Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4678, John Gaylord, Mass.
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1333)
SERVICE
Mass

Gaylord, John
Jannet
NUMBER
W. 4678
CONTENTS
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Transferred
to Ohio.
Pittbgy apey
14 Nov. 1833
Notification sent Oct. 23. 1820 to John Ingersol
Springfield Mafs
let to E. W Leffingwell April 3 '45

3070
Ohio Pittsburgh Agency
for Massachusetts Roll
John Gaylord
private
Massline - War
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence
the 28th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 of Sept. 1818
and forwarded to S Putnam
Esq. Springfield Massachusetts
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818 $33.86
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4 Mar 1819 48.00
Arrs 4 mos 7 /30
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
2 years
Westfield Hampden
Continued
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Ohio Pittsburgh
Janet Gaylord widow of John Gaylord
Mafs
who served in the Revolutionary war as a private 
service from 6 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 Dollars
Ending 20 June 184?
Cents per annum to sommence on the first day of July 1848

Certificate of Pension issued the
7th day of Jany 18_7.
and sent to
Hon D.S. Dickenson
UState Senate
Ending 20 June 1849
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act 
February 2, 1848, Page 342 Vol 4
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United States
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Suffolk, ss.
Boston.
ON this eighth Day
of September
in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, before
me, SAMUEL JACKSON PRESCOTT, ESQUIRE, Notary Public, by
legal authority admitted and sworn, and dwelling in Boston, aforesaid, and a
Justice of the Peace, and of the Quorum, within and for the said County of
Suffolk, personally appeared Asa Spaulding of Billerica, in the
County of Middlesex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Gentleman, and sixty three years of age, and after being duly cautioned
and sworn, made solemn oath that he served in the war
of the revolution on the continental establishment in various capacities more than seven years,
a part of the time as a private soldier and a part of the time as a
noncommissioned officer, and a part of the time as a Lutter,
under a licence from General Washington, the Commander in
chief of the American armies, and that he is well acquainted with
John Gaylord of Westfield, in the County of Hampden, in
said Commonwealth, Husbandman, now present, and that it is a
fact within this said Asa Spaulding's, own knowledge that
said John Gaylord did serve in the said war of the revolution
on the Continental establishment, in Captain John Burnham's
company, in Colonel Michael Jackson's regiment, in the Massachusetts Line, being the eighth Massachusetts regiment, and that the
said John Gaylord, did serve in said company & regiment
more than one full year as a good and faithful soldier,
without intermission or absence from September 1781 to
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the month of June 1783, or thereabouts 
and he has no doubt,
(although cannot at this late day particularly bring the
fact to his recollection) from the character what the said John
Gaylord uniformly bore as a good & faithful soldier, that
he did receive an honourable discharge, and further
testifys  and declares that he was himself during the whole of
said term of time, to wit, from September 1787 to about June
1783, there present with said company and further that the said company regiment were on the continental establishment, and that all the
Officers of said company & regiment were continental Officers
and that the said John Gaylord by reason of his reduced circumstances in life needs assistance from his country for support
and likewise that he the said deponent, is altogether a
disinterested witness-
In true testimony whereof, Asa Spaulding
the said Deponent hath hereunto subscribed his name
in my presence, and has been duly solemnly sworn to
the truth of the premises, by oath taken before me the
said Notary and Justice.
Asa Spaulding
In Witness whereof, and for making these
Presents of full force and effect, and as the said Deponent
is not only disinterested, but also of good name and credit,
and well known to me, I the said Notary and Justice
do hereby declare the same to be a Public Act
and that full faith and credit ought to be
given thereto, and in testimony thereof, I have
not
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I James Davenport of Dorchester
the County of Norfolk, Commonwealth
of Massachusetts, Cordwainer,
Do certify
and declare that
served the United States for
the term of During the
War
of the
the
Revolution, in the 8 & 9
Regiments
of
the
Massachusetts Line
of
the
American Army,
from the year
1777
orderly
to the month of June 1783, when
I was honourably discharged as orderly  [Sargent] in Capt.
John Burnham's Company
in the 8th Regiment, having
served as orderly Sergeant from the year
1781, in said Company to the close of
the war and have in my possession
an original Descriplive List or Roll of
the said Capt. Burnham's Company
of Light
Infantry and on application
of John
Gaylord who was a Soldier
in said Company, I have examined
my said Roll and find recorded
there the following description of
said Gaylord
"Names John Gaylord"
Age 22 years; Size 5 feet 10 3/4 inches,
Grade Farmer, where born Groton, Connecticut Place of Residence Westfield,
Berkshire, Hair - Dark Complexion, light
when enlisted 16th March 1781 - where enlisted West-
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field, For what Term, three years;
appears this Roll was written
after June 1782-
I also declare that the said Soldier
served said
faithfully from the time he entered
said Company until the
close of the war
I also declare that I
was well acquainted with said Gailor or
Gaylord, when in
said Company together 
but I cannot now
after being
seperated about thirty five
years, perfectly
recognise his looks,
but from his relating his relating many circumstances of our
acquaintance, I believe
and am satisfied, that he is the identical
John Garlord who served
with me in
Burnham's
Company, more than one year.
James Davenport
Boston, Mass Sept. 5th 1818

Suffolk Ss Boston Sept 5th 1818
Personally appears
the above James Davenport and made oath that the above declaration is true before me
Thos Stevenson Jr Justice
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
John Gaylord of Westfield in the County of Hampden in said Commonwealth Husbandman upon oath makes the following Declaration
That in April AD 1781 he enlisted into the Army
of the United States called the Continental army
as a private soldier at said Westfield that he
was mustered at Southhadley instructed and
Marched from thence to Springfield & thence to
West Point where he joined Capt Peirce's Company of foot in Col Michael Jackson regiment that he remained
in said company one year & was then transfered to company of light infantry commanded by Capt John Burnham in the same regiment which was the eighth Massachusetts
Regiment that he faithfully served in said
Capacity until peace was proclaimed when he
was honorably discharged in the month of
December 1783 at Norwich but that said
discharge is now lost and this declarant
further states that he is nearly fifty seven years
of age and is in an infirm state of health and
by reason of his reduced circumstances in
life and by reason thereof stands in need of
assistance from his country for support
John Gaylord
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I Robert Gaylord of Westfield in the County of Hampden
Husbandman do on oath testify that in April
1781 I enlisted into the Continental Army of the U States and therein until peace was proclaimed and to
my knowledge John Gaylord who has made the
aforewritten declaration served as a
private in the regiment as he has therein stated
Robert Gaylord
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampton County ss
On this twenty eighth day of April
AD 1818 personally appeared before me Samuel
Putnam one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial
Court in said Commonwealth the aforenamed John Gaylord & Robert Gaylord and in my presence
subscribed and made oath to the aforewritten
Declaration and affidavit by them respectively made and it appearing to my satisfaction that the aforenamed John Gaylord served for the term of more than nine months to wit from the month of April 1781
until peace was declared at one end of the war of the Revolution in the Continental establishment
against the Common Enemy I hereby certify
the testimony in the case and the proceedings
had thereon to the Secretary of the Department
of War - In testimony whereof I hereunto
set my hand and seal of said Court
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this twenty
eighth day of April AD 1818
S Putnam Just
S. Court of Massts
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
[county] ty of Hampden
I John Ingersoll Clerk of
all the Judicial Courts of said commonwealth
for the County of Hampden do certify that
Samuel Putnam in one of the Justices of the
Supreme Judicial Court of said Commonwealth
and that the above signature is his proper
hand writing
and that the seal hereunto
affixed is the seal of said Court
April 28th 1818
Attest
John Ingersoll Clerk
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham Ss
Londonderry September
the first Anno Domini 1818
I John Burnham of said Londonderry
in the sixty ninth year of my age testify
& say that I commanded a company
Light Infantry in the eighth Massachusetts
Regiment for several years in the revolutionary
war on the continental establishment that the
person calling heretofore John Gaylord
with this paper in his hand applyed [applied] to me this day to testify what I know relative to his
serving as a soldier in said Regiment altho
I cannot positively identify his person by recollection of the rolls of the Company being lost yet he has related so many
occurrences which I know to have taken place in my Company in said Regiment as he has related & correctly answered so many minute questions which I have put to him that I am possitive he must have served in the army agreeably to the foregoing declaration by him subscribed
John Burnham
John Gaylord
not on rolls DN
State of New
Hampshire
Rockingham Ss
Londonderry September
the first Anno Domini 1818
There the said John Burnham
personally appeared and made
solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed is just
and true
Before me James Thorn Justice of the Peace
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not only of hereunto subscribed my name, but have

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Suffolk ss:
Sept 7. 1818 I hereby certify that
Thomas Stevenson Junior Esq is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Suffolk, and
his aforewritten signature is genuine; and the
Seal affixed is the Seal of the Supreme
Judicial Court of said State
Attn
John Callender Clk Supr [illeg]
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The Honble Secretary at War will please to notice that with the Pension affidavits for & in behalf of John Gaylord & Judge Putnam's certificate & attestation thereon originally sent to the war Department & returned, the same
original papers are now sent back, with additional proof, towit,
the affidavit of Capt. John Burnham in whose company said Gaylord served twenty months
which will be found on the back of the Declarations & orginally sent & now returned
also the affidavit of James Davenport, who was
orderly Sergeant in said Capt John Burnhams Company, & with whom said
John Gaylord served the whole time, and likewise the declarations of
Capt. Asa Spaulding as to his said Gaylord's, having served in said Capt
John Burnham's Company, in Col. Michael Jackson's 8th Massachusetts
Regiment for more than one year
without intermission or absence.
September 1818.
I return these documents for the consideration
of the Hon the Secy of War and
do further say that
since I have been at Springfield I have made
Enquiries concerning the circumstances of
John Gaylord of Westfield
Mass. Continental soldiers

The said Jno Gaylord, and am satisfied that he is poor & in need of the assistance of his country for support
Spring Sept. 14. 1818-S. Putnam J.S. S.C
of Mass
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not only hereunto subscribed my name, but have
also affixed my Seal of Office, the day and year
first within and
aforewritten
S.J. Prescott, Notary Public, and
Just Peace & Quorum
to
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John Gaylord
Pension
Copy)
3070
28 Sep 18
Con
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COMMONWEALTH OF
MASSACHUSETTS.
COUNTY of Hampden Ss

On this twenty eighth day of August 1820, personally appeared in open court, before the Circuit Court
of Common Pleas the same being a
Court of Record and so established by a Statute of said Commonwealth, said Court being now in session at Springfield within and for said county of Hampden
John Gaylord aged fifty five years resident in Westfield in said County of Hampden who being
first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in
the Revolutionary War as follows:
Capt John Burnham's company in Col Michael Jackson's Regiment
being the eighth regiment in the Massachusetts line three years
My original declaration was made, I believe the twenty eighth day of
April 1818. Living pension certificate is numbered 3070
there are residing with me my
wife Jane Gaylord aged about fifty eight who
is afflicted with the Dropsy
who has not been able to do an ordinary
days work these six years she
is always much bloated & is often helpless
My daughter Margaret aged
eighteen & my son James Henry age
sixteen - I am by occupation a farmer, but in consequence of a severe
turn of the pleurisy I am unable to work & the Rheumatism is constantly
upon me, so that I lie upon my bed, in the same positions for
the space of five minutes at one time
being a resident citizen of the United States
18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed my property or and [illeg]
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 of March 1818 [illeg] I have not, nor has nay person in trust for me, any property, or securities, [illeg] or debts, due to me; nor hav I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
SCHEDULE.
six sheep  one chest
one pig one flat iron
12 Crop of Hay
two or three
articles of crockery
2 old tables
two pails
one stand
nine chairs
a few articles of his bellow ware
1 set of knives & forks
one shovel & [illeg] two rakes
the hatchet for flax
one sickle & one scythe 
ten harrow [illeg]
one hammeraxe
six cyder barrels
two kegs two wash tubs
one pitch fork
some corn & potatoes
one Whipple tree  & chains
John Gaylord
Sworn to and declared on the twenty Eighth day of August before the Circuit Court 
of Common Pleas
Attest John Ingersoll Clerk
I John Ingersoll Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid do hereby certify, that the
foregoing oath and the schedule hereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court, and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is thirty seven Dollars and fifty tow 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of aid Court, on this twenty ninth
day of August
1820

John Ingersoll
Clerk of the Court for the County of Hampden
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State of
Ohio
Portage County SS.
On this 28th day of September, 1850 personally appeared before the
subscribed one of the Judges of the Court of
Common Pleas of the County aforesaid John V.
Gardner, and Jonathan Shirtliff, two witnesses of respectable character in whose statements full reliance may be reposed, who being duly
sworn depose and say, that they were
each personally acquainted with Janet
Gaylord, widow of John Gaylord who was a
Revolutionary pensioner; that the said
Janet Gaylord was also a pensioner on the
roll of the Pittsburgh agency at the time of her
death at the rate of $67, 10 per annum, that
she died on the 20th day of June 1849 in
the town of Franklin in said County as
these deponents well know and that William
Gaylord and Margaret Foster
are the only children now living of the said
John Gaylord and Janet Gaylord dec'd. Further
these deponents say not
The word "Ohio" erased and the word Pittsburgh
interlined before signing also the words "on about."
John V. Gardner
Jonathan Shirttiff
Sworn and subscribed
before me this 28th day of
September 1850
Isaac Swift associate judge
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State of Ohio
Portage County SS.
On this 28th day of September
1850 before the subscriber a Judge of the County
aforesaid, personally appeared William
Gaylord who being duly sworn deposed
and says that he is the son of John Gaylord, dec'd, and Janet Gaylord, dec'd both
of whom were pensioners under the laws
of the United States, the first under the
act of 1818 at the rate of $96 per annum
and the last under other act or acts of
Congress; that at the time of her death she
was on the roll of the Pittsburgh Agency
at the rate of $67.10 per annum; that she
died in the town of Franklin in said
County on the 20th day of June 1849 and
that this deponent and Margaret Foster
are the only surviving children of the said
John Gaylord and Janet Gaylord dec'd
Now the object of this declaration is
to assist and to obtain for the heirs of said
deceased an increase of the Pension
allowed to the said Janet Gaylord and which
was due at the time of her death together
with all arrearages of pension which may
be due in the case
Wm. Gaylord

Sworn & subscribed before
me this 28th day of September 1880
Isaac Swift associate Judge
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The State of Ohio,
PORTAGE COUNTY, SS. I, Horace G. Besbe Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within and
for the county of Portage and State of Ohio, do hereby certify, that Isaac Swift
Esquire, before
whom the foregoing and annexed oath was taken
was at the time of taking the same, an Associate  Judge
in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn, and to all whose
official acts, as such, full faith and credit are due, and that the forgoing nig
nature purporting to be his, is genuine as I believe.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name as
affixed the seal of said Court at Ravenna, this 28th day of Sept
A. D. 1850.
Horace G Besbe Clerk
By Saml J. Hopkins Dep
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I John Baldwin of Westfield in the
County of Hampden & Commonwealth of Massachusetts do testify & say, that I am seventy two years of
age. John Gaylord & Janet Larkin were married
in my fathers house in Westfield aforesaid I have lived in the same house ever since I was then about twelve years old. They lived together as husband & wife in said Westfield most of the time from the time of their marriage, until they removed to the State of Ohio which was about fourteen years ago. They lived most of the time after their marriage, within half a mile of me, I bought the place where they lived, when they left for Ohio. Westfield August 13th 1845
John
Baldwin
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampden ss. August 13th 1845. Then John Baldwin with whom I am personally acquainted, & have been so, for more than thirty years past, and when upon taken for truth & veracity is good, personally appeared
& being duly cautioned made solemn oath to the truth
of the foregoing Affidavit by him subscribed Before me,
William Blair Justice of the Peace

I Henry Parks of Russell in the County of
Hampden & Commonwealth of Massachusetts do testify & say that I am in my seventy eighth year I shall be seventy eight in September next. I was at the wedding of John Gaylord & Janett Larkin
It was at the house of John Baldwin the father
of John Baldwin who now lives on the old place
where the welding was. It was about sixty years
near as I can recollect I have ever
give lived within two miles of where the said
John Gaylord & Jannett lived so long as they lived
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lived in said Westfield. They removed from
Westfield to Ohio twelve or fourteen years ago
they were married by the Reverend Noah
Attwater. And further I say not
his
Westfield August 14th 1845 Henry Parks
X his mark
Attest William Blair
Hampden ss. August 14th 1845. Then Henry Parks whom I have been personally acquainted
for more than thirty years last past, & whose reputation for truth & veracity is good, personally appeared & after
duly cautioned made solemn oath to the truth
of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed
Before me
William Blair Justice of the Peace
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Gannett Galord
.
Franklin Mills
Portage
County
Ohio
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The Banns of Matrimony were
legally published between John
Gaylor and Janet Larken both
of Westfield Sept 12 1784
and was married by Mr Atwater Nov 25th 1784
Hampden ss Westfield Mass Aug 14th 1845
I certify the foregoing to be a true
copy of records in the town clerks office in this town
Attest
Wm. O. Fletcher Town Clerk
Hampden Ss
August 14 1845 I cerify that the above
signature of Wm O Fletcher, is true & genuine & that he
is Town Clerk of Westfield
William Blair Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
HAMPDEN, SS.
I, RICHARD
BLISS, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of
Hampden, do certify, that William Blair
Esquire, whose signature is
affixed to the certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was at the date thereof, one of the Justices
of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned, and acting under the authority of this
Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to his acts and attestations
done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of the said William
Blair and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the
Court of Common Pleas for said Commonwealth,
this fifteenth
day of August
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty five.
Richd Bliss
Clerk.
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September 28, 1933.
XXXXXXXXXXXXX
BA-J/ADY
John Gaylord
W. 4678

Miss Julina Smith
47 East South Temple Street
Salt Lake City, Utah

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter relative to one John Gaylord, a soldier of the Revolutionary War. The data contained herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, W. 4678, based upon his military service in that war.
John Gaylord, the name is also shown as Gaylor and Gailord, was born in Groton, Connecticut, date not given, nor are the names of his parents shown.
While a resident of Westfield, Massachusetts, he enlisted in March or April 1781 and served as a private in Captain Peirce's and John Burnham's Companies, Colonel
Michael Jackson's Massachusetts Regiment to December 1783. It is also stated he served in the Navy, no details of this service given.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 28, 1818 at which time he was nearly fifty-seven years old and a resident of Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts
In 1832 he moved from Westfield, Massachusetts, to Franklin, Ohio, to spend his remaining years with his children,
their names not designated.
He died December 12, 1844, place not stated.
Soldier married November 25, 1784, Jannet, the name is also shown as Jannett, Jennet, Jennett, Janett, Jenet and Jane, Larkin or Larken. They were both then residents
of Westfield, Massachusetts, and were married at the house of John Baldwin, no relationship stated, in said Westfield.
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Soldier's widow, Jannet Gaylord, was allowed pension on her application executed September 1, 1845, at which time she was aged about eighty-three years and a resident of
Franklin, Portage County, Ohio.
She died June 20, 1849 in Franklin, Ohio.
In 1820 soldier's son, James Hervey, was aged sixteen years.
The only surviving children in 1850 were Margaret Foster aged about forty-eight years and William Gaylord, his age not given.
In 1818 one Robert Gaylord was a resident of Westfield, his age or relationship to soldier not stated. There are no further family data.
This is the history of the only John Gaylord, all
spellings of the surname searched, who served from Massachusetts
, that is found on the Revolutionary War records
of this office.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.
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THE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF UTAH
EAST SOUTH TEMPLE STREET
SALT LAKE CITY UTAH
16, Sept. 1933
Veterans Administration
Washington, C. D.
Dear Sirs:

I should be very pleased to have a copy of
the pension record of John Gaylord sent to me. He was a private in Captain Slopers Company, Colonel Israel Chapin's third regiment in the Revolutionary War. He enlisted 5 Nov. 1779 and was discharged 22 Nov. 1779.
His age is given as twenty years and he was enlisted from the town of Westfield, Mass.
I wish to thank you sincerely for an early
reply
Respectfully
GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF UTAH
Julina Smith
Julina Smith, Assistant Librarian
J.
Received Sep 19 1933
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Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 4678

Janet Gaylord
Wid
John Gaylord 
Pri Rev. War
Act: Feby, 2d 48
Index:--Vol. A, Page 262
[Arrangement of 1870]
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1559 Pittsgh [Pittsburgh]
Ohio
Jannet Gaylord widow of John Gaylord who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 67 Dollars 10 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848
Certificate of Pension issued the 29th day of August '48 and sent to Thomas Earl 
Franklin M Cty
Ohio
Recorded on the Roll of Pensioners under February 3, 1848, Page 342 Vol 4
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Reported
Let to T Earl May 23d 46
Let to T Earl Aug 25, 1848

190 
Ohio Pittsburgh
Janet Gaylord
widow of John Gaylord who was a Private in the Revolution husband died 12 Dec 1844
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
67 Dollars 10 Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1844. 12th
Dec 1844 when he died
Certificate of Pension issued the
10th day of May 1846
and sent to
Wm D.R. Gilden
[illeg] of Rept
(Act of JUNE 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2
Page 204
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V 12198
Jannet Gaylord
Ohio
Let to Tho Earl Oct 10 '45
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Mass Rol
Asa Spaulding
John Gaylord Esq
28 Apl
To S Putnam
Springfield Mass
Admitted
Sprfd M
Sept 25
The Honorable The Secretary of War
Washington
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Franklin Mills Portageles
Ohio July 18th 1848
Dear Sir
Enclosed I send you the application of Janet Gaylord for pension
Please forward the certificate
Respectfully yours
Thomas Earl

Hon J L Edwards
Pension Comifs [commission]
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The Declaration
of Jannet Gaylord in order to obtain the
benefits of the act of Congress of 2 of Feby 1848 entitled an act making further provision for to surviving widows and soldiers of the Revolution. 
State of Ohio
Portage Co. Ss On this 7th day of July 1848
personally appeared before the subscriber a
justice of the peace of the County of Portage and State of Ohio Jannet Gaylord a resident of the Township of Franklin County of Portage and
State of Ohio aged Eighty seven years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 2d of February 1848 granting pensions to the widows of persons who served during the
revolutionary war. That she is the widow of John
Gaylord deceased who was a private in the
Revolution and died on the 12th day of December 1844
and is inscribed on the pension list at the rate
of Sixty Seven Dollars and ten cents under the
act of June 17 1844 The further declares that she is still a widow and has never since been married
her X Mark
Jannet F Gaylord
Witness
John V Gardner
Wm Gaylord
Sworn and subscribed before me on the day
and year first above written
State of Ohio
Portage Co Ss
John V. Gardner Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that Jannet Gaylord
the person named in the above
declaration and the signer thereof is
the identical person that she represents
herself to be in said declaration
August 3 1844
John V. Gardner J. Peace
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The State of Ohio
Portage County ss
I Horrace G. Bisbe Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Portage in the State of Ohio do
hereby certify that John V. Gardner Esqr before whom the
foregoing proceedings were had was at the time of taking the same
a Justice of the Peace within and for said County
duly commissioned and qualified and that the foregoing
signature purporting to be his is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and
affixed the seal of said Court this eighth day of July A.D. 1848
Horrace G Bisbe Clerk
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Janet Gaylord, decd
Incd to $96 per annum
dedy former pay at
$67.10 per annum
Comg 1 July 1848 &
Ending 20 June 1849.
when she died
payable to
William Gaylord &
Margaret Foster
only surviving chldrn
Hon D. S. Dickinson
U.S. Senate
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W. 12198 Act 44 254
Jannet Gaylord
widow of John
Ohio
Act 7 July 1838
Rejected husband died
12 Dec 1844
Admd 17 June 1844
20 mo 4 days per
$67.10 per annum
from 12th Dec 1844
Hon D. R. Tilden
House of Reps
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Go M Crump Esq
Pension Office
Washington City DC

May 28th 
Jannet Gaylord
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Franklin Mill Portage Co Ohio
May 16th 1846
Dear Sir
Will you pardon me for again
trobling [troubling] you in regard to the application of Jannett
Gaylord for a pension  - will
you please to advise me whether she is
likely to get it
If any more proofs
necessary in her case what is it
Respectfully yours
Thomas Earl
G W Cramp
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Washington House of Reps
April 28, 1846
Sir
I have this moment received a letter
from Thomas Earl Esq of Franklin Portage Co
Ohio Wishing me to make enquiry at your
Office into the situation of the application of
Jannett Gaylord, Widow of John Gaylord for
a pension Mr. Earl informs me that he has
been anxiously waiting for some time to hear
from you in relation to this case
I am very
Truly your obt svt
Dan R. Gilden
Hon James L. Edwards
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Mar 16, 1846
FRANKLIN MILLS
MAR 9
A dauter case
Janelle Gaylord
Geo M Cramp Esq
Pension Office
Washington
D.C.
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Franklin Feby 7th 1846
Dear Sir
I have just recd a statement
the case of John Gaylord from the Secretarys
office in Boston
If the papers are satisfactory
will you please forward the authority
for Mrs Janett Gaylord to draw her pension
She is old & poor & the long delay has caused her much inconvenience
Respectfully Yours
Thomas Earl
GeoW. Crump Esqr
.
PS Please to direct to Franklin Mills
Portage Co Ohio
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Hon J S Edwards Comm of Pensions
Washington City D.C.

Feb 14 1846
Recs
John Gaylord dec
CHARDON
Feb 6
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Chardon Geauga Co. Ohio
February 5th 1846.
Sir
Mrs Janett Gaylord widow of the late John Gaylord deceased, who was a Revolutionary pensioner and resided in Franklin Portage County Ohio, alleges that her husband
served full seven years during the Revolutionary war a part of the time in the army and a part of the time in the Navy, she claims that her said husband was entitled to a pension for his services in the Navy which he did not
obtain, please to inform us if the said John Gaylord was entitled to a pension for his navy services in addition to the pension he drew for his service in the army.
We wish to be informed whether privateersman are included in the pension act or not, also laws & regulations are solicited
Respectfully Your O.B. Servents
Elliott S Hathaway
Hon J. L. Edwards Comm of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston
January 1, 1845
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears
that the name of John Gaylord is borne upon a
Muster Roll of Capt John Pray's company in
Col Joseph Vose's regt taken for the month of
January & February 1782, as a private, enlisted
December 29. 1787 for 3 years not upon rolls
of any office of the name of Jackson. The above
is all the evidence of service of any one of the name shown by the Military Records in this office
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and I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this
Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said
application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G Pomfray
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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Franklin Mills Portage Co Ohio
Oct 16 1845

Dear Sir
I take the liberty of asking of you
a small favour of which the following copy
of a letter from the war office Washington will
explain - "In the case of Janett Gaylord
the proof the marriage is satisfactory but the
alleged service of her husband in the 8th Regt of the Massachusetts Line commanded by Col Jackson from some time in 1781 should be established by the records in the Secretary office at Boston or by those of the town in which he enlisted - There is no
doubt of his service but we have no means
of ascertaining the exact term, which is indispensably necessary in computing this pro rata pension to which she is entitled  - his pension under the act of 1818 did not require more than nine months and the full pension requires twenty four months 
Now my dear Sir will you please
hand this letter to the proper Secretary and have a certified copy of the proper record forwarded to me with the bill of costs which I will remit and be much obliged to you 
Yours
Thomas Earl
Mr Wm Stickney
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Hon J. L Edwards
Com of Pensions
Washington D.C.

12198
Sept 6 1845
Nancy Gaylord
July 9 1838

FRANKLIN MILLS
O
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Franklin Mills Portage Co Ohio
Sept 1st 1845
Dear Sir
Enclosed I send you the Declaration of the widow Gaylord for a pension - as soon as the
matter is arranged please send
the necefary [necessary]
papers including the
forms necessary in drawing
the pension
Respectfully yours
Thomas Earl
Hon J.L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions
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12198
Jannet Gaylord
Rcd Sept 6. 1845
---
Ohio
act 7 July 38
in 84 & 44 Decem 12
rejected
Act 3 March 43 &
17 June 44-
from 29 Dec 1781 to
3 Sep 1783, 20 mo 4 days
Thos Earl Esq
Franklin Mills
Portage Co
Ohio
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The State of Ohio
Portage County Ss

I Horace G. Bisbe Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County
of Portage in the State of Ohio, do hereby certify that Jeremiah Moulton Esqr
before whom the within affidavit was taken, was, at the time of taking the same, one of the Associate Judges of the Court aforesaid within and for said County duly commissioned and qualified and that the within signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the
seal of said Court this first day of September AD 1846
Horace G. Bisbe Clerk
Clerks fee 50 cts
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The State of Ohio 
Portage Co Ss
On this first day of September 
AD 1845 personally
appeared before me one of the Judges of the court of Common Pleas of the County of Portage & State of Ohio Jannett
Gaylord a resident of the Town of Franklin County aforesaid (the by reason of infirm health being unable to appear in open court being of the age of Eighty three 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 act of congress granting half pay and
pensions to certain widows & That she is the
widow of John Gaylord late a pensioner of the
United States under the law of the 18th of March 1818 at the rate of Eight Dollars per month to commence on the 28th of April 1818. No. of the claim 3070 she further declares that she was married to the said
John Gaylord Nov 25th 1784. That her husband the aforesaid John Gaylord died December 12th 1844 That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January 1796 to wit at the time above stated 
attest Jeremiah Moulton 
Janett Gaylord
her X mark

Sworn to and subscribed on the day &
year above written before me
Jeremiah Moulton
one of the Judges of the Court
of Common pleas of the County of Portage
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Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

March 22d 45
Ohio

FRANKLIN MILLS
MAR 17
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Franklin Portage County Ohio
March 17th, 1845
Dear Sir 
I have been applied to by the widow Janett Gaylord to try and procure for her a pension. My impression at first, was, that there were
Some difficulties
facts in the way of her procuring a pension from the records in the
several acts of Congress relating to widows pensions, but from the construction of
that act, and more particularly, the late act of Congress had removed those difficulties-
As I know thereon some niceties required, I herein give you a
sketch of her case, and ask you to let me know from the circumstances, any
the evidence she can address, whether she can obtain a pension also please
send me a copy of the regulations adopted by the Pension Office relating to the application for pensions.
She can testify herself to the day any year of her marriage by whom the marriage ceremony was performed, and that she has never
since been married. Her marriage, she thinks, was recorded in the church
records, but not any other place, that that church is not any longer in existence, and can conceive of no one in that region (Massachusetts), who may be
likely to have these records, even if they were yet in existence. She has the Revolutionary claim granted by the war department, in 1818, signed by J.C. Calhoun
as Secretary of war numbered 3070, to her late husband, who it appears was a
private in the Revolution,
She is also able to prove by her neighbors here,
that she was reputed to be his wife, that he so spoke of her and to her, and
also prove the children the declarations of her husband, (some of her
child are near 50 year of age that she was his wife, &c, but no family record
has ever been kept by him, or any one else to her knowledge, and she knows of no
record of the marriage, unless one was made by the officiating minister, and she
cannot determine, whether it was usual for that church to keep a record of
marriages or not, nor does she know of any one now living, that was present
at the marriage, Now I know not what to the war department has adopted in regard to the evidences of marriage de facto, but would rather be of the opinion that she would be able to produce evidence that would come within
the requirement of any reasonable rule though none other that I know of, than
as express above. There is no doubt of her being the wife de facto, as well as
de jursof the late John Gaylord, they have lived in this town several years ten, or
more I think, and came from Massachusetts directly here with several of his children
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and have lived together as man and wife. If under the rules adopting, a pention can
be granted to her, it would be almost an act of mercy for
She is old, and very infirm and very poor with one son upon her hands who for many
years has been a cripple, and neither of them can think live to see 1846. Judging
from present appearances. She says she was wealthy when she was married, but
that her husband was unsucessful in business, that his property was all gone years
age, and she thinks it very hard that she is yet to die a pauper unless she is relieving
by the United States.
You are now [illeg] in possession of the circumstances, and the evidence, the pension office books will show that John Gaylord has been receiving his pention yearly, since he came into this place, the evidence of his death, and that his widow is now living here, has been proven at the Court of Common Pleas
of this County now in session at Ravenna, and you will be able to judge whether
this testimony is within the rules adopting, or what more or better testimony she
will need to entitle her to a pension under the laws of Congress now in force
That comply with my request as above States at as early a day as possible for she is truly needy
Respectfully Yours
C. W. Leffingwell
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Rev 12
Application for a Transfer

Ravenna O
Nov 6th 

J L Edwards Esq
Chief Clerk in the Pension
Office at Washington City

Free
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Ravenna Nov. 6th 1832 (Ohio)
J. L Edwards Esq
Dear Sirs
I herewith return you John
Gaylords, application for
a Tranfer an wish return as
soon as convenient address to me at this place
I remain Very Respectfully
yours 
C Prentiss
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Application for A Transfer
The State of Ohio
Portage County Ss
On this twenty seventh day of August
AD 1832 before me the Subscriber a Justice
of the Peace for the said County of Portage
Personally appeared John Gaylord who on his
oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain John Burnham in the Regiment commanded by Col. Michael Jackson in the service of the United States that his name was placed on the Pension Roll of the State of Massachusetts from whence he has lately removed that he now resides in Franklin
Portage County Ohio where he intends to remain and wishes his pension to be paid in future at Pittsburgh State of Pennsylvania and that his reasons for removing to the State of Ohio was to spend his few remaining years with
his children-

John Gaylord
Sworn and subscribed to Before me this 27th day of August 1832 - Lucius V Bierce J Peace
I Charles Douglas, of lawful age, being duly sworn say that I am personally acquainted with John Gaylord who has subscribed
the above affidavit, and know him to be the person described in the above Affidavit-
Charles Douglas
The State of Ohio
Portage County ss
Before me Lucius V Bierce a Justice of
the Peace of said County personally appeared
the above named Charles Douglas, who is
known to me, and is a man of veracity, and made oath to the above Affidavit by him subscribed-
Before me this 27 day of August 1832
Lucius V Bierce J Peace
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The State of Ohio 
Portage County ss
I George Kirkum Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Portage, in the State of Ohio, do by these presents, certify and make known that Lucius V. Bierce Esq
before whom the within and foregoing affidavit was taken, and who has thereunto in his own proper hand writing has subscribed his name, was at the time of taking such affidavit and now is a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn, and to all whose official acts as such, full faith and credit is and ought to be given throughout the United States and elsewhere
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court at Ravenna, in said County this second day of
November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two
Geo. Kirkum Clerk-