Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4232, William Gray, S.C.
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( 3-1776 ) SERVICE S.C. Gray , William NUMBER R. 4232
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35.521 William Gray  Mississippi act 7 June '32
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[ State of Mississippi Tishomingo County ] Circuit Court SS. April Term 1843 On this  14th day of April eighteen hundred and  forth three, personally appeared in open Court before the Honorable Stephen Adams  presiding Judge of the ninth Judicial District of the State of Mississippi  now holding the Circuit Court  of Tishomingo Count William Gray a resident  citizen of Tishomingo  County   and State of Mississippi  aged eighty  three 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 act of  Congress passed June 7th eighteen hundred and thirty two. That he  entered the  service of the United States  under the following named officers and served as herein stated - That he volunteered under  Captain William Mulwee , James Mulwee first Lieutenant , and  Thomas Entriken second Lieutenant , Colonel Anderson  and General Adrew Pickens  were his field officers. He does not recollect the day not month , but that he volunteered in the spring of the year of seventeen hundred and seventy eight , and that he continued in the service for about 18 months, that he was a resident of  the County of Lawrence in the State of South Carolina at the time of his joining the service, and was marched into the  State of Georgia and after some short time was stationed on Spirit Creek below Augusta , where he remained about seven months as well as he recollects, when his company was marched back into Lawrence  County and disbanded, that about one month  afterwards he again  volunteered under Captain Lopp , 1st Lieutenant   Shelvy , second Lieutenant  Campbell - Colonel Cleveland and Colonel Campbell were two of his field officers, that he was marched from Lawrence County into  the  State of North Carolina , and was engaged in the battle at Kings Mountain , and remained in the service sometime after the battle, but was in no other  regular engagement, he was on several scouting  expeditions and in several skirmishes with small parties of the British  and Tories, and was engaged as well as he recollects in a skirmish against a party of Tories on  Eddiston river in South Carolina about thirty miles from the City of Charleston, in the year following  the battle of Kingston, soon after which time his company returned home, where he was discharged, he has no recollection
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of an Continental  Regiments, or Regular officers  with who m he marched; and that he has no documentary evidence , nor does he know of any person  whose testimony he can procure who can testify  to his service. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of an agency of any  State whatever. The reason  that he has  not heretofore applied for a pension is that he had no knowledge of the act of Congress of the  7th June 1832, and supposed that he would have to produce  documentary evidence or procure proof of his service, neither of which he was able to do.  He was in the service fort three years and about one month including the time that elapsed ( about one month )  after his discharge, under Captain Mulwee , to the date of his volunteering under  Captain Lopp. Sworn to  and subscribed the day and year aforesaid .. Calvin A Taylor ( signed ) clerk  William Gray  ( his mark X )   We James G. Kellough , Andrew Brown,  and  William Dickey  residing in the County of Tishomingo and State of Mississippi , hereby certify that we are well acquainted with   William Gray who has subscribed and sworn to the  foregoing  declaration . That we believe him to be eighty  three years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a solider of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn  to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid . Calvin  A Taylor ( signed ) clerk  Wm. Dickey  ( signed ) J G Kellough  ( signed )  Andw.  Brown ( signed )  And the said Court  hereby declares its opinion  after the investigation of the matter and after putting the  interrogatories prescribed by the War  department, that the above named applicant was a   Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further  certifies that it appears
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to it that  William Dickey, James G Kellough, and Andrew Brown  who have signed the preceding certificate are residents of the County of Tishomingo  and State of Mississippi  and  are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit. Stephen  Adams ( signed ) Judge presiding  [ The State of Mississippi Tishomingo County] I Calvin A Taylor clerk of the Circuit Court for the  County aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contain s the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of  William Gray for a pension . In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this 14th day of April  1843. Calvin A Taylor ( signed ) clerk
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( left page ) John & Isaac Gray  Power of Attorney  Chas. C Tucker Esq. ( right page ) Suspended  Revy Pension  Claim  William Gray  Mississippi  Act of  June 7 , 1832  Power of Attorney  to examine  claim  Chas C Tucker Atty present
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Power of Attorney  Know all men by these presents that we John Gray &   Isaac Gray  do hereby constitute and appoint  Chas. C. Tucker of  Washington City  D.C.  our true and lawful Attorney  , to prosecute the claims of  William Gray  for an amount of  Revolutionary pension or  arrears of pension that may be due under the Act of  __ or an other act or resolutions of Congress and we hereby authorize  our said Attorney to examine  all paper and documents in relation to said claim on file at the  Department at  Washington City , or elsewhere to file additional evidence or arguments and to receive the certificate which may be issued for said claim, and to appoint one or  more  substitutes under him for the purposes  herein expressed, and to  do all things that we might or could do  were we personally present. hereby ratifying  and confirming all that our said Attorney  may  lawfully  do in the premises.  Witness our hand and seal tis the 18th day of July  A.D. 1854. John Gray  ( his mark X / sealed ) Isaac Gray  ( his mark X / sealed )  In presence of the undersigned  witnesses  18th  July 1854 Robert  P. Hester ( signed ) William H. Bearden ( signed )
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[ The State of Mississippi County of Tishomingo  ] On this the 18th day of July  A.D.  1854 before me  William B. Frost  a Justice of the peace in and for the  County and State aforesaid , personally appeared  Isaac Gray , and John Gray   and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney  to be their  act and deed for the purpose  therein  mentioned . Given under my hand & seal  W. B. Frost ( signed / sealed ) Justice of the peace. [ The State of Mississippi County of Tishomingo ] On this the  18th day of July  1854  before me  the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for said County personally  appeared Isaac Gray  & John Gray   who are both residents of said County  and made oath  according to law that  they are the identical Isaac Gray & John Gray  who executed the foregoing  power of attorney  and that they are directly interested in said claim, and makes this affidavit to be filed  with such additional evidence  or arguments as our said Attorney  may  use in prosecuting  said claim. John Gray ( his mark X ) Isaac Gray  ( his mark X )  Sworn to and subscribed before me  the  18th day of  July A.D. 1854. W.B. Frost ( signed / sealed ) Justice of the peace . etc.
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[ The State of Mississippi County of Tishomingo ] I, E.C. Gillenwaters  Clerk of the Probate Court  in  and for the  Count aforesaid  do hereby certify that   William B. Frost  Esq. before whom the  forgoing affidavit and acknowledgment were made and who has thereunto  signed his name, was at the time of so doing  a Justice of the peace in and for the  County and State aforesaid  duly commissioned  & sworn  and that all of his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit. In testimony whereof I  have hereunto set my name and affixed my  official seal this the  18th day of July  A.D.  1854. E C Gillenwaters ( signed  ) C Clerk of the Probate Court
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35.521 William Gray Miss.  4232 let to  CH June  16, 1843 act  June 1832
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4232 Wm. Gray REJECTED
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Jacinto Miss.  28th April  Free The Hon . J.M. Porter Secretary of War Washington  City D.C. application for Pension  ( vertical notes )  ( 18th May 1843 Do C. )
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Jacinto Tishomingo  County  Mi.25th April 1843 To the Honorable  The Secretary of War Dear Sir, Enclosed is the declaration of William Gray  , a applicant for a pension under the Act of Congress of 7th June 1832 . The declaration was drawn up and the proceedings had during the hurry of the conclusion of our Court - upon  short notice - and I fear may not be in conformity  with the requisitions of the law. If this should be the case ,and his declaration  should have to be again made out, please favor him with instructions directed to this place. Our  Circuit Court does not meet  until Oct. next cannot the business he conducts before the Judge of probates for this  County  - his is a Court of Records with clerk  & seal of office. Very respectfully your obt. servant. C.H. Jones ( signed )