Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41625, Thomas Haley, Md.
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(8-1776)
SERVICE     NUMBER
Md     Haley, Thomas     S.41625
Healy
or Healea

CONTENTS.
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[two panel page; left panel below]

respecting arrears. see letter in
J. C. Wright H.R. Jan. 6. 1829

[vertically on left panel follows]
Duplicate certificate issued 14t. May 1828, and sent to Hon J.C. Wright,
House of Representatives ~

[right panel below]
16.681
Ohio
____________________
Thomas Haley
of Harrison County in the State of Ohio
who was a Private in the --"--"--" commanded
by Captain --"--"--" of the Regt --"-- commanded
by Colonel Hall in the Maryland
line, for the term of three years
from [blank] 17 to [blank] 17
____________________
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of eight Dollars per month,
commence on the 3d day of September 1819
____________________
Certificate of Pension issued the 11th of April eighteen
hundred and twenty and sent to the Hon
Benjamin Ruggles, Senate U. States
____________________
Continued on the Roll on 30th day of
March 1827 and notification sent to
C. Dewey, Esqr at Cadiz, Ohio
Pension commencing on the 17th
of March 1827
Amount due on 4th of}
Sept 1827}
__________
$44.93
__________
{Revolutionary Claim,
{Acts March 18, 1818,
{May 1, 1820.
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Thos. Haley (Ohio case)
not found on Penns roll
The Auditor Gen.
will please to furnish
such information of the
within service of the appt.
as he may be enabled
to afford.

Service admitted on 
certificate of
Auditor Gen.
herewith
3 years

Hon. Benj. Ruggles
Senate of U States
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State of Ohio}
Harrison County} Ss   On the third day of September A.D. 1819
before the subscriber one of the Associate Judges
of the court of Common Pleas of said county, personally appeared
Thomas Haley, a citizen of said county, aged about sixty seven years, who
being duly sworn according to law makes the following declaration
for the purpose of obtaining relief under the provisions of the act of
Congress passed March 18th 1818, Entitled "An act to provide for
certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the
United States in the Revolutionary war." That he enlisted at the city
of Philadelphia in December 17770 under Capt. John Howard
in the fourth Maryland Regiment commanded by Colonel Josiah
Carval Hall attache to the command of Brigadier General
Sullivan - that Samuel Smith was Lieutenant Colonel of said Regiment.
Thomas Lansdown 1st Lieutenant in said Capt Howards Company and
James Smith 2nd Lieutenant in said Company that he was in the
battle of the White Plains, and in several skirmishes at Brunswick
in N. Jersey - that in an engagement on Staten Island, on the 22nd of
August following the date of his enlistment, he was taken prisoner by
the British - that he was then taken to New York and confined in
the old Sugar House until the month of January following when
he was put on board a prision ship for one month and then exchanged
in New Jersey, and there joined Capt. Howards Company at the Scotch
Plains in N. Jersey - that in the year 1779 he was detached from
the main army into a Regiment of tight Infantry, commanded by
Gen. Anthony Wayne in which Regiment a Colonel Butler and Major
John Stewart had comman[illegible] that he served in that Regiment until
February 1780 when he was honourably discharged, either at Smiths
Cove, or Middlebrook in N. Jersey, by said Colonel Josiah Carvel Hall
after having faithfully served his country for three years - that his
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discharge through time and accident, is lost - that he is in
reduced circumstances and stands in need of his countrys assis-
tance - that he has no other evidence in his power to procure of the
facts stated in the foregoing declaration, not knowing or being
able to ascertain, where if living, his officers reside, or any other persons
who have a knowledge of his service aforesaid.
Sworn to and subscribed the}           Thomas Haley
day and year aforesaid}
before me - }
Samuel Boyd
Associate Judge.

State of Ohio}
Harrison County} Ss.  On the third day of September A.D. 1819, before
the subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the court
of Common Pleas of said county personally appeared Robert Crouch
and John Tipton who being duly sworn, depose and say, that
they are acquainted with the above named Thomas Haly, and with his
circumstances as to property, that they are reduced, and that he stands
in need of his countrys assistance for support, & that he is old and in -
firm. Further these deponents say not.   Robert Crouch
John X^his mark^ Tipton
Sworn to subscribed the}
day & year aforesaid before}
me. Samuel Boyd
Associate Judge
State of Ohio}
Harrison County} Ss I Samuel Boyd one of the Associate
Judges of the court of Common Pleas of said
county, do hereby certify, that I am well satisfied that the above
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named Thomas Haly, did serve in the revolutionary war, against
the Common enemy for a longer period than nine months, to wit
from December 1776 until February 1780, agreeably to the [illegible]
declaration. and also that he is in reduced circumstances
and stands in need of his countrys assistance: and I now
certify and transmit to the secretary of the Department of war
the proceedings and evidence before me had.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
my seal, the day and year aforesaid.
Samuel Boyd
Associate Judge [hand drawn cloud with the word "Seal" written inside]

State of Ohio}
Harrison County} Ss I William Tingley Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas in and for said County of Harrison do hereby
Certify that the above named Samuel Boyd
Esquire before whom the foregoing Depositions
appear to have been taken and whose name to
the above Certificate is Subscribed was at the
time said Depositions were taken, and at the
time of subscribing said Certificate one of the
associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said Harrison County
duly Commissioned and qualified and to all whose official acts as
such bee faith and [illegible] is and ought to be given -
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal 
of said Court at Cadiz this 29th day of November A.D. 1819.
William Tingley Clerk
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The State of Ohio Knox County Ss
Among the files of the Court of Common
Pleas for the county of Knox aforesaid the following
is found of which this is a true copy to wit

