Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12638, Thomas Crook, N.H.

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(8-1776)
SERVICE
N.H.
Crook, Thomas
NUMBER
S. 12638
CONTENTS

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12543
Thomas Crook

admitted
12 mo. Private

[illegible]
Private 18 mo. & 16 days
March 26, 36

[illegible]
certificate

P. M. Vosburgh
Aurora
County of Erie
New York

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BRIEF in the case of Thomas Crook
or Aurora in the State of N. York
(Act 7th June, 1832)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? before a Judge
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? it does so appear
3. How old is he? 80 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period. | Durations of Service. | Rank. | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
In 17 | Years, Months, Days. | As a | Gen.

states that in the early part of June 1775 he inlisted into the N. Hampshire
State Troops, under Cap.t Nelsen in the Regiment commanded by Col.o
Timothy Butler, that he went to Quebec was at the siege and battle at that
place, when ordered from there was later sick with the small pox at "those
rivers" and was unable to leave there until the better part of April, and
begged his way home, where he arrived in June, about one year after
he entered the service

5. In what battle was he engaged?
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Piermont - N. Hampshire
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by
incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary evidence, and two living witnesses
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and is so, in what respect? the papers are
{(crossed out) not

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12543
888
New York
Thomas Crook
of Aurora in the State of New York
who was private in the Company commanded
by Captain [illegible] of the  [illegible] commanded
by  [illegible] on the NH  [illegible]
line for 12 mo.

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 40 Dollars & no Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 2 day of May
1833 and sent to
N. Kelsey Hull Willink

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $80.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4Sept $20.00
$100.00

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by W L Williams Clerk,
Book [illegible] Vol. 4 Page 49

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Thomas Crook
Pension papers
12 mo.
12.543

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State of New York
County of Erie:  On this 25th day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight Hundred & thirty two before the Honorable James Stryker one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of 
said County at the Town of Auora in said County personally 
appeared Thomas Crook a resident of the Town of Auora
in said County of Erie and State of New York aforesaid aged Eighty years and upwards who being first duly sworn 
according to Law doth in his oath make the following declaration n order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 
7. 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the
following named Officers and served as herein states
That in the early part of June 1775 at Piermont in the County of Grafton in the State of New Hampshire he enlisted into
the New Hampshire State Troops under Capt Nelson Liut
Abram Palmer & Clapp joined the Company at Piermont
foresaid. That he was at Piermont with the Company the most
of the time after he enlisted until about the first of September
but during a part of the time was at Haverhill about six miles
distant when his company frequently marched for drill
exercise. at Haverhill his Company drew their rations &
there was the Head Quarters of the Regiment to which
he was attached which Regt was commanded by Col. Timothy Butle. The other Regimental officers he cannot
recollect. That about the first of September the regiment
move from Haverhill aforesaid & this deponent marched
across Connecticut River into Vermont, to the Orion River and down that River to its mouth.  At Burlington
went on board of a Row Galley and went to the outlet of
Lake Champlain at Isle Aux Noir joined the Brigade
of Richard Montgomery and was there under the immediate command of Genl Montgomery. That at the time they
started to join General Montgomery they took with them about
two week provisions
The next morning after they joined Genl Montgomery &
after drawing ammunition moved down the River in boats
about about 3 or 4 miles and the stream there was so narrow that they were afraid of being picked off by parties of the enemy
skulking on the banks and they halted and organize a (Illegible) 
of the County

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the corps of about a hundred men to proceed on the shore by the side of the boats. That he volunteered and went on the show and recollects that after proceeding on the show awhile they found the bodies of 8 of Montgomery men who he understood had belonged to a party who had been sent down from Ile Aux Noix. That they proceeded down the Rine to within about a mile and a half of St. John when they made a stand. They got their just in the evening and soon after they halted the enemy threw Bombs and cannon balls from the Fort of St. John's.
The next day they marched around the Fort at St John's in the woods & about a mile and a half from St John's found about 300 of the Enemy with their field pieces 
engaged with Major Browns detachment who had secured themselves a shelter in an old windfall. That after the Main body of the Army (in which this deponent was arrived the enemy fired but there sounds with their field pieces & fled the Army encamped or on a my little horn the place when this skirmish war and besieged it John. That the Americans erected some battering on the East bank of the River foul opposite to St. John, and on the West side

