Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 14817, John Grant, N.H.
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(3-1776)
Service   Number
NH
Grant, John W14817
Dorothy
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
A. H.   Grant, John W. 14817.

Contents
see letter to P Ag 22
March 1839. do to to
F. Pierce Sept 9. 1840.
2 4 of 5
Record of New Hampahire
Dorthy Grant
and  of John Grant decd
and died on the 11th July 1822
of Merrimack in the State of N H
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain Rollins of the
commanded
by
in the
for 11 months & 8 days
Increased from $34.22
Inscribed in the Roll of Concord N.H.
at the rate of 37 Dollars 55 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 of Feby
1839 and sent 
Hon F. Pierce Senate U States
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1838 $281.62
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar 39, 18.77
---
$300.39
(Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836,
Section the
Recorded by  [illegible] Addison Clerk
Book A Vol 2
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John Grants
claim for a pension
No. 2 1818
Not on continental
Service
May 18, 1818.
On a [unreadable]
ES
on roll Vol
1 page 48
For 3 mo 8 days
service in 1777
Not on roll with
Joseph Parsons Co
in 1775 [illegible]
4 N. N. page 110
but found on with 
Nodgdon's Co,
Page 116 service
to 5 mon 1775 service
therefre from last day of May
to 5 [illegible] 5 mon. 6 days.
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I John Grant of Epsom in the County of Rockinham & state of New Hampshire testify & declare that in may 1775 I enlisted for eight months in the Army of the United States in the company commanded by Captain Joseph Persons in the regiment commanded by Col. Joshua Wintworth in New Hampshire  line in the revolutionary war against the common enemy [hole in text] stationed at Newcastle ports I served said eight months out & was discharged _ & about one month before the battle at Bennington I inlisted [sp] again into the Continental service in said revolutionary war ^for nine month in the company commanded by Captain Rollins in the Regiment commanded by Col. Drake in New Hampshire line - I was in the battles at Bennington & at Stillwater and I helped to take Gen. Burgoynes Army at Saratoga & served the [illegible] of my said nine months at a place called Fishkill, & stayed by request of the officers more than one month after my said nine months were out. I cannot particularly remember the date of my enlistment & discharge said nine months but I think in ^ forepart 1777 I inlisted [sp] for nine months & and I served more than ten months at the last time of my said service & was
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honorably discharged in the winter following I served faithfully in said war more than eighteen months I have no other evidence of my said service having lost my discharge. I am now sixty three years of age am in reduced circumstances in life & need assistance from by country for support. [signed] John Grant
My 18th 1818 -
Sworn to and declared on the day & year above mentioned before me 
Hall Burgin { a Judge of the Court of Com. pleas for the county of Rockingham in the state of New Hampshire}
[the county seal with N H in the middle]
State of New Hampshire 
 Rockingham May 18th 1818 I hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that said John Grant did serve in the Revolutionary War [blot on page] against the common enemy [illegible] he has stated in the foregoing declaration by him subscribed & that he is absolutely destitute of property or means of support but by a little labour which he can perform & the assistance of his friends & now transmit this is the testimony in the case to the secretary for the department of war
Hall Burgin {a Judge of the Court of Com. pleas for said Rockingham} 
[in the left hand margin is written] - by order of the Judge Alles L. Cheswick clerk of said county
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State of New Hampshire
Merrimack County
I Stephen C. Badger clerk of the Courts of Common Pleas within and for the County of Merrimack do hereby certify that Hall Burgin above named was a Judge and Member of our Court of Common Pleas with and for our county of Rockingham and was an acting member then of on the  eighteenth day of May = Anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighteen and that the signature above written purporting to be his is genuine, and also that Peter Chadwick was at the time above mentioned Clerk of Rockingham and that the signature above written purporting to be his is genuine
The testimony when of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this [illegible] day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven
[signed] Stephen C. Badger Clerk
[the official seal on the page is illegible]
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State of New Hampshire
Merrimack County 
On this first day of July 1837 personally appeared before me Aaron Whittemore Esquire one off the justices of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Merrimack in said State, Dorothy Grant a resident of Allenstown in the said County of Merrimack & said state of New Hampshire aged eighty four years, who first being sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the  pension made by the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836 that she is the widow of John Grant formerly of Epsom in said county who was a private in the militia in the army of the revolution, and that her said husband John Grant served in said war of the revolution [illegible] of eighteen months in  (she thinks) the years 1775 & 1777 under Capt. Pearson and Rollins and [added here above the line in very small script "in the Regiments commanded by"] Col Wentworth and Drake, in the New Hampshire lines was stationed sometime at Newcastle in Portsmouth Harbor and was afterward in the battle of Bennington & Stillwater and was at the capture of Burgoyne at Saratoga. She further declares that she was married to the said John Grant on the 20th day of April in the year of our lord 1775 in the town of Rye in the county of Rockingham and state of New Hampshire afore said in this Merrimack Co. on the 11th day of July 1822 and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereunto annexed.[signed here] Dorothy Grant
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me. [signed] Aaron Whittemore {Judge of Court of Common Pleas}
I also certify that I have attended and taken this declaration out of Court because said widow Dorothy [illegible] the said Claimant is not able to attend Court on account of the infir-
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mities of age & extreme debility.
[signed] Aaron Whittemore

State of New Hampshire 
Merrimack County 
I Stephen C.Badger clerk of the Court of kCommon Pleas within and for the County of Merrimack aforesaid, do hereby certify that Aaron Whittemore is a Judge and an acting member there of said court and that the signature above written purporting to be his is genuine
In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this twenty second day of July in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty seven.
S. C. Badger Clerk
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No 3,
Proof of marriage
before the war
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S. Huntington Porter of Rye in the County of Rockingham
and State of New Hampshire, Senior Pastor of the Congregation
at Church in said town, certify and depose, that the following
words, vis "Seventeen hundred and seventy five, April [illegible]
[illegible] John Grant and Dorothy Foss were married." are
[illegible] in the church records of this town in the handwriting of Reverend Samuel Parsons
deceased, former 
pastor of said church; and that said records now are
and have been, in my possession, except when in the
hands of the junior pastors of said church, for fifty
years past
Huntington Porter
State of New Hampshire
Rockingham  
June 19 1837
These personally appeared before me, thomas J. Parsons a Justice
of the Peace in the county aforesaid, the above named
Huntington Poarter and made oath to the above dec-
laration by him signed in my presence
Thomas J. Parsons Justice of the Peace.
I certify that the Deponents aforesaid is a credible
person and that full credit is to be given to his
deposition.
Thomas J. Parsons Justice of the Peace
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham ss.
I J.B. Hoitt Clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas within and for said County do hereby
certify that Thomas J. Parsons Esq who has subscribed
the within certificate and before whom the within Oath to
to the declaration was made, is a Justice of the Peace
within and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned &
qualified as such. And I believe the same to be his
genuine signature
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand & affixed the
Seal of said Court this twentieth
day of June Anno Domini 1837
J. B. Hoitt Clerk
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No 4
Nathan Goss's 
Deposition
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I Nathan Gofs of Allentown in the County of Merrimack & State of New Hampshire aged 54 years do depose
and say that I am married to Dorothy the daughter of the
Widow Dorothy Grant (who has this day made her declaration before the Honb. Aaron Whittemore Esquire one of the said
ger of the Court of Common pleas for said County in order to
obtain the provision granted to Widows by the act of
Congress passed July 4th 1836) and of her late husband
John Grant a revolutionary soldier, that besides my said
wife who is 55 years of age there are two sons living in
Epsom (the Town adjoining) in
said County, namely Simon
Grant aged 65 & John Grant aged about 59. both of whom
have large families, and there are lawful children of the said
John Grant & his said Widow Dorothy Grant and born
of them as I supposed while their parents were joined in
lawful wedlock, and I have always understood from them
and others that my said father in law John Grant, and
my said Mother the said Widow Dorthy Grant were
married in the Town of Rye in the County of Rockingham
in this State before he enlisted and engaged in the War
of the Revolution. After his return from said War he
and my said Mother in Law, lived long & happily together
& brought up their children, and I never heard the least
surmise him, or intimation that they were not lawfully married but indeed I know they were, as well as I can on
any thing of the kind after said John Grant returned from
the revolutionary war he and his said wife, now the
Widow Dorthy, removed from the said Town of Rye, to the
town of Epsom aforesaid which was then also in the County
of Rockingham, more than 50 years ago, (I cant tell exactly when), but I do know that the said John Grant died at said
Epsom in July 1822 and that said Dorothy was left
his widow, and has never married since  but remains still
single, & his widow. - And I the said Nathan Goss do
further testify and say that my said father in law
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deceased, was always reputed and considered in Epsom aforesaid &
in the vicinity, a revolutionary soldier, and I knew of his applying to the Court for the County of Rockingham in May 1818.
to be placed on the pension roll which application was under
fuel at the War Department, on account as I understood of his
services being military services, and I do further testify and declare
that the John Grant who made said application, and the declaration contained in the accompanying document, with the sign
nature the Honb Hall Burgin is the identical John Grant
who died in said Epsom in 1822. and under whose services
in the revolutionary war, his widow the said Widow Dorothy makes the
application againably to the accompanying papers
And I have often heard my said father in law the said
John Grant talk of his services and trials in the war of the
Revolution, viz of his services under his first enlistment at New
castle in the harbour of Portsmouth, and under his second
enlistment, that he was at the capture of Burgoyne, and in
all the battles that led to his surrender at Saratoga and I
have always understood from him, that he served in the said
revolutionary War, under both said enlistments upwards
of one year and an half
upon this affidavit being read over before signing, I
observe that I have declared therein that the said
John Grant deceased removed from Rye aforesaid to Epsom
aforesaid, but on more reflection, I believe the fact though
not material, is that he and his said wife Dorothy
now a widow, lived a while in Greenland, a Town adjoining
said Rye before they removed to Epsom aforesaid, where
he died in July 1828 as before mentioned
Nathan Goss
State of New Hampshire Merrimack July 1. 1837
Personally appearing the said Nathan Goss & subscribed and made
solemn oath to the truth of this his affidavit before me
Philip Carrigan Justice
of peace [illegible]
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I certify that Nathan Goss, who subscribed and sworn to the
preceding affidavit before me is a credible witness, and entitled
to full faith and credit
Philip
Carrigan
July 1st AD. 1837
Justice of the
Peace &
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for a statement of the military history of John Grant
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the
information as contained in [crossed him or] his widow's) application
for pension on file in this Bureau.
Wid. File 14817
DATES OF
ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.
May 1775
Act July 1777
LENGTH OF
SERVICE.
8 months
10 months
RANK.
Pri.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
Joseph Parsons
Rawlings
COLONEL.
Joshua Wentworth
Drake
State
N. H. 
Battles engaged in, Bennington Stillwater, Sus Bring at Saratoga
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Greenland, N. H. 
Date of application for pension, May 18, 1818
X
Residence at date of application, Epsom, N. H.
Age at date of application, 63 years.
-
Remarks: Homar Rye, N.H. Apl 20 1725 Dorothy Foss
he died at Epson, N.H. July 14, 1822 & she was allowed
person on her applin Exec July 1 1837 while 80 years of age and a res of 
Allintown N. H. child alive in 1837 Simon at 65 [illegible Joh] 57 + Dorothy 55 wife of Nathan  Goss 54 years. 
very respectfully,
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Revy
WIDOW, &c.
1481
Dorothy Grant
Widow of
John Grant
Pri Rev War
July 4th 36
Vol. A
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(Arrangement of 1870.]

