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Dear Sir:
I have received the papers which are herewith transmitted from Col. Eaton
with a request that I would annex to the affidavit such certificate as my
memory would enable me to give and forward the papers to you.
He states accurately the company and regiment to which he says he belonged.
The officers were recruiting when he says he enlisted and the company
marched about the time he mentions to Philadelphia whence it marched with
some other companies belonging to the same regiment to Princeton.
I am the only surviving officer of the company. I commanded it at and some
time before the time he mentions.
I have a decided impression that there was a soldier in the company named
Krytsar or Christie, but have no recollection of his Christian name. If this
information will be of any service to the applicant whom I really believe to
have been a soldier with the company, I am ready to depose to it.
I am dear sir with great affection your obedient (signature)
[signed] J. Marshall
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A young man of the name of Krytsar he was called to the best of my
recollection entered in the county of Fauquier in Virginia in fall or in
December of the year 1776 in the company commanded by Captain William P[?]
Cashwell[?] in the 11th Virginia Regiment of which Daniel Morgan was
Colonel, Christian Febyer[?] Lieutenant Colonel and William Heth[?] Major. I
was then first lieutenant in the company and soon afterwards rum[?] an…t[?]
it. Every other officer in it is dead and has been dead for some time.
Lieutenant James Wright, the survivor of them, died three or four years
past.
The company marched to Philadelphia in the winter, I think in January 1777,
and joined with some other companies of the regiment. Marched in the spring,
in March, to Princeton. All the soldiers of the company and Krytsar or
Christie with the rest, enlisted for three years on during the war.
I cannot be positive that such a person was in the company but his name
rests in my memory so as to leave as a strong impression as I can have
respecting a soldier who never attracted my particular attention, that he
was in the company. I believe firmly that he was and my belief is founded on
my recollection.
I have no doubt that he served till regularly discharged.
[signed] J. Marshall
Late a Captain in the 11th Virginia of the Continental establishment
Received September 28, 1826 from Honorable John Marshall, Richmond, Va.
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The State of Tennessee
Williamson County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions July 1, 1826. This day
John Krytsar appears in open court and making the following additional
declaration in order to obtain a pension:
On this 6th day of July 1826 personally appeared in open court being the
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Williamson and a court
of record, John Krytsar, a resident in said county aged 74 years who being
first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following
additional statement towards obtaining a pension to that already set forth.
First that he knows of no person in Tennessee who can prove any thing
relating to his service in the Revolutionary War.
Second that since the 18th of March 1818 he has sold, disposed of or given
away no property of any description that he recollects of except two
heifers. Indeed, since his first declaration [was] made and forwarded to the
department of war and which is now with this further statement returned he
has lost by death two horses set forth in his schedule.
Third, why he did not apply for a pension earlier was that being younger and
in better health than he is at present he was enabled to support himself
without the assistance of the government. He has supposed all along that
when he should apply it would be in his power to obtain a pension for all
the preceding time. He was ignorant that his pension would alone take affect
from the time his proof should be rendered complete.
Fourth, the company, regiment and line are already set forth in the papers
first sent to the Department of War.
[signed] John Krytsar
Subscribed and sworn to in open court 6th of July 1826. All of which is
sworn to be certified.
[signed] Thos. Hardeman, Clk.
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