Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15059, Martin Crannell, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
brannell Martin or brannel
S.15059
harded
CONTENTS

New York 28 584
Martin Crannell Resident in the State of N.Y. who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain William of the Regt commanded by Col in the New York Militia
3 Mo P 50.00
Martin Crannell (and) June 25, 1908
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 50 Dollars 50 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22nd day of April and July 6 1831  E. Walliday  Providence  col. 4.
Arrears to the 4th of March 150.00 Pemi-ant. allowance ending 1831 25.00
$175.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. D. Sprague Clerk, Book 14 Vol. 14 Page 131

State of New York Schoharie County } ss.
On this sixth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four, personally appeared in open court, before the Judges of the court of common pleas of the county of Schoharie now sitting, Martin Beannel, a resident of the town and county of Schoharie and State of New York, aged seventy four 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 act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he entered entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
That in the year 1779 he was draughted for three months, sometime in the month of June, he thinks it was, in captain Nicholas Sarallance's company, but does not recollect who commanded the regiment the company belonged to. That he joined the company at the city and county of Albany, in said State where he then resided. That they marched from there to Schenectady, and from there up the Mohawk to Fort Hunter, now in the county of Montgomery in said State; that they stayed there nearly a month, and then crossed the river and marched to a place called Stone Arabia, in said county, where he remained in the service till his three months had expired, when he was discharged at the place last aforesaid.
That he entered the service again in the year 1780, for three months, in captain Bellmans company in before colonel Van Schaick's regiment. That he went for a class who had to furnish a man, and thinks it was in the month of June for he remembers he was hoing corn when one christian Hero came to get him to go, and that he left his hoing and went right off with him and joined the company at the city of Albany in the State aforesaid, where he then resided. That he went with the company from there down the river by water to West Point, and after remaining there a week or two, he joined Captain Bleeker's company of Infantry in colonel Coortlandt's Regiment. That they went to Kings Bridge and drew new arms and left their old ones, and then went from there to Tappan now in Rockland county in said State where they kept their headquarters. That during the summer a number of regiments troops was sent into the State of New Jersey, he thinks as many as three regiments, that he was along with them and remembers that he helped drive away

Some cattle and horses from Bergen. That during the time they were stationed there  at Sapphan he was part of the time employed in working at Blacksmithing at the travelling forge, for the army shoeing horses etc. That he remained in the service in Bleekers company and Coellandt's regiment over three months, for he very well remembers he was in the service there when Andre was hanged at Sapphan, and he knows he was in the service sometime afterwards, but how long he cannot remember. He was then returned to Sallin Dillens company, and they were taken to Kings bridge, where they left their new arms and were to have received their old arms but did not get them. They were then marched up the river to Poughkeepsie and there discharged, and he went from there up the river to Rhinebeck in company with Peter Dox, Samuel Wallace and Cornelius Van Nesp and there got on board of a boat and can remember that it was so late in the season that ice froze on the boat in going up the river, and he is confident that he was in the service that time at least four months.
Again in the year 1781, he entered the service for nine months in Captain Elsworth's company in Colonel Willet's regiment, he does not know however that Elsworth was captain of the company at the time he enlisted, but he knows he was captain of it not long after he joined the company. That he went for a class who had to furnish a man, that Garret Vanderburgh was one of the class and the person who enlisted him to go, that he joined the company as early as the first of April, at Albany in the State aforesaid where he then resided. That he marched with the company to Schenectady, from there to Fort Plain in the (now) county of Montgomery and State aforesaid, where they kept their headquarters. That he was a part of the time at Fort Herkimer about fifteen miles above, and a part of the time at Fort Dayton at what is called the German Flats the north side of the Mohawk River. That while he was there Captain Elsworth got killed by the Indians, and that the company was afterwards was commanded by Lieutenant Hendricks. The company after that was ordered to what was then called Fort House, about eight or ten miles further down the River.

