Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29,100, Amos Crittenden, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Crittenden, Amos
S. 29,100
Born in Conn.
CONTENTS

15.106 15106
Massachusetts
Amos Gritten den
of Berkshire in the State of Mass o who was a Private in the Comp y commanded by Captain Willy of the Reg t commanded by Col l  Yellow in the Mass o line for 1 year
Amos
80 Berkshire
Inscribed on the Roll of Massach s at the rate of 10 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of March 1833 and sent to W ard Ward Worthington Mass
Arrears to the 4th of Mar ch 1833 of 80 " 10 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept — 20 " 10
$ 100 " 20
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by J. W. Ladd Clerk Book E Vol. 2 Page 11

Amos Britten e Massachusetts
Private 1 year
11071
M m Nara Northington Mass

BRIEF in the case of  Amos Brittain  vs of  Worcester  in the State of Mass  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? open court,  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 73  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. As a Gen.     Abie 19. In 1775. volunteered enl'd at Mon. 1776 9 Private Col Wells Col Fellows   He said he was in the service altogether more than 1 Year  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Battle at Quebec  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Ashfield Mass  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary 2 living witnesses.  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? The periods nor length of service are not exact. 
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
George Sayton
Examining Clerk.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Berkshire County
On this twenty fifth day of September 1832. Personally appeared in open Court before the Hon William P. Walcutt Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Berkshire now sitting Moses Britten den a resident of Savoy in said County aged Twenty Eight years 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 bankruptcy passed June 7 th 1832 That he intends the Service of the United States under the following named officers and serve as herein stated viz
Immediately after the news of Lexington Battle in April 1775 I believe the 20 th I volunteered at Ashfield in the State of Massachusetts under Captain Samuel Bartlett of Ashfield and immediately marched for Boston. at Roxbury I think early in May our Company was consolidated and placed under the command of Captain Ebenezer Webber of Worthington Lieut Bartlett (who was our former Captain) and Ensign Allen and I enlisted till the first of January. and our Company was attached to the Regiment of Col. Fellows. Col. Eager and Major Tappan I continued with the Regiment till about the first of September. when I volunteered into General Arnold's expedition to Canada in the Company of Captain Stubbard. Lt Brown. Ensign not remembered and about the middle of September marched

from Boston for Canada under Genl Arnold Col. Green and Major Bydew. We marched to Newbury Port by Land then by Shipping to Kennebec River. where we took Boats and proceeded up that river as far as was practicable from whence we marched by Land and to the St Lawrence opposite to Quebec. where we lay a few days and then crossed over the River to the Plains of Abraham. till the Battle in which General Montgomery was killed and General Arnold was wounded. I was present when General Arnold was wounded and assisted the Surgeon in the first dressing of his wound. The first of January 1776. my enlistment having expired. and we defeated I with a few others made my way to Montreal where recruits were wanted for Garrison Service. and I there enlisted till the first of May into the Company of Captain Fitchman of Albany. General Wooster commanded the Garrison and I continued there till the first of May when I was dismissed. I was engaged in this Service somewhat more than one year. 12 Mos
I have made diligent enquiry but I can find no one whom I knew after I left Boston till after my arrival at Mon- treal. but I am that I served faithfully in that arduous Campaign
I was born at Guilford in the State of Connecticut in the year 1754. as I am informed. I lived at Ashfield during the War and have lived there and at Plainfield adjoining till eleven years since when I removed to Saco, where I now reside. I never had a written discharge for either Service
Henry Melenguish every

claim to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not borne on the pension roll of the Agency of any State whatsoever A true & correct Declaration
S. Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid William P. Walker Esq. of Probate
We William Babbitt and Simeon Goff residing in Savoy in the County of Berkshire hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Moses Brittain who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing de- claration. That we believe him to be seventy eight years of age and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Revolutionary Soldier and that we concur in that we concur in that opinion and we further certify that the said Brittain is a man of good character for truth
Simeon Goff William Babbitt Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid William P. Walker Esq. of Probate
And the Court does hereby declare its opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and and served as he states. And the Court certifies that it appears that William Babbitt Esq. and Simeon Goff who have signed the pre- ceding certificate are residents in the Town of Savoy and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit
William P. Walker Esq. of Probate A. Henry W. Bishop Register of the Court of Probate within & for the County of Berkshire in the Commonwealth

