Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 8864, Samuel Gray, Va

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va
Gray, Samuel Leah
W. 8864
CONTENTS

4.395
Kentucky
Leah Gray
widow of Samuel Gray
Va
who died on the 29 th Day of May, 1832 of St. Louis Co. in the State of Kentucky who was a Private in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt commanded by Col. Stephen, in the Virginia line for 3 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 90 Dollars _____ Cents per annum, to commence on the 1 st 1 st day of January 1846.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 th day of Augt. 1846, and sent to John Lyon Boyd, H. of Reps.
Arrears to the 4 th of Sept. 1845 - $ 65.06 Semi-annual allowance ending
Revolutionary Claim Act July 4, 1840 Section 11 Sec.
Recorded by Book

Reported.

10,550
Kentucky
Samuel Gray
of Hopkins in the state of Kentucky who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Stephens of the Virginia line, for the term of three Years
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 14 of September 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 of May 1819 and sent to Judge A.P. Bledsoe Madisonville Kentucky
Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1819 45.50
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep 1819 45.00
Int. $100 1/20/4/31 $ 93.50
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Mr. John 2nd Thoson J. Habbott Esq. 16 August 1820

Hopkins County State of Kentucky
Samuel Gray states that in February before the Battle at German town in Stanton in Virginia he enlisted in the Continental Service to serve for three years under Capt. King in the 10 th Virginia Regiment Command- ed by Col. Stephens that he was in the battle at Brandywine and German town at the last of which he was taken prisoner that after he was exchanged he was transferred into Capt. Walbeez company in the 6 th Virginia Regiment Commanded by Col. Haze and after serving out the full period of his enlistment he was discharged by Col. S. Haze at Maurer town in the State of New Jersey that he sent his discharge to the war office to draw his pay which he has never been returned that he knows of no person by whom he can prove his services that altho' he the fine weights he never was placed on the pension list and relinquishes all claim to any pension heretofore allowed that he has known old and from his reduced circumstances in life he needs the assistance of

his country for support.
State of Kentucky Concord Madisonville
This day Samuel Gray personally appeared before me one of the circuit judges in & for the State of Kentucky and swore on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God, that the facts set forth in this declaration are true, to the best of his knowledge and belief. It was also proved that the said Gray is very poor and that the assets of his country - and now too - are gone to work - given under my hand this 14 th day of September 1818.
Henry P. Woodson
State of Kentucky Stephen Breckinridge Clerk
I Samuel Woodson Clerk of the Court held in for the Circuit aforesaid do certify that the foregoing Certificate and the signature thereto are in the hand writing of the Honorable Henry P. Woodson presiding Judge of said Court and a true copy of the General Court of said State.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal (there being no public seal provided for said Court) the 15 th day of September 1818 in the 27 th year of the Common wealth.
Sam Woodson

Schedule District of Hantrickly Hopkins County Ky.
On the 11 th day of June 1826 personally appeared in open Court being the Circuit Court of record for the said County of Hopkins County Samuel Gray aged 84 years resident in Hopkins County in said District who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows He enlisted as a private in Captain Simms Company in the North Virginia Regiment in the early part of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven The said Regiment having been broken up in the battle of Brandywine and other battles he was transferred to the sixth Regiment in which he served the residue of the three years for which he was enlisted under Captain Thomas Palm that he was wounded at a near Brandywine in the State of Pennsylvania That his original declaration was made on the 11 th day of September 1818 as appears by his certificate of pension now in his possession bearing date the 13 th day of May 1819 that he has five children living with him to wit, Sally 18 years old Rebecca 13 years old Jonathan

12 years old Tho s 10 years old, Hannah 6 years & his wife about 51 years old
And I do solemnly swear that I was an incident Citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of any property or any part thereof without thereby as to diminish in as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18 th day of March 1818; and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than which is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed
Sam d Gray
Schedule of the property of Samuel Gray (worth of his whole estate and income his necessary clothing and bedding excepted) one Box of the value $12 50 one pot 1 one Skellett 1 25 one Latt 2. Carpenter Tools 20 00 Sam d Gray

Sworn to and declared on the 11 th day of June 1896 in open Court
State of Kentucky Hopkins Circuit Court
I Samuel Woodson clerk of Hopkins Circuit Court do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is thirty six dollars and twenty five cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal (there being no seal yet provided for said Court) at Mad- isonville on this 15 th day of June 1896
Sam. Woodson, clerk Hopkins Circuit Court

(A) State of Kentucky) On the ninth day of January Hopkins County ss. A.D. one thousand eight hundred, and forty three personally appeared before the Honorable, the Court of the County aforesaid (the same being a court of record) Leah Gray a resident of the said County aged 73 seventy three years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress of "July 7 th 1838", entitled "an act granting half pay, and pensions to certain widows &c" - That she is the widow of Samuel Gray, late of the County aforesaid deceased, who was a private in the Army of the Revolution; she states that she has often heard her said deceased husband speak of his services, officers &c; but her rec- ollection on the subject is too imperfect to enable her at this late day to give a minute detail of the same, and she deems such detail on her part the more unnecessary, as her said husband was for several years, previous to his death a pensioner of the United States, under the act of the "7 th June 1832", on the roll of the Kentucky agency; and consequently his own declaration of his services, officers &c" and the testimony added by him, in support of his said declaration are on the file of the war office at Washington City; and to these she begs leave to refer and to make the same a part of this her declaration. She states that at the time of her said husband's appli- cation to the Government, he was a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Hopkins County

in the State of Kentucky; she further declares that she was married to the said Samuel Gray deceased on the 26 th day of September - 1792 - one thousand, seven hundred, and ninety two - ; that her husband, the aforesaid Samuel Gray died on the 29 th day of May - 1832 - one thousand eight hundred and thirty two - That she was not married to him previous to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the "1 st day of January 1794" viz: at the time above stated; that she is still single, having never married since the death of her said husband - deceased - Said Samuel Gray's pension was ninety six dollars 87 1/2 - per year - Leah Gray -
Sworn, and subscribed on the day, and year above written before the Hopkins County Court, in the State of Kentucky -
State of Kentucky { Personally appeared Hopkins County ss. } before me this 1 st day of January 1840 - { of January 1840 - Nathan Grooms, of said County, and State, who made oath that Leah Gray, the widow of late Samuel Gray is a person of most indubitable veracity in matters testimonial, & says this; Given under my hand on the day & year above Loyal Dow Clerk

(M) Samuel Gray was born the 2 day January 1761 his wife Deborah was born the 17 day September 1770 " Hiram Gray was born the " 16 day of June 1774 Ellison Gray was born February the 22 day 1776 Martha Gray was born November the 25 1787 Sarah Gray was born the 28 August 1788 Nancy Gray was born the 15 September 1803 Rebecca Gray was born March 18 day 1808

William Gray was born 26 day Sept 1811 Thomas Gray was born 11 day May 1810
Hannah Gray was born the 24 day April 1814
Adrew Gilcham was born 11 day Sept 1816
Lock Gilcham was born 25 November 1817
Set down by H Gray the ages in the present of Samuel and Lock Gray both alive now present

Hartley Hopkins County Ky
The Deponent of Hannah Clark and widow of the County aforesaid aged twenty nine years
This Deponent being first duly sworn deposeth and saith that she is the Daughter of Samuel Gray late of Christian County Ky who was also a son of the Revolution War of the United States and of Leah Gray the wife of said Samuel now a resident of the S d County of Hopkins and an applicant for a pension. This Deponent further states that sometime before the death of said Samuel Gray which occurred on the 29 th day of May 1832 in the County of Christian aforesaid he the said Samuel Gray pro- cured a Bible and caused the names and ages of himself, his said wife and their children to be transcribed into the same from a list of papers which he the said Samuel had in his possession
That said Bible is now in the possession of this Deponent that he since about the time that the said names and ages were transcribed as aforesaid
She further states that the two papers hereto attached and marked M B D are two leaves of the S d Bible cut out by herself and further this Deponent saith not. Hannah J. Clark

Kentucky Hopkins County Esq
The foregoing disposition of Hannah Clark of said County was this day taken, subscribed and sworn to before me a justice of the peace in and for said County. I hereby certify that the s d Hannah Clark is a person of good charac- ter and entitled to credit. Given under my hand the 11 th day of March 1844. Sam Morton J.P.
Kentucky Hopkins County Esq.
I Samuel Woodson clerk of the Court in and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Samuel Morton Esq. is a Magistrate as above and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In Attestation whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my Seal of Office the 11 th day of March 1844 in the 68 th year of the Commonwealth.
Sam Woodson Clk. Hopkins County Clk.