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That he suppose it was in one of these 11 vessels that he went down the river and that in some vessel he went down the river St. Lawrence to within about 20 miles of Quebec when he landed with the other troops and proceeded to Quebec on land. That my Company was in the attack on Quebec and was among those troops who made an attack on the fourth side to draw the enemy to that quarter white Montgomery made the main attack on the West side. That in this attack which he thinks was in the last part of December Genl. Montgomery fill together with a five officer by the name of McPherson who was his aid.  That at the time of the attack he this deponent was so sick as to be unable to do duty for a week or ten days after.
That he staid at Quebeck during the winter which ever a my severe one limited some time in the month of March and during that time (except when he was sick as before stated) they suffered almost beyond endurance.  A great part of the time they are either on guard in Abraham Plains exposed to the severe and pinching cold or on snow shoes in scouting parties to see if the enemy was not preparing or attempting to strike there by surprise. That he there saw and talked with Arnold while he was confined to his bed with a wound in his leg which he had received in the attack on Quebeck
That in the month of March he was ordered from Quebeck to go to Montreal (with a couple of companies as near as he can recollect) and the second day was taken with the small pox and at three rivers was taken down with that disease and was unable to travel staid there in a nunnery for the latter part of  March to the last  of April and there as soon as he got able to travel he proceeded without money, alone, begging his way to Montreal where he arrived the first part of May.  That he staid there about two weeks but was so weak and unable that he did no duty and at the end of two weeks left there and went home where he arrived in June about a year after he left home the year before

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That at Quebec he was under the command of Capt House, Lieut Cornwell, F [First] Lieut Gould, I think  Col. Brown was the Col. of the Regt. That the first six months he was in the Company of Capt Nelson under whom he entered the service. That after he left Quebec he was sometimes with one set of officers and sometimes another but cannot recollect the officers names.
That he was born in Haddam Connecticutt on the 25th November 1751. That he has no record of his age and knows of none. That he lived in Piermont County of Grafton State of Massachusetts when he entered the service.
At the close of the War he lived at Corinth Orange County Vermont and staid there until about 27 years ago where he moved to Piermont aforesaid where he staid about five years from there he surrond to his present residence in Aurora Erie County in the State of New York about 20 miles from Buffalo where he has ever since resided.  That he always served as a volunteer and since received any written discharge. 
That he has no documentary or other evidence to from the service above set forth except that of his brother and of Levi Collins whose Testimony he intends to obtain and annex to this declaration that he is too infirm Charles to a hired Court that Deloss Warren Esquire Dr. Jonathan Hoyt and Col. Calvin Fillmore with many others in his neighborhood can testify in relation  to his character for veracity and their belief of his service as a soldier of the Revolution he hereby relinquish any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Thomas Crook
Sworn and Subscribed before me this 25th day of August 1832.
James Stryker
Judge of Erie County Courts

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We Jonathan Hoyt and Calvin Fillmore of the Town of Aurora in the County of Erie and State of New York hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Crook who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration that in believe him to be eighty years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to has been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Jonathan Hoyt
Calvin Fillmore
Subscribed and sworn before me this 25th day of August 1832 }
James Stryker
Judge of Erie County Courts
And the said Judge does hereby declare his opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states.  And the said Judge further certify after examining the said applicant on oath touching the ability of the said applicant to appear in court and affix refering other proof received by him that he is from bodily information  unable to appear in any court of record in said county to make the declaration required by the Act of Congress and the War Department.
And the said Judge further certifies that Jonathan Hoyt and Calvin Fillmore who have signed the preceding certificate are residents of the Town of Aurora in said County and are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit.
and the said Judge further certified that the above and annexed papers contain the original papers and proceedings in the matter of the application of Thomas Crook for a pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal at Aurora aforesaid this 25th day of August AD 1832
James Stryker
Judge of Erie County Courts

