Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 2482, Daniel Crenshaw, Va.

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(8-1776) 
SERVICE Va 
Crenshaw, Daniel 
Nancy 
NUMBER R 2482 
CONTENTS [blank lines fill the rest of the page]

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Revolutionary 
Pension 
Nancy Crenshaw 

Suspended 
Oct. 20/52 
Ten 

filed 21. Oct 1852 
F. E Hassler 
Attorney

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State of Virginia Lunenburg County. SS. 
I Thomas W Winn Clerk of the County Court in and for the County & State aforesaid and keeper of the records of Marriage do hereby Certify that I have Carefully examined and have not been able to find any record of the marriage of Daniel Crenshaw to Nancy Jennings, but that on the 11th day of June 1789 he executed a bond for that purpose which is now filed in the clerks office of the said Court.   In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official seal this 14th day of October AD 1852 
T W Winn Clerk 
[faint seal attached to the left side of page]

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Washington DC 
Oct 21. 1852 
Honorable J E Heath 
Commissioner of Pensions 
Sir. 
Enclosed please find record of proof of marriage in the suspended Revolutionary pension claim of Nancy widow Daniel Crenshaw an applicant from the state Tennessee. 
I am respectfully 
F. E. Hassler

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Declaration 

In order to obtain the benefits 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 
Williamson County 
On this 13 day of July 1848 personally appeared before the subscriber, one of the acting Justices of the peace in & for Williamson County in the state aforesaid. Nancy Crenshaw a resident of Williamson County in the state aforesaid aged seventy five 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 s made by the act of Congress, passed on the 2 February 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That sometime in 1781 her husband so David Crenshaw went into the service of the United States as a private, that she is not possative, whether he volunteered or was drafted. That he went out in the foot company

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That he joined the company to which he was attached in Lunningburg county in the state of Virginia. That he went into [illegible] service in the Virginia Line. That he resided in Lunningburg County Virginia at the time he went into [illegible] service. That Joseph Winn was his Captain. That she does not recollect his majors, nor his Colonels name. The Nal Green was his General. That after he Joined the army of the United states he marched through, different parts of the United States serving against the British & tories till his first tour expired, That his first tour was six months. At the expiration of sd first tour, he received a writen discharge from his proper officer. That said discharge was for six months service. She has seen sd discharge and heard it read many times That sd Daniel Crenshaw keep & retained sd discharge till his death and after his death, one of his sons came to a conclusion to burn up a great many of his fathers old papers and done so. [illegible] in so doing, burned up sd discharge by mistake. She states that the expiration of sd first tour said Daniel Crenshaw went into the service of the United

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States as a substitute. That she does not know any of his officers, [illegible] except George Washington was his General, when he commanded during his second tour. That after he joined sd army as a substitute he marched through different parts of the United States, serving against the British and tories till he served three months. That his second tour was three months. But she does not know, whether he received any writen discharge at  the expiration of sd second tour or not. That during his first, or second tour he was in the Battle at Guilford Courthouse that he served in all [illegible] months. That neither the said Daniel Crenshaw, nor this declarant has ever received any pension from the Government of the United States. She states that on the 2nd day of July 1789 in Lenningburg County, in the state of Virginia, she married, the sd Daniel Crenshaw she states, that after she married sd Daniel Crenshaw, he sd Daniel Crenshaw put down sd marriage (in his own handwriting) in a Hymnbook perporting to be a pocket Hymnbook.

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for the use of Christians of all denominations. And after sd Daniel Crenshaw put down sd marriage, he likewise put down the birth of three of her children. Which original writing of sd marriage, and births in the handwriting of sd Daniel Crenshaw is transcribed with declarant other declaration to the War Department. She states she married sd Daniel Crenshaw after he was done serving in the Revolutionary war. She is not possative but believes it was on or near the 15th of September 1831. in Williamson County in Tennessee, he said Daniel Crenshaw died . And she has never married any other person since his death And she at this time resides in Williamson County in Tennessee. She prays for a pension from the 4th of March 1848 during her natural life. 
Nancy her + mark Crenshaw 

Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year above writen before me. 
Pettus Shelborne Justice of the peace.

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[written on the back of a page from a pocket Hymnbook] 
Daniel Crenshaw and Nancy jenning was married [illegible] of july 1789 
Cornelous crenshaw was born may 12th 1790 
[illegible] Crenshaw was [illegible most likely born] july 6th 1792 
[illegible] Jennings Crensh [illegible] October 25th 1797

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[torn out page of pocket Hymnbook, backside contains family bible] 

INDEX. 
P. H. [these are column headers, I will add these letters to the corresponding numbers in the page] 
Thou Shepherd of Israel and mine --- [P] 199 [H] 213 
Thou God of truth and love --- [P] 224 [H] 235 
Thy faithfulness, Lord, each moment we find [P] 11 [H] 5 
Thy ceaseless, unexhausted love --- [P] 122 [H] 120 
'Tis finished, 'tis done --- [P] 38 [H] 35 
To the haven of thy breast --- [P] 132 [H] 131 
Two are better far than one --- [P]213 [H] 227 
Try us, O God, and search the ground [P] 219 [H] 233 
U 
Upright both in heart and will --- [P] 56 [H] 54 
W 
Watched by the world's malignant eye [P] 146 [H] 147 
Weary souls, that wander wide --- [P] 21 [H] 16 
Weary of wandring from my God --- [P] 91 [H] 87 
What now is my object and aim --- [P] 176 [H] 183 
When rising from the bed of death --- [P] 32 [H] 29 
When shall thy love constrain --- [P] 71 [H] 68 
When quiet in my house I sit --- [P] 151 [H] 155 
When all the mercies of my God -- [P] 196 [H] 209 
While dead in trespasses I lie --- [P] 70 [H] 67 
Why should [rest illegible] -- [P] 63 [H] 60

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Affidavit of Nathaniel Crenshaw in Nancy Crenshaw,s case.