8605 Leah Gray
Ray act 7 July 38
5
David Weston Clapp St. Louis City Court

State of Kentucky } Before me, a Justice of peace Hopkins County Set. } in and for said County perso- nally appeared this 10 th day of January 1843 - Andrew Sisk of said County, and State, and being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath testify, and declare that he is the brother of Leah Gray, alias Sisk, who is now looking for five years' half pay, on account of the services of her late husband, Samuel Gray, who was a pensioner of the United States that the said Leah Gray - alias Sisk intermarried with the said Samuel Gray, according to her best recollection, in, or about the year 1792 - or 1793 - in Wickes County, in the state of North Carolina - that they, after marriage, lived for some time at his father's, Thomas Sisk's home - and that since the death of her late husband, Samuel Gray, which was in 1832 she has lived a widow in his, Deponent's own neighborhood in Hopkins County aforesaid - Sworn, and sub- scribed before me at Madisonville, The County seat of said Hopkins County, Ky, on the day before That it is the substance of the petition which was in 1832 was made before signing -
Andrew Sisk
Kentucky } Hopkins County } Set.
I do certify that Andrew Sisk whose name is subscribed to the foregoing deposition is personally known to me and is a man of known veracity, and that he appeared before me this day and made oath that the statements contained in the said deposition are true,

Given under my hand this 10 th day of January 1843 Samuelston J.P.
Hm. Zibarey 172
no 8605
Hopkins County Ky
I Samuel Woodson clerk of the County Court in and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Samuel Norton Esquire is a true gentleman as above named that the foregoing power of attorney to him his is genuine In Witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my Seal of Office the 10 th day of January 1843. In the 57 th year of the Commonwealth
St. Paul: Woodson clk St. J. Louis Dist. Court
ay
July 38

1621 May 31 18 Madisonville Ky 21 May Ken't Mar 3 1863 Leah G. set 6: seal to it
6 Free James L. Edwards Esquire Comm't Pensions Washington D.C.

Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of the "3 d March 1843" granting pensions for one year to certain widows, who have received pensions under the "7 th July 1838"- State of Kentucky. On this the 18 th day of May 1843. Hopkins County ss. personally appeared before me an acting Justice of peace in, and for said County, and State Leah Gray, a resident of said County, and State, and personally known to me aged 73 years, who, being first duly sworn, ac- -cording 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 of "3 d March 1843", granting pensions to widows of persons, who served during the Revolutionary war, that she is the widow of Samuel Gray, who was a pri- -vate in 1 st line in the war of the revolution, and who was also a pensioner on the Kentucky roll of agency, the amount of his pension being $96 - dollars per annum; that she, through entire ignorance of the laws in favour of widows, and for want of a competent person to act for her, neglected application until very early in this year (say) in 1 st Mo. 1843, as her forms on file at Washington City pension Office may abundantly shew. She further declares, that she is still a widow - Sworn, and subscribed before me on the day, and year first above written signed - Leah Gray H. Headley } Justice of peace } for Hopkins County } Kentucky -
State of Kentucky { Know all men by these presents, that I, Hopkins County ss. { Leah Gray - of said County & State do hereby nominate, constitute, and appoint John Boyle and (in his absence) Doctor Green G. Boyle, his son, my true, and lawful Attorneys in fact, in my name to demand, and receive from the United States whatever pension, arrears of pension, or certificate of pension may be still due, and coming to me from said United States under the law of "7 th July 1838" or the like

on account of the services of my late husband Samuel Grey deceased; and all other acts to do in the plenary manner in the premises, as if I, myself were personally present to do the same; and other substitutes and then to appoint for the purposes herein named: hereby ratifying all the acts of my said Attorneys, John, and Green J. Boyle, or their substitutes, lawfully done in the premises; given under my hand, and seal in Hopkins, Kentucky this the 18 th day of 5 th mo (May) 1843 -
Signed - Leah Grey (L.S.)
The foregoing power of Attorney to John, and Green J. Boyle and their substitutes was also duly acknowledged by the said Leah Grey, as her free act, and deed for the purposes therein named - given under my hand the 18 th day of 5 th mo (May) 1843 -
W. Headley { Justice of peace for Hopkins County Kentucky -
I, Samuel Woodson, Clerk of the County Court, of Hopkins County, in state of Kentucky, in testimony that Newton Headley Esquire, before whom the above declaration on oath of Leah Grey - was made, and her above power of Attorney to John, and Green J. Boyle, and their substitutes was acknowledged, was then, and is now an acting Justice of the peace, duly commissioned to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments in said Hopkins County, and State of Kentucky; that his name there written appears to me to be in his usual signature; and that full faith is to be had in all his official acts, as such. I have hereunto affixed my seal of office, and subscribed my name and quality at Madisonville, the County seat of said Hopkins County, Kentucky this 20 th day of May - 1843
Sam Woodson { Clerk of Hopkins County Court, in state of Kentucky - By Orlean Bishop D.C.

Do the records show who obtained land on 7/4 of Dr. Ewing & Jasper Hughes 2 Capt. Jasper H. Hughes 2 1/2 & 2nd & 3rd. Mr. Hughes 2 priority all of the land The Ewing & A connection around here - MB
Providence Hopkins County, Ky. 18 th May 1843 I, John Dorris, pastor of a Baptist Church here do certify (as I believe I did before) that Luke Grey has been a member of our church for many years, and is of unquestionable veracity & good cha- racter - given under my hand on day, & year above
John Dorris D Head Clerk Providence
year city
Curia Sigilbeam

In the receipt of yr. letter, inclosing the law of "3 rd Mar. 43" I made out a new form for Leah Grey for the 1 st additional & sent it on to Madisonville by my son, Dr. Green G. Boyle, who as I was "to our station, in hurry at minutes forgot to get one letter. Seal to it. You will find Leah Grey in autograph to all the forms sent on, & sent f. incorporated, where it ought to be. But to preclude further procrastination, I now send a 4 th one, with same Newton Heathly's, & p's Attestation. I made out the form for old Mrs. Anne Bell (Mrs. Brown) of Caldwell (adj. Co. here) but they despaired at sending upwards of 1000 miles to S. for proof of her marriage. That is a hard postulation, & as in most
1621 May 31 43
Ken Mar 3 rd 1843 Leah Grey
Madisonville Ky 21 May
G. Edwards Esquire Compt. General Washington
6 Free
gases call for my bro: preacher Millerism, or at least a very rectio de mortuis of these witnesses - Is that a sine qua non in recovery? You will find Beck's name, (which I cannot recall) on yr. list. They were married on "20 th Dec 1792" - I hope Drusilla Baldwins form has been sent - which I anticipated by sending on a priori. Mr. Baldwin's proof of the marriage of said Drusilla & H. P. she too, as well as Leah Grey may be entitled to half pay since the "4 th March 1836". Perhaps, if the line of "1838" were transmitted to me - my understanding wd. be cataleptic enough to comprehend it Most respectfully thy obliged friend V. John Boyle

Providence R.I. } June 2 nd
f 25-
June 20
James L. Edwards Esq re
Dear
Leah Gray } 3
Comm te Pensions - Washington - D.C. -

State of Kentucky } Before me, a Justice of peace in Hopkins County St. } and for said County, and State on this the 30 th day of May 1843 personally appeared Leah Gray, of said County, and State, personally well known to me, and whose attestation, in order to obtain a pension, I have sun- dry times taken already, and being of lawful age, and first duly sworn, doth on her oath declare as followeth - To wit - That she was not married to Samuel Grey by license from the Clerk's office, but by a 3 times pub- lication at her Baptist meeting in Wilkes County, North Carolina, by Wm. Rainmonds, her Elders, and married by a Garrison Mitchell; that her marriage was recorded in the said her father's family Bible; but that Bible was destroyed in a fire, that took place 8 or 9 years after, that she believes the date - from a letter from a friend since found out by her, was not the "26 th day of Sept r 1792" as she alleged in her declaration on her last marriage then but "26 th Sept r 1793" - she states that license cost in those days five dollars; and most of young couples were, by calling 3 times - Interlined before signing - sworn, and subscribed before me on the day, & year above
H. Headley } Justice of peace for Hopkins County, Kentucky

State of Kentucky } I, Absalom Wier, a Justice of Hopkins County ss. Peace for said County & State do hereby certify, that I entirely concur, with Lorenzo D. Orr, and Newton Meadly, signers in saying, that Leah Gray, as far as I have ever known of her, is a Lady of Reputation, & that I especially know Andrew Fisk, our former Senator, who promoted her marriage, to be a person fiducially to the United States under my hand at present This 31 st day of May. 1843.
Absalom Wier Justice of the Peace for Hopkins county
I certify the same facts contained in the above Certificate this 31 st May 1843
Jno Arnold attorney at Law In Hopkins Kentucky