Schedule
District of Ohio fourth Circuit Ss
On this nineteenth day of June in the year Ad 1839
Personally appeared in open court (to wit) Court
of Common pleas in and for the county of Know of
the Town of June 1826 in and for said county on the
19th day of June 1826 being the first day of the Term
personally appeared in open court (being a court of
record by the law and constitution of the State of Ohio
and which has been solemnly adjudged by the tribunal
of said State to be a court of record which proceed
according to the course of the common law with 
Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount
keeping a record of their proceedings which has the
power of fine and imprisonment for the said
fourth circuit of the State of Ohio. Thomas Healea
aged as he now believed from late calculations of
time about seventy one years, resident in the county
of Knox and state of Ohio aforesaid within the United
States who being first duly sworn according to law
doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revo=
=lutionary war as follows (to wit) I entered in Baltimore
County State of Maryland as I believe in the year 1776
in a company commanded by Captain John Howard
first company and fourth Regiment of the state of
Maryland the Regiment commanded by Josiah Caswell
Hall the first Colonel, The 2nd Colonel by Samuel Smith
of the City of Baltimore the rigade commanded by
Genl. Sullivant that I continued to serve under the
same officers in the same corpse in the service
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of the United states for the term of six months, which
was called the flying camp from which Sworn I
received us regular written discharge for I afterwards
enlisted a second time which took place in the city
of Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania as I 
was on my return home to that place where I was
to recieve my discharge before the reviewing of which
my second enlistment took place in a very few days
after my former service expired I enlisted in a company
commanded by Captain John Howard who was in a
short time promoted and the company was afterward
commanded by Capt. Thomas Landsdow (if I am not
mistaken in his name) under Mayor Yates of Baltimore
afterward Howards Batallion Commanded by Colonel
JC Hall second Colo. L. Smith 2nd Colo. I continued
to serve in said Corps in the service of the United 
States utill I think the latter end of February
AD 1780 when I received my discharge from the 
Sworn at Middllebrooke at at Port Jersey that I
was in the battle at the White Plains under
my first enlistment besides several skirmishes
about the York Island and on the North River.
Under my second inlistment I was in the Battle
at Brunswick I was in the Battle of the Short hills
I was also in several skirmishes in and about
Brunswick I was in a detatched party by order
of Genl. Sullivant under the command of Colo. 
Smith, at Statton Ilsnad at which place I was 
taken prisoner after several hard skirmishes I was
taken prisoner on the 22nd day of August 1777 as
I think I remained prisoner untill as I believe
the 13th of June following where I was exchanged & 
was placed in the same corps where I continued
until my discharge which was signed by Colo.
Hall, which discharge I put into the hands of
Thomas Bettes of Frederick County Maryland
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to obtain some remuneration for the depreciation
of the continental paper which discharge I never
was able to recover out of ^his ^ hands of I further
state that I filed a Declaration and was entered 
on the pension list as I verrily believe about AD 1820
under and act of the Congress of the United States
passed "on the eighteenth day of March eighteen
hundred and eighteen." under which I received
as I believe to the best of my recollection about
thirty six dollars. I have not since untill now
filed any other Declaration for the continuation
of my pension. that since the filing of my former
Declaration I have become much reduced in 
my circumstances, I sold for a good and valuable
consideration the property I held at the time of
the filing of the first Declaration for which property
I received a waggon, yoke of oxen and a small
still and one hundred and ninety dollars or 
thereabout in cash the amount of the whole
was three hundred dollars this sum I received for
my land the whole of which together with all
my other & personal except what will be hereafter
named now in my possession I gave to our [illegible]
Simpson of this county for one hundred and
sixty acres of land which land was deeded to
me by said Simpson the 25th dev. AD 1824, being
lot No. 28 and a part of lot No. 27. in 4th qd of 9 T. of
11 Range United States Military Trout Knox County
aforesaid that I was intirely ignorant of any
incumbrance on said land but so it is that
the said Simpson had previously given a
Mortgage Deed of said land to our Hardin
to secure the payments of a large sum of money
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which will more fully appear by reference to the 
Deporctiore of H Curtis esquire Atto. at  law who has
commenced an action at law on said Mortgage
deed that the said land will not sell as I verily
believe for a sufficient sum to clear the mortgage
and that the said Simpson is not in circumstances
to remunerate me for any part of the recourius
and property paid that is would be throwing away
money to make any attempt to recover anything
from him, I do solemnly affirm that I was a 
resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth
day of March eighteen hundred and eighteen and 
that I have not since that time by gift sale or 
in any manner disposed of my property or any part
thereof with intent thereby to diminish it so as to
bring my self within the provisions of an act of
Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain
persons engaged in the land and navel service of the 
United States in the RevolutionaryWar passed on the 18th
day of March 1818." and that I have not nor has any
person any interest for me, any property or securities, 
contracts, or debts due to me nor have I any income
directly or indirectly other than what is contained
in the Schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed
(to wit) One Agce, 1 pair horse Guns, 1 log chain 1 half
bushel 2 barrels one masous towele. I have in cash
fifty cents. there is due to me fifty dollars from my
oldest son, and six dollars from N. Middleton. I hold
another five dollar note which I do not believe to 
be worth one dollar.
I owe about two dollars -
I do further affirm that in the pension
which I had received and above named that the
pension came out in the name of Thomas Haly
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but that I am the same person that the variation
in the name arose from the manner in which my
name was spelt when I was young and in the 
army, that after wards my name has been spelt
Thomas Healea that in this method of spelling my
name was the most correct method of spelling it and
that I cannot write my own name
"Thomas X^his mark^ Healea."