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State of Tennessee 
Williamson County 
County court of the county of Williamson in the state aforesaid at August term 1848 on this 7 day of August 1848. in open court, personally appeared Nathanial Crenshaw aged forty-four years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following statement. That about ten years ^ago in Williamson county he heard George Andrews frequently say that Daniel Crenshaw did [illegible crossed out] go out two times, into service, and did serve two tours in the revolutionary war. He states that sd Andrews was at that time an old man, old enough from his appearance to have been a soldier of the revolution him-

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self And in one of said conversations with affiant, said Andrews informed affiant, he sd Andrews was a war neighbor of sd Daniel Crenshaw, at the time, he went out and served the two tours above mentioned affiant states he was intimately acquainted with sd Andrews and that he was a man of truth, and entitled to credit as to any statement he would make. He states that sd George Andrews informed affiant, that sd Daniel Crenshaw performed sd two tours of service at the same time that A brother of his named, John Andrews was out in sd service, and refered affiant to sd John Andrews for information. And but a short time, afterwards affiant went to sd John Andrews to get

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sd information from him. And sd John Andrews informed, affiant, that he said Daniel Crenshaw did serve with him and John Andrews two tours in the revolutionary war Affiant states that he sd John Andrews was at the time he had the conversation aforesaid with ^him drawing a pension from the Government of the United States. He states he was very well acquainted with the character, and standing of sd John Andrews. And he was a man of thruth, and entitled to credit. Affiant states sd George Andrews has been dead six or more years. And John Andrews died eight or nine years ago 
N.Crenshaw 
Sworn to & subscribed in open court court on the 7th of August 1848. 
L.B. McConnico Clk

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March 16, 1931 
Rev.& 1812 Wars Section 
EL 

Miss Blanche T. Dillin 
1021 Third Avenue 
Council Bluffs, Iowa 

Dear Madam: 

You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R.2482, that Daniel Crenshaw married July 2, 1789, in Lunenburg County, Virginia, Nancy Jenning or Jennings.  Both were then of said Lunenburg County, where they continued to reside for twenty-four years after their marriage, then moved to Williamson County, Tennessee. 
The soldier died September 18, 1831, in Williamson Conty, Tennessee. The date and place of his birth are not given. 
His widow applied for pension July 13, 1848, at which time she was aged seventy-five years and resided in Williamson County, Tennessee, and alleged that her husband, Daniel Crenshaw, while residing in Lunenburg County, Virginia, enlisted sometime in 1871, exact date not given, and served six months as a private in Captain Joseph Winn's Virginia Company; that he again enlisted, dates and officers' names not given and served three months, and that on one of these tours he was in the battle of Guilford Court House. 

Her claim was not allowed as she failed to furnish proof of the alleged service as was required by the pension laws.

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The following appears on the family records. 
Cornelius Crenshaw born May 12,1790. 
- - - - ze Crenshaw (illegible) " [born] July 6,1792. 
Polly Jennings Crenshaw  " [born] October 25,1794. 
In 1848, one Nathaniel Crenshaw was aged forty-four years and resided in Williamson County, Tennessee, relationship to soldier not stated. 
In 1856, the widow was still living. 
The above is the history of the only soldier named Daniel Crenshaw found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau. 
Very truly yours 
E. W. Morgan 
Acting Commissioner.

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Pension Office 
April 30 1836 
Sir 
I have the honor to inform you that there is an application on file in this office for a pension under the Act of July 7 1838. made by Mrs Nancy Crenshaw [Mrs Nancy Crenshaw underlined] of Tenn for service alleged to have been rendered by her husband Daniel Crenshaw in the Virginia Militia during the war of the Revolution. Of that service there is no record in existence. Such claims must therefore be established by the production of an original discharge- fixing the duration of the service rendered - or by witnesses who served with the soldier or who were in a position to know of his service. The testimony of no witness has been adduced who could have ^had any personal knowledge of the service; and it is shown that there is no Discharge [Discharge underlined] from service in her [her crossed out] the possession of the widow.- One witness swears that he once saw in Crenshaws possession a paper which he, (Crenshaw) said was a discharge from service and he (deponent) thinks it indicated 6 month's service.- Unless such was clearly the duration of the service, no

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Pension could be allowed upon it. 
In addition to the difficulty, which is raised on account of the uncertainty as to the accuracy of the witnesses memory after the lapse of many years, it is to be remarked that the tours of the Virginia Militia of [of crossed out] were uniformly for [for crossed out] of three [three underlined] months duration. I know of no instance where militia troops were raised for six months in that state. So that there can be but little doubt but ^that the witness was mistaken as to the duration of the service mentioned in the discharge required to, Indeed, he does not pretend to declare Positively that such was the case, He gives hi impression. -  A bar [bar crossed out] list of the suspended and rejected cases upon the files of this office was published by order of Congress, which has had a wide circulation and agents see the names given who have now seen the papers, and write to parties at a distance, craving a Power of Attorney. to prosecute their claim without knowing anything of the merits of them. I presume such persons [word crossed out] have written to Mrs Crenshaw in relation to her case- 

Hon F Zollikoffer 
HWRips

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Power of Attorney 
Case 
Daniel Crenshaw 
Virginia [crossed out] 
or 
Tennessee 

