Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4300 1/2, Ichabod Gray, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Gray, Ichabod or Grey
R. 4300 1/2
CONTENTS

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
State of New York } ss County of Oneida } ss On this sixteenth day of April in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty six personally appeared before me Pomeroy Jones one of the Judges of the County Courts held in and for the County of Oneida State aforesaid Ichabod Gray a resident of the town of Brown in the County aforesaid and State aforesaid aged ninety one years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 That in consequence of a severe pain in the left side of the body of the said Gray he is unable on account of such infirmity to attend the sitting of any Court of Record held in & for said County that the said Gray's residence is sixteen miles from the village of Whitesboro where the next Circuit Court is appointed to be held in & for said County, and that said Gray's residence is sixteen miles from the nearest place in said County where any Court of Record is appointed to be held in and for said County. That the said Gray is debilitated & in feeble health & will be utterly unable in consequence of such infirmity to endure the fatigue of a journey to any or either of said places for the holding of said Courts.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated according to the best knowledge recollection & belief

of the said Gray. that he enlisted as a volunteer under Colonel Easton. that the said Gray residence at the time was at New Lebanon in the County of  State State of New York near the line of Massachusetts. that said Gray thinks he enlisted near Pittsfield in the State of Massachusetts at the distance of about six miles from said Gray's residence. that as near as the said Gray can remember he enlisted about the month of May or June in the year 1775. that the said Gray a short time thereafter proceeded to Boston and in the month of June in said year was engaged in the battle of Bunker Hill that said Gray assisted in digging the intrenchments at said time. that said Gray saw at said Battle Genl Putnam. Warren. and other . that said Gray was ac- quainted with said officers. said Gray also believes that a certain Colonel Allen was an officer in said Gray's regiment. thinks he was in the service for the term of three years. that his memory is very poor in consequence of infirmity, & age in consequence of which most of the history of said Gray's services during the war of the Revolution are in part lost to the said Gray

Where and in what year were you born? Born in Frederickborough Connecticut. about 40 miles west of Danbury. think in the year 1755
Have you any record of your age; and if so, where it is? Have no record of my age, have lost the one I did have.
Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, where do you now live? -
Living at New Lebanon. then Albany County. I think. when I was 18 years old -
Lived since the revolutionary war. at Rensselaerville then Coeymans Patent. from thence to Patankat Point on Lake Champlain - thence to Granville. N.Y. thence to New Lebanon again thence back to Coeymans Patent thence to Bradford County Pennsylvania, thence to Herk Co. Oneida County thence to Binghamton Broome County. from thence to Bedford Luzerne County Ohio. from thence back to Binghamton Broome County from thence to Herk Co. Oneida County of Oneida again
Now live in Herk Co again
How were you called into service; were you drafted did you volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if a substitute for whom?
I was a volunteer in the service of the

The two institutions of office were made to make the answer comply with the affidavits Statement of the depositions of the
United States. I don't recollect the Captain's name that I went to Boston under, think I was at under Capt Pike a year or two - was in his service three and a half years. Left Boston & went to Morristown in New Jersey I think it was in 1776 cannot recollect through what country we travelled - was at Morristown with Washington. recollect the battle of White- Plains. was not engaged in the battle, heard the cannonading arrived after the battle was over & saw the killed & wounded. Afterwards stationed at West Point. was in the Army at the time Burgoyne was taken don't recollect the year was at Rhode Island at the time the French fleet was off the coast State the names of some of the Regular Officers who were with the troops where you served; such Continental and Militia regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service.
Recollect Generals Warren, Putnam and Putnam. recollect Colonels Easton & Allen.
Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it -
Did receive a discharge - think it was from Colonel Easton. it was stolen together with other books & papers from my private chest while I lived at Cosynand

State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution?
Know Peter Shaddock . Peter Glazier. Sethro Shaddock Orrie Collings & Nathan Lewis who live in my neighbourhood & who I believe will testify to the same
And the said Ichabod Gray further saith that he knows of no surviving witness of the fact of any portion of the services of the said Gray by whom he can substantiate the truth of the services mentioned in said declarations, and further that he knows of no clergyman in the community where the said Gray resided who can certify the truth of the reputation in said Gray's neighbourhood of his

having been a soldier of the Revolution. as of his belief of said Gray's age. And the said Gray further saith that he is extremely poor. that he has no means of subsistence. that he relies solely upon the charity of friends & of the public for support.
And the said Ichabod Gray hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of the Agency of any State.
Sworn to and subscribed the Ichabod his Gray day & year aforesaid before mark
me Moses Dyer Judge of Middle Co. County Witness Eusebius Woodgate

4300 1/2
P. O.
Schabod Gray
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____ REJECTED _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Ichabod Gray Letter to A. F. Groves 23 March 1826.
37305: Ichabod Grey, R. S. Hon. Timothy Linkins July 13. 1846. —
H 3002
Act of June 1832

March 16, 1846. Onondaga N.Y.
Mch 10/46
N. D. Groves.
Ischabod Gray entitled to a pension.
Feb. Session 14/46
Phenix office
Anscombe
An Enquiry into the nature of

Onida Castle
Onida County N.Y. 10 March 1846
De Sir
Mr Ichabod Gray of Verona in this county has made application to me to have me witness myself in his behalf & ascertain whether or not he is entitled to a pension
He is now 94 years old & very infirm & what is done must be done quickly. He was 4 or 5 years in the war of the Revolution. In the battle at Bunker Hill under captain Pike. He has never had a pension & says he never made application
I can see no reason why he is not entitled to a pension. I wish you would examine & write me as soon as your commission will allow
Very Truly Y,
A. F. Graves

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston; June 26 1846.
I 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 Department, it appears that there is no evidence of Service of any one of the name of Ichabod Grey - No roll of Capt Easton, and not upon roll of any Capt Pike.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Parris, Secretary of the Commonwealth.
1 - Mr. [illegible] - in [illegible] Bostn [illegible]

State of New York County of Oneida } ss. Town of Verona } ss.
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office of the service of Robert Gray in the war of the Revolution. He was a native of the town of Frederickborough State of Connecticut about five miles west of Danbury.
He enlisted from the town of New Lebanon County, forgotten State of New York near the line of Massachusetts he believes in the month of May or June 1775 as a volunteer in the company he believes was commanded by Captain or Colonel Patten he has forgotten the Regiment. And he served as follows as near as he can recollect viz a short time after his enlistment he proceeded to Boston and was engaged in the battle of Bunker Hill, that he assisted in digging the intrenchments at said time & place, that he saw Generals Putnam & Warren. He thinks that a certain Colonel Allen was an officer in said Gray's Regiment. Thinks he was in the service for the term of three years or thereabouts. Thinks he was also under a certain Captain Pike a year or two. He thinks after he left Boston he went to Morris town in New Jersey. He recollects the battle of White Plains, was not engaged in the battle, heard the cannonading soon after the battle was over and saw the killed and wounded. Afterwards stationed at West Point near the army at the time Burgoyne was taken.

he don't recollect the year - was at Rhode Island at the time the French fleet were off the coast
I am now ninety one years of age and my memory does not enable me to state his services more fully than above stated -
Witness my hand this 28 d day of May 1846 Signed by said Ichabod Gray Ichabod X Gray in my presence this 28 d day must. of May in the year 1846
Orin. Collins justice
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Known all men by these presents, That whereas Ichabod Gray of Durhamville in the Coun- ty of Oneida by his certain letter of Attorney, bearing date the 28 th day of July A.D. 1841, did make and execute to me and unto the undersigned Arthur Lewis a certain power of Attorney Author- izing me to prosecute his Claim for a Pension and arrear of Pension before the proper of- fices of the Government of the United States on account of his military service in the war of the Revolution and to receive all monies due him on account thereof and such Pension Certificate as might be issued in his favor, with full power of substitution & revocation, revoking all other powers of Attor- ney or other authority that might have been given by him for any such purpose, and more particularly a power granted by him to Messrs Graves and Dodge of Onondaga Castle in the County of Oneida & State of New York for said purposes herein named, bearing date the 13 th day of July in the year 1841; as by the said letter of Attorney reference being thereunto had will more fully appear.
Now Know ye, That I the said Arthur Lewis, the Attorney so named, in virtue of the au- thority to me given in, and by the said letter of Attorney, have nominated and appoin- ted, and by these presents do nominate and appoint James B. Jenkins of Oneida Castle aforesaid and George R. Kenick of Washington D.C. as my substitutes, and the attorneys of the said Ichabod Gray for the purposes in said letter of Attorney mentioned, with full power of substitu- tion and revocation, and as the said at-

