Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26,154, Samuel Grannis, Continental Connecticut Agency And Residence

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental
Grannis, Samuel
W. 26,154
Grion, Charity
or Tryon.
CONTENTS
or Trion.
(Former widow)
Connecticut Agency & residence, (of widow)

Repl
2094 Connecticut Charity Nims widow of Samuel Nims who served in the Revolutionary war, as a dragoon
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 100 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 day of Sept. 1848, and sent to
H. Howley W. H. Smith Cl
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 300 Vol. 1 ,

Charity. Icyon
Declaration
Act of 1838 & 1842

State of Connecticut Hartford County ss To Wethersfield
In this 19 th day of July 1843, personally appeared before me John Russell Esq, Judge of the Probate Court for the District of Hartford, (said Wethersfield being within the limits of said district, Mrs Charity Tryon, a resident of said Wethersfield aged 88 years; (She being unable by reason of bodily infirmity, to attend at the regular Session of said Court, in Hartford.
Who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the acts of Congress passed July 7 th 1838, and the 23 rd of August 1842; granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.
That she was the Widow of Samuel Crannis formerly of Middletown, and previously of East Haver, in said State, who served as a private Soldier in Coll Sheldons Regiment of Light Horse, for more than two years.
She also declares that she was Married to the said Samuel Crannis, in the Town of Middletown, in 66 by the Rev Gershom Bulkeley then pastor of the Second Congregational Church in said Town on the 25 th day of July 1783 and that her husband the said Samuel Crannis

did in Southington in Conn. on the 10 th day of October 1806
And that she was again married to John Froyon of Berlin Conn, on the 4 th day of June 1816 and he the said John Froyon died on the 27 th day of August 1816 and she has not since intermarried and is now a Widow.
That she was not married to her said husband the said Samuel Grannis prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January 1794, was at the time above stated.
She further declares that she is still a widow Jesse Charlton } Charity her Froyon mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year first written before me.
In testimony whereof, I do hereunto subscribe my name, and affix the seal of said Court on said 19 th day of July 1843
Attest
John Russell.
Judge of Probate for the district of Hartford.

I Lucius B Allyn Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Hartford in Hartford County & State of Connecticut do hereby certify That John Russell Esq., before whom the annexed declara- tion of Charity Tryon was taken was at the time of taking the same, and now is, Sole Judge of the Probate Court for said District and his signa- ture to his certificate annexed to the Declaration is his genuine signature, & the Seal he has affixed is the Seal of said Probate Court; and said Judge , directs me to say; that he has assigned the true and sufficient reason why the declaration was taken at her house, as he found her confined to her bed, which he was informed she had not been able to leave for about six or seven years.
In testimony whereof, I do hereunto subscribe my name & affix the Seal of said Probate Court at Hartford in the County of Hartford & State of Connecticut on the 18 th day of September 1843.
Lucius B Allyn Clerk of Court of Probate,

I Samuel Wilcox a resident of Middletown in Middlesex County, & State of Connecticut, do hereby depose and say, I was living in said Middletown, and will remember a part of a Regiment which were quartered in said Middletown during a part of the year I think the year before the close of the Revolutionary War. I will remember Palmer one of the company who was picketed for disobedience of orders; & John Kinsollis another of the company; and I was well acquainted with Samuel Grannis who was then a private in one of the companies, I think it was in Captain Stantons Company; & my impression is that he was engaged or enlisted during the War and I well know that he the said Samuel Grannis married Mrs Charity Johnson of said Middletown: I knew her well before the War, & after its close, & down to this time and she is now the widow of John Fryon. Samuel Wilcox
Sworn to and subscribed on this 13 th day of July 1843 before me Jesse Charlton a Notary Public of & for the State of Connecticut duly

authorized by the laws of said State to administer oaths, and take depositions;
And I certify, that the deponent is a credible & respectable man.
In testimony whereof, I do hereunto subscribe my name, and affix my Seal of office at said Middletown, on said 13 th day of July A 1843.
Attest
Jesse Charlton Notary Public
Daniel Wilson Middletown

V 9266
Charity Tryon Cont.
Suspended
Letter to P. H. Charlton March 18 th 1844
Eliz. H. H. Veyron May 7. 44
Act July 7 th /38

Sept 28 th 1843
FREE
Charles D. Dyer Hon. L. Ed wards. A Commissioner of Pensions, Washington D. C.

East Windsor Hartford County Ct
Sept 19 th
1843
Sir
The Papers of Charity Tryon, transmitted July 19 th , & reported the 14 th inst, are again returned amended.
As the husband of the widow served more than four years in the Revolutionary War, and after the termination of that War enlisted into the army under St Clair & was in his defeat, & served about 5 year in that War, and as the Widow is a worthy woman & extremely poor, & confined to her bed where she has been for six or seven years:
Will you permit me to request that the case may be taken up & disposed of in a few days: That the widow may partake of that merciful & just provision of the government, of which so many, less worthy, & less needy, do so thankfully partake.
I remain Sir respectfully
Your Obdt Servt
for James H Charlton
Jesse Charlton
Hon J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.

No 9266 Charity Triangle lot

Marriage of Eliza Berrill and of said Town under an act and I further dispose that previous to 1820 when a new Law went into oper- ation enjoining it upon all persons who solemnized a Marriage in any Town in this State to have the certificate of it entered in the Town records There were but few entries for several years so that the absence of any names in said Records of persons claiming that they were married at a given time raises no prejudice against their claim that they were married at a given time

East Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut Sept 18 th 1843.
Hon Sir.
I received your letter of Sept. 14 th A 1843 reporting the case of Charity Tryon.
The objections were, that The claim should be asserted before the court, in open Court.
The Widow has been bed Ridden for six or seven years, and it is stated in the Declaration that she was unable by reason of bodily infirmity to attend at the regular Session of the court.
And secondly. The reasons why the proceedings were not attested by the Clerk, but by the Judge were that the Judge of the Hartford District informed me, that other agents for claims did not ask to have the clerks certificate.
In Connecticut the Judges of the Probate Court do all the business & They record & preserve their proceedings themselves almost uniformly, without the presence of a Clerk tho they uniformly have a Clerk appointed:
But now, in this case, I have applied to the court & he directed the Clerk to certify, as he has done.
The third requirement, is that the credibility of the Witness should be certified by a Judicial Officer.
In 1833 An act was passed Authorizing Notaries Public in Conn to administer an oath & take depositions in any case in which a Justice of the Peace might administer or take the same & also to take acknowledgement of Deeds.

See Statutes of Conn. Edition of 1835 or 1838.
And the same fact was Notified to the Commissioner of Pensions, in the claim of Sarah Mason widow of Isaac Mason of Franklin County N York. By the Secretary of State. By Gov Ellsworth of Connecticut. By Hon. Isaac Toucey of Hartford Conn then of the House of Reps.
And Mr Edwards himself in his letter to me of May 2 nd 1843
Says "As a Notary Public in Connecticut is authorized by law to administer an oath this Department will not reject any Proof taken before such officers in that State."
But as some of the Proof was taken before me I have given up the Agency of this claim and James H Charlton Post Master is now the agent & attorney for the claim and you will please report to him.
I remain Sir
very respectfully your Obd Servt Jesse Charlton
Hon J. L. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.

9266
Charity Tryon
cont-
Act 7 th July '38

East Windsor Ct Sept 17 th 1843
Sir
I am made agent & attorney for the claim of Mrs Charity Tryon, & you will please report in the case to me, when you shall be prepared so to do
Respectfully Yours J. S. Edwards Esq. J. W. Charlton Commission of Auction Washington D.C.

East Windsor Conn March 18 th 1844
Dear Sir
Yours of the 15 th was received this morning.
In your letter to Mr Jesse Charlton under date of Sept 14 th 1843 you say The rules require the public assertion of a claim before a court of record at its regular session. In the Declaration it was stated that the widow had been bed ridden for 6 or 7 years, and that on that account the Judge of the court went to her residence and took her declaration. It had been customary for two or three years past for the Judge to certify and seal on the Seal in pension cases as they do in all other probate business but as you objected to this. The Judge directed the Clerk to put on his certificate and the Seal and thus it was returned.
You say further in that letter the credibility of the witnesses should be certified by a Judicial Officer.
No deposition is of any validity without the credibility of the witness is certified.
In giving Notaries Public authority to take deposition the intention was that when they were correctly taken under Seal they should have the same validity every where as if taken before any Justice of the Peace.
And Mr Edwards said in his letter to Mr Jesse Charlton of May 2 1843 As a Notary Public in

