Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22797, Oliver Graham, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Comm
Graham, Oliver
S 22797
CONTENTS

28.862
New York
Oliver Graham
Leeds Co in the province State of U Canada
he was a Drummer in the Comp y commanded
Captain Wait of the Reg t Com d
Col l Warner in the Ver  Ver
ne for 2 years
order to pay Sept. 2 d 1834. to letter to P. Agt - do. to same Dec. 16. 1834
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 88 Dollars 62 1/2 per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 day of Aug 1834 and sent to Hon R. H. Gillet
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 34 264 00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 44 00 $308 00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Geo. Bruns Clerk, Book E Vol. 4 Page 126

A. Amick
Oliver Graham 31363 24 mo Stuyvesant
_____ _____ _____
Hon. R.H. Gillet H.R.

State of New York St Lawrence County } ss
On the twentieth day of May in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and thirty three  four personally appeared in open Court before the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of St Lawrence and State of New York Oliver Graham a resident of Elizabeth Town in the County of Glens in the Province of Upper Canada aged Twenty five Years and eight months who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 That He was born at Saybrook in the State of Connecticut on the twenty second day of September in the Year 1738 as He is informed and believes that He has no record of His age within His knowledge. That He resided at Saybrook aforesaid until 1776 in the summer of which Year Declarant volunteered enlisted at Saybrook aforesaid in the Company under the command of Captain Matthew Scoville in Colonel William Harts Regiment and marched to Brooklyn  Spencer when the Regiment suffered & went to New York. Staid at that place about three weeks when His Regiment returned and was disbanded having been about five weeks for which service this Declarant never received any pay nor any written discharge. That about August of the same Year Declarant again volunteered in a Company where Captain name Declarant cannot now remember but to which Lieutenant Moses Dudley belonged over attached & Declarant thinks commanded but Declarant does not recollect and cannot state the name of the Commandant of the Regiment, or of the other Officers for six months at Saybrook aforesaid and marched to Ticonderoga where Declarant remained about three months when in
6 mo is effect 2 mo 3 mo
195
100 25
as was soon discovered, he volunteered

Clearing Mount Independence a Troop fell upon this Declarant and injured him severely and declarant was dismissed from the Service but got no written discharge and went to Pawlet in the State of Ver- mont where He remained until the Spring of the Year 1777 about the Month of March as this declarant recalls about the last of slighing in that Year when He was enlisted at Pawlet aforesaid by Ensign Israel Morrill in Major Wait's Hopkintown Company in Colonel Seth Warner's Regiment. Lieuten- ant-Colonel Safford. Declarant proceeded immedia- ately to Mount Independence where He joined the above Regiment. This enlistment was for the year or during the War but Ensign Morrill being killed at Hubbardton this declarant was afterwards mustered for during the War. After declarant joined his Regi- ment He remained at Bennington until the same was surrendered on the 8th of July 1777. when He retreated with his Regiment to Hubbardton and was engaged at that place in a bitter & bloody with the enemy when many were killed & declarant's Regiment retreated to Manchester & remained until August when they marched to Bennington and was in the engage- ment there on the 16th & 17th day of August 1777. The Regiment remained at Bennington until a short time previous to the capture of Burgoyne when they marched to Saratoga where they arrived the day before Burgoyne's capitulation but were not engaged. Decla- rant with his Regiment then marched to Fort Edward where they remained a few days. Declarant had along previous to this time served as a Private and while at Fort Edward was made a Drummer. Decla- rant then marched to Fort George where they remain- ed but a short time and then returned to

Fort Edwards and before winter set in returned again to Fort George where declarant remained until October tenth 1780 when that Fort was taken by the Enemy under Carlton. Declarant on that day was out with the Troops on a sally to upset as they supposed a party of Indians and met the Enemy and declarant received a ball in his left breast (the mark whereof he exhibits) and was taken and then with his Regiment taken Prisoner and carried across Lake George. with the wounded Prisoner then put on board a Vessel at Ticonderoga, and did not get to St. Johns until some days after and the weather was quite cold at St. Johns Declarant was in the Hospital. Lieutenant Paine of Chapman Company in the same Regiment was wounded in the Arm and was also in the Hos- pital. Declarant remained at St. Johns but a few days and was then taken to Montreal and remained there until the Spring of 1781 - when He went to St. Johns and staid there until peace was proclaimed when He came back to Fort Edwards and staid through the winter and went to St. Johns in Canada immediately proceeded to Upper Canada in the Town of Elizabeth Town until 1827 when He removed to Hudsonville Jefferson County New York then to St. Lawrence County and in 1830 returned to Elizabeth Town where he has since resided. That He never received any written discharge and that Thomas Darn Esquire of Edwardsburgh and David Brown of Augusta Upper Canada are persons who have long known this declarant in his present Neighbourhood and also during the Revolutionary war and can testify to his character and the knowledge of his and belief of his services.
And He hereby relinquishes every claim what- ever to a Pension or Annuity except the present and He declares that his name is not on

the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State Subscribed & sworn to the day and year aforesaid A. C. SOWCK } Oliver Grahame
St. Lawrence County ss: I Alvin C. SOWCK Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that John Dine Osgood before whom the annexed Affidavit of Thomas Dresher purports to have been sworn to as at the time of taking the affidavit first Judge in the the County aforesaid duly Commissioned & sworn and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and verily believe that the signature to the said affidavit purporting to be his is genuine Given under my hand and the Seal of said County this 26 th day of May 1834 A. C. SOWCK