I further affirm that my occupation has been 
that of a stone mason and brick layer that from my
advanced age and infirmatus I am incapable
of any kind of labor to any advantage to procure
a living I have a wife by name Casandra aged
about sixty seven years she is and has been very
frail and infirm for several years Able to render
but very little assistance to me for several years
which constitutes my present family. I have four 
children living two sons (to wit) Edward & Thomas and
two Daughters (to wit) Anna & Rachel who are
all married and compose no part of my present
family.    Thomas X^his mark^ Healea

And now at this say to wit. At a Court of Common
Pleas for the County of Knox aforesaid and before the
Judges of said court on the 19th June AD 1826
on the first day of the Term record is made and found
on the minutes of said Court. (to wit)

Thomas Healea an applicant for a petition for
his Revolutionary services under the act of Congress
appeared in Court with a Declaration of his Services
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[crossed out: under the act of Congress appeared in Court
with a Declaration of his services] in the Revolutionary
War Together with an Exhibit or Schedule of
his estate thereunto attached and by him subscribed
and here in open Court is duly Qualified to the
truth of the same. It is therefor ordered that the
[illegible] be placed among the files of this Court
and that the said Thomas Healea receive a certified
copy of said Declaration & Schedule and further
let it be certified that it is the opinion of this 
court that the property set forth in said
schedule is of the value of Sixty four dollars and
sixty two & one half cents. and that the said
Thomas Healea is indebted about two dollars
The State of Ohio Knox County Ss
I James Smith clerk of the Court
of Common pleas for said county
certify that the foregoing is a true
and correct copy of the Declaration
on file (in my office) of Thomas Healea
as also the proceedings had thereby
the Court aforesaid an appears by the records and
[illegible] of said Court. In testimony whereof I
hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said
Court at Mount Vernon the 5th July 1826
Attest James Smith Clk
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Copy
Deed   Thomas Healea To Edward Healea
This Indenture, made and executed this fourteenth day of October in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty four by and between
Thomas Healea and Cassander his wife of the County of Harrison and State of
Ohio, of the one part and Edward Healea of the county and State aforesaid
of the other part, Witnesseth, that the said Thomas Healea and Cassander his
wife for and in consideration of the sum of Three hundred Dollars lawful money of
the United States to them in hand paid, the Receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged 
and themselves therewith fully satisfied, Have granted bargained and sold, and by
these presents do grant bargain, sell, convey and confirm, unto the said Edward
Healea his heirs and assigns, a certain Tract or parcel of Land and premises, con=
taining Thirty acres, more or less, being the same Tract of land on which the said
Thomas Healea now resides, situate, lying and being in said Harrison County
and being part of the North East quarter of Section Number Thirty six, in 
the ninth Township and fourth Range of the district of Lands offered for
sale at Steubenville, and including all the balance of the Tract which the
said Thomas Healea purchased of Joshua Pumphrey which was not heretofore
by the said Thomas Healea sold & conveyed to the said Edward Healea,
together with all the privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging
or in any wise appertaining. To have and to hold the above described
tract of Land and premises with the appurtenances unto him the said Edward Hea=
lea his heirs and assigns, to the only proper use benefit and behoof of him the said
Edward Healer his heirs and assigns forever. And the said Thomas Healea for
himself and his heirs doth further covenant and agree to and with the said
Edward Healea his heirs and assigns, that he the said Thomas Healea the
above described tract of land and premises unto the said Edward Healea his
heirs and assigns shall & will warrant and forever defend against all persons
and claims whatsoever. In Testimony whereof the said Thomas Healea and
Cassander his wife have hereunto set their hands and affixed their seals the day the
day and year first above written - Thomas X^his mark^ Healy [hand drawn cloud with the word "Seal" written inside] 
Cassander X^her mark^ Healy [hand drawn cloud with the word "Seal" written inside] 

Signed sealed delivered &}
acknowledged in presence of}
John Busby, William Griffith}
State of Ohio}
Harrison County} Ss.  On the fourteenth day of October in the year of our Lor one thous=
and eight hundred and twenty four personally appeared before me one
[hand drawn cloud with the word "Seal" written inside] of the justices of the peace for said County, Thomas Healea and Cassander his wife
who acknowledged the within instrument of writing to be their act and Deed for the purposes
therein contained, and the said Cassander being examined seperate and apart from her
said husband did declare that she signed and sealed and as her act and Deed de=
livered the within instruments of writing freely without any coercion or compulsion
from her said husband. Given under my hand and seal the date above written.
John Busby Justice of the
peace
State of Ohio}
Harrison County} Ss.  Entered for Record April 4th 1825 and Recorded
April 14th 1825 - Attest William Tingley Recorder
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State of Ohio
Harrison County

Records Office

In testimony that the within deed is a true copy from the records of my office of Book C Page 470. I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 16th day of January A.D. 1827

Wm Tingley - Recorder
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41625

INVLAID.
REv War

File NO. 41625
Thomas Haley
Pri Rev War

Act: 18th March 1818
Index: - Vol G Page 212

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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See letter to
James Smith
22, July 1826
and to Hon. J.C. Wright, 26, Jan 1827


Sept 1820
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Continued
20th March 1827, Commg
17th March 1827, and 
Notification sent to
C. Dewey Esq, Cadiz 
Ohio

See letter to Hon J C Wright
H. Rep 12 May 1828

Duplicate certificate issued
14 May 1828 and sent to
Joh J.C. Wright

Sept 1820
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16681
OHIO

Thomas Haley of Harrison County in the state of Ohio who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Hall of the Maryland line for the term of three years.

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 3rd of September 1819

Certificate of Pension issued the 11th April 1820 and sent to the Hon Benj Ruggles
Senate, U.S.

Arrears to 4th of Mar 1820  $48.49
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1820 $48.00

5 mo/28/30 and 4/21  $96.49

{Revolutionary Claim Act 18th March 1818}
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Cadiz, Harrison County, Ohio March 20th 1827

Sir

I received a letter from Mr. Wright a few days since, enclosing one addressed to him from the pension office, requiring proof to be furnished by Thomas Haley before he can obtain a continuance of his pension, that the sale of his land in AD 1824 to his son Edward Haley was bona fide and that he had received the consideration [illegible]
All the facts of which evidence is required in the latter to which I refer are I think sufficiently proven by the accompanying depositions. I have never heard of the transaction between Thomas Haley and his son impeached here or the [illegible] of it doubted. Evidence is furnished by the depositions of John Busby and others of the [illegible] of Thomas Haley of about three fourths of the amount of the sale of his real personal property and no doubts are entertained by the deposeths or others acquainted with the parties that the balance was paid, but there does not appear to be any person here who positively knows that fact. Mr. Haley is certainly at this time in [illegible] circumstances. I have no doubt is a meritorious applicant. Should the evidence which is herewith furnished be deemed satisfactory and a certificate granted him, it will be most convenient for him to receive it at this place.

I have the honor to be very respectfully your obedient servant.
Channcey Dewey

Hon James Barbour
Secretary of War
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Written Horizontally

Mt Vernon
July 11

The Hon Secretary of the Treasury
of the United States War Department
for this Pension Office
Washington City D.C.

Written vertically over top of the above

rec'd 22 July 1826 from
Mount Vernon, Ohio

1 May 1820
Thomas Haley

James Smith
Mt. Vernon, Ohio
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Duplicate to previous Record

Written Horizontally

Mt Vernon
July 11

The Hon Secretary of the Treasury
of the United States War Department
for this Pension Office
Washington City D.C.

Written vertically over top of the above

rec'd 22 July 1826 from
Mount Vernon, Ohio

1 May 1820
Thomas Haley

James Smith
Mt. Vernon, Ohio
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July 5

enclosed is the deposition of Thomas 
an application for a renewal of his pension an Court [illegible] and if any other evidence should be required to prove the fact of the manner of his being reduced in his circumstances, I shall be able to introduce evidence in abundance the Dep of H Curtis Esq. I suppose to be sufficient.

Yours respectfully

James Smith for Thomas Healea
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Mr. J.L. Edwards

Pension Office
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House of Representatives
Washington City, 30th Jan 1824

Mr. J.L. Edwards,

Sir

I have just received additional evidence in the case of Thomas Healy an applicant for a pension, which I send with this. I commend them to your attention and hope you will find them satisfactory. I am personably acquainted with Judge Bingham and know him to be a man of [illegible] integrity and great respectability - with Mr. Healy I have a [illegible] acquaintance. He has been for several years very feeble, and I should suffice wholly unable to write from old age and infirmities - he has the reputation among his neighbors of being a very sober honest man - Should you deem the evidence sufficient, please place him on the pension list for the Pittsburg agency and I will forward it.

With great [illegible]
your obedient servant

J.C. Wright
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Written horizontally

Hon James Barbour
Secretary of War
Washington City

Written vertically

Pension Office 
[illegible]
Cadiz Ohio

20 March 1827

Enclosing T Healy 

Pension Papers
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Duplicate to Previous Record

Written horizontally

Hon James Barbour
Secretary of War
Washington City

Written vertically

Pension Office
[illegible]
Cadiz Ohio

20 March 1827

Enclosing T Healy

Pension Papers
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State of Ohio
Harrison County

Before me the undersigned one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in the said county personally appeared Thomas Haley who being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is the same person to whom a certificate of pension was granted by the Secretary of War some time as this deponent believes in the year AD 1819 which certificate was granted to this deponent by the name of Thomas Healea and this deponent further states that he never made out or filed a schedule of his property in conformity with the act of congress of the first of May AD 1820. Until sometime two years ago, when his property had become so reduced by accident and misfortune as to render it necessary for him again to apply to his country for assistance. And this deponent further states that on the 30 of March 1827 a notice was given him of his continuance on the pension roll of which notice which is now in his possession the following is a copy:

War Department
Pension Office 30th March 1827

Sir: You are hereby informed that the schedule of your property has been examined and the Secretary of War has directed you name to be continued on the pension roll. You will be paid at the [illegible] semi-annual payment in September next, the sum that may be then due from the Seventeenth of March 1827 agreeably to the act of the 18th March 1823.

I am respectfully your obedient servant
J.L. Edwards
"To Mr Thomas Haley
U.S. Pensions

And this deponent further states that he never received any pension under his said original certificate of pension except what was due on the 18th of March 1820 the same being about thirty six dollars nor has be received any since the notice of his continuance
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the pension Roll. and this depont further States that
said original certificate of pension has been lost
six or seven years since by accident & that he has
not been able to find the same. And this dpeonent
further States that he has lately made application for
the payment of his pension from the Seventeenth of March
1827 to the agent for paying pensions at Pittsburgh,
State of Pennsylvania, and that he is informed by said
agent that it is necessary for him to furnish a copy of
his original certificate; which he is unable to do
without first obtaining the same from the Pension office.
And further this deponent saith not.
Thomas X^his mark^ Haley
Sworn and Subscribed before
me..This Second day of May
...AD 1828
Thos. Bingham} Associate Judge

I certify that the words "as this deponent believes" intilled between the
Sixth & Seventh lines and the words "except what was due
on the 4th of March 1820. the same being about thirty six
dollars" above the last line on the first page were
[illegible] before [illegible] of this deponents.
Thos Bingham} Associate Judge
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State of Ohio}
Harrison County}Ss  I William Tingley Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas within and for said County of Harrison
do hereby certify that Thomas Bingham Esqr..
before whom the foregoing Deposition of Thomas
Haley was made and taken, and whose name
to the foregoing Certificate thereof and to the
Certificate thereto, also relative to the interlineation
in said Depositions made; was at the time of
taking said Depositon and certifying the same [illegible], and now is
one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas within
and for said County of Harrison, duly Commissioned and 
qualified, and to all whose acts as such, both Judicial & ministerial
full faith and credit is due_ And I do hereby certify
further_ that the foregoing signatures of the said Thos. Bingham
Esq. to the foregoing certificates, above mentioned, is genuine. _
In Testimony whererof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
the seal of said Court at Cadiz this second day of
May AD. 1828.
William Tingley Clerk of
Court

