Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2472, Matthew Cronk, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Cronk, Matthew
S. 2472
CONTENTS
Carded

New Jersey 31,803
Matthew Cronk
Passaic Co. in the State of N. Jersey who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Outwater of the reg't. commanded by Col. Day in the N. Jersey State Troops time for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 th day of October 1840 and sent to J. W. Austin Pinehurst, N. York
Arrears to the 4th of March 1841 $800.00 Semi-annual allowance ending Sep. 4 40.00
$840.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Not June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. Brown
Clerk,
Book B. 2, Vol. #.3, Page 120

35.086
Matthew Cronk
N.Y.
Act T June '32

State of New Jersey On this day of July Passaic County Eighteen Hounaria and Early personally appeared in open court before the court of Common Pleas now sitting. Matthew Cronk a resident of the town of Patterson in the County of Passaic and state of New Jersey aged Eighty two years the 14 th day of this month who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
That he entered the service of the United States State under the following named officers and served as hereinafter stated
That in the year 1777 he turned out and served one month at New Brunswick Boundbrook and other places in New Jersey as a militia man under Captain John Mead the Col- = onels name he does not recollect and from old age and loss of memory he is unable to tell what time in the year
That in the first week of December 1777 according to the best of his recollections he the declarant volunteered or enlisted into a detachment of men raised from Col Deyo Regiment Bergen County Militia by order of the Governor and served along the frontier of the county of Bergen at Hackensack Paramus Bergen Point &c under Capt John Antecatter and Major John McGoetchius against the British and Tories from the beginning of December 1777 until the last of August 1778 in this service he served at least Eight months and a half and was discharged about the last of August above mentioned year but did not receive a written discharge

That during this service he was several times engaged along the Hackensack River in driving back the British soldiers who were in the habit of coming up the River and plundering the inhabitants of their property this service was done as a private
That during the years 1779 and 1780 he served as a private in the militia in the Regiment commanded by Col Dey along the Bergen frontier for a week sometimes for a month and sometimes for a few days only under Capt Peter Leard and others but from the frequency of the tours and from old age and loss of memory he is unable to state the particular times or their length That in the year Seventeen Hundred and Eighty One he again enlisted into a company of men raised by order of the legislature of New Jersey for the term of one year to serve in the county of Bergen in the said State under Captain John Butteater and in the Regiment commanded by Col Dey and served in the said company faithfully discharging his duty as a private for the term of one year at Hackensack and along the frontier of Bergen County as far as the New York line on the north and Bergen Point on the south at the end of the year service he was discharged with the rest of the company but did not receive a written discharge.
That in the spring of 1782 this deponent again entered the service in a company of volunteers raised by Capt Peter Leard Joseph Castleton Lieutenant and Samuel Terbrink Ensign to serve along the frontier of New Jersey to be stationed at Hackensack the new bridge and Closter

the said company was made up of between forty and fifty privates and two horse men the names of the two horsemen was Daniel Van Horn and Daniel Rotan The said company was raised to serve from the first of March 1782 to serve until the 25 th of December of the said year This deponent did not join the said company until about the last of April from which time he served until the company was dis- = charged which was at Christmas of the said year at least seven months and two weeks This declarant further saith that in this service he served as a private under the above named officers during the above named service at Newburgh Hackensack Closter and as far up in the State of New York as a place called Tappan Shoat in this service he again repeats that he served at seven months and a half and was discharged with the rest of the company but does not recollect of getting a written discharge This declarant further declares that while engaged in the foregoing service he was not engaged in any other service = it but done a regular service for the United States as above before mentioned at one time when he was under Capt Butwater he thinks Adam Boya was a Lieutenant This deponent can neither read or write he has therefore been unable to keep a memorandum of the different dates of his services but his statements are made altogether from his recollection which from old age and loss of memory may not be altogether correct as to the length of service in every particular nor has he

