Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18707, Joshua Bayley, Mass. Vt.
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Mass.|Bayley, Joshua|S.18707|
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Vermont 28.992
Joshua Bailey of Orleans in the State of Vt. who was a pri in the [blank] commanded by Captain [blank] of the Regt commanded by Co'l  Demott in the Ma'st. & Vermont line for 8 mo: 16 days
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Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 28. Dollars 43 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
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Certificate of Pension issued the 3d day of Sept. 31 and Sent T. Hinman Derby Vt.
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Arrears to the 4th of Mar:34  85.22
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept " 14.28
$99.50
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832]
Recorded by N Rice. Clerk,
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Let Hon H Everett 19 Feby 1836
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State of Vermont
Orleans County ss } On this 16th of August 1832, personally appeared before the Hon. Probate Court at Derby in said County holden within and for  the District of Orleans. ap'd Joshua Bailey of Derby in said Orleans County aged 69 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress Passes June 7 1832. That he enlisted into the army of the United States in the year 1780 in the month of June (he thinks the 13th day,) for the term of six months, that he passed muster at Concord, Massachusetts and then marched to West Point and joined the army in Marbury In about six days after he was selected by Baron Steuben for the light infantry and put into Capt. Watson's Company and Col. DeMot or deMot's (Demott) Regiment in Gen. Poors brigade until he died when Gen. LaFayette commanded the brigade. That he served ['the served' crossed out] out the said term of six months and was discharged on the 14 day of December following. When he enlisted as afr'd he resided in the town of Marbury in the state of Massachusetts 
In 1781 his father and family including himself moved into the town of Windsor in the State of Vermont in the Month of March. That he and others from Windsor volunteered in the fore part of July of the same year into the ['State' crossed out] troops raised in Vermont and was stationed on the frontier in a fort in the town of Bethel in Vermont that he served there under Capt. Green and Lieut. Church until the 12th day of November of the same year when he was discharged - That he was born in the town of Warwick in the State of Mass in the year 1763 on the 9th day of January  and has no income thereof except one made by himself in his bible. That he has no documentary evidence of service as his discharge are lost and knows of no living witness who can testify to his service as a volunteer in Vermont - he relinquishes all claim for a pension except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
/s/Joshua Bayley
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I Anna Carton (Carlton) of Derby in the County of Orleans and State of Vermont aged fifty eight years do hereby certify that in the summer of 1780. I lived in my Fathers family in Marlborough Massachusetts and that some time in the Summer my brother Joshua Bayley who has sworn to and subscribed the within declaration went to and was then understood in the family into the United States army and that he was absent until some time in the fall as near as I can ['rember' crossed out] remember, the next March my brother removed his family to Windsor Vermont. and in the Summer following my brother went again into the army and was gone until some time in the fall as the family were husking corn when he returned, came home, when he returned he brought home his gun with him and we at the time and ever since, have understood that he was in the ['service' crossed out] army this town summers as I have above stated
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid - 
/s/Anna Carlton
We Isaac Hinman and Nehemiah Colby Postmaster of Derby residing in the same place of the within named applicant hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joshua Bailey who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 69 years ['old' crossed out] of age that is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and we concur in that opinion - 
/s/Isaac Hinman
/s/N. Colby, Post Master Derby, Vt. }
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And the Said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department. That the within named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states - And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Anna Carlton Isaac Hinman and Nehemiah Colby who have signed the ['above' crossed out] preceding certificates and are residents of Derby afs'd and are credible persons and that  their Statement is entitled to credit - 
I John H. Kimball Register of the Probate Court aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Said Court in the matter of the application of Joshua Bayley for a pension - 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of office this 16th day of August 1832
/s/John H. Kimball Register
State of Vermont
Orleans County ss } Derby August 12 1833 Then personally appeared before me the subscribing authority, a Justice of the Peace within and for the county of Orleans afs'd Joshua Bailey who being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, nor to all the places through which he passed in the service nor all the superior officers under whom he served, but according to the best of his recollections he served not less than the periods mentioned hereafter, and in the following grades and under the following mentioned officers, viz; On the first tour he served six months under the officers mentioned in the foregoing declaration and was not stationed more than three weeks in any place but was moving up and down the North River and was the Chief part of the time in the state of New Jersey and remembers
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being in Haverstraw, Hackensac Elizabethtown and does not remember the other places through to which he passed - The second tour of service was certainly not less than three months under the officers mentioned in the foregoing declaration, and those troops were raised and paid by the authority of the State of Vermont, that he was stationed in Bethel fort in Vermont and served in that fort all the time except 17 days when he was on a scout to ascertain where the Indians were, and went to the place where the town of Burlington now stands with but three persons with him and went without eating for five days before his return to the fort that all his service was done as a private soldier. That at the time of making the foregoing declaration we had no clergyman in this town but now have one recently from Scotland who of course cannot yet know much about the applicant. That during the times of service mentioned heretofore and above he was in actual service and engaged in no civil pursuit but assiduously engaged as a common soldier. and for that service I claim a pension - 
/s/Joshua Bayley
9981 Declaration of Joshua Bailey
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
/s/Joshua Bayley
Before me Tim'o Hinman Justice of the Peace.
