Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34261, Jonathan Crane, New Jersery

SERVICE
Crane, Jonathan
NUMBER
S. 34261
New Jersey
CONTENTS

34.261 Pay INVALID.
File No.
34,261
Jonathan Crane P.S. Per me
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 9, Page 87
[Arrangement of 1879.]

(2,985)
New Jersey Roll
Jonathan Crane Capt Howell (private)
New Jersey line. 1777. 4 years. in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 st of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 th of Sept r 1818 and sent to Lewis Condict Esq. Morristown New Jersey
Arrears to 4th of Sept r — 1818 — 41.06 semi-ann. all'ee ending 4 th Mar. 1819 48.00
Arrear, 5 Mo 4/30 $89.06
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
• Morristown N.J. • Morris County

John Crane Priv Not on Rolls JN
Condit re-
Admitted
1 April 1818

State of New Jersey } County of Morris } Personally came before me Lewis Condick One of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Morris, Jonathan Crane, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that he served as a private soldier in the American Revolutionary war; that he enlisted at Morristown in the County of Morris & State of New Jersey some time in the fall of the year seventeen hundred and seventy five in Capt. Silas Howell's company of the first Regiment under the command of Col. William Windy, of the Jersey line that he continued in the same under the Continental establishment until the fall of the year seventeen hundred and seventy six when the said Regiment was disbanded at Vincennes in the State of New York.
This Deponent further saith that some time on or about the month of May of the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven at Morristown in the County of Morris & State of New Jersey he enlisted under the Continental establishment, in Captain Nathaniel Wade, company of the first Regiment of the Jersey line commanded by Col. Matthias Ogden; that soon after, Capt. Mitchell had the command of the said Company; That he was a blacksmith & belonged to the corps of artificers; That he continued in the service of the United States, from the above last mentioned time 'till the fourth day of February of the Year seventeen hundred and eighty one, at which time he was, honorably discharged from the Army at Pompton in the County of Morris, State of New Jersey. (This Deponent further saith, that he is seventy four years of age, is quite infirm, is in very reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support; that he resides in Morristownships in the County of Morris and State of New Jersey; & that he has never heretofore recd. any pension from his Country whatever; That the annexed paper signed by "Fred: Feelinghaysew Secretary" And "J. M. Cummings Major Comdt. 1st Regt. Jersey" is the original discharge from the Army, he received.
Sworn before me at Morristown, the 1 April A 1813.
Jonathan Crane
Lewis Condick.

I Lewis Condick, a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the County of Morris, in the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Jonathan Brane did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the foregoing deposition, against the common enemy:—and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony had and taken before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the Act of Congress of the 18 th March, A.D. 1818.
Morris Co. N. Jersey 7 th April 1818
Lewis Condick.
State of New Jersey County of Morris ss I Robert H. McCarter Clerk of the S. County of Morris do certify that Lewis Condick Esquire before whom the foregoing Affidavit is made, is, and was, at the time thereof duly enrolled One of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Morris, and that full Faith and Credit, is due and ought to be given to his official acts as such.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the said County the second day of May A D Eighteen hundred and eighteen.
Robert H. McCarter

Jersey Camp February 2 d 1781.
The Commissioners report to the com- manding Officer of the first Jersey Regiment, that in their Opinion, Jonathan Prane, of Captain Mitchels Company, is entitled to a Discharge from the Army.
By order of the Commissioners
Rich: Pulinghuysen Secretary

Jonathan Crane,
April 18th
Con
at 10
near 19
Pa

District of New Jersey, } ss. Morris County, }
On this tenth day of July, 1820, personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, holden at Morris-Town, in and for the County of Morris, in the term of July, in the year aforesaid. [The said court being a court of record, possessing a seal, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping records of its proceedings, and its Judgments being removeable by writ of error only]
Jonathan Crane
aged 76
years, resident in the township of Morris in said county, who being duly sworn, according to law doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary Army of the United States from 1776 to 1781 or 1782, that he served one year on the expedition against Canada in the year 1776, in Col o Louns Regiment and Capt s Tabor's New Jersey Company in the New Jersey line, from that time he served in Col o Mott's Legion Regiment in Capt s Mitchell's Company; that his declaration for a pension was made on or about the 1 st April 1818 and his certificate of pension is No 2986
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818; 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 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 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. that I am by profession a
Blacksmith but am entirely unable to follow my trade, and have been disabled there last 14 years in consequence of a wound received in my right arm during the war, that my other bodily infirmities are such from Rheumatism and other diseases as entirely to incapacitate me from labor, that I never had a family, being a single man and live with Samuel Freeman my Brother in Law that I have no property of any description except my wearing apparel, that I have been a pauper, chargeable upon, and supported by the township of Morris, for the last seven or eight years, until I received my pension for Revolutionary services from the United States, and which has since paid for my food and clothing -
Sworn to and declared the 10th day of July 1820 before Capt. H. Ford
Jonathan Crane

SCHEDULE referred to in the foregoing deposition of Jonathan Crane
This deponent has no house, no lands, no notes, bonds, or securities of any kind for payment of Money - Personal property except his clothing -
Sworn to and declared this
10 th day of July 1820
Col. A. Ford
Jonathan Crane

State of New Jersey, } ss. County of Morris. }
I, Robert H. McCarter, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Morris, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court;
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court, this fifteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty.
Robert H. McCarter Clerk of the Court for the County of Morris