Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15,277, Rolon Crocker, Continental Mass. Navy

SERVICE
Continental Mass. Navy. CONTENTS
Crocker, Rolon or Roland
NUMBER
S. 15277
carded

21. 497  New Hampshire  Nolon Crocker
of Nashua in the State of New Hampshire who was an Artificer in the Corps commanded by Captain Eaton — of the Regt. commanded by Major Col. in the R.R. Island line for 10 m. at a time for 10 m. at a time $4160 6. cap. { $180.96 22.238. pri { 45.24 26.66 { 236.30 $90.48
Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of 90 Dollars 48 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of Sep. 1833 and settled to J. Crocker Eaton
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 33 $226.20 Semi-annual allowance ending 4th '34 45.24 $271.44
{ Revolutionary War Act June 7, 1833 J. Crocker
Recorded by Book E. Vol. 1, Page 77
Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of Rec. 6. April 1838 from 4 Sept 1838 to 8 Feb 1839. the day of his death — Age notified 7th March 1840

State of New Hampshire } on the 13 th day of April
Coos ss
u u u u u
AD 1888, before me the sub- scribed one of the judges of the
said County of Coos, personally appeared Nolon Crocker aged 68 years, resident in the town of Conway in the County of Strafford, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Con- gress, entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revoluti- onary war, that he the said Nolon Crocker enlisted into the Army of the United States in the revolutionary war, at Rum- brook in the County of Plymouth in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts about the first of February AD 1778 into a company commanded by Capt Ezra Ganton of the regim- ent commanded by Col o Provisions for the term of one year, that he continued to serve in the same company until the last of January AD 1779, when he was honorably dis- charged, the service of the United States, at a place called West Point in the State of New York, and that he has since lost his discharge, and that he is in reduced circumstances and needs the assistance of his country for support, and that he has no other evidence now in his power, of his said services —
Sworn to and declared before me on the day and year afore- said I, Silas Meserve, Judge etc, as aforesaid, do certify that it appears to my satisfaction, that he the said Nolon Crocker did serve in the revolutionary as stated in the foregoing decla- ration against the common enemy, and that he needs the assist- ance of his country for support, and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and read before me, to the Secre- tary for the war department, pursuant to the directions of the act of Congress of March 18 th AD 1888
Silas Meserve } Associate Judge of the C.C.P. in for the County of Coos in the State of N.H.

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BRIEF in the case of Col of Strafford
Nolon Crocker in the State of N.H. (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? before a Justice of the Peace  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 76  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Sub 1 th In 1778 enlisted nearly 12 Private Gen. Gates Col. Wainwright   1778 8 Gen. Chamberlain Col. Bayley   from 1776 6 " " Col. Canby   to 1778 3 rd service 12   1779 4 th service 6 as Corporal of Molineux Col. Satterthwaite  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Battle of Harlem Heights Battle of Red Bank had a battle in Penobscott River  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? 
 7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? 
 8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? The papers are not attached agreeably to the regulation, no witnesses of any kind 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
George D. Dyer Examining Clerk.
He made application for a pension under the act of 1818

I Robon Crocker of Conway, New Hampshire testify that on or near the first of February 1770 I enlisted in a Company of Artificers, com- manded by Capt Ezra Eaton of Malden (Mass) for the term of ten months and served as a private soldier in said Company until the nearly and was discharged on the aforesaid Jan- uary at West Point, N.Y. Said Company was attached to a Corps, commanded firstly by Col o — Wainwright and lastly by Col o — Co- sico, Commanders of the Engineer Department I now reside in Conway in the State of New Hampshire and I resided in said Conway when I first made application for a Pension under the act of March 18-1818 — I also served at sundry other times During the Revolutionary War — Viz t in 1775 I served 8 months in Capt Freedom Chamberlain Company Col o Bayley's Regt, Mass Line. In 1776 I served 6 months in said Chamberlain's Company in Col o Crary's Regt, was in the battle of Harlem Heights N.Y. — Between this and 1778 I served two terms of six months each, under Capt s Howland & Sturtevant in Rhode Island and was in the battle there In 1779 I served as Corporal of Marines on board the Ship Warren, Capt Commodore Patterson for six months was in the battle of Bagaduce on Penobscot river — At the expiration of said term I was honorably dis- charged. I shall be seventy six years old on the 8 th day of April next if I live till that time —
State of New Hampshire Robon Crocker
Stafford & Conway Dec r 7 th 1832 Personally appear- ing the above named Robon Crocker and made sol- emn oath that the above statement by him made & signed is just and true before me
James Willey Justice Peace
I have heard that the above named

