Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 1258-450, Udney Hay, Continental N.Y. Residence Of Heirs In 1827
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SERVICE
Continental.

CONTENTS
Hay, Udney

NUMBER
B.L.Wt. 1258.-450

NY residence of heir's in 1827.

Contents
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No. 1258
-
Lieut Coll U. Hay
N.Y. 2 [illegible]

22 July 88.
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State of New York, 
CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW-YORK,} SS.  I. NICHOLAS DEAN, Clerk of the City and County of New-York, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said City and County, Do hereby certify, THAT James Hopson of the said City Esqr whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the acknowledgment of the annexed power of Attorney was on the day of the date of said Certificate a Justice of Peace in & for the City & County of New York & authorized to administer oaths & take acknowledgments &c  & that the Signature of “James Hopson" subscribed to the said Certificate is in the proper hand writing of the said Justice 
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court, this 14 day of Sept 1827 
[signed] N Dean
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DEPARTMENT OF WAR. Regulation for the heir offices and Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army, who were slain by the enemy, or who have died since the war, and have not receive 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 New York & City & 
County of New York 
I James Forrest one of the heirs at law of Udny Hay a Lieut Colonel do, upon oath, testify and declare, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that the said Udny Hay did enlist in 1776, for the term of during the war, and served in under the command of Colonel Moses Hazen of the old Congress Regt ; and that he continued in the service aforesaid until he became a supernumerary
I further declare, that I have never received a warrant for the bounty land promised to said Udny Hay 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, James Forrest aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint Richard Forrest 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. 
[signed] James Forrest one of the heirs 
Attest
[signed] R Stephens
Personally appeared the above named James Forrest subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined to be his free act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned. 
Attest,
[signed] James Hopson Justice of the Peace 
In testimony that the above written [blank] was a magistrate authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c., in the State of [blank] 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 [blank] this [blank] day of [blank]  18 
C. Clerk, &c.
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State of New York and County of Essex, SS.
I, SURROGATE OF THE COUNTY OF Essex, Certify, That on the day of the date hereof before me came William Kirby and Henry B. Hay of the Town of Ticonderoga Essex County and State of New York who being duly sworn, depose and say, that they are well acquainted with Jane Ann Hyde aged about forty nine years the wife of Reuben C Hyde and know her to be the daughter, and heir of Udney Hay decd late a Colonel in the service of the United States during the Revolutionary War- --- - and these deponents further say, that the said Jane Ann Hyde is the only surviving legitimate child of the said Col Udney Hay deceased
[signed] William King Ticonderoga N.Y.
All which is to me satisfactory proof, that the said Jane Ann Hyde of the only surviving legitimate heir of said Udney Hay deceased late a Colonel in the service of the United States during the Revolutionary War 
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office, the First day of November in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven and of the Independence of the United States the fifty first
[signed] John [illegible, poss. Conklin] Surrogate
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DEPARTMENT OF WAR. Regulation for the heir offices and Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army, who were slain by the enemy, or who have died since the war, and have not receive 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 New York
County of Essex
I Jane Ann Hyde heir at law of Udney Hay do, upon oath, testify and declare, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that the said Udney Hay aforesaid did as a deputy quarter master General in the regular army for the term of during the war, serve Quarter Master General in the regiment No. [blank] under the command of General Green of the northern & southern line; and that he continued in the service aforesaid until the conclusion of the War of the Revolution 
I further declare, that I have never received a warrant for the bounty land promised to the said Udney Hay 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, Jane Ann Hyde aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint George Washington Berrian Esq 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. 
[signed] Jane Ann Hyde
Attest [signed] Isaac Morse
John C Douglass
Personally appeared the above named Jane Ann Hyde subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined to be his free act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned. Attest, 
[signed] Isaac Morse, Justice peace Justice of the Peace 
In testimony that the above written Isaac Morse was a magistrate authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c., in the State of New York 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 Elizabethtown Essex County this ninth day of August in the year 1827.
Leonard Stow dep C. Clerk, &c.
acting as Clerk of the County Essex The clerk being dead
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[text in right margin]
Bounty Land
July 12th 1827

[main text]
Rev War
[stamped] FREE
Hon James Barbour
Secretary of War
Washington
City
p. Mail


Ansd Sent
regulations
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New York July 5 1827. 
Honor’d Sir
Will you have the goodness to inform me what documents will be required to establish the claims of the heirs of the late Col Udney Hay to the Land due him from the U. S. for his services during the Revolutionary War 
An Early answer to the above enquiry is most respectfully solicited by 
Your very humble 
and obedt servt
[signed] G. W. Berrian

To the Honble
James Barbour 
Secretary of War 
Wash City.
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3 -- 565. 
No.___
Act of Revolution 
Received ___18___

Udney Hay 
Lt. Colonel 

Warrant No. 1258
FOR 450 ACRES.


11960b5m2-94
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Hon. James Barbour
Secretary of War
Washington
City

{p Mail.}
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New York Nov. 22d 1827. 
Honord Sir 
I this day recd a communication from the Bounty Land Office (Signed E. Stephens) inclosing a Land Warrant No 1258. dated 20 of September 1827. granted to Jane Ann Hyde, daughter and the other heir of Lieut Col Udney Hay decd For 450 Acres of Land 
I remain, with respect. 
Your obliged Servt
[signed] G.W. Berrian

Hon. James Barbour 
Secry of War 
Washington City
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(True Copy) 
Department of War 
Bounty Land Office 
Sept 25. 1827
Mr G.W. Berrian 
City of New York 
Sir
I have carefully examined the claim of the heirs of Col. Hay and find that he is not returned as a Canadian refugee, but became a supernumerary in 1779 - in consequence of which his heirs will be entitled to 450 Acres of land, which will be granted whenever they shall have sent on a certificate of heirship from a Surrogate 
I herewith return you the one taken before a Justice of the peace, the Power of Attorney is correct & placed on our files 
Very respectfully & 
Y. obt. Servt. 
(Signed ) Wm M Stewart 
The above is a correct copy of the original now on file in my office G.W.B.
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Copy of Mr W M Stewart 
Letter of Sept. 26, 1827 
The Inclosed proof of heirship is forwarded in compliance with the directions contained in Wm M Stewarts Letter of Sept 26, 1827, of which the within is a Copy 
G.W. Berrian
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17 Nov 1823. 
Sirs
I enclose you a Milly Land Warrt [Military Land Warrant] No 1258 ipd the 20 Sep 1827 for Jane Ann Hyde daughter of the other heirs of (if such there be) Lt Col. U. Hay - the receipt of which you will please acknowledge & return of mail - the reasons for inserting the other heirs were, that it has been claimed by a James Forrest as one of the Heirs 
&c &c
[initialed] E. [illegible]

G. W. Berrian Esq 
New York.
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From Robert Forrest
& G.W. Brown in the [illegible] of the heir of Udney Hay
Lt Col N.Y. Line
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STATE of New York 
City and County of New York. Surrogates Office for1827 
I certify that satisfactory evidence was adduced to me, to prove Jane Ann Hyde is the daughter and that Henry B Hay and James Forrest are nephews and heirs at law in fee to Udny Hay late a Lt. Colonel in the old Congress Regiment of the Revolutionary war – 
Given under my hand and Seal of Office, this thirteenth day of September 1827 
[signed] James Campbell 
Surrogate 
The above form will answer for the following States: viz. 
Maine, Massachusetts, New-Hampshire, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, Vermont, [all above refer to] Judge of Probate
New-York, New Jersey, [these two refer to] Surrogate
South-Carolina, Georgia, {these two refer to] Ordinary. 

[handwritten note] 
Insert the name of the daughter & nephew & also of the [remainder illegible]