Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 15555, Ward Bailey, Vt.
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Service
Vt.
Bailey, Ward
             Mary
Number
W.15555.
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[?18 1/4]

Mr. John Bailey
Colebrook
N.H.
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Methuen Oct. 26 1836
Mr John Bailey
     [Dear?] Sir your letter of
the 18th has been received, and I have
attended to your request after spending much
time I have found the following record
as appears by the Book of Records for the 
town of Methuen and which I certify under
oath.
"February 7th, 1765 then [ward?] Bailey of Bridgewater
and Mary Sargent of Methuen was married by
the Rev. Christopher Sargent Pastor of the first Church
in Methuen."
A true copy [?Mr.] [Miles?] Merrill [?T] Clarke
Methuen Oct. 26 1836.
Respectfully Yours
[Myles/] Merrill
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No 1071
New Hampshire       
Susannah Holley

Mary Beach, Abigail Bradley
Ira Bailey and John Bailey, children
of Mary Bailey, dec'd: who was the widow of Ward Bailey, dec'd: private ? who died on the 26th December 1823--of Coos Co. in the State of New Hampshire, who was Lieutenant in the _______ commanded by Captain _________ of the _________ commanded by ________ in the New Hampshire line for 13 ms. 3 days--Lieutenant & 11 m 25d--private
Inscribed on the Roll of Concord, NH at the rate of 214 Dollars 11 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
January
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 day of [January, added by carat] December 1842, and sent to J. Marshall Stratford, New Hampshire 3rd??
Arrears to the 4th of
Semi-annual allowance ending
Revolutionary Claim
Act July 4, 1836
Section the
Recorded by ? Stewart--clerk
Book ? Vol. third Page 22
 Increased from $ annum
?? 13. Dec. 44
see agent
See ?? to Agent 21 January 184
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[illegible] 
Declaration
In order to 
tection of the act of Congress of the 4 July 1836
for
orter on the heir of
Conemon they say, 1836
State of the
on this twenty fourth de
I
of been
1836 only
now no otherham
& Partice of the
as within and
County of
Mary Eakley a resident
of Corbin Ment of her and of New Hamp
shire and ninty three years, who being first duly sworn
according to law duty on her oath make the following
tration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision
made by the act of Congress, passed July the
that she is the widow of the Word Bailey who was a
interest in the State service of it during the
Revolution than that he is a man
of time in the year 1780 or 1781 in the city of
Milton in the State of Vermont of which he had
the command and Lieutenant was
Lieutenant under him in the man
the
was employed as rangers to guard and protect the
for Sellement on Connecticut in ment
and New Hampshire from the ravages
that they were sometimes well
&
called out
were sent out in parties in different direction to
make discoveries of the movements the Indians
and it being surprised and taken by
the even as
the
that the said
ed at
cording to her best knowledge and be in the
ering of the year of 1780 or 1781 and continual
through the year untill late in the fall when
they became so deep that the Indians
said not me through the woods, which
was the bear about four months in the year
that as near as he can recollect the soldiers well
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Kept in service eight months in the year, that she
is not distinct in her recollection how many season her husband was in the service but thinks it was not
than two turns of eight months each and the
does not know but three times.
She said Bailey commenced his services at
said Maidone Vt, where he there resided,
opposite the court across Connecticut River in
Northumberland N. H. During the whole in
of his service, excepting some part of the time
when immediate danger was appended
from the enemy his family resided in Northumberland N.H. near the four
She further declares that he was married to the Ward Bailey on the ninth day of Jan
in the year 1765 in the town of Wathen in the state of Massachusetts 
assured by the Rev. Cristopher Sargent her
Father and that her husband the above said Ward Bailey died on the twenty sixth day of December Domini 1823, and that she has remained a Widow
ever since that period; as will more fully appear
by refering to the proof hereto annexed.
that there will some documentary papers or records
among her husbands papers as the understood, that
might have been of use to her in showing her his [illegible]
and services, that four or five years ago her
son Bramus Bailey was making preperation to
apply for his Pension he took those papers and has and those papers are said to be lost, that
she has been so blind for what twenty years a
the could not read and does not know the contents
of those papers - She further state that there having been
soldiers kept in the Court at Northumberland New Hampshire
[illegible] to Maidstone in the State of Vermont where they
resided during five or six years and her husband having
frequently taken an active part at the frequent allow
in those times and scouting parties being no bequently
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and out during the year 1776, 1779, 110 1781, 1782, and no thinking
of her ending called in question concerning her husband,
the cannot say positively what year he commenced his
but believes that it commenced in 1780 and continued there
Spring Summon and full of that year and the same
sons of the year 1781, but it might not have commenced
for the spring of 1781, and continued as she believes
about eight months in the year
of
Attest
by me.
Mary Bailey [illegilbe]
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me Joshua Marshall a Justice of the Court
of Common Pleas

I further certify that the above named Mary Bailey  cannot from bodily infirmity attend the Court to make her declaration, that the foregoing declaration was taken and 
Comber above mentioned at the place of Residence of the
of said Mary Bailey
Jashua
Marshall Justice of the Court of Common Pleas

I within certify that the above named Mary Bailey was [illegible] a good morral daughter of my knowledge for more than forty years last past during the whole time
of my acquaintance with her and had her mental
sureties are now good and that she is a credible witness.
Joshua Marshall
Justice of the Court of Common Pleas

and I the said Judge do hereby declare my opinion that the said Ward Bailey husband of the above named Mary Bailey was a Lieutenant in the service of the Vermont
Militia during the Revolutionary War and ward as the said Mary Bailey States
Joshua Marshall Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Coos
the above words are the cotton thread by me
Joshua Marshall Judge of the Court of  Common Pleas
-
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Stratford
Widow of Ward Bailey
N.H.
Adm Leut 12 Mos
$160 per ann. comm
4 March 1831.
at State troops
See the pages of
B Bailey, hos son
or the Roll RE 28.707
0 6000
John Marshall Esq
Strafford N. H. 

State of New Hampshire ⎬ J Adin N. Brackett, Clerk
Cove ss. Ad 19, 1837
of the superior Court Judge
lature, I certify that for a Marshall is an associate Justice of the Court of Common Pleas within & for said
County of War, that the within signature purporting to be his is genuine, & that full faith & credit should be given
to the same. In witness of which I have hereto set my name, & affixed the seal of said Court the day & year above written.
A.N. Brackett, Clerk
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State of New Hampshire
County of Coos, ??  On this 28th day of October A.D. 1850 personally appeard before me a Justice of the Peace and for said county, John Bailey of Columbia in said County, who being duly sworn according to law on oath declares that he is a son of Ward Bailey and Mary Bailey, his widow who was pensioned under the law of July 4 1836 and died in said Columbia Jany 13, 1840 that his said father Ward Bailey was an officer and soldier in the War of the Revolution and that his said Mother was in the first place placed on the pension list of N.H. at $160 dollars per annum and after her death was increased to $214.11 on account of service as a Lieutenant and that he has good reasons to believe that said Ward Bailey served one year in Col. Tim Bedels Regt. in 1778 & 1779 as a private for which no allowance has yet been made and he now makes this declaration as one of the said children of said Ward and Mary Bailey for the purpose of having this case reexamined and the balance allowed if any is due
[Signature] John Bailey
Subscribed and sworn to the day and year first above mentioned
Before me
C.W. Burt Justice of the peace
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John Bailey, Dec'd (?)
Oct. 28, 1850
Mary Bailey's Heirs
Widow of Ward Bailey
Columbia, N.H.
I James M. Rix, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for the County of Coos, State of New Hampshire, do hereby certify that Charles W. Burt is a Justice of Peace within and for said county as was then and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this first day of November, A.D. 1850
James M. Rix Clerk
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State of New Hampshire Coos fs.
At the Court of Common Pleas holden at Lancaster within and for said County, on the Third Tuesday of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty one
Present
Hon. Nath'l  G. Upham, Presid'g Justice
Joshua Marshall & Richard Eastman Associate Justices
It was proved to the satisfaction of said Court that Susannah Holley of the Province of Canada, Mary Beech of Sharon in the State of Ohio, Abigail Bradley of Fayeburg in the State of Maine, Ira Bailey of Victor in the State of New York and John Bailey of Columbia in said county of Coos were all the reputed children and legal heirs of Mary Bailey late of said Columbia deceased, that were living at the time of the death of the said Mary Bailey, and are all now living, for aught that is known to the contrary.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this third day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty one.
James M. Rix, Clerk
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State of New Hampshire
Coos County
[the above are placed in a bracket on the right side, with the letters "ff" on the other side of the bracket.]
On this second day of November in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty one, personally appeared before the probate Court holden at Lancaster within and for said County of Coos, John Bailey, a resident of Columbia in the County and State aforesaid, who being first duly Sworn according to law, doth on his Oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain for the heirs of Mary Bailey, deceased, the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed July 4th 1836, that he is Administrator of Mary Bailey late of Columbia in said County of Coos deceased, who was the Widow of Ward Bailey late of Lemington in the County of Essex and State of Vermont deceased, that the said Mary Bailey, at the time of her death, was a Pensioner of he United States, for services rendered by her husband the said Ward Bailey in the army of the Revolution of the United States, that at the time the said Mary Bailey made her application for a pension, it was supposed that all the services of her said husband, the said Ward, were proved in the papers accompanying the application of Orsamos Bailey, and the reference to them would furnish all the proof that
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was necessary, and it was not known at that time, that any further proof could be furnished, but he the said John Bailey, has since [carot mark to insert "since" between has and learned, since written above the line] learned that the said Mary was allowed only for the services of one year as a Lieutenant, when in fact the said Ward Bailey served over thirteen months in that capacity and that previous to his services as a Lieutenant he served eleven months and twenty five days in the year 1778 as a private in the Company commanded by Capt Luther Richarson and that for said services under Richardson and for one month and three as ["as" crossed out] as a Lieutenant [carot mark here inserts "as a lieutenant" after 'days"] she has received no pension - [that he be-hues] the services of the said Ward Bailey as his tenant [] informed in the years 1781 and 1782. The words, said [??]["said and ??? are underlined] and as a lieutenant["as a lieutenant" is underlined] was [??] before {???[???] or [???] to
John Bailey
[sentences below too faded to read or blotted/bled through]
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November 7, 1935
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Mrs. John Driscoll
Wildwood Acres
Tilton, New Hampshire

