Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2509, John Crosby, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Crosby, John
R. 2509
CONTENTS

39058 John Crossby Kentucky abt June 1832
2509
W. J. Allison (Prest)

State of Kentucky Shelby County } Set.
On this the 12 th day of May 1845. personally appeared in open court. John Crosby a resident of said county & state aged (90) ninety years the 10 th day of May 1845. who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832, that he enlisted in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War, the precise date he has now forgotten, he was then a resident of Fauquier County Virginia then as Keith was his lieutenant. William Blackwell his captain. Thomas Marshall his major and Martin Dickett was his colonel, he was in what was called at the time, the "minute" service. He was first under the above named officers rendezvoused at Culpepper Court House Virginia and marched thence to Williamsburg where he was stationed some time in the capital, he was during that time marched to Hampton and there repulsed an attack made by the enemy on the town in which they captured an English brig which was employed by the enemy as a tender to their ship of the line called the Ding-fisher. from thence he was marched back to Williamsburg where he remained until could wither say six months from the date of his enlistment. He was thence re-taken to Williamsburg Culpepper Court House - not discharged but with orders to hold himself in readiness at any time to obey whatever orders might be given him.
He was next in his second term marched with his company with orders to join the army under the immediate command of Genl. Washington at Germantown, where he arrived two days after the Battle.

Route.
took place, having been delayed on the route in order to obtain provisions, he remained encamped there a good while several months though he does not now from the great lapse of time recollect how long, and thence returned to Virginia. He was next (it being the third time ) all under the same officers marched to a point on the Potomac River where the enemy had burned and destroyed Brant's houses there he remained for some time, from this last mentioned period until the close of the war by the capture of Cornwallis at York, under arms and in readiness to obey any orders & subject to the requisitions of his officers & Government.
He furnished his own arms and equipment and the government provided the provisions for his corps.
He was paid at different times in what was then called Continental Money which was of little or no value. The amount he does not now recollect. He never received a written discharge from the service.
He states that he has been heretofore adverse to receiving any compensation under the act of Congress, and some years since he wrote to his friend Col. R. M. Johnson respecting the subject but he does not now remember the particulars or what was done in the premises. This he did at the time to satisfy his friends. He does not know that any formal declaration or application has ever been made in his behalf before the proper department of the Government.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not

not
On the pension-roll of any agency in any state Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid
John Crossby
And the said Court do hereby declare their Opinion that the above named Applicant John Crossby was a revolutionary soldier soldier and served as he states
I Va H. Whitaker clerk of the Shelby County Court, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Crossby for a pension
For testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 13 th day of May 1845.
Va H. Whitaker clerk Shelby County Court

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of John Crosby 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.
R. 2509
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Served three tours no dates of enlist- ment or discharge stated. William Blackwell Martin Pickett Va.  
Entered service "King Fisher" (British Service) at Hampton
Battles engaged in, _____ Residence of soldier at enlistment, Fauquier Co. Va. Date of application for pension, May 12, 1845. Residence at date of application, Shelby Co. Kentucky. Age at date of application, 70 years on May 10 1845.
Remarks: His claim was never allowed for the reason that he failed to furnish proof of alleged service, as required by the Act of June 7, 1832 under which he applied.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

1917 Dec. 8. Thiel. to Mrs. Kate H. Libby. p. 2
2509
P. O.
John Crosby
Service:
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: Printed list of 1852 gives cause of suspension as.
Re-enlisted: "For a further setting forth of service and the officer's names"
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Woodstock Inverness Ky

Washington June 6. 1845
Sir,
Enclosed herewith is a declaration of John Crosby. I have been informed that he has heretofore applied and that the paper was returned for amendment.
I am respectfully Your Obedt. Servt W. Allison
J. S. Edwards Esq Commr of Pensions.

37058
John Crosby
Sub to W. S. Allison July 23. 45
arr 9th June 1832

Sir
Sen At July 21.
43
The certificate of the Compt. of N.C. enclosed in yours of 6 ult. as the ground of an application for increase by Willie Hubbard has been filed with the other papers. It is necessary that she should in her own person apply for the increase & return the present certificate - she claimed originally for two tours of her husband in the militia of that State amounting to 6 mos & this evidence sustains her. The allowance made her was for 12 mos in the N.C. Line as established by the records.
The unsupported & imperfect declaration of Jno Crosby has been examined & filed. The interrogatories required by the rules to be answered, are omitted and the length of his 2 nd tour in Pa & 3 rd on the Potomac is not stated with the necessary pre-
M. V. Gibson July 23. 45

* "all under some officers" - he said.
= cision - nor are the * Officers named under whom he served in those tours - The first term of Genl. as a minor man under Col Blackwell at Labont Williamsburg Va has no papers assigned to it - and  now A claim asserted for the first time ought to be sustained in every essential point by very satisfactory proof
Wm Allison Esq Present -

Rev 1-11-16 Kirksville, Missouri
December, 3, 1917
Rev. War Records Section, Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions,
Washington D.C.
Will you give me the Revolution- ary War service of John Crosby, born May 10, 1755 and died July 22, 1853 and oblige,
Mrs. Kate Graves Gibbs
502 E. Harrison St.
Kirksville Missouri.