Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21221, Andrew Gray, New York
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Service                                   Number
New York                              W.21221

Gray, Andrew
         Catherine
          Catharina
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1702
New York    Albany
Catharine Gray
widow of Andrew Gray
who was a Private
in the N.Y. line 
for 2 years
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
 80 Dollars _____ Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March 1843.
_____________________________
Certificate of Pension issued the
18th day of Sept 1843
and sent to
Ch. Gray
Herkimer,
N. Y.
_____________________________
{Act of March 3, 1843}
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1 Page 117
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State of New York
Mongomery County] ss
On this twenty second of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight before me Stephen Yates, Esquire, a Judge of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Montgomery being a Court of record, Catharine Gray a resident of Stone Arabia in the town of Palatine in the County of Montgomery and State of New York aged seventy two years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 Entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions for certain widows," that she is the widow of Andrew Gray who was a private and served in the boat service of the United States and also in the Militia in the war of the Revolution. That this deponent was born at Stone Arabia aforesaid and has lived there all her lifetime - That the said Andrew Gray also lived at Stone Arabia before the Revolution war and continued to live there until his death, although this deponent does not now remember that she saw him until in the war when she became acquainted with him in Fort Loucks at Stone Arabia when this deponent and her family and the said Andrew Gray and her family lived for some time in the war. That this deponent always during the lifetime of the said Andrew heard him say and understood from others also that he was enlisted and served in said war in the service of the United States in the boat service on the Hudson River in a company under the command of Capt. William Peterson.
That she does not now remember that she ever heard the said Andrew say for what time hereof he was enlisted or how long he served nor can she now state Except as she is informed by others how long he served but she does remember distinctly that they said Andrew always alleged that he was in the boat Service on the Hudson the same year that Burgoyne was taken which was in the year 1777. That she remembers well hearing the said Andrew Gray say that their company with the American Army before the taking of Burgoyne had to retreat before Burgoyne and that he the said Andrew, at the time of their retreat was sick with the measles - That John Grimps who as this deponent believes was also born at Stone Arabia lived there during the war and until his death, which occurred about twenty years ago, and who always from the time of the war lived as a near neighbor within half a mile of the said Andrew Gray and who until his death were constant habits of intimacy with the said Andrew and of visiting in the family of said Andrew and she also frequently heard commenting together upon the subject, was also enlisted and served with the said Andrew on the said Hudson River under Capt. Peterson and from these conversations between the said Andrew and John and the frequent & repeated declarations of the said Andrew during his whole life time she believes and has no doubt that the said Andrew did serve in the boat Service on the Hudson River
the full records given in the proof and affidavits of William Feeter & Peter Sits
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hereto annexed and to which reference is had by this deponent - That the said Andrew Gray during said war but the year or years this deponent does not remember was also Enlisted in the boat Service under Capt Samuel Gray a brother of the said Andrew that he served under said Capt. Samuel Gray on the Mohawk River and also on the Susquehanna River in the expedition of General Sullivan against the Indians - that she has frequently heard the said Andrew Speak of these services also in his life time from the war down to his death, but does not recollect how long he served nor when. Except that he served the year of Sullivans Expedition against the Indians which she is now informed was in the year 1779 and from continued declaration of the said Andrew in his life time upon this subject as well as the proof of the said William Fields and Peter Sits hereto annexed to which reference is also had this deponent believes and has no doubt that the said Andrew Gray served under the said Capt. Samuel Gray in the boat Service of the United States two periods of nine month each at the times stated by the said William & Peter - That besides the said Boat Service the said Andrew Gray performed Militia service also as a private in a company of Militia which until the Oriskany battle in August 1777 was commanded by Capt Andrew Dillenbagh that Capt Dillenbagh was killed in the Oriskany battle when the command of the Company devolved upon Sefrenus Cook who afterward commanded the Company as she believes until the close of the war that the said Company was attached to the Regiment of Col. Jacob Klock that she does not know particularly how long the said Andrew Gray served in the Militia, but she remembers well that she always heard the said Andrew say and do understood from others who served with him that he the said Andrew was in the battle at Stone Arabia in the fall of 1780 where Col Brown was killed - that he went in pursuit of the enemy on the same day and the they came up with the Enemy in the neighbourhood where the village of St. Johnsville is now built and there had there had an engagement with the Enemy in a [illegible] he was also Engaged - That he was also in the Johnstown battle in the year 1781 under Col Willet and that he accompanied the forces under Col Willet and went in pursuit of Ross and Butler and was in the Engagment on the West Canada Creek above Herkimer when Butler was killed That the said Andrew during the same year in the summer of 1781 as this deponent believes with some of the militia proceeded from Stone Arabia in pursuit of a party of Tories and indians with whom they fell in and had a skirmish about three miles North of Palatine Church - That the said Andrew was in this engagement also and in which as it was always asserted by him and others that accompanied him that he shot an indian belonging to the Enemy -   And the said Catharina further declares that she was born on the Eighteenth day of May in the year one thousand seven hundred & sixty six that she was married to the said Andrew Gray on the ninth day of July in the year one thousand seven hundred and Eighty six  That her husband the said Andrew Gray died on the Seventeenth day of December in the year one thousand Eight hundred and Twenty three and that she she has a widow remained ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed - That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred and ninety [four?] viz. at the time above stated - and she further states that the nuptials were celebrated by the Rev. Abraham Rosencrantz of German flatts now in Herkimer County at the residence of her mother in Stone Arabia her father having been killed in the Oriskany battle in 1777 and that her marriage of the the said Andrew is recorded as she is informed in a record of Marriages made by the Rev. Abraham Rosencrantz of which an Extract is
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given in the affidavit of George Rosencrantz hereto annexed – and she further states that she has no documentary evidence of the services of the said Andrew Gray nor does she believe any exists
the words and State of New York aged Seventy two years, in the line of New York “Entitled an An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows in the [illegible] “until his death in the 3st line & then in the 4 line on the first page and the word “Capt on the 14th line “particularly in the 23d line and that he accompanied forces under Col. Willet in the 30th line “a widow in the 42d line “in” in the first line on the second page [illegible] on the first and [illegible] on the second page made before the declaration as was sworn to Justice [illegible]
[signed] Catherina Gray
[illegible]
[signed] Stephen Yates a Judge of Montgomery County Courts
