REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION - ANTHONY CROCKETT

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Pension Statement of Anthony Crockett
State of Kentucky
Franklin County

On this 17th day of December 1832 personally appeared in open court before the 
Justice of the county court of Franklin now sitting Col. Anthony Crockett a 
resident citizen of said county and State aged 76 years who being first duly 
sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order 
to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7th day of June 1832 
Viz:
I Anthony Crockett do hereby solemnly declare that I am now 76 years of age 
according to the information of my parents and being interrogated by the court 
according to the directory to the Secretary of War. I further say that I was 
born in the county of Prince Edward in the state of Virginia, and when very 
young I removed with my parents to Botetourt County of the same state where I 
resided when the revolutionary war commenced and that in said county in the 
month of February 1776 I enlisted for two years in Capt. Thomas Posey's company 
of the 7th Virginia Regiment commanded by Lt. Col. Alexander McClanahan at that 
time my company marched down to opposite Gwinn's Island at which place and (old) 
Point Comfort we were stationed as a guard, where we remained until after the 
Battle of Princeton when my company marched to Philadelphia, where Col. Morgan 
raised his rifle regiment by selecting men and officers from the army. Capt. 
Posey and many of his men including myself joined Col. Morgan's Regiment and we 
were stationed in the vicinity of Philadelphia but were almost continually in 
motion, during the spring and summer of 1777, we marched several times into New 
Jersey and had several skirmishes with the British at Bunbrook and Sommerset and 
Piscatawa and in the month of August 1777 we were ordered to the north to aid 
our Army in opposing Burgoyne, we marched from near Philadelphia across through 
New Jersey and struck the North River at Peakskill when we went on board sail 
boats and sailed up to Albany and from there joined the American army near Still 
Water, and were actively engaged in the skirmishes and battles which eventuated 
in the Capture of Burgoynes army the 17th October 1777 -- Soon after which event 
we marched back and joined Genl Washington at White Marsh where we had a 
shirmish with the British who then occupied Philadelphia and afterwards we 
attacked some Hessians at a place in New Jersey called Hatternfield about five 
miles from Philadelphia, we killed some of them and drove the balance to their 
boats in the Delaware near Philadelphia we then returned to White Marsh where I 
remained until my time expired and I was honorably discharged and I returned 
home and in the fall 1778 I was commissioned 1st Lieutenant in Capt. Jesse Evans 
company of the Illinois Regiment raised by Virginia and soon after began to 
recruit my company which was done during the war 1778-9 and in the spring 1779 
on the 14th March, I left home and Rendexvoused my company at Long Island on the 
Holston down which and Tennessee River we sailed in boats and had several 
skirmishes with the Indians, and also down the Ohio and up the Mississippi to 
Kaskaskia where I was stationed until August 1779, when I was ordered to 
Vincennes where we joined Col. George R. Clarke and in the winter or late in the 
fall 1779, I was ordered back to Virginia by Col. Clarke to recruit more men 
during the next summer and in 1780 I recruited more men and was engaged in 
frequent skirmishes with Tories and when the Battle of Kings Mountain was fought 
I was in march with my men to that place and in 1781 I returned to Kentucky and 
was stationed at Gordons Station in Lincoln and was in frequent pursuit of 
Indians during that year 1782, and in August 1872 I was on the march with Col. 
Logan to join our troops in pursuit of the Indians who attacked Bryants Station 
but the Battle of the Blue Licks was fought before we got up and it fell to our 
melancholy lot to aid in burying the dead and soon after I marched as Lieutenant 
with Capt. Ray with Col. Geo. R. Clarke againes the Indians on the Great Miami 
at Piqua where we burnt many towns, and I continued to serve as Lieutenant at 
Gordons and MGarys Stations until the closing of the Revolutionary War, having 
in the whol served two years in the 7th Virginia Regiment and Morgans Rifle 
Regiment and from the month of November or December 1778 as 1st Lieutenant in 
Capt. Evans company of the Illinois Regiment until the close of the war of the 
Revolution in the uniform. . of the duties of a Lieutenant as I have a stated 
above. I further declare that I have mad a commentary of my age or service 
having long since lost my discharge and commission, that my services are well 
known as a Lieutenant of the Illinois Regiment to Col. James Ray and John Smith 
of Mercer County and William Robertson of Anderson County whose affidavits have 
been sent to the Secretary of the Treasury, in support of my claim on the state 
of Virginia for half pay for life, and I hereby reliquish all claim which I may 
have to a Pension or annuity from the State of Virginia or the United States 
since the 3rd day of March 1831, excepted the present, Witness my hand this 17th 
December 1832
A. Crockett
State of Kentucky
Franklin County
Viz: We William Hickman, Sr. a clergyman residing in the county of Franklin and 
state aforesaid and James Hunter and Robert McAfee residing the the same county 
do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Col. Anthony Crockett (now 
Sergeant at Arms of the Senate of Kentucky) who has submitted and sworn to the 
above declaration and we believe him to be of the age he has stated, and that he 
is respected and believed by the neighborhood in which he resides to have been a 
soldier and officer of the Revolutionary War and we concur in this opinion, and 
we further certify that he is a highly respected citizen and a man of truth 
Witness our hand this 17th December 1832.
Wm. Hickman, Sr.
Jas. Hunter
Robert McAfee