This certifies that I am personally acquainted with the herein before named Thomas
Healy, a pensioner - I think his renewe Pension
Certificate was obtained through my agency,
I know of no other person of the same name
at or near Cadiz of the same name. Mr
Healy is well known about Cadiz, and parti-
cularly to Judge Bingham before whom Healy's
affidavit was taken - Judge Bingham is a gen-
tleman of unimpeachable integrity - he was instru-
mental in taking the evidence & forwarding the papers
on which the renewed Pension Certificate was obtain-
ed and could not be deceived as to the identity of the
pensioner Healy, & his character precludes the idea
of his certifying to enable [underlined: any other than the identical
pensioner] to get a certificate. - I have not a shadow
of doubt of the identity of the applicant with the Pensioner.
13 May 1828.  J. C. Wright
Mem Congress for Ohio
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Mt Vernon Ohio May 29th 1826
As the attorney at law of Wm Benja-
=min Harding of this State I have now in
the process of collection in the court of
common pleas of Knox County a claim
against Jesse Simpson for a sum of
two hundred & ninety five dollars and a little
rising including interest on the sum
The claim is secured by a mortgage Deed
which purports to have been executed
by Mr Simpson on the 24th July 1819 to wit
of Lots number 25 - 26 - 29 & 28 of the 9th
Township in the 11th Range of the United States 
Military tract in Ohio These lots from this
best information I have been able to obtain 
of their value will not probably produce at
Shss sale under the mortgage a sum much if
any exceeding the amt of the above claim
& costs I believe that no legal objection can
be started to injure the lien of Mr Harding
upon said land for the full amt of his
claim  I have conferred with Mr Simp-
son upon the subject of the claim & he
has never pretended to deny the justice
of it to the full extent & I believe it 
is all due.  According to the best in-
=formation I have been able to collect
Mr Simpsons pecuniary circumstances are
such as that the land must be relied
upon by Mr Harding as the only substan-
=tial source to collect the sum &
under this belief I have commanded
suit upon the mortgage and against
the
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the said land pursuant to the statute
law of this State - I have been in-
=formed that a Mr Thomas Haily and aged
man some years since the execution of
the mortgage by Mr Simpson purchased of
him Lot No 28 & part of 27 & has paid the
amount of his purchase money not knowing
at the time of the existence of the above
mortgage.  From the premises already stated
it is presumed that unless Mr Simpsons future
acquirements should furnish the means of
refunding to Mr Haley the amount by 
him advanced he must in all probabil-
=ity lose the same
The above explanation & statement
I give at the request of Mr Haley
to enable him to present to the war
office a full view of his circumstan-
=ces in application he contemplates
making for a pension
Hosmer Curtiss

The State of Ohio}
Knox County} Ss Hosmer Curtiss
makes Solleum affi-
=davit that in the forgoing statement he
has stated truly the facts known to him
and he verrily believes the information
suggestions & inferrences therein
recited are also true
Hosmer Curtiss
Sworn and subscribed before
me this 29th day of May
AD 1826 JW Siberry JP [hand drawn cloud with the word "Seal" written inside]
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The State of Ohio Knox County 
I James Smith Clerk of the Court
of Common Pleas for said county
certify that James McGibbony
esquire before whom the foregoing
affidavit was made now is and
was at the time and date thereof one of the
Justices of the peace in and for said County to all 
whom official acts and deeds as such full faith
and credit are due in all counts of Justice or
else wherer In testimony whereof I hereunto set my
hand and seal of my office at Mt. Vernon
the 29th day of May 1826
[illegible] James Smith clk
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State of Ohio}
Harrison County} Ss   Before me one of the associate
Judges of the Court of Common Pleas
in & for said county personally appeared
Edward haley, who being duly Sworn
doth depose and say, that he has been
living in the neighborhood of Thomas
Haley since the 18th March 1818 & hath
him well acquainted with the pecuiary
circumstances of the Said Thomas Haley
from that time until the present. 
And this deponent further states that the
said Thomas Haly on said 18th day of
March 1818 owned no property except
thirty acres of land, being part of the north
east quarter of Section no 36 in Township No 9 of Range No 4 in the Steubenville
district, together with some little Stock
& farming utinsils, which, this deponent,
from the length of time which has elapsed
cannot particularly describe, but which 
he is certain did not exceed one hundred & sixty
Dollars in value. And this deponent further
states that from said 18th day of March 1818
untill the 14th day of October 1824 Said
Thomas Haley from his age & bodily infirmaties
was unable to labour but little, and that
his property during that time was not increased
but rather diminished by the necessary support
of himself and family. and this deponent
further states that during the whole of said
time no ^other^ change took place in said Thomas
Haley's property except the occasional sale of
some small articles of personal property for the
purpose of prowring the [illegible] for the subsistence
of his family. And this deponent further states
that on said 14th day of October 1824 he this deponent
purchased of the said Thomas Haley the said thirty acres
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of land at & for the sum of three hundred Dollars,
and on the same day [illegible] this deponent also
purchased of the said Thomas Haley all his
Stock and farming utensils ^ & household furniture^ (except one horse
creature & tow Lids & bidding for the same) and 
all his other chattel & [illegible] property. consisting
of three acres of wheat and rye & one & a half
acre of corn, ^in the ground^ two horned cattle, two hogs,
six sheep, two tons of hay. twenty bushels of rye &
wheat unthreshed, forty bushels of potatoes in the ground
four chairs, one table, one cupboard and [illegible]
few other articles of kitchen furniture, which this deponent does not
recollect all which personally property this deponent purchased
at and for the sum of one hundred & fourteen
Dollars and this deponent further states that
he paid the Said Thomas Haley one hundred
& fifty Dollars in hand and one note of 
hand against one Archibold McIntire for
thirty one Dollars & one copper still at
thirty Seven Dollars. And further this deponent
states that about the 1st day of December
1824 he gave the said Thomas Haly one
yoke of steers at the sum of thirty six Dollars
and one waggon at the sum of fifty Dollars.
& at the same he settled with one Samuel
Amspoker the sum of two Dollars & with one
Peter Ferril the sum of eight Dollars which
the said Thomas Haley was owing to the said
Amspoker and Ferril. And further this deponent
says that on the first day of April 1825 he paid
to said Thomas Haley the sum of fifty Dollars
& on the 15t day of April 1826 the further sum
of fifty Dollars. And this deponent further 
saith that he has understood and believed that
the said Thomas some time about the 1st of November
1824 recieved the amount of said note from the
said McIntire & that some time in December
1824 the said Thomas purchased from one
Jesse Simpson in the county of Knox in said
State one hundred & sixty acres of land, for which 
he paid him two hundred & twenty five dollars
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Jesse Simpson in the County of Knox in said state one hundred and sixty acres of land for which he paid him two hundred and twenty five dollars that in the said house gave the said Simpson in part pay for said land, the said wagon and still that he paid him the balance in cash and this deponent further says that he has said horse creature which the said Thomas retained at the time of said sale on the 14th day of October 1824 did not expand in value forty five or fifty dollars and the deponent understood and believes that the said Thomas a short time after said 14th day of October 1824 exchanged the same for another horse which he sold on or about the 1st of March 1825 for fifty dollars He received the pay for the same and further this deponent states that he has understood and believes that said tract of land purchased by the said Thomas from the said Simpson had been previously mortgaged by the said Simpson for a sum fully equal to it value and that said Simpson has become insolvent and this deponent further states that shorty before such the said Thomas purchased said land of said Simpson, he has travelled from this place (where he now resides) at went five or six times to said County of Knox to the County of Richland adjoining the same (either of which is a distance of 90 miles from this place) either in search of land or in [illegible] to find out some means of [illegible] said Simpsons and that his trading expenses could not have been left than forty or fifty dollars and this deponent further states that since said 14th day of October 1824 the said Thomas Haley has been unable from old age and bodily infirmity to support himself by his own labor and that he has been living principally with his children all of whom are in moderate and most of them in low circumstances and that he has been under the veracity during all that time of purchasing his own clothing and paying for the same but of the [illegible] of said sale of his property.
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and this deponent further says that the said Thomas has no property at this time except his necessary clothing and bedding and excepting also about twenty five dollars in money; and this deponent believes that the said Thomas has never seen the 18th of March 1818 disposed of any article of his property with a view to diminish it as to enable him to obtain a pension from the general government and that he had no intention of again applying for a pension until the [illegible] he sustained by the purchase of said tract of land from the said Simpson.
And further this deponent saith not 