Recognized is just and true before me
James Willey Justice Peace
I hereby certify that the above named Robson Crocker sustains a fair and reputable moral character and his acts, attestations & declarations are entitled to full faith and credit.
James Willey Justice Peace
We hereby certify that the above statement in our opinion is correct & true.
G. P. Merrill } Selectmen of
Clifford Clontzmann } Conway
State of New Hampshire
Sunday's Office Concord Dec. 13. 1882
I certify that the above named James Willey is a Justice of the Peace in and for our county of Strafford, duly constituted and sworn, and that his signatures to the foregoing instruments are genuine. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal at the State, the day & year aforesaid
Joseph Robinson Dep. Secy. of State

State of New Hampshire Stratford p & Conway Dec 7th 1832 Personally appear- ing the above named Rolon Crocker and made sol- emn oath that the above statement by him made & signed is just and true before me
James Willey Justice Peace
I hereby certify that the above named Rolon Crocker sustains a fair and reputable moral character and his acts, attestations & declarations are entitled to full faith and credit.
James Willey Justice Peace
We hereby certify that the above statement in our opinion is correct & true.
G. W. Millar } Selectmen D. D. Cloutman } of Conway
State of New Hampshire Secretary's Office Concord Dec. 13. 1832
I certify that the above named James Willey is a Justice of the Peace in and for our county of Strafford, duly constituted and sworn, and that his signatures to the foregoing instruments are genuine. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the State, the day & year aforesaid.
Joseph Robinson Dep. Secy. of State

Boston MA June 8
Ebenezer Dike
Hon Louis Cass
Secretary of War Washington City
ms. recd June 14. 1832 in all June 14. 1832
June 14. 1832 Pardon my Nerve

Dear Louis Cass
Canton June 6 1832
Secretary of War Sir
As I was on a visit at my Brothers of late and seeing the situation of the poor old man I was led to enquire what the difficulty was that he could not obtain a pension he got his papers and show them to me and since it was on the account of Luther Brown; making out the testimony of Elisha Bisbee inserted inserted the name of Col n Prosser as the commandant of the Regiment which was wrong, the facts are that he was attached to the Regiment Com m nded by Col n Weincoop and done duty as a soldier for six months and then was transferred to West Point and done duty as an artificer which was under the superintendence of Prosser and as Elisha Bisbee has since died and there is no means whereby he can correct his statement he had given up all hopes of ever obtaining what was rightfully due him as a soldier of the Revolution I told him I would take the papers and transfer them to you Sir with an explanation of the misstatement or rather misunderstanding of Luther Brown together with other statements of his which are not backed with other testimony but there is no doubt of the truth of it at all he says that he enlisted in 1775 in the Co of Capt Chamberlain the Regt of Col Bailey for eight months and when his time was out he enlisted for six months under the same Capt and went into Col n Cuyes Regt and when his time had expired he enlisted a board of the ship Warren

Commanded Capt. Patterson for six months and then into company of Capt. Evans 6 months and then six months in the company of Capt. Stevens and also aboard of the ship Protector six months which you will see that he was engaged mostly through the war he has ever been a prudent and an industrious man has raised up a large family and has ever been a true Friend to Country
You will in place consider his case and if you can with any degree of propriety grant his petition you will render a service that is due him from his Country and a support to him in his almost helpless situation
I am Sir with much Respect Yours &c
John Brown

