Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 381, Manoah Bailey, Va.
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[3-1776]

SERVICE
Va

Bailey, Manoah

NUMBER

R.381

CONTENTS
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19456
Manoah Bailey
North Carolina

Rejected See letter 15 Dec. 1824 to 
Hon: R M Saunders 
H. Reps [House of Representatives]
Decr [December] 15 1824
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State of North Carolina} 
Stokes County} Superior Court of Law [Tale?] June 1824 
On this 28 day of October AD1824 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of record for the County aforesaid – Manoah Baily aged sixty six years who being first sworn according to Law, doth on his Oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provisions made by the Act of Congress of the 18 March 1818 and the first day of May 1820 that he the said Manoah Baily enlisted for the term of Seven years to the best of his recollection in the fall of the year One Thousand seven hundred and seventy seven in the State of Virginia in the Company commanded by Capt John Nicholas in the first regiment commanded by Col George Gibson in the line of the State of Virginia continental establishment – that he continued to serve in the said corps three or four years, when he was transfered [transferred] to the Company of Captain James Brown in the Regiment commanded by Col John Green – that he continued to serve in said Regiment until the year AD 1783 when he was discharged from the said service in the State of
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of South Carolina – that while under the command of Col Gibson he fought in the Battles of Red Bank ford – Brandiwyne [Brandywine], Germantown and Monmouth, that after his transfer to the Regiment of Col Green he fought in the Battles of Guilford & the Eutaw Springs after which he was honourably [honorably] discharged as aforesaid – that he has no other evidence in his power of his said service except his own Oath — 
And in pursuance of the Act of the first of May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 day of March 1818 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 person engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War” passed on the 18 of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts
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or debts due to me, [words scratched out] nor have I any income safe what little labour [labor] I can do – and that I am not worth any thing except my wearing apparel That I am a farmer by occupation, but that on account of Age and infirmity I can do but little towards my support. That he lives at this time mostly on the Charity of an Individual – That he has one son named George Washington aged about Ten years who is too young to contribute any to his support 
Manoah [his x mark] Bailey
Sworn to and declared the day of October before the Court aforesaid 
Thos Armstrong Clk

I Thomas T. Armstrong Clerk of the Superior Court of Law for the County of Stokes do hereby certify that the foregoing oaths are truly copied from the record of the said Court – and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court – that the value of the property is stated correctly -
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In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand  and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 28th day of October AD 1824. 
Thoms Armstrong Clk

19456
Manoah Bailey
North Carolina

Rejected See letter 15 Dec. 1824 to 
Hon: R M Saunders 
H. Reps [House of Representatives]
Decr [December] 15 1824
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Manoah Bailey
declaration for
a pension
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State of North Carolina}
Stokes County} 
At a court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions began and held for the County of Stokes aforesaid on the Second Monday of September AD 1826 personally appeared in open Court the same being a court of record for said county Manoah Bailey aged seventy six years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his corporal oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of 18 of March 1818 and the 1st of May 1820 to wit that he enlisted in Cumberland County State of Virginia in the fall of 1776 for the term of three years under Captain John Nichols in the first Va Regiment of Continental Troops in the army commanded by General Mohelenburg [Peter Muhlenberg] that he continued in the northern army and was in the ingagements [engagements] at Red Bank, Brandywine [^ Monmouth] and Germantown that when Gen’l. Greene took command of the Southern army he was detached under Colonel Greene to the South and continued in the Southern army during the remainder of the war that he was at the battles of Guilford and Eutaw Springs where he was wounded in the left hip with a musket ball and three shot that he was discharged at the conclusion of the war on the Congaree River in writing by Colonel Green but that his discharge has been [illegible ink smear] and worn out so as to be illegible and that now has no other evidence of his services except the annexed affidavit of Isaac Barr 
And in pursuance of the Act of the first of May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 day of March 1818 that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner
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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 person engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War” passed on the 18 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 or effects of any kind except one pocket knife worth about fifteen cents nor had I any property on 18 day of March 1818 having merely worked for my support with no other compensation since that time. That I am old and so disabled from age & the wound I have received that my services have been worth but little if any more and that hereafter I can scarcely expect ever on those terms to support myself That I have no occupation but that of a day labourer [laborer] and no family at all with me I have one son aged about Sixteen years who works abroad for his living. I am now working with one Eli Furgason on the terms above stated in the county of Stokes. That he hereby relinquishes all claim for a pension heretofore That he was ignorant of the provision made for the soldiers of the revolution until within about two years ago when he made an application which was not allowed from some informality (he being illiterate) he does not know what; that since then he never has been able to procure a friend to assist him in drawing his declaration until now having lived before & until lately in a very ignorant neighbourhood [neighborhood]
Manoah [his x mark] Bailey 
Sworn to in open court
Matt R. Moore
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State of North Carolina}
Stokes County}
Court of Pleas & quarter sessions
September Term 1826

Isaac Barr maketh oath that he has several times concurred with Manoah Baily and from the minute of circumstantial account [Illegible] he gives of facts that transpired in the army of which during part of the tour this deponent belonged. Many of which are of a nature to trust to be the subject of history and [Illegible] the fact that the applicant Manoah Bailey is entirely illiterate this deponent is satisfied that he must have belonged to the Northern Continental Army.
Isaac [his x mark] Barr

