Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 9245, Robert Crawford, Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn
Crawford, Robert
89245
carded
CONTENTS

30981 Pennsylvania
Robert Crawford
of Benango Co in the State of Pennsylvania who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Miller of the regt - commanded by Col McCoy in the Pennsylvania for three years
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate & Pension issued the 4th day of Febru- ary 1837 and sent to Hon. J. Galbraith M.P.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1836 $440.- Semi-ant. allowance ending March 37 40.- $480.-
{ Revolutionary Claim, } Act June 7, 1832 }
Recorded by H. Allison Clerk, Book 2 2 Vol. 5 Page 10
Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6. April 1838 from 4. Sept 1840. to 4th Sept 1841 - Age Notified 28 Feb. 1842.

(19.1.80) Robert Crawford Venango 69
Dec. 28. 1824
Certified Copy of the application of Robert Crawford of Venango County, for a pension from the United States
[Handwritten mark or signature]
Hon. P. Farrelly, H. R.
Hon: P. Farrelly. H. Reps Dec. 28. 1824

Pennsylvania ss Venango County
Among the records and the proceedings of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Venango in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Before the Honorable Jesse Moore Esquire President and his Associates Judges of the same Court, of November Term one thousand eight hundred and twenty four the following is contained, to wit,
District of Pennsylvania ss
On this twenty fifth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty four personally appeared in open Court in the Town of Franklin in the County of Venango and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Before the Honorable Jesse Moore Esquire President, and the Honorable John Irwin and Thomas McKee Esquires Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the said County in the sixth Judicial district of the said Commonwealth the same Court being a Court of Record, Robert Crawford of the Township of Scrub Grass in the County of Venango aforesaid farmer aged seventy seven years who being duly sworn according to law, doth on his solemn oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and the first day of May one thousand eight hundred and twenty, that he the said Robert Crawford enlisted for the term of three years in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six in the County of Westmoreland in the State of Pennsylvania in the Company commanded by Captain Samuel Miller in the Regiment, at that time commanded by Colonel Enos McCoy and afterwards commanded by

Colonel Daniel Brodhead in the line of the state of Pennsylvania on the Continental Establishments, that, he continued to serve in the said Corps until the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine when he was discharged from the said service in Pittsburgh in the state of Pennsylvania.
That he was in the Battles of Bound Brook in Jersey Brandywine, the Paoli and Germantown in Pennsylvania, and that he has no other evidence in his power of said services except the testimony of John Jamison of Parker Township in Butler County in the state of Pennsylvania aforesaid whose deposition is to this declaration annexed and in pursuance of the act of the first of May one thousand eight hundred and twenty, I do solemnly swear that I was resident Citizen of the United States on the Eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the Eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed
List of the Applicant's property, to wit —
100 Acres of land in Scrub Grass Township held by actual settlement, under the act of Assembly of Pennsylvania, without any legal title and on which the purchase money to the said state of Pennsylvania is due valued at three dollars per acre. —
$ 300.00

  A two year old Calf, of the price of —————  25.00    One Cow and Calf, of the price of —————  12.00    Five Sheep ————— of the price of —————  5.00    One sow and eight pigs of the price of —————  3.00    One Ten Gallon Kettle (Cracked) one small pot —————  2.00    a Pewter Dish and Bason of the value of —————  2.00  
$349.00
A list of the applicants debts due and owing by him    George Crawford of Westmoreland County By Bond —————  $900.00    James Anderson by account, and note —————  12.00    James Anderson Jr. by book account, —————  5.37 1 / 2    William Coulter by book account, —————  2.50    James Perry ————— Account, —————  0.50    Samuel Eakin ————— Account, —————  0.75  
$221.12 1 / 2
The declarant has no family, except one Grand-daughter aged nineteen years, who keeps house for him of the name of Mary McQueston, and the declarant is a farmer by occupation, but unable to work but little ————— Robert Crawford
Sworn to and declared in open Court, the twenty fifth day of November one thousand eight hundred and twenty four —————
Andrew Bowman Proth.

