Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1854, Elijah Gray, Mass.

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NUMBER
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Gray, Elijah Anna
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8,047
New York.
Elijah Gray Y
of Bergen in the state of New York who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Brooks of the Mass. line, for the term of three years
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 st of May , 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 nd of Mar 1819 and sent to Mr. Bull, Esq. To Hon. New York
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819 u.m.  $1.03 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Apr 1817 48.00
$127.03
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Elijah Gray

Repealed
469 New York. Anna Gray widow of Elijah Gray
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private.
Massachusetts Line Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March , 1848. 13 3/4  April 1
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 th day of Jan y 1850 and sent to
A. P. Nascall Le Roy, New York
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 29 1848, Page 171 Vol. 1 By  Butk D
Reg d mss 149152

149 15-2
Set Mar. 2/55
May 26/55
Anna Gray Wife of Elijah Gray, P.M. Newburgh, N.Y.
Mar. 1st, 1855
No 19 600
near Poughkeepsie
No 160 ac. Mar. 22/56
N.Y. July 4/56
Alfred G. Knapp Rochester N.Y.
Vol. G. 128. —

Elijah Gray
Claim for Pension
1 st May 1818
Elijah Gray priv 7 Massachusetts Regt
1781 to 1783
1 st May 1818
Granting the
Medal
Admitted

State of New York County of Genesee
ss: On this first day of May, eighteen hundred and eighteen, before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Genesee in the state of New York, personally appeared Elijah Gray aged fifty six years resident in the town of Bergen in the said County of Genesee who being first duly sworn, according to Law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled, "An act to pro- vide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the re- volutionary war." That the said Elijah Gray enlisted at Lanesborough in the state of Mass- achusetts, in seventeen hundred and eighty one some time in the spring, in the Company com- manded by Captain William Mills of the south Regiment of the Massachusetts line that he con- tinued to serve in the said Corps or in the service of the United States until December seventeen hundred and eighty three when he was discharged from service at Connecticut hats in the state of New York that he was in no battles, and in but one skirmish, but was constantly on duty, and that he is in needing circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has a true copy of his discharge from the said service signed by M c Knox, by order of the Commander

Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid.
Elijah Gray Ella Smith
I Ella Smith do hereby certify that the said Elijah Gray produced his said discharge, and that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Elijah Gray did serve in the said revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy, and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken & read before me to the secretary for the depart- ment of war, pursuant to the directions of the above-mentioned act of Congress.
Ella Smith
Attest

Ella Smith
State of New York ss. Simon Cummings. Clerk of the Court County of Greene of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Greene do hereby certify that Ella Smith Esquire before whom the above mentioned Elijah Gray has made his declaration and affirmation in order to obtain the benefit of the late 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" was at the time mentioned in the above decla- ration one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Greene and that the signatures of the said Ella Smith upon the above declaration are in his own proper hand writing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 22 nd day of May 1818
Simon Cummings By Ralph Coffer Dep

State of New York Genesee County ss on this fourth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County personally appeared Daniel Kelsey a person to me known and after being sworn on the holy evangelist of Almighty God deposits & saith that he is well acquainted with Elijah Gray the within applicant and has known him for four years, and that he is not possessed of any real property and is in indigent circumstances & has a large family to support. And having examined the said Elijah Gray touching his application and being satisfied that he is in reduced circumstances and is in need of assistance from his country for support. I certify that it appears to my entire satisfaction that the said Gray is in indigent cir- cumstances and entitled to the benefits of the act of March 18 th 1818 entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war
Sworn and subscribed this 4 th day of January 1819 before me Elijah Hawley Judge Genesee Com. Pleas
Daniel Kelsey Elijah Gray
Genesee County ss I certify and transmit the foregoing to the Hon. Secretary of the department of war and that it appears to my entire satisfaction that the above named Elijah Gray is in indigent circumstan- ces and in need of support. Given under my hand at Ridgeway this 4 th Jany 1819
Elijah Hawley Judge as aforesaid

State of New York Genesee County } ss.
I Simeon Cummings clerk of the county aforesaid do certify that Elijah Hawley was at the date of the above certificate and now is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in said County and that the name subscribed thereto is in his own proper hand writing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County at Batavia this 18 th day of January A.D. 1849
S. Cummings

Elijah Gray
Copy of Inventory
Property 33.00
Debts $148.57
ELG
Van E. Lake Batavia N.Y.
P047
Sep 1899

A T a court of Common Pleas held at the Court-House in the village of Batavia, in and for the county of Genesee, in the State of New-York; on the sixteenth day of June of the term of June 182 0 , being a Court of Record, in pursuance of the 41st article of the Constitution of the state of New-York, which has unlimited jurisdiction, keeps records of its proceedings, and has immemorally exercised the power of fine and imprisonment.
Present, the Hon. John H. Jones  Richard Smith  Isaac Wilson  Moses Hayden Judges.
GENESEE COUNTY, ss. —On this sixteenth day of June 182 0 , personally appeared in open Court, (being a Court of Record,) Elijah Gray aged fifty eight years, resident of the town of Bergen in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows:—
Three years, served in Capt. Mills company in Col. Brooks Regt. of the Massachusetts line was discharged in December 1783 that his declaration was dated on the 1 st of May 1818 and his certificate is numbered 8047
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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 what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed."
Inventory or Schedule
Real Estate, I have none.
Personal Property 1 2 year old heifer
8 sheep
1 10 Gallon Iron Kettle
1 2 do do Pot
1 2 do do Kettle
1 Sheet Iron Tea Kettle
1 frying pan
1 Spider & 1 Skillet
1 pair and-irons
1 Old Shovel & Tongs
2 flat irons
2 Barrels for Meat & flour
3 old dry casks
1 tub & 1 Churn
2 wooden pails
1 Common low chest
1 Common Table

 1 Common low chest  1 Common Table  4 old tin milk pans  6 common plates Earthen  4 do. bowls  6 cups and saucers  1 Sugar bowl & Cream cups  1 Earthen tea pot & Canister  1 Old pewter platter  4 Old pewter plates  3 Tin Basins  6 Common Spoons  6 pewter tea spoons  6 Old knives and forks  1 Large iron flesh fork 
I have a debt due to me from John Bible Curtis $ 6.00 from Mary Berry " " 50.
I am owing debts to the following persons viz) To V. H. Bliss of " " " " $ 81.00 To Nathan Gray " " " " 56.00 To Gustavus Clarke " " " " 10.00 To Mr. Wilcox " " " " 1.00 To John Reed " " " " 2.00 To Mr. Hall " " " " 1.50 $148.50
and the deponent further says his Occupation is a farmer that he is a cripple and not able to do but very little labor that he has a wife named Anna aged forty seven years and five children to support viz - Randall aged 14 years - Sally aged 12 years Elijah aged 10 years Eliza aged 8 years & Anna aged 6 years. That the wearing apparel & bedding for himself and family do not exceed the sum of _____ Dollars in value

State of New York Genesee County - ss. I Simeon Cummings Clerk of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Genesee do hereby Certify that the foregoing Oath (or affirmation) and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Record of said Court; and I do further Certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is thirty three Dollars -
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court on this 28 th day of August 1820 - S. Cummings Clk

Sworn and Subscribed this 10 th day of June 1820
Elijah Gray
Before me S. Cummings Clerk of Genesee Com. Pleas in Open Court
I Simeon Cummings Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Genesee, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath (or affirmation) and the schedule thereto annexed, are truely copied from the record of the said court; and I do further certify that it is the o- pinion of the said court that the total amount in value of property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is
$33.00
Thirty Three dollars and cents
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court, on this Seventeenth day of June 1820.
Clerk of the Court for the county of Genesee.

