Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16551, Elijah Dailey, New York Vt.
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(3-1776)
[column headings: SERVICE|[blank]|NUMBER|]
New York|Dailey, Elijah|W. 16551|
Vt.|or Daily, Jane|[blank]|
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CONTENTS
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20.547
New York
Elijah Dailey of St. Lawrence in the State of New York who was a private in the Comp commanded by Captain Green of the Regt. commanded by Col. Williams in the N. York line for 10 ms 13 ds
$33.33+1.33=$34.66
$69.33+17.33=$86.66
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Inscribed on the Roll of N. York at the rate of 34 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
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Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of Sep. 1833 and sent to A. C. Low Clk St. Lawrence Co. 
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Arrears to the 4th of Sep. '33 $86.66
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar '24 17.33
$103.99
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Geo. C. Stiles Clerk,
Book E. Vol. 4. Page 84.
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In the matter of Elijah Dailey
application for a pension under the act of June 7th 1832 - 
14583. 
adm'd 10. mo. 13. ds pri
Allen & Baldwin
Agents, Potsdam St Lawr. Co. N.Y.
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832. 
State of New York
St. Lawrence County} ss. On this 25th day of September 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the court of Common Pleas of the County and State aforesaid, Elijah Dailey, a resident of the town of Potsdam in said County, aged Eighty five years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath, make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. 
That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
That in March of the year 1775, he enlisted at the place ['or town' crossed out] called Little Nine partners, near Poughkeepsie in the State of New york, for the Term of one year, under Captain Green & Lieutenant Joseph Rudd and with his company, was equipped and held in constant readiness for duty, during said year, the Company being called minute men; that under that Enlistment, he soon after went to Lexington in Massachusetts and arrived there with his company, a few days after the battle at that place, and after a short stay then returned home with his company, being absent on such duty ['about four' crossed out] several weeks; and soon after return [margin note: Jany. 15] he and the principal part of his company went on a tour of duty to Brattleborough in Vermont, to ['capture' crossed out] search out and cap-
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ture [margin note: -15] a quantity of Tory arms, supposed to have been brought to and directed at Brattleborough, but which, if there, were not found, was absent on that duty (including some duty on the way between Brattleborough and his home) about three weeks; that soon after his return, he went with a part of his company to a place called Quaker Hill in Newyork to arrest some Tories, and then captured a [illegible] Tory, by the name of Belding, and brought him home, when he was tried and convicted of some offenses against the Government was absent on that duty about 8 days; and he further saith that during his said year's enlistment, he and his said Company were required, when not abroad on duty, [margin note -8] to meet and spend one day in every week in inspection and military exercise, and he further saith that he was out otherwise on duty during that year, ['or' crossed out] engaged in scouts and on occasions of alarm ['but' crossed out] at various times, but how long at any of these times he cannot recollect, but recollects that he always considered that he was different ways in actual service, in all, about six months during the period of his said year's enlistment. 
And this claimant further saith that in the forepart of May of the year 1777, he resided at Westminster in Vermont, and was drafted
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for an uncertain time of service, and about the 10th or 15th of May started was marked with other soldiers, directly to Manchester in Vermont, and stationed there, under Captain Spaulding and in Colonel John Williams Regiment, (the Regiment being Rangers) remained there on that station about one month, and then was marched to Bennington when he remained as such soldier until, during and after the action called Bennington Battle, having in the action in the division commanded by Colonel Herrick, that he remained at Bennington about 8 or 10 days after the action, when he and his Company were dismissed, but without any written discharge, and he returned immediately home ['at' crossed out] to Westminster, when he arrived about the last of August, having been constantly in the service from the time of his being drafted as aforesaid, a period of his being drafted as aforesaid, a period of about three and a half months. [margin note: 3.15]
And this claimant saith that in the summer of the year 1780 according to his best recollection, and belief, on the occasion of an alarm he went out on service ['under' crossed out] at Westminster aforesaid under Captain Gilson and Col. Peters, and marched Northerly into the part of this Country called the Coos Country, a distance of about 85 miles, and was about in the service about two weeks. [margin note: 15]
And this claimant saith that on occasion of the alarm of the burning of the town of
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Royalton in Vermont, he was out in the said service under the said Captain Gilson about two weeks, and was out in the said service on various other occasions of alarm which he forbears to specify. 
And this claimant saith that he does not at present know of any living witness ['to' crossed out] by whom he can prove any part of his aforesaid service, though he intends to make some further inquiry, therefor & he hath no documentary evidence of his service; and he saith that there is not Clergyman residing near enough to him to know anything about the reputation of the said Service; and further that he hath resided in Potsdam aforesaid for about 22 years last past, previous to which he resided in Vermont. 
