Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 39384, John Crookshanks, Va.

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Service
Va.
Crookshanks, John
Number
S39384

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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[Left Side] 4,719
Virginia Roll
John Crookshanks
Capt Sims
Private
Virginia Line 4
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 24th of June 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 1st of Decr [December] 1819 and sent to B Smith Esq. - House Representatives -

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 2 30m $18.93
Semi-anl. all’ce [annual allowance] ending 4 Mar: 1819   48”
$66.93

{Revolutionary claim,}
{Act 18th March, 1818.}
3 Years War

[Right Side] Cond [Continued] and Sent July 27, 1821 to Clerk of Greenbriar County, Va.

2/1893/946

The first letter may have been directed to George Co as second one was first to John.

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John Crookshanks
10th Virginia Regt. Col Stephens.
23rd June, 1818
The Judge, or presiding magistrate of the Court, before whom the within declaration was made, will certify that he is satisfied of the truth thereof, as well with regard to the services of the applicant, as to his indigent circumstances.

The certificate of the court as attested is sufficient and could equal to that of a funding Judge. CC

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Virginia 
Greenbrier County (to wit) 
At a Court Continued & held for this County of Greenbrier on the 24th Day of June 1818 
On the 23d day of June in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred & Eighteen personally appeared before the County Court of Greenbrier the same being a Court of Record John Crookshanks aged sixty five years next January Resident in the County of Greenbrier State Aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath make the following Declaration in Order to Obtain the provisions made by the late Act of Congress Entitled “An act to provide for Certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war.” 
That the said John Crookshanks Enlisted in the County of Augusta in the state of Va. in a Company of musquetry [musketry] Commanded by Capt. John Sims [sic: John Symmes] of the tenth Virginia Reg’t. [Regiment] commanded by Col. Stephens [sic: Edward Stevens] in the year of Our Lord seventeen hundred & seventy six for three years that he continued to serve in s’d. [said] Corpse [Corps] for three years & that he was in the Battle of Brandywine [11 Sep 1777] & Germantown [4 Oct 1777] & that after his said three years had expired he enlisted in the legion commanded by Col. Henry Lee to serve during said revolutionary war & that while he belonged to said legion he was in the Battle of George Town [Georgetown SC, 24-25 Jan 1781] & Guildford [Guilford Courthouse NC, 15 Mar 1781] where he was wounded in the right leg just below the knee & that he was then put into an hospital at Guildford Courthouse where he remained some time & then was taken to Charlott [sic: Charlotte] in North Carolina, from thence after some time he was taken to Camden South Carolina & then went to the head quarters of General Green [Nathanael Greene] in South Carolina where he was discharged,

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from service by the said General Green in the year 1782 that he has lost said discharge That he is now a pensioner of the United States as will appear by a reference to his certificate of pension signed by W. Eustis which he prays may be considered as part of this his statement 
War Department I hereby certify that by an Act of Congress bearing date the 27th day of April 1810 John Crookshanks now residing in the state of Virginia was placed on the pension List of the U States at the Rate of two Dollars and fifty Cents per month to Commence on the twentieth day of December Eighteen hundred and nine 
Given under my hand at the war Office of the United States the 24th day of January 1811 
W Eustis
{War Office Seal}

And that he has no other evidence now in his power of said service and that the pension now allowed him is not sufficient to support him & that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support & that he doth hereby relinquish the pension heretofore allowed him made to receive the benefit of the provision of the law herein before in part recited
The said County Court of Greenbrier do hereby certify that it appears to their satisfaction that the s.d [said] John Crookshanks did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding Declaration against the

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Common enemy for the time aforesaid an Continental Establishment & that they are well satisfied not only from his own Declaration on Oath but from the Testimony of Others that he the s.d [said] John Crookshanks is in Reduced Circumstances the Clerk of this Court is hereby directed to transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before this Court to the secretary for the department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned Act of Congress. 
I Lewis Stuart Clerk of the County Court of Greenbrier do hereby certify that the foregoing is a True Copy of the Record of Testimony offered to the Court on behalf of John Crookshanks together with his Declaration on Oath. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto Subscribed my name and affixed the seal of my Office this 4th Day of July 1818 
Lewis Stuart CCC

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John
Pri: Crookshanks
4719
Greenbriar County
S
July 27, 1821, Con.d [Continued]
and sent to the Clerk of Greenbriar County,
Lewisburg Va

