Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13221, Samuel Gray, New York

SERVICE
New York
Gray, Samuel
NUMBER
S13221
CONTENTS
boarded

See letter to J. M. ? O'Callaghan, P. A. Gt. ? May 31, 1842 ?
3728
New York
Samuel Gray, deceased, of Montgomery in the State of New York, who was a St. Capt' Adjt in the Co. 1st, commanded by Captain Killenbach of the Regt, commanded by Col. Block in the New York line for 14 months Adjt of Regt $53.33 18 " Captain 360 $413.33
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 413 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831, (ending 18 March 1832, the day of his death)
Certificate of Pension issued the 31 day of May 1842 and sent to J. W. Benedict Esq. Ephratah, N.Y.
Arrears to the 14th of March 1832. 413.33 Semi-annual allowance ending 18 March 1832 } 16.45
$429.78
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836 } 2 Sections
Recorded by Theo. S. Meads Clerk, Book 6. Vol. 3. Page 15
and is payable to Andrew S. Gray son of Saml Gray deceased

John Gray & others affidavit

State of New York Montgomery County } ss
On this 10 th day of March 1841 personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Montgomery now sitting John Gray, Andrew S. Gray, William Gray, and Catherine Snell (wife of William Snell) Residents of the town of Palatine in said County who being duly sworn do depose and swear that they together with Nicholas Gray, Daniel S. Gray and Jacob Gray of Erie County State of Pennsylvania and Samuel Gray and Mary Loucks (wife of George Loucks) of Jefferson County State of New York are all and the only Children of Samuel Gray late of Palatine in said County of Montgomery deceased. That they have reason to believe that their father the said Samuel Gray served two years and upwards in the grade of a Commissioned officer in the Militia of the State of New York in Colonel Jacob Klock's Regiment and in the Regular Service of the United States during the war of the Revolution as will more fully appear by reference to records in the War Department of the United States in the Comptroller's office of the State of New York and the Attestation of surviving Witnesses herewith accompanying. That their father the said Samuel Gray died on the 19 th day of March 1832 and without having applied for or received the Compensation to which he would have been entitled under the act of Congress passed 7 th June 1832. That they therefore in accordance with the provisions of said act and in connection with the aforesaid Samuel Gray, Nicholas Gray, Daniel S. Gray, Jacob Gray and Mary Loucks and Adam Gray hereby make Application for the Amount that would have been due their father the said Samuel Gray, viz from the 4 th day of March 1831 to the 19 th day of March 1832 on which day he died.
State the words "Adam Gray of Erie
Samuel S. Gray
County New York" interlined before execution
William Gray
John Gray
Debook will, as to Catherine Snell,
Catherine Snell
Subscribed & sworn March 10 th 1841 before me H. Cook
Clerk of the County of Montgomery
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before the said Court and the Court declare that they have full confidence in the declarations of the said John Gray, Andrew S. Gray, William Gray and Catherine Snell (wife of William Snell) and believe the facts related by them in their affidavit above written are true and correct. In witness whereof I, Henry Cook, Clerk of the said Court have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court.
H. Cook Clerk of Montgomery County

State of Illinois } County of Kane }
On this 11 th day of September 1840 personally appeared in open Court being a court of record in the County of Kane and State of Illinois Nicholas Gray, Daniel S. Gray and Jacob Gray all of the County and State aforesaid who being duly sworn doth depose and swear that they together with Samuel Gray, Adam Gray, John Gray, Andrew Gray, Mary Loucks (wife of George Loucks), William Gray and Catharine Snell (wife of William Snell) all of the State of New York are all and the only children of Samuel Gray late of Palatine in the County of Montgomery and State of New York deceased, that they have good reason to believe that their father the said Samuel Gray served at least two years in the grade of an officer during the Revolutionary War as will more fully appear by reference to the records in the War Department of the United States and the Comptroller's office of the State of New York and the evidence in addition thereto, to be procured in the State of New York, that their father the said Samuel Gray died on the day of March 1832 and as they are advised and verily believe without having applied for or received that compensation to which he was entitled by the act of Congress passed 7 th June 1832, and in fact he could not have done so having died previous to its passage. They therefore in accordance with the provisions of said act of June 7 th 1832 and in connection with the aforementioned Samuel, Adam, Andrew, William, Mary and Catharine hereby make application for the amount that would have been due their father the said Samuel Gray, viz from the 4 th day of March 1831 until the day of March 1832 on which day he died.
garab gray Nicholas Gray Daniel S. Gray
State of Illinois } Kane County }
In the Circuit Court of said county at the September Term A.D. 1840. The above named Jacob Gray, Nicholas Gray and Daniel S. Gray personally appeared before the undersigned Judge in open court and in my presence signed the foregoing affidavit and after being by me in open court duly sworn they severally depose and swear that the matters and things in said affidavit contained are true to the best of their knowledge and belief. Given under my hand this 11 th day of September A.D. 1840.
Thomas Ford judge

State of Ohio.
Frank County ss. I, Mark W. Hether, Clerk of the Circuit Court of said County certify that the foregoing whose signature appears to the within affidavit was on the day of certifying the same the Judge of the Circuit Court of said County, and that said affidavit was taken this day in open court.
Witness my name and the seal of said Court at Geneva this 18th day of Sept 1848
A. W. Hether Clerk.

The People of the STATE of NEW-YORK, By the Grace of GOD, FREE and INDEPENDENT;
To Samuel Gray, Gentleman, GREETING.
W E reposing especial Trust and Confidence, as well in your Patriotism, Conduct and Loyalty, as in your Valour and Readiness to do us good and faithful Service, HAVE appointed and constituted, and by these Presents, DO appoint and constitute you the said Samuel Gray Second Lieutenant of Capt. Severinus Klock's company, in the Regiment of Militia, in the County of Tryon, whereof Jacob Klock Esquire is Colonel — — —
YOU are therefore, to take the said Company — into your Charge and Care, as Second Lieutenant thereof, and duly to exercise the Officers and Soldiers of that Company — in Arms, who are hereby commanded to obey you as their Second Lieutenant — and you are also to observe and follow such Orders and Directions, as you shall from Time to Time receive from our General and Commander in Chief of the Militia of our said State, or any other your Superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you; and for so doing, This shall be YOUR COMMISSION, for and during our good Pleasure, to be signified by our Council of Appointment: IN TESTIMONY whereof we have caused our Seal for Military Commissions to be hereunto affixed. WITNESS our trusty and well beloved George Clinton Esquire our Governor of our State of NEW-YORK, General and Commander in Chief of all the Militia, and Admiral of the Navy of the same, by and with the Advice and Consent of our said Council of Appointment, at Albany — the fourth — Day of March — in the fourth — Year of our INDEPENDENCE, and in the Year of our LORD, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty .
Passed the Secretary's Office,
By His EXCELLENCY's Command,
Robt. Harper Dep y Secretary.
G. Clinton

I am all Grayd Marys afterwards

State of New York Jefferson County } ss
On this 24 th day of February 1841 personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Jefferson and State of New York now sitting Samuel Gray and Mary Loucks (wife of George Loucks) residents of the town of Orleans in said County who being duly sworn in open Court doth on their oaths depose and swear that they together with Nicholas Gray, Daniel S. Gray and Jacob Gray of the state of Illinois and John Gray Andrew S. Gray William Gray and Catharine Snell (wife of William Snell) and Adam Gray of the state of New York are all and the only children of Samuel Gray late of Palatine in the County of Montgomery Deceased. That they have reason to believe that their father the said Samuel Gray served two years and upwards in the grade of a commissioned officer during the Revolutionary war as will more fully appear by reference to records in the war Department of the United States the Comptroller's office of the state of New York and the attestation of surviving witnesses herewith accompanying. That their father the said Samuel Gray died on the 19 th day of March 1832 and as they are advised and verily believe without having applied for or received that compensation to which he was entitled by the act of Congress passed 7 th June 1832. That he could not have done so having died before its passage. That they therefore in accordance with the provisions of said act of June 7 th 1832 and in connection with the aforementioned heirs hereby make application for the amount that would have been due their father the said Samuel Gray viz from the 4 th day of March 1831 until the 19 th day of March 1832 on which day he died.
Samuel Gray Mary X Loucks March
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before the said Court and the Court declare that they have full confidence in the declarations of the said Samuel Gray and Mary Loucks and believe that the facts recited by them in their affidavit above written are true and correct. — I witness whereof I Daniel Lee Clerk of the said Court have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court this 24 day of February 1841
Daniel Lee Clerk.

In pursuance of a law passed the 27th of April, 1784, entitled "An act for the settlement of the pay of the Levies and Militia, for their services in the late War, and for other purposes therein mentioned," the following certificates have been issued, bearing interest at five per cent per annum, viz:
  1783 May 1 185.98 Sam d Gray Adit 5. 7 6   1782 Dec r 31 18.82 Sam d Gray LT 37 14 8   43 - 2 2 
STATE OF NEW-YORK,
COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, Albany, January 26 1842
I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No. 11 now remaining in this office, and that the service for which the certificates above named were issued, were performed under the following officers, viz:
 First—under Capt. _____ in Lt Col. Peter Wagner Regt.  Second, " " Lorimus Klocke " " " Peter Wagner "  Third, " " _____ " " _____ "  Fourth, " " _____ " " _____ "  Fifth, " " _____ " " _____ "  Sixth, " " _____ " " _____ "  Seventh, " " _____ " " _____ "  Eighth, " " _____ " " _____ "  Ninth, " " _____ " " _____ "  Tenth, " " _____ " " _____ " 
M.W. M c Intire Dep Comptroller

Courad Kitts Affidavit for Sam Gray

State of New York Fulton County
On this 10 th day of April 1841 personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for said County Conrad Kille who being duly sworn doth depose and swear that he is eighty five years of age and is a resident of the United States, that he was well acquainted with Samuel Gray during the Revolutionary War and until his death that he left no widow him surviving, his wife having died before himself, but that he left children him surviving, whose names are as follows viz Samuel Gray, Adam Gray, Nicholas Gray, John Gray, Andrew S. Gray, William Gray, Daniel Gray Jacob Gray Mary wife of George Concks and Catharine wife of William Snell who are all of the age of twenty one years and upwards, and he further swears that their father the said Samuel Gray was the same person who served as a Captain in the Boats or Batteaux Service and an officer in Militia during the Revolutionary War. Subscribed and sworn to this 10 th day of April 1841 before me Thomas R. Benedict Justice
Conrad Kille
I certify that Conrad Kille is a man of truth and veracity is in every respect credible and his statement is entitled to full credit Thomas R. Benedict Justice

George Walter Affidavit for Capt. Samuel Gray
35556 NW 5598
Samuel Gray del
NY.
Act of July 30 2 nd Section - admiral 4 mo. adj. Fleet 18 mo. Capt.
from 4 March 31. to 18 March 32 the day of his death - to Andrew S. Gray executor -
Thos R. Benedict Ghristah NY.
the

State of New York Fulton County
In the 22 nd day of March 1841 personally appeared before the undersigned a justice of the peace in and for said County George Walton who being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is eighty four years of age and is a pensioner of the United States. That he was twice acquainted with Samuel Gray during the Revolutionary war. That the said Samuel Gray was Captain and had command of a fleet of boats on the Mohawk River during the years 1777 and 1778. That this deponent, nine months in a boatman under the said Captain Samuel Gray in each of the said years, and for which service he this deponent is now receiving a pension from the United States for services in said years.
Subscribed and sworn to this 22 nd day of March 1841 before me Thomas R. Benedict Justice
George Walton
I certify that George Walton the above named deponent is a man of trust and veracity and that his statement is entitled to Credit
Thomas R. Benedict Justice
State of New York Fulton County, Clerk's office } ss
I Stephen West Clerk of Fulton County. Courts do hereby certify that Thomas R. Benedict whose name is subscribed to the above and foregoing certificates and before whom the two last mentioned affidavits were taken, was at the time of taking the same a justice of the peace in and for said County, and that his signature to the two last foregoing affidavits and certificates is genuine, and that due credit should be given to his acts as such justice. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court this 14 th day of March in the year 1842
Stephen West Clerk

Chhr at al. NY 16th April
free
ap 19 '42
Sam. L. Gray's heir act 1832
NYork
Hon James L. Edwards
Comm r of Pensions Washington City DC

Ephratah 16 th April 1842
Sir,
In close a is the heirs of Samuel Gray, Application for the pension that would have been due their father at the time of his decease. This Application has thus long been delayed by reason of the heirs being situated at great distances from each other, and now the oath or application of one viz Adam Gray has not been obtained it is hoped that this omission will not prejudice the claim of the others.
Respectfully
Your Not Servant
Thomas R Benedict
TB

May 28 1842
Orig
Samuel Hoy
Rev S. L. Edwards
Comm Pensioners
Washington City
Free Thos. R. Benedict P.M. Ephratah Pa

Ephratah Ny 25 th May 1842
Sir
Inclosed is the proof showing the Executor of the estate of Samuel Gray and an affidavit showing or explaining the proof of his services, as it is probably all that can be obtained this and the proof heretofore furnished for respectfully submitted for your final decision believing it will show two years service or nearly so.
Respectfully yours &c
Thomas R. Benedict
Address Ephratah Ny as usual

State of New York Fulton County } ss.
On this 14 th day of May 1842 personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for Said County George Walter who being duly sworn doth depore and swear that in his former affidavit for and relating to the services of Samuel Gray as a Captain in the battalion service he did mean to say that the said Samuel Gray did serve two tours of nine months each as a Captain in said service, that he now says on his oath as aforesaid that the said Samuel Gray did serve as a Captain of Company of Battalioneers during the year 1779 a tour of nine months and during the year 1780 another tour of nine months , that he this deponent did serve as a private in each of the said tours under the said Samuel Gray and for which service he this deponent has been allowed an increase of his pension, and that he is now enjoying the same, and he this deponent further swears that the said Samuel Gray performed a tour of at least one month during the months of July and August in the year 1777 as a private under Captain Dientback, Col. Jacob Klocks regt of militia that he this deponent was also in the same service and during the said tour he and the said Samuel Gray were both engaged in the battle at Briskany on the 7 th day August 1777- for which he has reason to believe he has been allowed one months service in computing his time pension and he further swears that in his former Affidavit for the services of Samuel Gray as Captain of battalioneers he may have been mistaken in stating the service as having been performed in the years 1780 and 1781- if so he gives this his affidavit in correction. and further he says not Subscribed and sworn to this his George Walter (Mark)
14 th day of May 1842 before me
Thomas R. Benedict, Justice.
Note the words "Col. Jacob Klocks regt of militia" were interlined before execution Thomas R. Benedict Justice.
I certify that George Walter the above named deponent is a man of truth and veracity and that his statement is entitled to credit
Thomas R. Benedict Justice

State of New York, Clerks Office
of Fulton County to certify that Thomas R. Benedict who has subscribed the foregoing jurat and certificate was at the date thereof a justice of the peace in and for said county and that the said official signatures are gen- uine Given under my hand and Seal of Office This twenty fifth day of May 1842. In the absence of the Clerk.
Robt Robertson D r . Clerk

State of New York Montgomery County I hereby certify that at a Surrogates Court by me held in and for said County on the ninth day of May 1842. the most satisfactory evidence was adduced to me to prove that Samuel Gray late of the town of Palatine in said County died in said town on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty two. That said deceased died leaving a last will and testament by him duly executed. which was duly admitted to probate on the twenty first day of May eighteen hundred and thirty two by the Surrogate of said County and I further certify that Letters testamentary on said will have this day been granted by me to Andrew S. Gray the executor named in said will who is duly qualified and authorized to act as such Witness my hand and seal this ninth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty two Richard H. Hughes Surrogate

James C Gray H. H. H. Suspended Re letter to Pres. R. B. Bausch April 27 th 1842 act T. June 32

Rev War
13221 INVALID.
File No. 13.221
Samuel Gray Capt. Rev. War
Act: June 7, 1832.
Index: —Vol. 1 , Page 152
[Arrangement of 1870.]
* Not: July 4, 1836