Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2,548, Elias Crum, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Crum, Elias
P 2,548
Annatje
CONTENTS
Annatje Crum, widow of above soldier, received pension as former widow of Robert Martin, New York, N. File 27,515.

8612
New York
Elias Brown
of Montgomery in the State of New York who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Bordhead of the Regt. commanded by Col Paulding in the N.Y. militia for 24 mo?
let to albaney agency ap. 27. 1835.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of ap. 1833 and sent to M c V. Berry Johnstown NY
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $160.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept " 40.00
$200.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk, Book E Vol. 4 Page 16

State of New York } Montgomery County } ss.
On this 21 st day of September in the year of Our Lord one thou- sand Eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in Open Court, before the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Montgomery and State of New York now sitting, Elias Crum a resident of the Town of Johnstown in the County of Montgome- ry and State of New York, aged seventy one years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the follow- ing declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832: That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated: In the year 1779: this applicant drafted for six months, in the Militia service under Captain Daniel Broad- head, Lieutenant Eldad Rorer Ensign John Atler. Your applicant does not recollect the names of any of the field officers; Your applicant farther says that he resided, at this time in Marble Town Ulster County & State of New York; that your applicant went from this place under the aforesaid officers to Coxsackie in said County, to prevent the Indians and British from murdering the inhabitants of said County. Your applicant says that he went out sometime in the month of March of that year but the day of the month he is unable to state and that he was discharged on the first day of January, following, & your applicant received a written discharge, but that he has since lost the same. Your applicant says that he was out a little longer than six months at this time: Your applicant further says that he, again, in the year 1780 drafted for nine months, in the Militia service, under Captain Abraham Capell and the same Lieutenant & Ensign, as above mentioned, that he resided at the place, aforesaid, that he does not recollect the names of any of the field officers, that he went to the same place as above mentioned and for the same purpose, Your applicant went out in this year and at this time about the first of March and was discharged about the first of January following.

Elias Brown Application
Your applicant Received a Discharge but has since lost it and never kept it. Your applicant further states, that he again in the year 1781. enlisted or drafted for Nine Months in the Company of Captain John Hardenburgh, Lieutenant, Teunis Van Wagener & Ensign Abraham Van, Soc belonging to the Militia Regiment of Colonel Wissinfort, that he your applicant entered the service at this time about the first of March and served the full time of Nine Months; and that he received a discharge but has lost it, that he went to the same place he went to during the other time terms and for the same purpose, to wit, to keep off the Indians, and guard the Frontiers of that County. And your applicant further says that he was born in the year 1761. at Marble Town & County of Ulster & State of New York and has no record of his age. And your applicant says that he has resided at Johnstown Montgomery County & State of New York and at the place where he was born since the Revolutionary War and at no other place or places has he resided since that time. He is acquainted with the following persons residing in his neighborhood who can testify as to his character for truth and veracity, and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution, to wit, Rev Thomas Lapham & Aaron Haring
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State. And that applicant says that he volunteered into the Militia Service in the month of February in the year 1777, in the company of Cap. Benjamin Cortright, Lieut Peter Smith, Ensign Jacob Hertenbeck, belonging to Levi Paulding's Regiment that he went from Marbletown aforesaid to Hackensack New Jersey, and then went from place to place in that State and was out and served until the first day of January 1778 under the above named officers and was then finally discharged and served about eleven months at this time. Your applicant says that he again went out in the militia in the month of March in the year 1778. he went from the Place aforesaid to about thirty miles distant in the same town for it was all a wilderness at that time and went through that town, under Peter Smith, Lieut Richard, and Ensign Jacob Hertenbeck

Subscribed before me the day and year aforesaid Belonging to Col John Easton Regiment, and served at the time nine months Geo: D. Ferguson, Clerk.
Elias his Cram
We Thomas Lope a clergyman and Aaron Haring
residing in the town of Johnstown residing in the same town hereby certify
that we are well acquainted with Elias Cram, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 71 years of age; that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open Court.
Geo: D. Ferguson, Clerk.
Thomas Lope Aaron Haring
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories presented by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and served as he states: And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Thomas Lope who has signed the preceding certificate is, a clergyman; Aaron Haring who has also signed the same is a resident in the same town and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credence.
I George D Ferguson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Montgomery, do hereby certify that the foregoing proceedings contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Elias Cram for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 25th day of September 1832.
Geo: D. Ferguson

State of New York Montgomery County ss
Personally appeared before me the under-signed a justice of the peace in and for the County of Montgomery, Elias Crane, who, being duly sworn, deposes and saith, that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of Memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades: For six months I served as a private under Cap Daniel, Broadhead; For Nine Months I served under Cap Abraham, Capell; For Nine months I served as a private, each time, under Cap John, Hardenburgh: For 20 Months, I served under Captains, Benjamin Cortright & Peter Smith: And this deponent and applicant further says, that the nine months which he served under Capt. John Hardenburgh is proven by Jacobus Smith and the attested testimony of Valentine Davis of  that term : And this applicant says that the last 20 Months the are proven by Peter Smith, under whom he served, as Captain & Lieutenant: And this applicant says that he  this applicant  says that he has no proof of the other services: And he says that all his service was done in the militia and he does not pretend to having been in the regular service, which he perceives to be an objection to the  on his claim that he is not on the roll: And this applicant says that he has complied with the requisition of the war department if there be any fault in that objection, in proving nine months, but  thinks that objection to be an oversight in the examination of his papers And this applicant says that it is impossible for him to give the names of any of the officers than have already been stated by him; on account of the failure of his memory; his service was all done as a private and all his service amounts to 3 years & 8 months for which he claims a pension.
Sworn to this 20th day of February 1833 Before me
Elias Crane Mark
Aaron Haring Justice of the peace

State of New York Montgomery County ss.
I George D. Ferguson, Clerk of the County of Montgomery & of the Court of Common Pleas of Said County, do hereby certify that Aaron Haring, Esquire, whose name appears and is subscribed to a certificate of the creditability of Jacobus Smith, as a witness, was at the date thereof First Judge of Montgomery County Courts; And further certify that the said Aaron Haring, Esquire, before whom the amending affidavit of Elias Eram, purports to have been sworn, was on the day of the date thereof a justice of the Peace in & for the County aforesaid. And that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Aaron Haring, Esquire & verily believe that the name of the said Aaron Haring, Esquire, as Judge & Justice, aforesaid, subscri- bed to the said certificate & affidavit, is the hand writing of the said Aaron Haring, Esquire: And I further certify that Peter Smith, one of the within witnesses, personally appeared in open Court, and made oath to the affidavit to which his name is attached and the said Court did declare it to be their opinion that the said Peter Smith was & is a person of respectability & entitled to credit, & the said Peter appeared in Court & made the affidavit at the time as stated in his said affidavit & the said Court did at the following term of the said Court Order me their Clerk to certify the same to the War Department in conformity to the regulations of said Department.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto Set my hand & seal of office this 9th day of April Eighteen hundred and thirty three
Geo: D. Ferguson

11,004
Eliza Crum
6 14.
26 Sep. 32 11 Dec "
P 146.
John V. Berry Johnstown Montgomery Co. N. York

11,004
BRIEF in the case of  Elias Crum - Johnston,  Co of  Montgomery in the State of  New York.  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 71 years  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.     March In 1779 "to 1 Jan 1780" private Cap t D. Broadhead St. Rose, Ensign S n Aller   ab t 1 March 1780 "till ab t 1 Jan 1781" n Cap t A. Cassell St. Rose   ab t 1 March 1781 9 n Ensign John Allen Cap t S. Harnsburg, St. T. Van   Feby 1777 ab t 11 n Majors Ensign A. Van M c , Co t Dinsfelt.   March 1778 9 n Cap t B. Cartwright St. P. Smith Ensign A. Wornbeck, Col. L. Paulding.   Cap t P. Smith St. R. Westbrouch(?) Ensign D. Howbroke, Col. Continc.  
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Marbletown, Ulster Co. New York.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Witness & Trady.  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
W. Hawes Examining Clerk.

