York County PA Archives Military Records.....Gray, Joel April 13, 1818
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Joel Gray, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll #__, Application #S39616
York County, Pennsylvania: “Personally appeared…Joel Gray, and on his solemn 
oath…saith that he enlisted in the month of November, he believes, in the year 
1778 in York in said county under Captain Bush of the 11th Pennsylvania line, 
and was honorably discharged in April 1781 in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. That he 
served faithfully for that period and that he is a citizen of Pennsylvania, is 
from his reduced circumstances, in need of assistance from his country for 
support. That he is about 75 years of age. That his discharge was sent to the 
Pennsylvania legislature to enable him to get relief from said state, and that 
he cannot now find it, and further, he saith not.” 13 April, 1818.

York County, Pennsylvania, July 31st, 1820, Joel Gray, aged 77 years: “In 
Colonel Hartley’s regiment, being the 11th regiment, Pennsylvania line in the 
company commanded by Captain Bush, from the month of October 1778 until April 
1st, 1781…One chest at $1.00. I have no trade and am so very weak and sickly as 
to be unable to work at any business whatsoever. I have no children or friends 
to give me any kind of assistance. My pension and the poorhouse are all I have 
to depend upon.”

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