Display Patriot - P-141972 - Benjamin CRUZAN/KRUZAN/CRUIDSON

Benjamin CRUZAN/KRUZAN/CRUIDSON

SAR Patriot #: P-141972

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State of Service: VA Qualifying Service: Private

DAR #: A028388

Birth: abt 1758 / / VA
Death: 05 Jun 1848 / Ripley / IN

Qualifying Service Description:

He served as a Private in the Captain Griffin Fauntleroy, commanded by Colonel Anthony Walton White of the First Regiment of Horse, Virginia Continental Line.

Additional References:

Revolutionary War Pension file S35869

Spouse: XX XX
Children: Isaac; Benjamin; Mary; Leumeul;

Members Who Share This Ancestor

Date Approved	Society	ACN	SAR Member Info	Lineage via Child
1964-03-24	IN	Unassigned	Horace Whitcomb Farley (91288)	Isaac
1979-07-29	OK	Unassigned	Charles Grant Cruzan (113039)	Lemuel
1990-10-16	OK	217539	Paul D Phipps (135796)	Lemuel
1996-06-19	PA	203357	James William Dow (146646)	Isaac
2021-09-17	DC	96131	Thomas Andrew Readmond (203974)	Mary/Polly

Burial:

Cross Plains Methodist Church Cemetery_(C-0371800)

Location:

Cross Plains / Ripley / IN / USA

Find A Grave Cemetery #:

599361

Grave Plot #:

Grave GPS Coordinates:

38.946147 / -85.204531

Find A Grave Memorial #:

5589927

Marker Type:

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

Upright V/A stone
Photo and GPS courtesy of Allen Manning, Clifty Creek Chapter, IN SAR

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

Photo: 1 of 1

Author: Allen Manning

The following biography was edited by PRS staff.

Benjamin Cruzan was born about 1758. Later descendants suggest that he was born in the Netherlands, possibly the son of Johannes Kroesen, and that he immigrated to Delaware in 1780. No contemporary record has been located to confirm these claims.

He was married, likely in Virginia, to an unknown woman. It has been speculated that her name was Jane De Vault, though this has not been supported by contemporary documentation.

Among their known children were:

Isaac was born on 6 October 1786 and married Elizabeth Huff.
Benjamin was born on 7 March 1790 and married Sarah McKikle.
Mary “Polly” was born about 1798 and married William Glaze.
Lemuel was born in 1804 and married Isabelle Simpson.

During the Revolutionary War, Cruzan enlisted in the fall of 1780 in Hillsborough, North Carolina, for the duration of the war. He served in the company commanded by Captain Griffin Fauntleroy in the regiment led by Colonel Anthony Walton White, a unit of the Virginia Continental Line known as the 1st Regiment of Horse. He stated that he served continuously until the end of the war, receiving his discharge in South Carolina. He applied for a pension in 1820 and noted that previous applications had been denied due to the spelling of his name as “Kruzan” instead of “Cruzan.” In a later statement, he described having lost approximately fifty acres of land due to a defective title and losing some livestock by death since his initial pension filing in 1818.¹

On 22 March 1838, Benjamin Cruzan applied to have his pension transferred from Ohio to Indiana. He stated that he had moved to Ripley County, Indiana, because his children had relocated there and he wished to follow them.²

He died on 5 June 1848 in Cross Plains, Brown Township, Ripley County, Indiana, at the age of ninety-five, and is buried in the Cross Plains Methodist Church Cemetery.³

Sources::

Pension Application of Benjamin Cruzan (Cruidson), S35869, Virginia;
Ibid.
Land Office Military Certificates, 1782–1876, State of Virginia: Virginia Military Pension Records, page 8.

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