Archibald Croxton applied for pension in Newcastle County, Delaware on 27 Dec 1834 and stated that he was then a resident of that county and state, that he was 81 years old, that he enlisted in Nov 1775 in Captain Gunning Bedford's Company and that Robert Briar was Lieutenant and Lucas Alrich was ensign.  He also states he recalled Colonel Craighead and Major Duff, and at such time he was a resident of said county of New Castle and that he remained in the service for nine months and performed actual service. 

At the attack on the Roebuck and while in an engagement and skirmish with the refugees at LeFevre's Farm in New Castle Hundred in New Castle County.  After Captain Bedford left the company by promotion, Lieutenant Briar was commissioned as Captain the year of 1777.  This troop marched with a company under orders of the officers to Turkey Point, and on their return, had an engagement with the enemy at Girck's Bridge from whence they retreated to Wilmington.  On their way, there they were met by General McKinley who was in command also.  He was discharged at Wilmington and soon afterward, volunteered in Captain Stidham's Company and served as Sergeant in his company till he, with several others, including Captain Stidham, were made prisoners, while on a scouting party in the year 1777.  He was detained for more than two months and then released on parole of honor.  After his release in 1778, he returned home and removed to Brandywine Hundred, and in the year of 1779, he again volunteered his services in Captain Samuel Stewart's Company and afterward Major Stewart, Jacob Bratton, Lieutenant, served in that company about one year as a bugle sergeant during which time Captain Stewart was promoted to Major and Lieutenant Bratton to Captain of that company.  He never received any pay for his services in the Revolutionary War.  He was born in England on 25 Mar 1754 and came to America in the Spring of 1773 and resided in New Castle Hundred in New Castle County, Delaware.  At the time he entered into the service of the United States, he lived with John Chambers in the Hundred County aforesaid and has resided in said county ever since 1773 to the present time, except for about five years.  His officers have long since been dead and the only testimony on which he has to rely is that of his own declaration, supported by that of John Barr, John Hyndman, William Long, Jacob Weldon and Amos Pierce.

William Long and John Hyndman, residents of New Castle County made certification of acquaintance with the applicant Archibald Croxon, and to the truthfulness of his statements, on the same date, in the same place in which he made his application for a pension.

Archibald Croxon applied for a pension in Jefferson County, Kentucky on 14 May 1839 and stated that he formerly resided in the city of Wilmington in the state of Delaware, but now resides in the city of Louisville, Kentucky.  He was born in Nortwich in Cheskiere, England in March 1753 and emigrated to America, and landed in Philadelphia on 27 Nov 1773, at the age of 21 years.   He was 86 years of age on March 25 last.   In the fall of the year of 1775, he believes in the month of October, he guarded the volunteer company raised by the state of Delaware in defense of the rights of the American Colonies in the capacity of drill sergeant and bugle man.  Gunning Bedford, Captain of the said company and Gunna? Aldridge, and Robert Bryant, Lieutenant of the regiment under which said company served, and was organized under Major Duff and belonged to Colonel Craighead under the command of the same.   He served about one year under Captain Bedford as drill sergeant and bugle man of the said company,  having learned the drill and manual exercise before he left England.  At the time of organizing said company in order as stated above, he was urged to accept the appointment of Lieutenant of the said company, which he refused for reasons he believed he could not be as much use in that capacity as in serving as drill sergeant and bugle man, and also because he was an Englishman by birth and had only recently come to America, and was personally known to some of his countrymen who were Tories, and well knew that if while he was in commission he should become a prisoner, they would make a button of his head. 

He lived near Wilmington, Delaware at Christian Creek on New Castle Neck and since the close of the Revolutionary War has lived in Wilmington, and in the vicinity of Wilmington, until about ten years ago, when he came to Louisville, Kentucky to reside with his daughter, and at which time, he went back to Wilmington about five years ago with view to establish a claim to a pension.

William Anderson who was a Colonel in the first regiment of the United States during the War of the Revolution, stated that he was born in Massachusetts in 1790 and moved from there with his parents to Wilmington, Delaware in the year 1801, and now resides in Louisville, Kentucky.  He also stated that he was personally acquainted with Archibald Croxton from the time said Anderson was 12 years of age.  He was reputed to be a man of truth and integrity and to have been a soldier of the Revolutionary War, and that he, said Anderson has heard statements in reference to said Croxton service, made by Honorable Richard Bennett, formerly Governor of the state of Delaware, Colonel Gunning Bedford, Major Peter Jugette, Jr., Captain Simmons Aldridge, Captain Joseph Stidham, Captain Daniel Kirkpatrick, Monroe Thomas Barr and others.  He also states that Governor Bennett, Colonel Bedford, Major Juguette, and Captain Aldridge made statements of his services.  Croxton joined the first volunteer company raised in Delaware, and that the place of rendezvous was at Croxton's house where great progress was made in the drill and manual exercise of said company.  He also states that said Croxton was active and accurate in the service of the United States.

This affidavit was made in Jefferson County, Kentucky on 14 May 1839.  George Spotts?, resident of Louisville, Kentucky stated that he was born in Philadelphia in  1783 and moved from there with his parents to Wilmington in 1795, where he resided till the year 1829 when he moved to Kentucky, made declaration also in open court in Jefferson County, Kentucky on 14 May 1839, that he had known Archibald Croxton for many years from the time he was a minor before said Spotts was 21 years of age, that while said Spotts resided in Wilmington, said Croxton was known as a Revolutionary soldier.

In Jefferson County, Kentucky on 14 May 1839, Daniel C. Brooks, clergyman, of the Presbyterian Church and resident of Louisville, in the state of Kentucky, and William Coyle, resident in Louisville, Kentucky also, made certifications of being well acquainted with the applicant, for about two years past and to their belief in the truthfulness of his statements before Curran Pope, clerk of the county of Jefferson County, Kentucky at that date.

The pension claim of Archibald Croxton was rejected on grounds that he did not serve for six months in actual service.