I sought for others, especially for Mrs. L. Gray, information on her being entitled to U. S. land on acct of her 3 brothers' services. Geo. & James Gray - (say) Capt. in the Va. line - & John a private in same & her late husband Saml. Gray, a private in N.C. line. This reasoning "a minori ad majus" wd. not do in Logic but wd. do well in claims - for if these Capt. are entitled to the 300 acres from U. S., they are conclusively so as to a much larger amt. from Va. - Elhanan Winchester (a great name with our forefathers) for his father, Capt. Rawley in Va. line, son Stephen Smith for his father Joseph in Va. line. I have not heard James L. Edwards inquire -
Respected Sir
I received from you the printed instructions - Had my worthy Ill o Member not forgotten to send on your letter to him, the Hon ble G. Casey, I should not have discovered any marks of uneasiness about the reception of my 1 st application for Mr. Leah Gray on the Law of "7 th July 1838". My son, Doctor Green G. Boyle at Madisonville had mistaken - putting the wafer in, instead of Mr. S. Woodson's C o seal - but that might not be defective, as the Magistracy of Newton Headley was twice certified before, yet I sent on by last mail a new form of hers on Law of "3 rd March 1836" directing the mode of procedure at the pay office. This office has been transferred from Col. Pickens's Lexington to Geo. W. Meryweather's, Louisville - Proof of David Baldwin's of Hopkins' marriage was sent on by me from Henderson (adj & C o ) - & the main form was to go on by a Squire's attestation at home, certifying that she was totally unable to go to the C o Court. I have never known, whether Mrs. Jenkins' application for U. S. land on acct. of her father, Jas. Meryweather - a private, or her maternal Uncle, Lt. Reuben Parker (slain in battle) services - was ever received. Mr. Woodson certified to me long ago that the Law of "16 th Sep. 1796" gives U. S. lands exclusively to Cont l Officers (& something of him - if slain in battle) & soldiers, who lists for the war. I am, Sir - with a renewed acknowledgment of yr. attention Respectfully &c John Boyle

Hon. Zadoc Casey My honored friend
Providence R.I. Sept 10 th County Ky 9 th Mo 1843
I am well aware that the applicant, Widow Gray, being a Kentuckian, the business would naturally come in my friend Mr. D. Triplett's way. But I know your fidelity, and desire to serve me at all times. Have the kindness, therefore, to call at the office, obtain the Certificate, and transmit it to me, or Doctor Green & Boyle any son here, (I may be gone to Ill. with all the promptness, the case will admit of. Yrs. Dr Sir, most gratefully, and respectfully.
P.S. If the $240 be payable at Washington, I am unwilling to trust it by mail. Can it not be sent by a draft on Louisville or Lexington Banks. If by warrant or Certificate to Mr. Joseph Tichler's agency office we could with safety negotiate it there. — J Boyle
I hereby authorize, and empower the Honorable Zadoc Casey (in his absence) Hon. D. Triplett to receive for me any money, warrant for money, or Certificate for 5 years & pay of pension, which may be coming to me, & forward the same to Elder John Boyle (or in his absence) his son, Doctor Green & Boyle, our practicing physician here; given under seal my hand at Madisonville Ky by this 9 th day of Sept. 1843. — J Boyle

7. July 1838. Susp.
Let to Hon L. Boyd 11R Feb 5. 1844.
8005
Leah Gray wid of Samuel Ky
Let to Hon. G. Casey Jan 26 43 " " J. Boyle May 8 " 43 " " " " July 8 " " " Hon L. Boyd Aug 26 " " " " J. J. Crittenden Dec 27 " " " " L. Boyd Jan 25 1844 " " " L. Boyd Feb 5. 1844 Original Papers sent to hands " Same to Hon. L. Boyd Sept 19 44 " " " Oct 18 - 44 " " Hon. L. Boyd Dec 13 44
act 17 July 1838
Leah Gray, widow of Samuel Ky Sus
let to Hon G. Casey Jan. 26 '43 let to Hon Boyle May 8 '43 " " " " July 8 " " " Hon L. Boyd Aug 26 " " " " J. J. Crittenden Dec 27 '43 Act 7 July 1838 let to Hon L. Boyd January 25 1844

Petition & other
Papers of Leah widow of Samuel Gray Gray asking a pension to be paid her
Dec 15, 1845 Referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions
March 14, 1846 Bill 298
Boyd

Leah Gray
Mem. of the case - in part

It seems that the original papers, and the files in the pension office, previous to 5 July 1836 - (see pension com. letter in which they the first papers were with drawn by Karl Boy on 5 July 1836 - now here is it, that the original papers are not presented - but a decl: made out 11 Dec 1836, more than a month after the first decl: was with drawn .
All the proceedings now presented, the Evi- -dence to sustain the claim, except the deposition of A. Simpson, were all made out long since the first application made to com. of pension by the widow. As regards Simpson dep: that seems to have been taken before the declaration was made - his dep: taken Dec 1833 & the decl: not till Dec 1836. -
I suppose however that Simpson's dep: was taken Dec 1836 & 1833, as it purports to be - because the copy  original certificate that thereby on the 9 th Dec 1836 that Morton who took the dep: was a justice of the certificates are all in same hand.

Will L. Washington Jr, be so obliging as to give the date of the approval of the act passed for the relief of Leah Gray? We have a copy of the Bill, Certified by the Clerk of the House of Representatives, but not of the date of the act.
Pension Office } Aug 11. 1846. }
August 8 th 1846
Mr Broadheads attention is respect- -fully called to the papers of Mrs Leah Gray, ref'd to his Com te .
Mrs Gray as well as Mr Sisk one of the witnesses in the case are well known by me to be of the highest respectability.
L Bays

[Report No. 423.]
MARCH 14, 1846.
Read, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. JENKINS, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill :
A BILL
For the relief of Leah Gray.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 2 of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That 3 the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the 4 name of Leah Gray on the roll of revolutionary pensions, at the 5 rate of ninety-six dollars a year, commencing on the first day of 6 January, eighteen hundred and forty-six.
Clerk's Office No Reps. H. S. Aug. 11. 1846
I certify that the foregoing Act has passed both Houses & been approved by the President of the United States
P. P. McKim Clerk H. Reps

LEAH GRAY.
[To accompany bill H. R. No. 298.]
MARCH 14, 1846.
Mr. JENKINS, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, made the following
REPORT:
The Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Leah Gray, report:
That it appears from the certificate of the Commissioner of Pensions, that Samuel Gray, the husband of the petitioner, was placed on the pension roll at $96 a year for having served as a soldier in the Revolution three years in the Virginia line, and that he died in 1832.
The petitioner sets forth that she was married to said Samuel Gray in September, 1793, in the county of Wilkes, and State of North Carolina, by a justice of the peace bearing the name of Mitchell. She thinks a record of her marriage was made in the family bible, but the record, together with the house of said Samuel, was destroyed by fire many years ago. Said Samuel and petitioner moved from North to South Carolina, and thence to Kentucky, where he died.
An application was made to the Commissioner for a pension for the petitioner, but refused upon the ground that there was not sufficient evidence that the petitioner was married to said Samuel prior to 1st January, 1794.
In addition to the oath of the petitioner, the fact of her marriage in the fall of 1793 is testified to by Robert Lisk, who deposes that he was present at the marriage, and that it took place in the fall of 1793. The character of the petitioner and the witness Lisk is shown to be good.
It appears from the papers, that the Commissioner of Pensions supposed that the circumstance that Lisk could not write his own name should materially diminish the weight of his evidence in regard to his recollection of the time when the marriage took place. But your committee are of opinion that no good reason exists for the adoption of such a rule. Being satisfied that said marriage was solemnized prior to January 1, 1794, your committee report a bill authorizing the name of the petitioner to be placed on the roll of revolutionary pensioners.
Ritchie & Heiss, print.

Pension Office, December 13th 1845.
Sir,
I have the honor to enclose you a copy of my letter of the 19th September 1844, to Mr. Woodson, which will make you acquainted with the grounds upon which her claim was resisted upon the sollicitation then filed.
The deposition of Robert Visk, enclosed in yours of the 7th inst, who signs his name with a cross mark and consequently must have a very imperfect and limited means of retaining such a knowledge of distant dates as to enable him to assign a particular date to an ordinary event, which he had no interest to preserve, is not available to prove that claimant was married in the fall of 1793. That witness, no doubt, believes what he avers, but no estimate can be understandingly made of his testimony unless the data by which he fixes the date be disclosed.
Her husband served three years in the Virginia Line, was a Pensioner under the Act of 18th March, 1818, and died in May 1822.
It was transmitted to you on the 5th February last

the papers then filed and I now enclose you those subsequently received
Have the honor to be Very respectfully, Your Obedt Servt J L Edwards
Hon. Lyman Boyd
House of Representatives

Washington 20 Dec 1845-
Sir Herewith you have additional evidence in the case Mrs Leah Gray of Hopkins Co Ky who applies for a pension, which I hope may be sufficient to establish her claim, but if not, I must ask a copy of the papers, that I may refer the case to Congress. Yr Obed Servt Symon Boyd Col J. L. Edwards

(Copy)
Claim Office, September 19th 1844
Sir,
The papers renewing the application of Leah Gray have been placed on our files. The papers and proofs, previously filed, have been withdrawn by the Hon. L. Floyd on the 5th February last.
The objection to the admission of her claim was, that the alleged date of the marriage approached so nearly the limitation of the Act, that the said evidence did not ascertain it, with the requisite precision.
Now a paper is presented as a family register, which, to say the least, if it, does not bear that, in proof of age which would make it, proof of a distant date.
Such an exhibit, instead of sustaining, invalidates a claim.
I am, Very respectfully, Yours, M. Vent.
(Signed) V. L. Edwards
Samuel Woodson, Esq., Madisonville, Kentucky

Special Act August 8. 1846,
Leah Gray, widow of Samuel - $96 per annum, commencing 1 January 1846, Kentucky Roll (Inscribed under act July 4. 1836)
Hon. Lynn Boyd Present.

Shadyside Ky. 2 nd Oct, 1844
Sir
Your letter rejecting the application of Leah Gray for a Pension has just been received in which you state "Now a paper is presented as formerly registered which to say the least of it, does not bear the impress of age, which would make it proof of additional date, such an exhibit instead of sustaining, invalidates a claim."
If it is not too much trouble your Honor do me a favor by again referring to that paper and the deposition to which it is attached and unless my memory fails me greatly you will discover that that paper was not presented as one of great age or of a date coeval with the marriage of Mr. Gray.
My recollection is that Mr. Gray's papers on file in your Office show that his Family Register was commenced by him many years ago and from that work up to a short time before the death of Samuel Gray the Family Register had been kept on a loose slip of paper from which it was transferred on the paper in question some ten or twelve years since.
Indeed I feel anxious that the Lady in question should receive a Pension from the Government as she is poor and I believe her entitled to it but my anxiety is not such as

to induce me to use means which I have used in vain to obtain it
I hope you will at some course meet him again near the papers in the case. If for nothing else, to ascertain if the recent appearance of the papers in question is not sufficiently accounted for.
I have no idea that Mr. Gray can make any better proof than she has presented to you in regard to her marriage. I sincerely negat it as she is a worthy old lady and is poor & needy.
Very respectfully Sam: Woodson

Waverly Stephens County Pa.
The Deposition of Thomas Young a Resident and Citizen of the County aforesaid aged Seventy nine years
This Deposition being first duly sworn deposeth and saith that in the year 1794 or 1795 and before herein since that time the De- ponent resided in Statesville in the County of Indee in North Carolina
that in one of the years before stated as Deposition Verily believing Samuel Gray and Leah his wife removed to and settled in said Statesville (Carmel Village) and remained
there twelve months or more that when said Gray & wife settled in said Village said Leah had in her arms her first child (a boy) and bore another child (also a boy) during her residence in said Village, this last boy was called Gilson
This Deposition further saith that said Samuel Gray died several years ago in Waverly, that his said wife Leah is now a resident of the County of Stephens aforesaid and is at this Deposition hath been informed & believing an ap- plicant to the U. States Government for a pension on account of the revolutionary services of said Samuel
This Deposition further saith that

from his earliest acquaintance with the said Samuel Young he said Samuel was reported to have been a soldier of the Revolution and this Deponent has no doubt of the fact — He further states that said Leah Young is still a widow having never married since the death of said Samuel And further this Deponent saith not
Thos Young
Huntsville
Stephens County T. Ex.
The foregoing Deposition of the said Young was this day taken subscribed and sworn to before me a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid.
I further certify that said Young is well known to me and that he is a credible per- son known under my hand and seal the 30 th day of October 1844
Sam Norton D.D.

Hanoverly
Hopkins County Ky
EB
I Samuel Woodson clerk of the County Court in and for the County aforesaid do certify that Samuel Morton Esq whose name is subscribed to the foregoing Certificate is and was at the time of subscribing the same a Justice of the peace in for Liberty and that the foregoing Signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In attestation whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of Office the 30 th day of March 1814.
Sam d Woodson clk Hopkins County Ky

Hos Reps Feby 1 st 1844
Sir
M rs Leah Gray of Providence Ky, who claims a pension as the widow of Saml Gray, having petitioned Congress, for relief. I must ask that a copy of the testimony in her case to be file in your office
Respectfully Yr Ob t Serv t (L Boyd)
J. H. Edwards Esqr

Pension Office, February 5. 1844,
Sir,
Enclosed herewith are the original papers of Leah Gray, widow of Samuel Gray, deceased, numbered from 1 to 8 inclusive. Be pleased to acknowledge the receipt of them.
I have the honor to be, Very respectfully, Your Obedt Servant J L Edwards
Hon. L. Boyd, House of Representatives,

Nashville Tn. 27 th March 1844
Sir
Herewith you will receive the Declaration for the marriage of Leah Gray & Elizabeth Hope to which you will please attend as early as convenient and advise me of the result. Mr Gray informs me that Mr John Boyle promised that to attend to her application but that he has abandoned it and gone down to Illinois and she has not heard from him for some time it is not my wish to interfere with any of Mr Boyle's arrangements but Mr Gray does not consider him her Agent
Several months ago I forwarded to you the declaration of Mr V. Palmer widow of John Palmer for our year's pension under the act of March 1833 but am apprehensive it did not reach you as I have not heard from you - please say whether it was received
Mr Palmer drew your pension I think at the Nashville Agency Respectfully David Woodson

Free M c Gilmore
PAID
Ino Boyle esq.
Providence P. O. Hopkins county Kentucky

Charlottesville Sept. 11 th 18243
Dear Sir
Your's of the 22 nd July should have been sooner acknowledged but for my continued absence from home & in absent occupation - I have examined it with every disposition to afford you all the assistance in my power in your researches on behalf of the revolutionary claims you mention - While I was many years since pretty well acquainted with the general subject of the Virginia claims I never had much knowledge of the details of private claims - Time & other pursuits since my agency for the State of Virginia have left very little recollection of the

subject & I do not know how where I could obtain the information you desire - If it is in the public offices at Richmond & the officers there object to furnishing it to you, you should get the parties interested in the claims to apply di- rectly in their own names & then it will be the duty of the officers to furnish all information desired - I suppose Capt. Richardson objected because there have been many very unworthy agents hunting up revolutionary claims, who have imposed on the state & on the claim- ants too - & some general regula- -tion may have been adopted prohibiting access to the public

records except on applications from the soldiers or their heirs &c. In this way they can I have no doubt obtain any information they want - & I know the public officers at Richmond too well to suppose that they would relax a general rule to accommodate a personal friend, either me or my friend -
I return the paper enclosed in your letter, with the assurance of most respectful indebtedness Yours
Thomas W. Gilmer

Providence - Hopkins C o Ky. 30 th 9 th Mo. 1843.
Col. L. Edwards Esq re .
Respected Sir
The inclosed was returned to me by a Mr. W. H. Richardson, from the Secretary of the Off. Richmond. Va. saying it was "No Evidence" without one word of supplement saying, wherein defective, or how to be amended!! This is the material reason for trespassing on yr. courtesy, as now again, to know in what way - whether as militia man, or regular, Continental soldier - Samuel Gray obtained the pension, under which his old widow, Leah Gray now claims. The Secretary at War's Office will show at once whether John Gray and Jas Gray, the 1 st alleged to be a private, & 2 d an Offr were of the Contl. Va line. If this be so, Leah Gray, and Children wd be intitled to their lands, they dying without issue - independent of the munipative will referred to in L h f's oath - To this Mr. Richardson under no official obligation to respond, in regard to these, and John Gray and Col. Rowley Smith, John Winfree, Lewis Moody - Jasper Hughes - with regard to each of which, (with the exception of J. H.) regular forms sworn to, were forwarded? - Now T. W. Gilmer has written me saying, if I gave the names of claimants signed to the application, it wd be right - I have done so, backed by oaths - I shall not be hasty hereafter to act on applications of such a migratory character, arising from the ignorance of distinction between Militia , & regular soldiers .

