Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2456, Nathan Crary, Conn. Vt.

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(6-1779)

Service
Conn. 
Vt.

Crary, Nathan 
Lydia

Number R.245.6
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Contents (blank)

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3909
New York
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Nathan Crary
of St. Lawrence in the State of New York
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain Allen of the Reg't. commanded 
by Col. Walbridge ^Col Gordon in the Connecticut + Vermont
line for 6 months + 13 days
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Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 21 Dollars 41 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
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Certificate of Pension issued the 31st day of Dec'r.
1832 and sent to J. L. Russell, Canton
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Arrears to 4th of Sep. 1832                        $32.12
Semiannual allowance ending 4th Mar'33   10.70
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                                                                  $42.82
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{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by Geo. C. Stiles, Clerk
Book D  Vol. 5  Page 83

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In the matter of Nathan Crary
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Declaration, in order to obtain benefit of the Act of congress passed June 7, 1832

11909

comitted
6 mo. 13 days priv.

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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832

State of New York
County of St. Lawrence ss: On this twenty fourth day of September 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of St. Lawrence now sitting Nathan Crary a resident of the Town of Pierrepont in the County of St. Lawrence and State of New York, aged seventy years, who being first duly sworn on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. He was born in the Town of Voluntown in the County of Windham in the state of Connecticut on the 9th day of March 1762. There is a record of his age in the Town Clerk's office in that source.
He served as a volunteer in the expedition to Rhode Island 1778 forty-five days in a company whose officers were Capt. Cady from Canterbury and Lieut. Buck and in a Regiment of Connecticut Militia or State Troops whose Lieut. Colonel James Gordon of Voluntown aforesaid, her Colonel's name he does not remember. Major Peters of Preston was called the Brigade Major. In the month of July from the 20th to the 25th day of the month he thinks, a certain number of the militia of Connecticut were ordered to turnout to march to Rhode Island. The applicant and Ensign John Wiley and a number of the militia in his vicinity volunteered. They marched immediately to Rhode Island crossing over to the Island at Howlands Ferry in Tiverton. At Tiverton, before they crossed, they joined a Brigade of Connecticut Militias or State Troops he does not know which. He saw several Regiments of Continental Troops cross over to the Island. There was a Brigade of American Troops under Gen. Glover. The applicant and his company were stationed at Tiverton after the rest of the regiment crossed over to the Island to guard some baggage
 