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State of New York
County of Erie } Charles Crook of Holland in said County being duly sworn deposes and says that he is of the age of Seventy seven years and upwards and that in the early part of June 1775 he resided with his father at Piermont in the County of Grafton in the State of New Hampshire and that Thomas Crook who subscribed the foregoing declaration is a brother of this deponent and is almost three years older than this deponent that at the said time before mentioned the said Thomas Crook also resided with this deponent at his fathers in Piermont aforesaid and that in the said early part of the month of June 1775 this deponent and the said Thomas Crook both enlisted or entered into the New Hampshire State Troops into a Company of Capt Nelson  Lieut Palmer and Clapp
This deponent further says that he has heard the foregoing declaration made by the said Thomas Crook was and that he proceeded in the same Company with the said Thomas Crook to St. Johns and remained with him in the same Company until the said Thomas Crook left St Johns is stated in the said Thomas Crook foregoing declaration  
That he is well acquainted with all the material facts stated by said Thomas as having taken place before he left St Johns and from that knowledge he knows the said statement to be true.  That the reason he did not leave St Johns with his brother was he was at that time too sick to leave the place.  That at or about the end of six months from the time he and his brother entered the service as aforesaid he returned home and lived with his father from the time of his return until his brother Thomas returned home 
He further says that his brother Thomas did not return until sometime in the month of June 1776 when he returned home and said he had been to Quebec and gave an account of his services sufferings and sickness the substance of which is embodied in the said declaration of the said Thomas.  And this deponent further says that

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he afterwards conversed with some who over in the Louis Company with said Thomas after he left St Johns and everything within his knowledge or  recollection confirms the statement of the said Thomas and this deponent has no doubt but what the said Thomas served as he states.
And further this deponent saith not 
Sworn and subscribed before on this 25th day of August 1832 }   Charles Crook
Deloss Warren Justice of the peace
I hereby certify that the above named Charles Crook is a credible person
Deloss Warren  J.P.
Erie County Elias Harmon being duly sworn deposes and says that he is a clergyman of the Baptist denomination has associated as a clergyman in the Town of Aurora when he resides for about 15 years last past except on the last Thursday and that he believes himself to be the Clergyman residing at the nearest to Thomas Crook who has submited the foregoing declaration: that he has been acquainted with the said Thomas Crook for the time aforesaid and believes him to be a man of unimproachable character and of unblematic [unproblematic] reputation for truth and veracity that although he cannot state he knows that the reputation that he was a revolutionary soldier is general in the neighborhood when the said Thomas resides that he now heard of contradicted that he should plan the most implicit confidence in the statement of the said Thomas Crook hereto annexed and has no doubt that he served as he states. And further says not.   Elias Harmon
Sworn and subscribed before me this 25th day of August AD 1832 }
James Stryker
Jus p of Erie County
Erie County ss  Lin Collier of Aurora being duly sworn deposes and says that he was a soldier of the Revolution and now receives a pension for his services as such that he is acquainted with Thomas Crook who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration and that he saw the said Thomas  at Three Rivers in March or April 1770 (he thinks in March) and of Erie County

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that he had him just recorded from are attach of the small part that he had confirm him acquainted with him and knew him well having resided near him after and that he knows resides near him and further faith not 
from before me this 25th day of August 1832 }
Levi Collins
Deloss Warren I certify that the above named Levi Collins is a credible Justice of the Peace person.
Deloss Warren J.P.
Erie County I Jonathan Hoyt of Aurora NY duly sworn deposes and says that he is well acquainted with Thomas Crook of Aurora in said county and from his knowledge and from inspection he is clearly of the opinion that the said Thomas who subscribed the declaration him to answered is unable pain bodily in privety to a hand Court at Buffalo 
Farmer and Merchantile before me this 25th day of August A.D. 1832
Jonathan Hoyt  Practising Physician
James Stryker
Judge of Erie Ct
I James Stryker one of the Judges of the County Courts of the County of Erie do hereby certify that the foregoing containing the original proceedings before me in the matter of the application of Thomas Crook for a pension and I further certify that it satisfactorily appear to me that Charles Crook of Hall and Elias Harmon Levi Collins and Jonathan Hoyt of Aurora are all credible persons and that the said Elias Harmon is a clergyman in good standing and that the said Jonathan Hoyt is a regularly licensed physician in good practice.  Given under my hand and seal at Aurora this 25th day of August A D 1832
James Stryker
Judge of Erie County

