Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 398., Alexander Baird, Penn.
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Penn.
Baird, Alexander         R.  398.
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State of Tennessee
Franklin County Court} November [illegible faded] 1822 Ordered by the court that the following declaration of Alexander Baird by [illegible faded] court Original Clai [illegible faded] county of Franklin and state of Tennessee on this 11th day of December 1822 personally appeared in open court being a court pleas and quarter sessions and court of Record at said county of Franklin Alexander Baird is out a said county aged seventy years by ac [illegible faded] aforesaid also being duly sworn according  to law doth on his oath [illegible faded] allowing 
[illegible faded] as to obtain the p[illegible faded]
by the act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 a
[illegible faded] 1820 That [illegible faded] aid Alexander Baird
[illegible faded] day
M[illegible faded] year 1776 and state of [illegible faded]
[illegible faded] the company Commanded first by
[illegible faded] [illegible faded] [illegible faded] Capt James [illegible faded]
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[very faded document - transcribed as possible]

named Sarah [Rand] and about his own age or sounding younger [illegible] daughter and sone.  Mary [illegible] being then years of age and married Richard about seventy two years ago, which named Richard died several years ago and which [illegible] family were and that [illegible] of the act of May 1820 I do hereby say that I am a resident citiczen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not knowingly got [illegible]

Schedule

Thirty acres of poor land  $30
four [illegible]  $17.00
one cow [illegible]  $10.00
[illegible] and one shovel  $4.00

Total  $63.00

Sworn to and [illegible] in open Court this 11th day of Dec 18xx

E. Russell Clk
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[very faded document - transcribed as possible]

State of Tenessee

I Edmond Russell, clerk of the Court of Pleas and quarterly sessions for Franklin County, a clerk of the courth that the said Alexander Baird did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceeding declaration [illegible] for the time of [illegible] months and [illegible] on [illegible].

I also testify that [illegible] 

In testimony whereof I have hereunder set my hand affixed the seal of said Court at office this 6th day of Febr 1833

E Russell, Clk
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Grantee
Alex'r Baird
case
left by 
J C (illegible)
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Original Claim
of Alexander Baird
On this twenty ninth day of November 1824 personally appeared in open Court being a court of Record (to wit the court of pleas and quarter sessions held at the Courthouse in Winchester) for the County of Franklin in the State of Tennessee which court is constituted a Court of Record by the constitution and laws of the State aforesaid Alexander Baird a resident & Citizen of the county of Franklin and state of Tennessee aforesaid by Occupation a Farmer and aged seventy four years 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 Acts of congress on the 18th of March 1818 and the first of May 1820.  That the said Alexander Baird enlisted for the term of nine months on the ...... day of March 1776 in the State of Pennsylvania in the company commanded first by Capt. Andrew Galbreath and afterwards commanded by Capt. James Waugh in the Regiment commanded by Col. ..... Watt in the line of the State of Pennsylvania on the first or second continental establishment as he believes that he continued to serve in the said Corps until about the month of February 1777 when he was discharged in Cumberland County in the State of Pennsylvania but has lost his discharge.  That he was in the battle fought at Long Island and in several skirmishes and that he has no other evidence of said services now in his that of his own oath (illegible) that his wife is dead & his family consists of two Daughters only Rachel of the age of twenty years & Polly
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of the age of twenty four years that his children who are married live at a great distance from this declarent and are very poor have small families which some of them support with great difficulty.  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 18th 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 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 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 securities contracts as debt due to me or have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto sworn and by me subscribed

Schedule
Ten acres of land at 2 dollars per acre $20.00
Two head of Cattle .............................  $10.00
One horse creature of small value         $10.00
One crosscut Saw  ..............................  $ 4.00
One plough & gear ax & hoe trowel ....  $ 5.00
One skillet & oven ...............................   $ 3.00
The crop of the present year corn &
fodder ..................................................  $ 8.
                                                                   $60.00
Sworn and declared in open Court 
 (signature is illegible)
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And it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court by [illegible] a member of [illegible] and [illegible], credible and disinterested persons that the schedule and [illegible] to the Declaration of the said Alexander Baird is a full and [illegible] statement of his property and that the value thereof is [illegible] stated in said schedule.

State of Tennesee

I Edmond Russell, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Records [illegible], that the foregoing oath and the schedule [illegible] are duly copied from the records of the [illegible] and I depose and certify the [illegible] the opinion of the said Court.  Then [illegible] amount and value of the property exhibited on the aforesaid schedule is [illegible] dollars.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said courth on this 1st day of February 1825.

E Russell, Clerk
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Mrs. Frank W. Daugherty         BA-J/ILL
Concordia                                  Alexander Baird
Kansas.                                      R. 398

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Dr. Alexander Baird, also, the War of 1812 record of Dr. Isaiah Baird, who was born in 1789, died May 26, 1830, according to a history of Washington County, Pennsylvania.

There is no claim for pension on file in this office based upon service of an Isaiah Baird of the War of 1812.  The Revolutionary War records of this office have been searched and only one claim for pension found based upon service of an Alexander Baird.  His record follows as found in the papers on file in that claim, R. 398.

Alexander Baird was born in December 1750, the place and names of his parents not given.

He enlisted sometime in March 1776, in Pennsylvania, the exact town not given, served as private in Captain Andrew Galbreath's and James Waugh's company, Colonel Watts' Pennsylvania regiment, was in the battle of Long Island, was in many skirmishes, and was discharged about February 1777, in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.

Alexander Baird applied December 11, 1822, for the pension which might have been due under the Act of March 18, 1818, on account of his service in the Revolutionary War.  He was then a resident of Franklin County, Tennessee.  His claim for pension was not allowed as the service which he alleged to have rendered in the Pennsylvania troops was not provided for by that pension law, provision being made only for those who served in the Continental Line.

In 1822, this soldier's wife, Sarah, was about his age, or
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younger; her maiden name was not given nor the date and place of their marriage.  Two daughters were living at home then, Mary or Polly, aged twenty-three years or more, and Rachael, aged about seventeen years.  In November 1824, Sarah Baird, soldier's wife was deceased, the exact date of her death not given.  He referred then to his children who were married, had families and lived at a great distance, but did not give their names nor any residences.

In March 1831, Alexander Baird was a resident of Marion County, Alabama; one daughter lived there with him, but her name was not stated.

Very truly yours,

A. D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.


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1940  Feb. 20.  Hist. to Mrs. Fran Daugherty. 
(initials illegible)

______________ Ex'r.          INVALID.
No 398

REJECTED

Alexander Baird
P. O. ____________________
Service: _________________
Enlisted: _________________, 18
Discharged: ______________, 18
Application filed: __________, 18
Alleges: ___________________
Re-enlisted: ________________
Attorney: ___________________
P. O. _______________________
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398          18,798
Alexander Baird
Ten:
Hon. Francis Jones
Winchester, Tenn.
Rejected not cont'l
see letter 19 Apl. 1823

Same to Hon'ble
J. C. Isacks
March 9, 1825
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The State of Alabama
Marion County

Be it remembered that at a circuit court began and held in and for the county aforesaid at the court house in the Town of Pikeville on the second Monday after the third Monday in February 1831 before the Honorable Henry W Collier Presiding Judge the following proceedings were had to wit.

Personally appeared in open court Alexander Baird who subscribed and swore to the following Declaration and schedule and asked leave of the court to estimate the value of the property described in the schedule and permit the said Declaration and Schedule to be recorded.  Whereupon the court ordered the same to be recorded and certified pursuant to the act of congress in such case (illegible) and provided and estimated the value of the property to one hundred and forty dollars.

The State of Alabama, Marion County 
On the seventh day of March 1831 personally in open court for the county aforesaid which as a circuit court proceeds according to the course of common law with a Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount keeping a record of all its proceedings.  Alexander Baird resident in said county aged 81 years next December who being first duly sworn doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818, or the first of May 1820.  That the said Alexander Baird enlisted for and during the time of six months in the year 1776 in the State of Pennsylvania as a private in the company commanded by Capt. James Waugh in the Regiment commanded by Col. Watt in the line of the State of Pennsylvania on Continental establishment.  Declarant served regularly under said Waugh for six months when he enlisted during the war and continued in said service until the end thereof.  He was discharged by Gen'l Evins which has been lost for many years.  Declarant hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension except the present that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any State whatever and that
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the following are the reasons for his not making earlier application for a pension I did not know that any thing could be given nor how to apply for it I do solemnly swear that I was a resident & citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that since that time I have not by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property so to diminish it as to living 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 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 securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule herein set forth and by me subscribed The Declarant posses one mare worth fifty dollars five hogs thirteen acres of land bought but not paid for worth seventy six dollars a little necessary stuff about the house
Alexander Baird
Sworn to and subscribed in open court
this 7th of March 1831
Test John White Clerk
This Declarant is by occupation a farmer He is now not able to work at all Once Daughter and  myself make the family There has been no material change in Declarants property since March 1818 He has sold one cow since The above Schedule subscribed by Alexander Baird is substantially all he possesses in any way whatever 
Alexander Baird
Sworn to and subscribed in open court
this 7th of March 1831
Test John White Clk
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21840
Alexander Bairds
Declaration for Pension
rejected see letter July 15 1831
To H Tuttle
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The State of Alabama
Marion County} I John White Clerk of the circuit court for the county aforesaid hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the court that the said Alexander Baird did serve in the Revolutionary war against the common enemy for the term of six months having enlisted in the year 1776 and that after the expiration of said six month he served regularly under a second enlistment from that time to the end of the war on continual establishment I do also certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereunto annexed are truly copied from the records of said court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in said schedule is one hundred and forty dollars. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my private seal (these being as yet no public seal of office for said court provided) this 20th day of march 1831
Test John White Clerk

Private Seal
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TELEPHONES
OFFICE 692
RES 1007
FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING
LAW OFFICE OF 
FRANK W DAUGHERTY
CONCORDIA, KANSAS 
Feb 2 1940
[STAMPED RECEIVED
BA-J / ady
FEB 6 1940
illegible]
Veternas Administration
Washington DC
Dear Sir Can you give me the war record of Dr. Alexander Baird b-d-
I also would like the names of the children of the son Dr Isaih Baird b 1789 who was in the War 1812 and d 5/26/1830
was there a daughter Jane born 1810
given in history of Washington Co Pa p 1329 Vol 1
Wm F W Daugherty
Concordia, Kansas
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Exr  INVALID
398
[crossed out]
Alexander Bairds
PO 
Service
Enlisted 18
Discharged 18
Application filed 18
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
PO
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WAR DEPARTMENT -Pension Office
July 15 1831
Mr Harley Tuttle
Pikeville
Alabama

Sir
The papers forwarded to this Department by you in support o the claims of Alexander Baird, Joseph Frank and Jacob Frank have been examined and placed in our files. The regiment in which they allege to have served, did not belong to the Continental Army, and the Act of Congress under which they claim provide for none but those who belonged to the Continental Establishment, Pension therefore cannot be granted to either of them.
Very truly yours
Copied-Feb 20 1940 ILL