Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 6221, Samuel Byland, Va.
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[Form/3 - 1776]
SERVICE
Va.
Byland, Samuel                    Number W. 6221
or Byan

Mary                              B. L. Wt. 2672-160-55

CONTENTS
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[left side] 
26608
Kentucky
Samuel Byland
of Campbell in the State of Kentucky
who was a private in the Co commanded
by Captain Johnson of the regt commanded
by Col Stephen in the Virginia
line for 1 year

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky
at the rate of 40 Dollars 11 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 4 day of April
1834 and Hon R. M. Johnson [ ]

---
Arrears to the 4th of March

Semi-ant. allowance ending Sept
120.00
20.00 ┃
$140.00
Recorded by Danl Boyd Clerk,
Book E  Vol.  7   Page 36
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Boyd
Clerk,
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[right side]
See letter 26 May 1834 to Hon R. M. Johnson
[ ]
do 31 July 1834
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[Form]
2424
Kentucky
Mary Byland
widow of Samuel Byland, Va
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
40 Dollars
11 Cents per annum, to commence on
he 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued the 
13th day of Oct., 1853
and sent to Cambron & Fisk
Covington Ky

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 3, 1853, Page 172, Vol A

(32)
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[Form]
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65457 Act Mar 3/55
apl 13/55
Mary Byland wid.
Saml Byland Priv.

Ent
[ ]

Revy war
Revy Pensioner
Ky [ ]  53 - 2424
Boynton
Ad: 160 [ ] May 1756
Boynton

Cambron & Fisk
Covington Ky
to Cambron & Fisk

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[ ] Cambron & Fisk, Oct: 10 55

Vol B2 - 183
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Saml Byland
Act
Pension
⎬
1833. Aug 26 OC

18 months
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State of Kentucky
Campbell County ⎬
Sct
On this 26 day of August 1833
personally appeared before the Justices of the Campbell County Court, Samuel Byland a resident
of said County, aged Sixty-seven 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 provisions of an act of Congress passed June 7 1832. He Enlisted in the regular service of the United States in the year 1775 with Capt - Johnson of London Co. Va. - for the
term of one year & served in the Virginia line for the term aforesaid under the following named officers as he believes to the best of his recollection -
for the most part, under Col. Stephens & the
remaining time under Col. Meriwether,
Capt. Johnson, Lieut Sandford, 2 Lieut Gibbs
& Ensign Harrison & that when he enlisted
& entered the service he resided in London
Co. Va. & that he joined the sd Regiment
at Williamsburg, Va.  and marched to
and was stationed at various places at length
to Norfolk, that on the March to Norfolk
had a skirmish with the enemy the
Capt of whom was killed in the engagement, besides many of the men under his command, that the detachment in entered at Norfolk, during which time the enemy
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set fire to the Town which consumed
about one half of the same- that previous
to the detachment leaving the Town - Orders
were given them to burn the remainder of
the Town which was done -- that he
then marched to Suffolk thence to James
River thence to near Williamsburg at
which place his term of enlistment expired
and he received his discharge at the same 
place that he joined the Regiment.
And that between 2 - 3 years 
afterward he volunteered & entered the
service again under Capt. John Luckett
of Loudon Co., Va. as one of the guards
that conducted the Hessian prisoners
to Albemarle Co Va  a term of 3 months.
And that about 4 months previous 
to the surrender of Ld. Cornwallis he
served another term of 3 months under
Capt. Hugh Douglas of London Co. Va.  
and received his discharge about 
4 weeks previous to the Capture of the
British Army at Yorktown 
He hereby relinquishes
every claim to a pension whatever or
annuity (except the present) and
declares that his name is not on the
Pension roll of the Agency of any State.
Sworn to the day and year
aforesaid. 
Samuel Byland
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do hereby declare
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We Daniel Robbins, William Sayers, and 
John Whitford residing in [ ] County
aforesaid, do hereby certify that we are
well acquainted with Samuel
Byland who has subscribed and
Sworn to the foregoing declaration
that we believe him to be Sixty seven years
of age. That he is respected and believed
in the neighborhood where he resides, to
have been a soldier of the revolution &
that we can [ ] in that opinion --
D Robbins
John B Whitford
Wm Sayers
---
Sworn o and subscribed the
day aforesaid.  Att  Jno N. Taliaferro Clk
And the sd Court do hereby declare their
opinion.  After investigation of the matter
and after putting the interrogators prescribed
by the war department, that the above named
applicant was a revolutionary soldier &
served as he states -- And the Court do
further certify that D. Robbins, Wm Sayers & 
John B. Whitford, the above named witnesses are residents of this county aforesaid, are credible persons, and that their statements are
entitled to credit.  
I, John N Taliaferro Clerk
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of the Campbell County court do certify  that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the said
court in the matter of an application of Samuel Byland for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribe my name this 26th day of August 1833.

Jno N. Taliaferro, Clerk
Campbell County Court

Samuel Byland

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Samuel Byland
Decl
Pension
1833 August 226, 1833
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65457
Mary Byland
widow of
Samuel Byland

Revolutionary  War Application
Bounty Land

Direct the Warrant
to
Cambron & Fisk
Covington KY
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State of Kentucky
County of Kenton

On this 6th day of April 1855 personally appeared before me Justice of Peace within and for the County and State of said Mary Byland, aged eighty years, a resident of Covington, County of Kenton, and state of Kentucky, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Samuel Byland deceased who was a private in  the Revolutionary War.  She cannot now state exactly the company nor the regiment.  She has either lost or mislaid her memorandum of those facts; they are all on file in Washington City.  Her husband was a pensioner in his lifetime and that she now draws a pension at the Louisville Pension Agency, under the Act of Feb 3, 1853, the L section which certificate is recorded in the pension office on the roll of Pensioners, Vol A, P. 172, granted Oct 13th 1833.  Her pension commenced Feb 3, 1853.  She refers to this proof  on file in her husband’s and her own pension claim for full proof on all points therein.  
She further states that she was married to the said Samuel Byland in Fleming County, state of Kentucky on the [ ] day of May 1809 [ ] a Methodist preacher and that her name before her said marriage was Mary Bravard; that her said husband died at Kenton County, state of KY, on the 4th day of March 1835, and that she is still a widow.  This portion of Kenton was then Campbell Co. 
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3, 1855.  Her said husband never applied for or obtained any land so far as she knows or believes, she has never before applied.
Mary Byland (Her Mark)
Signed John Fisk    
Eliza Rusk
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We John F. Fisk and Eliza Rusk
residents of Covington, County of Kenton, in the State of Ky,
upon our oaths declare that the forgoing declaration
was signed and acknowledged by Mary Byland
in our presence; and that we know the applicant to
be the person she represents herself [ ] to be, and that we believe her Statements are true.
John F. Fisk
Eliza Rusk
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were
Sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and
year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants
to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person
the represents herself to be, and that I have no inter
out in this claim.
Given under my hand this ninth day of
April 1855-
George M Southgate J.P.K.C.
State of Kentucky
County of Kenton

I, Elias I. Bayless Clerk of the county court, in
and for the County and State above mentioned, do, hereby
that George M. Southgate, whose genuine signature
appears to the foregoing declaration and affidavit, it
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 are entitled
full faith and credit and that the
aforesaid County Court, is a Court of
Record having general jurisdiction, Given
under my hand and seal of office this the 
[Seal]  9th day of April 1855
E J. Bayless Clerk
By L F Daughty DC
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State of Kentucky
County of Kenton
On this nineteenth day of August, 1853, personally appeared before me, the undersigned, the presiding Judge of the Kenton County Court for the state aforesaid, Mary Byland, a resident of the city of Covington in the county of Kenton and State aforesaid, aged Seventy-eight years on the 25th day of Oct, 1852, who being first duly sworn, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed on 3 Feb 1853, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War, that she is the widow of Samuel Byland, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War.
For proof of the service of her husband—to time, place, character and duration, she says the record is on file in Washington, filed for her husband upon which he drew a pension.  Her husband drew his pension through one Abner Gaines at Lexington, Kentucky.  Said Gaines has her husband’s papers.  Gaines has been dead many years.  She knows nothing of her husband’s pension certificate if he had one.  After her husband died, one Samuel Baker, not now of the county, obtained for her some back pension due her in right of her husband.  This was about 1836 or 1837.  Said Baker never gave her any papers.  She has no papers from Washington, or any other place touching upon this pension matter.  If Baker got any, he kept them.  
She states that she was married to the said Samuel Byland in the month of May 1809, in Fleming County in the state of Kentucky by a Methodist preacher.  She does not remember his name nor the day of the month on which she was married.  
She states that her said husband died on the 4th of March
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1835 in the County of Campbell in the State of Kentucky
She has no family Record either of the death of her husband
or of her marriage with him. He states that she was not
married to Samuel Byland her said husband prior to
the second of January Eighteen hundred, but at the
time above stated, she further declares, that she is a widow
now, and has been ever since the death of her husband
Samuel Byland.
S C Perrin PJK       Mary X Byland (her mark)
Attest
John F. Fisk

J. S. C. Perrin Presiding Judge of
the Kenton County Court in the State of
Kentucky, before whom the affiant Mary Byland
this day and date first above written, personally appeared
Subscribed, and made oath to the foregoing application
for pension, do hereby certify that the said Mary
Byland, from bodily infirmity and old age
is unable to go to, and appear in open Court, and
that, for that reason I did, this the 19th day of August
1863, swear her to the truth of the above application
in the house of one Eli T. Rusk, in this County
with whom she resides, and further I am acquainted
with Mrs. Byland, and I believe her statements
to be true, and that she is the widow of
Samuel Byland deceased. She is a highly
respectable woman, and every way worthy of
belief. Given under my hand this the day
and date above written.

S. C Perrin PJK
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Given for 12 months
RM Johnson

[Left side]
Samuel Byland
Campbell Co.
Kentucky
for 1775 [  ]
$40
Sent to me by
Byland himself
Gains X [  ]
Ira
Hon. R. M. Johnson
W. Benton ┃
Covington
Ken
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[Form]

WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
Oct 16, 1833
Sir
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has
been examined, and the papers are herewith returned.
The following is a statement of
your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and
the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed,
before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will show what is
necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed,
you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when
you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and
you will, by coupling with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your
claim.
______
A Statement of the Service of Samuel C. Byland
______
Period when the service was rendered.
1775  |  1781
________-
Duration of the claimant's service.
1 Year   ┃ 3 Mo   |   3  Mo
_______
Rank of the claimant.
Pvt [for all three periods]
_______
Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served.
Cap Johnson
Col Stephens

Thos Boland and
Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service.
67   |  Va
________
Proof by which the declaration is supported.
Traditionary
________
The applicant could have been but nine years of age 
when he entered the service in 1775.   No persons
were taken into the army at that age. This must be 
satisfactory explained, and unless he can prove said
service as required by the regulations his claim for said
service cannot be allowed.
Oct 12. 1833
I am, respectfully, Your obedient servant,
J.  L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions,
[Handwritten Note]
The service was as a minute man. They were
not in constant service six months will be allowed, John Monroe of Ohio
County, Ken. for whom a certificate was issued some time since served at Norfolk in 1775.   J.W. Crow, Nortford, [  ] agent, Monroe's affidavit should be obtained.
April 1, 1834
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2    [Form]
REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army,
and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and volunteers," all
persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who
were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to
Store Keepers, &c, Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are
also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged
in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2.  The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3.  Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4.  Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming
the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will, in the first
instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of
Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is
considered a Court of Record.

DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory or District of   |ss.
County of
On this     day of     personally appeared (a) before 
A. B. a resident (b) of       in the county of      and State, Territory or District
of      aged (c)     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 provision made by the act of Congress, passed
June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year
 (d)      , with        and 
served in the      (e) regiment of the          line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served
under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the
town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged,
and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons
who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he
declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.                A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]      
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I             of the Court of            do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing 
contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of                            for a pension.
                                  In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal                            
                                  of office (i) this               day of         & c.

If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be
found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia,
except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and
subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the      and C. D. residing in (the same)
hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be
years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
                         Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.
                [And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after
putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.  And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A.B. 
who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the
and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the
and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Clerk of the Court of         do hereby certify that the foregoing
contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application 
of                for a pension.
                             In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal
                             of office, this          day of                &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services
of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful
in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
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3  [Form]
alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal
means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted
; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected.
All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and
case.
there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of
service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute?  And if a substitute, for whom?
5. 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 services.
6. To a Soldier.   Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
    To an Officer.  Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it? 
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are
requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court,
without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons--one of whom should be
the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from
their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed
and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion.
If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct
proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the
inquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before and submit to the examination, before the Judge or justice of the Court of Record of th proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform,
and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record,
or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper
Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is
his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before
the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the
declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services
 of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
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(a) The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity ; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
(b) The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
(c) The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
(d) The declarant must mention the period or period of the war when he served.
(e) Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served: otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. ln a case where the applicant cannot by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
" Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: — For	 year —— , months, and — ----- days, I served as a ------. For ____  months and 	 _____ days, I served as a ______; and for such service I claim a pension.”
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months, is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority, that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit:
(f) The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
(g) The opinion of the Court is always required.
(h) The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
(i) The Clerk must fix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
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Col Edwards will
list this & send it to
Mr. Allison to [  ]
R.  M. Johnson
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Campbell County Ky this 20 March 1834
Hon. R M Johnson

Dear Sir,
In conformity with
with your of the 6th of January last, I enclose
you my papers for a pension claim together
with an explanation as to the mistake about my
age; will you, therefore, my Dear sir be so
good as to attend to the matter, & let me hear from
you upon the subject as early as possible.
I have the Hon to be
Yours very Respectfully,
Samuel Byland
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26.712
Mr [   ]
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Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 621

Mary Byland
Widow
Samuel Byland
Pvt., Rev. War
Act: Feby 3. 1853
Index: --Vol. A, Page 111
Arrangement of 1870.]
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Pension Office
Oct 10/53
Sir
Please report time of
last payment to, or
death of, within named
Pensioner.
Respectfully &c
F. Burt Esqr
I and S Cole  for Commb
Present
Samuel Byland, Act 32
$40  -- p. an. --- Died 4th March 1835
paid to his death

F. Burt
Auditor
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[Sidebar, Letter Cove with postmark]
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City, D. C.
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[Form]
Brief in the case of Mrs Mary Byland widow
Kenton County and State of Kentucky
Act of Feb. 3- 1853
Claim ("original" or " for increase.)
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband a private in the Virginia line one year a
pensioner under the act of June 7, 1832 at $40 per annum
& paid to his death March 4, 1835
Allowed $40 per annum

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim?  If so, what?

Marriage proved by E. W. Hull & Mary Newman
residents of said County who are certified to
be credible.
Death proved by Auditor's report
Identity " credible witnesses
Name and residence of Agent
Cambron & Fisk
Covington
Ky.

Examining Clerk.
J. S.  Gray
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State of Kentucky
Campbell County Sct
I John N Taliaferro Clerk of the
Campbell County Court do certify that William
B. Northcut whose name appears to the
within certificate is a Justice of the peace
in and for said county, and I believe his signature
to be genuine. In Testimony whereof
I have hereto subscribed my
name and affixed this
seal of said County this
18th day of March 1834
Jno N. Taliaferro Clk
Campbell County Court
----
I am personally acquainted with
the applicant and with the justice of
the peace-- this record is a true
genuine one & they are men of
the highest respectability-- the almost
confidence may be placed & ought
to be placed in his statement.
R.M. Johnson
29th March 1834
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Commonwealth of Ky ⎬ Sct
Campbell County
Personally appeared before the
undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for sd County
Samuel Byland and States upon oath that the word
67 years of age as it reads in his declaration should
be 77 and was a mistake either of him or the person
that drew the Declaration and further states he was about
19 years of age when he enlisted and further this Deponent
saith not. Given under my hand and seal this 14th
of March 1834.
Wm B. Northcutt  JPCC

We Wm Hume & Wm Bagby Residents of the
neighbourhood of Samuel Byland do hereby Certify
that we are well acquainted with sd Byland and that
it is believed by the neighbours generally and we
concur in the same opinion that he was a Revolutionary soldier and is of the age he represents
as witness our hands and seals this 14th March 1834.
William Hume
W Bagley
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State of Kentucky
County of Kenton
This affiant Mary Newman states
that she was acquainted with Samuel Byland
in his life time, and I am now acquainted with
his widow Mary Byland --she is still living in this
County with her son-in-law Eli T. Rusk.
Byland died in Campbell County
in this State somewhere about the year 1834 or 
1835. I knew them well, I lived near them.
They lived together as man and wife all the
time. I knew them untill he died. Samuel
Byland her husband sometimes preached-
He was a Methodist. His wife Mary was and is
a Methodist. I always understood Mr. Byland
was a Revolutionary Soldier. I got a Land
Warrant under the act of 1850, for the
services of my husband William Newman
for the War of 1812. I am in no way related
to Mrs. Byland and have no interest in her
application for pension.
Mary Neuman (her mark)
Attest
John F Fisk
George M. Southgate
Personally appeared before me, a Justice of the
Peace in and for the County aforesaid, Mary Neuman
subscribed and made oath to the above affidavit, and did hereby certify that Mary Newman is a lady of high standing, every way worthy of credit and I believe entirely disinterested in this case. I am also acquainted with widow Byland, and I
believe her claim is just, given under my hand this the 19th day of August in the year 1853.
George M Southgate J.P.K.C.
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State of Kentucky
County of Kenton

This affiant is the jailor of Kenton County
in the State of Kentucky, and has been for upwards of  Thirteen Years, I came to this county in 1821 and have remained her ever since. Samuel Byland
and Mary Byland his wife, were then living in this county as man and wife. This county was then called Campbell which was divided making a new County of Kenton, having one particle called Campbell, Samuel Byland, was a very pious man and sometimes preached, Mary his wife was, and is , a member of the Methodist Church. They lived together until Samuel died in about the year 1835 or 1836 in this county, then called Campbell. She 
is still living, is a widow and has so remained since Samuel's death. She is old and feeble, and lives with her son-in-law Eli T. Rusk in this county. I am an entirely disinterested witness in Mrs. Byland's Case.
C. W. Hull [Signature]

Personally appeared before me this the 20th day 
of August 1853, Calvin W. Hull, subscribed and made oath to the above affidavit, I hereby certify that Mr. Hull is the jailor of this Kenton County, that he is entitled to full faith and credence, as a 
man of undoubted veracity. I believe he is in no
way related to Mrs. Mary Byland and that he is 
entirely disinterested.
Given under my hand a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid and this the day, and date above written.
George M. Southgate J. P. K. C. [Signature]
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Mary Byland
widow of
Samuel Byland
Revolutionary
Pension Claim
---
Direct Pension Certificate
to Cambron & Fisk
Covington Kentucky

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Mrs Byland suggests that the allowance made her husband is too low for the criterion in her case. She is very poor and wants all the law
will allow her. She awaits a reply.

Respectfully
Cambron & Fisk
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State of Kentucky
County of Kenton
I Napoleon B. Stephens, Clerk of the
County Court in and for the County and State
above mentioned, do hereby certify that S. C. Perrin, P. J. K. C., whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing application of Mary Byland, is and was at the time of signing the same, the Presiding Judge of the Kenton County Court, of the State aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn; that all his official acts as such use entitled to full faith and credit; and I do hereby further certify that George M. Southgate,         J. P. K. C., whose genuine signature appears to the affidavits of Mary Newman and C. W. Hull 
(in Mrs. Byland's case) 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 are entitled to full faith and credit, 
and further that the aforesaid County Court
is a Court of Record, having general jurisdiction.
Seal of Office this the 20th day of August 1853.
N. B. Stephens [  ]
By  [   ]
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Mrs Byland suggests that the allowance made her husband is too low for the criterion in her case. She is very poor and wants all the law
will allow her. She awaits a reply.

Respectfully
Cambron & Fisk

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Mary Byland
widow of
Samuel Byland
Revolutionary
Pension Claim
---
Direct Pension Certificate
to Cambron & Fisk
Covington Kentucky