Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 14820, Elisha Gross, Continental Mass.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Continental Mass.
NUMBER
W14820
B.L.Wt 177-100

Gross, Elisha
           Deborah
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9298
Massachusetts
Elisha Gross of Scituate in the State of Mass.- who was a Sergeant in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Crane of the Mass. line, for the term of six years.

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 27th of Apr. 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 14th of Apr 1819 and sent to Nahame Mitchell, Esq Wrentham, Mass.

Arrears to 4th of March 1819 {illegible]  82.09
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Sept 1819     48.00
                                                                     $130.09


{Revolutionary Claim, Act 18th March, 1818}
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Massachusetts  1406

Deborah Gross
widow of Elisha Gross dec.d
Who was a Pensioner under the Act of 18128 and who died on the 30th September 1829 of Plymouth Co. in the State of Mass who was a Sergeant in the company commanded by Captain-- of the Regt. commanded by Col Crane in the Mass line for 6 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Ms at the rate of 120 Dollars--Cents, per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836

Certificate of Pension issued the 17th day of Dect 1838 and sent C. T. Fogg Scituate Ms

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1838 $300.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar. 39'  60.00
                                                                          
                                                                    $360.00

{Act July 7, 1838}

Recorded by A.D. Addison Clerk, Book A Vol. 1st  Page 90
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Reuben Baldwin
May 29th 1833
Jason Blake

Wt 177
Rev
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Sandwich, Masstts  May 23d 1833

Sir 
your favor of May 17th is received, enclosing Land Warrant No 1942, issued to the Heirs of John McLean decd, late a Soldier in the Connecticut line, of the Revolutionary Army; the Receipt of which is hereby acknowledged-the Information contained in said letter will be very gratefully received by the heir of Simon {illegible]-
I have been importuned the [illegible] of several Revolutionary Soldiers who have  desired me to write to the War Dept. for the  purpose of ascertaining the situation of their claims on the United States for Bounty land-and being willing to gratify them; I herewith transmit an enquiry whether Land Warrants haver over issued from the War Office of the United States, in satisfaction of claims of the following soldiers, (VIZ) Jason Blake (underlined), who served as Sergeant and Ensign in Captain Williams Company, of the 5th Regt, Massth line, Col Rufus Putnam:- also Samuel Smith, who was a private in Capt. Stephen Olney's Company of Col Horace Angells, Rhode Island Regt-also at the request of the Heirs of Elisha Gross Dec: said Elisha was a Sergeant in Capt Halls Company, in Colonel Cranes Regiment of Artillery, of the Massachusetts line- as is usual, the aforesaid Individuals say they have no knowledge of transferring their claims to the[illegible] of Bounty Land due them from the United States-If therefore, Warrants have issued in Satisfaction of their respective claims, or either of them, please to inform me of the same, together with the No: and time of[illegible], and to whom delivered, please to forward the answer, directed to me at this place very Respectfully Sir, I am your obedient Servant
Reuben Baldwin

Hon Secretary of War Bounty Land Office Washington}
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Sandwich May 25-                            Free
Hon. Secretary of War
Bounty Land Offices
Washington

Rec'd May 28, 1833
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War Dept. Bounty Land Office
May 29 1833

SSir in reply to the inquiries submitted in yours of the 23r [illegible]
I have to inform you that, the name of Jason Blake, is not returned on the records of the Mass line, on file in this office either as a Commiss", or non-commiss' officer, among those entitled to land bounties from the U. states-
In relation of the case of Saml Smith, who was a private in the Rhode Island line, I have to inform you that his claim for land bounty was satisfied by the [illegible] of Mass No.3517 for 100 acres, on the 28th May 1792 to his assignee, Israel Angell.
In regard to the case of Elisha Gross, I have to inform you that, Land Warr. No. 177 for 100 Acres issued on the 2d March 1805 in the name of said Elisha Gross, who was a Sergeant in  Cranes Artilly Mass line; which warrant was delivered to his attorney Seth Hastings.
Yrs [illegible]
Wm Gordon

M. Reuben Baldwin
Sandwich Mass
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Elisha Gross No. 177 processed [illegible]

