Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 9345, Aaron Hays, Conn.
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(3-1776)
Service Conn.

Hays, Aaron

Number S. 9345
Contents Carded
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32896
New York, Albany
Aaron Hays
of Essex Co. in the State of New York who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Griffin of the Regt commanded by Col. Crawford in the Conn. Line Revolution for one year 
Records completed Dec. 19/04.  Inscribed on the Rolls of Albany at the rate of 40 dollars 00 cents per annum, 10 commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd day of July 1837 and send to O. Phelps jr. Esq
Irrears to the 4th of 
semi-annual allowance ending Present
{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act June 7, 1832}

H.R. Weightman Clerk,
Vol. 4 Page 33
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Aaron Hays Declaration for a Pension}
32,389

Hon R Whallon
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12
State of New York}
County of Essex} SS
On this 2nd day of October in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and thirty four Personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Essex and State aforesaid now sitting, Aaron Hays a Resident of the Town of Lewis in the County of Essex, State of New York aged Seventy two years Who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his said oath make the following Declarations in order to obtain the Certificate of this Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and second as herein stated...

First that in the Months of May in the year 1779 and between the 4th or 5th he enlisted under Captain Stephen Griffin in the Connecticut State Troops for six months and served in Colonel Canfields Regiment he does not recollect the names of any of officers of his guild or Company Officers he resided at  Granby in Connecticut when he enlisted and then Enlisted and joined the company. Marched from Granby with the Company under the said Captain Griffin to Litchfield in Connecticut and going then to New Haven on Receiving Intelligence of Tryon's assault upon the latter place remained at New Haven a few days and marched from there to Milford then to Stratford, and Tryon then being in Fairfield they were Marched to that place and from
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then to Norwich, remained there a few days and marched to Stanford and from there to Horse Neck at which place they remained two months at which place he first joined the Regiment from Horse Neck they marched to West Point on the Hudson River and remained at West Point until his six months had expired for which he first undertook and enlisted he was Discharged at West Point in the forepart of the month of November 1779 having served the full term of six months the period for which he engaged, and On being Discharged at West Point he immediately enlisted under the same Captain Stephen Griffin for the time of one year and served in the same Company and Regiment under the same Captain and under the said Colonel Canfield's Regiment he enlisted for one year and served the full period for which he engaged he does not recollect the names of any other of his field or Company Officers from the time he enlisted being fourth or fifth of November 1779 he was stationed at West Point four or five months and was then marched to Fishkill at which place they remained about three or four months and then marched to [illegible] of the north in Hudson River was stationed there for a short time was then marched back to Fishkill where they remained until his year had expired and until discharged being first part of November in the year 1780 having done duty in the said Regiment without ever having to go home eighteen months as both period
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he does not now recollect the names of any of the Continental Regiments which served in to neighborhoods where he was stationed.  He was at West Point at the time the British were passing up the North River to Burn Espoers and fired upon them from West Point as they passed-  he does not recollect the name of any Continental Officers who served with him or in the same neighborhood except that he recollects General Washington being atWest Point where he was stationed then  He has no documentary evidence of his service and does not know of but two living witnesses who can testify to his service.  [illegible] [Illegible]Hayes and Dudley Hayes of if they be still living

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.
Aaron Hayes X his mark
Sworn and subscribed his day and year aforesaid} Be open court & before the court}
Edward S. Cuyler Clerk

