Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 46,442, Gideon Graves, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass
Graves Gideon
NUMBER
S. 46.442,
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307. No of orig Pay 255-306. REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
Allowed act 1828
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
July 22. 1828
Gideon Graves, of Palmer, in the County of Hampshire, in the State of Massachusetts has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Sergeant in captain Seward's company, in the Third artillery regiment of the Massachusetts line; and that he has not received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing. He adds that although he did not receive a certificate of $80, he received, on his final settlement, a larger sum than he expected.
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary, Adkins.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
26. July 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Gideon Graves, in the Massachusetts line of the army of the Revolution. It further appears that Gideon Graves is now on the pension list of the army agency, and has been so since the 3d of March 1826 at the rate of dollars per month.
Richd Hagner Audr
No Record for more than

For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of an Act "for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution", approved on the 15th of May, 1828, I Gideon Graves, of Palmer, in the County of Hampshire, in the State of Massachusetts, do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental line of the Army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued in its service until its termination, at which period I was a Sergeant, in Captain Thomas Seward's company, in the Third Artillery Regiment, of the Massachusetts line. And I also declare that I did not afterwards receive a certificate for the reward of Eighty Dollars, to which I was entitled, under a resolution of Congress, passed the 15th of May, 1778. but on the final settlement of my account for services in said Army I received a larger sum than I anticipated, the precise amount of which I do not now recollect.
And I further declare that I was not, on the fifteenth day of March, 1828 on the Pension List of the United States.
Gideon Graves
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampden Ss.
Before me,
James Stebbins, a Justice of the Peace (duly empowered to administer oaths), in the County of Hampshire, in the State of Massachusetts, personally appeared this day David Shearn, and Asa Ward, of the said County, who did severally make oaths that Gideon Graves, by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been an officer in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated.
Witness my hand this twenty fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight.
James Stebbins.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampden ss. I John Ingersoll Clerk of the Courts of the County of Hampden in the State of Massachusetts do certify that James Stebbins Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit was sworn was at the time a justice of the peace within a just and County of Hampden and duly empowered to administer Oaths
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Hampden this twenty sixth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty eight
John Ingersoll

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317 Discharges by Washington in favor of Gideon Graves dated 9 th June 1783. -

Re-Issue.
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CH 7797
Name: Gideon Graves Rank: Sergt Comp'y: Seward Reg't: Mass Line, Arty
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RATE PER MONTH, AND DATE OF COMMENCEMENT.
1st Issue. { _____ Comm'g _____ 2d Issue. { _____ Comm'g _____ 3d Issue. { _____ Comm'g _____
DATE OF CERTIFICATE, AND TO WHOM SENT.
1st Issue. { _____ Sent to _____ 2d Issue. { _____ Sent to _____ 3d Issue. { _____ Sent to _____
Allowed Oct 1828
Act 14th July, 1862. Bk. G., Vol. _____, Page _____
Registering Clerk: _____
Disability. { _____

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Graves, Gilbert GRADE Private LINE Connecticut
WARRANT NUMBER 5880 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED May 1, 1797
to John Duncan
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.