In the matter of the application of Annatje Crum widow of Elias Crum for a pension under the act of Congress passed 3 February 1853 - V Proofs accompanying -
For Abr. A. Van Horn Atty. Ponda N.Y.
G. H. Yates Atty.
is a man of truth & veracity, and full faith is be given to his statement
Let us be Cady Hughes of the peace.

To the Commissioner of Pensions.
The memorial of the Undersigned, of the Town of Johnstown in the County of Montgomery  Fulton in the State of New York, namely Annatje Crum. — respectfully represents —
That she now receives a pension of thirty Dollars per annum, under the act of Congress passed 2 nd February 1848, as the former widow of Robert Martin late a soldier of the war of the revolution — and she now desires to relinquish her pension under said act, and requests that her name may be inscribed on the Roll of Pensioners under the second section of the law of Congress passed on the third day of February 1853 granting pensions to certain widows who were married subsequent to January A. D. 1800, as the widow of her last husband Elias Crum, who was also a soldier in the war of the Revolution, and a pensioner of the United States as herein after stated. — In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress last named, she maketh the following declaration, and depositeth and saith —
That her said husband Robert Martin departed this life on the 25 th day of May — in the year one thousand eight hundred and Ninety Eight — That subsequently on the about the 1 st day of September — in the year One thousand eight hundred and Two — (1802) she was married to Elias Crum by the Reverend Abraham Van Horne at  at  at That said Elias Crum departed this life on the Eleventh day of February in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and Forty one — leaving her your memorialist him surviving, his widow, that since his decease she has remained his widow, and is still his widow.

Your memorialist further declareth and saith, that her late husband the said Elias Crum was a pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress passed 7 th June 1832, at the rate of Eighty — Dollars per annum, on account of his services as a private in the New York Militia & otherwise, as by reference to his papers on file in the office of the Commissioner of Pensions in the matter of his application for a pension under said act of 7 th June 1832, will more fully and at large appear.
Your memorialist presents accompanying this Declaration the proofs of her marriage to said Elias Crum, and her now being and remaining his widow, and of her being the identical person whose husband was a pensioner as aforesaid.
And she hereby relinquishes all claim to a pension under any act save and except the act aforesaid lately passed & approved on the 3 rd day of February 1853.
John W. Cady Abner Alan Horton
Annatje her X Crum mark
On this 21 st day of February 1853, personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in & for said County of Fulton, Annatje Crum the memorialist & Declarant above named, and she made oath in due form of law, that the facts set forth in the foregoing memorial & Declaration by her signed, are true and correct. And I certify, that I am well acquainted with said Annatje Crum, & have known her for the last — few — years & know her to be the person she represents herself to be, to wit — the widow of said Elias Crum a pensioner of the United States, and that her statements are entitled to full credit. And

I further certify that I am not directly or indirectly interested in the pension application presented by her as aforesaid. I further certify that I was for a number of years acquainted with the within named Elias Crum, that I frequently drew his pension papers, that I have also since his death drawn the pension papers & drawn the money for the widow of the said Elias, and that she is still the wife of the said Elias Crum.
John W Cady Justice of the peace.
State of New York } County of Montgomery } ss
In the foregoing matter ss.
Domv Van Olinda of the town of Mohawk in the County of Montgomery in the state of New York, being duly sworn saith, that he is the pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church of Caughnawaga in said town & as such has the custody of the Records of said church - That he finds on an inspection of the Records of Baptisms solemnized by the Pastor of said church, that an entry in the words & figures following to wit -
"Elias Crum } Senah" "Annayte Martin }
December 17 th 1803.
By or from which entry it appears that Senah a child of Elias Crum & Annayte his wife, (whose name previous to her marriage to said Elias Crum was "Martin",) was baptised according to the rites of said church by the Revd Abraham Van Horn at the date thereof a pastor of said church, on the seventeenth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and three.
Domv. Van Olinda
Subscribed & sworn this 22 nd day of February 1853 before me the undersigned; And I certify that I am well acquainted with the Reverend Domv Van Olinda & know him to be the Pastor of said church.

and that his statements are entitled to full credit. Jacob Graff father of the Bride
In the same matter
John Hillabrant of the town of Johnstown in said county of Fulton aged Fifty Nine years being Duly Sworn saith that he has for more than fifty years last past been well acquainted with the Refer named Annatye Brown as well before as since her marriage to said Elias Brown & since the decease of her said husband the said Elias Brown that he the deponent testified that the said Elias Brown died about the time set forth in said Declaration that this deponent knew the said Annatye Brown was the the widow of Robert Morton her first husband that she has been well acquainted with said Annatye Brown from the time she was a widow of Robert Morton until this time & that she now knows the widow of Elias Brown Sworn by the said Hillabrant this 21 st Feb y 1853 before me, and I certify that the said Hillabrant is a man of truth & veracity, and full faith is to be given to his statement
John Hillabrant Jacob Graff Elias Brown Annatye Brown Robert Morton
State of New-York } ss. FULTON COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE.
I, PETER W. PLANTZ, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that John W. Van Derveer Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the Jurat of the affidavit to which this is annexed, and before whom the said affidavit purports to have been taken, was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and duly authorized by law to take the same. And I further certify, that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of said Justice, and verify believe that the signature to said Jurat is his proper and genuine signature.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County, at Johnstown, this 21 st day of February, 1853. Peter W. Plantz, Clerk.
STATE OF NEW YORK, } ss. Montgomery County Clerks Office,
do hereby certify that Jacob Graff Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the certificate of proof or acknowledgment to which this is annexed, was on the date of the same a JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, in and for said County, and dwelling in said County, duly qualified, and authorized by law to take the same, and that the said certificate of proof, &c., is taken according to the laws of this State. And further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice, and verify believe his signature to the said Certificate is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed my official seal, at Fonda, this 22 nd day of February 1853 A. T. Perry Deputy Clerk. Jacob Graff

Annatje Crum widow of Elias Crum decd. Act 3 rd Feb. 1853. Supplemental proofs
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said county, the first day of February 1854
and for the county aforesaid, dwelling in the said county, and duly authorized to take the same. And further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such Count. Inagi and verily believe that the signature to said certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine. And further that the annexed is executed and acknowledged according to the law of the State of New York.
W. J. Pownall

State of New York Fulton County } ss
Personally appeared before me Nathan J. Johnson county judge of Fulton County John J. Denmark a resident of the Town of Johnstown, County aforesaid aged thirty nine years past being Duly Sworn according to law Deposeth and Saith that he became acquainted with Elias Cram about ten years before his death the aforesaid Elias Cram was the Second Husband of the Widow Annatye Martin now the widow of Elias Cram, this deponent knew Elias Cram up to the time of his death and attended the funeral of Elias Cram on the sixteenth day of February 1840 the reason he so well recollects the time was that he this deponent married the Grand Daughter the widow Cram in September 1839 & the following February the 18 th day 1840 he this deponent attended the funeral of Elias Cram in the Town of Johnstown he was living of about nine Miles that he this deponent hired a horse from his employer the man who he was at work for and on his Book he gave him credit for the use of his horse to attend the funeral of Elias Cram Buried which bears date February 18 th 1840 he further states that Elias Cram was a pensioner of the United States at $80 per annum & the aforesaid Widow Annatye Cram was also a pensioner of the United States at $20 per annum for services of Robert Martin deceased her first Husband that Annatye Cram still remains the widow of Elias Cram Deposed Sworn to before me
This 1 st day of February 1854.
N. J. Johnson
John J. Denmark
County judge of Fulton County

State of New York Fulton counties } ss
Personally appeared before me Nathan H Johnson County Judge of Fulton County Elizabeth Drake a resident of the Town of Johnstown County aforesaid aged fifty six years who being duly sworn according to law deposes that she became acquainted with Elias Brown when she was about eight or ten years of age & she knew him until the time of his death that Elias Brown was married to this deponent's mother Annatye Martin the widow of Robert Martin Deceased that Elias Brown was buried on the 16 th day of February 1840 that she this deponent attended the funeral on that day the 16 th of February 1840 she this deponent was the oldest child of Annatye Brown by Robert Martin Deceased, that said Widow Annatye Brown was a pensioner of the United States at $20 per annum for services rendered by Robert Martin her first husband Deceased she further saith that Elias Brown was a pensioner of the United States at $80 per annum that Annatye Brown still remains the Widow of Elias Brown Deceased
Sworn and subscribed
before me this 1 st day of February 1854
Elizabeth her Drake mark
N. H. Johnson
County Judge of Fulton County
I certify that Elizabeth Drake above named and John J. Dennick whose name is attached to the annexed affidavit are each reputable persons
N. H. Johnson
County Judge of Fulton County

Hon L. P. Waldo Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir Under advice of others I was induced to apply for arrears of Pension supposed to be my due as the former widow of Robert Martin. This application I relinquish, and accept of the proposal made by you in your letter to my Attorney Atty Giles F. Yates of New York under date of the 5 th December ult o , who has recommended to me the course I adopt as one most to my interest.
I therefore accordingly, hereby "relinquish all arrearages of pension under act 7 th July 1838, that I may be placed on the pension list under the act of Congress passed 3 rd February 1853 as the widow of my last husband Elias Cram deceased, who was a pensioner under the act of 7 th June 1832 at the rate of $80 per annum. No record proof of my intermarriage with Elias Cram has I or my attorney been able to find, but in my first declaration (my second was taken as you required before a judge) there is an attested copy of the record of the Baptism of a child I had by said Cram from the Church Register of the Reformed Dutch Church of Saugerties to which reference is respectfully solicited in reply to the objection made in your letter of the 5 th December last that my marriage was not proved my identity as the widow of said Cram is shown by the testimony of Judge Aaron Herring & of Jacob Yost most respectable citizens of Fulton County in which I reside, Herewith or accompanying this communication you will receive proofs of the time of the decease of my said husband Elias Cram. Oblige by forwarding my pension certificate when granted to the care of Hon. A. Van Horn Esq d Fonda Montgomery Co New York.

My old pension certificate dated 29th May 1851, under act of 2nd February 1852 you will find 1848 you will also receive herewith
All of which is respectfully
Submitted
Annatye + Crum mark
Acknowledged before and witnessed by us
H. J. Johnson County Judge John S Denmark of Fulton County
I certify that I am in no way interested in the obtaining of the pension for which the above or annexed papers are executed
H. J. Johnson County Judge of Fulton County
Annatye Crum widow of Elias Crum died Oct 3-1856-1853 Supplemental proofs

STATE OF NEW YORK, Fulton County Clerk's Office.
I, Nels Anderson Clerk of the county of Fulton, do hereby certify, that N. J. Johnson whose name is subscribed to the certificate of proof or acknowledgment to the annexed Pension Paper
and thereon written, was at the date and time of taking such proof or acknowledgment the County Judge
in and for the county aforesaid, dwelling in the said county, and duly authorized to take the same. And further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such County Judge
and verily believe that the signature to said certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine. And further that the annexed is executed and acknowledged according to the
law of the State of New York.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said county, the
First day of February
1854
Nels Anderson CLERK.
Annatje Cron widow of Elias Cron def. Act 3- Feb. 1853. Supplemental proofs

July 21, 1938.
Mrs. Harry B. Sherman 345 Broad Street Red Bank, New Jersey.
BA--J/ILL Robert Martin W. 27515 Elias Crum R. 2549
Dear Madam:
The record of Robert Martin, pension claim W. 27515, and that of Elias Crum, pension claim R. 2549, are furnished herein, based upon their service in the Revolutionary War.
ROBERT MARTIN-W. 27515. The data found in this claim follow:
Robert Martin was the son of Alexander Martin; the date of Robert's birth and the name of his mother are not shown. At the time of the Revolutionary War, said Alexander Martin lived with his sons, Robert, Philip and Alexander on the south side of the Mohawk River in the Caughnawaga District, which was incorporated later as Fulton and Montgomery Counties, New York State.
Robert Martin enlisted and served as private in the New York troops at different times, given as follow: first, with a detachment on the expedition to Sacondaga, New York, where he was taken prisoner June 3, 1777, was carried to Canada and held several months, was released on parole by General Haldemand" and returned home, length of this service at least six months; in 1778, he served nine months in Captain John Breadbake's company of Rangers; in 1779 and 1780, in Captains John Bowman's and Garret Putnam's Companies, at least seven months; and in the fall of 1781, in Captain Odell's company and was in the battle of Johnstown.
Robert Martin married January 3, 1786, Annatje (called Anna) Philipse, or Phillips, daughter of Philip Philipse, or Phillips. Their marriage was recorded in the Reformed Dutch Church of Caughnawaga, New York; the name of her mother is not shown.
The soldier lived on a farm which was afterwards within the town limits of Mohawk , New York. He died there in July 1798.

