Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39,618, Alexander Gray, Continental Penn.
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3-1776
Service              Number
Continental
Penn
Gray, Alexander
S 39618
B. L. Wt ; 425-100
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N. 1
Alexander Gray's claim to Land
Good
As need - warrant
N - 425
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Alexander Gray a private in the Pennsylvania line makes claim for one hundred acres of Land, on this within discharge.

This claim is good. I so to be reported to Conprefs.

4 Sept 1801
H. N.
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Pennsylvania 
Alexander Gray of Pittsburg in the state of Penn'a who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Hartley of the Pennsyl'a line, for the term of 3 Years
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollar per month, to commence on the 29 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 of (illegible) 1819 and sent to Sam'l Roberts Gettysburg Pa
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1819     129.60
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 mar 20     48
                                                         $177.60

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
Pay (illegible).                     129.60
pay as (illegible)                 103.68
diff (illegible)                        25.92
(illegible)

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Notification put (the rest is illegible)
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Alexander Gray
29 April

Hon. J. C. Calhoun
Sec'y Dep't War U. S.
Adm'n

Pittsburg, Pa
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Pennsylvania (illegible)
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State of Pennsylvania and County of Allegheny        Set

The Declaration under oath of Alexander Gray an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the U.S. during the Revolutionary War.
Respectfully Shemeth;

That he is a resident citizen of the United States, and will hear his actual evidence in the city of Pittsburgh, and that from his reduced circumstances, age, and disability from wounds he requires the assistance of his country for his support.

That he is an old soldier of the Revolution and served against the common enemy during the war.

That he enlisted at York in Pennsylvania some time in the month of May AD 1777 in the Company commanded by Capt Hops of Col. Hartley Regt of the Pennsylvania line, first Brigade commanded by Gen. Wayne.

He enlisted for the term of three years unless discharged.

He was afterwards transferred to Capt. Bush of the same Regiment.

He was engaged in the Battle of Prince
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town, of Brandywine, of Germantown and Monmouth where he lost his hearing by media charge of artillery.

He served in the expedition up the Susquehanna against the Indians, and returned under Gen. Hand and rejoined Gen. Wayne 's Comd.

At Little York the Brigade was consolidated and he was put into the 3rd Regt in the company commanded by Capt. McCulley.  From then he worked to the South and was in service of the capture of Cornwallis.

He was in the attachment which guarded the prisoner to Philadelphia, and after the peace he returned an honorable and written or printed discharge at Lancaster.

He was wounded in the knee at the Green Springs, and in the arm at the Paoli.

During the late was he went to Washington to obtain 4 years pay which is yet due to him from the U.S.  His discharge was left with Major Rogers a clerk in the department of war.  Mr. Rogers is since dead and his applicant being too poor to go to Washington is unable to procure his said discharge, or any other testimony of the same.

To the honorable the Secretary of the Department of War.
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Allegheny County Sct
     Before me President of the 5th Judicial district of Pennsylvania personally came the aforesaid applicant and being duly sworn saith that the facts stated in the foregoing declaration are true to the best of his remembrance, and that from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his Country for his Support. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my Signature in order that this declaration may be transmitted to the Secretary of the Department of War.
     Alexander Gray
Before me this 29th
day of April AD 1818
    James Roberts

Allegheny County Ss
   I. Ephraim Pentland Prothonotary of the Court of Common pleas for the County of Allegheny in the State of Pennsylvania do by these presents Certify that Samuel Roberts Esquire before whom the foregoing deposition was taken and who has thereunto in his own proper hand writing subscribed his hame, was at the time of taking such deposition and now is President of the Court of Common Pleas of the fifth Judicial District of Pennsylvania including the County of Allegheny and is duly Authorised by the laws of the Said State to administer oaths &c & to all whose acts as such due faith and credit are and of right ought to be given throughout the United States and elsewhere
     In testimony whereof I have hereunto
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State of Pennsylvania 
     Allegheny County, Ss
     Personally came before Thomas Enoch Esqr a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Bartholomew Bratton who being duly Sworn according to law doth depose and Say that he Knew Alexander Gray in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy five, and that kn[ew] this deponant[sic] Served with him the said Alexander Gray under the command of General. Thomson in the year 1776 and under the command of Colonel Hartley of the 4th Reg’t Pennsylvania line in the year 1780 Said Alexander Gray was with the deponant[sic] on the 8th day of June at the Battle of Monmouth and also at the capture of Cornwallis.

