Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 395, Ebenezer Bailey, New York
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(3-1776)
Service
New York.
Bailey, Ebenezer Tryphena
Number R.395.
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The only record found in the Bible of Mrs Tryphena Bailey is the following on fly leaf vis- in front of Bible
"Robt Coe his Bible April 22nd 1792."
and on leaf below the old & new Testament 
The Following- "November 5 day 1795.
then Ebenezer Bailey was married to the widow Tryphena Coe. 
March the 6th Day 1798
then Abigale [?] was born"
W. B. Evans
[?]
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[?] B. R. Division. 
Evans 
Department of the Interior
Pension Office 
Washington D.C. Sep 8th 1877
Dear Sir
Please furnish this office with the names and present P.O. address of some of the descendants of Mrs. Tryphena Bailey widow of Ebenezer Bailey, late and private in the Revolutionary War.
The widow made application for pension and sent a Bible to this office in 1855. to be filed in Evidence. It is now desired to return said Bible to the family who resided within the delivery of your office and in your town at the time stated. Please return this letter with your reply. 
Very respectfully [?j?] Bentley
Commissioner 
[?] J.F.M

Post Master Haddam 
Middesex CO 
[?]
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I Charles W. S? of the Probate Court for the
District of Stey Brooke hereby certify that the official
certificate appo? J.W M? of Suy Brook a Notary
Public is before me and that by it he was empowered to admister ? the ? to ? the acknowledgement of deed at the time of the written certificate and that I believe his signature matched to said certificate of ?.
In testimony whereof I have ? set my
? and ? affirmed the official seal of said
court over the 30th day of May a D. 1835
Charles M Stewart
? of the Probate Court for the
District of SayBrook
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I Tryphena Bailey of {?} in the State of Connecticut hereby certify that the Bible which this certificate is attached to by seal, has been in my possession ever since my husband Ebenezer Bailey's death. This the writing on the first leaf of said Bible was done by my first husband Robert Coe at the time which it [?] date and that the words "November 5th day, 1795 there Ebenezer Bailey was married to the widow Tryphena Coe" was written on the leaf between the Old and New Testament was written by my second and last husband viz the said Ebenezer Bailey by Johana [?] Baley.
In presence of [?] Brainard
Elizabeth Brainard

Sworn to berfore me on this Thursday Ninth day of May A.D. 1853 I,
..... Notary Public
 .....
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State of Connecticut,
County of Middlesex  ....[?] May 15th 1855
On this Fifteenth day of May, personally appeared before me Isaac Arnold, Judge of the probate court of the district of Haddan....? she not being able on account of infirmity to appear in open court, Tryphena Bailey aged eighty (nine?) years who being duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pensions of any acts of acts of Congress that would entitle her to benefit on account of being the widow of Ebenizer Bailey who was a private in the War of the Revolution. That he enlisted into Capt. Fisks company of the Second Regiment of the New York Continental Line. on the Thirteenth (13th) day of August A.D., Seventeen Hundred + Seventy Seven to serve during the War and that he mustered to January Seventeen Hundred and Eighty Two. She also applies for any arrears which she is entitled to, as will appear from the above Service (?) Proofs. She further declares, that she was married to said Ebenezer Bailey on the Fifth Day of November in the year Seventeen Hundred and Ninety Five, that her husband, the (deceased ?) Ebenezer Bailey, died on the Sixth day of June A.D. Eighteen Hundred and (Twenty?) Eight. That she was not married to him prior to him leaving the services, but the marriage took place pervious to the second day of January Eighteen Hundred; (?). As the time above states and has remained so ever .... of her said husband and further states .... that she is now a widow and has never before made any application for a pension. As the friend that volunteered to investigate the claim did not understand the business. Sworn to and inscribed or made her mark on the day and Year above written to (?) on the Fifteenth day of May A.D. Eighteen Hundred and Fifty Five before me.
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I, Issac Arnold, Judge of the Probate Court for the District of Haddane, hereby certify that I know the said Tryphena Bailey who acknowledges the
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of the written declaration and also that I was present at
the funeral of her said husband and that occurred at the
time and place the herein set forth

N. B. Pratt

Elizabeth Brainard

I Issac Arnold Judge of Probate for the district of {illegible] hereby
certify that the foregoing affidavit was made and sworn to
before me on the Fifteenth day of May A D. 1855 by the said N. B. Pratt
and Elizabeth Brainard and I certify that I believe them
credible witnesses

Isaac Arnold Judge of Probate

I Lester Brainard of Haddarn Middlesex County
and State of Connecticut hereby certify that I knew Ebenezer
Bailey and Tryphena Bailey the acknowledger of the foregoing
declaration to live together as man and wife and that they had and
brought up one child and I further certify that I attended
the funeral of the said Ebenezer Bailey and that the statement
it occur [illegible] the time and place set forth in the said declaration

Lester Brainard

 Sworn to before me on this Fifteenth day of May A. D. 1855 and I 
certify the said affidavit to be a credible witness

J. W. Marvin [illegible] Public Say Brook

I Charles W Snow Judge of the Probate Court for the District of Say Brook hereby
certify that the official certificate [illegible] [several illegible words] of Say Brook a
[ line is illegible]
oath and I further certify that I have examined his signature attached
hereto and believe it [illegible]

In testimony where of I have [illegible] unto set my hand
and affixed the official seal of said court on this
Eighteenth day of May A.D. 1855

Charles W Snow
Judge of Probate for the district of
Say Brook

A Large seal appears here with no writing or symbols on it

Know all men by these present that I Tryphena Bailey of Haddan
Middlesex County and State of Connecuticut have made nominate
and appoint John W Marvin of Say Brook [illegible][illegible] and lawfully
attorney for me and
the Government of the United States of America all sums of money which
[ most of this line is illegible] on account of any[    illegible.       ]act or Resolution  
of said Government as will appear from my application accompanying
this  Power of Attorney if [several illegible words ] of pension under the [illegible]
And [illegible][much of this line is illegible] 
discharge them of [ line is illegible]
[illegible] my said attorney shall lawfully do [remainder of line illegible]  tho promise
presence of      

  In witness where of I have hereunto set my hand
on this Fifteenth day of May A.D. 1855.  
State of Connecticut
County of Middlesex appeared  Typhena Bailey who made her mark to the above
Power of Attorney and acknowledged the same to be [remainder of line illegible}

[There are many words, dates and calculations throughout this document that are illegible]
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... resident of ... hereby certify that...
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                                             Pension Office,
                                              Aug. 8 1855,

Sir,
   In answer to your letter of the 4th inst, I have to inform you that the evidence is perfectly conclusive that you are mistaken in supposing that the husband of Tryphena Bailey of Conn't. applicant for a pension under the act of July 29th 1848, was the Ebenezer Bailey who served in Philip Van Cortlandt's regiment of the New York Continental Line. The Ebenezer Bailey who performed this service was pensioned under the Act of March 18th 1818, and his pension was paid up to the date of his death, which was the 12th of Feby (July?) 1848, and the arrears were paid to his children, Jane Russell, and Moses, Ebenezer, and Barnabus Bailey, he having left no widow. He enlisted at Peekskill, and served to the close of the war, as the records in this office confirm. He was in both of the battles with Burgoyne, while the husband of Tryphena Bailey was not in either engagement, but only in the neighborhood. The pensioner and his children resided, at the time of his death, at Ticonderoga, and had previously resided at Crown Point.
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I do not doubt that Tryphena's husband was named Ebenezer not that he did perform some service in the Revolutionary War, but his service is only shown by a meager tradition, and she not having been married to him until 1795 could not have had knowledge of his service. Her husband died in 1828, and could not have been the man who received a pension until 1847. Her declaration follows strictly the terms of the certificate implicitly; and I am surprised that you should not have taken her recollections of what he had told her of his service instead of following a certificate which, as the notes of this office show, contained only a part of the truth. If Tryphena Bailey had been the widow of a man who served to the close of the war she would not have been ignorant of that fact. 
   The manner in which she declared is subversive of the very object for which declarations are required, which is, that the narratives of the claimants may be compared with the facts shown by the rolls, for the purpose of testing their verity. In the case of the Ebenezer Bailey who was pensioned the facts contained in his declarations agree so perfectly with those shown by the rolls as to leave no doubt of his identity. 
  J. W. Marvin Esq.
 Dee(?) River, ....?     Dodga
You're ... Aug 1855.
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                                  Essex Conn. July 20, 1855


Hon. L. P. Maldo(?)

Dear Sir, 
    In the matter of the Pension Application of Tryphena Bailey of Haddam I believe I have done all that can well be done by way of thoroughly investigating it, unless you deem it advisable for me to talk with Marvin(?).
  From all I can gather from a close examination of the Applicant and Mr. and Mrs. Brainard, there is no sufficient evidence of an intention on the part of either of them to commit a fraud. 
   The old lady is undoubtably the widow of a man by the name of Ebenezer Bailey. She is apparently very old, (...?)abley deaf and blind and quite feeble. She knows nothing of her husband's service except what he heard him say, + knew nothing of the New York Certificate until Marvin(?) showed
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it to her. I dare(?) not know how of from whom he procured it. She say's she recollects her husband's saying he served at the time in Capt. Fish's Co., and related that story as told by him of being near the field of battle at the time of the Surrender of Burgoyne. She says he also served at several different times + places + under different officers. She says that Daniel Morgan, Philip White + Stephen Clark of Chatham, now all deceased, served under her husband+ drew pensions, and that her husband did not make an application in his life time [sic] nor she (?) his death, because his name was not to be found on the Muster rolls at Hartford. She appears to be an honest respectable woman. 
    Lester Brainard's wife is the old woman's daughter, + therefore they are all in a family + all of course interested.
    They know nothing of the old man's service except as they profess to remember his declarations in regard to it.
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They deny any knowledge of the origin of the New York Certificate, but signed and swore to the affidavits which were forwarded with the application. 
It would seem from their statements, that if there's anything wrong, it must be in connection with the Certificate from the Office of the Secreatary of the State of New York. How Marion procured that, or by what means he was induced to look in that direction of evidence, I do not know, nor whether the Certificate is genuine. This certainly a very singular circumstance that a Certificate is precisely the same (?) should be made use of as proof of service by two individuals whose circumstances + family history should be so widely different as the two names Ebenezer Bailey. If you wish, I will talk with Marian; + if you have not written the Sec'y of State of New York on the subject would it not be worth while [sic] to do so.

Very Respectfully,
James Phelps (?)
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PS  If you should require noting further from me, my expenses in cash have been $8.50. For my time and trouble you may compensate me as you think reasonable + I shall be satisfied. 
                       J Phelps.
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No. 1414
Tryphena Bailey
widow of Ebenez...
Connecticut
   396
J.W. Marion May 28
                           '55

Sar(?) July 23, 1855
Sar(?) ''' 31, 1855
Sar(?) Aug. 8, 1855

July 29, 1848
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Deep River June 19, 1888

Hon. L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
I forwarded the family Bible of Tryphena Bailey of Haddam and other proofs to then be substantiated her claim to a pension under the act of July 1848, some three weeks since and not having heard since by receipt or otherwise am in doubt whether it has been received by the department.

Very Respectfully,
Yr. Obt. Servant
I. W. Marvin, Attorney
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Deep River (?) July 14th, 1855

Hon. S.P. Waldo, 
Sir___ I forwarded to the Pensions Office about the first of May Mrs Tryphena Bailey's application for Pension and Arrears of Pensions under the Act of July 1848, she being the widow of Ebenezer Bailey. 
 I received a receipt for the application in about one week after. I sent it with the directions to forward the family Bible to substantiate the marriage.
I forwarded the family Bible by Mail and have not heard from it.
I am fearful that it did not reach the department, or if it did, that it was gone in among the Bonsty(?) town clerks from the fact that I sent her application for County land in the same package. 
I consider it a just claim and hope that it may not be destroyed among the Bounty(?) Land Clerks' (?) recieve (receive) your attention before you relinquish your
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... present duties which I (?) other Bounty(?) Land + (and) Pension Agents will very much regret. I do not wish to annoy the department; but supposing that the pensions clerks are not remarkably pressed with business conclude that if the proofs was received by due cour.(?) of Mail (mail). I should have heard from it before this. 
There is also another matter which I wish to call the attention of the department too. (?) The fact that the service of the (something crossed out) men of the 33rd Regiments in New London from June 21 to June 25th A.D. 1813 were not returned to the Comptrolers (comptrollers) office in this State. I have learned within a day or two that they were also (?) formed in Washington and were (?). If this is so + (and) you can inform me without two much trouble, I would be very grateful.
The Regiment served + (and) (?) at Hartford for about 11 days commencing in August A.D. 1814 and the service at New London is suffice[ant].
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to substantiate their claim of Land Bounty under the last Law. Capt. (Captain) Seldin's Roll (roll) already completed showing a complete return for services with allowances for travel was found among his papers and I believe is now in the hands of his administrator which shows that his company was called out at New London on the 21st of June A.D. 1813 + (and) were discharged on the 25th day of the same month showing four days service and two days allowed for travel. If there is no record in Washington of the Service of Regiment for the time above described, I think it exceedingly important for the subject to be considered (? hard to read) by you as you are a Connecticut Man (man) + (and) might designate some mode of proof which will be conclusive. 
Very Truly, 
Your Obt. (obedient) Servant 
J. W. Marvin
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(Can't read first two words) August, 1835
Hon. (Honorable) S. F. Walde
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir, Your favor of 31st July is received with a request to explain by what means I was led to (?) to the husband of Tryphena Bailey the services of which I forwarded the certificate of the comptroler (comptroller) of New York. 
I visited the neighborhood in which she resides for the purpose of acknowledging declarations for obtaining Land Bounty and call on her (house?) to see Sister (?) Brainard and after doing the business observing this lady I asked if her husband was in the service and learned from her that he was a Revolutionary Soldier and that he served at the time Burgoyne was taken and further that she was entitled to a Pension (pension) and wished me to obtain it for her. I told her that I would think of it and perhaps assist her; I the visited a Revolutionary...
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...Soldier (soldier) and Pensioner (pensioner) by the name of William in Wellingsworth Oh. (either VT for Vermont or Oh. for Ohio) + (and) learned of him that he enlisted or was drafted from Wellingsworth into the State of Vermont which then belonged to New York State, and that that service he found(?) recorded in New York consequently knowing that Burgoyne was taken within what was then the limits of New York concluded at once that Mr(.) Baileys (Bailey's) Service (service) being performed there must be recorded there + (and) I wrote to have the records of New York examined whence I received the certificate of the comptroler (comptroller) which I forwarded to the department(,) and I am still so much of the (?) that the services of the husband of Tryphena Bailey refered (referred) to in your favor are perhaps (hard to read) in the certificate that nothing but incontestable evidence would satisfy me to the contrary + (and) as you suppose you have that. I of course must abide it. There are a few things buried (?) in my mind which ....
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... are as follows.
That Tryphena Bailey the applicant referred to is entitled to a Pension! (pension) That her husband's name was Ebenezer Bailey!
That the Ebenezer Bailey whose services are represented by the certificate of referred too (to) is that same name, or that there must be two Ebenezer Bailey's (Baileys) on said Records (records) or that he must have had two wives; (,) or that there must have been a false claimtent (claimant)! And as the place of residence of the Ebenezer Bailey referred too (to) by your may (too hard to read) to furnish some light upon the subject. I would esteem it of favor if you will communicate it to me. 
Trusting that some information may be obtained whereby the lady may receive her just + (and) legal dues. 
I remain
Your Obedient Servant
J. W. Marvin
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See letters to James Phelps, Esq. @ (about) of June 8, 1855 and to Secy. (Secretary) of State Albany, N.Y.
The claim is clearly bad.
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Care!
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Post Office Middle Haddam (?) Nov(.) 12th 1877

Dear Sir
Your letter of 7th is at hand in repl
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J. W. Marvin
May 23/55.
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Pension Office
May 23 1855

Sir
   The application of Tryphena Bailey widow of Ebenezer of ___ has been examined and filed under the act of July 29 1848,
   The original Family Record showing the date of her marriage must be enclosed to this office for inspection.
   She must be identified as the widow of the soldier, who is certified to by the Secy of State of New York, by witnesses who know that her husband performed that service,

J.W Marion Esq.
Deep River
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J. W. Marvin
July 23/55
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Pension Office
July 23, 1855

Sir

   In answer to so much of your letter of the 14th instant as relates to the claim of Tryphena Bailey, widow of Ebenezer, of __ under the act of July 29th, 1848, I have to inform you that it has been necessary for the office to refer to other sources of information than the claimant's statements, in regard to the case; and that, so soon as the facts shall have been ascertained the case will be fully reported.

J.W. Marvin Esq.
Deep River
Connecticut
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Essex Conn. June 22 1855

Hon L.P. Waldo
___ of Pensions}

     Dear Sir,
          On inquiry into the respective locations of the several persons upon whom it might be necessary to call, to investigate in a prudent and proper manner the circumstances connected with the application for a Widow's Pension, by Tryphena Bailey of Haddam, I find some of them are nearly twenty miles remote from me, and somewhat scattered, and off the lines of public communication: I should therefore be obliged, [as would any one else who attended to it properly] to spend some time & incur some expense, in the investigation--
    I make this suggestion for the reason simply, that it may be understood between us, that if you could reimburse me my expenses, and reasonably compensate me for my time and trouble [ul] "from the public moneys not otherwise appropriated," [/ul] and not from your [ul] "private exchequer," [/ul] I shall expect to change something--But if not, I will attend to the business, and do it cheerfully as a matter of personal accommodation to yourself-- I shall be able to look after it in a few days--

Very Respectfully
your ___
James Phelps
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N.O.W and B.L. & D.
Evans

Department of the Interior.
PENSION OFFICE.
Washington, D.C. Nov. 7th. 1877.
Dear Sir.
Please find enclosed a
letter addressed to the Post Master at
Haddam and his reply.
will you ascertain whether the
Bailey families living within the delivery
of your Office -  and to which
reference is made in Mr Howard's
letter -  are the descendants of Tryphena
and Ebenezer Bailey?
Please return these letters to this office
with your reply in the envelope
enclosed.
Very respectfully
J A Bentley
Commissioners
Post Master
Middle Haddam
Middlesex Co.
C.T.
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Essex Coun June 11th 1833

Hon L. P. Waldo
Com of Pensions
Dear Sir

I have just received your communion
cation of the 8th Instant relative to the application of Tryphena
Bailey for a Pension, and will do what I can toward, a
proper investigation of the circumstances connected with the
application, for the purpose of ascertaining whether there
is reason to presume the existence of a fraud.~
John W. Main is not an Attorney, as you deem to
suppose, but an unsuccessful Merchant, and his moral
character is not in all respects quite equal to what
that of "Caesar's wife" should have been~
Very Respectfully Sc
James Phelps
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Haddam Coun. Nov 2" 1877
J. A. Bently
Commissioner
Dear Sir
I have made
inquiry in regard to the Bailey
desendents, and have found
no one within the delivery of
this office. there are several
families of Baileys in Middle
Haddam
Very Respectfully.
L. H. Howard P.M.
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J. W. Marvin
July 31/55
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Pension Office
July 31st, 1855
Sir
I am in possession of evidence the
most incontestable, showing that Tryphena
Bailey, of Connecticut who is claiming
through you, as her attorney, a pension
wide, the act of July 29th, 1848, is not the
widow of the Ebenezer Bailey who served to
the and of the Revolutionary war in the 2d
regiment of the New York Continental Line
You are requested to explain by what
means you was led to imparte to the husband
of Tryphena Baily the service of which
you forwarded the certificate of the Comptroller
of New York.
J. W. Marvin Esq
Essex
Connecticut.
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Suspended Case
No. 395
Tryphena Bailey
Widow of
Ebenezer
Receipt for Bible & e
to be filed Nov 23/77
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N.O.W and B L & D.

Department of the Interior.
PENSION OFFICE.
Washington, D.C. Nov 16th 1877.
Dear Sir
herewith transmit
to your address the old family
Bible belonging to Mrs. Tryphena
Bailey and sent to this Office in 
1855 to be filed in Evidence in 
her case when she made application
for pension.
You will please acknowledge
the receipt of the Bible on the back 
of this letter and return it (the letter)
to this Office in the Enclosed Envelope. 
Very respectfully
J A Bentley
Commissioner
prous
Sylvester Bailey
care Jmo. Carrier
Middle Haddam
Middlesex Co. 
CA.
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Suspended Case
No. 395
Tryphena Bailey
Widow of 
Ebinezer
Receipt of Bible & e
to be filed Nov 23/77.
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State of New York
Secretary's Office

Albany April 23 1855

I certify that it appears from the Military Register of the New York Continental Line of the Revolutionary Army ____ in this office, that Ebenezer Bailey enlisted in Capt. ___ Company in the Second Regiment on the 13th day of August 1777 to serve ___ the war, and that he ___ 15 January 1782.

A.G. Johnson
Dep Sec of State
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No
Tryphena Bailey
widow of Ebenezer
Connecticut

July 29 1848

Willanon
Deep River
Connecticut
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State of Connecticut

By his Excellency William T. Minor, Governor of said state.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN;
know ye, that Isaac Arnold was at the time of subscribing the within attestation and now is Judge of the Court of Probate for the Probate District of Haddam in the said State, duly constituted and commissioned, and that to his acts and attestations as such full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court. That the annexed attestation is in due form and by the proper officer; and that I believe the signature of said Isaac Arnold hereunto to be genuine.
(signature) William T. Minor

In testimony whereof, I have caused the public Seal of the State to be hereunto affixed this 17th day of May --- A. D. 1855, and in the seventy ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America
By his Excellency the Governor.

Nehemiah D. Sperry
Secretary of State
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Deep Riverd of May 30, 1855
L.P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Dr Sir, With this you will receive the additional proofs acquired to establish the claim of Faithlena Bailey whose Application for pension and pension arrears was filed on you advice under the act of July A.D, 1848.
The claim appears to me to be very clear, having had frequent conversations with her respecting the said service & I do not find her statement to my in any way, do as to lead to doubt concerning it. Trusting that the case will a appear equally clear to your Honor & meet your early attention.
remain yr Obt Sert
J.W. Mann
Attoney
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State of New York 
Secretarys Office
Albany June 11, 1835

Sir

I find no written statement
or application on file respecting
the military [illegible] of Ebenezer
Bailey_ The application must
have been [illegible] , personally at
this office, by some pension 
agent, whom I do not know.

Very Respectfully, A. G. Johnson
Dep Sec of State

L. P. Waldo Esq,
Washington
D. C.
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Hon. Samuel
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Deep River, Ct.
May 19, 1853

L. P. Waldo Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir
Enclosed please to find application of the widow of Tryphena Bailey for pension and arrears of pension on account of being the widow of Ebenezer Bailey, a soldier in the Revolution, which I have endeavored to construct as also the several proofs attached thereto accoording to the rules laid down by the department. The proof of marriage and death may be noticed in the certificate of  Lester Broman and Elizabeth Broman, very respectable persons. I am unable to find any public record of either. Hoping the papers may  be found or [illegible} and that they will receive your early attention.
I remain,
Your Obl. Sevt.
I. W. Marvin
attorney for applicant
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Ex'r INVALID
HO [handwritten in black ink] 395
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873 [crossed in black ink]
REJECTED
Tryphena Bailey
P.O.
Service:
enlisted: , 18
discharged: , 18
application filed: , 18
Alleges: 
Re-enlisted:
Attorney: 
P.O.
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We Lester Brainard and Elizabeth Brainard resident of
Haddam Middlesex County and State of Connecticut
hereby certify that we know the Ebenezer Bailey, whose service
in the War of the Revolution was [illegible]  by his widow Tryphenia Bailey this
15th day of May A.D. 1855, and have frequently heard the
said Ebenezer Baily tell of his said service as therein set
forth as it is also set forth in the official certificate for the
State of the Secretary of State for New York which accompanies the pension papers of the said Tryphena Bailey, and
was taken at which time he said that he was marching
with a detachment to [illegible] that part of the army
had got in sight of the smoke arising from the said
action, when the detachment were informed by messinger
 that Burgoyne was taken, and altho we were not in
the army with him, we feel as certain
that he was the person Ebenezer Bailey who performed
the service set forth in said certificate as a person well
can be of any occurance that was not witnesses with the
own eyes. 
The word, Tryphena Bailey was [illegible]  in the
 fourth line before signing


Peter Brand
Lester Brainard
Elizabeth Brainard





Sworn to by me and I certify the affiants to be
credible persons. On this Twenty fifth day of May A D 1855
J.W. Marvin
 Notary Public @ War Board
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I Charles W.J. & Judge of the Probate Court for the District 
of Say Brook hereby certify that
the official certificate asserting J.
Mawin of Say Brook a Notary Public is before me and that by
it he was impowered to administer the oath at the date of
the within certification: That I have examined the signature
attached thereto and believe it genuine

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the official
seal of said Court, on this 30th day of
May A D. 1855
Charles W Snow
Judge of the Probate Court
for the District of Say Brook

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