Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32767, Gideon Graves, Continental (Mass.)

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Continental (Mass.) Graves, Gideon
S. 32767
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Gideon Gravis Mass. S. 32767-

No. 2.
MASSACHUSETTS STATE
By JOHN CRANE, Esquire,
Colonel of the Massachusetts Regiment of Artillery, raised for the Defence of the American States,
To Gideon Hawes GREETING:
WHEREAS, by Authority to Me given by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, reposing special Trust in your Fidelity, Courage, and good Conduct, DO HEREBY CONSTITUTE and APPOINT you the said Gideon Hawes (from 21st March 1777) to be SERJEANT in the First Company in my Regiment, whereof James Livermore is Captain and you are hereby Authorised and Commanded to do the Duty of a SERJEANT, by discharging all Duties thereunto belonging, and to observe all such Orders as you receive, from Time to Time, from your superior Officers, for the Benefit of the American States. And I do hereby command all Soldiers in said Company, to obey you as such; for the doing of which, this shall be your sufficient WARRANT.
GIVEN under my Hand, at Wilt Point in the State of New York this 1st Day of January 1783
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment.
John Dyer Adjutant
John Crane Colonel Major General

Gideon Graves -

Gideon Graves of Calmar in the County of Hampden and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Husbandman Upon oath makes the following Declaration
That on the fifteenth day of March A.D. 1777 he enlisted into the Continental Army of the United States as a Noncommissioned Officer into Capt Thomas Seward's Company and 6th Lebanon Regiment in the Massachusetts line That he engaged to serve during the War And this Declarant avers that he faithfully served in said capacity until Peace was proclaimed & that he was honorably discharged on the tenth day of June A.D. 1783 at West Point in the State of New York that said discharge was lodged in the Secretary's Office of this Commonwealth for the purpose of obtaining the Land Bounty granted by this Commonwealth which bounty he never obtained And this Declarant further saith that he served previously to the time above specified two months at Roxbury & four months at Biendougha & was in the several engagements at Brandywine - Germantown & at Yorktown in the capture of Cornwallis where he was wounded & this Declarant further saith that he is sixty one years of age and is in reduced circumstances in life and by reason thereof stands in need of assistance from his country for Support - - - and also makes all claim to any Pension to wh. he might by law be entitled - Gideon Graves

I Amos Hamilton of Palmer in the County of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do on oath testify that I have well known the aforesaid Gideon Grace for nearly nineteen Years & that he sustains the character of a man of strict integrity & morality and that he has been in the habit of attending church
Amos Hamilton
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampden ss On this thirtieth day of April AD 1818 personally appeared before me Samuel Putnam one of the Judges of the Supreme Judicial Court of said Commonwealth Gideon Grace & Amos Hamilton afore- named & made oath in my presence to the aforesaid declaration & affidavit by them made respectively And it appearing to my satisfaction that the aforesaid Gideon Grace served for the term of more than nine months to wit from the fifteenth day of March 1777 until the tenth day of June 1783 at one period of the war of the Revolution on the Continental establishment and it appearing to my satisfaction against the Common Enemy I hereby certify the testimony and the here & the proceedings had thereon to the Secretary of the Department of War In testimony whereof I have to set my

hand & the seal of said Court on this Thirtieth day of April A.D. 1818
S. Putnam Just S. J. Court of Mass t }
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampden
I John Ingersoll Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in said Commonwealth for the County of Hampden do certify that Samuel Putnam is a Judge of the Supreme Judicial Court of said Commonwealth & that the above signature is his proper hand writing and that the seal here affixed is the proper seal of said Court
April 30 th /818
That John Ingersoll Clerk

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Massachusetts Roll
Gideon Graves Mass. Line } Capt Seward 1777. War } Sergeant 4
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War Continental
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 30 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 th of May 1818 and sent to Hon. Saml. Putnam, Salem, Mass.
Arrearages to 4 th Sept. 1818
4 months 5/30 $33.33
{ Revolutionary claims, } { Act 18th March, 1818, }
[Faint, illegible handwriting or bleed-through from the reverse side of the document]

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32767 Rev INVALID.
Jan. 22-97- History Mrs. L. G. White Van Orin. Dels. (pn Inv. 29.605)
File No. 39,717
Gideon Graves
Leig Rev War
Act: 18 th March 1818 th
Index —Vol. 2, Page 498
[Arrangement of 1870.]