BA-J/MCS
Ward Bailey, W. 15555

Dear Madam:
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, W. 15555, based upon the military service of Ward Bailey.
While a resident of Maidstone, Vermont, he served with the Vermont troops as follows: from April 6, 1778, eleven months and twenty-five days as private in Captain Luther Richardson's company in Colonel Timothy Bedel's regiment; from the spring of 1780 or 1781 he served a period of eight months each year for two or three years as lieutenant and was engaged in guarding the settlements of the Connecticut River against the Indians.
This soldier died December 26, 1823, in Lemington, Essex County, Vermont.
While a resident of Bridgewater, state not given, he married February 7, 1765, in Methuen, Massachusetts, Mary Sargent. The marriage was performed by her father, Reverent Cristopher Sargent.
On account of the Revolutionary War service of Ward Bailey, his widow, Mary, was allowed pension on her application executed December 24, 1836, at which time she was ninety-three years of age and was living in Columbia, New Hampshire.
She died January 13, 1840, in Columbia, New Hampshire.
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Ward and Mary Bailey had the following children:
Orsamus died in Eaton, Canada prior to December 24, 1836.
Susannah Holley, widow and resident of Eaton Canada, in 1841.
Mary Beach resident of Sharon, Ohio, in 1841.
Abigail Bradley, resident of Fryeburg, Maine, in 1841. 
Ira Bailey, resident of Victor, New York, in 1841.
John Bailey, resident of Columbia, New Hampshire, in 1841.
Very truly yours
A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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(Copy) of
An act to raise Troops in 
upper Coos.
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An act for pressure of raising a certain number of troops wherein illegible or a guard to the upper Coos and in the vicinity of the enemy.
Whereas application hath been made to the Legislature of the state, by illegible inhabitant in the upper Coos. illegible guard to protect them as they are at a distance from any Garrison Therefore be it enacted and it is whereby enacted by the illegible illegible of the free men (are the freeman) of the state of Vermont in general Assembly met on and by the authority of the same, that the people petitioning in the upper Coos be and they are hereby empowered to aide twenty one men enduring one Lieutenant one sergeant, and one corporal; to be stationed as a guard and for necessary scouting for the protection of the inhabitants of the aforesaid upper coos - the Legislature to appoint such commanding officers. 
 And be it further enacted, that said officers and soldiers so carried shall be paid at the same rate as the other Troops in their state are paid: and to be paid over of the public Treasury of the state; their pay to commence at the time of their entering into actual service & to continue to the first Day of December next or to the time of their Discharges. 
And be it further enacted that such Tenure as shall remain the Troops aforesaid shall furnish them with Provisions at their own Expense and said Troops are to be mustered by the Master Master in that Department and returns regularly made to the commanding officer in the state. 
Bennington, Febry (February) 28th =, 1782
The proceeding is a true copy of an Act of the Legislature of the state of Vermont illegible Febry (February) 27th 178illegible
Attest Micah Townsend. Secty
In general assembly by Febry (February) 27th 1782
Received that Mr Ward Bayley be and is hereby appointed Lieutenant command the Troops to be raised as neither
A true Copy from the journal attest Micah Townsend Secty
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53712_00384
Richard Holbrooks
Depot
Mary Bailey -
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I Richard Holbrooks of Stratford in the County of Coös in the State of New Hampshire aged 69 do depose and testify that I was well acquainted with Col. Ward Bailey of late of Lemington in the county of Essex and State of Vermont during the Revolutionary War of the United States served afterwards until his death, that during the War he was an officer and had the command of a company of soldiers in Maidstone in the State of Vermont, that were stationed there as a guard of [illegible] to watch and [illegible] the movements of the Enemy. That during said War I have seen soldiers come into the fort at Stratford N.H that were said at the time to be some of said Bailey's Men, that I [illegible] saw soldiers who were Baileys soldiers as I heard said at that time, said Bailey I believe had Command of a Company from some time in the year 1780 which continued untill the [illegible] of the War lead the soldiers were not [illegible] in a company during several month in each year in the Cold hart of the Winter season - [illegible] said Bailey during two years [illegible], and I do not know but three years- that he was then called Captain, but I do not know what his Commission was.
That Enoch Hall was called Lieutenant and commanded a company and that often
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I, Tirzah Day, of Stratford in the County of Coos and State of New Hampshire aged seventy one years, do depose and testify that I was well acquainted with Col. Ward Bailey during the Revolutionary War.  That I resided in Maidstone in the State of Vermont part of the time and in Northumberland N.H. the other part of the time during that war, that my father John French was selected or chosen to go to the authority of the State of Vermont, in the spring or summer of the year 1780, to have a Company organized to gard [guard] the Inhabitants against the Indians, as the term of service of the Militia on the New Hampshire side of Connecticut River was about to expire and the Inhabitants were likely to be left in a defenseless State; that my father John French  did then reside in said Maidstone and did go to the authority of the State of Vermont and on his return I understood he had obtained a commission for said Ward Bailey and for one Enoch Hull (?) that said Bailey did ? or enlis'd [enlisted?] a Company of Soldiers in the year 1780. of which he had the command.  That during that summer I resided in the house in Northumberland, N.H around which the fort was built, and know that Captain Ward Bailey, as he was then called was there and took a very active and eficient [efficient] part in building the said fort, but whether he had anything more than a Lieut's {Lieutenant's] Commission I cannot say but he was called Captain then, and bore that title afterwards, untill [until] he was appointed Colonel, I think he continued in the command of said Company untill the close of the War, but I am not destined in my recollection as to the time? said Bailey was in actual service, there having been so many allarms [alarms] when all were called out, those who were not in the service as regular Soldiers as well as those that were, but I believe he did not serve less than two seasons, that is from early in the Spring untill late in the fall, from the time the Indians could come on Snowshoes generally the latter part of the month of March untill the streams froze in the fall and the Snows were(?) so deep that the Indians could not come through the woods, about eight months of the year as near as I can recollect.  I further testify that Mary 
Bailey now of Columbia in
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the County of Coos and State of New Hampshire was during the Revolutionary War and to the time of the death of the said Ward Bailey his reputed wife, and that she has ever since remained a 
Widow, that the said Mary during all the time of my acquaintance with her that is more than sixty years, retained a good moral character--that the foregoing affidavit is according to the best of my knowledge
Tirzah Day
State of New Hampshire
Coos County
December 29th 1836
Then the above named Tirzah Day subscribed and made oath to the the foregoing affidavit, before me Joshua Marshall Justice of the Peace
I further certify that the above named Tirzah Day is a credible witness
Joshua Marshall Justice of the Peace
State of New Hampshire Coos Ct. April 19, 1837
Justice N Brackett Clerk of the Superior Court of Legislature (?) of said county certify that Joshua Marshall is a magistrate as above & that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. 
The testimony of which I have hereto set my name & affixed the seal of said Court the day and year above written,
A.N. Brackett, clerk
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I George Gamsby of Stratford in the County of Coos and State of New Hampshire aged 69. If I should live untill the 14th day of 
April next, do testify and say that I moved with my parents from Linn in the State of Massachusetts to the town of Stratford in said County of Coos; in March in the year 1778, and resided in said Stratford during the Revolutionary War after that time, that I was well acquainted with Col. Ward Bailey late of Lemington in the county of Essex and State of Vermont deceased (?), that during said War said Bailey commanded a Company of Soldiers at Maidstone in the now State of Vermont as I understood at that time, that he sent out Scouts of Soldiers as they were then called, that I new [knew] several whose names I recollect that was said at that time to be said Bailey's men, to wit Azias Caswell, Nathan Caswell, John  Perry, Timothy Day, and John Hugh, that it was said that the Indians laid round during said War for some time with an attempt of taking Bailey, but dare not make the attempt-that he commanded this  Company as I then understood.  soon after  I came to Stratford, he was then called Captain but whether he had any commission or not I cannot say best (?) I understood he was in the service under the authority of the now State of Vermont that I believe he commanded a Company at that Place from the time he commanded untill the close of the War as much as two or three years --That the Widow Mary Bailey now of Columbia N.H. was then living with him as his reputed Wife and continued so to live until his death and that she has since remained his Widow.