Annatje Martin, Robert Martin's widow, married in the fall of 1803, Elias Grum, her second husband. He died February 18, 1841.
Annatje Grum, the widow of said Elias, applied January 18, 1847 for the pension which was due on account of the service of her first husband, Robert Martin, in the Revolutionary War. Her claim was allowed. In 1847, she was aged eighty-three years, and resided in Johnstown, Montgomery County, New York. She applied April 16, 1855, for the bounty land which was due under the Act of March 3, 1855, on account of Robert Martin's service in the Revolutionary War. She was allowed 160 acres of bounty land on warrant #12718. One John J. (or I.) Denmark of Johnstown, New York, was present when said Annatje Grum made application for this bounty land.
Philip Martin, Robert Martin's brother, served in the Revolutionary War also, was wounded in the battle of Johnstown, was wounded also previous to that time; said Philip Martin lived on the same farm after the death of his brother, Robert, and died there.
In 1847, Alexander Martin, the son of said Philip Martin, was a resident of Ephratah, Fulton County, New York, aged fifty-eight years and upwards. In 1847, James Phillips, was a resident of Mohawk, Fulton County, New York, aged sixty-seven years; he was the son of Harmanus Phillips. James Phillips stated then that he had lived within a few miles of Robert Martin and his wife, Annatje, and was well acquainted with her after her marriage to Elias Grum, also, after the death of said Elias Grum; he did not state his relationship to said Annatje.
If you desire information in regard to the location of the land which was granted Annatje Grum on account of the service of her first husband, Robert Martin, in the Revolutionary War, you should apply to the Commissioner, General Land Office, this city, and furnish that official the following: bounty land warrant #12718, 160 acres, Act of March 3, 1855.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name of person paid, and, possibly, the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following: Annatje (or Ann) Grum, widow of Robert Martin, Certificate #5677, issued May 29, 1851,

commenced March 4, 1848, Act of February 2, 1848, New York Agency. -----
ELIAS CRUM- R. 2549.
The data which follow are found in pension claim, R. 2549, based upon service of Elias Crum in the Revolutionary War.
Elias Crum was born in the year 1761, in Marbletown, Ulster County, New York, where he was reared and lived at the time of the Revolutionary War. The names of his parents are not shown.
Elias Crum enlisted and served as private in the New York troops at different times, shown as follows: from February 1777, at least six months in Captain Benjamin Kertright's company, Colonel Levi Pawling's regiment; from March 1778, nine months in Captain Peter Smith's company, in that same regiment; from March 1779, six months in Captain Daniel Broadhead's company in Colonel Levi Pawling's regiment; from March 1780, nine months in Captain Abraham Capell's company in said regiment; and from March 1781, nine months in Captain John Hardenbergh's company, Colonel John Cantine's regiment, during which he was in the battle of Johnstown. During these years, he was engaged principally in the defense of the inhabitants of Ulster County against the Indians and British.
Elias Crum was allowed pension on his application executed September 21, 1832, at which time he resided in Johnstown, Montgomery County, New York. He stated that he had resided during his entire life in the towns of Marbletown and Johnstown. The soldier died at his home there; the date of his death is shown in this claim as February 13, 1840, February 11, 1841, and the date of his funeral as February 16, 1840.  Am't pay time
also Elias Crum married September 1, 1802 (the date given in this claim) Annatje Martin, then the widow of Robert Martin; Robert Martin, her former husband, died May 25, 1798 (said date sworn to by Annatje Crum in 1853.)
Annatje Crum, the widow of Elias, applied February 3, 1853 for pension on account of service of Elias Crum in the Revolutionary War. Her claim was not allowed as she was then in receipt of pension on account

of service of her former husband, Robert Martin, in the Revolutionary War. In September 1853, said Annatje gave her age as eighty-four years, but did not state the date and place of her birth, nor the names of her parents.
Elias Crum and his wife, Annatje, had a child, "Lenah", who was baptized December 17, 1803; her baptism was recorded by the Pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church of Caughnawaga, New York.
In 1854, Elizabeth Drake, was a resident of Johnstown, New York, aged sixty-six years; she stated then that she was the eldest child of her mother, Annatje, and Robert Martin; she did not give the name of any other child, nor the name of her husband.
In 1850, one Rachel Martin was present in Johnstown, New York, when Annatje Crum made an affidavit in regard to her pension; no relationship between them was stated.
In 1854, John J. (or I.) Denmark was a resident of Johnstown, New York, aged then thirty-nine years. He stated that he married one of the granddaughters of the "widow Crum", that they were married in February 1839, also, that he rode nine miles from his home to the funeral of Elias Crum "the following February the 16th day 1840". He did not state the name of his wife. In December 1855, he was present when Annatje Crum made affidavit in regard to her pension, at which time "M. Denmark" was present. In 1855, it was stated that all of Annatje Crum's children were deceased, and that she was living with one of her granddaughters.
Reference was made in this claim to Alexander Martin and his sons, Robert and Philip, who served in the Revolutionary War.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER, Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

1938 - July 21 - Hst. to Mrs. Harry B. Sherman. See letter in Robert Martin- Rev. - W. 27515 - J.L.L.
2548
REJECTED
P. O. _____
Annalye Cannon
Service: _____
widow of Elias
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Washington
Jan y 21. 1856
Judge Mino- Com r of Pensions Sir
I have received a communication from Annaty Brum (formerly widow of Robert Martin) of New York.
She was pensioned under act 7 July 1838 at the rate of $20 on account of her first husband's revolutionary services.
On the passage of the act Feb y 3. 1853 she acquired additional rights by virtue of her second husband's services : she was, therefore, entitled under the latter act to $80 per annum.
The widow wishes to relinquish under act 1838. for the benefit of act 3 Feb y 1853. I presume the pension money received from the 3 Feb y 53 will have to be deducted.
Be pleased to inform me on this point
Yours ever respectfully
Alva Ray

July 21, 1938.
Mrs. Harry B. Sherman 345 Broad Street Red Bank, New Jersey.
BA-J/ILL Robert Martin W. 27515 Elias Crum R. 2549
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Elias Crum and Cornelius Lane, one of whom might have been from New York.
With the meager information furnished by you, it has not been possible to identify the record of the particular soldier with the name Cornelius Lane in whom you are interested. The record has been found of only one Elias Crum, which is furnished herewith. The record of Robert Martin is furnished, also, as it is believed it will be of interest to you.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER, Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

State of New York } Montgomery County } ss:
Jacobus Smith, on the thirteenth day of July in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared before: The Hon Aaron Haring First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Montgomery who first being duly sworn, makes oath and says that he now resides in the Town of Pamela in the County of Jefferson and State of New York. He this deponent was born in the Town of Marlinton & County of Ulster & State of New York, on the fifth day of January in the year 1762: This deponent was well and personally acquainted with Elias Crum, that he and said Crum were playmates, and brought up together in the same neighbourhood, before the commencement of the Revolutionary war: that he knew him at the commencement of the war: that at that time they both resided at the place last, aforesaid, That he knows that the said Elias Crum Enlisted in the militia service of the United States of America for nine months, in the company of Captain John Hardenburgh, Lieutenant Dennis Van Wagenen & Abraham Van Noe, Ensign belonging to the Regiment of Colonel Weisinfelt: that he the said Elias Entered the service in the month of March in the Year of Our Lord Seventeen hundred and Eighty one, that they remained in the County of Ulster in the County aforesaid, during the said time, defending the frontiers of said County from the invasion of the Indians and Tories that the said Elias Crum served the said term to his certain knowledge, and further this deponent saith not.
Sworn to before me The Judge on the boundary Aaron Haring
Jacobus Smith
I certify that the said Jacobus Smith is a credible Witness Feb 19th 1833 Aaron Haring

