Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12094, Mountjoy Bayly, Md.
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( 8 - 1776 )
SERVICE
Md.
CONTENTS
Bayly Mountjoy
or Baily
or Bailey
NUMBER
S. 12094
B.L.Wt. 685-300
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No 685.
Mountjoy Bailey
Captain ┃
Maryland Line.

27. Feb. 1818
---
Warrant issued under date
7th of March & dellivered to Mountjoy
Bailey the Same day -

Vid. Inscription on a Brown Paper
within whh covered the File:
"allowed" J.C.C.
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Reported
F.E. Hapler Dec 12 1833

32-706

District of Colu(missing)
Mountjoy *Baily
of ____ in the State of ____
who was a Captain in the
& Commissary
by Captain _____ of the _____ Comm(missing)
by _____ in the Maryland
for 2 years
in the Maryland
Mountjoy Bayly*

Inscribed on the Roll of District of
the rate of 600 Dollars on
commence on the 4th day of March, 18,
(missing)2 March 1836, when he died

Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of
1850 and sent to 
N.N. Sylvester Present

Payable to only living children
Arrears to the 4th of ____ to wit
Semi-annual allowance ending
Benjamin S. Bailey, R.W. Bailey
& Eleanor Hanson
in Dedrict, at the rate pr annum $48
paid since 4 March 18(missing)
act of 15 May 1828 Revol
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Recorded by
Book E Vol 6 Page (missing)
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Washington City
War Department
Bounty land office
10th May 1828

I hereby certify that it appears from the
record of Land warrants in this Office,
that Land Warrant No 685 issued on the
7th day of March 1818 to Mountjoy Bailey
for three hundred acres of land, as a
Captain in the Maryland line in the 
revolutionary army of the United States, and
was on the same day delivered to him.
Given under my hand the day and year
above mentioned
Robert Tayler C.B.h.O.
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Revolutionary Claims.
A.
Form of a Declaration to be made by the Officers.

For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an act, entitled ""An act for the relief of
certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution,” approved on the
15th of May, 1828, I, Mountjoy Bayly of
the County of Washington, in the Dirc of
Columbia, 
do hereby declare that I was an officer in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution,
and served as such to the end of the war
at which period I was a captain in the 
Maryland line.

Witness my hand, this Sixth day of June in 
the year 1828.
Mountjoy Bayly

Before me, James Young a Justice of the peace
in the county of Washington Dist of Columbia
personally appeared, this day,
Philip Reed of Kent Co State of Maryland and Saml Hanson
of Saml of the Co. of Washington Dir of Colum. 
y, who did severally make oath that Captain Mountjoy Bayly
by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to
have been an officer in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated.
Witness my hand, this 6th
day of June
in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred
and Twenty Eight.

James Young

I, William Brent Clerk of the Court
of the county of Washington in the District of Columbia,
do hereby certify, that
James Young Esquire
before whom
the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was, at the time, of taking & signing the same
& still is a Justice of the peace duly empowered to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the
[L. S.]
said Court, this Sixth day of June 1828 -
day of
W. Brent Clk

Here insert, To the end of the war, or, (as the case may be,) to the time when the arrangement of the Army provided by the resolves of Congress of the 3d and 21st of October, 1780, was carried into effect, and that I was reduced under that arrangement.
+ Here insert, The sum of  ---- dollars, paid to me by the agent for paying pensions in the State of ----.
If the claimant has not been a pensioner, this part of the declaration may be omitted.
#A Justice of the Peace, or other magistrate duly empowered to administer oaths, as the case may be.
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Additional Declaration of Mr Bayly
I Mountjoy Bayly of the County of Washington and District
ofColumbia, do hereby declare that I was an officer in the Continental Line in the Army of the Revolution and served to
the end of the War, at which time I was a captain in the 
Maryland line, that at the Battle of Monmouth on the 28th June
1778 I broke a blood vessel which rendered me unfit for duty
and was sent to Bethlehem in the State of Pennsylvania
and remained unable to do duty untill the spring of 1778
during my unfortunate indisposition the Regt I belonged
to was ordered to the South, and on my recovery, I received
from Genl James Wood of the Continental Army
to aid and assist him in his command, enclosing me at the same
time the original orders from the Board of War; which was
that Genl Wood be directed to call into service to aid and
assist him under his command a continental officer not
below the grade of a captain nor above the grade of a
Colonel agreeably to the said orders from the Board of
War to Genl Wood he did order me on duty under his 
command and certified that I continued to perform the
said duties to end of the Revolutionary War, with capable 
attention and much to the interest of the country.
Mountjoy Bayly
In presence of
James Young

City of Baltimore
On this Eleventh day June Eighteen Hundred
and Twenty Eight personally appeared before me the Subscribed
one of the Justice of the peace for the City aforesaid General
Phillip Reed who made Oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty
God than he was acquainted with Capt Mounty Bayley of the
Maryland line that he has full credence in the above Declarct
and that he actually have seen the Original Order of the Board
of War to General Wood authorizing him to employ an officer 
as above set forth as also Genl Woods certificate stated in in the above Declaration.
J. Sheppard
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The State of Maryland to wit I Tho: Culbreth
Clk of the Executive Council do hereby certify that
T Shephard whose name is subscribed to the aforegoing
Instrument of writing was at the time of signing the
same & now is a Justice of the Peace for the City of
Baltimore, duly commissioned & authorized &
that to all acts by him done in that capacity
full faith & credit are & ought to be given as
well in Courts of Justice as thereout.

In testimony whereof I have
hereto set my hand this Eleventh day of June
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and twenty eight -
Tho Culbreth Clk
R
-
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Came before me one of the Justices of the Law for the Co. of Wash District
of Columbia Mountjoy Bayly late a captain in the continental army and made oath that he placed in the Senate 
Chamber of the Capital in the year 1812 all his vouchers, frakings 
and certificates, which he presented to the Legislature of
Maryland in the year 1810 and that the said Vouchers
&c. &c. were destroyed when the British Army burnt the Capito
in the year 1814 and that the said Vouchers &c. &c. contained the
following facts viz orders from the Board of War, to Genl
James Wood of the Continental Army dated Aug 1780 to 
appoint a continental Officer not under the grade of a
Captain nor above the grade of a Colonel to aid and 
assist him in his command, in superintending the guards
and prisoners then stationed, or to be stationed in the
State of Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania, and
that agreeably to the said orders from the Board
of War to Genl James Wood, he ordered me on that 
duty under his command, and certified that I continued 
to perform the same to the End of the Revolutionary
War, with capacity attention, and to the interest
to the country
James Young J. P.
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Washington City
District of Columbia

On this 22nd day of July, one thousand eight
hundred & fifty, before me, one of the Justices of the Peace
within and for said City personally appeared Benjamin S
Bayley son of Mountrey Bayley decd being first duly sworn
according to law made oath to the following declaration
to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the act of June 7 1832
in behalf of himself and the other heirs of said Mountjoy
Bayley.

That he is the son of the said Mountjoy Bayley and who was a Captain in the Maryland serving during the war of the
revolution: that he was subsequently, to ast: from the spring
of the year 1780 a Company of Prisoners stationed at
Frederick in Maryland and at the State of Penn to the
end of the war: That he the said Mountjoy Bayley was a
pensioner under the act of May 15, 1828 at the rate of $480
per ann; and that he died on the 22 day of March
1856, leaving no widow, but the following named children:
Benj S. Bayley:  R.M. Bayley:  Elhttps://catalog.archives.gov/images/misc/drag.pnglison Hanson, wife
of Samuel Hanson: Elizabeth Bayley who has since
decd without heirs and Rebecca Smith who has also
decd (illegible) that time leaving heirs.

That the proof in support of the above alleged 
service: your petitioner would refer to the papers and
declaration of said Mountjoy Bayley now on file in
the pension Office.

That he hereby relinquishes all claim any other & any other
pension except that of the 7 June 1832.
Bens Bayley.

Sworn and subscribed this 22nd day of July
1850.
S.C. Down
Justice of the Peace
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12094
INVALID.

Rev War
Oin

File No 12094
Mountjoy Baily
Capt Rev War

Act: June 7th 1832
Index:--Vol. A, Page 22

Arrangement of 1870.]

Mountjoy Bayly
Records corrected June 26/05
Gn
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To be examined
notify [illegible]

Mr. Cutting [illegible]

[illegible] to Gen'; Bailey
18 March 1818

Allowed
I.L.L.

Dept of War
M. Bailey
Capital Hill
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Mountjoy Bailey
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Maryland set
At a session of the General Assembly of Maryland, begun
and held at the City of Annapolis on the last Monday of December
being the twenty sixth day of the said month in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and twenty five and ended the ninth day
of March one thousand eight hundred and twenty six.

His Excellency Joseph Kent Esquire Governor
The following resolution was enacted to wit:
By the House of Delegates January 31st 1826
No 25. Resolved, that the Register of the Land office, issue to
Mountjoy Bailey, a Warrant for two hundred acres of Land to be
located on any unappropriated Land belonging to this state, in
Allegany County heretofore unpatented, as a donation granted by this
State to the officers of his rank, who serve in the Maryland line
during the Revolutionary war, and to which they consider him entitled.
By Order John Brewer Clk
By the Senate 3d February 1826
Read the second and by special over the third time
Assented to    By order W Kitty Clk

Maryland Set
Hereby certify that the foregoing is a full and true copy taken
from District H No 9 folio 523. one of the Law Records of the State of
Maryland belonging to the Office of the Court of Appeals for the
Western Shore of said State

In Testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name
and affix the seal of the said Court of Appeal, this
Second day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and twenty eight.
Th. Harris, Clerk Court of Appeals W.T.
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Maryland, Set.

I John Buchanan Chief Judge of the State of Maryland
for the Court of Appeals, Hereby Certify, that Thomas Harris is Clerk of the said Court
of Appeals for the Western Shore, and that the annexed attestation by him is in due form,
and by the proper officer. Given under my hand and seal this second day of
June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight.
John Buchanan

Maryland Sct.
I Thomas Culbreth, Clerk of the Council of the State of
Maryland, hereby certify, that the Honorable John Buchanan
Esquire
whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate, was at the time
of signing the same, Chief Judge of the said State for the Court of Appeals
duly appointed, commissioned and authorized, and that to all acts by
given,
him done in that capacity, full faith and credit are and ought to be 
given, as well in Courts of Justice as thereout.

In Testimony whereof I hereunto subscribed my name at the
City of Annapolis, this 2d day of June in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and twenty eight.
Tho Culbreth Clk


Maryland Sct.
I, Ramsay Waters Register of the Court of Chancery of the
State of Maryland, hereby certify, that Thomas Culbreth Esquire, who
appears to have signed the foregoing certificate, is clerk of the Executive
Council of the State of Maryland.

In testimony whereof I hereto affix the great seal
of the said State this second day of June in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty
eight.
Ramsay
Waters
Reg. Cur. Can.
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Copy

The Month
John C Calhoun
(illegible)

War Department
Section of Bounty Lands
February 15th 1818

Sir,
" " Sheet of Folio Paper which
you will find herewith enclosed, I transmit you a
copy of a Report heretofore made to the of your
predecessors in Office upon the subject of Mountjoy
Baily's claim to Military Bounty Land for services
rendered by him during the Revolutionary War of the U.S.

Two of the three documents recently referred to this
Office, viz 1st The Certificate of the Clerk of the
Council of the State of Maryland, relative to a grant
from that state of some additional compensation to 
Mountjoy Bayily & 2d The Letter from Judge
Anderson accompanied the Report abovementioned,
when it was handed to James Monroe, then at
the head of the War Department

The 3d document, in the parcel referred as above
mentioned, does not appear to me to add any
weight to the Claim against the United States;
it may be admitted to prove that he was honorably 
employed by the State of Maryland us a "Home
Recruting-Officer," so said in filling up the Ranks
of that States Division, or line of the Army actually
in the service of the United States: but this service
could not restore him to any Rank on Continental
Establishment, as appears from the Records mentioned 
in the former Report, to which I beg leave
to
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to refer containing every thing still required
by the subject.
I have the honor to be; Sir very respectfully
Your Obedt. Servt
Nat Cutting

Copy
The Honble
John C. Calhoun
Feby 13th 1818

Mountjoy Bailey
Revolutionary Claim

WT. 685-300-Rev
Recorded in Volume 2
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No 2.

General
Mountjoy Bayly
Land Warrant Claims
I.L.C.
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9th January 1817

Sir
The excessive press of business has hitherto prevented
an earlier answer to your letter, of the 31st December
and I lament that it is not now in my power to 
give you 
a satisfactory answer to your enquires - I well recollect
that several years ago, you put into my hands Summary
papers, which were intended to prove your right, as an
officer of the revolution to the land allowed by Congress 
--- these papers I shewed to the Secretary at War
and I am inclined to think . left there in his possession,
he appeared to be of opinion that they were sufficient
to entitle you to a warrant for your land and 
I did expect that you would obtained in -
my opinion was, that papers
fully proved, that the papers fully proved, that this 
you were entitled  to the warrant -- and this opinion 
I expressed to the Secretary at war, when
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I presented him your papers--according to the best
of my collection, there was an order from the board
of war to General Wood to appoint a suitable officer to
assist him in his the duties, in taking care of the
British Prisoners, which officer was not to be below the
rank of Captain, nor higher than a field officer - 
there was a certificate from General Wood of the regular 
army stating that he was directed by the board
of war, to appoint a suitable officer between the
.above mentioned Grades to assist him in his duties
and that he had in consequence thereof, appointed
Captain Montjoy Bayly of the regular Army to
that duty, and according to the best of my recollection
he stated that the said Captain Mountjoy Bayly
continued to perform the duties which had been
thus assigned him, in the State of Maryland
and Pennsylvania, under his General Woods
command, during the two last years of the
revolutionary war, and that Captain Bayly
had
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had continued in the Continental Army to the close of the war and had discharged his duties under General Wood with capacity fidelity and great attention or words to that purpose. There was also as well as I recollect a resolution of the State of Maryland which appeared to be founded upon the certificate of General Wood - and which recognized your continuing in services to the end of the war - as well as I can now remember - and I think contemplated or made some provision and there were several other papers but I cannot now remember what they were - It is certainly very unfortunate that the papers have been lost but I trust your country will do you ample justice respecting this claim - which in my opinion your papers fully establish.

I am with sentiments of much upon you my obt serv

Jos Anderson

General Mountjoy Bayly
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No. 1.
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Whereas it appears to this general assembly
that Mountjoy Bayly a Captain in the late
Revolutionary War, and who served to its
termination did not receive the commutation
Money of five years pay in lien of the half pay 
for life promised to the officers and Soldiers who
continued in service to the end of the War;
Therefore Resolved that the Treasurer of the
Western shore be and he is hereby authorised
and directed to pay to the said Mountjoy Bayly
five years full pay as a Captain, free from
interest, as a full compensation for his services 
during the late revolutionary War.

The State of Maryland to wit I hereby certify that the
foregoing is a true copy of a Resolution which
passed both Houses of the General assembly of
Maryland at November Session eighteen
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hundred and ten. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set
my hand this sixth day of February eighteen hundred
and seventeen
---
Ninian Pinkney
Clerk of the council
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No. 3.
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The State of Maryland to Wit I Ninian
Pinkney Clerk of the Executive Council of the 
said State do hereby certify that appears by
the proceedings of the Council of the twenty 
seventh day of July seventeen hundred and
eighty that Montjoy Bailey Esquire was appointed
Captain of a company in the Extra Regiment
raised in virtue of an act of Assembly entitled
a supplement to the Act to procure Recruits 
to complete the Battalions of this State in the
service of the United States and to raise an
additional Regiment if necessary and an act
to expedite the raising an additional Battation
of regulars. In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand at the City of Annapolis
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this first day of July in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventeen
Ninian Pinkney
Clerk of the Council
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the Honorable 
John C. Calhoun
&c. &c. &c.

War Department.
Section of Bounty Lands.
Feb 13th 1818.

Sir
On a sheet of Folio Paper which
you will find herewith enclosed, I transmit you a copy of a Report
heretofore made to two of your predecessors in Office upon the subject
of Mountjoy Bailey's claim to Military Bounty land for services
rendered by him during the Revolutionary War of the United States.

Two of the the documents recently referred to this Office, viz. 1st The Certificate 
of the Clerk of the Council of the State of Maryland, relative to a grant from
that State of same additional compensation to Mountjoy Bailey; & 2. The
Letter from Judge Anderson accompanied the Report abovementioned, when
it was handed to James Monroe, then at the Head of the War Department.

The 3d document, in the parcel referred as abovementioned, does not appear
to me to add any weight to the Claim against the United States; it may 
be admitted to prove that he was honorably employed by State of Maryland
as a "Home Recruiting Officer, to aid in filling up the Ranks of that
States Division, or line, of the Army actually in the service of the
United States : but this service could not restore him to any Rank on Continental
Establishment, --mas appears from the Records mentioned in the farenen(?)
Report, to which I beg leave to refer containing everything still required by
the Subject

I have the honor to be, Sir, very respectfully, 
Your obedient Servant 
Nat Cutting
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Judge Duvall's
Letter

Bladensburg
May 4
Montjoy Bayly Esq
Washington
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Marietta May 3, 1828

The day before yesterday your letter by mail was received.

I regret sincerely that I cannot recollect the facts attended to. I do not remember that your petition to the legislature of Maryland was drawn by me; much as I can I remember the facts stated in it but I know that you succeeded in your application to the legislature for commutation of half pay; and you certainly could not have received without having satisfied the legislature that you were entitled to it.
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from having served to the and of the war.  This 
evidence, in my opinion, is sufficient to
entitle you to any Bounty which courts 
may grant to the surviving Revolutionary
officers.  Add to this, the (illegible) that
you have received the military bounty
lands, and (as I am informed) the State
grand of land as well as those of the
U.S. 
then appears to be no room to
doubt the genuineness of your claim.
It will be necessary to exhibit the
Resolution of Maryland in support of
your claim, which you can procure from 
the Law. I have no doubt the facts
are as you have stated them to be.
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M. Bayly

With great respect & esteem.
your obt Servant
G. Duvall
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Revolutionary
power of Attorney
Heirs of
Mountjoy Bayly
D. Columbia Act 1832

Filed Dec. 6, 1853
F. E. Hassler
Washington
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
For ascertaining whether any increase or arrears of Pension are due the Widow or heirs of Revolutionary
Pensioners, &c.

District of Columbia
COUNTY OF Washington
Be it known that before me personally appeared 
Henry Nayler, Justice of the peace 
Benjamin S. Bayly

Benjamin S, Bayly, aged 53 years, who being duly cautioned and
then sworn in due form of law, states that he is the son of Mountjoy Bayly who was a revolutionary Pensioner
and that he died in the District of Columbia  on the ___day of ___  or about 1835, and that his mother, named 
Elizabeth Bayly died on the ___day of ___ in the year 1835 and that they were married on the ___ day of ___ in the year 17___ and that they were residents of ___ in the State of Maryland and they resided there ___ ears, and that ___ resides in ___ and that furthermore ___ BY THESE 
PRESENTS,  constitutes, appoints, and fully empowers and authorizes, irrevocably and with powers of
substitution, F. E. HASSLER, of Washington City, D. C., as my true and lawful Attorney for me and in
my name and stead, to examine into, to prosecute, to demand, and to receive from the U.S. Government
and State officers his rights in all and in any manner of claim for increase or arrears of pension or Land that may be due me as heir of Mountjoy Bayly, 
who died leaving the same undrawn, as in right of law he may be entitled.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, he has on this 26th day November 1852,hereunto signed his name, and affixed his seal.
Benj. S. Bayly SEAL

Witness: H Naylor
Witness:  Llew Ball

Signed, sealed, acknowledged, and sworn to before me; and I further certify, that Benj. S. Bayly
has always by the community been known as the son of Mountjoy Bayly
Dated on this 26th day of November 1853
H Naylor  J.P. Ⓧ
STATE of
COUNTY of
to wit:

I hereby certify, That
Esq.,
before whom the foregoing affidavits and acknowledgment were made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature above written is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of
County Court, this
day of
one thousand eight
hundred and
Clerk

*If a widow applies, state"the date of marriage, and date of death of her husband."
#State under what act pensioned, or when pension commenced, if a pensioner -- and amount of pension.
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Hon J L Edwards
Commis Pensions

May 12/50

W Amy
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Washington Mar 18, 1856

Sir

May I ask so much of you as to cause the app of 7 heirs of Mountjoy Bailey to be taken up. You know how poor they are; among them you your old acquaintance Saml Hanson. The share coming to him will his heart place.

By only to have the certificate made out for [illegible] it will not take five minutes to see that all is right.

Act June 7, '32

Very Respectfully

H. H. Sylvester

Col. Jas L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions
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Mountjoy Beuly
61 63

Benjamin Bayly
R M Bayly
Eleinor Hanson
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Senate Chamber
March 8 50

Sir
Sended the papers of Franer S Hedden
for annuy increase of pension.

Please give me an early reply on
this case.

I would also request that you will
cause an examination of the application of the
heirs of Mountgoy Baily, now upon your files
under the act of June 7 1832, be made and
also reported to the
I am Respectfully 
Saml J Phelps

Hon J. L. Edwards
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Treasury Department
Third Auditors Office
March 13th 1850.
I certify that it appears
from the books of this Office
that Mountjoy Bayly late
pensioner of this District
died on the 22 March 1835.
S. Gallaher
3 Auditor
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May 19/57


Sufficiant Proof
JLE
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1786
Jany 6.
War Office
To Benjn Lincoln Suff. for his Salary
the said gentlemen employed in his
Office
1.926.35

Maj Mountjoy Bailey Deputy
Commissary of Prison in
Fuden town, Maryland " 754.87

The above is a true copy from " a Statement
of the accounts of the U.S. of America,
during the administration of the super
intendant of Finance.
Wm J.
Force
Washington, March 19, 1850.
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-
Bounty Lands. Vol. 1.
Letter Book P. 105
War Department. Jany 29th 1814.

Remarks, submitted to the Honble John Armstrong
Secy of War, with certain documents deposited by Mountjoy
Bayly ) relative to the Claim of Genl Mountjoy Bayly
for United States Military Bounty Land
-
-
the Documents in support
of this claim have been twice before presented to the
Secretary of War, and as often withdrawn.
On reviewing to my notes of current applications of this
nature, I find at the date Novr 18th 1811, the following Remark: viz-- 
"A.B. the Certificate of Robert Denny
Auditor Genl of the State of Maryland, dated, Auditors
"Office, Annapolis, Novr 19th 1810" states that, "Mountjoy
Bayly was appointed a Captain in the 7th Maryland
Regiment on the 3d of Decr 1776, and that he served
as such until the 14th of Septr 1778, when he
resigned his commission and left the service.

It is held that when an Officer resign his Commisssion, 
he of course give up all pretension to any ulterrior 
advantage to which the quality it conferred
might entitle him. Although it appears from a
Certificate of General Wood dated Oct. 22d 1810,
(meant to be considered as a Certificate of service) that 
he (Genl Wood) afterwards, in August 1781, appointed
Capt. Bayly a Town Major to superintend the
Convention Troops taken with Genl Burgoyne, yet
that did not restore him to any rank on the
continental Establishment that could entitle him
"to Military Bounty Land from the United States
accordingly his name has been in vain sought for
on
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on the most authentic registers of the Military
Services of that day, actually existing in the 
office of the accountant of the War Department. "

The foregoing Reasons induced the late Secretary
of War, William Eustis to decline issuing a Land
Warrant in favor of Genl Bayly.-

Genl Bayly was informed that his best mode of
proceeding would be to memorialize Congress, who,
as the sovereign authority of the Nation might take 
into view the Equity of his demand, & grant him
that Boon which the due execution of the existing
Laws denied him. His documents, however, again
found their way to the War Department, as it is
noted in the Memorandum Book of Applicantions
tionsfor Military Bounty Land at the date
17th February 1813, and here a second time returned
into his own hand on the 1st of May
following. Among the documents now presented
on the part of Genl Bayly, there is one that
fully corroborates the conclusion that, at the close
of the Revolutionary War, the accounting Officers
of the General Government did not consider
him as being then an Officer in the line
of the Continental Army; since he did not obtain
Commutation, as it is called. The Document
alluded to, is the Official copy of an Act of
the State of Maryland, dated 29th Novr 1810,
which recites this fact and orders that a Certificate
therefore, to the amount of five years full 
pay as a Captain be paid him out of the Treasury
of that State.
Respectfully submitted.
(signed:
Nat Cutting
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War Department. Section of Bounty Land. Feb. 12. 1818

The preceding Interest, on two pages, is correctly copied from the Record
in this Office, - and is a true copy of the Report relative to General M. Bayley's Claim to U. S. Meditary Bounty Land, as presented to the Secy
of War in this month of Jany in 1814.

Nat. Cutting
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63
No of orig Pay 61
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.

Allowed Act 1829

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
June 21. 1828

Mountjoy Bayley, of Washington in the County in the 
District of Columbia, has applied to the Secretary
of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled ""An Act for the relief of certain surviving
officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution,” approved on the 15th of May, 1828.
He states that he was as an officer on the Continental line, and served as such to the end
of the war)
at which period he was a Captain in the Maryland line.

The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated
by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary
A. Dickins

the auditor will also be pleased to state whether M Bailey
has received any, and of what, replies, from the U.S. Fiinance
the 3d of March 1826
A.D.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
22nd June 1828
---
The revolutionary records on file in this
furnish no information in relation to Capt
Mountjoy Bailey's services beyond the 14th September
1778, on which day, if appears by a Book of the
pay and subsistence accounts of the Maryland line,
he resigned. Not on the Pension Roll Peter Hagner Aus.
offie.  P.H
Received nothing
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Whereas it appears to this general assembly that
Mountgoy Bayly, a Captain in the late Revolutionary War
, and who served to its termination, did not receive
the Commutation money of five years pay
in time of the half pay for life promised to the
Officers and solders who continued in service
to the end of the War; Therefore resolved that the
Treasurer of the Western shore be and he is hereby
authorised and directed to pay to the said Mountjoy
Bayly five years full pay as a Captain, free from
interest, as a full compensation for his services during the
late revolutionary War.

The State of Maryland to wit I hereby certify
that the foregoing is a true copy of a Resolution
which passed both Houses of the General assembly
of Maryland at November Session eighteen
hundred and ten. In witness whereof I have
hereunto set my hand this sixth day of February
eighteen hundred and seventeen
(Signed )
Ninian Pinkney
Clerk of the Council

The State of Maryland to wit I Ninian Pinkney
clerk of the Executive Council of the said State
do hereby certify what appears by the proceedings
of the Council of the twenty seventh day
of July seventeen hundred and eighty that
Montjoy Bailey Esquire was appointed Captain
of a company in the extra Regiment raised in
virtue of an act of assembly entitled a 
supplement to the act to procure recruits to 
complete the Battalions of this State in the service
of the United States and to raise an additional
if necessary, and an act to expedite the raising
an additional Battalion of regulars. In testimony
whereof I have hereunto set my hand at
the city of Annapolis this first day of July in
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the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventeen
(Signed )
Ninian Pinkney
Clerk of the Council

I hereby certify that the above and foregoing
true copies of two papers filed in the Bounty
land office, war Department, by Mountjoy Bayly
to sustain his claim to Bounty land of the United States
- Given under my hand this 26th day of 
June 1828.
Robert Taylor
Clerk of B. Office
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9 Jan 1817
Sir
An excessive press of business has
hitherto prevented an earlier answer to your
letter of the 21st Dec. last and I lament, that
it is not now in my power to give you a 
satisfactory answer to your inquiries-- I well
recollect that several years ago, you put
into my hands several papers, which were intended
to prove your right; as an officer of the Revolution
to the land allowed by Congress-- these papers
I shewed to the secretary at War and I am
inclined to think left there in his possession -
he appeared to be of opinion that they were
sufficient to entitle you to a warrant for
your land, and I did expect that you would
have obtained it. My opinion was that your 
papers fully proved, that you were entitled
to the warrant, and this opinion I expressed
to the Secretary at War. When I presented him
your papers-- declaring to the best of my
recollection, there was an order from the
board of war to Genl Wood to appoint
a suitable officer to assist him in his then 
duties, in taking care of the British Prisoners
which officer was not to be below the Rank
of Captain, nor higher than a field officer
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There was a certificate from Genl Wood
of the regular Army, stating that he was directed
by the board of War, to appoint a
suitable officer between the above mentioned
grades to assist him in his duties, and
that he had in consequence thereof, appointed
Capt Mountjoy Bayly of the regular army
to that duty, and according to the best of my
recollection he stated that the said Captain
Mountjoy Bayly continued to perform
the duties which had been thus assigned him
in the State of Maryland and Pennsylvania
under his (Genl Woods) command, during the two
last years of the Revolutionary War, and
that Capt. Bayly had continued in the
Continental Army to the close of the war, and
had discharged his duties under Gen Wood,
with capacity fidelity and great attention
or words to that purport- there was also
as well as I recollect, a resolution of the
State of Maryland which appeared to be
founded upon the certificate of Genl Wood
and which recognized your continuing in 
service to the end of the war-- as well as I can
now remember and I think contemplated or
made some provision accordingly-- there
were several other papers, but I cannot
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now remember what they were. It is
certainly very unfortunate that the papers
have been lost, but I trust your country
will do you ample justice respecting
this claim. which in my opinion your
papers fully establish
---
I am with Sentiments of much
Respect you Mo. ob sert.
(Signed ) Jos Anderson

Mountgoy Bayly

Department of War
Bounty land Office
I hereby certify that the above and foregoing
is a true copy of a letter filed by Mountjoy
Bayly in this office, to sustain his claim for Bounty land, purporting to be a letter from Jos. Anderson
to said Bayly-
Robert Tayler B.2.O.
26th June 1828
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Application for the 
Benefits of the Act
15 May 1828
Capt.
Mountjoy Bayly
late a Pensioner
under act of 1832
on the Rolls of
the District of Columbia
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Washington City D C
Decr 5th 1853

Hon L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Present

Sir
By virtue of the enclosed power of
Attorney from Benjamin S. Bayley. Son
of one of the heirs of Capt. Mountjoy
Bayley of the Maryland Continental Line
& a pensioner on the Rolls of the District of
Columbia under act 1832, I would state
that he having received Bounty Land
as also commutation pay, he was
entitled to the benefits of the act 15 May
1828, for which I now respectfully ask
a certificate,
Yours Truly
F.E. Hassler
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
To all to Whom these presents Shall come Greeting:

I CERTIFY, That S.C. Donn
whose name is subscribed to the paper hereunto annexed, is
now, and was, at the time of subscribing the same, a
Justice of the Peace for the County of Washington, in the District
of Columbia, duly commissioned, and that full faith and confidence
are due to his acts as such.

In Testimony whereof, I John M. Clayton
SECRETARY OF STATE, of the United States, have hereunto subscribed my name
and caused the Seal of the Department of State to be affixed.
DONE at the City of Whington, this Twenty-second
day of February A.D. 1850
and of the Independence of the United States of America the 22th
John M. Claytom
SEAL
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37746
July 23/50

Mountjoy Baily do
D. C
act 7 May 1832
Adm. 2 years of
Capt in the Maryland
Line  and Commissary of
Prisioners 
$600.00 p
Presence
to 4 March 1831 to 22nd
March 1836 the day of his 
death deducting what
may be paid at the rate
of (illegible) the 
act 15 May 1828, since
4 March 1837, payable to
Benjamin S. Bailey, R. M.
Baily, Eleanor Hansen only
known Children of Mountjoy 
Baily dec.
H.H. Sylvester
Present