159082 01065 in Connecticut is authorized by law to administer an oath this department will not reject any Proof taken before such officers in that State.
And in his letter of Nov 27. 1843 says "as Affidavits made before a Notary Public in Connecticut are received as evidence.
A Declaration made by any one who claims a pension must however be taken before a Judicial Officer.
The latter sentence does not apply to this case
I cannot think that after what Mr Edwards says in the letters quoted, he can have any objection to receiving the evidence as it stands: yet to put it beyond all doubt in his mind, and to bring it to a speedy decision I have requested that the following course be taken; viz
That Mr Jesse Charlton sign & certify as a Justice of Peace in the Deposition of Mrs Lydia Smith.
And that the Hon J Steward of the House of Reps certify to the credibility of Mr Samuel Wilcox; Capt Timothy Savage; & Rev Lebulon Crocker. as he lives near enough to them to know their character.
I am Sir very respectfully Your obed t Servant
J. A. Charlton
Hon J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

8510
Connecticut
Charity Eison formerly widow of Samuel Grannes who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 10. October 1816 of in the State of Conn. who was a Dragoon in the Comp y commanded by Captain of the the Penn s . line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 100 — Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 day of July 1844 and sent to
Total amount, $
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by F. S. Swann Clerk, Book A Vol. 1 Page 85

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 216-152
Charity Orion formerly wid. of Samuel Orion Dragon P.W. Co.
Act: Feb. 2 nd 1848.
Index:—Vol. A , Page 367
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of 2 d February 1848 entitled "An Act making further provision for surviving Widows and Soldiers of the Revolution"
State of Connecticut
Hartford County, ss. Wethersfield Aug 22. 1848
On this 22 d day of August 1848 before me a Magistrate in the County aforesaid personally appeared Charity Trion a resident of Wethersfield in the County of Hartford in the State of Connecticut Aged Ninety three years Years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed on the 2 d February 1848, granting Pensions to Widows of Persons who served during the Revolutionary War
That she was formerly the Widow of Samuel Granniss for whose service she obtained a pension who was a Dragoon in the Army of the Revolution
That she received a pension under the Act of June 17 1844 at the rate of One hundred Dollars per annum.
She further declares that she is still a Widow. Sworn to and subscribed on the day here and year above written
Before me
Charity X Trion mark
Comer Camp Justice of the Peace
I certify that I am personally acquainted with the above Declarant and she is the same individual who drew a pension as stated in the foregoing declaration
Comer Camp
Justice of the Peace

State of Connecticut.
I, JOHN B. ROBERTSON, Secretary of the State of Connecticut, and Keeper of the Seal thereof, do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern, That Homer Camp is, and since the 20th day of June last past hath been a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Hartford in said State, duly appointed and commissioned,--having full power and authority by the laws of said State to take the Acknowledgment of Deeds and to certify the same; also to administer Oaths, to take Affidavits and Depositions out of Court, and to give Certificates thereof; and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to His official acts and attestations.
And I further certify, That I believe the foregoing signature of the said Homer Camp to be genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said State, at Hartford, this 25 th day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.
John B. Robertson Secretary of State.

2 Vets.
1838 } rep. July 1843 } 1849.
5794
Connecticut
Charity Inion formerly widow of Samuel Grannis who was a Deacon in the Rev. War
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 100 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 day of July 1843 and sent to
Hon. J. H. Seymour Hartford, Connecticut
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1 Page 70.

Capt Jim Savage Middletown
John Brown part of ...

I Timothy Savage of Middletown, in the county of Middlesex, in Connecticut do hereby depose & say, that I lived in said Middletown during the Revolutionary War. That I well remember that toward the close of the Revolutionary War a part of a Regiment of Cavalry or Light Horse were quartered in this Town. I did not know all the officers and soldiers, but I remember the following officers and soldiers which were quartered here: I think it was in the year 1782, or the year before the close of the war: Viz, Major or Col Benjamin Salmas Capt Ezekiel P Belden, and Abijah Hubbard, and Richard Doud, and John Great, they belonged to the horse; the said Doud married my sister.
Tim a Savage
Sworn to and subscribed before me on this 13 th th day of July 1843 And I certify that the deponent is a credible & respectable man.
In testimony whereof, I do hereunto subscribe my name, and affix my

Seal of Office at said Middletown, on said 13 th day of July A D 1843
Attest Jesse Charlton Notary Public.
House of Reps. April 18 th 1844
I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Timothy Savage who has subscribed the foregoing deposition, and that he is a credible witness
John Stewart

I Zebulon Crocker of Middletown in the County of Middlesex and State of Connecticut do hereby depose and say That in the records of Marriages Solemnized in this place by the Rev d Gershorn Bulkley, a former Pastor of the 2 nd Congregational Church in said town, I find the following entry viz. Seventeen hundred & Eighty three July twenty fifth Married Samuel Crannis to Charity Johnson And I the said Zebulon Crocker do further depose, That I now hold the office of Pastor of said Church and have the custody of its records, and that in its regular place in the series of entries is the record, of which the above is an exact copy, with the exception of the date, which in the original is in plain and legible figures as follows, viz, 1783 July 25 th Dated at said } Zebulon Crocker Pastor Middletown this 13 th day } 2 nd Cong. Ch. Middletown of July 1843.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year last named before me the subscribing authority authorized by the laws of the

State of Connecticut to administer oaths and take depositions And I further certify
That the Deponent is at this time pastor of said Church & that he is a credible and respectible person and I have myself exam- ined the said record & declare it to be as he has certified
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my Seal of Office on said 13 th day of July 1843
Samuel Francis Bishop of Farmington
Attest Jesse Chearleton Notary Public

I Lydia Smith a resident of Wethersfield in Hartford county Connecticut do hereby depose and say; That I have been well acquainted with the late Samuel Grannis, formerly of East Haver Connecticut, and with his wife, now the widow Charity Tryon I am well knowing to the fact that the said Samuel Grannis and his wife the said Charity, lived together as man and wife, and brought up a family of children. And I am well knowing to the fact that the said Samuel Grannis died in Southington Connecticut where he went on a visit & where he was taken sick, and where he died on the 10 th of October 1806, or thirty six years last October. And she the said Charity, now the widow Tryon, was Mar- ried to Mr John Tryon, of Berlin Connecticut, on the 4 th of June eighteen hundred & sixteen; and he, the said John Tryon and he the said died on the 27 th of August in the same year And the said Charity Tryon former widow of the said Samuel Grannis has remained a Widow ever since that period & she is now a Widow.
Hiram E Stoddard }
Lydia Smith

Hartford State of Connecticut Middlesex County } Ss On the 11 th day of July 1843, personally appeared before me the subscribing authority by law authorized to administer Oaths & take depositions, Mrs Lydia Smith, who then & there made solemn oath to the truth of the within deposition, by her subscribed before me, & I certify, that the said deponent is a credible person, In testimony whereof, I do hereunto subscribe my name, and affix my Seal of Office, on the said 11 th day of July 1843.
Lydia Smith for Charity General Asst 1843
Attest Jesse Charlton Notary Public Jesse Charlton Justice of Peace

9266.
Chas. Tryon wid. Saml. Grannis.
Con.
Act 7. July '38
m 83. d 16
adm
2 yrs Dragoon
$100.
12.6m at 3march 43.
100 $
Hon. Thos. V. Lymon
Stamford
Con.

Comptroller's Office, Hartford Conn. 19 July 1843.
Whereby Certify that on application for evidence of the service of Samuel Grannis in the war of the Revolution, I have examined the record of settlements made with the Connecticut Line, and find his name in three several settlements with Colonel Elisha Sheldon, Regiment of Light Dragoons, Viz:—
In a settlement for services before 1780, Samuel Grannis is entered as having served from "Aug. 12. 77", to "January 1 st 80", — 2 years 4 months 19 days.
And in a settlement for services for the year 1780, he is entered as having served from "January 1 st 80" to "January 1 st 81", — 1 year.
And also in a settlement for services for the year 1781 he is entered as having served from "January 1 st 1781, to December 31 st 1781, 12 Months", each time as a private.
Edwin Benjamin, Chief Clerk, for Gideon Welles, Comptroller.