Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 641, David Bayles, Penn Or Va.
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Penn or Va
Bayles, David
R641
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
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,
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 17 1832

State of Ohio
Champaign County

On this eighteenth day of April in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty-thee, personally appeared in open court before the Hon. George B. Holt, president and James Smith and William Runkle Esquires associate judges of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the county and state aforesaid now sitting, David Bayles, a resident of said county, aged seventy years, on the ninth day of July last past, 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 7 A.D. 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.  As near as he recollected by this applicant the name of the commander of the regiment was Col. Zackael Morgan under Gen. George Roger Clark and the captain's name was Robert Ferrel.  He entered the service under the said officers about the first of May in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-one (the precise day is not remembered), rendezvoused at a place then named New Stone but now bears the name of Elizabethtown, if this applicant is correctly informed, which place is situated on the Monongahela River about twenty miles above Fort Pitt (now Pittsburg), entered various water crafts and descended the Ohio River at far down as the falls.  There landed and encamped and tarried till sometime in the month of November (say the 15th), all the while looking (illegible) to the safety of the frontiers, that there might be no depredations committed by the ruthless Indians, when the whole company or regiment, in which this applicant was and with whom he continually kept, took up a line of march; soon after they started on their march for the interior, the news came that Lord Cornwallis was defeated and taken to their great joy and heart's content.  They, however, proceeded on, taking Harodsburg(?), Powell's Valley (this is a wilderness) on their tour and finally reached Greenbriar County, the great fatigue which lied in the state of Virginia.  Soon after the arrival of the company, at the last aforesaid county, this applicant took sick and was then left by the company and where he remained about six months, when on recovering he left the service and went home in a legal making in (illegible) as near as this applicant can possibly remember, a term of twelve months or one year manner.  He was in no engagements while out in the service there being no occasion, therefore. He does not now recollect whether he received a written or verbal discharge, if he did receive a written one, he has long since lost it together with all the knowledge pertaining thereto, and if he did not receive a written one, he believes he was verbally discharged soon after his recovery from sickness as above said.

He entered the service as a substitute and the manner of his substitution and for whom was about in the manner, in substance.  In those days and in the region of country where this applicant then resided called the Redstone country, the men who were subject to be called out in the service of their country
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try, men divided off into classes, each class when necessary, men liable to a draft and when so, one of the class was sure to be drafted, it was however provided, by the rules arguing those things, that per adventure any class saw proper, previous to this undergoing a draft, to furnish a person to go as a substitute, in the stead of one who might chance to be drafted in the said class, they were privileged to do so. In this manner was this applicant substituted to go on the above narrated campaign.  The names of all the class, who chose and furnished him, he does not now remember, three of them, however, are named Thomas Balton, James Holeslow and Mark Hardin.  

He has no documentary evidence by which to make more plain his service and his claim, as those with whom he was acquainted at the time he was in the service, are spread over the earth and into parts to him unknown and some have departed this life.  He was born in the state of Virginia in Frederick County on the ninth day of July in the year seventeen hundred and sixty-two.  The Bible of his parents in which they had recorded his age he cannot produce, it being in the possession of some one of his brothers or sisters who still reside as he has indicated in Virginia.  He, however, has a copy thereof in his own Bible at home which is correct.

He lived after the termination of the Revolutionary War about ten years in the county of Souden, Virginia, after which he removed to the county of Monongahela in the same state and settled on that river, at which place he lived about fifteen years, when he removed to the state of Ohio, Buttler County, where he lived about two years.  He then removed to the said county of Champaign and state of Ohio aforesaid where he has lived ever since. 

He can produce two persons to wit, William H. Fyffe and William Darnell, who can testify their belief in his having been a soldier of the Revolution as is stated, and that he is a man of truth and veracity.  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.  

The questions propounded by the court and the answers thereto by the said applicant for a pension.

1.  Where and in what year were you born?
Ans:  I was born in Frederick County, Virginia in the year seventeen hundred and sixty-two.

2.  Have you any record of your age and if so, where is it?
Ans:  As I have not the original record but a copy thereof.  The original one is in the possession of one of my brothers or sisters who still live in Virginia, and the copy is in my Bible at home. 

3.  Where were you living when called into service? Where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live?
Ans: I lived in the state of Virginia, in Frederick County, at the time where I entered the service.  I remained in that state for a number of years after the termination of the Revolutionary War viz. for about twenty-five years, and then I removed to the state of Ohio where I have lived ever since.
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4.  How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a substitute?  And if so, for whom?
Ans:  I was a substitute.  A class substituted me to go on the campaign for the one who would have been drafted, provided the class would have underwent the draft.  The names of all the class I do not now recollect but three I do remember and who were Thomas Balton, James Holeslow and Mark Hardin.

5.  State the name of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served, such as continental and militia regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service. 
Ans:  I recollect the general who was by the name of Clark and I think his given name was Geo Roger.  I remember that the col.'s name was Zackal Morgan and the captain was by the name of Robert Ferrel.  I remember a regiment of regulars from Virginia under the command of Col. Crocket and a certain Capt. Jackson.  The general circumstances were such as scouting around while at the falls of the Ohio as narrated in the foregoing declaration, and such other things as are there set forth.  

6.  Did you ever receive a written discharge from the services and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it?
Ans:  I do not now recollect whether I received a written one or not.  If I did, I have long since lost it and also all knowledge respecting it.  I think, however, that I was verbally discharged.

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.
Ans:  I can refer you to Wm. H. Fyffe, who has known me for twenty years last past and also to Wm. Darnell, who has also known me for the same period of time. For me they can testify.
Signed:  David Bayles

Sworn to and subscribed the 18th day of April A.D. 1833 in open court.
Signed: John C. Pearson, Clk.

We, John C. Pearson, a clergyman residing in the said county of Champaign and the state of Ohio and Wm. Runkle, residing in the same county, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with David Bales, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy-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:  John C. Pearson. Wm. Runkle

And the said courts do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation
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of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War {end of sentence}
Cham. County Court of Common Pleas

State of Ohio
Cham. County

Personally appeared in open court Wh. H. Fyffe and William Darnell, both of said county of Champaign and state of Ohio, who being duly sworn according to law. depose and say that they have been acquainted with David Bayles, an applicant for a pension before the said court, for about the span of twenty years; they have no personal knowledge as reflects his services as a soldier of the Revolution, but they know that he has been and is reputed in his neighborhood {illegible} a soldier of the Revolution; that they believe him to be such and these deponents further say that he is generally known and they believe him to be as such, and these deponents further say that is generally known and they believe him to be a man of truth and veracity, and feel no hesitation in saying that he served as he has stated in his declaration and deponents further say not.
Signed:  Wm. H. Fyffe, Wm. Darnell

Sworn to and subscribed in open court 
April 18th 1833
Signed:  John C. Pearson, Clk.
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of the matter and after putting interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he stated.  And the court further certifies that it appears to them that John C. Pearson, who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman resident in the county of Champaign aforesaid and that Wm. Runkle, who has also signed the same, is a resident of the same county and is a credible person and that their statements are entitled to credit.

I, John C. Pearson, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, so hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of David Bayles for a pension.


In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 18th day of April A.D. 1833.
Signed:  John C. Pearson, Clerk 

Declaration of Wm. H. Fyffe, Wm Darnell
April 17 A.D. 1833 on the 18th day of said Hon. Court

Application of David Bayle for a pension
April term A.D. 1833
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