This declarant any documentary evidence by which he can establish his claim that he knows no person living who knows of his services except Thomas Herr who this deponent understands is living somewhere in Orange County and State of New York. The said Thomas Herr served with this deponent the two services that was done under Captain John Antewatter as well his brother Peter Herr but Peter Herr is now dead.
That this deponent always performed service in the State of New Jersey except twice once while he was in the first service under Capt Antewatter he was once at Tappan Major Gootkins was along this was in the year 1778 the second time that he went into New York as a soldier was in 1782 under Captain Peter Weiss went as far as a place called Tappan Shoal to watch the motions of the British who were cruising in the Hudson River. He is not able to state particularly the skirmishes that he was in but in 1781 while under Captain Antewatter he was several times out after the enemy and several times rescued the property of the inhabitants from the enemy and was in a skirmish with the British near Bergen Point when Capt Antewatter was wounded the British were defeated and the Regiment of Col Day returned to Hackensack.
Deponent was born in Albany in the State of New York in July 1758 that while this deponent was yet a child his parents moved to Sussex County in the State of New Jersey from Sussex County his parents just at the commencement of the Revolution moved into Bergen County in the same State and this

deponent moved with them to the last mentioned place and has ever since the war lived in the vicinity of Patterson now in the County of Passaic in the State of New Jersey. And this deponent further saith that he has a record of his age in the family table now in the possession of his son-in-law Benjamin Yeomans who now lives in the town of Mount Hope in the County of Orange and State of New York. He does not recollect any of the officers belonging to the regular army that served where this deponent did but he recollects that Col. Lucara of the Militia was with them several times and some of the other officers of the militia but does not recollect their names.
And this deponent further saith that he is known to Giles Van Klief David Branson Richard Branson John Van Houten William Dickey and a great many others now living in the town of Patterson who can testify as to his character for truth and veracity and their belief of his Revolutionary services.
And he further declares that the reason why he did not apply for a pension under the act of 1818 was because he was not willing to swear that he was not able to support himself and did not know but that he had to take the same oath which he was not willing to do until in September last when he was informed by George M. Colfax Esq. that this was no longer the case but that every man who could establish his claim by sufficient proof could draw a pension. He the deponent then spoke to a Mr. Van Leaggarner to assist him which he promised to do but has never done it and for on his indigent circumstances at this time he was unable to do it himself. These are the reasons and the only reasons why he has not applied for a pension before. And this deponent hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension whatever except the present and declares that his name

is not on the pension agency of the United States or any of the States individually. And he further declares that the clergyman in the place is not especially acquainted with him to certify to his services as a soldier but he has obtained the respectable witnesses who can testify to his character for truth and veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier in the war of the Revolution.  Sworn & subscribed in Open Court Matthew Cronk July 22 d - A.D. 1840 mark Geo. A. Ryerson Clerk
In the Matter of the application of Matthew Cronk for a pension under the act of Congress passed
June 7 1832
State of New Jersey } to Samuel  Halsburgh Van Houten Essex County } and  and Giles Van Klief of the town of Patterson and State aforesaid being duly sworn according to law depose and say that they have been acquainted with Matthew Cronk now an applicant for a pension for many years. That we have always believed him to be a man of truth and veracity and in good standing in the neighborhood where he lives and that it is generally understood that he was a soldier in the war of the Revolution as stated, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed in Open Court July 22 d 1840 Geo. A. Ryerson Clerk
Halsburgh his X Van Houten mark Giles Van Klief

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations presented by the war department that the aforesaid Mathew Cronk was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he has aforesaid stated
And the Court further certify that it appears to them that Healmast  Conductors to There is nothing  the and Giles Van Kip who have signed an oath to the preceding affidavit and residents of the town of Patterson that they are credible persons and that their statem- = ents are entitled to full credit and belief
John Parke } Judges of Cornel Van Klief } the Common Lewis G. Blauvelt } Pleas.
I George A. Ryerson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Putnam and State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceed- ings of the said Court, in the matter of the Application of Matthe Cronk for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this twenty second day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty -
Geo. A. Ryerson Clerk

Rev War
2472 INVALID.
File No. 2472
Matthew Crank
Bi Rev War
Act: June 7, 1832
Index: — Vol. 4 , Page 80
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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N. York Matthew Cronk let. to J. McMartin 17. Aug. 1840
Act June 1832

