Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4223, Eliphalet Gray, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
born
Gray, Eliphalet Lydia
R. 4223
CONTENTS

Eliphalet Gray served in Capt Matthew Ward's Co Col Waterbury's Regiment May 1 st to Nov 29 1845 Soldier as a private

No 15. 486.
Lydia Gray, deceased, widow of Oliphant
Mapachunt
Ld. Hon J Baffinton March 5/58
4223
Act Reg 7. 1838

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
4225
P. O.
Sydia Gray
Service:
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

November 28 1784. Were joined in Marriage Elizabeth Gray & Lydia Hanson both residing in Weston
By Danl l Keyes Jm. Peace
I Samuel E. Blair Town Clerk of Warren hereby certify that the above record of marriage between Elizabeth Gray & Lydia Hanson is recorded in the records of the town as given above, and that the name of the town has been changed from Weston to Warren.
Warren Sept 11. 1856 Samuel E. Blair Town Clerk of Warren Mass
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Worcester ss September 11-1856 Personally appeared Samuel E. Blair Town Clerk of Warren and made oath the above certificate by him signed is true
Before me J. B. F. Witehcock Justice of the Peace

Nov. October 3 rd 1856
Dear Sir
Enclosed you will now find the papers which I omitted to enclose in my last letter, I have made arrangements to be appointed administrator on the Estate next week at the sitting of the Probate Court and I hereby appoint and authorize you namely Augustus Edson to do and perform all that is necessary to receive a pension for me and in my name.
Yours Truly
Sally Brown

Ware Oct 15, 1856 Mr Eason
Sir
I herewith Enclose a Petition for the Pension due to the widow or heirs of Eliphalet Gray, if the Petition should not be in proper form or any other evidence should be necessary please inform me as soon as may be
Sally Brown
I the Subscriber hereby certify that Mrs. Sally Brown has been duly appointed administratrix on the Estate of the late Widow of Eliphalet Gray by the Hon. Thomas Conkey judge of the Court at Poughkeepsie for the County of Dutchess Joseph Cummings of us. Clerk

To the Committee on Pensions
Yours Petitioner would Humbly Represent that she has been duly appointed admin- istratrix on the Estate of Lydia Brown lately Lydia Gray widow of Elisha H. Gray a Revolutionary Soldier and entitled to a Pension and by the act of Congress making provision for the Widows of the old Soldiers, therefore Your petitioner would request the amount which by said act is due to the Widow of said Elisha H. Gray may be paid over to your petitioner for the benefit of the heirs who are entitled by law to said Pension.
Sally Brown

Entered in 1775 and was in the British

I the undersigned hereby certify that I was acquainted with Eliphalet Gray who served in the Revolutionary War as a private in the Company commanded by Captain Matthew Mead in Colonel Wallerburg's regiment, and who died in the town of Sturminster in the state of Massachusetts on or about the tenth day of October in the year of our Lord 1810 leaving a widow whose name was Lydia Gray, and I further certify that I was at his funeral and was knowing of his death and other circumstances attending it his wid died 4 th July 1846 Nathaniel Dwight
Sturminster Delverton October 3 d 1855 Then the above named Nathaniel Dwight personally appeared before me the subscriber and made oath to the above declarations concerning the death of one Eliphalet Gray as above cited
William Phelps } justice of the Peace.

Know all men by these presents that We whose names are here under written do hereby and by these presents release and quitclaim unto Sally Brown of Ware in the County of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts, all our several rights and interests in whatever pecuniary may be due to us our heirs and assigns from the estate of our Father, provided the said Sally Brown shall well and truly pay unto us our several shares of the principal, after paying all expenses of obtaining the said Pension out of said estate or account of said pecuniary received. Wherefore we have set our hands and seals to this instrument on and after this third day of September in the year eighteen hundred and fifty five.
Witnesses
Abigail D. D. D. Sylvia D. D.
Francis Burdick Abbie Burdick