Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16,618, Sylvester Baker, N.C.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
N.C.

Baker, Sylvester

NUMBER
S.16,618

carded.

CONTENTS
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5340 Missouri
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Sylvester Baker Sen'r.
of Calloway Co in the State of Missouri who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Dorville of the Regt. commanded by Col Dock in the N Carolina line for 18 months -

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Inscribed on the Roll of Missouri at the rate of 60 Dollars -- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 8 day of February 1833 - and Sent to Hon W Hickley
Ho Repres
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Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832   -   $90.00
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Mar '33  30.00
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$120.00
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{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }

Recorded by Jno Cromwell Clerk,
Book D      Vol. 10      Page 98
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Sylvester Bakers [Baker]
{ Declaration
for a pension - under the act of Congress passed 7th of June. 1832.


admd.
18 mo. pri
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60 $
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State of Missouri   County of Callaway ) ss
On this 22d day of November AD 1832 personally appeared in open Court, before Saml. T Moore, John Conger and and James McKiney justices of the county Court of said County. being  a Court of Record now Sitting, Sylvester Baker Senr a resident in the County and state aforesaid aged seventy eight years, who being first duly Sworn according to law, doth on his oath state and make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed 7th of June 1832. That he was born on the 16th day of June 1754 ^a record of which was made by his father, & from him he learned it. in Baltimore County Maryland, where he lived until 11 or 12 years after & during the revolutionary war, when he moved to Wayne County in Kentucky. & resided there two years. then he moved onto the waters of Cumberland River in about fifteen miles of Nashville. ^and lived two years then moved up the Cumberland near to Carthage in Smith County Tennessee & lived there about twenty years - and from there he moved to the state of Missouri & settled upon the bank of the Missouri River where he has lived ever since, about fifteen years. When about twenty four years of age he volunteered to serve a tour of three months, and entered the service in Rowan County N. Carolina some time in [crossed out] 1778 - under Capt Richard Dowell, Col Dock. and Gen Reatherford. [sic: Rutherford ?] During this tower [sic: tour] he was marched from Salisbury  into South Carolina not far from Camden, where general green was defeated, he thinks it was after the defeat, then east to the waters of the great Pedee [sic: Pee Dee], where he was discharged, not far from the Hanging Rocks. He then returned to his father in Rowan County - and in about a year, or some thing like it. he enter'd as a volunteer of a light horse company of the militia in the County of Rowan, under Capt. John Johnson, and as well as he recollects the regiment was commanded by Col Dock. This light horse company scoured the Country. to put down & keep in subjection the Tories [.] he was with this light horse company marched to ^& in the edge of South Carolina & back, then north, in the edge of Virginia on the waters of Dan River: during this service he was in but we skirmished and the were with the tories - the 1st at the shallow Ford of the
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Yadkin River, which heads in the Fields of the Blue Ridge in which skirmish there were several tories killed and the 2d was also with the tories on the south Fork of the Yadkin, near the southern line of Rowan County ^being the Battle of Ramsours Mill - He while a member of this light horse company was not every day in the service, but was bound to march at a moments warning - which order he always obeyed, with alacrity and takeing [sic: taking] the service altogether it was equal to a tour of twelve months. He was discharged from this service at Capt Johnsons house in Rowan Cty N. Carolina After being out of service some little time, he Joined the Regular army which was stationed at Salisbury N. Carolina, and joined the company of Capt Langman,  and it has been so long ago that he has forgotten the name of any of the other regular officers who were in command or stationed at that place - and served in said Langman's company about three months, to the close of the war in 1781. and was there discharged after Cornwallis had been taken at York town in Virginia - He was during his whole service in no general engagement; and [crossed out] does not now recollect the names of any other of either the regular or malitia [sic] officers, makeing [sic] all these statements from recollection, which is some what impaired from old age. He did receive written discharges, which he supposes, stated the service. which he has performed, but those papers he, when a young man left with his ^Father but where they now are he has no idea but supposes &has no doubt that they have long since been distroyed [sic], He has now no documentary evidence and that he knows of no persons whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his service and he further states that he has never received any pay for his services. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or anuity [sic: annuity] except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any state or teritory [sic: territory]. and claims for have served as a revolutionary soldier eighteen months. 

Sworn to & subscribed, the day & year aforesaid. 
S/Sylvester Baker
S/Irvine O. Hockaday Clerk of the Callaway County Court Missouri
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Qr. propounded by the Court 
1. where and in what year were you born?

2. Have you any record of your age, and if so where is it?

3. Where were you liveing [sic] when called in to the service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?

4. How were you called in to the service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? and if a substitute, for whom?

5. state the names of some of the Regular officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service?