State of New York } On this twenty ninth day of September Orange County } Eighteen Hundred and forty personally appeared before the un- dersigned a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County being a court of record Thomas Dyer Darr aged twenty nine years a resident of the town of Warren in the said County who being first duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was born at Hampton in the County of Bergen and State of New Jersey and lived in that place until the commencement of the Revolutionary war and that in the beginning of the Revolution he belonged to a company of Militia commanded by Capt John Rutwater and in the Regiment commanded by Col Dey and he further says that he was well acquainted with Matthew Cronk who lived at a place called Breakneck a short distance from where this depon- ent lived and in the said company He further deposeth and saith that the British and Tories became so troublesome along the frontiers of Bergen County that it was necessary to keep a number of men continually under arms and an order was issued by Gov Livingston to raise a number of men to be commanded by Majn John McGoetie to serve along the Bergen frontiers in defending the Inhabitants and in saving their property from plunder from the first of December 1777 until discharge This deponent further deposeth and saith that he himself and Matthew Cronk entered this service under Capt John Rutwater and served in the detachment under John McGoetie as Majn commandant for the term of nine months and was discharged about the first of September 1778 but did not receive a written discharge His service was done along the Hackensack River from Bergen Town on the south to a place called

Scotenburg on the north near the New York line during this service the detachment under Major Goelchens was often engaged in skirmishes with the enemy who often come into the country to plunder the inhabitants of their property In one instance this deponent recollects That he had been out of camp on a Sunday evening and on his return to the camp he thought he would turn aside into a hay barrack and take a sleep but he had not been there long before he heard some people driving cattle he gave the alarm and the detachment turned out and followed the enemy and overtook them on the marsh before they got aboard of their boats here we had a pretty smart brush and succeeded in recapturing the cattle and in driving the enemy to their boats This deponent knows that Matthew Cronk was in this engagement and he knows that Matthew Cronk served in the detachment of Bergen County Militia under Major John McGoelchens from the first of December 1777 untill about the first of September 1778 at least nine months and was discharged with the rest of the company at or near Haverack in the said county This deponent further saith that Matthew Cronk was a good soldier and a brave man This deponent further saith that in 1779 he served under Lieut. A. Post and was out again in 1780 but does not recollect of serving with Matthew Cronk after September 1778 untill the year 1781 In January 1781 this deponent and Matthew Cronk volunteered to serve one year along the frontier of Bergen County under Capt John Cutwater and in the Regiment under Col Dey and served from

the first of January 1781 untill the first of January 1782 this service was performed along the frontiers of Bergen County which was continually infested with the British and Tories who came up the Hackensack River to plunder the inhabitants during this service we were sometimes at Hacken- sack Bergen Point sand hill and other places along the frontiers. At one time we had a pretty hard fight and Capt Buttealter was wounded this deponent was standing near him at the time this deponent knows that Matthew Cronk was in this engagement This deponent further saith that he is not mistaken in the service of Matthew Cronk in Capt Buttealters company in 1781 but knows that he served in the said company for the term of one year and was discharged with the rest of the company sometime in January 1782 This deponent further saith that he was out again in the service in 1782 that during this summer this deponent was detached from Capt Buttealters company and was attached to a company of nine months men under the command of Capt Peter Ward and that he remained in the company of Capt Ward for the term of two months doing duty as a private soldier and he further saith that he found Matthew Cronk doing duty as a private soldier in the company of Capt Ward and that the said Matthew Cronk continued to do duty in the said company while this deponent was there and this deponent left the said Cronk in the company when he left it and he verily believes that the said Matthew Cronk served out his time in the said company which could not have been less than six months and this deponent thinks his service was in the Regiment under Col Dey