[illegible] said application the said Catherine Gray is laboring under bodily infirmity and is unable from bodily infirmity to attend court and I do further certify that the said Catharine Gray is a person of good repute and her statements are entitled to all credit - and further that the alterations and interlineations that are above noted & made mention of in the above declaration were made & noted before being Sworn & Subscribed by the said Catharine Grey 
[signed] Stephen Yates a Judge of Montgomery County Courts
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State of New York
Montgomery County
Clerks office ss.  I do hereby certify that Stephen
Yates Esquire whose name is Subscribed to the Jurat of the foregoing affidavit & proceedings 
was on the of the date thereof a Judge of the Montgomery County courts and duly authorized by the law of the said state to administer oaths and that his signature subscribed to the same is genuine.
In testimony thereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of my office this 31st day of September 1838.
[signed] A.J. Comrie Clerk
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State of N York
Montgomery County ⎬ ss
On the 10 day of August 1838, Personally appeared before me Jacob G. Snyder
a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, Peter Sits, of the Town of
Minden, County and State aforesaid, aged Seventy Eight years past who
has been duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he has been
personally acquainted with Andrew Gray of the town of Palatine and Catharina
.Gray who is the widow of the aforesaid Andrew Gray deceased, Previous to the
Revolutionary War, before the were married when the said Catharina was the
daughter of George Snell who was slain at Oriskany Battle,
And deponant further saith that he verily belief that the said decd Soldier and the said Catharina Snell were legally and lawfully married, but not until sometime after the war, and that she did not intermarry again, and yet remaining the the widow of the aforesaid Andrew Gray decd.
And deponent further saith that the said Andrew Gray was a brave and an
Enterprizing Soldier, from the year 1776, and continued from year to year and in
Each and every year, to the final termination of the said revolutionary War, that
he belonged to the Company of Militia commanded by Lieut Andrew Dillenbagh
or Capt John Keyser, joined the American Army, forepart in summer or late in Spring
Under Capt Christopher P. Yates, in the year 1775 on the Campaign to Canada, taken sick
and never returned, died, when Lieut Dillenbagh continued in Command until that
ever memorable battle at Oriskany. When he was slain in battle at Oriskany, under the
Genl Command of Genl Herkimer, who likewise was sereously wounded and soon after
died, When Severonus Cook Emediently after said Battle, succeeded to the Command of
said Company rigt belonging to the Regt commanded by Col Jacob Klock. From the 
commencement of the said Revolutionary War to the conclusion thereof,
deponent further saith that the deceased soldier, has and did render faithful
Service to the United States, as a brave Militia Soldier, commencing in the
year 1776, and so continued during the whole war, Excepting deponent says that 
he has reason to belief, that the deceased soldier, was Enlisted in the year 1777
Under the command of Capt William Petterson, in the Batteau Service, and
Engaged in rendering boat Service, on the North river, on behalf of the United States,
of which tour deponent has no doubt on his mind, but that the said Andrew Gray, did belong to the said Company of Boatmen Commanded by Capt William Peters, otherwise called Peterson, although deponent saith that
himself hath not been Enlisted in said Company neither did belong to
the same,
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And deponant further faith, that the decd foldier viz the aforesaid Andrew Gray, was Enlisted under the command of Capt Samuel Gray two different tours, or years, viz in the years 1779 & 1780, and that the said Company were ordered to meet at Schenectady, when considered under direction of Henry Glen deputy Quartermaster. When the said Mohawk river, was not passable, in consequence of the Ice, When ordered and directed, by the said Quartermaster, in being engaged in rendering other United States Service until the mohawk river became passable in transporting Provisions and other suplies, to supply the Garrison at Fort Stanwix
That deponent further saith, that the first year viz in the year 1779 the said Company under the command of the said Capt Gray did commence in the early part of Spring in transporting Provissions and other Necessaries in supplying the Garrison at Fort Stanwix & other Forts, up along the Mohawk river, as also, Providing, and Carrying or transporting Provission & Bagage up the said Mohawk, for the supply of Genl Clinton and Genl Sullivans army, When the farmers up along the said Mohawk were pressed and constraint in drawing boats baggage and Provision to Lake Otsego distance about twenty Miles, and not until about the latter part of July or forepart of August, when Capt Saml Gray with his Batteaumen left Otsego Lake, with that Section of the army under the command of Genl James Clinton and went down the Suguahanna [Susquehanna] River, to Tioga point those awaiting the arrival of Genl Sullivan, with his army, when both armies were joined under the Chief Command of Genl Sullivan, at the time when our army went into the Indian Country, in dispersing the Indians, and tories, and their Castles when the said Capt Gray with his Company did not return home to their places of residence until forepart in Wintor, 
And deponant further saith that not only the said Andrew Gray did belong to the same Company with himself said deponant, but also that William Foster, George Kelly, Peter Keysor at the same time and year and John Gramps and many others who did belong to the same Company, and went on the same Campaign –
1780 And deponent further saith and declare that all the same, above mentioned Batteaumen were again Engaged and Enlisted, under the command of the said Capt Samuel Gray - besides Henry Genter, Henry Wausle, John J. Suts, and Peter N. Kitts, in addition this year was joined to the said Company, and that they again commenced their Batteau Service again early in spring as soon as it was found practicable in consequence of the ice in the mohawk river and continued boating from Schenectady up the Mohawk river to Fort Stanwix
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that they again commenced their Batteau Service again early in spring as soon as it was found practicable in consequence of the ice in the mohawk river and continued boating from Schenectady up the Mohawk river to Fort Stanwix and other forts up along the mohawk river - until again constrained to quit in consequence of the said river being Shutt, so as to stop the progress of boating as deponant further saith, that during said tour, that they have mett with frequent obstacles, in consequence of their common Enemy, who have stopped the progress of boating and in particular on the 19th of October said year, at the time when Col Brown was Slain in Battle, sattisfied that the deceased soldier was engaged in battle at the same time, and that again on the same day in persuit of the Enemy, deponant says that he is personally known that the said decd soldier, with himself said deponant, was Engaged in battle under the Command of Col Debois, on Klocks and Failings field now St Johns Ville, with said deponant when the Enemy withdraw themselves, 
deponant further saith that the said Andrew Gray after the said year 1780 did proof a true and faithful soldier during the continuance of the said Revolutionary War, that he was Engaged what is called Landmans battle, and that he Shott, the Sacham an Indian, who was killed, cannot be disputed, latter part of July 1781, again on the 25th Oct same year Engaged in Johnstown Battle Under the command of Col Willett, and again the next day went under the command of Col Willett in persuit of Majs Ross, & Butler with their Incendiary associates from Canada, to the West Canada Creek when Capt Butler was killed with others which are facts which never have, nor can be disputed, 
deponant further saith, that he do not hesitate in declaring that Catharina Gray the Widow of Andrew Gray is Entitled to full pension. and further deponant saith not -
[signed] Peter Sits X his mark
Sworn to and subscribed this 10th day of August 1838 before me 
[signed] Jacob G. Snyder Justice of the Peace 