Oct-14-1852 
Ex [illegible] 
F E Hassler

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State of Tennessee 
Williamson County 
Best known that before me C. W. Kumael Esquire an acting Justice of the Peace in aforesaid County personally appeared, on the 18th day of September ^1852 Nancy Crenshaw aged seventy nine years, who being duly Cautioned & then Sworn, in due form of law states that she is the widow of Daniel Crenshaw Deceased. who was a Revolutionary Soldier. in the State of Virginia and that he died on the 15th day of September A.D. 1831 .-& that they were married on the 2nd day of July A.D. 1789 in the County of Lunenburg in the State of Virginia, where they now resided. & that they continued to reside for twenty four years thence next ensuing- & that they then removed unto the County of Williamson aforesaid where she the said Nancy from thence hitherto hath resided & Still continues to reside in And further more she the said Nancy Crenshaw by these presents constitutes - appoints & fully empowers and authorizes irrevocably & with powers of Substitution F.E. Hassler of Washington City District of Columbia, as her true & lawful attorney for her and in her name stead to examine into. to prosecute and to receive from the United States Government & State offers her rights in all and in any names of claim, for pension or bond & for [illegible] on [illegible] of pension or bond, that may be due her as the widow of Daniel Crenshaw [crossed out] Deceased, or in right of law she may be entittled 
 In witness whereof the said Nancy Crenshaw has on this 18th. day of September 1852 hereunto signed her name and affixed her seal 
Nancy her + mark Crenshaw [seal] 
Witness - J S Parks 
Witness - M G Gorey 
Signed. Sealed. acknowledged & Sworn to before me.

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Nancy. Crenshaws Declaration & other papers under the Act of 7 July. 1838 
[below is page 21 upside down]

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20.   [illegible] 

Returns to be made to John Bruce. Murfreesborough. Tenn. 

[below is page 21 upside down]

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Widow Crenshaw [written on top right of page if page was turned 90 degrees clockwise] 

Declaration. 
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled " An act granting half pay and pension to certain widows." 

State of Tennessee 
Williamson county 
On this 13th day of July 1848 personally appeared before the subscriber one of the acting Justices of the Peace in and for the county of Williamson in the State aforesaid Nancy Crenshaw a resident of the county of Williamson in the State aforesaid aged seventy five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of 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 Daniel Crenshaw that some time in 1786 her husband said Daniel Crenshaw went into the service of the United States as a private, that she is not possative whether he volunteered or was drafted, that he went out in a foot company. That he joined the company to which he was attached in Luningburg county in the State of Virginia That he went into said service in the Virginia Line That he resided in Luningburg county Virginia at the time he went into said service. That Joseph Winn was his Captain That she does not recollect his majors nor Colonels name [illegible] That Green was his General. That after he joined the army of the United States he marched through different parts of the United States serving against the

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British and tories till his first tour expired that his first tour was six months And at the expiration of said first tour he received a writen discharge from his proper officer. That said discharge was for six months. She has seen said discharge and heard it read many times. That said Daniel Crenshaw kept and [illegible] preserved said discharge till his death and after his death, one of his sons, came to a conclusion to burn up a great many of his fathers old papers, and done so And in so doing burnt up said discharge by mistake she states that at the expiration of said first tour said Daniel Crenshaw went into the service of the United States as a substitute. That she does not know any of his officers names except George Washington was his General. That after he joined said army as a substitute, he marched through different parts of the United States serving against the British & tories till he served three months that his second tour was three months. But she does not know whether he received any writen discharge at the expiration of said tour or not. That during one service, either while serving in his first or second tour he was in the Battle at Guilford Courthouse. That he served in all [illegible] She states that on the 2nd day of July 1789 in Lini-

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ngburg county in the State of Virginia. she married the said Daniel Crenshaw Declarent states that after She married said Daniel Crenshaw that he said Daniel Crenshaw put down, said marriage (in his own hand writing) in a pocket Hymn-Book purporting to be a pocket Hymn-Book for the use of Christains of all Denominations. And after he said Daniel Crenshaw put down said marriage he likewise put down the births of several of her children to wit three, Which original writing of said marriage and births in the handwriting of Sd Daniel Crenshaw, is transcribed with the other papers to the War Department, in this cause. She states she married said Daniel Crenshaw after he was done serving in the revolution. She states said pocket Hymn-Book was kept and detained by said Daniel Crenshaw himself till his death and after his death it was kept and [illegible] retained by this declarant shown to the present time. She is not possative but believes it was on or near the 15th of September 1831. in Williamson county in Tennessee he said Daniel Crenshaw died. She states she has never married ant other

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person since the death of said Daniel Crenshaw. And she at this time resides in Williamson County in Tennessee. She prays for a pension from the 4th of March 1838 to the 4th of March 1848 except from the 4th of March 1841 to the 4th of March 1843. She states sd Daniel Crenshaw drew no pension in his lifetime. 
Nancy her + mark Crenshaw 
Subscribed & sworn to before me on the day & year above writen 
Pettus Shelburne Justice of the peace.

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Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, this 13th day of July 1848. 

Pettus Shelburne Justice of the peace. 

State of Tennessee 
Williamson County 
County court of Williamson county in the State aforesaid. August term 1848. On this 7th day of August 1848. personally appeared in open court holden for the county & State aforesaid is Franklin Pettus Shelburne a citizen of the county & state aforesaid aged 61 years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following statement that about twenty two years ago he was at the house of Daniel Crenshaw in Williamson county and saw said Daniel Crenshaw looking for a certain paper amongst his bundle of papers And at length he said Daniel Crenshaw remanded and said here is my discharge. Affiant then ast said Daniel Crenshaw to let him look at said discharge, he immediately handed ^it to affiant. Affiant then read said discharge. And in substance it was as follows. It perported to be a discharge for services perported in the revolutionary War. It was a discharge, which had been given to him said Daniel Crenshaw, for services rendered as a private in the Revolutionary War. And was signed by Captain Joseph

