Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 49471-160-55, Jonathan Grout, N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N. H.
Grout, Jonathan Lydia
B. L. Wt. 49471-160-55.
CONTENTS

33.213.
Ad. March 3/
/55
St. H. N. Sylvester, Sept 7/56
Car P
Jan 29/
/56
Saydia Grouse widow of Jonathan Grouse Fin.
Capt. Bellows or Ashley. Col. N. H. Moa.
Enl.
Dis.
Rev. Mar.
Private A. A. Mills
No Papers
Ad. 160 a/c Dec 9/56
Hodge
H. H. Sylvester Charlestown N. H.
Vol G-142

233 213.
H. H. Sylvester Charles Town N.H.

State of New Hampshire Strafford County ss.
On the 12 th day of Jan'y 1856, personally appeared before me, a justice of the peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, Lydia Grout, aged sixty one years, a resident of Charleston in said County, who being duly sworn according to law, declares, that she is the widow of John Grout deceased who was a soldier in the war of the revolution in the militia of the State of New Hampshire, supposed to have been either in the regiment commanded by Col. Bellows or Col. Akeley, both of which Officers resided in adjoining towns, Claremont on the North, @ Walpole on the South of Charleston, her then residence: — of her Captain she has no knowledge: — that her said deceased husband had a brother by the name of Amos or George who was a soldier in the revolution, and a pensioner under the Act of June 7 1832 and whose name was inscribed upon the rolls of the N.H. Vols. at Concord, and that she has been informed that her said husband served some time, either with or for said Amos, but not over six months in all.
She further declares that she was married to the said Grout on the 16 th day of Jan'y — 1832 and that he departed this life at said Charleston on the 29 th day of Sept. 1853, and that she still remains his widow.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the County bond to which she is entitled.

under the acts passed by Congress on the 3 rd day of March 1855
Sylvia Grant
We Solon Putnam & Abigail Holden residents of Charleston N.H. upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed & acknowledged by Lydia Grant in our presence; that we were both from our youth personally acquainted with her and husband until her death & state by her; that we have personally known the said Lydia for a period of more than forty years, having known her as the wife, & now the widow of said John Grant deceased
Solon Putnam Abigail Holden
The foregoing declaration and affidavits were sworn to, & acknowledged before me on the day and year above written, and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons, and that I have a personal knowledge of the facts as stated by the widow as to her marriage and death of her said husband. That I was personally acquainted with said Grant for more than fifty years & a near neighbor to him and family; that I have known the widow for more than forty years, and that she is the person she represents herself to be. and that I have no interest in the claim
Vryling Lovell Justice of the Peace

State of New Hampshire } County of Sullivan } ss }
J. G. McQuillin Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County, certify that Nathaniel Lovell Esq before whom the foregoing acknow- -ledgement was made was at its date a Justice of the Peace within and for the said County duly authorized to take acknowledgements, and that the within signature of the said Justice is genuine.
Given under My Hand & the seal of the Court this 15th day of Jan y A. D. 1856
J. G. McQuillin Clerk

✓ 49.471
S New Am

Amasa Frost 14 roll 1832 27281

State of New Hampshire.
SECRETARY OF STATE'S OFFICE.
I DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the war of the Revolution, which remain in this office, it appears that the name of Benjamin Grant is borne upon the Vol. 2 Page 375 Roll of Capt. Company, as a in said Company.
"Pay Roll of Col: Benjamin Bellows's Regiment of New Hampshire Militia who went Sep: 21 st 1777 and reinforced the Northern Continental Army at Saratoga under the command of General Gates" Names and Ranks " Jonathan Grant Private " "Entry Sep. 21," "Discharge 1777 Oct 21" "Time in Service" "1 mo. 1 day" "Rate per month" 4. 10/ "Amount of Wages" 4. 13. 0. "Travel out at 3 ct pr mile 120 1. 10. 0" "Amount Wages and travel" 6. 3. 0"
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Handwritten curly braces grouping the columns of the pay roll.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said State, this Nineteenth day of January 1856
Emerson N. Patten
Secretary of State.
* I have it unnecessary to return the certificate for the usual form H. P.

233.213.
Ch'town N H Jan 25. 36
Her Excellency Comm te
Sir I have the honor herewith to enclose the declaration of Mrs Lydia Groat for bounty- land. The parties, that is, the widow (as her late husband, Jonathan Groat, of Shamokin , as also the Magistrate of this Village, Mr Ladd, I believe you have some knowledge of. I understand the contents of many of money.
Yours Truly H H Pynchon

233213
Elyra Mount and Jonathan
Boymore Genl. Whiting Comm Pension Washington DC

Staunton Va Nov 7 1858
Hon Geo B Whiting
Quesada Penn Sir
In reply to your letter of the 27 Sept. last, asking for further proof of identity of Jos. a Grout, the husband of Lydia Grout, as applicant for bounty land, N o 233213, I have the honor to state that such proof will be found I think upon a reference to the pension papers of Amasa Grout adm d under the Act of June 7 1832 who was enlisted on the pension roll of the M t H. Agency from his own knowledge he had that there was any record proof to be found of the military services of his brother Jonathan Grout.
Jonathan Grout was a brother of Amasa (as was a widow, I am told in her case) — that fact together with the certification of the Secy of State, now on file with Mr. Grout's papers will I hope be deemed satisfactory.
I have the honor to be Respectfully Yours &c H H Sylvester