Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 44341, Azor Bagley, Continental (New York)
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Service Continental (New York)   Bagley, Azor  Number S.44341
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Ohio
7.910

Azor Bagley of Adams Co in the State of Ohio
who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Stephens of the Reg commanded by Colonel Lamb in the York
line, for the term of three years. Continental from 1 August 1780 to 1783.

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 16th day of May 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 26 of March
1819 and sent to W. Armstrong West Union, Ohio. Continued on the Roll on 29 day of
July 1830 and notification sent to Hon W. Russell at West Union Pension commencing on the 29 1830 of July.

Amount due on 4th of
Sept. 1830

$9.83

Revolutionary Claim, Acts March 18, 1818,
May 1, 1820.

See letter to Hon. T.L. Hamer
H R. Feb. 16. 1835 - Letter W Scote & 3 Auditors

16. Nov 1838

Paid at the Treasury under the
act of the 6th April 1838 from 4 Sept 1837 to 4 March 1838. Agt Notified - 26 hand 1838.
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The State of Ohio Adams County Court of Common Pleas

On this 16th day of July AD 1830 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record having been made so by the laws of this State - my proceeding adding to the course of common law with a jurisdiction
unlimited in point of amount. By keeping a record
of its proceedings and by having the power of fine &
imprisonment & for the County aforesaid Azor Bagley
aged 73 years on the 20th day of the present month, a resident
of the County aforesaid who being first sworn in
open Court according to law, doth on his Oath make
the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions
made by the 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
passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and the act
of Congress of the 1st of May 1820. What this said
Azor Bagley, for the term of three years or during the
war in the month of September 1778 in Fishkiln
on the River Hudson in the State of New York
in the Company commanded by Capt William
Stevens in the New York Regiment of Artillery
commanded by Col. John Lamb in the service of the
United States on Continental establishment; that he
continued to serve in the Corps in the service of the
 United States until the month of September 1781 when
he was discharged from the service at West Point.

The Company to which he belonged had been discharged
same weeks before but Col. Hull had been sent to
Quebeck on public service & took this deponent with
him & did not return till the month of September when
this deponent was honorably discharged but when he left
the State of New York he left his discharge with his
Father and therefore cannot now produce it but the
proof of his service will be found on file with the papers
on which his first pension was granted that he in reduced
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Circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support; that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present; that his name is not on the roll of any state as he verily
believes; That the reason for his not applying for a pension sooner was that he was told by persons who he supposed knew the law of the rules of the War Office that as he owned 58 acres of land, he could not obtain a pension whether his land was worth much or little and it was not till lately that he was informed to the contrary

That he is by occupation a farmer lent is as old & infirm that he is not able to labour and in addition to that owing to the privations, hardships & sufferings be endured during the time he was in the service of his Country and now laboring under the infirmities of old age he is so much afflicted with rheumatic pains that he is
frequently notable to walk a cross his house that he
has no family but himself & wife and she is aged Eving
infirm and not able to support herself by labour, that
when he obtained a pension the Certificate of which is
dated at the War Office the 20th day of March 1819
endorsed on the back of it "7910" be did not make and
any schedule of his property nor was be required sold
but all the property he had at that time was a Mared
Saddle Volend at thirty dollars And in pursuance of
the act of Congress of the 1st May 1820 I do solemnly
seven that I was a resident citizen of the United States
on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not
some that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner
posed of my property or any part thereof with intent there
as to diminish it as to bring my requiton 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 in 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 secu
ties contracts or debts, due to me; nor have any
income other than what is contained in the
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Schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed. 
Azor Bagley

Schedule of Azor Bagley's property as ascertained by the Oaths of Thomas Bryan and William M. McCullough two respectable [illegible] of the County aforesaid.
58 acres of land appraised at $3.50      $203.00
1 Horse $30- 1 mare $12                         42.00
1 Cow $8.00- 1 Plaugh $20                       10.00
1 pair of [illegible]                                       3.00
2 Sugar Kettles at $1.25                               2.50
                                                              $260.50
This property was principally purchased with the money which I received from the United States on the pension heretofore allowed. 
Azor Bagley

Sworn to and declared in open Court on this 16th day of July 1830. 
Joseph Darlinton, Clerk A.C

The Court are of opinion that the value of the above mentioned property is two hundred, sixty dollars, fifty cents. 
[Illegible] of the Court
Geor J Smith, Pres Judge
[illegible] 7th Circuit Ohio

July 16th, 1830
The State of Ohio Adams County
I Joseph Darlinton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule [illegible] annexed are truly copied from the records of this said Court; and I  further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total
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Amount in value of the property [illegible] in the aforesaid schedule is two hundered and sixty dollars and fifty cents In Testimony where of I have  hereunto rit my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at West Union on this 16th day of July in the year of our Lord 1830 in the 55th year of the Independence of the United States of America in the 28th year of this State.
Joseph Darlinton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Adam Ohio
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                           Treasury Department,
                               Second Comptroller's Office,
                                   Nov. 23. 1838.
Sir:
    Under the act of the 6th of April 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizin the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Martha Bagley widow of Azor Bailey dec.d a Pensioner of the Roll of the Cincinnati Ohio Agency, at the rate of Eight Dollars and [lined out] cents [lined out] per month under the law of the 18 March 1818 has been paid at this Department, from the fourth of Sept. 1837 to the 4th March 1838
                               Respectfully yours,
                               [illegible] K. Parris
                                 Comptroller


  To the Commissioner of Pensions,
                                        Present.
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This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.

Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of man of the original States. 
O.W. & N. DIV.
Revolutionary

M.E.C.
Inv. 44,341

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D.C.

August 9, 1897.

Sir: 
Replying to your request for information concerning Asher Bagley, a solider of the Revolutionary war, you are advised that the name of Asher Bagley does not appear upon the Revolutionary war pension records.

One Azor Bagley made an application for pension on May 16, 1818, at which time he was sixty-one years of age and residing in Adams Co., Ohio, and his pension as allowed for three years' actual service as a private in the New York troops, Revolutionary war, part of the time he served under Capt. Stephens and Col. Lamb. Place of his enlistment not stated. 

There is no law granting pension to the descendants of soldiers of the Revolution. 

Very respectfully,

Commissioner.

Mr. Paul Bagley,
Mabelvale,
Pulaski Co., Arks.
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August 9/ 97 Paul Bagley
Mabelvale, Arks. 

44341
INVALID
[illegible]

File No: 44341
Azor Bagley
Priv. Rev. War

Act: 18 March 1818 & 1st May 1820
Index: --- Vol. 3, Page 24

[Arrangement of 1870]
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79104
Ohio

Azor Bagley
Of Adams Co. in the state of Ohio who was a private in the regiment of artillery commanded by Colonel Lamb of the New York line for the term of 3 years. 

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 16 of May 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 20 of March 1819 and put to Wm. Armstrong, Esqr. West Union, Ohio.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1819. 9 mos 20/31 75.16
Semi anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819 48
$ 123.16

Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818
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Azor Bagley

Not on New York rolls.
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State of Ohio, Adams County
I do hereby certify this day Azor Bagley a citizen of the United States and this state personally appeared before me the subscriber a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid & being duly sworn according to law made the following declaration under Oath first that he he had served three years in the Army of the United of America in the Revolutionary Army against the common enemy in the New York line on continual establishment. 
That he enlisted about the first of August 1780 in our Captain Stephens in Col. John Lamb's Regiment of artillery for the term three years and that after the said term has [illegible] he has [illegible] an honorable discharge and left the army. That being young at that time on returning [illegible] left his discharge with Father in the State of New York and wherefore cannot now state whether his discharge is in existence at this time or not.
That he never at any time received a pension from the United States or any of the States. That from his reduced circumstances in life he needs the assistance of his County for support. 
[illegible]
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State of Ohio, Adams County
I certify that the foregoing and within deposition of Azor Bagley was this day taken subscribed and sworn to before me the undersigned a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid and I further certify that [illegible] deponent has fully and [illegible] by examination under Oath that the facts stated in the foregoing deposition are [illegible] true and that from his reduced circumstances in life he needs the assistance of his county for support. Given under my hand and seal this 16th day of May 1818. 
Job Dinning

State of Ohio, Adams County 
I, Joseph Darlinton, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county aforesaid do herby certify that the above named Job Dinning [illegible] before whom the within Deposition of Azor Bagley was taken of who has signed the above certificate was at the time of signing the same and still is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified that full faith and credit is due to his said certificate as well in Courts of Justice or [illegible] In testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at West Union this 16th day of May in the year of our Lord 1818.
Joseph Darlinton
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West Union
March 1st 1819

Application for Pension

Free

the Honorable the Secretary of War
Washington City

[illegible] 
March 10, 1819
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West Union 
1st March 1819

Sir
I am [illegible] by Azor Bagley a citizen of this County (Adams) and an old revolutionary soldier to forward to you the enclosed document for his pension. He has intended me to state that should the proof exhibitted in the application be deemed insufficient to obtain the end in view, that he will be under the [illegible] however disagreeable and pain full of travelling to the city when he can by living [illegible] identify that he is  [illegible[ who is justly entitled to the pension he however would favourably hope that the latter attention will not be required. Will you [illegible] write me as soon as may be convenient on the [illegible].
Very Respecfully,
Your [illegible] 
Wm Armstrong

The Honourable The Secretary of War
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Hon. of H. Eaton
Secretary of War
Washington
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West Union, Ohio
July the 21st 1830

Sir
Enclosed I hand you the application Azor Bagley for Pension. Mr. Bagley is a sober and industrious man but age and infirmity now render him unable to maintain himself and family in comfort. From a long and and intimate knowledge of Mr. B [illegible] not hesitate to say that he stands in need of the aid of his country. 

In the care of Simon Fields forward [illegible] to your in March 1829 there  where an [illegible] in the declaration of his debts. The debt owing to John Fields was contracted to my [illegible] knowledge in the summer of 1813 and the [illegible] war omitted also on his other debts there would have been about $40.00 interest deducting the above [illegible] would [illegible] bring his.
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within your Rule. He is in very [illegible] circumstances and should his creditors [illegible] and his property be brought under the [illegible].  I am sure it would not pay his debts. I hope you will review his case and that you will feel at liberty to [illegible] to a worth old man the [illegible] of food and [illegible] for the remainder of his days.

Very Respectfully
Your [?]
Willian Russel

Hon. of H. Eaton
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Pension Office
July 29, 1830

Con.
Pen [illegible] July 29, 1830