Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17963, Andrew Griswold, Conn.
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SERVICE Conn
Griswold, Andrew
Anna

NUMBER
W17963
B L Wt 1068-200
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2687

Connecticut

Andrew Griswold Lieutenant
Connecticut Line
6 years War
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of twenty Dollars per month, to commence on the 6th of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 19 of September 1818 and sent to the care of Calvin Goddard Esq New London Connecticut.

Arrears to 4th of September 1818 99.53
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 March 1819 120.
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$219.53

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}

Revolutionary Claim 99.33
Deduct already received 75.5
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24.28
Add Semi ann  120.
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144.28

Norwich, New London Co
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Dead. See letter from Agent March 1828.

Continued on the roll under the law of the 1 of May 1820. Notification sent to James Stedman 6 July 1820.
Norwich Cont.

Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 Sept 1825 to 28 Sep 1825 the day of his death. Agt notified 2 April 1840
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380
Connecticut
Anna Griswold widow of Andrew Griswold Decd. who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 28th Sept 1825
of New London C.O. in the State of CT who was a Lieutenant in the company commanded by Captain Conn of the Regt commanded by Col Durkee in the CT line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Connt at the rate of 320 Dollars -- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1830 [?]

Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of Sept 1838 and sent John Hyde Norwich Town CT

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1838 $800.00
Semi-Annual allowance ending 4 Sept '39 160.00
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$960.00

{Act July 7, 1838.}

Recorded by D. D. Addison, Clerk
Book A Vol 1st Page 182

Let F. E. Hassler, Apl 17/52
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1068
Andrew Griswold
Lieut.
Connecticut line

Warrant Issued

March 4th 1823
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Department of War
Bounty land office
May 15th 1824

William M. Stewart, has the honor to inform Mr. Mangun, that, as soon as the law authorizing you [illegible]
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State of Connecticut
County of New London } Feb 26th 1823

I, Andrew Griswold of Norwich in said County aged sixty nine years, a citizen of the United States, do, upon oath, testify and declare, that, in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five I enlisted in the army of the Revolution, against the common enemy of my country, & again in the year 1773 I enlisted for the term of "during the war," and served in the company commanded by Captain [illegible] and in the regiment No. 4 under command of Colonel John Durkee of the Connecticut line; and that I continued in the service aforesaid from 1775 the close of the war, in seventeen hundred and eighty-three, that I was never regularly discharged. I was in the battle of Germantown & field of the commission of Lieutenant. I was wounded in said Battle & [illegible] service afterward. My commission was destroyed by fire almost 16 years ago with my house & its contents. I further declare, that I have never received a warrant for the Bounty Land promised to me on the part of the United States; nor have I ever assigned or transferred my claim to that gratuity in any manner whatsoever: therefore, Know all men by these presents, that I, Andrew Griswold aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint the Hon. James Lauman now a Senator in Congress from the state of Connecticut to be my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, or of such other person as is duly authorised to issue and deliver the same, a warrant for the quantity of Land due to me as aforesaid, and to sign a receipt or acquittance therefore; and my said attorney is hereby fully authorised and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purposes above expressed.

Attest,
Andrew Griswold

I, Silas Goodall aged seventy five years, a citizen of the United States, do, upon oath, declare, that I have been long acquainted with Andrew Griswold who has subscribed the above declaration in my presence, and well know that he is the identical person he therein represents himself to be; and, further, I know that he did perform the military service herein stated.
Attest
Silas Goodall

Before me, James Stedman Justice of the Peace for the county of New London personally appeared the above named Andrew Griswold subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined to be his free act and deed; and, likewise, personally appeared Silas Goodall of Norwich in said county who hath subscribed the above certificate of identity, both to me well known to be men of respectability and truth, and made solemn oath tot he truth of the depositions by them respectively subscribed, this 26th day of Feb 1823.
James Stedman Justice of the Peace