/s/X his mark Elijah Dailey
That he this claimant was born in the town of Cornwall in the State of Connecticut in the year 1747, that his age is recorded with the ages of his family in the town Clerk's office of the town of Fletcher in the State of Vermont, that he has lived since the Revolutionary war, previously at the towns of Westminster Bradford & Fletcher in the state of Vermont & in Potsdam in New York.* [margin note: *And this claimant hereby relinquishes whatever claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on ['any' crossed out] the  pension Roll of any agency in any State.}]
/s/X his mark Elijah Dailey
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
/s/A. C. Low clk
We Jonathan Hoit, residing in the town of Potsdam in the County of St. Lawrence, & State of New York, under Sheriff of said County, and Lemuel Buck Sheriff of said county, and lately a resident of the Jamestown, do hereby certify that we are
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well acquainted and have long been acquainted with Elijah Dailey who is subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration; that we believe him to be about Eighty five years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion; and further that he is a person of veracity ['and' crossed out] whose statements are, in our opinion, entitled to perfect credit
/s/Lemuel Buck
/s/Jonathan Hoit
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid} /s/A. C. Low clk
And the said court hereby declare their opinion ['that' crossed out] 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 Lemuel Buck, who signed the preceding certificate, is Sheriff of said County of St. Lawrence and Jonathan Hoit who also signed the same is under Sheriff of said county and resides in Potsdam aforesaid and that they are both persons whose statements are entitled to the utmost credit.
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[margin note: In the matter of Elijah Dailey
application for a pension.]
I, Alvin C. Low, Clerk of the said Court of Common Pleas, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Elijah Dailey for a pension - 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and Seal of office the Twenty fifth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two - 
/s/A. C. Low clk
St. Lawrence County ss I Alvin C. Low, the Clerk of said County certify that the annexed papers are the same returned from the pension office except the following affidavit of the said Elijah Dailey - that through inadvantage, the [illegible] of the case were not put under the the former [illegible] - I further that Horace Allen, before whom the said affidavit of the said Dailey purports to have been taken was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace and his signature thereto is genuine - 
[court seal affixed] Witness my hand & seal of office the 31st day of May 1833
/s/A. C. Low clerk
State of New York
St. Lawrence County}ss. Elijah Dailey the applicant
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named in the foregoing papers being sworn saith by way of amending his declaration above subscribed that he was born in the town of Cornwall in the State of Connecticut in September he thinks the 16th day, 1747. as stated in his declaration above, that he has no other record of his age only as mentioned in his said declaration as being in the town Clerk's office of the town of Fletcher Vermont and he further saith that he is well acquainted with Lemuel Buck and Jonathan Hoit who have testified as above to the reputation of his said Revolutionary services that he has not been able to procure any other evidence of her said services than that contained in his preceding papers. 
/s/X his mark Elijah Dailey
Subscribed & Sworn this 30th day of May 1833 before me 
/s/Horace Allen, Just. Peace.
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No 14583
Elijah Dailey
St Lawrence County New York
16.17 P. 383
May 9. '33
A. C. Low clk
St Lawrence County Court New York
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BRIEF in the case of Elijah Dailey County of St Lawrence in the State of New York
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? a Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? [blank]
3. How old is he? 85
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
[column headings: Period.|Duration of Service.(Years,|Months,|Days.)|Rank. As a|Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.|]
Enlisted In 1775.|(['1' crossed out]|6|[blank])|Private|Capt Green|
Drafted 1777 May|([blank]|3.|15)| " | " Spaulding Col. Williams|
1780|([blank]|[blank]|14.)| " | " Gilton " Peters|
 " |([blank]|[blank]|14)| " | " Gibson|
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5. In what battles was he engaged? Lexington - Remington
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Nine Partners New York
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? Not Corrected as the regulations require
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned. 
/s/Dyer Castor Examining Clerk.
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[verso]
Albany 1242
Jane Dailey widow of Elijah Dailey who died on the 14. March 1836 of St. Lawrence Co in the State of N. York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Green of the Regt commanded by Col. Williams in the N. York line for 10 months & 13 days N.Y.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 34 Dollars 76 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1836.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 29. day of July 1837, and sent to Allen & Baldwin, Potsdam, St. Lawrence Co. N.Y.
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Arrears to the 4th of Mar. '37 33.66
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep. '37. 17.38
$51.04
{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3}
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk,
Book A. Vol. 1 - Page 129

