Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4971, Ezra Gregory, Conn.
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Conn

Gregory, Ezra
Huldah

W 4971
B.L.Wt. 15197-160-55
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102.913 | act Mar. 3/5 [illegible] J. Sherman Dier 14/55
Apr 27/55

Huldah Gregory wid
Ezra Gregory priv
Huldah Gregory wid: Ezra,

Ct: State Troops,

M 15197 if Feb 1 [illegible] [diagonal]

Rev. War

[illegible] acre Jauny: 30/56,
Conn [illegible]

[illegible] Sherman
Bridgeport
Cot
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17098 Connecticut

Ezra Gregory--
Bridgport in the State of Conn [illegible] was a [illegible] in the Con [illegible] Captain -- of the Reg [illegible] Col Webb in the Conn [illegible] line [illegible] Ensign 20 mo 29

Inscribed on the Roll of Conn at the rate of 109 Dollars 88 Cents per an[num] to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of Ju[ly] 1838 and Leut- Pensio[ne]r Bridgport Conn

Arriars to the 4th of March 33 $219 [illegible]
Semi and allowance ending Sept, ,, 54,94
$275,90
[left curly braces] Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 18 2 [right curly braces]
Recorded by EDBullodr Clerk,
Book E Vol. 3 Page 15
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Connecticut [crossed out] New [handwritten]

Huldah Gregory [handwritten], widow of Ezra Gregory Con n [handwritten] who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private Ensigrd [handwritten]

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 109 [handwritten] dollars 88, [handwritten] cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.

Certificate of Pension issued 2d [handwritten] day of June 1853 [handwritten] and sent to Joune Shernard, Bredgeport. Con [handwritten]

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 60 Vol. A

Req 3 Mar 35-102 913.
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Ezra Gregory
26108 Bridgeport Conn

Admd Ensign 6 mo
Private 14 m 29 day

Admd
Ensign 6 mo   $60-
Private 111 " + 29 days 49.88
___________
$109.88

Pensioner 
Bridgeport Connt
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State of Connecticut,
County of Fairfield,}ss. Bridgeport ~~
On this 13th day of April 1833 personally appears, in open Court, before the Court of Probate in & for the District of Stratford in the said County now sitting, Ezra Gregory a resident of Bridgeport in the County of Fairfield, and State of Connecticut, aged seventy eight years, who being first 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 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein stated. Viz
That in the month of July 1775 I enlisted in the Parish of Wilton in the town of Norwalk County & State aforesaid into a company of infantry of State Troops for five months, said company was commanded by Capt Joseph Hoyt of Stamford in said County. Allen Wright was our Lieut and Col. Charles Webb of Stamford was Col of our Regiment. I marched with said company to the state of Massachusetts where we encamped at a place called Winter Hell near Boston, (the British Army then having possession of Boston). I was discharged at the end of said five months in December 1775 at Charleston near Boston. This five months service for the United States I performed as a private soldier. We marched from said Wilton to Boston through the towns of Fairfield, New Haven & Hartford & other towns I don't now remember.
That in July 1776 I belonged to a company of militia in said Wilton commanded by Capt Samuel Comstock, on Col. John Meads Regiment where said company was ordered into the United States service. I went with said company & regiment from Norwalk by water to New York where we were stationed & remained until the British took possession of New York & we retreated out to Harlem Heights where the American Army made a stand, there and at Harlem. I continued to do duty in said company until the end of three months when I was discharged at Harlem. I performed this three months service for the United States as a private soldier in the infantry
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That about the first of November 1776 I belonged to said Capt Samuel Comstocks company of militia when said company was ordered into the United States service and stationed at Norwalk in Connecticut as a guard. I performed one & half months service at said Norwalk in said company as a private soldier and was dismissed with said company at said Norwalk at the end of one & half months service.

That in December 1776 I belonged to said militia company which at this time was commanded by Lieut Seth Abbott of said Wilton where said company was again ordered into service for the United States. We marched from said Wilton to Middlesex in Connecticut & remained a few days, from there went to Stamford, Horse Neck, Rye, New Rochelle & Morrison at which latter place said company was discharged. I performed service for the United States in said company in this tour one month as a private soldier.

That in the spring of 1777 I belonged to said Lieut Abbotts company of militia at the time Danbury was burnt when said company was ordered into the United States service. I went in said company to Danbury and was in the action at Ridgefield. We followed the British up to Danbury & back again to a place called Compo on Long Island Sound where they reembarked. I performed two weeks service for the United
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States in said company as a private soldier & was dismissed at the end of two weeks at Saugatuck.

That in the summer of 1777 I belonged to said militia company which at this time was commanded by Capt Nathan Gilbert of said Wilton whose deposition is annexed, when said company was ordered into the United States service and stationed at Middlesex in Connecticut. I performed one month service in said company and was dismissed at said Middlesex. I was a private in said company.

That in the year 1777 soon after Genl. Burgoyne was taken, I belonged to said Capt Gilberts militia company when said company was ordered into the United States service and stationed at Norwalk in Connecticut. I performed one month service is said company at said Norwalk as a private soldier, was dismissed at said Norwalk.

That in 1778 in May I belonged to said Capt Gilberts company of Militia when said company was ordered into the United States service and stationed at Horseneck in Connecticut where I performed one month service in said company as a private and in September 1778 I performed one month service in said militia company as a private which was then again stationed at said Horseneck.
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That in 1779 I belonged to said militia company at the time Fairfield & Norwalk in Connecticut was burnt & I performed one month service for the United States in said company at Norwalk & Horseneck and was dismissed at said Horseneck at the end of one month. I was a private in said company.

That in October 1779 I belonged to said Capt Nathan Gilberts company of militia when I was elected Ensign of said company & received an Ensigns commission from Governor Trumbull dated at Hartford the 27th of October 1779.

Which commission I now have in my possession and that in December 1779 said company was ordered into the United States service and was stationed at Stamford on Long Island Sound in which company I performed one & half months service at said Stamford as Ensign of said company was dismissed at Stamford at the end of said one & half months.

That in the spring of 1780 I belonged to said Capt Gilberts militia company when said company was ordered into the United States service & stationed at said Horseneck. I performed one months service for the United States at said Horseneck in said company as their Ensign. When said company
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was dismissed at said Horseneck and returned to Wilton.

That in the fall of 1780 I belonged to said company under the command of Capt Gilbert when said company was again ordered into service and stationed at said Horseneck where I performed one & half months service in said company for the United States as their Ensign, was dismissed at the end of one & half months at said Horseneck.

That in the same fall of 1780 I belonged to said militia company under the command of Capt Gilbert when said company was again ordered into the United States service and stationed at said Middlesex. I performed two months service for the United States in said company at Middlesex as Ensign of said company, was dismissed at said Middlesex and the end of said two months. All the terms of service aforesaid was continuous & unbroken.

My terms of service for the United States are as follows, viz:

5 months Enlistment
3 mo in the MIlitia
1 1/2 do ..........do
1 do ..................do
1/2 do ............ do
1 do ........ do
1 do ...... do
1 do...... do
1 do .... do
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16 months as a private

1 1/2 months in the militia
1 do .......... do
1 1/2 do .......... do
2 do .......... do
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6 months as Ensign in the militia
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I was born in the parish of said Wilton then a part of the town of Norwalk in said Fairfield County in the year 1754 October 17th, am now 78 years old. I have a record of my age in my Bible, was living when called into the United States service at said Wilton. Have resided since the Revolutionary War at Ridgefield, said Wilton & Bridgeport in said Fairfield County at which latter place I have lived the last forty years. Was called into service the first term by enlistment and the remaining terms in the militia which was ordered into the United States service.

The names of some of the officers with which I served is Genl. Washington, Col. Charles Web, Col. John Mead, Major Davenport, Capt Joseph Hoyt, and Capt Nathan Gilbert. I never received any written discharge from the service. I received an Ensigns Commission signed by Governor Jonathan Trumbull which commission is annexed. Ezekiel Hubbell & John M. Thompson, Isaac Sherman, Esgn. Thaddeus Hubbell, & Josiah Hubbell are persons in my neighborhood who can testify as to my character for veracity & belief of my services as a soldier of the Revolution. Both the clergyman in my immediate vicinity have been recently settled and cannot testify that I am reputed to have been a soldier in the Revolution.
Ezra Gregory
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I, Isaac Sherman Justice of the Peace in the town of Bridgeport County of Fairfield & state of Connecticut, and Thaddeus Hubbell & Josiah Hubbell Selectmen of said town
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ezra Gregory the within named applicant for a pension. That he is a man who sustains an irreproachable character, for truth & veracity and we have full confidence in the truth of his deposition.
Issac Sherman
Josiah Hubbell
Thaddeus Hubbell

Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid}
Attest
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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield}ss. Bridgeport

On this 26th day of March AD 1853
Personally appeared before the Court of Probate within and for the District of Bridgeport in the said County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut Huldah Gregory now a resident of the city, county and state of New York, and was formerly a resident of the town of Bridgeport in said Fairfield County & State of Connecticut aged nearly 69 years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration according to the best of her knowledge and belief in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the several acts of Congress, relative to granting half pay and pensions to certain widows passed July 7th 1838, August 23 1842, March 3d 1843, June 17th 1844, February 2nd 1848, July 29th 1848, March 3d 1851 and the act relative to such widows pensions passed by Congress, and approved February 2nd 1853 together with all other acts and resolutions passed by Congress relative to granting half pay and pensions to certain widows whose husbands served in the Revolutionary War commensary with said act of July 7uth 1838 up to and including act of February 3d 1853.

That she is the widow of Ezra Gregory late of said Bridgeport deceased who was a pensioner of the United States on the Roll of the Connecticut Agency under the pension act of June 7th 1832 at the rate of one hundred & nine 88/100 Dollars per annum and for proof of his service in said War she refers to his declaration for a pension under said Act of June 7th 1832 at the pension office at Washington City.

She further declares that she was married to the
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said Ezra Gregory in said Bridgeport by the Rev Franklin Y. Vail who was at that time the pastor of the First Congregational Society in said Bridgeport, on the twenty sixth day of February in the year eighteen hundred and twenty siven.

And that her husband, the aforesaid Ezra Gregory, died in said Bridgeport on the twenty ninth day of January in the year eighteen hundred and thirty five. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place subsequent to the second day of January eighteen hundred viz at the time above stated.
That her maiden name was Huldah Wheeler and that at the time of her marriage to said Gregory she was then the widow of Jesse Benedict decd who died in the town of Fairfield in said County on the 18th day of October AD 1815. And that after the death of said Jesse Benedict, she was married to said Ezra Gregory as aforesaid. That she drew the balance of said Ezra Gregory's pension from Sept 4th 1834 to January 29th 1835, that being the day of his death. And that she has not married since the death of said Ezra Gregory and that she is still his widow. That she requests that she may be placed on the pension roll of the city or state of New York, payable in the city of New York. That she gives as a reason for making this declaration in said Bridgeport instead of the city of New York, where she now resides, that she formerly resided in Bridgeport & is now on a visit to this place where it is more convenient to make the necessary proofs, in support of her declaration.
Huldah Gregory

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written. Before said Court. And further certify that it has been shown to my satisfaction that she is the widow of the aforesaid Ezra Gregory.
Attest
Elisha S. Abernathy
Judge of the Court of Probate for Bridgeport District
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I, E. B. Goodsell, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the doings of said Court on the matter of the application of the widow Huldah Gregory for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at said Bridgeport this 28th day of March AD 1853.
E. B. Goodsell, Clerk
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield County
City of Bridgeport}Ss. 
Jesse W. Benedict of the city and county and state of New York counselor at Law, being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is now aged forty two years and upwards, that he is the son of Huldah Gregory by her first husband Jesse Benedict, that the said Huldah on or about the twenty second day of February in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty seven, then being a widow, was married to her second husband Ezra Gregory then and for a long time previous then to and thereafter until his death a resident of this place, that said marriage took place in the city of Bridgeport then being the Burrough of Bridgeport. That Franklin Y. Vail was the minister who performed the said ceremony, that deponent was present, at said marriage. Deponent further says that the said Huldah lived together with the said Ezra as husband & wife in this place until the death of the said Ezra which occurred in the month of January eighteen hundred and thirty five and has ever since remained and still is his widow. That the said Huldah continued to reside in the City of Bridgeport aforesaid until a few years last past. That then she came to the city of New York and has
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since that time lived in deponents family. Deponent says that he was present at the marriage of the said Huldah and Ezra, that he knows that it occurred in the month of February 1824 [7?] because deponent was at that time a student at Yale College in the city of New Haven. That it was at the close of the winter vacation at that [illegible] the last winter that deponent was at that institution. That deponent left that institution in the summer of 1824. That the winter vacation terminated in said month of February 1824 and deponent well remembers that on the same evening of the day of the said marriage and after the same had taken place deponent left the city of Bridgeport then called the Burrough of Bridgeport for New Haven aforesaid.

Deponent says that he remembers the time of said Ezras death because at ta great fire in Bridgeport which recovered in November 1833 his house with much other property was destroyed, that he boarded all of the following winter and the next year purchased a new residence and died the subsequent winter and within a few months after the firth of deponents oldest child which occurred in September 1834. Deponent says that his own father, the said Jess Benedict, died when deponent was very young. Deponent has always understood from his mother
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and verily believes that deponent was between four & five years old when he died. Deponent says that he has been informed and verily believes that the said Ezra Gregory at the time of his death and for some time previous there to was a pensioner of the United States annually receiving a pension from the said United States. Deponent says that he saw the said Ezra after he was dead and was present at his funeral.
And further deponent saith not.
Jesse W. Benedict

State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield}ss. Bridgeport March 21st 1853
Personally appeared before me Jesse W. Benedict aforesaid and made solemn oath & subscribed the foregoing deposition to the truth of the same, who is a credible witness well known to me.
Stephen Hawley Justice of the Peace
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I, Ezra Gregory, of the town of Bridgeport in the county of Fairfield & state of Connecticut, aged 71 years, do depose and say that I am a son of Ezra Gregory, late of said Bridgeport decd. That said Ezra Gregory decd was married to Huldah Benedict, the widow of Jesse Benedict decd, at Bridgeport on the 26th day of February AD 1827 by the Revd Franklin Y. Vail who was at that time pastor of the 1st Congregational Society in said Bridgeport.
That said Ezra Gregory was a pensioner of the United States at the time of his decease on the Roll of the Connecticut agency at the rate of one hundred & nine 88/100 Dollars per annum. That said Ezra Gregory died at said Bridgeport on the 29th day of January AD 1835.
That I was present at the marriage of my father the said Ezra Gregory to said Huldah Benedict as aforesaid and at the time aforesaid. That I saw my father the said Ezra Gregory after he was dead and laid out & was present at his funeral.

And the reason that I know the above facts are that I lived with them after their marriage as aforesaid until the death of said Ezra Gregory at the time aforesaid and the reason that I know the day, month and year said Ezra & Huldah were married as aforesaid is having seen it as recorded in said Bridgeport town records of marriages.
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and the reason that I can state the day, month & year that my father the said Ezra Gregory died is from having seen the record of his death on his grave stone. And deponent further saith that said Huldah Gregory has not married since the death of said Ezra Gregory decd, but is now living with her son in the city of New York where she has resided for about six years past as his widow.

And the reason that I know she has not married since the death of said Ezra Gregory decd is that she lived at my house in my family in said Bridgeport for about 12 years, after said Ezra Gregory died and since that time she has resided in the city of New York with her son as aforesaid and that during their residence in the city of New York for about 6 years past we have kept up a constant communication with each other by visiting and have no doubt that she is now the widow of said Ezra Gregory, decd.
Ezra Gregory

Sworn to and subscribed by the said Ezra Gregory at said Bridgeport this 28th day of March AD 1853 before me who I certify is a credible witness well known to me.
Attest
Stephen Hawley Justice of the Peace
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I Lemuel Coleman of Bridgeport in Fairfield County State of Connecticut aged 64 years do depose and say that I have been intimately acquainted with Ezra Gregory, late of said Bridgeport decd and with his widow Huldah Gregory and lived in the same house with him in said Bridgeport at the time they were married and continued to live in the same house after they were married until the year 1832. That I saw said Ezra Gregory after he died & was laid out & attended his funeral in said Bridgeport. That I know that they lived together as man and wife from the time they were married until his death which took place in January 1835 as I believe. That I have no doubt that the record of their marriage is correct as recorded in the records of said Bridgeport which shows that they were married in February 1827. That his widow the said Huldah resided in said Bridgeport after his death until about the year 1847 when she went to live with my son in law Jesse Benedict Esq in the city of New York and where she now lives in said city with him. That since she has lived in New York, I and my family have had constant communication with her and with the family, my said son in law, and she has not as I believe & have no doubt that she the said Huldah has not been married since the death of her husband the said Ezra Gregory decd and is now living as his widow & further the deponent saith not.
L. Coleman

On this 24th day of March 1853 at said Bridgeport came Lemuel Coleman aforesaid to me personally known to be a credible witness and made solemn affirmation to the truth of the deposition by him subscribed.
Before me
Stephen Hawley Justice of the Peace
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I Stephen Hawley of the town of Bridgeport in Fairfield county State of Connecticut being clerk & register of said town of Bridgeport & keeper of the records thereof do depose and say that it appears in the records of marriage of said town that Ezra Gregory was married to Huldah Benedict on the twenty sixth day of February in the year eighteen hundred & twenty seven by Franklin Y. Vail who was at that time pastor of the First Congregational Society in said Bridgeport, that the record of their said marriage is in the words and figures following to wit - 
This certifies that Ezra Gregory and Huldah Benedict were married February 26th 1827 by me - Franklin Y. Vail Pastor of Bridgeport

Also, I depose and say that I was well acquainted with said Ezra & Huldah and how they lived together as man and wife in said Bridgeport from the time they were married as aforesaid until his death and that I verily believe said Huldah ahs not been married since his death.
Stephen Hawley

Sworn to and subscribed by said Stephen Hawley before said Court of Probate this 26th day of March AD 1853 who I certify is a credible witness well known to me.
Attest
Elisha S. Abernathy Judge of the Probate Court for the District of Bridgeport
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STATE OF CONNECTICUT,
COUNTY OF FAIRFIELD,
COUNTY COURT CLERK'S OFFICE,}ss. Bridgeport 

I, W. H. Noble Clerk of the County Court, within and for Fairfield County, and keeper of the Seal thereof, and of the Commission of Justices of the Peace for said County, hereby certify - That
Stephen Hawley Esquire, was on the 21 & 24 & 26 Day of March 1853 and now is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly appointed, commissioned and sworn, having full power and authority by the laws of this State, to take the acknowledgement of Deeds and other instruments, and to certify the same; also to administer Oaths, to take Affidavits and Depositions out of Court, and to give certificates thereof; that full faith and credit may, and ought to be given to his official acts and attestations; that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and know that the signature to the instrument hereto annexed, purporting to be his, is his genuine official signature; and that said instrument is executed, acknowledged and duly authenticated according to the laws of this State.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of said Court, at Bridgeport in said County and State, on this 28th day of March A. D. 185__
W. H. Noble Clerk.
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102 913
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State of New York
City and County of New York}ss. 
On this twenty fourth day of April 1855 personally appeared before me Thomas A Richmond a commissioner of deeds and duly authorized by law to administer oaths in and for the city and county of New York aforesaid, Huldah Gregory aged seventy one years, a resident of the city of New York in the state of New York who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Ezra Gregory of Bridgeport Connecticut deceased who was a private and ensign in the Revolutionary War and was a pensioner of the United States on the Roll of the Connecticut agency at the rate of $109.88 per annum, was pensioned under act of June 7th 1832 and for proof of his service in said War she refers to his application for a pension under said act at the Pension Office at Washington City, and that she the said Huldah is now a pensioner of the United States as his widow at the rate of $109.88 and when said pension was granted to her she was placed on the pension roll of the Connecticut agency and has since been transferred to the New York agency where she now draw said pension semi-annually. That her pension certificate is dated second day of June AD 1853 and for proof of her marriage to said Ezra Gregory and of his death she refers to her application for a pension at Washington City and that as I believe he continued in actual service in said War for the term of more than two years and was honorably discharged.
She further states that she was married to the said
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Ezra Gregory in said Bridgeport on the 26th day of February A.D. 1827 by one Franklin Y. Vail a Congregational minister in said Bridgeport and that her name before her said marriage was Huldah Benedict, she being then the widow of Jesse Benedict. That her maiden name was Huldah Wheeler. That her said husband Ezra Gregory died at said Bridgeport on or about the 29th day of January AD 1835 and that she is now a widow.
She also declares that she has not received a warrant for bounty land under this or any other act of Congress nor made any other application therefor.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3, 1855.
Huldah Gregory

We, Jesse W. Benedict and Mary Louisa Benedict, residents of the city of New York in the state of New York upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by the said Huldah Gregory in our presence and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be and we further certify that we are well acquainted with said Huldah Gregory and do know that she is now the widow of said Ezra Gregory deceased.
Jesse W. Benedict
Mary Louisa Benedict
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The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written, and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons, that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in this claim.
Thomas A. Richmond
Commissioner of Deeds
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State of New York, City and County of New York, } 88.

I, RICHARD B. CONNOLLY, CK of the City and County of New York, and also Clerk of the Supreme Court for the [crossed out] said City and County, bg a Court of Record, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That Thomas A. Richmond [handwritten] before whom the annexed deposition oo [handwritten] taken, was at the time of taking the same, a Commissioner of Deeds, for said City and County, duly appointed and sworn, and authorized to administer oaths to be used in any Court in said State, and for general purposes; and that his signature -- [handwritten] thereto is [handwritten] genuine, as I verily believe.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court and County, the 24th [handwritten] day of April [handwritten] 185 5 [handwritten] RichHB Corriolly [handwritten] Clerk.
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Reoy WIDOW, &c.

File No. 4971
Huldah Gregory
Wid.
Ezra Gregory
Ensign Rev: Wa

Act: Feby, 3 of 53
Index:-Vol. A, Page 286
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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15.197
Rev army
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June 24 [illegible]
from 3 Feb '53 [illegible]
1. 30 Benedict

561
Connecticut
Huldah Gregory
widow of Ezra
who served in the Revolutionary War, as a private & ensign

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 109 Dollars 88 Cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February 1853

Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of June 55 and sent to Isaac Sherman
Bridgeport Con.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under a [cut  off]

Vol. A

1832
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State of Connecticut
Comptrollers Office
Hartford Jany 24th 1856

I certify that on application for evidence of the service of Ezra Gregory in the war of the Revolution, I have examined the documents remaining in this office, and find the name of Ezra Gregory on a Pay Roll under the following heading, vis. "A Pay Roll of the 4th CT 7th Regt raised per order of General Assembly Connecticut 1775," where the said Gregory is credited with service as a private from July 22nd to Dec 23rd 1775 - 5 months 1 day. Capt James Hoyt commanded said 4th company and Col. Charles Webb said 4th Regiment in 1775.
Alex Merrell, Comptroller
by Geo. Robinson Clerk
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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield
Bridgeport January 25 1856

J. Minot Esq
Com of Pensions & Bounty Land
Sir,
I herewith send you your letter dated Dec 14th 1855 supporting the claim of widow Huldah Gregory for Bounty Land together with the Compt certificate to prove service of E. Gregory her husband from the records, at Hartford. I would respectfully submit on her behalf that her case may now have an immediate decision so that she shall not lose the benefit of her regular turn.
Yours Respectfully
Isaac Sherman
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On Act /53
NY [illegible]
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Huldah Gregory

[stamped]
WASHINGTON D. C.
FREE
15

Department of the Interior,
Pension office, Official Business

Isaac Sherman Esq
Bridgeport, Conn
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102 913
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield County
Bridgeport April 25th 1855

L. P. Waldo Esq
Comm of Pensions
and Bounty Land

Sir,
I send you the application of the widow Huldah Benedict of the city of New York for Bounty Land under act of Congress approved March 3 1855. Please send her Bounty Land certificate to me.
Yours Respectfully
Isaac Sherman
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Huldah Gregory
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ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.

PENSION OFFICE,
Dec 14 1855.

Sir:
The claim of Huldah Gregory for bounty land under the act of the 3d of March, 1855, No. 102.913 has been examined and suspended.

The revolutionary service of Ezra Gregory, the husband of the applicant, does not appear of record in this office.

The 3d section of said act requires a service of "FOURTEEN DAYS" to be established by "RECORD EVIDENCE".

Upon the production of such evidence of service, the claim will be favorably considered.

Very respectfully,
J. MINOT
Commissioner.

+You are referred to the Comptroller of CT as the soldier alleged he served various tours of militia duty from 1775 to 1781 as a private & ensign in CT.
Isaac Sherman Esq
Bridgeport CT
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102.913
Huldah Gregory
wid
Ezra

Boynton

J. Minot Esq
Com of Pensions
& Bounty Land
Washington City D. C.

[stamped] 
FREE

[stamped]
BRIDGEPORT CT
JAN 25
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Nathan Gilbert aged eighty three years of the town of Wilton in the County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut now in Court being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he is well acquainted with Ezra Gregory, an applicant for a pension, have been acquainted with him for more than sixty years. That said Gregory belonged to a militia company in said Wilton with me at the commencement of the Revolutionary War and did service in said company several tours in the course of the War as a private & ensign. & remember the first service he did for the United States was in 1775 in Capt Joseph Hoyts company of Stamford in an expedition to Boston & I have no doubt that he performed five months service for the United States, in this tour as in his own deposition he has stated.
That in July 1776 I belonged to said militia company which was then commanded by Capt Samuel Comstock in which company said Ezra Gregory belonged when said company was ordered into service for the United States. We went together in said company to New York. We were in service for the United States in this tour for three months in New York and at Harlem. We both went together in said company and were both dismissed together at Harlem at the end of said three months.
That in November 1776 we both belonged to said Capt Comstocks company of militia when said company was ordered into the United States service at Norwalk in Connecticut as a guard. We both went together in said company & performed one & half months service for the United States and was dismissed at the end of said one & half months service at said Norwalk. I have personal knowledge that said Ezra Gregory performed said tours of service as aforesaid.
That in December 1776 we both belonged to said militia company
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which was at this time under the command of Lieut Seth Abbott of said Wilton when said company was called into the United service, we went together in said company from said Wilton to Middlesex where we were stationed a few days, from there we marched at Stamford & did duty at Stamford, Horseneck, & Rye, New Rochelle & Morrison at which latter place we were discharged at the end of one month. I have personal knowledge that said Ezra Gregory performed one month service for the United States in said expedition.

That in the spring of 1777 we both belonged to said militia company under the command of said Lieut Abbott at the time Danbury in Connecticut was burnt. Said company was called into the United States service at this time & we both went in said company to Danbury & was in the action at Ridgefield. Said company followed the British up to Danbury & back again to a place called Compo where they reembarked on board their shipping. I have personal knowledge that said Ezra Gregory performed two weeks service for the United States as aforesaid. We were both dismissed together at Saugatuck.
That in November of 1777 I was commissioned as a captain & took the command of said company when said company was ordered into the United States service. We marched with said company from said Wilton to Middlesex in Connecticut where I have personal knowledge that said Ezra Gregory performed one months service for the United States in said company. Said company was discharged at Middlesex at the end of one month.

That immediately after Genl Burgoyne was taken in 1777 the said militia company under my command
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(in which company said Gregory belonged) said company was ordered into the United States service & stationed at Norwalk in Connecticut for one month. I have personal knowledge that said Ezra Gregory performed one month service for the United States at Norwalk as aforesaid.

That in May 1778 said company under my command was ordered into the United States service at Horseneck in Connecticut. I have personal knowledge that said Ezra Gregory performed one month service in said company at said Horseneck and in the month of September 1778 we were stationed at Horseneck and I have personal knowledge that said Ezra Gregory performed one month service for the United States in said company under my command.

That in 1779 at the time Fairfield & Norwalk was burnt said company under my command was ordered into the United States service in which company said Ezra Gregory performed one months service at Norwalk & Horseneck. Said company was dismissed at said Horseneck.
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That in October 1779 said Ezra Gregory still belonged to my company as aforesaid when he was appointed an Ensign in said Company & had a commission from Governor Trumbull. Said Company was ordered into the United States service in December 1779  & marched from said Wilton to said Stamford in which company at said Stamford served the United States one & half months as an Ensign --

That in the Spring of 1780 said company under my command was again ordered into the United States Service & stationed at said Horseneck -- & I have personal Knowledge that said Ezra Gregory served the United States in said Company at Horseneck as an Ensign One Month

That the fall of 1780 said Company under my command was again called into service for the United States & stationed at said Horseneck -- I have personal Knowledge that said Ezra Gregory served the United States in said Company at Horseneck as an Ensign One Month & half

That in the same fall of 1780 said Company under my command was again called into the United States service & stationed at Middlesex in Connecticut. I have personal Knowledge that said Ezra Gregory served the United States in said Company at Middlesex as an Ensign Two Months --

Nathan Gilbert [signature]

Probate Court District of Norwalk April 11 1833 Personally appeared Capt Nathan Gilbert to me well known to be a credible and reputable person and made oath in open court the above foregoing deposition by him subscribed is true. Before me
Benj Isaacs Judge
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Hartford
March 24, 1853

Sir:
The time Mr. Gregory died is entered upon our roll of January 1835 but in the same entry it appears that the balance was paid for 4 mo 25 days which would bring it to the 29th which last date is undoubtedly correct.
We report to the Com of Pensions the time pensioners die when the balances are paid, and I presume this case was reported to him as having died on the 9th. The third auditors books will however show that it was on the 29th and it will be correct so to state in the Declaration.
I am respectfully
your obt svt
Henry Fowler

Isaac Sherman Esq
Bridgeport Connt
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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield
Bridgeport March 26 1853

Sworn P. Waldo Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

Sir,
I send you the application of the widow Huldah Gregory for a pension. Please send her certificate to me. I applied to Mr. Henry Fowler chief clerk at the pension office in Hartford to ascertain the time that her husband the said Ezra Gregory died and from his report to me it appears there is a mistake in that office as to the time of his death and for the purpose of showing that fact I enclosed herewith his letter to me dated March 24th 1853. You will see by her declaration herewith that said Gregory died on the 29th of January 1835. Please acknowledge the receipt of this.
Yours respectfully
Isaac Sherman

Bridgeport Mzarch 26th 1853
To P. Waldo Esq Com of Pensions
Sir, I wish my pension made payable in the city of New York and when issued I wish it sent to Isaac Sherman at Bridgeport in Hartford County Connecticut.
Huldah Gregory
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State of Connecticut, Hartford County
Office of the Court of Probate for the District of Bridgeport in said County.
We hereby certify that in the matter of the application of the widow Huldah Gregory for a pension dated March 26th 1853 that neither of us have any interest in the result of said application; and that neither of us are concerned in the prosecution thereof.
And we further certify that it was proved to the satisfaction of said court at the time of said application that said Huldah Gregory was a widow.
In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and affixed the seal of said court this 14th day of May AD 1853.
Elisha S. Abernathy Judge of said Court
Epaphas B. Goodsell, Clerk of said Court

State of Connecticut, Fairfield County Ss Bridgeport
I hereby certify that in the matter of the application of the aforesaid Huldah Gregory for a pension that I have no interest in the result of the aforesaid application and that I am not concerned in the prosecution thereof. Witness my hand at said Bridgeport this 14th day of May AD 1853.
Stephen Hawley Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut
Bridgeport May 16th 1853

L. P. Waldo Esq
Comm of Pensions

Sir
I have sent to the comm of pensions the application of widow Huldah Gregory for a pension dated March 26th 1853 from which I have recd no answer - since said application was sent I have learned from your circulation under date of January 18th 1853 that your request the offering before whom pension papers and sworn to that thy certify they have no interest in the result & are not concerned in the prosecution of such application.
Therefore to meet that requirement I herewith enclose to you such certificates. Please send her certificate to me.
Yours Respectfully
Isaac Sherman
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Brief in the case of Huldah Gregory, widow of Ezra
City & County and State of New York,
Act 3d February 1853.

Claim, ("original,")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance:
Husband was a pensioner under Act of 7th June 1832.
Marriage proved by certified copy of town record of the town & parole proof, certified to be credible.

(if for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?

Isaac Sherman Esq
Bridgeport Fairfield Co CT
Name and residence of Agent

S. C. Boynton
Examining Clerk
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JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Esquire, Captain-General, and Commander in Chief, of the State of Connecticut, in AMERICA.

To Ezra Grigory -- Gent. GREETING.
You being by the General Assembly of this State accepted to be Ensign of the seventh Company or [illegible] in the [illegible] [faded] Militia in this State [handwritten] -- Reposing special Trust and Confidence, in your Fidelity, Courage and good Conduct, I do, by Virtue of the Laws of this State, me thereunto enabling, appoint and impower you to take the said Company or [illegible] [handwritten] -- -- into your Care and Charge, as their Ensign -- carefully and diligently to discharge that Trust; exercising your inferior Officers and Soldiers in the Use of their Arms, according  to the Discipline of War; keeping them in good Order and Government; and commanding them to obey you as their Ensign [handwritten] -- for the Service of this State. And you are to observe all such Orders and Directions, as from Time to Time you shall receive, either from me, or from other your superior Officer, pursuant to the Trust hereby reposed in you.

Given under my Hand, and the Seal of this State, in Hartford the 27th Day of October Anno Domini 1779
By His Excellency's Command, George Wyllys [signature] Sec'ry.
Jon Trumbull [signature]
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Elias Gregory of Nurlanean County of Fairfields State of Connecticut aged Eighty three years being sworn according to law deposeth & saith that - he was in the same Company and Regt with Ezra Gregory now of Bridgeport - in said State in the service of the -- United States in the year 1775 in the State troops, under Col Charles Webb of Stamford in said Connecticut and that - the Company of which they belonged was commanded by Joseph Hoyt of said Stamford as Captain X by Allen Wright of Norwalk in said County as Lieutenant that he was knowing to the enlisting of said Ezra Gregory and to his remaining in said Regt 
 & Company for five months as a Soldier and to his being discharged at the end of said five months at Charlestown near Boston in Massachusetts
Elias Gregory [signature]

Probate Court District of Norwalk April 11 1833  
Personally appeared Elias Gregory to me well known to be a credible and reputable person and under oath in open court that the above deposition by him subscribed is true.
Before me
Benj Isaacs Judge
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The said Ezra Gregory hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Ezra Gregory

We, Ezekiel Hubbell residing in the town of Bridgeport and John M. Thompson residing in the same, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ezra Gregory, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 78 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.
Sworn and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
John M. Thompson
Ezekiel Hubbell

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that John M Thompson who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of Bridgeport, and that Ezekiel Hubbell who has also signed the same, is a resident in the town of Bridgeport and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Fitch Wheeler, Judge

I, R. J. Nichols, Clerk of the aforesaid court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Ezra Gregory for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 13th day of April 1833.
And I do further certify that Benjamin Isaacs before whom the foregoing depositions of Nathan Gilbert & Elias Gilbert were taken is Judge of the Court of Probate in & for the District of Norwalk in said county of Fairfield & that the foregoing is his genuine signature.
R. J. Nichols Clerk
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I, Fitch Wheeler, Judge of the Court of Probate within & for the district of Stamford certify that R. J. Nichols is clerk of said court. That the within & foregoing is his signatures with the seal of said court annexed.
Fitch Wheeler Judge
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New York
June 10, 1853

To the Commissioner of Pensions
Under the act of July 3 1853 my mother Huldah Gregory has been inscribed on the pension list for $109.88. The application & papers were made out at Bridgeport Connecticut, the former residence of my mother, for a few years last past she has resided in this city with me and will still continue to reside with me. By the certificate the pension is stated to be payable at Hartford. The object of this communication is to ask whether the pension cannot be made payable here. It will save much trouble, and will afford greater security to the department for she could personally be seen each time.
It will be very inconvenient to collect it at Hartford, by referring to the papers you will see that it was therein stated that she resided in New York but made her application there on account of the proof being there.
Very Respy
J. W. Benedict
No 2 day St New York