Warrant del @  to Mr. Hastings
Member of Congress 2d Mar. 1805.
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Know all men by these Present That I Elisha Gross of Scituate, State of Massachusetts Yeoman, do authorize and appoint Seth Hasting of Mendon in the County of Worcester and State aforesaid [illegible] my Lawfull Attorney, in my name to ask, demand and receive at the War Office of the United States, a Warrant of Security for all the lands due to me for my services as a Sergeant in the then Regiment of Artillery, Commanded by Col. John Crane and in Capt. Moses Company in the late Army of the United States in the War with Great Britain--In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this thirtieth day of Oct. One thousand eight hundred.
Elisha Gross
Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of } John Crane
Jno B. Mc Cleary

Commonwealth of Massachusetts}
Boston Ss

Be it known, that on this  30th day of October one thousand and eight hundred, before me Saml Cooper Notary Public, dwelling in Boston aforesaid, personally came and appeared Elisha Gross, an acknowledge the above Letter of Attorney to  [illegible] use act. Deed-
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my [illegible] Seal, the day and year above written
Saml Cooper NotPub
(Seal is illegible)
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Elisha Gross
Scituate
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A
I Elisha Gross of Suituate, in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in the Seventy year of my age depose set forth and declare, that I was a Soldier the war of the Revolution an the Continental establishment, that I entered the service in the year One thousand Seven hundred and Seventy five, for Eight Months, in Capt. Samuel Stockbridges Company in Col. John Baileys Regiment, in the Massachusetts line, and used out my time faithfully, at Roxburgh, near Boston had my regular written discharge at the end of this time I again engaged in Stevens Company, Col. [illegible] Corps of Artillery, for one year, and served out my time faithfully- In March one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy When I  again entered the service In Capt. Custis' Company in Col Cranes Rof Artillery for and during the War, and served the end of the War, and was discharged on the Fourth of June One thousand Seven hundred and eighty-three, and was a regular Discharge, which is now in the Secretaries Office at Boston; I was in the Battle of Brandywine, and in Monmouth battle (battle crossed out) and further declare that from my reduced circumstances need the assistance of my Country for Support.Capt. James Hall of Cohasset  then a Captain Lieutenant-of our Company, and is now living, and if I can obtain his affidavit of my services I will forward it to the Judge.- A sergeants warrant which I received in Jany 1783.  I herewith exhibit I have no further evidence of my services in my power.
Elisha Gross

Declared and sworn to before me this 27th day of April [illegible]1818
Nahum Mitchell Judge [illegible]
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Deborah Gross
widow of 1544
Elisha Gross

papers admitted 
Sergt-Arty  6 yrs
$120

E.F.  Fogg
So: Sictuate
Mass
Sept 14
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State of Massachusetts,
Plymouth  }Ss

On this Twenty seventh day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight before the Court of probate [illegible] at Scituate and for the said County of Plymouth, personally appeared Deborah Gross, a resident of Scituate in the said County of Plymouth aged eighty five years who, being first 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 July 7, 1838 entitled An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows: That she is the Widow of Elisha Gross, who was a Sergeant in the of the Revolution.
1  He enlisted for eight months in the year 1775, and served out his term at Roxburgh 2d He enlisted for one year into a Company of Artillery and marched to Canada.  This enlistment was in the Spring of the year 1776, and he served his term of enlistment- 3d In the year 1777 [illegible] He enlisted again into said service for during the war, into a Company of Artillery as a Sergeant, attached to Col. Cranes Regiment and Gen Knox's Brigade and served more than three years.  And for these services he obtained a pension under the act of Congress of May 15, 1822 a certificate of said Pension is hereto annexed and for further proof of said service reference to be had to the files of the War Department  at Washington there being no one living that she knows at this time by whom she can prove the same, He also obtained a pension under the act of 1818   the certificate is annexed.

She further declared that she was married to the said Elisha Gross on the fourteen day of October in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty nine; that he husband the aforesaid Elisha Gross died on the thirtieth day of September in the year Eighteen hundred and twenty nine;  that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four Viz at the time above stated.
Deborah Gross
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me
Wilkes Wood Judge of Probate

Plymouth Ss  I Jacob H Loud, Register of Probate for said  do hereby certify that Hon. Wilkes Wood is Judge of Probate for said County and that the above is his true and genuine signature
In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the Court of Probate for said County this Twenty eight day of August 1838.
Jacob H. Loud
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I Lewis Gross of Scituate in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts aged forty three years give on oath  testify  and  say that I have   always been acquainted with Deborah Gross of said Scituate, that she is the widow of Elisha Gross late of said Scituate deceased late a Revolutionary pensioner, and that she has never been married since his death and is the same person now applying for a pension
Lewis Gross