Pennsylvania ss Butler County ss
Before the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for Butler County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania appeared John Jamison of the Township of Parker in the said County of Butler who being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith he served in the Eighth Regiment of the Pennsylvania line in the Company com- manded by Captain Samuel Miller, which said Re- giment was at one time commanded by Colonel Enos McCoy and afterwards by Colonel Daniel Brodhead on the Continental Establishment, that he during his continuance in service in the said Corps was well acquainted with Robert Crawford a private in the Company of the said Captain Samuel Miller.
That the said Robert Crawford to this depo- nents knowledge was in the several Battles of Bound Brook in Jersey, Brandywine and Germantown in Pennsylvania, and that the said Robert Crawford is now, and has been previous to the Eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hun- dred and Eighteen, and still is a resident of the County of Venango in the state of Pennsylvania sworn & subscribed before me this 18 th day of Novr.
1824
John Parker
John Jamison
Andrew Bowman Prothonotary of the

Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Venango in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do hereby certify, that the foregoing Bill and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly Copied from the records of the said Court, that the Total amount, in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is three hundred and forty nine dollars, and that the affidavit of John Jamison an old soldier taken before the Honorable John Parker one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Butler County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvan- -ia is correctly Copied from the original order- -ed by the Court to be filed in my office —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Franklin the fourth day of De- -cember one thousand eight hundred and twenty four —
Andrew Bournan Proth
To the Honorable the Secretary of War of the United States —
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33,913 Robert Crawford Pennsylvania
J. Galbraith Munster Pennsylvania
Hn. J. Galbraith AR

State of Pennsylvania Venango county ss—
On this twenty ninth day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty six, personally appeared before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Venango county, belonging to the sixth Judicial district of Pennsylvania, Hon. Henry Shippen, President and John Lewis & Thomas M'Kee Esquires, his associates, Robert Crawford a resident of Senegaleap township in said county of Venango, in the state of Pennsylvania aforesaid aged ninety one 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 provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 7. 1832. That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety six at Hannahstown in Forest Moreland county Pennsylvania with Captain Samuel Miller attached to the eighth Regiment of the Pennsylvania line then commanded by Colonel Enos M'Goy, for the term of three years that the said Regiment was afterwards commanded by Colonel Daniel Broadhead— That we were marched from Hannahstown through Carlisle & Lancaster to Philadelphia where we were stationed for about
Sworn and subscribed " 91.1
John Garrison

a week - from Philadelphia we were marched to Trenton, from there through Princeton and Lee- bletown to Boundbrook in New Jersey , where we were encamp- ed for some time - Here we had a battle with the English & Hessians who drove us out of the encampment and here Colonel Broadhead met and took command of the regiment, Colonel McCoy having taken sick at Trenton, and gone back to Philadelphia where he died. From Bound- brook we were marched to Schencks mills in New Jersey where we remained a few days and marched back through Philadelphia to Brandy- wine where we joined the general Army under command of General Washington. A few days afterwards the Battle of Brandywine was fought. I was in the battle which lasted from 9 o'clock in the morning until dark - From there we were marched to Paoli, after the English bag- gage as was supposed. The English came on us in the night, and killed a number of our men in their tents - From there we were marched to Germantown near Philadelphia, soon after which the Battle of Germantown was fought. I was in both the battles of Paoli and German- town - We were marched from Germantown to

Valley Forge where we encamped for winter quarters - In the spring of 1778 we were marched west to Fort Du Quesne or Pittsburgh, thence to Beaver then called Fort M'Intosh - thence to Tuscawawas, thence back to Pittsburgh, thence up the Allegheny river to Hickory town, where we burnt the town and a part of their corn, and had a skirmish with the Indians, before we reached Hickory town and took their scalps - From Hickory town we were marched back to Pittsburgh, when I received a written discharge from Col. oneil Broadhead in September 1779 having served the full term of three years for which I had enlisted - This discharge I have long since lost or mislaid, not supposing it would be of much service to me -
He hereby extinguishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any  the agency in any state only on that of the agency in the state of Pennsylvania from which he receives a gratuity of forty dollars per annum granted by the Legislature of Pennsylvania by special act of Assembly - sworn to and subscribed this _____ day and year aforesaid -
Robert Crawford
A. McDowell Pro
Subscribed before me Notary
his mark -

