Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36,484, Nathaniel Crane, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Com
Crane, Nathaniel
S. 36484
CONTENTS

See letter of Sept 1833 to E. Payson upon: agent to pay the liens —
8,269
Connecticut 4
Nathaniel Crane
of Woodbury in the state of Connecticut who was a sergeant in the regiment commanded Colonel Swift of the Connecticut line, for the term of 6 years
inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 6 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 th of March 1819 and sent to Nathaniel Smith Esq. Judge Woodbury Connecticut
Arrears to 4th of Mar: 1819 $87.69 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Sept 1819 48
$135.69
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
ces Litchfield County
Continued

Woodbury March 1 st 1819
I hereby certify that the within named the Nathaniel Crane is in reduced & indigent  very circumstances & stands in need of assistance from his country for support
Nathaniel Smith Judge of the Sup re Court
N Crane
Service Admitted
The foregoing Act of indigent
circumstances manifest

I Nathaniel Crane of Woodbury in Litchfield County and State of Conn- ect. Before and say that on the 7 June 1775 I enlisted into the service of the Contin- ental Congress at Killingworth in Con- the under Captain Shipman of Company . Col Charles Webb Regiment and went to Boston where I remained four months. Then I was discharged and enlisted again into for one year into Capt Lee's Company. Charles Webb Col of the Regiment Connecticut Line and before the expiration of the last year I enlisted and  again during the war into Aaron Sturges Company and Regiment commanded by Hon Col Sturges Lieut Connecticut Line in whose regiment I remained until the end of the war. and received the discharge hereunto annexed. I was discharged at Pickett's Hill, Highlands, New York said Regiment were all of them in the Connecticut Line. I am poor and in need of assistance from my country for support by reason of adverse circumstances. Woodbury April 1818 Nathaniel Crane

State of Connecticut } ss Woodbury Litchfield County }
On this sixth day of April 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Superior Court of said State personally appears Nathaniel Crane signer of the foregoing affidavit and resident in Woodbury in said County who being first by me duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that the facts in the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed are truly stated, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the U.S. in the revolutionary war." Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid. —
Nathaniel Smith a Judge of the Sup o Court
I Nathaniel Smith Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Nathaniel Crane did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding affidavit by him subscribed as aforesaid, against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War; pursuant to the directions of the above mentioned act of Congress. —
Woodbury May 12. 1818. —
Nathaniel Smith a Judge of the Sup o Court

I Frederick Wolcott, Clerk of the Superior Court in the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut, certify that The Hon ble Nathan L. Smith is a Judge of id Court. that the signature to the foregoing certifi- cate is his handwriting, & that the Seal hereunto annexed is the Seal of said Court. May 25 th 1818.
Frederick Wolcott, Clerk.

Woodbury March 1 st 1819
I hereby certify that the within named Nathaniel Crane is in reduced & indebted  indebted circumstances & stands in need of assistance from his country for support. Nathaniel Smith Judge of The Sup re Court
N Crane
Service admitted
The foregoing
is a true copy
circumstances manifest

District of Connecticut County of Litchfield
Court of Common Pleas
On this 4 Day of July 1820 Personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record within and for said County and before me the power of fine and imprisonment and being authorized to be a Court of Record by the Supreme Court of Errors in said State Nathaniel Crane of Washington in said County aged 62 years who being first duly sworn doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows viz in Charles Webb's Regiment Capt Aaron of Hemen's Company Connecticut Line this was early in the war in which company I served about 9 months then enlisted for one year into Charles Webb's Reg, Ele Season month Company I served the year out and afterwards served for six years more in Hemen's Regt I applied for a pension under the late act of the United States on the 5 April 1818 and was transmitted my original discharge signed by George Washington and received

a Pension certificate No 8269 and I do solemnly swear that I was a resid- ent citizen of the United States on the 18 th 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 provision 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 18 day of March One Thousand Eight Hundred & 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 except what is hereafter described as my Labor
I have no property whatever except only some few books referring to make several trees of the value of five Dollars & 25 Cents That I have never been married and have no family or steady home I have followed making

sawdust trees in the Winter and in the Summer am a very Labourer and am affected with a paralysis which produces a general tremor of the system and yearly increases upon me
Naathaniel Crane
Sworn to and subscribed on this 4 day July 1820 before the County Court aforesaid
Frederick Wolcott, Clerk.
I Francis Wolcott Clerk of the County Court in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut do hereby certify that the foregoing Deeth and the Schedule annexed are truly copied from the Records of said Court and that the total amount in value of property, as habitually in the opinion of said Court aforesaid Schedule is Five Dollars and 25 Cents . In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court on this day of July 1820
over

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court on this 14 th day of July A. 1820.
Frederick Wolcott, Clerk.
Nathl Brainerd
Q269
Sept 14/20
[Large stylized signature or initials]
Rev. H. B. Smith, B.A.
Wadsworth
Corn.
10. Oct 1820

36 484 Rev INVALID.
File No. 36 484
Nathaniel Crane Sergt Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 88
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Woodbury September 30. 1820
Will you be so good as to return the papers of the within named Nathaniel Crane to Nathaniel B Smith, Woodbury, Litchfield County, State of Connecticut =

Office Bank Metropole Hartford July 25 th 1833
Sir
Nathaniel Crane a revolutionary pensioner in the roll of the Connecticut Agency died July 18 th 1831 - he was paid up to March 1831, and his name reported to the as not having claimed his pension for two years - I herewith forward his documents for permission to pay the arrears due to the day of his decease. Have the goodness to favor me with a reply as early as practicable.
Amos L. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington
I am Sir very respectfully
Your Obedient Servant
Samuel H. Parsons for Enoch Parsons Boston