Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 39368, Benjamin Crabb, N.C.

SERVICE ,
NUMBER
N.6
krabb Benjamin krab
S 39368
CONTENTS

8922 To West Tennessee from North Carolina.
Benjamin Crab,
of Anson Co. in the state of N. Caro: who was a Sergeant in the regiment commanded by Colonel Polk of the N. Caro: line, for the term of two years & six months.
inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 15. of October 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3. of April 1819, and sent to Joel Robinson, clk &c. Wadeboro', N. C.
  Arrears to 4th of March 1819, . . .  37. 41     Semi-ann. all'ce ending Sept. 4. 1819. .  48. "     Am't 4m't 21/31.        $ 85.41  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Notification sent 23 Sept. 1823 to Pension com of Appre Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

along W. Hill
Benjamin Grab
Adm o
To the
clerk of Anson Co.
Sent to W. Hill Esq. for proof of service.
Mustered for 22 years
W. Hill

State of North Carolina } Court of pleas and Tuscarora County } Quarter Sessions October Term 1818
This day personally appeared in Open Court Benjamin Crab who being duly sworn according to law doth make the following declaration upon oath for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act for the relief of persons engaged in the land and Naval Services of the United States during the revolutionary war that he enlisted in the year 1776 in the Fourth Regiment Continental Troops under Major Lamb commanded by Col William Polk for the term of Two and half years that he continued during the term of his enlistment to perform his duty as a soldier that he was at the battle of Germantown and the battle of Brandywine that he was honorably discharged that his discharge was signed by Col Clark who commanded the North Carolina Troops stationed upon the North River in the State of New York that he has lost his discharge & that he has no papers upon Evidence in his possession of his service aforesaid

That he is sixty five years of age and in indigent circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support.
Sworn to and subscribed Signed Benjamin Crab in open court this day of October 1818
Abraham Stegall being duly sworn according to law deposes and says that he is well acquainted with the deponent Benjamin Crab that he is in indigent & reduced circumstances and stands in need of his country for support where upon it appearing to the satisfaction of the court here that the said Benjamin Crab did serve in the revolutionary war of the United States against the common enemy for a longer time than nine months and that he is such reduced circumstances as to stand in need of the assistance of his country for support and it ordered by the court that the foregoing be made a matter of record and that the clerk certify and transmit the same to the Hon- =able the Secretary of war Signed Abraham Stegall Sworn to and subscribed in open court this 15 th day of October 1818 Job Robenson

State of North Carolina Anson County
I Joel Robinson clerk of the county court of Pleas and quarter sessions for the county of Anson do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy from minutes of said court
Given under my hand and seal of office at Wadesborough the 31 st day of October 1818 & the 43 rd year of American Independence
Joel Robinson clerk
my service upon said

State of N. Carolina Secretarys Office 26 th Janry 1897
I William Hill Secretary of State in & for the State aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears from the Musterroll of the N. Carolina Continental Line in the Revolutionary War, that Benjamin Crab enlisted as a Serj t in the 10 th Reg t in Capt Goodman's Comp y on the 1 st Decr 76 for 2 1/2 years, was discharged on the 18 th Nov. 1778.
Given under my hand the date above
W. Hill
Benjamin Crab
Adm o
To the Clk. of Anson Co.
Sent to W. Hill Esq r for proof of service.
Amount for 2 1/2 years
W. Hill

State of Tennessee
Wayne County.
The petition of Benjamin Crabb respectfully represents that he sometime in the month of May 1777 in the County of Cumberland in the State of North Carolina enlisted as a revolutionary Soldier for the term of two years and a half that he belonged to the Fourth Regiment - of the N.C. Carolina line commanded by Colonel Polk his Captain - Moore and upon the N.C. Carolina line was reduced to two Regiments he fell into the second commanded by Colonel Clark his Captain Lewis and that he was discharged in the State of New York upon the North River at a ferry called Kings upon the said River; that by frequently moving from place to place he lost his discharge; that he the said Crabb is fifty eight years old last November and not able to support himself & Family by his own labour; his said Family consists of a wife fifty years of age a son about twenty two years of age who labours for himself has five head of cattle one year old colt - two cows and pigs, and also that your petitioner lives on vacant land and his son crops it with for a part of said crop and that is all the assistance he receives from his said son he other children but they have families of their own and he does not know where they are except two and he receives no assistance from them being in indigent circumstances that he cannot prove the above facts, That the following is a correct Schedule of all the property either in possession or of pecuniary value by debts or otherwise    one horse about 12 years old appraised to  $    Three cows and calves appraised to  25    one 2 years old heifer appraised to  5    one 1 year old heifer appraised to  3    Three sows and under pigs appraised to  9    Three other a year old appraised to  3    one head of cattle found of value appraised to  44    Total  $44    Your petitioner therefore prays to be enrolled on the Roll of Revolutionary Pensioners of the United States to be paid by the agent for West Tennessee at Nashville
By the Court