Union county p
We, William Connely, a clergyman residing in the borough of Franklin Union county, and Samuel Hays, residing in the same, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Robert Crawford, who has sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be ninety one years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn & subscribed the 29th Novr. A. D. 1836
Wm Connely
A. S. Russell Hethy
Sam Hays
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, and that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that William Connely who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the borough of Franklin and that Samuel Hays who has also signed the same is a resident of the same place, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Henry Hays President of Court
Union county p.
I Alexander M. Donnell clerk of the court of Common Pleas of said county do hereby certify that

The foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Robert Crawford for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 29 th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and six — — — —
A. Mc Dowell Atty

State of Pennsylvania Butler County ss
Before me the subscriber an of the Justices of the peace of Butler County aforesaid personally came John Garrison of the age of Eighty six years as he himself on his oath states who being duly sworn according to Law deposes and saith that he was a soldier in the Revolutionary War in the Company commanded by Captain Samuel Miller attached to Colonel Enas McCays regiment (afterwards commanded by Colonel Daniel Broadhead) of the Penn- sylvania line. That while he was in said service he was well acquainted with Robert Crawford now resid- ing in Scrubgrass township Venango County Pennsylvania and that he belonged to the said Captain Samuel Millers Comp y as a private and that this deponent well remembers that said Robert Crawford was in the Battles of Brandybrook Vineyard and Brandywine and Germantown in Penn- sylvania and has always since been recognized and re- puted in his neighborhood to have been a soldier of the Revolutionary War - That this deponent is now a resident of Parker township Butler County and has been for the last thirty seven years past and that he gives a deposition of the above facts as to his knowledge of the services of the said Robert Crawford before James Broward Esq r who was then and is now one of the Associate Judges of Butler County on the 22 nd day November 1824 which deposition is now before him Sworn and subscribed the 21 st day of October 1836 before me John Murrin
John Garrison

State Pennsylvania & J. M c Fullerane Prothonotary of the Courts of Common Pleas in and for the county of Butte, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do by these presents certify That John Murray Esquire before whom the foregoing deposition was taken and who has thereunto in his own proper hand writing subscribed his name, was at the time of taking such deposition and now is an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for the said county duly commissioned and sworn to all whose acts, as such due faith and credit are, and of right ought to be given throughout the United States & elsewhere
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court at Butte, in the said county, this 25 th day of October A. D. 1836.
J. M c Fullerane Pro

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
Dec. 28 th , 1841.
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," The child n of Robert Crawford, dec d , a Pensioner on the Roll of the Philadelphia Agency, at the rate of Eighty — Dollars and Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 1 st of Sept. 1840, to the 4 th March 1841.
Respectfully, yours,
Walter B. Lewis
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

December 14, 1938.
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Mrs. M. C. Moseley Box 63 Byron, Georgia
BA--J/ady Robert Crawford S.9245 am
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter relative to Robert Crawford, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The record of the only Robert Crawford of Pennsylvania that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this office is furnished you herein as found in the papers on file in the pension claim, S.9245, based upon his military service in that war.
The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of Robert Crawford are not stated.
Robert Crawford enlisted in Hannastown, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, served as private in Captain Samuel Miller's Company, Colonels Eneas Mackay's and Daniel Brodhead's Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment; was in the battles of Bound Brook, Brandywine, Paoli and Germantown; he wintered at Valley Forge; was in a skirmish with the Indians and was discharged in September 1779, having served three years.
In 1824 he was living in Scrub Grass Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania.
He was allowed pension by the United States, on his application executed November 29, 1836, at which time he was aged about ninety-one years and a resident of Scrub Grass Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania. He also received a pension from the State of Pennsylvania, at the rate of $40.00 per annum, under the Act of March 22, 1825.

