Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R-, David Gray, Mass
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Mass

Gray David

NUMBER
R
Contents
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David Grey and
Joseph Peters

January 18. 1836
Referred to the Committee
Revolutionary Pensions
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Petition of David Gray
and of John Peters,
praying to be placed on
the Roll of Revolutionary
Pensions
[illegible] Cushing
David Gray and John Peters
Cushing Pens [PENSIONS]
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To the Hon Senate & House of Representatives of the United States in Congress of September 1835

The undersigned residents in Andover
in the County of Essex & Commonwealth of
Massachusetts respectfully represent that in
the month of August AD 1781 they enlisted
into the service of the United States, in the
company commanded by Capt. Maloon &
in the Regiment commanded by Col
Putnam & served in the army at West Point from the above mentioned time of enlistment till the month of December in the same year 1781.
They therefore pray ye honorable body to
grant pension to the undersigned, if their service to the United States shall in ye opinion under the same just [illegible]

David Gray
Joseph Peters
[illegible] Aug 31. 1835

affix note [illegible] July 20 1920

no pension claims on file for either of these
men other than this petition to Congress but see Mass Soldiers [illegible]
both of these men recorded as of Capt James Mallons Co. in Lieut Col. 
Putnams Regt
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War Department
Pension Office
March 11th 1836

Sir
I have the honor to return you the petition
admitted 22 210-
of Jonathan Low and to remark that as the act of 7th June 1832 requires six months service and the rolls establish that the claimant served from 28th June 1780 to 19th December 1780 the Department has no authority to accord him the benefit of that act.
The joint petition of David Gray and
Joseph Peters is also herewith enclosed. The alleged term from some time in August 1781 till the month of December is insufficient to bring their cases if the services were established within the provisions of existing laws. It may be proper to remark that if they intend to assert that their service was rendered in Col Rufus Putnams [sic] regt of the Massachusetts Line, they must be mistaken as to their Captain. The name of Capt Maloon Mallon is not found on the field and staff rolls of that Regiment for 1781. It does not appear that they have made application to this office for the benefit of the Act of 7 June 1832

I have the honor to be Respt [RESPECTFULLY] Your Obt [OBEDIENT] Servant
J L. Edwards

Hon W. S. Morgan
House of Representatives