If others have acted a perfidious part to the Government, & claimants - "Ex uno disce omnes" - or "Ex omnibus disce unum" does not apply to me - Be pleased to direct all letters from this time to me to "Moore's prairie" p.o. Willbanks" Jefferson County, Ill - Most respectfully John Bayle
P.S. I forwarded some little time ago - a new form of Leah Gray's - taken from her daughter's family Bible - a record providentially discovered - which proves her first born Adiam Gray - born to a day of months from her sworn to date of marriage - She has signed her autograph name, talis qualis (not - very elegant forsooth) to every one of them -

Madisonville Hopkins Ky
11. 9th mo.
James L. Edwards Esquire.
Respected Sir.
In the case of Lydia Rose, a party which was forwarded a few days ago, as sworn to before Saml. Morton Esq. Jr., Sp. for Hopkins Co. Ky., I hope mine, & Mr. Adams' Certificate will be sufficiently explanatory - J. G. S. M. was unwilling to certify the remainder, as the O. O. applicant's health enabled her without time to examine - With regard to O. O. Mrs. Leah Gray's case, I am unable to comprehend what "record, or documentary evidence" we could produce; - as she swore positively she, and her betrothed were not able to pay the license fee $5.00 and were therefore married by Proclamation on 3 Ld's days by a Bpt. Mr., & married by an I. P. She swore (if memory serves me) that the family record (say Bible) was destroyed - This I would have good reason to know, was a most precarious resort, my birth being set down by a schoolmaster with the anachronism of 2 years intervening between 2 dates given! Her brother, Andrew Sisk, our quondam State Senator - has sworn her marriage - He, and Mrs. Leah Gray, the sister, are as well known to the Hon. Lynn Boyd, now re-elected. He (Mr. B.) knows their reputation fully. I did not know that any approximation to the "1st Jany. 1794" was be fatal - I will be particularly, obliged by yr. reporting to me whither Lewis Howell, and Vincent Howell, whom you included in yr. long list you were good enough to find under "the following named Officers" were merely taken as such by my presuming them to be so, or really were 2 Lts. of the War line - and also another Lewis Howell was a private -

His said and will be sworn to by the Fugate heirs and Mrs. Staton, alias Fugate, that their mother was full sister to said Vincent Hall, St., and Lewis H., the coming to them They also say that St. V. H. never got any land, and hence died in the army, (as believed by all) and he entitled an extra quantum of land from the U.S., independent of the 2666 2/3 from the St. of Va. of the St. L. H. to whom in my printed list of "Lathers, & Leonards" was allotted 2666 2/3 - we wish to know, to whom giving in what way his warrants were disposed of. I subjoin their signatures, as a warrant for my inquiry: for (no doubt) he also was a relative, and may have died, or been killed in battle a single man! The wording of the warrants, to whom de- livered, and by whom receipted (especially in St. V. H.'s case) will be all important to us. I can't conceive that Lewis H. the private obtain a 2666 2/3 per se without swearing things not true - for the war & him to their bro. Vincent. Most respectfully &c. &c.  John Bayle
We authorize Mr. Bayle to make every inquiry in this matter and whether large arrears may not still remain due to the heirs of the late Capt. Stephen Ashby of Va. Line. Lewis Fugate

Bell View Ky
Agst 13 th 1843.
Sir
I have been requested to, to say a word in behalf of old Mrs Leah Gray of Hopkins Co Ky. who is an applicant for a pension. & whose papers are on file in your office. I have not seen those papers, nor can I say anything about the merits of the case except that Mrs Gray stands fair in society - is respectably connected & friends of her most respectable acquaintances, have full confidence in the justice of her claim &c. - and urge me to render what aid I can in obtaining it. If any thing is wanting in the proof filed, I should be glad, to be informed

what it is, that I may aid the old lady in supplying it.
Respectfully Yours O.H. Lusk Lynn Bay D
J. L. Edmuns Esqr.
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Pension Office, July 8 th 1843.
Sir,
The additional statement of Leah Gray sworn to before A. Heady, Esq., whose official character and signature should, in each instance, be duly authenticated, has been examined and filed. She now asserts that she was married on 26 th September 1793 upon the authority of a letter from a friend; and it may be that the letter will satisfactorily establish the date. Such however is the approximation of that date to the limitation of the act of 7 July 1838, the Department is constrained to reject parol proof as altogether insufficient to establish it with the necessary certainty. Unless record, or documentary evidence can be adduced, it is unnecessary to endeavor to establish it by any other.
I am very respectfully, Your obedient.
(Signed) J. L. Edwards Commr of Pensions.
John Boyle, Esq. Providence Rhode Island.

Providence p.o. Hopkins Co. May 10th, June 1843.
Genl. S. Edwards Esq. re
Respected Sir
I forwarded to day a number of papers - correctly (I hope) authenticated and well ordered in 5 woodcons, the Clerk's office - also to Ann Trusby, Ill d . M. G., Hon. Z. Casey, endorsed for yourself - I now inclose ample certificates of character of my applicant - Leah Gray, sister to our Rev Senator Andrew Dick, the Dept. to prove marriage. Be pleased to write with all the promptness your multiplied engagements may admit of, to me, or Dr. Green & Boyle, my son at this place.
Most respectfully &c John Boyle

Kentucky
Spencer County Feb 1
Be it remembered that a court held for the county aforesaid, at the Court House in the Town of Madisonville on Monday the 9 th day of Jany 1843. The following order among others was made in the minutes of said court. (Viz)
This day Sarah Gray of this county, Widow of Samuel Gray a Revolutionary Soldier and Pensioner of the United States exhibited subscribed and sworn to in open court her Declaration marked A, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7 th July 1838. entitled "An act granting half pay and pension to certain Widows" which is ordered to be certified.
I Samuel Woodson Clerk of the court in and for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true Copy of an order made in the minutes of said court at its Jany Term (9 th Jany) 1843. And that the annexed paper marked A, at the top, is the said Declaration mentioned in said order.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of Office, at Office in Madisonville Ky on the 10 th day of Jany 1843. and in the 67 th year of the Lord.
Sam Woodson

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 8864
Leah Gray Wid. of Samuel Gray Port Washington
Act: July 11/86, S. Del. Aug. 8, 86
Index:—Vol. A , Page 287
[Arrangement of 1870.]

State of Kentucky { personally appeared Hopkins County St. { before me Lorenzo Dow J. Hopkins G. Orr. a justice of peace of who voluntarily made oath that this applicant for a pension, Leah Gray of S d . County, and State is a person of most unquestionable veracity in matters testimonial and otherwise; given under my hand this 9 th day of January 1843 - R. Headley J.P. Hb.

Stearns Davis Wm. Gool M c Bratney
John Still
Providence Hopkins C o . Ky - As pastor of a Baptist Church here I have known sister Leah Gray, as a female of most unquestionable piety and conscientious in all things for say 10 or 12 years
John Doney

Providence R.I. free St March 17 th .
Mar 29 1843 Ken.
Leah Gray
James L. Edwards Esq re Comm te Dinsions Washington D.C.

J. L. Edwards Esq re
Providence Hopkins Co. Ky. 17 th Dec r 1843
Respected Sir
I forwarded some considerable time ago (say 18 th Jany. 43) - well ordered & authenticated forms for a pension to Leah Gray - widow of pensioner late Ser t Gray and also applications for lands for her on acct. of her late husband's brothers - 2 Officers - & 1 a private - I sent on also forms for a John Worsham here - his wife & children also claim on acct. of 2 Officers - Rich d & W m 2 officers of the Va. line - & 3 rd claiming under the name of William. To all these & others I have never rec d any answer.
I will be much obliged by some account from your records of John Swope, a surgeon, or so mate in the Va. line. In the "Latham & Leonard" list there is no acct. of land opposite his name, as is the case with some others. A number of the names are around here - Repleaded to say also whether Michael Rudolph of our line was ever rec d , and by whom. On consulting with her friends here - I judge it most adviseable to send on a draft in my favour, as Atty in fact for the S t Leah Gray. With hopes of hearing soon (as I know my time of continuing here to be uncertain) I am Most Respectfully Thine
John Boyle

B.
Sep. 30. 1843.
Add evidence etc
A True Letter
Leah Gray Ky
James L. Edwards Esquire -
"Common Pleas"
care of J. S. Morton for E. H.'s seal
Washington -
2 D. C.
addendum

State of Kentucky { Before me, a Justice of peace Hopkins County Ky } in, and for said County and State personally appeared Leah Gray, of said County, and State, and also personally well known to me, as of high credibility, on this the 12th day of September 1843, who being of law full age, and first duly sworn, doth on her oath declare, in addition to her former attestations, that, the first family Bible, in which records of marriages were made, being lost (as she swears) she fortunately has found her daughter's family Bible, with the records quoted into it, which she has produced in my presence. She swears that, after giving the birth of her late husband, Samuel Gray, and her own, the record states "the truth, the whole truth" - when it says - "Hiram Gray (their first born) was born on the 16th day of June 1794"; that she knows as well as she knows her marriage, or even her existence that said Hiram Gray was born in 9 months from her marriage - to a day - (as to speak) - She swears that the certificate at the foot of this record is strictly true, and in her said, first-born, Hiram Gray's own writing, as follows viz: "Set down by H. Gray the ages in the presence of Samuel, and Leah Gray, both alive and present this the 5 day May 1831. Note me -" "Hiram Gray"
She swears that she knows no "record, or documentary evidence" to adduce to the Pension Department - except it would be a certificate of marriage license, and this, for a pension - she is unwilling to forego herself, by fabricating - and she knows her former oath to be true - namely; "that she was not married by license at the high rate of five dollars, but by pre- dication of her own Baptist Minister for 3 separate Lord's days - And further Deponent sayeth not -" Signed Leah Gray
The foregoing declaration on oath was duly made before me, by said Leah Gray, on the day, and year above - Signed - C. D. Orvis { Justice of peace for Hop- kins County, Kentucky

