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Excerpt from Sketch of the Life and Times of Dr. David Ray
Sir, Please pay to Abner Cram the wages due me as specified in my Rolls, bearing date March 5, 1779, and his receipt shall be your discharge. From your humble servant, david ray, Lieutenant.
By the foregoing, it appears he was in the service the larger part of the first five years of the war. He was now 38 years of age, had a family, a wife and two daughters, from whom he had been absent most of the time for five years, and whom it was his duty to support. The Continental money which he received for his services had depreciated till forty dollars in bills would bring but one dollar in specie. A pair of boots, says our school history, cost six hundred dollars. And a soldier's pay for a month would hardly buy him a dinner. (barnes's School History.) No doubt he got tired of war's alarms, with its toils and hardships and no pay. A company of men in Boston and its vicinity owned a town ship of land in Maine, and held out inducements for families to go there and settle. Mr. Ray made a journey of explora tion in the fall of 1779, and concluded to move his family into the new district. Mrs. Ray received a pension from the Government, on account of his military services, at the rate of one hundred and three dollars per annum, from March 4, 1831, until the time of her death, July 4, 1843. In grantingthe pension, the commissioner only allowed about one year's service in all. But the service, as above narrated, is well established by record evidence and oral testimony.
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