And this deponent further declares that he was well acquainted with Matthew Cronk at the beginning of the war and that he knew him during the war particularly in the services above mentioned and knew him to be as good a soldier and as true a friend to his country as any man that he was acquainted with and this deponent lived a neighbour to the said Matthew Cronk from the close of the war until this deponent left New Jersey for New York a term of at least twenty eight years and always knew the said Matthew Cronk to be a sober up-right honest man and whose character was not surpassed by any one for truth and one whose word was never doubted by any when once it was spoken. He further saith that he believes that the said Matthew Cronk is now living somewhere in the vicinity of Patterson in the State of New Jersey and that he is more than Eighty years of age. Thomas his Subscribed and sworn to this day Peter P Carr mark and year above written by making his mark and I certify that Peter Carr is a creditable witness The words 'a judge of the Court of Common Pleas' erased & the words 'justice of the peace' interlined also the words 'being a court of Record' erased also the word year interlined and that the word Peter was twice erased & the word Thomas interlined
C Armstrong
Justice of the Peace
Witness John McArthur

State of New York Orange County ss I Albert G. Weston Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do certify that Horace Armstrong is a Justice of the peace as above, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County the 6 th day of October 1840
A. G. Weston Clerk

State of New York } Benjamin Goodman Orange County } of the Town of Mount Hope in the said County deposeth and saith that he is sixty years of age and that untill within a few years was a resident of Patterson and its vicinity in the County of Passai in the State of New Jersey. And he further deposeth and saith that he has known Matthew Cronk now an applicant for a Pension for services in the Revolutionary war from the earliest recollection of this deponent, and further he saith that he has allways known to be a man of truth and veracity and was so accounted by all who knew him and he has often heard the said Matthew Cronk tell of his services in the war of the Revolution and of his serving along the Hackensack River and Bergen and other places along the Jersey frontier against the British and Tories under Col. Dey and Major Gortshins and he has often heard him tell of his services under Captain John Butterwater one time for several months and one time for a year and he has likewise heard him tell of his having served under Captain Peter Ward but he does not recollect of his telling what years his services were done in. He further deposeth and saith that he talked with the said Matthew Cronk about getting a pension under the act of 1818 and advised him to apply for the same but the said Matthew Cronk allways replied to him that as long as he was able to provide for himself, he would

never swear that he was not able to do the same from his long acquaintance with Matthew Cronk and from his well known character for truth and veracity he fully believes that he would not state any thing but the truth and that he is more than Eighty years of age Ben d Yeomans Sworn and Subscribed the 24 th September 1840 before me
W m J Little Justice of the peace
I certify that that I am acquainted with Ben jamin Yeomans and believe him to be a man of truth and his statements made in the fore- going affidavit is entitled to full credit and belief
W m J Little Justice of the peace
State of New York Orange County ss I Albert J Minton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county, do Certify that William J Little is a Justice of the Peace as above, and that the foregoing signature pur- porting to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County the 6 th day of October 1840
A. J. Minton Clerk

State of New Jersey Passaic County ss.
Before me David Burnett one of the Justices of the peace for the said County, personally appeared John Parke who being duly sworn according to law, did depose and say that he is well acquainted with Matthew Cronk and has been for about thirty years and believes him to be a man of truth and honesty and believes he served as a soldier in the Militia of the State of New Jersey.
Sworn before me the 31 st day of August 1840
John Parke
David Burnett Justice of the Peace
I George A. Ryerson Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Passaic in the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify, that David Burnett whose name is subscribed to the Seal of the above affidavit of John Parke is, and was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the peace, in, and for the said county of Passaic, duly commissioned and sworn; that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine - and that full credit ought to be given to his official acts -
Given under my hand and seal of Office, at Paterson, in the county of Passaic aforesaid, this first day of September A.D. 1840
Geo. A. Ryerson

State of New York Orange County Town of Mount Hope The said learned deponent saith that he is sixty years of age and was until within a few years a resident in Patterson in the county of Pasai and when living in Patter- son was well acquainted with John Parker a Judge of the Superior court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Pasai whom and subscribed the within affidavit and have always known him to be a man of truth and honesty and I am satisfied that his state- ments herein made are entitled to full credit and belief Sworn and subscribed this 24 day of September 1840 I certify the above to be a creditable witness Benj. Garmy
Sworn and subscribed the 24th September 1840 before me
William S. Little Justice of the Peace State of New York
Orange County ss. I Albert T. Morton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do Certify that William S. Little is a Justice of the Peace as above, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof I have here- unto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the said County the 6th day of October 1840 A. T. Morton Clerk