State of New York 
Montgomery County Clerks office ss.  I do hereby certify that the above named Jacob G. Snyder Esquire whose name is subscribed to the Jurat of the foregoing affidavit &c. was On the day of the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County and duly authorized by the Law of said State to administer oaths & that his signature to the same is genuine 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my & the seal of my Office this 13th day of August 1838 
[signed] A J. Comrie  Clerk
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State of New York 
Montgomery County ss  This may Certify that I the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace have been personally acquainted with Peter Sits the witness Sworn to the foregoing affidavit for many years past who is a person of truth and verasity and his testimony Entitled to full Credit and I further Certify that the reason why the above named deponant Signing his name by making his cross mark because he was not taught to write his name that he never could write given under my hand this 10 day of August 1838 
Jacob G Snyder Justice of the Peace
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1375   2552

vol 4 p 63 $ 8.89
1782


Admitted
Private of Infantry  1 mo & 10 days
Bateauman 22&20
2 years

Hon A. Loomis
House Reps
WS
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State of New York
Herkimer County :
I Charles Gray of the Town of Herkimer in said County being duly sworn depose
say that I am acquainted with George [Rosecrantz] in the annexed Affidavit named that this [ILLEGIBLE] procured the search of the Record of Marriages of the Rev Abraham Rosecrantz in the possession of the said George Rosecrantz and mentioned in the said Affidavit of the said George, to be made by him the said George that this deponent was present & assisted in the said
search, and personally examined the said Record and drew the said Affidavit of the said George hereto annexed - that the said search was made on the said 28th day of September 1838 as mentioned in said Affidavit. And I do further depose that the following is a transcript of an copy of the said Record
One thousand seven hundred
and Eighty six "ninth" July
Andreas Grace M Catharina
" John Snell "
And I further depose that it is a true Copy
of the said Record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the Record in fair
legible figures as follows 1786 9th July
and I further depose that in the said [ILLEGIBLE]
marriage Record the date is entered in figures
[ILLEGIBLE] that in copying the said Record into
the Affidavit of the said George Rosecrantz
I omitted to use the date in letters, and
inserted the said date in letters in my own
affidavit, and that I omitted the insertion
of the said date in letters in the one and
inserted it in the other, for the reason
that I have doubt whether the regulations
of the Department in that respect require
such insertion or not, and that in either
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alternative, a sufficient copy of the said
Marriage Record will be given by either
the one of the other of the said Affidants
Chas Gray
Subscribed [illegible]
on this 29th day of September 1838 before me
John A Rasbach Justice of the Peace
State of New York
Herkimer County ss:
I hereby certify that Charles Gray Esq. was 
a Judge of the Herkimer County Court, and
also that John A Rasbach Esq was so justice
of the peace at the several days of the dates
of the above affidavits purporting to have been
sworn by them & duly Elected & qualified and
that I am well acquainted with their several
handwritings and verily believe that the several above
signatures purporting to be theirs are genuine-
In Witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and
Seal of said County of Herkimer  Sept 29th 1838
E.A. Munson Deputy Clerk
for John Dygut
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o.w.& n. Div.
F.S
H.M.C.
W.21221

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D.C. March 27, 1896

Sir,
    In response to your request for the military record of Andrew Gray, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you are advised that his widow, Catherine, made an application for pension on September 22, 1838, at which time she was residing in Stone Arabia, N.Y., and seventy-two years of age, and her pension was allowed for the actual service of her husband for two years as in private in the New York Troops, Revolutionary war: a part of the time served under Capt. William Peterson.
     No record has been found of George Snell as a pensioner.
              Very respectfully,
Thomas W. Grosvener, Acting Commissioner
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Soldier pensioned
W. Grosvener, Herkimer       Mch. 27/96
WIDOW, &c,
File No. 21221

Catherine Gray
wife of
Andrew Gray
Pri Rev. War

Act March 3rd 1848
Index: Vol. A, Page 291
(Arrangement of 1870.)
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Albany 1375
Catherine Gray
widow of Andrew Gray
who was a pensioner under the Act of
and who died on the 17 Dec 1823
of Montgomery Co. in the State of New York
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Peterson of the Regt commanded
by Genl Sullivan in the New York line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 80 Dollars and --- cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 13th day of Dec. 1838 and sent to Hon A. Loomis
H.R.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1838   200.00
Semi-Annual allowance ending 4 Mar 39  40.00
[total] $240.00

(Act July 7, 1838.)

Recorded by D. Brown Clerk
Book A Vol. 2  Page 79
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1947
June 13, '43

[round stamp all you can read is N.Y. Jun 9]

NY Mar 3, 1843
Cath Gray
$80. per ann 
chs Gray
Herkimer 
N. York


Revolutionary Claims
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Comiss. of Pensions
Washington
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Herkimer  June 9th, 1843
J. L. Edwards Esquire

Dear Sir:

Enclosed I send you the declaration & oath of Mrs. Catharine Gray widow of Andrew Gray deceased for another years pension under the act  of March 30, 1843.  Which we would ask your attention.
We were not advised of this act until recently and whilst the subject was again before Congress and rescinds the action of that body, on behalf of the widows of the revolution.  We are surprised that this favor was not continued  to them for life.  The public sentiment is in favor of its continuance and I hope will never be satisfied until provision is made for life for this class of widows.  Thence no reasonable ground of distinction between this class and those that were married before or in the war -
Their perils, their sufferings & their dispositions were the same.  In the instance of Mrs. Catharine Gray who is our mother and with whose sufferings in the war we have been made familiar, she had her father and a brother both killed in the Oriskany battle in the year 1777 and is a subsequent engagement at  Honeocahia wherein Col. Brown fell she had her only surviving brother, Jacob Snell, now deceased but with whom in his life time you had a good deal of pension correspondence (as I was informed by him) wounded and so disabled that he could perform little or no labor during the remaining years of the war whereby
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the support of a widowed Mother, several infant orphan sisters and an aged helpless grandfather depended in a great measure upon the farm as well as the house labor of Catharine Gray and an older sister of her's - 
Having, [illegible] also other field labor was the constant and unavoidable service which the necessities of the family & the times required at her hands - Since her hardship and labors were by the state of the times imposed upon the generosity of females of that day and no distinction should I think to make between those who happened to marry in and those who married shortly after the war - All that shared in its perils & suffering should be rewarded alike-
I am very respectfully
your obt sevt
[signed] Chas Gray
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[illegible] A Loomis
J.L. Edwards Esq
Pens Comm.
Washington

[illegible] Decd
NY.

Hon A Loomis
HR.
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Washington Dec 8, 1838

Please inform me whether the pension application of Catherine Gray from Montgomery County N.Y. [illegible, has?] been taken up & acted upon & if not how soon an answer may be expected - they were forwarded I understand in September last
Respectfully yours &c
[signed] A Loomis


J. L Edward
Pens. Comm
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1947
Catherine Gray
Widow
of
Andrew Gray
deceased

application for a pension under the act of March 3. 1843.
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Charles Gray Esq
Herkimer
N.Y.
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State of New York Montgomery County
On this sixth day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty three personally appeared before the undersigned John T. Getman a Justice of the peace of the Town of Palatine in the said county of Montgomery Catherine Gray a resident of the said town of Palatine in the said county of Montgomery aged seventy seven years on the Eighteenth day of May last who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of congress passed on the 3d March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war - that she is the widow of Andrew Gray who was a private in the Boat service and militia, the said Boat service having been rendered under Captain Billy Peterson on the Hudson River and under Captain Samuel Gray who was a brother of the said Andrew Gray on the Mohawk River, and the said Militia service having been rendered in a Company of Militia in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Jacob Klock -that the amount of the pension which she received annually under the act of July 7. 1858 was Eighty dollars and she further declares that she is still a widow 
[signed[ Catharina Gray

Subscribed and sworn to on the day and year above written before 
[signed] John T Getman Justice of the Peace 

and I the said Justice do further certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Catherine Gray the said declarant and that she is personally known to me and that she is a person of fair character and her statements are entitled to full faith and credit -- and I further certify that the word
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years, in the foregoing declaration was interlined therein before the said declaration was sworn by the Catherine Gray 
[signed] John T Getman Justice 

