Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1,417, Hamilton Grant, Conn. Privateer
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Service
Conn.    
Grant, Hamilton
Lucy 
Privateer
Number 
W.1.417
B.L.Wt. 3.521-160-55
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Conn

25, 970
act 3 Mar 55
Rec
27th 55
Lucy Grant, widow of
Hamilton Grant, private

Capt. Thomas Knowlton,
Col. Experience Storrs

County Mill
ans
Abe
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Revolutionary War.

Pension dated 28th July 1853
[advert]160 acres Aug 4/55
Boynton
Boynton

3621 Aug 8/55
Horace Gaylord, Ashford
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1072
Connecticut 
Lucy Grant 
widow of, Hamiltion Grant who served in the REvolutionary war, as a Private & Drummer CT line

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 48 Dollars &--
cents her annum to commence on the 3 February 1853
--
Certificate of Pension issued the 28th day of July 1853 and sent to Horace Gaylord Ashford, CT

recorded on Roll of Pensioners uder 3 February 1853 Page 60 Vol.
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Connecticut 815
Hamilton, Grant Musician
Captain [ ] company of the reg. Connecticut Troops commanded by Gen. Putnam in the Revolutionary War.
--
Ratio of disability.. One Half
time of closing
the testimony}  6. Dec. 1820

Prescribed on the roll of Connecticut..
That 4 dollars per month, to commence on the 6th of December, 1820.

Certificate of pension issued the 16th of July 1821 and ser P to Davis Bolls, Esq, Ashford 
Windham Co. Connecticut. 

Arrears to 4th Mar: 1821 2 30/31 mons... $11.87
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Sept. 1821 $24.-
= $35.87
act 10 April, 1806
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I Daniel Allen of Ashford in CT of lawful age testify & say that in the spring of the year 1775 I was a Lieut. in the Company commanded by Capt. Knowlton in what was called Gen. Putnam's regiment and do know that Mr. Hamilton Grant of Sd Ashford was an enlisted soldier in sd company from 1st of May to the 16th October of that year, and in the battle of Bunker Hill 17th June 1775 I know that sd Grant was wounded by a bullet which entered the great toe and went into the ball of his right foot Which the ball as I understand was extracted by the surgeon. I frequently afterward saw the wound and after it got better he was lame a long time with it and after it was healed over her still seemed to walk as tho' he had to favour it and I have no doubt from what I then knew and as the foot now appears that he is disabled in some degree in the use of it by means of sd wound and further the deponent saith not dated Ashford 9 July 1818 Daniel Allen
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I Jonathan Chaffee of Ashford in Ct of
Lawful age testify and say that I was
in Capt Tho's Knowltons company
in which the within mentioned Daniel Allen
was a Lieutenant and I fought in the Battle of
Bunker Hill under Tho's Knowlton of June
1775 and I was knowing to and do attest to
all the facts as stated in the within
deposition of sd Daniel Allen and
further the deponent saith not
Dated Ashford 9th July 1818- Johnathan Chaffee

I Joseph Palmer [Sur] of Ashford in Connecticut Surgeon   of lawful age testify and say that I have this day examined the right foot of Mr Hamilton Grant of sd Ashford which
appears to me to have been wounded by a ball that entered into his great toe into the bottom of his foot passing close under the
joint of sd to into the bones of the Tarsus from
whence it appears to have been extracted through of the underside of the foot which wound had caused the tendons and ligaments of that part to contract and as appears to me must occasion pain to sd Grant in walking and some inability in using foot and further the deponent saith not. Dated Ashford July 1818
Joseph Palmer [Sur]
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To the Honourable J.C. Calhoun Secretary of the War Department of the United States the petition of Hamilton Grant of the town of Ashford in the County Windham and State of Connecticut humbly showeth That on the first day of May AD 1775 I enlisted the company of men commanded by Capt Thomas
Knowlton of sd Ashford and served in sd company as drummer I marched in the first division to Boston went with the men to fortify on Bunker hill in the night season between the 16 & 17 June 1775. I fought in be
under Capt Knowlton on sd hill on the 17th day of that month against the British troops and toward the late part of the action I was wounded by a muskshot from the enemy that entered the great toe and went into
ball of my right foot the ball was extracted from my foot some days afterwards by a young  surgeon from Boston I think his name was Warren and put in the care of our Surgeon Dorthy Spalding and Cheney are both since dead. It was a long time before my
healed so far as that I could do any thing 
in the army until the 16th day of October 1775 when I honourably discharged I have
lost the discharge and your petitioner would further show that sd wound hath often broke out and and become an ulcerous sore especially in the summer seasons and
has never been well and sound at any time
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Hamilton Grant
Laws 10th April 1806 &
3 March, 1819