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
January 16 th , 1840.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1833, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The child ren of Roton Crocker, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Portsmouth M t . Agency, at the rate of Ninety Dollars and forty eight Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, have been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept. 1838, to the 8 th Feb'y, 1839. The day of his death.
Respectfully, yours,
William P. Loring Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section.
August 27, 1927
Benedich
Mrs. W. L.  4657 Aldrich Ave. South Minneapolis, Minn
Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 15277, it appears that Rolon or Roland Crocker was born April 8, 1757, place not stated.
While residing at Pembroke, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, he enlisted and served as a private as follows-
In 1775, eight months in Captain Freedom Chamberlain's Company, Colonel Bailey's Massachusetts Regiment; in 1776, six months in Captain Freedom Chamberlain's Company, Colonel Cary's Regiment, and was in the battle of Harlem Heights; between that time and the year 1778, he served six months under Captain Stowers, and six months under Captain Turner, was at the battle of Rhode Island; from February 1, 1778, one year in Captain Ezra Eaton's Company, in a regiment commanded by Colo-

nel Wynkoop, and later by Colonel Kosciusko; in  usko; in 1779, six months as Corporal of Marines on board the U. S. "Warren", was in the Penobscot Expedition and battle of Bagaduce.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 13, 1818, while a resident of Conway, Stratford County, New Hampshire, aged sixty-one years.
He died February 8, 1839. Children are referred to, only name stated being John.
Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner.

Maria P. Sawyer, M rs . 1927-Aug. 27 H. ist. to Mrs. W. S. Benedict - awf.
Oct. 2 1933 Hist. to Mrs. Paris. Clifford Co., M
155 277 INVALID.
No. 15, 277
Robert Crocker Compt & a New War
Act: June 1 th 32
Index: Vol. 1, Page 83
[Arrangement of 1870.]

I John Willson clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Coos, in the State of New Hampshire, do hereby certify that the above named Silas Meerve is an associate judge of the court of common pleas in & for said County of Coos duly com- -missioned and sworn to the faithful discharge of the duties attached to the office of an associate judge in & for said County, and that the above application and caption is in the handwriting of the said judge in testimony Whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said court at Lancaster the twenty fourth day of May A D 1818
John Willson C.C.C. Pleas

Colon Crocker N.H.
(Rec letter to Robin Crocker of the 25 May 1870)
Rejected.

Molon Crocker resident citizen of the United States of aged sixty one years Amusee an inhabitant of the town of Conway in the County of Stafford in the State of New Hampshire on Oath declare, that I enlisted into the Army of the States United in the revolutionary war, at Pembroke in the County of Plymouth in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts about the first of February in the year A D 1778 into a company commanded by Capt. Ezra Eaton of the regiment commanded by Col. Moses Cose for the term of one year, and that I continued in the same company service in the until the last of January 1779, when I was discharged honourably from the service of the United States at a place West Point in the State of New York, that I have since had my discharge, and I further on Oath declare, that I am not born on any pension list, and that I am in red- uced circumstances and need the assistance of my coun- try for support, wherefore I pray, that this my application may be transmitted to the Secretary of war, to the end that I may be placed on the pension list of the United States aforesaid, agreeable to an act of Congress passed March the 18 th A D 1818 entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war,
April 10 th A D 1818
Molon Crocker

Ontario NY July 2
Free J Brockman DM
Hon. Lewis Cass
Secretary of War Washington City

Hon Lewis Cass
Denton June 20 1833
Dr Sir
In June 1832 I forwarded to you
Department papers relating to the services of Colonel Croskier in the war of the Revolution applying for a pension and soon after received an order from that there was a resolution before the House and as soon as that was disposed of you would take his case into consideration I waited until Oct and hearing nothing I wrote you and in Dec I received yours of which the following is a copy
War Department
Denton Office
Nov 28 1832
Sir
In reply to your letter respecting Colonel Croskier I have to inform you that before a final decision can be had in his case he must make a statement under oath showing the regiment & company in which he served and the time and manner of his leaving the same He must also state his present place of residence and the place where he resided when he first made applica- tion under the act of March 18, 1818 the official character and signature of the magistrate before whom the testimony may be taken must be certified by the proper officer under his seal of office
Signed S. P. Edwards

on the 7 th of Dec I referred to Conway procured a Justice (that I knew had been engaged in the business of assisting in procuring pensions for a number of applicants and one that I knew his character must stand firm as a Magistrate and a man) to take the statement of the said Crocker and he also gave a certificate as to the moral character etc of the said Crocker and further I took a certificate signed by two of the Select men of Conway to corroborate the Magistrate and got it certified by the proper officer and on the 16 th forwarded them to your office supposing I had done every thing that was required and waiting until June the 5 th 1833 and hearing nothing and fearing that they might be mislaid I wrote to gain information in regard to them and on the 18 th I received the enclosed statement together with some objections marked 20738 which induces me to believe that the papers that I first forwarded and statements etc of the said Crocker has not been examined together I therefore return the statements for your further consideration thinking you cannot hesitate to granting him a pension the old gentleman is so infirm that it would be most impossible to move him to get him before a court of Record