Bartholomew his X mark Bratton 

Sworn & Subscribed before}
me this 4 day of January }
A.D. 1819 [underlined]Thomas Enoch
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Set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court at Pittsburgh this 29th - day of April A D. 1818.
P Pentland, Pro
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Pennsylvania ss
I Samuel Roberts President of the courts of Common Pleas of the fifth Indiana District in the Commonwealth afr'd do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the afr'd Alexander Gray did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the written Declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months, on the Continental establishment and that he is in reduced circumstances and needs the assistance of his country for his support & now transmit the proceeding & testimony exhibited to me, to the secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.  In testimony whereat I have hereunto set my hand & seal at the City of Pittsburgh this sixth day of January A. D.  One thousand eight hundred & nineteen
 Samuel Roberts
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Alexander Gray

Continued
No. 14,164
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On this fifth day of June 1820 personally appeared in open court being a court of record for the said district Alexander Gray aged seventy four years resident in the city of Pittsburgh in said district who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows. viz That he in the year 1776 enlisted at Little York Pennsylvania in Capt. (illegible) Company in Col Hartley's afterwards Col Adam Hubley's afterwards Col. Richard Butler's regiment Pennsylvania line.  That he was in a series of service.  That he went out under Gen Sullivan up the Susquehannah & finally That after the (illegible) with Great Britain he was discharged at Lancaster Penn'a he then being under Capt. McCullough in the aforesaid regiment commanded by Col Richard Butler.  And that he received a pension by virtue of a certificate numbered 14,164 dated 13th day September 1819.  And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States the 18th day of March 1818 & that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof, with
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intent whereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land & Naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed on the 18th day of March 1818.  And that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed
vix 1 walking Caine
a small lot of old books say 2 or $3 Dollars worth That his occupation was a weaver.  but that in consequence of severe wounds in the legs he is unable to work or even to walk without a Caine or staff to support him that he has no family 
Sworn to & declared on the fifth day of June 1820 before Jonathan N Walker, Judge of the said court
Alexander Gray.

I, Robert S Walker clerk of the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania do hereby certify That the foregoing oath & the schedule hereto annexed are (illegible) copied from the record of said court & I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is three dollars & that
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the deponent is in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support himself without the assistance of his country
In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said court on this fifth day of June A D 1820
Ro't Walker Clk
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Free
Hon Sam'l McKean
Washington City

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N J Post
(illegible)

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Rec'd Dec 24th 1836
M. 368
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Montrose Dec 1st 1836
Dr Sir
One of the heirs of Alexander Gray who was a soldier of the Revolution & thro. the war one of Washingtons life guard who has been long since deceased says - that his Father had rec'd from Government a tract of Land of 100 acres that a deed was made for him which deed was never taken from the Office at Washington.  Under these circumstances I have taken the liberty to write you on the subject & request you will be so good as to make inquiry into the matter & ascertain whether the Records will show any thing or whether the deed is still in the office and what if any thing can be done is the matter  Your kind attention to this matter will great oblige the children of said Gray - also as early a reply as consistent
Resp'y yours
N J Post
Hon S. McKean
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(illegible) 425 for 100: assessed thru 1st July 1808 to Alex'r Gray, a Soldier of the Penn'a line and the (illegible) delivered to Tho's G Slya

{postmark partially obscured}
Dec 17
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PAID
Major Benjamin Stoddart
Bladensburgh,
(near City of Washington)
Maryland.