Rec'd 10 Dec 1818
Hamilton Grant Petitioning 
Enlisted in May 1775 and served until Oct 1775
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I Frederick Knowlton of Ashford, Connecticut
of lawful age testify and say that I was the waiter of my Father the late Col. Thomas Knowlton while he was a Captain of a company the first Summer of the War I was knowing that Mr Hamilton Grant was a soldier in sd  company sd Summer I was not
personally in Bunker hill battle but I understood at the time sd Grant was wounded in the foot in sd battle I find among my Fathers papers an old roll of sd Company which I have no doubt he caused to be made
in 1775 in which sd Grant is entered as enlisted in the sd company the 1st May 1775 & discharged the 16 October of the same year I also find in account
book of my fathers that appears to have kept by him in the army a receipt the body of which appears to be my father writing signed by sd Grant dated 29th January 1776 for $9.15.4  this is among the receipts taken of the soldiers for the residue of wages due them for service in sd company-- I know that Capt Daniel Allen was a Lieutenant in sd company & have heard his deposition on this paper read and from my acquaintance with sd company service and sd Hamilton Grant I have no doubt of the truth of the facts and deposition contains
and further the deponent saith not
Dated Ashford of 9 July 1818 Fred Knowlton
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I Issac Abbe of Ashford in the Country of Windham and State of Connecticut of lawful age, testify and say that in the spring of the year 1775. I listed as fifer, and Hamilton Grant of sd Ashford
listed as a drummer in Capt. Tho's Knowlton's company in the troops raised by Connecticut to fight the British Troops at Boston, and sd Grant & I belonged to sd company until the next fall. On the 17th june 1775 sd Grant and I fought by the side of each other in what is called Bunker Hill Battle under sd Knowltons command and while we were fighting as afore sd, sd Grant was wounded in the right foot by a shot from the enemy, the bullet entered his great toe and went into the ball or bottom of his foot, I saw the blood gush out of his shoe, and advised him, as did others, to retire from the battle ground, which sd Grant accordingly did. I further say that sd Grant after the battle was in the hospital a long time under the hands of Dorthy [Shaldrny]and & [Cheeley], the surgeons of our troops, since dead, and sd. Grant by reason of the inability of sd wounded foot was not able to do but very little if any duty in sd company as a drummer or soldier afterwards; another man was appointed drummer in his room, and after he got better he used to do errands for the surgeons& on horseback- Ever since the revolutionary war sd Grant has made his home in Ashford afore sd. Where I also have  dwelt, never more than 3 miles apart, and generally much nearer and I have always noted that he walked lame with that foot, which was wounded as afore sd. as tho'he had to favour it some, and I have no doubt that the lameness which I have observed as foresd, and which still continued to this day, was wholly occasioned by the aforesaid wound. and further the deponent saith not. dated at sd Ashford on this 15th July AD 1818
Isaac Abbe

State of Connecticut Windham SS 15th July 1818 Personally appeared on the 9th [Lns] Misters Daniel Allen Johnathan Chaffee, Joseph Palmer and Freerick Knowlton on this day Mr. Isaac Abbe and each of them made oath that the depondent say him subscribed on this sheet of paper contains the truth and nothing but the truth sworn before David Bolles Judge of Windham County Court

I Samuel Gray (Clerk of the court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut that David Bolles Esq.  before affidavits have been taken in Judge of County Court . The above signatures in his own  hand I certify in full faith & hereby[oupssed loleepuen] to his Acts and Deeds as such. I testimony whereof I have known to subscribed my name & affixed the Seal of Court on this 27 day of July AD 1818
Sam Gray
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Folee Property Authenticated
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To the Honorable J.C. Calhoun Secretary of 
the War Department of the United States
The Petition of Hamilton Grant of the
township of Hartford in the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut
humbly Sheweth
That on the 1st day of May 1775 I sd Grant 
enlisted into the company of infantry
commanded by Capt Thos Knowlton in Gen.
Putnam's regiment in the Troops raised by Connecticut   served at first as a drummer
and on the 17th day of June 1775 at a place called Bunker hill near Boston
while actually in sd Service in battle with the troops
of Great Britain and being then under the command
of sd Knowlton I received a wound in
my right foot
by a musket ball from the enemy
which entered
my great toe, went into the bottom of my foot
& was afterwards extracted by a Surgeon
Warren
now decd & doctored by our regimental Surgeons Spalding 
& Cheeney
same decd
The lameness our
wound hath continued
from that time
to the present and has disabled me one half at
last in obtaining my subsistence and I am now
incapacitated in that ratio thereby I am a farmer by occupation,  a poor man, I served
faithfully according to my enlistment and  by name of the disability [immediately Pursant]
16 -
day of October 1775
I was discharged honorably
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I have heard & send an old paper of Col. 
Knowlton's making of the roll of sd. Company 

I have lost my discharge, my mode of life
same I left sd service was a follows after my
foot got beth I served several tours of duty
in the armies of my country as a drummer
& Serjeant I marched hopping but I got along
and fought in the battles of Long Island
& that... Frogs point, White Plains and at the
in the battle in Rhode Island taking of the Hessians at Trenton and went
privateering in the year 1781 In the battle on
Long Island I was wounded by thunderbolt a light horseman in my right by as I was retreating & turned upon him and fired at him within 2 rods certain and he fell from his horse and there I left him I was the fighting as or volunteer I have no proof of this wound but the last year now shown to
the witnesses present: hest that mind do not
disable me, after the war was over'd I returned to this town when I have ever since got my living by except a part of 3 years in Pensylvania at Susquehanna about the Connecticut [illegible] a laboring as a farmer & have been whirly at one time disabled one year by sd wound in my foot from doing any labour at all, as my former witnesses testified It is never sound The reason I did not apply for a pension long ago was I had some property and
lived on that as long as it lasted hist it is now all gone and lately my poverty has prevented me in same dereth from
I have a wife and seven children the oldest 17 years old they are in good health.- I humbly concise I ought to be allowed one half a pension from the first passing of the law if your Honour has power to grant it
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which I pray you to do
and your petitioner
Duty bound shall ever pray
Dated Ashford
October 9th AD 1820
Hamilton Grant
sworn before
David Bolles Commissioner

Mr. Luther Warren & Carpenter Chaffee of Ashford CT of lawful age testify and say that Hamilton Grant the above petitioner is a neighbour of ours we have been
well acquainted with him between 30 & 40 years and his character & far as we know is and ever has been that of a man of truth and we know he is a farmer and that
his made & manner of life has been as he states in the foregoing petition ever since the revolutionary war, and he is a lame man in his right foot all in manner & form as he has
declared in the foregoing petition and further saith not
Luther Warren
Carpenter Chaffee
October 9th 1820

Sworn before David Bolls
Commissioner
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See Rolls of Capt Reuben Marcy- Col. Chester - originally filed as evidence in this case now filed with Col Ogden Niles Clse of Rolls P.O Dodge 
Mayo1853
Horrace Gaylord Ashford Conn
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the 2nd section
of the Act of 3rd February 1853
State of Connecticut
County of Windham SS

On this thirteeth day of April
the year eighteen hundred and fifty three
Personally appeared before the Court of Probate.
for the District of Ashford Lucy Grant a resident
of Ashford in the County of Windham and State of
Connecticut aged seventy two years, who first
being duly sworn according to law doth, on her oath,
make the following declaration in order to obtain
the benefits of the provisions made by the act of
Congress, passed on the 3d day of February, 1853, granting
pensions to widows of persons who served during the
Revolutionary War, that she is the widow of
Hamilton Grant, who was a Musician in the
company commanded by Captain Thomas Knowlton
in the Regiment of Connecticut Troops commanded
by General Putnam during the Revolutionary War
and was inscribed on the pension list, Roll of the
Connecticut Agency at the rate of four dollars per
month, which pension, commenced on the sixth
day of December in the year eighteen hundred and
twenty, that his pension Certificate was given at
the War Office of the United States on the 16th day
of July 1821 by J.C. Calhoun Secretary of War
is
in conformity with the law of the United States of
the 10th of April 1806 and 15th May 1820 being an
Invalid pension. That according to the best of her knowledge and belief, her said husband was in the
service of the United States in seven different com
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paigns as follows Viz
1st In 1775 in Captain Thomas Knowltons Company
in the Regiment of Connecticut Troops commanded
by General Israel Putnam from May 1st to October 16th
five months and fifteen days at Boston and
vicinity was in the battle of Bunker Hill
2nd In 1776 in Captain Reuben Marcey's Company
Colonel John Chester's Regiment, six months from
June to December in the vicinity of New York was
at the battle of White Plains and at Fort Washington
in each of the above named companies he served as
Drummer
3rd That he served from November 1777 to March 1778
inclusive at Providence in Rhode Island in a company
commanded by Capt. John Williams of Pomfret of which
company Ephraim Lyon of Ashford was Lieut or
Ensign, (as a drummer, he served in said Company
She further declares that she was married to the said
Hamilton Grant on the eleventh day of April in the
year eighteen hundred and two, that her said husband
died on the eighth day of August in the year eighteen
hundred and twenty two; that she was not married
to him prior to the second day of January, eighteen
hundred, but at the time above stated
She further declares that she is now the widow of the
said Hamilton Grant
Lucy Grant
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above
written, before me
and Jared D. Richmond Judge of Probate
for the District of Ashford
I Benjamin C. Simmons Clerk of the Court of Probate
for the District of Ashford do certify that I and D:
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Richmond is Judge of said Court, and that the foregoing
signature purporting to be his is his genuine signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of
said Court this second day of May in
the year of our Lord one thousand Eight
hundred and fifty three
Benjamin C. Simmons Clerk of the Court
of Probate for said District of Ashford
State of Connecticut
County of Windham
I Benjamin Simmons Clerk of the Court of Probate
for the District of Ashford do hereby certify that satisfactory
evidence has been exhibited to said Court that
Hamilton Grant was a Pensioner of the United States at
the rate of four dollars per month, was a resident of the
County of Windham in the State of Connecticut, and died in
the town of Ashford in the State of Connecticut in the year
one thousand Eight hundred and twenty two, on the eighth
day of August, that he left a widow whose name is
Lucy Grant who still remains the widow of said Hamilton
Grant
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal of said Court
this second day of May in the year of our Lord
one thousand Eight hundred and fifty three
Benjamin C. Simmons Clerk of the Court
of Probate for said District of Ashford
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25970
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Form of a declaration to be made by the WIDOW OF A DECEASED SOLDIER WHO HAS NOT had a Land Warrant.
STATE OF CONNECTICUT.
COUNTY OF Windham SS.
On this twenty seventh day of March
A. D. one thousand eight hundred
and fifty five personally appeared
before me, a Notary Public, within and for the County and State aforesaid, Lucy
Grant
aged seventy five
years, a resident of Ashford
in the State of Connecticut, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Hamilton Grant deceased, who
was a private
in the Company commanded by Thomas Knowlton
in the Revolutionary War that she is a
pensioner of the United States at the rate of forty eight dollars per annum under the act of Feb. 3 1853 and that her pension certificate is dated the 28th day of July 1853 and signed by James Campbell acting secretary of  the interior