In testimony that the above written James Stedman Esq was a magistrate to administer oaths, and take acknowledgements, &c. in the state of Connecticut at the above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the county court and subscribed my name and quality, at Norwich this 26th day of February 1823.
Charles Lathrop Clerk of the County Court of New London County
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Lieut Andrew Griswold
April 6 1818
Pensioner
Correct

[illegible] of property
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State of Connecticut
New London Ss
Be it remembered that on the sixth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred eighteen before me Calvin Goddard one of the Judges of the Superior Court of the State of Connecticut personally came Lieut Andrew Griswold of Norwich aforesaid to me personally known & made oath to the truth of the following declaration by him subscribed viz
That he entered the service of the United States in the War of the Revolution & served therein to the end then of upon the continental establishment excepting such time as he was disabled by wounds received at the battle of Germantown on the 4th Day of October AD 1777 - that he entered the service as a private & left it as a Lieutenant at the close of the War in a regiment commanded by Col John Durkee in a company commanded most of the time by Capt Abner Bacon. The regiment he believes was the 4th & the company the 7th Connecticut line. That he was honorably dismissed from said service. His several warrants, commissions as Ensign & Lieutenant were all burnt in with his house which was consumed Feb 27 1812. That they have all been used heretofore to establish his claim to a pension under former acts of Congress which he now enjoys in consequence of wounds received and service at the battle of Germantown
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as aforesaid & which he hereby intends to relinquish. That he is by reason of his reduced circumstances in life in need of assistance from his Country for his support. 
Andrew Griswold

Sworn to & entered the day & year aforesaid before me.
Calvin Goddard a Judge of Super Court

Testify that I personally know the within named applicant & that he is in indigent circumstances.
Calvin Goddard

In consideration & to avail myself of the benefit of the provisions of the act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons in the land & naval service of the United States I hereby relinquish all pensions heretofore granted to me under former acts of Congress. Norwich April 6th 1818
Andrew Griswold

I Calvin Goddard Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appeared to my satisfaction that the said Andrew Griswold did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months on the continental establishment; & I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
Calvin Goddard Judge of Super. Court
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Andrew Griswold

Connecticut

2687
19 Sep 1818

Sent to James Stedman
Norwich Conn
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District of Connecticut Ss:
City Court in and for the city of Norwich in New London County June twelfth AD 1820 being the second Monday of said June.

On this 12th day June 1820 personally appeared in open court being a court of record for the said city of Norwich proceeding according to the court of the common Law with jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount keeping a record of their proceedings.
Andrew Griswold aged sixty six years, resident in said city in said county, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows:
that he was a Lieutenant in the 4th Regiment of the Connecticut Line of the Continental Army commanded by Col. John Durkee and at the action of Germantown Pennsylvania the 4th of October 1777, was shot through to his left leg just below the knee which so injured the bones that he has been unable to walk but by the help of two crutches, all according to my declaration on the 6th day of April 1818 on which I have received a pension as by my pension certificate number 2687.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March 1818 & that I have not since that time, by gift, sale or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions
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of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule here annexed and by me subscribed.
My family consists of myself, my wife named Anna aged forty seven years, one daughter named Amanda aged twenty four years who has been in a [illegible] sickness for seventeen months past, being so debilitated & weak that it takes two persons to move her, she cannot stir a step without help and has a maid to attend her constantly, one son named Joseph Andrew eight years old, two daughters of age and independent as respects my assistance, my occupation is that of a cooper but am unable to labor by reason of my lameness.
Andrew Griswold

Sworn to and declared on this 12th day of June AD 1820 in open court before the Judges thereof.
Attest James Stedman, Clerk