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Winn who was the captain under whom said Daniel Crenshaw had served said tour, and likewise signed by General Green, who was the general under whom said Daniel Crenshaw had served said tour. as affiant has reason [next line added in] he believes said discharge was dated for 1781. [previous line added in] to believe & does believe. Affiant states that said discharge was for six months service. Affiant states that he has never seen said discharge since the time above mentioned But he has been informed, and believes, that after the death of said Daniel Crenshaw, that one of his sons come to a conclusion to burn up a great many of said Daniel Crenshaws old papers, and in so doing he burnt up said discharge by mistake. and states that all the time that he said Daniel Crenshaw showed him said discharge, and before and after that time, he said Daniel Crenshaw ^ frequently departed, and said that said discharge was not for all the time he served in the revolutionary War. For he had served two, or three months in addition, to what the services which was mentioned in said discharge. Affiant states, that in 1814 he heard one Samuel Sneed remark and say that the said Daniel Crenshaw did serve one tour with him said Sneed in the revolutionary War. That said Sneed, made the above remarks in the State of Virginia at the  time aforesaid. He states that sd Sneed was a man of standing & credit, and a man of truth. But he died about ten years ago. Affiant states, that more than thirty years ago one Drury Harrell removed from Lu-

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mingburg county in Virginia to Williamson County in Tennessee. And after he removed as aforesaid he remarked, and told affiant, that he said Daniel Crenshaw did serve with him sd Harrel one tour in the revolutionary War- He states sd Harrell  drew a pension from the Government of the United States. But he died seven or eight years ago. He states he heard said Samuel Sneed, and said Harrell both say in their lifetime, that they were with sd Daniel Crenshaw in the battle at Guilford Court-house. He stats that said Harrell was a man of credit, and truth, and his statement was entitled to credit. He states that more than thirty-five years, ago, one Henry Cook (who was an officer in the revolutionary War^as he believes.). removed, from Luningburg county in Virginia to Williamson county in Tennessee. And about twenty-nine years ago he heard said Henry Cook remark and say that he said Daniel Crenshaw was with him sd Cook in the revolutionary War. Affiant states sd Cook was a man of credit and truth, and his statement is entitled to credit ^ Cook has been dead eighteen years. He states, that in the forepart of the year 1816 . affiant himself removed from Luningburg county in Virginia to Campbell county in Virginia, and about the first part of the year 1817. he removed from Campbell county in Virgi-

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nia to Williamson county in Tennessee. And before he removed from luningburg county in Virginia, a report, was there generally circulated, and was generally believed, in that neighbourhood that he said Daniel Crenshaw ^was a private soldier in the Revolutionary War And this affiant concured in that belief. That he never heard it doubted, but what he was a private in the revolution in this country. And after affiant removed from Virginia to Williamson County in Tennessee A report was circulated, and generally believed in in, the neighbourhood in which sd Daniel Crenshaw resided in Williamson county, that he was a private soldier in the Revolution and affiant concured in that belief. And he never heard it doubted in Williamson county, but what he was a soldier of the revolution. Affiant states that the record, which contains, the marriage of said Nancy Crenshaw to her said husband Daniel Crenshaw, and likewise contains the births of their three first children, is the original record, which has been taken out of said pocket Hymn-book for the use of Christians of all denominations he states he was intimately acquainted with sd Daniel Crenshaw for thirty - years, and was very well acquainted with his hand writing. And sd original record is in the hand-writing of sd Daniel Crenshaw. He states he has been intimately acquainted with Nancy Crenshaw for forty-five years. And he has been intimately acquainted with Nath-

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aniel B. Smithson for thirty years and that they are both persons of very good credit, and their statement is entitled to credit on oath. 
Pettus Shelburne 
Sworn to & subscribed in open court on this 7th of August 1848 
L B McConnico CLK

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State of Tennessee 
Willamson County 
county court of Williamson County August term 1848 on this 7th day of August 1848 in open court, in the court aforesaid, personally appeared Nathaniel B. Smithson Senior aged seventy five years, (and is a citizen of Williamson county) who being first sworn according to law doth on his oath state as follows, that about eighteen years ago ^ in Williamson county [word crossed out] he affiant and one Drury Harrell, (who was a soldier of the revolutionary war) say, that he said Daniel Crenshaw did serve one tour with him said Harrell in the revolutionary war. Affiant states that he believes the tour to which said Harrell alluded to was a tour of six months. Affiant states that he after the declaration aforesaid made by said Harrell, heared him say many times, that he said Daniel Crenshaw, did serve with him said Harrell one tour in the revolutionary war. Affiant states that he said Harrell was a man of standing and credit, and a man of truth. Affiant states that the Daniel Crenshaw, of whom [word crossed out] said harrell spoke the words aforesaid ^ was [word crossed out] the same Daniel Crenshaw, who was in his lifetime the husband of Nancy Crenshaw who is an applicant for a pension

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in this case. He stated that said Drury Harrell is dead, and has been for several years. 
Nathanial his X mark B Smithson 
Subscribed and sworn to in open court. This 7th day of August 1848. 
L B McConnico CLK

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State of Tennessee 
Williamson County 
We the undersigned members of the county court of Williamson ^ county in the state aforesaid do hereby certify, that after the investigation of the matter in the application of Nancy Crenshaw for a pension, and after hearing the foregoing declaration and affidavits read. And after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that we are satisfyed and do fully believe that the above named Daniel Crenshaw who was the husband of said Nancy Crenshaw in his lifetime was a revolutionary soldier and did serve as stated in said declaration. And we do further certify that Pettus Shelburne who attested the foregoing declaration is a Justice of the peace duly elected, qualified, and commissioned, and the signatures purporting to be his are genuine. 
In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands on this 7th day of August 1848. 
Gilbert Marshall 
John P McKay 
Daniel Baugh 
Members of said Court.

