Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31,110, Thomas Hays, Md.
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SERVICE: Md.

Hays, Thomas

NUMBER: S31110

carded
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25.313
Kentucky 25313

Thomas Hays
Bourbon Co. in the State of Kentucky
he was a private in the company commanded 
by Captain Smith of the regt. commanded
by Col. _ in the Maryland
line for 12 1/2 months from 1776
________________
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky
at the rate of 41 Dollars 66 cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
________________
Certificate of Pension issued the 23d. day of dec
1833  and sent to Robert
Scrogin Paris, Ken.
__________________
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833            | $83.33
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mch '36 |  20.83
                                               [total]     | $104.16
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by Wm S. Allison Clerk
Book 6  Vol. 7  Page 13

[written vertically on far right side]
date of death - not on [illegible]
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State of Kentucky}
Bourbon County} Sct

On this ninth day of November in the
year Eighteen hundred and thirty three
Personally appeared in open court before the Hon. Richard French
Judge of the Circuit Court for said County, now sitting.
Thomas Hayes a resident of Bourbon County and state of
Kentucky. Aged Seventy one 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 7th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under
the following named officers and served as herein stated.
That he inlisted in the service of the United States under
the command of Captain Richard Smith of the Maryland
line for the term of Two months as a private soldier
in the year 1775 as he thinks and month of [blank] in the fall
a detachment of Troops raised by the order of Genl George Washington
to defend the City of Annapolis (in Maryland) from the 
attacks of the Brittish which term of service he faithfully
performed.  That sometime afterwards in the year 1777
and in the month of November or December He again inlisted as
a private soldier in the service of the United States under
the command of Captain Thomas Sprigg and marched to
Fort Frederick in the state of Maryland and was of
the guard at that place that had charge of the Brittish
Prisoners taken at the surrender of General Burgoyne.
This enlistment was for One month and a half which
was faithfully rendered by him.  That after the expiration
of this last service he on the [scratched out] day of [scratched out]
in the year 1778.  Enlisted again as a private
Solder for nine months under Captain Enos Campbell of the minute
men or [illegible] camp in a Regiment raised and held as
a Reserve to be ready at any time to take the field Comman-
ded by Colonel (Campbell who was promoted) during which service he was ordered to march
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march to the city of Annapolis (as it was supposed the
Brittish were about attacking that place) but before arriving
there information was received that the Brittish had left the Bay
and the Regiment returned.  Captain Enos Campbell
was (about this time) promoted as Colonel and Captain John
Nichols took the command of the company and marched
to Fredericktown in Maryland with this affiant to guard
a large body of Brittish prisoners (3500) and 750 Hessians
at which place he served out the period of his enlist-
ment makeing in all Twelve months and a half.
That he was born in Montgomery County and state of Maryland
the 10th day of May 1762 as per registry of his age and resided in
said County during all his inlistments and until 1801 when
he removed to Bourbon County and State of Kentucky where he has
resided ever since.  He has no discharges but had them but
has lost them and has no documentary evidence and that he
knows no person whose testimony he can procure who can
testify to his service but Benjamin Willett whose deposition is
herewith forwarded.  He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a
pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name
is not on the pension rolls of the agency of any state. 

Thos Hays

We Joshua Irvin a Clergyman residing in the County of Bourbon and
Andrew Badowsky and James Barnett residing in the same County
Hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas
Hays who has subscribed and sworn to the above decla-
ration that we believe him to be 71 years of 
age (as he states) 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.

Sworn to and subscribed
the day and year aforesaid

Joshua Irvin 
Andrew Badowsky
James Barnett

And the Court do here declare their opinion after the investi-
gation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories
prescribed by the War Department that the above named
applicant (Thomas Hays) was a revolutionary soldier and
served as he states and the Court further Certifies that
Joshua Irvin who has signed the preceding certificate
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is a Clergyman resident in the County of Bourbon and
that Andrew Sodusky & James Barnett are creditable
Persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.

