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Robert and Mary Craig
The pension
papers being unfolded, the first paper appears is the following
letter. Dated Lexington, KY 2-6-1829. My Dear Father: At the request
of Mr. Craig, I enclose the within papers to you to enable him to
receive the pension. He desires you would let him know of their
early and safe reception. And that you would forward to him by draft
or others most advisable means what may be allowed him. Your
affectionate son. Theo? W. Clay
Robert Craig made declaration for pension Apr 29-1818, aged 62 resident of Fayette Co, that he enlisted under Cols Moses Hazen of Continental Line and raised by Congress, and he continued to serve until 1778 that he served two years as an officer and resided in Pennsylvania, and that he has always been a citizen of the U.S. and was in the battles of Monmouth, Germantown, and Brandywine. He stated in the year 1829 that he was a Lieutenant in Colonel Hazen's regiment, and received commutation as a Captain, although appointed 2nd Lieut, by Congress, in Moses Hazen Esquire, regiment, the paper is dated at Philadelphia, Nov 3-1776 signed by John Hancock, President. - He served as an officer from Nov. 3-1776, in "Congress Regiment", until 28-June 1778, was wounded in the leg at the Battle of Monmouth at which time was a Lieut, and was not able to perform duty in the line, and served in the Commissary Department until the close of the war.
William West was a Justice of the Peace in the County of Fayette in the year 1829.
Dr. Richard Pindall and Frederick Coons of said county made affidavit that they were acquainted with said Craig, also James C. Rodes was clerk of the county court at the time.
Henry Clay was appointed his attorney, 2-6-1829 to regarding pension claim. He states that he has a wife age 56, 3 daughters and one son living with him constantly and one other son occasionally and that he endeavors to support himself by collecting rented land. That one of his daughters is about 30 years of age, and sickly, another of them is age 19, the other age 17, his son who resides constantly with him is age 21, and the other 25, and he stated that he had the palsy.
William Warren was the circuit judge at that time, 1820, at the time he enlisted his property he had ten sheep, one cow, and etc, one wooden Yankee clock, a Bible and 5 or 6 other relicks, religious books, one horse. Thomas Bodley was clerk of the court at that time.
STATE OF KENTUCKY, FRANKLIN COUNTY. On the 11th day of June 1839, personally appeared before Robert C McKee, a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, Mary Craig, a resident of Kentucky in the county of Franklin, aged 76 years, as well as she recollects who being the first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7-1832 entitled An Act Granting Half Pay to Certain Widows. That she is the widow of Robert Craig, who was a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War and who was allowed a pension under the act of 1818. That she was married to the said Robert Craig, Aug 7-1787 in York County, Penn, that her husband, the aforesaid Robert Craig died on the 11th day of October 1838; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previously the first of January 1794, at the time above stated; that she has a record of her family which is herewith filed. She states that the first child named on this record is in this declarant's child, her name is Jean Craig, that it was one of her husband's Robert Craig by his first wife. She states that the oldest child of this declarant and the said Robert Craig was Mary Craig who was born on Thursday the 16th of September 1790. Richard Wiggs and James McGill, made affidavits in Franklin County, that they were well acquainted with Robert Craig and that be on or about October 11-1838.
The following are from the Bible
records
Mary Craig appeared in Woodford Co Ky
Jan 1843 and made William L Allison her true and lawful attorney,
but she seemed to be a resident of Franklin Co, 2-1843, and at that
time she thinks he served from the state of Pennsylvania.
Source: Records of Revolutionary War Pensions of Soldiers who Settled in Fayette County Kentucky Annie Walker Burns, compiler, Washington DC, 1936 Copy held by the Kentucky Room, Lexington Public Library Call number: R976.947 B4128r KY1936 |