In 1825 soldier's sons, Robert Crawford and George Crawford made affidavits in Venango County, Pennsylvania, their ages not shown.
Soldier's granddaughter, Mary McQuestion, was aged nineteen years in 1824.
In 1824 one George Crawford was living in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. In February 1835, one John Crawford made affidavit in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. Said John Crawford was then one of the heirs of said George Crawford, their ages and relationship to the soldier, Robert Crawford, are not stated.
Children of soldier were living in December 1841, their names are not designated. Soldier was then deceased. There are no further family data.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name of person paid and possibly the exact date of soldier's death, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C., and cite the following: "Robert Crawford, Certificate No. 30981, issued February 4, 1837, rate $80.00 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Pennsylvania Agency".
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

let informed in file. white.
See also
9245
INVALID.
Mon 29/38 Hon S.S. Duf that no discharge
37 Dec 14. Post. Colony 7 C. Moseley, Esq.
File No. 9245 Robert Mansford Rev. Rev. War.
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index: — Vol. 10 , Page 81
[Arrangement of 1870.]

17. Hays. Venango. Deposition of John Jameson and the Application of Robert Crawford for a pension from Pennsylvania H.R. Dec. 8. 1824 Claims.
Petition of Robert Crawford not made out
No 8 unfavorable
Hon. J. Galbraith H.R.

To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly Met,
The petition of Robert Crawford a resident of the Township of Scrub Grass in the County of Venango aged seventy seven years, most respectfully sets forth
That your petitioner enlisted for the term of three years, in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six in Captain Samuel Millers Company in the Eighth Regiment of the Pennsylvania line commanded at one time by Colonel McCoy and afterwards commanded by Colonel Daniel Brodhead on the Continental Establishment, and that he continued to serve in the said Corps until the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine when he was discharged from the service in Pittsburgh - That during his continuance in service he was in the several Battles of Bound Brook in Jersey, Brandywine, the Paoli and Germantown in Pennsylvania -
That the certificate of his discharge has been lost or mislaid, and the only evidence of his service is the Testimony of John Jamison of Butler County whose deposition is hereto annexed -
That your petitioner has never trans- ferred his right of compensation for his services to any person nor neither has he ever received any Gratuity or pension from this State or of the United States, that he is now become old being of the age of Seventy seven years, and unable to work to support himself and an aged wife, and having no other real Estate than one hundred Acres of poor land in Scrub Grass Township for which there is no other title than that of an Actual settler -
Your petitioner therefore prays that your

petitioner case may be taken into your serious consideration and that a Compensation may be granted to him, to assist in supporting his declining years — 2 5
And your petitioner will pray
Robert Crawford
WE the subscribers Inhabitants of the County of Berango being well acquainted with Robert Crawford the petitioner and do believe the facts set forth in his petition are true And do recommend that a donation or pension may be granted to the petitioner to assist in supporting him in declining age —
Daniel McKean
David Irvine John Whitman Nicholas Sutton Solomon Martin Robert Stevenson James Hughes Jos Allen Wm M c Manigle Wm Wood
John Wilson Wm M c Quinn
Thomas Kerr William Perry David Carrick Nunian M c Arthur Jno Withers John Broadfoot John Martin A. W. Calhoun R. M. Schell John A. Calmont Bernhardt Martin Alex Dowman Paul Connolly Geo. M c Calland

And m Bowman
Aaron McFaddin
James M c Cune
Abn Withers
M rs M c Ell
L. Turner

Petition of Robert Crawford for a pension
1836 1799 37

Pennsylvania Butler County ss. Before the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for Butler County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania appeared John Garrison of the Township of Parker in the said County of Butler, who being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith he served in the Eighth Regiment of the Pennsylvania line in the Company commanded by Captain Samuel Miller, which said Regiment, was at one time commanded by Colonel Emas McCoy, and afterwards by Colonel Daniel Brodhead on the Continental Establishments, That he, during his continuance in service in the said Corps, was well acquainted with Robert Crawford a private in the Company of the said Captain Samuel Miller. That the said Robert Crawford, to this deponent's knowledge was in the several Battles of Bound Brook in Jersey, Brandywine and Germantown in Pennsylvania, and that the said Robert Crawford is now, and has been previous to the Eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen a resident of the County of Venango in the State of Pennsylvania
John Garrison
Sworn and subscribed before me this 22 nd day of November 1824
James Bayard

