Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4199, Samuel Grant, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Grant, Samuel
R. 4199
CONTENTS

35601
Sam e Grant
Mass.
act 7. June '32

Commonwealth of Massachusetts } ss. County of Suffolk
On this eighteenth day of September in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & forty three personally appeared the subscriber Samuel Grant of Boston in the County of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts aged seventy eight years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. That in the month of August 1780 he volunteered and joined the company of which Andrew Tyler was Captain and which was then at Frankfort in the State of Maine. That at the time he volunteered he was acting as Orderly Sergeant in a company of the Maine Militia, commanded by his father Capt. Ephraim Grant. That he went in Captain Tyler's Company to Camden in the State of Maine, where Gen. Wadsworth's Regiment was then stationed and remained there two months and a half; that he then went with the company to which he was attached in said regiment, to Yorktown in Virginia. That at Yorktown he first joined Sullivan's Regiment; but he cannot recollect the names of the officers of his company; that he remained in this Regiment not quite a year; that he then enlisted in the artillery and as he writes believes in the second Regiment and in the company commanded by Captain Little; that he remained in this company until he received his discharge in the month of August 1783. That he produced cannot produce his original discharge, inasmuch as it was destroyed in the burning of his house, which took place in 1837. That he was a sergeant during the whole period of his service. That he was at the Siege of Yorktown and the various skirmishes and engagements that occurred at that

place. That he was wounded on the head by a blow with a hanger at the Siege of Yorktown.
He further declares that the reason of his delay in applying for a pension is, that for many years he had resided in a remote part of the State of Maine; and that upon one occasion he visited the town of Portland for the purpose of making inquiries upon the subject of his pension and he was informed that volunteers were not by law entitled. That he placed reliance upon this statement and therefore delayed making application -
"The word "produced" erased before signing"
Simeon G. Grant
Sworn to & subscribed the day first above written before me -
John Gray Rogers. Jus of the Police & Sessions Court within for the County of Suffolk.

Suffolk ss. Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
I Thomas Ponn, Clerk of the Police Court of the City of Boston, do hereby certify that John Gray Rogers, whose name is hereunto affixed, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Police Court of the City of Boston, that the signature herein is his proper handwriting, and that the said Court is a Court of Record within said Commonwealth.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed at Boston, the eighteenth Day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three.
Thomas Ponn, Clerk.

Home and Ag
St. Lawrence
East Cambridge
August 23. 1844
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, July 26 1814
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Samuel Grant is borne upon a pay roll of Capt Jordan Parker, Col McCobb's regiment at the eastward from June 1. 1780 to Dec 1. 1780 as a private. Also Grant is borne upon said rolls, sergeant for the same time, monthly
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Paepey, Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts } County of Suffolk }
On this twenty third day of July in the year eighteen hundred & forty four - personally appeared before the undersigned a justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, Samuel Grant now an inhabitant of Shelburne in the County of Middlesex, Commonwealth aforesaid aged seventy eight years who having duly sworn made this his supplemental declaration in order to obtain a pension under the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. That he was until lately an inhabitant of Frankfort & Bangor Old Town in the State of Maine. That he formerly served in the army of the Revolution. That in the summer of 1780 he volunteered & joined the Regiment under Gen Wadsworth which was then stationed in Camden in the State of Maine. That he joined a company the name of the Captain of which he has forgotten but that his cousin Asahel Grant was a sergeant in the same company. That he remained at Camden until December or about the first of January 1781. when he went to Yorktown being one of a draft for the Regiment to which he belonged. That while at Camden he was in a Regiment of Infantry. That after his arrival at Yorktown he served three months as he believes in Sullivan's Regiment. and according to

The last of his recollections under Capt. Hilton. That he then joined the Regiment under General Lincoln; the artillery Regt - and was in the artillery during the rest of his stay at Yorktown - That he was wounded on the head at the siege Battle of Yorktown by a blow with a hanger or cutlass. That he was a sergeant of artillery during his stay at Yorktown. That he was discharged in the year 1783. That he served in the company under Captain Little for a portion of the time. That he lost his discharge at the burning of his house in Farmstead in the year 1837. That his memory is very poor and that he cannot recollect more distinctly the persons & officers with whom he was associated. That he does not know a single superior of those who were out with him.
Samuel Knowles
"on the head" intended before saying...
Subscribed and sworn to on the day & year first above mentioned. before me
Wm P. Parnement
Justice of the Peace.
August 22. 1844
I certify that Wm P. Parnement is a Justice of the Peace for the county of Suffolk and was so on 23 rd day of July last.
Wm Parnement

35601 Samuel Grant Map
Set to Hon. W. Parmenter Dec. 14/43 " to Same Augt 28. '44
act 7 June 1832

199 P. O. Samuel Grant
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Suffolk
I, Theodore W. Melvin of Rox- ton in the County aforesaid, merchant of law- ful age on oath, depose and say that I have known Samuel Grant for nearly forty years; that he has always been reputed to have served in the Revolutionary War; that his statements in relation to his services I believe to be cor- rect. that he has been until recently a citizen of the State of Maine, when I myself formerly resided. G.B. McIntire
Suffolk ss. Aug. 22. 1844
Subscribed and sworn to on this date, before me.
Wm. Parmach
Just Peace.
August 22. 1844. I certify that Wm. Parmach is a Justice of the Peace for County of Suffolk. Wm. Parmach

Suffolk ss. Aug 22. 1844
I Abiah Lane of Frankfort in the State of Maine, on oath depose and say that I have known Samuel Grant the within named, for more than forty years, and that all the statements of J. B. Medden- line in the within affidavit, I can say of my own knowledge are correct.
Abiah Lane
Subscribed & sworn to on the date above mentioned.
My Affirmation Jas Rice.

Washington Dec 9-1843
Sir
I send you the application of Samuel Grant for a Pension.
Respg
J. H. Chadwick
Wm. Brownson
J. H. Edwards Esq
Census of Pension -

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Grant, Samuel GRADE Private LINE New Hampshire
WARRANT NUMBER 3150 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Mar. 25, 1790 to — not shown —
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.