I would further state that it is my opinion if it would be of any use or would satisfy you in regard to the truth of his statements that I could prove all the names of the inhabitants of Conway that in their opinion that his statements are virtually true I state the above without the least hesitation knowing that his standing for truth is such that I do not think that he would make a misstatement in the forgoing case knowing for all the money that has been distributed by the government to the Revolutionary soldiers and I further believe that the people that are acquainted with him believe in that respect the same as I do if you should wish for any thing of that kind I will attend to it immediately by your returning me the enclosed statements
I am very Respectfully your Obedt Serv t
John Crocker
NP I have since written the above thought best to take a certificate from some of the first characters in Conway in regard to his standing for truth I have written to Mr Willey the gentleman that has been the minister at Conway he is now from Conway and they are destitute to write you in regard to his opinion of the said Crocker I hope I shall hear soon from you Yours as above J. P.

Pinton NM Oct 14
Gru J Brockmeyer
Hon Louis Cass
Secretary of War Washington City

Easton Oct 14 th 1832
Dear Sir
I sent you some time in June last, the papers that appertained to the case of Moses Crocker, together with a line from myself, wishing that you might discover in them and let me know, whether there was any thing further needed; I received in a short time an answer, that you had received them and that there was a motion before the House, and as soon as that was passed, you would consider the case and return me an answer I have not received any answer, and therefore write for to be informed, I hope you have acted upon them and will return a favourable answer, I am confident his claim is a just one
I am with Much Respect your Humble Servt
John Crocker

We the undersigned inhabitants of Conway N.H. certify that we are well acquainted with Mr. Roland Crocker, that he has resided in this town for a number of years, that he has always sustained an unspotted character for truth and veracity. We should think him to be between seventy and eighty years of age; he is rather infirm in body, but his mental powers appear to be very little impaired - We have no doubt that he was out as a soldier in the Revolution and we have no hesitation in saying that any statement which he has, or may make relative to his services in the war of the Revolution may be relied on with perfect confidence.
June 28 th 1833.
Lara Cutter Justin Pease & Lucrum -
Thomas S. Abbot } do
Thomas Eastman Justus Pease
Thomas Merrill Justus Pease
Joseph Odell Odell
Saml. Thomas Nathl. Abbot

testimony of Luci Chapman Alden Washburn

I Alden Washbourn of Farmworth in County of Strasford in the State of New Hampshire, do testify and say, that I was a fellow soldier in the revolution- ary war, in the Army of the United States, with the above named Rulon Crocker from about the middle of February 1778, in the same company, until about the middle of December 1778 as stated in the above application by said Crocker subscribed. then I left the Army of the United States & left said Crocker in the Army
Alden Washbourn
Cooer St 3 May 3 rd 1819 then personally appeared the above named Alden Washbourn and made Oath to the truth of the above by him subscribed, before me.
Silas Merce { Associate Judge of the court of C. Pleas for said County in N. H.
I further certify that the above named Washbourn is a man of Truth & veracity
Silas Merce

Witnessing of Luis C. Chubuchin

I Levi Chubbuck of Brattleboro in the County of Coos & State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that I was a fellow soldier in the Army of the United States in the revolutionary war, with the within- named Mosen Crocker in the year 1778 and that he served in the Army of the United States the year 1778 as stated in the foregoing application by him subscribed
Levi Chubbuck
State of New Hampshire
Coos ss at Brattleboro on the 8 th day Nov r 1879
then personally appeared the above named Levi Chubbuck and made Oath to the truth of the above by him subscribed before me
Silas Meserve } Assonate and I further certify the above named } Judge of the Levi Chubbuck is considered a man of truth and veracity } court of common pleas in & for said County
S. Meserve Judge V o