1910 May 8. Hist. to
Mr. Wm Greenwood
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Dorothy Grant
Wid of [illegible]
N H
Let Hon F Picca
July 23 [illegible]
11 mo 8 day for
$34.22 fo
3 3 3
arrears 7.55
July 4, [illegible]
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The soldiers declaration
for 1818 was not sent
until widow's case
was filed - so there is
no claim - to Jacket
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[illegible handwriting]
3-871
RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
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Briefed by W.T. C.
Claim No. 5/11/1910
Certificate No.
Claimant
Soldier John Grant
Service NH Rev.
Additional Service
No claim, State records 190-
No claim, combination records
190
REMARKS:
No claim as above
except OWWF 14,817 +
OW Ry 4,198 Born Res + serv N.C.
0-8
Chief Division
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2495
Concord N Hamp
Dorothy Grant
widow of John Grant decd
who died on the 11th July 1822
of Merrimack in the State of N.H.
who was a Private in the Compy commanded
by Captain Rollins of the commanded by in the
N.H.
one for 11 mos & 8 days
Inscribed on the Roll of [illegible Concer]
the rate of 34 Dollars 22 Cents per annum
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2d
day of Feby
1839 and sent Hon. F
Pierce Senate U.S
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1838 $236.65
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar 39, 17.11
$273.76
Book A
Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836,
Section the 3d
Recorded by [illegible] clerk 
Book A
Vol. 20
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Dorothy Grant
New Hampshire
Suspended
See letter 4th Sept
1837 to P. Corrigan
[illegible did] Sept 3 1838
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MAY 15 1910
Whitinsville, Mass
May 9, 1918
Chief of the Pension Bureau
Washington D. C. 
Sir
Hill you please send me a copy of
the pension
papers of John Grant of Epsom New Hampshire who was a private in Captain
Nicholas Collins Company
Col. Abraham Drake's regiment
and also a copy of Isaac
Libby's of Epsom, New Hampshire
Very truly yours
Mr William Greenwood
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I Jethro Libbee of Allentown in the County of
Merrimack and State of New Hampshire, a revolutionary
Soldier aged eighty two years, do testify and declare that
formerly lived in Epsom in this State, within a short distance
of the residence of John Grant, the revolutionary Soldier, and
husband of Dorothy Grant, his widow, who is now as I
am informed proving her claim to a pension on account
of the services of her said husband, in the War of the revolution,
and now since my removal to Allentown live but a few
miles from the place where the said John lived and died
in Epsom aforesaid, which was in July 1822. and know
that the said Dorothy Grant his widow is still living and
is the only person that he ever married, and that before
her marriage her name was Dorothy Ross, and that he the
said John Grant married her just before the War viz in
April 1775 in the town of Rye, which is in the old county
of Rockingham, and is bounded easterly by the sea. I enlisted
in the war in the year 1775 under Capt Brown of Brentwood
and Lieut Barnum of Deerfield, and served eight months
at the Island of New Castle in Portsmouth Harbour, and while
there I frequently saw the said John Grant, a soldier in said
Island, and I believe he was occasionally on the other Islands,
on which defences were making for the protection of the
town and harbour of Portsmouth, namely Peires and Serveys
Islands. I knew the said John Grant then and have known
him ever since till his death. I have no means of knowing
accurately his length of service in that year, on New Castle,
and the other Islands, as this was more than sixty years past
and I never expected to be called upon as a witness to had
always told me that his service at New Castle and on all
the Islands were nine months, and I have no reason to
doubt it. He was a remarkable strong muscular man having
a firm constitution enjoyed good health, liked a military
life, and soldiers, especially such soldiers, then were in grant
demand while he was in the service at New Castle Samuel
Davis now living in Epsom, and about my age lived with his
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family in Greenland, to do his labour for him. I believe
said Grants Captain while at New Castle, was Pearsons
but am not positive-- Said John Grant afterwards served
nine months as a soldier in 1777 in the northern compaign
, namely, at the capture of Burgoyne &c. and at Fish
kill on Hudson river in the State of New York. I was not
in that campaign but have so often talked with the said
Grant about it and it is so generally believed in this
and the neighbouring towns wherever said Grant was
known-- that I have no more doubt of the fact than I
have of my own life. For though a poor man said Grant was a man of truth and honesty, and always so
reputed. Before said Grants death I had thoughts of
applying for a pension but he the said Grant, who
would have been my best, if not my only witness, informed
me that I could not succeed as my services would be
considered militia services- that he had applied but
failed on that account, and, as I thought, his a
hardercase than mine, felt the more resigned
to my fate, Decemr 25th AD. 1837
his
John Libbee
mark
writings John Pollok
Emily Fife
State of New Hampshire
Merrimack December 25th AD 1837. Personally
appearing the said Jethro Libbee subscribed this his affidavit by his
mark, in the presence of the above witnesses, and made solemn oath to the
truth thereof, the same having been read distinctly to him, before me
Philip Carrigan
Justice of pease + Quorum
And I the said Philip Cargain do also certify that the said John Libbee
is a man of truth and veracity and perjuntly credible witness and so reputed
were know Given under my hand is Counders
County aforesaid December 25th D. 1837 Philip Carrigan 
Justice of the Peace
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Certificate
Clerk Badgne
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State of New Hampshire
Merrimack St
Stephen Badger Clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas within and for the county of Merrimack do hereby certify that
Philip Carrigan is a Justice of the Peace and
of the Quorum within and for said County
and duly
qualified to act as such and that the
signature before written
purporting
to be his is genuine-
In testimony whereof
I have have hereunto set
hand and affixed the seal
of said Court this twenty
cond day of July Eighteen
hundred and thirty seven -
S.P. Badger Clerk
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Jonathan Main of Concord in the County of Merrimack & State of
of New Hampshire a revolutionary soldier and pensioner do testify and
declare that I was born in Beaven then in the County of Hill, borough
in said State, now in the County of Merrimack aforesaid and adjoining
said Concord and that I was acquainted with John Grant of Epsom in
the County of Merrimack aforesaid, where he lived and deed having been
some more than a dozen miles from my place of residence in Concord
aforesaid. And I have seen the said John Grant often since the revolutionary War, and talked  with him concerning our trials and sufferings during
that dark period, and I know that he was a soldier in the said wars
I believe I saw the said John Grant at New Castle in the harbour of Portsmouth in the year 1775. I think I also saw him at Peirces Island in
said Harbour in the summer and Autumn of 1775. I do not distinctly
remember who commanded the company or regiment he then belonged to but
I think his Captain was Capt Titus Salter of Portsmouth aforesaid

I afterwards saw the said John Grant at Stillwater, Saratoga, and
or places on the Hudson River before and after the capture of Burgoyne
believe the said John Grant while at Saratoga belonged to the company of Capt
Rollins, but I dont remember who commanded the Regiment
the said John Grant has often told me that part of the New Hampshire
soldiers at Saratoga were called three months men and returned soon after the capture of Burgoyne their term of service having
expired; but that he with others who enlisted for a longer time, were
marched down the river to Fishkill, where he served some months
longer making in the whole including all his services in the war
namely in 1775. 1777, & part of 1778 one year and half of service
as a revolutionary soldiers
I uncerely believe he served all this time. He was remarkably 
strong hardy, and healthy and jovial, and lov'd a soldiers life
the John Grant I am speaking of that the present time
in as the same John Grant where surviving widow Dorothy
Grant, has made application for a pension by virtue of these
vice of her said husband in the war of the Revolution agree
ably to the act of Congress making provision for such cases
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I said revolutionary war, I was a soldier hired by the Town of
Borden aforesaid, and my Capt. was Captain Isaac Farwell of
Charlestown N.H. then called No 4. and the Regiment was comman
ded by Coln Reed and Major Scott.
Subscribed by me by my  this sixth day of January AD. 1838
Machal Baker
G F [illegible]
his
Jonathan Urins
mark
pres
State of New Hampshire
Merrimack January 6th AD 1832. Personally appearing the said
Jonathan Urin & subscribed to this his affidavit by his mark in my
presence and in presence of the above witnesses, and made solemn oath to the
truth thereof before me, after the same was read over distinctly to him
Philip Carrigan Just. Peace
James Quorum
I also certify that the said Jonathan Urin is a man of truth & vers
city, and so reputed in his neighborhood and among his acquaintances &
entitled to full credence as far as his memory serves him
Philip Carrigan
Just of Peace
and of the Quorum
Jonathan Urin
Affidavit
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State of New Hampshire
Merrimack ss
in this Sixth day of October A.D. 1837 personally
appeared before me Aaron Whittemore one of the Justices of the Court of
Common Pleas for said County of Merrimack, Dorthy Grant a resident of
Clentown, in the aforesaid State and County who first being 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 4th
D. 1836. that she is the widow of John Grant who was a private soldier
in the army of the revolution, and that her said husband enlisted in the
publick service under Capt Pearson in May AD. 1775. which was soon after her marriage) and serv'd eight months at New Castle in the harbour of Portsmouth, in this said State of New Hampshire, and was honorably discharged, and that about month before the battle of Bennington
which was D. 1777 he my said husband again enlisted under Capt
Rollins for (as she always understood) nine months, and fought in the battle of
Bennington, & was at the capture of Burgoyne, and all the battles
that led to the captivity of that General and his army, and served out the
residue of the time of said enlistment & some time more than said term, of his

