Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 20,510, Thomas Gray, S.C.
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Service: SC           

Name: Gray, Thomas        

Number: R.20.510
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(check mark) 740 


T. Gray 
[not legible] 4 [not legible] 1828
[not legible] 23
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For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of an act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution approved on the 15th of May 1828, I Thomas Gray of the County of Wilkinson in the State of Georgia do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution, for and during the war and continued in service until its termination at which period I was a private in Capt. Tulls company in the Regiment commanded by Genl Moultrie.
And I do also declare that I have never received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars to which I was entitled under a resolve of Congress passed the 15th of May 1778 on account of my being wholly ignorant of the passage of said resolution.  And I do further declare that I was not on the 15th day of March 1828 on the Pension List of the United States
X his mark
Thomas Gray
Before me Solomon B. Murphey a Justice of the Inferior Court in the County of Wilkinson in the State of Georgia personally appeared this day William Jenkins and  Seaborn Delk who did severally make oath that Thomas Gray by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reputed & believed to have been a soldier in the Army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated-
Witness my hand this 24th day of July 1828
Solomon B. Murphey J J C
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I Littleton Maddux Deputy Clerk of the Inferior Court of the County of Wilkinson in the State of Georgia do certify that Solomon B Murphey before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn was at the time a Justice of the Inferior Court and duly empowered to administer oaths.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my private seal there being no seal of Office belonging to said Court this 25th day of July 1828.
Littleton Maddux D Clk
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Rev. War Section.
September 27, 1923.
Thomas Gray
R. 20510
Mrs. J. W. Payne,
Monticello, Ga.
Madam;
I have to advise you that from the papers in the pension claim, S. 8954, it appears that John Phillips or Philips, while residing in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, enlisted and served as a private in the War of the Revolution, six weeks in Captain Lee's company, Colonel Burrell's regiment of Virginia troops.  He served another tour of six weeks in Captain Blanton's company and in 1781 served three months under Captain William Lucouse and Colonel Robert Mumphried, and was in the battle of Guilford.
He was allowed pension on his application executed February 8, 1833, while a resident of Granville County, North Carolina, aged seventy five or seventy six years.
In 1834, soldier's wife and three daughters were
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referred to, no names stated.  There is no further family data on file.
From the papers in the pension claim, R. 20510, it appears that Thomas Gray served as a private in Captain Tull's company, Colonel Moultrie's South Carolina regiment, War of the Revolution, and was captured at the siege of Charleston and paroled as prisoner of war.
He applied for pension July 24, 1828 while living in Wilkinson County, Georgia, but his claim was not allowed, as the Act of Congress of May 15, 1828 under which he applied, required that service should be as an officer and rendered until the  close of the Revolution.
There is no data on file as to his family.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
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Monticello, Georgia, August 7, 1923.
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
Sir:
Will you send me a statement of the history of Thomas Gray, Revolutionary soldier who died in Wilkinson county, Georgia?
Also of John Phillips, Revolutionary Pensioner in Granville county, North Carolina, in 1840?
Respectfully, 
Mrs. J. W. Payne

[STAMP] U. S. Pension Office Aug 11 1923
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1923 September 27 - Hist. to Mrs. J. W. Payne  aus

(3-224.) 
No. 20510   (Stamped "REJECTED")

Thomas Gray 
of Georgia   Private   S.C. 
Revolutionary War         act  1828
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Georgia
Personally appeared before me James Torrance one of the Justices of the Inferior court of the County of Burke & State aforesaid Simeon Lowrey of this County who made Oath that Thomas Gray of the county of Wilkinson in said State who hath applied for the benefit of an Act entitled an Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution passed 15th May 1828 enlisted in the continental line of the army of the revolution for and during the war and continued in service three years and upwards and was then given up to the British after the fall of Charleston and then paroled as prisoners of War and further that the said Thomas Gray was a Private as far as I know and believe
Sworn to Before me
Simeon Lowery
this 10th day of January
1829
James Torrance
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Thomas Gray 
Silear line 

No record of [not legible] or [not legible] 
                                     July 27/81

Georgia 
Ref File no. 4231 (line drawn through 1818) 

See # 4230 Ref
Lost file
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740
Revolutionary Claims.
Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
21 Nov 1828
The annexed paper, relating to the claim of Thomas Gray under the abovementioned act, is respectfully referred to the Secretary of War, with a request that he will be pleased to cause me to be informed whether it appears, by any records in the War Department, that the claimant has received, or is entitled to receive, the bounty in land granted by Congress for service in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution.
R. Rush
The Hon. the SECRETARY OF WAR.
War Departm
Bounty land Office
It does not appear by the records of this office that Thomas Gray of the So. Carolina line ever received or is entitled to receive bounty land of the United States.
Robert Taylor
25 Nov 1828
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733. 740
Revolutionary Claims.
Treasury Department
Aug. 23, 1828
Thomas Gray of in the County of Wilkinson, in the State of Georgia, has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act entitled "An Act for the relief of the certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a private in captain Tull's company in Moultrie regiment of the S Carolina line; and that he has not received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828 on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3rd of March, 1826, nothing.
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statement are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary 
A Dickens

Treasury Department
Third Auditor's Office,
4th September 1828

It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to in the [CROSSED OUT]
It further appears that Thomas Gray is not now on the pension list of any agency, and has not been so since the 3 March 1826
The name of Thomas Gray cannot be found among those of the South Carolina line to whom certificates for the gratuity of Eighty Dollars were issued.
Peter Hagner
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Thos Gray - 740
Recd 2d Feb 1829
Irwinton Ga
23 January
Hon. Richard Rush
Secy of Treasury
US
Washington City
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Irwinton 23 Jan 1829.
Sir.
Your letter of the 29 Nov last was duly recd calling upon me for further evidence to support my claims under an act entitled an act for the relief of certain surviving officers & soldiers of the army of the revolution passed 15th May last. -- That evidence is contained in the enclosed affidavit which I beg will receive proper consideration.  The archives of this, or of the State of S. Carolina may furnish additional evidence but old age & a number of other causes prevent my being able
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at present to examine.
I am respectfully
Thomas Gray