Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 389-100, William Hays, Penn.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Penn.
Hays, William
NUMBER
B.L. Wt. 389-100
CONTENTS
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No 389
William Hays
private
Pennsylvania Line
Issued 18 Jany 1888
& mailed to Wm Findlay Esq
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Know all men by these presents that we, John McColl and Mary his wife late Mary Hay formerly widow of William Hays Decd and John Hays part of the said William Hays of the Borough of Carlisle Cumberland County and State of Pennsylvania for and in consideration of the sum of thirty dollars to us in hand paid by James Brady of the Borough of Greensburgh in the County of Westmoreland and State aforesaid the recpt and payment whereof is hereby acknowledged Have granted bargained and sold and by these presents do
grant bargain and sell unto the said James Brady all our right title interest property claim and demand of in and to all land or land whatsoever with the appurtenances thereto belonging to which are entitled for the
service of said ription

William Hays as a Soldier in the Army of the United States to him the said James Brady his heirs and assigns - To have and to hold the said land and every part and parcel thereof forever, and the said John McCalla & Mary his wife, and John Hays as aforesaid for ourselves our heirs executors and administrators do hereby covenant and agree to and with the said James Brady his Heirs and assigns the aforesaid land we will warrant and forever defend from all and every person or persons lawfully claiming or to claim in through or under In Witness whereof in have set our hand & Seal the 15th day of April AD. 1887
Sealed & Delivered in presence of us
John P Helfenstein
his
John @ Mc Calla [handwritten seal]
mark 
her
Mary + Mc Calla [handwritten seal]
mark
Jno L Hays [handwritten seal]
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Received the day of the date of the within Instrument of writing of and from the within named James Brady the sum of thirty dollars in full for the consideration money within mentioned
his
John + Mc Calla
mark
her
Mary + Mc Calla
mark
Jno L Hays

Witness Present-
John P Helfenstein

Cumberland County ss
[handwritten seal]
Personally appeared before me the subscribed
one of the associate Judges of the Court of
Common pleas in and for the County of Cumberland the within named John McCalla and Mary his wife and John Hays son of William Hays Decd and acknowledged
the within nature to be their act and Deed and
desire the same may be recorded as such - In
Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal at Carlisle the 17th day of April An. Do. MDCCCVII.
John Creigh
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Hon Jno Sloane
al. 
Hays land
Lee Andr or Ann.
17 Jn 1828
389
Rev
[Illegible]
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War Depart: Bounty land Office
17 Jany 1829

The Honble [Honorable]
John Sloane
Sir
I have duly received yours, covering a lot to you from Adam Hays making inquiry after the
claim for bounty land by the heirs of his father.
It is a little strange that whilst he names the heir his uncle & Grandfather, he neither gives the na[missing text] of his father, or the line in which he served both must be known before [crossed out -are necessary for] a satisfactory [illegible] can be given  I guessed from the letter that his father probably might belong to the line of Virg'a or Penn'a. but if you know the name and line of the father be pleased to give it. I find that warrant No. 389 for 100 acres issued to William Hays of the Penna line on the 22d of Jany 1808 & was delivered to Wm Findlay, If the papers were ever here we know nothing about them, they were probably lost or burnt in 1814. and you will at once perceive we speak in the dark when we tell you of the issuing of the above mentioned warrant The latter is returned  

Your S
Robert Taylor
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Taylor Esq
Bounty Land 
Office
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House of Representatives
Jan 16th 1829 
Sir
I enclose you a letter from Mr Hays on the subject of bounty lands which he alleges to be due to his father, will you be so good as to examine the case and communicate the result to me
Very respectfully
Your Obt Serv

J. Sloane
[illegible] Taylor
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William Hays
District No 8
Donation Lands
200 acres
No 1717
Ret Sc 3d Oct 1806 to
Mary Mc Calla of
William Hays, Private
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[Box drawn at top with notations of makings that indicate perimeter of plot of land]
Top left corner: Post
Top right corner: Maple
Bottom left corner: Spa
Bottom right corner: Ash
Top Horizontal line: East 184
Left Vertical line: No 1718 North 185
Right Vertical line: No 1699 South 185
[Within square upper right indicated stream and there is a number. No MDCCXVII]

In pursuance of an act of General Assembly of the State of Pennsylvania passed the 24th day of February, 1783 entitled "an Act for directing
the mode of distributing the donation Lands promised the Troops by this Commonwealth, and by order of the Surveyor General with the approbation of the Honorable the Supreme Executive Counce I have surveyed on the 12th day of October 1785 the above described
Tract of two hundred acres of Land and allowance of six percent for Roads &c, No 1717 Situate in district No 8 on the West
Side of the Allegany River, in the County of Westmoreland
Alexander McDowell D S
To John Lukens Esqr
Surveyor General
I do certify that the above is a copy of a draft of a Tract of Land which appears to have been granted to Mary McCalla Widow of William Hays late a private in the Pennsylvania Line of
the Revolutionary Army of the United States as a donation for servises rendered by him in
said Line In testimony Whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and the seal of
said Office at Lancaster this 4th day of
April 1807
Saml Cochran Clk
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Deed Poll
John McCalla & Wife
and John Hays 
to 
James Brady
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Pennsylvania
Cumberland County to wit 
Personally appeared before her the Subscriber One of the associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas &c in and for the County aforesaid James Roney of the borough of Carlisle County and State aforesaid who being duly sworn agreeably to Law deposeth and Saith that he has known Mary Hays from Mary Mc Calla) late Widow of William Hays a Gunner in Col Proctor's Regiment of Artillerist, during the Revolutionary War, and that the said Mary had one child named John L. Hay's about 24 years go to the said William Hays and none other to the best of his knowledge, that the said Mary M Calla late Mary Haya and John L. Hays are now in full life, the said Mary being intermarried to John Mc Calla and said Deponent further saith not
James Rowney
Sworn & Subscribed
27th Octr 1807
Before
John Creigh