N 419
Anna Gray wid of Elijah NY
act 29 July 1848
Marrid before 1800 husband died 13 April 49
Anna 79 th p an Mar 13 April 1849
A. P. Hascall Le Roy NY

State of New York Genesee County ss Anna Gray of the town of Le Roy in the said County and state first being duly sworn makes the following statement to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress for widows of certain soldiers of the Revolution that is to say:-
I am the widow of Elijah Gray lately of the said town of Le Roy who died on the 13 th day of April last. I am aged eighty two - The said Elijah Gray was a pensioner of the United States on account of services in the revolutionary war and received a pension at the rate of Ninety Six dollars by the year, that the pension certificate of her late husband is now in her possession and bears date the 22 d day of March 1819 and numbered 8047. That she cannot state the particulars of the service of her said husband deceased but refers to the papers on file in the War office on his application for a pension. That she was married to the said Elijah Gray in the fall of the year 1793 or 1794 at the town of Hounick in the county of Rensselaer in the said state of New York by Joseph Spencer a justice of the peace at the house of Samuel Latham. That they soon after their said marriage removed to the town of Richfield in Otsego county in the said state of New York, from thence to Exeter in said county of Otsego, from thence to Avon in Livingston county in the said state, from Avon to Bergen in Genesee County in said state and from thence to Le Roy in said county where they have resided the principal part of the time for about thirty years last past and resided there at the time of the decease of her said husband -
And I further state that I have caused search to be made in the said town of Hounick for some record evidence of said marriage but could find none, it appearing that the justice had removed to some other state and had left no record of his official acts - and I therefore refer to the affidavit accompanying this my statement for proof of my

said marriage with the said Elijah Gray. That Levi Loatham, Sally Loatham, Eunice Loatham and Samuel Loatham were present at the said marriage and that all of the witnesses deceased or gone to parts unknown except Levi Loatham whose affidavit will be hereto attached, to which she refers. That she has not intermarried since the decease of her said husband. Sworn to and subscribed this 26 th day of May 1849 before me. A. D. Sampkins J. P.                      Anna Gray.
I hereby certify that the above named affiant is personally known to me, and is a credible person and her statement entitled to credit and that she is the widow of Elijah Gray late a pensioner of the United States now deceased as appears from general information and report. A. D. Sampkins, Justice of the peace in and for the County of Genesee
State of New York } Genesee County } ss. I hereby certify that A. D. Sampkins is a Justice of the peace as above and that the foregoing Certificate purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my Seal of Office and Subscribed my name this 21 st day of June A. D. 1849. J. C. Holden Clerk of said County

149,15-2
BOUNTY LAND CLAIM.
Act of March 3, 1855.
Claim of Anna Gray
Widow of Elijah Gray
Revolutionary.
Alfred V. Mads Attorney, Rochester, N. Y.
Steam Press of A. Strong & Co., Rochester, N. Y.

State of New York
County of Genesee
I, Moses Herrick
resident of
Belgium said County
upon my oath declare that the annexed declaration, was signed and acknowledged by Anna Gray
in my presence, and that I believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be, and that ever since the death of Elijah Gray her husband in 1849, she has remained and continued the widow of said Elijah Gray & is now a widow & unmarried. Moses Herrick
Subscribed and Sworn to before me the day and year above written, and I certify that I know the affiant to be a credible person, and that I am not interested in this claim.
D. J. O'Neil
Justice of the Peace
of the United States and who as such pensioner drew the annual sum of Ninety six dollars. That her said husband the aforesaid Elijah Gray served in the Revolutionary war in the Continental Line and was honorably discharged after a service of several years but for a more full and particular history of his said service she refers to the application of said Elijah Gray for his said pension -
She further declares that she is the identical Anna Gray, to whom was issued a pension certificate as the widow of the aforesaid Elijah Gray for his said service, under Act of July 29. 1848. granting to this declarant the annual pension of Sixty Six ($96) dollars payable in the city of Albany N.Y.
She further declares that she was married to said Elijah Gray, deceased in Exeter N.Y. in the summer of 1790, and that her name before her said marriage was Anna Eastonwright and that her said husband died at Leroy N.Y. on the 13 th day of April 1849. For full & complete proof of her said marriage and of the death of her said husband she refers to her application upon which her said pension was granted -

State of New York
Genesee County ss. On this 17 th day of May A. D.
1888. before the undersigned a justice of the peace duly authorized by law to administer oaths within said County personally appeared Anna Gray aged 86 years a resident of Bergen in said County, who being duly sworn deposes and saith: That she is the widow of the identical Elijah Gray, deceased, who was a Revolutionary Soldier and a pensioner of the United States and who as such pensioner drew the annual sum of Ninety six dollars. That her said husband the aforesaid Elijah Gray served in the Revolutionary war in the Continental Line and was honorably discharged after a service of several years but for a more full and particular history of his said service she refers to the application of said Elijah Gray for his said pension -
She further declares that she is the identical Anna Gray, to whom was issued a pension certificate as the widow of the aforesaid Elijah Gray, for his said services, under Act of July 29. 1848. granting to this declarant the annual pension of Ninety Six ($96) dollars payable in the City of Albany N. Y. -
She further declares that she was married to said Elijah Gray, deceased in Exeter N. Y. in the summer of 1790, and that her name before her said marriage was Anna Eastonwright and that her said husband died at Leroy N. Y. on the 13 th day of April 1849. For full & complete proof of her said marriage and of the death of her said husband she refers to her application upon which her said pension was granted -

She further says that ever since her said application for said pension was made and ever since the death of her said husband she has remained and continued the widow of the aforesaid Elijah Gray. and is now a widow & remained.
She applies for Bounty Land under Act of March 3, 1855.
Anna her X Gray mark
attest D. Fullsmile Moses Ferris
Subscribed known to before me the day & year first above written and I certify that I believe from the appearance and statements of the said applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be and that I am not interested in said claim —
D. Fullsmile Justice of the Peace

State of New York
County of Albany } ss.
I, Anna Herrick resident of Bergen in said County upon my oath declare that the annexed declaration, was signed and acknowledged by Anna Gray
in my presence, and that I believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be, and that ever since the death of Elijah Gray her said husband in 1849. She has remained and continued the widow of said Elijah Gray & is now a widow & is unmarried.
Anna Herrick
Subscribed and Sworn to before me the day and year above written, and I certify that I know the affiant to be a credible person, and that I am not interested in this claim.
D. F. Ormell Justice of the Peace.