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. We hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Amos on petition for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office of said Court of Probate this twenty fifth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred thirty two. William J. Walker
Henry H. Bishop Reg. Prob.
Amos for the day
Information
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In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Amos Crittenden a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his ( or his widow's ) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau.
S. 29. 100
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     apl. 26. 1775 to Sept 1. 1775 { Samuel Bartlett Ebenezer Webber Folsom Mass.   Sept. 1. to Jany 1776 Hubbard { Heman G. Smith Moses Biglow Gen. North   Jany 1776 to May 1776 Tahman stationed in garrison at Montreal. Gen. Wooster  
Battles engaged in, Quebec & with Gen. North when he was wounded. Residence of soldier at enlistment, Asfield, Mass. Date of application for pension, Sept 25. 1832. The claim was allowed. Residence at date of application, Savoy, Berkshire Co. Mass. Age at date of application, born in 1754 at Guilford, Conn.
Remarks: no family data.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

29 100 Ray INVALID.
1915 June 2. Hist to the Misses Crittenden - F.
File No. 29, 100
Misses Crittenden
His Rev Mr
Act: June 2 nd 89 th
Index: — Vol. 9 , Page 82
[Arrangement of 1870.]

I Caleb Ward of Ashfield in the County of Franklin and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Do testify that I knew Amos Britten den now living in Savoy in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth aforesaid and knew him in the time of the Revolutionary war and that he was a Soldier in said war in the eight months Service in the year 1775 I saw him in the month of September of the same year that he was then engaged in an expedition to Canada under Col. Benedict Arnold and I well remember of his returning home the next Spring or fore part of Summer Caleb Ward
Berkshire ss August 25 th 1832 then the above named Caleb Ward personally appeared before me and made oath to the truth of the above Deposition by him Subscribed I certify that I consider the above Deponent a man of truth and veracity.
Snellens Babbitt justice of the Peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Plymouth.
Charles D. Dyer Esq. Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court being a Court of Record in the County of Plymouth do hereby Certify That the within Subpoena duces tecum within Description was executed as a Justice of the Peace for the County of Plymouth and that I believe his name thereto subscribed to be his true and proper signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said Court at Plymouth this third day of October A.D. 1832. Chas. Dyer Clerk
Caleb Ward Affidavit

I Ephraim Parish of Worthington in the County of Hampshire & Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged seventy seven years depose and say that in April 1775 I volunteered in the Company of Capt. Webbe at Worthington and marched to Boston immediately after news of Lexington Battle. That soon after our arrival at Roxbury our volunteer companies being small the companies of Captain Webbe and Captain Bartlett. The Company was commanded by Capt. Webbe. Lt. Bartlett Ensign Allen. and attached to the Regiment of Col. Fellows.
This deponent further says that Moses Britten den now of Savoy in the County of Berkshire was then a soldier in Captain Bartlett's Company when united with ours. and continued in service in our Company till as this deponent believes sometime in September. when he volunteered to go to Saratoga on the expedition under General Arnold. and marched to Red Bank with these troops.
Ephraim Parish
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampshire County ss. September 12 th 1832. Ephraim Parish who subscribes the foregoing affidavit came before me and made oath that it is the truth. And I certify that the deponent is a man of good character for veracity.
William Ward Justice of the peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire ss
I Solomon Stoddard Clerk of the Judicial Court of the Commonwealth for the County of Hampshire, do certify that William Ward Esquire whose signature is affixed to the within Certificate was at the date thereof one of the Justices of the peace within and for said County duly commissioned and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth - and that full faith and credit is ever right to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity - And that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said William Ward and believe his signature within to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Court at common Pleas for said Commonwealth this Thirteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one Thousand eight hundred & thirty two.
S. Stoddard Clerk
Abraham Fairchild Affidavit

Theodore Hallock - Certificate

I by this certify, that Amos Crittenden, now of Savoy, was an in- habitant of this town more than 40 years. I have known him ever since. And he was a member of this church, of which I am Pastor. He told me, years ago, of the hardships attending his expedition to Quebec. He is, in my opinion, a man of veracity. I never question his word. Plainfield, county of Ham. Mass. Sept. 13. 1832.                      Moses Hallock.
I have been personally acquainted with Mr. Amos Crittenden for twenty years and have never known a man of more unblemished character. Sept. 13. 1832.                      William Ward Fisk in of the place.

771 Res 20
2.65. Bassett St. New Haven, Conn.
May 28, 1915.
Bureau of Pensions, Washington D.C.
Will you kindly forward to the Misses Cuttenden, Hill St. New Haven, Conn., the pension record of their great-grandfather Amos Cutten- den, of Massachusetts?
Very truly yours
Mary A. Knowles
for the Misses Cuttenden.
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