kill in the State of New York, she declares that her said husband was the
sent more than eighteen months, and that he always said that he served one
year and a half as a soldier, in the war of the revolution
she further declared that her name before her marriage was Dorothy Foss
and that she was married to the said John Grant, in the Town of Rye in this
County of Rockingham in said State by the Reverend Samuel Persons of Rye
aforesaid on the 20th of April AD. 1775, and that she never had any other husband and that the said John Grant while her lawful husband died at Epsom
in said County of Merrimack in July D 1822 and that he has remained
his widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to
to the proof hereunto annexed
Allentown N.H. October 6th 1837.
Dorothy Grant
Sworn and subscribed to on the day and year above written before
.
Aaron Whittemore
I hereby certify that I have attended at the rendence
of said Dorothy Grant in Allentown in the afore said County
and taken the afore said declaration subscribed by her in
my presence and administered the oath proper in such
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last
she being unable from bodily infirmity to
the Court I have done this on the day and year as
Aaron Whittemore
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to
Jonathan Urins
Affidavit August 30th
A.D. 1883
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I Jonathan Urin of Concord in the County of Merrimack, and State of New Hampshire a revolutionary soldier &
a pensioner do testify and declare that I am well acquainted with
John Grant, & fellow soldier, who died in Epsom in this
said County many years since and on account of where services
in the war of the revolution his Widow Dorothy Grant is an
applicant for a pension. I say the said John Grant and I
were fellow soldiers, though we belonged to different companies
and different regiments; neither did we go from the same
Towns in New Hampshire, yet I perfectly knew him when he
was in the revolutionary service; often saw him then, and
have often met him since the peace, in Concord aforesaid
I gave my Affidavit, to aid in sustaining the said Dorothy
Grant, claim, some time last winter, which affidavit
suppose is now in the files of the pension office of the
War Department, in the City of Wash
and since then I have thought much on the subject, and
at different times, and am now perfectly sure, that I
saw the said John Grant a publick soldier in the publick
service in the spring of 1778. The said John Grant
has often and often told me that he spent several months
in the service after the surrender of Burgoyne at a
place call'd Fishkill in the State of New York as
 I understood him, and this may have been the case
But on farther and better recollection, I am now
sure that the place which I saw him last in the
service was Peekskill, in that State, which town
---
is lower down the river. I am certain as I am that
I am now living that I saw said John Grant a soldier, in the
service, at said Peekskill in the spring of 1778. I knew him
well. I was at the White plains, in said State in the summer
of 1778. Capt Isaac Farwell was my Capt.
Stark my
Lientent &
Reed Coln
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I believe that
Scott and Maj.
℗
his
Jonathan J Turing
Mark
Witness
Sewell Hort
Catharine Hoit
State of New Hampshire
Merrimack A
1832
August30th
Personally appearing the said Jonathan Urin
and after being carefully examined and duly adminished, subscribed by his mark, and made solemn oath to the truth of the within Affidavit before me,
Philip Carrigan
Just Pace
I hereby certify that the said Jonathan Urin is a man of honesty &
truth as far as his memory serves him in all cases, a credible witness.
and I believe in this instance perfectly so.
 Philip Carrigan
℗
East Peace
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Benjamin Pages
Affidavit
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Benjamin Page of Chichester in the County of Merrimack
and State of New Hampshire a revolutionary soldier and a Pensioner
do depose and say that I was well acquainted with John Grant who
died at Epsom in the County aforesaid in the summer of 1822 and 
within a few miles of my place of residence, where he has lived a long time
and was the identical husband of Dorothy Grant of Epsome  aforesaid his 
surviving widow, who is now trying to obtain the benefit of the provision
made by the act of Congress for cases like hers, by virtue of these
vices of her said husband in the war of the Revolution
And I do declare and testify that I saw the said John Grant while in the [illegible]
of the Revolution in the year 1777 at Bemis heights, at Stillwater, and
the Capture of Burgoyne at Saratoga, and was knowing to herence mounting
picked guards, and as we were both from the said State namely New Hampshire
he from Rye, and I from North Hampton, town that adjoin, I often conversed with
him while in the service and I understood, that he had a wife then living in the Town of
Rye, or Greenland adjoining, as we long had lived with each other and were
Revolutionary Friends, and intimate, I was knowing to his applying for a pension
before he died under the recommendation of the Court of Common Pleas pleas for
rockingham County in this State which was rejected on account of his services in the
war being considered militia services, but the said John Grant has always
been under and respected in the Town and neighborhood where he lived &
died a Revolutionary soldier and I know that he was
And I do further testify and declare that I saw the said John Grant
at New Castle in the harbour of Portsmouth and also at Seaveys or Peirce
Island in the in said Harbour in the year 1775 or 1776 
think in 1775) as a soldier (I think under Capt Mark Wiggin
of Stratham in this State and I believe he served on one, or on all
of those Island, in the beginning of the war that is in the earliest part of
the revolutionary war in the whole to the amount of nine month
under his first enlistment. I believe so because. I often saw him there
and he has often told me so
He also served about nine months in the year 1777. and persons
recollect that after the capture of Burgoyne at Saratoga, many of the New
Hampshire troops were discharged, but that the said John Grant with others ┃
were retained in the service & were sent down the river Hudson
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through Albany to New Windsor or Fishkill on said Reed
son River, where he served several months longer
He always told me that he served in the two different years
he was out under both, or all the enlistments 18 months and
as I was personally knowing to his serving much of that
time I sincerely believed him, for he was an honest hearted
man, and somewhat remarkable for courage strength & size
Where who saw him once would not be likely to get him
Question,
How has it been customary for revolutionary soldiers
in making their declarations as claimants for pensions
to reckon their time, or length of service
Answer
from the date of their enlistment to their discharge generally
but I believe that some of have reckoned their time of service 
to include all the time from their enlistment to
the time of their return home
stationed
Question was it not common for the soldiers stationed on the Islands
in Portsmouth Harbour in the early part of the Revolution
to change for days and weeks their Captains & Commanders
Answer. It was not unfrequent when more labour, or
men were deemed necessary in some part of the Great Island, than
another or an same Island where entrenchment, and fortifications were being made, and more soldiers for a time needed then the other, for soldiers
to be detach'd from the companies in which they first enlisted, and for a time
enrolled in other companies-- This made the enrolment of the militia in
Portsmouth Harbour aming the early part of the Revolutionary war, in the times
of frequent alarm  & confusion & little discipline, extremely irregular & uncertain
By Great Island I mean New Castle I. when the fort and Light your stand
Sworn and subscribed by me at Concert in said County of Merrimack &
State of New Hampshire aforesaid this tenth day of October AD 1837
Benjamin
Page
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State of New Hampshire ⎬ Merrimak for personally appearing the said 
Benjamin Page before me, and subscribed, and made solemn oath to
the truth of this his affidavit
Philip
Carrigan
Justice of Peace
of [illegible]
I hereby certify that the said Benjamin Page, is on this day and
year aforesaid, at the time he gives & subscribes & testified in this his affidavit
apparently of sound mind & memory, & perfectly clear and distinct in his recollections, more especially on all subjects and incidents that belong to the history
of the war of the revolution, and therefore I think this said affidavit entitled
to credit, although he is at times, [Illegible decorded] in mind & wife to testify
Philip Carrigan Justice peace of [illegible]
Oct 18th 1837
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Affidavit of
Samuel Davis
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Samuel Davis of Epsom living close by the line
between Epsom and Allentown, in the County of Merrimack and State of New Hampshire, being a revolutionary
soldier in the seventy eighth year of my age do depose
and testify that some time in the month of May AD 1775
soon after the battle of Lexington I was living in Rye in the County of Rockingham in said State, and went to
John Grant in the adjoining town of Greenland to work
for the said John Grant, and to take care of his business in his
absence, he having enlisted in the publick service, and above
going to the island of New Castle with other soldiers for the
defence of the Town of Portsmouth. The said John Grant had
just before been married to Dorothy Fess now his widow in
Rye aforesaid, and had moved to Greenland which town ad
joins said Portsmouth. I was a relative & always acquainted with
both till he died in Epsom aforesaid in the summer of
D. 1822. I mean the same widow Dorthy Grant who
is now proving her claim to a pension by virtue of
the services of her husband the said John Grant in the
Revolutionary War. I knew them both in said war, and
have known both ever since, as he died, & she now lives
near my residence, and I perfectly home that she never
had any other husband, nor any other wife, and that they
were married in the spring of 1775 and that she is now
living his lawful widow
the said John Grant sometime in the month of
May AD. 1775. marched to Portsmouth with other soldiers
for the defense of that town, and was stationed on the Island of
New Castle, either at the Fort, or some other part on the
Islands. Although I cannot recalled the day he marched, but
I remember the act perfectly. I was then in his employ
and living in his heirs, and recollect seeing him go
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He continued in the publick service, till some time in
the ensuing winter; I should think he served eight or
nine months, under this his first enlistment. I dont remember his coming home but once or twice during this service, and he
never tarried more than one night at a time. I went down
only once to see him, while he was on the Island, which is be
a few miles from Greenland, I did not see the soldiers mustered
in Regiment or even Companies. They were duty, either in
the Fort, or on guard or making entrenchments on that, or some
of the other Islands. I have always supposed Grants Capt
was Capt. Wentworth, but perhaps I have got the impression that
said Wentworth war, from Grant declaration. I have no recollection who was his Coln.
I was knowing to the said John Grant afterwards enlisting
in the war of the revolution in the year 1777 in the month of
July and starting for Hudson River to meet the army of General
Burgoyne. I was not in that Campaign, and have no personal
knowledge of his services therein but have always understood
from said Grant and others, that he was in the battle of Bennington and all the great battles, that led to the capture of
Burgoyne, and he has often told me that after the surrender
of Burgoyne and his army, he and others were marched down said
Hudson River through Albany to Fish Kill where he served several
months longer making ten months service under this last
enlistment and about 18 months or more under this last
enlistment, and the first, that is under both. I am that
he returnd from this last term of service in the spring of 1778
the said John Grant was generally reputed in the neighborhood
and by all his acquaintance to be a man of truth and honesty
and his oath or his word would always while he lived by
taken as soon as any man's
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I was myself out in the war of the Revolution six
months and upwards, under Capt Chisman of Connecticut
in the year 1781 and was at West point at the time of
the execution of Major Andre which I saw, and which was
on the 2d of October of that year. I was then twenty one
years old. I have never applied for a pension
Given under my hand at Epsom December 8th AD 1837
Samuel
Davis
---
State of New Hampshire
Merrimack & December 6th AD 1837. Personally
appearing the said Samuel Davis & subscribed &
made solemn oath to the truth of this his affidavit
before
Philip
Carrigan Justice of the Peace of Quorum
State of New Hampshire
Merrimack ss. December 6th 1837
[ crossed out personally appearing]
I hereby certify that the said Samuel
Davises a man of truth and veracity, and perfectly credible witness
and so reputed among his acquaintance.
Philip Carrigan Just Peace
of
Quorum
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I Thomas Haines of Concord in the County of Merrimack and State of New Hampshire do declare depose and testify that I am a revolutionary soldier and a pensioner, was born in the Town of Hampton in said State, and am seventy seven years of age. In the early part of the war of the Revolution I enlisted in the service of the United States in the Company commanded by Capt Eben Frye of Pembroke in this State, and in the Regiment commanded by Coln. Joseph Cilley of Nottingham in said State, and marched to Ticonderoga. As I was then only in the 14th or 15th year of my age I served the first year as waiter to Coln. Cilley, and after the expiration of one year was put in the ranks, and kept with the army
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that retreated before Burgoyne, till it became strong enough by increase of numbers to stop the progress of that General and defeat him. In the last great battle that preceded the surrender of Burgoyne I was desperately wounded and left for dead and with the dead on the field, but some time after when a detachment of our army were burying the dead, Lieut. Wilkins a N.H. officer discovered signs of life in me, when I was taken from the field of battle and carried to the hospital at Albany where I was a patient, and at Schenectady, more than a year. I was after I was able to do duty stationed at Fishkill down the Hudson River. And I now draw a pension not only for my services in the revolutionary war, but also on account of the wounds I received in the aforesaid battle. I knew John
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Grant the revolutionary soldier who died at Epsom in the County of Merrimack aforesaid, I mean the same John Grant when Dorothy Grant is still living in Epsom aforesaid, and now applying for the pension by virtue of the service of her said husband, in the war aforesaid. I saw him at Still water, and I think before, as he joind the northern army under General Schuyler soon after the battle of Bennington, and I have seen and talked with him since many and many a time, about our trials & sufferings in the war. He has always told me that after the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga to General Gates, he was march'd down the river to Fish Kill in New York where he serv'd months making all his service under the last enlistment then months. I understand from him & others, that he had serv'd
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in the beginning of the war eight months at New Castle Island for the defence of Portsmouth in this State, thus making the time of both said services 18 months, which I fully believe. I was in the hospital at Albany at the time he march'd to Fish kill but some time afterwards I heard of his being there. The said John Grant was a very strong courageous man, and always bore the character of an honest man. I have always understood that he was married before he entered the service, and that his widow is now living though very aged, and that he had never only one wife, and that she viz. Dorothy Grant aforesaid is that only one. The said John Grant before the war, lived at Greenland in the County of Rockingham but since generally at Epsom where he died in the summer of 1822. Given under my hand at Concord aforesaid this twelfth day of February AD. 1838.
Thomas Haines

State of New Hampshire
Merrimack February 12th, 1832. Personally appearing the said Thomas Haines and made solemn oath to the truth of this his affidavit and subscribed the same before me. Philip Carrigain, Justice of the Peace and [illegible]
Thomas Haines / Affidavit
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State of New Hampshire
Merrimack
I Stephen C Badger Clerk of
the Superior Court of Judicature within and
for said County certify that Philip Carrigan
is a justice of the Peace and of the Quorum for said-
County and formerly Secretary of said State, that the
Hon. Josiah Sanborn of Epsom was formerly a Senator in our
State Legislature and is now a Justice of the Peace & of the
Quorum for said County, that the Rev. James McCutch
en is an officiating Minister of Gospel; that Samuel
Cochran Jr is a justice of the Peace for said County,
and that the Hon. Hall Bargin was formerly a judge
of the Court of Common Pleas, and is now a justice of the
Peace & Quorum through out said State, and that the
foregoing signatures purporting to be theirs, inquestionably
, genuine-
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of
said Court this twenty seventh day
of August Eighteen hundred and thirty
Eight. -
J. C. Badger Clerk of said Court
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Hon Hall Burgin
affidavit
July 1839
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I Hall Burgin of Concord in the County of Merrimack & State of
New Hampshire aged sixty eight years do testify & say that
in May A.D. 1818. I was an associate Justice of the Court of Col
pleas in & for the County of Rockingham in the State of 
New Hampshire The Hon Daniel M. Durrell was his
Justice & Hon. John Harvey the other associate Justice
Peter Chadwick Clerk that I remained a member in that Court
the Judiciary system was altered & a new County Merrimack
was made when a Court of Sessions was established of which I
was appointed Chief Justice which office I held untill a
new arangement was made in the Judiuary & abolished
the Court of Sessions. During my membership of said Court
many soldiers made declaration of their services in the
Revolutionary war of the United States & among others I will
recollect John Grant of Epsom with whom I was perfectly
acquainted & whom I can & do say was a man of truth and
undoubted veracity to whose testimony full credit may
is allowed where he was known that said John Grant
& his widow Dorathy Grant is soliciting the Government for
a pension that the Government may as safely rely on said Grants
declaration as to his services at Fishkill as any part of his
declaration Mrs Grant is very aged & needy
Concord July 19th 1838
Hall Burgin
State of New Hampshire
Merrimack July 21st AD. 1838. Personally appearing the
said Hall Burgin subscribed and made oath to the truth of his
affidavit before me
Philip Carrigan
Just Peace & Quorum
I hereby certify that the said Hall Burgin is a perfectly credible witness
Philip Carrigan
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Nathan Goss & Dorothy Goss
Affidavit & Augt 13th 1838.
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I Nathan Goss of Allentown in the County of Merrimack & State of New Hampshire aged fifty four years do on oath testify and depose that I am lawfully married to Dorothy
Goss, the daughter of John Grant, and Dorothy Grant, the
surviving widow of said John Grant, for when services
in the war of the of the Revolution my said mother in law
claims a place in the pension roll of the United States.
I have often heard my said father in law, converse with his
family, and others, about his services in said Revolutionary war
, and he always & uniformly said that he served as a
soldier one year and a half in said Revolutionary war
the latter part of said service, at a place called Fish
kill in the State of New York I have a clear recollection of his talk and conversation on this subject
many and many times, with his children, grand children, & with his neighbours & visitors. He always gave the same
account of his services, and that he worked part of
the time at said Fishkill with other soldiers on some Fortifications
Nathan
Goss
I Dorothy Goss daughter of said John Grant and Dorothy
Grant, and wife of said Nathan Gass, do testify on oath
that I agree in my said husbands testimony, about my said
Fathers services in the revolutionary war, my recollections
of my said father conversation, and declarations, being the same
as my husbands & often heard by both, at the same time
I have heard my mother say in times past and recently, that
when my father came home from the war, he came last from a
place called Fishkill in the State of New York; and I heard
(before his death),  my said Father tell others,
as well as his family, frequently, that he was at the
battle of Bennington, and the other battles before
the capture of Burgoyne, and that General surrendered
with his army, at Saratoga, he with other soldiers
were marched down the Hudson River to a
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place called Fish Kill, But I could know nothing
about this, or my said fathers services in the war, but what
I have learned from my said parents
Dorothy
Goss

