Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 4,127, Timothy Bayley, N.H.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
N.H.

Bayley, Timothy
or
Bailey
.................Zeruiah

NUMBER
W. 4,127
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15,288
Ohio      R
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Timothy Bayley
of Clark Co'y in the state of Ohio
who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Beedle of the N Hampshire
line, for the term of One year.--
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Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to
commence on the 24 of Aug't 1819----------
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Certificate of Pension issued the 12 of Octo: 1819 and sent to Daniel McKinnon Esq
Judge  Springfield, Ohio-----------
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Arrears to 4th of Sept 1819:  ......................$ 3.12
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1820..........$48----
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............................................................................. $51.12
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(Revolutionary claim,         )
(Act 18th March, 1818.    )

Continued

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let 8 Sep. 37   Hon S. Mason

[written vertically on right edge of page]

Notification  sent the 25 April 1821 to
J.A. Winters, Esq'r   
Springfield    
Clark Co'y, Ohio.
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Ohio 1590
Zeruiah Bailey
widow of Timothy Bailey dec.
[illegible]
who died on the 19 Sept 1825
of Clark Co in the State of Ohio
who was an Ens and Pri in the company commanded
by Captain _______ of the  Reg commanded
by Col Beedle in the N H
line for 3 mos and 26 days Ensign, 1 yr private.

Inscribed on the roll of Ohio 
at the rate of 78 dollars 66 cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of Nov. 1837 and Leut B A Bailey, Springfield, Ohio.
Arrears ending to the 4th of Sept 1837  $511.29
Semi annual allowance [illegible] Mar '38 $39.33
$550.62
{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836 Section 3)
Recorded by D D Addision Clerk
Book A, Vol 2nd, Page 176
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Timothy Bayley of __ and Zereviah [Zeruiah] Blodget
of Plymouth Married January 11th 1778
A true copy of records
Attest Arthur Ward Town Clerk
Plymouth August 9th 1837

State of New Hampshire Grafton S.S.
August 9th-1837  Then personally appearing the above named Arthur ward Clerk of the Town of Plymouth in the County of Grafton and State of New Hampshie. And made solemn Oath that the above by him subscribed is a true copy of the original record before me
Jona [Jonathan] Cummings Just. Peace

State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss. I Nathan B. Felton, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County of Grafton, hereby certify that Jonathan Cummings whose name is subscribed to foregoing certificate. was on the ninth day of august last first, and ever since has been, was acting Justice of the Peace for said County , and that his name so subscribed is his genuine signature, being in his own preferred hand writing,
In testimony wherein I have herewith set my hand affixed the seal of the Court the second day of September Anno Domini 1837
N. B. Felton Clerk
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State of Ohio Clark County ss
On this 24th day of August Eighteen hundred & nineteen before me the suscribi    one of the associate judges of the court of common pleas within and for the county of Clark aforesaid personally appears Timothy Bayley aged seventy years resident in the county aforesaid who being by me firstly & duly sworn according to law doth on his oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by a Late act of congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the revolutionary war. That he the said Timothy Bayley on or about the first of June seventy hundred seventy five enlisted in company commanded by Timothy Bedle [Bedel] of concord in the county of Grafton and State of New Hampshire said Bedle [Bedel] soon appointed colonel taking command of the Regiment the company remained under the command Luet__Palmer who marched under the command of Col Bedle [Bedel] immediately  to St Johns and joined the Army under the command Genl Montgomery after remaining at St Johns  around  [illegible]  went to Chambolee [Chambly] now thence to Montreal then on to
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St Johns and returned to concord in December and immediately enlisted in Capt  Samuel Youngs company Col Bedles [Bedel's] Regiment Marched immediately thence to Montreal Fort Ann at the head of Montreal Island where Capt Youngs Company remained and the residue went  to the [] and was taken prisoners and Capt Youngs Company retreated to Montreal  and St Johns joined Gen Sullivan and then to Ticonderoga remained then and at Mount Independence[ illegible] opposite to it until Oct or November thence to Albany on command and remained there until the 10th and 20th of January then resided thirteen months pay and Discharge and returned to concord and was at Bennington Battles as a volunteer absent from home 6 or 7 weeks in the month of February Seventeen Hundred Eight   He [] the appointment of Ensign from the Governor New Hampshire marched with a Detachment from that State and joined the Army at West Point went from there across to Robertson Farm remained there til after Andre was taken and had the command of the Boat that
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Washington sent down the river after Arnold after returning was ordered to the north Redoubt and remained there until December and was relieved by a company of French Troops and returned to New Hampshire and that he is in reduced circumstances and Stands in illegible of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services sworn and subscribed and declared before me the day and year aforesaid Timothy Bayley
Daniel McKinnon Associate Judge Clark County
I Daniel McKinnon Judge as aforesaid do testify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Timothy Bayley did serve in the revolutionary was as stated in the proceding declaration against the common enemy and I now transit the proceding and testimony  taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the direction of the aforementioned act of congress  
Daniel McKinnon
Associate Judge
Clark County
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I hereby certify that it satisfactorily appears to me that Timothy Baily the foregoing applicant is in reduced circumstances and actually stands in need of the assistance of his country for his support given under my hand this 24th day of August 1819.
Daniel McKinnon Associate Judge Clark County State of Ohio Clark County SS
This may certify that Daniel McKinnon Esq. whose name is above subscribed was at the day? of the date? thereof viz on the 24th August 1809 ... of the court of common pleas ? commissioned and sworn in as a Clark County and to all his official acts full faith and credit is due  ? under my hand and offe? ? at Springfield in said county this 24th of August 1819  T. Armstrong Clerk Clark County
Timothy Bayley ? ? ? County (too faint to read) Springfield, Ohio
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Timothy Bayley (unintelligible) Clark Co. Ohio 15.?  March 182?  (unintelligible) (an officer)  Cont?  on ? Capt Pate?  ?  Co. Col. Michels regt from 29 June to 24 ? 178? as ensign 3 mos, ?
J. A. Minter ?  Springfield, Clark Co. Ohio 25 Apr. 1821
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State of Ohio
Clark County ss} On this twenty fifth day of November 1820 Personally appeared in open court being a court of record because expressly made so by statute and having common law Jurisdiction with power to fine and imprison having a seal and keeping a record of their proceedings Timothy Bayley aged 71 years resident in the county aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that service in the revolutionary war as follows. I enlisted in concord New Hampshire in a company commanded by Lieut Palmer in a regt commanded by Col. Timothy Bedle (Bedel) in June 1775 for six months was at ['the' crossed out] siege at St Johns measurably lost my hearing marched to Chambalee (Chambly) Montreal and returned home reinlisted in November in Capt Samuel Young's company Col Timothy Bedles (Bedel) Reg'ts in the New Hampshire line for one year and served 14 months and was discharged the forepart of January 1777 at Albany New York in February 1780 received an Ensign's commission from New Hampshire marched to West Point and joined the United States Army was continued there at the Robinson farm and the neighbouring redoubts until December The date  of former declaration
The number of my pension surtificate is (15,288) And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish
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it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress in titled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war, passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed
(viz) 4 steers - $65
1 Cow - 11
1 Calf - 2
3 steers - 21
2 plows - 10
2 chares - 4
12 Hoe - 0.75
1 pot 1 Bake oven - 2.00
1 Tea Kettle - .50
3 knives & forks - .50
3 cups & saucers - .25
6 plates - .50
$117.50
John Akins note $50.00 good
Nathan White do 22.00 doubtful
$189.50
I am indebted as follows
George Weaver - $10.00
Bates & Jones - 15.00
Langdance - 16.00
D. Robbins - 10.00
$51.00
/s/Timothy Bayley
I am by occupation Blacksmith but cannot see to work at it and on that account and my extreme age have abandoned it 
my family are as follows my wife Zer Bailey aged 67 years my son aged 13 years and Elizabeth my daughter whos age is about 23 and that he hereby releases his former pention which was granted but he never has procured the same*
/s/Timothy Bayley
Subscribed, sworn to and declared in open court of Common Pleas Nov'r 25. 1820
/s/John A. Scott Dep. Clerk
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The state of Ohio, Clark county, ss - 
I, Saul Henkle Clerk of the court of Common Pleas of the county aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court; and that it in value of the property exhibited in the said schedule is one hundred and seventeen dollars & fifty cents, which, with the amount of the two notes makes $189.50
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court at Springfield, on the 30th day of November A.D. 1820
/s/Saul Henkle Clerk,
By his Deputy John H. Scott
Amt. property 117.50
 do. notes 72.
$189.50
Debts deducted 51.
Leaves $138.50
*Pension certificate was issued 12 Oct'r 1819 - Is it probable that no part of the pension has been received?
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[verso]
2570
Zeruiah Bailey 
Application
on roll Capt Peter Page's Co. Col Nichol's reg't as Ensign from 29 June to 24 Oct'r 1780. 3 mo 26 days.
vol. 2 N.H. rolls.
died 19 Sep 1825

[recto]
V2570
Zeruiah Bailey 
Ohio
admitted
1 yr -Pri - 40. - 
3 mo. 26, days, Ensign 38.66
$78.66
died 19 Sep 1825
B. A. Bailey
Springfield, Ohio
['Hon. S. Mason' crossed out]
HR
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State of Ohio Clark County ss On this fifth day of August in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty seven personally appeared before me Joseph Perrin one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas within & for the county of Clark aforesaid Zeruiah Bailey a resident of the County and State above named aged Eighty one 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 4th 1836 and and the act explanatory of said act passed March 3 1837. that she is the widow of Timothy Bailey who was a private Soldier and Served ['for the period of' crossed out] in the Army of the Revolutionary war in that capacity for a considerable period of time but the precise period of time he served She can not state She says that he had been in the Army and had served she was informed about one year before her marriage with him 
After the marriage of this deponent with the said Timothy Bailey, and about the 17th day of July 1780 two days after the birth of their ['second born' crossed out] child named Benjamin the said Timothy left home in the state of New Hampshire and went as she believes to join the Army at West Point - but the name of any of his officers or the name of the particular corp to which he belonged She says she cannot state
This deponent believes that her late husband Timothy Bailey was a minute man and she heard him say after his return home the last time that he had served several years in all & she thinks he said five years but she may have forgotten the particular time he mentioned She does not recollect that he went into the army after his return
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from West Point in 1780 This deponent says she has no documentary evidence whatever in relation to the services of her said husband or in support of her claim She knows that he received a pension from the United States for services rendered in the Revolutionary War and for further information respecting the services of the said Timothy Bailey as a Soldier of the Revolution she refers to its declaration and papers accompanying the same made by him in order to obtain a pension and which she supposes are of file in the War Department She further declares that she was married to the said Timothy Bailey in the State of New Hampshire on or about the Sixth day of January in the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy Seven that her husband the aforesaid Timothy Bailey died on the nineteenth day of September (1825) Eighteen hundred and twenty five and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. 
/s/X her mark Zeruiah Bailey
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year above written before me Joseph Perrin Associate Judge as aforesaid And I do also certify that the said Zeruiah Bailey is in my opinion unable to appear in court by reason of her bodily infirmities and that her statements are entitled to belief. 
/s/Joseph Perrin
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State of Ohio Clark County ss On this fifth day of August in the year Eighteen hundred & thirty seven personally appeared before me Joseph Perrin one of the Associate Judges of the court of common pleas in & for the county of Clark in the state of Ohio John Craig of the county & state aforesaid aged Seventy nine years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath say that he was well acquainted with Timothy Bailey late of Clark County in said state and that he has been for many years and still is acquainted with Zeruiah Bailey his widow - that said Timothy Bailey it was generally reputed and believed amongst ['the' crossed out] his acquaintances was a soldier of the Revolutionary war and that he and the said Zeruiah were lawfully married in the War of the Revolution and This deponent knows that they lived together as man & wife and raised a numerous family and that several of their children now reside in this county and that she is still a widow
/s/John Craig
Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year above written before me
And I do certify that John Craig the above named affiant is a credible witness and whose statements are entitled to belief
/s/Joseph Perrin 
State of Ohio Clark County ss
I J. R. Crain Acting Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County & State aforesaid do hereby certify that Joseph Perrin whose name appears to the foregoing Instruments of writing is at this date one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Clark duly appointed according to the Statute in such Case made & provide and that his signature so appended is genuine. - 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of s'd Court Aut 5th AD 1837
/s/J. R. Crain Acting Clerk
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[typewritten letter] 
Rev. War Section. [initials: AW own]

May 16, 1922.
Hon. Clifford Ireland,
House of Representatives.
In re: Timothy Bayley - War of Revolution,
W. File 4137.

You are advised that from the papers in the above noted pension claim, it appears that Timothy Bayley enlisted at Concord, N. H. June 1, 1775, as a private in Captain Timothy Bedel's Company, but said captain soon became colonel of the regiment and Lieutenant Palmer commanded the company, he returned to Concord in November 1775 and immediately re-enlisted in Captain Samuel Young's Company, Colonel Timothy Bedel's Regiment, from which he was discharged in January 1777. He went out as a volunteer to the battle of Bennington, names of officers not stated and served at this time six or seven weeks. In February 1780 he was appointed Ensign and served in Captain Whittier's Company, Colonel Nichols' Regiment of N. H. Troops, until December 1780, when he returned to his home in Lisbon, N. H.
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[typewritten letter]
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 24, 1819, while living in Clark County, Ohio aged seventy years, and he died September 19, 1825.
He married at Plymouth, N. H. January 11, 1778, Zereviah, or Zeruiah Blodget of said place. She was allowed pension on her application executed August 5, 1837, while living in Clark County, Ohio, aged eighty-one years.
A son Benjamin was born in July 1780, and in 1820 a daughter Elizabeth aged twenty-three years and a son, name not given, aged thirteen years are referred to. There is no further data on file as to family.
Herewith are returned the copies of the letter of Mr. W. R. Sandham of Wyoming, Illinois, and the report of the Adjutant General, U. S. A.
Very truly yours,
/s/Washington Gardner
Commissioner.
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[verso]
1906 Oct. 12. History to John U. Smith.
1922 May 16, Hist. to Hon. C. Ireland [initials: aw]
1922 May 27 Hon. C. Ireland ntf'd how to apply for a date of death [initials: aw]

[recto]
Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 4127
Zeruiah Bailey Wid.
Timothy Bailey
Ensign N.H. line
Act: July 4"/36, Sec. 3
Index: - Vol. A, Page 30
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Timothy Bailey Ohio act March 18, 1818.
to what time paid?
Pen. Office, Sept. 8, 1837.
paid to 4 Sep 1825
[initials: JH]
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Zeruiah Bailey 
Ohio
Suspended
see letter 8th Sept'r 1837 Hon. S. Mason.
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[handwritten letter]
Senate Chamber
Feb 10 1849

J. L. Edwards
Com of Pensions

Sir - 
Will you be good enough to furnish me with the information required in the letter of Mr. Hughes herewith inclosed
Very Respectfully your obt Serv't
/s/D R. Atchison
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31
23
8
31

2.06+1.06=3.12
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[addressed envelope]
[margin notes] Ohio Oct 7 Addl prff Zeruiah Bayley] 
[postmark: SPRING'd O OCT 12 FREE]
James L. Edwards
Comm'r of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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[handwritten letter]
Springfield Ohio October 12th 1837
Mr James L Edwards Sir
we need a letter giving directions on how to procede in obtaining testimony of Zeruiah Bayley's Marriage before the letter arrived we had sent to Newhampshire for those papers to establish her clames to a Pension which have arrived you will see by the afadavits hear with inclosed that Timothy Bayley was an officer in Revolution and of course She will be entitled to an officers pay. this reason that he did not draw an officers pay was because he did not know that any one was a live that knew any thing of it pleas sent word as soon as possible if there is any thing more to do & I want to know as soon posible yours with Respect
/s/B A Bayley
PS the reason I have not forwarded this to the Hon S Mason was because the prospect he would leave there before this would arrive
/s/BAB
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I Reuben Sherman aged Seventy five years of Lisbon in Grafton County in the State of New Hampshire depose & say that I was well acquainted with Ensign Timothy Bailey during the latter parts of the revolutionary war 
I was seen to his death - He was a revolutionary soldier & an Ensign in the service & on his return from the Army in the year 1780 in the fall of the year to his wife & two Children then living in said Lisbon
He removed to Ohio twenty Six years ago this fall & died there several years ago he was a pensioner until his death he shew me his Ensigns Commission & his honorable discharge
His wife's name was Zeruiah & she lived in Ohio State the last I knew of her - He was married in 1778 at Plymouth as I always understood to his said wife & she was his widow the last I knew of her - 
/s/Reuben Shearman
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Grafton ss - August 14th AD 1837 
Then the said Reuben Shearman personally appeared & made oath that the within deposition by him signed is just & true - before me and I do certify that he is a credible Witness
/s/Ira Goodall Jus Peace
State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss. I Nathan B. Felton, Clerk for the Court of Common Pleas for said County, hereby certify that Ira Goodall, whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate, was on the fourteenth day of August last past, and ever since has been, an acting Justice of the Peace for such County, and that his name so subscribed is his genuine signature, being in his own proper hand writing - 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court the second day of September Anno Domini 1837
/s/N. B. Felton Clerk
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Deposition of Moses Barron
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I Moses Barron of Lisbon County of Grafton & State of New Hampshire a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, aged Eighty-Two, depose and say, that I was well acquainted with Timothy Bailey, who resided before the Revolutionary War in Lisbon above named, that, in the year 1780 I was in Service at West Point, in the State of New York, in the Regiment commanded by Col. Nicholls (Nichols), in Captain Whitcher's Company, in which company were officers Lieut. Ring. & Ensign Timothy Bailey above named, that said Bailey was married in the year 1778 in the town of Plymouth as I then learned, that he lived in said town of Lisbon a number of years after the close of the war. that he afterwards removed to the West, after which I had no further knowledge of him.
/s/Moses Barron 
State of New Hampshire
Grafton County}ss. Lisbon August 28. 1837
Personally appeared the above  named Moses Barron and made oath in due form of law, that the above deposition subscribed by him is true
/s/James H. Johnson Just. Peace 
State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss. I, Nathan B. Felton, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Grafton, hereby certify that James H. Johnson, whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate, was on the 28th day of August last past and acting Justice of the Peace for said County, and that his name so subscribed is his genuine signature, being in his own proper hand writing - 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, the second day of September Anno Domini 1837
/s/N. B. Felton Clerk
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[handwritten letter]
Washington Sept 7 1837

J. L. Edwards Esq
Sir
Enclosed is an application by Z Bailey of Clark Co'y Ohio for a pension or annuity under the act of 1836 
Please advise me of the result of the application I hope that the proof may be satisfactory even if it should ['not' crossed out] fall short of that required by the instructions. Of the truth of the facts I have no doubt although the memory of the applicant has become very frail
I have the honor, Sir to be your Obt. Ser't
/s/S. Mason
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In at Dec 26 
No. al
S. Mason HR
J L Edwards Esq
Pension Office
Washington DC
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[handwritten letter]
Washington Decr 25/37
J. L. Edwards Esq

Sir
My correspondent whose letter is enclosed is the sone of Mrs. Bayley whose application for a pension under the act of 1836 was recently allowed. It would doubtless afford much satisfaction to the applicant and her family if you would state for their information the principles that guide you in the decision of her case. I shall be greatly obliged to you for an answer to the letter of D. D. Bayley which is enclosed 
your ob. Ser't
/s/S. Mason
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[handwritten letter]
OFFICE OF JOHN U. SMITH
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
FINANCIAL AGENT
WAIANUENUE AND PITMAN STREETS

HILO, HAWAII Sept 15. 06,
[receipt stamp: O.W.N. & N. DIV. FILES OCT 4 1906]
Commissioner of Pensions
Wash. D.C. 

Sir, 
Timothy Bayley, enlisted at New Lisbon, Grafton Co. New Hampshire at beg'g of Rev. War & served 7 years in Continental Army - arose to 1st Lieut. 
In 1820, I believe, a pension of $6.00 was granted to him which was drawn by his widow, Zeruiah Blodgett Bayley, after his death in 1824:
I should like a certificate showing, place & date of birth of said Timothy Bayley, service, discharge, pension and in fact all the information concerning him on file in your office. 
Yours Respectfully
/s/John U. smith
[receipt stamp: U.S. PENSION OFFICE A OCT 4 1906]
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[handwritten letter]
OFFICE OF JOHN U. SMITH
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
FINANCIAL AGENT
WAIANUENUE AND PITMAN STREETS
[initials: own]
[receipt stamp: O.W.N. & N. DIV. FILES NOV 13 1906] [margin note: 20 days- ]
HILO, HAWAII Oct 23, 1906,

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C. 

Sir:
Timothy Bayley was a soldier in the Revolutionary War enlisting in Peter Page's Company. Lisbon, New Hampshire. 
He drew a pension after the war until his death I believe in 1824; after which his widow Zeruiah (Blodgett) Bayley drew $8.00 per month for quite a long time. 
I desire what information the records of the Pension office show regarding these two great grandparents of mine. 
The place of their birth and date of birth; the names of either of their parents if shown, residence; rank of Timothy Bayley - amount of pension - back pay &x if any. Names and number of children if shown. Date of marriage &c. 
In fact, I should like to have all the information contained in their applications for pensions, for the use of a very large number of their descendants in the western states, especially in Oregon. 
Yours very truly
/s/John M Smith
[receipt stamp: U.S. PENSION OFFICE. A NOV 12 1906]
Timothy Bayley 12th New Hampshire Lisbon 65 Co.
also Ensign in Capt Peter Page's Co. in Moses Nichols Reg. N.H. militia 
also in Col. Bedel's N.H.R.
also Luther Richardson's Co. same Reg.
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[typewritten letter]
[official seal: UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES]
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
WASHINGTON, D. C.
May Thirteen 1922. [margin note: Rev/mh 3]

COMMITTEE ON ACCOUNTS
CLIFFORD IRELAND, CHAIRMAN, ILLINOIS
ADOLPHUS P. NELSON WISCONSIN
ANDERSON H. WALTERS PENNSYLVANIA
CLARENCE MACGREGOR NEW YORK
LESTER O. VOLK NEW YORK
MINER G. NORTON OHIO
CHARLES LUNDERHILL MASSACHUSETTS
FRANK PARK GEORGIA
TILMAN B. PARKS ARKANSAS
HAMPTON P. FULMER SOUTH CAROLINA
JOSEPH T. DEAL VIRGINIA
WENDELLE CABLE, CLERK

Hon. Washington Gardner
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.
[receipt stamp: U.S. PENSION OFFICE. M MAY 15 1922]
My dear Commissioner:
I am herewith enclosing copies of two letters which are more or less self explanatory.
Any information you can furnish in the premises, will be deeply appreciated.
Very sincerely yours,
/s/Clifford Ireland
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[typewritten letter]
[official seal: UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES]
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
WASHINGTON, D. C.

COMMITTEE ON ACCOUNTS
CLIFFORD IRELAND, CHAIRMAN, ILLINOIS
ADOLPHUS P. NELSON WISCONSIN
ANDERSON H. WALTERS PENNSYLVANIA
CLARENCE MACGREGOR NEW YORK
LESTER O. VOLK NEW YORK
MINER G. NORTON OHIO
CHARLES LUNDERHILL MASSACHUSETTS
FRANK PARK GEORGIA
TILMAN B. PARKS ARKANSAS
HAMPTON P. FULMER SOUTH CAROLINA
JOSEPH T. DEAL VIRGINIA
WENDELLE CABLE, CLERK
[receipt stamp: OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER U.S. BUREAU OF PENSIONS. MAY 27 1922]
May Twenty five 1922. 

Hon. Washington Gardner
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Mr. Commissioner:
Recently your Bureau has furnished this office with some information concerning Timothy Bayley or Bailey, a soldier who served in the Revolutionary War. It appears that his widow
made application for pension under date of August 5, 1837, and our constituent now desires to know when payments of pension to her were stopped, as it would aid them in determining the exact date of her death. Her name was Zernviah or Zerniah Bayley or Bailey. Her husband served in Col. Bedell's (Bedel) regiment from New Hampshire. 
Any information you may be able to give us will be greatly appreciated.
Very sincerely yours, 
/s/Clifford Ireland
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[typewritten letter]
Rev. War Section. [initials: AW]

May 27, 1922.

Hon. Clifford Ireland,
House of Representatives.

In re: Zeruiah widow of Timothy Bailey W. File 4127.
You are advised that for the date of the last payment in the above noted claim for pension, name of person paid and date of widow's death, you should apply to the Pension Section, Interior Department in vision, General Accounting Office, Ordnance Building, 1800 E. St. N. W. Washington, D. C. citing all of the following data: Zeruiah widow of Timothy Bailey, Ctf. 1590, issued Nov. 29, 1837, rate $78.66 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of July 4, 1836, Ohio Agency.
Very truly yours,
/s/Washington Gardner
Commissioner.