She further states that she was married
to the said Hamilton Grant in Willington
on the eleventh
day of April A.D. 1802 by one Mr Alden
A clergyman
and that her name before her said marriage was Lucy Williams
that her said husband died at Ashford  on the eighth day of August A.D. 1822 and that she is now a widow
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she
may be entitled under the act approved March 3d, 1855. 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. for proof of her husbands service
her husbands death and her own marriage reference
may be had to the evidence on file with her application
for a pension under the Act of Feb 3d 1853 and desires
that the Warrant when issued may be sent to Horace Gaylord
of Ashford CT.
We, Wade A. Grant and 
Lucy Grant
residents of Ashford
Elizabeth J. Dunham residents of Ashford 
in the State of Connecticut, upon our oaths declare
that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Lucy Grant
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.
Wade A. Grant
Elizabeth J Dunhan
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.
Horace Gaylord Notary Public.
N.B. See my commission on file with the 

Commissioner of Pensions dated March 25th 1854
expire March 25th 1956
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Horace Gaylord Ashford Court
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Hamilton Grant and Lucy Williams joined in marriage
April Eleventh one thousand Eight Hundred and two
I Benjamin C. Simmons Clerk of the town of Ashford in the
County of Windham and State of Connecticut do certify that the
foregoing is a true copy of the Record with the exception of
the date, which is expressed on the Record in fair legible figures
as follows -
April 11. 1802 Attest Benjamin C. Simmons Clerk
I Benjamin C. Simmons above named, depose and say
that I hold the office of Clerk of the town of Ashford in the County
and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extact from
the Records of said town with the exception of the date above
named, as certified by me
Benjamin C. Simmons Clerk of said town of Ashford 
Sworn to and subscribed
this fifteenth day of February
the year 1859
before me
Horace Gaylord Notary Public
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Rev. War Section.
Mr. Everett E. Dow,
17 Hebron Street,
Hartford, Connecticut.

October 20, 1919
Sir:

In response to your letter dated the sixth instant, you are
advised that in the papers in the claim W. File No. 1,417 Rev. War
it is stated that Hamilton Grant of Ashford, Connecticut, enlisted May 1, 1775, as a Drummer, in Captain Thomas Knowlton's company Colonel Putnam's regiment; marched in the first division to Boston where he fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill, and was wounded by a musket ball through the great toe and ball of his right foot, and was discharged October 16, 1775.
He afterwards served several tours as a drummer and a Sergeant; he was in Captain Reuben Marcy's company; and from November 1777 to March 1778, in Captain John Williams' company.
He stated that he limped along, and fought in the battles of Long Island; Frogs Point; White Plains taking of the Hessians at Trenton; and at the battle of Rhode Island; that as he was retreating from the battle of Long Island he was wounded in the right leg
by a British Light Horseman, whom he turned upon, shot, and saw fall
from his horse.
He also stated that in 1781, he went Privateering, but did not give the dates or particulars of his service.
Soldier was allowed pension for gunshot wound of his right
foot which had never healed and greatly disabled him.
The soldier's age is not shown.
Hamilton Grant married at Willington, Connecticut, April 11,
1802, Lucy Williams.
In 1820, he referred to his seven children, the oldest being
seventeen years of age, but did not state their names.
Soldier died at Ashford, Connecticut, August 8, 1822, and his
widow Lucy was allowed pension on her application executed April
23, 1853, while a resident of Ashford, Connecticut, and seventy-
two years of age.
Their son John H. Grant, aged fifty years in 1853, is the only
child whose name is stated. There is no further family data.
Very respectfully,
GM Saltzgaber
Commissioner.
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Hamilton Grant
S.F 20776
A roll of least Thos Knowlton's co. Conn. Troops has been removed from this case in order to be sent to the War Dept.
DJ Oct 4, 1910
Sent to the War Dept. Jan. 16, 1913
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No. 25.970
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
Received March 27th 1855.
Lucy grant, wid. of Hamilton Grant ser. Capt. Thomas Knowlton Col. Experience Storrs CT. 
Mail. Rev. War

Warrant 3521-16v-55
Horace Gaylord Ashford Conn
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3521 [Mon] [Acres]
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1919 
oct. 20 Hist. to Everett & Dow co. 
Rev. War

Widow, &c.

File no. 1417 
Lucy Grant widow
Hamilton Grant Priv. Rev. War

Act Feb. 3 1853
Index:- Vol A, Page 285
[Arrangement of 1870]
Cons will 20776
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Revolution
20776
INVALID.
File No. 20776
Hamilton Grant
Musician Rev. War
Conn. Reg.

Act: April 10 1956
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 160
[arrangement of 1870]

conn write 1417
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May. 2. 18..
No. 1.342
Appl. of Lucy Grant widow of Hamilton Grant
Invalid
Conn:
No Pension
Act 2rd Feby: 1853
Rev:

Horace Gaylord 
Ashford Conn:
Admitting 27. July 1853 as $48. Per annum 

Department of the Interior
Pension Office, Official Business
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Rev Serv.
Everett E. Dow
17 Hebron Street
Hartford, Conn. Oct 6th 1919

Bureau of Pensions
Dept. of Interior
Revolutionary War Records Section
Washington D.C.
Gentleman- 
My great-grandfather Hamilton (or Hambleton) Grant of Ashford Conn is given in Conn. State Records as a soldier of the Revolutionary War as follows, viz: Capt. Reuben Marcy's Company 4th Co.- 6th Battalion, Wadsworth Brigade, under Col. John Chester. under Capt Thos Knowlton 5th Co. 3rd Regiment under General Isreal Putnam.
From the records stating here to be an invalid. I assume he may have been in pensions.
If so, can you furnish me the exact date ofhis birth, his birthplace and the names of his parentsand their residency at time of his securing pension. and any other information of interest in tracing his ancestry. If you can furnish this information it would be greatly appreciated. 
Yours Truly
E.E. Dow 
17 Hebron 
Hartford
Conn

US PENSION OFFICE 
D OCT 7 1919
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Lucy Grant 
widow of Hamilton Grant
Act Feby 3, 1853
Admitting at $ 48 per annum from Feby 3. 1853
Certificate of Claimant 
Care of Horace Gaylord 
Ashford CT
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Brief in case of Lucy Grant widow of Hamilton Windham County and State of Connecticut 
act Feby 3. 1853

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

It is Documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Hamilton Grant was an Invalid pensioner under Act of 1820, at $4 per month and dies in 1822, as shown by the Report of the Secy. of War in 1835. (The pensioner papers in this case are not found) Marriage proves by certificate from the town record. Identity proved by afft. of numerous witnesses widow hood- by---
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?

Name of residence of Agent
Horace Gaylord
Ashford Con. 
S. G. Dodge
Examining Clerk.
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Be it known that I Ephraim Lyon of Ashford in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut aged eighty six years do testify and say that I was acquainted with Hamilton Grant late of Ashford deceased. That he served in the Revolutionary War in Captain John Williams Company of Pomfret in the winter of 1777 & 1778  from November to March of which company my father (Ephraim Lyon was Ensign) that I have heard my said father often sat that said Hamilton Grant was a drummer in the company and I also have heard that said Grant & my said father talk together upon the fact of their being out together in the campaign as above stated and I have often heard the  said Grant declare that he was at Providence with my father in the Company above stated and served for the time as above.
Ephraim Lyon

State of Connecticut County of Windham SS.
Sworn to and subscribe this twenty sixth day of April in the years 1853 and I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the deponent and that his statement as above is entitled to credit 
Horace Gaylord Notary Public
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Be it known that I, Josiah Spalding of
Eastford in the County of Windham and
State of Connecticut aged eighty eight years
do testify and say that I was brother of
Solomon Spalding who was a soldier in Capt
John Williams company and of which company
Ephraim Lyon of Ashford was Lieutenant or Ensign
that in the winter of 1777 and 1778 he served in
the Revolutionary War in said company at Providence
in the State of Rhode Island that when he returned
from that campaign I often heard my said
brother say that Hamilton Grant of Ashford was
Drummer in said company during said campaign
which commenced in the fall of the year 1777 and
continued to the spring of 1778 that I was well
acquainted with said Hamilton Grant and believe
that he served as above stated, that said Hamilton
Grant also served six months in the year 1776 in
Capt Reubin Marcy's company in the vicinity of
New York with my brother Reuben Spalding
said Grant being likewise Drummer of that Company
State of Connecticut ss
Sworn to and subscribed this seventh day of May
in the year 1833 before me
Horace Gaylord Notary Public
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Be it known that I, Othniel
Woodward of
Ashford in the County of Windham and State of
Connecticut aged eighty seven years do testify and
say that I was well acquainted with Hamilton
Grant late of Ashford deceased, that I lived and
was brought up within about half a mile from
the house where the said Hamilton Grant was brought
up, that I very well remember that said Grant
served in the Revolutionary War, that he was in Capt Thomas Knowlton's Company in the battle of Bunker
Hill, that he there received a musket ball in
his foot, that I have often seen the wound made
by said ball, that said Grant was out in a number
of Campaigns, would be gone six months or a year
at a time, and then be at home during the intervals
of service, What Officers he was under or the particular
places of his service I am unable to state, that I
knew him after the close of the War to the day
of his death which took place I believe in the year
1822 within the limits of this school District that I also was well acquainted with his wife Lucy
Grant who survived and is now his widow
that he was the identical Hamilton Grant who was
in the Revolutionary Army I have not the least
doubt, there was no other man of that name in
this region of country
Othniel Woodward
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State of Connecticut
Windham County SS.
On this twenty sixth day of April in the year 1853 personally appeared Othniel Woodward signer of the forgoing deposition and made to the truth of the same and I certify that I am well acquainted said deponent and that his testimony is entitled to credit.
Horace Gaylord
Notary Public
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Be it hereby known that I, John H.  rant of Willington in the County of Tolland
and State of Connecticut aged fifty years
do testify and say that I am son of Hamilton
Grant who was a drummer in Capt. Thomas
Knowlton's Company of the Regiment of Connecticut
Troops commanded by General Putnam in the
Revolutionary War and drew a pension of four
dollars per month on account of wounds received in said service, that my said father died on the eighth day of August in the year
eighteen hundred and twenty two, leaving him
surviving, my mother Lucy Grant his widow
who is still alive and is still the widow of
the said Hamilton Grant deceased
John H Grant

Sworn to and subscribed this fourteenth day
of February in the year eighteen hundred and
fifty three before me
Horace Gaylor Notary Public

I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named John H. Grant and that his statement above subscribed by him is entitled to full credit
Horace Gaylor Notary Public
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State of Connecticut 
Comptroller's office
Hartford May 9th 1853

I certify that in application for evidence of the service of Hamilton Grant in the war of the Revolution in Capt. Knowltons's company, I have examined the documents remaining
in this office, and find the name of Hambleton
Grant on a Pay Roll under the following heading "A Pay Roll of the 5th John
Company of the 3d Regiment
rais'd per order General Assembly Colony Connecticut May A.D. 1775", and opposite said name are the following entries, Five enlisted May 1st time discharged Oct. 16th months & days in Service 5 mo 15 days Wages due $11. When rec'd Colony provisions May 17th Days billited themselves 161 Billiting due 81 Total amount $11.8.1.
said 5th company was commanded
by Capt. Thomas Knowlton, and
the Regiment in which the service was read
was the 3d Commanded by Lieut. Col.
Experience Storrs,
R. G. Pinney Comptroller
by Geo. Robinson Clerk
Page 39

Be it known
that I John Warren of Ashford
in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut
aged eighty five years do testify and said that I
was well acquainted with Hamilton Grant and that
I was so acquainted with him during the Revolutionary War
and was after said war to the day of his death, that I know that he was a drummer in the Army and
have often heard him say that he was in the battle of
Bunker Hill and was there wounded in the foot
that he was also in the battle of White Plains at
the time Colonel Thomas Knowlton was killed, 
in Capt Reubin Marcey's Company with Ensign Daniel Knowlton, that he lived many years a neighbor
to me after he left the Army and that I often
employed him to labor on my farm, that I was
also acquainted with him in his last sickness and
watched with him but a night or two before his death
that he died in the month of August in the year 1822
and left surviving a widow whose name is Lucy Grant
with whom also I am well acquainted who, I testify is
still alive and is still the widow of the said Hamilton
Grant that the above named Hamilton Grant was
the identical Hamilton Grant who was in the Revolutionary War
in Knowlton & Marcey's Company 
John Warren

Sworn to and subscribed this twenty third day
April 1853 and I hereby certify that I am well
acquainted with John Warren Esq the above
named deponent and that his testimony is
entitled to credit
Horace Gaylord Notary Public
Page 40

I,  Luther Warren of Ashford in the County of Windham  and State of Connecticut, aged
seventy nine years do testify and say, that
in the year eighteen hundred and twenty two
Hamilton Grant of said Ashford lived and
occupied a dwelling house belonging to me situated
near my own residence, that I was well acquainted with
said Hamilton Grant, and had been for
many years, that I knew him as a Revolutionary
Soldier, that he drew a pension on account of a
wound received in his foot, in Capt. Knowlton's
Company at the battle of Bunker Hill, of four dollars
per month. I further testify that the said Hamilton
Grant died in my said house in the month of
August in the year eighteen hundred and twenty
two. I cannot recollect the precise day of the month
when he died but think it was the first part of
the month as we had not at the time of his death
finished getting in our hay, that he left surviving
a widow, whose name is Lucy Grant with whom
also I was, and am still, well acquainted who is
still alive and is still the widow of the said Hamilton
Grant and that I knew them as husband and wife
Luther Warren
State of Connecticut
Windham County} ss
On this 1st day of April 1849 before the subscriber a Notary Public in and for the County and State aforesaid
personally appeared Capt Luther Warren above named
and made oath to the truth of the above statement and
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted the said deponent and that his testimony is entitled to credit
Horace Gaylord Notary Public
Page 41

Original Claim
Connecticut,
UNITED STATES.
DISTRICT, ss.
I Pierport Edwards, Judge of the
DISTRICT COURT of the United States of America for the
Connecticut District, by Authority of an act
of Congress, passed the 25th day of April, 1812, entitled "An Act to revive and continue in force An Act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received
in the Revolutionary War, and for other purposes," do hereby especially authorise and commission David Bolles Esq of the county of Windham and District of Connecticut
to take all evidence pursuant to the rules and regulations of the said act for substantiating the claim of Hamilton Grant of the town of Ashford
in the county of Windham and district of Connecticut
to be placed on the Pension List of the United States, by reason of known wounds received in said war,
or since, (as prescribed in the 4th section of "An Act concerning invalid pensioners," passed the 25th
of April, 1808,) while in the actual service of the United States, and in the line of his duty. And
when the same shall be completed, to return the evidence, affidavits, certificates and proceedings had
hereupon, together with this commission, to the Secretary for the Department of War.
GIVEN under my hand and seal at New Haven
the 22 day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Pierpont Edwards
Judge of said Dis.
Page 42

Increase of Pension
-
UNITED STATES.
DISTRICT, ss.
To Doctor
of
in
of
and Doctor
said District.
Pursant to An Act of Congress of the United States,
passed the 25th of April, 1848, entitled ""An Act to revive
and continue in force An Act to provide for persons who were
disabled by known wounds received in the Revolutionary War
, and for other purposes, you are hereby appointed
and authorised to examine
who is inscribed on the Pension
List of the United States, and is claimant for an increase
of pension conformably to the 5th section of the act of the 10th of April, 1808, revived as aforesaid,
and you are to report in writing and on oath or affirmation, your opinion of the nature of his disability
and in what degree it prevents him from obtaining a subsistance by manual labor; and in your proceeding
in the premises you are to be regulated and governed by said act.
GIVEN under my hand and seal at
this
day of
in the year one thousand eight hundred and
Page 43

Filed properly 
[Authenticated]
Page 44

Joseph Palmer  of Ashford in the County of
Windham and State of Connecticut M.D. one of the
Fellows of the Medical Society of sd State and a practicing surgeon and Physician aged 40 years testify and say that I have long been
acquainted with Hamilton Grant of sd town &
have examined his right foot appears to me
to have been wounded by a ball from a musket
that entered through his great to into the bottom of his foot passing close under the joint of sd toe the into the bones of the Tarsus from where it
appears to have been extracted through the under
side of the foot which wound has caused the
tendons and ligaments of that part to contract
and as appears to me must occasion pain to sd
Grant in walking and that it is now unsound
& incurable and doth prevent in the degree of one half the sd Grant from obtaining his subsistance and that he has so done ever since I have been acquainted with him from my youth to the present time, Grant is a farmer employed in laboring on the land during a period, residing in sd Ashford wherein he now dwells and - further saith not
Joseph Palmer MD
Page 45

District of Connecticut ss Ashford- October 1820 Personally appeared Joseph Palmer Jr. M.D. of Ashford  a practicing physician before me David Bolles Commissioner  I personally appointed & authorized by Hon. Pierpont Edwards District Jude of sd District and sd Palmer made oath that within deposition by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth 
David Bolles Commissioner
Page 46

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Hamilton Grant an applicant under the
Laws 10th April, 1806
 3d March, 1819

The claimant has not proven
his made of life and employment since he left the service PO-

The examining Surgeon Physician has not stated the degree of the disability
under which the party is laboring.
When the evidence is completed & the papers
sent to the War Dept a decision will be made
on this claim.
---
Vido Copy of regulations & blank form of surgeon's certificate enclosed-
War Department
Pension Office
Nov 15th 1889

31
It will be necessary to obtain the certificate of the Clerk of the Court with his seal of Office, annexed, to prove the official character, and
to authenticate the signatures
of the Judge or Comissioner in each case, or
to connect the several affidavits                   together by taste or
Ribbon, the ends of which
should be passed under the
Seal of the Court. All the
papers must be forwarded
to the War Department
Pension Office,
April 25, 1821
David Bolles, Esqr
Ashford Conn.
Page 47

I Frederick Chaffee of Ashford in the County of Windham & State of
Connecticut of lawful age testify and say that I have been
well acquainted with Hamilton Grant of sd Ashford for
as much as forty five years and after he went into the army
when he returned home he was lame in his right foot by reason
a wound which he said he received in Bunker hill battle
about twenty seven years ago the wound broke out and grew
worse so that sd Grant was much disabled from work, he and I
lived together in the same house that year, & from the wound
breaking out as aforesd sd Grant hired me to work for him
because he could not labour by reason of sd sore, and
it me and was had all summer, sometimes very bad and
other times some better he doctored it with salve and
poultries, and when the cold weather in the fall came on
it grew better, there were times in the summer when the
ball of his great toe looked as if it would not & come off
He frequently complained of it in other years since and
I have known it to be unsound and bound up occasionally
on the account of its soundness. It appears to me that it has
disabled him in the use of that foot. I have lived with
him at one time & an other as much as 6 or 7 years and
often heard him complain of the effects of sd wound in his foot & further the deponent saith not Dated Ashford 18th July 1818
Frederick Chaffee

I Josiah Chaffee of Ashford of lawful age testify and say that I am knowing to the facts stated in the foregoing deposition
of my brother Frederik Chaffee that they are true and further the Deponent saith not
 Dated Ashford
July 18. 1818
Josiah Chaffe
Page 48

Joseph Palmer of Ashford in Windham County and State of Connecticut M.D. testtify and say that
I have been acquainted with Hamilton Grant of
ever since I was a lad and we are both above
Sixty years of age I recollect about twenty seven
years ago in the summer seasons Grant shewed
me his right foot that he said was wounded in
Bunker hill battle; by the sear and appearance
of the foot it appeared as though the ball entered
his great toe and went into the foot and was extracted
from the bottom of it the wound had broken out and
and was then sore I have heard him several times
since complain of it and having lately examined
the foot I am satisfied that it occasions a degree of lameness, and incurable disability in using it 
I am well acquainted with Capt Daniel Allen
Mr Jonathan Chaffee Mr Fredrick Knowlton
Mr. Isaac Abbe & Miss Frederick Knowlton & Josiah Chaffee
and can say that they are all men of character for
truth & veracity and that full faith and credit
is due to their testimony. and further the
deponent saith not-- Dated Ashford 18th July 1818
State of Connecticut Windham J 18 July 1818
Personally appeared Miss Frederick Chaffee &
Josiah Chaffie and Doct. Joseph Palmer and each
made oath that the deposition by him subscribed on
this sheet of paper contains the truth & nothing but the
truth - Sworn before
David Bolles Judge of
Windham County Court

I, Samuel Gray Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the
County of Windham do Certify that David Boller Esq
before whom the foregoing affidavits have been taken is Judge  of the sd Court, the above Signature is his hand writing
& full faith credit ought to be given to his act as such
In Testimony hereof this Public  Seal of Court is hereunto affixed
this 27 day of July AD 1818
Sam Gray
Page 49

I Joseph Palmer M.D. and forming physician of Ashford in the County of Windham & State of Connecticut do testify
additition to my testimony on the opposite page that the facts
therein sworn to presenting Hamilton Grant and the lameness &
disability he endure in consequence of the wound he received in the 
Bunker hill battle and my opinion therein were stated from my
own knowledge and acquaintance with sd Grant and I do now
further testify that the disability under which sd Grant
now labour by reason of sd wound prevent him from
obtaining his subsistance in the degree of one half
also say from my knowledge and acquaintance with him
as he has many years lived & still dwells not far from
my place of residence in sd Ashford and I have seen him
very often nearly thirty years ago I advised sd Grant to
apply for a pension and have often so advised him some
.
as I was ever of opinion it was partly in due but he
had some property then to live on & did not do it but he is
now extremely poor
 Dated 6 Dec AD 1820
Joseph Palmer
State of Connecticut Windham County, Ashford 5 Decr 1820
Personally appeared Joseph Palmer  MD Ashford and made
oath that the above deposition by him subscribed contains the truth
Nothing but the with before me and I certify that the
writings and testimony in this case were by me sufficiently
completed to come within the statute on the 9th day of October AD 1820 when Doct Joseph Palmer Jr deposition was made
but the applicant wished the old Doct. Palmer testimony to
be taken to combat the whole and that was taken the
day - all the witnesses are men of fair character
sd Grant is not a pension under the United States to any of the States.-
I did not repeat the taking of all the former depositions since
the Commission was received from Judge Edwards as this was not
required to be done I now on this 6th day of December 1820
sign & seal up the whole & transmit the same to the Hon
Secretary of War
attest David Bolles
Judge of Windham and
Commissioner 
County Court
Page 50

I David C. Bolles Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
or County Court, within and for the County of
Windham in the State of Connecticut, do certify that
David Bolles Esquire before whom the foregoing
and annexed affadavits have been made was on the 6th of Dec. 1820 &  now is Chief
Judge of said County Court, that the signature of his
name as Judge aforesd & Commissioner to the foregoing,
as well as to the several affidavits annexed hereunto is

his own proper hand writing and Signature-- and
full faith and credit ought to be given to his acts as
such - In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed
the Publick seal of said Court at Brooklyn
in said County this 12th day of June
Anno Domini 1821
David C. Bolles