State of New Hampshire
Merrimack ss.
August 13th 1838.
Personally appearing the said Nathan Goss, and
his wife the said Dorothy Goss, and respectively subscribed
(the said Dorothy by some help by her husband) and after being
duly cautioned & examined, respectiety made solemn
Oath to the truth of this affidavits before me
Philip Carrigan
Just. Peace &
I hereby certify that I consider the said Nathan
Goss, and the said Dorothy Goss, credible witnesses, and
that they found they were consider'd perfully credible, by the
Henry Josiah Sanborn Esquire, & Samuel Cochran Junior Esquire
two Magistrates in the vicinity and other respectable neighbours
the
of whom I made enquiry
Philip Carrigan
Just Peace
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Samuel Cochran June
Affidavit August 14th 1838
Esq
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I
Samuel Capron Junior of Pembroke in the County of
Merrimack and State of New hampshire Esquire do testify and
Declare that I am well acquainted with Samuel Davies of Epson
was the line of Allentown & have been for forty years or more
last past the same and Samuel Davis who has testified in favor of the
claim of Dorothy Grant widow of John Grant a revolutionary
Soldier for the benefit of the provision of the act of Congress of the 4th
of July AD 1836 and I do over an oath that I consider the said
Samuel Davis a moral honest man a man of truth and
veracity and a Bedible witness his occupation that of a farmer
I believe his memory is good for a man of his age
August 14th 1838
Samuel Cochran Jr.
-
State of New Hampshire
Merrimack ss. August 14th 1838.
Personally appearing this Samuel Cochran Junr, (who is himself a
civil Magistrate subscribed and made the truth of this affidavit
before me
Philip Carrigan
Just. Peace & Quorum
witness--
-
-
---
I certify that the said Samuel Cochren Junr who subcribed & made oath
to the truth of this affidavit is a Justice of the Peace, & a perpetty credible Witness
Philip Carrigan
Justice of &
and of the Quorum
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Samuel Cordians Jane Esq
Affidavit
August 11th 1838,
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I
Samuel Cochran Junior of Pembroke in the County of Merrimack
aged 61 years & upwards do testify and declare that I was many years
well acquainted with John Grant late of Epsom in said County
a revolutionary soldier or so reputed in his neighborhood I mean
the same John Grant whose widow Dorothy Grant is now applying
to be put on the Pension Roll of the United States I have lived
all my life within about eight miles of the residence of the said
John Grant which was in Epson which town adjoins Pembroke
while he was living I frequently saw & convened with him in relation to his services in the war of the revolution he was after at any
house he was a man some what remarkable for size & Strength was a
good labourer & good humand man & much respected by in
neighbor & others who knew him I men heard any one doubt
or say that he was not intitled to credit or that he was not a man
of Truth & veracity I never heard any one doubt the truth of his
Declaration in regard to his services as a soldier in the war of the
Revolution I think he has been dead some 12 or 15 years his aged
Widow yet survives but in a destitute as to leaving as I do the declaration
of the said John Grant and his general reputation in his neighborhood
of having been a soldier of the Revolution and knowing the
very destitute situation of his aged widow induces me to give this
affidavit
Samuel Cochran Jr
Witnessed
State of New Hampshire
Merrimack August 11th 1838
Personally appearing the said Samuel Cockran June
Esquire, and subscribed & made oath to the truth of this his
affidavit before me
Philip Carrigan
Just Peace 
I hereby certify that the said Samuel Cochran Junr
Esquin is perfully credible witness. Philip Carrigan
Just Peace
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Reverend James
Cutifies affidavit
August 4th 1838
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James M. Cutchen an ordained and officinating
Minister of the Gospel over the Free will Baptist Sec
city of Epson  in the County of Merrimack in the State of
New Hampshire, do testify and declare that I was well
acquainted with John Grant a well known revolutionary
Soldier who died at Epsom aforesaid in the summer of
1822. and now perfectly acquainted with her surviving widow
Dorothy a worthy member of my Church and a claimant
for a pension by virtue of the services of her said husband in the war
for Independence.
the said John Grant was considered and reputed to have
been a lean and faithful soldier, and he did esteemed &
lamented as a citizen and a patient, and all his neighbors
and acquaintance regretted that he could not have been for
on the pension list of the before his decease, which was
think in the summer of 1822.
He always said that he served one year and a half in the
revolutionary war, and the last part of the service was at Fisk
Will in the State of New York, and I never entertained any
doubt of the truth of his declaration to this purport or hear
any body express any
He was a man of unsuspected truth and honesty, and
I never while he was living, or since his death, heard any
things said against his character. He was so oblying and
blameless & civil in his department, that he made no one
mies, and every body that knew him seemed to be his friend
the widow Dorothy Grant the Claimant afore
said is a beloved, & much respected Sister in
my Free will Baptist Church in Epsom
aforesaid, in full communion.
She is universally respected & esteemed in 
[illegible so] generally in the adjoining towns on account
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of her great age, and her charity, meekness piety and remarkable intelligence.
though feeble in body, her mind appears strong and clear, and her
memory good for much can hardly he said in her praise
I am perfectly well with acquainted (also, with Samuel Davies of Eprom
aforesaid, who has given his testimony in favour of the said aged
Claiment. The said Samuel sustains a character of good standing for
truth and honesty and full reliance may be placed on his testimony
is a cousin of Grant was out in the War James McCutchen
State of New Hampshire
Merrimack SS August 10th 1833 Personally appearing
the said Reverend James McCutchen subscribed, and made oath to the truth
of this affidavit before me
Philip
Carrigan
Just. Peace.
I hereby then have said certify that the above said named James
McCutchen is an officiating Minister of the Gospel, in the town of Esrom afore
said that he is a Clergyman of great respectability, and of course, a perfect
by credible witness
Philip
Carrigan
Just
Peace & Quorum.
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Affidavit of the
Honb South Josiah Sanborn Esq
August 10th 1838
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the
D
I Josiah Sanborn of Epsom in the County of MerriMack
State of New Hampshire Esquire aged seventy five years
do testify and declare that
I have always
lived in Epsom
aforesaid and was perfectly well acquainted with
John Grant the revolutionary soldier
whose surviving widow Dorothy 
Grant has made application to be put
on the widow roll of the 
United States by widow
of said John Grants services in the war of the Revolution
The said John Grant was a neighbour of mine, as he lived
and died within one mile and a half of my house, where
I have always lived & where I expect to die. The said
John Grant died in said Epsom, at his house
at the said distance from my residence in July 1822. I very
fequently saw and conversed with him during the time he lived in
Epsom which was some 40 or 60 years, to which town here moved from greenland, after he was discharged from
service of the U. S. He was frequently at my house, & find of talking
(as old soldiers any of his revolutionary services, and he was
always considered by me, and so reputed by all his neighbours
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to have been a brave & faithful soldier, and he was no doubt
fond of a soldiers life. I always considered him an honest
man, and a man of truth and veracity
and I believed he
was so considered by all his acquaintance. He did not, & could
not always fulfil his promises of payment punctually,
but in
all other respects, was true to his word, and I would
as soon believe him on Oath as any other man or as
credible people in general. He has always declared that
he served one year & an half in the revolutionary war,
part of
the time at Fishkill in New York, and I have
not
the least doubt of it. He was a strong laborious man, of
large size. His surviving widow the applicant for a pension
at whose request I make this affidavit is and in
commonly amiable pious conscientious venerable Lady of about
Eighty five years of age. I am sure that nothing could induce
her to state any thing not strictly true, either under, or not under
oath, She holds her age, & memory remarkably well. She is a worthy
member of the Reverend James McCutchen's Church in this town
Josiah Sanborn
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State of New Hampshire
Merrimack ss. August 10th 1838
then
personally appearing the said Josiah Sanborn Esq
subscribed & made oath to the truth of his affidavit
before me
Philip
Carrigan
Jus. Peace
I hereby certify that the said Josiah Sanborn is a
perfectly credible witness, and a Gentleman highly respected
in the town where he lives, and also much known and repented
through the State, he (I believe) been frequently a member of
the branches of our State Legislature, & is now a Justice of the
peace and of the Quorum.
Philip Carrigan
Just Peace
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P.
Carrigan
Affidavit
August 23d 1838
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I Philip Carrigan of Concord in the County of Merrimack
and State of New Hampshire aged sixty years & upwards do testify
declare that on the fourteenth day of August last I visited Dorothy formerly
of Allentown but now residing in Epsom in this said County
mean the widow of John Grant for whose services in the War Revolution
she is a claimant for a pension
I conversed with her for some time and found her remarkably intelligent, and
for one of her years agreeable, and apparently of sound memory
she remembered with perfect distinctness the times when her husband went +
returned from the war under his last enlistment, and perfectly agreed with her
cousin Samuel Davis though she knew not the extent or purport of his testimony
that he went in July 1777 & returned in May 1778 making ten full month
and that his service of Eight months under his first enlistment commenced were after
her marriage which was in April 1775, and the mentioned many particulars that ┃
proved beyond doubt the correctness of her memory as to these facts
She said that when she made her declaration before the Hon Judge Whitting
as the Judge told her that her husbands declaration before the Court
men [illegible alias] was all the evidence that was necessary she relied with
confidence on what the judge said, and thought there was no need of [illegible her]
being more minute and caplicit. I had thought of taking her 
affidavit in addition to her declaration of which I have no copy, but as
she cannot write for fullness, and want of practice (the Judge having guides
her hand when she subscribed & made oath to her declarations I thought to [illegible]
her expense the case already loaded with too much; I would send
on with the other evidence this brief statement of my own impression, which
is respectfully submitted to the candid consideration of the Honl Commissioner
of Pensions.
Concord August 27th 1832
Subscribed & sworn to before me J. C. Badger Philip Carrigan
Justice of the Peace

