Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 19092, James Bayley, Vt.
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Service 
Vt. 

Bayley, James
Stevens, Sally
or Sarah
(former widow)

Number 
W 19092

Contents 
This woman was also pensioned as the widow of her last husband, Otlio Stevens, Vt, W. --
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[verso]
susp'd see letter June 1. 1840 to Jos. Berry & Vt. P. Agts
Dead. See letter June 19, 1840 to Hon. J. Fletcher H.R
same, July 7 1840 do to J. W. D. Parker Aug 22 1840 do to Jos. Berry, August 31. 1840. same oct 21.1840. - do to Same Nov. 6. 1840 & pay't Nov 7. 1840 - do. to Joseph Berry, Aug. 16. 1841 - 
Letter to Hon H. Everett & 3d Audn 13th Dec'r 1841
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of 6. April 1838 to 1. of 10. Children from 4th March 1831 to 30. May 1840 
Agt notified 31. Dec 1841
Letter to S. B. Mattocks 30. March 1842
  "  to Samuel B. Mattocks & 3d Audn. 12. Jany 1844
Paid as above. Age notified 12. Dec 1844

[recto]
[damaged paper]
Vermont 3303
Sally Stevens who was James Bayley dec'd the 18 April 1784. - 
[illegible] in the State of Vermont was a Lieut. in the compy commanded by Captain F. Bayley of the regt commanded by [illegible] Olcott in the Vt. militia 8 months 7 days 
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Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 96 Dollars 44 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 2d of May 1840, & sent to Hon. Isaac Fletcher, House of Reps.
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Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1840 $867.96
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept 40 48.22
$916.18
{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3d}
Recorded by D. M. Curdy, Clerk,
Book A, Vol. 2 Page 41.
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                         Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the third section of the Act of Congress of 4th of July, 1836.  -

State of Vermont
Orange County.        
         On this 3rd day of July AD 1837,  personally appeared before the Probate Court for the district of Bradford in the County of Orange and State of Vermont, being a court of record of unlimited jurisdiction in probate matters, holden at Newbury in said Orange County and in open court before Wm Spencer, Judge of said court,     
Sally Stevens, a resident of the town of Newbury in the County of Orange, and state of Vermont aged 71 years the 23rd day of November last year.  Who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the Act of Congress passed July 4, 1836 and also the act of congress in explanatory joined act passed March 3rd 1837.   That she is now the widow of Ottis Stevens, late of Waterford in the County of Caledonia and State of Vermont, that she was married to the said Ottis Stevens at said Newbury, October 10, 1786 with whom she lived until August 26, 1820 when said Ottis Stevens died at Waterford. That she had by said Stevens ten children, eight of whom are now living, at this time she was so married to the said Ottis Stevens on the 10th day of October, 1786. 
She was the widow of James Bayley late of Newbury in County of Orange aforesaid who was a lieutenant in the army of the revolution of a company of militia commanded by Col. Peter Olcott - She further states that she was married to the said first husband, the said James Bayley,  at said Newbury on the 10th day of June, 1781,  by the name of Sally Bayley,  that she was fifteen years
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and seven months old at the time of her marriage to the paid James Bayley, that her said Husband the aforesaid James Bayley was taken prisoner by the enemy the British at Newbury aforesaid June 17, 1782 and was carried a prisoner to Montreal in Canada, got home to Newbury January 17. 1783 and was killed in a raft of logs in Connecticut River April 18, 1784, that she remained a Widow of the said James Bayley from the 18 day of April 1784, the day of his death to October 10. 1786. being two years & six months and was then married to the said Otho Stevens her second Husband, and that her said second Husband the said Otho Stevens died at s'd Waterford on the 26. day of August 1820. and that she has remained a Widow ever since that period and that she was a Widow on the 4th day of July 1836 and still is a widow as will more fully appear by refference to the proof hereunto annexed, she further declares that she has not documentary evidence in her possession to support her claim. 
/s/Sally Stevens
Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year above written before
/s/Wm. Spencer Judge of Probate for s'd district
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I William Spencer Judge of the said Probate Court have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of said Court on this 3rd day of July AD 1837. - 
/s/Wm Spencer Judge of Probate
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Return to be made to Joseph Berry Esqr.
Newbury, Orange County, Vermont

V2377
Sally Stevens Vermont 4 July, 1836.
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State of Vermont
County of Orange ss - On this 3d day July AD 1837 Personally appeared before the Probate Court for the district of Bradford in the County of Orange and State of Vermont being a court of record and in open Court holden at Newbury in said district before William Spencer Judge of said Court - John Bayley a resident of said Newbury in the said County of Orange aged Seventy two years last May who testifies and says that his brother James Bayley formerly of said Newbury - deceased - was married to Sally Bayley a daughter of Capt John G. Bayley in the month as I now think of June 1781 and that said Sally continued the wife of said James until the 18th day of April 1784 when he was killed by being crushed between mill logs - Said James was a Lieutenant in Capt Frye Bayleys Company as I should think for several of the last years of the revolutionary war and said Company was stationed at the fort in this ['company' crossed out] town - During the fore part of the war the post was occupied ['by' crossed out] for a time by ['a part of Colo. Hazens Regiment and' crossed out] by Hosingtons (Hoisington) Corps and by Capt Websters Company and Capt Smiths Company of Militia from the interior of Newhampshire but for the last four or five years of it, said post was occupied by said Capt Frye Bayleys Company - My said Brother was taken by the Brittish and tories together with a Sargeant Torrey and private by the name of Pike and carried off to Canada and detained a prisoner in Canada until January 1783 - Said Sally since the death of my said brother James has been the wife of, and is now the widow of Otho Stevens and is well known to me as the same person who is this day applying for a pension before the Probate Court
/s/John Bayley
Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year above written and I Certify that the above named John Bayley is a person of truth and veracity before /s/Wm. Spencer Judge of Probate for said district -
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[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I William Spencer Judge of the said Probate Court have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of said Court on this 3rd day of July AD 1837.
/s/William Spencer Judge of Probate
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State of Vermont
County of Caledonia ss - On this 9th day of October AD 1837 before me the undersigned authority personally appeared Sally Stevens to me well known who being duly sworn, doth depose testify and say in addition to and explanation of her declaration heretofore made, under the 3d Section of the act of Congress of the 4th of July 1836 and of the Act explanatory thereof, of the 3d of March 1837 - that she was the daughter of Capt John G. Bayley of Newbury afs'd - that on the 10th day of June 1781 at the age of 15 years and seven months she was married to Lieutenant James Bayley a son of Gen'l Jacob Bayley at said Newbury by the Rev'd Mr Richards - that she continued to be the wife of said James Bayley until he was killed on the 18th of April 1784 and by whom she had two children - that she continued to live the widow of said James Bayley until the 10th of October 1786 when she again married, with Otho Stevens at said Newbury with whom she lived as a wife until the 26th of August 1820 when said Stevens died at Waterford in the County of Caledonia and State of Vermont and that she has ever since lived the widow of said Stevens - and that according to her best knowledge and belief there is no publick or family record of the period of her marriage with said James Bayley - that at the time of making her application as before mentioned before the Probate Court for the district of Bradford on the 3d of July last she was residing with her children at Newbury above mentioned but that she is now residing with other of her children at Waterford above mentioned
/s/Sally Stevens
['State of Vermont' crossed out]
The above subscribed and Sworn to this 9th day of October 1837 before me /s/Jonah Carpenter Justice Peace
Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont
Caledonia County ss } I Samuel B. Mattocks, Clerk of Caledonia County Court do hereby certify that Jonah Carpenter Esq is a Justice of the Peace in and for Said County duly commissioned and qualified that his commission was dated the 15th day of November 1836 and will expire om the last day of November 1837 and that his signature within written is genuine - 
[court seal affixed] Witness my hand & the Seal of Said County Court at Danville this 10th day of October Ad 1837
/s/Sam'l B. Mattocks Clerk
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Hon Stevens 
J. Fletcher of H.R.
MrSyl
Sally Stevens papers for James Bell Esquire
Hon J. Fletcher HR
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Mrs Sally Stevens applied for a pension before Judge Spencer July 3. 1837. Setting forth that she was born Nov. 23. 1765 
Was married to James Bayley at the age of 15 yrs 7 mo. June 10. 1781
Husband taken prisoner - to Canada June 17. 1782
Released from prision, Chamblee & Montreal Jany 17, 1783
Was killed by the rolling of mill logs at Newbury April 18. 1784
Lived Bayleys widow from April 18. 1784 to October 12. 1786
Married Otho Stevens Oct 12. 1786 & lived with him til he died Aug't 26. 1820 & is yet Stevens widow
That said James Bayley was appointed a Lieutenant the first of the war in a company commanded by Capt Frye Bayley in Colo Peter Olcotts Regiment and so continued until his death - Her  statement is corroborated by the testimony of Colo Joshua Bayley Colo John Bayley and her brother Mr James Bayley - who states that Colo Frye Bayleys company was stationed at the fort at the Oxbow and was nearly or quite all the time on duty as a guard or on Scouts - that said James with part of the company helped to open the Hazen road &c
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GIDEON, PRINTER.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, 
Jan'y 24th, 1844.

Sir: 
Under the 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," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, one of ten child'n of Sally Stevens, dec'd, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Burlington, Vt. Agency, at the rate of Ninety six dollars and 44 Cents per annum, under the law of the 4th July 1836, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1831, to the 30th May 1840.
Respectfully, yours, 
/s/Albion K. Parris
Comptroller. 

To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.
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Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 19092
Sarah Stevens 
Former Widow of James Bayley & widow of Otho Stevens pensioner Revy
Lt. Rev. War
Act: July 4th 1836
Index: - Vol. M, Page 246
[left side note: 1927 Mar. 3. photos to A. W. DeGoosh. aw]
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Sally Stevens Vermont.
Suspended
See letter 29th Sep 37 J. Berry
  do  do  Nov 10. 1837
Let. to Hon. J. Fletcher March 25, 1840. }
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Aug't 77 Gen Bayley 4 mos. Lieut Jas Bayley Vt.
married June 1781 died 1784
May 79 6 or 7 mo. } Joshua Bailey Vt.
fall 80. 2 or 3 mo. } John Bailey Vt. 
Nov'r 82 - 7 m. prisoner James Bailey Vt. 
1 mo 7 da till May
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6769
3-2233
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Finance Division
Feb. 28, 1927
Chief Rev. War Section Division.
I have this day received from A. W. DeGoosh cash No. [blank] for $1.65 requesting photostat copy ) as per ['post-office addresses' crossed out] letter herewith. 
1927 Mar 3 photos mailed & Finance Div. notf AW
O. J. RANDALL
Chief Finance Division. 
[initials: H.C.L]
own C1
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Jas Bayley d 1784
Sally Stevens m 1781
May 7 ['9' crossed out] Lt 4 m. - Gen Bayley
May 79 6 or 7 Lieut
fall 80 2 or 3 Lieut
June 82 7.. Lieut

Sec. cert. on pay roll of Capt Fry Bailey in Office. 1 mo 7 ds On 1780 -
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head quarters - I well recollect of his sending my brother James in the fall of 1778 and of his returning with dispaches and a letter from Gen'l Washington which is now in the hands of Senator Hubbard of New Hampshire as I suppose to be used on business at the City of Washington - and my brother ws absent at that time four or five weeks I think - 
In the month of May 1779 General Moses Hazen came to this vicinity with his Regiment and established his head quarters for the purpose of protection to the inhabitants and also of opening a military road from the upper part of this town to Canada through the wilderness - which object he pursued until late in the insueing fall - Soldiers and other assistance was required and furnished from this town - My said brother with a part of the aforesaid company was employed in said opperations until they were relinquished - I should think for a period of not less than six or seven months - 
In the fall of 1780 a large party of the enemy from Canada - said to be 1500 strong was ascertained for a scouting party of which my said brother was on to be making his way through the wilderness, as was supposed, for the purpose of destroying the post and settlement at this place - My said brother with a part of the company was ordered by my father to be off in the woods on the look out - And he was then absent until about the time that winter set in - I should think from two to three months - and until it was ascertained that the party aforesaid had returned home to Canada - This party ravaged at that time Royalton 
In June 1782 my said brother was taken by surprise and carried a prisoner to Canada where he was kept about seven months - and was then suffered to return home on parole 
He was engaged one season in a Regiment of Rangers commanded by a Col. Herrick
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stationed as it was said at the westerly side of Vermont, but of this engagement I know nothing but by hearsay, nor can I tell in which year it took place - My said brother continued to be the Lieutenant of said Company until his death and I never heard a suggestion but that he was duly commissioned - but I know nothing what became of his commission - 
The defence of this part of the Country was entrusted almost entirely to the discretion of my father who held the offices of Brigadier General, Assistant pay master General and Assistant Quartermaster General at the same time under General Greene - He was thought it necessary to have some force kept in preparation at this post - and in this he was sustained by Gen'l Washington and other Generals when in command of the northern army - A part of Major Hosington's (Hoisington) Corps (a battallion) was at the fort one year ['summer and at last part of it at other places of the vicinity' crossed out] General Hazen's Regiment was looked to for defence another season - and companies of militia were sent neither from the interior of Newhampshire at other times, Assistance from abroad having ceased any father then caused the aforesaid Company of volunteers to occupy the part as a guard and to do scouting duty almost incessantly and with their precautions - the people were not at all safe from tory vengeance - and a large party of Indians from St Francis Canada, quartered upon us was not a small source of annoyance - There Indians were induced to come and reside within our Jurisdiction by offers of subsistance and bounty from Government or from Gen'l Washington through my father as the only means of preserving this section of country and while here a shew of force was as necessary to their safe keeping as their food and clothing - at least such was the opinion of those in command at that time - 
/s/John Bayley
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State of Vermont 
County of Orange SS - Be it known that on this 10th day of October 1837 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County - personally appeared John Bayley who both subscribed the foregoing deposition in my presance and made solemn oath that the same contains the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth - 
And I do hereby certify that the said John Bayley is a credible witness - 
/s/Joseph Berry Justice Peace

State of Vermont
Orange County ss - County Clerk's office Oct 10. 1837
I, J.W.D. Parker Clerk of the Court of said County do hereby certify that Joseph Berry is a magistrate as above and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this 10 day of October Ad. 1837 - 
/s/J.W.D. Parker Clerk
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State of Vermont
County of Orange SS - Newbury Town Clerks Office July 3d AD 1837 - 
I certify that the books containing the records of the deaths and marriages, so far as they were entered, of the inhabitants of the said town of Newbury are kept in the Town Clerks Office of said town - And after diligent and careful search and examination of said books and records - I can find no entry on said books or in this office of the marriage of James Bayley a son of Gen'l Jacob Bayley and Sally Bayley a daughter of Capt John G. Bayley nor of the death of said James Bayley - Nor can I find any entry of the marriage of said Sally Bayley with Otho Stevens - And according to my best information and belief, no such entry in either case exists in this office. 
/s/David Johnson Town Clerk
I Joseph Berry of Newbury in the County of Orange of lawful age do depose and say that I attended with David Johnson the Town Clerk of the said Town of Newbury to the examination of the Town records or is stated in his certificate above written and am fully satisfied that there is no record of the marriage of James Bayley and Sally Bayley, of the death of said James Bayley or of the subsequent marriage of said Sally Bayley with Otho Stevens in the records of said Town - 
/s/Joseph Berry
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State of Vermont
Orange County ss } Newbury is s'd County & District of Bradford July 3. 1837. Joseph Berry Esq. of said Newbury Personally appeared in open Probate Court, holden at s'd Newbury and made solemn oath to the truth of the within affidavit by him subscribed & I certify that the s'd Joseph Berry is a person of the truth & veracity before /s/Wm. Spencer Judge of Probate 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I Wm. Spencer Judge of the said Probate Court, have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of said Court o this 3rd day of July AD 1837 -
/s/Wm. Spencer Judge of Probate
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State of Vermont
Orange County ss } On this 3rd day of July AD. 1837. personally appeared before the Probate Court for the district of Bradford in the County of Orange and state of Vermont being a Court of record and in Open court holden at Newbury in said district before Wm. Spencer Judge of said Court. Isaac Bayley of Newbury in the County of Orange aged 70 years the 29th day of June last past who testifies and says that Sally Stevens who is this day applying for a pension before the Probate Court for the district of Bradford is well known to me - And I further say that said Sally was formerly the wife of my brother James Bayley now deceased - by whom she had two children - My said brother was taken prisioner by a party of Brittish soldiers & Tories and carried to Canada about one year after after his marriage with said Sally and when their first child was but a few weeks old where he was detained for seven months and was there released on his parol - 
My said brother was killed on the 18th of April 1784 and his said wife after having lived his widow for several years married to Otho Stevens then of this town and said Stevens having died several years since the said Sally still continues to be his widow
/s/Isaac Bayley 
Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year above written & I certify that the above named Isaac Bayley is a person of truth & veracity before Wm. Spencer Judge of Probate for s'd district 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I Willliam Spencer Judge of the said Probate Court have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of said Court o this 3. day of July AD 1837. /s/Wm Spencer Judge of Probate -
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State of Vermont
County of Orange ss } on this 3rd day of July AD 1837. personally appeared before the Probate Court for the district of Bradford in the County of Orange and state of Vermont being a Court of record, and in open Court, holden at Newbury in said district before Wm. Spencer Judge of said Court. Simeon Stevens a resident of said Newbury aged 70 years in the month of May last past - who testifieth and saith that he is well acquainted with the widow Sally Stevens who hath this day appeared before the Probate Court for the district of Bradford and made her declaration for a pension. she was married to my Brother Otho Stevens in the month of October 1786. by the name of Sally Bayley and was when married the widow of James Bayley late of said Newbury deceased. I was present at the marriage of the s'd Otho Stevens & Sally Bayley, they were married at s'd Newbury by Jacob Kent Esqr. Justice peace who has been dead many years. I further testify & say that I was present when the said Otho Stevens died, he deceased in the Town of Waterford in Caledonia County on the 26 day of August 1820. and the said Sally Stevens has remained a widow ever since the time of the said Otho Stevens death and still is a widow and reside in said Newbury and further state that she was on the widow on the 4th day of July 1836. & still is a widow 
/s/Simeon Stevens
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written and I certify that the above named Simeon Stevens is a person of truth & veracity before /s/Wm Spencer Judge of Probate for s'd district
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[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I William Spencer, Judge of the said Court of Probate, have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of said Court on this 3rd day of July AD 1837.
/s/Wm. Spencer Judge of Probate.
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I Timothy Clark of Newbury in the County of Orange and State of Vermont of the age of seventy one years last October do depose testify and say as follows - I came to reside with Gen'l Jacob Bayley formerly of said Newbury but now deceased in the month of March 1779, being then in my eleventh year, and continued to reside with him until I was twenty one years of age and have resided in Newbury ever since. Said Jacob Bayley was in command of the militia as Brigadier General when I came to reside with him and so continued, to the close of the revolutionary war - This place was guarded for a year or two after I came here by companies of soldiers from abroad - the reason of which was, that it was a frontier - the settlement considerably numerous but not compact - it had been a kind of depot and rendezvous for Government troops - and Government had here constructed a fort, block house, slaughter house &c and had opened a military road called the Hazen road, hence, almost to Canada, and many of the inhabitants, particularly General Bayley and his family had become extremely obnoxious to the Canadians and Tories who had fled to Canada - and without some protection of the kind - many of the settlers would have quit and gone off and the the rest it was fraud would be compelled to do the same - On then companies being finally withdrawn General Bayley, and some or all of the Officers of the regiment thought the continuance of an armed force here to be necessary and directed the filling rep or reorganizing of a volunteer company of militia of which Frye Bayley was Captain and James Bayley a son of said Gen'l Bayley was Lieutenant - This company was stationed at the block house at the oxbow the same as the companies that preceded it had been, and I should think consisted of about thirty soldiers - The officers of the company took directions from and executed the orders of Gen'l Bayley and as I believe and have no doubt acted in pursuance of his authority - On a certain afternoon in the month of June 1782 according to my best recollection intelligence was communicated to Gen'l Bayley, of the approach of a hostile party, the number now known, from Canada, on which the General after having given directions to the company officers what to do at home, crossed Connecticut River, which bounded his farm on one side - over to Haverhill N. Hampshire for the purpose of converting measures and making preparations against the approach of the enemy which was not expected under a day or two - but which was then, as was afterwards ascertained, on a high woodsy bluff or mountain overlooking the entire region below and within half a mile of the oxbow, having several tories in their company, who had not long before
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fled to Canada from the same neighborhood and were well acquainted with every spot and place and person in the vicinity - As it had appeared not to be necessary to exact the attendance of the company at their quarters all of the time, most of the men after roll call in the morning, had been permited, to disperse on this as on many preceding days - A few had assembled toward evening at Gen'l Bayleys house which was near the block house for the purpose of converting one part of their rations into milk today - Said Lieut James Bayley had left the fort a little time previous, probably soon after his father had crossed over to Haverhill, taking a musket with him, and had gone to a dwelling about one fourth of a mile distant one some errand preparatory to a night scout in the direction of the enemy, which no man was better able to perform to advantage than he - While in the act, as it was then said of putting off his shoes and supplying  their plan with mockasins he heard a firing of guns at the oxbow, upon which he sprung to the door and on the instant was seized and made a prisioner of by a party which proved to be a detachment from the main body  which was then attacking this fort, or rather the men above mentioned at Gen Bayleys house one of whom was shot - The latter party after a hasty pillage of and attempt to set fire to the house, retreated precipitately to the woods near by and was soon joined by the party having Lieut Bayley a prisioner 
Said Bayley was gone until the succeeding January and his account on his return was that he had been taken to Canada by the before-mentioned party, known as Prichards gang and confined in prision and had been released by the interposition of some friends of his fathers in Canada - and from  his appearance I should rest doubt - the fact for he was covered with filth and rags and vermin and his hair and beard appeared not to have been cut or combed during the time. - Said James Bayley was subsequently killed by being crushed between rolling logs and I saw him within a few moments after it was done 
/s/Timothy Clark
State of Vermont
Orange County ss - Be it known that at Newbury in the said County of Orange on 13th day of April 1840 Timothy Clark of said Newbury to me well known personally appeared and made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed contains the truth, the  whole truth and nothing but the truth - And I certify that said Clark is a person of veracity and his statements entitled to belief.
/s/Joseph Berry Justice of the Peace
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I James Bayley of Newbury in the County of Orange & State of Vermont of the age of seventy two years last August do depose testify and say as follows - I am a son of Capt John G Bayley formerly said Newbury deceased - I belonged to and did duty in a volunteer militia company the latter part of the revolutionary war, commanded by Captain Frye Bayley in Colonel Peter Olcotts Regiment and which was stationed at the blockhouse near General Bayleys at the Oxbow so called in Newbury - Said General Bayley was in command of the militia and said volunteer company was raised and stationed and continued at the block house aforesaid by Gen'l Bayleys orders - His son James married my sister, now Sally Stevens, widow of Otho Stevens - Said James was Lieutenant in said company and was often off on Scouts and he was one of the most active and efficient men that I ever knew, - I  well remember the day on which he was made prisioner and carried to Canada in June 1782 - He was taken by Capt Prichard and his party - who as it was said held a commission in Canada under the King - I know that said James had been under arms and in actual service, and was at the time of his being taken, unless his having left the fort & company a few moments before and setting his gun up by the wall in order to prepare himself for the night scout caused his not being under arms and not in service, and I  know that the establishment & continuance of s'd company at the block house was by Gen'l Bayleys orders and of the Officers of the Regiment, but at the instance and solicitation of the inhabitants of the town & turns were frequently voted and collected of the inhabitants for the remuneration in some degree of said company - I have just read the foregoing deposition of Timothy Clark - Most of the facts therein set forth I am personally knowing to and do humbly add my testimony to the correctness and truth of the general statements therein contained 
/s/James Bayley
State of Vermont
County of Orange ss - Be it known that at Newbury in the said County of Orange on the 14th day of April 1840 James Bayley of said Newbury to one well known personally appeared and made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed contains the truth the whole  truth and nothing but the truth - And I certify that said Bayley is a person of veracity and his statements entitled to belief
/s/Joseph Berry Justice of the Peace
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I Isaac Bayley of Newbury in the County of Orange & State of Vermont of the age 73 years next June testify & say that I am a sone of the late Gen'l Jacob Bayley deceased - Said Jacob as Brigadier General held command of the militia in this section of the county during the Revolutionary War - He ordered the raising of Capt Frye Bayleys company, which had it headquarters at the block house near my fathers - I well remember the time when Captain Prichards company made the onset on my father's house in June 1782 - Then was about 8 or ten of said Frye Bayleys company present - I was sitting on Sargeant Torrys knee -One of the soldiers hearing the dog bark went to the outer door & on opening it exclaimed "here they are now" - alluding to the enemy which was then the subject of conversation - The assailants rushed in and a scene of confusion ensued, but our party all got off without harm except that our man was shot - We had then in the  house from 15 to 20 guns all well loaded and prepared for the night, but they were in another room & could not begot at in season - My brother James was taken at the same time and carried to Canada - He was at the time of being taken as much in actual service as anyone could be and I know was ['and' crossed out] acting in obedience of my fathers orders
/s/Isaac Bayley
Orange County ss - Newbury April 14, 1840 Then Isaac Bayley Esquire personally appeared and made solemn oath that the above deposition by him subscribed contains the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth - And I certify that I said Bayley is a Credible Witness - /s/Joseph Berry Justice of the Peace
State of Vermont
Orange County ss } I Perley C Jones Clerk of Orange County Court hereby certify that Joseph Berry is a Justice of the Peace in & for said Orange County duly commissioned and qualified that his commission is dated on the 25 day of November AD 1839 and will expire on the 30 day of November AD 1840 and that the above signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of Orange County Court this 17 day of April in the Year of our Lord 1840
Att. /s/Perley C Jones Clerk of Or. Co. Court
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State of Vermont
County of Orange ss - On this 3d day of July AD 1837 Personally appeared before the Probate Court for the district of Bradford in the  County of Orange and State of Vermont - being a court of record, and in open court holden at Newbury in said district before William Spencer, Judge of said Court - James Bayley a resident of said Newbury aged sixty nine years and almost eleven months - who testifieth and saith that he is a brother of Sally Stevens now of said Newbury - that said Sally is the daughter of John G Bayley formerly of said Newbury now deceased - that said Sally in term arrived with James Bayley a son of Gen'l Jacob Bayley formerly of said Newbury now deceased - on the 10th day of June AD 1781 at Newbury aforesaid at which marriage this deponent was personally present - that said Sally continued to be the wife of said James Bayley until the 18th day of April 1784 when the said James was killed by the rolling of mill loggs - that the said Sally continued the widow of said James Bayley from said 18th day of April 1784 until the 10th ay of October 1786 when she intermarried with Otho Stevens then of said Newbury with whom she lived as his wife until the 26th of August 1820 when the said Otho deceased at Waterford Vermont - & that the said Sally has continued the widow of said Otho unto the the present time - This deponent further saith that the said James Bayley at the time he married the said Sally in June 1781 was and had been for a considerable time a Lieutenant in in a company of militia stationed at a fort that had been previously erected at said Newbury for the accommodation of Gen'l Hazens Regiment and which continued to be occupied for some of the first years of the war as a military fort by troops sent on by the government for that purpose - On the withdrawal of troops from abroad Capt Frye Bayley took the charge and command of said Fort
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and fourthwith enlisted a company of mostly young men, in which company said James Bayley was Lieutenant and Thomas Chamberlin was Ensign and said company continued in charge of the fort for three or four ['years of' crossed out] of the last years of the revolutionary war - said James Bayley together with Sargeant Sam'l Torry and a Mr Pike were taken prisioners by a party of tories and Brittish soldiers from Canada on ['the' crossed out] or about the 17th day of June 1782 and was kept a prisioner at Chambly and Montreal until sometime in January 1783 when he was released from said confinement on parol and arrived at home at said Newbury on the 17th day of January 1783 - Said Sally Stevens at the time of her first marriage with said James Bayley was then under sixteen years of age and is the same person that has this day made her application before the Probate Court for a pension - I further state that I enlisted and did duty in said Capt Frye Bayleys Company - that said Company was employed in guarding defending the said fort and frontier settlement at Newbury and the vicinity - and in scouting in the wilderness between this place and Canada for short periods, the longest of which now recollected was in the fall of 1780 period of about four to five weeks
/s/James Bayley
Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year above written and I certify that the above James Bayley is a person of truth and veracity before /s/Wm Spencer Judge of Probate for s'd district
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I William Spencer Judge of the said Probate Court have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of said Court on this 3rd day of July AD 1837.
/s/Wm. Spencer Judge of Probate -
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[handwritten letter]
War Department Pension Office
November 10, 1837

Sir, 
I have received the additional proof in the case of Mrs. Sally Sterns formerly the wife and widow of James Bailey (Bayley) dec'd and have placed it on file with her papers. As the service alleged by the claimant is involved in much obscurity their being no rolls in this office by which it can be satisfactory verified, I have thought proper to suspend any immediate decision on the claim until you may have examined the records in the Office of the Treasurer of the State of Vermont where it is highly probable you may at least find such settled accounts and other evidence as will throw some further light upon the subject
I am, Very Respectfully Yr. Mo. Obt. St.
/s/J. L. Edwards

Joseph Berry Esq. }
Newbury Vt. }
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Write to Hon. I. Fletcher H. R. making a statement, shewing how much has been paid to Sarah Stevens under the laws of '36 & '38 - That part paid under act '38 being paid contrary to law, is to be deducted from the other papers
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[handwritten letter]
Newbury August 14, 1837

Sir
From the mark on your circular which I received to day, I conclude it to be your purpose to direct my attention to the last clause of it, and in reference to the case of Mrs Sally Stevens - and I will answer in accordance thereto - The Hon Wm. Spencer, Judge of Probate for the district held a court in this vicinity on the 3d of July last at which time the application for a pension above alluded to and the papers in relation thereto were made out, except that some of the certificates of the proceedings were not quite finished when it became necessary for the Judge to leave, and he took the papers with him to Corinth, where he resides for the purpose of finishing them - assuring me that he would enclose and forward them to the department with a request that the returns should be made to me; and as I have not seen him since nor heard anything to the contrary I conclude he did accordingly - 
You will please address "Joseph Berry - Newbury County of Orange, Vermont" 
I am Sir respectfully Your obdt Serv't
/s/J. Berry

Hon'a J. L. Edwards
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[handwritten letter]
Newbury Vt Oct'r 13, 1837

Sir, 
In yours to me of the 29th Ulto - in regard to the application of the Widow Sally Stevens for a pension - three requirements in addition to the testimony in the case as I previously furnished it are specified - "the tours of actual service performed by the claimants former husband - that he was duly commissioned as a Lieutenant - and if there be no family record that the claimant should so State under Oath - These specifications are I hope duly made out by the enclosed papers - 
Mrs Stevens left this town a few days since for the purpose of visiting and spending some time with two of her sons who are settles in Waterford, Vermont - The subject of the family record was examined at the time of the Probate County and the fact would have been stated had we supposed it to be so required at the department. 
I am Sir respectfully Your obdt Servt - 
/s/Joseph Berry

Hon. J. L. Edwards
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This certifies that on an examination of the files and records in the Treasurers Office of the State of Vermont I find a paper purporting to be a pay roll with the following caption to wit - "Pay Roll of Capt Thomas Johnsons company of minute men in "Newbury for the year 1776 under the command of Colo. Peter "Olcott for scouting and guarding said year" - And I find the name of James Bayley  entered thereon as a private and as having served twenty one days
[margin note: 21] I also find another paper purporting to be a pay roll with the following caption to wit - 
"A Pay Roll of Capt. Frye Bayleys company of militia under "the command of Colonel Peter Olcott in the service of the State "of Vermont" - And I find the name of James Bayley entered thereon as a private and as having served one month and four days [margin note: 34] in the months of September and October - the year not stated, but the allowance by the Governor and Council appears to have been on the 13th of June 1778
I find also another paper purporting to be a pay roll with the following caption to wit - 
"A Pay Roll of a party of men belonging to Colo. Peter Olcotts Regi"ment under the command of Capt Frye Bayley, employed in "Scouting - dated at Newbury 8th May 1781 -" and I find the name of James Bayley entered thereon as a Lieutenant, and as having served [margin note: Lt 1.7 / 3.6] in that capacity one month and seven days for service done from October 1st 1780 to May 8, 1781
The foregoing pay rolls appear to have been severally examined and allowed by the board appointed by the Government of the State of Vermont for that purpose, and the payment therefor ordered by the Treasurer and by him duly made accordingly 
Given under my hand at the Treasurer's Office in Windsor this the 14th day of April 1838 - 
/s/Allen Wardner Treasurer of the State of Vermont
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2378
Sally Stevens wid of Jas. Bailey Ver't
Act July 4 1836
married 1781
died 1784
allow 8 mo 7ds
Lieut - Vermont
Militia Capt Fry Bailey. See Roll Oct 1780. $96.44 per ann. 
Hon Isaac Fletcher HR
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[handwritten letter]
Newbury Vt May 26, 1840

Sir
I received a pension certificate through the agency of Gen'l Fletcher a member of the House of Representatives for Mrs Sally Stevens "formerly widow of James Bayley deceased who was a Lieutenant in the Revolution and died on the 18th April 1784 for $96.44 pr. ann. - dated May 2, 1840" - purporting to be recorded in Book A. Vol. 2 Page 41 - I also received a certificate last summer for the same person by the name of Sarah Stevens as widow of Otho Stevens her late husband who died Aug't 1820 - who was a private & corporal in the Revolution for $82.18 dated July 18, 1839 - purporting to be recorded in Book A - Vol. 2 Page 56 - This discrepance may have arisen from the fact of her having signed her name - if it be so - differently in her several applications - but I think that she mentioned in one of then that formerly she used to write her name Sally, but that latterly she had generally written it Sarah - I believe the same fact was alluded to by one of the witnesses - Will it not be necessary to have this variance corrected? and if so will you please direct the course in order to have it done - it would perhaps the most desirable to have the name of Sarah kept  up, as she has used that recently in executing other papers - 
I am Sir respectfully yr obdt Servt /s/Joseph Berry

Hon'a J. L. Edwards
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[handwritten letter]
Newbury Vt. April 1840

Hon'a Isaac Fletcher

Dear Sir
In accordance with your permission, kindly offered in your letter to me of the 26th ulto, I  enclose the additional testimony in the application of Sally Stevens for a pension - If the enclosed should be deemed insufficient I know not where to resort for testimony to supply the deficiency, as documentary evidence "to establish a claim for the time said Bayley was detained a prisioner" and, that "when he was taken by the enemy he was under army, in actual ['actual' crossed out] service, in obedience to the publick authorities" is not I presume in existance - The testimony already furnished the department is very extensive and full - But all seems to be treated as a nulllity except documentary evidence and but little of that remains - I the "seven months captivity" be allowed and the additional "month and seven days shown by the Sec'y of States" certificate be added I suppose the applicant had best accept of it although much more than a full period is most conclusively shewn by depositions - But point after point has been raised and issue after issue not until I am tired of special pleading - If the business could be urged on and done before you have the city I should be much gratified - I am Sir respectfully
Your most obdt /s/Joseph Berry
P.S. any compensation for your trouble or that your son may bestow will be most chearfully made -
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If I rightly apprehend the import of the letter transmited by the department to you it relates to one point only - the insufficiency of the testimony to establish the fact of the Bayleys being "under arms, in actual service, in obedience to  Publick Authorities" when he was made a prisioner, which being shewn would entitle his widow to a pension for that period - This I suppose was clearly enough shewn by depositions of the elder brothers of Mr Bayley - long since sent to the Pension Office - They can not be taken over again at any rate as two of the brothers have died within a year or two and a third is rendered incompetent to testify by reason of old age - General Bayley appears to have been in those days the end of the law, and everything else to most people hereabouts and even Gen'l Washington as appears by his letters, reposed great confidence as well as almost unlimited authority over this region in Gen'l B - which the department are informed of as those letters are or have been in its possession - If the 8 mo 7 da be allowed and a certificate be sent on for that time I think we will trouble them no more, and as there seems to only  one solitary point to be elucidated in regard to this period perhaps your son, as it may not be consistant with you convenience to look to it - might induce the department to  settle that at once - and he shall be satisfactorily compensated for all trouble - The applicant has for two years confined to a sick bed and is much in need of this aid - 
Apl 17. 40 - yrs most truly /s/J. Berry
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J L Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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[handwritten letter]
Newbury Vt June 9, 1840

