Pension Application of James Crabtree: S32195
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
State of Illinois} SS
Washington County}
On this 3d day of June 1833 personally appeared before the County Commissioners Court of said County now sitting James Crabtree a resident of the aforesaid county and state, aged near 72 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 June seventh 1832.
That he entered the united states service as a volunteer & was drafted under the following named officers & served as herein stated viz He entered the United States servis as a volunteer in the Command of Capt. Robert Tremble, Wm Campbell Brigadier General, about the month of may in 1776 & that he serves as a Ranger for the Term of three months in the State of Virginia in defending & guarding the frontier settlements, a Mr. StClair was Lieutenant of his Company & a Mr. Simms was Sergent, that he served out his 3 months tour but got no discharge, & he further states that after this he was drafted sometime in the next [sic] year for another three months tour under Captain Wm Bowen same General as before other officers not recollected. served this tour also in Virginia, the Kings Mountain Battle took place in this tour [on 7 Oct 1780] but he being left to take care of the sick was not in the Battle – Capt Bowen was killed in sd Battle & on that account he suposes he got no written discharge That he resided in Washington County Virginia at the Big Salt Lick, called Kings works that in the first tour he marched thro- the upper part of Virginia, in the 2nd Tour he was marched to Kings mountain–
That he was Born in New London, Bedford County [now in Campbell County] in the State of Virginia in the year ‘62 Feb 20th the record of his age is now destroyed after the war was over in ‘85 he removed to West Tennessee about 25 miles above Nashville that he removed from thence after living there about 24 years to the State of Illinois that he is now living in Washington County in sd state he recollects of no person living who was acquainted with his servis in the Revolution
I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity whatever except the present and declare that my name is not on the pension Rolls of the agency of any state
Sworn to, and subscribed the day & year first written James his JC mark Crabtree