PS It is well known, that people in old age recollect with more distinctness, the incidents
of their young days than those that were in their old age, within that distance of time. A Mr
Abbott of this town at the age of 100, when he could not remember from one here to another,
yet recollected with perfect clearness, that at the age of 24 he drove the teams, which brought 
to the Garrison in this Town the bodies of five our citizens, massacred by the Indians August 11th
1746. and all the particulars about that event. He died in 1822. Fast taken from Bouton
Contennial Sermon preached Charm. 1730
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Samuel Davis affidavit
August 10th AD 1838
.
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I Samuel Davies of Epsom (close in the line of Epsom) (by Allenstown) in the County of Merrimack and State of New Hampshire a soldier of the Revolution aged 80 years (if I live till the second day of next September) do testify and declare that I formerly lived in the Town of Rye and in the Spring of 1775, went to the adjoining town of Greenland at the request of John Grant who was my cousin to take care of his cow, cultivate a little land for him and assist his wife in his absence as he had enlisted a soldier to go to Great Island for the defense of Portsmouth and the Harbour in the beginning of the War. He went a soldier to said Island and serv'd (served) upwards of eight months and I took care of his affairs, and lived in his house in his absence. He afterwards enlisted in the said war of the revolution about the middle of July 1777, we to the battle of Bennington, and was afterwards at Still Water, Bemas (Bemis) heights and at the capture of Burgoyne at Saratoga. He soon after Burgoynes surrender went with other soldiers to Fish Hill on the Hudson river in New York where he serv'd (served) out the residue and more than the residue of his last enlistment, which was for nine months, but he serv'd (served) upwards of ten months (including the time  he occupied in returning which makes more than 18 months which he serv'd (served) under both enlistments. I was at his house when he returned from the war, at his house at Greenland aforesaid and his return was in the last of May 1778. I remember I had finished planting. I myself enlisted in the war of the Revolution under a Capt Jewell of Stratham in the County of Rockingham in said state of New Hampshire (Rye and Greenland are on the seaboard in said county) and was march'd (marched) to west point in New York where I was detach'd (detached) under a Capt Chesman of Connecticut to blast rocks to make a cistern for Fort Putnam that would hold a vast many hogsheads of water for the use of the Fort aforesaid. I cannot recollect the date of my enlistment but I think it was in the Spring of 1780 I was at West point at the time of the capture, trial, and execution of Major Andre which was October 2nd of 1780. I returned some time after, my continuance in the service being less than 18 months. Andres Execution made an impression on me that I never shall forget while life lasts. I know the time
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by some minutes I have preserved ever since. While I was at West Point, I saw and convered with soldiers, who had known and
seen the said John Grant at Saratoga and Fish Kill in New York. This is according to my best recollection although I cannot remember their names. as we were relatives, near friends
and house mates, I fell interested in his movements and was
often enquiring about him. He told me as soon as he return
from the army in the spring of 1778. that he had served
some months at Fish Kill in New York, and he always persisted in telling the same to me his wife, & others while he lived.
He was a brave good humored honest soldier, and his death was
much lamented. Every body liked him, and he will have been
believed on oath, as soon as any man. He was a man of truth
and veracity and to considers by all his acquaintance
His widow with whom also I am well acquainted, is an intelligent virtuous friendly old Lady & universally respected. She lives
but a few miles from me, and is a member of Reverend James
McCutchens Church in Esson aforesaid. I gave my aid
it in favour of the said Widow Dorothy Grants claim for a pension
before viz. some time in the winter of last year, I believe in December last, and have thought much of the subject ever since, and I am very positive that I am correct in my recollections, and certainly I have here
states truly such as they are, and to the best of them
Samuel Davis
August 10th 1838
State of New Hampshire
Merrimack ⎬ August 10th 1832.
Personally appearing the said Samuel Davies and [illegible]
and made solemn oath, to the truth of this affidavit
before me Philip Carrigan
Just Peace
I hereby certify that the said Samuel Davies is a perfectly credible witness
Philip Carrigan
Just. Peace
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Mr Pierce
Senate
Hon F Pierce

[illegible Salus US
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State of New Harbin
Office of Secretary of State
and Josh 5 1839
I hereby certify that upon the revolutionary
heard in this office find a charge against
Captain Isaac Farwell of the 1st Regiment
Dated August 1st 1776 to a Sugar & for
Company delivered at White Plains
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed
the seal of said State
Jouch Neven I Say of State
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I John Durgin of Sandbornton in the County of
Strafford  and State of New Hampshire a revolationary soldier and a Pensioner aged eighty two years do testify and declare that in the war of the Revolution
I was stationed at Peekskill in the State of New York a month or more, that while there some time in the last of November in the year seventeen hundred and seventy
seven (the time is according to my best recollection), I heard
frequently the name of John Grant mentioned among the
soldiers & call in a funny way often
from said Peekskill, I went to Valley Forge in Pennsylvania
and dont remember of hearing the name of John Grant called
afterwards
John Dargan
Strafford ss December 27th 1838 I hereby certify that the
above deponant is a man of truth & his statements
are entitled to credit, & that the above affidavit was
Subscribed & sworn to before me -
Daniel C. Atkinson Jus. Peace
2.
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I John Peavey of Strafford aged 82 years
In the County of Strafford and State of New
Hampshire do depose and say that I enlisted
Soldier in the Revolutionary war and in September
seventeen hundred seventy seven I enlisted in
in A Comperney Commanded by Capt Rawlings
Col Drake Regiment New Hampshire Militia
for three months and Marched to Bennington
Still water I also say that John Grant of Rie [Rye]
in the County of Rockingham sate of New hampshire
enlisted a soldier in the same Compenney and
by marched to Bennington to gether then we
Both Marched to Fishkill in the State of New York
we served to gether three months and
then I was discharged and left him Thain
do not know how long he seved affterwards
State of New Hampshire
at the time I enlisted I lived in Washington State of New Hampshire
John Perry

I the subscriber hereby Certify that the above
named John Peavey is considered to be a man
of truth varasity as fair a my knowledge extends
John Peavey Jr Justice of the Peace
State of New Hampshire Strafford SS
Strafford October the 7. 1837 Then the above
Same John Peavey Personally Appeared and
Affidavit before me
Soloman oath to the mouth of the above affidavit before me
John Peavey In
Justice of the Peace

3
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I Jonathan Fogg of Pittsfield in the County of Merrimack and State of New Hampshire a Revolutionary soldier and a pension
eighty three years and upwards do depose and say that I
was well acquainted with John Grant revolutionary soldier who
died in Epsom in said County & State more than a dozen years a
go and whose widow Dorothy Grant whom I will know, and
I understand is still living and a Claimant for a pension
by virtue of her husbands service, namely the said John Grant,
war of the Revolution. The said
John Grant and I have
spent many and many an hour together he was a remarkably
Jovial
funny man and somewhat addicted to stuttering in his speech. He often, and always told me that he the said John said
one year and a half in the revolutionary war, Eight months on the
Island of Newcastle, below Pretsmouth in this State, and the remaining
part of the time at Fishkill, and Peekskill, in the State of New York.
And he told me during our conversation about the war, many one
dates of events that happened at both those places, in New York
State, that I think it hardly possible he could have been [illegible taken]
I have no doubt he serv'd as he said, but perhaps he may have included
in his estimate as our soldier often did, the time [illegible ] in returning
home which may have been a week or two
Jon Fogg
Merrimack ss Decem 28th 1836
4
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State of New Hampshire
Merrimack ss Pittsfield December 26th 1832.
Personally appearing the within said Jonathan Fogg and
subscribed & made oath to the truth of this affidavit be
Philip Carrigan
Just of Peace
I hereby certify the said Jonathan Fogg, the Deponent to be
a credible witness Philip Carrigan
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I Jonathan Urin of Concord in the County
of Merrimack and the State of New Hampshire aged
nearly eighty years depose and say that I am a
Revolutionary Soldier and a pensioner, that I was
employed [illegible ] soldier by the Town of Boscawen in said
County and served under Captain Isaac Farwall formerly of number four now Charlestown in
said State. My superior Officers were Major
Scott and Col. Reed. & I the said Jonathan
Urin do further depose and say that whilst I
was employed as a Soldier as aforesaid I saw John Grant in the service of the United States at Peekskill barracks in the State of New York
in the winter and Spring of seventeen hundred &
seventy eight. I am unable, at this longest of
time, to give the names of the Officers under whom
said Grant served, but I frequently saw him
and was well acquainted with him at, before,
and since that time. said Grant then belonged to
Greenland in this State, & died some years since
in the Town of Epsom in this county-- Said Grant was a
man of Large stature, very jovial and had an in
proiment in his speach
Witness
S. C. Badger
John Townsend
Jonathan Urin
his
Mark
State of New Hampshire
Merrimack SS
January 4th 1839
Then personally appeared the above named Jonathan Urin and made oath that the above affidavit by him
subscribed is the Before me
J. C. Badger Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that said Jonathan Urin is a credit able person
 S C. Badger Justice of the Peace
6
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State of New Hampshire
Merrimack [illegible]
I Stephen C Badger Clerk of the Superior
Court of Judicature within and for the County
of
Merrimack and the State of
said do hereby certify that Daniel C. Atkinson John Peavey
Philip Carrigan and
Stephen C Badger are Justice of the
Peace as before stated and the signatures
before written purporting to be theirs are genuine

In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affix
the seal of said Court this tenth
day of January
Anno Domini
1839-
---
J. C. Badger Clerk
7
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I am personally acquainted with the
within John Durgin, Jonathan Fogg and
Jonathan Urin, and am of opinion that
they are credible witnesses, and that they
likely truly I also am acquainted with
the magistrates, Santary of State and Clerk
of the Court who certify on they E. 
I am [Illegible James] well acquainted with Judge Hall Burgin, Hon. Josiah Sanborn and
of
Elder McCulchen, who are
said to have testified in relation to this
case, and am of opinion that their
testimony may be relied on
Sam Hall
Concord
Jan. 12, 1839.
I Stephen C Badger Clerk of the superior
Court of Judication as within mentioned do hereby certify
that Isaac Hill is governor of the State of New Hampshire and that the signature & hand writing above written
purporting to be his, are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal of said
Court this 15th day of January
Anno Domini 1839-
R. C. Badger Clerk
8
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Courts of Pensionsat
by
Hon F.  Pierce
Common
Senate
United States
[illegible handwritting]
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War Department
Pension Office
January 23, 1839
Sir
I have examined the additional proof
offered in support of the alleged service of John Grant, deceased, and have filed it with the
original papers of Dorothy Grant, his widow.
The testimony of the witnesses is not sustained
by the rolls, and cannot therefore be
received as evidence of the service claimed
1777 and 1778.
Eleven months & 8 days is
all that the Department can be justified
allowing the widow
I the honor to be
very respectfully
your obt servant
J L. Edwards
Philip Carginhave