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth Ss August 27th 1838
Sworn and subscribe to me before me
Ebenezer T. Fogg- Just peace
And I certify that said Lewis Gross is a credible person-
Ebenezer F. Fogg- Just peace

Plymouth Ss.  I Jacob H. Loud Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Ebenezer T. Fogg Esq. is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and that the signatures to the several foregoing affidavits purporting to be signed by him are his true and genuine signatures.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the Court of Probate for said County  this Twenty eighth day of August 1838
Jacob H. Loud
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I James Southworth, Clerk of the Town of Scituate, the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, do hereby certify that the following is a true copy from the records of the Town of Scituate, with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as , said follow, saith
"Oct.14, 1789"
Married by Rev David Barnes Min 2 C Cong. Ch. in Scituate-October, fourteenth, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.Elisha Gross and Deborah Sylvester both of Scituate".  [illegible] James Southworth [illegible] Clerk of Scituate

I James Southworth  of Scituate, above named, depose and say that I hold the office of Clerk, in the Town, County and State aforesaid, and that the above is a  true extract from the records of said town with the exception above named as certified by me
James Southworth
Town Clerk of Scituate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth Ss  August 26, 1835
Sworn and subscribed to before me
Ebenezer T. Fogg Just peace
and I certify that said James Southworth is a credible person
Ebenezer T. Fogg
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I James Southworth Clerk of the town of Scituate in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts do hereby certify that it appears by the records of the Town of Scituate Elisha Gross written hand died in the month of September in the year one thousand, eight hundred and twenty nine-aged eighty years-
[illegible] James Southworth
[illegible]clerk of Scituate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth Ss. August 24. 1835 Sworn and subscribed to Before me Ebenezer T Fogg- Just.peace
And I certify that said James Southworth is a credible person-
Ebenezer T Fogg-Just peace
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D.C.,     19.......


In reply to your request of....., received......for a statement of the military history of Elisha Gross, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information  as  contained  in his ( or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
W.3.14820

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
1775
March 1777 served to June 9, 1783
Jan.1, 1739

LENGTH OF SERVICE.
8 mos
1 year

RANK.
Pvt
Sgt

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.

CAPTAIN.
Samuel Stockbridge
Stevens
Eustis
Thomas Vose

COLONEL.
John Bailey
Knox
John Crane

STATE.
Mass.

Battles engaged in, Brandywine, Monmouth
Residence of soldier at enlistment, not stated
Date of application for pension,  Apr 27.1818. His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Scituate, Plymouth Co. Mass.
Age at date of application, 69 years, date of birth not stated.
Remarks:  he married in Scituate Mass, Oct. 14, 1789 Deborah Sylvester, he died Sept 30. 1829 and she was allowed pension on an application executed Aug. 27. 1838 while a resident of Scituate Mass aged 85 yrs.
There is no further family data on file

Respectfully, 
Commissioner.

[illegible]
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Elisha Gross
Continental
Mass.
W.14820
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MASSACHUSETTS  STATE
-------------------------------------------------
BY JOHN CRANE, ESQUIRE,
COLONEL of the Massachusetts Regiment of ARTILLERY, raised for the Defence of the American State,
TO Elisha Grose       GREETING:

WHEREAS, by Authority to Me given by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, reprising special Trust in your Fidelity, Courage, and good Conduct, DO HEREBY CONSTITUTE and APPOINT you the said Elisha Grose (from [illegible] Jan 1779) to be SERJEANT in the Eighth Company in my Regiment, whereof Thomas Vose Esqr- is Captain and you are hereby Authorised and Commanded to do the Duty of a SERJEANT, by discharging all Duties thereunto belonging, and to observe all such  Orders as you receive, from Time to Time, from your superior Officers, for the Benefit of the American States.  And I do hereby command all Soldiers in said Company, to obey you as such; for the doing of which, this shall be your sufficient WARRANT.