State of New York Montgomery County. ss:
I George D. Ferguson, Clerk of the county of Montgomery, do hereby certify that Aaron Haring, Esq o , before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn
on the day of the date thereof, First Judge of Montgomery County Court. And that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and readily believe that the name of the said Judge subscribed to the said affidavit is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 25 th day of September 1832.
Geo. D. Ferguson

State of New York Montgomery County ss
On this twenty first day of September 1832 personally appeared in Open Court before the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Montgomery, Peter Smith now sitting, being first duly sworn says that he is now 77 years of age, and says that he was well acquainted with Elias Green during the period of the revolution; and says that the said deponent was a Lieutenant in a Company Commanded by Captain Benjamin Crighton, belonging to Levi Paulding's Regiment, that the said Elias served under him in that Company in the year 1777, that he enlisted in or was drafted in that Company sometime in the Month of February in that same year, at Marbletown in the County of Ulster State of New York and went from there to Hackensack New Jersey and from there to different other places in New Jersey and then they went from New Jersey to Schoharie County then Troy, New York and says that the said Elias served until the first of January 1778, and was then verbally discharged and says that the said Elias served at this time and in this year about Eleven months.
And this deponent says, that in the year 1778 he was Captain of this Company and says that on or about the first of March the said Elias drafted or enlisted in that Company at Marbletown aforesaid and served under him as Captain until the next January the next year, that they served out this time in the town of Marbletown and on the frontiers, that this company then belonged to Col John Cantine's Regiment, the same regiment as aforesaid; but says that Levi
Paulding had died and was succeeded in office by said Cantine Subscribed & sworn to in Open Court the day of year aforesaid
Peter Smith
Geo: D. Ferguson, Clerk

Mech s & Farmer's Bank Albany Pension Agency April 21. 1835.
Name L. Edward Equin Commission of Pensning, Sir,
At the request of Mr. John McArthur I enclose his affidavit respecting the case of Elias Green, a pensioner under the act of June 7. 1832, by which it appears that his name should be inscribed on the Books of this Agency - Be pleased to instruct us in relation to him -
Very Respectfully Yours ob t Serv t
Thos M c Cluskey Acting Pension Agt.
P.S. Adam Ryzenburg applies for the payment of his last semi-annual stipend - His oath of identity states that he has resided in Columbia Co. for 16 years past - His name is not on our Books - From the circumstances of his papers being ex- -ecuted before a Justice in Dutchess Co. it is probable his name may be on the Books of the New York agency, as residing there - He claims at the rate of $91 66 per ann - Shall we pay him? J W B Cashier

Montgomery County State of New York
John M c Arthur being duly sworn deposeth & says, that, he made out the Pension papers of Elias Croom for the fourth day of September 1834 on which said Croom, a Revolutionary pensioner, received his pay for the preceding six months, from the Agent of the United States, for paying pensions in the City of New York, and in said papers it was stated that the said Elias Croom was a resident of the Town of Johnstown Montgomery County & had been a resident therein for about forty years & that previous thereto he resided in the Town of Marbletown County of Ulster State of New York, this deponent further says that it is his present belief that the papers were made out as above stated, and that the fact of Elias Croom's being placed on the book of the Pension Office in New York, among the pensioners of the County of Ulster, as he understands he is, was an error committed at said Office - and this deponent further says that he has known said Elias Croom for thirty years past as a resident of the Town of Johnstown Montgomery County where he now resides.
J. M c Arthur
Sworn & Subscribed before me this 10 th day of April 1835
John H. Rutherford justice of the peace
State of New York Montgomery County
I certify that I am personally acquainted with Elias Croom the aforesaid Revolutionary pensioner that he is now a resident of the town of Johnstown in Montgomery County and that he has resided there for many years past and that in the town of Johnstown aforesaid he appeared personally before me sometime during the last fall and that I administered the usual oath to him to obtain his pension.
Given under my hand at Johnstown the 10 th day of April 1835
John H. Rutherford justice of the peace

Anatye Crum of the Town of Johnstown of the County of Fulton & State of New York Do hereby constitute & appoint Alexander May of Washington City D.C. my true & lawful attorney & agent to prosecute for me my banns for Increase of pension Under a recent act of Congress approved 3 day of March 1853 allowing widows the the same against the husbands then I am now receiving a pension for services rendered by my first Husband Robert Morton $20 per annum which I relinquished & claim a pension for the service of My Second Husband Elias Crum who was pensioned at $80 per annum I was married to Elias Crum after 1800 Given under my Hand & Seal this 26 th Day of December 1855
Witness. D. Cameron } John O. Denmark } M. Denmark }
Annatye Crum mark
Fulton County p. On this 26th day of December 1855 personally appeared before me Annatye Crum whom I know to be the individual described in and who executed the above power of Atty and acknowledged that she executed the same
David Cameron justice of the Peace

Tondu July 30 th 1855 Hon L. D. Waldo Commissioner of Pensions
My dear Sir Inclosed Here with I send you my Certificate Dated 29 th May 1857 for Services rendered By my first Husband Robert Martin deceased, In your letter of Dec r 5 th 1853 you say, If Annatye is willing to Relinquish all arrearages of Pension Under act 7 th July 1838 she will be Pensioned under act Feb y 3 rd 1853 on her filing the Nuptial proof, The date of her inter Marriage with Elias Cram her Second Husband and of his Death Has not been discovered
I have asserted my claim for the services of my first second Husband Elias Cram, & Relinquished all arrearages of Pension Under act 7 th June 1838 as your Honor Requested Under date of your letter 5 th Dec r 1853 Will you please issue me a certificate for the services of Elias Cram my first second Husband for $80 per Annum from 3 rd Feb y 1853 I have the pension agent for paying pensions at H'bay Deduct the Amount I have been drawing for the services of my first Husband Robert Martin, — you requested in one of your letters I should pay the money drawn from the Certificate of my first Husband from 3 rd Feb y 1853 It is out of my power to pay out any money I cannot pay one Shilling I have no money I have Drawn only $20 per annum take out four Dollars for the fasting to court four miles to and from my House & draw my money twice a year the pension agent for paying his offer for Speak two here me $16 per annum for a poor Distressed old woman to him as per your hope & pray your Honor will issue me the certificate Due me of $80 per Annum

