Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43891, for Daniel Ray, Connecticut
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3-1776
SERVICE                                        NUMBER
Conn.       Ray, Daniel                   S.43891

CONTENTS
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8168
LP
New York
Daniel Ray
of Gorham, in the state of New York
who was a private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Swift of the Connecticut
line, for the term of three Years 1777
Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 6 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 15 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 of March 1819
and Sent to Stephen Phelps
Esquire Canandaigua NYork
Arrears to 4th of March 1819           $85.29
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819   48
                                                              $133.29
{Revolutionary Claim,
Act 18th March 1818}
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Let. Welthy Wright. Jny 8. 1846.
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Postmark: Buffalo
NY  [date illegible]
The Secretary of War
Washington
D.C.

Buffalo, June 18/46
W. Wright
Mrs Dan Ray Entitled
to bounty lands

1878 Rec. July 6/46
Pension office

Danl Ray
NY roll 1878
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Buffalo 18 June 1846

The Secretary of War
Sir.
My grandfather Daniel Ray obtained a certificate from your department some time in the year 1819 entitling him to land or money for his services at a soldier of the Revolution- The Certificate as I see from a letter in my possession is No. 8168. At the time of obtaining his certificate he was a resident of Ontario County in this State-
I do not know what has become of this certificate and do not know that it would entitle him to land-
Will you inform me whether [illegible] a certificate was given him enabling him to hold land - and if so where those lands are and what steps are necessary for me to take to hold them.
Very Respectfully
Your Obt. Servt.
Welthy Wright
[illegible]
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Claims of
Daniel Ray
April 15th 1818
Admitted
The Honorable
Secty of War

Gorham
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State of  New York
Ontario County} Ss
Daniel Ray of the town of Gorham in the County of Ontario and State of New York formerly of the 
town of Haddam in the County of Middlesex and State of Connecticut being duly cautioned and Sworn doth [illegible] that he is a native veteran of the United States and that he has Served this country in the revolutionary war [illegible] Common Enemy [illegible] that he enlisted in April 1777 for three years in Colonel [illegible] Regiment Captain Elisha Morris Company in the [illegible] Continental Service and that he was honorably discharged from Colonel Rayes Regiment with [illegible] aforesaid [illegible] of the aforesaid three years at West Point by General Keras and that previous to the aforesaid three years service he served four months in Colonel H[illegible] Regiment in Captain Lyles Company as a Militia [illegible] in the Connecticut Service and that he enlisted for three years in 1778 in Colonel Parsons Regiment in Captain Walters Company and that he left the service [illegible] at the expiration at the above that one year by permission of his officer and that he is 75 years [illegible] indigent circumstances and is in need of assistance from government for his service [illegible] therefore prays that his name may be placed on the pension list pursuant to an act of Congress passed the 18th March 1818 Entitled an act to provide for certain persons Engaged in the Service and haven't [illegible] of the United States in the Revolutionary war and further the deponent saith not
Daniel Ray
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Ny foregoing Declaration
Sworn to Declared to Subscribed
this fifteenth day of April 1828
[illegible]  Stephen Phelps
a judge of the Court of Common
Pleas and the County of
Ontario & State of New York

Ontario County
I Stephen Phelps a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do certify that it appears to my inspection that the said Daniel Ray did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary of the War Department pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress 
Canandaigua
April 15th 1818             Stephen Phelps
Ontario County
I  Stephen Phelps a Judge of the Court of Common Please in and for the said County do hereby certify from satisfactory evidence exhibited before me that Daniel Ray the aforementioned applicant is in reduced circumstances and in need of assistance from his country for support
Canandaigua July 7th 1818
Stephen Phelps
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The Honorable the Secretary of the War Department will please forward my Certificate (if allowed) to Stephen Phelps Esq Canandaqua April 15th 1818    Daniel Ray
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State of New York
Ontario County
Clerks office}
In Testimony that Stephen Phelps whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate was on the day of the date of the same one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Ontario and that the same is his signature  I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the County seal at Canandaiqua this 24th day of April A D 1818
HW McNair
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Copy
Case of
Daniel Ray

Sep 19
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STATE OF NEW YORK
ONTARIO COUNTY
On this Twenty first day of August 1820 personally appeared in open Court, (being a Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, and constituted a Court of Record by proceeding according to the course of the Common Law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a record of its proceedings, and recognized as such Court by the laws and judicial decisions of said State,). Daniel Ray aged Seventy Six years, resident in the town of Farmington in said county who, being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows;
for the term of three years in continuation , most of Said time in the company of Capt Morrison the 2 Connecticut Regiment and was then transferred to the Company of Capt Rogers in the Regiment commanded by Col Meigs (he thinks) and of the Connecticut line from which he was discharged in October 1783
and that he made application for a Pension on the fifteenth day of April 1818 and that he received a Pension Certificate No 8168 And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of any property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act on Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for Certain persons Engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in Revolutionary War," passed  on the 18th day of March, 1818, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, and property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed-, and by me subscribed, viz.
One Trunk                                         1.00
One Bible                                               .60
                                                            $1.60
          his
Daniel X Ray 
       mark
And I do further swear and declare that I am by occupation a broom maker and that by age am bodily infirmities I am able to perform but very little labor of any kind, and that I have no family
             his
Daniel X Ray
        mark
Sworn to and declared this 21st day of August 1820 in Open Court before me
Wm Rogers
a Judge of Onatario Com pleas
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Ontario County, SS;
I, John Van Fossen of said County, 'do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed-, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, is One dollars and Sixty cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this 22 day of August 1820
J Van Fossen Clerk of the Court aforesaid, in and for said County
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[written down side margin]: Daniel Ray S.43891 [illegible]

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT
-
1776
1777
[Oct 1780 crossed out]
Oct 1783

LENGTH OF SERVICE
3 mos
1 year
3 years
[3 years crossed out]
3 years

RANK
Private
Private
Private
[Private crossed out]
Private

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED
CAPTAIN       COLONEL
Filer                 HUNTINGTON
Walters           PARSONS
Morris             {Herman Swift
                         {Rogers
{Morrison
{Rogers            Meigs

STATE
Conn.
Conn.
Conn.
Conn.
Conn.
Conn.

Battles engaged in, None Stated
Residence of soldier at enlistment, {crossed out: April 15 1818 Gorham Ontario County N.Y.] 
Haddam Middlesex Co Conn
Date of application for pension, Apr 15 1818
Residence at date of application, Gorham Ontario Co N.Y.
Age at date of application, 76 in 1820
Remarks: Grandson Willhy Wright is referred to in the claim.
No other Daniel Ray
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43891
INVALID
Revy
File No. 4.3.891
Daniel Ray
[illegible] 

Act: 18 March 18
Index: Vol. 5, Page 410
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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1906 Feb 9. History to Mrs W.D Washburn.
M.B.H.
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3-595.
O. W. AND N. DIVISION
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Feb 6, 1902
Searched by Gill
Original No.
Certificate No.
Claimant,
Soldier, Daniel Ray
Service,
Rev. War
Remarks: No claim except lno File 43,891
186241b5m6-0.5   Chief of Division
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Feb 3 1906
Commissioner of Pensions
Mr.-
I write to ask for
a certificate in proof
of service of Lieutenant
John Tennant in the
War of the Revolution
Also a certificate in
proof of service of
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Daniel Ray with
place and date of
death of both-
I am 
Very Truly
Mrs W.D.Washburn
331 Davis Dr
Evanston, Ill
January Thirtieth
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[Post office stamp]

FEB 1 1906
PENSION 
U.S.
OFFICE