The Act to raise by voluntary enlistment eight hundred and twenty men for the defence of the frontiers of the State
Whereas it is highly necessary that provision should be made for the protection and defence of the frontier inhabitants of this State and also for the important purposes of preventing the illicit trade carried on and breaking off the communication now maintained by disaffected persons with the common enemy to the extreme prejudice of the United States
1. Be it therefore enacted by the Council and General Assembly of this State and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same that eight hundred and twenty men shall be raised by voluntary enlistment and embodied for the defence of the frontiers of this State to continue in service until the fifth day of January one thousand seven hundred and eighty two unless sooner discharged and to be stationed in the several counties in such a manner as to afford the most equal and beneficial protection to all the inhabitants on the said frontiers and that the said eight hundred and twenty men be distributed and stationed in the different counties as follows; That is to say:
In the County of Bergen one hundred and twenty men to be divided into three Companies consisting of sixty men each including three commissioned officers, three serjeants, three corporals, one drummer and three horsemen one to be raised and commanded by Captain John Outwater of the County of Bergen Lieutenant Joseph Catterline and Ensign Abraham Hogland of the County of Somerset; - the other to be raised and commanded by Captain Thomas Blanch, Lieutenant David Demarest and Ensign Jacobus Bogart of the said County of Bergen

State of New Jersey ss.
I James B. Westcott
Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do certify that the foregoing is a true copy of part of the first section of an act entitled "An act to raise by voluntary enlistment eight hundred and twenty men for the defence of the frontiers of the State" passed December 26, A.D. 1780 as taken from and compared with the original now remaining in my office.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at the City of Trenton in said State this twenty fourth day of July Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty.
James B. Westcott

Finchville Orange County New York Oct 5 1860
Sir with this letter I send the affidavits required in the case of Matthew Cronk of Patterson New Jersey together with the letter of Mr Parke to myself confirming the opinion that he is a deserving man I shall most respectfully await your decision
yours most
obediently
John W. Martin
Hon James L Edwards Commissioner of Pensions

Finchville Orange County New York August 7/40
Hon James L Edwards
Commissioner Tension
Respected Sir I send for your examination and report the declaration and accompy- = ning proof of Mathew Bronk who state that he was a soldier in the war of the Revolution but from conscientious scruples on account as he supposed of having to swear that he was unable to support him- self has never before attempted to get a Pension He is a man though poor of good standing in society the Judges of the court were all well acquainted with him and Judge Parks stated in court that he had known him for thirty five years and had him in his employ for two years and knew him to be an honest upright man and has never knew him to deviate from the truth Please sir give this your most favourable consideration and accept your report to your friend and humble servant
John Willerton
Finchville

Mr. and
CITY OF PATERSON SEP 22 N.J.
PAID
John W. Meartin Esq.
Post Master, Finchville
Orange County
New York
— Mail } —
PAID

Paterson Sept. 2 nd 1840
Mr. Sir,
Inclosed is the Affidavit you wrote for and I am happy to think that Mr. Cronk is likely to obtain a pension. I feel also happy that I am able to be of service to him for he is very deserving Old Man, he having been In my employ several Years.
John W. Martin Esq.
Yours respectfully
John Parke
MS. You can inclose to me One dollar,

35086
Matthew Crowl
Act. June 7. 185
Col Day } N. Jersey Capt. Outwater } State Troop
Admitted Private 2 years
J. W. Martin Esq. Finchville N.Y.

Matthew Cook
Payment to be made at Trenton by P. Dickinson, Esq. Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of N. Jersey
$2472
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book C. 2. Vol. 3. Page 120 by D. Brown,
Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Matthew Grunk of the State of New Jersey who was a Private in the War of the Revolution is entitled to receive — Eighty — dollars and cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually, on the 4th of March and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this tenth day of October one thousand eight hundred and thirty -forty.
W. Linn Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. }
J. G. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions.

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