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which a severe storm persisted being taken over with the troops. A few days afterwards he and his company joined the Regiment and Brigade on the Island and marched with them on the left of the other troops down the Island to Newport, which was occupied by the enemy. He was on the Island one month, during which time until they retreated, he was employed every night in the throwing up entrenchments, not working by day on account of the fire from the enemy's cannon. When Gen. Sullivan retreated, he was on the right of the Army and not near enough to the enemy to be engaged with small arms at the engagement. The night after the battle he crossed with his Brigade over to the mainland. Camp there one day and marched on the next to Providence. From Providence he marched through Pawtuxet to Warwick neck and there was stationed one week from the last place. The Brigade was ordered to march to New London, and whilst on the march received new orders to march back to Providence, where he was stationed until about the middle of September when he with the whole Brigade was discharged and received his written discharge.
In March of 1779 he moved with his father to Clarendon (then in Bennington County) in the State of Vermont, where in the last days of November or first of December 1779 he again volunteered under Col. Claghorn and Capt. Thomas Sawyer to go against the Indians and Tories who had attacked the people of Neshoba (now called Brandon) and there killed some of the inhabitants and captured a Mr. Barker and his family prisoners. He marched to Olive Creek and was one on the constant march days and nights.
In March of 1780 a party of British and Indians came out to Skenesboro' (now Whitehall (NY)) and took the American guard there prisoners, and burned Mr. Skene's house. The alarm came to Clarendon where he again volunteered in a party under Capt. Ichabod Robinson to march across Lake Champlain to intercept the enemy. He marched through
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Castleton to Fort Independence and Ticonderoga but reached the latter place after the enemy had marched past down the lake. Here were troops from different other places not out in this occasion. Gen. Ethan Allen commanded the whole. He was engaged in this service just ten days and marched more than 100 miles, mostly through woods + deep snow.
In October 1780 he again volunteered on an alarm to go to Castleton, where the enemy were expected under Capt. Robinson. He was stationed at Castleton nine or ten days. When a call came for part of the militia to go to Pittsford to reinforce the guard there. He volunteered to go under Capt. Sammuel Allen, and marched to Pittsford where a few troops were there stationed under Major Ebeneezer Allen. He served there three weeks when he was discharged by Major Allen and returned home. He served one month at this place and at Castleton.
On about the 1st day of September 1781 he inlisted at Clarendon to serve for three months in a Regiment stationed at Skenesboro' under Col. Ebeneezer Walbridge, composed of different companies from Vermont, New York and New Hampshire raised to guard the post at that place. He served in a company whose officers were Capt. George Saxton, 1st Lieut. Forbes, 2nd Lieut. William Blanchard. He marched immediately with his company to Skenesboro' where he served three and a half months, being one fortnight longer than his enlistment. At the cessation
of the three months inlistment, on some of the first days of December 1781 the regiment was all discharged excepting a small party of whom he was one, left there under Lieut. Forbes to guard the stores until they could be relieved. He stayed on this duty two weeks after the rest were dismissed. And was then discharged in the latter part of December 1781 but received no written discharge. He never had a written discharge.
In addition to the forgoing services the applicant turned out on alarms for the defence of the country
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during the Revolutionary War whilst he resides in Vermont as many as four different times for a number of days at time, but he cannot remember distinctly the particulars of these services and does not claim any allowance for those. But he will recollect all the circumstances of the services above stated as follows 45 days in the expedition to Rhode Island; 3 days at the attack on Neshoba; 10 days on the expedition to Ticonderoga; 1 month at Pittsford and Castleton; and 3-1/2 months at Skenesboro' - making in the whole nearly six and a half months actual service.
He has no documentary or written evidence of his service and knows of no person living except a Mr. Nathan Smith, who served with him in any of these services. Mr. Smith, he believes resides in Lyons, Wayne County in the State of New York. He served with the applicant 3 months at Skenesboro'. He resided in Clarendon and in aforesaid about ten years after the close of the War when removed to Swanton and St. Albans and Highgate in Vermont at which places he resided until the year 1805 when he removed to the Town of Potsdam in the State of New York at which place and in the Town of Pierrepont where he now resides he has ever since resided. There is no clergyman residing in his vicinity. He is acquainted with (illegible) Rice of Potsdam - Zuriel Waterman of Canton and Samuel Northrup Esq. of Potsdam who all will testify to his character.
He truly relinquishes every claim relative to a pension except the present and declares that his name is not one the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid. (signed) Nathan Crary
(signed) A. C. Low Clk
We John Richardson of the Town of Canton in the foresaid and Jabez Healy residing in the Town of Parishville formerly in the Town of Potsdam, in the foresaid County of St. Lawrence hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Nathan Crary who has subscribed and sworn to 
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the above declaration: that we believe him to be seventy years of age: that he is respected to in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution: and that we concur in that opinion.
(signed) Jabez Healy, John Richardson
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid (signed) A. C. Low, Clk

And the said court do hereby declare their 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 stated. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that John Richardson who has signed the preceding certificate, is a resident of the said Town of Canton, being a neighbor of the applicant and is a credible person; and also that Jabez Healy who also has signed the same is a resident of the said of Parishville, formerly a neighbor of the applicant, is a credible person and that their statement is intitle to credit, and further that there is no clergyman residing in the immediate vicinity of the applicant.

I, Alvin C. Low, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the aforesaid County of St. Lawrence County Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Nahan Crary for a pension.

(Seal)  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this Twenty Sixth day of September One thousand Eight Hundred and thirty two.
(signed) A. C. Low, Clk

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No.11.909
Nathan Crary


No. 11909
Nathan Crary


admitted


John Leslie Russell
Canton
St. Lawrence Cty
New York

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No. 11909
Brief in the case of Nathan Crary of Pierrepont, County of St. Lawrence in the State of New York
(Act of June, 1832)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or Judge? Before a Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? Seventy years - 7"
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
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      Period            | Duration of Service | Rank  | Names of General and Field Officers
                            |                                 |            | under whom he served
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Served as a          | Years, Months, Days |As a     | Lieut. Col. James Gordon's Reg't.
Volunteer In 1778|     -          1.       15    | private| Connecticut State Troops Brigade
                            |                                   |            |Major Peters, Capt. Cady's Co'y
                            |                                   |            | Ensign Wiley
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1st December       |    -          -           3    |    "       | Col. Claghorn, Capt. Henry Lanza
1779 Volunteered |                                  |            |
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Volunteered March|    -          -        10    |    "       | Capt. Ichabod Robinson's Comp.
                       1780|                                 |            |
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      ditto - October |    -          1        -      |    "      | Capt. Lieut. Allen 
                       1780|                                 |            |
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Enlisted 1 Sept. 1781|    -         3-1/2   -    |    "      | Colo. Ebeneezer Walbridge, 
                                 |                                |            | Capt. George Saxton
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5. In what battles was he engaged?  (Illegible)
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Connecticut
7. In his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By living witness + by traditionary evidence
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? And is so, in what respect? Are vibrant.

X Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

(signed) Chas. G. Wilson, Examining Clerk.

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State of New York
St. Lawrence County ss
On this 25th day of March AD 1853 personally appeared before me the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, within + for the County and State aforesaid Lydia Crary a resident of the Town of Pierrepont and county and state aforesaid, who first, being 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 the 3rd of February AD 1853 and the Act Granting Pensions to certain widows passed July 29 AD 1848.
That she is the widow of Nathan Crary who was a private in the Revolutionary army. That he volunteered at Voluntown in the state of Connecticut on or about the spring of 1778 and continued in active service in said War for a term of six and a half months and was honorably discharged from said service. That she does not remember his Captains' names, but that Colonel Ira Allen was colonel and Sullivan was the commanding General. That he marched through Long Island. That said Nathan Crary her husband was a pensioner under the law of the United States of the 7th of June 1832 + that the said Nathan
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Crary was the identical person who was a pensioner at the time of his death under and by virtue of a certificate of which the subjoined is the original in his possession at the time of his death. That he drew annually twenty-one dollars and forty-one cents. That said certificate was given at the War Office of the United States on the 31st day of December AD 1832 and signed by Lewis Cass, Secretary of War and countersigned by J. S. Edwards.
She further declares that she was married to the said Nathan Crary in the winter of our Lord 1784 by Judge Moul Esq. That she has no public or private records of said marriage. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the second of January eighteen hundred viz, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four. That said Nathan Crary died at the Town of Pierrepont in said County + State on the 21st day of March one thousand eight hundred + fifty-two and that she is still his widow. "at the time of his death" inserted before names
(signed) Lydia (Her X Mark) Crary
Attest: (signed) Stephen Crary, (signed)  E Crary
Subscribed and sworn before me the date and year above written and I hereby certify that the said Lydia Crary is unable  from bodily
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infirmity to appear in open court and that she the widow of the said Nathan Crary deceased, and that she is the age first ("not stated" in different hand) above stated. and that he the said Nathan Crary is dead and I have no interest in said case.
(signed) Edward Crary, Justice of the Peace

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State of New York
St. Lawrence County ss
On this 25th day of March 1853 personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, appeared Oren Crary aged fifty-nine years, a resident of the Town of Pierrepont in aforesaid County + State who being duly sworn according to the law declares he is also well acquainted with Nathan Crary who was a Revolutionary Pensioner and that he is well acquainted Lydia Crary, his wife + know that the said Nathan and Lydia lived and cohabitated together for a great number of years as husband and wife. That from this earliest remembrance he knows them so living and cohabitating together. And that they so lived and cohabitated and were reputedly to be married up to the period of his death. That they raised a family of twelve children and that the oldest is now sixty-seven years of age. That the said Nathan died on the 27th day of March 1852 and that the said Lydia Crary is still his widow.
(signed) Oren Crary
Subscribed and sworn before me the day + year above written and I hereby certify
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that the said Oren Crary is the age above stated and that he is a creditable and disinterested person.
Signed Edward Crary, Justice of the Peace

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State of New York
St. Lawrence County ss
On this 21st day of March AD 1853 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County + State aforesaid Aarin Howard aged seventy-three a resident of the Town of Pierrepont + County and + aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law declares that he was well acquainted with Nathan Crary who was a pensioner for services in the war of the Revolution and was also acquainted with Lydia Crary, his wife, and knows that said Nathan and Lydia lived and cohabitated together for a great number of years as husband + wife and raised a family of children That they were so living +  cohabitating together when (he) first became acquainted with them in 1802 and that they then had eight children and the oldest of said children was about eighteen years of age and that they raised twelve children in all.
That they so lived + cohabitated until the death of the said Nathan Crary that said Nathan Crary died on the 21st day of March 1852 + that Lydiaq Crary is still his widow.
(signed) Aaron Howard

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Subscribed and sworn before me the day and year above written and I hereby certify that the said Aaron Howard is of the age above stated and that he is a credible and disinterested person.

(signed) Edward Crary
Justice of the Peace

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January 13, 1937

BA-J/MCS
Nathan Crary,R.2456
Elias Crary,R,2454

Mrs. C. B. Baker
Findlay
Ohio

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your request for the Revolutionary War records of Nathan and Elias Crary, of Voluntown, Connecticut, or Clarendon, Vermont.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, R. 2454, based upon the military service of Nathan Crary.
He was born March 9, 1762, in Voluntown, Windham County, Connecticut. The names of his parents were not given.

