Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 34633, Josephus Bailey, Md.
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Service
MD

Bailey, Josephus 
or Joseph

Number
S.34633
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Joseph Bailey
14495

March 1820

Con
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SCHEDULE
United States of America
(A) Maryland District

On this fifth day of September 1820 personally appeared in open court (B) in the District Court in and for the (C) District of Maryland, Joseph Bailey aged sixty-five years resident in Baltimore County in said (D) District who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows: (C) That he enlisted at Baltimore under Lieutenant John Bailey in Capt. Griffith's Company attached to the 3rd Maryland Regiment commanded by Col Nathan Ramsay in the month of April 1777 and continued in the service of the United States on the continental establishment to the close of the war being upwards of five years in continuance when he was discharged at Annapolis by General Smallwood to best of his recollection. That he made his original declaration before the Honorable Judge Brie at Baltimore on or about 24 June 1818 and placed on the pension list role of the Maryland Agency at the rate of $8 per month as will appear by his certificate bearing date the 6 September 1819 and number 14495

And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th 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 intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an 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" passed on the 18th day of March, 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
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(F) Property None of any description whatever
Family House

Hath no trade or occupation except that of a common laborer he formerly supported himself by laboring in Stone Quarries but from advanced age and bodily infirmity is unable to continue so laborious a calling and in consequence thereof is incapable of supporting himself and actually in such indigent circumstances as to require the assistance of his county for supporting having no other dependence except private or public charity.

Joseph Bailey

Sworn to and declared on the 5th day of September 1820 before the district court aforesaid.

I Philip Moore clerk of the said Dist. Court do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of 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 zero dollars and zero cents.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this 21 day of Sept 1820

Philip Moore
Clerk of the Dist. Court for the District of Maryland
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*The whole of the form prescribed in the first section to verify the amount of property of the applicant the oath of the party and the certificate of the clerk excepted must be done while the court is in session.

All are courts of record within the contemplation of the Act of Congress:

1st - which are expressly made courts of record by the laws of the state which create them:
2nd - which have been solemnly adjudged by the tribunals of the several states to be courts of record:
3rd - which proceed according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount:
4th - which have the power of fine and imprisonment.

And courts which proceed according to the civil and canon law having neither of those attributes are not courts of record although they may keep a registry of their proceedings and possess a seal. The court should in every instance state on the face of the proceedings that it is a court of record and state why it is such. - (Opinion of the Attorney General of the United States).

DIRECTIONS FOR FILLING UP THE BLANKS

A. District - Circuit - County or corporation as the case may be
B. State why a court of record
C. After repeating the district, circuit, county or corporation insert the declarant's name.
D. District, circuit, county or corporation.
E. Here set forth the regiment, company and line; or ship, corps or vessel, and the date of the original declaration; and if he has received a pension, the number of his pension certificate should be inserted.
F. Here enumerate each article of real and personal estate necessary bedding and clothing excepted and subscribe the same. The declarant must also mention his occupation, his ability to pursue it, the number and names of his family residing with him, their ages, and their capacity to contribute to their support, in order that the department may be enabled to decide whether the applicant is in such indigent circumstances as to be entitled to the pension. It is the opinion of the Attorney General that the words of the third section of the Act of the 1st May 1820 "in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support himself without the assistance of his county" comprehend those only who are incapable of supporting themselves without the aid of the government except by private or public charity.

Extract of a Circular Letter from the War Department to the several Agents for paying pensions enclosing the foregoing Form.

"For the guidance of persons already on the pension list or who may hereafter make application for that purpose it may be proper to state explicitly that as experience has proved the necessity of a rigid adherence to particular forms in such cases no instrument of writing drawn up contrary to this form can be admitted as a proper voucher."
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14495
Maryland
Joseph Bailey
of Baltimore in the state of Maryland who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colone Ramsay of the Maryland line for the term of three years 

Inscribed on the roll of Maryland at the rate of 8 dollars per month to commence on the 24 of June 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 6 of Sept 1819 and sent to Thomas Bailey Esq Baltimore Maryland

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1819 $115.20
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 March 1821 $48.00
14 mo. 12/30
$163.20

{Revolutionary Claim Act 18th March 1818}
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When the pension certificate is granted please forward the same care of Thomas Bailey, Esquire, Baltimore.

Josephus Bailey

Test: P G Hands

Joseph Baily
Private
1777 to 1782
Ramsay's Maryland
Regiment

Services proven by the auditor of Maryland Thomas Karney

Admitted

City of Baltimore
I Thoams Harwood clerk of Baltimore City Court do hereby certify that the
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State of Maryland
City of Baltimore

On this twenty-fourth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen personally appeared before me the undersigned Josephus Bailey a resident of Baltimore County aged sixty-three years or thereabouts an applicant for a pension under 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" and then and there made the following declaration on oath by me administered that he enlisted at Baltimore in the month of April 1777 under Lieutenant John Bailey in Capt. Griffith's company, 3rd Maryland Regiment commanded by Col. N. Ramsay marched to head of Elk then to Philadelphia and then to Morris Town New Jersey where the company joined said regiment thence they marched to Staten Island - was at the battles of Brandywine, German Town, Stoney Point, Monmouth and York - was at the taking of Cornwallis in Va and at many engagements and skirmishes of inferior note - and after serving on the continental establishment in the regular army upwards of five years was discharged at Annapolis at the close of the war - by General Smallwood which discharge he lost some years since and that
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his name hath never been inscribed on any pension list and from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his country for support.

Josephus Bailey

Subscribed & sworn to before 
N. Brice
C.J.B.City Court

City of Baltimore

On this 24th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen personally appeared before one of the judges of Baltimore City Court Martin Beaver and made oath that he well knows Josephus Bailey now present knows him to have been in the service of the United States in the revolutionary war upwards of three years, that they both were attached to the 3rd regiment & served in same company and served together for about that period

Martin Beaver
His X Mark

Subscribed & sworn to before
N. Brice
C.J. B. City Court
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Baltimore City

I hereby certify that from the foregoing proceedings it appears to my satisfaction that Josephus Bailey served on the continental establishment in the revolutionary war upwards of nine months and from the information I have obtained his reduced circumstances needs the assistance of his country for support - Given under my hand this 24th day of June 1818.

N. Brice
C. Judge Balt City Court

Auditor's Office, Annapolis, July 6t 1819

I hereby certify that it appears from the muster rolls remaining in the Auditor's Office that Joseph bailey enlisted as a private in the third Maryland regiment on the 21st day of May 1777 and was on the 5th Aug 1780 furloughed & never returned.

Thos Karney, Aud. S.M.
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When the pension certificate is granted please forward the same care of Thomas Bailey, Esquire, Baltimore.

Josephus Bailey

Test: P G Hands

Joseph Baily
Private
1777 to 1782
Ramsay's Maryland
Regiment

Services proven by the auditor of Maryland Thomas Karney

Admitted

City of Baltimore
I Thoams Harwood clerk of Baltimore City Court do hereby certify that the Honorable Nicholas Brice Esquire before whom the foregoing proceedings were taken and certified and who hath thereto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing and still is Chief Judge of Baltimore City Court duly commissioned and qualified and to all his acts as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court this twenty-fourth day of June eighteen hundred and eighteen.

Th Harwood - Clerk
Baltimore City Court
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34633
Revy INVALID

File No 34633
Joseph Bailey
Priv Rev War

Act: 18th March '18
Index: Vol 2 Page 27

[Arrangement of 1870.]