Montgomery County Clerks office ss  I Henry Cook Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that John T. Getman before whom the foregoing declaration & affidavit purports to have been taken and whose name is subscribed to the above certificate was at the date of said Declaration & Subscribing his name to said certificate a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Montgomery duly elected and qualified to act as such, and that the signatures thereto are genuine. 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official Seal this 7th day of June 1843.
[signed] H. Cook Clerk
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Fonda June 7th 1843.
Charles Gray Esqr
Sir I herewith Send you certificate &c my fees charged to you are 25¢
Yours &c
[signed] A. Cook
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1783 & 1783 to the close of the war Militia Capt Cook Stone Arabia at Fort Paris 
1780 The deceased during this year and during his term of Enlistment in the boat service was engaged in the battle called Stone Arabia battle in which Col Brown was killed and was again on the afternoon or at Evening of the same day Engaged under Col Dubois at Klock’s and Failings with the Enemy under Brant and Sir John Johnson 
From a communication of J. L. Edwards Esquire to Jacob Snell Esquire who has recently deceased which communication was made through the Hon. A. Loomis of date of 22 May 1838 and is now among the papers of Mr Snell. I discover that the claims for boat Service if sufficiently proved will be allowed  -
In this case two tours of nine months each in the years 1779 & 1780 are proved by three witnesses. Feeter, Sits and Nellis the boat Service in 1777 is proved by Sits and the applicant and the service of 1778 is proved most circumstantially by Wm Feeter both as to time and place - The applicant in her statement sustains both Sits as to the service of 1777 and Feeter as to the service of 1778. She does not remember how long but she remember the service and the place where the same was rendered and her statement in that respect will support both services we think - If however it shall be deemed that the evidence of the applicant does not sustain the testimony of Mr Feeter as to nine months services rendered in 1778 then we submit whether the great detail and circumstance of the testimony of Col. Feeter regarding any corroboration and whether it does not sustain sufficiently the testimony of Sits as to the service rendered in 1777 -although Sits and the applicant do not State with Exact precision the duration of the service in 1777 yet stating the place where and other conversation connected with that service with the fact that the Enlistments in the boat service were uniformly for nine months from the opening to the close of navigation and there is sufficient and Satisfactory Evidence to show such a service in that year as together with his militia Service will amount to six months service, so as with the two nine months tours in 1779 & 1780 will make out two full years service to justify the allowance of a full pension 
If the marine service of 1777 and 1778 and the militia Service of the deceased as provide will not justify, an allowance of 6 months then we would request the commissioner of Pensions to examine the old payrolls now in his department for militia services forwarded from Albany by the secretary of State for militia Services rendered by the deceased in the early part of the war until 1777 under Capt. Keyser or Capt or Lieut. Andrew Dillenbagh and after 1777 under Lieut or Capt Sefrenus Cook in Col Jacob Klock's Regiment
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affidavit of Sits, Feeter & Nellis as to general militia service to close of war and fidelity as a Soldier &c
In a history of Stone Arabia Battle when Col Brown was killed and in which deceased was Engaged see Stones’ life of Brant 2d Vol. 115th pages 19 Oct. 1780
For the Engagement with the Indians and Tories north of Palatine called Landmans battle where the deceased killed an Indian - this history is founded on narrations of Col Wm Feeter furnished to Col Stone - Life of Brant 2nd Vol 160th page - 1781
Johnstown Battle under Col. Willet 2nd do Vol page 187 &c 28 Oct 1781
Battle on West Canada Creek when Butler was killed 2nd do Vol page 191 - 30th Oct 1781 
Expedition against Onondaga Castle of Indians which deceased accompanied 
1st do Vol page 404 &c 9th April 1779
Expedition of General Sullivan and Clinton, accompanied by deceased against the indians in the western part of the State of New York 2nd vol page 5 &c
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Tabular Statement of the Revolutionary Service of  Andrew Gray, deceased whose widow Catharine Gray is an applicant for a Pension
[TABLE] 
Year when service was rendered  |  Several periods of Service  |  Nature of Service  |  officers under whom Service was rendered  |  Places where Service was rendered  |  Evidence of Service  |  Remarks
1776  |  no fixed term  |  Militia  |  Capt Andrew Dillenbach Col. Jacob Klock’s Regt Lt. Col. Peter Waggoner Major Eisenlord  |  Stone Arabia Tryon County now Montgomery County N.Y.  |  affidavit of Peter Sits John L Nellis & William Feeter  |  These affidavits State Militia Service from the beginning to the close of the war Except when engaged by Enlistment, and do not fix upon any particular time of definite period. For the reason that sufficient services to Entitle the applicant to a full pension under Enlistments are proved it was deemed unimportant to have the Militia service more particularly proved
1777  |  9 months  |  Marine  |  Capt William Peterson with the American Army opposed to Burgoyne Capt. Peterson Commanded a Company of men in the Boat Service  |  On the Hudson River with the Army in Saratoga  |  Affidavits of Peter Sits and the declaration of the applicant  |  Peter Sits States the time to have been in 1777 and the applicant fixes It the same year Burgoyne was taken which was in 1777 –
1778  |  9 months  |  Capt. Wm Peterson  |  On the Hudson River  |  affidavit of Col. William Feeter  |  Col. Feeter fixes upon the time of this service with so much particularity that there cannot be any doubt in regard to it Col. F. was present at the enlistment and saw the deceased [illegible] at Albany & the applicant states served in the [illegible] that Burgoyne was taken and gives the circumstance of the sickness of the deceased and the retreat before Burgoyne with so much detail that there can be no doubt the deceased served both in the year 1777 and 1778 on the Hudson under Capt. Peterson (& and knows that he was absent from home during the period of his enlistment)
1779  |  9 months  |  Marine  |  Cap. Samuel Gray  |  On the Mohawk River with the Expedition against the Onondaga Indians and on the Susquehanna River with General Sullivan against the Indians and back to Pennsylvania  |  affidavit of Peter Sits  William Feeter  John D. Nellis  |  Clearly and most positively provided
1780  |  9 months  |  Marine  |  Capt. Samuel Gray  |  On the Mohawk River carrying supplies &c  |  do.  |  Do.
1781  |  8 days Col Feeter states the Johnstown battle and the pursuit after Ross & Butler when Butler was killed 6 days and 2 days when the deceased shot an Indian Col. Stone marked the battle at Johnstown Oct 25 and Butler’s battle Oct 30th 1781 being 5 days the time necessarily occupied in marching from Stone Arabia to Johnstown and from Jersey field after Butler was killed. in pursuit of the Indians some distance and then back to Stone Arabia must have occupied at least 3 or 4 days so that the deceased must have served at this time 8 or 9 days at least  |  Capt. Sef. Cook  Col. Klock’s Regt  |  Stone Arabia at Fort Paris commonly called Fort Loucks. Johnstown in Johnstown Battle under Col. Willet Landsman’s Battle – The Engagement with Ross and Butler when Butler was killed on the west Canada creek above Herkimer under Col. Willet  |  affidavit of William Feeter  John L. Nellis & Peter Sits  |  It was in the Year 1781 that deceased killed an Indian north of Palatine church in Landsman’s battle so called in affidavit of Col. Feeter, J. L. Nellis & Peter Sits. he was in the battle at Johnstown and again above Herkimer on the West Canada Creek when Butler was killed
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State of New York 
Herkimer County } ss.  William Feeter of the Town of Little Falls in said County of Herkimer being duly sworn doth depose & say that he was Eighty two years of age on the 2d day of February 1838 - that he was born in the County of Tryon, now Montgomery, in the State of new York and at the time of the commencement of the Revolutionary war lived at Johnstown in said County and sometime after the commencement of the War, went to live at Amsterdam in said County, where he continued to reside in the family of his father until sometime in August 1777 when he left his father and family at Amsterdam and went up the Mohawk River to a place called Stonearabia [Stone Arabia] also in Tryon County - that the occassion of his leaving father was that the father and brother of this Deponent adhered to the Kings cause and joined the enemy and this Deponent joined the cause of the Whigs and in consequence of which this deponent was compelled to leave his father and family sought refuge among the Whigs at Stonarabia that on his arrival at Stonarabia this Deponent was immediately introduced to a Whig family by the name of Gray -  that there were six Brothers all of whom were Whigs and spirited soldiers, and that immediately after the arrival at Stonearabia of this Deponent one of the said brothers named Adam furnished this deponent with a Musket powder horn and and bullet Pouch to enable this Deponent to perform the usual military duties which the times then demanded to that place - That this deponent was immediately enrolled in a Company of Militia commanded by Capt. Sefrenus
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Cook in the Militia Regiment commanded by Col. Jacob Klock. Lieutenant Col Peter Waggoner and Major Eisenlord the latter having been killed in the Oriskany battle in the beginning of August 1777 but a short time previous the arrival of this Deponent at Stonearabia; in which said company the said Gray and among the rest the said Andreis Gray hereinafter named, as this Deponent believes and does not doubt were also enrolled –
And this deponent further saith that Andrew Gray one of the said Brothers and with whom this deponent immediately became acquainted and with whom he lived on terms of intimacy until his death which at this deponent believes occurred in December 1823, served in the War of the Revolution, the period at the times and in the manner following to wit –
In February 1778 the said Andrew Gray enlisted into the service of the United States in a company of Boatman commanded by Capt. Peterson and performed his said service for the said term of Nine months under the said Capt Peterson on the Hudson River in the State of New York - That this Deponent knows of the said enlistment and service from the following circumstances that it say that this deponent and the said Andrew Gray and one John Gremps went from Stonearabia to Albany together for the purpose of enlisting into the Boat Service of the Mohawk River - that no enlistments for the Boat service on the Mohawk were that year made and that there upon the said Gray & the said Gremps enlisted in the Boat service on the Hudson River under Capt. Peterson, which this Deponent declined and returned home to Stonearabia
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that this Deponent was present when the said Andrew was mustered at Albany - and his Deponent having returned to Stone arabia remained at Stonearabia diving the summer of 1778 and knows that said Andrew Gray remained absent from Stonearabia until after the expiration of his said term of nine months when he returned home to Stonearabia - that during said absence of the said Andrew and after his return this Deponent always understood from the said Andrew, and the family and others that he served his said term of enlistment of nine months aforesaid under the said Capt. Peterson 
In the year 1779 in January the said Andrew Gray and this Deponent enlisted together for the period and term of Nine months in the service of the United of States in a company of Boatmen under the command of Capt. Samuel Gray who was a Brother of the said Andrew and fully served the said term of nine months - That we enlisted in January but were not mustered until Febuary - that we were mustered in Albany in Februay, but did not enter upon active duty until the Mohawk River opened which was in April.  that their company accompanied the expedition which went and destroyed the Onondaga Castle of Indians - that they took about thirty prisoners which they took to Schenectady in the Boats 
That the said Company after their return from the Onondaga Expedition which was commanded as this Deponent now thinks either by Col. Van Dyck or Van Schaick but cannot say certain which was again order and did accompany Genl. James Clinton who accompanied General
