Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 9249, Stapleton Crutchfield, Va.

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Service                                                              Number
Va. [Virginia]   Crutchfield, Stapleton            S.9249

                                                                           carded

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Service                                                          Number
Va. [Virginia]   Crutchfield, Stapleton        S.9249
                         
                                                                        carded

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Virginia                             12.466
Stapleton Crutchfield

Goochland in the State of Virginia
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Hawkins of the Regt [Regiment] commanded
by Col. [Colonel] Lewis in the Virginia
[undecipherable) for 2 years.

d. [died] June 27, 1833

Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia
the rate of 80 Dollars ____Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th Day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 2d day of May
and sent to M Miller
Goochland C.H. Va

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833        160
Semi-ann. allowance                               40
                                                               $200

                                       {Revolutionary Claim,}
                                       {Act June 7,1832          }
William Miller - Clerk,
Vol. 6    Page 4

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Stapleton Crutchfield's Declaration

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State of Virginia
At a Court held for Goochland County, 20th August,1832.
State of Virginia
Goochland County
On this 20th day of August 1832, personally
appeared before the County Court of Goochland in the state of
Virginia, being a court of record, Stapleton Crutchfield, a
resident of said county and state aforesaid aged seventy three years
the 20th day of September 1831, who being first duly sworn, according
to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order
to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress
passed June 7th 1832. That he enlisted in the army of the
United States in the year 1777, for the term of three years with
Lieutenant George Holland, a recruiting officer, and served in the
fourteenth Regiment of the Continental line, under the following 
named Officers,  Colonel Charles Lewis, Colo William Davis, Major
Abraham Bluford, Major Samuel J. Cabell, Captain Moses Hawkins,
Captain John Overton, Lieutenant Thomas Holt,  Lieutenant George
Holland, Ensign John Boswell Johnson, Ensign Burford or Burfoot.
That he left the service in March 1780, that he enlisted in the
County of Goochland aforesaid, in which he resided when he entered 
the service, that he was in the battle at Germantown, and marched
through the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York,
he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or
an annuity except this present, and he [illegible] that his name
is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state.
Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforward.
   (signature of Stapleton Crutchfield.)
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion that the
above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served
as he states.
I William Miller Clerk of the Court of Goochland County
do hereby certify that this foregoing contains the original proceeding
of the said court,, in the matter of the application of Stapleton
Crutchfield for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto

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set my hand and seal of office this
29th day of August 1832.
Wm. Miller CC

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Stapleton Crutchfield
Va Roll
of the rolls

Admit for 2 years
as a private $80.

Wm Miller (clk) [clerk]
Goochland C.H.
Va

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BRIEF in the case of Stephen Crutchfield
County of Goochland in the State of Va
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? in Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 78 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period.
In 1777 left in 1780

Duration of Service.
Years 3
- Months,
- Days.

Rank.
As a
[blank]

Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served Col. Lewis l 
Col. L Cottrell
Capt Hawkin [illegible] 
5. In what battles was he engaged? Germantown
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Goochland Co Va
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by tradition
incidental evidence, or by the rolls? His own declaration
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? correct
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Richard Cutts
Examining Clerk

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Stapleton Crutchfield's Declaration----
For this purpose of obtaining the benefits, of the entitled on 
an act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers
of the army of the Revolution, approved this 15 of May
1828, I Stapleton Crutchfield of Goochland in the County
of Goochland in the State of Virginia do hereby declare
that I enlisted in the service of the United States, and
was attached to Captain John Overton's Company
under whose command I served three years, and in
the year 1780 obtained a discharge from him. In [illegible]
of the next year 1781 I joined the army under General LaFayette,
for the war and was again attached to the company of Capt. Overton
under whose command I served until after the surrender of
Lord Cornwallis at Little York in Va. my discharge
in this last instance I am not  certain that I got [illegible]
if I did, have either lost or mislaid it [illegible]  [illegible]
that after the s....(writing too faded)...........that I....( too faded)
carrying some ......(writing too faded)....to the Maryland line
I surrendered them to the .............troops of ...............state
I was a private in the 10th Va. Regiment on continental establishment
Witnessing hand this 31st of December in the year of 1878
(signature of Stapleton  Crutchfield)

Before me Benjamin Bradshaw a justice of the
peace duly empowered to administer oaths in the
County of Goochland in the State of Va. personally
appeared this day Anthony Leyors and Rechard

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Layne-------of the said county who did severally
make oath that Stapleton Crutchfield by whom the
foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally believed
and requested to have been a soldier in the army of the
revolution in the manner as therein stated. Witness
and hand this 31 day of Dec. in the year 1828.
(signature of Benjamin Bradshaw)

Know all men by these presents that I Stapleton
Crutchfield of the county of Goochland in the State
of Va. do constitute and appoint Thomas Underwood
in the city of Richmond my true and lawful attorney
with the power of substitution for me and in my
name to act and receive from the United States the
amount of pay now due me, under(CROSSED OUT" the act entitled")
an act for the relief of certain surviving  [illegible]
soldiers of the Revolution approved the 15th  of May
1828 as a soldier in the tenth regiment of the army
of the Revolution. Witness my hand and seal this
31st day of Dec. in the year 1828.
Sealed & delivered                 (signature of Stapleton crutchfield)
In presence of

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(illegible) of the said county who did severally make oath that Stapleton Crutchfield by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally believed and reputed to have been a soldier in the army of the revolution in the manner as there in stated. Witness My hand this 31 day of Dec. in the year 1828
                                          Benjamin Bradshaw
Know all men by these presents that I Stapleton Crutchfield of the county of Goochland in the state of Va. do constitute and appoint Thomas Underwood
of the city of Richmond my true and lawful attorney with a power of Substitution for me and in my name to act and receive from the United States the amount of pay now due me, under the Act entitled, or an Act for the relief of certain surviving officers & soldiers of the Revolution approved the 15 th of May 1828 as a soldier in the tenth regiment of the Army of the Revolution Witness my hand and seal this 31 st day of Dec. in the year 1828

Sealed & delivered                   Stapleton Crutchfield ( Seal)

In presence of


                                                             Before

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Before me Benjamin Bradshaw a justice of the
peace in the County of Goochland, personally appeared Stapleton Crutchfield whose name is
subscribed to the foregoing power of attorney and acknowledged the same to be his act and deed and deed. I also declared that the same was not given by reason of any transfer or of any attachment, levy or seizure by any legal process whatever, of the pay therein authorized to be received, but that the said
pay is intended to enure wholly to his personal
benefit. Witness my hand this 31st day of Decr
in the year 1828
Benjamin Bradshaw
Before me Benjamin Bradshaw a justice of the
peace in the County of Goochland in the State of Va personally appeared this day Thomas Underwood the Attorney named in the foregoing power of Attorney and made oath, that the same was not given to him
by reason of any transfer, or of any attachment, levy or seizure by any legal process whatever of the pay
therein authorised to be received, but that the said pay is intended to enure wholly to the personal benefit of the person by whom said power was executed.
Witness my hand this 31st day of Decem in the year 1828.
Benjamin Bradshaw

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I William Miller Clerk of the County of Goochland
in the State of Virginia, do hereby certify that Benjamin Bradshaw before whom the foregoing Declaration, power of Attorney and affidavits were sworn & acknowledged, was at the time a Justice of the peace and duly empowered to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of
the said Court this first day of January
in the year 1829
Wm Miller
C.C.C.

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Rev. & 1812 War Section
May 24, 1928

James Stapleton Moore
1760 Columbia Road, N.W.
Washington, D.C.

Sir:

I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 9249, it appears that STAPLETON CRUTCHFIELD was born September 20, 1758, place not stated. 

While a resident of Goochland County, Virginia, he enlisted in 1777 as a private in Captain John Overton's Company in Colonel Charles Lewis' Virginia Regiment; he was in the battle of Germantown and was discharged February 14, 1780. He enlisted late in 1780 or early in 1781 in Captain John Overton's Virginia Company; he was in the siege if Yorktown and was discharged soon after.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 20, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Goochland County, Virginia. 

He died June 27, 1833.

There are no data on file relative to the family of Stapleton Crutchfield. 

The Revolutionary War records of this bureau fail to afford any information in regard to a Thomas Crutchfield.

Respectfully, 
Winfield Scott
Commissioner

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9249
INVALID.
Rev War
No. 9249
Stapleton Crutchfield
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7, 1832
[In}dex: -- Vol. 1st , Page 81
[Arrangement of 1870.]


1916, Apr. 28. History to
History to Mrs. Henry C. Stone F. W.
(through Mrs Grace Pierce)

1918, May 8. History to
Mrs. P. J. Allen    F. W.

1927 June 27 hist. to
Mrs. W. E. Gannett   M.C. S.
N

28 May 24 Hist to
Jas. Stapleton Moore M. C. S.

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Please send same to Miss Grace Pierce Registrar General D.A.R - Continental Hall - (Line of Stapleton Crutchfield of Virginia-)

Personal request of Apr. 28, 1916

Mrs. Henry C Stone, 1928 Dublin St. New Orleans, La.

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REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
17 Jany 1829.

Stapleton Crutchfield of [blank] in the County of Goochland in the State of Virginia has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private in captain Overton's company, in the Tenth regiment of the Virginia line; and that he ^did not state that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pension since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing.

The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by  By Order of the Secretary
FA Dickins.

1828 [unintelligible]

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, 
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
20 January 1829

It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to [blank] in the [blank] 
It further appears that Stapleton Crutchfield is ^not now on the pension list of any agency , and has ^not been so since the 3d March1826

The name of Stapleton Crutchfield cannot be found among those of the Virginia line to [unintelligible] Certificates for the gratuity of Eighty Dollars were issued - 
[Unintelligible signature]

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General Law Office
21 Jany 1829

It appears from the List of Warrants
issued by the Register of the Land office
at Richmond Va that Stapleton Crutchfield
has been a Soldier for three years
and as such a Warrant for 100 acres of
and was issued in his name
G. W. Graham
Commissioner

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Revolutionary Claims.

Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT
22 Jany 1829

Sir:
Your claim under the abovementioned act has been examined. The act provides for no other non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, than those who enlisted in the Continental line for the war, and served until its termination. It does not appear either by the records or your own declaration or the evidence transmitted in support of it that you served until the end of the war. Under these circumstances your claim has not been admitted.

I am, sir, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
Richard Rush

W Stapleton Crutchfield

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Stapleton Crutchfield, a soldier in the 10th Virginia Regiment, having faithfully served the term of his enlistment (three years) and of his own request is herby discharged. Given under my hand the 14th day of February 1780, at Alexandria in Virginia.

John Overton, Jr. Capt.
comm of 10th Virg a Reg. 42d
Virginia Brigade

Justify the above to be a true copy of the voucher filed in the Executive Department of Virginia on which land bounty was allowed to Stapleton Crutchfield for services in the Continental line. Given under my hand this 24th day of Dec. 1828.

Pleasants

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Va Richmond 9th Feby 1829
Sir
Enclosed I send you additional evidence in
support of Mr Crutchfields claim for pay as a
private soldier who served until the close of the revolution under the command of Capt John Overton I also send you your letter of the 22d Jany last to Mr Crutchfield, that you may not be subjected the trouble of unnecessary examination. Further proof can be obtained of the justice of this claim if necessary I am informed. You will be pleased to let me hear from
you as speedily as possible
Very Respectfully
Your most Obedient
Thomas Underwood
Attorney for S Crutchfield

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Sir
Richmond 2nd Jany 1829
Enclosed you will recieve the declaration of Stapleton Crutchfield an old Revolutionary soldier and I believe an honest industrious poor man who is great want of any money which may be due him from the U States under the Act of Congress approved the 15th May last. I beg you to have the claim ex'd. [examined]  immediately, and forward the amount which may appear to be due him as soon as possible.

Your [mo] most ob [Obedient] Servant
Thomas Underwood
Atto [Attorney] for S. Crutchfield

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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of
Stephen Critchfield Goochland Co Va which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes
V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yes
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes

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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? no
XIII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? no
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? no
XIV. +If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? No
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath,
certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? yes
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And,
if not, which of them is not so answered?
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection
he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For ____year ____months, and ____days, I served as a ____ For ____months and ____days, I served as a ____;  and for such service I claim a pension.

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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the
officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the
applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either
in the field or in garrison; and in the same during which the service was performed, he was not employed
in any civil pursuit.
QUERE XIV. Proof of Serving
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the
regiment, company, and line to whom he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper 
authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the edifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of
office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

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1828 papers 
to be filed with
Ad owed [illegible]
File #9249

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Rec 11th 1829
Virginia City of Richmond To Wit:
Before me Nathaniel Charter a magistrate
for the City aforesaid personally appeared
Stapleton Crutchfield an Old Revolutionary Soldier, who has lately sent on his Declaration to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, claiming pay as a soldier in the continental service of the United States in the revolutionary War, and further declared, by way of amendment to his said said Declaration, That he, some time in latter part of the year 1780 he reenlisted in the Continental service for the War and was again attached to the Company of Capt
John Overton under whom he served till the
War ended, that he with others were however
sent after the surrender of the British troops 
at York to guard some prisoners to the Maryland line
Given under my hand this 7th day of Feby 1829

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Virginia City of Richmond  To Wit

