Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2451, Zadok Crane, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
brane, Zadok Zadock
R. 2451
CONTENTS

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
2451 P. O. David Crane Service
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

N. Jersey Zadock Crane let. to claimant 14. Sep. 1840
2451
Act June 1832

35098 Lecith biam Alpion

Monmouth Co.
Be it remembered that on this third day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine before me Silas Cookson of the judges of the court of common pleas in and for said county personally ap- peared Jacob Brown of the township of Bloomfield in the County of Essex, and state of New Jersey who being duly sworn, doth depose and say, that he is now over eighty years of age, that he was born in the town- ship of Bloomfield aforesaid, and has always resided there, except when in the service of the United States that at the age of eighteen years he voluntarily enlisted in the United States Service Under Capt William Bolger, in the body or life guard of General Washington, the Commander in Chief of the Army of the United States to serve during the war, thinks he entered the service about the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven that he did serve during the war that he was an ensign in said guard that he never got a written discharge, but he did get a verbal discharge either in New York or New Jersey, does not recollect which - nor does he now recollect the name of the kind of said guard - This deponent further says, and wishes it to be known part of this deposition

That General Washington said, he was General next to him - and that the Genl requested their department to hold the commis- -sion as long as he lived -
Sworn and subscribed before me to be true as before, in this paper is written according to the best of his knowledge and belief -
Isaac H. Brown 111th
Filer book

That General Washington said, he was General next to him - and that the first requested their department to hold the common - since as long as he lived -
Sworn and subscribed before me to be true as before in this paper is written according to the best of his knowledge and belief -
his Lachlan H. Graham clerk
Filed both

This is to certify that Zebadiah Coane of the Township of Bloomfield in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey was a waiter for General Washington during the Revolutionary war and often called upon in the night to give the alarm when occasion required and I had my horse taken by the British in the night by the Tories but made my escape from them at that time, at the Battle of Springfield I was dealing out provisions to the soldiers there at that time.

We the Session of the first Presbyterian Church in Caldwell, do hereby certify that Ladoch Crane of the County of Essex & state of New Jersey, Aged eighty one years, is at this time a member of our said Church in good standing, free from Censure, for the space of 30 or 40 years has been a member.
Rich d T. Cleveland Pastor.
Caldwell Sept 12 th 1839
Signed. William Gould
Rufus Harrison
Members of Session
Members of Session

Station Office
Aug 26. 1840
Ms add prof. Gaduck Crane
Dear Sir
Yours sincerely
J
They at War
Washington
Lib.

Morris County
Before me Silas Cook one of the judges of the Court of common pleas in our said County, personally appeared John Estlin who being first duly sworn according to law did depose and say, that he is now a pen- sioner of the United States, that he was acquaint- with the facts in regard to the transaction of Bloomfield in the County of Essex since the of New Jersey - before the revolutionary war - that he was then a young man - that about the commencement of the war - or rather in the early part of it, Zephaniah Crane told this depo- nent, that he intended to enlist in General Washington's life guard - that afterwards, but at what time this deponent cannot with certainty say, he saw the said Zephaniah Crane in the body guard of General Washington, and at different times - never saw Zephaniah Crane in any other service. He further says not
In presence hereunto before me this twenty sixth day of July 1839 - Silas Cook
John Estlin