Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4,189, Jacob Granger, Continental (Conn.)
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Service Continental (Conn) 
Granger, Jacob
Esther
Number R4189
B.L. Wt 5895_100_Pvt
Served Jan 28, 1792 to
Moses Sill
No Papers
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Let to O H. Platt July 14. 1837
[turned]Note for sent to Luther F Stevens Seneca Falls 
[illegible] 9.18.21 N. Yk

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7917
New York Roll
Jacob Granger
of Galen in the state of New York
who was a Private in the Regiment commanded by
Colonel Sheldon of the Connecticut 
Line for the term of Three years 1779 war.
[damaged]scribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence of the 6th of May1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 20th of March 1819 and sent to Honble Moses Atwater Prob Judge
Canandaiqua N York

Arrears to the 4th of March 1819 9hr s 30/31 - 79:74
Semi-anl. All'ce ending 4th Sept 1819--48:--
$127.74

Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.

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Declaration of 
Jacob Granger
May 6th 1818

The Hon Secty War

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Admissible on evidence of the indigent circumstances of the applicant to which the judge will certify or the credibility of those certifying the same
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Admissible on evidence of the indigent circumstances of the applicant to which the judge will certify or to the credibility of thou certifying the same.

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Declaration of Jacob Granger
March 6th 1818
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State of New York
Ontario County Ss
On the twenty sixth day of May in the year eighteen hundred and eighteen before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in said County personally appeared Jacob Granger aged fifty five years resident in the town of Galen in County of Seneca and State of New York. Who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the late act of Congress entitled an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War.
That the said Jacob Granger enlisted into the service of the United States at Suffield in the State of Connecticut in the month of September in the year 1779 for the term of three years. That in the month January in the year 1780 he joined Col. Elisha Sheldon regiment of Light Dragoons at Northampton Massachusetts at which time and place he enlisted into the service of the United States during the war and remained in said service until the 12th of June 1783 and was then discharged from the American Army by his Excellency George Washington as the said discharge herein enclosed will more fully show.
That which in the foregoing service he was in a battle against the common enemy at White Plains and some others of minor importance. That while in said service he was wounded in the head by a bayonet and in the leg by a musket ball. And by which he has lost the sight of his right eye.
That he has no other evidence now in his possession of his service.
That he is a citizen of the United States. That he is poor and in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support.
Jacob Granger

Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid.
Moses Atwater
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I Moses Atwater one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Ontario and State of New York. do hereby certify that it appears to my full satisfaction that the said Jacob Granger did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the time of nine months on the continental establishment. 
That he is poor, deprived of his eye sight and health in a great measure. That he is undoubtedly one of those unfortunate patriots the government meant to provide for by the act of Congress passed the 18 Mar 1818. And I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the direction of the aforesaid act of Congress.
Given under my hand this the seventh day of May in the year 1818.
Moses Atwater

I Jacob Granger do hereby authorize and appoint Moses Atwater my true and lawful attorney to apply for and receive my pension certificate.
Dated Canandaqua May 6th 1818
Jacob Granger

I do certify that the Petitioner is in indigent and reduced circumstances. Dec 21 1818
Moses Atwater
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State of New York
Ontario County
Clerks Office}Ss
In testimony that Moses Atwater whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate was on the day of the same one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas 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 9th day of May AD 1818.
Hrn. McNair Clk
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Jacob Grangers Afft
Copy &c

Served 3 years
aged 58 years
wife 57 years
son 16 years
amt of 107 dollars
no real estate

Con
J. L. E.

J. Richmond
Mr. Stevens
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Northern District of New York,
County of Seneca SS.
On this fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, personally appeared in open court, (being a court of Common Pleas, holden in and for the county of Seneca, in the district aforesaid, and a Court of Record, proceeding according to the course of common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings and having a common seal,) Jacob Granger aged fifty eight a resident in said district, in the town of Galen in the county aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows:
He enlisted in the month of September Seventeen hundred & seventy nine in the regiment of light dragoons commanded by Colonel Elisha Sheldon in which corps he continued to serve until the close of the war, when he was discharged in the month of June 1785 at Danbury in the state of Connecticut. That his original declaration was dated the sixth day of May 1818 & his certificate is numbered (7917)
And I do solemnly ______ 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 whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any 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.

SCHEDULE
Real Estate - None
Personal estate one yoke of oxen estimated to be worth forty five dollars.
Two cows worth about fifteen dollars each.
About forty bushels of wheat unthreshed.
About forty bushels of Indian corn in the ear.
One large & two small kettles worth about three dollars
One pot, one tea kettle
eight chairs
two wheels
one tub
one churn
two pails
two platters
twenty small plates
ten cups & saucers
two creamers
two decanters, two tumblers
one teapot
six knives & forks
estimated in the whole to be worth not more than twelve dollars
In consequence of a paralytic stroke I have lost the use of my right arm entirely. My family consists of my wife aged fifty seven & one son aged sixteen years.
I honestly owe two hundred & sixty eight dollars. 
Total amt $107 Debts $208
Jacob Granger

Sworn & declared in open court 4 Oct 1820
J. H. Halsey A. R.

I JEHIEL H. HALSEY, clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Seneca, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said court, and I do 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 107 dollars. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this fourth day of October 1820.
J. H. Halsey
AK. &c.
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State of New York
County of Ontario}Ss.
On this sixth day of May in the year eighteen hundred and forty five personally appeared before the court of Oyer & Jermines holden at Canandaqua in and for the said county of Ontario Orrin Granger a resident of the town of Manchester in the said county of Ontarior now in the fifty seventh year of his age, who first being 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 July 1 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" That he is one of the surviving children of Esther Granger who died in the town of Galen in the county of Wagner in said State of New York on the twenty seventh day of July AD 1838. That she the said Esther Granger was at the time of her decease the widow of Jacob Granger deceased. That his mother the said Esther Granger left two children, the subscriber and his sister Elizabeth Caster and who now survive her that his sister the said Elizabeth Caster now resides in the town of Wolcott in the county of Wagner in said State of New York.
That his father, the aforesaid Jacob Granger, was as he understood from him in his lifetime a soldier in the war of the Revolution and served a period of three years a part of the time under an officer of the name of Tallmadge who was a Major. That at the time he entered the service he resided in Suffield county of Hartford in the state of Connecticut and that he was at the time of his decease a revolutionary pensioner.
He further declares that his parents the aforesaid Jacob Granger and Esther Granger were married in Stafford Tolland county in the said state of Connecticut December ninth seventeen hundred & eighty four as will appear by the certificate of George W. Woodward Pastor of the First Congregational Church in Stafford, Tolland County and State of Connecticut hereto annexed.
That his said father had a paper previous to his applying for a pension signed according to the best of his recollection
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by Gen Washington as a discharge and which he believes was forwarded with his application for a pension to the Commissioner of Pensions. That the evidence of the service of his father the said Jacob Granger in the war of the Revolution he supposes is now on file in the office of the said Commissioner and which together with the certificate of the marriage of his said parents hereto annexed an [illegible] proof of such marriage and service.
That his father the aforesaid Jacob Granger died in the town of Galen count of Wayne and state abovesaid on the fourth day of January AD 1834.
Orin Granger

Sworn and subscribed to before me in open court this sixth day of May AD 1845.
Harry Smith a Judge of Ontario County Courts

State of new York
Ontario County Clerks office}
I Alexander H Howell Clerk of the County of Ontario and Clerk of the Court of Oyer and Terminer in court for said county (the same being a court of record) do hereby certify that the foregoing deposition was duly taken in open court in the aforesaid Court of Oyer and Terminer on this sixth day of May A.D. 1845 and that Harry Smith Esq by whom the oath was administered was at that time a Judge of said Court duly commissioned qualified and authorized to act as such and that his signature to the foregoing Jurat is genuine.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court and County this sixth day of May A.D. 1845.
Alex. H. Howell
Clerk
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State of Connecticut
Tolland CountySs
Town Clerk's Office Stafford April 15, 1845
I Abijah Blodget of lawful age depose & say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the County, town & state aforesaid, in which is kept the record of marriages, and that I have made diligent search for the record of the marriage of Jacob Granger to Esther Cushman, and find no such marriage on records.
Abijah Blodget

Sworn before me this 22 day of April 1845.
Hannibal A. Converse Justice Peace

"Seventeen hundred eighty four Dec ninth
Mr. Jacob Granger of Stafford & Miss Esther Cushman of Stafford - married".
I George H Woodward, Pastor of the first congregational church in Stafford, county of Tolland, state of Connecticut, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true extract from the records of said church, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the records in fair legible figures as follows "1784 Dec 9."

Stafford Apl 16 1845 Attest George H Woodward Pastor of 1st Church in Stafford.
Tolland County Ss Stafford April 16, 1845
Personally appeared Rev. George H Woodward & made oath to the truth of the above certificate by him subscribed.
Before me
Zina Winter Justice Peace
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State of Connecticut
County of Tolland} County Clerks Office Tolland
I Jeremiah Parish Clerk of the County and Superior Courts within the said county of Tolland certify that Hannibal A Converse and Zina Winter Esq both of Stafford in said Tolland County, are Justices of Peace within said Tolland County, duly appointed Commissioned and authorized capacity.
That their names are both enrolled in the Commission for Justices of the Peace for said Tolland County now in this office, bearing date June 5 1844 & will continue until the 20th day of June 1845. Also, that the signatures to the within certificates, purporting to be the official signatures of said Justices Converse and Winter are their genuine signatures being both well known to me as such.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said county at Tolland aforesaid this 19th day of May AD 1845.
Jeremiah Parish Clerk as aforesaid

Interlining above done by me. J. Parish Clerk
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information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. Jacob Granger Rev No. 4189

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DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
LENGTH OF SERVICE.
RANK.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
STATE.
2 yrs 4 mos ending June 12 1783 when in land service he was in an engagement at White Plains, and was wounded in the head and leg.
Colonel Elisha Sheldon's Light Dragoons

Battles engaged in, see above

Residence of soldier at enlistment, Saffield, Hartford Co Conn

Date of application for pension, May 6 1818, his cl was al.

Residence at date of application, Galen N.Y.

Age at date of application, 55 yrs, died at Galen N,.Y. Jany 4 1834

Remarks:
Soldier married at Stafford, Tolland Co Conn Dec 9, 1784 Esther Cushman. 
In 1804 or 805 they removed from Conn to Ontario Co N.Y.
She died July 27 or 28, 1838 at Galen.
two Children, Orin a resident of Manchester Ontario Co N.Y. in 1845 and Elisabeth Caster who lived at Wolcott N.Y. at that date.
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BOUYNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

The National Archives
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME Granger, Jacob GRADE Private LINE Connecticut

WARRANT NUMBER 5895  ACREAGE 100  ISSUED Jan 28 1792 to Moses Sill

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Others records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.
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State of New York
County of Ontario}Ss.
I Alexander H. Howell Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas held at Canandaiqua in and for the county of Ontario on the Monday preceding the third Tuesday of May A.D. 1845 do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has born exhibited to said court that Esther Granger the widow of Jacob Granger deceased died in the town of Galen county of Wayne and state aforesaid in the year eighteen hundred and thirty eight of the twenty seventh day of July that at the time of her decease she left two children Orrin Granger and Elizabeth Caster and who are now the only surviving children of her the said Esther Granger deceased. The said Orrin Granger residing in Manchester Ontario County and the said Elizabeth Caster residing in Wolcott Wayne County in the state aforesaid.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my name and the seal of the said Court and County this twenty third day of May eighteen hundred and forty-five.
Alex. H. Howell Clerk
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State of New York
County of Ontario}Ss.
Gahazi Granger of the town of Manchester int he county of Ontario and state of New York being duly sworn according to law before Peter Mitchel one of the Judges of the county courts of the said county of Ontario doth depose and say that he is now in the seventy first year of his age, that he is a brother of Jacob Granger late of Galen in the county of Wayne deceased and who was a Revolutionary Pensioner. That his brother the said Jacob Granger left a widow Esther Granger and who is now deceased. That she died in said town of Galen and left two children Orrin Granger and Elizabeth Caster & who are now her only surviving children. That the said Esther Granger was never married after the decease of her husband the said Jacob Granber.
And deponent further deposes and says that he recollects when his said brother was married to Esther Cushman in Stafford Connecticut but was not at the wedding. That he was acquainted with the parents of the said Esther and with her brothers Solomon Cushman & Job Cushman.
That in the year 1804 or 1805 his said brother  wife moved from the state of Connecticut to a farm adjoining deponents in said Manchester then a part of Farmington in said county of Ontario with their family and where they continued to reside until the year 1811 or 1812 when they moved to [illegible] & then to the said town of Galen.
That during the time they resided in said Farmington now Manchester deponent went with them the said Jacob & Esther Granger to make a visit to her brother Solomon Cushman who resided in Oneida County N.Y.
That he has been acquainted with the said Orrin Granger and Elizabeth Caster since they were children. That the said Orrin Granger now resides
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in said town of Manchester near the residence of deponent and his sister the said Elizabeth Caster in the said county of Wayne and as deponent is informed & believes in the town of Wolcott.
Gahazi Granger

Sworn & Subscribed to before me this 21st day of May AD 1845 before me.
Peter Mitchell a Judge of Ontario County Courts

State of New York
County of Ontario}Ss.
I the subscriber one of the Judges of the County Courts of the said county of Ontario do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Gahazi Granger who subscribed & made oath to the above depositions before me and that he sustains a good reputation for truth and veracity.
Dated the 21st day of May 1845
Peter Mitchell Judge of Ontario County Court

State of New York
Ontario County Clerks Office}Ss. I Alexander H. Howell Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that Peter Mitchell before whom the above instrument was subscribed and sworn a Judge of Ontario County Courts in and for said County duly commissioned sworn and authorized to act as such. And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Judge and verily believe his signature subscribed to the said affidavit and certificate are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 24h day of June 1845.
Alexr H Howell Clerk
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State of New York
County of Oneida}ss.
Solomon Cushman being duly sworn before Linus L Moulton Esq a Justice of the Peace of the town of Floyd in the county of Oneida, doth depose and say that he is now in the sixty seventh year of his age, and is the brother of Esther Cushman, who was married to Jacob Granger, that they was married at the house of his deponents & the said Esthers parents in the town of Stafford, Tolland Co in this state of Connecticut, that deponent was present and saw them married. That soon after they were married they went to reside in the town of Suffield in said state, and deponent lived with them, the said Jacob & Esther Granger, in the said town of Suffield between one & two years. That two of their children, Orin Granger and Elizabeth, now Elizabeth Caster, were born while their parents, the said Jacob & Esther Granger, resided in said state of Connecticut, and that afterward they moved to Farmington, which deponent was [illegible] is called Manchester in the county of Ontario, and resided in that town several years, near Gahazi Granger, a brother of the said Jacob Granger, that both the said Jacob and Esther Granger are now deceased, and died in the town of Gaben Wayne County N.Y. That during the lifetime of the said Jacob and Esther Granger, and while they resided in said town of Farmington, [illegible] they made deponent several visits at his present place of residence in said town of Floyd. And their children, the said Orrin Granger & Elizabeth Caster, have been to deponents several times. That deponent has always known them since they were children. That deponent is informed & believes that the said Orrin & Elizabeth are both now living, its said Orrin in Manchester Ontario County, and the said Elizabeth in Wolcott in the said county of Wayne, and are now the only surviving children of his sister the said Esther Granger. That his brother in law, the said Jacob Granger, was a Revolutionary Pensioner, and that his widow the said Esther Granger, sister of deponent, died in the year eighteen hundred and thirty eight, or about that time, and was
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never married after the decease of her said husband.
Solomon Cushman

Sworn & subscribed to before me this ninth day of June A.D. 1845.
LInus L. Moulton
Justice of the Peace

State of New York
County of Oneida}Ss.
I the subscriber before whom the above affidavit was sworn & subscribed to by Solomon Cushman do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with him the said Solomon Cushman, and that his reputation is good for truth and veracity. And I do further certify, that the words "that" and "and Salem", and the name "Esther" over an erasure, were written before the executions of the said affidavits.
Dated Floyd June 9th 1845.
Linus L. Moulton
Justice of the Peace

State of New York
Clerk's Office
Oneida County}ss.
I Delos Dewolf Clerk of the said county certify that Linus L Moulton Esq was on the 9th day of June AD 1845 a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county duly elected and qualified to act as such and that the signatures above written purporting to be those of the said Justice are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my Official Seal and subscribed my name this 20 day of June AD 1845. 
Delos Dewolf Clerk
For James Edgar Dep Clk
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12094

Esther Granger
Decd
N.Y.
Act 7 July '38
m 84
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J. L. Edwards
Commr of Pensions
Washington

July 14
Jacob Granger
NY roll
21 Mar '19
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Sir
I wish to make application for the pension of Jacob Granger deceased, a revolutionary soldier - to be continued to his wife Esther Granger.
Jacob Granger died in Jany 1834 and the certificate under which he drew was sent to your office soon after - with the necessary papers for back pension.
I find it necessary in order to make out the papers to have the certificate. Will you have the goodness to send it to me.
Respy
Your Obt Sevt
O. H. Platt

Seneca Falls
July 10 1837

J. L. Edwards
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June 12 46

Manchester NY
June 8th

Recd
Esther Granger, dc
Hon James L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.

NY
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Hon. James L. Edwards
Dear Sir,
Your letter of the 8 of Jany last enclosing a copy of your letter of the 13 of Aug 1845, relating to the application of Orrin Granger one of the surviving children of Esther Granger, deceased, for a pension was duly received.
I have seen Eld. N. Baker of Seneca Falls officiated at the funeral. He informed me that he preached her funeral sermon in July 1838, and from certain circumstances which happened during the week of the funeral, he was certain it was in the last week in July, but that the name of the funeral was in a book he then kept, and which was now lost, having viz 1840 procured a new one, the old one was laid aside, and which on a search made by him could not be found.
No physicians was called. She was sick but a short time & this usual family medicine was administered. The decease of persons are not recorded in the town where she died.
No more proof can therefore be obtained of her decease.
I believe from the statements of the Minister & of persons who were present at her decease,
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and at the funeral, that she must have died at the time stated, 28 July, but as no record proof of the decease can be found, the claim must therefore I suppose be relinquished.
I am very Respectfully
Your obt sevt
Peter Michell

Manchester
Ontario Co N.Y.
June 8 1846
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Hon. James L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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Manchester Ontario Co
NY July 2, 1845

Dear Sir,
I send you enclosed the application of Orrin Granger, one of the surviving children of the widow Esther Granger, deceased, for a pension, and the proofs which have been obtained in the case.
Respectfully & truly yours
Peter Mitchell

Hon J. L. Edwards
Com. of Pensions
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Jan 5 46

Manchester NY
Dec 30th

Orrin Granger
NY

Hon James L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.

Esther Granger dec
NY [illegible] 38
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Hon. James L. Edwards

Sir,
I sent you the papers in the case of Orrin Granger an applicant for a pension in July last.
From the length of time which has elapsed, I have supposed if any communications from you has been sent in reference to the claims, it has been miscarried, as none has been received by me. I take the liberty therefore of enquiring as to the present situation of this case.
I am Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
Peter Mitchell

Manchester Ontario Co
New York Dec 30 1845

Esther Granger 38 recd July 7
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4189

P.O.
Esther Granger

Service: Jacob

Enlisted:
Discharged: REJECTED

Application filed
Alleges:

Re-enlisted:

Attorney:
P.O.

____recognized _____Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _________

1910 Mch 3 Hist to Emma C Hayes [illegible]
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No. 12 Arlington St
Haverhill Mass.

Feb 14, 1910.

The Pension Office,
Washington D.C.

Dear Sirs: will you kindly give me the record of Jacob Granger who served in the Revolutionary War. He enlisted in the town of Suffield Connecticut at the age of eighteen or nineteen. I havent the 

over
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date of birth, but he was born in Suffield. His father was called Samuel Granger the 3d, and his mother's name was Michael, dau. of John King.
At the close of the war, Jacob Granger removed to Canandaiqua and lived near, what is now, Clifton Springs. He removed later to Galen, Wayne Co N.Y. and died there in or about 1833.
He lost an eye from a British bayonet wound, and drew a pension.
Please give me your record and you will greatly oblige.
Mrs. Emma C. Hayse
12 Arlington St.
Haverhill, Mass
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P.S. Probably Jacob Granger's PO address at the time of his death was Clyde, Wayne Co N.Y. as that was near, the town of Galen.
E. C. Hayes

[stamped]
Feb 17 1910

[stamped]
U.S.
PENSION
OFFICE
A
FEB 15 1910
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No 12094
Esther Granger decd
NY

11115
Let to Peter Mitchell Aug [illegible]
Same Jan 8 1846

4189

Act 7 July 1838
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BY HIS EXCELLENCY

GEORGE WASHINGTON, ESQ;
General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United States of America.

THESE are to CERTIFY that the Bearer hereof 
Jacob Granger Private
in the 2d Reg L Drag [crossed out "Regiment"], having faithfully served the United States two years and four months and being inlisted for the War only, is hereby DISCHARGED from the American Army.
GIVEN at HEAD-QUARTERS the 12th of June 1783.
G. Washington

By HIS EXCELLENCY'S 
Command
J. Trumbull [illegible]

REGISTERED in the Books
of the Regiment,
Fred J. Whiting, Adjutant