Thile a resident of Voluntown, Connecticut, he enlisted in July, 1778, served as private in Captain Cady's company in Lieutenant Colonel
James Gordon's Connecticut regiment, was in General Sullivan's Rhode Island expedition, serving forty-five days. In March, 1779, he moved with his father to Clarendon, Bennington County, Vermont, and late in
November or early in December, 1779, volunteered and served three days and nights on a march against the Indians and Tories and was under Captain Thomas Sawyer and Colonel Claghord of the Vermont troops. He volunteered in March, 1780, served ten days as private in Captain Ichabod Robinson's company under General Ethan Allen, and again in October, 1780, volunteered and served one month in Captains Robinson's and Samuel Allen's companies under Major Ebenezer Allen of the Vermont troops. He enlisted about the
first of September, 1781, and served three and one half months as private in Captain George Sexton's company in Colonel Ebenezer Walbridge's Vermont regiment.
After the close of the Revolution he lived in Swanton, St. Albans and Highgate, Vermont, and about 1805 he moved to Potsdam, New York, and from there to Pierrepont, New York.

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Nathan Crary was allowed pension on his application executed September 24, 1832, while a resident of Pierrepont, St. Lawrence
County, New York.
He died March 21, 1852, in Pierrepont, New York.
This soldier married in the winter of 1784, Lydia, her maiden name not given.
In 1853 she was living in Pierrepont, New York.

Nathan and Lydia Crary had twelve children and the eldest was sixty-seven years of age in 1853, no names given.
In 1853 one Oren Crary, aged fifty-nine years, was living in Pierrepont, New York and one Edward Crary was justice of the peace in St. Lawrence County, New York, relationship to soldier not shown.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file In the pension claim, in 2454, based upon the military service of Elias Crary.
He was born in Voluntown, Windham County, Connecticut, in 1764. The names of his parents were not given.
While living in Wallingford, Rutland County, Vermont, where he had lived since the Revolution, he applied for pension on June 6, 1844.
It was alleged that he served with the Vermont troops as follows: from the first of September, 1780, two months in Captain Abraham Jackson's company under Colonel Ethan Allen; from the first of December, 1780, two months under Captain Abraham Jackson and Colonel Ethan Allen; from the first of August, 1781, two months under Captain Abraham Jackson and
Colonel Ethan Allen; from the first of October, 1781, one month under Captain Samuel Allen and Colonel Ethan or Ebenezer Allen and was engaged in building Fort Pittsford.
The claim was not allowed as proof of the alleged service was not furnished in accordance with the requirement of the pension law.

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In 1844 Elias Crary's brother, Nathaniel Crary, aged seventy-eight, was living in Clarendon, Vermont, and in 1845 his brother, Nathan Crary, was living in Pierrepont, New York, aged eighty-two years.
There are no data relative to wife and children of Elias Crary.

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

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Lydia Crary
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Application for 
Pension
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Edward Crary
Madrid
St. Law. Co.
N.Y.

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Edward
Edward Crary
Justice of the Peace

St. Lawrence County
Clerk's Office ss
I hereby certify that Edward Crary Esq whose name is above written is a Justice of the Peace in and for St. Lawrence County, and his term of service commenced on the first day of January 1853 and will expire on the last day of December 1856, and further certify that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Justice and believe his signature above written is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said county this 19th day of March AD 1853.
(signed) George S Winslow, Clerk

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No 1278
Lydia Crary
Widow of Nathan
NY
Edw? Crary Sep 17 18(53)


24v6

Act 29 July 18(48)

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Copy
September 17, 1853.

Sir:
The application of Lydia Crary, widow of Nathan of New York, has been examined, and filed under the Act of 29 July, 1848.
I have to inform you that I can not correspond with you as her agent, you being the magistrate before whom the proof was made in the case.
Edward Crary, Esq.,
Madrid, N. Y.

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Nathan Crary
(faint writing)
Payments to be made 
at New York
by the Prsd US Br Bk 
Agent for paying Pension-
ers, in the Agency of
New York

Recorded by Geo. L Stiles
Clerk, in Book D Vol 5
page 83

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Has lived in Pierrepont since (balance to faint to read.)