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State of Tennessee 
Williamson County 
I Lemuel B McConnico clerk of the county court for the county of Williamson in the state aforesaid at the Court House in the town of Franklin at said county court holden for Williamson County at August term 1848 of said court on the 7th day of August 1848 in open court do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said court not isn session. That Nancy Crenshaw is the widow of Daniel Crenshaw, who was a private soldier in the Revolutionary war. And that he died on or near the 15th day of September 1831 in Williamson county in the state aforesaid. And that sd Nancy Crenshaw from age and bodily infirmity is unable to attend this court, and that Pettus Shelburne who has attested the above declaration is a Justice of the peace duly elected qualifyed & commissioned, & that the signatures purporting to be his are genuine. And said court fully approves of the prosecuting before said Pettus Shelburne Esquire. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal of office in the town of Franklin on this 7th of August, 1842 
Lemuel B McConnico

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[illegible number]3792 No 1379[illegible] 
Nancy Crenshaw 
Ten 
Len t John Bruce 
March 29 1849 
let 23 June 49 Wm T. Ewing. 
[illegible] 7 July 1838

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NO 13792 
Nancy Crenshaw 
Ten 
John Bruce 29 March 1849 [this line underlined] 
Secretary of the Interior 
20 June 1849 [this line crossed out] 
F.E. Hassler Ap 71853 [this line crossed out] 
Hon. J Zollikoffer Ap . 30 1856 [this line crossed out] 
2482 
Act 7 July 1838

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decision affirmed by Dc Interior 2d Oct. 1849

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Hnr Zolicoffer 
Mle 

Hon Mr Minot, 
Commissioner of Pensions, 
Washington, D.C. 

[rotating page clockwise 90 degrees] 
Mr Triplett with please 
answer 

Triplett

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[stamp on left side of page] Jan 26 Murfreesboro Te  
[stamp on right side of page] FREE 

Official Business 
Daniel Graham Esquire. 
Register Of The 
Treasury of The United States 
Washington City 
D.C.

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Murfreesborough. January 24th 1849 
Sir 
I received your letter of the 10th instant. But have not had time to see my client since I received sd letter. She is a very rich lady who lives in Williamson county. But I will see her, and make the [word crossed out] necessary inquiries as soon as convenient. I have transmited the papers in Mrs Crenshaw,s case ( they left my office on 4th of November last) she is an applicant for a pension under the act of 1838. I have likewise transmited the papers in Mrs Hyde,s case who is an applicant for a pension under the act of 1838. I have likewise sent on the papers in John R. Dunn,s case who is an applicant for a pension on account of the services of his father (Captain Silas Dunns survives who it is alledged was a captain in the revolution) But sir strange to tell I cannot get the Department to write me one word about neither of said cases, not with standing I am writing continually to them. I wish sir you would go to the pension office and request J. L. Edwards esq to make a report to you and you will please report to me in all sd cases. Or trie and get J. L. Edwards  Esq to report to me in sd cases. I should be glad to know why it is that they do not report to me in said cases. The papers go

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from my office to Washington in the course of six or seven days. And yet it is frequently sixty days after I transmit them before I get any return whatever. And sometimes ninety days, before I get any return whatever. You will please attend to the above request as soon as possable -  
Your obedient servant 
John Bruce 

Daniel Graham Esquire. 
Register of The Treasury of the United States 
Washington City 
D.C.

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[stamp] FREE 
J. L. Edwards Esquire 
Commissioner 
of  
Pensions. 
Washington City 
D.C.

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Murfreesborough. Rutherford county Tenn. October 4th 1848 
Sir 
I have transmited to you, Nancy Crenshaws declaration under the act Febuary the 2nd 1848. inclosed in this letter. And i hope for a decission in her favour and I hope that decission will very soon be made. Please make your return to me to this place. I am respectfully your obedient servant. 
John Bruce. 
J.L. Edwards 
Commissioner 
of  
Pensions 
Washington City 
D.C.

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J. L. Edwards Esquire 
Commissioner 
of 
Pensions 
Washington City 
D.C. 

[rotate paper 90 degrees clockwise] 

[stamp] Murfreesboro 
Oct 13 48 
Nancy Crenshaw 
Widow of Daniel Crenshaw 
deed. App. 
John Bruce

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Murfreesborough. Rutherford county Tenn. 
October 4th 1848 
Sir 
I have transmited to you the papers in Nancy Crenshaw,s case, in this letter under the act of 1838. I hope the case is made out to your entire satisfaction. Another gentleman lawyer was employed in sd case previous to myself but owing to some, cause or other he abandoned it. But since I have been employed, I have received the following information from sd lawyer. That while he was attending to sd case, he wrote to the clerk of the county court of [blank] county in Virginia. And sd clerk transmited to him a certifyed copy of the marriage bond , or lycience. Which was entirely satisfactory to sd lawyer. But he has lost, or mislaid the same & cannot find it . Said lawyer is entirely a gentleman, and has very high standing wherever he is known. Said certyfied copy of sd marriage bond or lycience has been obtained at [illegible hole in paper]

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able expence, and trouble. And then [illegible ink spill] unfortunately lost, or mislaid. But if the proof of marriage which I have send on to the department is not entirely sufficient if you will file sd proof & write me I will write on to Virginia and get another certyfied copy of sd marriage bond, or lycience. But I hope you will grant a pension, without puting the old lady to that additional expence and trouble. Please make your returns to me to this place. I am your obedient servant 
John Bruce 
J.L. Edwards Esquire 
Commissioner of  
Pensions. 
Washington City 
D.C.