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Sullivan in his expedition against the Indians into the Western part of this State west of the Seneca & Cayuga Lakes - that the said company went up the Mohawk from Schenectady to the neighborhood of Fort Plain whence in company with Genl. Clintons army they crossed over to Otsego lake, damed [dammed] the Lake and then passed down from Otsego lake with the flood created by the daming to Tioga Point where they joined Genl. Sullivan then proceeded up the River Chemung to Newtown where they had a Battle with the Indians - that their company of Boatmen were then order back with the wounded and carried them down the River to Wyoming, where the wounded were left at a Fort, from there said company were ordered up the River again with provisions to Tioga Point where was a Fort also and where the said company remained stationed until the return of Genl. Sullivan & his army when they joined Sullivan and proceeded with [illegible, them?] down the River to Wyoming and from there they accompanied the army by land to Eastown [Easton] in Pennsylvania where they remained until they were discharged the latter part of November or first of December 1779 - (1779) 
In the year 1780 in January the said Andrew Gray and this Deponent again enlisted under the said Captain Samuel Gray for the term of nine months in the service of the United States in the said Boat Service and served the whole of the said term of Nine months - They were again mustered in Albany and entered upon their duties as above as the River opened in April - This service was
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wholly performed on the Mohawk River & in transporting Supplies for the army and men stationed along the River, from Schenectady to Fort Stanwix 
The the two last mentioned periods of enlistment for nine months each, rendered in 1779 & 1780, were rendered under enlistments for 9 months each, in which this deponent and the said Andrew Gray enlisted together and joined and served together –
That after the termination of these service & until the close of the Revolutionary War and in the intervals between the said services, this Deponent continued to live at Stonarabia and on terms of intimacy in the family of the said Grays –
That besides the said services rendered by the said Andrew Gray hereinbefore mentioned - the said Andrew Gray performed duty also as a private in the said Company of Militia commanded by Capt. Sefrenus Cook hereinbefore mentioned that during their said engagement in the Boat Service on the Mohawk River their said company, on the occasions of attacks by the enemy on the inhabitants on the Mohawk and its vicinity, were in the habit of leaving and did repeatedly leave their boats, and join with the local militia in defending themselves against and in pursuing the enemy - that in one occasion during their boat Service, in the year 1780 as this deponent believes in the summer or early part of the fall of the year, a party of Indians and Tories under the command of a Tory by the name of Jacob Klock, were pursued by a party of the
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Tryon County Militia under the command of Capt. Jacob Sammons, whom the said Andrew Gray & this Deponent had joined, and when in a skirmish with the Indians and Tories about three miles from the now Village of Palatine Church, the said Andrew Gray in the presence of this Deponent and in the view of this deponent shot an Indian and who fell into the hands of our party –
That in the year 1781 the said Andrew Gray and this deponent were also present and in the engagement under Col Willett. With Ross at Johnstown called the Johnstown Battle - that this deponent did not see the said Andrew during the Battle but knows that the company to which he belonged was in the engagement & that the said Andrew us all the neighbors always claimed and said that he was in said Battle – That as this Deponent has also always been told by the said Andrew Gray and others that went in pursuit of the said Ross & his party, and which this Deponent verily believes true, the said Andrew Gray accompanied Col. Willett in the pursuit of Ross and that the said Andrew was present and in the engagement on the West Canada Creek above Herkimer where Butler was killed - that this Deponent did not accompany Col Willett to Butlers Battle and cannot state how long the militia from Stonearabia were gone on
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that occasion, but judging from the distance they travelled and including the service as well as the Battle of Johnstown as the pursuit which resulted in the engagement where Butler was killed this Deponent has no doubt that the said Andrew Gray served on these two occasions together at least six days –
That on the occasion of the attack by the enemy on the Fort erected on the Mohawk, Known as Fort Timmerman, the said Andrew Gray & this Deponent with a party under the command of Col Willett pursued the enemy and were out with Col Willett in this pursuit two days, but did not come up with the enemy –
This service was in the fall but this deponent does not recollect the year but thinks it was the year 1780.-  It was after Col Willett came out the regular service and took the Command of the Militia on the Mohawk River - that this Deponent and the said Andrew Gray were also on other Militia duties in the immediate neighborhood of Stonearabia but would be about only parts of days and that as this deponent has also been informed and believes but does know the fact of his own knowledge, the said Andrew Gray performed Garrison duty at a Fort in Stonearabia called Fort Loucks 
And this deponent further saith that the said Andrew Gray from the time of the Revolutionary war until his death continued to reside at Stonearabia in the Town of Palatine in the County of Montgomery -
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that shortly after the War and before the year 1794, although the precise time this Deponent does not recollect, the said Andrew Gray intermarried with Catharine whose maiden name was Snell and who survived the said Andrew Gray of the time of his death and who is still surviving and remaining the Widow of the said Andrew Gray and who as this deponent is also informed is about to apply for a pension under the act of July 7th 1838 – 
[signed] William Feeter
Subscribed and sworn to this 3d day of September 1838
[signed] Chas. Gray a Judge of Herkimer County Courts 

and I the said Charles Gray do further certify that I am well acquainted with the above named William Feeter and that he is a person of fair character and good reputation and that his statements are entitled to full faith & credit 
Given under my hand at Herkimer this 3d day of September 1838 
[signed] Chas Gray a Judge of the County Court of the said County of Herkimer 

and I the said Charles Gray do further certify that I have been acquainted with the said William Feeter for more than twenty years and that he has during the whole period of my acquaintance sustained fair character and entitled to credit – and I further certify that there was made, before signing and swearing the forgoing affidavit by the said William Feeter one interlineation & one obliteration on the 2d page thereof and one word written on a blur - two interlineations and two obliterations on the 3d page - two obliterations and several words written on blurs on the 4th page - two interlineations and three obliteration on the 5th page - one obliteration on the 6th page - one interlineation and three obliterations, one erasure on the margin & several words written on blurs and the 7th page, and that these alterations and the period of my acquaintance with the said William Feeter were noted by me in my certificate of the 3d day of
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September instant for the reason that the necessity or propriety of so doing then escaped me
Dated September 18th 1838 
[signed] Chas Gray a Judge of the County Court of said County of Herkimer
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State of New York 
Montgomery County } ss.  John L. Nellis of the town of Palatine in said County being duly sworn saith that he will be seventy six years of age on the 3d day of December next that he has lived in said town of Palatine in Stonearabia - and has always lived and still lives in Stonearabia -, that he became acquainted with Andrew Gray now deceased before the Revolutionary War - that this deponent and the said Andrew went to School together before the war - that from the time of their first acquaintance until the death of the said Andrew which occurred in the year 1828 the said Andrew Gray at lived in Stonarabia and less than two miles from this deponent - that in the Revolutionary War the said Andrew Gray was engaged and performed duty in the service of the United States - that in the year 1779 as this deponent believes although he cannot state precisely the year the said Andrew Gray was enlisted in the Boat service of the United States in a company commanded by Capt Samuel Gray a Brother of the said Andrew and with whom this Deponent was also well acquainted - that after said enlistment the said Andrew Gray accompanied the expedition under General James Clinton & Genl Sullivan in pursuit of the hostile Indians in the western part of this state - that this deponent was employed some [illegible] 20 days in carrying over the Boats of said Boatsmen from the Mohawk River at Canajoharie to the Otsego lake and knows therefore of his own knowledge that the said Andrew was also at the time employed in the same service and that deponent was with the said Company of Boatsmen accompanied Genl. Clinton from the Otsego Lake down the Susquehannah, to Tioga where as this Deponent is informed they were joined by Genl Sullivan - that the said Andrew Gray and the said company were enlisted & engaged in said service for the period of nine months as this deponent always understood and now believes, and that they did not return home to Stonearabia which was the residence of the said Capt. Samuel Gray until late in the fall of that year –
And this deponent further saith that after the said service of the said Andrew Gray in the said expedition of Genl. Sullivan, and this deponent believes the next year to wit in the year 1780 the said Andrew Gray as this deponent was at the time informed and as he then believed and as he now believes he was again enlisted in the
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service of the United States in a company of Boatsmen again commanded by the said Captain Samuel Gray - that this deponent was well acquainted with the said Gray and others who were enlisted into the said Boat Service and believes and has no doubts that both said enlistment and services were for the period of nine months each - that the last period of service was performed in the Mohawk River in transporting Supplies for the garrisons and men stationed in the Forts on the Mohawk River from Schenectady to Fort Stanwix - that this Deponent knows that the said Andrew Gray was in said Boat service at this period from the circumstance that at one time during the season the said Boat men were considered in danger of an attack from the enemy who was in the neighborhood when the said Boatmen unloaded their boats at Fort Schuyler where the city of Utica is now built and where they had entrenched themselves and when the Militia from Stonearabia of whom this deponent has one were ordered & [illegible, actually?] marched to Fort Schuyler for the relief of the Boatmen and from whence the militia guarded them to Fort Stanwix with their Boats and landing that this deponent recollects that he saw the said to Andrew Gray was with the said Boatmen and in the Boat service on that occasion this deponent was also informed at the of time of Browns Battle at Stonearabia being the Battle wherein Col. Brown was killed in October 1780, that the said Andrew Gray and the said Capt Gray and other Boatmen were in said Battle - that they were sent out before the rest of the militia marched off to make observations of the approach of the enemy that this deponent did not see the said Andrew Gray in the engagement, but always understood that they encountered the enemy near the nose so called where they fired upon the enemy and [illegible, rescined?] in return also the enemy fire -
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And this deponent further saith that on another occasion the year this deponent does not now recollect, a party of the Stonarabia Militia of whom the said Andrew Gray and this Deponent were of the number went in pursuit of a party of Tories and hostile Indians and fell in with them about three miles from the Village of Palatine Church near Landman’s, where they had a skirmish with the Indians and whereas as it was at the time and ever since said by the said Andrew Gray and others that were with him that he the said Andrew Gray shot and killed an Indian - that this Deponent was with the party and saw the said Andrew Gray with the party and knows also that one of the enemies Indians was killed at the time - that the said Andrew Gray was a true [illegible] and a spirited and good soldier during the Revolutionary War and when not absent from home engaged in the Boat service he performed the usual military duty that was required of the Militia of Tryon County from the beginning to the close of the Revolutionary struggle as this deponent always understood and believed and as he now believes- 
And this deponent further saith that he is acquainted with Catharine Gray the widow of the said Andrew Gray & that he has been acquainted with her from the time that she was ten or twelve years old - that her maiden name was Catharine Snell - that some time after the Revolutionary War and before the year 1794 but the precise time this deponent does not know, the said Andrew Gray & the said Catharine intermarried as it was reputed and which this
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deponent verily believes and lived together and had a family of children - that the said Catherine Gray survived the said Andrew Gray and is still surviving and a widow - That the said Catharine Gray has not been remarried since the death of the said Andrew Gray deceased and further saith not 
[signed] John L. Nellis
Subscribed and Sworn to by the said John L. Nellis in due form of law the 15th day of September 1838 before me Charles Gray a Judge of the County Courts of the County of Herkimer and State of New York and Counsellor in the Supreme Court of Judication of the State of New York and I the said Charles Gray do further certify that I have been acquainted with the said John Nellis for more than twenty years past, and that he the said John L. Nellis is a person of fair reputation and his statement is entitled full credit and I further certify that the interlineations & obliterations in the foregoing Affidavit of the said John L. Nellis contained and made were each & every one thereof made before the signing & swearing thereof by the said John L. Nellis to wit the [illegible] Canajoharie written over the hand “Fort plain and three obliterations on the first page; one interlineation & two obliterations and the page before “7” in “1780 was written over the big [illegible] “8” on the second page –
[signed] Chas Gray Judge
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State of New York 
Herkimer County } ss  I George Rosecrantz of the Town of Little Falls in said County aged seventy four years do depose & say that I am the son of Abraham Rosecrantz deceased who in his life time, in the year 1786 was a Minister of the Gospel in the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church and reside of German flatts in said County and was at the said time and for many years before and after that time, the settled minister and officiated as such minister, in the church of German flatts - that the said Abraham Rosecrantz at the said time, at German flatts and other places in the vicinity among other ministerial duties, was in the constant practice of performing baptisms and celebrating marriages; and that he made and kept a record of the births and marriages of the children baptised, and the persons married by him - that the Book of records of the said births & marriages of the said Abraham on his decease, which occurred more than thirty years ago, came to the custody and possession of this deponent as his son, and always from the death of the said Abraham, until the present time, remained in the custody & care of this deponent - that the said record of marriages commences in the year 1781 and is continued down to 1796 - that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of my father the said Abraham Rosecrantz, and know that the said Record is wholly in the hand writing of the said Abraham - And I the said George Rosecrantz do further depose that I have this day inspected the said Record of marriages and have found therein in the hand writing of the said Abraham Rosecrantz the entry of marriage as follows to wit: “d.  [illegible] Andreus Grake is Catharina Joh. Snell” And I the said George Rosecrantz do certify, that it 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; “9th July 1786” and I George Rosecrantz above named depose & say that I am the
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said son and hold the said Record of the said Abraham Rosecrantz deceased and reside in the County, Town & State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the Records of the said Abraham Rosecrantz with the exception above named as certified by me –
[signed] George Rosecrantz
subscribed & sworn to before me the 28th day of September 1838 
Chas Gray a Judge of Herkimer County 

and I the said Charles Gray the said Judge do hereby further certify that I have been acquainted with the said George Rosecrantz for about fifteen years past, that he is a person of fair character and his statements are entitled to full credit and I certify also that the interlineation of the words giving the age of the said George Rosecrantz, and also the word "July” in the transcript from the Marriage Record were interlined before the signing & swearing of the said Affidavit - and the word “July” in the date of the ending of the said Record of marriages was also obliterated before execution 
[signed] Chas Gray Judge &c