DENNIS CRONK REV WAR PENSION, WESTCHESTER, NEW YORK Copyright (c) 2001 by Donald E. Lampson (dlampson@earthlink.net). ************************************************************************ USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submittor has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ************************************************************************ (1784 certification of service by Col. Fredrick Weisenfels) This Will Certify that Dennis Cronk did Enlist himself out of the Levies in to the Fourth New York Regiment previous to the 1st of August 1780, agreeable to an act of the Legislature, made for that purpose, and Served in Said Regiment the full time stipulated. New York /s/ Fred. Weisenfels, late July 19th,1784 Lt. Colonel of the 4th NY Regiment _____________________________________________________________ (Declaration) Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. State of New York } }Ss.: County of Westchester} On the twenty second day of August in the Year of out Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court before the Surrogate of the Surrogate Court of the County of Westchester and State of New York now sitting , Dennis Cronk, a resident of ******* Greenburg, County and State aforesaid, aged seventy one years *** 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 June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated, that is to say. He enlisted on or about the first of May 1780 into a company of the levies commanded by Captain Daniel(?) Williams and in a Regiment Commanded by Col. Morris Graham in the line of the State of New York; that he enlisted in the town of Cortland in the said County, ****** the term of six months; that he served the term of six months ** ********* **** in the State of New York, and at the ******* of said term was honorably discharged , but that his discharge is lost or destroyed. That immediately after the expiration of the said term of six months, to wit on or about the first of November 1780 he again enlisted for the term of one(?) month in the regiment commanded by Colonel Wisenfells in the line of the State of New York; and was honorably discharged at Albany in the State of New York on the first of December in the year 1780, but he has lost his discharge; that he does not recollect the names of the commander of the company in which he served on the indicated month. And the declarant further states that he was born in the said County of Westchester in the Year 1761. That he lived in the County of Westchester aforesaid and has lived in the said County ever since the Revolution and now lives there. That the names of the persons to whom he is known in his present neighborhood and who can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his service as a soldier of the Revolution are Samuel Youngs and Jacob Forshay. That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present; and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any State. /s/ Dennis Cronk Sworn and subscribed this 22nd day of August 1832 before me. /s/ * ****, Surrogate. _____________________________________________________________ We Samuel Youngs and Jacob Forshay ------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------- White Plains ------------------ residing in the town of ********* **************, County of Westchester and State of New York hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Dennis Cronk, who has subscribed his name on the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy one years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and we concur in that opinion. /s/ Sam'l Youngs /s/ Jacob Forshay Sworn to & subscribed This 22nd day of August 1832 before me. /s/ * *****, Surrogate. (Certification and opinion of Court omitted.) _____________________________________________________________ (Note: Samuel Youngs appears as a Lieutenant in Col. Wissenfels Regiment of Levies at p. 70 in Comptroller Robert's New York in the Revolution as Colony and State.) _____________________________________________________________ (1830 Petition to the House of Representatives) To the Honorable the ***** *** *** House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. The petition of Dennis Cronk of the County Of Westchester and State of New York Respectfully submitted That Petitioner enlisted in the Army of the United States on or about the first of May in the year 1780 in the Company commanded by Captain Daniel Williams in the Regiment Commanded by Col. Morris Graham on the Continental establishment or Levies of the State in the Line of the State of New York -- That he served in said Regiment for the period of six months, which being the full and ** his enlistment. When he again enlisted in to the Continental Army & continued in the service for one month more. That in all he served seven months, when he received his honorable discharge, And your petitioner further saith that he is now in his seventy first year of age, that he has six children and a wife now living. One of his sons Stephen W.(?) Cronk besides with your Petitioner. That your Petitioner and his wife are both cripples & altogether unable to procure their support by their labour & that your Petitioner needs the assistance of his County for support, that he & his wife are now ********* (partially?) supported by the labor of his said son Stephen. That he, the said Stephen, has a wife & two children and no property and no other way of supporting your Petitioner but by his labour. Your Petitioner respectfully prays that your honorable body will grant a Pension unto your Petitioner for his services in the Continental Army for the remainder of his life. & your Petitioner **** ***** Prays. /s/ Dennis Cronk WESTCHESTER County Ss. Dennis Cronk being duly sworn on his oath saith that the factsset forth in the above Petition are true & further this Deponent saith not. /s/ Dennis Cronk. Sworn this 17th day of November 1830 before me. /s/ Charles ***, one of the Justices of the Peace For the County Westchester. (Note: Captain Daniel Williams and Lieutenant John Odell (Odel) appears in Col. Morris Graham's NY Regiment of Levies at p. 79 in Comptroller Robert's New York in the Revolution as Colony and State. Lieutenant Odell,s affidavit is below.) _____________________________________________________________ John Odell of the town of Greenburgh in the County of Westchester , being duly sworn this day before me -- says that in the month of May seventeen hundred and eighty -- he was appointed a Lieutenant in a Regt. of Levies raised under the Authority of the State of New York, for for six months, and commanded by Col. Morris Graham. That the service of the Regt. was principally confined to the Mohawk river -- That he well remembers Dennis Cronk served as a private in that Regt. in the Company commanded by Daniel Williams to which company he, John Odell, was attatched -- That whilst a part of the Regiment was stationed at German Flatts a recruiting officer of the continental line arrived at that point with directions to the officers commanding the Levies to encourage a further enlistment for thirty days -- under the promise of a bounty of thirty bushels of wheat -- the settlements being then much exposed to attacks of Johnson & Brant -- that Dennis Cronk together with many others did enlist and left that station under the charge of that officer --- /s/ John Odell sworn before me this tenth day of November eighteen hundred and thirty. /s/ Joseph *******, Commissioner Etc. _____________________________________________________________ (Note: Dennis Cronk was the second son of Garret Cronk Sr. Garret Cronk served in the 1st Westchester Militia Regiment along with Harcleos Cronk, the brother of Garret Sr. See: Payroll of Capt. Glode Requa in the NY GENWEB Archives, Westchester County, and p. 204 of Comptroller Roberts New York in the Revolution as Colony and State. 2nd Ed. The older brother, Garret Jr., and younger brother, John, of Dennis also served. See their pension files in the NY GENWEB Archives, Westchester County. John Cronk's pension application pension application states that their father died a British prisoner of war and, as a result, the family was displaced from their home in Philipsburg Manor. Records indicate that quite a number of the families in Philipsburg were displaced from their homes by the British raids and burning of their homes. Both John and Dennis were living in the Manor of Cortland at the time they served. Garret Jr. served from June 1776 to the end of the War in the Dragoons of the Continental Line.) ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________