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House of Representatives, 
Washington, April 28/56 
Dr Sir, 
I have just been apprized by a constituent interested as an heir, that Mrs. Nancy Crenshaw, widow of Daniel Crenshaw, a soldier of the American Revolution (having belonged to the Virginia troops,) has for some years had a claim pending for a pension and that the claim stand suspended in your office. Various claim agents have written to her that they would get the money, one half for the other. I have at present no further particulars of the

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case. Will you do me the favor to have the file of papers examined, and inform me upon what cause the claim is suspended? 
Very Respectfully, 
F R Zollicoffer 

Hon Mr Minot 
Com of Pensions

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F.E. Hassler 
April 7th 1853

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Pension Office 
April 7 1853 
Sir 
The state of the marriage of Nancy Crenshaw of Tenn- will be admitted. but no additional evidence of service has been furnished. The decision of the office, rejecting this claim, principally for want of proof of service, has been affirmed by the Secretary of the Interior. 

F.E. Hassler Esq 
Preval

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Campbellsville Tennessee 
May 23 
James L. Edwards Esquire 
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington City 
D.C. 

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resp. 9 Cl, June 1/49 
Nancy Crenshaw

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This papers was not with others on file at the time to report to the scrutiny of the Interior was made which was , 23 June [illegible] 
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Nashville May. 12th 1849 
Sir, 
I received your letter dated 29th March 1849 in which letter you stated that in the case of Nancy Crenshaw, that the service of Claimants husband, had not been established, in the names required by the regulations. Sir the claimant did possatively prove the service of her husband six months in the revolution by the affidavit of Pettus Shelburn. (Which affidavit you now have in your possession. Which affidavit is in substance as follows. In the lifetime of Daniel Crenshaw, the husband of Nancy Crenshaw, I saw him have a writen paper in his possession, I got him to let me look at the same. he then handed it to me. I read it, and it was a regular discharge, discharging sd Crenshaw from one tour in the revolution. And was a full discharge for six months service in the revolutionary. And was signed by the proper officer. Recollect sir that Pettis Shelburn could not be mistaken with regard to that important matter. For he has been a very respectable Justice of the peace in & for Williamson county in Tennessee for a considerable length of time. And sir it is not material at what time said six months service was performed, provided it was during the revolution. Sir you know that it is wholly immaterial at what period of the revolution that sd service was performed. As said applicant has proven possatively that her husband served six months, whether

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in the forepart, or later part, on middle, or any other parts of the revolution, that proof I know ought to be satisfactory. And besides sir in corroboration of the affidavit of Pettis Shelburn Esq there is the affidavits of Crenshaw, & one or two other persons who swore in their affidavits that they heard two other persons, who were soldiers of the revolution say, say that Daniel Crenshaw did serve as a soldier in the revolution. And that sd two old men have since died. Sir you will please again to examine the affidavit of Pettis Shelburn esq and the affidavits of those other persons. And please make out your memorandum, or letter , in which you will advance your reasons, showing to me why Mrs Crenshaw has not proven the six months, service above mentioned. As to evidence of marriage in time I know we have not proven that. I will send on that proof as soon as convenient. When you write in this case, please write me to Nashville Tenn. And hereafter you will please direct all your communications to me to Nashville, instead of Murfreesborough unless otherwise directed. 
your obedient servant John Bruce 
J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D.C.

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Washington City. 
3d July 1847 
To the Commissioner of Pensions -  
The enclosed letter is from a Tennessee Lawyer of more than twenty five years standing. 
He seems lately to have got into the prosecution of Said [Said underlined] case - Shall I amand him softly?  
Very Respectfully 
Daniel Graham.

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June res ay 
May 28 /49. 
J. Bruce. 
Complains of the decision of the Comm 
of Pensions, in the  
Claims of certain persons 
whom he represents - 

Comm. Pension 
for Refer 
Dept of the Interior 
June 21 /49 
[stamp over this writing] SAVANNAH [illegible] JUN 7 

[rest of page is transcribed on Page 58]

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[stamp] FREE 
[illegible]ellency. Zuceus Taylor 
President of The United States 
Washington City  
D.C. 
[on left side] W. Allison 

[rest of page is transcribed on page 57]

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P.S. 
If you wish to communicate to me, please write to Nashville Tennessee J. Bruce

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Pension Office 
March 29th 1849 
[illegible] by this office by D Graham Esq 
Sir, 
The papers in the case of Nancy Crenshaw widow of Daniel Crenshaw have been examined and filed under the act of 7 July 1838. 
Claimant alleges that her husband served a tour of 6 mo in 1781 under Capt Dunn. We have no knowledge of such tours of service either in the Virginia Line or Militia, The [word crossed out] Enlistments in the Line were not made for such short periods, and the Militia tours were under to 3 months. Crenshaw could not therefore have served as stated by applicant. It will be necessary before word crossed out] a pension can be granted in this case for Mrs. Crenshaw^ or someone who had [illegible] to set forth clearly the date of the Commencement and the termination of each tour of service and give the names of the company and field officers under whom they were performed which would be sustained by the testimony of two or more

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witnesses who were themselves engaged in the same service. The date of their marriage should be established by a certified copy of the marriage bond [word crossed out]  per the Clerks Office from which the license issued or some other kind proof. 
Further the service of claimants husband nor the date of the marriage have been established in the [illegible] required by the [illegible] 

John Bruce Esqr 
Murfreesboro 
Tenn 

[written to the right of page sideways] John Bruce March 29 49

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Pension Office 
June 23 1849 

Sir 
In the case of Nancy Crenshaw widow of Daniel Crenshaw in which Mr John Bruce of Tennessee appeals from my decision I have the honor to report that she alleges that her husband served a tour of six months from the spring of 1781 under Captain Winn and General Green and a tour of three months in the same year Captain Winn [word crossed out] belonged to the Virginia militia and the militia of that State at the period alleged were not called out to serve more that three months, [in most cases [crossed out]] After the battle of Guilford in March 1781, the militia who belonged to the adjoining states were generally discharged having served

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less than [six [crossed out]] three months, The statement of the second tour is vague and unsatisfactory. It is doubtful whether six months service in all was performed. No positive proof has been exhibited ^establishing six months service what is deemed requisite [to establish a [crossed out]] in this case. The papers numbered [words crossed out illegible] one and two are herewith enclosed, a return of what is respectfully requested 

Hon. T. Ewing 
Dep of the Interior

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Nancy Crenshaw,s declaration and other papers under the act of 2nd of February 1848

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Returns to be made to John Bruce. Murfreesborough Tenn. 