State of Kentucky } I, Samuel Woodson, Clerk of the Hopkins County ss. } County Court of said County, and do hereby certify that S r D Orr Esquire, before whom the above declaration of Leek Gray of this County, and that was made, was then, and is now an acting Justice of the peace, in, and for said Hopkins County, in State of Kentucky, duly authorized, and commis- sioned to administer oaths, and take acknowledgements therein; that his name there written appears to me to be in his usual signature; and that full faith is to be had to all his official acts, as such. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office, and subscribed my name, and quality at Madisonville, the County seat of said Hopkins County, Kentucky on this, the 18 th day of September 1843  signed - { Clerk of the County Court of said Hopkins County, Kentucky } Sam Woodson
By Orlean Bishop DC.
Providence p.o. Hopkins Ky. 11 th Mo. 1843
James L. Edwards Esquire -
Respected Sir - To use the words of the Psalmist "My tongue would cleave to the roof of my mouth, before I would lift up my voice for - My right hand would forget its cunning, before I would set down my name" (as I have done in attestation of your character, did I not know, and believe that in this matter she is acting "in all simplicity, and godly sincerity" Most respectfully & etc. John Boyle

Providence, Hopkins Co. Ky James L. Edwards Esq. 10th of 5th mo. 1843
Respected Sir
I will forward by next mail the case of the widow of John Palmer - which is a plain one. J. L. did receive as I understand it (not being then in Ky. or concerned in it) 5 yrs pension of $80 per annum & the widow, after his death the same - as the records at the Dept. will shew. She then by the "Act of March 1843" comes in for 1 year more - But this of Leah Gray is variant - And would it not appear from the words in this new "Law", or is entitled to an annuity, or pension for the term of 8 years "from the 24th of March 1836" - that Leah Gray would not be limited to the 5 years' half pay of Samuel Gray's $96 per year - amtg. according to my first form transmitted - to $240 - but we take hers as mere as the new Palmer - back to the day of her husband's - S. G.'s death - (which I have forgotten, but her declaration with you will shew) at the rate of $96 per year? I respectfully submit the whole to your better judgment - I forward from Henderson County (contemporaneous to this) the proof of Henry Baldwin - of the marriage of Edward & Drusilla Baldwin, in anticipation of her form to follow - She is totally incapable of attending on C. Court, sedente curia, and will have to depend on an J. P.'s certificate of that inability, which I remember of old was admissible in some of the new forms! Most respectfully W. I submit the

her case by priority might bear an enlargement by the quotation I make from the 2 nd March '30 with sentiments of high respect &c &c EB's was but $40 per annum. John Boyle

Hopkins County Ky 16th Sept 1828
We whose names are hereunto subscribed do certify that we have for several years past been acquainted with Mrs Leah Gray wife of Samuel Gray (She having lived in this County) and ever considered her a lady of correct deportment and exemplary piety we never knew or heard any thing in the least degree derogatory to her character in any manner. whatever
Robert Rhoad
W. Miller
James Clegg
John Hamilton

James L. Edwards Esq re
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Corn t St. Pensioner Washington Feb y 4
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Rev. Dr. [illegible]
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Declaration In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of the "3 d March, 1843," granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the act of July 7 th , 1838.
State of Kentucky } On this day of Hopkins County ss. (1843) personally appeared before me, an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County, and State. Leah Gray — President of said County, and State and per- sonally seen known to me, aged (say) 70 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 "3 d March 1843," granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Samuel Gray, late a pen- sioner - who was a private in the Virginia Conti- nental line, in the war of the revolution, and whose pension amounted to $96 - ninety six dollars _____ per annum; that she has never received as yet any pension from, or under the act of "7 th July 1838" but did use regularly authenticated papers from the County Court of said Hopkins County, Kentucky in time in January, or say February last in order to receive said pension of July 7 th 1838" she further declares that she is still a widow sworn to and subscribed on the day, and year above written before me the
Justice of peace for Hopkins County, Kentucky

State of Kentucky } I know all men by these presents. Hopkins County Set. That I Leah Gray — of said County, and State do hereby nominate John Boyle, and (in his absence) Doctor Green G. Boyle, both of Hopkins, Kentucky aforesaid my true, and lawful Attorneys in fact, in my name to demand, and receive from the United States, whatever pension may be due and owing to me from the late laws of Congress of 3 rd March and of July 7 th 1838 — 1842 nd , and all other acts to do in the premises as if were present to do the same; and other lawful acts under them to appoint for the special purposes herein named hereby m. ratifying all the acts of my said Attorneys, John and Green G. Boyle, lawfully done in the premises; given under my hand and seal this day day of March 1843
L. G. B.
Personally appeared before me the said Leah Gray — and acknowledged the above power of attorney to John, and Green G. Boyle, as her voluntary act, and deed for the purposes therein
Justice of peace for Hopkins Co. Kentucky

In testimony that the within-written Eugenie, whose name appears to the above declaration on oath of Leah Gray, - and also her acknowledg- ment of a Power of Attorney from her late to John and Green J. Boyle - was at the time, and is now an acting Justice of the Peace in, and for Hopkins County, in State of Kentucky, duly commissioned to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments therein; and that this name there written appears to me to be in his usual signature; and that full faith is to be had to all his official acts as such, I have hereunto affixed my seal of office, and subscribed my name, and quieted at Madisonville, the County seat of said Hopkins County, Kentucky this _____ day of 1843
{ Clerk of the County Court of Hopkins County, Kentucky
There must be some mistake - Leah Gray - was signed in her autograph signature & Saml. Gray's name inserted - Most respectfully John Boyle - J. L. Edwards Esq.

Adkins - COUNTY, SS.
BE IT KNOWN, That before me, a justice of the peace in the county aforesaid, personally appeared Samuel Gray and made oath, that he is the identical person named in an original certificate in his possession, of which the following is a copy :
WAR DEPARTMENT, REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I Certify, that in conformity with the Law of the United States of the 18th March, 1818 :
Samuel Gray late a private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List Roll of the Kentucky Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the fourteenth day of September  One Thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Given at the War Office of the United States, this fourteenth day of May  One Thousand eight hundred and nineteen
J. L. Edwards in the absence and on behalf of the Secretary of War
That he is entitled to a pension of Eight Dollars per month, on account of his services to the United States during the Revolutionary War ; that he served in captain Calvin company of infantry in the 6 th regiment, at the time he was he was discharged that he now resides in Adkins County and has resided there for the space of four years past ; and that previous thereto he resided in the State of North Carolina
Sworn and subscribed this 14 th day of May 1819 before me,
Willoughby Ashby
[SEAL.]
[Handwritten mark]

28 th Congl
1. Sess
Leah Gray
Petition
of the widow of Samuel Gray, a soldier of the Revolution, praying a pension
1844 Feb. 7. Referred to the Com: on Pensions.
" " 13. Report advd
" " 20 Agreed to.
S
W. Jennings
W. Lottenden

To The Honorable, the Senate, and House of Reps in Congress assembled &c &c — The memorial of Leah Grey of Providence, Hopkins County, Kentucky respect- fully shews that your Memorialist in the winter of 1842-3 thro' the high commendation of her pastor Elder John Doss (since dead) given in favor of John Bayle — a Bap- tist preacher also — did apply at the pension office Wash- D. C. — and after one or two preliminary letters did state that she was married on the (say) "26 th Sep r 1793: that the poverty of her and her intended did not enable them to pay five dollars for license; — but that she then led  him to Samuel Grey who married by three Lord's days prelate: mother of her own Bap t preacher — giving his name & the name of the Magistrate who married them; that the first reply she received called for license — as the alone ground her success; that, by the direction of John Bayle, her competent Atty in fact, she directly came before Newton Headly Esquire — or Clarence Doss att — (the files of the pension office, to which she refers, & we beg to make her entire plea rest on) and swore, that having already sworn her entire want of proof from license . She was not going to forfeiture herself for a pension; — that in one answer — among the many, that for some 13, or 14 months have been sent — it was positively alleged "she had not inserted" her name in 2 material parts" when at the same time N. Headly Esquire, the Atty. J. Bayle, herself, her daughter Mrs. Leah  Stephenson and her daughter in law could then, if even were also five , prove the contrary — that she went twice to the County Commissioners' Court of Hopkins at a most inconvenient season of that ice-bound winter; — that her brother Andrew self known to W. H. L. Doss — went before Saml. Woodson, Clerk of said County, and swore he was not inside the door at the marriage, (a crowd being (perhaps) there) but waited in an adjacent room to the "marriage supper;" that his said brother was a few years before this, his proof, had been Senator for the Hopkins Ky. district; that his character has been borne testimony to by about 10, or 12 certificates

Mr. G. Menden
amongst whom were Signers N. Headley, L. D. Orr, Abra- ham Wier, brother to her Atty's brother in law. The late Genl. Wm. Russel Wier, who had also been a Senator for said Hopkins District - by John E. Arnold, Atty at Law all on honour - and in some cases, on oath too; that she is a poor widow, with a numerous connection of widow daughters - orphans - and other children, depen- -ding on her for support; that she has been trying to make a living honestly, in "arte obstetrica" - or (less classically) by midwifery; that she has been honoured by the visits of, & the friendship of the Hon. L. Boyd, who well knows her - and all her connections & many gentlemen, whose names are above enumerated; - She further states that (her own family Bible being lost by fire, or otherwise), she fortunately discovered her daughter's Bible - from the family record of which she swore, and sent on - an extract made from it in the presence of Signers L. D. Orr - stating the birth of Simon Grey - her first born - of months to a day after that of her marriage - and humorously expressed by her Atty. "as thus not losing a day - so to speak"; that she was then required to cut out the record, & forward it; that she is now told that "such is the approximation of the "26 th of Sept. 1798" - to the limitation day, the 1 st Jan. 1794" - that the Department felt inclined to make it fatal that her Atty in fact - & also Atty at Law - applied to in Ky - rejected such ground as toto Celo untenable & she appeals to all the Judges & Lawyers in Ky - if it be not unsustainable in law; that she also found that her late husband - as a soldier, had never received his bounty land from the State of Virginia; that her Atty forwarded her forms of proof of not only Samuel Grey's, her husband's Will - but also of his brother James Grey's being equally entitled, as a Biogene Solus , who died of small pox at Point Pleasant , on return from the war - died single , and childless, leaving orally, or nuncu- patively said Samuel the sole heir for waiting on him the

that the only answer, received from "W. H. Richardson Esquire - Secretary of Commission at Richmond Va." that it is "no evidence" returned at her cost of postage - & not a word of what is evidence! - she states that it has been lately certified to her Atty from Washn. City. that several grants for  land has never yet been drawn; that new forms for same - & James Grey's Security land are on the way to Richmond; that she hopes the Hon. Va. member from the District will, in tender consid- eration of her case - aid her in this land, justly due to her - she states that "by the grace of God" she "speaks of no man": still more to think no evil of the "Sec- retary of Commission" - nor of J. L. Edwards Esquire. of whom her Atty has often spoken as one among the best Officers - at the Washington Departments. She trusts that the Fables J. J. Lovithenden, and Lynn Boyd will give this memorial a dignified reception and as in duty bound, she will, with gratitude, remain in their consideration of a poor widow's case - I remain Subscribed on this the 22 d of Feb. 1844 -  Leah Grey living Atty in fact John Bayle
I certify that a form has been sent on by me for ex- tracting the family record of Mrs. L. Grey's daughter in law's "Family Bible" proving, and forwarding it. and that since I received the law of "7 th July 1838" & the rules appended to it, I have this day ready to send on to you a form for Mrs. Grey & children to prove by whom said record was written from under my hand on 22 d of Feb. 1844 - John Bayle, Atty in fact for Leah Grey -

Be pleased to see about Dr. William Baldwin - & the other names I transmitted to you - Letters from you, to suit your own convenience - or papers containing - the details be with me thankfully recd. - I enclose J. L. B. s former approximation letter - Most respectfully J. Boyle
Mr. Noble John May — My Delegation " " " " " " " " " " In his absence — Hon. William From Washington J. G.

State of Kentucky
Hopkins County ss. Set.
Be it remembered that at a Court held for the County aforesaid at the Courthouse in the town of Madisonville on Monday the 11 th day of March 1844 the following entry among others was made in the minutes of said Court viz
"This day Leah Gray of the County widow of Samuel Gray dec d a Revolutionary soldier and pensioner of the United States exhibited submitted and sworn to in open Court her declaration marked (A) in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7 th July 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" which is ordered to be certified accordingly."
I Samuel Woodrow Clerk of the Court for the County of Hopkins aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing is truly transcribed from the minutes of the said Court held as aforesaid and that the paper hereto attached marked (A) is the same declaration mentioned in the said entry.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office the 27 th day of March 1844.
Samuel Woodrow Clerk Hopkins County Ky

(A)
State of Kentucky
Hopkins, County 3 d Set.
On this 11 th day of March 1844 personally appeared before the County Court in and for the County of Hopkins aforesaid Leah Gray a resident of said County aged Seventy three years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows"
That she is the widow of Samuel Gray deceased who was a private in the army of the Revolution
She states that from her advanced age and consequent failure of memory she cannot at this late day pretend to give a particular account of the services of her said husband altho' she did in the lifetime of her said husband with much interest often hear him detail his said services
She states that her said husband at the time of his death and for several several years previous thereto was in the receipt of a pension of ninety six dollars per year from the Government of the United States on account of his said services and for a particular & circumstantial account of said services she begs to refer to the declaration (and the evidence accompanying the same) of her said husband made in order to obtain said pension which are she presumes and believes on file amongst the Archives of Congress or in the War Office of the United States in Washington City. She further declares that she was married to the said Samuel Gray in September 1793 that her said husband the said Samuel Gray died on the 29 th day of May 1835 in the County of Christian in the State of Kentucky that she was not married to him previous to his

leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four at the time above stated. She states that her marriage with the said Samuel Gray took place in Wickes County in the state of North Carolina in the following manner the bands were thrice published by a Clergyman of the vicinity and the marriage rites were afterwards celebrated by Mitchell Ely a justice of the peace in the said County of Wickes she does not believe there was any public record made or kept of the marriage.
She thinks the laws of said state did not at that time require such records to be kept.
She further states that said Samuel Gray made or caused to be made a record of their marriage in their family Bible which Bible was consumed by fire together with their dwelling house in South Carolina many years ago. She further states that after the destruction of said Bible and family record the said Samuel Gray caused another record of their ages and the ages of their children to be made out on a loose piece of paper (they having at that time no proper books in which to make said record) in which last record the date of the marriage was omitted. She states that some short time before the death of her said husband he procured another Bible and caused the ages of himself and herself and the ages of their several children to be transcribed from the said loose piece of paper into said Bible. She states that said Bible is now and has lately been since about the time that the record aforesaid was transcribed into the same in the possession and keeping of their daughter Hannah Clark of Hopkins County Kentucky. She states that she is still a widow having never married.

since the death of said Samuel Gray
She further disclaims any and all other application for a pension except the present
Leah Gray

De 8605
Seah Gray
Ken:
act 7. July 38
Palmer House August 1878 Capt. James

Waverly 5/2 Wapello County Ia
The Dependent of John W. Ireland of the County & State aforesaid aged Eighty years. This Dependent being first truly sworn, deposes and saith that he has been acquainted with Leah Gray of the County and State aforesaid from her earliest infancy, that they lived in the same neighborhood in Wilkes County in the State of North Carolina until this Dependent married when he removed to South Carolina, that he thinks was in the year 1790. That he visited his old neighborhood in North Carolina he thinks in the year 1793 and he then understood that said Leah Gray then Leah Dike was about to be married to Samuel Gray, that he afterwards understood that she did marry said Gray for it was not long after this Dependent returned home to South Carolina from the visit aforesaid before said Samuel and Leah Gray also removed to South Carolina and lived for a time in the neighborhood of this Dependent as Husband & Wife. This Dependent further states said Gray and said Leah continued to live together as Husband & Wife until the death of said Gray and raised a number of children the oldest of whom was called Hiram. He further states that he has been informed that said Leah Gray is an applicant

to the Government of the United States for services on account of the services of his s p Husband in the war of the Revolution and further this Deponent saith not John his Bousland mark
Waverly Mayhew County S p
I Samuel Morton a Justice of the peace in the County of Hampshire do certify that the foregoing deposition of John Bousland was this day taken before me (by Deponent making his mark) and known to be true I further certify that said Bousland has long been known to me and that he is highly and deservedly respectable and a Pious man in the Baptist Church Given under my hand Seal 20 th March 1844
Sam Morton (JB)

Northumberland Esq. Hampshire County Esq.
I Samuel Woodrow Clerk of the Court in and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Samuel Atkinson Esq whose name is subscribed to the foregoing Certificate is here at the time of subscribing the same a justice of the peace in and for said County and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. In attestation whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of Office the 20 th day of March 1844 in the 5 th year of the Commonwealth.
Sam: Woodrow Clerk Hampshire County Ch

State of Kentucky Hopkins County B. Sct.
The deposition of Andrew Sisk a citizen of the county aforesaid aged fifty four years & upwards. The said deponent being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is the brother of Leah Gray of said County who is an applicant for a pension. That the said Leah Gray was married to Samuel Gray in Wilkes County North Carolina some time in the year 1793. He recollects the time of the marriage but being very young cannot recollect the precise date. Though he is confident it was in the year above named (viz 1793) from having frequently seen the entry in their father's family records which is now lost or mislaid. His recollection is strengthened by the fact that the said Samuel Gray was a hired carpenter and in doing some work at his deponent's father's house shortly after the marriage and on a certain occasion the said Gray accidentally let fall a plane which struck deponent on the forehead the scar of which is now plain to be seen. Said deponent further states that said Leah Gray is still the widow of the said Samuel Gray having never married since his death. Also that said Samuel Gray was a revolutionary pensioner of the United States and at his death was a resident of Christian County Kentucky.
Sworn to and subscribed the 26 th day of March 1844
Andrew Sisk
Kentucky Hopkins County B. Sct.
The foregoing deposition of Andrew Sisk was this day taken subscribed and sworn to before me by the said Sisk. I further certify that said deponent is a credible person. Given under my hand the 26 th day of March 1844. Ambrose G. Gordon J.P.

Kentucky Hopkins County Esq
I Samuel Woodrow Clerk of the Court in and for the County aforesaid do certify that Andrew G. Gordon Esq whose name is subscrib- ed to the foregoing Certificate is and was at the time of subscribing the same a Magistrate in that said County duly commissioned and qualified and that the foregoing sig- nature purporting to be his is genuine In attestation whereof I have here- unto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of Office the 26 th day of March 1844 in the 52 nd year of the Commonwealth
Sam: Woodrow clk! Hopkins County ch

Kentucky Hopkins County E. J.
The Deposition of Alexander Simpson now a Citizen of the County aforesaid age forty eight years
This Deponent being first duly sworn deposeth and saith, that Samuel Gray the late Husband of Leah Gray of said County departed this life in the County of Christian in the State of Kentucky aforesaid on the 29 th day of May in the year 1832, that said Samuel Gray was at the time of his death and for many years previous thereof a Resident of the United States and as this Deponent understood living on account of his services in the war of the Revolution
This Deponent further saith that the said Leah Gray is still a widow having never married since the death of her said late Husband And further this Deponent saith not
A Simpson
Kentucky Hopkins County E. J.
I Samuel Morton a Justice of the Peace in & for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing Deposition of Alexander Simpson was this day taken subscribed and sworn to before me I further certify that I have satis- factory evidence that S r Simpson is a com- petent person and of good character Given under my hand the 9 th March 1843. Sam Morton J.P.

Kentucky
Hopkins County Ky
I Samuel Woodson Clerk of the Court in and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Saml. Morton Elgin whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate is a Justice of the peace in said County and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine
In Attestation whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed my Seal of Office the 9 th day of March 1814 in the 39 th year of the Commonwealth
Saml. Woodson Clk Hopkins County Ky

State of Kentucky Hopkins County ss.
Personally appeared before me, Lorenzo Dow Orr, an acting Justice of the peace for said
County, and State, on this, the 8th day of June 1843 Leah Grey - of said County, and State, and per- :sonally well known to me to be of good reputa- :tion, who being first duly sworn, took on her oath declare, that she is the widow of the late Samuel Grey, who was a soldier of the Virginia line on Continental establishment, in the war of the re- :bellion; and for some years previous to his death, a pensioner on the Kentucky roll of agency; she states that she had, by marriage with said Saml. Grey, children, as follows - viz: Hiram Grey alive & single 2. Rebecca Simpson also Grey alive with heirs - 3. Thos. S. Grey alive with heirs - 4. Haimah P. Cook alive with heirs - 5. Esther Gellinead alias Grey dead with 2 heirs - Andrew & Leah Gellinead - 6. Esther Gellinead he, & wife dead with heirs - Hiram Vardeman, Geo. Miller. Milena Adeline, Celia Emeline, & Gilda Grey & heirs 7. Sarah Boo dead with 3 heirs - Martha, Hamilton My, & Samuel C. B. - heir - for that these are the sole, and also heirs of the late pensioner Samuel Grey, her husband.
She further declares that John Grey, a brother of her late husband, was also a private in the said Virginia line, on Continental establishment, and died at Baltimore of the small pox, on his -

return from the Army, leaving no legal issue, having never married; that her late husband Samuel Grey waited on his brother, during his sick- ness; and that he, the said John Grey - did then, and there, by oral declaration, make her said late husband, Samuel, sole heir of all that was coming to him, either in land, or money for his ser- vices to said state of Virginia, during the war of the Revolution - she further declares that her late husband, Samuel Grey, and John Grey, his brother, never did - (to her knowledge, and belief) receive any lands, or arrears of pay from the said state of Virginia during their lives; nor did she, or her children; or any other person, or persons, claiming in, under, or through them either before, or after their deaths receive the same, being totally unacquainted with the form of procedure, and having no competent person to act for them - She states also that the late Samuel had two brothers - who (she has every reason to believe) were captains in said Virgi- nia line, whose names were George, and James Grey - that her brother-in-law James Grey (more especially) never married, nor left any legal issue: and further deponent saith not -
Signed John Grey
Sworn, and subscribed before me on the day, & year + above J. D. Owen Justice of peace for Hopkins County, Kentucky

State of Kentucky } Know all men by these presents Nephins County ss. } That I, Leah Grey, Widow of the late Samuel Grey - of said County & State, do hereby nominate, constitute, and appoint John Boyle, and (in his absence) his son, Doctor Green G. Boyle, both of said County, and State, as my true, trusty, and lawful Attorneys in fact, in my name to demand, and receive what ever lands - (or scrip - the scrip preferable to me) or arrears of pay, that may be still coming, and due to me, on account of my late husband Samuel Grey, or of his late brother John Grey, a private; or of his other two brothers, Captains George, and James Grey - from the Secretary of War of Virginia for services rendered to said State in the War of the Revolution - and other subsi- :tutes under them, the said John, and Green G. Boyle to appoint; and all other acts to do in the premises, as if I myself were personally present to do them hereby ratifying all the acts of my said Attorneys lawfully done in the premises; given under my hand, the this 8 th day of June 1843 - signed Leah Grey
The foregoing power of Attorney of Leah Grey to John, and Green G. Boyle was duly acknowledged before me as her free act, & deed for the purposes therein named this "8 th June 1843" - L. D. Orr { District of peace for Nephins, Kentucky
In testimony that the above written Lorenzo D. Orr - before whom the foregoing declaration & power of Attorney

were made, was then, and is now an acting Justice of the peace for Hopkins, then duly appointed, duly qualified to administer oaths &c; that his name herein written appears to me to be, in his usual sign atme; & that full faith is to be had in all his acts as such. I have herunto affixed my seal, and subscribed my name, & quality at Madison, the 6th seat of said Hopkins Co., this 9th day of June 1843. Signed - By Shacklewood
35 lbs. 10s. paid 23 3/4 as endorsement
The Secretary of State Richmond Virginia
In haste
Respectd Sir. I forwarded forms for the Capt. Rawley Wright. John Winfree, Lewis Moody. Be pleased to say who the Jasper Hughes land has been transferred I was, from the W. Dept. referred to yr office to obtain a list of the state lines officers of Genl. G. A. Clark, & Crockett's Dept., marked who had & had not recd. under the law of (say) "of July 32". Hon. S. W. Gilmer, connected with Dept., thro' the Manager, will thankfully receive it from Austin. Heath for me, I am &c.

State of Kentucky & set. County of Hopkins 3
Personally appeared before the undersigned an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County Robert Sisk, a resident of said County aged sixty eight years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his Oath depose and say: That he was well acquain- ted with Samuel Gray and Leah Sisk in Wilkes County North Carolina and he remembers distinctly well when they were married in said County in the fall of the year seventeen hundred and sixty three He states that the Parents of said Leah Sisk were very much opposed to her marrying the said Samuel Gray and that in consequ- ence of that opposition they were married at the house of a man of the name of William Wilcox in said County He further states that he was also acquainted with the said Gray and his wife in Kentucky that some years ago said Gray died in Christian County Kentucky and that his widow the said Leah Gray now lives in this Hopkins County And further saith not his sworn to & signed by his Robert Sisk making his mark mark before me this November
4th 1845
J. D. Wood J. P.

State of Kentucky } sit. and to wit county of Hopkins }
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above Deponent Robert Sisk and he is an old gentleman of truth and respectability and the foregoing statement is entitled to full faith and credit.
Given under my hand this November the 5th 1845 - F. D. Wood J.P.
State of Kentucky } county of Hopkins }
I Samuel Woodrow clerk of the Hopkins County Court, do certify that F. D. Wood, whose name appears to be subscribed to the foregoing affidavit and certificate is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified according to law and all his official acts, as such, are entitled to full faith and credit and the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names and affixed my seal of Office the 5th day of November 1845.
Sam Woodrow clerk By Orleans Bishop CC