Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18845, Alexander Gray, Mass.
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SERVICE
Mass.
FRANK
Gray, Alexander
NUMBER
S. 18845
carded
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P 188115
INVALID.
File No.
Act :

Index: -- Vol. 1, Page 443
[ Arrangement of 1870. ]
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Maine 11. 420
Alexander Gray
Kennebec Co in the State of Maine
who was in the Company commanded
by Ephron Curtis of the Regt commanded
by Col Cargill in the [illegible Ma... for Troop] 
20 Mo Private $66.66
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of 66 Dollars 66 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 29th day of Apl
1833 and Sent to
R. C. Vose Augusta M
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 133.32
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept " 33.33
166.65 [total]

{ Revolutionary Claim, }
{ Act June 7, 1832. }

Recorded by J.T. Sprager Clerk.
Book E Vol. 1 Page 18
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State of Maine.
We Jotham Day a Clergyman, residing in the town of
Lisbon in the County of Lincoln and Aaron
Dwinal residing in the same town, herby certify, that  
we are well acquainted with Alexander Gray who has subscribed
and sworn to the annexed declaration; that we believe him to be eighty one 
years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to
have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.

Jotham Day
Aaron Dwinal

State of Maine.
Lincoln ss. -- Sworn and subscribed this 23rd day of July
A. D. 1832

Before me,
James Emerson Justice of the Peace 

James Emerson, Esq.,  is a Justice of the Peace, 
And the Rev Jotham Day is a Clergyman
residing in Lisbon And Aaron Dwinal Esq
of the same town is a credible person
& their statement is entitled to be believed.
Nathan Weston Jun'r
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Alex.n Gray

Calvin Hall
Deposition for
Alexander Gray
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I Calvin Hall of Monmouth County of Kenebeck
and State of Maine do upon oath testify and
declair that I well knew Elexander Gray a
continental [word crossed out] soldier in the war of the revolution at
Portland in the year 1776 under William Lithgow
Cap & Col Mitchel that the enlistment was for
nine months and knew him in that service and
also knew him at Rhode island in the year 1777
to serve under Cap Grant and Joseph North Col
three months. 
Calvin Hall

Lincoln May 16th 1832 Calvin Hall
above named is well known to be a credible and
disinterested witness formally appeared and made
oath to the above deposition by him subscribed
before me
John Neal Justice of the Peace

John Neal Esq is a Justice
of the Peace
Nathan Weston Jun'r
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Issac Chase
Deposition
for Alexander Gray
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I Isaac Chase of Bourden in the County of
Lincoln and State of Main aged seventy three do
upon oath testify and declare that I well knew
Elexander Gray a soldier in the war of the revolution
at Portland in the year 1776 under William
Lithgow Cap. & Col Mitchell that the enlistment
was for nine months and knew him in that service
and also knew him at Rhode island in the year
1777 to serve under Cap Grant and Joseph
North Cal three months
Isaac Chase

Lincoln, May 16th 1832 Isaac Chase above
named is well known to be a credible and disintersted
witness personally apeared and made oath to the
above depposition by him subscribed before me
John Neal Justice of the Peace

John Neal Esq is a 
Justice of the Peace
Nathan Weston Jun'r
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I Benjamin Rideout of Bowdoin in the County
of Lincoln State of Maine aged about seventy
eight years upon oath do testify and say
that I am knowing that Alexander Gray of Lisbon
was a Soldier in the war of the revolution
at Cambridge Massachusetts in the year
1775 under under Captain James Curtis
and Col Kargill the inlistment was eight
month and the said Gray served the whole time
out I also testify and say that I will
know the said Alexander Gray to be a Soldier
in the war of the revolution at Portland
in the year 1776 and under William Lithgow
and Colonel Mitchel and the time of inlistment
was for nine months
Benjamin Rideout

Lincoln  May 17 1832
then the above named Benjamin Rideout
who is esteemed a may of truth and veracity
appeared and made oath to the truth of
deposition by him Subscribed

Moses Dennett Justice of the Peace

Moses Dennett Esq
is a Justice of
the Peace
Nathan Weston Jun'r
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Alexander Gray

Private Masst. troops
Curtis Capt. Cargill Col.
8 months

Lithgow Capt. Mitchell Col.
9 months

Grant Capt. North Col.
3 months

20 months as a private
$66.66
Applicant infirm Certified by
Judge in open Court Apl 4, 1833

R. C. Vose 
Augusta,
Me
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Declaration,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th June, 1832.
STATE OF MAINE,
KENNEBEC COUNTY,
On this twentieth day of July A.D. 1832 personally appeared
before the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, of said
State, Alexander Gray a resident of Lisbon
in the County of Lincoln and State of Maine, aged Eighty one
years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following 
declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed
June 7, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1775 with
Captain James Curtis and served in Col. Cargill's regiment of
the Massachusetts line or troops under the following named officers: 
Curtis Catain Cargill Col. 
that in April 1775
he enlisted as a private in the war of the revolution for the period of eight
months in that company and regiment. That this period he fully served out
and was discharged verbally at our Island in Penobscot Bay, at the end of
period of inlistment. That in March 1776, he again enlisted as a private for 
the term of nine months in Capt William Lithgow's company and Col.
Mitchell's Massachusetts regiment. That this period he served out and
was verbally discharged at what is now Portland, in December 1776.
That the ninth day of January 1777, he was again drafted as a 
private for three months in Capt Grant's company, and Col Joseph North's 
Massachusetts regiment. That this period he served out and was verbally
discharged at Howland's Ferry in Rhode Island the ninth of April 1770
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And to the interrogatories propounded under the instruction of the war department, he
answers: that he was born in said Maine, in 1751, where his age
is recorded. That in 1762 he removed to Brunswick, Maine
where he lived during his revolutionary services. That in 1780
he removed to what is now Lisbon, Maine, where he now lives.
That at the two first periods above stated, he enlisted, at the
last, was drafted, but was never received as a substitute for
another. That he never took a written discharge. That in his
first service he marched to Cambridge and was the
ordered to Due Island, when his company [illegible] was stationed, and
repaired thither in whole boats. That under Capt Lithgow, he
was stationed at what is now Portland. That in his last
period he served opposite and near to Rhode Island. That Calvin
Hall and Benjamin Rideont have testified to his first and
second service and Calvin Hall his testified to his third. That
any of his neighbors will testify to his character for veracity and belief of his
service and his [illegible] Day and Aaron Dwinll Esq

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present;
and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State.
Alexr Gray

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid,
Before
Nathan Weston Jun'r S. J. C.

And the said Judge does hereby declare his opinion that the above named applicant was a
Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.
Nathan Weston  Jun'r 

State of Maine
April 4, 1833
It has been made to appear to my satisfaction
that the above named applicant by reason of age and 
infirmity cannot without prejudice to his health appear 
in [illegible] Court to renew his declaration. I agree to make 
oath to the same

Nathan Weston  Jun'r  S. J. C.
July 2
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State of Maine.

KENNEBEC, ss. - I, JOHN A. CHANDLER, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within
and for the County of Kennebec, hereby certify that the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, before
whom the within proceedings was had, is a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said
State; I also certify that the within contains the original proceedings of the said Judge, in the
matter of the application of Alexander Gray for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand
the seal of the said Court, this 15th day of October
A. D. 1832
J. A. Chandler