GIVEN under my Hand, at West Point in the State of New York-this First Day of January 1783-
John Crane
Colonel Mas Artillery

REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment
Saml Cooper-Adjutant
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(Stamp PENSION C
U.S. OFFICE.
 APR 25, 1916)
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M. ll
Rev.
Sec

Chief Justice Cushing Chapter
D.A.R.
N. Scituate, Mass-
April 22.1916

Gents:-
I am making out application blanks for a young lady to join the D.AR..
Her ancestor is one Elisha Gross born in Scituate Mass 1749; died in Scituate Sept. 1829.  The local town history states that he was a Pensioner.
Now from the commissioner of your department I received last Aug. a very full account of the military history of one Gideon Young.
Now will you kindly send me the record of the Elisha Gross named
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2
Chief Justice Cushing Chapter
D.A.R.

above.  Would like all the facts obtainable.
Yours respectfully
 (Mrs. E.O.) Sarah R. Stoddard

Registrar Chief Justice Cushing Chapter D.A.R.
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Revy WIDOW, & c.
File No. 14820
Deborah Gross
Widow of Elisha Gross
Sergt.Rev War
Act: July 7th 1838
Index:--Vol. A, Page 289

[Arrangement of 1870.]

1916 May 1-history to Mrs. EO Stoddard. M B. H.
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BY HIS EXCELLENCY
GEORGE WASHINGTON, ESQ;
General and Commander in Chief of the forces of the  United States of America.

THESE are to CERTIFY that the Bearer hereof Elisha Gross Sergeant in the Third Artillery Regiment, having faithfully served the United States Six years and two Months and being inlisted for the War only, is hereby DISCHARGED from the American Army,
GIVEN at HEAD-QUARTERS the 9th day of June 1783-
Elisha Gross

By His Excellency's Command, J Trumbull [illegible]

REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment, Saml Cooper, Adjutant,

THE above Elisha Gross Sergeant has been honored with the BADGE of MERIT for Six Years faithful Service.
Jno Crane Col
Thos. Vose Capt-

(stamp illegible)
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HEAD-QUARTERS, June Ninth 1783.

THE within CERTIFICATE shall not avail the Bearer as a Discharge, until the Ratification of the definitive Treaty of Peace; previous to which Time, and until Proclamation thereof shall be made, He is to be considered as being on Furlough.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.

Elisha Gross' Certificate Recd  Nov. 5, 1801 GW
20 Dollars
Scituate

Elisha Gross

in a box THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES

(column of numbers on left side of paper)
Elisha Gross
Continental Mass.
W 14820
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Duff Green, Printer
_____________________
TREASURY OF THE UNITED STATES,

Washington, Apr. 8th 1820

Madam, (Sir crossed out)
Please date and sign the enclosed acknowledgement for the receipt of the warrant, and transmit it to me by the return mail.  The warrant itself should be presented to the Bank for payment without delay, in order that it may be returned to this Office, with the Bank account, for settlement.

Your obedient servant,
JOHN CAMPBELL,
Treasurer United States.
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Elisha Grose. S.

Payable semi-annually.  The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of September next, in Boston, at the Branch Bank US
[ signature illegible]
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War Department.

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818-"-Elisha Grose,- late a Sergeant - in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts-Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to commence on the the twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.-
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this fourteenth day of April,  one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.

JC Calhoun
Secretary of War.
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Revolutionary Claims      No.690

Under the Act, entitled,"An Act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution." approved 15 May, 1828.

I Certify that Elisha Grose-of Scituate,-in the County of Plymouth in the State of Massachusetts is entitled to receive pay under the above mentioned Act as a surviving Sergeant of Artillery in the Massachusetts Line of the Army of the Revolution, at the rate of Ten dollars and -cents a month, payable during his life on the third day of March, and the third day of September, in each year.
It is provided by law that the said pay "shall not in any way be transferable, or liable to attachment, levy, or seizure, by any legal process whatever."