and your petitioner as in duty bound H
Benjamin Crabb
I Benjamin Crabb do solemnly swear that the within schedule is a correct statement of all my property and that I have not disposed of any property in any way whatever so as to bring myself under the requisitions of an act of Congress passed in 1819, and amended in 1820 for the benefit of Revolutionary soldiers and thereby to receive any advantage therefrom this 25 th June 1822
Benjamin Crabb
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court June Term 1822
Wm Barnett Clk
See letter to B. Crabb 30 Nov. 1822. - Mr. Supt. P. Office
I William Barnett Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions holden for the County of Wayne do certify that this is a true transcript of the records of my office & I do further certify that the total amount in value of the property in the schedule exhibited as owned by the Court is $44. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my private seal at office June Term 1822
Wm Barnett Clk
The applicant was enrolled upon the pension list to be paid by the agent at Fayetteville N. Carolina as he informs me under the first act of Congress allowing a pension to revolutionary soldiers and his pension discontinued under the late act.

Application for a transfer county of Wayne & State of Tennessee on this 23 rd day of June 1823 before
me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Wayne personally appeared Benjamin Crabb who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Moore & transferred to the Regiment commanded by Colonel Polk and was in the service of the United States, that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of North Caro- lina from whence he has lately removed that he now resides in the State of Tennessee a county of Wayne where he intends to remain and wishes his pension to be there payable in future, that at present he receives nothing but is entitled to receive eight dollars per month which sum he did receive in North Carolina before the passage of the last laws & his removal therefrom
Sworn and Subscribed to G. B. Crabb before me the day & year aforesaid
Long W. B. [Signature]

State of Tennessee } Wayne County } J William Barnett Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for Wayne County do hereby certify that copy of the Writ of Habeas Corpus is assigned to this affidavit & the upsets is & was at the time of signing the same an acting justice of the Peace in & for said County & that same is & ought to be attached to all his official acts as such. Given under my hand & private seal then being no seal of office at office the 24th day of June 1823
Wm Barnett

39 368 INVALID.
Rev
Rev
File No. 39 368
Benjamin Peak Lees New Ind
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 105
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Tennessee
Benjamin Grubb
Recd 8 Sept. 1843.
2nd P. time
on H. C. Pearson List
Washing Tenn. City
Wash Dept. Tenn. City
Samuel H. Smith 2nd P. time Mr. Smith

Leicester
Benjamin Grafton
Recd 8 Sept. 1823.
2nd time
on the 6. Pension List
W. H. King Esq.
W. H. King Esq.
2nd time

Sir If Mr. Brattle can draw from the oldest application please to let me know it for he made an inventory older than the one inclosed & I will send a copy of it as shewing the record I write you this because I do not yet know the construction you put on the last law on this subject
Respectfully
William Da
Yours & D. D. D.

State of Tennessee June Term 1823 Wayne County, Court
On the 23 rd day of June 1823 personally appeared in open court being a court of Record for said County created by Statute & of general jurisdiction Benjamin Crabb aged seventy years on the 7 th day of next November resident in said County of Wayne in said State who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows that he enlisted for two years & six months in the month of May 1776 as he now thinks in the County of Barren Co. Ky. in the company commanded by Capt. [blank] of the fourth Regiment commanded by Col. [blank] that afterwards he was transferred to the 2 nd Regiment commanded by Col. [blank] and that he continued to serve in the North Carolina line until discharged by Col. [blank] at the surrender of his services when Lord Cornwallis's Army in New York 1779 that he was in the battles of Germantown & Brandywine, that he has lost his discharge & has no evidence but his own oath in his power that he made an original application to the [blank] in the year 1818 and drew a pension by certificate No. 8922 payable at Fayetteville Ky. until discontinued by the law of 1820 that he has made several applications since but has failed, that his family consists of himself aged as aforesaid a farmer by trade but infirm & unable to support myself & my Wife Mary aged 60 odd years tolerably healthy of the age And I do hereby swear an

That I was a recent adoptee of the United States on 18 th day of March 1813 and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposal of, any property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it or to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to prohibit for certain persons engaged in the trade & business of the United States in the New England and States" passed on the 18 th day of March 1813 and that I have not now that 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.
Benj n Gable
Schedule
  1 Horse 12 or 13 years old 65   1 Cow & below one year old 32   6 Hogs a year old 8   2 Cows & nine Hogs 6   2 Small horses one of two years old the other one year old 7.50   1 Small young Bull a year old 5.00   3 Head Sheep 4.50   1 Doyen pullet & coops 2.00   3 Pigs Barrows 3.00   2 " Dishes 1.00   1 Dutch oven 3.00   1 set harness & pack 1.00 
$186 00
Benj n Gable

Sworn to & declared on the 23 rd day of June 1823
Wm Barnett Clerk
I William Barnett Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions held for the county of Wayne do hereby certify that the foregoing act & 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 ex- hibited in the aforesaid schedule is $1042.00 one hundred and four dollars 00 cents In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my private seal this being no seal of office on this 21 st day June 1823
Wm Barnett Clerk of Wayne County Court