Schedule of the real & personal property of Andrew Griswold late a Lieut in the Revolutionary Army on the 12th day of June AD 1920
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A life estate in a one story house with 120 rods of land adjoining that was given me by my neighbors after my house was burned. $40
An old cooper shop subject to 20 years ground rent  $10
One pig six weeks old $1
12 old chairs $3 & old [illegible] $3.87
2 Rocking chairs 50 cts, 2 compots $1   $1.50
2 dish kettles $1 1 small trap $2.....$3.00
1 tea kettle 50 cts. 1 bake pan 67 cts. $1.17
1 pr land irons  $1.00
1 pr fire shovel & tongs  67.
1 Cherry table $2.50 1 [illegible] 50 ct.  $3.00
1 looking glass $2. some old ditto $1.    $3.00
5 tin bins & wine glasses    $25.00
12 cups & saucers 50 cts, 2 tin milk pans 23 cts   .84
4 old buckets 50 cts 6 pint bowls 12 cts   .62
8 stone pots 67. 5 wash tubs $1   $1.67
1 coffee pot 25 cts, 3 water pails 50 cts    .75
1 tea pot 6 cts 1 tea can .25 cents 15 plates 40 cts.   .71
3 platters 16 cts & 8 knives & forkes 50 cts.   .66
half of an old can of [illegible] $1.  1 toasting iron 17 ct  $1.17
1 grid iron 25 cts  2 meat barrels $1   $1.25
1 dry cask .75 cts. 1 fr hand bellows 30 cts.   $1.05
2 iron candlesticks    $.15
460 refuse black sack hogshead stoves  $2.80
1 candlestand & snuffers   .67
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$81.00
Norwich June 12th, 1820
Andrew Griswold
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This schedule sworn to and declared on this 12th day of June AD 1820 in open court before the judges thereof.
Attest James Stedman Clerk

I James Stedman Clerk of the of the city court in and for the city of Norwich in the County of New London do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of said court. And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is eighty one dollars.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said city on this 30th day of June AD 1820.
James Stedman Clerk of the City Court & for the city of Norwich
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662
Anna Griswold
Wife of Andrew
Cont
Act of 7 July 1838
Married 1791
Died 1828
Allow $320 per an.
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Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."

State of Connecticut
County of New London}Ss. Probate office. District of Norwich

On this 20th day of August 1838, personally appeared before the court of Probate for the District aforesaid Mrs. Anna Griswold, a resident of Norwich in the county and state aforesaid, and within said Probate District aged sixty seven years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7th 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of Andrew Griswold, late of said Norwich deceased, who was a Lieutenant in the Army of the Revolution in the 4th Regiment of the Connecticut troops of the Continental Line, as she has understood, which Regiment was commanded by Col. John Durkee, as she has also understood, and her husband aforesaid was wounded in the action at Germantown in the state of Pennsylvania October 4th 1777. That her said husband was inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Connecticut Agency for one hundred and sixty dollars a year, which he received for several years, when it was increased to one hundred and eighty one & one third dollars per year, which was afterward relinquished, for the benefit of the provisions of the act of March 18th 1818. And under which act her husband drew semi-annually one hundred and twenty dollars to the fourth of September 1825. She has no documentary evidence in support of the claim of her husband's services, she would state that their dwelling house was burnt on the night of the 27th of February in the year eighteen hundred & eleven and every thing therein burnt up, and they escaped with their lives only, and one of their inmates did not escape, but was burnt to death.
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by which misfortune, her husband's papers became lost, and she can only refer to the declarations, that he must have made of his services, when he obtained his pension, with also the evidences in proof of such services, supposed to be now on file in the War office at Washington.
She further declares that she was married to the said Andrew Griswold on the sixteenth day of June in the year seventeen hundred and ninety one, that her husband the aforesaid Andrew Griswold died on the twenty-eighth day of September in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-five, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four; viz, at the time above stated.
Anna Griswold

Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written viz, August 20th 1838.
Before John Hyde,
Judge of said court