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Paid at the Treasury under the act of April 6th 1838 from March 4th 1841 to the 4th August 1841. 
Agent notified May 18th 1842
883
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the third section of the act of Congress of the 4th July 1836 - 
State of New York
St. Lawrence County} ss:
On this sixteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven personally appeared before Honorable Zenas Clark, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County, Jane Daily, a resident of the town of Potsdam in said County, aged eighty ['three years' crossed out] two years on the eighth day of September last, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the ['act' crossed out] provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 4, 1836:
That she is the widow of Elijah Daily who was a private in the Revolutionary Army, and who obtained a pension for his services therein of thirty four dollars and sixty six cents per annum, under the act of 7th June 1832, as appears by his pension certificate hereunto annexed, bearing date September 21st 1833. That she is unable to give any particular description of his services, and she supposes it to be unnecessary, as the proof which her said husband procured for obtaining his said pension is now on file at the Pension Office as she believes.
She further declares that she was married to the said Elijah Daily on the fifteenth
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day of May in the year ['eigh' crossed out] seventeen hundred seventy one, according to the best of her recollection, she has always recollected that she was married about the middle of that month, and she believes, the fifteenth. She was married at her father's house (['James' crossed out] David Thompson's) in the town of Bradford in the County of Orange and State of Vermont by Rev. Peter Powers, a Clergyman of the town of Haverhill in the State of New Hampshire, now deceased. That the next day after she was married, her husband, the said Elijah moved her home upon his own farm in Piermont, on the opposite side of Connecticut River, in New hampshire. That they there about four years and had two children Elizabeth and Mary Ann, who are both dead; that they then moved to the town of Westminster in the state of New-hampshire, where they lived during the war. that the said Elijah left home and entered the army in the year of the Battle of Bennington, and that he was in that Battle, as she has always understood and believed, that during his absence in the army and about the time of that battle, her third child, Elijah Daily was born. That since the war she and her said husband have lived in several places, and away others, at Oxford. N.H. Peacham & Cambridge V.t. and Potsdam, New York. That besides their said three children they have had other child-
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ren, Hannah, now widow of Jonathan Fallington; Polly, wife of Nathan Worthen, Lucinda, wife of Simon Hall, Belinda, now deceased, Benjamin, Linsford, David, Hazen and Udner. That she lived with her said husband until the time of his decease, which was on the fourteenth day of March in the year eighteen hundred and thirty six. and that she has remained a widow ever since that period. That her said husband died in Potsdam aforesaid, that she has no knowledge of any person now living who was present at her said wedding except her sister Rachel Mory, whose affidavit is hereunto annexed. 
/s/X her mark Jane Daily
Subscribed & sworn this 16th day of March 1837 before me & the said Jane alleged as the reason why she made her mark, that she could not write}
/s/Zenas Clark Judge St. Law. Courts
St. Lawrence County ss: Rachel Mory of the town of Moira in said County, being sworn saith that she is the sister, and only sister living of Jane Daily, named in the foregoing Declaration, that she is aged 77 years the 6th day of last November, that she resided at home with her father ['James' crossed out] David Thompson, in the town of Bradford in the County of Orange ['County' crossed out] in the State of Vermont, before the Revolutionary War, and well remembers being present at the marriage of her said sister with her
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said husband, the said Elijah Daily. She being then about twelve years old; that the said Daily lived in Piermont, opposite the said town of Bradford, in the State of New-hampshire, and immediately after the said wedding, he moved his said wife home to Piermont; that she well remembers many circumstances which took place at the time of the said wedding & removal; that she afterwards married and has lived sometime in the same vicinity with her said sister and has always had a particular knowledge of her family and children, and she fully believes all the facts stated by her said sister in her said declaration, which has heard read, and many of which facts are within her personal knowledge ['are true' crossed out]. She further saith that she does not believe any other person than herself, is now living who was present at her said sister's wedding. 
/s/X her mark Rachel Mory
Subscribed and sworn this 16th day of March 1837, before me - the said Rachel alleged as a reason why she made her mark that she did not write}
/s/Zenas Clark Judge St. Law. Co. cts.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
May 13th, 1842. 

Sir:
Under the ['date' crossed out] act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The children of Jane Daily, deceased, late a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany, N.York Agency, at the rate of Thirty four Dollars and 76 Cents per annum, under the law of the 4th July 1836, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March, to the 4th August 1841. 
Respectfully, yours,
/s/Albion K. Parris
COMPTROLLER. 
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.
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[typewritten letter]
[initials: AWF]
Rev. and 1812
War Section. [initials: own]

May 22, 1925.

Mrs. F. E. Dawley
Fayetteville,
N. Y.

Madam:
In response to a letter of the nineteenth instant from Honorable Walter W. Mages, you are herewith advised that this Bureau is unable to furnish the history of a soldier of the Revolution, unless a claim for pension or bounty land has been made on account of the services, and a careful search of the records fails to show such a claim on file on account of the services of any Amos Crocker, Timothy Croker, and Ebenezer Daley, all spellings of those names searched.
The Revolutionary War records of this Bureau show one Elias Daily ( R. 2628) born March 22, 1749 in the state of New Jersey. In 1818, he
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[typewritten letter]
was living in Trumbull County, Ohio and was pensioned for his services in the Pennsylvania Troops.
Said records also show one Elijah Dailey or Daily ( W. 16551) born in 1747 at Cornwall, Connecticut. He was living in 1832 at Potsdam, St. Lawrence County, New York, and was pensioned for his services in the New York Troops.
If you desire the full records of these soldiers, please so state and the same will be furnished you.
Same records fail to afford any information in regard to any soldiers named Elias or Elijah Dowley or Donley or Dawley or Dowty.

Respectfully,
WILDER S. METCALF
Commissioner.
[margin note: Cong Walter W. Magee's letter & Mrs. Dawley's letter both returned to the Cong.]
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[verso]
1925-May 22 - Mrs. F. E. Dawley - a dir. of this record to Elias Daily R.2628 - her letter returned to Cong. Walter Magee AWF
1925-July 30 - Hist to Mrs. F. E. Dawley AWF

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Rev WIDOW, &c. 
File No. 16551
Jane Daily 
Wid of Elijah Daily
Priv Rev War
Act: July 4th /36
Index: - Vol. A, Page 171
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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1685
In the case of Jane Dailey, widow of Elijah Dailey, deceased.}
application for a pension under the act of July 4th 1836. 
Admitted Private 10 mo & 13 days
Allen & Baldwin,
Potsdam, St. Lawrence. N.Y. Agents. -
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State of New York
St. Lawrence County} ss: Benjamin G. Baldwin of Potsdam in said County being sworn saith that himself and Horace Allen his partner acted as agents to procure the pension certificate of Elijah Dailey hereunto annexed, and further this deponent saith that he has been acquainted with the said Elijah Dailey and his wife Jane Dailey, mentioned in the annexed papers, for some years, ['that' crossed out] past, that they have during his acquaintance with them, lived together in said town of Potsdam as husband and wife, and until the death of the said Elijah Dailey which happened about a year ago, and as he believes on the 14th day of March 1836. that he for several years past been acquainted with persons living in said town who are reputed and believed to be the lawful children of the said Elijah & Jane, and which this deponent believes true, and that the said Jane has remained a widow ever since the death of her said husband, that he was
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at the house of the said Elijah a few days before his death and as a Justice of the Peace, assisted him in preparing the necessary papers for drawing the amount of his pension due on the 4th of March 1836. according to the annexed certificate.
/s/Benjamin G. Baldwin
Subscribed & sworn this 17th day of March 1837 before me}
/s/Zenas Clark Judge of St. Law. Co. Courts - 
I certify that I am acquainted with the above named Benjamin G. Baldwin and believe him to be a person of good character for truth and veracity - & further that I am satisfied that the character of the other deponent ['Jane' crossed out] Rachel Mory for truth & veracity is good
/s/Zenas Clark
Judge St. Law. Co. Cts.
St. Lawrence County ss: I Zenas Clark, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, do hereby certify that on the sixteenth day of March instant, I attended at the house of Simon Hall in ['said' crossed out] the town of Pots-
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dam in said County, a son-in-law of Jane Dailey mentioned in the annexed papers and with whom she now resides, and took the annexed application of the said Jane for a pension. I further certify that the facts set forth by the said Jane in her said declaration were proved true, to my satisfaction, by her own testimony on oath and by the annexed affidavit of Rachel Mory. and further that the said Jane was unable then, and from her advanced age, in my opinion, will continue unable from bodily infirmity, to attend any Court of Record in said county personally, to make her said application. 
Dated March 17th 1837 - 
/s/Zenas Clark Judge St Law. Co. Cts.
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State of New York
St. Lawrence County} ss:
I Alvin C. Low, clerk of said County hereby certify that I am acquainted with Zenas Clark mentioned in the annexed papers as one of Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said county (such court being a court of Record) and know him to be such Judge duly commissioned & sworn, and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and believe his signature, wherever it occurs upon this annexed papers, purporting to be made by himself, is in his proper hand writing - 
[county seal affixed] In witness whereof I have hereunto ['an' crossed out] set my hand and annexed the seal of said County this twenty first day of March 1837.
/s/A. C. Low clk
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Elijah Elijah Dailey Pension Certificate
Payments to be made at New York by [illegible] Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agent of New York 
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book E. Vol. 4 Page 84 by Geo C. Stiles Clerk
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM. 
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Elijah Dailey of the State of New York who was a private in the Revolutionary Army is entitled to received Thirty=four dollars and Sixty Six cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi=annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
[seal affixed] Given at the War Office of the United States, this 21 day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty=three
/s/Lew Cass 
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned} 
/s/J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
[margin notes: 34.56+34.56+17.28=86.40
34.66+34.66+17.33=86.65-.25=86.40]
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[addressed envelope]
[postmark: POTSDAM N.Y. MAR 25] FREE
Hon Secretary of War 
Washington City D.C. 
Care of J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner o]f Pensions
Papers under act of July 4, 1836 - 
[margin notes: 1685 Apl. 3 N.Y. 4 July 36 3d Sec.
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[handwritten letter]
Potsdam, N.Y. March 24, '37
Sir.
We enclose you papers containing an application by Jane Daily, widow of Elijah Daily, late a pensioner for the continuation of his pension to her under the act of July 4. 1836 - 
Please examine the papers and make return to us as soon as practicable - 
Very Respectfully Yr Obt. Serv't
/s/Allen & Baldwin.
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Elijah Dailey which require further proof or explanation. 
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes 
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? Yes
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes
V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? Yes
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? Yes 
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the other under the Act of June 7, 1832? Yes
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Yes
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? Yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? No
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? Yes
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? [blank]
XIV. +If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? [blank]
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? Yes 
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? Yes
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? Yes
XVI. ↕Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? 2.3.7.

