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VERETT BRISTOL July 2, 1856. Affidavit of David Cory of B t
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tol aged 55, o fR o} ralton N. Y. He enhsted at New York Clty is an aff1davtt o the sarne date made by Eli Barn am an Moses
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in Ca pt. Samue 1 Sw rtwout's Company and was 1sc arged at Willia_ms, bo~h of ~a~lston Spa, N. Y., that they each became
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company o f N ew York 1\Iilitia from 28 July 1814 to 1 Nov 1814. medwme Wl r. 1 n m the said village.
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Apn 5 , 1855 Application for addltwnal bounty land. Aged May 23, 1871. Pension application of Dr. Pitkin Gross age
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59 years resident of Niagara County, N. Y. The witnesses to 79, of Brighton, Northumberland County. He is married' his
his signa~ure were John Sybrandt and Wilber H. Bristol. wife's maiden name was Rebecca Cory, and theywerema;ried
June 10, 1878 before the U. S. Vice-Consul at Toronto, an 12 October 1815 at Balston Springs, N. Y. His signature to the
application for a pension of Elizabeth A. Bristol, aged 77 yrs, application was witnessed by Christopher English Bullock, a
presently residing with her son at 21 Sullivan Street, Toronto, merchant, and Albert V. Hodges, gentleman, both of Brighton.
widow of Leverett Bristol who died at Royalton, Niagara Co., A second application was subrnitted on Nov 21, 1871 giving
N. Y., on 20 June 1856. Her name before marriage was Eliza- information similar to the above, but at which time his signa-
ture was witnessed by Freeman Schemerhorn Clench of King
beth A. Cowles, and she was married to Leverett Bristol on
Street, Cobourg, and Albert Gross of Brighton.
31 January 1819 at Cheshire, New Haven County, Connecticut
March 27, 1878. Pension application of Rebecca Gross, age
by the Rev. 1\Ir. Noyes. After their marriage they resided at
80, of Brighton, widow of Pitkin Gross who died at Brighton
Cheshire, Conn. , until 1821 when they removed to Porter in
20 Sept 1873. Before marriage she was Rebecca Cory; they
Niagara County, N. Y. In June 1848 to Royalton. About 1865
were married by a Baptist minis ter at Ballston Spa, N. Y. The
she removed to Virgil, Ont. In 1870 to her son's in Toronto
witnesses to her signature were Eliza C. Clench, aged 76, of
and in the same year to children in Kankakee, Illinois. In June
King Street, Cobourg, and Mr Charles B. Kemp, aged 41, of
1877 she returned to her son's in Toronto.
Brighton.
June 10, 1878. Affidavit of James M. Bristol, aged 58, and
April 17, 1878. Affidavit of Eliza Clench, aged 76, and of
Mary M. Bristol his wife, aged 51, both of Toronto. James
Cory Clench, aged 50, both of Cobourg.
Bristol, eldest child of Leverett Bristol, was born 12 Dec 1819
at Cheshire, Conn. Nov 15, 1878. Affidavit of James C. Kemp, aged 76, and
John McAlease, aged 62, both of Brighton.
July 27, 1878. Affidavit of Mrs. Ellen M. Tryon of Wilson, Included in the file is a letter dated 19th April 1876 from
Niagara County, N. Y. She was present at the marriage of Benjamin S. Cory, M.D., U. S. Pension Surge.on, of \\~:ega;~

Leverett Bristol to Elizabeth A. Cowles at Cheshire, and she Illinois to the Pension Bureau making enqu1ry rega g
was also present at the funeral of Leverett Bristol [File# necessary procedure for h1s s1ster e e
R b cca Gross to follo\\'
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m order to obtain a penswn. [File # W · ·. ' \\'hich
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Dr· PITKIN GROSS ecca Gross was named on e ro ram ton rather than
states that her post office address was B P
f Ma! 11, 1855. Application for bountyland of Dr Pitkin Gross Brighton]
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indicate that h oun Y, Ontar10. Official records
ader D. Colde:,:ez;:~ a::urgeon 's. ~~te in Lt. Col. Cadwall- LEWIS HOUSE . . of Lewis Ht"'use. aged
Steel of Saratoga S .g · . N. Y. Mtht!a under Surgeon John Sept 8, 1851. Bounty land apphcatwn
prmgs m the military hospital in New York 55, of Beamsville, Ont.