testimony of Elisha Mishler

I, Elisha Bickel of Sumner in the County of Oxford Commonwealth of Massachusetts testify & say that some time in February in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy eight, at Pembroke in the County of Plymouth & said Commonwealth, while I was acting as a Lieutenant in the army of the United States and while it was enlisting soldiers into said army by authority from the government of said United States, at then & there enlisted into said service, Roland Crocker, then of said Pembroke for the term of one year and that said Crocker marched, soon after said enlistment, with me to Albany where we were organized into a Company under the command of Captain Ezra Gator of Col. Hoskins's Regiment & that said Crocker did serve in said Company till the first day of January one thousand seven hundred & seventy nine when he was discharged during which time I well know that said Crocker constantly did duty in said Company being always under my command — Elisha Bickel State of Massachusetts } Personally appeared the above named County of Oxford } Elisha Bickel

Ebenezer Dike to me well known as a man of truth and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration in him signed, taken at the request of Roland Rootes therein named and to be used before the Honorable Silas Mason, Judge of the Court of C. & P. in and for the County of Coos, in the State of New Hampshire on an application by the said Rootes before him pending for a Certificate of his being entitled to a Pension from the United States, agreeable to the provisions of an act of Congress passed the 18 day of March A.D. 1818 entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War."
before me Samuel D. Brown Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Oxford ss. I Thomas Clark, Clerk of the Judicial Courts in said County of Oxford, do hereby certify that Samuel H. Brown Esquire, before whom the annexed affi- -davit appears to have been made, is a Justice of the Peace, acting under the authority of this state, and that the annexed is his signa- -ture. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this second day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & nine- -teen —
Thomas Clark, Clerk

n OM Old Corner House, Paris, Maine.
Oct. 13 th 1895
to the Hon. Gen. Lee Lorne Commissioner of Pensions. Dear Sir -
Will you kindly direct that an extract of John Brocher's (of North Somerville, New Hampshire) original application for a pension for services in the War of the Revolution, said to have been for the benefit of or credited

To the State of Massachusetts Re Mailed & etc And greatly obliged Yours sincerely Miss E. Snow.
Address Miss E. Snow Paris Oxford Co. Maine

April 25, 1927
Pension Bureau, Washington, D.C.
Messrs:----
Will you kindly give me the following information: The Pension given to the following persons, if any and the discharge and other information that your office might hold.
Name Birth and Death Residence in Rev. Roland Crocker 1757-1839 N. Conway, N.H. & R.I. Lieut. Thomas Merrill -1788 Conway, N.H. Col. Thomas Nixon 1736-1800 Framingham, Mass. William Stowell 1756-1829 Worcester Co.,
Thanking you in advance for the courtesy of a reply
I am respectfully yours
Mary D. Benedict (Mrs. H. L.)
State Registrar
4657 Aldrich Ave. South
Minneapolis Minn.
Address supplied by Mrs. Casanova, from the D. A. R. records. Aug 24 '27

O. W. & N. Division.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
F. S. H. E. C.
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C., October 28, 1895.
Madam:
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of --- Rolon Crocker --- a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
DATE OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE. CAPTAIN. COLONEL. In the year 1775 he served eight months as a private in Capt. Freedom Chamberlin's company, Col. Bailey's Mass. regiment; 1776, six months as a private in the same company, in Col. Cary's Mass. regiment; between that time and the year 1778 he served six months as a private in the Mass. troops under Capt. Stowers, and six months under Capt. Turner; on Feb. 1, 1778, enlisted and served ten or twelve months as a private in a Company of Artificers commanded by Capt. Ezra Eaton, in a regiment commanded by Col. Wyncoop, and later by Col. Kosciusko, of the Engineer Department; 1779 served six months as Corporal of Marines on board the ship "Warren", and was in the battle of "Bagaduce" on the Penobscot river.
Battles engaged in, Harlem Heights, Rhode Island, and as above.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Probably, Pembroke, Mass.
Date of application for pension. April 13, 1818.
Residence at date of application, Conway, N. H.
Age at date of application, Sixty-one years.
Remarks:
Very respectfully,
Mrs. Mira C. Snow, Paris, Oxford Co., Maine.
Commissioner.