Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,357, Archillis Craft, N.C.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N.C.
Craft, Archillis
5. 30,357
born in N.C.
CONTENTS

See letter 29 Apr 1834 to Mrs. J. Love.
Order to pay 24 January 1838. Letter to 3 d Auditor Ap l 29 1842
Paid at the Treasury under the act of April 6 th 1838 from 4 th Sept 1837 to March 4 th 1841. Agent note fed May 7 th 1842
Paid as above from 4. Sept 1842 to 4. March 1843. Agent Notified 7 Dec 1844
Letter 3 d Auditor Jan 7. 1837 to Hon. A. White " 12 1832
25046 Kentucky
Archibald Craft of Boyle in the State of Kentucky who was a private in the com dy commanded by Captain Wilson of the reg t commanded by Col. H. Madison in the N. Ky. Penna line for 14 days...
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 46 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of Nov 1833 and Name of Love Present
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 116.67 Semi-ant. allowance ending March 23 33 $140.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Sam B. Baugh Clerk, Book E Vol. 7 Page 6

at the Hotel Passion Office
for your kind of love at the 6.6

State of Kentucky
Perry County Pleasants Pet
On the 23 rd day of October 1833 personally appeared an open Court before the Honorable Joseph Eno Judge of the Perry circuit Court Edward Warhill Craft a Resident Citizen of Perry County Commonwealth  Rightly that and State of Kentucky aged 70 years 70 being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following additional Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 that he entered the Service of the United States in the year 1780 at Brim level in Wilks County State of North Carolina for nine months as a volunteer, in the company commanded by Capt David Johnston in the Regiment - commanded by Col Ben Hernden in the North Carolina State Troops His 1 st was Whitfield Wilson He entered the Service in Wilks County a volunteer in the year aforesaid and was marched in into South Carolina to Manks Corner & Charles Town and back to North Carolina and continued to serve out his term of nine months when he

was honorably discharged at Belle Branch in 1781. as he now believes near Salisbury - N. C. by Col d Ashe (then commanding of the Reg t aforesaid) on this route he saw Genl. Green of the regular Army, and was in the Hanging Rock Battle, Before this trip he volunteered in Wilks County North Carolina where he then lived for three months in the year 1778. as he supposes in Capt Johnston's Company in the Reg t commanded by Col d Gordon He was marched against the Indians on French Branch and got the Cherokee Indians, he continued to serve two months and 15 days when he was with the Ballance, and moved to return home at the head of the Catawba river in N. Carolina the year forgotten. Next in the year 1781. (after the aforesaid terms) he volunteered in Wilks County North Carolina where he then lived for three months in the militia, in Capt Alex Gordon's company in Col d — Neal's mounted Reg t (a Frenchman) His Capt was Silas Thompson Thompson before his term expired Col d Ashe took the command, after serving

out three months he was discharged near Salbury North Carolina by Col Lock aforesaid The applicant states that he knows of no person living by which he can prove his service or any part thereof except the admiralty William Hays - and John Hall who has heretofore gained them after death, which in his original declaration for a pension, which is here referred to he hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension, or an annuity except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency in any other State or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of Kentucky I swear to and subscribe the day and year aforesaid.
Archibald Craft
The court propounded the following interrogatory to the applicant
1 st When and in what year were you born. Answer I was born in New County on Roanoke river in the State of North Carolina, on the 25 th day of December in the year 1749. as I am informed by my father I left that County when I was small and went = but very little about the country it

2. Have you any record of your age, and if so where is it? Answer no I have no record of my age only what my parents have told me
3. Where were you living when called into service? Where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live. Answer. I refer to my original Declaration for an answer to this question. I now live in Perry county State of Kentucky and have lived here for Twenty Six years.
4. How were you called into service were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom. Answer I also refer to my original Declaration.
State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served, such Continental and Militia Regts. as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services. Answer I again refer to my original Declaration; and answer to this question.

