Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4884, Jared Bailey, Conn. R.I.
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(3--1776) 

SERVICE                                                 NUMBER
Conn.                 Bailey, Jared                W4884
 R. I.                         Elizabeth  
CONTENTS
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Territory of Wisconsin}
Dodge County } SS

          Be it Sworn that on the 
eighteenth day of November AD 1844 before the 
subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for 
the County aforesaid personally appeared 
John T Bailey of the town of Watertown in said 
Territory aged fifty two years who after by me 
being first duly sworn according to Law, did  
depose and say that he is a sone [sic] of Jared 
Bailey and Elizabeth his wife that his said 
father resided at the time of his death in the 
County of Guernsey in the State of Ohio and 
that his said mother still resides in said County
of Guernsey- that from his earliest recollection
his said father and mother lived together as 
husband and wife and he has no doubt but 
that they were [crossed out: married] legally married 
before the year 1790. that deponent has 
always understood and believes that his father 
was a soldier in the revolutionary war- and 
that he drew a pension for some time previous 
to his death on account of such services. That 
the record hereto attached is taken from the 
family Bible of this deponent and contains 
according to the best knowledge and belief 
of this deponent a true record of date of 
the birth of this deponent that said 
record was made by this deponent and 
is in his handwriting that the same was 
made about the year eighteen hundred & 
fifteen and this is certain that the same 
was made before the year eighteen hundred 
seventeen and that the said Record has remained 
in the possession and custody of this 
deponent untill the present time.
And further this deponent saith not.
                     [signed] John T Bailey
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I certify that the aforesaid affidavit was 
subscribed and sworn to before me on 
the day therein mentioned and I further 
certify that said deponent John T Bailey 
is known to me to be a man of credit 
truth and veracity
      [signed] Benj'a Laborer Justice of the peace
                      In and for said County 

Wisconsin Territory}
    Dodge County   } SS 
         I William M Dennis Clerk of 
the District Court of the United Sates in 
and for said county do certify that Benjamin
Laborer Esquire whose name is attached 
to the aforesaid certificate is a Justice of the 
peace in and for said County that he is legally 
authorized to administer oaths and take 
depositions and that I am well acquainted 
with his signature and that his signature 
to the aforesaid certificate is genuine.
     In testimony thereof I have here 
     unto set my hand and affixed the seal 
     of said Court this 25th day of November 
     AD 1844 
                        [signed] Wm M. Dennis, Clerk
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[illegible]
[illegible] ss
Harry Bailey was born 
the year 99

Eunice Bailey was 
Born the year 1816 
April the 20 

[illegible]
of March

John Bailey was born March 
the 11 of 1825

Harrieta Bailey was born the 
August 20th of [illegible]
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John T Bailey 
                 1792
Was born the year 
May the 11 1792

Eunice Bailey was born 
the year 1816 April 20

Jared Bailey was born
the year 1820 month [1 illegible]
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Elizabeth Bailey
Pension
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                    Declaration. 
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 
1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain 
widows." 

State of Ohio } ss  
Guernsey County}
On this  [1 crossed out] day of [crossed out: August] in the year
of our Lord Eighteen hundred and forty four  
personally appeared before the Judges of the Court of 
Common Pleas in and for said County of Guernsey in open Court Elizabeth
Bailey a resident of Center Township in the County of Guernsey
aforesaid aged seventy six years, who being first duly sworn
according to law, doth, on her oath make the following declaration 
in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of 
Congress passed July 7, 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay 
and pensions to certain widows:" That she is the widow of 
Jared Bailey deceased, who was a private and corporal in the 
Connecticut line of the Army of the Revolution, that she is unable to 
State the Regiment or Company in which he so served. She also thinks
it probable that her said husband served for some period in the 
Rhode island line of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary 
War, but of this she is not certain. She further declares that she 
was married to the said Jared Bailey on the Seventh day of 
April in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-eight, that 
her husband the aforesaid Jared Bailey died on the twenty-sixth
day of August in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, that 
she was not married to him prior to his leaving the Service but the 
marriage took place previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred 
and ninety-four and at the time above stated that the said Jared 
Bailey received a pension from the United States on account of his 
services in the Revolutionary War under the act of 1832 and that 
he resided in said Guernsey County at the time of obtaining said pension 
and at the time of his death. 
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court 
on the day and year aforesaid
Attested [signed] Theo W. Peacock Clerk [illegible]
               her
Elizabeth  x   Bailey 
             mark
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The State of Ohio} ss.
Guernsey County}
 Be it Known that on the 13th day of  
March A.D. 1845 before me 
a Justice of the Peace in and for said County
personally appeared William W. Lacy known by me to be a man 
of respectability and truth who being by me first duly sworn
according to law deposeth and saith, and the within 
declaration of Elizabeth Bailey was sworn to and subscribed by her in Open
Court before the Court Court of Common Pleas for said County 
of Gurnsey on the eleventh day of August A.D. 1843 and
that since that time he has himself drawn a pen over 
the words "Eleventh" and "August" in the first line of said 
declaration and the word "three" in the second line of said 
Declaration and the word "five" in the sixth line of said declaration 
and interlined the word "four" in said Second line and the and word "five" in the sixth line, and further saith not.
                                    [signed] W. W. Lacy

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and
year above before me, Allen W. Betts  First Justice of the Peace

