Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39044, for Bailey Rice, Virginia
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Rice, Bailey  S. 39044
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39044
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File No. 30044
Bailey Rice
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Act: 18th March 18th
Index: - Vol. 3, Page 421
(Arrangement of 1870.)
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Bailey Rice
of Woodbay in the State of Virginia
who was a Private in the regiment commanded
Colonel Hans of the Virginia
line, for the term of 18 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence
the 2 of September 1819
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 of Nov 1819
and sent to J.H. Neal [illegible]
Parkensburg, Va
Arrears to 4th of September 1819 $  48.53
Semi-anl. all'ce ending Mar 1820 
2 days arrears $48.53
4853
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
Continued
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Sir please to review
Sir/
Please [illegible]
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I do Hereby Certify that Bailey Rice Enlisted as a Private Soldier for the term of Eighteen months some time about the months of August or September Seventeen Hundred and Eighty and rendered this service in A Detatchment (Detachment) Commanded by Col. John Green & Co. Saml. Hans Given under my Hand this 25 day of March 1794    Francis Gray late Lieut.of the sd Detachment
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Va  409
Recd. 5 Feb. 1892.
The Secretary of the War Department
Washington City
Mr. Edwards
free
Parkersburg, Va.

The county in which the applicant resides should be stated. Before is Court held in that county he should [illegible] exhibit this schedule.
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Virginia Wood County to wit:
On this Twenty fourth day of April 1821 Personally appeared in open Court before this Superior Court of law of Wood county being a Court of record having unlimited Common law Jurisdiction and an official Seal Bailey Rice who being first duly Sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he Served in the Revolutionary war as follows to wit in the Second Virginia Regiment and that he received a Pension Certificate of the date of the Second day of September 1819 and I do Solemnly Swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th 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 the intention thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provision of the act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land or 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 Security Contracts of debts due to me nor have I any other income than what is Contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me Subscribed.
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Schedule of the Estate goods and chattels of Bailey Rice - 
A lease for over life of fifty acres of land of which bounty or thereabouts is cleared of the probable value of $20 = pr annum one bed and bedding form shup (?) and three hogs 4 old chair & a Doz plates, one one (sic) old pot one Dutch oven one old Chest on a table and one churn. Some knives & forks Spoons & all the rest of my property is under Execution to Satisfy Judgements against me which I am not able to pay but by the sale thereof. The executions levied thereon amount to about $199. and Has probably value of the property taken to satisfy them will not exceed that amount.
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And I further make oath that I am by occupation a farmer and that owing to a complaint that I have long had (the Poles) I am unable to pursue it and that the members of my family who reside with me are my wife Elizabeth who is 50 years of age & very infirm Lucinda aged 22 Malinda aged 13 which Daughter might by their labour Support themselves
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Sworn to and declared on the 24" day of April 1821 before the Superior Court of Law of Wood County Va.
I James H. Neal Clerk of the Superior Court of Law of Wood county do hereby Certify that the foregoing Oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are duly copied from the Record of the said Court, And I do further certify that it is the Opinion of the said Court that the total amount in Value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is 32 Dollars and Twenty five Cents and the Lease hold Estate is of the Value of Twenty Dollars 
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court on the 11th Day of January 1822-
James H. Neal Clerk of the Super Court of Law of Wood County
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Virginia to wit
At a Superior Court of Law held for Wood county on the 20th Day of September 1822
Ordered that it be made part of the Records of April Term 1821 that Bailey Rice who subscribed and made Oath to a Declaration & Schedule of his Estate for the purpose of obtaining a pension for Revolutionary Services before this Court at that Term was then residing in the County of Wood and State is a resident Citizen of the said County
In Testimony that the foregoing is a correct Transcript from the Records of said Superior Court I James H Neal clerk of the same Court have hereunto set my hand an affixed the seal of my office the 30th Day of the September 1822
J H Neal C. of Crt
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On this 2nd Day of September 1819 before me the Subscriber one of the Judges of the General Court for the state aforesaid Personally appeared Bailey Rice aged Sixty two years resident in Wood county Virginia who being by me first duly sworn according to Law ^doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress & entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War that he the said Bailey Rice enlisted in the year 1780 in a detachment commanded by late John Green and Colo Samuel Haws ^hewind(?) Virginia line on Continental establishment and the enlistment in the aforesaid year was in the month of August or September afore the term of eighteen months the day of which enlistment he does not now accurately recollect that the company in which he enlisted was commanded by by (sic) John Marshall now Chief Justice of the United States that afterwards he was transferred to a company commanded by a Capt. Bentley and after that to Capt. Carwards company and that he continued to serve till till (sic) the end of the year 1781 when he was discharged from the service in the state of South Carolina by Maj. Samuel Sneed and that during the aforesaid time he was in the Battles of Camden Guilford Court house the siege of Ninty (Ninety) Six and  and (sic) of the Eulaw Springs. and that he is now in Reduced circumstances and Stands
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in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence save in his power of his said service except the certificate of Francis Grey which he prod.
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Virginia to wit
At a Superior court of Law held for Wood County at the Court House on this 23rd Day of September 1819
This Day Bailey Rice came before the Court and made Oath to and subscribes his Declaration of Services rendered in the War of the Revolution and the forms being examined together with Sundry Witnesses produced in Support of the facts therein stated. It appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Bailey Rice did serve in the Revolutionary War against the Common Enemy as stated in the said Declaration. that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support. All which is ordered to be Certified and transmitted together with the said Declaration and a Certificate of [illegible] Francis Grey exhibit by the said Bailey Rice as evidence of the said Given to the Secretary of the War Department pursuant to the direction of the Act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States during the Revolutionary War"
(written across the text) Admitted
In Testimony that the foregoing is a true Copy from the Records of said court I James H Neal Clerk thereof have hereunto set my hand an affixed the Seal of my office at the Court House of said County this 27th Day of October 1819
J H Neal SC