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I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my Office on the 25th day of October one thousand eight hundred and twenty and in 45th year of the Commonwealth.
Lewis Stuart Clk [Clerk]

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Greenbrier County Court} 
October Term 1820} 
Virginia Greenbrier County to Wit, 
On this 24th day October 1820 personally appeared in Open Court being a Court of Record for the County of Greenbrier aforesaid constituted such by an act of the General assembly of Virginia, John Crookshanks Aged 66 years resident in said County of Greenbrier who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his Oath declare that he served in the revolutionary War as follows, that the said John Crookshanks enlisted in the County of Augusta in the State of Virginia in a Company of musquetry [musketry] command by Capt. John Sims of the tenth Virginia Regiment in the year 1776 for three years that he was in the Battles of Brandy Wine and German Town and after his three years had expired he enlisted in the Legion commanded by Colo. Henry Lee to serve during said Revolutionary War and that while belonging to said Legion was in the Battles of George Town and Guilford where he was wounded in his right leg, just below the knee, the 4th of June 1818 he made his original declaration before the County Court of Greenbrier which has been transmitted to the department of War, and thereupon a pension certificate was issued to him bearing date the 1st day of December 1818 No. 4719 and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift

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Gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an “Act to provide for certain person engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War” passed on the Eighteenth day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. All the property which I own is as follows one bay Mare, very old, two other Mares, eight or nine years old; ten head of sheap [sheep], two yearling cattle, two ovens & hooks, two kettles, one pair of hooks two old coffee pots, one tea kettle one old broken skillet [skillet], three chairs, one reed, one pair of gears two spinning wheels, one big wheel, two old water vessels, a shot gun, five old water buckets [buckets], two dishes, six bowls, fifteen spoons, eleven knives & forks, one candle stick, one tea pot, one log chain, two old broken shovels, a bar shear plough, gears three clevises, three hoes, five augers, two chessels [chisels] one gouge, a drawing knife, one reel, and one small trunk, four scythes, two sickles, one saddle, six tin cups, one pepper box, two pitch forks, one dung fork, one coffee mill, one flat Iron, one keg, two pint bottles, one churn, one strainer, four bridles, one cuting [cutting] box & knife, two hammers, pincers, nippers, two knives, fifteen old links, one pair of wool cards one curry comb, one mustard box, two axes, two

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snuffers, one Iron wedge, one griddle. My family consists of a wife who is fifty three years of age unable to labour [labor] in consequence of rumatic [rheumatic] pains, and four daughters, Elizabeth 27 years of age, Catherine 17, Hester 12 & Nancy six years of age, two of whom are able to contribute to their support, also three boys, Alexander, 17 years old, William fifteen, & George one year old, two of whom are able to assist in some degree in working to our support. I am a farmer aged 66 – owns no land and unable to support my self in consequence of a wound received in the Battle of Guilford Court House, below my left knee. I therefore from old age and inability am unable to contribute to my or my familys [family's] support. 
[signed] John Crookshanks

Sworn to and declared before the County Court of Greenbrier this 24th day of October 1820. 
It is the opinion of the Court that the total amt. in Value of the property Exhibited in the foregoing Schedule is One hundred and three Dollars, and it is ordered that the Clerk of this Court transmit to the Department of War for the United States, a copy of the foregoing Declaration and Schedule – 
A Copy 
Teste Lewis Stuart Clk [Clerk]

I Lewis Stuart Clerk of the County Court of Greenbrier do hereby certify the foregoing is a true copy of the declaration and Schedule of John Crookshanks 
In Testimony whereof 
I have

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I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my Office on the 25th day of October one thousand Eight hundred and Twenty and in 45th year for the Commonwealth.
Lewis Stuart Clk.

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39384
INVALID
Revy
File No. 39,384
John Crookshanks
Pri Rev War
Act: 18th March 18”
Index: Vol 3, Page 105
[Arrangement of 1870]

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Applicant aged 66 yrs. 
[Described?] Va.
- 53 yrs. old - Rheumatism
- 4 daughters; from 27 to 6 yrs old -

3 Boys from 17 to 1 yr. old 
Amt. of Sched. $103. 

Com. J. L. E.

Done
said 1st for 3 yrs. & aft said during the war -