Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R.13467, Samuel Crawley, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Crawley Samuel
P. 13467
CONTENTS
Va. Half Pay
N.A. Acc. No. 874 See 050 039 Half Pay Samuel Crawley

I, John A. Henley, Sergeant of the city of Williamsburg, and as such administrator de bonis non with the will annexed of Samuel Brawley deceased, who was a Captain of the Virginia State Line in the War of the Revolu- tion, do hereby constitute and ap- point Joseph Segar Esq., of Hampton, Virginia, my true and lawful attorney to prosecute, sue for, re- cover, and receive from the Gov- ernment of the United States, all arrearage of Half Pay, and all commutation of five years full pay and interest due to the said Brawley for military services in the line and War aforesaid, under the Act of Congress of July 5 th 1832, or under any decisions of the General Court or of any court of the State of Virginia, or of the proper Department of the Government of the United States, amounting to $12,000, and my said Attorney is further authorized and empowered to do all legal

acts necessary in the premises.
As witness my hand & Seal this 24 th day of July 1849.
John A. Henley Sergeant. Seal
State of Vir ginia  non write count of the city of Williamsburg and its limits City of Williamsburg to wit:
This day John A. Henley, Sergeant of the City of Williamsburg, in the State aforesaid, personally appeared before me, an Alderman in and for the City aforesaid, in the State aforesaid, and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to Joseph Segar to be his act and deed for the purposes therein set forth.
Given under my hand and Seal this the 24 th day of July 1849.
John C. Mercer J.P. Seal
I substitute Francis A. Dickerson as my attorney to carry into effect the purposes of the foregoing Power of Attorney.
W. Segar. Aug 5. 1849

State of Virginia
City of Williamsburg. To wit
I Turner Christian Clerk of the Hustings Court for the City of Williamsburg in the State aforesaid, do hereby certify, that John G. Mercer Mayor whose certificate is hereto annexed is an Alarman of the said City and Mayor or presiding Justice of the Court of the said city and State of Virginia duly commissioned and qualified to the said Office according to the Constitution and laws of the said State and do also certify that the said John R. Henley who has signed the foregoing power of Attorney and acknowledged the same is Mayor of the said City of Williamsburg and State of Virginia.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of my said Office this Twenty third day of July in the year One Thousand eight hundred and forty nine and in the Twenty fourth year of the Commonwealth.
T. Christian Clerk

Nov 7 46
Sam l C rawley Esq r 3 July 35
L d Edwards Esq r Commissioner of Customs Present
2

Washington City D.C. March 10th 1846
Sir
Enclosed is a certificate from the Clerk of the Pensions Court at Williamsburg on explaining most fully and simply the discrepancy in the two cases of Bradley to wit one of which J. S. Mansfield was the Adm r and the other of which Thos D. Wise was the Adm r showing them to be one and the same person and that the addition of the letter b was a clerical error of his Also accompanying is a copy of the will of Mrs Lake in which she bequeaths her Grand Daughter her proportion of the half pay due in right of her late Husband Samuel Bradley. As there are no explanations is surely un- necessary and I hope to ask that you will be kind enough to hear this claim which was already passed and reported by you. passed through the several of- fices as early as practicable. The enclosed document filed along with the claim will surely satisfy the most suspicious
Yours Respectfully Thomas Woodson

Sam Crawley, Jr. Act July 5. 1832
Oct 27. 1846
Oct 27 1846
Record Vol 63 page 185.
Glenn

Pension Office
October 27, 1846.
I certify that I have examined the claim of the administrator of Samuel W. Crawley, who was a Captain in the Virginia State regiment of Artillery during the revolution, and I find that under the act of July 5, 1832 half-pay has been allowed from the 22 d of April, 1783. Half-pay is now claimed from the first of January, 1782, and my opinion is that the claim should be allowed. I therefore certify that half-pay is still due from the first of January, 1782, at the rate of Three Hundred Dollars per annum, up to the 22 d of April, 1783; and that the amount is payable to Thomas P. Wise, of Williamsburg, Virginia, administrator of said Crawley Henry Northup, attorney of Thomas P. Wise, of Williamsburg, Virginia, administrator of said Crawley.
J. L. C.— Commissioner of Pensions
Approved
Secretary of War.