War Department
Revolutionary Claim

I certify in conformity with the Law if the United States, of 7th June, 1832, Nathan Crary of the State of New York who was a Private in the Revolutionary Army is entitled to receive Twenty-one dollrs and forty-one cents per annum, during his natural life on the 4th  of March 1834, and payable semi-annually, on the 4th of March, and the 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States this 31st day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.
(Seal) Signed Lew Cass, Secretary of War
Examined and Countersigned}
J.L. Edwards

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In the matte of Nathan Crary ap'n for Pension
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Deposition of Nathan Smith

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war. I am well acquainted with the handwriting and verily believe his signature to the  above certificate and under the written affidavit or declaration to be his proper handwriting.
(Seal) In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affied the seal of the said County of Wayne this seventeenth day of September A.D. 1832,
(signed) Cullen Foster, Dep. Clk.

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State of New York
St. Lawrence County ss;
On this thirteenth day of September 1832 personally appeared before me, Jabez Willes, one of the Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of St. Lawrence Oney Rice, a resident of the Town of Potsdam in the County aforesaid and the State of New York, aged fifty-nine years, to me well known, after being duly sworn according to law deposes and says that he has been acquainted with Nathan Crary, now a resident of the Town of Pierrepont in the said County and State, and formerly a resident of the Town or Clarendon in the State of Vermont, since the deponent was a child. At the close of the Revolutionary war and for ten years afterward, the deponent resided in the said Town of Clarendon. His father was a sergeant in the Vermont troops and was often out in the service during the war with his neighbors, one of whom was the said Nathan Crary; but the deponent was so young then that he does not remember the incidents of the war. He recollects to however that for a number of years after the war was over, it was the general belief, understanding and report among the neighbors of the said Crary that he was engaged in the service for the defense of his Country at several different times during the war. The deponent, was a near neighbor many years ago to the said Crary, and used frequently to hear him state his services; particularly his going to Rhode Island, and Skenesboro' (now Whitehall). This was many years before any pension Law was passed by Congress. The deponent further says that the said Crary has always sustained among his neighbors a character of strict integrity and veracity: and further that his neighbors always, whilst the deponent was one of them, which is ne(ar) on those thirty years, have believed the said Crary to have been a soldier of the revolution. The deponent has no doubt of the truth of the said Crary's statement of his services.
(signed) Oney Rice
Ascribed and sworn to before me the ay and year aforesaid.
(signed) Jabez Willes
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 after before named Judge before whom the foregoing deposition was taken do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the Oney Rice, the said deponent, and that his sustained character of strict integrity and veracity; and that in my opinion his testimony is entitled to full credit.
(signed) Jabez Willes

St. Lawrence County} ss
I, Alvin C. Low, Clerk of the County of St. Lawrence in the State of New York whom the foregoing affidavits purports to have been made and whose name appears to the above certificate was at the time of taking the said affidavit and making said certificate one of the Judges in and for said County duly authorized. And further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Judge and verily believe that the signature to the said affidavit and certificate purporting to be his only signature.

(Seal) In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said county this 13th day of September 1839

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In the matter of Nathan Crary application for Pension
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Deposition of Oney Rice

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State of New York
County of Wayne ss:
On this seventeenth day of September 1832 personally appeared before me, Hugh Jameson, one of the Justices of the Peace of the Town of Lyons in the County of Wayne and the State of New York Nathan Smith a resident of the said Town of Lyons to me well known, who being by me duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and say that he is acquainted with Nathan Crary now a resident of the Town of Pierrepont in the County of St. Lawrence and state of New York and formerly a resident of the Town of Clarendon in the state of Vermont. That in the year 1781 the said Nathan Smith served together with the deponent who was a sergeant in a body of troops stationed at Skenesboro' (now Whitehall) at the head of Lake Champlain under the command of Col.  Ebeneezer Walbridge for the term of three months. They entered the service on or about the 1st day of September in a company under Capt. George Saxton, Lieut. Forbes, 2nd Lieut. William Blanchard and served together at Skenesboro' until the 1st of December 1781 when the troops were all dismissed and returned home except a small party left to guard the stores at that place, of whom he believes the said Crary was one. The troops stationed at Skenesboro' were partly from New York and New Hampshire as well as from Vermont; and were employed as a guard or garrison for the post.
(signed) Nathan Smith

Subscribed and sworn to the day and year aforesaid before me
(signed) Hugh Jameson, Justice of the Peace

The before named Justice of the Peace before whom the above deposition of the said Nathan Smith was taken do certify that I am well
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acquainted with the said Nathan Smith; that he sustains a fair character for integrity and veracity; and that in my opinion his testimony is entitled to full credit. None of town interested before execution.
(signed) Hugh Jameson, Justice of the Peace

State of New York
Wayne County} ss:
I, Cullen Foster, Clerk of said county do certify that Hugh Jameson, before whom the foregoing affidavit purports to have been sworn, and whose signature appears to the above certificate, was, at the date thereof, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly elected and sworn, and that I am well acquainted with his handwriting and verily believe his signature, to the above certificate, and under the written affidavit of Declaration to be his proper handwriting.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County of Wayne this seventeenth day of September A.D. 1832
(signed) Cullen Foster, Dep. Clk.

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In the matter of Nathan Crary ap'n. for pension
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Deposition of Nathan Smith

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Oct. 21. (18)93 Sent history to John W. Crary 35 E. 10th St. St. Paul. Minn
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Jan'y 13, 1904 - Hist. to A. M. Crary Herington Kas
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1905 Dec. 8 - History to Lewis J. Crary 
MAH
1907 Apl 24 Hist to Grace C. (illegible)
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1911 Nov. 15 Mrs. Charles H. Mead letter in S.F. 14806 Abraham Wells
1917 July 10 To Evelyn Crary Allen etc.
1917 Nov. 14 To Roger F. Williams letter in S. 11, 453 Elijah Spencer etc.
1918 Oct 19 To Prof. M.A. Crary + G. Crary Hurley etc.
see  carbon letter
1927 May 28 Hist. to Mrs. F.M. Davis - illegible
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1937 Jan 12 hist. to Mrs. C. B. Davis - MCS

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21456
Lydia Crary 
widow of Nathan
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"Rejected" stamp

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A. M. Crary
Justice of the Peace

(Receipt Stamp)
?? War & Navy
Dec. 15 1903
Files

Herington, Kas. Dec. 10th 1903

Hon. B. F. Ware
Pension Com.

Dear Sir and Comrade
I shall be under many obligations to you if you will by reference to your files along in the 40's or early 50's (not later than q851, and give me the command that Nathan Crary a Revolutionary Pensioner belonged to. Nathan Crary was my Grandfather, lived in St. Lawrence County, New York and died in March 1851. He drew a small pension for service as I before said in the Revolutionary War. 

Very truly yours,
(signed) A.M. Crary 
Late of Co. C 75th Ill. Vol. Inf'y. and Signal Corps

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A + C
"He who takes no interest in the history of his ancestors does not deserve to be remembered by his posterity."

(Seal or logo of Sons of the Revolution)
Minnesota Society,
Thirty-two E Furth Street, 
Saint Paul.

Aug. 25 - 93

Hon Wm. Lochren
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

Dear Sir:
Kindly send me Revolutionary Pension Records of 
Nathan Crary (46959 Inu)
Ezra Crary (not found)
Oliver Arnold (ow Inu 21611)
and oblige.
Yours very truly
(signed) Rukard Hurd

The above for John W. Crary 35 E. 10th St. St. Paul Minn
He thinks residence of above was in New York and Vermont.
(initial) H.

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Judges.
Marcus Kavanagh Chief Justice 
 Joseph E. Gary
Theodore Bretano
Farlin Q. Ball
Arthur H. Chetlain
Henry V. Freemann
Jesse Holdom
Axel Chytraus
Willard M. McEwen
Albert C. Barnes
Georg A. Dupuy

Cook County, Illinois
Superior Court
Office of Charles W Vail, Clerk

Chicago, Nov. 5 1905

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:
Can you furnish me any information as to military service in the War of the Revolution or State Militia of Elias Crary and his brother Nathan, Both of Vermont?
Elias Crary born Feb. 10(or)13 1764 died Sept. 8, 1847
Nathan Crary "  Mar. 9, 1762               "    Mar. 25, 1852
(sons of Ezra Crary born in Conn.)
My G.F. Elias Crary Jr. s. of said Elias was born at Wallingford, Rutland Co. Vt. 1795.
Elias Crary Sr. was known as "leftenant" Crary but I do not know whether on account of war or militia service. Judge Prentice of Conn. refers to him as "Capt" in pay book for year 1780 - (Col Hist'y N. Y. Vol XV p. 536) he was described as a "private" in a Corps supposed to be "Vermont Militia."
Yours respectfully,
(signed) Lewis J. Crary

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Hon. Vespasian Warner
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir
Will you kindly send me the records of military services of Elias and Nathan Crary who  enlisted under (as tradition tells me) once, Abraham Jackson 1780 and again under Samuel Allen 1781 - both times under Col. Ethan Allen.
I am very anxious to be identified with the 
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Daughters of the American Revolution and a cousin to whom you already sent the record tells me your information of these records is all that is necessary.
Thank you in advance for the forms.

I remain Resp't

Grace Crary Hagaan
615 Atlantic St.
Peoria, Ill

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Dear sir -
Will you kindly sent me the war record of my Gt. Grandfather Nathan Crary that I may join the D.A.R.?

Evelyn Crary Allen
8901 - 53 Ave
Portland Oregon

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Inclose you my Gt. Grandfather Nathan Crary's War Record and would like the official record so I may join the D.A.R.

Evelyn Crary Allen
8901 - 23 Ave SE
Portland Ore

(receipt stamp) U.S .Pension  Office Jul 3 1917
Received AGO Jun 19 191?

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Roger F. Williams
DeKalb Junction
New York

Letter dated Oct. 16 1917
    "     rec'd Oct. 18 1917

for Nathan Crary, b. 1762, of Pierrepont, St. Lawrence Co. N.Y.

Letter with Claim of Elijah Spencer, S.F. 11, 453 Rev. War

Please date circular Nov. 14, and give to F.W.

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office of
A.M. Crary
Justice of the Peace
Notary Public

Herington, Kansas .... 191....

3rd under Capt. Robinson, 4th under Capt. Allen. In last 2 enlistments no Col. mentioned. 5th under Capt. Saxton.
He applied for a pension Sept 24 - 1832 - was allowed a pension and died at Pierrepont NY March 21 -1852 at your grandfather's home. i was present at his funeral. Your line of descent from the said is Stephen Crary, son of Nathan Crary, Ryland Crary, son of Stephen Crary, which makes you eligible for membership on the D.A.R. and they can't get around it.

Very Truly Yours,
(signed) A. M. Crary
son of Appleton Crary, brother of the said Stephen Crary

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Office
A.M. Crary 1 Rev. Sec. H
Justice of the Peace
Notary Public

Herington, Kansas June 8 1917

Dear Cousin:

Your card of Inquiry as to which Nathan Crary our Grandfather was.
My information was received in a letter of E.F. Ware who was the Pension Commissioner and was date Jan'y. 13th 1904.
From that information, my grandfather and your Great-grandfather enlisted and served in the Revolutionary War in 1778-1779-1780 and 1781 - in 5 different enlistments in each as a private soldier. He served 1st under Capt. Cady and. Lt. Col. Gordon in Conn. 2nd under Capt. Sawyer and Col. Claghorn in Vermont.
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office of
A.M. Crary
Justice of the Peace
Notary Public

Herington, Kansas .... 191....

3rd under Capt. Robinson, 4th under Capt. Allen. In last 2 enlistments no Col. mentioned. 5th under Capt. Saxton.
He applied for a pension Sept 24 - 1832 - was allowed a pension and died at Pierrepont NY March 21 -1852 at your grandfather's home. i was present at his funeral. Your line of descent from the said is Stephen Crary, son of Nathan Crary, Ryland Crary, son of Stephen Crary, which makes you eligible for membership on the D.A.R. and they can't get around it.

Very Truly Yours,
(signed) A. M. Crary
son of Appleton Crary, brother of the said Stephen Crary

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Rev. Sec.

Sirs-
Will you kindly send me a copy of Nathan Crary's Rev. War record as found in I5S.6. R. File 2456. Rev. War. Records to E. Crary Allen, Cor. 56 Ave Portland Oregon, and G. Crary Hurley, Stanwix Hall, Rome, New York and one to the writer.

Prof. M. A. Crary
Boxholm
Iowa

(receipt stamp) U. S. Pension Office Oct. 16, 1918

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930 - 6th St.
Bismark, N. D.
Mar. 16, 1927

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen: - the War Dept. has sent me a list of 4 "Nathan Crary's" who fought in the revolutionary War. They enlisted in Vermont and Connecticut on dates ranging from 1778 to 1782. I am trying to establish myself as a D.A.R. Will you please tell me if a pension was paid to a "Nathan Crary" who was born Mar. 9-1762 at Voluntown Conn. + died in 1852. He is supposed to 
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have served in the Rev. War. from 1778 to 1781. He afterwards moved to Potsdam, NY. His widow's name was Lydia Arnold. I shall be very thankful to you for information regarding the pension, or anything bearing on the fact that ths particular "Nathan Crary" fought in the Rev. War.
Very Respectfully,
Mrs. F. M. Dairs
(receipt stamp) U.S. Pension Office Mar 21, 1927

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Rev. &1812 Wars Section
MMHI
May 28, 1927

Mrs. F. M. Davis
930 Sixth St.
Bismarck, No. Dak.