George Gamsby
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State of New Hampshire Coos J'd

I Adino N. Brackett Clerk of the Supreme Court of 
Justice here for the County of Coos & State of New Hampshire testify that Joshua Marshall is a magistrate as written & that the written signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony of which I have hereunto affixed my seal of office, & subscribed my sentence (?) the 19th day of April in the year of our Lord 1837.

A.N. Brackett
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I Edward Spaulding of Lancaster in the County of Coos and State of New Hampshire aged 72 years do testify and say that I resided in Northumberland in said County of Coos within three miles of the upper ford in Northumberland and within a mile and a half of the lower ford in said Northumberland during the Revolutionary War, that I will remember that Ward Bailey late of Lemington in the State of Vermont deceased commanded a company of Soldiers in the town of Maidstone in the State of Vermont during said war, that I understood at that time, he sent out a scout up Connecticut River three times a week to watch the motion of and Spy out the enemy so that the Inhabitants of the Country should not be taken on surprise, that then Scouts or parties were continually out, when one scout was returning another was going out, so that some were out at all times--that I will remember that said Bailey commanded a company that went to take a company of Tories, Canadians and Indians that came into Lunenburg, that at that time he was the only commanding officer in the Country and all the volunteers that turned out at that time joined his Company--and he commanded the whole, this was near
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the close of the War, that I understood at that time said Bailey was an officer in the State service, of the State of Vermont, he was called Captain but whether his Commission was a Lieutenants or Captains I do not know, neither how long he was in the service but according to the best of my knowledge and recollection he served not Less than one year, and maybe more--but I cannot say in what year that service was performed--
E. Spaulding

State of New Hampshire Coos ?
April 1st 1837-Then the above named Edward Spaulding, subscribed and made oath to the foregoing affidavit.  Before me Joshua Marshall Justice of the Peace  I further certify that I am well acquainted with the above named E. Spaulding and have been well acquainted with him for more than forty years past and that he is a credible witness. 
Joshua Marshall Justice of the Peace State of New Hampshire Coos ?

I Adino N. Brackett Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature, certify that Joshua Marshall is a Magistrate as above & that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.

In testimonial of which I have hereto set my name & affixed the seal of said Court the 19th day of April in the year of our Lord 1837.
A.N. Brackett, Clerk.
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Mills DeForest
Affidavit
?
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I Mills DeForest of Lemington in the State of Vermont do testify and say that I am Seventy three years of age and that I have been well and intimately acquainted with the Widow Mary Bailey, of Columbia in the State of New Hampshire for about fifty years & can well knowing to the said Mary's living with & being the reputed wife of Col. Ward Bailey, who died in Lemington in the State of Vermont on or about the twenty six day, of December Anno Domini 1823 and I am knowing to the said Mary Bailey's remaining a Widow ever since the death of her husband said Bailey, and that she is reputed to be ninety three years of age.  ?? testify that I have frequently heard it Stated that the said Ward Bailey was an officer during the Revolutionary War, and I saw a paper purporting to be Listing orders during the War of the Revolution to serve under Lieut. Ward Bailey with several names signed to it.  I think this was in the fall of the year of 1832--and from what I have heard I have no doubts that he was an officer during the revolutionary War.

