Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 49472-160-55, Thaddeus Granger, Mass.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE Mass.
Granger, Thaddeus
Julia
NUMBER B.L.Wt.49472-160-55.
CONTENTS [BLANK]
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End D
Let F. E. Hassler, Aug 1. 1856
1927-Feb.2 - Hist to Mrs. J. A. Haitz [illegible]

206.338., Act March 3. Aug. 27. 55.
Julia Granger, widow of Thadeus Granger, Private.
Capt. Jeremiah Hickock [Hickok].
Col. Lewis.
Ent. Aug. 6. 1781
Dis. Nov. 6. 1781.
Private [illegible]
Revol. War.
Mich No Papers
Ad. 160  aco Dec 9/56
Dodge

Vol G = 142
F. E. Hassler, Washington, D.C.
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FORM OF DECLAARATION
To be made by the Widow of a deceased person who has not had a land warrant.
STATE OF Michigan
County of Macomb ss.
On this sixteenth day of August A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me, a [crossed out: justice of the peace] notary Public within and for the county and State aforesaid, Julia Granger aged sixty seven years, a resident of Memphis in the State of Michigan who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Thadeus Granger deceased, who was a Private in the company commanded by captain Jeremiah Hickok in the regiment of [BLANK] commanded by Col. Lewis in the war* of the Revolution that her said husband enlisted+ at Southsfield Mass on or about the Sixth day of August A. D. 1781 for the term of do not recollect and continued in actual service in said war for the term of three months and was honorably discharged at I cannot state on [crossed out: the] or about the fifth day of November A. D. 1781.
She further states that she was married to the said Thaddeus Granger in Bethleham Brinkshire [Berkshire] County, Mass. on [crossed out: the] or about first day of April A. D. 1810 by one Esqr Larkham a Justice of the Peace in the Town of Bethlehem and that her name before her said marriage was Julia Manly that her said husband died at the town of Portage Portage County, Ohio on the fourth day of September A. D. Eighteen hundred & twenty five and that she is now a widow.++
She furthermore hereby constitutes and appoints F. E. HASSLER, of Washington, D. C. her attorney to receive her Land Warrant when issued. and to prosecute her claim for Pension.
She makes this ceclaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the "act approved March 3, 1855."
Julia Granger, her X mark
Witness E. Hazen

We, Joseph Carman and Joseph G. Carman residents of Richmond in the State of Michigan upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Julia Granger 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.
Joseph Carman
Joseph G. Carman
[crossed out: Witness E. Hazen

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 the credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
Ezra Hazen
Notary Public in and for said County

NOTES.
* State what war.  + Volunteered, or was draughted - as the case may be.
++ This declaration must be accompanied by satisfactory proof of the marriage, of the husband's death, and the present widowhood of the claimant. If there be a public record of the marriage, a duly certified copy of it should be forwarded, if possible. If there be none but a private or family record, such family record, or a certified copy of the same, should be forwarded, with the affidavit of some disinterested persons proving the genuineness of the original and the correctness of the copy. If no public or private record of the marriage exist, or can be procured, that fact should be set forth in the declaration; and in such case, other evidence - such as the testimony of persons who knew the parties in the lifetime of the husband, and knew them to cohabit as husband and wife, and to be so reputed - will be admissable.
[symbol of a hand pointing to the right] In no case, however, will the mere statement of witnesses that the claimant is the widow of the deceased be taken as evidence of the marriage; but the witnesses must state facts and circumstances from which they derive their knowledge or opinion that she is the widow of the deceased.
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STATE OF Michigan
COUNTY OF Macomb ss
I hereby certify, That Ezra Hazen Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavits and acknowledgment were made, and who has hereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, a [crossed out: Justice of the Peace] Notary Public in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature above written is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Circuit [crossed out: County] Court, the Eighteenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and fifty five.
Perrin Crawford Clerk.
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Additional Proof
Julia Granger widow
Thadeus [Thaddeus]
act 3. March 1855
No 206.338
Johnson
filed 28 Decm 1855
F. E. Hassler

206338 add'l ev
Julia Granger wid of Thadeus Granger
Hood
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I Henry K. Spielman of Otis in the County of Berkshire & Commonwealth of Massachusetts testify & say that I am the Clerk of the town of Otis and qualified to [illegible] of said Office that I have in my custody the Book of Record of said town in which and recorded the Births Deaths & Marriages within said town & in one of said Boods of Record I find the following certificate entered & [illegible] viz in Book No 2. page 89 -
"to Roderick Nister Clerk of the town of Otis I have joined together in Marriage Mr Thadeus [Thaddeus] Granger of Dearfield in the State of Ohio to Miss Julien [Julia] Manley of this town April 5th. 1810
Paul Lenheim Justice of the Peace"
"a true Record attest Roderick Nister Town Clerk"

& I the said Henry K. Spelman further Certify & say that the above copy of said Entry & Record in said Book No 2 is a true copy of the original Record now remaining in my Office. I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Roderick Nister & from my knowledge of his writing I have no doubt the said afidavit was made him & in his hand writing & from an examination of the Record of said town of
Otis it appears that the said Roderick Nister in the year 1810 was the Clerk of said town - the said Roderick Nister is dead.
Henry K. Spelman
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State of Massachusetts
Berkshire County ss
August 24 1855

The foregoing Affidavit was sworn to & subscribed before me on the day & year above written & I certify that I am well acquainted with the said Henry K. Spelman & know him to be a credible person
Lester Filly Jus. Peace

And I the said Lester Filley do further certify that the said Paul Lenheim was an acting Justice of the Peace in the town of Otis aforesaid in the year 1810. that he left the State of Massachusetts many years since & is now dead. I have made search in his Records as a Magistrate & cannot find them.
Lester Filly Jus. Peace
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State of Michigan
County of Macomb SS
On this 16th day of August 1855 personly appeared before me the undersigned a Notary Public in and for said County Hiram Granger and William Granger who being duly sworn on their oath says that they are the sons of Thadius [Thaddeus] and Julia Granger and that said Thadius Granger is deceased that he died at Portage in Portage County in the State of Ohio on the 4th day of September 1825 and that they was present and witnessed his death and that said Julia Granger is now the widow of said Thadius Granger and that the said Thadius Granger is the same and identical person refered to in the accompanying application for Bounty Land made by Julia Granger
Sworn and subscribed to before me the day & year above written
Hiram Granger
Wm. H Granger

Ezra Hagen
Notary Public
in and for said County

State of Michigan
Macomb County
I hereby certify that I have Examined the family Records of the said Julia Granger and find the record relating to the death of said Thadius Granger to corespond with the above statements
August 16th 1855
Ezra Hazen
Notary Public
for said County
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The State of Ohio
Licking County
Before me David A. B. Moore a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid personally came Aletha Jewett and made oath that about the 1808 [crossed out: and] or 1810 she was present at a marriage where [crossed out: Theodore] Thadeus [Thaddeus] Granger and Julia Manley was joined together in Matrimony at a place called Bethlehem in the State of Massachusetts now called Otis thinks it was in the month of March or April 1810 but cannot be positive as to dates
Sworn and subscribed to before me this 26th July 1855
Alethea Jewett
David A. B. Moore J.P.

State of Ohio Licking County
I. Rees Darlinton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County hereby certify that David A. B. Moore Esq. whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing certificate was on the day of the date thereof an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn as appears on Record in my Office, that as such full faith and credit are due to all his official acts, and that said Court is a Court of Record having general jurisdiction.
Witness my hand and the Seal of said Court at Newark this 26th day of July A.D. 1855
R. Darlinton Clerk
By W. H. Winegardner Deputy

P. P. The name Thadeus instead of Theodore inserted after singning but before certifying
David AB. Moore J. P
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Additional proofs
Julia Granger widow Thaddeus
Revolutionary Soldier
No 206.338
Boynton
F. E. Hassler
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State of Michigan
County of Wayne ss
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Notary Public in and for said County William H. Granger aged 45 years and Hiram Granger aged 43 years of the County of Macomb and State aforesaid who being duly sworn on their oath says, that they are sons of Thaddeus Granger late husband of Julia Granger, who has made an application No 206,338 for Bounty Land under the act of March 3rd. 1855, and that the said lot Thaddeus Granger formerly resided at Sandersfield [Sandisfield] Berkshire County Moss. [Mass.] and that they have often heard him say that he enlisted into the service as a soldier in the Revolutionary War in
the year 1781 at Sandersfield  Berkshire County Mass, and that they have often heard him talk and converse aboote his services in said war, and that they have sometimes seen his discharge a number of times which they are informed is now lost.
Wm. H. Granger
Hiram Granger
Sworn & Subscribed to [the remainder of this text is covered with the following sheet]

STATE OF MICHIGAN,
COUNTY OF WAYNE. ss.
I, E. HAWLEY, JR., Clerk of said County of Wayne, Do Hereby Certify that David Preston whose name is subscribed to the Certificate or proof of acknowledgment of the annexed Instrument, and therein written, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a Notary Public in and for said County, duly appointed and qualified, and duly authorized to take the same: A FURTHER, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such Notary Public and verily believe that the signature to the said Certificate or proof of acknowledgment is genuine: I FURTHER CERTIFY, that said Instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the Laws of this State.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County, at Detroit, this sixteenth day of October A. D. 1856.
E. Hawley Jr Clerk
For J. Patchin Depy Clerk.
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State of Michigan
County of Wayne ss
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Notary Public in and for said County William H. Granger aged 45 years and Hiram Granger aged 43 years of the County of Macomb and State aforesaid who being duly sworn on their oath says, that they are sons of Thaddeus Granger late husband of Julia Granger, who has made an application No 206,338 for Bounty Land under the act of March 3rd. 1855, and that the said lot Thaddeus Granger formerly resided at Sandersfield [Sandisfield] Berkshire County Moss. [Mass.] and that they have often heard him say that he enlisted into the service as a soldier in the Revolutionary War in
the year 1781 at Sandersfield Berkshire County Mass, and that they have often heard him talk and converse aboote his services in said war, and that they have sometimes seen his discharge a number of times which they are informed is now lost.
Wm. H. Granger
Hiram Granger

Sworn & Subscribed to before me this 8th day of October 18,56
Davic Preston
Notary Public Wayne Co Mich
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section.
Wt. No. 49472-160-55

February 2, 1927

Mrs. J. A. Harts
1525 M St
Sacramento, Calif.

Madam;
I have to advise you from the records of this Bureau, it appears that Thaddeus Granger enlisted at Sandisfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, August 6, 1781 and served three months as a private in Captain Jeremiah Hickok's Company, Colonel Lewis' Massachusetts Regiment, War of the Revolution.
He married April 1 or 5, 1810 in Otis, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, Miss Julia Manly or Manley. He died September 4, 1825 in Portage, Portage County, Ohio.
She was allowed bounty land in full satisfaction, for the services rendered, on her application executed August 16, 1855, while a resident of Memphis, Macomb County, Michigan, aged sixty-seven
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years.
Children referred to in 1856- William H., aged forty-five years; Hiram, aged forty-three years; and a child O. Granger, whose first name is not given in full.
There is no further data on file as to family.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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49.472
Rev Army
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1525 M. St.,
Sacramento, California,
November 30th, 1926.

Pension Commissioner,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:-
Would you kindly advise me, if possible, if the following named men served in the Revolutionary War, and in what capacity;
Samuel Granger the 1st, born February 10, 1699, at Suffield, Connecticut, died June 17, 1775.
Simeon Granger, born December 28, 1728, at Suffield, Ct. died May, 1815, at Sandisfield, Mass,
Thaddeus G. Granger, born October 9, 1765, at Springfield, Mass., died September, 1825, at Akron, Ohio.
I would be very much pleased to have the necessary information relative to the above mentioned, who are my ancestors, to enable me to join the Daughters of the American Revolution. We have a Granger Genealogy which gives the names of many of the Grangers,(all descendants of Launcelot Granger, our forefather,) who served in the Revolution. It states that Thaddeus was a fife major at the age of sixteen, and that Simeon served in the Massachusetts Troops. I would be pleased, however, to have more definite information.
Thanking you very kindly for any information you may give
me, I remain,
Yours very truly,
Charlotta Granger Hays Haitz

Mrs. J. A. Haitz,
1525 M. St.,
Sacramento, Cal.

[stamped: U.S. PENSION OFFICE DEC 4 1926]
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206.338
20.519
Julia Granger
Boynton

Bounty Land Act 1835 Inquiry
Revolutionary
Commissioner of Pensions
Prescot
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206.338
20.519
Julia Granger
Boynton

Bounty Land Act 1835 Inquiry
Revolutionary
Commissioner of Pensions
Prescot
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Memphis July 5th 1856
F.E. Hassler Esqr
Dear Sir,
Yours of 17th June came to hand on my arrival home yesterday
& contents noted. I am some what disappointed that you have
not been all to get my mothers Land Warrant, as several have
been sent from here since hers & been received. But I hope you will use all possible means to have hers made out if she is entitled
although I have never been assured of her getting any thing for
certain. In regard to your fees I am ready to pay as soon as the [illegible] is procured. also the Pension if you succeed
But your advertisement and first Letter to me stated that your fees
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for obtaining a Land Warrant was only five dollars. That appears to be the usual price of all Attys next for the same service.
Hoping to hear from soon
I am Yours Truly
BL = act 30. March 1855.
Julia Granger
No 206.338.  Revo!

Rev Widow
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
BERKSHIRE SS.
I, CHARLES SEDGWICK, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth for the County of Berkshire, do certify that Lester Filley Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was, at the date thereof, and of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth
and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said Lester Filley and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said Commonwealth, this twenty seventh day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty five.
Chas Sedgwick CLERK.
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Bounty Land
act 3d March 1855

R. E. Hassler Eq
Present
206.338.5
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston:
July 6. 1853.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that The name of Thaddeus Granger is borne on pay roll of Capt. Jeremiah Hickok's Comp, [crossed out: Col or] Lieut Col Sear's Regt. of three months service from the town of
Sandisfield County of Berkshire, Enlisted
Aug. 6. discharged Nov. 8. 1781, allowed 4 days to return home. 3. Months 7 days as private.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
E M Wright
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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Direct your Letter
Memphis Macomb Co Mich

State of Michigan
County of Macomb
Town of Richmond ss:

The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office, of the service of Thaddeus Granger in the War of the Revolution
He was a native of the Town of [BLANK] in the County of [BLANK] and State of Massachusetts He enlisted from the Town [BLANK] in the County of [BLANK] and State of Massachusetts in the year 17 [BLANK], as a Musician in the Company commanded by Captain [BLANK] in [BLANK] Regiment [BLANK] and he served as follows, viz: (here state service as fully as possible) I think he enlisted and served nine months in the war of the Revolution.

I am now 65 years old, and my memory does not enable me to state the services. more fully than above stated
Witness my hand this Eighth day of June A.D. 1853
widow's name
Julia Granger, her X mark

Signed by said Julia Granger in my presence, James Sage J. P.