Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 15875, Jacob Bailey, Conn.
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Declaration 
In order to obtain the benefits of the 3d Section of the act of Congress 4th July 1836, State of New York
Monroe county [Ss] [ ] this 27th day of October 1846, before the subscriber personally appeared Jonathan [Retie] in [Ma.. Bayley] of Henrietta in said County aged sixty seven years, 19th July 1846, [what doth to his] 
[albe] make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions of the act above named
That he is [ ] child of Sarah Bailey decd late of said [ ] who was the widow of Jacob Bailey. 
[His deposed together] [and as her was] formerly a resident of Headdone in the State of Connecticut, and who done service in the army of the United States, in the War of the Revolution, in a Regiment Commanded by [Colonil Jonathan] [Heturn  Meigs], as deponent [believes] to [ ] amount [ ] over two years,- and when was killed at the storming of Stony Point, on the 16th July (1779-) Seventeen hundred and seventy nine - that he [Ast] this department [Nu tht] as [above] named Sarah Baily a widow,
-that as this deponent has always understood [one] his Mother, and as shown by the old record hereto annexed, they were married in the year (1776) seventeen hundred and seventy six, that his said mother Sarah Bailey remained a widow untill her death which took place, on the 5th [ ] day of July (1836) eighteen hundred and thirty six, as shown by the record hereto annexed, - where it [be] recorded by this deponent, within, and [ ] of the time it took place, that the record of her marriage, as recorded thereon, is believed to have [here there been] did by deponent [fathers], as his [same] is the old original record, kept by his [earliest] recollection, [ it was there was]
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State of New York
[Monroe County]} Ss.

On the 5th day of October 1844 before me the undersigned a justice of the peace in and for the said County of Monroe , [came] Hannah Bailey and being duly sworn [with] that she is the wife of Jonathan Return Meigs Bailey, that she now resides in the town of Henrietta in said County of Monroe. 
That she formerly resided in the town of Haddan_
in the State of Connecticut, that she was married to Jonathan Return Meig Baily the only surviving son of Sarah Baily, on the 22d of March 1804 and that she has been well acquainted with Sarah Baily for fifty years. that she lived a widow until the time of her death, which was on the 8th day of July 1836, that she (Sarah Baily) came to live with her the next week after she was married to Jonathan Return Meig Baily, and continued to live with them until her death, without intermarrying, and this deponent further [ ] that the said widow Sarah Baily died very suddenly, that she was  not sick more than one hour, that, there was no Physician called to attend her in consequence of her sudden death.
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