Sir
Your letter of the 1st inst, in answer to mine of the 26th ulto, was received this day and in behalf of the heirs and creditors of Mrs Sarah Stevens, who died on the 30th of the same month, I proceed to answer it - Mrs Stevens first application of July 3, 1837 was, for a pension as widow of James Bayley under the act of 1836 and before the Act of 1838 entitling her to a pension as widow of Otho Stevens, and I then subsequently made what exertion I could by presenting such testimony as I thought pertinent and sufficient and by obviating one objection after another as they were suggested by the pension department, until the passage of the law of 1838, and until the hope and prospect of success had become nearly or quite extinct - 
The reason why "she stated at one time that she resided in Orange County and another time in Caledonia County " was, because such was the fact - and the reason of the facts being so - if of any importance - are that she was  destitute, and dependent on her children for support - three of whom did then and do now reside in Newbury in Orange County and two in Waterford in Caledonia County that the season of 1837 she resided with her children at this place, as she had done a portion of the time for many years previous thereto - that in the autumn of 1837. 
She left Newbury and went to reside with her children
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[handwritten letter]
at Waterford, where she has resided ever since, until her death - having been at no time able to return to Newbury, and for the last two years confine to  her bed - As to the facts being "carefully concealed when  she applied under the act of 1838, that she had applied under the act of 1836" - it was not so - at least no concealment on my part or to my knowledge was ever intended or practiced - Her application under the act of 1838 was made before Judge Mattocks, and was I believe drawn by him & is in his hand writing - The subject of her former application before Judge Spencer in this county, with the particulars in relation thereto were all before the Judge and were subject of remark and discussion, particularly her habit of some times signing her name Sally and at other times Sarah, and her inability  to  recollect in which manner she signed it (the former application) - and I think noted by him in the declaration; or if not by him, I am confident it was in some of the depositions - I cannot myself now recollect how she signed her name to either - nor could I then recollect how she  signed it to the former - nor do I now know that she signed it differently at those times - I merely infer that it was so from the ['fact' crossed out] variance in the two certificates - 
I supposed that she had a perfect first to make both applications as she did, and the latter was drawn under the direction of, and (as I believe) by a man supposed to be very competent and well qualified
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to do it - I always supposed that Mrs Stevens possessed "a vested interest, accrueing on the passage" of the several laws - as well as in the one case as the other (and which I deemed merely a legal recognition of a moral right) and I have not yet been able to discuss the reservation negating that supposition - and under this view and ['supposing' crossed out] considering it a very plain case, I  recently received my efforts in favour of her claim as widow of Mr Bayley - which had for a length of time lain dormant - not having a suspicion but that the papers, as they were all connected, would be taken up together and subjected to a further revision before a final decision of the claim 
Thus Sir, you have all the "explanation as fully satisfactory" as I can give it and you can not of course obtain another from her - and if she were living I am convinced that she could add nothing to what I have myself stated, as the general management of the business has been confided, to me and by me mostly executed  - I await further directions from the department 
I am Sir your obd't serv't
/s/Joseph Berry

J. L. Edwards Esqr
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June 18, 1840
Sarah Stevens 
2 sets of papers
J. L. Edwards Esq
Pension Office
Hon Isaac Fletcher H.R.
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[handwritten letter]
House of Representative
June 17th. 1840.

Hon. J. L. Edwards,
Sir, 
enclosed is a communication from the Hon. Joseph Berry. I have been acquainted with Mr. Berry for more than twenty years & know him to be a gentleman of strict truth & veracity, & that he is so considered where he is known. His word or statement is as much to be depended upon as any man living. 
The circumstance of Mrs. Stevens having written her name Sarah, at one time, & Sally at another, in the sections where she & I live would be considered very trivial, as among us, and I thought every where else where the name was known, it is considered but one name. It resolves itself into the identity of the person, & from what I know personally in the case of this identity I can have no doubt. I would further state that Mr. Berry is one of the last men in the world who would be party or privy to any fraud trick, or deception being practiced upon the Government, or any where else. It appears that Mrs. Stevens was formerly the wife of a Mr. Bayley, & that Bayley and Stevens were both Revolutionary soldiers, & that
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she being the widow of both claim a pension in right of each, thus claiming two pensions. In strict law I do not see why she is not entitled to both. The husband must be considered the meritorious cause of the pension, and as she is the evidence of both & the law gives it to the widow of each expressly reply why is she not entitled to each in right of her widowhood? How can you plead the right of one pension in bar to the other? 
If so which pension shall the Government placed in bar to the other, & who shall have the election the Government or the applicant? one pension might be in right of a soldier, the other in right of our officer. One might be a pro rata pension, one a full pension. If legal rules be applied the difficulties are innumerable. She is entitled to a pension because she is the widow of a soldier or officer of the revolution. It is this relation which gives her the night, so long as the relation existed the right existed. The soldier is the notorious cause. Was not the petitioner the widow of Bayley? and as such what law forbids her the pension as such? 
Was she not equally the widow of Stevens & in  his right entitled to a pension or his widow. It appears to me that both law  & equity is in favour of the widow. Is it said that congress did not intend that any one widow should draw in right of two husbands. I ask how that can be known; it is not to be text nor in the nor the contex, nor is it the letter or spirit of the law. The law of 1838 gives her expressly a right in favour of her first husband, and
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[handwritten letter]
the law of 1836 expressly gives her a right in favour of her second husband. There are rights vested in the widow by express law. Can you take away a vested right by implications, or can you repeal an express law by ['implication' crossed out] construction? To one of the pensions the widow is entitled beyond all doubt, has the Department the right to elect & assign which they choose to her? have they the right to compel the widow to elect? If they have this power whence do they desire it? I know of no law which confers it. Nor is it incidental to the discharges of the duties of the Pension office. I ask for the widow no more than what is her due in strict justice. As to her residency, that is fully explained. While with her children she some times resided in Orange County, some times in Caledonia & to my own knowledge she some times resided in Essex County. Is it extraordinary that a poor widow, having no domicle of her own, should reside in various places, or her children should appear to live? But the facts are easily settled in the case. If there be doubt, be pleased to inform me; the main question & the most difficult as rises upon the law. But unless the Department can solve the questions put to our Savior by the Pharisees, in the case of the woman who has seven husbands. I do not see but the decision must be for the applicant. 
I have the honour to be your ob't Ser't 
/s/I. Fletcher -
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[handwritten letter]
Newbury Vt Nov 2. 1840

Sir
In yours of the 21st Ulto, you observe that "Before giving an order for the payment of the arrears "due in the case of Sally Stevens dec'd you have to re- "quest that I will say at what time she died;
In answer, I know of nothing else to say or to do that to repeat what I said in my letter, to which yours above mentioned is in answer, as also in my letter to you of the 18 Aug't last, that Mrs. Stevens died on the thirtieth of May 1840 at Waterford, Caledonia County Vermont - 
Permit me again to solicit your answer to the equiry contained in my last, which was that as three of the ten children of Mrs Stevens reside in Western Ohio or that region and could not join with the Seven in this vicinity in making out the papers for the purpose of obtaining their shares of the money; what  course ought to be adopted with regard to the pension certificate, so as that the three may hereafter have the benefit of it in order to draw their shares on a subsequent application 
I am Sir your ondt Servt
/s/Joseph Berry

Hon'a J. L. Edwards
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[handwritten letter]
Newbury Vt. Oct 16. 1840

Sir
I sometime since prepared the papers for seven of the ten children of the last Mrs Sally Stevens deceased, who was a revolutionary pensioner - empowering an agent to obtain the money for them at the Agency at Burlington Vt. - 
I have recently seen the person empowered and he informs me that on application for the money he was informed by the Agent that he had order from the department to  withhold paym't of this pension until  further advised - that the direction bore date in June last, and that no subsequent direction had been received by him in relation to the subject - he therefore declined making the paym't. 
I supposed  from your letters that the balance after deducting $328.72 which the pensioner received in her life time as the widow of Otho Stevens would be paid after the 4th of Sept. last on preventing the papers for that purpose properly authenticated - and I presume that directions to that effect have been omited through inadvertance - Will you Sir please take the necessary measures to enable the applicants to obtain their money with as little delay as may be, and advise me in relation to it? 
Three of the children of the deceased reside in the west and cannot be joined with the others in their application - Will you Sir inform me what course must be taken as regards the pension certificate so as to preserve the rights of those absent for a future application?
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[handwritten letter]
The pensioner died on the 30th of May last. That fact I supposed should be properly shewn at the ['pension' crossed out] Agents office in Vermont on application for the money - If I am not right in this respect will you please advise me
I am Sir respectfully your obdt Serv't 
/s/Joseph Berry

Hon'a J L Edwards
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I Joshua Bayley of Newbury in the County of Orange and State of Vermont of the age 84 years last June do depose, testify and say that the widow Sally Stevens of said Newbury was the wife of my brother James Bayley from June 10th 1781 to April 18. 1784 by whom she had two children, and that my said brother was killed by being crushed between rolling mill logs on the day last mentioned 
My said brother was appointed and commissioned a Lieutenant in a company commanded by Captain Frye Bayley belonging to Colonel Peter Olcotts Regiment and said company was raised by Order of my father Brigadier General Jacob Bayley on the news of the advance of General Burgoynes army from Canada into the States - 
My said father and brother with a part of said Company and such other force as could be soonest raised and prepared, Started ['Started' crossed out] for Lake Champlain in July or August 1777 I belonged to same company but tarried behind a few days, but shortly after with more of the company marched and joined the company on its march - My father had command of the Vermont forces, and he first took Ticonderoga which had been left by Burgoyne in charge of a small Brittish garrison, then on his way in rear of Burgoynes army took another place called Lake George landing garrisoned also by Brittish troops - 
My father then marched on down to Saratoga and then continued in command of the militia, volunteers &c until the surrender of Burgoyne, - a pat of which was the company of Capt Frye Bayley and my said brother was then & there the lieutenant - A part of the said company was discharged soon after the surrender and went home, and I think my brother was one of the number but I stayed according to my best recollection nearly six weeks after - I should think my brother must have been engaged in this expedition nearly or quite four months - 
In the month of May 1779 Gen'l Moses Hazen came on with his regiment and established his head quarters in this vicinity - His object was to open a military road
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from Newbury to Missisquai bay, Canada, and also protection to the inhabitants of this vicinity - My father had directions from Gen'l Washington to coopperate with and assist Gen'l Hazen - My said brother with a part of his company was employed by order of my father all the time that Gen'l Hazen was opening the road, which was extended well on towards Canada line and was not abandoned until late in the fall of 1779 - This service I should think might have been six or seven months - 
In the fall of 1780 it was ascertained that a large party of the enemy was making its way through the wilderness from Canada said to have been 1500 strong - it was supposed with a view of the destruction of the post and inhabitants of this place - the same party that ultimately destroyed  a Royalton and vicinity - My said brother with a part of said Company were sent off ['into the woods' crossed out] and were keep on the look out in the woods until winter set in - I should think two or three months 
In June 1782 my said brother was taken prisioner by a party of the enemy - was carried to Canada and kept about seven months, when he was parolled and permitted to return home - 
He as one season employed in a Regiment of rangers called Colonel Herricks regiment and was stationed at the westerly part of Vermont, but I have not sufficient recollection of the facts in relation to that service to state more particularly - 
My father had much of the confidence of Gen'l Washington and other Generals of the Army - and he was directed by Gen'l Washington to keep such force here as would comport with the ability and necessity of the times, taking into consideration the facts that this place was a frontier, that a road almost to the Canada line, - that a fort with block house &c had been established here and garrisoned by troops from a distance for a part of two or three years - and also that a measure of precaution and with the advice of Gen'l Washington my father had early in
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the war induced a tribe of Indians from Canada to come in and establish themselves in this vicinity and which it required all the means and every effort in our power to keep with us in place, as they were five or six hundred in number - these considerations & others induced, my father to order the continuance of the aforesaid company of volunteers - (which was distinct from the ordinary militia company of the place which was commanded by Captain John G Bayley) - And said volunteer company continued in charge of the fort as long as the war lasted - I know my said brother had a commission as I have before herein stated - and I have no doubt but that he was considered as being duly commissioned at that time - but I have no knowledge what became of the commission, nor do I believe it to be now in existance
/s/Joshua Bayley

State of Vermont
County of Orange ss Be it known that on this 9th day of October 1837 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared Joshua Bayley who hash subscribed the foregoing deposition in my presence and made solemn oath that the said contains the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth - And I do hereby certify that said  Joshua Bayley is a credible witness - 
/s/Joseph Berry Justice Peace
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I John Bayley of Newbury in the County of Orange and State of Vermont of the age of 72 years last May, do depose testify and say that the widow Sally Stevens of said Newbury was the wife of my brother James Bayley from June 1781 to April 18th 1784 by whom she had two children - that said James was killed by being crushed between rolling logs on the day last mentioned - that afterwards said Sally intermarried with Otho Stevens now deceased - My said Brother was appointed and commissioned a Lieutenant in a company of volunteers commanded by Captain Frye Bayley belonging to Colonel Peter Olcotts Regiment, which company was raised on the news of the advance of Burgoynes army in to the states in the summer of 1777 - 
My father Brigadier General Jacob Bayley directed the raising of all the militia that could be spared from said Regiment - put himself at the head of the Corps and left this place for Lake Champlain prior to the battle of Bennington in August 1777 - and my said brother with the aforesaid company compared a part of said corps - Late in the fall of the same year the said Company returned to Newbury and my brother with it - I did not accompany them but I have always since been informed and have no doubt but such was the fact that my brother with said company went to Lake Champlain - was present at the taking of Ticonderoga and a fort called lake George landing which were garrisoned by detachments from Burgoynes Army in its advance southward from thence, and finally moved on under command of my father to Saratoga and was present at the surrender of Burgoyne - I should think my brother marched from this place with his company in July or the fore part of August 1777 and returned the November following being absent about four months in said expedition
My father several times had occasion to send by express to Gen'l Washingtons
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[handwritten letter]
Newbury Vt. Aug't 26. 1840

Sir
The widow Sally Stevens was married to James Bayley in 1781 - Bayley died in 1784 having two children, who now survive - The widow married wid'r Otho Stevens in 1786 - Stevens died in 1820 having eight children, who also survive, and on the 30th May last the widow died, but previous thereto she received a certificate from the Pension Office dated May 2 - 1840, entitling her to a pension as the former widow of Bayley under the 3d Section of the law of July 4, 1836 - 
Are the children of Mr. Bayley entitled to the balance due, up to the time of her death, to the exclusion of her other children, or are they all entitled to share equally, in the pension? - The children of Mr Stevens are satisfied to have an equal division among all, but none of Bayley, who have never contributed any thing towards the expense of obtaining the pension, or the support of the mother during a long period of entire helplessness and dependance, object to this common distribution and claim the whole sum due - 
Will you Sir, please me a line in answer to the above, as soon as may be with convenience and very much oblige
Your most obd't Srv't 
/s/Joseph Berry

Hon'a J L Edwards
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[handwritten letter]
Bradford, Vt. August 17, 1840.
J.L. Edwards Esqr.

Dear Sir. I address you on the behalf of James A. Bailey of Newbury Orange county Vermont and Lydia Cunningham (Late Lydia Bailey) heirs and children of James Bailey a Lieutenant in the army of the Revolution - Said James Bailey deceased in 1784 and left the two above named heirs. about 1786 said James' widow Sally Bailey intermarried with Otho Stevens by whom she had heirs eight of whom are now living - She drew a pension up to last march in all about 328 dollars as widow of said Stevens - an application has also been made for her as the widow of said James Bailey and she has a certificate for $900 odd dollars from which last sum your department deducted the said $328 as a pension wrongfully obtained the balance of about $600 - is yet unpaid - and it being drawn in virtue of the services of Bailey the question is - who are entitled to the same the two children of James Bailey by Sally - or the Stevens children by said Sally? or both jointly the widow Sally herself being dead? - I have been unsure on what record I could make to determine - will you please give me the information - 
and much oblige Your obt servt 
/s/J.W.D. Parker Agent for James A. Bailey & Lydia Cunningham heirs of James Bailey
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[handwritten letter]
Newbury Vt. August 9. 1841

Sir
In May 1840 I succeeded, after a protracted and expensive effort, in obtaining a certificate of pension from the department at Washington, for Mrs Sally Stevens, last of Waterford Vt as the widow of James Bayley her first husband for revolutionary services under the law of July 4. 1836 - and on the 26th of May 1840 I addressed a letter to the department acknowledging the receipt and stating that in a certificate of pension  which she had previously obtained as widow of Otho Stevens her last husband, under the act of July 7. 1838 her name was inserted as Sarah Stevens - not having a suspicion but that she was entitled by law to both pensions, and making some enquiries how I ought to proceed - By yours to me of June 1. 1840 "I was informed that Mrs Sarah or Sally Stevens was not entitled to two pensions and that the agent had been directed not to pay over any more money until a very full and satisfactory explanation had been made" &c - By my letter of June 9, 1840 communicated to the department through Hon. Isaac Fletcher then in Congress I stated the fact of Mrs Stevens having deceased on the 30th May 1840 and also made therein such explanations as, that I received yours through the same medium (addressed to Mr F) saying "that Mrs. Stevens had been paid at the rate of $82,18 per annum from 4th March 1836 to 4th March 1840 under the Act of July 7. 1838 amounting to $328,72 - that that sum having been paid contrary to law would be deducted from her pension under the act of July 4, 1836"
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"that under the latter she was entitled to $96,44 pr annum commencing om the 4th March 1831 and terminating on the day of her death" - and that "upon application at the Agency on the 4th Sept. the money would be paid" - Accordingly a few days after the 4th Sep 1840 seven of the heirs of Mrs Stevens gave a power of Attorney and the requisite papers to Hon. Sam'l B Mattocks of Danville, Vt in order that he might obtain the money for them at the Agency at Burlington - The first of Oct'r following I saw Judge Mattocks and he informed me that he had made a Journey to Burlington for the money, but was there informed that the order from the Pension department directing the Agent not to pay over the money had not been countermanded & but remained in force - On the 8th Oct'r 1840 I addressed a letter to the dept, on this subject stating the facts &c - and by receipts of yours of 21. Oct, 1840, was informed that "before giving an order for the payment of arrears due in the case of Sally Stevens deceased I must state at what time she died" - which statement I forthwith forwarded on to Washington  - Judge Mattocks could not go again to Burlington until January and he was them informed by the Agent that the time limited for the payments falling due on the 4th Sep'r to be made, had expired and declined paying over the money on that amount - Judge M. contended that he did come for the money within the time and shortly after the same fell due, that he presented his papers and requested paym't - that the fault was not om the part of the applicants that it was not paid on the preceding application
The Agent as I am informed let Judge Mattocks take the
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am't of money due, but under an agreement and reservation that it should not be paid over until he  had stated the case to the department (which he engaged to do immediately) and had obtained directions how to act - I recently saw Judge Mattocks and he informed that there the matter still rests - altho - he had written and sent several times to the agent urging the necessity of effecting a speedy termination of the business - I have taken the liberty Sir of addressing you on this subject for the purpose of endeavouring to learn what is to be done in the premises - and what those entitled to the money can do more than they have done }
It is now more than five years since this application for a pension (and as I thought a very clear case) was first made and more than fifteen months since the Certificate was issued - during all of which time much care and attention and expense have been required and constantly bestowed - 
The pension laws have been by some persons considered, in their interest and meaning as a meager and tardy Act of Justice for unrequited services rendered; and by others as a manifestation of the gratitude of the present generation for the blessings confered upon us by the valour and toil of our ancestors - but their practical operation, as regards this case at least, requires another and different definition. 
I am Sir your obdt Serv't /s/Joseph Berry

Hon'a J. L Edwards
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Can an Executor or administrator, as such, draw the arrearage of pension due the deceased since the 4th March? and if so if not too much trouble will you please indicate to the method to be pursued?
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT, 
Second Comptroller's Office, 
Dec. 16th, 1841

Sir:
Under the date 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," 1 of the 10 child'n of Sally Stevens, dec'd a Pensioner on the Roll of the Montpelier Vt Agency, at the rate of ninety six Dollars and 44 Cents per annum, under the law of the 4th July 1836, has been paid the balance due at this Department, from the 4th of March 1831, to the 30th May 1840.
Respectfully, yours,
/s/Albion K. Parris Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.
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[addressed envelope]
March 20. 1842
Mr Evans
[postmark: DANVILLE VT. MAY 20]
FREE
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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[handwritten letter]
Danville Mar. 25th 1842

Sir, 
I some time since forwarded to your office for payment the claim of Mrs. Lydia Cunningham, one of the  heirs of Sarah Stevens a deceased pensioner, for her share of her arrears of pension - I had previously drawn pay for a part of the heirs - and surrendered the original certificate - 
Since I forwarded the papers I have nothing from them - Will you Say if they have been rec'd & what is the situation of the case &c. and much oblige
Yours truly
/s/Sam'l B Mattocks

Hon J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of pensions
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Feb. 26. 1926
Com'r of Pensions

Please furnish (not crfd.) copies of 11 pages from Rev. War pension claim of James Bayley. W 19092.
A. W. DeGoosh
US. Shipping Bd.
Washington
[receipt stamp: FINANCE DIVISION BOOK-KEEPERS DESK FEB 28 1927 BUREAU OF PENSIONS]
15 X 11 = $1.65  11 pages
rec'd payment
AEWilson $1.65
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1-681
SUBMIT IN DUPLICATE
PHONE Branch 476
All inquiries regarding this job should refer to Requisition No. 13138 [initials: aew]
Requisition for Duplicating, Addressograph, Photostat, and Blue Print Work.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
WASHINGTON 
CHIEF, Division of Publications, 
Room G 137. March 1, 1927. 192[blank]
Please furnish work specified below. 
Bureau ordering Pension  Deliver to Room No. 5033
(ALL COPY FOR DUPLICATING WORK SHOULD BE PLAIN AND WRITTEN IN ELITE TYPE, EXACTLY LINE FOR LINE AS IT IS TO APPEAR ON FINISHED JOB.)
Title and description of job photostat copies of 11 pages from the Rev. War pension claim, W. 19092, James Bayley.
No. of copies 1 of each page  Shall form be kept standing? [blank] [blank] days
For further information see A. E. Wilson Room No. 5033 Phone No. 541
Approved
/s/O. L. Gambrel
Chief, Clerk of Bureau. 
/s/AEWilson 
Chief of Branch ['or Division' crossed out]
[receipt stamp: DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS DEPT OF THE INTERIOR RECEIVED MAR 1 1927]
[annotated: Reed]

CHECK WORK DESIRED
Duplicate
Multigraph single or double space? [blank] Facsimile signature? [blank]
Mimeograph one side or both sides? [blank] Facsimile signature? [blank]
Folding? once or twice [blank]
Assembling 
Stapling Once? [blank] Twice? [blank] Side? [blank] End? [blank]
Electric typewriter Fill in addresses? [blank] Dated? [blank]
Addressograph from lists [blank] 
Envelopes, size [blank]  Cards, size [blank] 
Proof list [blank]  Pay rolls [blank] 
Labels (submit sample) [blank]  Corrections [blank] 
Fill in letters [blank] Tabulation sheets [blank] 
Photostat x Size actual Official use? [blank] Repay? yes $1.65
Blue Print Size [blank]  Official use? [blank] Repay [blank]  $[blank] 
Remarks [blank] 
(OVER)
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NOTE:  Routine changes of addresses may be made on this blank without formal reference through of initiating of chiefs of branches or chief of clerks of bureaus.
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