Richard French

I James M Arnold Clerk of Bourbon Circuit Court do hereby
certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the
said Count in the matter of the application of Thomas
Hays for a pension.  In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and seal of office 9th
day of November 1833

J M Arnold

Address to Robert Scrogin Paris
Kentucky
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28 779

[ilegible] Brewer will
please to give a certifi-
cate in this case.

[illegible]
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[illegible]

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section

May 26. 1925.

Miss. Blanche Lilleston
672 Higgins Avenue,
Paris, Kentucky.

Madam:

I have to advise you that, from the papers in the
Revolutionary War pension claim S-31110, it appears that
Thomas Hays was born May 10, 1762 in Montgomery County,
Maryland and, while residing there, enlisted in the fall
of 1775 and served two months as a private in Captain
Richard Smith's Maryland Company.

He enlisted in November or December, 1777 and served
six weeks in Captain Thomas Sprigg's Company, Colonel
Rollins' Maryland Regiment.

He enlisted in 1778 and served nine months in Cap-
tains Enos Campbell and John Nichols' Company, Colonel
Enos Campbell's Maryland Regiment.

He was allowed pension on his application executed
November 9, 1833 while living in Bourbon County, Kentucky

There is no data on file as to his family.

Respectfully, 

WILDER S METCALF
Commissioner.
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28.779

Thomas Hays
Kentucky

from 1776 per
12 [illegible]

$41.66/100

Robt Scrogin
Paris 
Ken
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Land Office

Annapolis, Sec. 4th, 1833.

In the case of Thomas Hays, I have to state, that I
do not find his name upon any of the rolls, except a
Militia Pay Roll, on this roll the name of Thomas
Hays appears to have been discharged on the 3rd of
December 1781, and to have served nine months.  The applicant
states in his declaration that he was discharged [on the-scratched out]
sometime in 1779 or 80;--whether it is the same person
whose name appears upon the pay Roll or not, I am
unable to say.

George G. Brewer
Regd. L. Off [illegible] Md
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State of Maryland Montgomery County st

Be it remembered that I Benjamin Willett of
Montgomery County and State aforesaid do hereby
Certify that Thomas Hays now residing in the
State of Kentucky did serve as a private in the
Revolutionary War [in the year--scratched out] with me and
was stationed at Fort Frederick in the Company of
Captain Thomas Sprigg under the Command of
Col Rollins in Maryland and that the said Thomas Hays was
considered a good soldier and obtained and honorable
discharge.  In witness Whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed my seal this 30th day of April 1832

Benjamin Willett [illegible]

State of Maryland Montgomery County st
On this 30th day of April in the year of our Lord 1832
Personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice
of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid
Benjamin Willett and acknowledged the foregoing
certificate to be his act and deed and the facts therein
stated to be true and taken and acknowledged before

Aden Darby

Maryland Montgomery County st:

I do hereby certify that Aden Darby gentleman
before whom the foregoing affidavit appears
to have been made and whose name is sub-
scribed thereto was at the time of signing the
same Justice of the Peace in & for said County
duly commissioned and sworn--

In testimony whereof I have hereunto sub-
scribed my name & affixed the public seal
of said County Court this second day
of May eighteen hundred and thirty
two.

Brice Selby Clk of
Montg Coty Court
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[Two columns]
[First cl=olumn]

31110
Revy INVALID.

File No. 31,110
Thomas Hays
Priv Rev War

Act: June 7th 32nd

Index:--Vol. 2, Page 173
[Arrangement of 1870.]

[Second Column]

1925. May 26 Hist to Miss B. Lillleston
[illlegible]
1936 - June 20 - hist to Mrs. C. A.
Dudley [illegible]
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June 20, 1936

Thomas Hays-S.31110
BA-J/AWF

Mrs. C. A. Dudley
1247 W. Gold Street
Butte, Montana

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you
request information in regard to Jacob Longenecker
(Longacre), who left Princeton University to serve
in the Revolutionary War, and Thomas Hayes of either
Montgomery or Prince Georges County, Maryland, War
of the Revolution.

Revolutionary War data furnished by this office
are obtained from claims for pension and bounty land,
which have been made to the United States, based upon
service in that war.  A search of the records fails to
show such claims on file on account of the Revolutionary
War service of Jacob Longenecker; the surname has been
searched under similar spellings.

The [date--scratched out and replaced with] data which follow were obtained from papers
on file in pension claim, S. 3111 [word scratched out] upon the
service of Thomas Hays during the Revolutionary War.
This is the record of the only Thomas Hays found on
file in he Revolutionary War records of this office,
who served with the Maryland troops.

Thomas Hays was born May 10, 1762 in Montgomery
County, [Virginia--scratched out and replaced with] MD, names of his parents not stated. 

While residing in said Montgomery County, Thomas
Hays (as his signature is shown) enlisted in the fall
of 1775 and served two months as private in Captain
Richard Smith's Maryland company.  He enlisted some-
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time in November or December, 1777, served six weeks in Captain Thomas Sprigg's company under Colonel Rollins, as a guard at Fort Frederick, Maryland. He enlisted in 1778, served nine months in Captain Enos (Ennas) Campbell's and John Nichols' company, Colonel Campbell's Maryland regiment.

          The soldier, Thomas Hays, was allowed pension on his application executed, November 9, 1833, at which time he was living in Bourbon County, Kentucky, where he moved in 1801 from Montgomery County, Maryland.

          The papers in this claim contain no reference to the family of the soldier.

          If you desire information in regard to the last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C. and give the following-

Thomas Hays
Certificate # 25313
Issued December 23, 1833
Rate $41.66 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
Kentucky Agency.

                                              Very truly yours


A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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[CIRCULAR STAMP]

Numbers 1 - 12 on the outside of the stamp

Arrow points to 3

Inside stamp:

RECEIVED
JUN 1 1936
MAIL SUB-DIV.
VETS. ADM 23
[illegible] EADER
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Butte, Montana.
May 27, 1936

U.S. Pension Bureau
Washington D.C.

Gentlemen: --Will you
kindly inform me if there
is a pension record for Jacob
Longenecker (Longacre) who
left Princeton University
to serve in Revolutionary
War.  He must have served from
New Jersey.  Also would like
record of Thomas Hayes Sr. who
served from either Montgomery
Co. or Prince George Co. Mary-
land.  I have record of Thomas
Hayes Jr. whose wife was Rebecca
Padget.

Sincerely yours,
(Mrs.) C. A. Dudley
1247 W. Gold St. Butte Mont.
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[CIRCULAR STAMP]

Inside stamp:

PENSION
L
MAR
U.  24. S.
1925
OFFICE
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MISS BLANCHE LILLESTON
STATE DIRECTOR C. A. R.
672 HIGGINS AVENUE
PARIS, KY.

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington - D.C.

Dear Sir:--

Please send War 
Records (Revolutionary) of the
following:

1.  Thomas Hayes - S 31110 b. 1760 - d. 1847
Born in Maryland.  Died in Bourbon Co. Ky.

2.  Joseph Jones. [illegible] d. 1836 or '37
Born in Maryland.  Died in Shelby Co. Ky.
Wife's name Ann - Children - Abram, Joseph,
Ann (m. Nicholas Amos.)

3.  Stephen Rus. Dauphin Co. Penn. [illegible]

Thanking you.  I am
Very sincerely-

(Miss) Blanche Lilleston
Registrar - D.L.R. Chapter
Paris-Kentucky.
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S 31110

Thomas Hayes (Hays)
b. 1760 - d. Aug. 25-1847.

Born in Maryland.

Died in Bourbon Co. Kentucky.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT CARD *

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME Hays, Thomas
GRADE Private
LINE New York
WARRANT NUMBER 7308
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED March 30, 1791 to Richard Edwards, Adm'r.

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.