In the name of God. Amen I Samuel Crawley of the City of Williamsburg being weak in body but of sound mind and memory, and calling to mind the uncertainty of this life do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following to wit:-
Inprimis I recommend my soul to Almighty God who gave it, in hopes of receiving mercy through the merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, and my body to the ground to be interred at the discretion of my Executors hereafter named, and what worldly goods it has pleased God to bestow on me. I give in the following manner to wit:-
I desire that all my just and lawful debts should be paid, and all the rest of my estate I leave to my dear and loving wife during her life in order to maintain my children, and after the death of my wife Ann Crawley my will and desire is that my estate should be equally divided between all my children, to them and their heirs forever..
Fourthly. I do appoint my loving friends William Barrow, Richard Booker and Alexander Walker Green Executors to this my last will and testament working and annulling all former will or wills by me made and do ordain this and no other to be my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this eight day of January 1793.
Sealed & delivered in the presence of.
Robert Thompson
John Fenton
H. W. Nicholson
Samuel his Crawley (Seal) mark
At a Court of Hustings for the City of Williamsburg held the fourth day of May 1793...
This Will was proved according to law by the Oaths of Robert Thompson and John Fenton whose first names and oaths to be recorded
True Will: Rufus L. Holt. A Copy True T. Christian Co. Com.

State of Virginia
City of Williamsburg to wit
I know Christian Clerk of the Hustings Court for the City of Williamsburg in the State of Virginia, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true Copy from the records of the said Court
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and annexed the Seal of the said Court this Tenth day of July in the year One thousand eight hundred and forty Nine and in the Twenty fourth year of the Commonwealth
T. Christian Clerk
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NO 13467
RECEIVED
ACT OF JULY 14, 1862.
2-073
Capt Samuel Crawley
Va State Arty Revolution
Discharged _____, 186_____
3073
H'g Pay — Act '32
Received _____, 187_____

The United States
To Samuel Crawley, a Captain in the Virginia State Artillery of the Revolutionary War,
For his half pay from 22 d April 1783 to the 8 th January 1793, in pursuance of the third Section of an Act of Congress "to provide for liquidating and paying certain claims of the State of Virginia", approved 5 th July 1832, being nine years and two hundred and sixty two days at £90. Virginia currency, equal to $300 per annum, amounting to . . . . . Dollars 2,915.34
Auditor's Office
29 January 1834
Wm. Morton.
Comptroller's Office
August 30. 1834
E. N. B. Van Lundt

Treasury Department Register's Office June 15. 1846
I certify the within to be a true copy of the original on file in this office N. A. Hill Register
No. 65. 871
Statement of the Accounts of Samuel Grunley -
Copy

Washington 13 Oct 1846
Sir,
I this day rec d from Col. Matthews the enclosed letter which I beg leave to submit to you in part. There are two facts mentioned there which I think should induce you to allow the claim of Crawley from the 9 th Jany. 1782. viz — That Judge Cullen in his opinion says that the war ended, in Virginia, with the surrender of Cornwallis and Mr. Hall in his report N o 436. p. 35. 24 April 1840. "It should be remembered that active hostilities with the enemy ceased in Virginia with the capture of Cornwallis in October 1781. and that in common language of that state the war is said to have terminated. When therefore a witness testifies that any particular person served to the end of the war, supposing the witness to be honest, and his recollection to be accurate the person

"Should be taken to have been "in service until the Autumn "of 1781." I have marked these particular parts and again submit the claim to your con- -sideration -
Yours very respectfully Francis H. Dickinson.
James L. Edwards Esq.
Com d . of Pensions.

Oct. 14, 1896
Let p. N. Northup
Recd.
Samuel Cramley, Cannery

31 Aug 1846 Washn. Aug 21/46.
Geo. W. Babb Dial. A. Dickinson.
Appeals on petition cause of S. Crawley & Wm Buck. Esq.
Boston. Dec 21/46. Prison Office.
Con
Feb 21/46 Wm L. Hovey Hovey

Washington
August 27.
1846.
Hon.
Wm L Marcy Secy of War.
An appeal is prayed from the decisions of the Hon d J. L. Edward Comm ee in the two cases of claims for half pay by the adms respectively of
Capt: S. Crawley — of V a State Artillery, &
Sailing Master W m Buchanan, V a Navy — The notes on the merits of the claims respectively are on file, to which the attention of the Secretary is solicited.
With very high respect
yours &
Geo: M. Gilk Francis A. Dickinson.

Comm ee of Pensions to Hon. G. M. Bibb - case of Capt. Sam t Cramley, dec d . July 25, 1845.

(Copy.)
Pension Office, July 25, 1846.
Sir,
I have examined and filed the papers in the case of Samuel C. Crawley, dec d . who was a Captain in the Virginia State Troops during the revolutionary war, and I find that half-pay was allowed in this case, under the act of July 5, 1832, on the evidence that he served to the end of the war. The administrator now asks, by his attorney, for half-pay from the 6 th of February, 1781; but I cannot admit the claim, because the testimony filed in the case shews that he was in the service at York Town, Va. in the month of October, 1781. The time when Crawley left the service is not clearly shown.
Very Respectfully,
Your O bt . Servt
Hon. George M. Bibb, } (signed) J. L. Edwards. Present. }

11
6
Nov 12/43
Samuel Crawley Esq
Act 5 July 1832
James L Edmonds Esq
Com te of Pensions..

Washington 9 Nov. 1829.
Sir,
Enclosed I have the honor to hand you, at the request of Mr. Segar, certain papers in the case of Sam l Crawley, dec d a Capt. in the Va. State Artillery, since dec d from him, being an application for commutation with interest, giving credit for the half pay received under the act of Congress of the 5 th July 1832. - The papers are as follows viz. -
A. Copy of Sam l Crawley's will.
B. Certificate showing that at the request of three of the heirs and distributees of Sam l Crawley was committed to the Sergeant of Williamsburg. -
C. Power of attorney from John A. Henley Sergeant of the City of Williamsburg to Joseph Segar. -
I have to ask the favor of you to give this your attention as early as possible as Mr. Segar will be here. -
Yours very respectfully James L. Edmond Esqy      Francis A. Dickinson. Comm r of Pensions.

B.

Virginia
At a Court of Sessions held for the City of Williamsburg at the Courthouse thereof on Monday the Twenty third day of July in the year, One thousand eight hundred and forty nine
On the motion of Samuel G. Ware, James J. Mountcastle and Elizabeth Wise, his and distributees of Samuel Crawley deceased, - Ordered that the estate of said Samuel Crawley be committed to the Seyant of the City of Williamsburg for administration de bonis non with the will annexed
A Copy true
T. Christian Clerk
State of Virginia
City of Williamsburg to wit.
I Henry Christian Clerk of the Sessions Court for the City of Williamsburg in the State of Virginia, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true Copy from the records of the said Court.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of my said Office this Twenty third day of July in the year, One thousand eight hundred and forty nine and in the Seventy fourth year of the Commonwealth
T. Christian Clerk

Comm r . of Pensions to Hon. G. M. Bibb - case of Capt. Sam l Crawley, dec d . Aug. 22, 1845.

(copy.)
Pension Office, August 22 d , 1846.
Sir,
I have received your note of the 20 th inst. in which you say that in the case of Capt. Samuel Crawley, dec d . half-pay from the first of January, 1782, will be satisfactory. I cannot, consistently with the evidence filed in the case, admit the claim from that time. The witnesses in the case swear that he served to the end of the war. This evidence is uncontradicted by any counter evidence. The proof in the case, therefore, is, that he served till 1783, and from April, 1783, the half-pay has been allowed. We can make no payment from an earlier period, unless it can be shewn that the witnesses made false statements as to the termination of Crawley's service.
I have the honor to be, Very Respectfully, Your obt. Servt.
(Signed) J. L. Edwards.
Hon. George M. Bibb, Present,

Pension Office Sept. 10, 1840
Comm t of Pensions in case of Capt. Samuel Crawley, dec d .

