Morrison's Pensions
Pension Application for Mark Crantz, or Grants, or Crants
W.6758
Note: This one is difficult to read and so the only thing used here is the
following letter which was included in the pension file.
January 23, 1938.
Mr. Roger F. Williams
2 Rock Street
Alexandria Bay, New York
Dear Sir:
Reference
is made to your letter in which you request the record of Marks Grants, cited
from the Census of Pensioners for 1840 as a resident of Columbia, Herkimer County,
New York, aged seventy-eight years.
The data given
herein are shown in the papers on file in pension claim W.6758, based upon service
in the Revolutionary War of Mark or Marcus Crantz, or Crants, the name shown
also as Grants. The name was borne on the pension rolls as Crantz and Crants.
Mark Crantz
enlisted, the date and place not shown, served as a private in the New York Infantry,
and was discharged June 18, 1783, at which time he was a private in Captain Parsons’ company,
Colonel Van Schaick’s 1st New York Regiment.
He was allowed
pension on his application executed June 27, 1828, at which time he resided in
Columbia, Herkimer County, New York. He was a resident of Columbia, New
York in 1835, at which time he stated that he had resided there more than thirty
years, and had resided previous to that time in Herkimer, New York. The
solider died May 17, 1841, in Columbia, New York.
Mark Cravitz
married April 15, 1805 in Herkimer (called also German Flats), New York, Catharine
House. He name was borne on the marriage record Marcus Crantz.
Catharine,
the soldier’s widow, was allowed pension on her application executed August
4, 1853, at which time she resided in Columbia, Herkimer County, New York. She
was aged then seventy-nine years; the date and place of her birth and the names
of her parents are not shown. She was allowed 60 acres of bounty land
on warrant #111, Act of March 3, 1855, on account of the service of her husband,
Mark Crantz, in the Revolutionary War. She signed by mark, Crants also
Grants.
In 1853, Catharine
Crantz, the above noted widow, referred to her son who had left for California
sometime after the death of Mark Crantz; she did not state the name of this son,
nor refer to any other children. The widow resided at the home of John
C. House in 1853; he was aged then thirty-eight years. No relationship
between said Catharine and this John C. House was stated.
In order to
obtain the date of last payment of pension, name of person paid, and, possibly,
the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to the Comptroller General,
General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and firnish the following.
Catharine
Grantz (Crantz), wodow of Mark Crantz
Certificate
#3155
Issued December
9, 1853
Rate $80 per
annum
Commenced
February 3, 1853
Act of February
3, 1853
New York Agency
Very truly
yours,
A.D. Hiller
Executive
Assistant to the Asministrator