of Jefferson with his name in capitals along the bottom of the stamp. The numeral "1" is on both sides of his name. I can only read POSTAL along the top

Another round stamp states: STATE COLLEGE along the top, OCT 7, 1 PM 1938 in the middle and PA middle bottom.

A rectangular box is stamped across the middle of the envelope and states:  THIS SIDE OF CARD IS FOR ADDRESS.

Another very light large stamp is stamped across and under the 2nd and 3rd stamp above and states:  Along the complete outside are numbers 1 through 12 like the numbers on a clock face. RECEIVED is stamped in the middle upper part of circle, OCT 8 the date is too light to read. Under the date is MAIL SUB-DIV and a  large 12 is near the bottom right side and there are 3 words that are not legible due the address typed over it.

The envelope is addressed to Veterans Administration  Washington, D.C.

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October 6, 1938
Gentlemen:
Will you please send me a record of Samuel Craig of Greene County, Tennessee, who was given a pension for services in the Revolutionary War.
Thanking you in advance, I am
Very Truly yours
Donald V. Gnau
Donald V. Gnau
Phi Sigma Kappa 
State College, Pa.

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There is a round stamp located at the top left hand corner. It looks like a clock face with 1-12 along the circle. An arrow tip is middle top then RECEIVED  underneath is Jan 3 1938 with MAIL SUB-DIV. VES. ADM and at the bottom of the circle READER NO. 19

Top right hand side shows Manhattan, Kans. 1334 Fremont Dec 31?-37

Sirs,- Your name has been given  me as a source of information for my records I wish for membership in D.A.R. (Given me by War Dept.) My records here show,
Samuel Craig, Capt.
Theodore Craig, Colonel
Isic Craig, Major
John Craig, Capt.
and two to follow brothers of above am in doubt as to being officers
Charles Craig, Capt
Hugh Craig,       "
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all these named are brothers and all came from Scotland and after service in the 
(over)

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Revolutionary War the aforesaid Samuel Craig settled in Penn near Philadelphia.  I shall appreciate all information and if you can't give me all who do I go to for it?

Thanking you in advance for all service you may give. Enclosed is my addressed envelope.
Sincerely yours
Mrs A.C. Ellis

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Typed letterhead states Mrs Albert G. Ellis - 1830 Laramie Street - Manhattan, Kansas
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
March 11, 39
Dear Sir - I wish your pension records of Captain Samuel Craig, born York Co. Penn/ Feb. 1760 on - Miss Jane Innis Burns 1787 in S.C. he died  in Greene Co. Tenn 7-1807

you sent me one pension claim W 348 But, I rec'd a paper of my membership in D.A.R they quote, also, - a "pension records Vol. 1 - p - 195; and there is some additional work there I wish you to please send me for my records. If you do not have said record, where do you suggest I go for it-?
Sincerely yours,
Mrs. A.C. Ellis

A round stamp looks like a clock face with 1-12 written around the edges. An arrow tip in the middle top of the stamp RECEIVED under it MAR 13 1939 then MAIL SUB-DIV then VETS ADM and at the bottom READER # 35

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February 25, 1938
SAMEL CRAIG
W. 348
BA-J/MMHF: MLB

Mrs. A. C. Ellis
1834 Fremont
Manhattan, Kansas

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Captain Samuel Craig, Colonel Theodore
Craig, Major Isaac Craig, Captain John Craig, John Bell of Virginia, Thomas Bell, Lemuel Bell, Thomas Shearman of Virginia, Captain
William Jones of Virginia, Major Temple of Tennessee who was employed
by the Government in the Indian Affairs during the period 1829-1844,
also, the Revolutionary War records of a Shackleford from Scotland, and
of any Lewises and Martins of Virginia, and the War of 1812 record of
Samuel William Shearman who was born in 1776 and died January 14, 1815.
Your letter containing the requests above was addressed to the
United States Commissioner of Pensions in order to obtain records from
Administration which department is now custodian of all the pension
that official in addition to that which you have obtained from the
Veterans Administration. Your letter has been received by the Veterans
records.
The records of the Veterans Administration show that a report was
furnished you January 12, 1938, in regard to Samuel, Theodore, Isaac,
John, Charles and Hugh Craig named above.
There are no claims for pension on file based upon service in the
Revolutionary War of Thomas Shearman of Virginia, nor of the Samuel
William Shearman in the War of 1812, cited above. No records could
possibly be identified of the John Bell, Thomas Bell, William Jones,
Martins and Lewises as those in whom you are interested.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator

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January 11, 1938
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
BA-J/MLB
Mrs. A. C. Ellis
1834 Fremont
Manhattan, Kansas
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the records
of the following named officers with surname Craig who served in the
Revolutionary War:
Captain Samuel Craig who later settled in Pennsylvania near Philadelphia
Colonel Theodore Craig
Major "Isic" Craig
Captain John Craig
also of their brothers who may have served as officers, namely,
Captains Charles and Hugh Craig, all of whom came from Scotland.
with the information furnished by you, no record could be identified
as that of the John Craig in whom you are interested. There are no
claims for pension or bounty land on file based upon service in the
Revolution of any Theodore Charles of Hugh Craig. Such claims are the
source of data furnished by this office in regard to soldiers of the
Revolutionary War. Information in regard to their military service
might be obtained from the Adjutant General, War Department, this city.
You are furnished herein the records of Captain Samuel Craig
and Major Isaac Craig.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator

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January 12, 1938
Samuel Craig
W. 348
BA-J/AWF
Mrs. A. C. Ellis
1334 Fremont
Manhattan, Kansas
Dear Madam:
The data which follow were obtained from papers
on file in pension claim, W. 348, based upon the service of Samuel Craig in the Revolutionary War.
Samuel Craig was a native of York County, Pennsylvania, date of birth not given, nor were the names of his parents stated. His father was a resident of York County, Pennsylvania, during the Revolution.
While a resident of "near Yellow Breeches Creek" in York County, Samuel Craig was commissioned January 16, 1777, Captain in Colonel Chambers' First Pennsylvania Regiment, was in the Siege at Yorktown,
and served until the close of the war. It was stated that he received a wound on his face by a sword, and that he was one of General Washington's Life Guard.
Shortly after the close of the Revolution, Samuel Craig moved to South Carolina, and married between the years 1785 and 1790 in Chester District, South Carolina, Miss Jane Innis Burns, daughter of John Burns of said Chester District; the name of her mother was
not given. It was stated that the family of Burns
was formerly of Pennsylvania.
Samuel Craig died in the month of July, 1807 at
his residence in Greene County, Tennessee.
The widow, Jane Innis Craig, was allowed pension on her application executed February 12, 1844, at which

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time she was aged seventy-four years, and living in
Greene County, Tennessee, where she continued to live in
1848, 1852, and 1856. She died May 10, 1858.
Samuel Craig and his wife, Jane Innis Craig, had
eight children, the eldest four were daughters, and
the youngest four were sons:
Polly or Mary, the eldest, was born December 3, 1791; she
married about 1809 in Greene County, Tennessee
, James Temple; in 1844, she signed
Mary Farnsworth, and was then of Greene
County, Tennessee.
Eleanor, the second daughter, was born April 4, 1795,
and married December 23, 1812, William
Anderson; the said William Anderson stated on
April 24, 1852 that he would be "fifty-eight
years old tomorrow, he was then of Washington, D. C.

The papers on file in this claim contain no further
discernible data in regard to children.
John Purnell in 1856 aged about ninety-one years and
a resident of York County, Pennsylvania, stated that he
was a relative of the widow, Jane Innis Craig; degree of
relationship not shown.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator

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April 16, 1930

F. A. Davis
2445 E. 78th Street
Chicago
Illinois.

Dear Sir:
     I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 348, it appears that Samuel Craig was born in York County, Pennsylvania, date not stated.

     While residing in York County, Pennsylvania he was appointed,  January 16, 1777, captain in Colonel Chambers' First Pennsylvania Regiment and served to the close of the war.  He was at the surrender of Cornwallis.

      He died in Greene County, Tennessee, in July 1807.  
      
      The soldier married between the years 1785 and 1790, in Chester District, South Carolina, Miss Jane Innis Burns, daughter of John Burns.
     
       She was allowed pension on her application executed February 12, 1844, at which time she was aged seventy-four years and was residing in Greene County, Tennessee.

     She died May 10, 1858.  A.B. (initials were handwritten)

     Eight children are mentions, the four eldest, girls, the four youngest, boys:
          Polly or Mary, the eldest, was born December 3, 1791. she married James Temple. In 1844 her name was Farnsworth
          Eleanor, the second daughter, was born April 4, 1795 and was married December 23, 1812, to William Anderson.
There are no further data relative to wife and children
Very truly yours, 
E.W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.

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October 1, 1929

Miss Amanda L. Bottorff
Box 355,
Charlestown, Indiana

Dear Madam:

     I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W.348, it appears that Samuel Craig was born in York County, Pennsylvania, date not stated.
     While residing in York County, Pennsylvania, he was appointed January 16, 1777, Captain in Colonel Chambers' First Pennsylvania Regiment and served to the close of the war.    He was at the surrender of Cornwallis.
     He died in Greene County, Tennessee, in July, 1807.     the soldier married between the years 1785 and 1790,  in Chester District, South Carolina, Miss Jane Innis Burns, daughter of John Burns.
     She was allowed pension on her application executed February 12, 1844, at which time she was aged seventy-four years and was residing in Greene County, Tennessee.
     She died may 10, 1858.
     Eight children are mentioned, the four eldest, girls,

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the four youngest, boys.   Polly or Mary, the eldest, was born December 3, 1791.   She married James Temple.   In 1844, her name was Farnsworth.   Eleanor, the second daughter, was born April 4, 1795 and was married December 23, 1812 to William Anderson.

     The enclosed are the histories of the only soldiers named Samuel Craig who served with the Pennsylvania Troops, found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.

                           Very truly yours

                          EARL D. CHURCH
                          Commissioner.

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In reply to your request of _________, received_____ for a statement of the military history of Semuel; Craig a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR,  you will find below the desire information as contained in (crossed out "his or") his widow's application for pension on file in this Bureau.
                               Md F. 348 (handwritten)
(the following is included in columns in a spread sheet; heads of the columns are below capitalized, while listings are hand written)

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OF APPOINTMENT: JAN 16, 1777
LENGTH OF SERVICE: to end of war
RANK: Capt. OFFICER UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED:  Colonel Chambers

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July 6, 1918

Mrs. Martha F. Elliott,
473 South Broadway,
New Philadelphia, Ohio.

Madam:
In response to your letter dated the twenty-seventh ultimo, you are herewith furnished the history of Samuel Craig, W. File No. 348, and advised that this, and Samuel Craig, W. File No. 3,075 furnished you under date of June 25, 1918, are the only soldiers of that name found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.

Very respectfully,

[name is illegible]

Commissioner

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April 25, 1939

Mrs. Albert C. Ellis
1830 Laramie Street
Manhattan, Kansas


XXXXXXX
XXXXX
SAMUEL CRAIG
W. 348
BA-J/MMHF:MLB

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you state that you have received the pension record of Captain Samuel Craig as shown in pension claim, W. 348, and state, further, that the Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution cites further record in regard to him as shown under your citation, "Pension Records Vol. I - page 195".
This office has no further information in regard to Captain Samuel Craig than was furnished you January 12, 1938.
If you will give the name of the volume referred to above, the county and state in which Samuel Craig was living, as shown in that volume, another search of the records will be made in your behalf; or if you are interested in the record of any other Samuel Craig and will furnish as much as possible of the following information in regard to him, another effort will be made to aid you: approximate dates of birth
and death, place of residence at enlistment and after service and given
name of wife or widow.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator