Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 28,632, Daniel Bailey, New Jersey New York

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(3-1776)
Service 
new jersey
new york

Bailey Daniel

Number 
S.28,632

Contents

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[left column]
Letters to AlB & N.Y. Agents
30.1837.

Reduced from $72. 35 24. April 1837

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New York 3233
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Daniel Bailey
of Orange Co. in the State of N. York
was a Pr. & Sergt. in the company commanded
by Captain Wright of the Regt. commanded
line for 5 months & 4 days pr.        17.10
             5      "        Sergeant            25.10
                                                       ______
                                                        $42.10
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Inscribed on the Roll of N. York
at the rate of 42 Dollars 10 cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of April 1837 and sent to Nathan
Wescott Esq. Goshen, N. Y.
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Arrears to the 4th of March 37                126.30
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4, Sep. "       21.05
                                                                   ______
                                                                  $147.40

⎨Revolutionary Claim, }
{  Act June 7, 1832.       }

Recorded by D Brown Clerk,
Book E. 2. Vol. 4 Page 6

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State of New York
County of Orange

On this Fourth day of September in the year 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the court of Common Pleas of the county of Orange aforesaid, Daniel Bailey a resident of the town of Walkill in the county aforesaid, aged seventy five years who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of  congress crafted June 7, 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated:

At Jamaica enlisted in May or first of June 1776, for five months in captain Jacob Wright's company of Grenadiers, Lieutenant Benjamen Hicks, Ensign Gabriel North, In Colonel John Lasker's battalion of New York infantry, Lieutenant Colonel Stockholm, Major Nicholas Fisk.  In Genl Scott's brigade went to New York, was there with his battalion, till the British landed on Long Island, and assisted in the erection of fortifications on Long Island; retreated  by command of Genl. Washington from Brooklyn to the city of New York; thence to Kings-bridge thence to White Plains; was present at the battle there, thence to Peekskill, thence across Hudson River to Haverstraw, and was there discharged in the latter part of October or beginning of November.  Received a written discharge which he has lost.  Was at the time of his enlistment aforesaid, an inhabitant of Jamaica, where his father resided.  After this discharge aforesaid went to Goshen in the county of Orange aforesaid, in the neighborhood of which from that time till the present has always resided.

In the latter part of November 1776 became a substitute for Samuel Bailey of Chester in said

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county of Orange, in Captain Sawyers company of Militia, Leut't Peter Gale;  In Colo'l Ellisons regiment of Orange county aforesaid; St Col'l Benjamin Thurston; Mejor Moses Hatfield. Went in said regiment of militia to Tappan; was there stationed six weeks to watch the Movements of the British, who were on the opposite side of the Hudson's river in West Chester, and had troops also stationed at Hackensack.  While at Tappan the British troops left Hackensack and deponent was one of sixty or seventy men under Lieut. Peter Gale who went at night from Tappan to Hackensack, broke open a public storehouse of the British, and brought next morning twenty one hogsheads of rum into camp at Tappan; was discharged at Tappan after having been in Colo'l Ellison's regiment six weeks.   Immediately volunteered in a regiment of New Jersey Militia; don't remember names of company or regimental officers.  They were all Dutch.  In January 1777. Marched through New Jersey by command of Gen'l Washington, whose army was then dispersed over the Jerseys, beyond Princeton to Millstone; was dismissed after six week service, and returned to Goshen in said county of Orange in the latter part of February 1777.  In July 1777 was drafter in New York Militia and served under Captain David Seeney in Colon'l Ellison's regiment of New York Militia, for two or three weeks, in the highlands of the Hudson, at Building forts Clinton and Montgomery was in the autumn of the same year 1777 drafted in the New York Militia, served under Col'l Ellison of Goshen, Orange County aforesaid, nine or ten days at Fort Clinton previous to the taking of forts Clinton and Montgomery.  Was in a scouting party of twenty eight men under

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two officers, one of whom as Leiut'l Cryon, name and rank of other both forgotten, at Doodle town about two and a half miles below fort Montgomery, where the party were fired upon by the British, and retreated to fort Clinton, where Gen"l James Clinton had the command, Governor George Clinton being at this time at Fort Montgomery.  Colo'l Ellison was taken prisoner in For Clinton where he had a son killed.  Deponent escaped from fort Clinton and slept the night after the battle on the side of the mountain about a mile from the fort; next morning saw the British parading on the American parade ground. trooped the mountain to Smith's Clove, thence went to New Windsor there joined straggling parties of soldiers and officers from forts Montgomery and Clinton.  Went thence to old Jack Graham's in Shawan park Ulster County in the state of New York aforesaid.  Sixty or seventy men had collected together there and slept that night in old Jack's barn; next morning heard the news of Basjoyne's defeat; thence went to Kingston Lieut't Israel Wills, Major John Woodward and Captain Sweeney were of the party.  When they came to Kingston, it was still burning of the fire kindled by the British under Waltham.  A day or two afterwards, deponent was one of the guard who conducted the spy Taylor to an apple tree to be hanged.  Stayed at Kingston till British returned down Hudson's river upon hearing of the defeat of Basjoyne; was dismissed at Kingston by Capt. Sweeney.

Before harvest in the summer of 1778 deponent was drafted as a militia man from Orange County aforesaid, and served under Captain Sawyer about three weeks at West Point; was engaged during that time, in  erecting the fort:  does not remember the names of

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the officers in command of West Point at that time.  In the autumn of same year was drafted as a militia men in the militia of Orange County aforesaid and served under Leiut't Nottingham six weeks at for Niponagh in Ulster County, in guarding it against the Indians.  

In 1779 deponent was two or three times in the summer at Peapack, being drafted in the Orange County Militia aforesaid to guard the frontiers against the Indians; Captain Sweeney was once or twice his captain, was out altogether 3 months at least in service this year.  After this until the close of the war, deponent served in the militia as a private, being drafted and sometimes a substitute in the New York Militia, from six weeks to three months in each year, at the fort in the Highlands in the Hudson, and on the frontiers of Ulster and Orange Counties aforesaid, under various officers, names forgotten and the persons for whom he was substitute not remembered.  Deponent never received when dismissed from militia service a written discharge during  the revolutionary war, and to the best of his recollection believes it was not then the practice to give militia men written discharges.  Deponent was born at Jamaica on the fifth day of September 1757 has a record of his age at home in his bible; has no documentary evidence of his service knows of no persons living whose testimony he can procure to testify to his service except Lawrence Cartwright of the town of Walkill aforesaid and Captain David Sweezy of the County of Orange aforesaid and who can testify to but a small part of it, and he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.

Abridged and sworn the 4th day of September 1822 Aba Dunnine, Clerk
 Daniel Bailey

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In the matter of the Application of Daniel Bailey for Pension under the Act of Congress of Service of the 1832 Amended Delcaration

Nathan Westall
Attorney, Goshen New York
Recorded Dec 4th

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Amended declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of th3e act of congress passed June 7th 1832.

State of New York
County of Orange on the 6th day of December in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty six personally appeared in open court before the court of common Please in and for the count of Orange (now setting and being a court of Record) Daniel Bailey of the town of Walkill in said county aged seventy nine years and now in his eightieth year who being first duly sworn according to  Law doth on his auth make the following amended declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832 - 

That he entered the service under the following named officers and serviced as herein after stated- 
That he entered the service in the month of June 1776 at Jamaica Long Island - that he enlisted in the company of Jacob Wright for the Month term of five months 0 that a company having been enlisted under the said Jocob Wright they  marched to the City of New York where they formed the regiment commanded by Colonel John Lash in General Scott's Brigade - that the standing army under Gen Washington was there stationed there - Lord Stirling was there General Putman was there and many other officer but this deponent cannot now recollect their various names that he remained in the city of New York until the army withdrew - That he was with the army in Long Island at the time of an engagement with the British troops in which Lord Stirling was taken prisoner - that  he

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returned with the army when they retreated from Long Island to the City of New York that he then remained with the army in the city until they withdrew on the approach of the enemy - that he was stationed as a guard while the army were departing that after the main body of the army had left the city, this deponent then followed the army and crossing from York Island went to White Plains in the county of Westchester.  That they remained some two or three weeks at White Plans - from White Plains they went to Haverstown when this deponent was discharged having served out the period of his enlistment - that he thinks he received a written discharge but that he has lost same - that after he was discharged he came to Chester in the county of Orange aforesaid - that at Chester he  enlisted under Captain John C Jackson in the regiment of Colonel Elliston for the term of six weeks - that he marched from Chester to Tappan on the Hudson river, that  General Ellison had command there that he remained at Tappan for the term of six weeks when he was discharged but received no written discharge that he then enlisted  for a second term of six weeks at Tappan under Captain Tiskanvelt and marched from Tappan to Millstone near Philadelphia that there  were other troops there and Washington was there during that time he was there - that he served at Millstone his term of enlistment  of six weeks and was then discharged but received no written discharge that he  now can recollect - that he then returned to Goshen in the County of Orange aforesaid  That he was the called out as a Militiaman under Captain Sweeney that he marched to fort Montgomery where he assisted to build for Montgomery and Fort Clinton that he service under  Captain Sweeney on Said  Fort.

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of duty the term of three weeks when he was discharged - That General George Clinton was in command of Fort Montgomery and Gen. James Clinton was in command of Fort Clinton.  That this deponent was in Fort Clinton when forts Montgomery and Clinton were taken. Colonels Ellison & Colonel McLawreigh were officers at Fort Montgomery & Fort Clinton. That this deponent made his escape in the night and returned home having served a term of three weeks-

That the year 1778 he was called out on Militia duty in the company of Captain Isaiah Vail to  Minisink to guard the frontier & against the Indians from Goshen to Johannes Decker
that according to the best recollection of this deponent Captain Vail had command. Captain Jones was there also Captain Little that this deponent served two weeks when he was discharged and returned home---

That in 1777 he was called out to Peenpack under Captain Swesy as a militia man to guard the frontier against the Indians, served two weeks and was then discharged. Captain Vail was also at Peenpack and deponent thinks Major Moses Phillips was also there--

That in the year 1779 & 1780 he was called out to Mamakating in Sullivan County in the State of New York under Lieutenant Nottingham there were no other Troops there--  that he remained
at Mamakating three weeks when they were
exchanged and this deponent went to a fort at
Napenoch in the said County of Sullivan where
this deponent also remained three weeks 
guarding the frontier against the Indians that
he was then discharged and returned home--

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That he never as he can now recollect received any written discharge except as herein before stated--

That he deponent has before made application for and been allowed a Pension that the same has been discontinued on the ground that his services were not described with sufficient
particularity, that he has served at other times than those set forth in this amended declaration, but that he improperly waived any claim for other services than those particularly set forth and described herein.

That he was born at Jamaica on Long Island in the year 1757 September the 5th.

That he has a record of his age at home in his family bible.

That he lived at Jamaica aforesaid when called into service and that he has lived in the County of Orange since, and I now live in Orange
County and town of Walkill aforesaid.

That this deponent would refer to the affidavit and certificate, on file with his previous application for the proof to establish his claim
to a Pension.

Sworn & subscribed               } Samuel Bailey
the day & year above written }
Lebbeus L. Vail Clerk
of Orange Com. Pleas

And the said Court hereby

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named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he has stated in the foregoing amended declaration

I Lebbeus L Vail Clerk of the court of Common Pleas in and to the said County of Orange hereby certify that the foregoing contains the  of the said court in the Matter of the Application of Daniel Bailey for Pension

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this twentieth day of December one thousand eight hundred & thirty six

[seal affixed at left]

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[left side]
Letter to John Fleming Esqr July 17, 1833
    "       "  Pensioner -                "     "       "
     "      "  N. Wescott  -       Aug. 10 1836
    "      "   same          -        April 6, 1837

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3233
New York
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Daniel Bailey - -
of Walkill in the State of New York
who was a Serg. & Pri. in the Compy commanded by Captain Wright-- of the Compy commanded by Cap. Lasher in the New York
line for 5 mos. a Sergeant
              14 "   & 6 days a Private
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Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 72 Dollars 35 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 14th day of Dec. 1832 -- and sent to N. G. Hasbrouch
Newburg -
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Arrears to 4th of Sep. 1832                   $108.53
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4th M. '33    36. 17
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                                                                  $144.70
                                                                 _______

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832. }

Recorded by Geo C. Stiles Clerk
Book D  Vol. 5  Page 146

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5
25

  3.33
     14
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1332
333
      7
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46.69
$47.35
25----
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2|______
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30.337.6
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|  998.    
|        2   
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30|______ 
     | 20.00 | 66
     | 18.0    |
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      200

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26.66
     44
27.10
75

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New York
Daniel Bailey a pensioner under the act of
June 7 1832 at the rate of $72. 35 per
Ann. to what time was he paid?

Yours &c
V. Luce

John Harry Esq

3d Auditor Office  pd to the 4th March 1834

JH

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AD17

NY
Pen. Cat.
returned

[postal stamp:  'GOSHEN NY APR 11']

[crossed out:  'Mr. B. pahaps']

Honbl

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Goshen April 12th 1837

Hon. J.L. Edwards

Sir

I forward the old certificate of Mr Bailey-- you may toward the new one to me

Yours most
Respectfully
Nathan Westcott

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Mich. & Farmers Bank
Albany Pension Agency
August 26. 1837

James L. Edwards Esquire
Commiss of Pensions

Sir

Your letter of the 23d inst. enclosing the semi- annual statement for the half year ending on the 4th proxo. is received-

We find on examination that it corresponds with
the entries on our Books, with the following
exceptions- ) Viz

Invalids-
Horace B. Abbey - Moses Austin - Jeptha Hewit
John Kendall - Daniel M. Peters -  Daniel Walter
Robert B White.

These names were not previously but now are inscribed on our Books-

Act of June 7. 1832

Daniel Bailey  - pri. & Serg.  $42.10 reduced from $72.35
The name of this Pensioner is not found on our Books  He probably belongs to some other
Agency -

I am,

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I am, Sir,
Very Respectfully
Your obdt Servt.

Tho. M. Olcott
Priv Winly

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Goshen Dec 20th 1836

Hon J.L. Edwards

Sir

I send the amended declaration of Daniel Bailey whose pension has been for some time suspended because of the insufficiency of his declaration.  The difficulty in his case arose
from general statements of his Militia duty which truly it is quite impossible from the character of that service and the manner in which it was rendered to state with certainty, he has as you will perceive relinquished his claim for such part of that service, as he is unable to set forth with precision.

The other inclosed papers contain the application of John Jordan a new applicant

Most Respectfully
Yours
Nathan Westcott

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J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pension
Washington
DC

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Goshen NY Augst 17th 1836

J.L. Edwards Commissioner
of Pensions

Sir

The Pension of Daniel Bailey of South Middletown in the County of Orange and State of NY has been stopped.  A letter informing him
of the fact and stating the cause was said to him.   Tthis letter was by accident destroyed. Will you be so good as to cause a statement of
the objections to his to be forwarded to me that he may explain

Yours
Most Respectfully
Nathan Westcott
Goshen Or. Co., NY

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5.14.16

Admitted
5 mo. Sergt
14 mo. + 6 days private

Admitted. Apl 22d 1831.
Sergt. 5 mo ----------- $25.00
Private 5 " & 4 days         17. 10
                                         ______
                                         $42.10
                                           42.10
Issue a new certificate
and cancel the old one

Nathan Wescott Esq
Goshen N. York

['Jas. Hasbouck' crossed out] Mr. G. 
Albert Lee
Neuburgh

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We John Johnson a Clergyman residing in the village of Newburgh in Orange County
in the State of New York and William Smith-----
residing in Goshen in the County and State aforesaid---------------
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with
Daniel Bailey who has subscribed and sworn to
the above declaration, that we believe him to
be seventy five years of age, that he is reputed
and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion

John Johnson
Wm Smith

Subscribed & sworn this the 4th day
of September 1832 in open court
Asa Dunning Clerk

State of New York
County of Orange } SS.  David Sweezy of the
County of Orange aforesaid being duly sworn
says he is aged eighty six years, that in the years 1777, 1778 & 1779 he was a resident of Goshen in said County of Orange was a Captain, in the New York Militia that, Daniel Bailey of the Town of Wallkill in said County, with whom he is & was then well acquainted served under him at Fort Clinton, Montgomery
and at West Point, at Peenpack as a private being sometimes drafted and sometimes a substitute but how often & how long each time, is now unable to testify; further he says not

David Sweezy

Subscribed & Sworn in the
Court the 4th Sept 1832
Asa Dunning Clk

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State of New York
County of Orange } SS 
Lawrance Kortright of the Town of Wallkill in said County of Orange in his seventy fourth year being duly sworn saith that during the
Revolutionary war he was resident of Goshen in said County of Orange and ever since has been a resident of said County deposes, that during the Revolutionary war became acquainted with Daniel Bailey, now a resident of the Town of
Walkill aforesaid, and ever since the Revolution a resident also of said County of Orange, to the knowledge him this deponent; that he this
deponent was a private in Captain Samuel Jones' Company of New York Militia in Colonel Ellisson's Regiment and said Daniel Bailey was a private in Captain David Sweezy's Company of Militia in said Regiment in service at Fort Montgomery, thinks in the year 1777 where he said Deponent first became acquainted with said Daniel Bailey.  that he said deponent knows that said Daniel Bailey was out in the New York Militia from Orange County aforesaid repeatedly, & served at the Fort in the Highlands of the Hudson, and at Peenpack, when he said deponent was often in the same servic;e, the particular times, & how often & how long said Daniel Bailey served in said Militia
cannot depose; all that he can further testify is that he said Daniel Bailey from the year 1777, till the close of the revolutionary war, was

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out in the New York Militia from Orange  County aforesaid ['till the end of the Revolutionary war' crossed out], at the forts in the Highlands of the Hudson, and on the western fronting of Orange County aforesaid; further he says not

Lawrence Kortright

Subscribed & sworn in open court the 4th day of September 1832

Asa Dunning Clerk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the Investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served
as he states. And the Court further Certify
that it appears to them, that John Johnston
who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman, resident in the Town of Newburgh, in the County of Orange and State of New York, and that William Smith, who has also signed the same is a credible person, resides in the Town of Goshen in Orange County aforesaid, and
that their statement is entitled to credit.

I Asa Dunning Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Orange
State of New York, do hereby certify, that the
foregoing, contains the original proceedings
of the said Court in the matter of the
application of Daniel Bailey for a pension.

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State of New York
County of Orange. }. SS 
Lawrance Kortright of the Town of Wallkill in said County of Orange in his seventy fourth year being duly sworn saith that during the
Revolutionary war he was a resident of [rest is cut off]

And I do further certify, that the above named David Sweezy, and Lawrance Kortright witnesses to the service of the above named applicant as aforesaid, and to whom severally, I administered the oath as above mentioned, are persons of credibility. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this fourth day of December in tye year one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.

Asa Dunning

5854

In the matter of the
application of Daniel
Bailey for a pension
under the act of
Congress passed June
7. 1832
Allowed

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Personally appeared before me the under[cut off] Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Orange in the State of New York, Daniel Bailey of the Town of Walkill in said County, who deposeth and saith, that by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For five months I served as an orderly Sergeant in Captain Jacob Wright's Company in Colonel John Lasher's Regiment of New York Infantry
for one year, two months, and six days, I served
as a private in the New York Militia; and for such service I claim a pension.

Daniel Bailey

Sworn 4 Decr 1832
before me
H W Elliott

New York
Orange County  } Ss. I Asa Dunning Clerk of the said County, do certify, that Horace W Elliott, whose signature, appears on the above affidavit of Daniel Bailey, was on the above mentioned fourth day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, one of the Justices of the Peace of the said County. In witness whereof, I have caused the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County
to be hereunto affixed this fourth day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty two-
Asa Dunning

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[left half]
No 3233

[right half at fold upside down]

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WAR DEPARTMENT
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 7th June, 1832. Daniel Bailey of the State of New York who was a Sergeant and Private in the Revolutionary Army is entitled to receive Seventy-two dollars and Thirty-five cents per annum; during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1834, and payable semi-annually, on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.

Given at the War Office of the United States this 14th day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty two

[illegible signature]

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Middletown N.Y.
Apr 24, 93.
Chas H. Filer
OW&N Div of 
Pension Office
My dear Sir
Will
you kindly send me at your earliest
Convenience a copy of the service
Statement of Daniel Bailey of
Goshen, (or Wallkill) Orange Co, 
N.Y. as to what Regts & Companys
he served in & in what capacity,
When he applied for pension
for services rendered in the
Revolutionary War. By so doing
you will greatly oblige
Yours With Respect
James A. Clark
Middletown
Orange Co.
New York 

Please send bill of
expense & I will remit
by draft or PO order

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28632
Revy INVALID
File No. 28632
Daniel Bailey
Segt Rev War
-
Act: June 7" 32"
Index: -- Vol. 2, Page 24
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Jan 14 1893
Hist to
M. D. Stivers
Middletown [NY]
1893. May 18 Hist
to Jas. A. Clark
Middletown, N. [Y]

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Dept of Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Dear Sirs
I have in my possession
Pension Certificate issued
to my Great Grandfather Daniel
Bailey April 24, 1837. Signed 
by J. R. Poinsett, Sect of War
for services as private and
Sergeant in the War of the
Revolution
Will you please inform me
in what
Company & Regt he served
as private; also in what co & Regt
he served as Sergeant which I
understand is given in his application
and also if it gives any Engagements
he was in.
On the back of certificate is written, Recorded in
Pension office in Book E.2. Vol 4, page 6 by
D. Brown, Clerk. Any information you may

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give me in the above matter 
will be greatly appreciated
Yours with respect
James A. Clark.
Middletown
Orange Co.
New York

[stamp #1]
U.S.
PENSION
OFFICE
NOV 
17
1892

B

[stamp #2]
OLD WAR AND NAVY
NOV 19 1892
[illegible]

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Daniel Bailey
Private & Sergt
Enlisted June 1776 at
Jamaica Long Island in
the company of Capt
Jacob Wright in Col.
Jno Lasher's Batt'n
of New York Mil
In Nov 1776 enlisted in
Capt Sawyer's Co in
Col Ellison's regiment
of Orange Co. My
In July - 1877 enlisted in
Capt. David Swerzy's Co of
Col Ellison's Regiment of
New York Militia over

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Wants to know in
what Reg & Company
Bailey was
Sergeant

[stamp #1]
COMMISSIONER
JUN 21 1892
U.S. Bureau of Pensions

[stamp #2]
OLD WAR AND NAVY
JUN 22 1892
FILES

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MIDDLETOWN DAILY TIMES.
CASING BUILDING
CORNER OF JAMES AND HENRY STREETS.
JOB PRINTING OF ALL KINDS.
L. S. & J. D. STIVERS, EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.
DAILY TIMES -- S3.50 PER YEAR.
SEMI-WEEKLY TIMES -- $1.50 PER YEAR.
Middletown, N. Y., June 20 1892
Hon. Green B. Raum
Commissioner &c
Dear Sir
A few
weeks ago at the request of one of my neighbors
I called at the Pension Bureau to learn
if possible what regiment and company
Daniel Bailey enlisted in as a soldier
of the Revolutionary war.
The Chief Clerk in Gen. Lincolns department
kindly give me the enclosed memorandum,
but the party wants to know in what
company said Bailey was Sergeant,
Will you oblige me by having that
ascertained, and inform me.
Yours &c
M.D. Stivers

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payment to be made &
at New York
by John Fleming Esqr
Agent for paying Pensioners
in the Agency of
New York

[on right]
(Marked in Pencil)
March 1839 
This is so obliterated
that it looks like search
as March 1839 or 1829
Wallkill
Goshen & Army
Next 55

[stamp]
CONGRESSIONAL
JUN 21 1892
U.S. Bureau of Pensions

Recorded in the Pension
office in Book E2. Vol 4.
Page 6. by D. Brown,
Clerk

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WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United 
States
of the 7th June 1832.
Daniel Bailey
of the State of New York
who was a Private and Sergeant in the War
of the Revolution
is entitled to receive Forty two dollars and 
ten cents per annum, during his natural life commencing
on the 4th of March 1831 and payable semi
annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September in
every year. This certificate is issued in lieu of our dated
December 4 1832 which has been cancelled
Given at the War office of the United 
States, this twenty fourth day of
April one thousand Eight
hundred and thirty seven
J. R. Poinsett
Secretary of War
(Seal of War Office)

Examined and
Countersigned
J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

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Copy of Pension Certificate issued to
Daniel Bailey, Apr 24. 1837
[illegible] regarding Spelt Bayley
and among old papers
find it spelt Bayleys,  Baylies & Baly
please find Regt & Co that he was in as private
also what Regt & so that he was in as sergeant
with Colonel & Captains names if possible.

[left edge]
Recorded in the Pension
office in Book E 2. Vol 4
Page 6. by D. Brown,
Clerk

Marked in pencil
March 1839
[illegible]
Goshen & [illegible]
No 4655

This is 20 [illegible]
that it 
less service
March 1839 or 1829

[right edge]
Payment to be made
at New York
by John Fleming Esqr 
Agent for paying Pensions
in the Agency of 
New York

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A. A. H. 
aw

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 14, 1893.
$28632
Sir
In response to your communication of June 30, 1892, in which
you request to be informed of what company Daniel Bailey was
Sargeant during the Revolutionary War, I have to state that it
appears from papers on file in this office with his application
for pension that he served five months in this capacity in Captain
Jacob Wright's company, Col. Lasher's New York regiment.
Owing to the large number of inquiries of this character an
earlier reply was not practicable.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

M. D. Stivers, Esq.
Middletown, N. Y.