6. Did you ever receive a discharge from service & if so, by whom was it given & what has become of it.

7. State the name of the persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood [sic] and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and good behaviour [sic] & your services as a soldier of the revolution?
S/Sylvester Baker

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
S/Irvine O. Hockaday Clerk


We Moses Langley; a private citizen, and Theodrick Bowlware a preacher ^of the Gospel [crossed out: all] both residing in the County of Callaway & state of Missouri, hereby certify that we are [crossed out] acquainted with Sylvester Baker sen who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy eight years of age; that he is reputed [crossed out: to be] and believed to be in the neighbourhood [sic] where he resides to be a man of veracity and to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid,
S/Moses Langly
S/Theodrick Bowlware
S/Irvine O. Hockaday Clerk


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 above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them ^[crossed out: that no clergyman be conveniently procured and] that the said Moses Langley a private citizen and Theodrick Bowlware ^a preacher of the Gospel are residents of the county of Callaway, who have signed the above certificate
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and are creditable persons and that their statement is entitled to credit
S/Saml. T Moore
S/John Conger
S/James McKinney


State of Missouri, County of Callaway - } ss.
I. Irvine O. Hockaday clerk of the County court of said County do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings. and the matter of application of Sylvester Baker for a pension [.] In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 22d day of November AD 1832 &c.
S/Irvine O Hockaday Clerk
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BRIEF in the case of Sylvester Baker Senr.  of Callaway County in the State of Missouri.
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court of a Judge? a Court.

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
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3. How old is he?  78 years.

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

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[table with the following headers: Period. (In.) | Duration of Service (Years, Months, Days,) | Rank (As a) | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served (Gen.) | ]
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In 1778. | ~ 3 ~ | private | { Capt. Richard Dorvill. Col. Dock [,] Genl. Rutherford - 

about a year after | 1 ~ | do. | Capt. John Johnson. Col. Dock

~~ | [blank] 3 . - - | do. | Capt. [crossed out: Dragoons (Regular army)
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Whole Service .1.6.~ | |



5. In what battles was he engaged?  some skirmishes with the Tories, but was in no general battle.

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Rowan County, North Carolina - .

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  Traditionary Evidence

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?  no

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.


B.F. Pleasants    Examining Clerk.
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May 8, 1934

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BA-J/MCS   om
Sylvester Baker, S. 16618

Honorable Thomas L. Blanton
House of Representatives
Washington
D.C.

My dear Mr. Blanton:
Reference is made to your request for information relative to Sylvester Baker, a soldier of the Revolutionary War who later lived in Calloway County, Missouri.

The data furnished herein were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 16618, based upon the military service of Sylvester Baker.

He was born June 16, 1754, in Baltimore County, Maryland. The names of his parents were not given.

While a resident of Rowan County, North Carolina, he enlisted and served as private with the North Carolina troops as follows: in 1778, three months in Captain Richard Dowell's company in Colonel Locke's regiment; about a year later he enlisted and served at various times, amounting to twelve months in all, in Captain John Johnson's company in Colonel Locke's regiment, and was in the battles of Ramsour's Mill and Shallow Ford on the Yadkin River; in 1781, three months in Captain Langum's company and was discharged after the capture of Cornwallis at Yorktown.

About eleven or twelve years after the Revolution he moved to Wayne County, Kentucky, from there to the Cumberland River within about fifteen miles of Nashville, from there to Carthage, Tennessee, and from there to Missouri.
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He was allowed pension on his application executed November 22, 1832, at which time he was referred to as Sylvester Baker, Senior, and was living in Callaway County, Missouri.

The papers in said claim contain no data relative to the soldier's wife or children.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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16.618
INVALID.
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File No. 16,618
Sylvester Baker
Pri Rev War
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Act: June 7" 32
Index: - Vol. 1,     Page 433

[intentional brackets as printed]
[Arrangement of 1870.]


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1924-June 2. Hist to Hon Joe J. Manlove AW

1927. July 26. hist. to Virginia Tinker Kohler UCS
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1934. May 8. hist. to Hon Thos. L. Blanton U.C.S.
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3-049.
Ex. U.C.S.   Div. Rev. & 1812
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Department of the Interior, 
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,

WASHINGTON, D. C., _______________, 19

The attached letter is respectfully returned with the information that the data furnished is not sufficient to enable this Bureau to make intelligent answer to the queries therein contained.

Please fill our such of the blank spaces below as the information in your possession will permit, and return to this Bureau.

[crossed out: No. of claim,] First name of widow

Name of Soldier. Sylvester Baker

P.O. address of [crossed out: claimant] soldier at enlistment & after service

Company Rowan Co. North. Carolina

Regiment Callaway Co. Missouri

[underline] State where enlisted [/underline] Rowan Co. North Carolina

Date of [crossed out: enlistment] birth June 16, 1754

Date of [crossed out: discharge] death  1840

If unable to furnish company and regiment give names of commanding officers.
Captain Richard Dowells Co. Col. Docks Reg. Capt. John Johnsons Co. Col Locks Reg. Capt. Langums Co.

[underline] Return attached letter with reply. [/underline]

Winfield Scott
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.

6-2163
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[letterhead] JOE J. MANLOVE
FIFTEENTH CONGRESSIONAL 
DISTRICT MISSOURI

HOME ADDRESS
JOPLIN, MISSOURI
"THE LAND OF A MILLION SMILES"

CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
WASHINGTON, D. C. 

COMMITTEES:
ROADS 
LABOR
PENSIONS
ENROLLED BILLS
MINES AND MINING 
REFORM IN THE CIVIL SERVICE
[/letterhead]

May 30, 1924.

[oval stamp: 
OFFICE OF [illegible]
MAY [illegible]
U. S. BUREAU OF PENSIONS]

Hon. Washington Gardner,
Commissioner of Pensions.

Dear Commissioner Gardner:
I shall appreciate it if you will give me the record of service of Sylvester Baker, a pensioner of the revolutionary war; he was from Carraway County, Mo.

Thanking you, I am, 
Sincerely your friend,
Joe J. Manlove
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April 8, 1927

Dear Sir:
Please send the history of Sylvester Baker a soldier of the Revolutionary War.

Respectfully,
Virginia Tincker Kahler

410 Keystone Ave.,
River Forest. Ill.
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[letterhead]
THOMAS L. BLANTON
17TH DISTRICT TEXAS

MEMBER OF COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

SECRETARIES:
LOUISE KENNEDY MARX
RUBY BAYLORS

Congress of the United States
house of Representatives
Washington, D. C. 
[/letterhead]
May 3, 1934.

Honorable W E Morgan
Director of Pensions
Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr Morgan:
I would appreciate your sending me all available data regarding the service record of a man named Sylvester Baker who from Calloway County, Missouri served in the Revolutionary War.

Very sincerely yours,
Thomas L. Blanton

[round stamp: arrow pointing to 3:45
RECEIVED MAY 4 1934
CONGRESSIONAL 1 
MAIL SUB-DIV.
U.S.V.B.]
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.
July 26, 1927.

Virginia Tinker Kahler
410 Keystone Ave.
River Forest, Ill.

Madam:
I have to advise you, that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claims, S. 16618, that Sylvester Baker was born in Baltimore County, Maryland, June 16, 1754.
He enlisted in 1778, in Rowan County, N.C. (where his father, whose name is not stated, lived) and served three months as a private, in Capt. Richard Dowell's Company in Colonel Lock's North Carolina Regiment.
About a year later, he enlisted and served twelve months, in Captain John Johnson's Company, Colonel Lock's Regiment and he was in two skirmishes with the Tories on the Yadkin River.
In 1781 he enlisted and served three months in Capt. Langum's Company.
He was allowed pension on his application executed November 22, 1832, while living in Callaway County, Missouri, at which time he was referred to as Sylvester Baker, Senior.
There is no further data on file as to his family.
Respectfully,
Winfield Scott
Commissioner
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.
June 2, 1924.

Hon. Joe J. Manlove,
House of Represenatives,

My dear Mr. Manlove:
In response to your letter on the thirtieth ultimo, I have the honor to advise you, that from the papers in the pension claim, S. 16618, it appears that Sylvester Baker was born in Baltimore, Maryland, June 16, 1754.
He enlisted in 1778, in Rowan County, N.C. (where his father, whose name is not stated, lived) and served three months as a private, in Capt. Richard Dowell's Company, Col. Lock's N.C. Reigment.
About a year later, he enlisted and served twelve months, in Capt. John Johnson's Company, Col. Lock's Regiment and was in two skirmishes with the Tories on the Yadkin River.
In 1781 he enlisted and served three months in Capt. Langum's Company.
He was allowed pension, on his application executed November 22, 1832, while living in Callaway County, Missouri, at which time he was referred to as Sylvester Baker, Senior.
There is no further data on file as to his family.
Sincerely,
Hayo Haymaker
Acting Commissioner.
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.
June 2, 1924.

Hon. Joe J. Manlove,
House of Represenatives,

My dear Mr. Manlove:
In response to your letter on the thirtieth ultimo, I have the honor to advise you, that from the papers in the pension claim, S. 16618, it appears that Sylvester Baker was born in Baltimore, Maryland, June 16, 1754.
He enlisted in 1778, in Rowan County, N.C. (where his father, whose name is not stated, lived) and served three months as a private, in Capt. Richard Dowell's Company, Col. Lock's N.C. Reigment.
About a year later, he enlisted and served twelve months, in Capt. John Johnson's Company, Col. Lock's Regiment and was in two skirmishes with the Tories on the Yadkin River.
In 1781 he enlisted and served three months in Capt. Langum's Company.
He was allowed pension, on his application executed November 22, 1832, while living in Callaway County, Missouri, at which time he was referred to as Sylvester Baker, Senior.
There is no further data on file as to his family.
Sincerely,
Hayo Haymaker
Acting Commissioner.