Given under my hand and the Seal of the Treasury of the United States, this third day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine, and of Independence, the fifty fourth.
S D. Ingram
Secretary of the Treasury 
Regt by Troop, Wash

Pay-Certificate of Elisha Grose

West Scituate
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I James Hall of Cohasset in the County of Norfolk Commonwealth of Massachusetts do testify and say that in May 1780 I joined Captain Thomas Vose's Company as  [illegible] Captain Lieutenant, on Col John Crane's Massachusetts Regiment of Artillery, and continued in said Company until the peace with Great Britain 1783-
That [illegible] May Seventeen hundred and eighty Elisha Gross of Scituate in the County of Plymouth was an orderly Sergeant in the said Company, and continued as such, untill peace took place between the United States and Great Britain in the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty Three
Dated at Cohasset the twenty ninth day of April One thousand eight hundred and eighteen-
James Hall

Norfolk's Cohasset April 20th, 1818.
Then the above named James Hall solemnly swore that the above declaration by him provided, was true in all its parts before me Elisha Doane Just. Peace
The said Doane is a Magistrate and authorized to administer oaths.
Nahum Mitchell Judge [illegible]
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891
check Act 1828
E. Gross
recd Aug. 29 1838
achd 1 sept "

Settled at Treasury Consh with Ad On Wid
file # 14825

Declaration of Elisha Gross

{illegible] 29 Aug.
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618
891
909

No. of Original payment 618
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Sept.1.1828.
Elisha Grosse of Scituate  in the County of Plymouth, in the State of Massachusetts has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Revolution." approved the 15 of May, 1828.  He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war,  and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Sergeant in Captain Vosse's company, in Crane's Regiment of the (crossed out)Artillery line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15 day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has  received as a Pensioner since the 2d of March, 1826, nothing--
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in the in his office.
By order of the Secretary A. [illegible]

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
6TH September 1828

It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Elisha Gross in the (crossed out) Cranes Artillery.  It further appears that Elisha Gross is not now on the pension list of the (crossed out)any Agency, and has not been so since the 3 March 1826 (crossed out at the rate of    dollars per month.)
[illegible]
No.68912
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For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution" Approved on the 15th of May 1828, I, Elisha Grose of Scituate in the County of Plymouth in the State of Massachusetts do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental Line of this Army of the Revolution, for and during the war and continued in its service until the termination at which period I was a Sergeant in Captain Thomas Vose's Company in Colonel John Crane's Regiment of Artillery,
And I further declare that I was not on the fifteenth day of March 1820, on the Pension List of the United States
Elisha Grose
Before me Jno Collamore Justice of the Peace and of the [illegible] in the County of Plymouth in the State of Massachusetts personally approved this day  Ichabod R Jacobs and Elisha Banell Just of the said County, who did severally make oaths that Elisha Grose by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been a soldier in the Army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated Witness my hand this tenth day of July in the year one thousand  eight hundred and twenty eight
Jno Collamore Justice of the Peace and of the [illegible]
I Jno B Thomas Clerk of the Court of the County of Plymouth in said State do certify that John Collamore Esq before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn  was at the time a Justice of the Peace and [illegible] for said County and duly empowered to [illegible] oaths-
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed seal of the said Court this sixth day of August AD 1828

Jno B Thomas
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Boston October 30th 1800-
To. [illegible] et. my. Consarn.
This May Certifie that the Bearer, Hereof Elisha Gross was a Serjeant in the Third Regiment of Artillery.  Having Faithfully Served the United States Six years and being enlisted For the War Only is intitled to the Bounty of Lands acordin to a Resolve of Congress-
Boston Octb.30. 1800    Tho. SSeward late Capt in Third Regimt Artillery

M Leonard was to call and attend the the above but died before it could be done
Saml. Cooper
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Elisha Grose


Correct.
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
ss.

ON this 27th day of April 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Southern Circuit, personally appeared Elisha Grose of Scituate County Of Plymouth aged Sixty nine years, resident in the said Circuit, who being by me first duly cautioned according to law, on his oath made the following declaration, by him signed, in order to obtain the provision made by the last act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war." /Declaration marked A/.
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/after the said Gross made his Declaration before me as aforesaid I found his discharge in the Secretary's office of Masst. and now forward it.
N.  Mitchell  Judge

And I, the Judge, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Elisha Gross did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of Nine months, on the Continental Establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress: and that he needs the assistance of his country for support-
Nahum Mitchell

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS..
SS.   1818.

I HEREBY CERTIFY, That           is one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, consisting of the Counties of Plymouth, Norfolk; Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket in said  Commonwealth-that the same Circuit Court of Common Pleas is a Court of record-that the signature to the above  certificate is the true signature of the said Judge, and that the seal thereunto affixed is the seal of said Court.

Clerk of the Judicial
Court for the County of}