Pension Office,
September 10, 1845.
Sir,
In the enclosed letter, signed by the Hon. G. M. Bibb, and Mr. F. A. Dickinson, an appeal is asked from the decision of this office in the case of Samuel Crawley, dec d . who was a captain in the Virginia State Troops during the revolution. Half-pay, under the act of July 5, 1832, has already been allowed in this case, from the 22 d April, 1783, when the war ended, and when, it was supposed, he left the service. Half-pay is now claimed from an earlier period, on the ground that he left the service in January, 1782; but I am not satisfied that he left the service at so early a period. The evidences in the case will be found in the enclosed papers, eleven in number, and I respectfully ask a return of the papers. I also enclose a copy of my letter to Mr. Bibb, of the 22 d ult o . on the subject.
I have the honor to be, Hon. W. L. Marcy, } Very Respectfully, Sir, Secretary of War. } Your O bt . Servt.

Extract of a letter no. 3 by F. A. Dickinson from Henry Northup, 13 th Oct. 1846. Relation to the claim of the legal representatives of Capt. Sam l Crawley, under act 5 th July 1846.
"On the 5 th July 1832. Congress passed an act to remonstrate Virginia. The 3 d Section of this act provided that the Secretary of the Treasury should audit and pay the half pay claims of those who had not prosecuted to judgment and became entitled agreeable to the decision of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia."
"Now, is what was this decision? See the decision of Judge Goullot, the chief justice of that court at length, in the case of Capt. Lilly & Markham in March 1830, and which is now to be found here in the papers of the Commission of Pensions, accompanying the report of Mr. Badger to the House of Representatives and which result- -ed in the passage of the act above referred to. He then says that the war ended in different states at different times, in the state of Virginia with the surrender of Gen- -wallis, such was the decision of the court."

"of Appeals of Va. By the 3 d section of this act the "Secretary of the Treasury was specially governed "in the adjustment of half pay claims."
"Again see the report of the committee of "Revolutionary claims of the House of Represen- "tatives of the U.S. Report N o 436, page 35. of "24 th April 1840 thus." It should be remembered "that active hostilities with the enemy ceased "in Virginia with the capture of Cornwallis "in October 1781 and that in common language "of that state the war is said to have terminated "when therefore a witness testifies that any "particular person served to the end of the "war, supposing the witness to be honest and "his recollection accurate the person should "be taken to have been in service until the "autumn of 1781."
"Such is the 3 d section of the act 5 th July 1832 "and the decision of the court of Appeals of Va "for which the 3 d section was specially provided and "also the report of the committee on Revolutionary "claims relative to evidence in such cases."

"Further we have the certificate of the Auditor "of Virginia, showing that Capt. Crowley "does not appear to have been in service "after 1 st Jany 1782. nor does he appear on "the Rolls of 'Marshall's' or any other regiment "and that he received £ 7000 pay while in "service and the sum of £ 390 as a balance "of pay prior to 1 st Jany 1782. but nothing "after. - The witness states him to have "been in service to the end of the war. "Agreeably to the above decision to the commands "of Cornwallis the war was then terminated "in Va. and all troops disbanded save and "except a few arranged into one corps (Dobry "legion) a copy of the roll of which is in "file in the Office of the Commissioners of "Pensions and will show if Capt. Crowley is on "it, but even this corps was diminished "from time to time and the officers retained "as supernumerary. - When where and how "did Capt. Crowley serve serve, do the

Oct. 20. 1846
Rec case of
Stearns & Company,
Dec. 2
"to keep their hands in service on any particular "day or any particular state, other than Virginia "and if in this state only the war had ended with "the surrender of Lee's army and there was "neither fighting or skirmishing in Virginia "after that time."

Oct. 20. 1846
Rec case of Sam d Ordway, Comp s

Capt. Crawley's adm. Thos. P. Wise, claim for half pay, short allowance heretofore paid — The claim now is 2 years, six months 15 days $663.
Notes on Capt. Crawley's case —

June 13 46
Sam C. Crawley act July 5 32 for area of half way
B.
J. L.
Edwards
Council
Person Office
Q
H. G. M. Babb Pres

Samuel Crawley Capt. Va. State Troops.
Act 5 July, 1832
See letters 25 July and Aug. 22 d 1846 to Hon. G. M. Bibb — do. to Sec. War 10 Sept. 1846 —

Papers in the case of Samuel Crawley.
See letters to Hon. G. M. Bibb, 25 July & 22 d Aug. 1846 - and to Hon. W. L. Marcy Sept. 10. 1846.
See letter to H. Northern Oct. 29 1846

Samuel Crawley, Esq.
Act 5 July 1832,
See letter to J. Segar,
January 5, 1850,