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Ebenezer Gray collection, 1777-1844 (bulk 1777-1786)

Letters, certificates, land grants and military orders pertaining to the life of Ebenezer Gray of Connecticut. Items include Grays commissions as major (dated 1777, signed by John Hancock) and lieutenant-colonel in the Sixth Connecticut Regiment (1778, signed by John Jay); eight letters from various officers discussing military matters; Grays membership certificate in the Society of the Cincinnati, signed by George Washington; and a land grant to Grays three children, signed by Thomas Jefferson.
NYHS Identifier
Mss Collection - AHMC - Gray: Ebenezer
Creator
Gray, Ebenezer, 1743-1795
Contributor
Barker, Samuel Augustus, 1756-1819
Hancock, John, 1737-1793
Humphrys, David, Colonel
Jay, John, 1745-1829
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Putnam, Israel, 1718-1790
Washington, George, 1732-1799

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Letters, certificates, land grants and military orders pertaining to the life of Ebenezer Gray of Connecticut. Items include Grays commissions as major (dated 1777, signed by John Hancock) and lieutenant-colonel in the Sixth Connecticut Regiment (1778, signed by John Jay); eight letters from various officers discussing military matters; Grays membership certificate in the Society of the Cincinnati, signed by George Washington; and a land grant to Grays three children, signed by Thomas Jefferson. Two items dated 1841 and 1844 relate to the discovery of Grays powder horn in Germantown, which was lost in battle, and arrangements to return it to his family.
Note

Ebenezer Gray of Windham, Connecticut served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the American Revolution.

PID
islandora:153996
NYHS Identifier
Mss Collection - AHMC - Gray: Ebenezer
Member of
American Manuscripts
Genre
correspondence
letters (correspondence)
military commissions
certificates
land grants
broadsides (notices)
blank forms
Owning Institution
New-York Historical Society
Publisher
New-York Historical Society
Type
Text
Subject (Name)
Society of the Cincinnati
United States. Continental Army
Subject (Geographic)
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
Contributor
Barker, Samuel Augustus, 1756-1819
Hancock, John, 1737-1793
Humphrys, David, Colonel
Jay, John, 1745-1829
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Putnam, Israel, 1718-1790
Washington, George, 1732-1799
Creator
Gray, Ebenezer, 1743-1795
Date Created
1777 to 1844

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Letter from 'a citizen' to the postmaster of Windham, Conn., dated Germantown, March 13, 1841, asking him to transmit information to the family of Ebenezer Gray concerning his powder horn, transcribed from Watson's Annals of Philadelphia, Vol. 2,
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Letter from 'a citizen' to the postmaster of Windham, Conn., dated Germantown, March 13, 1841, asking him to transmit information to the family of Ebenezer Gray concerning his powder horn, transcribed from Watson's Annals of Philadelphia, Vol. 2,

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218090-Service File.jpg
Letter from 'a citizen' to the postmaster of Windham, Conn., dated Germantown, March 13, 1841, asking him to transmit information to the family of Ebenezer Gray concerning his powder horn, transcribed from Watson's Annals of Philadelphia, Vol. 2,
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Letter from 'a citizen' to the postmaster of Windham, Conn., dated Germantown, March 13, 1841, asking him to transmit information to the family of Ebenezer Gray concerning his powder horn, transcribed from Watson's Annals of Philadelphia, Vol. 2,

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218090-Service File.jpg
Letter from 'a citizen' to the postmaster of Windham, Conn., dated Germantown, March 13, 1841, asking him to transmit information to the family of Ebenezer Gray concerning his powder horn, transcribed from Watson's Annals of Philadelphia, Vol. 2,
4 Items

Letter from 'a citizen' to the postmaster of Windham, Conn., dated Germantown, March 13, 1841, asking him to transmit information to the family of Ebenezer Gray concerning his powder horn, transcribed from Watson's Annals of Philadelphia, Vol. 2,

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