Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 14534, Andrew Craigie, Continental (Mass.)

Continental (Mass.)
Braige Andrew or Bragie or Brange Elizabeth
W 145-34
S.B.L. W. 500-450. Apothecary Issued Dec. 30, 1790 - No papers
CONTENTS
(Widow, erroneously pensioned as Bragie.) and (Mass. erroneously reports name on rolls as Braige, this error is also on printed records of Mass.)

Massachusetts.
Reported
Agent, again refused May 8. 1850
Original notice returned from Albany & sent to Agent at Boston, 10 th May 1850.
Elizabeth Cragie dec d
Widow of Andrew Cragie who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died in the September 1819 of Middlesex in the State of Mass. who was an Ensign  Ensign the commanded by Captain _____ of the _____ commanded by _____ in the _____ line for _____
Inscribed on the Roll of Boston at the rate of 600 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. Vend 4 March 1841.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 th day of April 1850 and sent to A Ray, Parent.
Payable to Total amount, $ _____ Levi Shaw Executor then being an child [Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by _____ Clerk, Book 2 Vol. 1 Page 535

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex ss.
Town of Cambridge.
"This certifies that on the _____ day of "January seventeen hundred ninety-three Andrew "Craigie of Cambridge, & Elizabeth Shaw of "Nantucket were married by me "A. Holmes Pastor of the first Church Cambridge Cambridge April tenth seventeen hundred ninety three. "Recorded by Tim: S. Garrison Town clerk".
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the dates, which are expressed on the record in fair, legible figures, as follows, to wit; - "January 1793", and "April 10 th 1793."
Lucius R. Paige, Town clerk of { Cambridge}
I, Lucius R. Paige, above named, depose and say, that I hold the office of Town clerk, in the Town, County, and State, aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the Records of said Town, with the exception above named, as certified by me.
Lucius R. Paige, clerk of the Town { of Cambridge.}
Cambridge April 16. 1844.
Middlesex ss. April 17 th 1844 Then per- affirmed sonally, Lucius R. Paige, well known to me as a credible person & as the town clerk of Cambridge made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavits & certificate by him, J. P. Pay J. Prob. H. Hall subscribed before me for P. County.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex County ss
On this twenty ninth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty four, personally appeared before the Hon. Saml P. Shay, Judge of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Middlesex aforesaid, Lemuel Shaw of Boston in the County of Suffolk & Commonwealth aforesaid Esquire Executor of the last will and testament of Elizabeth Craigie late of Cambridge in said County of Middlesex, widow, deceased testate aged sixty nine years at the time of her death, who, being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed July 7 A D 1838 entitled 'An Act granting half pay & Pension to certain widows'; that she the said Elizabeth Craigie at the time of her death was the widow of Andrew Craigie late of Cambridge in the said County of Middlesex, deceased; that the said Andrew Craigie was in the service of the United States during a part of not the whole of the Revolutionary War, in the medical department; that he was duly commissioned as Apothecary General & served in that capacity from the first day of January Seventeen hundred & seventy seven till December thirty first seventeen hundred & eighty inclusive; - For the evidence of said services he would refer to the Proofs & Documents in the War Department at the City of Washington & to the Documentary Evidence herewith produced.
And the said Lemuel Shaw, executor further declares that the said Elizabeth Craigie was married to the said Andrew Craigie some day in the month of January in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred and ninety three; that the said Andrew Craigie her aforesaid husband died at Cambridge aforesaid some day in the month of September in the year Eighteen hundred and nineteen; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place before the first day of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four, to wit, at the time above stated. - And he further declares that the said Elizabeth Craigie did not intermarry after the death of the said Andrew Craigie, but continued to be his widow till her death; and that she died at said Cambridge on the fifth day of May in the year Eighteen hundred and forty one, and that she left no child or children at her decease.
Lemuel Shaw Esqr
Subscribed & sworn to by said Lemuel Shaw, at the Probate office in Cambridge, he being unable, by reason of

of his official duty as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court requiring his attendance in a distant County of the Commonwealth at the time of the next Sitting of the Probate Court in this County, I sworn & subscribed on the day & year first above written before me.
J. D. P. Gay Judge of Probate Court.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex County ss
I Isaac D. P. Gay the Register of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Middlesex aforesaid, hereby certify that the Hon. Saml D. P. Gay is the Judge of said Court of Probate & that his several signatures written on the foregoing Paper and on the Papers hereto annexed under the seal of said Court, are his genuine signatures.
I further certify that it appears by the records and files of said Court that the last will and testament of Elizabeth Grangie late of Cambridge in said County of Middlesex widow of Andrew Grangie, was duly proved proved , approved and allowed at a Court of Probate holden at Cambridge in and for said County on the eighteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty one; and that the Hon. Lemuel Shaw of Boston in the County of Suffolk the executor named in said Will, took upon himself said trust and gave Bond duly approved by the Judge of said Court for the due performance of said trust.
And I further certify that the Probate of said will and the appointment of said executor remain in full force in nowise reversed, revoked or annulled.
In testimony of all which I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Probate Court this twenty ninth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty four.
Isaac D. P. Gay

10,891
Elizabeth Cragio
Mass.
act 7. July 38
m 93. d 19-

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
No. 92
Secretary's Office, March 15 1816
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Andrew Craigie is borne upon the Books of the Commissioned and Staff Officers of the Continental Army, as Assistant General from Jan. 1. 1777 to Decem. 31. 1780. 15 months, @ $ 97 per month, and 3 months, @ $ 37 per month.

And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone: and that said application and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances which tend to satisfy me of the identity of the party described in the application with the individual who rendered the service.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Sawyer; Secretary of the Commonwealth.

APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF REVOLUTIONARY SERVICES, MADE by the Executor of THE WIDOW OF THE PARTY WHO RENDERED THE SERVICE.
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office, of the service of the  Andrew Magee Esquire in the war of the Revolution.
He enlisted from the town of X in the County of X and State of X in the year 17 17 as a X in the Company commanded by Captain Regiment X and he served as follows, viz:—
In the Continental Department as Apothecary General, or Commissary for medicines, or some similar title designating such employment. He is supposed to have entered the public service, early in the revolutionary war, and to have continued in service, till nearly or quite the close of the war. He afterwards married Elizabeth Shaw of San- tucket, daughter of Rev. Benedict Shaw before the year 1794, he purchased the house in Cambridge known as the Head Quarters of General Washington, during the war his decease, which occurred about the year 1821. Her widow survived him, died on the 5th May 1841. She made a will disposing of the whole of her estate, which was duly proved and by which I was appointed her executor. I have a copy of that trust and received letters testamentary, & I do so in that behalf. I am now  years old, and my memory does not enable me to state my husband's services more fully than above stated.
WITNESS my hand, this fifteenth day of April A. D. 1844. Samuel Shaw
Suffolk ss. April 15. 1844 Signed by said Samuel Shaw in my presence, Wm. Duffs.
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.

FREE
Hon Rufus Choate U.S. Senate Washington.

Mr. Rufus Choate
Worcester 29 April 1844.
Dear Sir,
I have again occasion to ask a favor of you, a little more pressing in this instance than before. I have occasion to apply to the officers of the U.S. Government, for the allowance & payment of half pay, or pension of the widow of a revolutionary officer. Mr. Fiske, the Register of Probate for Middlesex, has been preparing the papers for, but as they were not ready, when I was obliged to leave town to attend court here, it was understood that he would enclose the papers to you, & that I would write to you on the subject.
The claim is for the five years half pay granted to officer's widows, by the Statute, 1st of July 1836, but I have not the act with me. I am executor of the will of Mrs. Elizabeth Craigie, of Cambridge, she was widow of Doct. Andrew Craigie, who was engaged in the continental service, four years, as Apo. Thecary General. He came from 1st Jan. 1777 to the 31 Dec. 1780, for three years & nine months, at $27, or $90. per month and, three months at $39 = $130. p. month. These facts appear, by the Certificate of Mr. Palmer Sec. of State.
My Testatrix was married to Doct. before Jan. 1. 1794 to wit, in Jan 1793, at Cambridge, her name being then Elizabeth Shaw. daughter of Rev. Beriah Shaw of Nantucket, a brother of my father.
The case I believe is clearly within the Statute as it has been construed and acted on. The construction put upon the act I understand is, that it made