That I may get what is justly my due Please send my certificate to Hon. Alan Horn Fonda My agent Giles F. Yates Esq. told me there was no doubt but I would receive my certificate for $80 per annum when he had my application made for me at 80 cents per cent. Respectfully & Truly Yours John J. Denmark Annatye + Cream marks
Subscribed & sworn to before me this 30 th day of July 1855 John Emerson Justice of the peace
Hon. L. A. Walden Commissioner of pensions My Dear Sir the Above Annatye & Cream I having about four miles from me In Fulton County Near the county line I have been acquainted with the family a great many years they are poor hard working people all but children are dead she is living with one of her Grand Daughters & they have not much property the old Widow is very old & getting feeble she is troubling me every week with a message to have me assist her & getting pension inasmuch in account of the Revolutionary Service of her late husband Elias Brown, Brown left her nothing when he died I knew him well, the widow has known me from my infancy & well has no one but me to assist & do her business I have frequently received certificates for increase under different laws & when they had been receiving pension from the time the law went into force the certificate would be made out from the time the law took effect or went into force & deduct the amount Dr Respectfully Yours Alan Horn Fonda

The Application for a pension & the Pelerin guishment have all been sent on to the office & approved of correct A.A.V.H.
Will your Honor examine the papers & issue the certifi- cate so I may draw the money the 4 th of Sept Next she really stands in need of it for her immediate support she is very poor and made & quite old her mind is good but her limbs are getting very feeble
Respectfully & Sorely Yours
Abner Alan Hearn

STATE OF NEW YORK Montgomery County Clerk's Office.
Darius V. Perry Dept
I, Darius V. Perry Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that John Crerson , Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the certificate of proof or acknowledgement to which this is annexed, was on the day of the same a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, and dwelling in said County, duly qualified and authorized by law to take the same, and that the said certificate of proof, etc., is taken and the instrument to which this is annexed is examined and acknowledged according to the laws of this State. And further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice, and verily believe his signature to the said Certificate is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed my seal, at P'keepsie, this 30th day of July 185 2 .
D. V. Perry Dept Clerk.
That I may get what is justly my due. Please direct my Certificate to Henry H. Harkness Tenders. My agent John P. Harkness says that he has seen no doubt that would receive my Certificate for $80 per annum when he had my application made for me at St. Joseph's present John P. Harkness John P. Harkness Tenders of St. Joseph's Tenders of St. Joseph's

Hon L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
In the case of Annaty Crum Widow of Elias who has applied for a pension under the act of 8 th February 1853 In your letter of December 5 th last you say, that "If Annaty is willing to relinquish all arrears of pension under the act of 7 th July 1838, she will be pensioned under the act of 8 th Feby 1853" &c
A relinquishment in form was thereupon made by Mrs Crum of all arrears & claims under the act of 7 th July 1838 aforesaid, then she did under the belief that she could not legally draw two pensions at the same time , or hold two pension certificates for revolutionary services of both her late husbands Robert Martin & Elias Crum, but that she is bound to relinquish the one, if she conceives it to be best for her interest to be pensioned for the very services of the other
In your letter in the same case dated the 25 th Feby last is required in addition to refund the money she has drawn upon her pension certificate as the Widow of Robert Martin" &c — The amount she drew upon her certificate under said act, was $100 (being at the rate of $20 per annum for five years) Under the act of 8 th Feby 1853 she would be entitled to $120 and over or $144 being at the rate of $80 per an; or $96 per an (as you shall decide) being from 8 th Feby 1853 to the 4 th Septent 1854 (could not her new certificate be so worded as to direct the necessary deduction; to be made at Septent) But I am advised and assured that there is no law of Congress which would authorize this deduction if made under a decision of your Department The poor widow may be pardoned for enquiring on what equi- =table or legal grounds, she is thus required to refund It is a settled principal In law, that "laws of this kind should be construed liberally to give a remedy or effect an object declared in the law strictly only to save a right or avoid

a penalty" I am not a lawyer and cannot argue the question at present
Respectfully yours & servant Alm A Van Horne
N.B. I would say M rs Cross is a very poor Widow Indeed she cannot raise a penny to the fund But please If you cannot allow her pension send her old pension certificate so she can draw her money
I sent an application of the Widow Hannah Horne to get her pension allowed To your Honour sometime ago I did not send my address William
Alm A Van Horne Sender
Finda April 8 th 1854
Montgomery 6 th D. G.

Hon S. P. Waldo Comm of Respon

Mr. L. P. Waldo Comm ee of Pensions New York Feb. 18 th / 54
Sir,
Mr Van Horne named in the accompanying papers, has in behalf of Mrs Eliz th Crum forwarded to me for transmission to you, the said papers.
In these papers I see nothing defective or which is not in accordance with your rules or the require- ments of this case, unless it be, that the time of Mr Crum's death is given in figures instead of being written out in full - an omission which you will adjudge unnecessary in this case inasmuch as the Certificate of Court attached to the declaration of the widow & evidence already on file in the

Office of the 3 rd Auditor-Treasury Dept! are satisfactory proof of the day of Mr Elias Crum's death, & which will be found to agree with the date given in the accompanying affidavits of Eliz a Drake & John T. Denmark herewith sent (dated 16 th February 1840). The latter furnished the horse which drew the hearse of Mr Crum to the grave & the predicates the date of the written entry of the time his horse was thus used on his K Books.
Yours respectfully,
G. H. Wells.
The other proofs required in this case will be found in the 2 declarations of the widow & the affidavits & certificates accompanying the same.

Hon L. P. Waldo Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
The contents of a Letter from you communicated to my agent Giles Flyates Esqr In relation to my Pension application as the widow of my last Husband Elias Brown have been made known to me
In reply I would say that I do not like to relinquish the arrears due to me as the former widow of Robert Martin my first Hus- =band under the act of 7 th July 1838, March 3 rd 1843 & June 17 th 1844 and accordingly hereby assert my claim to said arrears; and have to request that Certificates be granted to me under these acts at the rate I have been allowed & now hold a certificate Pension Certificate for, under the act of February 2 nd 1848
I would like to have these certificates forwarded to me to the care of Abraham Alvan Horne Esqr Fond. Montgomery County N.Y.
Witness Jonas Smith John W Cady
Your obedt Servt Annatye her X Brown mark
Subscribed & sworn before me this 27 th Dec r 1853
John W Cady Justice of the Peace of Fulton County

Subscribed known before me this 27 th Dec r 1853 John W. Brady
STATE OF NEW YORK Fulton County Clerk's Office.
I, PETER W. PLANTZ, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that John W. Brady Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the affidavit  complaint to which this is annexed, was on the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly qualified and authorized by law to take the same, and that the said affidavit  complaint is taken according to the Laws of this State. And further, that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of said Justice, and verily believe that his signature to the said affidavit  complaint is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my offi- cial seal, at Johnstown, this 27 th day of December 1853.
P. W. Plantz Clerk.

New York Nov 16 th 1853.
Hon S. P. Waldo Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir.)
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your decision, with reasons assigned, against the application of Annalye Crum widow of Elias Crum (former widow of Robert Martin ) for a change of the pension certificate she now holds for one under the act of 3 rd Feb y 1853.
What I may have further to say in advocacy of her rights "according to the law and the testimony," will not for the time being put bread in her mouth. I have therefore to request, that you will be kind enough to forward to me her old pension warrant now on file with her papers, that she may have the use of it, to draw her last Semiannual

stipend (or rather gratuity) now due to her, of which she is in pressing need.
I am mo: respectfully (Yours to serve)
A. F. M. H. S.

New York Nov 20 th 1853
Sir:
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 21 st inst., covering the Pension Certificate of Annatje Crum former widow of Robert Martin dec d , in compliance with my request.
As I expected, and was assured was the fact, that Certificate was issued under the law of 2 nd Feby 1848, and not under that of 29 th July 1848, as your Examiner alleges incorrectly .
The widow applied for a change of her Pension-Certificate, desiring to relinquish the pension she now receives as the widow of Robert Martin for one she is entitled to as the widow of Elias Crum her last husband, under the act of 3 rd Feby 1853.
In your reply to said application this misrepresentation is made the basis of a special argument. The premises not being truly stated, the conclusions drawn from such premises fall to the ground as a necessary consequence.
The law of 29 th July applies to widows married after 1794 & before 1800 (which is not Mrs Crum's case) while that of 2 nd Feb. applies to widows married before 1794, & is a virtual continuation of the acts of 7 th July 1838 & 17 th June 1844, &

is only subject only to the same rules regulations and restrictions.
The quotation to the effect that "no widow now receiving a pension shall be entitled to receive a further pension" is from the 1 st Sec. of the act of 29 th July 1842 from that of 2 nd Feb y 1848:—Therefore not applicable to the case before us.
Under this state of things it cannot of course be expected that I should receive your letter of the 10 th inst. in the matter of Mrs Crum's application, as a bona fide reply to it. I therefore forbear to controvert sundry other positions contained in said letter, erected as it is, on a misconceived foundation.
I am very respectfully
Your obed t Serv t
Oliver H. Waldo.
Hon. H. P. Waldo Comm r of Pensions

Tonda October 1 st 1853
Hon A. N. Walda Commissioner of Pensions
At the Request of Giles F. Yates Esqr I enclose the Declaration taken before a Judge of County Courts of the Widow Annatye Cram also the affidavits of two Witnesses stating that Elias Cram & Annatye Cram lived together as Husband & Wife & were recognized as such I have one request to make in behalf of the Widow Annatye Cram at her Request that her pension may be allowed soon, as her Original pension certificate is at your office She has not drawn her pension the 4 th September last She very poor and nothing but her pension money to live upon
Respectfully your Abn A Van Horne

Secy
Hon. J. P. Noble Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

Sir:
New York, October 25 th 53.
In the case of Annatya Crum , her original Declaration before a Justice of the Peace, under the 3 d Section of the act of 3 d Feb. 1853, (afterwards retaken before a Co. Judge as required) specifically states, that she is in the receipt of a pension, as the former widow of Robert Martin , at the rate of $30 per annum. That her pension as such widow she desires to relinquish for one as the widow of her last husband Elias Crum , which she is now entitled to - she claiming no right to enjoy two pensions "at one and the same time", as your letter of the 20 th inst. seems to charge.
Her present claim is asserted in conformity with what I have always understood to be the practice of the Office, founded on the just & equitable principle that a widow who has been married to more than one revolutionary soldier, can elect which one she pleases on account of whose services to establish her pension; and that it is her privilege to select the one whose length of service & rank will yield the largest stipend.
Pensioners under the act of 18 th Mar. 1818, have relinquished their pensions under that act, and accepted pensions under the act of 7 th June 1832; but they were never required to surrender or pay back all they had previously received under the act of 1818 - only so much, if any, which they had received subsequent to 4 th March 1831, the date

of the Commencement of their pensions under said act of 1832. In the cases of widows who had been married more than once to revolutionary soldiers, the like rule obtained. - E. g.: If a widow was in the receipt of a pension under the act of 4 th July 1836, and on the passing of the Act of 7 th July 1838, she became entitled to a larger stipend as the widow of one of her husbands to whom she had been married previous to 1 st Jan: 1794, she was allowed to relinquish her pension under the act of '36, and accept one under the act of '38, but she was not, and could not, as I contend, in justice be, required to surrender all she had previously received under the Act of '36 - only so much thereof, if any, as she had received from & after the 4 th Mar: '36, the day of the commencement of her pension under the act of '38.
Am I to understand that this established principle and rule of Construction has been abolished, when your letter announces that "the widow must surrender the money drawn as a pension under the act of July 29 th 1848." In requiring a surrender of pension money previously paid on awarding a larger stipend or increase of pension, the constant practice of your Department has been to require a deduction from the amount of increase of the sums received for the previously elapsed periods of time covered by the increased amount awarded. Is any thing beyond an analogous requirement intended in cases like the one before us? I beg leave respectfully to submit, whether in

the present case, any deduction can be asked for of amounts received by Mrs Cram previous to the day of the commencement of her pension under the act of 3 rd Feb: 1853? (to wit from the 3 rd Feby 1853, to the 4 th March 1853, up to which day she has received her stipend of $30 under a previous act)
I am very respectfully Yours to Serve
G. H. H. S.
Hon: S. P. Waldo Commissioner of Pensions.

State of New York } County of Fulton } ss
On this 26 th day of September A.D. 1853 personally appeared before Nathan J. Johnson County Judge of the County Court in and for Said County Annatye Cram a resident of the town Johnstown in said County aged eighty four years who Being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the Following Declaration in order to obtain the Benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed on the 8 th day of February 1853 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war that; That when she married Elias Cram as herein after stated She was the widow of Robert Masters — That she is now the Widow of Said Elias Cram , that Said Elias Cram was a pensioner of the United States Under the act of Congress passed 7 th June 1832 that he died in the receipt of a pension under Said act at the time herein after stated; to wit a pension of $80 per annum, that he served in the war of the revolution for the period, & in the manner particularly described and detailed in his pension papers in the matter of his application for a pension under the act of 7 th June 1832 on file in the pension office of the United States — She further declares that she was married to the Said Elias Cram on the First day of September In the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred & Two that her said Husband died on the thirteenth day of February In the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and forty That she was not married to him prior to the Second day of January Eighteen Hundred but at the time above stated; She further states & declares that she still remains his widow — She further declares or represents that the material facts herein before recited, are set forth & confirmed by her own oath & the testimony of S s Annexes in papers on file in the office of the Commissioner of Pensions in the matter of her application for pension.

Under said act of 3 rd February 1853, taken before John W. Cady a justice of the Peace, - She also shows by proofs annexed that she lived with said Elias Cram as his wife & that they were recognized as husband & wife - & Documentary proof of her said marriage has here tofore been adduced by showing the baptism of their child Hannah Cram December 17 th 1853
Subscribed & sworn to before me this 26 th day of September 1853 A. J. Johnson Annatye } Cram } mother
County Judge
I hereby certify that the said Annatye Cram was unable to attend court by reason of bodily infirmity. A. J. Johnson Fulton County ss: Jacob Host of Johnstown being duly sworn before me and says that he was acquainted with Elias Cram late of Johnstown deceased in his life time and was also acquainted with Annatye Cram his wife. and is now acquainted with the said Annatye Cram. that he knows that the said Elias Cram and the said Annatye Cram lived together as man and wife. and that they were recognized as husband & wife. This deponent further says that he is seventy nine years of age. and that he has known the said Annatye Cram for fifty years. and that this deponent knew the said Elias Cram for forty years before his death
Sworn to before me this 26 th day of September 1853 A. J. Johnson Jacob Host
County Judge of Fulton County

Fulton County ss: Aaron Haring of Johnstown being duly sworn depose and says that he was well acquainted with Elias Brown late of John- stown deceased. And that he is well acquainted with Annatye Brown his widow. that this deponent is seventy four years of age. that he knew the said Elias Brown for twenty years before his death. and that he has known the said Annatye Brown for thirty years. that the said Annatye Brown lived with the said Elias  Annatye Brown and that the said Elias Brown and the said Annatye Brown were recognized as husband and wife and that the said Elias and the said Annatye often declared themselves to be husband & wife to this deponent. Aaron Haring Sworn to before me this 26 th day of February 1853
R. J. Johnson County Judge of Fulton County
I hereby certify that Jacob Best & Aaron Haring above named are credible witnesses State of New York R. J. Johnson County Judge of Fulton County Fulton County Clerk's office: p: p:
Ebenezer H. Gadd Deputy Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Nathaniel J. Johnson Esquire whose name is subscribed to the proofs of the affidavits to which this is annexed and before whom the said affidavits purport to have been taken, was, at the date of the same County Judge in and for said County and duly authorized by law to take the same. And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said County Judge and firmly believe that the signatures to said proofs are his proper and genuine signatures.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County at Johnstown this 26 th day of Sept: 1853 Ebenezer H. Gadd Dep. Clerk Clerk absent

Pension Office
January
1859.
Sir
I have the honor to transmit the papers (numbering from 1 to 22. inclusive) in the case of Armintage Brown former widow of Robert Martin, on which
From an examination of this case, it appears from the correspondence of my predecessor, that he agreed to an allowance of 6 months service of Robert Martin, for whose service Armintage Brown, former widow claims a pension. It will be seen by the evidence adduced in this case, that James Phelps and Alexander Martin speak of a tradition in their families that Robert Martin, the claimant's former husband, was in the Battle of Johnstown, but whether as a mere volunteer for the occasion or under what kind of service they do not explain. It would very little help the case, if admitted - But the probabilities are strongly against the service since the record from the Comptroller of New York is silent as to any service in 1778 - and B. Barnum who recollects so well his return from Canada and with whose father his brother Philip Martin says nothing about it, altho' he speaks of the latter's being wounded on that occasion Jacob Shew declares, that himself Robert Martin and others were taken prisoners in June 1778 and were released in November of that year. But the certificate furnished by the Secretary of State, taken from the Washington Papers shows, that this very party had already been released in

August of that year, how long before cannot be ascertained. The same witness says. That said Martin in the spring of 1780 enlisted for 9 months and served out his time. But it is evident in this he is mistaken, and again forgetful, as the certificate of the New York Comptroller shows that one Robert Martin on the 19th of October 1780 received a certificate on account of military services for $ 5. 15. 6 -; a different man of the same name a corporal in that year received two certificates one for $ 7. 14. 5 3 / 4 on the 31 July; another for $ 8. 2. 3 on the 23 d October. The former who was, probably the claimant's husband, as the witness describes him as a private, served a little more than 2 months in that year; the latter two years terms in the same year together amounting to not quite 6 months. That they are not the same man is evident from the fact that one of them was paid off on the 19 th and the other on the 23 d of the same month. Adding then the the period of Martin's captivity to that of his service, it would show a period of 7 certainly not more than five months.
I am respectfully
Your att servant

State of New York } Fulton County }
Town of Johnstown 8 th July 1850
Dear Sir
Having noticed your advertisement in the Washington papers I am inclined to employ you as agent to prosecute my claim for a pension. My papers are on file at Washington D. C., you are hereby authorized and employed to act as my agent and attorney in the case.
Annalye her + mark Corbin
Witness Rachel Martin

S. Godwin Esq Fonda N.Y. May 26 th 1851.
My dear Sir.
I am in the receipt of your favor of the 30 th April ult o with accompanying letter of the Commissioners of Pensions in reference to the claim of Annatje Crum former widow of Robert Martin.
I am now in the neighborhood of Mrs Crum's residence, and having lately seen her, can testify to her being alive and in health. She can therefore receive the arrears of pension due her "in proper person".
You may send her Pension Warrant enclosed to the care of "Abraham A. Van Horn Esq r Fonda N.Y." & oblige her & your ob t servant
Yrs S. Godwin

Cornwall
Feb 7
James M.
Hon: S. P. Waldo Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
Recd July 23/1871

Monthly Report of Mr. Osborn Wilz.
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Annaly's Creek
Formerly known as Roberts Martine.
N.Y.
Act 7 June 38
Capt. Ben. B. Russell Superintendent of the Customs at New York City of New York of Adm. Act 4 May 1820 No 4 163

Pension Office Jan. 26. 1856
Dr
In reply to your letter of the 2 nd inst t , stating that Annatya Brown, who is now a pensioner under Act of 1838 AC, in virtue of the services in the Revolution of Robert Martin (her first husband) desires to relinquish the same in order to avail herself of the benefits of the Act of 3 rd of February 1853, as the widow of Elias Brown, her second husband I have to state that the whole amount received by her under said Act of '38 and its supplements must be refunded before she can be placed upon the Pension Roll, at the increased rate at which her second husband was pensioned -
Auditor Rep d
R. M c Rae
Col Comm d
Alexander Ray Esq Present

Be pleased to inform me, the amount to be repaid under forests . & the amt per annum the Madras Govt. be entitled to receive under act Feb 2/52 .
Also Navo
5 Feb /56

Armistice between
FREE
March 11/1865
Dear Mr. Waldo Commissary of Subsistence Washington, D.C.

2475
Annalye Crum Widow of Elias
NY
G. F. Yates 14 Sep 1853
" " " 20 Octo 1853
" " " 11 Nov 1853
" " " 21 " 1853
" " " 5 Dec 1853
Annalye Crum Jan 3 1854
A. A. Vanhorn 25 Feb 34 1854
" " " N. Apr 1854
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Alex r Ray Jan 26/56
Same Feb 7 1856
Oct 3 Feb 4 1853
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No 2473.
Annalye Crum, wid. of _____
Elias. _____
Let to G. F. Yates. 14 th Sept. 1853.
14 th Sept. 1853.
21 st Oct. 1881
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G. F. Yates 5 th Dec r 1853.
Jan 3 in Decr 1853. Mrs. Annalye Cason Jan 3/54 Abner Horn 25" Febry 1/54 " " " " " " " 1/54
Albany Horn 25" Feb 1954 " " " " 1954
Oct. 3 rd 1854 N. H. Felton, 1853.