Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2595, Joseph Crosby, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Francis
Crosby, Joseph Sally.
No. 2595
CONTENTS

Joseph Crowley 64 of Amherst Private from to 31st March 1818 com: 31. March 1818.
Ms Line one year
2 Witnesses Col. Sergeant
Returned to the War office with the addi- tional evidence fur- nished that was required
J. H. Smith
admitted

I Joseph Crosby of the Town of Antrim in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, aged Sixty four years, declare and say, that in January or February, in the year One Thousand seven hundred and Seventy six at said Antrim, I enlisted as a private soldier, to serve during said year, seventy six, in Capt. William Scotts Company, in Col. Sargents Regiment in the Massachusetts Line - I joined my Company and Regiment in March, and served in the same against the enemy the whole term of my enlistment. On the first day of January, One Thousand, seven hundred and Seventy seven, I was discharged at Pictskills in New York.
I further declare that I am in reduced circumstances, and in need of relief, having no property, and no way to maintain myself but by my labour, and from my infirm state of health I am able to labour but a part of the time. Joseph Crosby
Sworn to this 21st day of March A D 1807 Before me J. Smith Special Justice of the Court of Common Pleas
March 21 1807

State of New Hampshire Hillsborough ss. On the 31st day of March A.D. 1850 Before me the undersigned one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Hillsborough in the State of New Hampshire personally appeared Joseph Crosby of Antrim in said County in the sixty fourth year of his age and being duly cautioned made solemn Oath agree- ably to Law in order to obtain a pension under the late Act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons en- gaged in the Land & Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" That he enlisted in the year

of our Lord 1776 in the month of January or February as a private Soldier at said Amherst to serve during said year 1776 in Capt. William Scotts Company in the Regiment Commanded by Col. Sargent in the Massachusetts Line & joined his Regt. in March & served in the same Regt. during the time of his enlistment and was discharged on the first day of January A.D. 1777 at Peekskill in the State of New York That he is reduced in his circumstances & is in need of relief meaning that he stands in need of the Assistance of his Country for his support. From all which I certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Joseph Crosby did serve in the Revolu- tionary War on the continental establishment against the common enemy more than nine months And I further certify from my own knowledge that he is reduced in his circumstances & stands in need of the Assistance of his Country for his sup- port & that he is not on the pension list of the U.S. And I now transmit the proceedings & the testimony taken & had before me to the Secretary of War pursuant to the aforementioned act of Congress. Yeap Wm Smith } Associate Justice of the Court } Court of Common Pleas
This Certifies that the signature of Wm Smith on this paper is in his own hand writing and that he is one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Hillsborough aforesaid. In testimony whereof I have here affixed the seal of said Court
Mrs Eastman Clerk

10.574 R
New Hampshire
Joseph Crosby
of Amherst in the state of N.H. who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Sergeant of the Mass line, for the term of one year
Inscribed on the Roll of N.H. Hampshire at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 31 of March 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 17. of March 1820 and sent to Wm C. Claggatt, House of Reps
  Arrears to 4th of March 1820  184, 29    Semi-annual all'ce ending 1st Sept 1820  48. 00    23 mo 1/31     8     184, 29  232: 29  
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
Confirmed
Joseph Crosby Amherst New Hampshire Sept 1820 J. K. Smith Secy

copy
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Joseph Crosby
16.574
16574 Andrew
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Sept. 1920.

Inventory of the Estate of Joseph Crosby
Real Estate
none
Personal Estate as follows
  1 Cow 15 00   5 Sheep and 3 Lambs 10 00   2 Small Chains 0 90   2 Old axes 0 75   3 Hoes 0 58   1 Plough 1 -   1 Ox yoke & Bows 1 -   1 Sled 2 50   1 Pail & Muggin 0 20   1 Sett horse Traps 2 -   34 13 
Joseph Crosby
July 3 - 1820
We the subscribers have examined and appraised the above articles according to our best skill and judgement at $34 13
Andrew Elliot & appraisers Elyah Putnam

STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
HILLSBOROUGH, SS.
At a special Court of Common Pleas for the first district, now holden at Amherst in said county, on this first Tues day of July 1820, being a court of record ; having power of fine and imprisonment, and unlimited Jurisdiction in point of amount.
Present { Hon Joshua Darling } Chief Justice. { J R Smith } Justices.
Personally appeared, in open court, Joseph Crosby aged nearly sixty seven years, resident in Amherst in said county, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the revolutionary war as follows, to wit:— he engaged in the continental service in June or February 1776 in Capt Scotts Company Col. Sargents Regiment. Was discharged 1 st January 1777 at Peks Kill N.Y. Massachusetts line the date of my original declaration was on the 31 st day of March 1818 I have received a pension: Certificate numbered 16574
And do solemnly Procar 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 thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of the act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land or 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.
My occupation is that of a Laborer
My family, residing with me, consists of 7 persons viz my wife aged 45 years Otis aged 20 years Sally Ann aged 8 years Lucy Maria aged 6 years Joseph Fitch aged nine months, Elvahan Nichols aged 13- years said Elvahan Nichols is a feeble boy unable to support himself. as to my self I have not been able for 20 years past to do more than half a man's daily labour. Otis will soon be free I live with my wife's mother aged nearly 78 years I am owing about nine hundred Dollars
Sworn to and declared in open court, on Anno Domini, 1820.
Joseph Crosby 6 th day of July W Eastman Clerk
I W Eastman Clerk of the above named Court, do hereby certify, that the foregoing declaration and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court ; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited, in the foregoing schedule, is $3411 13
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court, on this sixth day of July 1820.
W Eastman
Clerk of the Court for the County of Hillsborough.

183. Con. Mrs. Hannah Vally Crosby widow of Joseph Crosby who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private Massachusetts
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 40 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of May, 49 and sent to P. Dodge Amherst N.H.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under a Act of 1848, Page 24 Vol. 1 29 July, 1848. book Q.

Certificate of Marriage Joseph Crosby to Sally Richardson

I David Russell of Amherst in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire Testify and say that the ancient Records of the Town of Amherst are now in my Possession, and that under the head of Marriages by the Reverend Mr. Barnard in the year one Thousand seven hundred and ninety five December the twenty fifth Joseph Crosby to Sally Richardson
1795 Dec r 25 Joseph Crosby to Sally Richardson
A true Extract from the Records Attest - David Russell Town Clerk
I David Russell above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk, for the Town of Amherst in the County of Hillsborough and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the Records of said Amherst with the exception above named as Certified by me.
(David Russell Town Clerk)
Hillsborough ss
September 19 1848
Sworn Before me
Riley Dodge Justice of the Peace

State of New Hampshire
Willsborough County ss.
I Riley Dodge Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Riley Dodge is an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was issued on the 14th day of June 1847 and will expire on the 13th day of June 1852 and that his signature above written is genuine
Given under my hand and the Seal of said County this 20th day of September 1848 Riley Dodge Clerk.

Declaration No 239 Sally Crosby Sally Crosby wid of Joseph N.H. act 29 July 1848 Married 1795 husband died 9 Oct 1842 Admrs, 40 00 per Sm 4 March 1848
Perley Dodge Amherst N.H.

State of New Hampshire
Hillsborough County ss.
On this third day of October A.D. 1848 personally appeared before me Luke Woodbury Judge of the Court of Probate of Milford for said County of Hillsborough at her residence Sally Crosby a resident of Antrim in said County aged seventy three years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress of July 29 th 1848, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving widows of Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army." And also of any and all other existing acts and resolutions of Congress, relating thereto, that she is the widow of the Joseph Crosby who was a private in the Revolutionary war, that the said Joseph Crosby engaged in the Continental service in the early part of the year 1776 in Captain Scott's Company in Col. Sargent's Regiment in the Massachusetts line and served in said War and drew a pension under the Act of Congress of March 18, 1818, at the rate of Eight Dollars per month for the remainder of his services she refused that which is on file in the Pension Office furnished in obtaining his pension and to his pension certificate herewith sent. She further declares that she was married to the said Joseph Crosby on the twenty fifth

day of December in the year seventeen hundred and ninety five by the Reverend Jeremiah Barnard then a Settled Minister in the Town of Acworth in the County of Hillsbo- rough. That her said husband the of said Joseph Crosby died on the ninth day of October 1842 That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the army and before but the mar- riage took place previous to the first day of January one thousand eight hundred, (Viz). at the time above stated. In Attest Percy Dodge Sally X Crosby mark
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year first above mentioned before me.
Luke Woodbury Judge as of said.
I certify that the cause of executing the foregoing declaration out of Court is, that the applicant is, in my belief, unable to attend Court in consequence of her bodily infirmities, without endangering her health. Luke Woodbury Judge as of said

State of New Hampshire Hillsborough County ss. I Percy Dodge Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Luke Woodbury is an acting Judge of the Court of Probate of Milford for said County of Hillsborough duly commissioned and qualified that his commission was dated on the first day of January 1836, and ac- cording to the constitution of this State has a series of years yet to run, that said Court of Probate is a Court of Record having a Clerk and Registrar, and is invested with its jurisdiction in granting letters of administration Probate of Wills and in the settlement of estates with right to appeal. I further certify that the sig- natures of the said Luke Woodbury above written are genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said Court this third day of October A.D. 1848.
Percy Dodge Clerk.

Brady
WIDOW, &c.
Brady
File No. 2595
Sally Brady Widow
Joseph Brady Pri. Res. War
Act: July 29 1848
Index — Vol. 2 Page 152
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Please make return to Percy Dodge Amherst N.H.

Certificate of Death of Joseph Crosby

State of New Hampshire. Hillsborough County ss.
I Perley Dodge Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said Coun- ty of Hillsborough, do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court, that Joseph Crosby was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of Eight Dollars per month was a resident of Antrim in said County of Hillsborough and died at said An- trim on the ninth day of October Anno Domini 1842, that he left a Widow Sally Crosby who is still alive and resident in said Antrim.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 26th day of Octo- ber in the year of our Lord 1848
Perley Dodge Clerk

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Stephen Crosby, aged sixty two years, now resident in Sidney, in the county of Kennebec, and District of Maine, within the said Commonwealth, a pensioner of the United States, under the Act of Congress, passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war," upon oath testify and declare, being myself a soldier in the Revolutionary war, I was well knowing that Joseph Crosby, formerly of Milford in the County of Hillsborough in the state of New Hampshire, but now of Amherst, in the county and state last aforesaid, enlisted into the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, some time in the month of January or February, one thousand seven hundred and sixty six, for the period of one year, in the company commanded by Capt. Scott and regiment commanded by Col Sargent of the Massachusetts troops, into which company and regiment I enlisted the same day and for the same period; that we served together in said company and regiment until some time in the month of June following, when the said Joseph Crosby was taken sick of the small pox, and put into the hospital at Boston; I saw said Joseph soon after he was taken to the hospital and understood his life was despaired of. — Soon after this, I think in the month of July following, the company and regiment to

to which we belonged were ordered to New York, and from thence driven into New Jersey, where I was discharged at Trenton, the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred, and seventy seven. — I never saw said Joseph, after I left him in the hospital in Boston, until my return home to Milford aforesaid; but have every reason to, and fully believe, that said Joseph remained in the hospital aforesaid, until the Invalids were transported to Fishkills or Poughkeepsie in New York, and that he was among them, and remained attached to the service, until his term of enlistment expired, when he was honorably discharged.
He has many years since related to me circumstances, in relation to the service, that he could not have known, had he not belonged to the service, and been transported and discharged with the Invalids as I have before stated. —
Stephen Crosby
Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Kennebec.
On this third day of January one thousand eight hundred and twenty, the before named

Stephen Corby, a person well known to me, personally appeared before me Nathan Weston Junior esq, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, and after being carefully examined, made out to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed; and I do certify that the said deponent is a credible and disinterested witness. —
Nathan Weston Jun
Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Kennebec.
I, John Davis Clerk of all the Judicial Courts of the said Commonwealth, held within the said county of Kennebec, do hereby certify, that the Honorable Nathan Weston Junior, before whom the annexed proceedings were had is Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts; and that the above is his own proper signature. —
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the County Seal, at Augusta, in the said County of Kennebec, this Third day of January, one thousand, eight hundred and twenty. —
John Davis

Joseph Crosby, N H, act 18 March 1818 $96 00 per ann
To what time was he last paid?
Pension Office May 22 1849
66 A pd to 4 th Sept. 1842 M c 13.

Joseph Crosby
payable on the 4th March and 4th September of each year, by Pres: W: P: B: Bank in Portsmouth, New Hampshire The pension is payable until the arrival of one or the other of the above dates, after the issue of a Certificate.
Registered, by J. H. Henshaw, Clerk, in book B, volume page 17.

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818,
Joseph Crosby late a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New Hampshire Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to com- mence on the 31 st day of March one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen.
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this 17 th day of March one thousand eight hundred and twenty
J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.

This Certifies that William Low and Elizabeth Low are both Creditable witnesses in Courts of Law
John Smith Associate Justice of the Court of Common Pleas

I William Low & I Elizabeth Low both of Amherst in the County of Hillsborough in the State of New Hampshire do solemnly swear that some time in Jan. or February A D 1776 Joseph Crosby of Amherst aforesaid with whom we are well acquainted enlisted into the American service in the late Revolution for one year or for the years service as it was then called & marched off & some time in Septem- ber his Father Joseph Crosby went after him & brought him home he being then disabled & unfit for duty being sick with the small pox which he had very severely & after he was recovered he set out to join his regiment & did not return home until Jan. 1. A D 1777 when his his enlistment was out & we have no reason to doubt but what he faithfully served his out his enlistment as it never was questioned by any person to our knowledge Sworn to this 14th day of April A D 1810 Before me J. H. Smith } Associate Justice of William Low the Court of Common Pleas
Elizabeth Low
Merrill Eastman Clerk
This certifies that the above signature of J. H. Smith is in his own hand writing & that he is one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Hillsborough aforesaid In testimony whereof I have here above affixed my name & the seal of said Court
Sworn to Apr. 14. 1810