a great deal of my letter evidence, which constitutes a virtual interest in her, that if she did not obtain it in her life-time, like other shares in other and personal property, it goes her personal representative. In case of Mrs Craigie, I am that personal representative duly qualified.
Acting as I do in the capacity of Trustee for others, I do not know that I should be justified by any considerations, since that claim has been made known to me, in forbearing to pursue it. But the truth is, that Mrs Craigie by her will, gave the residue of her property to a number of relations, some of whom are aged and indigent, to whom even a small sum, will be highly useful. I have no hesitation therefore in acting from the Government, what I suppose to be an acknowledged right.
I suppose the documents will furnish sufficient evidence upon every point. Should further evidence of the marriage and the identity of the persons, be thought needful, I am prepared the testimony of a lady of Dedham, Mrs Hemen wife of Judge Hemen, who was present at the marriage.
As to the appointment and service of Doct. Craigie in the Commissary department, as Apothecary General, I suppose it sufficiently proved by the documents in the public archives; in addition to which, I think it might be abundantly proved by reputation, probably by the personal knowledge of his actual service from some serving officer.
Doct. & Mrs Craigie, I think must have been well known to President Adams. They were both distinguished persons; he for liberal hospitality & sumptuous style of living she, for her remarkable beauty. President Adams, from

his early connection with persons in public authority by possibly, he personally knowing to D r at Caniges public service.
I have one other favor to ask, it is this; I have heard that there are on the books, in the War- ren, Department some balance or balances standing to the credit of D r at, Crucillo recently from some old loan a government transaction. I am desirous of ascertaining if it is so, the amount, & also, whether it will be necessary to have an administration de bonis non  to receive it in order. Mrs. Caniges in her last administration, & since her de- cess, no admin de bonis non has been appointed.
I expect to be here, two weeks longer, and if you have time opportunity to write me, I shall be happy to receive a letter from you here.
Hoping that my requests will not cause you much trouble, I remain very truly
Yours sincerely from Robert Seward Shaw

Rev. & 1812 War Section. W. 14534.
October 28, 1926.
Dr. L. F. Kobler, in charge, Special Collaborative Investigations, Bureau of Chemistry, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.
Sir:
I have to advise you, that a careful re-examination of the records, since you were furnished data as to the allowance of bounty land on account of the services of Doctor Andrew Craigie, Apothecary of the Hospital Department, War of the Revolution; discloses the fact that on April 28, 1844, the Honorable Lemuel Shaw, Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, applied as executor, for the pension due to Elizabeth, widow of said Andrew Craigie.
The papers in this claim, show that Andrew Craigie married at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in January 1793, Elizabeth, daughter of the Reverend Bezaleel Shaw of Nantucket, (the uncle of Lemuel Shaw). Andrew Craigie died in September 1819, at his residence in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which had been General Washington's Headquarters, and Elizabeth Craigie died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 5, 1841, leaving no children.

Report in said claim, from the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, shows that the name Andrew Craige is borne upon the books of the Officers of the Continental Army, as Apothecary General, from January 1, 1777, to December 31, 1780. No explanation is made of this misspelling of his name.
The pension based on the above report, was allowed to the executor, Lemuel Shaw.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT, Commissioner.

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.
A repo.
August 30, 1926.
Dr. L. F. Kebler, in charge, Special Collaborative Investigations Bureau of Chemistry, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.
Sir:
I have to advise you, that the records of this Bureau show that Warrant No. 500 for four hundred and fifty acres of bounty land was issued December 30, 1790, on account of the Revolutionary War services of Andrew Craigie, Apothecary of the Hospital Department.
There are no papers on file relative to said bounty land claim, owing to the destruction of papers in such claims when the War Office was burned in 1800.
X It does not appear that pension was claimed on account of his services.  error
↓ If you desire information in regard to the location of the bounty land, you should apply to the Commissioner of the General Land Office citing all of the data in the first paragraph of this letter.
Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner.
The wd was pensioned as bragie & claims not put together until Oct 28 1926

Map
Rev WIDOW, &c.
1926. Oct. 29. Dr. F. L. Keblor furnished history of pension claim
File No. 14534
Elizabeth Craigie Widow of Andrew Craigie Appothecary Rev War
Act: July 9 th 38
Index:—Vol. a , Page 154
[Arrangement of 1870.]

I, William G. Stearns, of Cambridge in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Councillor at Law, aged thirty nine years, do on oath depose and say,
That I have resided in Cambridge aforesaid from the year Eighteen Hundred Eighteen to the present time, and reside there now; that I well know the late Andrew Craigie, Esquire, of said Cambridge, and Elizabeth, his wife; that the said Andrew Craigie died at said Cambridge, in the month of September, Eighteen Hundred Nineteen, leaving the said Elizabeth Craigie, his widow; that the said Elizabeth was never married after the death of her said husband, and that she died, at said Cambridge, on the fifth day of May, in the year Eighteen Hundred Forty one, and left no issue.
W. G. Stearns.
Middlesex ss: April 17 th 1844 Personally appeared W m G. Stearns a gentleman well known to me as a credible person & made solemn oath to the deposition above by him subscribed before me
J. P. P. Tracy judge of Probate & just peace for said County

PA MAY 23 1873 Mr. Wilson came this morning to see Mr. [?] and [?]
James L. Edwards Esq. Comm. of Pensions House Dept. Washington D.C.

Albany May 9. 1850.
James L. Edwards Esquire, Commssr. of Pensions,
Sir,
The enclosed instructions to inscribe the name of Elizabeth Grayie, the dower of Andrew, was received on or about the 28 th ult o and her name was inscribed on our Books, on the mistake of observing that it was addressed to the Pension agent at Boston -
We have just discovered the mistake, and herewith return the notice - she shall drop her name from the Rolls -
I am, Sir, very respectfully
Yours obedt Servt
Thomas W. O'Leary
Pension agt by
J. Jenkins.
Mr. Edwards will oblige me by forwarding to me, the Pension Certificate for an increased pension in the case of Jacob Van Alstyne, which I understand from my Son, has been allowed - The application was sent to you, through the Hon: Isaac P. Walker, Lancaster, & was accompanied by a Power of Attorney to me from Mrs. Van Alstyne, the only child of Jacob Van Alstyne - J. Jenkins - May 8/50

Boston
6 May 1850
Sir
A Pension Certificate has been presented for payment by Chief Justice L. Shaw, as executor of Elizabeth Gracie dec d , but the Pension Agent has received no instructions to inscribe her name on the Roll.
Very Respectfully Your obed t serv t G. S. Bulfinch
Jas. L. Edwards Esq. Comm r of Pensions.

Boston 6 April 1830.
Wm Thomas Ewing Secretary Department of the Interior. Sir,
Sometime since, as Executor of the will of Elizabeth Craigie, widow of Andrew Craigie a revolutionary Officer, I submitted a claim to the Commissioner of Pensions, for a pension supposed to be due to her, under acts of Congress. The grounds of that claim and the proofs to sustain it, were furnished, and I presume are now in the Office of the Commissioner.
Understanding from my correspondent Mr Ray, that upon a recent revision of the class of cases, within which this falls, you have adopted a construction of the pension acts which will embrace the claim in question, I have respectfully to request that you will give the necessary directions, that I may be productive with the certificate, or other proper voucher, to enable me to receive the amount allowed.
I have the honour to be Sir, with the highest respect your obedient servant
Samuel Shaw

Washington Jan y 25. 1845
Sir
I return you the papers in the case of Mrs Elizabeth Craig with the request that it may be reviewed on the grounds stated in the letter from Mrs Fricke Esq n which I left with you some time since and which letter contains a request that it may, should your decision be adverse, be referred to the Secretary of War —
Respectfully
John D. Sleeper
Genl. Armstrong
J. L. Edwards Esq n
Commissioner of Pensions

✓ Alex: Ray. apl: 19: 1850.
Enclosed letter from Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw of Boston Mass. respecting case of Elizabeth Cragie dec d asks that it be taken up & decided under Secy's decision in the case v Mrs. Thoms. —
Ref d to Bureau of Pensions Dept t Interior April, 20. 1850

Washington
Apr. 19. 1850
Hon. Thomas Ewing, Secretary of the Dept. of the Interior. Sir,
I have the honor here- with to enclose a letter I recd from the Hon. Chief Justice Shaw, of Boston Mass. with the request of me to submit it to you.
And beg to state, the case to which Judge Shaw refers to, is that of Elizabeth Craigie decd. who presented the claim as executrix for the benefit of the act of July 7. 1838. The claim was rejected on the sole ground, that being no child or children.
It is believed under your late decision in the case of Mr. Thorne the principle embraces the claim of the the executrix of Elizabeth Craigie.
I have the honor to remain Your Hon. Ex. Ser. Rev. way

East Cambridge April 28. 1845
Sir
I have received your letter of 25 th inst communicating the decision of Secretary Wilkins in the case of Elizabeth Craigie - The parties are desirous of having the case examined also by Secretary May if that has not been done -
I am respectfully
Yr obed Servt
Wm Pawneet
James L. Edwards Esq
Sumner of Peabody

Jan'y 4. 1845.
Isaac Fiske Esq r writes as follows in the case of the Estate of Mrs. Craigie upon which the decision was adverse.
"The Department have virtually given a different construction to the Law heretofore. They have authorized the payments to Executors or Administrators in case the widow in her life time made the application and before payment died without issue. The Law gives to certain widows a Pension for five years. By the terms of the Law it is a vested and absolute interest if she bring herself within the provisions of the Law, and in the event of her dying leaving children her interest is secured to them, but if she leave no children it is part of her estate which goes according to Law or her will in case she made one. It appears to me that there can be no other construction of the Law upon any principle."

By Mr. George Nelson — }
Gen. William Jennings, M.C. Clem
H. W. Parsons at Washington D.C.

East Cambridge Dec 11. 1844
Dear Mr. Parnum
Dear Sir,
I take a moment while Mr. Mefinger is waiting to write a line to introduce to you Mr. Breuer, George Miller, who comes to Washington at the request of the Inhabitants of Waltham to procure the reinstatement of N. Maynard Esq. to the Post Office in that; any aid that you can consistently afford in this business will be properly appreciated by your friends in that place, as well as by myself: — Chief Justice Shaw has called upon me since your departure & regretted that you had gone on; he spoke of you as an old pupil & was of being upon friendly terms: and desires that the application for a Pension for Mr. Cargis' claim may be urged. — He thinks that there can be no reason why it should be rejected. It is a vested right; the payment of which is directed in the case only of their being children, leaving it to be heard by her legal representatives in failure of their being children.

It is an arbitrary act in refusing it, contrary to Law & the rights of the parties. I hope you will persevere in your exertions till the claim is allowed. - Your family are well.
I am with much respect yours, Isaac Berne

Hon Rufus Choate at Washington

East Greenwich April 29. 1844
Hon. Rufus Choate Sir
At the request of Chief Justice Shaw I herewith enclose to you his application as Executor of the will of the late Mrs. Cracoe to obtain a Pension which was vested in her by a Law of Congress & which she did not obtain in her lifetime. You will receive a communication from him from Worcester where he is holding a Court. — If you should not, you are requested by him to attend to this application and forward the same as soon as your convenience will permit. — The evidence accompanying the declaration I believe is sufficient according to the Rules of the Department. — If not, such further evidence as shall be required, shall be furnished, if you will give me information of the nature of it.
I am very respectfully
Yours,
Isaac D. Perkins

Mr. Alvin
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L. Edwards Esq.
Minister of Justice at the Dept. of Pensions Washington
D. 6.
Ms. A. 9. 2. 10

10891
Elizabeth Crange
Mass
Ad to Hon. W. Piermont
Apr 23 rd 1843 - do. to her
May 3. 1845 -
Act July 7. 1838.

No. 10891
Eliz: Craigie du d widow of Andrew Craigie Esq.
Massachusetts
Act July 7. 1838
Ref d
See letter to Hon R Choate May 4. 1844 & to Hon W Parmachooz Jan y 21. 1845.

Elizabeth Gracie de widow of Andrew Gracie
Massachusetts
admitted
Apothecary Genl $600 on 4 March 1836 to 4 th March 1841 on 7 July 1838,
L. d. Sep. 1819 w. d. May 5, 1841 leaving no children
payable to Samuel Shaw Executor. There being no children.
A. Ray Prest

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE BUREAU OF CHEMISTRY WASHINGTON, D. C.
August 15, 1926.
Special Collaborative Investigations
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
I am desirous of securing some information relative to Dr. Andrew Craigie, the first apothecary general, serving during part of the Revolutionary war. Can you tell me if he ever drew a pension from the Government and give me any other information relative to this man you may have in your possession. An early reply would be appreciated.
Respectfully,
L. F. Kebler, M.D. In Charge, Special Collaborative Investigations.