Pennsylvania Armstrong county
Before the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for Armstrong county in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania appeared Isaac McRasack of the township of Alleghania in the said county of Armstrong who being duly sworn according to law deposes and saith he served in the Eighth regiment of the Pennsylvania line in the company commanded by Captain Samuel Miller which said regiment was at one time commanded by Colonel Enos McKey and afterwards by Colonel Daniel Brodhead on the continental establishment. That he during his continuance in service in the said Corps was well acquainted with Robert Crawford a private in the company of the said Captain Samuel Miller. That the said Robert Crawford to this deponent's knowledge was in the several Battles of Brandywine and Red Bank in Pennsylvania; and that the said Robert Crawford is now and has been previous to the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and still is a resident of the county of Venango in the state of Pennsylvania
Isaac McRasack
Sworn and subscribed before me this 25th February 1825 Wm Watson
Armstrong county to wit
J. Frederick Rohrer
Prothonotary of Armstrong county in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania do certify that William Watson, Esquire before whom the deposition of Isaac McRasack, was taken; was and is

a justice of the peace, duly commissioned by the proper authority
and to all acts by him done as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given as well in courts of Justice as elsewhere. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of the court of common pleas at Lancaster the twenty sixth day of February one thousand eight hundred and twenty five
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court, The twenty-sixth day of February, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty five.
Clerk: Rohrer, Prov.

Pennsylvania ss Butler County ss. Before the subscriber one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Butler County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania appeared John Jamison of the Township of Parker in the said County of Butler who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith he served in the Eighth Regiment, the Pennsylvania line, in the Company commanded by Captain Samuel Miller which said Regiment, was at one time commanded by Colonel Ennis McCoy and afterwards by Colonel Daniel Brodhead on the Continental Establishment, that he during his continuance in service in the said Corps was well acquainted with Robert Crawford a private in the Company of the said Captain Samuel Miller. That the said Robert Crawford to this deponent's knowledge was in the several Battles of Bound Brook in Jersey, Brandywine and Germantown in Pennsylvania, and that the said Robert Crawford is now, and has been previous to the Eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen, and still is a resident of the County of Venango in the state of Pennsylvania
Sworn to before me this 18th day of March 1818 John Parker
John Jamison
Butler County to wit
John Higman
Prothonotary of Butler County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do certify that John Parker Esquire before whom the deposition of John Jamison was taken was and is, a judge of the Court of

Common pleas Pl. of Butler County, and to all acts by him done as such full faith and credit, is, and ought, to be given as well in Courts of justice as elsewhere. — In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Com- =mon pleas at Butler, the Twenty fourth — day, of Feb. y 1825 one thousand eight hundred and twenty five ————— John Keyman Droll.

1924
Robert Crawford To George Crawford Decd.
To one note of hand Due the eighth day of April 1895 of Fifty three Dollars — — — — 53.00
Interest — — — — 31.40
one Fifty Dollars Due 4th March 1897 50.00
Interest — — — — 24.20
127 60
Armstrong County Pa
Before me a Justice of the Peace of said County Pennsylvania Came John Crawford one of the Heirs and Legal Representatives of George Crawford Deceased and being Sworn as the Law Directs Saith that the above Account as Stated is in favour of the Estate the said George Crawford Deceased is just and true and he is ignorant nor any other Person for him or them ever Received it or any Part thereof Sworn and Subscribed before me this 25th February 1895 Wm Watson
John Crawford