And the court do hereby declare their opinion, that the above applicant is the widow of said Andrew Griswold deceased, who was a pensioner of the United States and that they were lawfully married at the time stated in her declaration, and that he died at the time therein stated & that she has remained a widow ever since.
I William E. Tracy, Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Norwich in the state of Connecticut, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Anna Griswold the widow of Andrew Griswold deceased for a pension, and I do further certify that John Hyde before whom the depositions hereto annexed, of Hiram P Sterns, Prudence Carew, William M. Carew and Nancy Griswold were sworn to, is a Justice of the Peace for the county of New London aforesaid & that the several signatures thereto purporting to be his were made by him & are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of this court this 20th day of August A.D. 1838.
William E. Tracy
Clerk
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"Seventeen hundred ninety one."
"June sixteenth, Andrew Griswold & Anna Carew:

I certify that the foregoing is a true copy of record, with the exception of the date, which is [illegible] on the record in fair, legible figures, as follows: "1791." "June 16."
Hiram P. Arms.

I, Hiram P. Arms, do, on this 20th day of August 1838. depose and say, that I hold the office of Pastor of the First Congregational Church in the town of Norwick, in the county of New London & state of Connecticut, and that the above is a true extract from the records of marriages, kept by the Rev. Joseph Strong D.D. late of said Norwick deceased, who was the Pastor of said Church at that time.
Hiram P. Arms
Pastor.

Sworn before me
John Hyde
Justice of the Peace
and I certify that the Rev. Hiram P. Arms is a clergyman of respectability and that his certificate above is entitled to full credit. 
John Hyde
Justice of the Peace
[Signature of John Hyde]
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Prudence Carew of Norwick in the county of New London & State of Connecticut aged seventy four dears doth on her oath testify & say that she was well acquainted with Andrew Griswold late of said Norwick deceased, that the said Andrew Griswold and Anna Carew of said Norwick were married by the Rev. Joseph Strong D.D. late of said Norwich deceased, in the month of June one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, she the deponent being present, and she the deponent knows the time, that it was in the month of June of that year, by the birth of one of her own children, altho she cannot state the day of the month of said June that the wedding was, and they the said Andrew and Anna had four children and the oldest is named nancy, the youngest is named Joseph Andrew and the other two are not living, the said Andrew Griswold was a pensioner of the United States, and the said Andrew Griswold died on the 28th day of September 1825, and the deponent was at his funeral & he was denied with military honors and his widow the aforesaid Anna has not since been married but has remain-ed a widow to this time & further the deponent saith not.
[Signature of Prudence Carew]

New London county ps. Norwick August 20th A.D. 1838.
Personally appeared Mrs. Prudence Carew and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition & signed the same before me. & I certify that she is a person of truth and veracity.
John Hyde
Justice of the Peace
[Embellishment]
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William M. Carew of Norwich in the county of New London & state of Connecticut aged fifty six years the 28th day of January 1838, being under oath, testifies and says, that he went to live with his uncle Andrew Griswold, when he was nine years old, the said Andrew Griswold having married his aunt Anna Carew sometime before and lived with them when their first child Nancy Griswold was born, and he has always lived a near neighbor to them, and the aforesaid Andrew Griswold was a pensioner of the United States, and was wounded in the war of the Revolution as he has always understood, he was a lame man, and always went with crutches while the deponent knew him, and the deponent further testifies that the aforesaid Andrew Griswold died on the 28th day of September 1825. The deponent being with him at the time & helped laying him out in his grave clothes, and attended his funeral there being quite a military parade on the occasion, & his widow the aforesaid Anna Griswold has ever since remained a widow as he verily believes and further the deponent saith not.
William M. Carew