tony of the said Deborah Gray, to do, per- mit, suffer, and perform all and singular the matters and things in the said letter of attorney specified, and which by said letter of attorney I am authorized to do permit, suffer, or perform witness my hand and seal this 30 th day of  November 1852. Nathan Lewis
Attest:
Charles Jenkins Silas P. Dootittle
State of New York County of Oneida
On this 30 th day of November in the year 1852. Personally appeared Nathan Lewis to me well known to be the person des- cribed in and who executed the foregoing power of attorney and acknowledged that he executed the same for the purposes there- in mentioned.
Silas P. Dootittle Justice of the Peace
I the undersigned do hereby certify that Silas P. Dootittle whose genuine sig- nature 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 an officer be full faith and credit.
Oneida East Nov. 30 th 52 Timothy Jenkins m.d.

Hon J. S. Edwards
Comm. of Pensions
Dear Sir
I enclose your papers for Pension for John bad Grey - They were recd. from Messrs. Graves & Dodge of Oneida Co - the N. Y. who are reputable lawyers - Please inform me of the result Yours obediently Timothy Jenkins
Washington 6 July 46

State of New York County of Oneida } ss.
I Delos De Wolf Clerk of the County of Oneida aforesaid and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas held in and for said County hereby certify that Pomeroy Jones is one of the Judges of the said Court of Common
Pleas, and further that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said Jones and that the signature subscribed to the Certificate and to the declaration of the said Ichabod Gray hereto annexed is the genuine signature of the said Pomeroy Jones. And I do further certify that I am acquainted with Orin Collins of the town of Verona in said County that said Collins is an acting justice of the peace in and for said County, that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said Collins that the signature subscribed to the Certificate and to the affidavits taken before him hereto annexed is the genuine signature of the said Orin Collins And I do further certify that the Court of Common Pleas aforesaid is a Court of Record in and for said County, and I further certify that the said Pomeroy Jones was Judge of the said Court at the time of taking such affidavits and making such certificates. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court and of the Clerk of said County this 2 nd day of May April 1846.
Delos De Wolf Clerk for James Collyer Dep. Clk.
was Judge of the said Court at the time of taking such affidavits and making such certificates

37.305
Schabod Grey
N.Y.
Act Y June 132.
Act Y June 1832.

State of New York } County of Oneida } ss Simeon Persons, Barber B Hall Alexander Whaley Nathan Lewis & David Douglass of the towns of Verona in said County being duly sworn severally depose and say first, the said
Simeon Persons for himself saith that he knows and is well acquainted with Ichabod Gray that he has been acquainted with the said Gray twenty five years that he now lives in the neighbourhood of the said Gray. That deponent believes the facts set forth in the aforesaid declarations of the said Gray are true that deponent believes the said Gray to be of the age of ninety one years. That since deponent's acquaintance with said Gray he has been reputed and is now reputed and believed in the neigh- bourhood where said Gray resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that deponent concurs in that opinion And further this deponent saith that
Barber B Hall for himself saith he is acquainted with Ichabod Gray that he knows Ichabod Gray of Verona in said County that he has been acquainted with the said Gray forty years that he now now lives in the neighbourhood of the said Gray that deponent believes the facts set forth in the aforesaid decla- rations of the said Gray are true. That deponent believes the said Gray to be of the age of ninety- one years that since deponent's acquaintance with said Gray he has been and is now reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where said Gray resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that deponent concurs in that opinion. and further deponent