5 Town of Oswagatiki County of St Lawrence State of New York } p
Thomas Fraser Esq. after a Justice of the Peace of Edwardsburgh in the County of Grenville in the Province of Upper Canada being duly sworn according to form of oaths and saith That he is aged about Sixty Seven Years. That in the Year 1780 this Deponent was about thirteen Years of age. That his fam- ily was attached to the British interests in the Revolu- tionary War and Deponent Mother with other female Members of his Family with this Deponent left Paltz- in the state of New York in March the late Spring of the Year last aforesaid to proceed to Canada and join the other Members of Deponents Family there under a Flag of Truce which Deponents Family understood was returning to Canada with the wife of the British Colonel Butler and several Royalist Women under its protection. That Deponents Family arrived at Fort George about three days after the Flag left for Canada and in consequence Deponent was detained with his Family until the Fall of the same Year Deponent thinks October when they proceeded to Canada under a Flag. That during this detention this Deponent and his Family remained about three Months in the Barracks at Fort George. That there and then this Deponent became personally known to Oliver Graham the Applicant for a Pension whose Declaration is hereto attached. That the said Graham was at that time a Drummer in Colonel Fitz Williams Regiment. That this Deponent well recollects the said Graham, and knew him in Canada a short time previous to the last War. That Deponent & his family after staying at Fort George about three Months as last aforesaid were sent to Dundasburgh and there remained until October

aforsaid when the projected to Canada under a flag as aforesaid. That during the time they remained at Fort George Warren Regiment aforesaid were sta- tioned there and Disputant was in the daily habit of seeing the said Oliver Graham doing duty therein as Drummer and after Disputant arrived at St John under the flag as aforesaid Disputant well re- collects of seeing the said Graham brought into St John a Prisoner with others of the said Warren Regiment - said Graham had a wound in his left breast and Disputant recollects seeing him the said Graham in the Hospital at St John with one Lieutenant Davis of said Warren Regiment and others
Thos Fraser
Sworn before me May 17 1834
John Tice First Judge of S. J. and B.
I certify that the above statement of Thomas Fraser has been proved to me to be a credible witness.
John Tice First Judge of S. J. and B. May 17 1834
Town of } County of St Lawrence } p. State of New York }
David Brown of Augusta in the Province of Upper Canada being duly sworn ac- cording to law deposes and saith. That in the spring of the year 1779 the deponent became ac- quainted with Oliver Graham the Applicant

for a Pension whose Declaration is herewith attached. That this deponent was then in the Militia and at Fort George as deponent believes in the month of May and there first became acquainted with the said Graham who was a drummer in Col. Pitt's Warren Regiment. That in the fall of the same year deponent enlisted in Captain Chip- man's Company in the said Regiment & joined the Regiment at Fort George and saw the said Graham there a drummer and knew of his remaining there in that capacity until after Fort George was taken on the tenth of October 1780. That a part of the Garrison sallied out to meet Indians (on the Susquehanna) and that the said deponent was there on duty as a drummer and saw the said Graham march out & after the engage- ment saw the wound of the said Graham in his left breast. The next that deponent saw of the said Graham was as a prisoner at Montreal & afterwards at St. Johns as near as deponent can recollect in the year 1781 and at the same place occasionally until 1782 or 3. That deponent then next saw the said Graham about the year 1800 in Canada (though he had before heard he lived there) since when deponent has been acquainted with him and knows him to be the same person he was acquainted with at Fort George in the Army of the Revolution. And that he has always sustained a good character for truth & veracity.
David Brown
Sworn & subscribed the 20 th May 1834 in Open Court A. Olon clk
Sworn before me July 14. 1834. and at the same time the above named deponent was known to me to be a person of known integrity John Pierce Clerk of Court

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as for State.
Alvin O. Dorr Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of St Lawrence do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Oliver Graham for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court this 27 th day of May 1834
A. O. Dorr
Oliver Graham 24 mo 31363
Oliver Graham 24 mo 31363
Rev. R. H. French H. R.
24 mo 31363 88

Ogdensburg NY July 26/84
Sir,
The accompanying pension paper of Oliver Graham was sent to me at Washington, & returned by you with the objects which you stated in a letter of copy of which is returned to you. Those objects have been obviated as far as they can be, & I see no difficulty in your allowing Mr. Graham a pension. Your answer to this application may be sent to me Yours obt Servt
Lt Edward Ely Com Pension
R H Gilt

War Department
Pension Office
June 24 th 1834
Sir
I have the Honor to return you the paper in the case of Oliver Graham of Upper Canada for the purpose of having the credibility of his witness Maria Brown duly certified and the designation of the Officers under whom he served. No service can be allowed admitted unless set forth in conformity to the regulations.
I have the Honor to be
Very Respectfully
Yr. Ob t Serv t
J. H. Edwards
Capt
Hon R. H. Gilmer
House Representative

finishing off of distrust

State of New York County of St Lawrence Town of Oswey at this } Jo
Oliver Graham the Applicant for a Pension in the accompanying Declaration names being duly sworn according to Law deposes and saith. That by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory, the deponent cannot state the names of the Officers under whom he served in the second term of service in the said accompanying declaration mentioned more fully than the same is in the said Declaration stated. And that the Officers under whom he served during the other terms of service therein mentioned are the same therein stated. And further saith not
Sworn & Subscribed the 26 th day of July 1834 before me
John Fine Deputy Clerk of St Lawrence
Oliver Graham
I hereby certify that John Fine is now the first Judge of the County Court of the County of St Lawrence, & is by virtue of his office authorized to administer oaths & take affidavits Dated July 26. Th 1834
R. H. Gillit of H. R.