POWER OF ATTORNEY.
Know all Men by these Presents, That I, Anna Gray of Bergen County of Albany N.Y. do hereby irrevocably make, constitute and appoint Alfred G. Mudge my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Department of the Interior of the United States, the Certificate or Warrant to which I am entitled for my husband's Military services, as mentioned in the foregoing declaration; and for good and sufficient reasons, do hereby revoke and countermand any and all other powers of attorney, or other authority, that may have been given by me for any such purposes, and vest the same solely and irrevocably in my said attorney, said Alfred G. Mudge
Attest, D. F. Merrill Moses Merrill
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, my hand and seal this 17th day of May 185 5 .
Anna  X  Gray mark
STATE OF New York
COUNTY OF Albany ss. On this Twentieth day of May 185 5 , personally appeared before me, D. F. Merrill a Justice of the Peace duly authorized to take acknowledgments in and for the county aforesaid, Anna Gray subscriber to the foregoing, and acknowledged the same to be her act and deed, for the purposes therein described.
D. F. Merrill Justice of the Peace
STATE OF New York
COUNTY OF Albany
M. G. Soper M. G. Soper
I, M. G. Soper Clerk of the County Court in and for the county and State above mentioned, do hereby certify that D. F. Merrill whose genuine signature appears above, is and was at the time of signing the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for the county and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn; that all his official acts as such, are entitled to full faith and credit; and that the aforesaid Court is a Court of Record, having general jurisdiction.
GIVEN under my hand and Seal of Office, at Palaire this 20th day of May A. D. 185 5 .
M. G. Soper Clerk

Sawyer E. B.
BY THE HONOURABLE MAJOR-GENERAL NOX,
Commanding the AMERICAN FORCE on Hudson's River.
Elijah M. ... the South ... Regiment, being enlisted for Three Years, is hereby honourably DISCHARGED from the Service of the United States.
Given in the State of New-York, the 17th Day of
1739
By the General's Command,
W. M. ...
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
J. ...

✓ 19.605
5
Nov 1960

109 N 2
Commissaire of Pensions Washington D.C.

Mr. A. H. 29 July, 48 N.Y.
St. John

Elijah Gray placed on the Revolutionary Pension Roll March 22. 1819 - Susp? - & suspension removed Dec. 2. 1828, - see letters to the Pension Agent and Hon. Phineas L. Tracy H. R.

Per
WIDOW, &c.
File No.
Anna Gray, Widow Elisha Gray, Bris. Rev. War.
Act
July 29, 1848.
Index:—Vol.
2
Page
285
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Department of the Interior Pension Office Official Business Mark #182 Attest Health Commissioner Washington

W 469
Anne Gray N
Settle to A.P. Russell 4 th Oct r 1849
act 24 July 1848

Albany roll Elijah Gray, Allegany Co, NY #96 Wam 5 act 18 March 1828.
Pension Office
Decm 26 th 1849
To what amount he was paid 46.2
Ans: Sep: 4-1848.
M.H.K. -
Information given up to the last settlement of the a/c after

La Faria Mar 5. P.D. 18 Mar 1832
Free
Hon. J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War Washington City

Patavia Memorand. Recd 13 Mar 1851
Free
Hon. J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War Washington City

State of New York
Genesee County } ss
On this fourteenth day of November 1849 personally appeared before me the subscriber Judge of Genesee County Court, Anna Gray a resident of Leroy in the county of Genesee aged Eighty three years who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed the 29 th July 1848, that she is the widow of Elijah Gray who was a soldier in the War of the Revolution and late a Pensioner of the United States on account of service rendered during the Revolutionary War which services have been duly proved and admitted for two years as will appear on reference to papers filed in the War Office. - She further declares that she was married to the said Elijah Gray in the fall of 1791. or 1792. that her husband the aforesaid Elijah Gray died on the 13 th day of April A.D. 1849. that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the second of January eighteen hundred and 49 at the time above stated. She further swears that she is now a widow and that she has never before made any application for a pension except that papers in support of this application were drawn up and forwarded to the Commissioner of Pensions but were deemed insufficient because the declaration was not made before a court of record as by advice from the Pension Office under date October 4 th 1849. - Sworn to & subscribed on the day and year above written before
H. W. Cooper Comty Judge of Genesee County - Anna Gray

LeRoy N.Y. Nov. 19. 1849
James L. Edwards Esq.
Dear Sir. I have procured the statement of Asa Gray for a pension to be taken before our county judge and herewith forward it. On examining the papers on file you will perceive that the service of her late husband is satisfactorily proved as stated in yours of the 4th Oct last. You will also find affidavits showing that no documentary evidence can be found of the marriage but satisfactory parol evidence of that fact.
I trust that on a re-examination of the papers on this application you will have no difficulty in allowing this claim. May I suggest that as this has been a long time on file your attention to it at your earliest convenience will greatly oblige the applicant
Yours Respectfully A. P. Haskell Agent for.

James L. Edwards Esq.
War Department
Washington

The accompanying list of Philip G. Griff firsts only

November 1 1828
This is to certify that the within copy is a true copy of the original as shown to you his misfortunes & if the continuance of his troubles to his sons is satisfactory it would be highly gratifying to all his fellow citizens to find him once again placed on the foundation of establishment that the approval of the reverend Mr. Bliss who is a member of the First Baptist Society & of unclouded reputation will remove all misrepresentations of him on the part of Mr. Gray.  Yours sincerely we remain yours truly Secretary of War
  Samuel Scott  Paul Wathier    L. M. Gates  A. D. Grosmer    Cha. L.  George S. Hesse    P. P. Habbett  J. M. Murphy     J. J. Kalmer     D. H. Herson  

E. Hall Vil. Jan. 11
Wm S. Bradley " "
Colby
John Smith
H. A. Hurd
John Hascall
Oliver Hascall
Amasa Hascall
G. P. Luce
E. H. Carpenter
Theodore Dwight
A. P. Hascall
William Lord
G. H. Sanford
J. C. Almy
Wm Armington
Cephas A. Smith
E. H. Hurd
John Champion
John Hascall
William H. Hurd
William H. Hurd
W. G. Marver
Living Brattle
Rufus Robinson
Jonathan Saron
Ellen Smith
Henry Palmer

Mr. Roy M. S. Stone 22 War Dept James Babson Ligon Secretary of War
Washington City