11 Suits not
Alexander S. Whaley for himself suiter that he has been acquainted with Ichabod Gray for the term of forty years. that he now lives in the neighbourhood of the said Gray that said Gray is reputed a man of character for truth & veracity. that he has been & is now reputed in said neighbourhood to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that deponent concurs in that opinion and also deponent believes him to be of the age of ninety one years and also that the facts set forth in the aforesaid petition are true and further deponent saith not.
Matthew Lewis for himself suiter that he has been acquainted with the said Ichabod Gray for the term of thirty two years, that he now lives in the neighbourhood of the said Gray. that deponent believes the facts set forth in the aforesaid petition are true that said Gray is reputed in the neighbourhood where said Gray resides to be a man of character for truth & veracity. that he has been & is now reputed in the neighbourhood where the said Gray resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that deponent concurs in that opinion and further deponent saith not.
David Douglass for himself suiter that he has been acquainted with Ichabod Gray for thirty five years that he resides in the neighbourhood of the said Gray that said Gray is reputed a man of character for truth and veracity that he has been & is now

refuted in said neighbourhood to have been a soldier of the Revolution. I further deponent concur in that opinion and further that de- ponent believes in fact, set forth in said de- claration of said Gray are true and further deponent saith not Subscribed and sworn before me this 21 st day of April 1846 Orin Adams justice
Simeon Parsons
B. B. Hull Alexander Whaley David Douglass Nathan Lewis
State of New York } County of Onond } ss I Peter Collins one of the Justices of the Peace of the County of Onond hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Simeon Parsons, Barber B Hall, Alexander B. Whaley, Nathan Lewis & David Douglass the individuals whose names are subscribed to the foregoing affidavit - & that the individuals named are substantial and credible men & men of character and standing in society, whose statement is entitled to credit. And I do further certify that I am well acquainted with Ichabod Gray, that I reside in the neighbourhood of said Gray, that I believe him to be of the age of ninety one years. That he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and served as he states in his declarations and that I do concur in that opinion and further that the character

of the said Gray in his said neighbourhood for tithes & vicariage is good - Given under my hand at Brown in said County this 21 st day of April 1846
Rev Collins justice of the peace

Oneida County ss Nathan Lewis Jethro Shattuck Charles Freeman O'Kellett Hattman
Being duly sworn personally depose and say that we live in the neighbourhood of the said Jehabod Grey and to us personally known and believe him to be a man of truth and veracity and we also believe him to have been a soldier in the Revolution.
Subscribed and sworn before me this 21st day of April 1846 Orin Collins Justice
Nathan Lewis Jethro Shattuck Chas. Freeman William Stillman, P.C.

State of New York County of Oneida 3 rd ss. And two said Pomeroy knows one of the Judges of the County Court of Record appointed to be held in and for the County of Oneida do hereby declare my opinion of the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Re- volutionary Soldier and served at the States and the said Pomeroy does further certify that it appears to him that Simon Parsons, Barbe B- Hall, Alexander Whaley, Nathan Lewis, David Douglass, Setho Shattuck, Charles Brown and Willett Stillman who have subscribed and sworn to the foregoing affidavits are residents of the town of Berne in the County of Oneida of the said, and that said persons reside in the immediate neighbourhood of the said Schubert Gray, and that all of said persons are credible individuals, and that their statement is entitled to credit. And the said Pomeroy does further certify that the said Arnie Collins who has subscri- bed to the foregoing certificate is one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Oneida resident of the town of Berne in said County. And the said Pomeroy does further certify that the said Gray is infirm and in the opinion of the said Jones, in consequence of such infirmity the said Gray is unable to attend the sitting of any Court of Record appointed to be held in and for the County aforesaid. Dated the 2 nd day of April 1846.
[Signature] Pomeroy Jones Oneida County Court.