Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt.2246-400., Absalom Baird, Continental. (Pa.)
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Service Number
Continental, (Pa) Baird, Absalom 
B.L. Wt. 2246-400
Issue Feb 25, 1839
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Th. M. T. McKennan
M.C.

Wm. Gordon Esqr
Bounty Land Office
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Dr. Sir,
I enclose you the proof of heirship on the claim of the heirs of Dr. Absalom Baird for Bounty land and will thank you to have the warrant issued as soon as your convenience will permit.  George Baird is the oldest surviving heir and I suppose the warrant or scrip will issue in his name for himself and the other heirs.
Yours very resp.
Th. M. T. McKennan
Feby 21. '39

Wm. Gordon Esqr,
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Absolom Baird
No. 2246
By a Special Act of Congress
 approved June 23d, 1836, the
Representatives of Absolom Baird
who was Surgeon in the Regiment
of Artificers, was allowed the
Commutation pay of a Captain of
Infantry - Bounty land was
therefore granted to his heirs at law
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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 Pensylvania
County of Allegheny
I,
heir at law of
do, upon oath, testify and declare, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that Absolom
Baird
did enter the service in 1776, for the term of
and served as a surgeon
in the Regiment of    under the command of Colonel    ,
of the
line; and that he continued
in the service aforesaid until the 29th March 1781
I further declare that I have never received a warrant for the bounty land promised to the said Absolom Baird
on the part of the United States; nor do I believe that he ever received
it, or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever: therefore,
Know all men by these presents, That I, Th H Baird, adm. of as aforesaid,
do hereby constitute and appoint 
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 authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys
under him, for the special purposes above expressed.
M. B. Lowrie
Th H Baird
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Attest,
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subscriber
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Personally appeared the abovenamed Thomas Baird
to the foregoing declaration, and made oath to the same, and in my presence acknowledged the power of
attorney thereto subjoined to be free act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
W. Lower
Alderman
&
Justice of the Peace.
In testimony that the above written Matthew B Lowrie Esquire, as a magistrate
authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c., in the State of Pennsylvania
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 the City of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County
this Sixteenth
day of February
1839
H. H Peterson C. Clerk, &c
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STATE OF Pennsylvania
At a court held for Allegheny county, February 16th A.D. 1839. satisfactory evidence was adduced in court, to prove that George Baird and Thomas H. Baird are the only surviving children of Doctor Absalom Baird, deceased; That said Dr. Absalom Baird left other children all of whom are since dead; viz. John Baird, William Baird, Sarah Baird, and Susan Baird, that of these John Baird & Susan Baird died without children, Sarah Baird intermarried with Hodge, died leaving one child George, William Baird, died leaving six children, viz Susan, Absalom, William, Jane, Catharine and Maria, and that all these children are yet in their minority and these persons mentioned alive are the only surviving heirs of Dr. A. Baird. 
the children grand-children and  [blank] heirs at law in fee to Dr. Absalom Baird late a Surgeon in the Regiment of Artificers in the continental Army in the Revolutionary war commanded by Col. J. Baldwin

I, Henry H. Peterson Clerk of the county court, do certify that the above evidence is taken from the records in my office
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my official seal, this Sixteenth day of February 1839.
H. H. Peterson Clk.

☞ The above form will answer for the States of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and other western States.
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Telephones 
Office 692
Res. 1007

Law Office of 
Frank W. Daugherty
Concordia, Kansas

First National Bank Building

Sept 14-1937

U.S. Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir- In your records of the Revolutionary War, will you send to me the records of one Absalom Baird born 1756 in Kenneth Square Pa. Where did he enlist and the nature of his service, and if he was a pensioner?
Also of Jacob Hammum who served in the War of 1812- Where was he born and name of his parents- where did he enlist and the nature of his service?

He was supposed to receive a land grant in the State of Iowa for his service, but going to some dispute over squatters rights did not get this grant or secure the land. 

Any information about these two men will be greatly appreciated. 

Thanking you for same, 

Respectfully, 
Mrs, F. W. Daugherty, 
325 W. 6th St. 
Concordia, Kansas
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September 27, 1937

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Mrs. Frank W. Daugherty
325 West 6th Street
Concordia, Kansas

Absalom Baird
B.L. Wt. 2246-400
BA-J/MLB

Dear Madam: 

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Absalom Baird who, you state, was born in 1756 in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, also the War of 1812 record of Jacob Hannum who was supposed to have received a land qrant in the State of Iowa on account of his service, but because of some dispute failed to get it. 

The War of 1812 pension records of this office have been search and no claim for pension found based upon service in that war of Jacob Hannum under any spelling of the name. In order to make a proper search of the bounty land records for the land grant he is supposed to have received, please furnish as much as possible of the following data in regard to him as you may be able to obtain, when a thorough search of the records will be made and a report furnished you in regard to that soldier. 

The record of only one Absalom Baird has been found in the Revolutionary War records of this office and his record is furnished you herewith.

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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September 27, 1937

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Mrs. Frank W. Daugherty
325 West 6th Street
Concordia, Kansas

Absalom Baird
B.L. Wt. 2246-400
BA-J/MLB

Dear Madam: 

You are furnished herein the record of Absalom Baird as found in the papers on file in claim for bounty land based upon service of that officer in the Revolutionary War. No claim for pension was found based upon his service. 

The date and place of birth and names of the parents of Absalom Baird are not shown.

Absalom Baird entered the service in 1776, place not stated, to serve during the Revolutionary War, served as a Surgeon in Colonel J. Baldwin's Artillery Artificer Regiment, and continued in service until March 29, 1780, when the regiment was reduced.

The name of Absalom Baird's wife is not shown, nor was the date of his death given. He was survived by the following named children: George Baird, Thomas H. Baird, John Baird, William Baird, Sarah who married one ____ Hodge, and Susan Baird.

In 1839, only two children of Absalom Baird were living, namely, George Baird, the elder of the two, and Thomas H. Baird who was administrator of his father's estate.

John Baird and Susan Baird died without children. The following grandchildren of Dr. Absalom Baird were living in 1839 and were names as heirs, also: George Hodge, son of Sarah and ____ Hodge; Susan, Absalom, William, Jane, Catharine, and Maria Baird, children of William, deceased.

Warrant No. 2246, for four hundred acres of bounty land, was issued February 25, 1839, on an application executed in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, in behalf of the surviving children and other heirs at law.
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of Dr. Absalom Baird.
If you desire information in regard to location of the land granted, you should apply to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Interior Department, this city, and furnish that official with the number of the warrant, the acreage and the date of issuance.

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator