Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 6556, Noah Bailey, Va.

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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[3-1776]

SERVICE 
Va

Bailey, Noah
or Bayley

NUMBER
S. 6556

carded
CONTENTS

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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

2966
North Carolina
Noah Bailey

of Stokes in the State of  N. Ca.
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain Nichols of the Regn [Regiment] commanded
by Col. Gibson in the Virginia
line for 3 years from 1776

Inscribed on the Roll of N. Carolina
at the rate of 80 Dollars 00. Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of Decr [December] ‘32 
and sent Hon. A H Shepperd, House of Repr [Representatives]

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1832 - 120-
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Mar ’33 40
160-
{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by Nathan Rice, Clerk
Book D    Vol. 8   Page 49-

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Declaration
of
Noah Bailey
for a Pension

8504
[fro] 1776 private
3 years.
$80.

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State of North Carolina}
Stokes County} September Term 1832 
On this 12th day of September 1832 personally appeared in open Court before us the Justices of the peace for Stokes County now sitting Noah Bailey a resident of said County & State aged eighty two years in December last tho [though] he has no record of his age only a traditionary account, Born in Cumberland County in the Commonwealth of Virginia 1749. who being first sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7 of June 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein after stated, he enlisted himself as a private soldier under a certain Daniel Johnson an Insign [Ensign] at Williamsburg Virginia when he was about eighteen years of Age, his Captain was John Nichols [Nicholas] & Lieutenant Robt [Robert] Sanders he enlisted for three years & march [marched] from Williamsburg to Alexandria under Command of Colo. George Gibson & he was inoculated with the small pox, & some time after. Joined head quarters at a place call’d [called] the Smoky Camp that General Muninberg [Peter Muhlenberg] Commanded the Brigade of the first Regiment in which he enlisted & marched from thence to the Valley fort [Valley Forge PA] & there took winter quarters the date he dont [does not] recollect & marched the next spring & fought in the Battle of Whiteplains [White Plains NY] under Gen’l. [General] George Washington, then to the Redbank ford at the Capturing of the Hessions [Hessians] & from there to the Battle of Germantown near Philadelphia then the Battle of Brandywine from there to Monmoth [Monmouth] all which Battles he fought & some time after when at Schoolkill [Schuylkill] in Pennsylvania he enlisted during the War under Colo. Gibson & marched to Petersburg in Virginia & transfered [transferred] to Colo. Greens Regiment of the 6th Regm’t. [Regiment] of Infantry, then marched to Hillsboro in South Carolina & joined General Greens [Nathanael Greene’s] Army, then marched to the Utaw Springs [Eutaw Springs] & fought in that Battle [^ & was wounded] & next at the Battle of Guilford Court house then marched to the high hills of Santee in South Carolina under the Command of Colo. Green & Capt [Captain] George Brown & at the end of the war he was discharged between Santee & the Congaree rivers in S. Carolina. his discharge is lost &c

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he states that after his discharge he returned home to his fathers in Cumberland County in Virginia where he resided untill [until] about seven years ago when he emigrated to the County Stokes where he now resides, that he never received any Bounty of Land or any pay for his Services except the Bounty when he enlisted; and that there is no person to his knowledge living in the County of Stokes that can Testafy [testify] as to his Serving as a Soldier aforesaid. 
he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or Annuity except the present & he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, Sworn to & Subscribed the day & year first above writen [written]
Noah [his x mark] Bayley
Sworn to & subscribed in open
Court this 12th day of September 1832
Before Jno Hill CCC
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier & Served as he states 
C Roberson JP
[Illegible] JP
William Ward JP
I John Hill Clerk of the County Court of pleas & quarter Sessions for the county of Stokes aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court. in the matter of the application of Noah Bailey for a Pension- 
In Testamony [Testimony] whereof I have hereunto Set my hand & seal of office this 12th day of September 1832 
M. Hill. C.C.C 
[words scratched out]

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Rev War
6556
INVALID.
1920, Sept. 18 [illegible]
Miss Dorothy Davis- Ew
Letter s.7290 [illegible] Payne-Va.
File No. 6556
Noah Bailey
Riv Rev War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index:-Vol. A, Page19
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORD SECTION. 3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
S.6556
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., Sept-18, 1920

S.6556
In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank] for a statement of the military history of Noah Bailey a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) [scratched out] application for pension on file in this Bureau.
[column headings: Dates of enlistment or appointment. | Length of service. | Rank. | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. | Captain. | Colonel,. | State.]
[checkmark] | 3 yrs | Pvt | Jno Nichols | Gen. Gibson | Va
|Gen. Brown | Green |
Red [^4] Bank, (wounded at Eutaw [^7] Spring) 
Battled engaged in, White Plains, Germantown [^ 3]; Brandywine; Monmouth [^5], Guilford [^6]
Residence of soldier at enlistment, not stated
Date of application for pension, Sept-12, 1832 His cl. al.
Residence at date of application, Stokes Co. NC
Age at date of application, G. Cumberland Co. Va in 1749
Remarks: No family data
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
6-285C