6 Did you ever receive a discharge from the Service, and if so by whom was it given, and what has become of it? Answer See my original Declaration
7 State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your service as a soldier of the Revolution. Answer I am known to John Hays  Henry Polly and Henry Polly.
in my present neighborhood and to Robert V. Brasher who lives some distance from me, but who has been well acquainted with me for twenty years, and who can testify as to my character for veracity and their belief of my service as a soldier of the Revolution. There is no clergyman living in my neighborhood, and I am unable to procure one without considerable trouble and expense. John Hays  Henry Polly
and Henry Polly residing in the present neighborhood of the applicant, and in the county of Perry and State of Kentucky and Robert V. Brasher who lives some distance from the applicant in the county

and State of Ohio and hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Archilles Craft who has subscribed and sworn to the above amended Declaration, that we believe him to be 83 years old of age, that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he lives to have been a soldier of the Revolution and we concur in that opinion and there is no clergyman living in the neighborhood of the applicant and one could not be procured without considerable trouble and expense from our Lord subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Henry David of this place Henry David.
Robert V Brashier
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatory prescribed by the man- dement that the above named Spasul was a Revolutionary -

old man, and served as he states - And the Court further certify that it appears to him that there is no clergyman living in the neighborhood of said applicant and that one cannot be got without considerable trouble and expense And the Court further certifies that John Hays  John Hays - Henry -
Polly and Col Robert Brasher - Who has signed the foregoing And Stephen Cordill Benjamin Miller John Hall James Cordill William Hayes who swan to and subscribed the original declaration which is in an next is correct origin of the county of Perry and state of Kentucky, and that all except Col Robert Brasher reside in the neighborhood of said applicant and is creditable person, and their statements is entitled to credit Joseph Euse Brasher
I after Combs claim of the correct Perry Court cannot do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the original and amended declaration of the said court in the matter of the application of Brasher for a pension, there being no record of the court when the original application was made, But since that time

one has been provided -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 23 rd day of October 1833.
Oliver Coombs Clerk of the Perry circuit court

No 18482
Archilles Craft
1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17
from 1780 private 14 months.
$46 \frac{66}{100}
Wm. I. Love Present.
J. S. Combs Clk.
Fry County Court
Kentucky
By B. H.

BRIEF in the case of  Archibald Craft  of _____ in the State of _____  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? a Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 74  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days. Gen. Col.     Vol - In 1780 - 1 Private Capt Johnson Col Hernden   " 1778 - 12 8 better " " " " Gorden   " 1781 3 " " Gorden Col Malmunday  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Hanging Rock - Eutaw Springs -  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Wilks Co NC -  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Living Witness - Traditional evd  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? The papers not attached as regulations require - No County Seal - 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Dyer Custor
Examining Clerk.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
Dec. 19 1853.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled, "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States;" and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the Pension agents,
Archiles Craft
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Kentucky Agency, at the rate of Forty Six Dollars and 66 Cents per Annum, under the law of the 1 st June 1832 has been paid at this Department, from the 11 th of March 1852 to the 11 th Sept. 1852.
Respectfully, yours,
J. M. Brookshead Comptroller.
25046
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

30357 Rev  INVALID.
File No. 30357
Achillea Crops Dis Rev m
Act: June 7 th 82
Index: —Vol. 3 , Page 87
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Northern Bank of Ky Lexington Jan'y 15 1838
J. J. Edwards, Esq Commr of Pensions. Sir
Enclosed please find the papers of Schiller, (18 Mo claim), for your inspec- -tion. Should they not return, or the Atty not call again be- -fore the expiration of the 90 days from date of prior getting please authorize payment without delay. The Attorney is a Member of our State Legislature & may not be able to attend till before the last of February.
Very resp'y
Your Obedt Servt
Wm Ernst
Pens 6680

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
April 30 th , 1842.
Sir:
Under the date of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States,"
Archibald Craft.
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Kentucky Agency, at the rate of Forty Six Dollars and 66 Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832 , has been paid at this Department, from the 1 st of Sept. 1837 , to the 1 st March 1841 .
Respectfully yours,
J. Wilson
COMPTROLLER.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPROLLER'S OFFICE.
April 26 th 1844.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, Archibald Craig , _____ a Pensioner on the Roll of the Kentucky _____ Agency, at the rate of Forty Six _____ Dollars and 66 Cents per annum, under the law of the 1 st June _____ 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept. 1842 , to the 4 th March 1843 .  Respectfully, yours,
James M. Smith _____ Comptroller.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

2
Pension Office
My Agency Act of June 1832 Achilles Craft, per $46.11 per annum To what time last paid?
Paid to 4 th Sept. 1849. Coll B.B.

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Archibald Crafts which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? No See addendum Declaration II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Not stated See addendum Declaration 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? Not stated IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? 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? VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? 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? No See clerk's certificate at the end of the addendum Declaration

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?
See Certificates
No See evidence
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
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?
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?
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?
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a position, 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?
See papers
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
1. 2. See the question proposed by - sent in the additional declaration
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."

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 for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service.
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 which 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.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not 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 certifying 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.