State of Vermont
Orleans County ss} I Ira H. Allen Clerk of Orleans County Court do hereby certify that Tim'o Hinman who has affixed his name to the above is a magistrate duly qualified and that I believe the same to be his genuine signature. 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court at Irasburgh this 14 day of August 1833. 
/s/Ira H. Allen Clerk.
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION. [initials: own]
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington, D.C., [blank], 19[blank]
S.F. 18707

In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank] for a statement of the military history of Joshua Bayley a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
[column headings: DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.|LENGTH OF SERVICE.|RANK.|OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.(CAPTAIN.|COLONEL.)|STATE.|]
June 13 1780|Dec. 14, 1780|Pvt.|(Watson|Geniah)|Mass.|
July 1781|Nov. 12, 1781| " |({Green {John Benjamin|at Bethel Fort)|Vt.|
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Battles engaged in, [blank]
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Marlborough, Mass.
Date of application for pension, Aug. 16, 1832. His cl. was al
Residence at date of application, Derby, Orleans Co. Vt
Age at date of application, b. Jany 9, 1763 at Warwick, Mass.
Remarks: Mch 1781 Soldier moved with his father to Windsor Vt. name of father not stated and there is no other family data.
Respectfully, 
[blank] Commissioner. 
6-2856
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18707
INVALID.
File No. 18,707
Joshua Bailey Pri Rev War
Act: June 7" 32
Index: - Vol. 1, Page 55
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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1915 June 23 Hist. to Mrs. John Florence. V.L.M.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, August 14th 1834. 
I hereby certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Joshua Bayley is borne on a pay-roll for the six months more from the Town of Marlborough, where he is allowed from July 9th to Dec'r 14th 1780 for services and travel five months and sixteen days. - 5 m. 16 ds.
/s/Edward D Bangs Secy.
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8 m'o 16 days private
26.66 + 1.77=28.43
Timothy Hinman Derby  Vt
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[handwritten letter]
Derby. August 25th 1834
Hon'bl J. L. Edwards

Sir here enclosed the application of Joshua Bailey for a Pension under the Act of June 7th 1832. agreeable to your request I wrote to the Secretary of State of Massachusetts and procured his certificate which is hear enclosed, yet he makes but 5 months & 16 days but that Joshua Bailey was in the Six Month Services, the probability is that the secretary has his own from the time they mustered or marched to Join the Army and that Bailey engaged some time previous, as to Bailey serves at Bethel Fort I think there can be no rational doubt but that he served three Months there at least, I wish you to take his case into your Consideration and do as [illegible] and make Report as soon as Convenient and you'l oblige ['you'l oblige' crossed out] your Obedient Serv't
/s/Tim'o Hinman
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[addressed envelope]
Revolutionary Claim 
Derby, Vt, 
26. Aug - 
[margin note: Vt Sept 2d] 
Free
Honb'l Lewis Cass, Secretary of War - 
City of Washington, District of Columbia.
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Joshua Bailey
Tim'o Hinman
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9981
BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Joshua Bailey which require further proof or explanation. 
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? [blank]
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? [blank]
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? [blank] 
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? [blank]
V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? no
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? [blank] 
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the other under the Act of June 7, 1832? [blank]
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? [blank] 
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? [blank]
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? [blank]
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? no
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? none - no Clergyman in the vicinity that knows any thing about the applicant
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? [blank]
XIV. +If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? only to part of his service.
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? [blank]
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? [blank]
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? [blank] 
XVI. ↕Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? [blank]
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? [blank] 
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
*QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For ______year______months, and______days______, I served as a______; and for such service I claim a pension.”
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit. 
+QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of  his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
↕QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
⇨ In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany papers.