We John Gibbs and Ishmael H Holcomb both residing in the town of Lewis in the County of Essex and State of new York do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Aaron hays who has Subscribed and Sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy two 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.
Subscribed and Sworn in open court October 2nd 1834 before the Court} Edward S. Cuyler Clerk
Ishmael H Holcomb
John Gibbs
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The Court performed the following Interrogatories prescribed by the Department L and received the following answers thereto
1. Where and in what year were you born
ANS. I was born in Granby Hartford County May 15th 1762
2. Have you any record of your age and if so where is it
ANSwer- Have no record of my age and had in my Bible but it has got tore out
3. Where were you living when called into the service.  where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live
ANSwer- Lived at Granby aforesaid when called into the Service.  Lived there after the War until 1804 then moved to Jay in Essex County New York lived there until 1829 and then moved to Lewis where he now resides.
4. How were you called into the Service were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a Substitute and if a Substitute for whom.
ANSwer He enlisted or volunteered for both terms of his service.
5th- State the names of the Regular Officers who were with the Troops when you served, such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service.
ANSwer He recollects no other Continental Officer but General Washington or any Continental or Militia Regiment and he has already stated the general circumstances of his service
6. Did you receive a written Discharge from the  service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it:
ANSwer. Did not receive a written discharge from his first ten months service- 
from the years since he did receive one signed by Colonel Cauflield but has lost it has not seen it for many years
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7th State the names to of Persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your service as a soldier of the Revolution
ANS. John Gibbs-Ishmael H Holcomb Capt. [illegible} & there are several others. I am not being well acquainted with any clergyman there is one residing in Eastern part of the town but I am not acquainted with him therefore did not produce him to certify for me as he is not acquainted in the neighborhood where I reside.

And the said Court do hereby declare this opinion after investigating the matter and after putting the above Interrogatories presented by the War Departments that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he stated and the Court further certifys that it appears to them that there is no clergyman in Lewis aforesaid who is acquainted with the above named applicant [illegible] the neighborhood where he resides and that John Gibbs and Ishmael H. Holcomb Esquire who have signed and sworn to the foregoing certificate are both residents in the said town of Lewis and that they are both reputable & reputable persons and that their statements are entitled to credit
Signed by Order of the Court
Edw S Cuyler Clerk

I Edward S Cuyler Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Essex and State of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing contained the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the
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Application of Aaron Hays for a Pension 
  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this 2nd day of October 1834.
                     Edwrd. S. Cuyler, Clerk
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In the Matter of the 
Application of 
Aaron Hays for
a Pension 
__________________
Affidavit
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St of Connecticut  }  
Hartford County.   }
                          District of Granby Ss, On this 16 Day of January 1835. Personally appeared in Open Court, before the Court of Probate for the District of Granby, now sitting Dudley Hays a resident of said Granby aged 75 years, who being first duly sworn deposth and saith, that he has a Brother, by the name of Aaron Hays, who was born in this town and resided here until after the close of the Revolutionary War, and who now, and for some twenty years back has lived in this State of New York, Further that he well knows there, Aaron Hays enlisted in May 1779, at Granby then Simsbury in Connecticut under Captain Stephen Griffin in the Connecticut Line that he served six months at Litchfield, New Haven, Milford, Stamford, Fairfield, Norwalk, Horsehead and West Point, and that he was discharged at West Point, the forpart [forepart] of November 1779. Then immediately after his Return home, there , I, Aaron again enlisted into the Same Company and Regiment, the Colonel's name he does not recollect, for this term of  some year, then served his year our at West Point, Fishkill and  [illegible] and Back to Fishkill  and  Remained at Fishkill unlike some time in November 1780. When his term of enlistment was over and further that the Deponent was in the Army of the War of the Revolution During the time his Brother Aaron served as above stated, although, the Deponent was not in the same Company, has frequently saw him in the Army and was well knowing to his performing said service and further, than he has often heard his brothers say that he was at New Haven at the time say Tryon Was there and said he was at Esopus when that place was  burned by the British.       
Dudley Hays X his mark

Witness J.R. Jewett
SA Jewett

Sworn and Subscrib'd the day and year aforesaid
Before Me.   Joshua R. Jewett, Judge of Probate
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I hereby Certify that the within named Dudley Hays is a disinterested and Credible Witness

Joshua R. Jewett Judge of Probate.



I Richard S. Porter Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Granby Do hereby Certify that Joshua R. Jewett before whom this written Deposition was taken is on this 16 Day of January 1835. Judge of the Court of Probate  for the District of Granby and was Duly appointed commissioner and sworn, and that full faith and Credit are to be given to his official acts as such, and further that the signature  hereon purporting to be his is Genuine.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand  & seal of office this 11th Day of January 1835

Richard S. Porter Clerk
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Certificate of the 
Comptroller of Connecticut
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                                    State of Connecticut
                                    Comptrollers Office
                                    Hartford  June 4th 1837

I certify that on application for evidence of the service of Aaron Hays in the war of the Revolution, who it is alleged served in Capt. Griffins Company in Col. Canfield's Regiment. I have examined the books and documents remaining in this Office, and do not find the name of Aaron Hays on any Pay Roll nor do I find any pay Roll of Capt. Griffins Company. 

In Haskells Receipts under the following heading Vis. "The United States Dr. To the State of Connecticut for [illegible] expenditures for Bounty, Wages re. of Troops who served at West Point in 1781. "I find an entry as follows"/Dec 27th 1781/ Capt. Stephen Griffin" Bounty & S112./ Wages L 858.7.6./ Billeting Mileage &c.  L22.13/ Commissions L24.16.61 amount paid in Spicie "L 1.017/17/0/1"

On this page with the above and under the sawn heading I find the following "11782 Jan/24/ Col. Samuel "Canfield" Field & staff officers/ Bounty L2. 15/ Wages L 346.16.1" Billeting Mileage &c. L5h.19.8/ Commissions L10.0.10/ amount paid in Spicie "L414.11.6.1".  
                R.G. Pinney Comptroller
               by Geo. Robinson Clerk.
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Rev War.   9345
INVALID.

File No. 9345
Aaron Hays
Pri. Rev-War
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Act. June 7th 32
Index:-- Vol. 1,  Page 161

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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N. York

Aaron Hayes
Letter to Hon. D. Russell 21 Feb. 38
to L. Jenkins  8. Sep 1839

Letter to O. Phelps 29 Aug 57



Act June 1832
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New York
_______
Revo.
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Aaron Hayes
Suspended
In let to Har. R Whallon

Feb. 14, 1835- Let to
Wiliams & Allen  March 18
1825


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Let to E.S. Cuyler. April 10th 35
"   "   Wm. R. Cantine. 12 Sept '36
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J.L Edwards Esq'r
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington


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Sept. 10
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                                   Albany September 7 1835

Sir-
An application for a pension was made at your office, some time in 1836 on behalf of Aaron Hays. His original papers are on file in your office, and the certificate of the Comptroller of Connecticut. I now forward you, as corroborating or rather establishing one point (which in your letter of March 18, 1835 you concerned as against the applicant) viz. the service of Colonel Canfield in 1779.
     age and poverty has prevented the old Gentleman  (whose residence is in Essex County in this state) from proceeding to Connecticut, where he has no question, that he could collect from the neighborhood in which he resided at the period referred to ample evidence of his revolutionary services.
  You will please inform me of the Decision of the Department, and if granted forward me the Certificate.   
                             Respectfully 
                      Your Obedient servant
                             William R. Cantine

J.L. Edwards Esquire
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House of Reps D.C. Dec 16, 1837

J.L Edwards Esq. 
 
              Dear Sir.
                 I herewith enclose you Several after  relating to the claim for a pension by Aaron Hays of New York to return your attention is Selected as soon as your leisure will permit
                             I am Respectfully 
                                       D. Russell
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Aaron Hayes

Elizabethtown N.Y
March 18th   

Comm'r of Pension, US
JM

Co. J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions 
War Department Pensions
Office- Washington D.C.

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NY  Mar 23
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Elizabethtown Essex County
New York March 17th 1835
Sir
Enclosed is the Certificate of the Comptroller of
Publick Accounts of the State of Connecticut -of his
Search for the Rolls and pay table of Captain Stephen
Griffin's Company- Militia in which Aaron Hays
Alledges [Alleges] to have served in 1779- and 1780- Eighteen
months- it Appears that the service must have
been in 1780 and 1781- as appear from the Enclosed
Certificate - this is all the proof Mr Hayes Can
furnish in Support of his Claim- as he Knows
of No person Living by whom he can make
further proof of his Service-he says he can
not be positive as to the year but- thinks he was
right in his first declaration-as there is
no Rolls of this Company in Existence I presume
he must go on the same footing with other Militia
men- and believe he has complied with what is
required of them of these be Any defect in his
papers which is in his power to remedy you
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Will please point them out- this Certificate
was obtained from the Comptroller last fall by
W Tibbals of Albany for Mr Hays & was not
sent up until the present Week-W Tiballs being
here at the time your Communication to Hon
R. Whallon on this subject of Feby 14 1835-
Any Communication on this claim you will
heads address to me at this place
I Am Respectfully
Your Most Obt Servt
Edwd. S. Cuyler
Cad J. L. Edwards
Comr of Pensions
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Number 32.389
Aaron Hays
New York
Act 7 June 1832,
Admitted 12 months private
$40 per annum
Albany
O. Phelps Jr
Present
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Washington, D.C.
June 30 1851
Hon J.E. Heath
Sir
Enclosed you will
find a certificate of the Comptrollers of
Connecticut in relation to the service
of Capt Stephen Griffin and Col. Samuel
Canfield during the Revolution under
whom, Aaron Hays alledges [alleges] to have served
whose declaration was filed in the Pension
Office in 1839, by Samuel Jenkins, and
Suspended for want of the Proof I now
produce; He alledges[alleges] service at West Point
(New York, I presume), and served one year
and three months, but the Pay Rolls, are
not to found in mass, and I suspect you
have it in the Pension Office.
I aam Most Respectfully,
Oliver Phelps Jr.
To J.E. Heath
Commissioner of Pensions
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Comptrollers Office
Hartford Connecticut
October 7. 1833
I certify that on examination of the books of the
"Pay Table" Office now remaining in this office, on 
application of Aaron Hays, I find as follows:-
In "Haskells Receipts," under head of "The
United States Dr. To the State of Connecticut for Sundry 
expenditures for Bounty, Wages etc. of Troops who served at West Point
in 1781," the name "Captain Stephen Griffin, Bounty, Wages etc.
£1.017: 17: specie.". And in a Pay Table account book, the same,
sum, and date, with the addition of the words "Pay Roll etc." after his name.
Also, in "Harkells Receipts" under the head first
above mentioned, near the name of Captain Griffin, is that of
Colonel Samuel Canfield. And in same book, under head of
"Expense of Port at Greenwich," Colonel S. Canfield is mentioned in
several entries as serving at Greenwich from 1779 to 1783 and 
under another head he is mentioned as being at Horse neck in 1781.
And under head of "Militia Service from April to Novr. 1779"
his name also occurs in two entries, and opposite £40.9.4 and
£90.3.8 specie [illegible]
Gideon Welles Comptroller
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Albany June 20, 1839
James L Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
In the case of Aaron Hayes
who claims a pension under the act of June 7, 1832, and who
applied in the year 1835 I enter a supplemental
statement or affidavit in compliance with a suggestion in
your letter to the Honorable David Russell,- Member of Congress  of the 21st
February 1838, to which I by leave to refer you.
Mr. Hayes made the enclosed statement on oath
before me, without the aid of or reference to any documents
and solely, as appeared to me, from memory. How far
it may confirm or disagree with his original certificate
I have not the means of Reviewing, except from your letter
to Mr Russell above referred to and your letters to [illegible]
Messrs. Williams and Allen of the 18th of March 1835- to Edward C. Cuyler Esquire of the 20th of April 1835 & to William R Cantine
Esquire September 13. 1836-
I am convinced that Mr. Hayes' claim is an
Honest one, and that his memory will not enable him to
give a more particular statement as to dates than that
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now enclosed-
I by leave to commend the case to your
further attention & examination, hoping that the result
will be more favorable than heretofore and am,
With great respect
Your obt. Svt.
L Jenkins.
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Feb 10
Hon. D. Russell
H.R.
[the following is written vertically from top to bottom]
A. Hayes
Mr Luce
J. L. Edwards Esquire
Pension Ofice
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Comptroller of Publick [Public] Accounts
of the State of Connecticut
Certificate
In the Matter of the Application 
of Aaron Hayes for 
a Pension---
To Col J. L. Edwards
Comr of Pensions
War Office
D.C.
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Comptroller Office
Decr. 26th 1834
I Elisha Phelps, Comptroller of the Publick
Accounts of the State of Connecticut, do
certify that the pay roll of Capt. Stephen
Griffin's company militia West Point as charged
to the United States, on the books of the Pay
Table, under date December 27th 1781; and
that no roll of the company has been found 
or evidence of the duration as to service,
or regiment in which it served
E. Phelps
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Aaron Hayes
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State of New York
Albany County } Ss. Aaron Hayes, being duly sworn,
deposeth as follows. Viz- I now reside in the Town of
Keene, Essex County, State of New York. I am seventy
six years of age and upwards. and am an applicant fora pension under the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832,
having made such application in the year 1835.Objections having been made by the Commissioner of 
Pensions, in various letters, to the statements contained in
my original declaration, particularly in regard to duty 
I now make the following statement of my services
Without reference to said declaration but according
to the best of my recollection and belief, my memory
being now as it was in 1835 impaired by age.
I enlisted in Granby, Connecticut as a private
in the Company commanded by Captain Stephen Griffin
to serve for six months. I was then about fifteen years
of age, and that is all that I can state with regard to the 
time of my said enlistment, except that it was in the spring-
I do not recollect the month-I went from Granby
to Litchfield when I joined my Company-they belonged 
to the Connecticut State troops-From Litchfield I
went with my Company to New Haven-staid [stayed] there but
a short time- and from thence to Horse Neck, passing through
Milford, Stratford, Fairfield, Norwalk, and Stamford-then was stationed at Horse Neck about three months-
From Horse Neck, we went to White Plains, and from thence
to West Point and there served out the remainder of the
six months for which I had enlisted.
In the fall of the same year I re-enlisted for the term
of one year, at Fishkill, under the same Captain Griffin-
I do not recollect who was our Lieutenant- I
recollect the name of the Colonel of the Regiment we belonged
to was Canfield and the Major's name was Wright-the
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name of the second Major was Bailey-We were first
stationed at West Point - how long I do not recollect.
We were also stationed at Fishkill and Esopus or Kingston,
and in these three places West Point, Fishkill, and
Esopus or Kingston, I served out my term of 
enlistment- and received my discharge at Fishkill, which
was signed by Colonel Canfield. My discharge was lost
when I resided in the Town of Jay-- my wife took
it and pasted it on a window, instead of a pane
of glass.
I was never in any action or battle. I served at
Kingston, after it was burnt by the British, but I 
cannot recollect how long afterwards but I think it was three
or four years after that event and after Burgoyne was
taken- I remember that whilst I was in the service
General Washington had a number of huts built at 
different places on the North River with an intention as
generally supposed of attacking New York, which
was then in the possession of the British- and about that
time, the Army was marched to the Southward to attack
the British Army under Lord Cornwallis. I think I was
at Fishkill when I first heard of the capture of the
British Army at Yorktown.
The above is all I can now recollect with any
disinctness or certainty of my services in the Revolutionary
War.                              Aaron Hays
Sworn and subscribed this 18th}
day of June 1839 before me}
L Jenkins commissioner of  Deeds
State of New York}
Albany County}  I Henry B. Haswell Clerk of the said County do hereby
certify that Lemuel Perkinsbefore whom the foregoing
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day of June 1839 before me I
L. Jenkins Com'r of Deeds 

State of New York
Albany County}

I Henry B Haswell Clerk of the Said County do hereby certify that Lemuel Jenkins before when the foregoing affidavit purports to have been sworn was on the day of the date of the said a Commissioner of Deeds in and for the said County, and that his name subscribed to the same is his proper handwriting and signature.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County this 18th day of June 1839.
    H. B. Haswell Clerk
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State of New York
Essex County Ss.
                     Zimri Hays Being duly sworn says that he is thirty eight years of age and resides in the Town of Lewis in Said County is the son of Aaron Hays that he has heard the annexed affidavit of Mrs. Susan Shipmans read that the same is true as to the time, place and just of her residing at his Fathers and it is also true that said discharge was by same person posted upon the window as she has stated; this deponent having seen it while on the window as well as before recollects of hearing the discharge read and thinks it stated the time of service as Mrs. Susan Shipman has stated in her affidavit and that he never heard it questioned but that his Father did Service as Stated in said discharge this deponent further says that he does not live with his Father; has no interest in procuring his pension, did not aid or against nor in fact did he know of his Fathers making application at the time- that he believes his Fathers habits, character and capacity and circumstances to be as stated in Susan Shipmans affidavit.
                        Zimri Hays [signature]
Subscribed and Sworn
before me this 24th day of June 1837
RCR Chase Justice of the peace
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State of New York
Essex County Ss.
                  Stephen Hays being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is forty one years of age resides in the town of Lewis in said County that he has heard the annexed affidavit of Susan Shipmans read that the same is true as to his own knowledge as to the time place and fact of her residing at his Fathers and that he has often seen the said discharge being for the time & purposes in her affidavit mentioned and which was then understood and believed and by this deponent still believed to be (and by all others as far as this deponent has heard) a genuine discharge from service in the revolution but does not now recollect distinctly what length of time was mentioned in said discharge but has ever understood it to be eighteen months does not recollect having seen it on the window or of having seen it since the time or about the time She speaks of its being put on the windows of this deponent further says that he does not live with his Father has never taken any part in procuring his pension, has no interest in it now, and was not till recently called upon for the statement aforesaid that he believes his Fathers habits, character capacity and circumstances to be as stated in Susan Shipmans affidavit.
                                   Stephen Hays [signature]
Subscribed and Sworn
before me this 26th day
of June 1827
           RGR Chase Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Essex County Ss}
        Susan Shipman wife of Ebin Shipman being by my duly Sworn doth depose not say that she is thirty nine years of age and said so Keene in Said County that her maiden name was Susan Hayes that in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen. She resided and worked in the family of Mr. Aaron Hays in the Town of Jay in the County of Essex State of New York. The house in which Mr. Hays then lived was a log house Situated in the west part of said Town- and the deponent further South that in the full of said years while making preperations for the winter the broken windows in said house were repaired by pasting papers above them among which papers so well, she distinctly recollects, was a written discharge of said Aaron Hays from service as a Revolutionary Soldier and was signed by some person but by whom she cannot now recollect with Sufficient [illegible]to be able to State but well recollect it to be a discharge from Service in the revolution and Stated the Services to be Eighteen months Service paper had the appearances of, and this depose & then believed and still believes was what it purported to be. this deponent further says that she has not been called upon by said Hays or by anyone in his behalf for a statement in the matter until now in the last two or three months. The deponent further says that said Aaron Hays lives in Keene Essex County that he now is and ever has been reputed a man of truth and veracity temperate bones and industrious but at presant in very and [illegible] circumstances which this deponent believes true and is laboring under the infirmities of age, and the accuracy of his remains perhaps something impaired. 
                              Susan Shipman [signature]
Subscribed and Sworn
before me June 21, 1827
           RER Chase Justice of the Peace
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I RCR Chase the undersigned a Justice of the Peace of the Town of Keene, Essex County, New York that I am personally acquainted with this Susan Shipman and believe her to be a person of good moral character and that I am but partially acquainted with Stephen Hays and Zinni Hays and know that they are also persons of good moral character, given under my hand at Keene June 27 1837.
               RCR Chase Justice of the Peace
                           [signature] 

State of New York
Essex County Ss. 
  I, Edward Cuyler Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Essex do hereby Certify that Richard CR Chase Esquire whose name is Subscribed to the above  Certificate to be the jurats of the foregoing affidavits of Susan Shipman, Stephen Hays and Zinni Hayes was at the time upon aforesaid jurats and certificate a justice of the peace in and for the Essex Count Court Commission sworn and duly authorized by law to act as such and further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of such Justice and verily believe his signature to said jurats and Certificate to be genuine.
In Testimony whereas I have subscribed to set my hand  and affixed my seal  on this 28th day of June 1857
Edward Cuyler Clerk [signature]

for 25
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Know all men by these presents
That I Aaron Hayes of Willmington [Wilmington]
in the County of Essex and state of 
New York have constituted and appointed
and by these presents do constitute and
appoint Oliver Phelps Ss of Washington D.C.
[illegible] true & lawful attorney irrevocably
for me and in my name to examine
the declaration & other papers filed by me
in the pension affair at Washington about
the year 1839, for the purpose of 
obtaining the benefit of the provisions of the 
act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
which claim was suspended on account
of additional evidence, & to receive for
me from the United States the pension
certificate to which I may be found 
entitled according to the provisions of the
act aforesaid: And generally to do 
all lawful acts & things whatsoever to [illegible]
[illegible] the claim aforesaid hereby confirming 
all & whatsoever my said attorney shall
in my name legally do or cause to be 
done in & about the premises.
And I hereby countermand [illegible] and
make said any letter or letters of attorney
[illegible] given to any other person or persons
and all power & authority thereby given 
or intended to be
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my name and seal this 21st
day of June A.D. 1851.
In presence of                         Aaron Hays
E.A. Adams
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State of New York
Essex County} SS 
Be it known that on the 21st day of June A.D., 1851, before the subscribed a Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared Aaron Hays, above named and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be his act and deeds executed for the purposes therein authorized.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last above mentioned.
E A Adams Justice Peace

Power of Attorney to Oliver Hays Jr.
State of New York}
Essex County} SS I, George S. Nicholson Clerk of the Cunty Court, Supreme Court in & for the County and State above mentioned do herby certify that E A Adams whose genuine signature appears above is and was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit and that the aforesaid County Court of record having general jurisdiction 
Given under my hand and seal of office at Elizabethtown, this 24th day of June 1D 1851
G S Nicholson Clerk {illegible}
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Aaron Hays.
N.Y.
Mar 17
[the following is written vertically from top to bottom
of page]
J L. Edwards Esq
Pension Office
Washington 
D.C.
[the following is a round stamp at the upper center portion of the page]
[illegible]
MAR
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Albany March 12 1835

Dear Sir
In the matter of Aaron Hays application for pension there seems to have been some clerical mistake in relation to the Colonels name the name is Canfield (as I understand it) but has been written Kenfield or in some like names 
If this explanation is insufficient or incorrect, it will probably be necessary to have the declaration amended.  Please say to us whether this explanation is satisfactory and if not, what shall be done.
Respectfully yours, LE
Williams & Allen
J L Edwards Esq

Aaron Hays his in Essex Co NM
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J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Albany  December 10 1887

J L Edwards Esquire
Comm of Pensions

In herewith are said additional proof of the service of Aaron Hays -
His residence in the interior of of the state his family and the infirmity is of age
have occasioned much
delay; and the latter, to our minds, fully explaining any apparent inconsistency in his statement
The fact of his serving the time 18 months , also appears from each and every affidavit as well as from his own statement see affidavits etc.
Dudley Hayes 1835
Jason Simpson1817
Linn Hays
Stephen Hays
To these we could add if necessary, the general affidavt of Mrs. Hays that she knew that Mr. H. was in the Revolutionary War could also add a known of "general found" -and we suppose it would be unnecessary to multiply affidavits  The case is again respectfully submitted
I am your most obedient servant
William [illegible]
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In the Matter
of
Aaron Hays
============
application for Pension
affdtit-
Susan Shipman}
Zimri Hays}        Affdt
Stephen Hays}
Keene N. Y.}  Double 25            
[illegible]}
Mr. Samuel Tibbals
Albany
Hon D Russell
HR
N. Y.
Williams [illegible]
Albany NY
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME Hays, Archibald
GRADE Private
LINE Pennsylvania

WARRANT NUMBER 9625
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED May 6, 1793
To Joseph Henszey, Administrator

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issues to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.