Edward Healea

Sworn and [illegible] before me this sixteenth day of Jan AD 1827

Thomas Bingham - Associate Judge
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State of Ohio
Harrison County

Before me one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said county personally appeared Thomas Thompson who being duly sworn doth depose and say that he has lived within less than half a mile of Thomas Haley from the year 1816 until he the said Haley sold his farm which consisted of thirty acres of land and other property on the 14th day of October 1824 and that during all that time he was well acquainted with the circumstances of said Haley and this deponent further states that from the 18th day of March 1818 until said 14th day of October 1824 the said Haley owned no real estate except said thirty acres of land from this deponent's knowledge of his personal property it could not during said time have extended one hundred and fifty or sixty dollars in value; that it consisted wholly of one horse creature, one or two cows and some few farming utensils and some little household furniture of little value; that the amount of the said Haley's personal property during said time did not carry much value nor in the articles of property but continued in early the same and this deponent further states that on or about the 14th day of October 1824 said Haley sold said land to one Edward Haley for the sum of three hundred dollars and on the same day that he also sold to said Edward all his personal property except one mare and some little bedding for the sum of one hundred and fourteen dollars which said deponent he has understood and believes that the said Thomas Haley had received in money and other property and this
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deponent further states that the articles of
personal property so sold to the said Edward
Holy consisted of one or two horned cattle
two bays, a small quantity of grain in the
ground & a few bushels in the barn unthrushed
& some little household furniture. And this
deponent further says that the said
Edward Haley gave the full value for 
said land & personal property. And further
this deponent states that during several of the
last years that said Thomas Haley owned
said land it was with difficulty that he
was able to support himself & his family
by his own personal labour and that his
neighbors would frequently from charitable
notions render him some assistance in plowing
his land & taking care of his crops. And further
this deponent says that for two or three years
past the said Thomas Haley, from an increase
of bodily infirmities & old age has [illegible] able
to contribute but little towards his subsistence
by his own labour; and that he has always
been since, his (this deponents first acquaintance
with him, a man of industrious and moral
habits. And this deponent further says that
since the sale of his property to the
said Edward Haley, the said Thomas has
been living principally with his children, all
of whom ^are^ in moderate circumstances: and that
he has [illegible] under the [illegible] during that
time of clothing him if out of the proceeds
of said sale and this deponent further
states that he believed that [crossed out: said] the proceeds
of said sale have nearly expanded
[crossed out: the [illegible] of said sale] by the said Thomas
in the necessary support of himself & [crossed out: together] in the payments of some small debts which
he was owing at the time of said sale & in
the purchase of a tract of land in Knox County
from one Simpson which this deponent has
understood that [illegible] previously mortgaged for
[cut off] its value & that said Simpson has become
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From one Simpson which this deponent has understood had been previously mortgaged for at both it value that said Simpson has become insolvent, and this deponent further states that he believes that said Haley from his age and infirmities and reduced circumstances stands in need of assistance from his country; and that he would not have made an application at this time, that it was not his intention to do so until he sustained said [illegible] by the purchase of said land in said county of Knox.
And further this deponent saith not.
Thos Thompson
Sworn and subscribed before me this sixteenth day of Jan AD 1827
Thomas Bingham - Associate Judge

State of Ohio
Harrison County

Before me one of the Judges of the court of Common Pleas of said Harrison County personally appeared John Mathew who being duly sworn doth depose and say that he had resided within a mile from Thomas Haley (the person who this deponent has understood made an application at the last full term of the court of common pleas of Knox County to be continued on the pension roll" since the year 1817. He has been well acquainted with the said Thomas Haley and with his precarious circumstances from that time until the present. and this deponent further states that he has heard the above deposition of Thomas Thompson read and from his this deponents knowledge of the circumstances and character of the said Thomas Haley from said year 1817 until the present time, he has no doubt of the truth of all the matters set forth on the said deposition of the said
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Thomas Thompson and further this deponent said not

John Mathews

Sworn and subscribed before me this sixteenth day of Jan 1827.

Thomas Bingham - Associate Judge

State of Ohio 
Harrison County

Before me one of the associate Judges of the court of common pleas in and for the said county of Harrison personally appeared James Scott who being duly sworn doth depose and say that he has been well acquainted with Thomas Haley for fie years now last past and with his [illegible] circumstances, that said Haley during the greater part of said time and especially for the three last years has been unable from old age and bodily infirmities to contribute but little towards his support; that ever since the said Haley sold his land in October 1824 he has been principally residing with his children, most or all of whom are in low circumstances. And this deponent further says that said Haley while residing with his said children, occasionally furnished some provisions and the like towards paying for his boarding and provided himself with his own clothing which was done out of the proceeds of said sale of his property in October 1824. And this deponent further states that said Haley could not have clothed himself comfortably for a less sum than from things to forty
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that said Haley could not have clothed himself comfortably for a [illegible] sum than from thirty to forty dollars a year. and this deponent further states that the said Haley at the said sale of his land and other property in October 1824 retained a certain mare, worth [illegible] this deponent believes about forty dollars and that some time in the part of the year 1825 one Thomas Haley in the sum of the said applicant exchanged for him the said mare for another horse and gave his note with this deponent as security for twelve dollars, the difference between said horses payable six months after and this deponent further states that said note was paid by the said Thomas Haley (the said applicant for a pension) about the time the same became due, and that the horse so received in exchange was subsequently exchanged for another which the said Haley sold for fifty dollars. And this deponent further states that some time in the month of June or July helped care as this deponent thinks, the said Haley gave this deponent the sum of forty eight dollars for safe keeping for him the said Haley which even this deponent believes was all the money or other property which the said Haley possessed or owned/except an interest in a tract of land which he had some time before that purchased in Knox County and which this deponent believes was of no value to him on account of a mortgage with which it was in encumbered and excepting also some little bedding. and this deponent further states that slightly after he received said sum of money the said Haley applied to him for [illegible] seventeen dollars of said money as he was going to said county of Knox to bring back his bedding and to endeavour to find some remedy against Smipson the person of whom he had purchased said lands and this deponent further states that some time during the last fall he purchased and paid for a pair of boots for said Haley the sum of four dollars and that he has at other times let him have from one to two dollars each time for the purchase of some small articles of [illegible]
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and this deponent further states that he said Haley hath been ever since this deponents first acquaintance with him aware of moral and industrious habits. and further this deponent states that he is fully satisfied that the said Haley has not unnecessarily extended ay part of his property and that he has not disposed of any of it in any way for the purpose of so reducing its amount as to enable him to be continued on or restored to the pension roll; and that he had no intention of again applying making application for that pension until he lost the greatest part of his property which was remaining by the purchase of said land in Knox County. And this deponent further states that there is now in his hands the sum of twenty dollars belonging to said Haley which is the balance said [illegible] of forty eight dollars which remains unexpended and as this deponent believes is the only money or property of any kind belonging to said Haley except said interest in said land in the County of Knox and some little clothing and bedding. And further this deponent saith not.

James Scott

Sworn and subscribed before me this sixteenth day of Jan 1824

Thomas Bingham - Associate Judge
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State of Ohio
Harrison County

Before me one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county of Harrison personally appeared Joseph Forker who being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is and has been for several years now last past a clerk in the store of Thomas Bingham Esq. in said county and that Thomas Haley has been in the practice of purchasing at said store small articles of clothing and other necessaries for his support at different times since the 14th of October 1824. And his deponent further says that as said Haley generally paid the money whenever he purchased any articles at said store - no entry was made of them but this deponent thinks from his last recollection that the amount of goods which has been got and paid for at said store by said Haley since the 14th of October 1824 is from twenty to thirty dollars.

And further this deponent saith not.

Joseph Forker

Sworn and subscribed before me this sixteenth day of Jan AD 1827

Thomas Bingham - Associate Judge

State of Ohio
Harrison County

I Thomas Bingham one of the associate judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Edward Healea, Thomas Thompson, John Matern, James Scott and Joseph Forker the persons respectively making and subscribing the foregoing depositions and that they are all men of credibility and that said depositions and the matter therein contained and set forth are entitled to full faith and credit given under my hand and seal this sixteenth day of Jan AD 1827

Thomas Bingham 
Associate Judge
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State of Ohio
Harrison County

I William Tingley Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said county of Harrison do hereby certify that the within named Thomas Bingham Esquire before whom the foregoing depositions were taken and whose name to the foregoing certificates thereof are subscribed was at the time of taking and certifying said depositions and now is one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County of Harrison duly commissioned and sworn and to all whose acts as such both Judicial and ministerial full faith and credit is due and I do further certify that the within signature purporting to be his is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Cadiz this 16th day of January AD 1827.

Wm Tingley - Clerk
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Auditor's Office, Annapolis, April 7th 1827

I hereby certify, that it appears from the muster-rolls remaining in the Auditor's Office, that Thomas Hailey enlisted as a Private in the 4th Maryland Regiment, on the 11th day of Feby 1777 and was discharged on the 11th Feby 1780.

Tho Karney - A.G.S. Md.
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State of Ohio
Harrison County

I John Busby being duly sworn doth depose and say that in October 1824 Thomas Haley sold to Edward Haley his son thirty acres of land in said Harrison County for the sum of three hundred dollars as this deponent believes which and was in the opinion of this deponent the full value of said land; and this deponent further states that he has been long acquainted with the said Thomas and Edwards Haley and that their expectation for honesty is as fair as that of any other even in the neighborhood and this deponent fully believes that said sale was made in perfect good faith and with no intention to enable the said Thomas thereby to procure a continuance of his pension and this deponent further states that he was the person before whom as justice of the peace the dee for said land was acknowledged and that at the time of the acknowledgement of said deed, said Edward paid to said Thomas as part of the purchase price of said land the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars which this deponent counted over for said Haley at his request, and also at the same time the said Edward transferred to said Thomas one promissory note for the sum of thirty dollars against one Archibald McIntire in further part payment for said land. And this deponent then drew obligations for the balance of the price of said land and the personal property which the said Edwards had purchased of said Thomas; except one copper still the price of which was agreed upon at from thirty to forty dollars as this deponent believes and which was afterwards delivered to said Thomas. And this deponent further states that one of said obligations was subsequently discharged in the manner agreed upon by the delivery of one wagon at fifty dollars
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and one pair of steers at the sum of thirty dollars. and this deponent further states that he has understood and believes that the balance of said obligations which amounted as this deponent thinks to the sum of four hundred and fourteen dollars or thereabouts including said money which was paid in land and said note of thirty dollars and said still was discharged at or about the several times when the same became due. And further this deponent states that about the time at which one of said obligations became due, this deponent was owing to said Edward a sum of money and that said Edward when he applied for the same told this deponent that he was making up money for his father to pay for the land he had purchased from him the last payment of and for said land. .And further this deponent saith not.

John Busby

State of Ohio
Harrison County

SEAL

Sworn and subscribed before me one of the associate judges for Harrison County this 17th day of March 1827.

Thos Bingham - Associate Judge

State of Ohio
Harrison County

I Thomas Bingham one of the associate judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said County do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Thos Thompson, Morris West, Samuel Maholm, Joshua Hamilton and John Busby Esq the persons respectfully making and subscribing the foregoing depositions and that they are all men of credibility and that said depositions and the matter therein contained and set forth are entitled to full faith and credit.

Given under my hand and seal this seventeenth day of March AD 1827

Thos Bingham - Associate Judge  SEAL
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Harrison County

Thomas Thompson being duly sworn doth depose and say that he has lived for several years last past within about half a mile of the thirty acres of land formerly owned by Thomas Haley and which was sold by him on the 14th day of October AD 1824; that said Haley offered said land for sale to others at the same price at which it was purchased by his sone Edward Haley. and this deponent considered and believes that the price paid by said Edward for said land was the full value of the same and was as much as any other person was willing to give. and this deponent knows that said Thomas Haley received from said Edward as part of the purchase price of said land one copper still, one pair of steers and one wagon and has understood and believes that he received at different times the balance of the purchase price in money. And this deponent further states that he understood from Said Thomas Haley at and before the time of said sale that his object in making the sale was to purchase with the proceeds a larger tract of land to give the use of it to two of his children who had no land with the condition on their part to support him during the remainder of his life, he believing that to be the only way in which he could procure a support without labor which he was not able to do and further this deponent saith not.

Thos Thompson

State of Ohio
Harrison County
Sworn and subscribed before me the subscriber one of the associate judges of for Harrison County this 14th day of March 1829

Thom Bingham - Associate Judge

SEAL
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State of Ohio
Harrison County

Morris West being duly sworn doth depose and say that he has lived for the last twelve years within about a quarter of a mile of the tract of land of thirty acres in said county which Thomas Haley some time in the fall of 1824 sold to his son Edward Haley and that he has during all that time been well acquainted with the said Thomas Haley and this deponent further says that he is fully satisfied that the sale of said land by said Thomas to his said son was made in good faith and that it was made for the full value of said land and with no intention on the part of said Thomas to enable him thereby to get himself restored to the pension roll. and this deponent further states that he believes that said Thomas had never any intention of again applying for a pension until the [illegible] he sustained by the purchase of a tract of land in Knox County from one Simpson and futher this deponent states that said Thomas before he sold said thirty acres of land to his said son had offered the same to others at the same or a lower price than that which he received from Edward Haley. And further this deponent states that he has always understood and believes the same to be true that said Thomas has received the consideration which by the agreement and sale he was to received for said Thirty acres of land from his said sone and that the transaction was through between said Thomas and Edward made in the [illegible] good faith. and further this deponent states that in all his dealings with said Thomas Haley he has found him strictly honest and in this deponent is fully satisfied that the said Thomas would not have applied for a pension at
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he has found ...
deponent is fully satisfied that the said Thomas would not have applied for a pension at this time if his necessities and inability to labor did not make it difficult or impossible to prodcure a subsistence without some assistance from his country and further said not.

Morris West
His X Mark

State of Ohio
Harrison County
SEAL

Sworn and subscribed before me one of the associate judges of Harrison County this 14th day of March 1827

Thos Bingham - Associate Judge

State of Ohio
Harrison County

Samuel Maholm being duly sworn doth depose and say that he has lived for several years past in the neighborhood of the land which was sold in the fall of the year 1824 by Thomas Haley to his son Edward, that said land was sold for its full value and for as much as any other person would have been willing to give for it. And this deponent has not any doubt but said sale was made in good faith and for the purpose of enabling the said Thomas the better to secure a maintenance during the remainder of his life by the purchase of a larger tract and to give the use of it to some of his children who were poor upon condition that they should support him during his natural life. And this deponent has always understood and believes that Edward Haley has paid the full consideration for said land to the said Thomas Haley and that the same has been expended by said Thomas in his necessary support and in the purchase of a tract of land in Knox County which he is likely to or has last and further this deponent saith not.

Samuel Maholm

State of Ohio
Harrison County
SEAL

Sworn and subscribed before me one of the associate judges of Harrison County this 14th day of March 1827. Thos Bingham - associate judge 

State of Ohio
Harrison County

Joshua Hamilton being duly sworn doth depose and say that he has lived in the neighborhood of the tract of land of thirty
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acres which in the fall of 1824 was sold by Thomas Haley to his son Edward that said land was sold for its full value and this deponent has now always understood and believes that the said Thomas has received from said Edward the full consideration which he was to receive for said land and in the same way in which it was to have been paid. and this deponent further says that before said Thomas sold said land to said Edward he offered the same to this deponent for the sum of $10 per acre making for the whole only three hundred dollars. And further saith not.

Joshua Hamilton

State of Ohio
Harrison County
SEAL

Sworn and subscribed before me one of the associate judges for Harrison County this 14th day of March 1827.

Thos Bingham - Associate Judge

State of Ohio
Harrison County
SEAL

I William Tingley Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County of Harrison do hereby certify that the above named Thomas Bingham Esq. before whom the foregoing depositions of John Busby, Thomas Thompson, Morris West, Joshua Hamiton and Samuel Maholm appear to have been taken and whose name to the certificate thereof is subscribed, was at the time of taking said depositions and certifying the same and now is one of the associate judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said Harrison County, duly commissioned and qualified and to all whose acts as such full faith and credit is due. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Cadiz this 17th day of March AD 1827.

William Tingley - Clerk