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I Sampson Davis of Derby in the County of Orleans and State of Vermont aged sixty nine years depose and say that in the year 1781 about the first of April I went into the service of the United States by draft to guard the frontiers and was at a fort in Bethel Vermont in the months of October November and a part of December or in the vicinity scouting not more than ten miles distant of the same year at which time the fort was commanded by Capt. John Benjamin. I knew a soldier there in the same Capt. Benjamin's Company by the name of Bailey but his christian name I did not then know but he was then young not more than 16 or 18 years of age. Then was a scout sent out from that fort under the command of either Lieut. Hall or Lieut. Church but which I cannot certainly say - the Bailey above named was one of that party and they were gone much longer than was expected and there was much anxiety to known their fate and for their return and on the last of November or the first of Dec. of the same year they returned all alive but worn out with fatigue & starvation. The Bailey above mentioned I have not been acquainted with all the time since the war but of late years I have resided near Joshua Bailey of Derby who I am satisfied is the same Bailey that I saw at Bethel Fort in 1781. both by his appearance and his relating minute things which happened in that service which I personally knows to have taken place - 
/s/Sampson Davis
State of Vermont
Orleans County ss. } Derby May 26 1834. Then personally appeared Sampson Davis signer of the foregoing affidavit and made solemn oath that the same is just and true in each particular before me and I hereby certify that he  is a credible witness
/s/Charles Kingsbury Justice of Peace
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State of Vermont
Orleans County ss } I Ira H. Allen Clerk of Orleans County Court do hereby certify that Charles Kingsbury who has affixed his name to the within is a magistrate duly qualified and that I believe the same to be his genuine signature
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court at Irasburgh this 30 day of May 1834.
/s/Ira H. Allen Clerk
J. Davis Affidavit
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Jose Paige Affidavit
claim for Jos'a Bayley Vt.
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I Jose Page of Derby in the State of Vermont a Revolutionary pensioner aged seventy seven years depose and say that during the whole summer of the year 1780. I served in Asa Coburn's company of Infantry in a French Colonels Regiment whose name I cannot recollect how to spell but it was pronounced as near as a I can remember J. Matt and under Gen. Lafayette - Being acquainted with Mr. Joshua Bailey of this town apparently aged about seventy one years and having conversed with him concerning the events that transpired in the regiment above mentioned during the summer of 1780 and finding him able to relate a variety of small incidents not publicly known and of a nature not to be known or remembered but by persons who were there. I am satisfied that he served in the same Regiment with me during that summer and farther say not.
/s/Jose Page
Subscribed and sworn to this 3d day of March A.D. 1834 before me at Derby in the County of Orleans and State of Vermont and I certify that said Jose Page is a credible witness
/s/Charles Kingsbury Justice of the Peace.
State of Vermont
Orleans County ss } I Ira H. Allen Clerk of Orleans County Court do hereby certify that Charles Kingsbury who has affixed his name to the above is a magistrate duly qualified and that I believe the same to be his genuine signature.
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said court at Irasburgh this 31 day of May 1834. 
/s/Ira H. Allen Clerk
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I Samuel Gates of Lunenburg in the County of Essex and State of Vermont of Lawful age testify and say that in the month of June AD 1780 that I together with Joshua Bailey and others were call'd upon and did join and serve in the United States Six Months under the continental establishment. We enlisted at Marlboro, Massachusetts and joined the Army at West Point in the State of New York in the month of July of the same year and served six months - I was personally acquainted with Joshua Bayley and am convinced that he served his country faithfully the above mentioned time 
Dated at Lunenburg this 20th Day of June AD 1832
/s/Sam'l Gates
State of Vermont
Essex County ss } Lunenburg 20th ['July' crossed out] June 1832 Personally appeared the above Deponent Samuel Gates and made solemn oath that the same is true
before me /s/Stephen Howe Jr Jus Peace 
I hereby certify that the above named Sam'l Gates is in my opinion a creditable witness
/s/Stephen Howe Jr Jus. Peace
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State of Vermont
Essex County ss } I William Gates Clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Essex do hereby certify that Stephen Howe Jr whose name is subscribed to  the within ['affidavit' crossed out] certificate is and was on the day of the date thereof a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Essex and that his name thereto subscribed is his own proper signature
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of said Court this 10th day of August A.D. 1832
/s/Wm Gates Clerk
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2.
Joshua Bailey Jr. Marlborough Descriptive list of men, raised to reinforce Continental Army for term of 6 mos. agreeable to resolve Jan 5" 1780, age 17 yr. Stature 5'-9" Complexion ruddy. Residence Marlborough arrived at Springfield July 13-1780-under command of Capt Thomas Pritchard. am not sure as I have the name of town correct
/s/Mrs John Florence 
Plain City Ohio
June 14, 1915 
[receipt stamp: U. S. PENSION OFFICE E JUN 16 1915]