Mail 
Paid

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(Single sheet)
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Know all men by these presents that on the day of the date hereof, before me Isaac Craig Esquire, Notary Public for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, residing at Pittsburgh, by lawful authority duly commissioned and sworn, and by law authorized to receive proofs and acknowledgments of letters of Attorney and in the presence of the subscribing witnesses, personally appeared Alexander Gray of Pitt Township in the County of Allegheny in the said state of Pennsylvania, late a private in the eleventh regiment of the Pennsylvania line in the service of the United States during the revolutionary war, and declared to have made, ordained, constituted and appointed Major Benjamin Stoddart of Bladensburgh in the State of Maryland, his true and lawful Attorney, for him and in his name and to his use, to apply for, demand and receive of the Secretary of War of the United States, or such other person or persons as may be legally appointed for the purpose, a military land warrant for one hundred acres of land due and coming to him for his services in the Army of the United States during the revolutionary war, and to be located in the tract appropriated for satisfying warrants for military service, in pursuance of the several acts of Congress for obtaining and locating military land warrants with power also and attorney or attorneys for the purposes aforesaid to make and constitute; and to do and execute all lawful acts requisite for effecting the premises;  Hereby ratifying and confirming all and whatsoever shall and may be lawfully done by virtue hereof.  In testimony whereof the said constituent hath hereunto set his hand and seal.  Done and passed at Pittsburgh, in the state of Pennsylvania aforesaid, this twenty fourth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Alexander Gray  {seal}
Sealed and Delivered in presence of 
Presley H Craig
Henry K Craig
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Pittsburgh 25th March 1808.
Sir,
Alexander Gray, who served under your command in the 11th Reg't of the Pennsylvania line during the Revolutionary war, and who was wounded while in service has requested me to forward to you the within letter of Attorney assuring me that you would take the trouble (illegible) the business for an old soldier.  It was intended to have sent it to W. Nourse, brother of the Register, who attends to such business, but it is understood he is gone to Europe.  Some member of Congress was thought of but as it has been supposed they would soon adjourn that intention was dropped.  it is hoped you will take the trouble, and have the warrant forwarded as soon as possible, as he wishes to proceed to locate it as soon as received.  He informs me that he was at the City of Washington some time ago, made an application, and left his discharge and other evidence of his right of claim in the hands of Major Rogers of the war office; where he supposes they yet are, unless W. Smith of the House of Representatives from the state of Pennsylvania has received them.

W. Smith, I believe was applied to by Gray to enquire into and settle a claim for 4 years' pay, besides $80.- called Lady Washington's grant, which he says is yet due him from the United.  It is suspected that W. Smith has not attended to the business; and if you could give him any information respecting his claim, or the course to be pursued for recovering it, it would greatly oblige him.  He has not transferred any of his claims, and I wish him to have all the benefit of them, as he is advanced in years and depends upon them for a support.  Please direct to me in this place.
Yrs. respectfully,
David M Keehan.
Maj'r Benjamin Stoddart.
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In testimony of the truth and due execution of the within premises, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Notarial seal on the day of the within date.
Isaac Craig
Notary Public
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[This document is a photocopy of an original document that is in very poor shape. It has been folded and is illegible along the seams.]

These are to Certify that the bearer hereof Alexander Gray [illegible] in the Third Pennsylvania regiment, having faithfully served the United States [illegible] years and seven months and being in inlisted [enlisted] for the war, is hereby discharged from the American Army.
Given at [strikethrough 'the war office'] [illegible] 2nd day of September 1783. By order of the secretary at war, [signed] L. B---- Col. 3d [illegible] Reg't. 
Certified in the [illegible] of the regiment,
[signed] Stewart Hisbert adjutant
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{most of this document is illegible due to double exposure}

certified 13 Sep't 1829
& sent to Sam'l Roberts Esq at Pittsburgh, Pa.
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United States of America
State of Pennsylvania } ss

Personally appeared before me Matthew B. Lowry a notary Publica Duly commissioned Sworn and residing in the city of Pittsburgh, Alexander Gray, who being ^duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he is the same Alexander Gray who is inscribed a pensioner of the Untied states, that he has been in the habit of receiving at the Pennsylvania agency in Philadelphia, the amount of his Pension [for about seven years past that he was a soldier in the Army of the Revolution from the year 1777 up till the peace [illegible] he was honorably discharged in 1784 - that he in 1777 enlisted under Capt Hopes in Col Hartleys Regiment, which afterwards was called the 11th Regiment, Cap Hopes being killed in the Battle of Brandywine he was afterward commanded by Capt Walker that after the Resignation of Col Hartley, Col Hubley Commanded his regiment, that afterward, he marched [illegible] commanded by Capt W Cullies, under Col Richard Batten and finally that after a variety of service he was as before stated honourably discharged in 1784 - that (his memory being somewhat impaired,) if he ever received a Pension Certificate, he has lost the same, and that he is now prevented from receiving his pension [illegible] because he can't exhibit said certificate
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to two practicing Physicians to be Examined agreeable to Law.
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Pittsburgh October 6th 1819
Honorable J. C. Calhoun.
Sec'y at War.
Sir.
As a humble Soldier of the Revolution, takes the liberty to forward you his affidavit, respecting his service certificate, which he has either lost, mislaid or never received.
At the age of 73 he is destitute of every means of subsistence, without the aid of that small pittance, which the Kind Bounty of his Country has provided for him, but which is now withheld pursuant of a certificate -- which he hopes will be sent him as early as possible --
I am Sir
Your Very humble Serv't
Alexander Gray
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Bladensburg 27 June 1808.
Dr Sir
I rec'd a power of attorney from Alex'r Gray, an old Soldier, to get from the War office his land warrant for 100 acres of land.  I left the (illegible) with major Rodgers in the Office who told me the (illegible) was entitled to the land, and the warrant was to be given when I called.  I pray you to call on the Major & get the warrant giving a sect for it in my name as Grays attorney -- if you leave  this letter with Major Rodgers which may be annexed to the power of attorney, it will I presume be sufficient authority for your giving the sect. --
After getting the Warrant, asked Major Rodgers to direct & and have the letter (illegible) - to Dan'l McKeehan Esq - Pittsburg.  As perhaps it will be still better to direct to Alexander Gray, to the care of Dan'l McKeehan, Pittsburg.  Major Rodgers will do this with pleasure to serve a poor old Soldier. -- Please to call at the War office tomorrow, or next Day.  I have (illegible) it (illegible)
{next line is illegible)
Ben Stoddert.
To Mr Thomas G Slye
George Town
Gray wants the Warrant for land on (illegible) where he means to lay it himself.
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39618
INVALID.
Revy
File No. 39,618
Alexander Gray 
Pri Rev War
Act:  18th March 18
Index: -- Vol. 3, Page 204
{Arrangement of 1879.}
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M 568
Hon Sam'l McKean
24 Dec'r 1836
Bounty Land office
(illegible) 28th
425
100 acres
Res
War Dept
(illegible) 30 Dec 1836
R'd  Dec 24th 1836
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Senate chamber Dec'r 22  36
Hon B F Butler
acting Sec'y of War
Is respectfully requested to cause to be ascertained whether anything on the files of the War Department can be found in reference to the object of the letter of Mr. N J Post respecting the claim of the heirs of Alex'r Gray and herewith enclosed
very respectfully
Sam'l McKean
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Rev War               101889 Invalid.

File Ni. 10.199

Alexander Gray
Prv USA
Act :
Index:- Vol. A, Page 152
Arrangement of  1870
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                                       Pittsburgh 18 July 1826
Hon.A Secretary of War
 The subscriber late a private on the army of revolution & who is Invalid on the pension list in the Pennsylvania A______ at the rate of eight dollars for monthly is now a resident of the city of Pittsburgh in the 11th(?) of Pennsylvania and the county of Allegheny

                             Alexander Gray
                              Alexander Gray
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Alexander Gray's Release of his pension
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Know all men by these presents that I Alexander Gray of the City of Pittsburgh and State of Pennsylvania late a Private in the Eleventh regiment of the Pennsylvania line in the service of the United States during the Revolutionary War, in order to obtain a pension under the Act of Congress, entitled “an act to provide a certain persons engaged in the Land & Naval service of the United States during the Revolutionary War” and in consideration of the confirmation of my application for the same, place Remised, released, and forever quit claimed and by these presents Do Remise Release & forever quit claim unto the United States of America, all my right title interest & claim demand whatsoever of in & to any pension or pension heretofore granted me by the said United States, particularly to a pension granted me by the same under the act of the 3d of March AD 1803 for the relief of those who had been disable by known wounds in the service of the United States during the Revolutionary war---
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Witness my hand & seal this twenty second day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred nineteen.

Alexander Gray
[A hand drawn doodle around the word "seal"]

Sealed & delived in the presence of    }
D S Walker
J. N. Walker

United States
Western District of Pennsylvania  SS

Came before me the [illegible] Judge of the United States in & for the said District the within named Alexander Gray who acknowledged the
above Release to be his act & deed & denied the same to be recorded attach Witness my hand & seal this second day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight nineteen

Jonathan N. Walker  ["L S" within a hand drawn doodle]
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I have no certificate of my pension in my possession nor do I know whether it is in the hand of my attorney or agent in Philadelphia or not ---
Alexander Gray

I certify that the within named Alexander Gray is the same an individual  Alexander Gray who receives a pension from the United States as a wounded & disabled soldier in the service of the U.S. during the revolutionary War

Pittsburgh July 22d AD 1819
Jonathan N. White