that they stayed there about two months (that a part of the regiment remained at Fort Plain) after and were then ordered down to Cahnawaga where the rest of the Regiment joined them. From there they marched to Johnstown, now county of Montgomery and State aforesaid, that he was in the battle fought there between the troops under command of Colonel Willett and the British forces under command of Major Ross. That after the enemy were defeated and fled, they marched back to Stone Arabia, from there to Fort Plain and to Fort Schuyler. That part of the regiment followed the enemy as far as West Canada Creek where a skirmish ensued in which some of the enemy were killed. That he continued in the service till as late, he thinks, as Christmas, when he was discharged at Fort Plain aforesaid, which was rising of sixty miles from the city of Albany where he then lived. He thinks it would not have been over two or or three days (if any) of nine months that he was in the service at that time. That he has no documentary evidence of his services.
He hereby renounces every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State.
And to the particular interrogatories he answers that he was born in the city of Albany in the State of New York, as he has been informed and believes but the year in which he was born he does not know, but thinks it was in the year 1759 for he was eighteen years old at the taking of Burgoyne according to the best of his recollection. His age is recorded in the First Presbyterian church book in the city of Albany, and not many years ago he caused it to be examined to ascertain his age, and he recollects that according to that record he was born the 28th day of August but the year he has forgotten. That he was living in the city of Albany aforesaid when he was called into the service; that he has lived since the revolutionary War in Albany county, Rensselaer county, Saratoga county, and Ulster county, all in the State of New York, and that he now lives in the town and county of Schoharie in said State.
The first time he was called into the service was by being draughted, and each other time he went as a substitute, as has he has stated in his declaration. So that, in 1780, he went for a class of which Christian Dero was head, and in 1781, went for a class of which Garret Vanderburgh was head. As to the names of the regular officers who were with the troops where he

Served the first time to wit, in 1779, he cannot recollect of any during the time they were stationed at each Fort Hunter and Stone Arabia.
That in the year 1780, while in Captain Beickers company in Colonel Collands regiment, he very well remembers that General Green was there for he recollects he made him some knives and fork while at Saffron. Thinks that General Washington was about there some time in the fall; he also recollects that La Fayette was there before he was discharged, that he got acquainted with one Norton the Sergeant of his squad. That while in the Service in 1781, in Col. Willetts regiment he did not get acquainted with the names of any officers that he recollects of, more than Colonel Willett, Major Kopf  Rowley and the officers of his own company named in his declaration.
That he never received a written discharge that he recollects of. — He thinks the following persons known to him can testify in his present neighbourhood, can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a Soldier of the revolution. So wit, Adam Stumbergh, Peter Mann, John Enders and Peter Enders. N.B. in the 5th line above, the name "Kopf" was crossed and the name "Rowley" interlined
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court
John Gebhard p. Clerk
Martin Greenell

15059 INVALID.
No. 15,059
Martin Crannell, First Boer War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 58
[Arrangement of 1870.]

30.435
Martin Crannel
Pension Declaration No
Adm 1. year & 3 Months
From
E. Halliday Schohar N.Y.

State of New York Schoharie County } ss.
Jacob Conly, late of the township of Sidney in the county of Schoharie, in the province of Upper Canada, aged sixty eight years, being duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say, that he is well acquainted with Martin Brannel, and was well acquainted with him in the Revolutionary War, and knows that the said Martin Brannel was in the service of the Revolution for nine months lacking nine or ten days in Captain Peter Elsworth's company, in Colonel Willett's Regiment, and according to the best of this deponent's recollection it was in the year 1781, it was the same year the battle was fought at Johnstown now county of Montgomery and State of New York. That this deponent was in the same company and regiment with the said Martin Brannel, that they both entered the service at the city and county of Albany in the State of New York, in Captain Elsworth's company in Colonel Willett's Regiment, and according to the best of his recollection it was as early as the 25th day of March 1781, and that they both continued in the service from that time till as late as the middle of December of the same year when they were discharged at Fort Plain now in the county of Schoharie Montgomery, in the State of New York about ten days before the nine months had expired. That this deponent and the said Martin Brannel were both in the battle at Johnstown aforesaid. That their captain Peter Elsworth was killed a month or two before on a scouting party and that Lieut. Henry or Hendrick took command of said company after Cap. Elsworth was killed.
N.B. the name "Schoharie" was erased and the name "Montgomery" interlined Sworn and subscribed
this 7th day of November 1833 before me Wm Mann a Judge Schoharie County Court
Jacob his Conly mark

