Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.W-1594-100, Henry Bailey, Conn.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Conn.
CONTENTS
Bailey, Henry
NUMBER
B.L. Wt1594-100
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Henry Bailey
No 1594
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield
County ⎬
Probate Office September 5th 1829
I certify, that satisfactory evidence was adduced to me, to prove
that Phebe Bailey is the Daughter and
heir at law in fee to Henry Bailey late a soldier in the 
Regiment of Connecticut Militia 
Given under my hand and Seal of Office, this
fifth day of September 1829
Fitch Wheeler Judge
The above form will answer for the following States: viz.

Maine,
Massachusetts,
New-Hampshire,   Judge of Probate.
Rhode Island,
Connecticut,
Vermont,
New-York,    Surrogate.
New Jersey,
South-Carolina,      Ordinary.
Georgia,
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DEPARTMENT OF WAR.
Regulations for the heirs of Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army, who
were slain by the enemy, or who have died since the war, and have not received
land from the United States.
By an Act of Congress of the 16th September, 1776, it is provided, that the Officers and Soldiers
who engaged for, and continued to serve during the war, or until discharged by Congress, and the heirs of
such Officers and Soldiers as shall be slain by the enemy, shall receive land in proportion to their rank.
N. B. Those who engaged for three years, or for any other period than during the war, or who died of
sickness, fatigue, or casualty, are not entitled to land from the United States.
The following declaration and enclosed blank form of heirship) must be filled up and signed by the
proper authorities:
State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield, Ct.
[illegible] January 4th 1830.
I, Phebe Bailey heir at law of Henry Bailey, now decd
do, upon oath, testify and declare, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that [illegible] Henry Bailey
did enlist in 1777, for the term of during the war, and served in the regiment No. first under 
the command of Colonel Meigs
of the Connecticut line; and
that he continued in the service aforesaid until the end of the War
I further declare, that I have never received a warrant for the bounty land promised to said Henry Bailey
on the part of the United States; nor do I believe that he ever received it, or trans-
ferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever: therefore,
know all men by these presents, that I, Phebe Bailey aforesaid, do
hereby constitute and appoint the Hon Ralph I. Ingersoll to be my true and
lawful attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United 
States, a warrant for the quantity of land due to me as aforesaid; and my said attorney is hereby fully au-
thorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the
special purposes above expressed.

Attest Phebe Bailey
January 4th 1830 [illegible]
Trumbull County of [illegible]
and state of Connecticut
Personally appeared the above named Phebe Bailey subscriber to the
foregoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined to be her
free act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
Attest, Elijah Middlebrook, Justice of the Peace.
In testimony that the above written Elijah Middlebrook was a magistrate
authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c., in the State of Connecticut at
the above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have hereunto
affixed the county seal, and subscribed my name and quality, at Fairfield this 5th
day of January 1830
Thomas R. Osborne C. Clerk, &c.