GERRET CRONK (JR) REV WAR PENSION, WESTCHESTER, NEW YORK

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GERRET CRONK (JR.), REV WAR PENSION, WESTCHESTER 
COUNTY, NEW YORK

(Copy of letter in pension file.)

Rev. War Section.

                                                                     August 10, 1915

Mr. R. J. Rahm,
       403 Roy Street,
              Seattle, Washington.

Sir:
      In reply to your letter dated 29" ultimo, you are advised that it appears in 
the papers in the Claim of Garret Cronk, Wid. File No. 8,635, Rev. War, that 
he was born in January 1759, and enlisted at Rampo, New Jersey, in June 
1776, as a Private in Captain Egleston's troop,Col. Henry Lee's Regiment of 
Dragoons; he was in the battles of Cowpens, Guilford, Ninety-Six and 
Eutaw Springs and was discharged in August 1783, at the head of Elk in 
Pennsylvania.
      He married January 8, 1790, at Mt. Plesant, Westchester County, New 
York, Susannah daughter of Daniel Requa. She was born March 15, 1768.
      He was allowed pension on an application executed February 15, 1826, 
while a resident of Lisle, Broome County, New York.  He died April 29, 
1844, in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, and his widow Susannah was 
allowed pension on an application executed October 22, 1844,while a 
resident of Deleware Township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania.
      In 1848, she had moved near Belleview, Jackson County, Iowa, to live 
with her son Dennison.
              Children:
Margret - - - - - - - - - -  born    October 8, 1790.
Thomas H. - - - - - - - - -   "       February 25, 1795.
William - - - - - - - - - - -   "       June 6, 1805.
Mary Jane Hardenburg - - "      July 21, 1811

      Dennison married January 28, 1842, Sarah Chrawshone who was born 
July 17, 1822
      Thomas H. died April 20, 1830.
       William       "    June 2, 1837.
                                                     Very respectfully,
                                                      (Signature illegible)
                                                       Acting Commissioner.
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(Note: Additional information in Grenville Mackenzie's Families of the 
Colonial Town of Philipsburg (Manuscript, Westchester Historical 
Society) under Cronkhite:
"220. Gerret (Gerret, Gerret, Herrick, Theunis, Herck) b. Philipsburg in 
January, 1759, enlisted at Ramapo, N. J., in June 1776. He was taken 
prisoner by the British and sent to Long Island where he escaped by 
swimming. He re-enlisted and served seven years in the southern states in 
CaptEgleston's company of Lee's Dragoons, and was mustered out at the 
head of Elk Creek, Pennsylvania in August 1783. He married Susannah 
(dau. Of Daniel) Requa, Jan 8, 1779."
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