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13792 
Nancy Crenshaw 
Wid of Daniel 
Ten 
Act 7 July 1838 
2

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5 
State of Tennessee 
Williamson County 
Pettus Shelburne one of the acting Justices of the peace, in and for Williamson County in the state aforesaid do hereby certify that I have been intamately acquainted with Nancy Crenshaw, the person who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration for forty-five- years, and that she is a person of very good credit and that she is fully entitled to credit on oath. And I do further certify that oweing to the age & bodily infirmity of the sd Nancy Crenshaw she is unable to attend a court of record. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 13. day of July 1848. 
Pettus Shelburne Justice of the peace. 

State of Tennessee 
Williamson County

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State of Tennessee 
Williamson County 
County court of Williamson County in the state aforesaid August term 1848. holden for said county at the Court House in the town of Franklin on this 7 day of August 1848 personally appeared in open court Petus Shelburne a citizen of the county & state aforesaid aged 61 years who being first duly sworn according to law- doth on his oath make the following statement, that about twenty-two years ago he was at the house of Daniel Crenshaw in Williamson county and saw said Daniel Crenshaw, looking for a certain paper amongst his bundle of papers And at length, he said Daniel Crenshaw, remarked, and said here is my discharge. Affiant then [illegible] Daniel Crenshaw to let him look at said discharge, he immediately handed it to affiant, Affiant then read sd discharge. And in substance it was as follows. It purported to be a discharge for services performed in the Revolutionary War. It was a discharge which had been Given to him said Daniel Crenshaw, for services rendered as a private in the revolution. And was signed by Captain Joseph Winn. Who was

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the Captain under whom said Daniel Crenshaw, had served sd tour, and likewise signed by, General Green who was the General, under whom he had served sd tour as affiant believes. Said discharge was dated in 1781. Affiant states said discharge was for six months service ^ as he believes. He never has seen sd discharge since the time above mentioned. He has been informed & believes that after the death of sd Daniel Crenshaw, one of his sons come to a conclusion to burn up a great many of sd Daniel Crenshaw,s old papers, and in so doing he burnt u sd discharge by mistake. He states that ^at the time that he sd Daniel Crenshaw showed him sd discharge and before and after that time, he sd Daniel Crenshaw frequently remarked & said that sd discharge was not for all the time he served in the revolution. For he had served, two or three months in addition to the services, which were mentioned in said discharge He states in 1814. he heard one Samuel Sneed remark, and say, that he sd Daniel Crenshaw did serve one tour with him sd Sneed, in the revolution sd Sneed made the above remarks in the state of Virginia. Sd Sneed was a man of standing, and credit, and entitled to credit on any statement he would make. But he died ten years ago he states more that thirty years ago one Drury Harrell removed from Luningburg

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county county in Virginia to Williamson county Tennessee. And after he removed as aforesaid, he remarked & told affiant that he sd Daniel Crenshaw did serve with him sd Harrell one tour in the revolutionary War. He states sd Harrell drew a pension from the Government of the United States. And he died seven or eight years ago. He heard sd Samuel Sneed & sd Harrell both say in their lifetime that they were with sd Daniel Crenshaw in the battle at Guilford court-house. Sd Harrell was a man of truth, and credit, & at entitled to credit unto any statement he might make More that thirty-five years ago, one Henry Cook (who was an officer in the revolution ^as he believes) removed from Luningburg county in Virginia to Williamson county in Tennessee. And about twenty-nine years ago, he heard sd Cook remark & say, that he said Daniel Crenshaw was with him sd Cook in the revolution sd Cook was a man of credit, and his statement is entitled to credit But he has been dead eighteen years. He states that after removing from Luningburg county in Virginia^ to Campbell county in Virginia about the first part of the year 1817. he removed from Campbell county in Virginia to Williamson county in Tennessee. And before he removed from Luningburg county in Virginia a report, was there circulated and was generally believed. (in that neighbourhood) that he sd Daniel Crenshaw was a private soldier in the revolution. And

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affiant concurred in that belief. And after affiant removed, from Virginia to Williamson County in Tennessee, a report was circulated in Williamson county, in the neighbourhood in which sd Daniel Crenshaw resided and generally believed in that he sd Daniel Crenshaw was a private soldier in the revolution He states that the record, which contains the marriage, of sd Nancy Crenshaw, to her husband Daniel Crenshaw, and likewise contains, the birth of their Three children is the original record, which has been taken out of sd pocket Hymn named in sd declaration of Nancy Crenshaw. He was intimately acquainted with sd Daniel Crenshaw for thirty years, and was very well acquainted with his handwriting. And sd original record is in the handwriting of sd Daniel Crenshaw He states he has been intimately acquainted with Nancy Crenshaw for forty-five-years And he has been intimately acquainted with Nathaniel B. Smithson for thirty-years, and they are both persons of very good credit, and their statement is entitled to credit on oath. 
Pettus Shelburne 
Sworn to and subscribed in open court on this 7 of August 1848. 
L. B. McConnico CLK