State of New Jersey
King County Det.
On the 17 day of Oct r 1832 personally appeared in Open Court before the Judge of the Superior Court of the Achilleas Craft aged 74. who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Comp y passed June 7. 1832. That he entered the service of the United States in the year 1780 as he now believes for nine months in as a volunteer Middle County State of Aban during the time of General Washington by Capt Johnston in the Reg t Com mand by Col d Ben Vernon in the line of the State of N o Carolina. He served Whitfield Wilson. He entered the service in Middle County aforesaid in the year of and was discharged in the year of 1783

Monk Corner, & Charleston, back to N.C.
and continued to serve out his term of nine months when he was honorably discharged — at Bell Branch, in 1781 as he now believes near Salisbury N.C. by Col. Lock, (then Commander of the Reg t Inf y ) — On this route he saw Genl. Green of the Regular Army and was in the Hanging Rock Battle.
After Before this trip he volunteered in Wilks County, N.C. for three months in the year 1778 as he supposes to keep Johnston's Company in the Reg t commanded by Col. Gordon. He was marched up the Indians on French Broad and the Cherokee Indigeny. He continued to serve out about two months better when he was with the Patriot forces. He refused to return when his term

after serving out there from the he was discharged from the army. He was then in the 10th Regt. of Inf.
at the head of the Calawba River in S. Carolina, the year forgotten. Next in the year 1781 after the ap d town he volunteered in Wilks City S. Carolina for three months in the the Matilda in Cap o Alex r . Gordon Company in Col o Malmady Reg t . (A Frenchman) - His St. was Silas Thompson. Before his term expired Col o Lock took the Command d . At each time he entered the service he lived in Wilks County S.C. on his own account. He was born in Newes City S. Carolina. His age he has given. Has no record of his age. Since the Revolution he lived in S. Carolina, and later in Kentucky where he was living.

He entered the service on his own account and as to the manner he has explained.
As to his officers & superiors officers he has explained as well as he now is.
He has his. His charges he has explained which were long since burnt up in his house. He is no Commission, being but a Private Soldier.
As to his character he refers to his neighbors Stephen Cordill, James C. Hill and Mr. Hays.
During his service he was at the Eutaw Battle. He fully relinquishes every claim whatever to a Russian annuity except the Russian and declares that his name is not on the Russian roll

of the opening of any State nor has it ever been.
Seven years since the day of year of?
Adkins Crapless
With the
William Hagen, living in Perry County and recently there, in open court upon oath, declares that he was a soldier in the Army of the Potomac with the ap? adkins Crap at the Battle of the Seven Springs. N.C. He states he served on a trip three months. He has for a long time said Crap as from his good character he has no doubt he served in the Revolution as by him stated in the foregoing declaration.
W. Hagen

Benj: Webb (Shf of Puy County) aged 38. & John Hall aged 78 or 79 both of Puy County 5 th mth Ky. and in the neighborhood of said Craft, in open court declared they have for many years known the op er . Schillie Craft who signed the foregoing declaration in their pre- sence and from his gen l good character they have no doubt his statement is true. It is reported that lived for many years in the neighborhood that said Craft was a soldier in the Revolution and we concur in that opinion.
Benjamin Webb
John Hall
aged 73 aged 80 for leader Mr. Hays aged 69 all and Stephen Carroll, of Puy County Ky. neighbors of Schillie Craft

upon their oath as done in open court, that they have long known the said Craft from his good character as a man of truth they have no doubt his state- ment of age? signed in their presence is literally true. It has long been reported in the neighborhood they averred that said Craft was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and they concur in that opinion that he is about 74 years of age.
James Correll Wm Hays Stephen Gorrill.
Then being no objection present a concurrent it is therefore considered by the court that it be antiposed to the Sec. of War that

Ben Webb and John Hall Jas. Carrill, Stephen Carrill & Mr. Hays are up in a bad nit- = nipes. He be believed on Oath, and the said Court further certifies as its opin- ion that the above named Applicant Achilles Croft has for many years been believed in the neighborhood to have been a soldier in the Revolution War, and such is the opinion of the Court as stated by him in his declaration, the said Court further certifies to the Applicant the intravoters as prescribed by the War Department. I have been as Clerk of the Perry Circuit Court by do- ing hereby certify that the foregoing contains the ori- ginal proceedings of the said Court in the matter
Achilles Croft 15432
J. C.

of the application of Achilles Craft for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my seal & affixed my seal, having no Public Seal at Office this 17 th of Oct r 1832.
Stephen Cook Clerk of the Penn y Circuit Court Ky
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Henry