New London County Ss Norwich August 20th 1838.
Personally appeared William M. Carew and swore to & signed the foregoing deposition before me, and I certify that the said William M. Carew is a credible witness.
John Hyde
Justice of the Peace
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Nancy Griswold of Norwich in the county of New London & state of Connecticut aged forty five years the 23rd day of November 1837, having been sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, testify and say, that she is the daughter of Andrew Griswold late of said Norwich deceased and his wife Anna Griswold, that from the earliest recollections of the deponent, her father and mother the aforesaid Andrew Griswold & Anna Griswold lived together, as man and wife, down to the time of the death of her said father, and she the deponent always understood & believes that they were married on the 16th day of June 1791. The deponent further says that in the year 1811 their house was discovered to be on fire, in the dead hours of the night, & that the family, all but one, escaped with their lives only, & that one did not escape, but was burnt up, she well remembers, that there was a family record, in the family Bible, kept by her father, which was burnt at that time, as were all their furniture and effects. She further states that her mother the aforesaid Anna Griswold has remained a widow ever since the death of her father the aforesaid Andrew Griswold, and is now a widow, and that her father the aforesaid Andrew Griswold died on the 28th day of September 1825 and was buried with military honors, and further the deponent saith not.
Nancy Griswold

New London County Ss. Norwich August 20th A.D. 1838.
Personally appeared before me John Hyde a Justice of the Peace for said county Miss Nancy Griswold and made oath to and signed the foregoing deposition & I certify that she is a person of truth & veracity and that her testimony is entitled to full credit. 
John Hyde
Justice of the Peace
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Rev 
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 17968
Anna Griswold
Wid of
Andrew Griswold
Lieut - Rev War

Act July 7 1838
Index: - Vol. A Page 290

(Arrangement of 1870)
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Jan 15th 1852

rel to
claim for increase
of Anna Griswold decd
Revolutionary Pension

Filed 14th Jany 1852
F. E. Hassler
Attny
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Washington City D. C.
Jany 13th 1852

Honorable J. E. Heath
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir,
As attorney of & for & in behalf of the heir of Anna Griswold widow of Lieutenant Andrew Griswold of the Revolutionary Continental Line of the State of Connecticut, Colonel Durkee's Regiment as will more fully appear from the returns of the State of Connecticut of those officers of the Revolution entitled to commutation pay. I ask that a certificate of Arrears of Pension may be issued granting a pension at the monthly rate of a Lieutenant's pay for two years service in lieu of that of an Ensign for the same period.
Yours respectfully
F. E. Hassler
Attny
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office
March 24th 1845.

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The widow of Andrew Griswold a Pensioner on the Roll of the Connecticut Agency, at the rate of twenty Dollars [crossed out "and ___Cents"] per month under the law of the 18th March 1818, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept 1825 to the 28th Sept 1825, the day of his death.
Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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Joseph A Griswold

Andrew A Griswold
Claim for arrears of pension due his father.

Revolutionary
Anna Griswold
Act 1838
Connecticut

Filed Sep 11 1851
by F. E. Hassler
Washington

This belongs to Andrew Griswold under act 1818.
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State of Connecticut
County of New London}Ss.
Be it known that before me John W. Haughton of the town of Bozrah, County of New London a Notary Public in and for the county and state aforesaid duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared Joseph A Griswold aged thirty nine years and made oath in due form of law, that he is the son of Andrew Griswold and Anna Griswold his wife, who are the identical person that were revolutionary pensioners of the United States of America, as by the files and records at the Pension Office in Washington will more fully appear, and that he cannot know of them otherwise than through the said office.
And that he now resides in Norwich and has resided there for the space of ten years past and that he makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining any arrears of pension that may be due him under the laws of the United States; and that by these presents he does constitute and appoint F. E. Hassler, of the city of Washington, his true and lawful attorney, irrevocably, with the power of substitution for him and in his name, place and stead, to ask and receive of and from the United States, any bounty land, extra pay, pensions, money or moneys that now is or are due him on account of services rendered by his deceased father; advances made, property destroyed or taken by the Government, or any claim arising from the intercourse between the United States and any foreign nation, and the Indians, disbursements made, or expenses incurred by him while in the service of the United States, or on any account whatsoever, and in his name to give receipts and other sufficient discharges for such bounty land, pensions, patents, claims, and money due as aforesaid, and to attend to and prosecute any and all business of whatsoever nature he may have with or before any of the Departments of Government or Congress, or any legally established commission of the United States, and, generally, to do any and every other act or acts that he might or could do, were he personally present at the doing thereof, he hereby ratifying and confirming whatsoever his said attorney shall do in and about the premises, by virtue hereof.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 18th day of August AD 1851
Joseph A Griswold {Seal}

Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of }Two witnesses,
John H. Grace
Samuel Case
Edwin Lathop

State of Connecticut
County of New London
On this 18th day of August AD 1851, personally appeared Joseph A Griswold before me, and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be his act and deed, for the purposes therein contained.
John W. Haughton
Notary Public

And I hereby certify, that at the same time, personally appeared before me Samuel Case and Edwin Lathrop known to me, to be two credible witnesses, and who being duly sworn, deposes and says, each for himself, that the above named Joseph A Griswold now present, is to their knowledge, the [illegible] the identical person named in the above deposition, and that the said affidavit is correct, as they verily believe; that they are acquainted with the said Joseph A. Griswold and that they are, each, wholly disinterested.
Subscribed and sworn to before me, upon the day and year first above written.
Samuel Case
Edwin Lathrop

John W. Haughton
Notary Public
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Andrew Griswold and Anna Carew were married June 10th 1791
Andrew Griswold died Sept 28 1825
Anna Griswold died November 23rd 1842
The above is a true copy of the family record.
Attest John W. Haughton
Notary Public

The subscribers being neighbors to, and having been acquainted with Andrew Griswold of this town ever since, and in fact prior to the commencement of the Revolutionary War by here to state certain facts respecting him.
They were knowing to his being in the Continental Service, and to his having been wounded at the Battle of Germantown, and that he was then a Lieut in the 4th Connt Regiment commanded by the late Col John Durkee of this town, his wound was a very dangerous one, and threatened extremely, for a long time, the life of his limb. He was for several years after leaving the service, in a very feeble and crippled situation, after a great length of time he recovered a comfortable share of health, yet he has always remained a cripple to the present time being obliged very constantly to depend on the support of crutches.
He has in other respects been singularly unfortunate. About two years since when walking on a wet floor, his crutches accidentally slipped, consequent on which he met with a bad fall, which occasioned a fracture of his lame limb near the original wound. He was confined a long time by said fracture the same years since had the misfortune to have his house burnt down with a narrow escape of himself and family, not the whole of his family either for one of his sisters was burnt to death in the house. He was some years since confined for several weeks with a Typhus Fever, since which, he has been most of the time attended with a cough and an occasional raising of blood, and seems at times very seriously threatened with a consumptive disease. We suppose him to be
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about 65 years of age, he has a wife and 4 children, one of which is wholly dependent on him for support.
Philemon Tracy MD
John Turner MD
Norwich Conn Jan 14th 1818

