Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 439., Wonsley Baker, Md.
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(3-1776)
[Star above name]
Baker, Wonsley
SERVICE Md.
NUMBER R.439.
CONTENTS _
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Wonsley Baker
Kentucky
Act of June 1832
Rejected
See letter 2 June 1837 to J. A. Moore
439
Did not serve six months.
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34079
Wonsley Baker
Kentucky
Act  1832

Inform me at Mt Vernon, Ky, Rockcastle Co 
John A Moore

Rec'd May 12th
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State of Kentucky
Rockcastle County

Be it remembered that on tis first day of Oct 1836 personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid Wonsley baker a resident of Laurel County, Ky aged 74 years who being duly sworn according to law upon his oath made the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of an act of Congress passed 7th June 1832.

He states that he was drafted for 6 months our to Capt. Breshears militia company in the County of Frederick State of Maryland in the fall of the year or rather he was drafted he thinks in the last of August and went to service about the first of Sept. He cannot recollect the date of the year but it was in the year that Burgoyne was taken by Gates and about
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about 6 weeks before as he believes. He was marched out by & served under Capt. Abraham Huff as a guard to the main magazine situated about one mile & half from the town of Frederick in said state where he remained as a guard in actual service until sometime in March following and until his term of service had expired. He was well acquainted with Gen Gates, Capt. Streaker, and Capt. Bell used to play the fife at the militia musters for Bell & Streaker. He was born in the said county of Frederick state of Maryland in 1762 but has no record of his age. He received a discharge from his Capt. but has lost it long since. He has no documentary evidence of his service but refers to the testimony of Baziel Baker & P L Parker Esq. He cannot provide the certificate of a clergyman because he has no intimacy or at least no intimate acquaintance within any. He lives in [illegible] wilderness country and along ways from any seat of justice so for that
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owing to his infirm condition he has not been able heretofore to attend to this application and that is the reason why this declaration is made in Rockcastle County & before a Justice it being more convenient for him. He made an attempt some 4 years ago to set this matter [illegible] did to but not being able to get to court it has been delayed until now and he is now unable to go to court. He lived during the war in Maryland where he performed other services in the Revolution such as guarding for a few days at certain places and keeping in readiness for the service. After the war he moved to Va & from there to Ky, Madison Co & from there to Laurel aforesaid. He hereby relinquishes all claims to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the roll of the agency of any state whatever. Sworn and subscribed this day & year aforesaid before me and the said applicant stating that he could not write has therefore made his mark.

Wonsley Baker
His X Mark

Jas C Jones - JP

And on the same day came before the said Justice Baziel Baker and being duly sworn according to law made the following statement upon oath "that he has
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has heard the foregoing declaration of Wonsley Baker and knows that it is substantially true he lived in the said county with him. Knows that he went into the service as stated and saw him while in the service and knows that he went off in Sept the year that Burgoyne was taken and a while before it happened and that he returned from the service the next Spring. He was well acquainted with his Captain. He further states that he would have been in the same service but owing to a defect in his eyesight he was not called into service. He states that he is 72 years of age and for the state that the said applicant is a man of moral honest character and I the said Justice certify that the said witness is a credible person & of sufficient age to have been in the revolution. And it is further the opinion of the Justice that owing to the long distance applicant lives from a seat of justice it would be with great pain & difficulty that he could reach court if at all being very old & frail & also crippled
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and I further certify that it is my opinion that the said applicant was a soldier of the revolution and served as he states.

Jas C Jones - JP

Kentucky, Rockcastle County

On this 9th day of March 1837 personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace for the county aforesaid P L Parker Esq and Thos Lair and made that they were well acquainted with the applicant in the foregoing declaration and that he is a man of Lord, general moral character and that they have heard it reported in his neighborhood that he was a soldier in the revolution and that they believe that report and that believe him to be as old as he represents and I further certify that said witnesses are credible persons.

E Smith - JP

Kentucky, Rockcastle County

I James Terrill clerk of the county court for the county aforesaid certify that Jas C Jones & E Smith whose names are to the foregoing declaration & certificates are at the time magistrates as above and that their signatures above purporting to be theirs are their genuine signatures and I further certify that the foregoing 2 sheets were attached by me. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & seal of the said court this 2nd day of May 1837.

James Terrill  Clerk C.C.R.C.
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INVALID
REJECTED
No 439

Wonsley Baker