September Session 1826
Sworn to in open court
Matt Moore

I Matthew R. Moore Clerk of the Court of Pleas and quarter sessions for the county of Stokes do hereby certify that it appears the satisfaction of the court that Manoah Bailey did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the foregoing declaration and that he has no property except the small article mentioned above of that the contents of the foregoing declaration are satisfactorily true. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the court at office 15th day of Sept. AD 1826
Matt. R. Moore
By [Illegible]
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Manoah Bailey
Revolutionary Claim.
N. Carolina - 

Rejected. See letters 8th March 1824 to Hon. L. Williams, H. R. – 15 Dec. 1824 to Hon. R. M. Saunders, H. R. and Jan. 28, 1828 to Hon. A. H. Shepperd H. R.

381
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

_______ Ex’r.   INVALID.
[Ink Smear – 381]

[words crossed out]

Manoah Bailey
P. O. 

Service:

Enlisted:  ,18
Discharged:  ,18

Application filed:  ,18

Alleges:

Re-enlisted:

Attorney:
P. O.
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State of North Carolina } Superior Court of Law 
Stokes County } October Term 1823 
On the 17 day of October A.D. 1823 personally appeared in Open Court being a Court of Record for the County of Stokes aforesaid, Manoah (sometimes called Noah) Bailey, Aged seventy years or thereabouts, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his Oath make the following Declaration, in Order to obtain the Provision made by the Act of Congress of the 18th March 1818 & the [Illegible] May 1820 – That he the said Manoah or Noah Bailey enlisted for the Term of three years in the Regular Army of the United States in the year 1776 as well as he recollects but being illiterate and old and infirm, he cannot say with certainty; that he enlisted as a soldier in the Service of the United States under Capt. John Nicholas in the County of Cumberland State of Virginia, and was attached to the first Virginia Regiment commanded by Col. John Gibson; that he continued in this Regiment untill [until] Gen’l. [General] Washington’s Army was stationed at Middlebrook, when he enlisted during the War, he still being under the Command of Capt. Nicholas. That he was in the Battles at the Red Bank, at Brandywine, Germantown Monmouth; That after the Battle and Camden he was marched to the South under Col. Green, and joined Gen’l. Green’s Army before the Battle at Guilford. He was in that Battle, & in the Battle at the Eutaw Springs, where he was wounded. 
That at the close of the War he was discharged near Charlestown South Carolina, and he hath long since lost his Discharge. 
That he is in reduced Circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support; and he has no way to prove his services aforesaid, except by his own Oath, without [illegible] evidence which he lost which he has no means to discharge and undergoing Fatigue
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Fatigue that at his advanced Age, he cannot with safety encounter. 
Sworn to & subscribed in open court
Thos Armstrong Clk.
Manoah [his x mark] Bailey
And in pursuance of the Act of the first of May 1820 I, Manoah or Noah Bailey do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 day of 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 person engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War” passed on the 18 of March 1818, and that I do not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me, nor contained in the schedule hereto annexed [Illegible] 
Subscribed
Manoah [his x mark] Bailey 
Sworn to & subscribed in open court
Tho T Armstrong, Clk

Schedule of the Property of Manoah or Noah Bailey, Clothing and Necessary Bedding excepted — Nothing at all 
That he the said Manoah or Noah Bailey is by profession Farmer; has only one Child, his Wife is dead. That his Child is a son aged about eleven years. That he himself is
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almost disabled from Working and has to subsist upon the charity of his Friends, with one [illegible] he is living 
Manoah [his x mark] Bailey
Sworn to & subscribed in open court
Tho T Armstrong, Clk

I Thomas T. Armstrong Clerk of the said Court do hereby certify that the foregoing affidavits were made & sworn to in open Court & Subscribed by the said Manoah Bailey and duly entered at large on the records of my office.
In Witness whereof I do hereto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court at office the 17th October A. D. 1823.
Tho T Armstrong, Clk
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J. L. Edwards
Pension Office
War Department

[written sideways - recd 18 Jany 1828
Hon. A. H. Shepperd
HR
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[Hou Rep] 16 Jay [January] 1828

b [Mr.] Edwards
I enclose you the declaration of Manoah Bailey praying for a pension – think am glad to hear the result of the application can or cannot

Yr. obt. Sert. [Your obedient Servant]
A H Shepperd
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James L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner Pension Office
Washington
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Washington March 5th 1824

Sir,
I send you the claim for a pension of Manoah Bailey – you will please inform me of the result of the application
I have the honor to be Y. S.

Lewis Williams

James L. Edwards, Esqr
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The Hon. Lewis Williams, Esqr.

City of Washington
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Sir
The enclosed paper has been lying in my office since our last October Court without any direction concerning it until a few days ago, the old man concerned sent me word to inclose it to you with a request to attend to it & inform me of its success.
I am Sir respectfully
Your Humble Servant 
Tho T Armstrong
23 Feby [February] 1823