Robert Crawford To James Anderson Cr    1818 To Carding 13 3/4 lbs wool at 10 Cts per lb  $1.32 3/4    — To Carding 27 1/4 wool at 10 Cts per lb  2.70    1819 To Carding 32 1/2 wool at 10 Cts per lb  3.25     $7.27 3/4  
Vernon County ss  Personally came before me a justice of the peace in and for said County James Anderson Above named who on his solemn oath doth say that the Above Account of Seven dollars twenty seven and one half Cents is just and true as Above stated, and that he has not rec d it or any part thereof either by himself or any person for him, and further saith not sworn and subscribed the 26 th of Feb y 1825 Jas Anderson  Before me Wm Crawford
Apr 25 th 1823 Robert Crawford To Wm Carlton Cr    To one new Mallet all found  $1.87 1/2    20 th Nov r 1824 To two new shoes & driving  62 1/2    4 th Aug t To pair bails — for a set  25     2.75  
Vernon County ss  Personally came before me a justice of the peace in and for said County Wm Carlton Above named who on his solemn oath doth say that the Above account of two dollars seventy five Cents is just and true as above stated & that he has not rec d it or any part thereof either by himself or any person for him and further saith not sworn and subscribed the 23 rd of Feb y 1825 Williams Carlton  before me Wm Crawford
Robert Crawford To James Anderson Cr    1820 To amount of Carding four dollars eighty two Cts  4.82    1821 To amount of Carding two dollars twenty Cts  2.20    1822 To amount of Carding one dollar & forty two Cts  1.42    By Sundries  8.95     4.50  

1820 To amount of Carding four dollars eighty two cts 4.82 3/4 1821 To Amount of Carding two dollars & twenty cts 2.70 1822 To amount of Carding one dollar & forty two cts 1.42 3/4 Cr By Sundries 8.95 1.50 $4.45
Vinanga County ss. Personally came before me a justice of the peace in and for said County James Anderson jun: above named who on his solemn oath doth say that the above balance of four dollars & forty five cents is just and true as above stated and that he has not recd. or any part thereof either by himself or a any person for him and further saith not known and Subscribed the 23 d of Feb y 1825 Before me James Crawford James Anderson jun
Vinanga County ss. Personally came before me one of the Justices of the Peace in & for said County Robert Crawford Jr who on his solemn oath doth say that a certain due bill dated the 23 d day of December 1817 for Four dollars and ten cents with interest from the date amounting to $5.86 given by the above named Robert Crawford Jr to James Anderson for Carding wool for his Father Robert Crawford and that said above debt is still due to said Anderson & to be paid the Robert Crawford the said and further saith not known and subscribed the 28 th day of February 1825 before me J. Witherup Robt Crawford Jr
Vinanga County ss. Personally came before me a justice of the Peace in and for said County George Crawford who dep- osed and said that he in February 1818 lifted a note from George Crawford now deceased amounting to fifty dollars and three dollars interest on it at that time and on the next day he lifted a note from James Stanley amounting to Forty Two dollars both lived at that time in Western Fordland County and both notes were against his Father Robert Crawford and further saith not known and subscribed the 28 th day of February 1825 amounting in all to $95.00 before me J. Witherup Geo Crawford

Venango County in the } Commonwealth of } Pennsylvania } ss.
I Andrew Bowman Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for in and for the County of Venango in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do, certify that John Withers and William Crawford Esquires are and were at the time of the taking of the annexed affidavits justices of the peace in and for the County of Venango and Commonwealth aforesaid, and still remain so; And to all acts by them done as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice as thereout.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said office at Franklin the first day of March A.D. 1825.
Andrew Bowman Prothon.

Robert Crawford
Penn.
act 7 June 1832
(Adm? by Sec. War)
$80 per am.
Hon. J. G. Calbraith H.R.

On the within, in connection with the former evidence, I allow the claim. The regulation requiring two witnesses is substantially complied with, where the positive evidence of one credible witness is corroborated corroborated by an important distinct circumstance . In this case, Mr. Galbraith's statement gives us such a circumstance - or rather several circumstances, in the reported conversation held by him, before the pension law passed , with both Amos & Garrison. I think it therefore not only safe, but just & necessary, in this peculiar case to relax the regulation.
J. P. Patten
Feby. 4 th 1837.

State of Pennsylvania Butler County ss.
Before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and for Butler County aforesaid. personally came John Garrison who being sworn according to Law deponeth and saith that he gave a former deposition respecting the service of Robert Crawford of Scrubgrass Township Union County in the revolutionary war but had omitted to state his knowledge of the length of time not having been asked the question but that he knew that the aforesaid Robert Crawford was in the service for the term of three years enlisted in the year 1776 and ending in the year 1779 and for that saith not
Sworn and subscribed
the 28th day of Jan'y 1837 before me
John Garrison
John Murrin
There is no certificate accompanying this attes- tation of John Murrin being a Justice of the Peace or qualified to administer oaths. I can state that I am well acquainted with John Murrin Esq. a Justice of the Peace for Butler county, and have been for the last fifteen or twenty years, and well acquainted with his handwriting having often seen him write, and seen his handwriting which was acknowledged by him - during the greater part of the time I have been acquainted with him he has been an acting Justice of the Peace - and I have seen many of his transcripts and other proceedings as well acted upon as and recognized in the courts of Butler county - the above signa- ture is his proper handwriting Jan'y 30. 1837
John Galbraith

In the application of Robert Crawford of Venango county for a pension, I have thought proper to make a few remarks, having had a personal acquaintance with him, and an intimate knowledge of his character after sixteen or seventeen years past, and of his only witness to his marriage, John Samison of Butler county for nearly twenty five years.
John Samison of Butler, was placed on the Pension Roll of the Pennsylvania Agency, under the act of 1818, being sufficiently proven to entitle him to the provisions of that law, and his name appears on the roll of Pennsylvania line as having received his disbursement pay - He was a witness to the enlistment and marriage of Robert Crawford, the applicant with him, and his affidavit accompanies Crawford's application. I was acquainted with Samison, as I have stated above, nearly twenty five years - He has always maintained the character of honest upright man, indeed his character for veracity is more than ordinary - That of a man of undoubted truth among all the original settlers of the country where he lives. I remember when a boy to have heard him speak of Robert Crawford, who lived a few miles from him in the adjoining county of Venango, as the only

person like than knew that served with him in the Revolutionary War. I have heard him speak of Crawford before the pension act of 1818 was passed. About the year 1820 I became acquainted with Robert Crawford, having myself removed in that year from Butler to Venango county, and shortly afterwards became acquaint- ed with him, and well acquainted in his neighbor- hood, and heard him then speak of Samson in the same way Samson spoke of him, as the only person he knew, that was with him in the Revolutionary War, and spoke of their being together throughout the war they served. No one in his neighborhood doubted his being a Revolutionary soldier. During all my acquaintance with Crawford since, he has sustained the character of undoubted veracity and honesty. Robert Crawford's circumstances, although moderate, and limited, were not so necessitous as to induce him to apply for a pension under the act of 1818. I think he owned a small farm and some cattle and other things of that kind, so as to enable him to merely live, without the aid of a pension.
By an act of the Legislature of Pennsylvan- ia, passed 22 d March 1825 which may be found in the Pamphlet laws of that state of 1824 (page 100) Robert Crawford was placed on the pension roll of that state

with an annuity of forty dollars per annum during his life, (the standing amount granted to soldiers of the Revolutionary War by the state) and has no continued an- nuity as appears by the certificate of the State Treasurer accompanying this statement. Having been a mem- ber of the State Legislature of that state for four years, I am enabled to state what is the practice of the committee during charge of that subject, and the Legislature upon their reports, and I never knew the rule departed from in placing a soldier permanently on the pension roll by annuity. It is, that the Legislature must be clear- ly satisfied, that the applicant has served as he states, which must be a period not less than six months. If he states a longer period, it must clearly appear that he served as he states. I am perfectly satisfied from what I know of the proceedings of that body, that they must have been satisfied, beyond all reasonable doubt, by substantial testimony, either from the rolls, or otherwise, that he served the length of time stated by him, or he could not have been permanently placed on the Pension roll of that state. I have known some few cases of a gratuity, a single payment, be- ing granted on less satisfactory proof, but in no in- stance an annuity. The rule was in all cases strictly adhered to, as in a court of law, as to the points to be proved,

although perhaps, not so rigid in the observance of the means , by which the proof should be made out - There are many of Robert Crawford's old neighbors, who have lived in his neighborhood for thirty or forty years, not one of whom, entertains the slightest doubt of him and Lemison's services in the Revolutionary War for their years, just as they have both concuringly always stated; and for my own part, from all I have heard them both state, from my earliest acquaintance with them, and my knowledge of their undoubted integrity of character, I have no more doubt of the services of Robert Crawford being substantially rendered as he states, than I have in the history of the Revolution itself.
The reason why he has not sooner applied under the act of June 1832, I am well satisfied, was the general impression that he could not be placed on the Pension roll under that act, and draw his pension from the state - It was the general impression in that section of country that such construction had been given by the War Department - I was myself under that impression, until a year or two since, when spoken to by the son of Mr. Crawford, and then examined the act of 7 th June 1832 more minutely to that point, and on enquiry found that the construction

over given by the Department, had been overruled for a more literal construction of the act itself, and a more liberal one for the soldier - Of this I informed the son of Mr. Cranford, and soon afterwards, he made his application
I have the honor to be
very Respectfully
Your Obt. Servt.
John Calhoun
Hon. B. F. Butler.
Secy. of War (ad interim)
I would beg leave to state in addition to the above, that the two witnesses to Cranford's applica- tion are intimately known to me, being both residents of the same town since since I lived in it, having resided there in 1820. Mr. Crimbley is a Methodist Preacher - spoken of uniformly as one of the first citizens of the citizens in the county, and one of the oldest inhabitants of that town - Was a member of the Legislature one or two years before I moved there - Samuel Hays is also an old and respectable citizen of the county, and one of the first settlers in it - Has been elected to the office of Sheriff several times

and holds that office at present, and has been two or three times elected a member of the Legislature.
Having formerly been a member of the Legislature of Penn a . I am unable to say that the rule practiced in relation to claims for per diem upon which I was in that body was strictly adhered to and I concur with Mr Galbraith in the statement he has given of the course followed by the committee to which claims of the kind were referred.
Harmar Denny

I have known Solomon Larnison of Butler County Pa for thru thirty years he is an honest man worthy of full credit as to any matter to which he testifies
Henry Baldwin
Washington 25 January 1837.

Gen Robt. Crawford. P.M.
Hon John Calbraith
Washington City
Hon. J. Calbraith H.R.
Joseph Lawrence 15/20 Aug. 1854

Treasury Office of Pennsylvania
I do certify that Robert Crawford of Venango County, was placed on the pension rolls of this State, by an Act of Assembly passed the 22 d day of March 1.825, and that he has drawn his pension since that, to this time.
Witness my hand & seal of Office, this 18 th day of January 1.837.
Dearence, " State Treasurer.

The Hon ble James Barbour Esquire Secretary of War of the United States

Franklin April the 5 th 1825
Sir, agreeably to the instructions given by Mr. Edwards of the Pension Office to the Honble Patrick Farrelly on the thirtieth of December last, respecting the application of Robert Crawford of the County of Berange in Pennsylvania for a pension to be allowed him for his services, and in pursuance of Mr. Farrelly's advice the inclosed depositions are forwarded to the War department in addition to his application now remaining on the files of that department, hoping that they may be satisfactory, and that the soldier who fought where La Fayette Bled will at last get a compensation from his Country to cheer the few remaining years of his life —
If the documents should not at last prove satisfactory, it is respectfully requested, that they may be returned to myself with any Instructions that the department may think necessary so that a new application may be made at our next Court of Common pleas to be held in May next in order that the proceedings at last may be correctly stated —
I am, respectfully, your obedient Servant,
to Honble James Barbour Esq. Secretary of War
David Irvine
"Address" David Irvine Franklin Berange County Pennsylvania

Byron Ga Oct 29-38 Box 63
Pension administration Wash DC
Dear sir.
Please send me the pension (Rev) record of Robert Crawford private of West Moreland Co Pa.
Thank you
Mrs Mc Moseley.