State of New York Albany county ss.
Abraham C. Inray being duly sworn saith that he is well acquainted with the within named Jacob Canby and was well acquainted with him during the revolutionary war and this deponent further saith that the said Jacob Canby has always possessed a good character for truth and veracity for any thing that that he has ever heard against it and that he firmly believes that his character has been good in the different places he has lived in.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 23 rd of January 1834
Abraham C. Inray his mark
John D. Cysbury Justice
I. Certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Abraham C. Inray and know him to be a man of truth & veracity.
John D. Cysbury Justice

State of New York Albany County ss.
Abraham C. Ten Eyck aged rising of seventy years being duly sworn doth depose and say that he well acquainted with Martin Crannel and was well acquainted with him in the revolutionary war and knows that the said Martin Crannel was in the revolutionary service in Captain Elsworth's company in Colonel Willett's regiment thinks it was in the year 1781 knows it was the year the battle was fought at Johnstown that according to the best of this deponent's recollection the said Martin Crannel entered the service early in the spring and continued in the service till about Christmas of the same year that the said Crannel he thinks was in the service nine months lacking about eight or ten days. That this deponent was in the same company and regiment and was also discharged about Christmas.
Abraham C. Ten Eyck mark
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 23 rd of January 1834
John D. Ogden Justice
I certify that the above named Abraham C. Ten Eyck is a man of truth & veracity
John D. Ogden Justice
State of New York Albany County ss.
I, C. A. Ten Eyck clerk of the County of Albany, do hereby certify that John D. Ogden, before whom the above affidavit of Abraham C. Ten Eyck, purport to have been subscribed and sworn, was on the day of the date of the taking said affidavit, one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said county of Albany. And further certify that I am well acquainted with his handwriting, and do verily believe his signature to the taking of said affidavits and to each of the certificates thereunder written to be genuine. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of the said county this 27 th day of January 1834.
C. A. Ten Eyck Clerk

State of New York ss. Albany County.
I Peter Fox of the City of Albany being duly sworn says that I was acquainted with Charles Crumwell in the war of the Revolution in Col. Cooten's Regiment was with him at West Point at Stony Point and at Redbank in the Jerseys. Says he served himself as long as two years although he never enlisted for longer than three months at a time. Says it was the year that Major Andre was executed. That Crumwell was a good faithful soldier. That he considers him a man in the most reduced circumstances and justly entitled to his Country's favor. Says further that he is the same man who made his declaration before Samuel Haring the fourth of June last — Peter Fox
State of New York ss. Albany County — On this second day of March A.D. 1819. came before me the above named Peter Fox who is entitled to a pension of $100 per month and being duly sworn, deposes and says that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is just & true —
E. St. H. L. S. Albany Com. Pleas

State of New-York Albany County } ss.
I, C. A. Van Eyck Clerk of the county of Albany, do hereby certify that Estes Hume, now deceased, before whom the within affidavit purports to have been taken, was on the day of the date of the taking of said affidavit, one of the Judges of the court of Common Pleas of said county. And I further certify that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and merely believe his name subscribed to the taking of said affidavit to be genuine. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of said County this 27 th day of January 1834.
C. A. Van Eyck Clerk

And the said Court do hereby declare their Opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after pulling the Interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary Soldier, and served as he had stated.
William Buhman
Martin Budd
Wm Mann
Henry Shaper
I, John Gebhard Junior Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Schoharie, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Martin Brannan for a pension. And I further certify that William Mann, before whom the annexed affidavit of Sarah Cooley purports to have been taken, was on the 7th day of November 1833, the day of the date of the taking said affidavit, One of the Judges of the court of Common Pleas of said County. And further, that I am well acquainted with his handwriting, and justly believe the name Wm Mann subscribed to the taking of said affidavit to be genuine. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this sixth day of February 1834.
John Gebhard Jr. Clerk