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State of Tennessee 
Williamson County 
We the undersigned members of the county court of Williamson County in the state aforesaid do hereby certify, that after the investigation of the matter in the application of Nancy Crenshaw for a pension, and after hearing the foregoing declaration, and affidavits read. And after puting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that we are satisfyed, and do fully believe that the above named Daniel Crenshaw, who was the husband of said Nancy Crenshaw in his life-

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time was a revolutionary soldier and did serve as stated in said declaration. And we do further certify that Pettus Shelburne who attested the foregoing declaration is a Justice of the peace, duly elected, qualifyed and commissed, and the signatures purporting to be his are genuine And we do fully approve of the proceedings (in this case) before 
Pettus Shelburne esquire 
In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands on this 7th day of August 1848. 
Gilbert Marshall 
John P McKay 
Daniel Bough 

State of Tennessee 
Williamson County 
I Lemuel B, McConnico Clerk of the county Court of Williamson county in the state aforesaid do hereby certify that at the county court holden for said county of Williamson, at the court house in the town of Franklin at August term 1848 of said court on the 7th day of August 1848 in open court, that satisfactory evidence, has been exhibited to said court, now in session, that Nancy Crenshaw is the widow of Daniel Crenshaw who was a private soldier in the Revolutionary War. And that he died on or near the 15th day of September 1831

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in Williamson County in the state aforesaid. And that said Nancy Crenshaw from age & bodily infirmity is unable to attend, this court. And that Pettus Shelburne who has attested the above declaration is a Justice of the peace duly elected, qualifyed, & commissed & that the signatures purporting to be his are genuine. And said court fully approves of the proceedings before said Pettus Shelburne Esquire in this case. 
In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal of office in the town of Franklin on 7th day of August 1848 
Lemuel B McConnico

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[left side of page] 
1931-Feb 14- Hist 
to Mrs J.B.Bathgate 
EEf 
[line] 
1931-mch.16-Hist 
to Miss Blanche J. Dillin 
See lue letter via William 
Hall s.16142-Eef 

[right side of page] 
[acts of July 14, 1862 and March 3, 1873, [all crossed out]] 
2482 
P.O. 
Nancy Crenshaw 
Service:   Daniel 

Enlisted: [blank], 18  . 
Discharged: [blank], 18  . 
[stamped] REJECTED 
Application filed: [blank],  18  . 
Printed list of 1852 shows cause of suspension i- 
Alleges: "Suspended for further proof of service" 
Re-enlisted: [blank] 
Attorney: [blank] 
P.O. [blank] 
[blank] Recognized. [blank] Contract.

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Mrs. James B. Bathgate 
Polo, Missouri 
February 9, 1931. 

Commossioner of Pensions 
Washington, D.C. 
Gentlemen: 
I would like the history of the two following named soldiers in the American Revolution. 
Daniel Crenshaw [Crenshaw underlined] served in the Revolutionary War as a private in Captain John Hockaday's Company, 6th Virginia Regiment, commanded by Colonel John Gibson. He was drafted February 17th, 1778, for one year, was transferred in October 1778 to Captain Benjamine Taliaferro's Company, 2nd Virginia Regiment, commanded by Colonel Christain Febiger, and in November, 1778 to Captain John Stokes Company, same regiment, and he was discharged February 17th 1779. 
The name Daniel Crenshaw appears on a record under the following heading: A list of Soldiers of the Virginia Line on Continental Establishment who have received certificates for the balance of their full pay agreeable to an Act of Assembly passed November Session 1781. 
This record shows that on October 29, 1787, a certificate for 34, S 8 , D 4 , was received by Richard Johnson on account of his services. 
Nathaniel Crenshaw appears upon the same records showing the same service as that of Daniel Crenshaw. 
I would like very much for you to give me all the information you can find on your records of these two men Daniel Crenshaw, and Nathaniel Crenshaw. 
Thanking you for this valued service, as I am very anxious to learn the County where they lived and were enlisted from in Virginia, and am hopeful of gaining this information through the Bureau of Pensions, so I can write direct to their home County for further information. 
Very Truly Yours, 
Mrs. James B. Bathgate

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February 14, 1931 
Rev.& 1812 Wars Section EEL 

Mrs. James B.Bathgate 
Polo 
Missouri 

Dear Madam: 
You are advised that it appears from the Revolutionary War pension claim, R.2482, that Daniel Crenshaw married July 2, 1789, in Lunenburg County, Virginia, Nancy Jenning or Jennings. [illegible line crossed out] Both were then of Lunenburg County, Virginia, where they continued to reside for twenty-four years after their marriage, then moved to Williamson County, Tennessee. 
The soldier died September 15, 1831, in Williamson County, Tennessee. The date and place of his birth are not given. 
His widow applied for pension July 13, 1848, at which time she was aged seventy-five years and resided in Williamson County, Tennessee, and alleged that her husband, Daniel Crenshaw, while residing in Lunenburg County, Virginia, enlisted sometime in 1781, exact date not given, and served six months as a private in Captain Joseph Winn's Virginia Company; that he again enlisted, dates and officers names not given and served three months, and that on of these tours he was in the battle of Guilford Court House. 
Her claim was not allowed as she failed to furnish proof of the alleged service as was required by the pension laws. 
The following appears on the family record: 
Cornelius Crenshaw born May 12, 1790.

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---- ze Crenshaw (illegible) born July 6, 1792. 
Polly Jennings Crenshaw " [born] October25, 1794. 
[Their sons are referred to, names not given. [this line crossed out]] 
In 1848, one Nathaniel Crenshaw was aged forty-four years and resided in Williamson County, Tennessee, relationship to soldier not stated. 
In 1856, the widow was still living. 
The above is the history of the only soldier named Daniel Crenshaw found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau. 
Very truly yours 
E. W. MORGAN 
Acting Commissioner.