Madam:

I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim R. 2456 it appears that Nathan Crary was born March 9, 1762 in Voluntown, Windham County,
Connecticut.
While a resident of Voluntown, Connecticut he enlisted in July 1778, served as private in Captain Cady's Company, Lieutenant Colonel Jas. Gordon's Connecticut Regiment and was in General Sullivan's Rhode Island Expedition, service 45 days.
In March 1779 he moved with his father, name not given, to  Clarendon, Then Bennington County, Vermont and about late Nov. or early Dec December 1, 1779 volunteered and served three days and nights on a march against Indians and Tories under Captain Thomas Sawyer and Colonel Claghorn in the Vermont Troops.
He volunteered in March 1780, served ten days as private in Captain Ichabod Robinson's Company under General Ethan Allen, and again in October 1780, volunteered and served one month in Captains Robinson's and Samuel Allen's Companies under

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Major Ebenezer Allen in the Vermont Troops.
About first He enlisted September 1, 1781 and served three and one half months as private in Captain George Sexton's Company, Colonel Ebenezer Walbridge's Vermont [annotated: Rec p. 553 Vt book-] Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 24, 1832 while a resident of Pierrepont, Saint Lawrence County, New York. He died March 21, 1852 in Pierrepont,
New York.
Soldier married in the winter of 1784, Lydia, her maiden name and age not stated. She was living in said Pierrepont in 1853. They raised a family of twelve children, the eldest aged
sixty-seven in 1853, no names given.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.

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In reply to your request of (blank), received (blank)
for a statement of the military history of Nathan Crary
a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will find below the desired
information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen-
sion on file with this Bureau. R.7456
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Dates of         |Length of |Rank | Officers under Whom Service Was Rendered| State
Enlistment or |Service     |         |--------------------------------------------------|
Appointment |                 |        |        Captain                |          Colonel             | 
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July '78           | 45 days   |   P    |              Expedition to Rhode Island               |Conn.
                       |                |         |          Cady                  | Lt. Col. James Gordon|
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Nov. or Dec.   |   3     "     |         | Thomas (illegible)       |  Claghorn                   | Vt.
'79                  |                |         |                                     |                                    |
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Mar(?) '80       |  10    "     |         | Ichabod Robinson       | Gen. Ethan Allen        |
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Oct. '80           |  1 mo.      |         | Robinson + Samuel    | Gen. Ethan Allen        |
                       |                 |         |  Allen                          |                                    |
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Sept. '81         | 3-1/2mo.  |         | Illegible                       | Ebenezer Walbridge  |
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(3 blank lines)
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Battles engaged in (check mark)
Residence of soldier at enlistment, In 1778 he enlisted at Voluntown, Conn. In 1179, Clarendon, Vt.
Date of application for pension, Sept. 24, 1832 Allowed (in different hand)
Residence at date of application, Pierrepont, St. Lawrence Co. NY
Age at date of application, Born Mch. 9 1762 at Voluntown, Windham Co., Conn., Remarks: In March 1779 he moved to Clarendon, Vt with his father where abouts not stated. Soldier married in the winter of 1784 Lydia maiden name not stated. They had 12 children, oldest aged 67 yrs. in 1853 - no names stated. Soldier died Mch. 2`1, 1852 at Pierrepont, NY where his widow Lydia resided in 1853 - her application stated.

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Rev. War Section

October 19, 1918.

Professor M. A. Crary,

Boxholm, Iowa.

Sir:

In response to your undated letter received the fifteenth instant, you are herewith furnished the history of Nathan Crary, R. File No. 2,456 Rev. War, and advised that the same sort of abstract has been forwarded to G. Crary Hurley of Stan-wix Hall, Rome, New York, but that Evelyn Crary Allene of Port-land, Oregon was furnished the history of the soldier under date of July 10, 1917, and it was not the practice of this Bureau to furnish more than one such statement to the same person.

Very respectfully,

(signed) G M Saltzgaber
Commisioner.

(lower left corner) E.C. Allen has rec'd item 1917

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[upside down stamp] RECEIVED
JAN 4 1937
MAIL SUB. DIV.
VETS. ADM.
READER 23

Findlay, Ohio
Dec. 31, 1936.

Veterans Administration,
Washington, D.C..

Dear Sir:-
I should like to inquire if you have a Revolutionary War record of either Nathan Crary, of Voluntown, Conn., or Clarendon, Vt., or Elias Crary, of the same towns.
Respectfully yours,
[signed] Ada E Baker

Mrs. C.B. Baker,
Findlay, Ohio.