2 May January 22 1827
Sir
I inclose a number of affidavits respecting the situation of Mr Elijah Gray a revolutionary soldier who was placed on the pension list at the war department May 18 th 1818 and that in November 1820 received information that his name was continued on the pension roll during which term he drew his pension at the rate of $8.00 per month In January 1822 he received a letter to the following purport
Sir In answer to yours of the 11 th ultimo I have to inform you that the payment of Elijah Grays pension has been suspended for further proof in consequence of information having been received at this department that he has secretly and unjustly conveyed part of his property He must make it appear satisfactory to this department that the above mentioned information is incorrect before the payment of his pension can be resumed be signed J. L. Edwards
since which time he has not drawn his pension He is truly poor & needy and as it will appear by the affidavits has not concealed as has been alleged He has been truly unfortunate & I hope that his pension may be resumed together with an arrear for those payments that have been withheld I am confident that his case has been falsely represented to the war department & that he has suffered much in consequence

We would have applied sooner but has been kept in suspense by the agent which he employed & who probably gave you the information above alluded to as he Mr Gray would not pay him a considerable part of what he had received from the War Department if the vouchers or affidavits are not sufficient or the course of application not correct be so good as to inform me for further particulars please call on Mr D. Marvin member of Congress your Obed Servt
Jos Barham Dist. War M tl Shelburn

Batavia N.Y. Feb. 16
Recd Feb 26 1829
McKim
Hon. J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War Washington City

Palatia N. York February 10. 1823
Sir When I wrote you on the subject of Elijah Grays pension I communicated only what I had been informed by reputable persons & Mr George Hosmer has since written me on the subject stating that he knows nothing to impeach Mr Gray in any fraud in the conveyance of his farm, but that he had heard bad reports of his smuggling his property to keep it from Creditors, whether true or false he cannot say. From an enquiry into the business I do believe the farm was conveyed to the Children without any reference to the pension. I learn that Mr Gray came in possession of property by his wife which was secured to her & her Children with which the farm conveyed to Nathan Gray was purchased, and from all the facts which have come to my knowledge I think he divested himself of, at least a life interest by conveying the farm without any reservation in order to secure it to his Children, in preference to having it taken by Creditors -
The whole property conveyed is said to be worth about $2,000 - which is owned by several Children and is consequently a small property for each -
I have met Mr Gray frequently in the course of a year and he always appears to be a poor man, in fact he cannot be said to be comfortably clad - he has no claim on his Children and I think they do not treat him as a Father -
I enclose a Copy of a Deed to Nathan Gray and the affidavits of Nathan & Elijah Gray. Some time last March I mailed an affidavit from

Col. Kelty the Commissioner who took the acknowledgments of the Deed. If you should be satisfied from these statements, as I am, that he ought to receive the pension please address a line to him at this place.
Yours respectfully
Dan. Lake
Hon. J. C. Calhoun Secy of War

Old beaver Feb 5 1819
Recd
The Secretary of State City of Washington District of Columbia
One author
To his Excellency
L. Royce Aug 23, 1819

To His Excellency The Secretary of War
Sir you will please to make returns in the cases of the three applicants for pensions, whose declarations are enclosed to me, living in the town of Le Roy, county of Genesee & State of New York. I acting as their agent
Very respectfully
Yours &c
Myles Burn
July 22 1819

Meredith Kelleff Paint about 10 other recovery cards every page.

State of Kentucky
Gwen County Ky: Meredith Mellogg of the Town of Millersburg in the County of Gwen being duly sworn doth depose & say that she is well acquainted with Elijah Gray of the Town of Eliz- abethtown Ky & has been acquainted with him for about thirty six years & was acquainted with the said Elijah Gray previous to his marriage that the present wife of the said Elijah Gray was also known to the deponent that her said wife previous to her marriage with the said Elijah Gray had a son by the name of Nathan Gray who was also known to the deponent and the deponent further saith that previous to the said marriage, the present wife of the said Elijah Gray was reputed to own fifty acres of land in the Town of Rockfield in the County of Ottayo & State of Kentucky which was acquired from the father of the said Nathan Gray previous to her marriage with the said Elijah Gray Subscribed & sworn this 25th day of May 1829 before me John Bohannon a Commissioner of said County Meredith Mellogg Mark

STATE OF NEW-YORK. GENESEE COUNTY, ss.
I, Ralph Ciffin Clerk of the County of Genesee, do hereby certify, that John B. Skinner Esquire before whom the above  Deed or instrument in writing, was acknowledged  taken Subscribed and was, on the day of the date of the said acknowledgement  Certificate , a Commissioner in and for the county of Genesee, appointed and sworn, and duly authorised by law to take the proof and acknowledgement of Deeds, and discharge of Mortgages, &c. —AND further, that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Commissioner and verily believe, that the signature of John B. Skinner subscribed in the said acknowledgement , is the proper hand writing of the said Commissioner .
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of said county, and subscribed my name, this 28 th day of May A.D. 1827.
Ralph Ciffin Clerk Genesee County.

John F. May - aff'd about the Gray Lumber dispute of property - per all de. etc.

State of New York Genesee County, P. 3
John F. Bliss being duly sworn deposes & saith in reference to the dispositions which Elijah Gray now have made of his property, that he this deponent has been well acquainted with the said Gray for nearly fifteen years last past & has lived near him about one half of said time.
That an article of agreement for a tract of land in the town of Avon then County of Ontario State of New York was sold this deponent by said Elijah in June or July 1813 in the extinguishment of a bona fide debt due & justly owing him by said deponent.
That about twenty nine acres of the land of the said Elijah was shortly after sold to one Matthew Smith as a part of the extinguishment of a large debt due & owing from the said Elijah to the said Smith as this deponent is met from the parties & saw the deed of conveyance and afterwards purchased the same of the said Smith for a valuable consideration.
That shortly after about fifty acres more of the land of the said Elijah was sold to one William Markham as a part of the extinguishment of a large debt due & owing from the said Elijah to the said Markham as this deponent is met from the parties & saw the deed of conveyance and afterwards purchased the same of the said Markham for a valuable consideration.
That this deponent had other claims or demands against the said Elijah of a large amount from the said period of 1813 or 1814 down to about the year 1821 or 1822. That all the property in the possession of the said Elijah & his sons & relatives from about the year 1815 down to the last mentioned period within the knowledge of the deponent was a substantial sum on the town of Avon Genesee County. That it was understood & generally declared during the said period that the said Elijah & his sons & relatives held part of the said farm & actually possessed the said parts of the farm. That this deponent for a long period of time had a claim against the said Elijah & that the said claim was finally extinguished by the said Elijah or his sons or some other person to represent them & that this claim was a long delay. That further that about 10 years ago or the year 1815 this deponent heard it currently reported that