Hon. S. Pierce
Senate, United States.
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Concord State of New Hampshire July 1837
Sir
the accompanying papers marked 1. 2. 3. 4. contain the chim + the evidence in support of it, of Dorothy Grant, the surviving widow
of John Grant a revolutionary soldier, for the provision of the 3d sect
of the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836.
to the application of the said John Grant in May 1818 to be placed
on the pension roll according to the then existing laws, was property to
at the War Department, on account of his services being militia services
while no objection is raised as to the service, or length of his service
I have supposed that this document that passed the formalities of
Court of Record, and had the opinion & judgement of the Court in favour
of the claim, might answer this case under the aforesaid act of 1836.
and such seemed to be the opinion of his Excellency Governer Hill, late
Senate in Congress, to whom I exibited the papers, and who I belie
is now in your City I myself knowing to the fact that the said
John Grant, under whose services, his said Widow Dorthy claims is
the identical John Grant, who made the application in May 1818
agreeably to the accompanying document. and having long lived in
Epsom, I know that he was considered & reputed a revolutionary soldier
and that he died in Epsom aforesaid in 1822. and that the said Dorothy
Grant with whom he lived & brought up a large family is his sole surviving widow
continues single & unmarried, & never has been married to any other
Many indeed all her relatives will testify to the same facts, contained
the accompanying affidavit of Nathan Goss, which I fully
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believe but they can farther and  selected him as rather
the most intelligent. I hope the whole will prove satisfactory
but if any farther testimony is wanted on any point by receiving
year command this the Post office in this Town according to the
Claimants wishes I will use my endeavor to collect it for her
and forward it to your officer
I have the honor to remain
very respectfully
Sir
your very obedient Servt
Philip
Carrigan
Honb
James L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington
-
P. S.
It may be proper to mention that the aged widow being
very infirm, & some what blind, could not sign her name without the Judge
ended her hand, & he having read the marriage certificate, his mind in
upon Dorothy Foss, instead of Grant her husbands name, & the directed her hand
first time
or may be seen. This accounts for the [illegible procure], she mensed it
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Concord NH August 27th 1838
Dear Sir
the liberal and patriotic feelings, which
I know you cherish for all deserving objects, and certainly will not less when the exercise of them, will aid some
good citizens, and an old friend of your native State,
Colden me to ask a small favour, which though for from the
line of these higher & more important duties wisely confided
to your supervision, will contribute to an act of justice & humanity Dorothy Grant aged 86, a remarkably intelligent, pious
and popular body of Epsom in this County, widow of John Grant
Revolutionary soldier, is a Claimant for a pension under the
Act of 1836. by virtue of the services of her said husband
who in 1812. before the Common Pleas of Rockingham Co. of which Court on
Daniel M. Durell was then the Justice proved 18 months, in the
Revolutionary War. that he had served under two enlistments
his claim was then rejected, on account of both these tours of duty
being considered militia services.
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The Commissioner of Pension is willing to put his on the rolls allowing
the compensation of eleven months service, which would diminish them
of her claim. $153.34. Judge Duvall was one of the most critical &
men, in relation to the evidence acquired for revolutionary claimants, and Gran
satisfied him & other Judge that his service extended to 18 months
the reduction of the amount of her claim is death to the pen widow
and many of the most repectable people in Epsom, where she is popular and
her Minister of the church he is a worthy member, are grieved at the men
, and have testified in her behalf and of her said husbands himity, truth &
veracity. I hope the Honb Mr Edwards the Commissioner will recomission
her case. But all I dare ask of your Honour in this letter abroad ten
ling is that you would have the goodness, as I am agent and Attorney for the
said Widow &c. and my testimony is in the case, so to represent to the
Commissioner, that he will give that credence to it to which it is entitled
remain with perfect respect &
consideration Dear Sir

your very obedient Servt
Philip Carrigan
Hon Levi Woodbury Esq
Secretary of the Treasury of the U.S.
City of Washington
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Concord, August 30, 1838
Sir, Enclosed is another affidavit of Jonathan
Urin for the files of the old case of Dorthy Grant. It is with
much regret that I am obliged to cause you so much entile
in this concern; but the consciousness I feel that you will be
pleased with any new fast that will shed more light
on her claim, strengthen the evidence of its justice must be
my apology, Grants widow, and Samuel Davis have stated
that Grant returned to N H. in the Spring of 1778. The
Deponent swears that he saw Grant at Perkshill
the New York in the Spring of 1778. Peekskill his below
Fishkill, both on Hudson River in NY. Grant was
probably at both places, but spent most of his time at
Fishkill, and would naturally pass through Peekskill
on his way to New Hampshire for these men N.H. Soldiers
at both places. However this might be, I respectfully
submit if the venerable claimant has not considering the
distance of time, furnished as good evidence as could
be expected that her husband was in the service after the
capture of Burgoyne, at one or at both of their posts on
6
the Hudson River in N. Y. to make up the length of
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Service he has sworn to
Again Captaim Farwells company to which Dec
ponent belonged, was at White plains not far from Pickhill
in the Summer of 1778, I found this by a record
in the Secretary of this States office, in this Town
is merely an account of some rations, chocolate, sugar,
& delivered to Capt. Farwells Company in the summer of 1778. I hardly thought it expedient to tax
the poor widow, with the expence of the Secretary
Certificate, but will send it if necessary. I have no
doubt that Grant served the full him he declared
and sworn to, and the Court belived and respectfully
but that your honor will have none-
I have the honor to continue
with
perfect respect
Sir
your very obedient Servant
Philip Carrigain
Hon J.L. Edward 
Commissioner of Pensions
to
War Department
City of Washington
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Concord N.H. Sept. 1840
Dear Sir

Will you have the goodness to send me
a copy of the certificate paid to 
Dorothy Grant widow of John Grant
who was placed upon the pension roll
N.H. Agar
under the act of July 4, 1836. A grandson
has possession of the certificate and refuses
to deliver it to the old Lady - And I desire
the copy, that I may be able to you the proper
discription of the paper is an action of two
An early we will greatly [illegible Negr]
Mr
and entered in
Hon J L. Edwards
Comr of Pensions
Washington St.
[handwritten found mutilated mar 1 1915]
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Concord N.H. February 20, 1838-
Sir
The enclosed papers contain a new declaration
and additional evidence relative to the claim of Dorothy Grant, one of the suspended cases in your Department
The anxiously hope you will resume the consideration of it as soon as may be convenient. The difficulties that
interpose against the allowance of it was very property
suggested in the following extract of your letters of Sep.
inst have them duly and respectfully appreciated

In his husbands declaration under the act of March 1818, he alleger, eight months service in 1775, in Capt Joseph Peirsons Company and Col. Joshua Wentworth
Regiment Col Jachan Wingate commanded the Reginment to which Capt. Parsons Company belonged
Grants name is not found on Capt Renous roll but is  found on the rolls  another Captain. If there is a mutate
in the name of the Captain, Claimant should show it
The claimants name is found in Capt. Rawlings Company in Col. Drakes Regiment in 1777, only
for three months, and eight days. It is admitted that the
New Hampshire Rolls should be considered evidence for
claimant when his name is found on the rolls, and when
it is not evidence against him, but not conclusive
some years since on account of a contemplated publication, I was desirous to ascertain accurately the names
of all the soldiers furnished by N.H. in the revolutionary War
, and the late General McClary of Epsom
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whose widow now draw pension on account of his service
in that war, gave me a list of all in that town and
the vicinity when he personly hate men revolutionary
Soldiers, and among those were Elisha Haynes and
John Grant the husband of the widow now soliciting
your attention and the General put down his services
at one year and a half. Phila Hayes was not on the
N. H. Rolls, as I was informed by J. M. Harper Esq
then M. C. from N.H Yet Haynes, was
afterwoods [illegilbe]
on good proof made to your department and are the [illegible] June 1822 a having served two years and  [illegible] acceedingly tell he died According to your letter aforesaid. Grants name is not found in Capt
Parsons Company and Col. Joshua Wingate, not Col Joshua Wentworth commanded the Regiment to which
Captain Parsons Company belonged Grants name is
not found on Capt. Pension roll, but on the roll of
another, Captain On this point I beg leave to refer to the accompanying deposition [illegible]
which
tend to confirm that I have understood to be the true history of those days of party preperation and confusion

In addition to his testimony I would observe that the
duty of the soldiers in and nigh Portsmouth at the
the Grant was in the service was ranging defences for
the harbour and Town, and with little regard to term
parties or regiments, were divided among the Island for
that purpose, the Commanders of the Regiments and of
Coulfies quarting the most of the time in the Town
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but ready to join the troops in case of alarm. The regiments were seldom if ever paraded and as the pay was received, or hardly expected, there was no dicipline (discipline) and the muster rolls exhibit the hurry and confusion of the times. Many soldiers hardly know the name of the Companies, or captains, or if they did might lose the recollection of them by old age and in temperate habits to which they were generally accustomed. But I would observe further that the declaration of John Grant before the Court of Common Please (Pleas) in Rockinham (Rockingham) County in this State is in the (?) routines of one of the judges.
At the session of the Court in May 1818, when many revolutionary claimants with them witnesses were in attendance in the presence of business at the Court and perhaps, from that Judges difficulty of hearing distinctly he did not Grant might have made a mistake in the name of the officers. Grant has no knowledge of the mistake, for he never saw the papers afterwards. The document was immediately sent on to Washington by one of the Judges, the claim was rejected on account of the service being militia services and returned to the Judge said on his filed till last July, when by order of the said widow it was sent to me.
Coln. *Joshua Wingate and Col. Joshua Wentworth don't sound very dissimilar especially when it is considered