Before me Nathaniel Charter a magistrate for the said City personally appeared John Hudson an old soldier of Henrico County and made oath, That he was acquainted with Stapleton Crutchfield of Goochland who aplies having served to the North, for perhaps three years; under the Command of Captain John Overton, that said Crutchfield reenlisted in the Continental service sometime in the year 1780 for the War: and it is believed served to the end thereof. Mr. Crutchfield ^was of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Little York in Va and was with others ^stationed on the Gloucester side of York River. Mr. Crutchfield was sent with others, to guard some British prisoners to the Maryland line after which time I did not see him again for several years he was when at  York, Commanded by Capt Overton. Given under my hand this 7th day of Feby 1829 
Nathaniel Charter

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I Thomas C. Howard Clerk of the Court of Hastings for the City of Richmond in the State of
Virginia do hereby certify that Nathaniel
Charter before whom the foregoing affidavits &c
was sworn was at the time a magistrate and
duly qualified to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof I have here
unto set my hand and affixed
the seal of the said Court this
9th day of February 1829
T C  Howard

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TATE SPRING HOTEL
TATE SPRING, TENN. April 29 1918.
Pension Bureau
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sirs
Will you kindly and me the record for
Revolutionary service of Stapleton Crutchfield of Virginia who received a pension for said service He died June 29 1833

Very truly your,

Penelope J. Allen

Mrs P. J. Allen
Williamsburg, Va.
R. F. .D. No 1
Port Arthur
 [stamp]
PENSION OFFICE
MAY 2 1918
U. S.

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709 West Commonwealth Ave
Fullerton Calif.
March 31- 1927

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir,

Will you please send me a copy of application
paper for pension of Stapleton Crutchfield, as a
pension was awarded him in 1835.
I am anxious to find names of his family, for my
ancestor Benjamin Burch married Jane Crutchfield in Virginia in 1756, and after the Revolution they settled in Lincoln Co. Ky. (His will is recorded at Stanford Ky) As the name of Crutchfield and also Stapleton have been carried down by Burch descendants, I
thought that Jane Crutchfield-- Burch must have belonged to the family of Stapleton Crutchfield.
This is the first inquiry I have sent you regarding Stapleton Crutchfield and I am hoping his pension application will give name of a daughter Jane Crutchfield.
Thanking you for any information you can give me for I am very anxious to connect this family record.
Your Truly
(Mrs. W.E.) Dora E. Gunnett
Historian of Mojave Chapter D.A.R.
Fullerton

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Washington, D. C. August, 19th 1927.
To:
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
I am desirous of obtaining some information as to Thomas, and Stapleton Crutchfield of Virginia, who served in the Revolutionary War, it has been suggested to me that this information might be had from your Bureau. A decendent of the family wishes to join the " D. A. R.
The writer is also a decendent of the family, and is named for Stapleton Crutchfield.
Any information you can give me, relative to their military record will be greatly appreciated.

Yours truly,
James Stapleton Moore

1760 Col. Ed. S. W.
City.

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June 27, 1927
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
Mrs. W. E. Gannett
709 W.  Commonwealth Ave.
Fullerton, Calif.

Madam;

I have to advise you that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary
War pension claim, S. 9249, that STAPLETON CRUTCHFIELD was born September 22, 1758, place not stated.
While a resident of Goochland County, Virginia, he enlisted in 1777as a private in Captain John Overton's Company in Colonel Charles Lewis' Virginia Regiment; he was in the battle of Germantown and was discharged
February 14, 1780. He enlisted late in 1780 or early in 1781 in Captain John Overton's Virginia Company; he was in the siege of Yorktown and was discharged soon after.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 20, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Goochland County, Virginia.
He died June 27, 1833.
There are no data on file relative to the family of Stapleton Crutchfield.

Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner

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In reply to your request of............., received........,
for a statement of the military history of Stapleton Crutchfield
a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will find below the desired
information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this bureau.
S.T. 9249.

Dates of enlistment or appointment
1777
Jan. 1781 
served until after surrender of Lord Cornwallis
Length of service
3 yrs,
Rank
Pre"
Officers under whom service was rendered.
Captain.
John Overton
Colonel.
Charles Leur's
State.
Va.
Battles engaged in, Germantown, Yorktown
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Goochland Co., Va
Date of application for pension, Aug. 20, 1832. His ???????
Residence at date of application,
Goochland Co., Va.
Age at date of application, B, Sept. 20, 1758.
Remarks: There is no data relative to family
He died June 27, 1833.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
Date of death taken from A.B.