EXPLANATORY NOTES. 
*QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For ______year______months, and______days______, I served as a______; and for such service I claim a pension.”
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit. 
+QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of  his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
↕QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
⇨ In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany papers.
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New York - Albany Agency
Elijah Dailey a pensioner under the act of June 7 1832 at the rate of $34.66 to which time period? 
Yours &c 
/s/V. Luce
John Harry Esq
3d Auditor Office
paid to the 4th March 1836 J.H.
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[typewritten letter]
[New York State logo]
STATE OF NEW YORK
DEPARTMENT OF FARMS AND MARKETS
BERNE A. PYRKE, COMMISSIONER
['ALBANY' crossed out]
C. P. NORGORD
GEORGE L. FLANDERS 
ASSISTANT COMMISSIONERS
JOSEPH BEAL DIRECTOR, LICENSE BUREAU

Fayetteville, N.Y. 
June 3, 1925.

Mr. Wilder S. Metcalf
Commissioner of Pensions.
Washington, D.C. 

Dear Sir:
Your favor of May 22d was duly received. I will greatley appreciate the complete records of Elijah Dailey or Daily (W16551), also of Elias Daily (R2628).
If you can, will you please give me the names and place and dates of enlistment of any persons named Dawley who rendered service in the Revolution, and oblige? 
Yours very truly, 
/s/Mrs. F. E. Dawley
Regent, Fayetteville Chapter 
Daughters of the American Revolution.
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[typewritten letter]
Rev. and 1812
War Section. [initials: AWF]

Mrs. F. E. Dawley
Fayetteville, N. Y.

Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 16551, it appears that Elijah Dailey or Daley was born September 16, 1747 in Cornwall, Connecticut.
He enlisted at Little Nine Partners, New York, in March 1775 as a minute man in Captain Green's Company and marched to Lexington, Massachusetts, a reaching there a few days after the battle, and served several weeks and continued to serve at various times an alarms and scouting expeditions until in March 1776, served in all six months.
While residing at Westminster, Vermont, he enlisted in May 1777 and served three and one half months in Captain Spaulding's Company of Rangers, Colonel John Williams' Vermont Regiment and was in
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the battle of Bennington.
In the summer of 1780 he was out on alarm, two weeks, in the Coos country in Captain Gillson's (Gilson) Company, Colonel Peter's Vermont Regiment; and at the burning of Royalton under same captain for two weeks.
He was out on other alarms, no details stated.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 25, 1832, while a resident of Potsdam, St. Lawrence County, New York, and he died there March 14, 1836.
Soldier married May 15, 1771 in Bradford, Orange County, Vermont, Jane (daughter of David Thompson), she was born September 8, 1754. She was allowed pension on her application executed March 16, 1837, while a resident of Potsdam, New York.
Their oldest two children, Elizabeth and Mary Ann, were both dead in 1837; third child, Elijah, was born about the time of the battle of Bennington; in 1837 the following children were referred to - Hannah, widow of Jonathan Fallington; Polly, wife of Nathan Worthen; Lucinda, wife of Simon Hall; Belinda, "now deceased"; Benjamin; Sinsford or Linsford; David; Hazen; and Udner (?)
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner