Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23876, Aaron Craft, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Craft, Aaron Abigail
N. 23876
CONTENTS
[Ruled lines for notes]
[Ruled lines for notes]

Key  WIDOW, &c.  Can
File No. 23876
Abigail Craft Wid. of Aaron Craft Brn Mass Genx
Act Aug 20 1838
Index: Vol A , Page 156
[Arrangement of 1879.]

872
Massachusetts
Abigail Craft widow of Aaron Craft decd?
She was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 16 September 1822 at Essex Co. in the State of MS. she was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Abigail of the Massachusetts commanded in the Mass. for 20 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass. at the rate of 60 Dollars 87 1/2 Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 th day of Nov. 1835 and sent per Forster Gloucester MS.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1835 $116.67 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar. 39. 33 33 $200.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by N.H. Addison Clerk, Book 17 Vol. 15 Page 11

(1013) Abigail Craft
admitted 1 yr: Sns Pr: $66.66 \frac{66}{100}
on Roll Vol 141 page 73 case the Judge 8 mo 1795
Wm Faxon Gloucester

officer or private in the war of the revolution as a...
the the les ity as an
y to id
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
ESSEX, ss.
I, JOHN PRINCE, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for the County of Essex, do certify, that Hon. D. T. White is Judge of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County. That
the red v h ge and
John N. Wilcox & Charles Kimball Esquires, Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, and that their signatures hereon are genuine.
WITNESS MY HAND, and the Seal of said Court of Common Pleas,
August 30, A. D. 1838.
John Prince Clerk.

State of Massachusetts County of Essex, ss.
On this 14 th day of August, 1838, personally appeared before the Hon. Daniel A White Judge of Probate for said County Abigail Craft, a resident of Essex in the County of Essex and State of Massachusetts, aged 89 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 provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7, 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows": That she is the widow of Aaron Craft, who, according to her best knowledge and belief was a non commissioned officer or private in the war of the Revolution as follows. That he resided at Ipswich in said County, when he entered the service by voluntary enlistment. That he entered the army in the year 1775 in the service called, the eight months service in Col. Moses Little's regiment of Massachusetts Infantry stationed at Cambridge and vicinity for the term of eight months; she supposes it was in Capt. John Barker's or Capt. Mades company; if not there, in Capt. Gideon Packer's, Capt. Abraham Dodge, Capt. Joseph Roby, James Collins, Nathl. Warner, &c. companies
That at the expiration of the eight months service, she again enlisted in the same capacity in the said Moses Little's regiment early in the year 1776, and served therein the full term of one year at Cambridge, New York and New Jersey; and in which company is not certainly known, except as above stated. It is not known to this deponent whether her said husband served any longer than said year above named, or not.
She further declares that she was married to the Aaron Craft on the nineteenth day of July in the year seventeen hundred and seventy nine; that her husband the said Aaron Craft died on or about the 10th day of September in the year 1822; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz. at the time above stated
Abigail mark her Craft
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written
D r A White Judge of Probate

We Benjamin Andrews and John Hardy both of Essex in the County of Essex in the State of Massachusetts of lawful age on oath testify, that Aaron Craft within named died in the month of September in the year 1822, leaving a widow named Abigail, who has remained a widow ever since the death of her said husband Aaron Craft and has not intermarried since that period
Benjamin Andrews
John Hardy
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex, ss. On this 11th day of August 1838, before me William Ferson Notary Public, by legal authority admitted and sworn and dwelling in Gloucester in said County, personally came Benjamin Andrews and John Hardy above named, well known to me as credible witnesses, who made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by them subscribed
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Notarial Seal on the day and year above written
William Ferson, Notary Public

I Timothy Rops of Topsfield in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Depose and say, that I was well acquainted with Aaron Crafts late of Essex in said County, deceased. That the said Crafts and myself entered the Army at the same time at Cambridge in 1775, and both of us served the term of eight months in the Regiment of Col. Moses Little at the expiration of eight months Crafts and myself again enlisted and served twelve months longer in the same Regiment during the time we were at Cambridge New York & New Jersey at the expiration of the twenty months I returned home, but cannot say whether Crafts returned or continued here as I heard that he served in the aforesaid Regiment twenty months
Aug. 4 th 1938
Timothy Rops
Essex St. August 4 th 1938 personally appeared Timothy Rops and made oath, that the above written deposition by him subscribed is in all respects true. and since deposition is now  before me Wm W Wilder J.P. Insubp to me an credible witness

I Ebenezer Burnham of Ipswich in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby certify, that Aaron Graft and Abigail Graft both then of said Ipswich were joined in Marriage July the nineteenth Seventeen hundred seventy nine by the Reverend John Glouceland then Minister of the Gospel in said Ipswich as appears by the records of Marriages in the town of Ipswich. — The following is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures, "Seventeen hundred seventy nine July the nineteenth Aaron Graft to Abigail Graft both of Ipswich". The following is a true copy from the record in words and figures as it stands upon the said record in fair legible words and figures, "1779. July 19 th Aaron Graft to Abigail Graft both of Ipswich".
Ebenezer Burnham Town Clerk of Ipswich.
Ipswich August 10, 1838.
I Ebenezer Burnham above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the town, County & State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of Marriages in said town with exception above named as certified by me.
Ebenezer Burnham Town Clerk of Ipswich.
Casey, 20. August 10, 1838. Sworn to before Charles Kimball, justice of the peace.