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State of New York
Erie County Clerks Office 

I Noah P. Sprague Clerk of the said County and of the Court of Common Pleas thereof do hereby certify that the Hon. James Stryker upon whom the foregoing proceedings one had in the matter of the application of Thomas Crook for a pension was on the day after date of the said proceeding to wit on the 25th day of August 1832 and still is a Judge of the County Courts of the said county duly appointed sworn and are thought to act as friend that he resides in said county and that full faith and credit an to be given to his acts in that capacity.
And I further certify that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Judge and that the signatures subscribed to the jurat of the foregoing declaration of Thomas Crook the affidavit of Jonathan Hoyt and Calvin Fillmore to the Certificate of the said Judge to the jurat of the affidavits of Elias Harmon and Jonathan Hoyt (as a practising physician) are in the proper hand writing of the said Judge are his genuine signatures and further certify that the signature purporting to be that of the said judge at the concluding certificate in the foregoing proceedings is also his genuine signature 
And I do further Certify that Deloss Warren Esquire whose name appears subscribed to the jurat of the affidavits of Charles Crook and Levi Collins and to the Certificates under the said affidavit was on the day after date of the said jurat and still is a Justice of the peace residing in the Town of Aurora in said Court duly elected from acting as such and that full faith and credit are to be given to his acts in that capacity.
And I further certify that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Justice that the said signature are genuine in testimony whereof I have hereunto [illegible] hand that of office at the City of Buffalo this 27 day of August S. D. 1832.
Noah P. Sprague Clerk of Erie County

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[Left side of paper]
Letter to Pension Agt.
29 June 1836

[Right side of Paper]

New York 8887

Thomas Crook Aurora in the State of New York who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Nelson of the Regt. commanded by Col. Burling in the New Hamp. line for 18 months and 16 days

Increased from $40.
Inscribed in the Roll of New York
at the rate of 61 dollars 78 cents per annum, to commence of the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 4th day of May 1836 and sent to P.M. Vasburgh Aurora Erie Co. NY
Arrears to the 4th of March 1836     $308.40
Semi ant. allowance ending 4 Sept.      30.84
                                                          $339.24
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by D. D. Addison Clerk
Book 82  Vol. 4  Page 11

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Pension Papers of 
Thomas Crook

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State of New York
Erie County ⎬ ss. 
On the 20th day of January 1836 personally appeared before me Jonathan Hoyt one of the
Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County Thomas Crook a Resident of Aurora Erie County aforesaid aged Eighty four years who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in addition to one heretofore made by him and filed in the War Department, in order to obtain the further benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832, according to the best of his recollection that in the month of April 1778.
he entered the service of the United States in a company whereof Ezekiel Ladd was Captain, James Ladd first Lieutenant and Ephriam Patterson Second Lieutenant in a regiment where of Timothy Bedell was Colonel John Wheelock Lieutenant Colonel and Josiah Stow was Major. That he continued in such service in said company until the month of April 1779 - and was
then discharged- That said Regiment or a part thereof during the time aforesaid was stationed on the frontiers on and adjacent to the State of Connecticut that when this Deponent made his former declaration under which he has until lately received a pension, he did not state his service in the Company herein stated, because he did not know that he could prove the same, and having been absent from the place of service for nearly thirty years he supposed it was impossible for him to prove it and that he should not have made this declaration had the not received affidavits from Moody Bedell and Joseph Foord stating his service in that year in addition to the testimony required by the Department for the purpose of having his pension continued
Thaus Crook
Sworn and subscribed the ⎬
day and year aforesaid
before me

Jonathan Hoyt one of the
Judges
of Erie Co. Com. Pleas

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Mr. Isaac Sabins and Cyrus M. Underhill residing in the town of Aurora in the County of Erie hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Crook who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be eighty four years of age; that he is respected and believed in the neighborhoods where he recedes, to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn and subscribed before m the 20th day of January 1836 }    Isaac Sabins  Cyrus M. Underhill
Jonathan Hoyt one of the judges of Erie Co. Com. Pleas.
And I the said Judge do further certify that in my opinion the said Thomas Crook is feeble and unable to attend in open court to make his declaration, and that after the invistigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states and I do further certify, that it appears to me that Isaac Sabins and Cyrus M. Underhill who have signed the preceding certificate are residents in the Town of Aurora aforesaid are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit 
In Witness where of I have hereunto set my hand this 20th day of January 1836
Jonathan Hoyt one of the Judge of Erie Co. Com. Pleas