...a part of the farm at the time of its sale to me from a sum of fifty dollars and given as a present from the father of certain children to the mother of the said children which she had before she was married to the said Elijah for her or their benefit. But she and they had an equitable claim on the same as it was then and afterwards frequently reported a certain member of the family bearing the name of Matthew Gray & also a certain daughter of Mrs. Gray whose name was not the children of the said Elijah but children of Mrs. Gray so that it is above all doubt by a man whose name was only then publicly known but the deponent thinks he then had no name as Matthew upon even the most superficial knowledge of the said Elijah and the equitable claims of the said Mrs. Gray in behalf of the said children were frequently urged by the said Elijah during the delay of payment of the interest between the years 1815 & 1822 of the debts of the said Elijah due this deponent as reasons why the said Elijah could not in any arrangement extinguish & pay the claims of this deponent.
And further this deponent is to that about the year 1822 or 1823 the said farm in Bergen was sold by the family of Grays including Matthew who went to New York & said to Cook - that the said family of Grays mostly moved to Michigan - that it was shortly thereafter in public & universally believed (so far as this deponent knows) that one of the members of said family (either father or son) was drowned in a vessel on the river & the vessel was captured or stranded & the large sum of money raised for said farm so sold to said Cook was lost in the water & the young men with difficulty saved with life.
That the family of Grays returned back to Bergen during the next season & the said Elijah lived in a hired place & it was generally known that the most of the property in the said family was exported in mornings to Michigan & on mornings - that the said Elijah appeared to be strictly poor & in some house that appearance - and this deponent well believes that the said Elijah at present is strictly poor & needy & lame & his health may considerably impair & further this deponent will not subscribe to any other than 14 days.
John F. Bliss John Adair

State of New York § Genesee County ss: 3
I Ralph Coffin, Clerk of the County of Genesee, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, do hereby certify, that Joseph Adams, Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavit appears to have been taken, was in the days of the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, acting under the authority of this State; and that the name subscribed thereto is in her own proper hand writing. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court and subscribed my name this Eighth day of August A.D. 1827.
Ralph Coffin Clerk

Batavia New York March 2 d 1822
Mr. Elijah Gray has called on me with the enclosed affidavit of Daniel Kelsey Esq. & wishes me to forward the same. Says he has been injured & protests that he is very poor.
I also enclose a letter from Gustavus Clarke Esq. Post Master at Clarkson New York in this County. As it seems, has doubts of his (Grays) sale or transfer to his son, being a bonafide Sale, & it is not pretended that there was any valuable consideration given. Mr. Gray informs me the farm was not with property belonging to his wife -
I am wholly unacquainted with their family concerns, and made a representation only of what I had been informed from a credible source - It appears then by the enclosed deposition that the Deed is dated 5. of February 1818 and acknowledged 18. August same year - I refer you to George Hotchkiss Esq. of Avon, Ontario Co. N.Y. who is well acquainted with Mr. Grays dealings for several years past, and from whom I rec d the greater part of what I communicated in my former letter on this subject of this claim -
Hon. J. C. Calhoun Secy. of War.
Yours very respectfully Sam. Lake

Genesee County ss Be it Remembered that on the twenty- third day of February in the year of our Lord 1822 before me came Ella Smith Esquire one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County came Daniel Kelsey of Bergen in the said County to to me personally known and after being duly sworn deposeth and saith that same time in the month of February in the year 1818 Nathan Gray of Bergen in the aforesaid County called on him the said Daniel Kelsey to take the ack- nowledgment of a Deed Executed by Elijah Gray to the said Nathan Gray with an Endorsement of Anna Gray the wife of the said Elijah Gray in full of her dower which at that time was not taken an account of its not being convenient for the said Daniel Kelsey to an account of other business and that on the 18 th day of August 1818 the said Daniel Kelsey further saith he took the acknowledgment of the said Deed as a Commissioner the said Deed bearing date the 5 th day of February 1818 and covering the Farm known by the Barber Farm and further saith not
Sworn and Subscribed Daniel Kelsey Then 23 rd Day of Feby 1822 before me Ella Smith Commissioner

W. Shulman University of Letter

Dear Sir
Permit me again to trouble you on the subject of the pension of M c Eljick Gray late a petitioner for a removal of his pay as a soldier of the revolution any war I believe that satisfactory affida- vits will be forwarded to your office to satisfy you that he has been honest in the disposal of his property I believe him to be a man of truth & integrity & in indigent circumstances with the infirmities of old age together with the effect of losing the use of his foot renders him a fit subject for the bounties of his country Nathan Gray is a poor man & labours by the month for a livelihood I am yours &c Le Roy May 28 th 1827 — M c Eljick Gray Secretary of War

Sam. Lake Esq.
Clarkson Feb 26, 1822
Dear Sir—
M c Elijah Gray calls on you for the purpose of making the necessary arrangements to have his pension payments resumed — On the subject of his having conveyed away his property for the purpose of bringing himself within the Pension Law, I presume it is not the case — I would not undertake to say that the conveyance of his land to his son was intended as a bonafide sale at the time — but it was done before the pension law was passed — And I have no idea that he would ever come again in possession of the land under any circumstances whatever —
I wrote you some time since on the subject of Curtis Smith and Alexander Porter — have you heard any thing on the subject of their pensions?
In haste
Yrs. very truly
G. Clark

Le Ray 23 June 1889
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Sir Sir.
I shall enclose herewith papers on application of Anna Gray of this place for a pension. And trust that on examination the proofs will be found satisfactory.
Yours Respectfully A. P. Hascal Pension Agent
Le Ray Genesee County, N. Y.

Rec d Dec. 2. 1828.
J. L. Edwards Esq
The Papers in the case of Elizabeth Gray, who Open Vend was suspended in 1822. praying that the suspension may be re- moved.
Write refut n to Mr. Gray at Cap d L.

Washington Dec 2. 1828
J L Edwards Esq
Sir -
I request your immediate attention to the case of Elyah Gray a Soldier of the Revolution and formerly a pensioner under the law of 1818 but who at the institution of strong personal enemies was stricken from the list in 1822.
I would refer you to your own letter of Jan. 11. 1822 announcing the fact. Also to yours of Feb. 1, 1827 stating the action to restore Gray to the pension list.
I personally know Gray. He is poor & unfriended wholly without the means of life and his extreme poverty justly entitles him to the relief of his country -
I think when you advised the suspension of his pension you would not have adverted to the circumstance that his lands were sold previous to the passage of the act of 1818. This charge would not have been a fraud contemplated by the act.
But the papers enclosed & produced since Feb. 1. 1827 when you stated that Gray's application was insufficient to remove the suspension. I think are fully sufficient to establish the fact that the lands held in its name at the applicant was in truth held in trust for Anne Gray & her illegitimate children born before marriage and that Elyah Gray received the deed in his own name & executed the mortgage hereof at the time Nathan Gray was a minor.

I have not time, and do I deem it necessary to refer to each particular paper, but I recommend them to your particular perusal - I personally know that Gray is front , bold , inform & meritorious & equitably entitled to the appreciation of his his country - I also know that a personal quarrel and not public good was the moving cause why there was a resolu- tion against his claim -
Please to let me know the result
Respectfully yours
J. S. Gray

County Clerk Certificate of Ownership and Plan of Farm Elijah Gray & wife to Matthew Gray

I Ralph Coffin, Clerk of the County of Genesee County in the State of New York, do hereby certify that a certain Deed of a piece of land situate lying and being in the County of Genesee of "one hundred and fifty five acres and six hundredths of one acre" is dated the fifth day of February One thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen, and Recorded in Liber 17. of Deeds at page 14 on the 14 th February 1823 at 2 o'clock P.M. the said deed is executed by Elijah Gray and Anna his wife to Nathan Gray -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the said County at Batavia set my hand this 24 th day of May 1827.
Ralph Coffin Clerk

Bergen Feb. 20 1822
This is to certify that Daniel Kolb, of Bergen, is a man of candor and truth, likewise a man of good morals, & we the undersigned consider him a useful man in society.
Wharton Southworth
Wm Buel
Wm Bulb
J. G. Gifford Cal
Nathan Davis
James Munger.

August 2nd of the month of August 1892

Jeremiah Comstock to Anna Gray. Deed,
Ontario ss. Receipt
for record 19. May 1811 at 2. O'clock P.M. and recorded in Lib. 17 of de- eds at fol. 117.. and ex- amined. James Mower Esq.

State of New York Ontario County ss Be it remembered that on the eighteenth day of May one thousand eight hundred and Twelve Before me John Griffin an of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Said County Came Jeremiah Canstock and Sarah Canstock his wife in Granville and the Said Jeremiah Did Acknowledge the Execution of the within Indenture and the Said Sarah being by me Examined Apart from her Said Husband Did Also Acknowledge that She Executed the Same as her free act and deed without any fear or Compulsion from her Said Husband and Nathan Smith whom I know having made Oath that he knew the within Granville to be the Same Person subscribing therein let the Same be Recorded
John Griffin

This Indenture made the Seventh Day of May in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and Twelve Between Jeremiah Comstock of the Town of Avon in the County of Ontario and State of New York of the first part and Anna Gray of the Town of Avon in the County of Ontario and State aforesaid of the second part Witnesseth that the said party of the first part for and in consideration of the sum of Eighteen Hundred Dollars to him in hand paid by the said party of the second part the receipt whereof is hereby confessed and acknowledged hath granted Bargained, Sold, remised, released, alined and confirmed, and by these presents doth grant bargain, sell, remise, release, aline and confirm unto the said party of the second and to his heirs and assigns for ever the following described Lot or parcel of Land, Lying and Being in township Number ten in the Seventh range now included in the town of Avon in the County of Ontario and State of New York, to wit, Sixty Acres Lying in the South east corner of Lot No. Thirty two to be bounded on the East & South by the Lines of said Lot and on the west by a parcel of fifty acres sold by James Wadsworth to T. Cartwright and on the North by a Line parallel with the South Line of said Lot Number thirty two
Together with all & singular the hereditaments & appurtenances therein belonging or in any wise appertaining and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues and Profits thereof & all the estate, right, title, intrest, Claim & demand of the said party of the first part either in Law or equity of or in the above Bargained premises with the with the said hereditaments & appurtenances, to have & to hold the Granted Bargained & described premises to the said party of the second part his heirs & assigns the sole & only proper use, Benefit & behoof of the said party of the second part his heirs & assigns for ever
And the said party of the first part for himself, his heirs Executors & administrators doth Covenant grant bargain & agree to & with the said party of the second part his heirs & assigns that at the time of the ensealing & delivery of these presents he is well Seised of the premises above Bargained as of a good Sure perfect absolute & indefeasible estate of inheritance in the Law in fee Simple & that the above Bargained premises in the quiet & peaceable possession of the said party of the second part his heirs & assigns Against all & every person or persons Lawfully claiming or to claim the whole or any part thereof will forever warrant & defend
In witness whereof the party of the first part hath hereunto set his hand & Seal The Day and Year first above mentioned Signed Sealed and Delivered in presence of Thos Cartwright William Gray William Smith
Jeremiah Comstock Sarah Comstock

William S. Hosmer Certifies that he has farm in Bergen in behalf of William May de Lach Gage the said farm is now sold to William

State of New York
Surreyton County
William B Hosmer of Aron in said county being duly sworn deponeth and saith that he sold a farm to Elijah Gray located in Bergen in Genesee county the Deed of said farm according to the best of this deponant recollection was executed in the year AD 1817 and that the principal part of the payment for said farm was made in notes executed by one Horatio Pearson to one Thomas Hanna and that the balance of about two hundred dollars was secured by Bond and Mortgage on said farm from Elijah Gray and that said contract between the deponant and Elijah Gray was made at the request & by the advice of Nathan Gray and according to the best of his recollection the said Elijah Gray requested the Deed of said farm to be executed to the said Nathan Gray but this deponant understanding that the said Nathan Gray was not of age did not consider the Bond and Mortgage good security from a Minor.
William B Hosmer
Sworn and subscribed
to before me this 8 th day
of November 1828.
J. M. Beach Justice of
State of New York & Thomas Hanna Ontario County being duly sworn says that he is now to a certain contract made by Nathan Gray the year 1817 that Thomas Hanna bought that farm of Nathan Gray which has been stated Elijah Gray sold to me likewise the same Property that Thomas Hanna bought of Nathan Gray purchased a farm in Bergen Genesee Co Feb 9-1823 Thomas Hanna

State of New York } I certify that the within affidavit Livingston County } Let Beecher whose signature appears on the foregoing was at the time of signing the within affidavit was a Justice of the Peace Dated Harnett this day 1898
State of New York Livingston County } I Levi Avery Clerk of the Court of the said county do hereby certify that Lewis W Beecher Esq. before whom the within affidavits were sworn is a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county duly authorized to administer oaths - In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said court this tenth day of November in the year 1898 Levi Avery Clerk

State of New York Genesee County ss: I Chauncy L. Sheldon Clerk of the County of Genesee and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original deed now on Record in my Office as Clerk of the Court aforesaid - C. L. Sheldon Clerk
D. R. Offender
State of New York Genesee County ss. Nathan Gray being by me duly sworn doth on his oath say that the within described premises was conveyed to him by Elijah Gray his Father on the date within mentioned for a bonafide consider- -ation - That the farm was purchased with property belonging to his Children, and that he the Deponent has since deeded a portion to one of the heirs and is and is accountable to the other heirs when they arrive at a proper age to receive deeds, that the conveyance was made to the Deponent by the said Elijah Gray in pursuance of an agreement made by him some years ago, when the property with which he paid for said farm came into his hands and that the said Elijah Gray has not been the owner of any lands since the date of the within Deed, to his knowledge, that he did not receive the consideration therein expressed at the time of executing the said Deed, or since that time, as the farm was not his property altho he took a Deed in his own name. That the conveyance was made without any reference to the pension laws, and before the knowledge of the laws came to this deponent Sworn and Subscribed the 14 th of February 1823 Before me. Ralph Tiffey Commissioner and Nathan Gray

Grenier County ss. Elijah Gray being by me duly sworn doth on his oath say that the facts stated in the foregoing affidavit are true as therein stated - that he does not possess any property to a greater amount than he did at the time of making his application for a continuance of his pension, to the Court in this County. That he is now wholly dependant on his Children for support, and has no claims on them other than the claims of kindred - That in the year 1817 he had property in possession to the amount of two thousand dollars, but that he owed debts to nearly or quite the amount, and that the times had so pressed upon him that a considerable part of the same was sold at public auction, and was otherwise disposed of to satisfy debts, so that when the laws granting relief to the soldiers of the revolution was passed, he was poor and claimed the benefit, and is still entitled to the same -
Elijah Gray
Sworn & Subscribed the 14 th of February 1823 Before me Ralph Coffin Commission under act of 1818
I also certify the Deponents to be credible persons, from testimony of witnesses with whom I am acquainted - Ralph Coffin Clerk

This Indenture made the fifth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen between Elijah Gray of Bergen in the County of Genesee and State of New York of the first part and Nathan Gray of the same place of the second part, witnesseth that the said party of the first part for and in consideration of the sum of three thousand dollars to him in hand paid by the said party of the second part the receipt whereof is hereby confessed and acknowledged hath granted bargained sold remised released aliened and confirmed and by these presents doth grant bargain sell remise release alien and confirm unto the said party of the second part and to his heirs and assigns forever all that certain tract or parcel of land
situated lying and being in the County of Genesee and State aforesaid being part of a certain large tract of Land known by the name of the triangular tract and on a map thereof made by Richard M c Stoddard filed in the clerks office in the said County of Genesee distinguished as lot number ten in the Eighth section of town number two beginning at the south west corner of the said lot at a post and running thence north twenty chains and thirty links to a post thence east seventy one chains and fifty links to a post thence south one degree East twenty chains to a post thence west seventy three chains and nineteen links to the place of beginning, containing one hundred and forty five acres and seventy six hundredths of an acre being the same Land purchased by William Hoemer at public auction of William Sheldon Sheriff of Genesee on the twenty fifth day of June one thousand eight hundred and seventeen as reference to the Sheriffs Deed executed that day will fully appear. —
(Together with all and singular the Hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, and the reversion and reversions remainder and remainders rents issues and profits thereof, and all the Estate right title interest claims and demand whatsoever of the said party of the first part either in law or equity of in and to the above bargained premises with the said hereditaments and appurtenances — To have and to hold the said premises above described to the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns, to the sole and only proper use benefit and behoof of the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns forever, and the said party of the first part for himself his heirs and assigns executors and administrators doth covenant grant bargain and agree to and with the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns, that at the time of the sealing and delivery of these presents he is well seised of the premises above described

of the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns forever, and the said party of the first part for himself his heirs and assigns executors and administrators doth covenant grant bargain and agree to and with the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns, that at the time of the ensealing and delivery of these presents, he is well seized of the premises above conveyed as of a good sure perfect absolute and indefeasible estate of inheritance in the law in fee simple and that the above bargained premises in the quiet and peaceable possession of the said party of the second part, his heirs and assigns against all and every person or persons lawfully claiming or to claim the whole or any part thereof he will forever warrant and defend -
In witness whereof the party of the first part hath hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year first above written -
Elijah Gray L.S.
Signed sealed and delivered in presence of James Gray - William Gray
In consideration of one dollar paid to my full satisfaction by Nathaw Gray named witness I do hereby release and quit claim to the said Nathaw Gray, all and singular my right of dower or other estate of, in and to the within described premises - In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this fifth day of February 1818. -
Anna Gray L.S.
In presence of Eunice Gray -
State of New York Genesee County S. Be it remembered that on the eighteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me Daniel Kelsey one of the commissioners of the said County, for acknowledging Deeds &c. came Elijah Gray and Anna Gray the grantors of this Indenture to me personally known, and the said Elijah did acknowledge the execution of the within Indenture, and the said Anna his wife being examined by me apart from her said Husband did also acknowledge that she executed the same as her free act and deed without any fear or compulsion from her said Husband. Therefore I allow the same to be recorded -
Daniel Kelsey Commissioner

Wm Sheldon being duly sworn deponeth & saith that he is a physician & surgeon in the Town of Litchfield County of Genesee State of New York & that he has been acquainted with Elijah Gray & that he has concluded him a person unable to labor from the infirmities of old age & a rheumatic affection of his right leg & that he was called to visit him at the house of Israel Rathbun on or about the 10th of June last & found his foot severely injured by the falling of a beam of a barn & that in his opinion it will disable him for life further the deponent saith not
January 18th 1827 Wm Sheldon
Subscribed and sworn
This 18th day of January 1827
before me — Jacob Bartow
Commissioner
State of New York § Genesee County ss § I Ralph Coffin Clerk of the County of Genesee do hereby Certify that Jacob Bartow before whom the foregoing Affidavit appears to have been made was on the day of the date thereof a Justice of the peace in and for said County Acting under the Authority of this State and that the name subscribed to the same are in his own proper hand writing — In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Affixed the Seal of said County and subscribed my name this 20th day of January A.D. 1827
R Coffin CLK

Elijah Gray being duly sworn deponeth and saith that he was in 1818 placed on the pension list as a soldier of the revolution & that he continued to draw the amount of eight Dollars per month until March 1821 when from the representation of one Samuel Lake to the war department that he had disposed of his property to his sons for the purpose of drawing his pension it was suspended for further proof. The deponent further saith that he has never disposed of any property for that purpose to any person or persons as represented & that the informa- -tion forwarded to the war department was just & true. The deponent further saith that he has for a long time been unable to labour in consequence of a rheumatic affection of his right leg & that on the 10th day of last June while assisting Israel Rothburn to raise a barn the bent fell & caught his foot between two pieces of timber & entirely disabled him so that he will be incapable with both legs for life in all probability. Further the deponent saith not
Dated January 18 th 1827 Elijah Gray Subscribed and sworn this 18th day of January 1827 before me Jacob Barton Comm. P.

Israel Rathbun of Litchfield County State of New York being duly sworn deponeth & saith that on or about the 10 th of June last he was raising a barn & that one of the bents fell & caught the foot of Mr Rajah Gray between two pieces of timber & bruised it in a shocking manner & that the deponent is of opinion that he must be a cripple for life further the deponent saith not
Dated January 18 th 1827
Subscribed and sworn this 18 th day of January 1827. Before Me
Israel Rathbun
Jacob Danton Comm r

In the Matter of Elijah Gray a pensioner
Affidavit
Shewing the situation of property & why he left Land of Gain

State of New York } Genesee County ss }
Elijah Gray being duly sworn deposed and says that this deponent was a revolutionary pensioner for eight dollars per month and continued to receive the same until January 11 th 1822 at which time this deponent received information that the payment of his pension was suspended in consequence of information having been given to the War department that he had secretly or improperly conveyed away a part of his property - This depo- nent further says that at the time the pension act was passed this deponent was not possessed of any property except what was inventoried & filed in the war office, and that this deponent did not convey away any property with a view of obtaining the benefit of the pension act - And further this deponent says that a farm or lot of land in the town of Avon belonged to and was owned by Nathan Gray who had a deed of the same in the year eighteen hundred & seventeen, and the said Nathan Gray sold the same to one Thomas Hanna stock certain notes in payment Afterwards the said deponent by the request of the said Nathan Gray purchased a farm in the town of Bergen in the County of Genesee and turned out the said notes received of the said Hanna in payment for the farm in Avon as a part payment for the farm purchased in Bergen - This deponent took a deed of the said farm in Bergen, in this deponent's name because the grantor William T. Hosmer refused to give a deed to the said Nathan Gray on account of his Nonage and this deponent gave his bond & mortgage to secure the payment of the balance of the purchase money for the said farm in Bergen

for the same reason, that the Grantor would not take the said security from the said Nathan Gray on account of his Non Age - Which said Bond & Mortgage was to secure the payment of two hundred Dollars, Afterwards the said Nathan Gray paid a debt which this deponent owed to John F. Bliss to the amount of the said Bond & Mortgage in Consideration of which this deponent on the fifth day of February Eighteen hundred & eighteen conveyed the said farm in Bergen by deed to the said Nathan Gray, this said deponent having previously satisfied & discharged the said Bond & Mortgage - and further this deponent saith not.
Sworn & subscribed this Eleventh day of November A.D. 1828
Elijah Gray
before me. William Lord J.P.
State of New York & I Ralph Joffin Clerk of the County of Genesee and Clerk of the Genesee County ss
Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that William Lord before whom the foregoing affidavit appear to have been made was on the day of the date thereof a Justice of the peace in and for said County acting under the authority of this State and that the name subscribed to the same is in his own proper hand writing - In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the said County and subscribed my name this 11 th day of November A.D. 1828 Ralph Joffin Clerk

State of New York } Albany County ss } Levi Latham of Coeymans in the said County being duly sworn deposes and says that he resided for some years in the county of Rensselaer in the said state and in the town of Hoosick. That when this deponent was about eleven years of age and in the year 1794 or thereabouts a marriage was performed by Joseph Spencer then of the said town of Hoosick and a justice of the peace of said town when Elijah Gray was married to Anna Cartwright both known to me this deponent and that after their said marriage they continued to reside in the said town of Hoosick for a year or two and then removed to Otsego County in said state and several years afterwards removed to the western part of the state of New York then known as the Genesee County. That there were others present at said marriage beside this deponent but the particulars deponent cannot now recollect. That the ceremony was performed in the house of this deponent's father who is now deceased. That said parties have always continued to cohabit as husband & wife so far as this deponent has had any knowledge of them or information and this deponent has been heretofore informed that the said Elijah Gray has received a pension from the United States for services in the revolutionary war - Subscribed & sworn this 19 th day of May 1849, before me G. H. Jenkins Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the the above named deponent Levi Latham and that he is a credible person and his statement entitled to credit G. H. Jenkins Justice of the Peace
State of New York } Albany County ss } I Martin Butt, clerk of said County do hereby certify that G. H. Jenkins whose name is attached to the above certificate and before whom the above affi- davit was taken, was at the date of the same of good credit. H. L. Jenkins Justice of the Peace

fidavit a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and duly authorized to take the same, and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and verily believe that his name signed to the said affidavit and certificate is his genu- ine signature
I testimony Whereof I have here- unto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said County This 21st day of June 1849 Martin Butts clerk

State of New York,
Rensselaer County ss. I Ambrose H. Sheldon Clerk of the County of Rensselaer. Do hereby certify that on examination of the Records remaining in this office, I find no record of the official acts of Joseph Spencer who was a Justice of the Peace of the Town of Hoosick in said County between the years 1790 & 1800. remaining therein.
In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my name & affixed the seal of said County this Seventh day of May 1849.
A. H. Sheldon Clerk

State of New York Genesee County ss)
Elijah Gray of the town of Le Roy in the County of Genesee and state of New York being duly sworn deposes and says, that he is a son of Elijah Gray late of Le Roy aforesaid deceased of the age of forty years - that Elijah Gray his said father received a pension from the United States as a revolutionary pensioner for about thirty years to the best of his recollection and belief, that he died at Le Roy aforesaid on the thirteenth day of April last past - That Anna Gray the Mother of this deponent, is an applicant for a pension as the widow of the said Elijah Gray deceased as this deponent has been informed and as her agent and at her instance and request he went to the town of Hooick in the county of Rensselaer in the said state of New York, and made diligent search and inquiry for some record evidence of the marriage of the said Elijah Gray and Anna Gray, and that he could find no such evidence, That he ascertained, that Joseph Spencer a justice of the peace, who was reported to be the person who performed the marriage ceremony of said parties, had removed to the state of Ohio twenty or thirty years ago, and that his place of residence was not known, and that said Spencer had left no minutes or record of his acts as justice of the peace at the said town of Hooick or elsewhere in this state as could be found or ascertained, And that this deponent learned on inquiry at the said town of Hooick that it was reported and believed then that the marriage of said parties took place at the house of Samuel Southam and that members of the Southam family were present at the time.
Subscribed & sworn to before
Elijah Gray
On this 4 th day of June 1849
A. D. Sampkins, J. P.
A justice of the Peace in & for said County
I certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Elijah Gray and that he is a person of credibility and his statement entitled to credit.
A. D. Sampkins
Justice of the Peace

State of New York Genesee County, ss Nathan Gray being duly sworn deponeth and saith that he does not hold any property for the use and benefit of Elijah Gray his Father nor never did that he might become a pensioner under the Law of the United States and further this deponent saith not Exhibit A signed and sworn this first Day of November in the year of our Lord 1822 before me — David Potter J.P.
State of New York Pencee County ss James Gray being duly sworn deposes and saith that he does not hold any property for the use and benefit of Elijah Gray his father nor never did that he might become a pensioner under the Law of the United States. and further this deponent saith not Exhibit A Signed and sworn this first Day of December in the year of our Lord 1822 before me David Potter S.S.

State of New York Genesee County ss I Ralph Offin Clerk of the County of Genesee do hereby certify that David Potter before whom the within Affidavit appears to have been made was on the day of the date thereof a Section of the Plea in and in said County acting under the Authority of this state and that the name subscribed to the same is in his own proper hand writing — In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Affixed the seal of said County And subscribed my name this 20 th Day of January A D . 1827
R Offin Clerk