Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,378, Henry Gray, New Jersey

SERVICE
New Jersey
★ Gray, Henry
NUMBER
S. 34.378
CONTENTS
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34 378 Rev INVALID.
File No. 34, 378
Henry Gray His Rev Mar
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 493
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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New Jersey Rolls. ms
1,730
Henry Gray
Capt Bond Private
New Jersey line '77 - 2 years In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 3 d of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30. of June 1818, and sent to Jno Johnson, Esq. Newton, N. Jersey.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818.
4 months 32/30 $ 40.53
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Hardwick, Sussex Co.
Roll of Pensioners - New Jersey - 1818 Henry Gray Capt Bond Private New Jersey line '77

Henry Gray
Comet.
E.H.
To Mr. Johnson Esq. Newton, N.J.

New Jersey Superior Court. Personally appeared before me Jno. Johnson one of the Judges of the Inferior court of common pleas of said County, Henry Gray an old poor Revolutionary soldier, and being duly sworn according to Law deposeth and saith that he served in the flying camp for five months and at the expiration thereof, he enlisted in the continental army for during the war under Col. M c Bond of the Fourth Jersey Regiment commanded by Col. Eph m Martin in Genl. Maxwell's Brigade and that he remained in the service in various companies until the end of the war, and was honorably discharged by Capt. Alexander Mitchell at Newburgh in the State of New York. This deponent further saith that he is miserably poor and much crippled in all his joints, and now is supported by the overseers of the poor of the Township of Hardwick in said County. —
Taken and subscribed before me This 3 d day of April 1818.
Jno. Johnson
Henry Gray his mark.
To the Honorable Secretary of War —
I do hereby certify that the above affidavit was taken before me, and I am satisfied that the said Henry Gray served in the Revolutionary war, as stated by him, and that he comes within the act of Congress for relief — Witness my hand This 4 th day of April 1818. —
Jno. Johnson Judge

Henry Gray, Sussex Co. N. Jersey.  Hardwick township.
1730
Copy of Henry Gray affidavit
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Rev. 2

District of New Jersey, ss.
On this fifth day of June Eighteen hundred and twenty personally appeared in open Court being the Superior Court of Common Pleas, and a court of Record, being such by reason of its proceeding according to the course of the common law with a Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and keeping a record of the proceedings having a seal for the County of Sussex in the said district of New Jersey. Henry Gray — aged sixty seven years — Resident in the Township of Mendham in the said County of Sussex in the said district of New Jersey who being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows First he enlisted in the year 1776 under Captain William Bond in Col Ephraim Martins Regiment for five months which time he served and In the month of March 1777 He enlisted again with the same Captain in the same Regiment during the war and served during the war and was discharged at Morristown after the war was over.
And the deponent saith that he has a certificate of his claim under his original application obtained from the war department which is dated on the thirtieth day of June in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eighteen signed by J. G. Baldwin Secretary of War under the seal of his office payable annually on the 1 st March and 1 st September at the Trenton Banking Company setting forth that this declarants name is inscribed on the new pension list roll of the New Jersey agency at the rate of eight dollars per month to commence on the 5 th day of April 1818 and numbered on the back thereof 1736.
And I the said Henry Gray do solemnly swear I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with an intent thereby to diminish it or to bring myself within the provisions of an

District of New Jersey ss.
On this fifth day of June Eighteen hundred and twenty personally appeared in open Court being the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, and a court of Record, being such by reason of its proceeding according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and keeping a record of the proceedings having a seal for the County of Sussex in the said district of New Jersey. Henry Gray — aged sixty seven years — Resident in the Township of Mendham in the said County of Sussex in the said district of New Jersey who being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows First he enlisted in the year 1776 under Captain William Bond in Col Ephraim Martins Regiment for five months which time he served out — In the month of March 1777 He enlisted again with the same Captain in the same Regiment during the war and served during the war and was discharged at Morristown after the war was over.
And the deponent saith that he has a certificate of his claim under his original application obtained from the war department which is dated on the thirtieth day of June in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eighteen signed by J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War under the seal of his office payable annually on the 1 st March and 1 st September at the Trenton Banking Company setting forth that this declarants name is inscribed on the hereon list of the New Jersey agency at the rate of eight dollars per month to commence on 5 th day of April 1818 and numbered on the back thereof 1736.
And I the sd Henry Gray do Solemnly swear I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time by gift will or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with an intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an

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 1818" and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
The deponent on his oath also saith that he has no occupation - and has never worked at any kind of business but of the farming kind, that for twenty years past he has been incapable of procuring a living for himself by his own means and has been for seven years previous to having received a pension from the United States a pauper on the Township of Herkwick in the said County of Supex that he has no family living with him nor has he had for fifteen years and that he is in such indigent circumstances now as to be unable to support himself without the aid of the Government except by public or private charity.
Sworn to and declared } his on the 5th of June 1820 before } Henry Gray Mark
John Ogden
Schedule of the declarants property, necessary clothing and bedding excepted -
Real estate none of any kind
Personal estate none of any kind
Sworn & subscribed in open } his Court the 5th June 1820 } Henry Gray Mark
John Ogden

Ephraim Greenfield Clerk of the before mentioned Court do hereby certify that the foregoing Oaths and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this thirteenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty E. Greenfield Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the said County of Sussex