Mills DeForest

State of New Hampshire
Coos ?
On this 14th day of December Anno Domini 1836 personally (?) came before me Joshua Marshall a Justice of the Peace the above named Mills DeForest and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit.  And I ? certify, that the above named Mills De Forest is a credible witness and his statement may be relied on. 
Joshua Marshall Justice of the Peace

State of New Hampshire
Coos?
I Adino N. Brackett Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature certify that Joshua Marshall is a Magistrate as above & that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony of which I have hereto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this 19th day of April in the year of our Lord 1837.
A.N. Brackett, Clerk.
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copy of pension certificate to the children--
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War Department
Revolutionary Claim
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 4th of July, 1836, Mary Beach, Abigail Bradley, Ira Bailey and John Bailey children of Mary Bailey deceased, who was the widow of Ward Bailey deceased, who was a private and Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War, was entitled to receive two hundred and fourteen dollars and eleven cents per annum, commencing on the 4th: March 1831, and terminating on the 13th of January 1840, the day of her death. The Amount which was paid to the said Mary Bailey, deceased, at the rate of one hundred and sixty dollars per annum, to be first deducted.
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Aden Bartlett 
affidavit
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I Aden Bartlett of Bloomfield in the State of Vermont aged forty years ? that resided in Col. Ward Bailey's family seven or eight years and frequently heard him converse on the subject of the Revolutionary War and have heard him say he was a Lieutenant and had the Command of a Company and was in the service of the United States several seasons and the same Statements I have heard from other Persons & have heard John ? say he served under him two seasons and from what I have heard said during the time I lived in his family by him and others, which commenced when I was but seven years old and from that time until the present, I have no doubt that he was a Lieutenant and that he commanded a Company and that he was in the service during two seasons of eight months each at least-
I further testify that I have known the Widow Mary Bailey ever since the Death of her husband the above named Col. Ward Bailey which took place in December 1823-and that she has ever since remained a Widow-
Aden Bartlett
State of New Hampshire Coos ? December 24th 1836
Sworn and ? before me 
Joshua Marshall Justice of the Peace
I further testify that the above named Aden Bartlett is a credible witness 
Joshua Marshall Justice of the Peace
State of New Hampshire Coos ? April 19, 1837
I Adino N. Brackett Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicatory, certify that Justice Marshall is a Magistrate as above & that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.  In testimony of which I have set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court the day and year above written.
A.N. Brackett, Clerk
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State of Vermont
Secretary of State's Office
Montpelier, June 22, 1841

I, Chauncey L. Knapp, Secretary of said state, do hereby certify that there is on file in this office a paper, a paper, purporting to be "a Pay Roll of a Party of men raised for the defence of the Frontiers adjacent to the Upper Coos, whereof Ward Bayley is Lieutenant Commandant, commissioned the 14th of April and ending the second of November, 1781, both days included." I further certify that the name of Ward Bayley, Lieutenant Commandant, appears upon said pay roll, with an allowance of four months and three days service annexed.
I further certify, that there is on file in this office another paper, purporting, to be a "Pay Roll of Lieut. Ward Bayley's Company, raised for the defence of Upper Coos, by order of the Assembly at the session in February, 1782." I further certify that the name of Ward Bayley, a Lieutenant, appears at the head of said pay roll, with an allowance for service from March 1st, A.D. 1782 to December 1st, A.D. 1782, thereto annexed.
I further certify that the above mentioned pay rolls appear to have been duly examined, allowed and ordered to be paid, by a committee acting under the authority of their state, and that the ? ? duly paid by the treasurer?
Given under my hand and seal of office, at Montpelier this the 22nd day of June, A.D. 1841.
Chauncey L. Knapp
Secretary of State
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State of New Hampshire
Coos County Probate Court

The subscriber Register of the Court of Probate within & for said County hereby certify and attest that the first paper hereto annexed ? A. is a true copy of the Letter of Administration on the Estate of Mary Bailey late of Columbia in said County of Coos to John Bailey of Columbia aforesaid who on the same day filed a bond for the faithful discharge of his trust as Administrator of (?) said Estate.
Given under my hand & the seal of said Court at Lancaster in said County of Coos this second (?) day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty one
Geo. A. Cossitt, Registrar of Probate
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State of New Hampshire
Coos County
Benjamin Hunking Esq.
Judge of the Court of Probate of Wills for Said Court Hereby certifies that Geo. A. Cossitt is Registrar of said Court of Probate and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to the certificate and attestation by him before subscribed and that the same is in due form.
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court at Lancaster in said County this second day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty one
B Hunking
Judge of said Court of Probate
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State of New Hampshire
Coos, SS
JUDGE OF PROBATE FOR THE COUNTY OF COOS
To John Bailey
of Columbia
IN SAID COUNTY
Greeting,
Whereas Mary Bailey 
late of Columbia in said County, deceased,
have while she lived, and at the time of her death, estate in the County aforesaid, lately died intestate, whereby the power of committing Administration of all and singular the estate of the said deceased, and also the hearing, examining and allowing the account of such Administration, doth appertain unto me.
TRUSTING therefore in your care and fidelity, I DO, by these Presents, commit unto you full power to Administer all and singular the estate of the said deceased: to ask, gather, levy, recover, and receive all and whatsoever credits of the said deceased, which to her while she lived, and at the time of her death did appertain; to pay all debts, in which the said deceased stood bound, so far as the value of the estate of said deceased can extend; and well and faithfully to dispose of the same estate according to law.  You are to make a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the estate of the deceased; and to exhibit the same into the Registry of the Court of Probate, for the County aforesaid, within three months next ensuing; and to render a plain and true account of your said Administration upon oath, within one year next following.  AND I DO hereby ordain, constitute and appoint you Administrator on all and singular the estate aforesaid.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the Court of Probate.
Dated at Lancaster in said County, the 14th of June Anno Domini 1841.
B. Hunking Judge of Probate
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State of New Hampshire
Coos County--ss
I George A Cossitt, Registrar of the Probate Court  holden at Lancaster in and for said County of Coos on the second day of November in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty one do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that the Widow Mary Bailey late of Columbia in said County of Coos deceased died on the thirteenth day of January in the year 1840--that she was the Widow of Ward Bailey late of Lemington in the State of Vermont deceased and was a pensioner of the United States-
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court on the second day of November Anno Domini 1841-
Geo. A. Cossitt, Registrar of Probate for said County
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Ward Bailey
Pay Role of Capt
Richardson in this 
Office or on July
Pension off
illegible 31. 1841
H H L
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A Pay-Roll of Captain Luther Richardson's company raised for the defense of the frontier on and ajacent to the Connecticut River whereof I certify Timothy Bedel, Esq is colonel.

Name and Rank, Ward Bayley
Private, time of service 11 Months 25 days
Commencement of Pay April 6-1778-
 
State of New Hampshire
Secretary of State office August 7-1841
I hereby testify the foregoing to be a time that from the original ? now in this office in  testifying (?) whereof I have hereto affixed the Seale (?) of said State

Josiah Stevens Jr.
Sec. of State
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Should that be
August 13 '41
Vt
?
Mrs. Bailey
& Mrs. Stanley



James L. Edwards Esqr 
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department Washington
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Concord New Hampshire
August 7th 1841-
James L Edwards Esqr
Sir since I have been at this place: (where I have been about two weeks) I have a letter from the Hon. Joshua Marshall of Stratford in this state saying that he had forwarded to you the pension certificates of Mrs. Bailey the widow of Col. Ward Bailey-also the certificate of Salley Stanley the widow of Dennis Stanley that their pensions may be increased--although the letter did not expressly request me to forward any evidence in the cases, yet I conclude it is what would be wished, and as I have found evidence in the cases I forwarded what I have obtained from the Secretary of State by which it appears that Ward Bailey served 11 months & 25 days--and that Dennis Stanley served 16 months and seven days--
Respectfully yours
John Kimball
of Barton Vermont
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Mary Bailey
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Pension Office
November 11, 1841

Sir,
Your letter of the 4th respecting the claim for an increase of the pension of the late Mary Bailey with a declaration made by the administration on the estate of said deceased has been received.
It will be proper that the names of the children living at the time of his death should be forwarded to this office, accompanied by the necessary proof of heirship so as the certificate will be issued to them and not the administrator
I am very respectfully Your obed. sevt [obedient    servant]
J L Edwards
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Mary Bailey
NH
Free
10 Nov 1841
illegible
Hon. James L. Edwards
Commissioner Pensions
Pension Office
Washington City D. C.
Pension Papers
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Stratford November 4th 1841
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir,
Enclosed is the declaration of John Bailey, Administrator of Mary Bailey, deceased, and the certificates of the Register of the Court of Probate showing that said Bailey is Administrator of the Estate of Mary Bailey deceased and the time of her death.
If any thing is not correctly done your Honour will confer a favour on the applicant by informing what amendments are necessary--
If there should be a certificate granted it may be directed to me--
Very Respectfully your Obedient Servant
Joshua Marshall
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Payment to be made
at Concord, N.H
by John George Esq:
Agent for paying Pen-
sioners, in the Agency of 
New-Hampshire-
Recorded in the Pension
Office, in BookC Vol.3.d
Page 22 by
Wm.h Stuart
Clerk.
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WAR DEPARTMENT
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 4th July, 1836, Mary Beach, Abigail Bradley, Ira Bailey and John Bailey children of Mary Bailey deceased, who was a private and Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War, was entitled to receive two hundred and fourteen dollars and eleven cents per annum, commencing on the 4th March 1831, and terminating on the 13th January 1840, the day of her death.  The amount which was paid to the said Mary Bailey deceased at the rate of one hundred and sixty dollars per annum, to be first deducted.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 10th day of December-one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.
John C. Spenser
Secretary of War
Examined and Countersigned
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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1835
W. H
4July'36
Hon.
3 Sec May 3
James L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington
D.C.
Pension paper M. B.
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Stratford April 25th 1837
Hon. James L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Respected Sir,
Enclosed herewith is the declaration and Affidavits in the case of the Application of Mary Bailey for a pension.
If further proof be necessary, referance may be had to papers in the files in your Department in the papers & application of Orsamos Bailey, late of Eaton in the Province of Lower Canada, deceased, who was a son of the within named Ward Bailey and served with him during the Revolutionary War, as I have been informed in which case, it is presumed a more particular description of the said Ward Bailey's services are given--
This declaration has been delayed in hopes of obtaining the testimony of some one person at least who served under the said Ward Bailey, but we have not been able to obtain such proof and we submit the case with such proof as we have been able to obtain.
I am personally acquainted with all the persons whose affidavits are attached to the declaration of Mary Bailey, and can cheerfully certify that they all are Respectable, credible witnesses.
Please to direct whatever communication you may be pleased to make on the subject, to the subscriber at Stratford, N. H.

I am Sir very Respectfully yours
Joshua Marshall
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Hon. James L. Edwards
Commission in Pensions
Pension Office
City of Washington
D.C
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Stratford January 5th 1842
Hon. James L. Edwards, Commr. of Pensions
Dear Sir, the Certificae issued to the the heirs of Mary Bailey deceased, contains the names of but four of the heirs, whereas it should contain the names of five as we think, Viz. Susannah Holley of the Province of Canada, Mary Beach of the State of Ohio, Abigail Bradley of State Maine, Ira Bailey of the State of New York and John Bailey of the State of New Hampshire.
The widow Susannah Holley resides in the vicinity of Eaton in said Province; all their names were inserted in the certificate of the Clerk of the Court, unless Mrs. Holley's was omitted by mistake, if so, it should be amended by the Clerk and her name inserted in the Pension certificate--I herewith enclose the certificate for examination by request of John Bailey the administrator of Mary Bailey deceased--
Very Respectfully your Obedient Servant
Joshua Marshall
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Hon. James L Edwards
Commissioner of Pension
Pension Office
Washington City DC.
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Stratford, July 23rd 1841
Dear Sir,
I have been furnished with the enclosed copy of the Pay Roll of the Company Commanded by Capt. Luther Richardson, of which Timothy Bedel was Col,. & the enclosed certificate of Chancey L. Knapp Secretary of the State of Vermont, with a request that I would write to your Honour and respectfully request that the claim of Mary Bailey of Columbia in the County of Coos & the State of New Hampshire, Widow of Ward Bailey late of Lemington in the County of Essex & State of Vermont deceased may be reexamined, and such further sum allowed as your Honour shall think just and proper.  Said Mary Bailey was a Pensioner at the rate of $160.00 per annum.  Her certificate was sent on the 3d auditors office, Treasury Department, in order to draw the balance of Pension due at her decease, with the proof of her death, the number and names of her chilldren, and the appointment of her administrator, by refference to which all of their facts can be ascertained.
Or if it shall be considered necessary proof of such facts can be furnished to your Honour as may be thought proper. Mr. John Bailey in the County of Coos aforesaid has been appointed administrator of the estate of said Mary Bailey.
I mention this not knowing, whether if a further allowance should be made the certificate should be made to all the chilldren or to the administrator.
Very respectfully your Obed. Servant,
Joshua Marshall
J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT, 
Second Comptroller's Office
July 17th 1841.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An
act of directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain
Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury
of the United States, " The Adm: of Mary Bailey, decd...
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Concord. N.H. Agency at
the rate of one hundred & 60 Dollars and ---- cents
per annum, under the law of the 4th July 1836, has been paid at this Department from the 4th Sept. 1839.
to the 13th January 1840~
Respectfully yours,
Albion H. Parris
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, 
Present.
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Free
Stratford, NH
Jan 10
Hon. James L. Edwards
Commissioner Pensions
Pension Office 
DC

[crossing this]
January 15th 1842
Mr. Stewart
Please correct this
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J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
J. Marshall Esq:
Stratford
New Hampshire
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Ward Bailey
78 11 mo 25 days from Cap Richardson
81 4.3 Salary
82 illegible 
13 3
12 illegible 3. illegible
was allowed 12 mo illegible the illegible
in 1778 not claim in dec
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Mary Bailey
Wd of Ward
MH
Act July 4 1836
Increase from $160
Allow 13mo 3 day illegible
@ 11 mo 25 day private
$214.00 per ann.
Certificate to be issue in 
The name of 
Mary Beach
Abigail Bradley
Ira Bailey and 
Ira Bailey children
of said Mary who died
Jan 13-1840; amount
paid on first certificate to 
widow to be deducted
J. Marshall Esq
Stratford MH
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Mary Bailey wid. of Ward Bailey
NH Act July 4 1836 when paid
last. d. 1840
H H L
10 Dec. 41
W. Harry
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May Dickinson to Coombs Examd. by Dickins & Coombs
Infection Nov. 27/50 & returned
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1071
Concord N.Hampshire
Mary Bailey 
widow of Ward Bailey decd.
who died on the 26th December 1823
of Coos Co. in the State of NH who was a Lieut. in the Company commanded by Captain ____
of the _____ commanded by____in the N. H. line for 12 months
Paid at the under the 
Act of the illegible Apr. 1838 from 4 Sep 1839 to 13  Jry 1840.  
Agt. Note filed 28 July 1841
Col John Small (?) July 6, 1841
Joshua Marshall, June (?) 11, 1841
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1932 July 11. Hist. to Mrs. 
Allen E Young MCS
1935 Nov 7 hist to Mrs. John Driscoll MCS

Res [script] WIDOW, &c. [typeset]
File No. 15555

[? Bach,] Abigail Bach, Ira Bailey, ?? John Bailey
Children of 
Ward Bailey
???
Act: July 4th [??]
Index:- Vol. [A], Page 35
bracket Arrangement of 1879 bracket
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Medina OH May 31, 1932
Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C.,
Dear sir
In a volume "Roll of Soldiers" 1781 to 1783 compiled by John E goodrich by authority of the Vermont Legislature; I find in page 521 and 589 Ward Bailey ["Ward Bailey" underlined] Lieut. Com of a party of men raised for the defense of Cohos and adjacent frontier. 
Ward Bailey died in Lemington, Vt. Dec 26, 1823 aged 82 years, his wife Mary died Jan 13, 1840 aged 96 years. They no doubt received pensions. If, in these papers, there is any record of their children, I would like a copy, as I am trying to prove a line of descent to get Ward Bailey's name in the Roll of Honor, D.A.R and S.A.P. 
Vermont records are few and I would be glad to pay for any help you can give me.
Yours truly,
Mrs. Allen E, Winifred B. Young.
Stamped, [delf. add emrlife incp??]
N
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[Aus?]
July 11, 1932
[MCS?]
File Reference: BA-J/MLB
July 8, 1932
Mr. A.D. Hiller, Asst,
Dear Sir:
May 31st. I wrote [] records of pensions of Col. Ward Bailey who died at Lemington, Vt. Dec 26, 1823, and his widow Mary Bailey, who died at Lemington, Vt. Jan 13, 1840.
Col. Bailey, at the order of the gen Court raised a trap to defend Cohos, N H, during the War of the Revolution.
I would like to put Col. Baileys' name on the Roll of Honor, in the D.A.R., and might in pension papers, find record of the birth of his children which [rcrmmnt, abbreviation for recruitment??] records do not give.
Yours Truly
Mrs. Allen E. Young
514 E Washington St. 
Medina, Ohio
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[The Daughters of the American Revolution logo appears in the top left corner, featuring a flag behind a wheel with stars on the ends of the spokes that reads "DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION".] 
Mrs. John Driscoll
State Historian, D.A.R.
Tilton, New Hampshire

November 2, 1935

United States Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:-
I am desirous of ascertaining if there are any pension records of the following persons;
Orlando Carter [Carter is underlined], b. Canterbury, N>H> 7-7-1761 d. Barnet, Vt. 12-7-1849
Judith (name unknown), his wife  d. " [an abbreviation for Barnet, Vt.] 1-13-1832
[a pencil check mark] Col. Ward Bailey [Bailey is underlined] b. Bridgewater, Mass.1742 d.Lemington, Vt. 12-26-1823
Mary Sargent, his wife b. Mehtuen, Mass.1743 d. ' [abbreviation for Lemington, Vt.] 1-13-1840
[pencil check mark] Christopher Sargent Bailey [Bailey is underlined] b. Bridgewater, Mass. 1767  d. Lemington, 7-25-1826
Abigail (Name unknown) his wife b. Jan 1778  d. ' [abbreviation for Lemington,] 12-8-1870
The names of Ward and Christopher Bailey are in the Vt. Rev. Rolls. 
Please give me all information obtainable from the records, and if there is any expense, I will be willing to pay $5.00.
Yours truly,
Marion Lang Driscoll (Mrs. John)
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July 11, 1932
BA-J/MCS
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Ward Bailey
W.15555

Mrs. Allen S. Young
514 E. Washington Street
Medina 
Ohio

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your request for information in regard to Ward Bailey, a soldier of the Revolution.
The data furnished herein were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S.15555, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Ward Bailey.
While a resident of Maidstone, Vermont, he served with the Vermont troops as follows: from April 6, 1778, eleven months and twenty-five days as private in Captain Luther Richardson's Company in Colonel Timothy Bedel's Regiment; from the spring of 1780 or 1781 he served a period of eight months each year for two or three years as lieutenant and was engaged in guarding the settlements of the Connecticut River against the Indians.
The soldier died December 26, 1823, in Lemington, Essex County, Vermont.
While a resident of Bridgewater, state not given, he married February 7, 1765, in Mathuen, Massachusetts, Mary Sargent. The marriage was performed by her father, Reverend Christopher Sargent.
On account of the Revolutionary War service of Ward Bailey, his widow, Mary, was allowed pension on her application executed December 24, 1836, at which time she was ninety-three years of age and was living in Columbia, Coos County, New Hampshire.
She died January 13, 1840, in Columbia, New Hampshire.
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Ward and Mary Bailey had the following children:
Orsamus    died in Eaton, Canada, prior to December 24, 1836.
Susannah Holley, widow and resident of Eaton, Canada, in 1841.
Mary beach, resident of Sharon, Ohio, in 1841.
Abigail Bradley, resident of Fryeburg, Maine, in 1841.
Ira Bailey, resident of Victor, New York, in 1841.
John Bailey, resident of Columbia, New Hampshire, in 1841.
No charge is made for furnishing this information
Very truly yours,
A.D. HILLER
Assistant to the Administrator
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November 7, 1935
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Ward Bailey,         W.15555
Christopher S. Bailey, w.4129
BA-J/MLB

Mrs. John Driscoll
Wildwood Acres
Tilton, New Hampshire

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter of November 2, in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Orlando Carter, born July 7, 1761, in Canterbury, New Hamphsire, had wife Judith and died December 7, 1849; Ward Bailey, born 1742, in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, had wife Mary and died December 26, 1823, in Lemington, Vermont; also, Christopher Sargent Bailey, born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, in 1767, had wife Abigail and died in Lemington, Vermont, July 25, 1826.
There is no claim for pension or bounty land on file based upon service in the Revolution of Orlando Carter. Such claims are the source of Revolutionary War data furnished by this office. 
You are furnished herewith the records of Ward Bailey and Christopher S. Bailey. 
Very truly yours
A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator