Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7927, for Gabriel Parris, Pennsylvania
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[handwritten] Continental (Penn.) Parris, Gabriel R.7927
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Rej. No.7927
Gabriel Parris,
Rev. War.

Jan. 2, 1906.

Madam:

In response to your letter dated November 28, 1905, and received in this Bureau December 1, 1905, you are advised that the papers in the above-noted claim show that Gabriel Parris was born in France, and came to Philadelphia, Penn. with his parents when five years of age.
When thirteen years of age he as apprenticed to his sister's husband, a blacksmith, names not given; after working for said brother-in-law for a year, he enlisted and served six or seven months as an artificer under Captain Matthews and Colonel John Mitchell, Deputy Quartermaster General.
He applied for pension May 25, 1833, when sixty-seven years of age, and his claim was rejected on the ground that he was not regularly enlisted in the United States Army.
He attended the society of Friends, or Quakers.
He died May 10, 1840.
He married September 15, 1790, and his wife, Sarah, died January 7, 1848.
His son, Benjamin, was living in Philadelphia, Penn. in 1852, fifty years of age.
Very respectfully,

Mrs. Franklin Eyre Williams,
#6 West Main St.,
Haddonfield, N. J. Commissioner.
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September 5, 1834.
Sir: The papers in the case of Gabriel Parris has been examined. He alleges that he entered the service as an Artificer in Capt. Mathews' company. That officer died in January 1781. As the applicant is now sixty-seven or eight years of age he could have only been between thirteen and fourteen when he entered the service. No persons were enlisted to serve as U. S. appear on the rolls in this Office of those who served as Artificers. If the applicant was employed in the U. S. Armory it was not under such a contract as to bring his case within the provisions of the Act of June 7, 1832. The claim has therefore been rejected, and the papers filed in this Office.
To Mr. Joseph Butler, Philadelphia.
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[handwritten] V. Warner, _ 

HADDONFIELD, N. J., [handwritten] Dec. 28 1905.

[handwritten]

My dear Sir, _
Will you kindly send me the military record of my great grand-father Gabriel Parris or Peres or Parish or Paris. He was a French noblemen who came from Paris, France when he was twelve years old and enlisted the American Revolution two years later at age of fourteen. Perhaps as a drummer boy, or in a German or French Company. Cannot