The State of Ohio Guernsey County ss
I Thomas W. Peacock
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said
County of Guerney hereby certify that the within
declaration of Elizabeth Baily was by her sworn to and
subscribed before the Judges of the Court of Common
Pleas in and for said County in open Court on the eleventh
day of August, eighteen hundred and forty-three, and that
a pen has since been drawn over the words "Eleventh" and "August"
in the first line the word, "three" in the second line and the
word "five" in the sixth line, and that the words "four" in the second
line and six in the sixth line have been since interlined, and
that Allen Bently Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit
of W. W. Lacy was sworn to and subscribed is a justice of the Peace
duly commissioned and qualified as such, and authorised
by the laws of said State to administer oaths, and that
his signature attached to said affidavit is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereto
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set my hand and affixed the seal of said
Court at Cambridge this thirteenth day of
March A.D. 1845.
Attest
[signed] Thos W. Peacock Clerk
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State of Ohio } ss
Guernsey County}
Amended declaration of Jared Bayley [Bailey]
on 22 - day of May 1833
personally appeared before me, the undersigned 
a Justice of the Peace in and for 
the county aforesaid Jared Bailey. Who being duly 
sworn disposeth 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 five months I Served 
as a private. For one year, I Served 
as a private 
For three months I Served as a private. For 
Eight days, I Served as a private. For five 
months, I Served as a corporal, and for Seven 
months, I Served as a private. The whole period
 I Served I think was at least two years three 
months and Eight days as a private and five 
months as a corporal making all together, two 
years, Eight months and Eight days. And for 
such service I claim a pension. I further state 
that at the time I made my first declaration 
before the court that it was not considered 
to be absolutely necessary to have a clergyman 
to certify for me and it being very inconvenient 
for me at that time to procure one, the 
court therefore dispensed with that part, but I 
have now procured The Reverend William Jarvis 
who is a Resident of the Said County of Guernsey 
Ohio and Zaccheus A Beatty of the Town of 
Cambridge in that County. 
                              [signed] Jared Bailey
Sworn & Subscribed 
the day and Year aforesaid. 
[signed] Nicholas Bailhache Justice of the peace
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We, William Jarvis, a Clergyman, residing in the 
Said
County of Guernsey, State of Ohio and Zaccheus
 A Beatty of the same county hereby certify that 
we are well acquainted with Jared Bailey who 
has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration; 
that we believe him to be seventy four 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. 
                           [signed] William Jarvis  
                           [signed] Z A Beatty
Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid
  Before me 
  [signed] Nicholas Bailhache           
  Justice of the peace 

And the Said Nicholas Bailhache, Justice of the peace, 
doth hereby declare his opinion after the investigation 
of the matter that the aforesaid applicant was 
a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. 
And I further certify, that it appears to me 
that William Jarvis who has signed the preceeding 
certificate, is a Clergyman, resident in the same 
county of Guernsey, Ohio. That Zaccheus A Beatty, 
who has also Signed the Same is a resident in the same 
county and is a credible person and that their Statement 
is entitled to credit. Given under my 
hand and seal the day and year aforesaid
                   [signed] Nicholas Bailhache {Seal}
                                Justice of the peace

State of Ohio Guernsey County ss
I [signed] Moses Sarchet Clerk of the Court of Common pleas for said county, do certify that the above and within signed Nicholas
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Bailhache Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn 
was at the time a Justice of the peace in and for the said county of 
Guernsey duly elected Commissioned and sworn, and duly 
empowered to administer oaths, to whose official acts all 
faith and credit are due - and I do further certify that 
the foregoing signatures of the said Justice are genuine.
          On Testimony whereof I have 
          hereunto set my hand and affixed 
          the seal of said Court at Cambridge 
          in said county this twenty-
          second day of May, Anno Domini
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
                       [signed] Moses Sarchet, Clerk
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[on left side]
1190     Cincin't
      Ohio
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Elizabeth Bailey
widow of Jared Bailey
Con'n
who served in the Revolutionary 
war, as a Pvt & Corpl
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
81 Dollars 67
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848.
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Certificate of Pension issued the
11th day of August 48
and sent to
Hon. N. Evans
Hos of Reps
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Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 333 Vol. 4

[on right side]
Reported
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[Much of the ink is so light it is illegible]
[Crossed out: Ohio] Wheeling
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Jared Bailey
Guernsey Co in the State of Ohio
he was a Pvt & Cpl in the Company commanded
by Captain [illegible] of the Regt commanded
by [illegible] in the Connt
[line] for [illegible]
5 Months [illegible]     183
[illegible]                       63.33    81.64 2/3
=============================                  
Inscribed on the Roll of Con
at the rate of 81 Dollars 64 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 28th day of April
[illegible] and sent to
Hon Jared Bailey Cambridge Ohio
==============================
Arrears to the 4th of [illegible]                          245.10
Simi-annual allowance ending Sept [illegible] __40.83__
                                                                         $285.83

                                               { Revolutionary Claim, }
                                               {   Act June 7, 1832.     }                       
Recorded by J T Sprague Clerk
Book C    Vol. 81   Page  3


[On right side]
Let. to Pension Agent Ohio
Feb 21, 1837, informing
him that the Pensioner will
receive his pension a
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Let. to Pen. Agt Wheeliay, Apt 7, 1837.
Informing him
that Pensioner was
paid to the 4th of March, 1836, in Ohio
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Letter 24th April 1837. Pen Agent
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let to W W Tacy Aug 7. 1843
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12,827
Jared Bailey
O.
Bundle No 17-
12 mo pri 78
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State of Ohio} ss 
Guernsey County}
 On this 19th day of September 1832 personally appeared
in open court of Common pleas now sitting, Jared
Bailey resident of the Township of Centre, in the County aforesaid 
aged Seventy four 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
act of congress passed June 7th 1832. That he the said Bailey as well as he now recollects
(not having the record of his birth having left it in the State of Connecticut) was
born on the 20th day of August in the year 1758 near the town of New London in the
State of Connecticut whilst was young his father moved with his family to the town 
of Voluntown in the County of Windham in said State, at which place he entered
the Service of the United States under the following officers and served as herein stated
viz first he the said Bailey Volunteered his services under Captain John
Gordon he thinks the Lieutenants name was Campbell & the Ensigns name was
Edmonds and thinks they marched from Voluntown, about the latter part of May
or first of June, the year he does not positively recollect but believes it was in the
year 1776. Col Gordon commanded the Regiment and he thinks General
Douglass commanded the Brigade, they marched through Newhaven, Old
Fairfield, New Rochel, Rye, East Chester, Westchester to near Kingsbridge
or Fort Washington, where they lay for a Short time, whilst the troops lay
at this place he went on an expedition with about fifty or sixty men to Hurt
gate he thinks the officers name that commanded on this expedition was
Dunlap on Dulah on their return to Kingsbridge the army marched
to the white plains where they had a Battle with the enemy he thinks that
he was discharged the day after this battle and that his discharge was
Signed by Genl Douglas, he had the discharge in his possession for a number
of years but finally lost it-- how long he was in the Service at that time
he does not recollect but thinks it was five or 
six months - he afterwards
volunteered his services for one year with what was called the minute
men they had no particular officers to command them they Slept every
night with a part of their clothes on, with their Guns & knapsacks at their
heads, they found their own guns amunition & provisions and whenever
any alarm was given they went under the first Officers they came across
he does not recollect what year this was in but it was at a time when
the British army or a part of it laid at Newport in Rhode Island and
frequently sent marauding parties out to plunder &c and they volunteered the
Services to assist in preventing them as much as possible - he afterwards
enlisted under Capt Butts for three months to guard a small town
called Bristol in Rhode Island the other officer names he does not
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recollect there was Several other companies there and the whole was
under the command of Genl West they marched from Voluntown
to Bristol Some time in the month of april but does not recollect
in what year - he afterwards volunteered for a short tour under
Capt Moses Campbell to go to New London in Connecticut his tour
was short perhaps not more than eight or ten days
he the said Baily afterwards enlisted in the State troops at Voluntown 
in Connecticut with Leiut Amos Frink for one year he
does not recollect in what year this was they marched from Voluntown
to Howlands Ferry near Old Bedford where they joined Capt
Happens Company there Lieut Frink was discharged or broke for Some
misconduct, he does not recollect what officer took his place Col
Happen Commanded the Regiment in Genl Carmals Brigade Genl
Sullivan had the chief command they crossed over to Newport
he thinks about the first of September and remained on the Island
for about a month during which time they had a Severe engagement
with the enemy, the Regiment of Blacks about Eight hundred strong was nearly all cut off he understood that Col Greenes
Regiment were all cut off to about Seventeen. Shortly after the
Battle they recrossed over to Howlands Ferry. Some Short time
after this Cap. Aaron Man [Mann] came to the camp and [crossed out: their] [inserted: our] officers told
us that he wanted about thirty young man as near of a size as he could
get them, they told us they were going on to take Quebec, there
was he thinks thirty three of them volunteered to go with him. he had
then served in Col Happens Reg about six months five months he served as corporal. Capt Man [Mann] Marched
them from Howlands Ferry to the Town of Providence there they were
attached to Gen Sullivans life guard under the command of Capt
Man [Mann] the Lieutenants were Potter & Hoppin [Hoppen] he remained at
Providence as a private until his time was out when he was discharged, he thinks
this discharge was Signed by Captain Man [Mann] he believes it was
dated on the 16th day of March but does not recollect the year. This discharge was lost.
He the said Bailey was afterwards drafted in the State of Rhode
Island for one month but could not go, but hired a Substitute
for which he paid him fifteen dollars & equiped him-
After the war he the Said Baily [Bailey] Setted in Rhode Island and lived
there Some years but does not recollect how long, he moved from there
to the Town of Cambridge in the County of Washington, State of New York
he lived there about Six years, then moved to Roxbury in Delaware County
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State of New York he lived there about Eight years, he then moved
from there to the County of Guernsey, State of Ohio he lived in
the said County of Guernsey Centre Township for the last fourteen years-          He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever
to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name
is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State 
     Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.              [signed] Jared Bailey

We John Beaham, and Bennet Lucas residing
in the County
of Guernsey, State of Ohio hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with
Jared Bailey who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; 
that we believe him to be Seventy four 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 day and year aforesaid
                              [signed] John Beaham
                              [signed] Bennet Lucas

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investgation
of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories presented
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 John Beaham &
Bennet Lucas who have signed the preceeding certificate, are residents in the County of Guernsey, and are credible persons, and that
their statement is entitled to credit.
Ol [sic] Moses Sarchet Clerk of the Court of Common
pleas of the County of Guernsey in the State of Ohio do certify
that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of
the said Court in the matter of the application of Jared
Bailey for a pension.

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand and seal of
Office this nineteenth day of September 
A.D. 1832-
                         [signed] Moses Sarchet Clk
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No 12.827.
Jared Bailey
Guernsey County
Ohio

[crossed out: Return]
Adm 5 Month Corporal
    "    1 year 7 months private

         22.00
        __3.66__
          18.34

Z. A. Beatty Esq
Cambridge
Guernsey Co
Ohio
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War Department 
Pension Office
11 July 1893
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 complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

A Statement showing the service of Jared Bailey Guernsey Co Ohio

|  Period when the service was rendered.  |  Duration of the claimant's service  |  Rank of the claimant.  |  Names and Rank of the Field officers under whom he served.  |  Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service |  Proof by which the declaraton is supported.  |
|         |  Years  |  Months |  Days |          |          |         |          |
| May 21 1776  |          |  5 mos. |          |  pv | Col Gordon   | 74 years | Traditional |
|        |        |      |       |      | Cap Gordon   | Windham  |          |
|  Vol  |   1   |        |          |         |  Minute Man  |  County  |           |     
 |   Eng.  |       |  3  |        |         | Capt Butts  |  Conn't |          | 
|  Vol |        |         |   8   |          | Cap Moses Campbell  |          |          |
|  End  * |   1   |        |          | pv &        |  Minute Man  |  County  |           |
 |         |          |        |          | Corporal |         |          |           | 
* 7 Months of this term                 I am respectfully,
   Private & 5 Corporal                   Your obedient servant
                                          [signed] J. L. Edwards  
                                                       Commissioner of Pensions 

The applicant is advised to apply to the Comptroler of 
the State at Hartford Connecticut for evidence
of Service.
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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.
Statem Territory, or District of }
County of                                 } ss
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 
following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provion 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. [Pointing finger] 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 __________ , who has
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 day 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.
I, __________ 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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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 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 State
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
enquiry 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
required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the
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. 

     [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 periods of the war when he served.
     [e] Every continental office 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. In 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 [italics: 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 affix 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.

Mode of authenticating papers.
     In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains }
the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must }
pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate. }
[Brackets indicate items still needed for proof]

Proof of Service.
     [j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses
who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well }
as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. [Underlined to the end of this line] The magistrate who may administer oaths in the credibility of the witnesses, }
and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
     [Pointing finger] The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops, The proof required by rule in
note [j] applies to continental troops only.
     [k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
     [l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
     [m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
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WAR RECORDS SECTION                     3---525

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., __________,19 ___

[in pencil]
W4884

     In reply to your request of .............., for the history of Jared Bailey a soldier of the Revolutionary War,
the following is taken from the Dept. of War claim for pension.

| DATES OF            | LENGTH OF | RANK | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED | STATE. |
| ENLISTMENT OR |   SERVICE    |            |                                                                                     |            |  
| APPOINTMENT   |                     |            |          CAPTAIN.                    |          COLONEL             |            |
| May 21, 1776      | 5 m served  |  Pvt     |         Capt. Gordon               |          Gordon                |  Conn  | 
|   At various         |  3 mo           |  and    |              Butts                       |                                       |   RI      |
|                   2yrs  | 8  mo 3 days| Corp    |   Moses Campbell               |                                       | Conn   |
|                            |                      |            |       Happen                         |        Happen                  |    "       |
|                            |                      |            |  Aaron Man [Mann]            |                                       |    "       |

Battles engaged in, White Plains, Sullivans Co in R. I.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Voluntown, Windham, Conn
Date of application for pension, Sept 19 1832 AD
Residence at date of application, Centre, Guernsey, Ohio
Age at date of application, ab. Aug 20 1758 in New Haven Conn
Remarks: Haman Act of 1788 Elizabeth Bailey 
b. Aug 26, 1839 in Guernsey Co., Ohio and [5-6 illegible] Aug. 11, 1843
while residing in Centre Twsp, Ohio age 76 yrs Son John was b. May 11
1792 lived in Watertown, Dodge Co. Wis in 1844-Son John T marrys [4 illegible] 
Nancy Bailey b. ---99? (Eunice Bailey
b. April 20 1832. Jonah Bailey b. 
May 11 1823, Harrieta Bailey b. Aug 20, 1822) one name illegible
b. 1820
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[on left side]
7241
Ohio
================
Elizabeth, Bailey, 
widow of Jared Bailey,
who was a Private & Corporal
in the Connecticut line
===================
Inscribed on the Roll of the rate of 
41 Dollars 66
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
===================
Certificate of Pension issued the 
25 day of August, 1845,
and sent to W. W. Tracy
Cambridge,
Ohio
====================
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
    & 14 June, 1844
Recorded in Book: A
Vol. 2 Page 201

[on right side]
let to Hon A Harper Dec 17 '46
 "    "   same  Dec 23, 1846

[written verticaly]
[illegible]:  820
Page 25

[on left side]
Increase      7243
Ohio
================
Elizabeth Bailey
widow of Jared Bailey
who was a Pr. & Corpl
in the Revolution
Husband died 26 Augt 1839
===============
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
 81 Dollars  67
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
====================
Certificate of Pension issued the
11th day of August 1848
and sent to
Hon. N. Evans
Hos of Reps

[Acts of March 3, 1843, and June
            17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2  Page 201
Increased from $41.66. Deduct
former payments under these acts

[on right side]
Reported
Page 26

[on left side]
Increase
9571
Ohio
==================
Elizabeth Bailey
Widow of Jared Bailey
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832
and who died on the 26 August, AD 1839
of Guernsey in the State of Ohio
who was a pri & Copl in the Compy
commanded by Captain Gordon of the
Reg commanded by ---------- in
the Revolution [crossed out: line] for -------

Inscribed on the Roll of Cincinatti
at the rate of 81  Dollars 67
Cents per annum, to commence on the 26th day of August, 1839

Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of
August 11th [sic] 1848 and send to Hon. N. Evans, Hous of Reprs.
=====================
Total amount,       $ ______

[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by [signed] Tho. Tumpkin  Clerk,
Book D  Vol.  1   Page  383
Increased from $41.66. Deduct
[illegible] in payments.

[on right side of page]
Reported
Page 27

State of Ohio } ss
County of Guernsey}
On this 27th day of July A.D. 1848 personally
 appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace
in and for said County Elizabeth Bailey a
resident of said County who being first duly sworn according 
to law stateth that she is the widow of Jared Bailey late of
said County, deceased, who during his natural life was a
revolutionary pensioner under the act of the 7th of June 1832.
at the rate of $83.20 (or there abouts), per annum and that she
is now in the receipt of pension at the rate of $41.60 (or there abouts) 
per annum.  Now the object of this declaration being 
made is in order to assert a claim at the 
same rate of
pension which the said Jared Bailey deceased husband
of the said Elizabeth Bailey received in his life time, in line
of the amount which she now receives, claiming on the evidence
filed in her late husbands case and under the resolution
of Congress approved the 1st of July instant, claiming such increase
of pension from the death of her said husband she further
declares that she is still a widow.
                                      her
                       Elizabeth  X   Bailey
                                     mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the
day and year above written
In the presence  of               her    
                               Rebecca   X   Moffett
                                             mark

Before me Joseph Black a Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that Elizabeth Bailey the above named affiant
is well known to me and that she is the widow of the late
Jared Bailey who was a revolutionary pensioner. July 27th 1848
         [signed] Joseph Black Justice of the Peace

The State of Ohio, Guernsey County ss
I Thomas Peacock clerk of the court of Common Pleas for said county
do hereby certify that Joseph Black Esq'r before whom the foregoing oath was sworn
to and subscribed is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly
commissioned and qualified and that his commission as such Justice of
the Peace bears date on the 8th day of November AD 1845 and expires on the
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on the 8th day of November AD 1848 and that his signatures attached to the
foregoing Affidavit and certificate are genuine-
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of said Court at Cambridge this
Twenty Eighth day of July AD 1848
Attest [signed] Tho W. Peacock  Clerk
Com. Pleas GCO
Page 29


J. L. Edwards Esquire
Court of Pensions
Washington City

[written vertically left of address]
June 17 1843
Ohio
Jared Bailey
Page 30

Cambridge Ohio13th of June 1843

James L Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir,
Jared Bailey
a Pensioner under the act of 1832 late of Guernsey County
Ohio, died in August 1839. his widow Elizabeth Bailey
of this County is still living she was married to him, as she
informs me, in 1788 and is still a widow. If not inconsistent with rules of your office. I will thank you to inform
me if in the furnishing of the proper evidence she will
entitled to any pension under the act of July 7th 1838 or under
any amendments to the same and if not will
She be entitled to a pension under the act of the 3d of
March last?          I am Very Respectfully
                                your obt Serv't
                   [signed] W. W. Tracy
P.S. Proof of Marriage in the above named case will
have to be obtained from Com of Rhode Island, which I trust
will be sufficient apology for asking information before
going to the trouble & expense of getting evidence-
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[on left side]
11.538
Elizabeth Bailey
       Ohio
~~~~~~~~~
Suspended
Let to W W Tracy  March 13 '45
Let to same May 22 '45

Act July 7 '38

[on right side]
     24 89
    _____5__
      44 0   (18.33
   __24___
   [illegible]
   ____192____
            8
                       
      23.33
  ___18.33__
       41.66
Page 32

Increase
Elizabeth Baily [Bailey]
wd of Jared
      &
Act 7 July 1838
aomd  $81.17 per am
from 26 Aug't '39 to 4 March
1841 deducting what
has been paid at the rate
of 41.11 per am for same
time.
[1 illegible] Acts 3 March 1843 and
17 June 44 $81.17 per am 
from 4 March 1843 to 4 March
1848, deducting what has been
paid for same time at 41.1 [1 illegible]
[1 illegible] Act 2 Feb 48
81.17per Ann
from 4 March 48
            [signed] Hon N Evans
                             House mem
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9571.
Ohio
============
Elizabeth Bailey,
widow of Jared Bailey,
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832,
and who died on the 26th August, 1839,
of Guernsey Coy in the State of Ohio--
who was a priv & Corpl. in the compy:--
commanded by Captain Gordon --- of the
___________ commanded by _________ in
the Connecticut - line for
=====================
Inscribed on the Roll of Cincinnati
at the rate of 41 - Dollars 66
Cents per annum, to commence on the [crossed out: 4th day]
of [crossed out: March 1836]  26th. August, 1839 --
========================
Certificate of Pension issued the 25th
day of
August 1845 and sent to W. W.
Tracy, Cambridge, Ohio --
====================
           Total amount,  $_____
                               [Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by [illegible] Stewart  Clerk
Book D Vol. 1 Page 383
Page 34

[vertical on left side]
1923 Mar 8 hist. to Mrs. T W Hutton    aw
1923. May 17, Mrs. T.W. Hutton ad as to
family record     aw

[on rght side]
Revy WIDOW, &c.
-------------------
File No. 4884
Eliz'th Bailey 
Wid 
Jared Bailey
Corpl. Rev. War
--------------------
Act: Feby, 24/48
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 30

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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[Postmark]
    Pension
      MAR
  U   13   S
      1923
     OFFICE
Page 36

Ryesville O. Mch 12-1923
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Dear sir, I thank you very
kindly for the information given
me concerning Jared Bailey A
soldier of the Revolution. I find
the name of my grandfather is
omitted from the record - his name
Sidney W. Bailey born in 1807 or
1808
as [sic] died in 1860 age 62 yrs.
Possibly, he was the one making the
application for his father; and he
was the one that inherited his
Page 37

fathers farm and died on the 
same
farm that his father
Jared Bailey died - and are
buried in a cemetary adjoining
same land, This is a correct
statement. While my Grandfather
died before I was born, my
Grandmother lived with us
that is with her daughter Mary of
whom I am a daughter.
Possibly his name was the ineligible
one, I am joining the D A R
and this omission from the family
record may make some difficulty
Page 38

Just one son of Sidney Bailey
is still living but quite a
number of Grandchildren.
And writing this thinking it might
help in the deciphering the name.
I found two Johns mentioned &
of course that was unreasonable
two Johns in same family. One son and one grandson.
No doubt the record was poorly
written, as the people in those
days were very limited in opportunities
of education.  Thanking you again
for kindness and [1 illegible].
                  Very truly yours
         Mrs. T. W. Hutton [signed]
222 High Ave.               Byesville, Ohio
Page 39

Rev. War Section.
                                       May 17, 1923.
Mrs. T. W. Hutton,
233 High Ave.
Byesville, Ohio

Madam: 
     In response to your letter of the 12th March 1923, relative to the Revolutionary War pension claim, 
W. 4884, I have to advise you that the names of the 
children of the soldier Jared Bailey are not stated 
in said claim with the exception of that of son John 
T. Bailey who was born May 11, 1792, and who in 1844, 
furnished his own family record, from which the other 
names furnished you March 8, 1923, were taken.
     There is no mention in said claim of any member
 of the family who was born in 1807, or 1808.
                 Respectfully,
   [signed] Washington Gardner
                 Commissioner.
Page 40

11-538
Elizabeth Bailey
       Ohio
Act July 7th '38 

[1 illegible] Dec 20 '44

   aomd
    7 mo pri
 __5__ --   Corp'l
  41.66 from
26 Aug 39 the day of
her husband's death.
Also Act 3 March
43 & 17 June 44
W. W. Tracey [signed]
Cambridge
Ohio
Page 41

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July
1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."

State of Ohio} ss.
Guernsey County}   On this Eighteenth day of October in the year of
our Lord Eighteen hundred and forty four personally
appeared before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and
for Said County of Guernsey in Open Court Elizabeth Bailey a resident
of Center Township in the County of Guernsey aforesaid aged Seventy
Six years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on
her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain
the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed
July 7 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions
to certain widows." That she is the widow of Jared Bailey deceased
who was a private and corporal in the Continental line of the Army
of the Revolution that she is not able to state the company or Regiment
in which he so served. She further declares that she was married
to the said Jared Bailey on the Seventh day of April in the year
Seventeen hundred and eighty eight that her husband the said
Jared Bailey died on the twenty sixth day of August in the year
Eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, that she was not married
to him prior to his leaving the  Service but the marriage took place
previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred and
ninety-four, viz: at the time above stated, that the said Jared Bailey
received a pension from the United States in his life time under 
the act of 1832, on account of his Services in the Revolutionary war,
and that the aforesaid Jared Bailey resided in said Guernsey 
County at the time of obtaining said pension and at the time of his
death.               her
          Elizabeth  X  Bailey
                       mark
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court
on the eighteenth day of October A.D. 1844.
      [signed] Att'y Tho's W. Peacock Clerk

The State of Ohio Guernsey County ss.
I Thomas W Peacock Clerk of the Court
of Common pleas in and for said County hereby certify
Page 42

that the foregoing declaration of Elizabeth Bailey was by
her sworn to and subscribed before said Court of Common
pleas in open Court on the Eighteenth day of October
in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and
forty four.        In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal of said Court
at Cambridge this sixteenth day of December
A.D. 1844.
     Attest      Thos W Peacock Clerk [signed]
                  per R. L. Lednak  Deputy
Page 43

J. L. Edwards Esq
Comr of Pensions
Washington City
                           DC

[vertical on left]
Mar 20
[in pencil] 26
Jared Bailey
Ohio Pitt
Page 44

North Western Bank of [illegible]
March 16. 1831

J. L. Edwards Esq
Com'r of Pensions

      Dr Sir
                Jared Barley of Guernsey Co Ohio, a
pensioner under the act of 7 June 1832. Claims his pension from
4 March 1826. He was not on the [1 illegible] Roll and not knowing 
from what agency he was transferred. I must trouble you to
inform me, up to what time he was last paid--
Yours of the 9th & 10th inst have been
received
I am
respectfully yours
Arch Wood 
     Pension Agt
John S. Browne [signed]
Page 45

   [Postmark]
    PENSION
        FEB
    U    3    S
        1932
      OFFICE
Page 46

             [checkmark] g--1 d stamped
Rev Sec                              envelope
      aw                               enclosed  ep
                               Byesville O. Feb 1- 1923

Commissioner of Pensions;
Washington D.C.

Dear sir, will you kindly 
advise me if one Jared 
Bailey (or often spelled 
otherwise) was granted a 
pension for services in 
the Revolutionary War.
Jared or Jarad Bailey 
was my Great Grandfather 
and from where he enlisted 
I cannot say, Connecticut, 
Rhode Island or New York. 
He was born in 1757- 
died here in Guernsey Co. 
Ohio in 1839 in 82nd yr
 of his age. 
Am looking up data
to join the Guernsey
Chapter D.A.R. being
organized in Cambridge
they want to complete the
organization by Feb 22nd.
Please help me with what
data you can immediately,
and obige.
Very truly yours,
Mrs T.W. Hutton [signed]
222 High Ave
Byesville, O
Page 47


Washington Dec 21 1846

Sir
In reply to the [1 illegible] in [1 illegible]
of the 17th instant in regard to the
purpose for which copies of the papers
of Elizabeth Baily is desired, I have
only to say that they [1 illegible]
wanted to be [1-3 illegible] & referred
in the [1 illegible] in the Court that
she cannot obtain relief at the
Department.
Very Respectably [1 illegble]
Alex Harper [signed]

J. L. Edwards Esq [signed]
   Com. Pensions
Page 48

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those
answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of
Jared Bailey   which require
further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?   Yes

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason
assigned for his not doing so?

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? No

V. Has he mentioned 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 amout [sic] of pension
he is entitled?   No

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?  Yes

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of
June 7, 1832?   Yes

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Yes

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished
from any other seal? Yes
Page 49

2

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to
their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary
service?   No

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining
it?    No

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one
living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?

XIV. If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who
administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility?
Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under
his seal of office?

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age,
as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And,
if not, which of them is not so answered?

EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In 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 ------; and for such service I claim a pension."
Page 50

3
It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the 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 [italicsized: about three or four months] is too
indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.

QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he
must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits
the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as 
well as the regiment, company, and line to which be belonged. The magistrate who may administer
the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature
of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.

QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not
written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the
certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must
pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly
attached to the certificate.
Page 51

   [envelope]
[upside down]
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions
     Present.

[vertical text]
Dec 6 1845

Recd
Elizabeth Cook
          &
Elizabeth Bailey
Page 52


Washington Dec'r 5th 1845

Sir
I am informed by W. W. Tracy Esq of
Ohio who procured a pension for Mrs Elizabeth
Cook widow of Thomas dec'd as a Lieutenant,
that he considered the widow of being entitled
to a pension for his service as a captain the
grade in which he served & also informs me
that the claim of Mrs Elizabeth Bailey widow
of Jared Bailey dec'd which was allowed for one
years service,should have been a full pension
If you will permit me to examine the papers
with a view to establish the amount of service 
& grades set forth in order to an increase 
of their pension, to what they believe
themselves justly entitled, you will
confer a favor upon the widows
through their agent & yours.
                Your Obed't Serv't
                        Nathan Leake

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Com'r of Pensions
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Bayley [Bailey]     Aug 22d 45
D6.

James L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D. C

    [Postmark]
    CAMBRIDGE  
           AUG
             18
             OH
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Cambridge Ohio August 18th 1845.

J.L. Edwards Esquire
Com'r of Pensions

                        Sir
                            In accordance with
the directions contained in your letters of the 13th of March and
22d of May last, I have written to the Comptroller of the
State of Connecticut for proof of the services of Jared Bailey
in the Revolutionary War, to be laid before you as evidence
of the right of his widow Elizabeth Bailey to a pension under 
the act of July 7th 1838, he has replied that the records of his
office contain no evidence of the service of Jared Bailey. As
I know of no other source from which evidence of the
Revolutionary Services of Jared Bailey could be obtained
and as one years Service is admitted in your favor
of March 13th 1845, I suppose we must limit Mrs Bailey's
claim accordingly unless you can direct us to Some other
Source of evidence. I have not been able to obtain
the additional proof of marriage requested in yours of March
13th; immediately after its receipt I addressed a letter to the
Town Clerk of West Greenwich Rhode Island, (the Town in
which Mrs. Bailey informs me), the marriage took place and
endowed to pay for examination &c. I have not as yet
received any reply about two months since I wrote to the
Post Master of the same place requesting information on the
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same subject and also to know whether my previous letter
to the Town Clerk had been received.
The Post Master
has treated me with as little attention as the Town Clerk.
I and my $3. out of pocket and not a word from either
of them. I do not know what I can do further unless
I go there and examine for myself which it appears to
me should not be necessary. I have taken a great deal
of trouble to find out the usual evidence of marriage in
this case, but the family were very illiterate, many of them
could never write and then most of the children
left this part of the County many years since, John
F. Bailey whose record and deposition is on file
in your office in this case is the only child so far
as I have been able to discover who professes
to have a record of their age, that record has been
forwarded to you accompanied by the usual proof
in Similar cases. but it is Said that that record "does not
bear Sufficiently the impress of antiquity to be received as evidence
of an event So long past:" A paper may possibly possess Such
evident marks of recent origin as to outweigh direct competent, 
credible and positive evidence of its antiquity
but certainly in order to do so Such marks should be of a
positive and conclusive character to Set Such evidence
aside on Slight circumstances of Suspicion cannot be
according to any principle of law or to the dictates of Common 
Sense justice. I do not pretend to Say that the
record on file in this case may not possess Such works
as clearly justify its rejection. I possess no skill in Such matters
nor has my attention been directed to that question as
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when the record was in my posession from the Slight examination 
which I gave it. I did not notice any thing Suspicious in its
appearance, and from what knowledge I have of the Bailey
family I had no reason to Suspect anything wrong with
the record. Under the circumstances of this case I ask
that the record on file may again be carefully examined
and that if on Such re-examination you should Still
think the record is inadmissable as evidence in this case
you will inform me whether I can yet-- from the
date at which that record was made by the wife or other
members of Mr. Baileys family or by strangers if I shall
be able to do!  and if so how Such proof Shall
be taken! Will the record be returned to me for
that purpose? or can the proof be made
Sufficiently Specific and definite in the absence
of the record? I have only to Say in conclusion that [written in the margin: (1 illegible) of his 
from all I know of this case I have no reason to
doubt but Mrs. Bailey is legally and equitably entitled
to a pension. That I know of no further proof of her
claim except what has already been furnished, unless
the record in file can be further established, I am
unable to say whether I can adduce any further evidence
as to the antiquity of the record if allowed to do but will
make an effort when advised that it may be of use.
                                  I am very Respectfully
                                  your obt Sev't
                     [signed] W. W. Tracy
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Washington   Dec'r 15th 1846

Sir
Please have the goodness to return
the papers of Elizabeth Clapper filed
in your office during the Court
session. I have to ask [1 illegible] that you
[1 illegible] to be furnished to me copies
of all papers on file in your office
touching the claim of Elizabeth Bailey
to a pension, and also those of her
Deceased husband on account of his
services in the Revolutionary War.
Mr. Bailey is on the Ohio roll
under the act of 1838, & 1843.
                  With great respect
                       Alex Harper [signed]
J. L. Edwards [signed]
Com Pension
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I Esther Brown of Killingly in the County of
Windham & State of Connecticut aged Seventy
six years do testify & say that James Baily [Bailey] then
of Voluntown in the County of Windham & State of
Connecticut, now of Cambridge & State of Ohio
was living in the same family that I was from
the Beginning of the war of the Revolution until the
close of the year 1780, and said Baily [Bailey] was in the
Rhode Island State service, and I do further testify
and say that said Baily [Bailey] was in the New York
State service, and I was well acquainted with said
Baily [Bailey] before and after the War and further this
Deponant saith not.
Dated at Killingly this 22nd day of Nov 1833
                               [signed] Esther Brown

Windham County ss  Killingly November 22nd 1833
Personally appeared Esther Brown signer of the
above affidavit who is Personally known to the
Subscriber as a witness whose testimony is entitled
to full credit and belief and made solemn Oath
to the truth of the same before me
      [signed] Daniel Brown Justice of the Peace
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[vertically at top]
Esther Brown
Deposition

[vertically]
Armin Bolles Clerk of the County Court within and for
County of Windham in the State of Connecticut, do hereby
certify that Daniel Brown Esq before whom the within
affidavit was made, is duly enrolled as a Justice of the
Peace in and for said Windham County, that the within
signature of his name is in his hand writing and that full
faith and credit ought to be given to his acts as such--
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of said Court at
Brooklyn in s'd County this 7th day of December
A.D. 1833
[signed] Armin Bolles Clerk
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[envelope]
J. L. Edwards, Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
DC
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Cambridge April 16th 1834

J. L. Edwards Esq'r
Com'r of Pensions

Sir,  In compliance with your instructions 
in your letter of the 11th of July 1833 I immediately 
wrote to the Comptroller of the State at Hartford
Connecticut and waited for a reply untill Some
time in February last and [inserted: not] receiving any answer
I then wrote to him again and have Still rec'd
no answer. at the time I first wrote to the comptroller
I advised Mr Bailey to write to Some of
his friends who probably could get Some evidence 
for him and he wrote to his Brother
and pointed him to more than twenty who
had been in the service with him and to some
who knew of his having been in the service, I
have enclosed his Brothers reply who could find
only two that could testify anything about it
the rest being all dead or having moved from
the country. I have waited so long for a reply
from the Comptroller that I have lost hopes of
receiving any answer from him and Mr.
Bailey and others being of opinion that
his case is Sufficiently made out have
wished me to forward the papers to you again
which has induced me to forward them to you
without making a third attempt to get any
information from the comptroller. I am in
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hopes that the additional evidence supplied will 
be Sufficient to Satisfy you of the correctness of
his own statement and enable you to place him
on the pension Roll. I have done all reasonably
in my power to get information from Hartford
but it Seems to be of no avail and there are
So many of those that new [sic] him in the army or
were knowing to him being there, that are dead
or moved away that it is difficult for him
to procure such testimony as he wished Should
you still be of opinion that the Testimony is not
sufficient on returning the papers to me I will
try again but I am in hopes that there is now
Sufficient to Satisfy you
           I am Respectfully
          Sir your Obed't Serv't
[signed] Z. A. Beatty
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Cambridge Ohio March 13th 1845.

J. L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
                           Sir
                                In December last I
forwarded to you the Declaration of Mrs Elizabeth Bailey
made for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the act
of July 7. 1838 with accompaning testimony. As I understand
the matter, an act has been proposed at the late Session of Congress,
providing that widows shall not receive a pension under that
act for any time during which their husbands may have received
a Pension, unless their declarations were made on or before
the 30th of April 1844 and received at the Pension Office on or
before the 23d of January 1845. The Declaration of Mrs Bailey
above refered to does not [1 illegible] to be made before or
on the 30th of April 1844. but she did in fact make a declaration, 
the same in Substance, on the 11th of August 1843,
which I enclose herein together with my own affidavit
as to the erasures and interlineations contained therein I
enclose this first declaration with the affidavit on the Clerks certificate 
for the purpose of showing that Mrs. Bailey did make
her declaration for a pension under Said Act before the
30th of April 1844. and as the declaration now on file on
the copy now on file, was doubtless received before the 23d
of January 1845 showing that Mrs Bailey may be entitled to
A Pension from 1836. It would seem to me that no fair [1 illegible]
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of the word declaration as used in the act above [2 illegible]
can limit it to any particular piece of paper or to the writing
upon any specific piece of paper that the writing is only the
evidence of the declarations having been made in the
manner required, and not the declaration itself and if
so, it would seem to me to follow as a consequence of the enclosed
proof that the declaration was never on the 11th of August 1843 is
satisfactory that Mrs Bailey is undoubtedly entitled to the
Pension if the declaration now enclosed had been received the
Pension Office before 23d of Jan 1845. I do not believe that
any further statement by me will be of any consequence, but
I will just say that the endorsed paper would have been
forwarded soon after its execution, but for the consideration
that we could get no proof to acompany it and it was
contained until the waiting for testimony. We were not
able to discover any proof of the marriage which was
condered sufficient until last fall when we found
where we could get evidence which I considered Sufficient.
I concluded to have a new declaration made from
a vague apprehension that Some objection might be made
because the declaration had been retained So long after it
had been made, for which I presume there was no reason
and I made the erasers and interlineations for the
purpose of making it seem as a [1 illedible] for a young man
[1 illegible] was about to get to write the declaration. If any
further testimony in this case respecting the erasers and
interlineations in endorsing should be required you will please
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inform me although I do not know it can be obtained further
than by embracing the Substance of the above statement in
an affidavit.
                      I am Respectfully
                               your ob't Serv't
                            [signed] W. W. Tracy
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[envelope]
[vertically on the left]
11,538  Dec 20 1844

Eliz. Bailey
July 7, 1838, 6.

[horizontal on the right]
                                                FREE
J. L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Cambridge Ohio Dec. 16th 1844

           J. L. Edwards Esquire
                  Commissioner of Pensions
                     Washington
            Sir
                            I enclose herein
the Declaration of Elizabeth Bailey widow of Jared
Bailey, late of Guernsey County Ohio, deceased, made for
the purpose of obtaining a Pension under the Act
of July 7th 1838. I also enclose her testimony taken
to have the marriage of Mrs Baily before the first
of Jany 1794, which I trust will be Satisfactory
              I am Most Respectfully
                           Yours
                [signed] W. W. Tracy
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I Bensdam Gallup of Sterling in the County of
Windham and State of Connecticut A Soldier in the
War of the Revolution Aged Seventy three years do
testify and say that I was A soldier in Capt Sullivan's 
Company in Col Smith's Reg in the year 1780 in
the State of Rhode Island and was stationed on the
island of Newport in said Rhode Island under
Genl Sullivan and was there three months
and was on the Island during the engagement
Between the British and the Americans Called Sullivans Expedition and was in the engagement
and I do further testify and say Jared 
Bailey then of Voluntown in the County of
Windham and the state of Connecticut now of
Cambridge in the State of Ohio was A Listed
man in the Rhode Island State troops and
was on the Island aforesaid in actual service during the time I was there Which was three 
months. I often saw the said Bailey on the Island aforesaid I lived A near neighbour to him and was well acquainted with him before
and after the War and I do further testify and 
Say that I well recollect that the said Bailey
was gone from home in the year of 1776 to the
State of New York and was A soldier in Capt
John Gordons Company. I understood that
he went to Kings Bridge White Plains and
West Chester New York and was according
to my best recollection and further this
Deponant saith not.
                         [signed] Bensdam Gallop
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Windham County ss Sterling November the 7th 1833
Personly appeared Bensdam Gallup Signer
of the above affidavit who is personly known
to the subscriber as a witness whose testimony
is intitled to full credit and belief and
made Solemn oath to the truth of
the same before me.
         [signed] Nathaniel Gallup Justice of Peace

I Armin Bolles Clerk of the County Court within and for the
County of Windham in the State of Connecticut do hereby certify
that Nathaniel Gallup Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit
was made is duly enrolled as a Justice of the Peace in and for
said Windham County, that the foregoing signature of his name is
in his writing and that full faith and credit ought to
be given to his acts as such.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Brooklyn
in said County this 7th day of December A.D. 1833
            [signed] Armin Bolles Clerk

[vertical at bottom right corner]
B. Gallop
Deposition
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Mr Jared Bailey
Cambridge
Ohio

25
[3 illegible]
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          Sterling December 3. 1833
                             Dear Brother Sir
I received your letter sometime in the month of September
agreable to your request I have taken o[1 illegible] Pains
to accomodate you and to assist you to get
your Pention I have rode at least 150 miles in procuring
Sufficient Evidence and to have it taken in such a
manner that you can't fail of Succeeding in getting your
pention these persons in which you have cited me to
is almost all gone I have got all the evidence that I can
Procure and as much as is necessary to answer your 
purpose.
I have obtained the Evidence once before and took it to [1 illegible]
the attorney and found it not taken right and then I have
had it to take over again it has cost me five Dollars
in cash to get the business done right besides my time and
own trouble as for my own trouble your welcome but if you get your pention
you may remit the five Dollars to me in a letter if you please
as for me and family are all well at present I have not 
heard from John Bailey in four years he was then down to my
hous and returned back and wrote me a letter after he got home
he was living in upper Canada he and family was well
Sister Brown and family is well John Casey is living but very
Inferm John Tillinghast is Dead
no more at present but I must
Subscribe myself your Brother and friend
                                 [signed]  James Bailey