*Sound more alike than Solyman and Mahomet a mistake in the Edinburgh review which Lord Byron (?) in a note to child Harold.
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that in New Hampshire Wentworth is commonly spoken
Went or Went in Writer. The other difficulty are to the Captains name might have been explance had
it been known before Grants death. His grandson
has long taken [illegible unwearel] forms and spent more of
100 in effectual attempts to find some of the
witnesses who testified for and at the Court at the County of in
Rockinham County. They are all dead or unknown
the Judge told him they had in the lower part of
that County might where the county then were held
on the seaboard, but there is no record to
show the names or places of residence. The time
last in the expectations of finding some of these
witnesses, has thus delayed this second application
It seems to be hand, that the clament now
in her 85th year should be denied the provisions
granted by the Country to such claiments; either
by the copeless bandity of the Court to whom
her husband made his declaration; the forgetfulness
of her husband, or the defects of the inter roll
Had he lived to avail himself of the act of
1832, he no doubt would have drawn $60 per
annum and the claim of his
widow would
have been undoubted
Having failed in procuring any of his witnesses
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Hon M
Edwards
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when he made his declaration, I send you herewith as
substitute the affidavits of five others which are all that could be procured that was on this case Many more
might be produced to prove his reputation as a revolutionary soldier, and his good character for truth and honesty
but have deemed the expense superfluous
I am acquainted with all the deponent and I
know them all entitled to credence as for as their memories serve them. I know then is a strong and perhaps 
not laudable desire with old soldiers to have the comrades share with them in the County of the County and
I am aware that in these failing memories, they can hardly dissiminate between what they actually saw
and impressions derived from frequent conferences with
their fellow soldier in the social intercours, and that
much depends on the patience, discernment and intering
of the Magistrate in taking their depositions
I asked no leading questions except thou of Benjamin Page and suffered each to tell his own story with
any bond or influence.-
Jonathan Man, has the reputation of being an
honest man and entitled to credence but his memory is somewhat defective.

Benjamin Page is at times insane, but when he gave
his affidavit his mind was
regular and his memory appeared to be good
All the rest are positunity good witnesses, and
I know of no consideration to stain the weight of
their testimony.
I believe therefore fully in the declare
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ation of John Grant and that he served 18 months as he has sworn, All give him a high character for truth and honesty and from my own knowledge
I am sure he deserves it
He was a young illiterate a man when he enlisted the service had always been on the sea side of New Hampshire, and was trully unacquainted with any other
part of the country more especially with the Georgia pay of New York and would not have known of such a place as Fishkill except he had actually been there
Excuse the policity of this letter. The old
lady I well know, and [illegible he] also her deceased husband, and know that she has now to hear [illegible the illy]
that accompany poverty age, and sickness, all which
are home with benerable formed, and so anxiously
relied on me to represent case to your
Department as favourable as I can [illegible] and I have stated
what I believe is truth as the most eloquent mode of
advocating whatever she may obtain the cannot
enjoy ling but it may cheer her last hours, and
[illegible] her fellow of death.
Ague entreat of you to excuse the tediousness
and freedom of this letter
I have the
honor to remain
with the most profound respect
and consideration
Sir your Obt Sert
Philip
Carrigan
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Hon J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
City of Washington
PS Mrs Grant the Claimant wishes her certificate (if granted) sent to
me, and directed to me at the Concord NH. Post Office. I believe her request to that
effect is with the first papers in her case in the Department.
I believe also the evidence of my Magistrate in among of these papers, and in
the files of others in the pension office. Also that Aaron Whittemore, is one of the
Judge &c. to the documents to prove their facts are not again sent to save the
widow some expenses, but shall be immediately if required
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Hon J. L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
War Departmentof
City of
Washington
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Comond, August 23 1838
Sir
Four esteemed favour of May 28th was
received early in time and I soon after communicated it
contents of the Claiment Widow by Dorothy Grant She
though necessitous and was the end of her days (in her 86th year)
concerning herself justly entitled to all the human provisions
of the act made for her, and those so circumstanced beseeches
you as her dying request to have the goodness to reconsider
her case, with the additional evidence that accompanies this
Letter in another package marked B. he says, that as he
and her dear and brave husband, Struggled through life without his rearing any of that County enjoyed by other soldiers, who did not serve but half so long, but were in
life in 1832, she believes she is fairly entitled to the full benefit of the Act of 1836, and not be obliged to suffer the tract reflection, that its provisions are restricted
and believed to her, by a want of confidence in the honesty, and varacity of her husband, on oath; who if hum
testimony is to be believed in any case, was deserving of full credit.
The is positive and certain, that her husband served the full 18 months, and all her neighbor, the Reverend Clergyone of
her society, the municipal authority, and all
the his pectable inhabitants of the Town, are of the same of union and the impression is general without a single
doubt that Grants declaration is true
I found the venerable and pious claimant much
more inteligent and respectable than I
was before conscions
of and I have heard of her religions Churholes and her husbands fair and honest one, from so many undoubted sources, that with no other testimony that the Hon Judge
Burgen who is also a religious men and long has been a preaching Elder of the sect called Christians, and who formerly
lived near Grant, I should as much believe the fact of Grants service, at Fish Kill as my own existance.-- But at
the request of the Widow and her many respectable friends
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I sent on more evidence and I would respectfully absence
that after the lessee of so many years, when the grave has
covered over many; that would have been witnessed, more
direct and credit testimony is hardly to be expected, including
two Magistrates one of whom has been a senator & a Clergyman and
Judge (who is a Clergyman also although his seed devour the
title and others unimpeached and unimpeachable,
The testimony of Samuel Davies is important
He is a coming to said Grant worked for him in his absence
and was with Grant's family, at Greenland when Grant returned from the War viz from Fish Kill, and went himself afterwards to West point I knew little of him last [illegible inter] and have recently taken taken his affidavit more deliberately I was gratified to find him entitled to more than
ordinary good credit, as the evidence (herewith)  verifies
He is a [illegible appetately] Owner of decent property, Jonathan Arm
whose affidavit in this case is in your Department, called
upon me the this day, and told me that he has thought
much of the subject since he gave this testimony last [illegible war]
and is very positive that he saw Grant at Fishkill
sometime in the Spring or summer of 1778, I did not put him on oath although I wrote this affidavit because of
his memory is somewhat scattering, I was fearful that he
might have derived the impression from conversation with
Grant in this Town, where they often formerly met But
I find by records in the secretarys office here, that Captain Isaac Farewell and his company to which they Jonathan
Urin belonged were at White Plains in N.Y. in the
summer of 1778, Urin therefore might have been at his Fish Kill, for he might have seen Grant at White Plains on
Brant return to N. H. it is certainly true that Thomas Hames whose testimony in the case, is on your files, was a long
time in the Hospital on account of severe wound he received
previous to the capture of Burgoyne, and I believe it is equally that while in the Hospital he heard or knew of
Grant going down the river to Fish Kill and continuing in
the public service. The whole State of N.H. is a small
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Territory and the NH men especially the Militia, generally knew each other, and those three days from its eastern section and familiar and felt interested in each other [illegible]. Grant made his declaration about Sixteen years past [illegible] memory at that time was not impaired by age. He must have deliberately injured himself and deceived the [illegible] Judge Burgin who knew him and his services for [illegible]. His pious Widow would think with horror at the bare thought of receiving money that came by [illegible] and that their children and grandchildren are respectable industrious people. Grant would not have thought of York Hill, except he had been then, and he might have been selected to go on account of this great activity, station, and strength, *  Tho New Hampshire Rolls are not perfect to my certain knowledge, and in his case there was an omission which if living he could explain. I feel much anxiety about this case, from my Sincere Conviction of its justice from the worthy character of the claiment, and the confidence she and her family [illegible] in the sincerity and rectitude of my [illegible] in their behalf. Yet anxious as I am I would not wish the bounty of the Government abused, and will never use and endeavors which might tend to that result.
I have the honor to remain
With the most perfect respect Sir
Your very obedient Servant
Philip Carrigain
* In the detached service, he probably had another Captain Which the York York Roll, might, or might not, show. Grant in that day could never have dreamed of the York Hill Service being made a question and not think or care to have a record made of it. You know better than me, that few Soldiers (comparatively) preserved their discharges.
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Hon James L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington
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Allenstown NH July 1st 1837
Sir
In my application to obtain the benefit of the 3rd Section of the act of Congress of the 4 of July 1836 making provisions for widows in certain cares ( which care of mine is attempted to be supported by the accompanying papers ) should succeed. I wish you to have the goodness to send the certificate of my admission to the pension rolls to Philip Carrigain Esquire, Concord New Hampshire who has the care of the concern and of any farther instructions or correspondence should become necessary in relation thereto, you are respectfully requested to direct to him at the same Concord NH Post Office.
Very respectfully
Dorothy Grant
To the Hon James S. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington
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Mr Pierce is authorized to accept in
[illegible] accept the certificate for Dorothy
Grant for 11 mos and 8 days the service proposed to be allowed by the [illegible]
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Payment to be made
at Concord NH
by Isaac Hill Esq
Agent for paying Pen = 
sioners, in the Agency of
Concord NH
Recorded in the Pension
Office, in Book A Vol 2d
Page 25 by D D Addison
Clerk
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War Department
Revolutionary Claim
I certify that in conformity with the 3d section of
the law of the United State, of the 4th July, 1836,
Dorothy Grant of New Hampshire 
widow of John Grant decd
who was a Private in the Revolution
is entitled to receive Thirty four dollars and
twenty two cents per annum during the time she may
remain unmarried, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831,
and payable semi annually on the 4th of March and 4th
of September. 
Given at the War Office of the United
States, this 2d [second] day of
February one thousand eight
hundred and thirty nine
J R Poinsett
Secretary of War.
Examined and
Countersigned. 
J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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