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State of New York,
Erie County Clerk's Office, ss. }
I, HORACE CLARK, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify, that Jonathon Hoyt Esq, whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof or acknowledgement of the annexed Instrument of writing, was at the time of taking said proof or acknowledgement a Judge of Erie County Courts in and for said county, duly appointed and sworn, and authorised to take the same.  And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Judge "Jonathan Hoyt" and verily believe the signature subscribed to said certificate, to be his genuine signature.

In testimony wereof, I have hearunto set my name and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County this 25th day of January A.D. 1836
Horace Clark Clerk by 
C. K. Anderson Dep. Clk

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[middle section]

Richard [written to the side of invalid]
12.638
INVALID.
File No.  12,638
Thomas Crook
Pri Rev War

Act:  June 7th -32
Index:  Vol. [blank] ,  Page [blank]
[Arrangement of 1870.]

[Right side]

Aug 31 1903
Mrs Geo. A. Wallace
Buffalo NY

1916 Jan 3: Letter to Mr. Charles H. Leavitt referring to audits
m. 13th

1927 Feb. 15 photos to A. W. DeGoosh, U.S. Shipping Board Certy. (see receipt for payment in Andrew Crook, S15770) cm.

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[envelope]

James L. Edwards Esquire
Commiss. of Pensions
War Department
City of Washington

[left side]
June 27

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Mechs and Farmers Bank
Albany Pension Agency
June 24 1836

James L. Edwards Esquire
Commis. of Pensions,

Sir,

Your letter of the 20th with instructing me to suspend the payment of the pension of William Bean of oppenheim is received - I think it proper to inform you that we have no Pensioner of that name on our Books
I am in with great respect
You obt servt  [obedient servant]
Tho. M. Olcott
President

P.S.  In your letter of the 21st with you state that the Pension of Thomas Cook has been increased from $40 to $61.78 per annum - as we have no Pensioner on our Books of that name, we foreseen Thomas Crook is the pensioner referred to and will otherwise his hereto shall pay him accordingly

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[Envelope]

Apl 12 }          Pension Recipient                  free 

J. L. Edwards Esquire
Washington City
D.C.


[off to the left side]

Thomas Crook Apl 20
8887  N.Y.

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[Extremely faint]

Aurora Erie County N.Y.
April 12th 1836

Sir
In pursuance of your request I enclose the Pension Certificate of Thomas Crook
I am respectfully
Your obed Servt  [obedient servant]

P. M. Vosburgh

J. E. Edwards Esq.

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[Envelope]

William W.L.  }                    Pension Pafund Amer
Feb 1st          }

James L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.

[to the left side]

Feb 9
NY
Thos Crook

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Aurora Feby 1. 1836.


J. L. Edward Esq. Dss.

I inclose the papered in the [torn could not decipher] of a Revolutionary Soldier by the name of Thomas Crook, whose name has been [hard to decipher] on the pension roll  - He not only sends the proof required by the Department to have his name replaced, but also further proof which he thinks will entitle him to a further numeration for services not set forth in his original declaration
Yours Respectfully
P. M. Vosburgh

P. S. Please direct your letter to "Millid C" P.O.  Erie County NY

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I Joseph Foord of Lebanon in the County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire of lawful age being in my seventy sixth year, testify and say that I was well acquainted with Thomas Crook, formerly of Piemont in the County and State aforesaid now of Aurora in the County of Erie and State of New York, that the said Thomas Crook was a soldier in a Regiment in the New Hampshire line, whereof Timothy Bedel was Colonel in a company where of Ezekiel Ladd was Captain, James Ladd was first Lieutenant and Ephraim Patterson was Second Lieutenant John Whitlock was Lieutenant Colonel and Josiah Stow was major of the aforesaid Regiment that the said Thomas served as a soldier aforesaid in the Company of Ezekiel Ladd aforesaid one year commencing in April A.D. 1778 and ending in April A.D. 1779 I belonged to the second Company and Regiment during the year aforesaid and now well recollect that the said Thomas Crook was a soldier in said company with me during the year aforesaid that he was a good soldier and that he and myself were honorable discharged at the end of said year
Joseph Foord
State of New Hampshire. Grafton Ss. November 18th 1835 
There Joseph Foord who is personally known by me to be a person of truth and veracity and is considered and respected as such by all of his acquaintenance, personally appeared and made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed is true 
Before me Jason Allen Justice of Peace
State of New Hampshire  }
Grafton Ss.                       }  I Nathan B. Felton  Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County hereby certify that Jason Allen whose name is subscribed to the revolutionary certificate is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for County of Grafton, that his name subscribed to said certificate is genuine being written with his own proper hand  
[seal] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this eighteenth day of November AD. 1835
Nathan B. Felton Clerk

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Moody Bedel of Bath in the county of Grafton and state of New Hampshire of lawfull age being in my Seventy Seven Years testify and say That I was well acquainted with Thomas Crook Family of Piedmont in the county and state aforesaid now of Aurora in the County of Erie and state of New York - was a soldier in a regiment in the New Hampshire line whereof Timothy Bedel Col was Colol in a  company whereof Abraham Palmer was first Lieut Commandant and Charles Nelson I was Lieut as appears by the rolls now in my possession and now before me that the said Thomas Crook enlisted on the 16 day of June 1775 and was discharged on the 31st day of December following marching six months and 16 day both days inclusive and was paid Thirteen pounds  one shillings four pence lawfull money by the State of New Hampshire as appears by his name being signed to the list roll for wages clothing bulleting and this expedition and service was from this place to Canada under Genl Montgomery as has been stated in numerous depositions of my self and others
I further state that the said Thomas Crook enlisted in company whereof Ezekiel Ladd was Captain James Ladd, Lieutenant and Ephraim Patterson 2nd Lieutenant in our Regiment whereof Timothy Bedel Esquire was cadet, John Whitlock Esquire lieutenant Col and Josiah Stow was Major for the term of one year commencing in April 1778 and ending in April 1779 and belonging to the same company and Regiment at the time and am knowing to the said Thomas Crook being a good soldier and was Honorably Discharged and paid by the General Government by the hand of James Levar Paymaster of said Regiment which Regiment as a part of it was stationed on the Frontiers on and adjacent to Connecticut River as has been stated in a number of depositions hereafter given
Moody Bedel

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Grafton F Bath Sept 18 1835
Then Moody Bedel who is personally known by me to be and considered in the vicinity where he resides a person of truth and viracity [veracity] and I convey in that opinion and believe him an incredible disinterested witness - personally appeared and made solemn oath that the within deposition by him subscribed is true before me
Robert Marleton  Jus Peace

State of New Hampshire  }
Grafton  - - ss                   }  I Nathan B. Felton clerk of the court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Grafton hereby certify that Ebenezer Carleton, whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate was an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County on the 18th day of September last past, and has ever since been, and that his name subscribed to said certificate is in my belief genuine being written with his own proper hand 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this eighth day of October Anno Domini 1835
Nathan B. Felton Clerk
[seal affixed]

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Payments to be made at New York by Treadwell   G B Bank Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of New York

Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book E Vol. 4 Page 49 by W. L. Williams  Clerk.

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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Thomas Crook of the State of New York who was a Private in the war of the Revolution is entitled to receive Forty dollars and oo cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831 and payable semi=annually on the 4th [of] March, and 4th of September, in every year.

Given at the War Office of the United States the 2 day of May on thousand eight hundred and thirty three
Leed Coss
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned}  J L Edwards
                                    Commissioner of Pensions.

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

I.  Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?  Yes
II.  Did the declarant makethe declaration in the county where he resides?  Yes
III.  If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?  [left blank]
IV.  Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?  Yes
V.  Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served,  in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amout of pension he is entitled? No
VI.  Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?  Yes
VII.  Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? Yes
VIII.  Has the Court given their opinion?  The Judge has
IX.  Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes
X.  Is the Clerk's seal affixed?  And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?  Yes

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


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



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

XIV. + If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? yes
Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office? yes


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


XVI.  = Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct ?  met


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




EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V . IN a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of loss of memory, state precisely how ling he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
" Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the cousequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less then the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For __year ____ months and _______ days, I served as a _________. For ___ months and ______ days, I served as a _______; and for such service I claim a pension."

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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service.  The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged.  The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

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[stamp] U.S. Pension Office O Aug 26 1903
East Aurora Aug 23

To Com of Pensions Washington D.C.

Dear Sir
Will you please inform me if there is any record on of a soldier by the name of Thomas Crook who died Dec 29 - 1838 - and is known at East Aurora.  Please send the record if there is such record to 
Mrs George A Wallace
374 West Ferry Rt
Buffalo N. Y.

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1791 East Morrison St.,
Portland, Oregon, Dec 24, 1915

The Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Sir:
If you have the record, please advise me when the Revolutionary War pensioners Charles Crook, Svc File No. 17,902. and Thomas Crook Svc. File No. 12,638 died and when.  If they left widows what were their names?
Very respectfully,
Charles H. Leavitt

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MBH  [initials at top of page left corner]
Rev. War Section.

 January 3, 1918.

Mr. Charles H. Leavitt,
1791 East Morrison Street,
Portland, Oregon.

Sir:
In response to your letter of the 24" ultimo, you are advised that the Revolutionary War pension claims of Thomas Crook, Sur. No. 12638, and of Charles Crook, Sur. No. 17,902, it is not stated when the soldiers died or whether they left widows.
For the dates of last payments of their pensions and names of persons paid, you should apply to the Auditor for the Interior Department, Washington, D. C. citing the following data:
"Thomas Crook, Certificate No. 2887, issued May 4, 1838 at $81.38 per annum from March 4, 1833, under Act of June 7, 1832, at the New York Agency."
"Charles Crook, Certificate No. 24,441 issued June December 31, 1833, at $68.86 per annum from March 4, 1831, under Act of June 7, 1832, at the Buffalo Agency."
Very respectfully,
E. C. Tieman
Acting Commissioner.

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SUBMIT IN DUPLICATE  1-681 PHONE Branch 476
All inquiries regarding this job should refer to Requisition No, 1269
Requisition for Duplicating, Addressograph, Photostat, and Blue Print Work
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR   WRS [initials]
                  WASHINGTON
CHIEF, Division of Publications   Feb. 10, 1927.
Room G 137.  Please furnish work specified below.
Bureau ordering Pension Deliver to Room No. 
5033 
(ALL COPY FOR DUPLICATING WORK SHOULD BE PLAIN AND WRITTEN IN ELITE TYPE, EXACTLY LINE FOR LINE AS IT IS TO APPEAR ON FINISHED JOB.)
Title and description of job photostat copies of 5 pages from the Rev. War pension claim, S. 12638, Thomas Crook 
No. of copies 1 of each page  Shall form be kept standing?  no   [blank line] days
For further information see A. E. Wilson  Room No. 5033  Phone No. 341
Approved:  [Blank line]   AE Wilson
Chief Clerk of Bureau      Chief of Branch
NOTE:  No order made "SPECIAL" unless statement showing necessity is written below and approved by Chief Clerk of Bureau Ordering
[ Reed written over note.  Blank line underneath]
             CHECK WORK DESIRED 
Duplicate
Multigraph  single or double space? Facsimile signature?
Mimeograph Folding one side or both sides? Facsimile signature?
Assembling Stapling Once? Twice? Side? End?
Electric typewriter  Fill in addresses? Dated?
Addressograph from lists
Envelopes, size       Cards, size
Proof list                 Pay rolls
Labels (submit sample)    Tabulation sheets
[above left blank]
Photostat x Size actual Official use?  Repay yes $0.75
Blue Print  Size  Official use? Repay  $ [blank]
Remarks [blank]
   (over)
[On the left margin written]
rev receipt for payment in Andrew Crook S15270 over

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[Blank form for change of address]

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