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I Abraham Crabtree of Russell County and State of Virginia do hereby make my last Will and Testament, in manner and form following. 1st. I desire that so much of my perishable property be sold after my decease to pay all my just debts and funeral expenses, if there be any. 2nd. After the payment of my debts and funeral expenses I give to my son Solomon Crabtree one cent. 3d. I give to my daughter Ruth Speer one cent. 4th. I give to my daughter Mary Crabtree all the ballance of my perishable property, and all my debts due and to come due, also a certain tract of land lying in the State of Kentucky, Cumberland County on the head waters of Sulpher Creek, to her & her heirs forever. Also one note on Morgan Richardson for eighteen dollars sixty-two and half cents, one other note on Phillip Eden for six dollars 62 1/2 cents, one other note on James Watson for ten dollars, one other note on William Farmer for one dollar & 50 cents, to be hers forever. And lastly, I do hereby constitute and appoint my friends Mary Crabtree & William D. Hurt executors of this my last will and Testament, hereby revoking all other or former wills or testaments by me heretofore made. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 29th day of April in the year of our Lord 1838. Abraham Crabtree (Seal) Signed, sealed, published and delivered as and for the last will and Testament of the above named Abraham Crabtree in presence of us; Edward White.
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REVOLUTIONARY PENSION APPLICATION OF ABRAHAM CRABTREE Law Order Book 10, Page 148 Jun 3, 1834 State of Virginia, County of Russell, ss. |
| On this 3d day of June in the year 1834, personally appeared in open Court before the County Court of Russell county aforesaid now sitting, Abraham Crabtree, a resident of the said County of Russell and State of Virginia, aged eighty four years, on the 6th day of the present month who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1834. |
| That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated, viz: in the year 1774 and in the latter part of the month of August of that year, (he being at that time a resident of Washington County in the State of Virginia), he belonged to a Militia Company then under the command of Capt. James Thompson,and by whom he was commanded to march in the latter part of the said month of August to a fort upon Clinch River then and ever since called and known by the name of Blackmores Fort. That they were then upon a spying expedition against the hostile Indians who were then committing constant depredations and massacres upon the frontier settlers upon the Western border of Virginia then in a condition almost defenceless. That he remained spying upon and defending that part of the frontier in the vicinity of the said fort for forty days and was then permitted to return to their respective homes without having any engagement with the Indians, who about that time killed and scalped a man by the name of Dale Carter and took five boys as prisoners, that he then remained at home a few days and was appointed a Sergent in the company of the said Captain James Thompson, and remained stationed in the immediate neighborhood of King's Saltworks for two months longer, at which time the soldiers who had marched from the same region of country against the Shawnee tribe of Indians returned, bringing with the intelligence that Col. Lewis had succeeded in defeating the Indians at the battle of the point, and his success in negotiating a treaty of peace, and this putting an end to present difficulties, whereupon the said Abrahim Crabtree with his comrades in the service were then discharged and returned to their respective homes where they expected to remain in peace. |
| That in the year 1776 in the month of June he the said Abraham Crabtree was appointed by Col. Arthur Campbell as an Indian Spy to range from Harrison's Fort in Washington County near the said Saltworks, up and down the valley of the North Fork of Holston River, and continued to range as an Indian Spy regularly from the time he commenced for the space of 80 days, at which time Col. William Christy ordered the said Crabtree with a small detachment to take up the line of march against the Cherokee Indians upon Tennessee river, with orders to rendezvous at the Long Islands of Holston River, at which place they joined the main army raised for that expedition under the command of the said Col. William Christy. At which time he belonged to the Company commanded by Capt. Aaron Lewis. That pursuant to his ordes he did rendezvous at the Long Island aforesaid and remained there three or four days and took up the line of march to the Indian towns and at the three springs he the said Crabtree was taken with what was then called the slow fever and being unable to march was sent back again under the care of Thomas Ramsey to the Long Islands where he was placed under Major Anthony Blucher who then had the command of the Fort at that place. The said Crabtree continuing very ill and altogether unable to perform any duty it was proposed that he should be committed to the Military Hospital. The said Crabtree being however unwilling to go to the hospital, obtained permission from Major Blutcher to be placed at the house of the said Thomas Ramsey about three miles distant from the said fort, at which place he remained from that time drawing his regular rations as a soldier in actual service until the last week in February 1777 when he was taken home by his brother and his own wife who came after him. |
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That in the summer of 1777 and also in the summer of
1778 he each year remained stationed at Harrisons fort
and Vance's fort in the County of Washington, But was
during that tiem measurably unable to render any essential
service to his country except some garrison duty. That he
has no documentary evidence of his services and never had
any written discharge from his officers. That he can produce
some evidence of his services if ever he shall be able to
procure it but from his circumstances in life which are very
limited and humble and from personal diability, he fears
he will not be able to get the necessary proof in time
to relieve him from his present wants. He hereby
relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity,
except the present, and declares that his name is not on
the pension roll of the agency of any State. Sworn to and
subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Abraham Crabtree |
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