State of Conn
Norwich 
Jany 6th 1818
I Calvin Goddard, Mayor of the City of Norwich, certify that I am personally acquainted with Dr's Philemon Tracy and John Turner, whose signatures are subscribed to the foregoing instrument, and that they are physicians of the first respectability and full reliance may be reposed in the facts by them stated. I also know Andrew Griswold whose case they have stated, he is a meritorious citizen, an honest but decrepit man, and I fully believe the facts stated in his petition to Congress for an increase of his pension.
Cavin Goddard, Mayor
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Statement of Andrew Griswold an invalid pensioner of the Revolutionary Army. He was a Lieut in the 4th Conn Regiment of the Continental Army, at the time he received his would at the action of Germantown, state of Penn. 4th of Oct. 1777.
The Army under the immediate command of his Excellency, Gen'l Wshington marched all night of the 3rd of said Oct and attacked the enemy at break of day, the 4th about 11 ocloock A.M. He was shot by a musket ball through his left leg just below his knee which cut off the main artery, and shattered both bones to pieces from 4 to 1/2 inches in length, which with part of the sickest bones were extracted in the course of 11 months by piece meals every day, often twice a day, at the end of 11 months set off for home, arrived safe in 22 days, a mere skeleton. He was a patient of Dr. Philip Turner for almost four years, before the wound healed. From that time till within about 4 years, enjoyed a tolerable degree of health, was then reduced very far with Typhus Fever, has not enjoyed any health since. Has ever since the fever left him, been exercised with a bad cough, sometimes raising blood with other bad symptoms. He is obliged to work at his occupation of cooper for support which requires more exertion than his weakness permits, after a little exertion it sets him coughing, and a distressing shortness of breath follows, that at times, he almost sinks under. A year ago last Sept walking on a wet floor, his crutches slipped, he fell and broke his lame leg short [illegible] the old wound, that kept him in a more
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debilitated state still. He was in the 24th year of his age when he was wounded, has been obliged to make use of crutches to walk with ever since. He has been very unfortunate in not having the benefit of his commutation securities. The State of Conn; and the Legislature of the United States past an act that all severely wounded officers, and soldiers, should have half pay during life. He always refused to accept the commutation in lieu of half pay not knowing that there was an act past, that the invalids should commute if the majority choose it. After the Congress past an act that the invalids might be put on the pension list by returning their commutation securities, I was informed that his securities were taken out of the Treasury with the other officers, he sent to the agent to return them to him, and he had delivered them to a person with a [illegible] order. That when he was put on the pension list, he was obliged to advance $96 in species hereby the whole of his commutation securities with 4 years interest, upon interest every six months, because the commutation with its compounded interest would have overrun the time fixed for the pension list to end.
S. Griswold, in the 65th year of his age.
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I Andrew Griswold of Norwich, New London CT, State of Conn. came before me one of the Justices of said County to state and make oath, that he is the same Andrew Griswold, to whom the original certificate was given of which the following is a copy (to wit)
This may certify that on the application of Lieutenant Andrew Griswold of Norwich, New London Ct State a Lieut in the 4th Conn Regt, in the Continental Army representing that he received a very bad and dangerous wound while in service at the Battle of Germantown, whereby he is rendered a cripple, unfit for laborious service, he is thirty three years of age. Having duly examined into the truth of the aforesaid representation, he also being [illegible] a certificate thereof, from Major Gen Joel Huntington in whose division he served.
I am fully convinced of his aforesaid disability, and that he is entitled to be allowed a pension, of what a Lieut would be entitled to who was wholly disabled, provided the said Lieut Griswold has not received any securities for commutation, or if he shall return the same.
Windham Nov 28th 1785, certified, for Elijah Dyer, a Judge of the Superior Court.
I Andrew Griswold of Norwich, New London Ct State of Conn do constitute and appoint J. B. of said town, Ct and state, to be my lawful attorney, to receive in my behalf of Jonathan Bull Ensign commissioner of Pens, my pension as an invalid of the United States, for six months, from the 4th day of Sept 1816 & ending the 4th day of March 1817. That he served in the 4th
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Regt of the Conn Line of the Continental Army commanded by Col John John Durkee, at the time he was disabled, and that he now resides in the town of Norwich, county of New London, state of Connecticut which has always been his place of residence.
In testimony thereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the 13th day of [illegible] 1817.
Signed and sealed
in presence of.

War Department
Revolutionary Claim
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 18th of March 1818 Andrew Griswold late a Lieutenant in the Connecticut Line of the Revolutionary war is inscribed in the pension list roll of the Connecticut Agency, at the rate of twenty dollars per month, to commence on the sixth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. Given at the War Office of the United States this nineteenth day of September one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War

No 26087
The above are true copies of the [illegible] papers in my presence
Attest John W. Houghton
Notary Public