Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21,629, Samuel Baily, Continental Mass.

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Continental      Baily, Samuel     W.21,629
                           or
Mass.               Bailey
                         
                                  Eleanor

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[left side:]
Dead. See letter to J. McGaw
Oct.23.1838

[right side:]
9,166
Maine 4
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Samuel Bailey
of Penobscot Coty in the Dist. of Maine
who was a Musician in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Sherburne of the ["R. Toland" is struck out and replaced by something illegible because the ink is too badly faded]
line, for the term of three years
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Inscribed on the Roll of the Dist of Maine
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 22d of April, 1818. --
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Certificate of Pension issued the 10 of Apl. 1819
and sent to M. Kinsley Esq
Hampden, Maine
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Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819.sons.9/[illegible] 83.43
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Sept. 1819-------48.00
---------------------------------------------$:131.43

{Revolutionary claim, }
{Act 18th March, 1818.}

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Maine - 2,711 ~
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Eleanor Bailey
widow of Samuel Bailey
Mass
who died on the 16th May 1829
of Penobscot in the Sate of Maine
who was a Musician in the Compy commanded
by Captain ~~ of the Regt. commanded
by Sherbourne in the Massts
line for 2 years
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Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of 88 Dollars ~ Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 2.' day of July
'39, and sent to Jacob McGaw
Bangor, Me
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Arrears to the 4th of March - $714.00
Semi-annual allowance ending- 44.00
---------------------------------$758.00
{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act July 4, 1836,}
{Section the}
Recorded by R Burdine Clerk,
Book A Vol. 1~ Page 2.

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts, County of
Norfolk, Dorchester on December 24th in 1838 by the Register of Marriages in the town of Dorchester there is the following record of Marriage laws(?) 
Mr. Samuel Bailey and Miss Elinor Bird both of Dorchester, was married by Rev. Moses Everett minister of said town, October the eighth Seventeen hundred seventy seven that it is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed in the record in fair legible figures and as follows
Marriages Anno Domini 1777By the Rev. Mr. Moses Everett
Mr. Samuel Bailey and Miss Elinor Bird both of Dorchester Oct 8th 1777
A true copy from Dorchester records 
Thomas J. Tolman Town Clerk-

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[I will transcribe only  the handwritten parts]
Cornell [or Darnell or Caroll] Sampson
[the printed name JAIRUS WARE is crossed out]
Samuel Ploud [or Plond or something]

the annexed 
certifcate is

twenty Sixth December
eight Cornell [or Orwell or Carroll] Sampson

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I Thomas J Tolman the within named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk of the town of Dorchester in the County of Norfolk and State aforesaid and that the within is a true extract from the Records of Marriages in said Dorchester with the exception within named as certified by me
Thomas J Tolman Town Clerk
Dorchester
Decr 24th 1838

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Norpth SS. December 25' 1838
There personally appeared the above [faded and illegible] Thomas J. Tolman & made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavid by him him subscribed is true 
before me Sam N Land Justice of the Peace

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State of Maine
Penobscot ss} On this fourth day of October
AD 1838-     Personally appeared, in open court, before the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, now holding at Bangor within and for said County of Penobscot Eleanor Bailey a resident of Lincoln in the County of Penobscot and State of Maine, aged eighty one years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision, made by the act of Congress passed July 4- 1836: That she is the widow of Samuel Bailey who was a musician in the infantry of the United States Army in the revolutionary war - That she does not remember (if she ever knew) the names of the field and company officers under whom her late husband served -- That she believes that he entered said service in the earliest part of said revolutionary war, and served during the war. 
That her said husband lived (as she believes) in the town of Rowley in the County of Essen - in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts when he entered said service --
That he was a volunteer -That she can not tell through what Country her said husband marched -- That she has no documentary evidence

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in support of this claim; but that her said husband drew a pension from the United States during, about ten or eleven years next preceding his death --
She further declares that she was married to the said Samuel Bailey on the eighth day of October AD. one thousand seven hundred & seventy seven by Mr. Moses Everett at Dorchester in said Commonwealth of Massachusetts -- that her husband the aforesaid Samuel Bailey did on the sixteenth day of May AD *1829-- and that she has remained a widow ever since as will more fully appear by evidence annexed to this paper--
[in the left margin next to a previous line is the following note, clarifying the smudged date above:] *1829
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written. before - 
Eleanor - her X mark - Bailey
In presence of 
Jacob McGaw
Joseph Treat
Penobscot Ss C. of Pleas October Term AD 1838
Sworn to in open Court holden before D. Pecham Judge
attest 
James Adams Clerk

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Saml. Bailey
Musician
Col H Sherburnes Regt.
1777 - 3 Years
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I Samuel Bailey of a plantation called Sunk Hayes in the county of Penobscott and commonwealth of Massachusetts do on oath testify and declare that I served as a Musician in the war of the Revolution in the Massachusetts line for the period of about Six years, That from my reduced circumstances in life I am in need of assistance from my country for Support -- 
I inlisted [sic] into Capt [Norman Mighills] company in Col [Gerishes] Regt sometime in the Spring of 1775 for eight Month and Served out that period - a part of the time Col Baldwin comanded [sic] - 
I volanteered [sic] under Capt Scott in Col Norths Regt to go to Rhodes Island sometime in the year 1776 - I do not recollect the time -- I served until the Regt was disbanded when I was discharged -- 
On the 26th day of August 1777 I inlisted for three years into Capt Benja Burtons Company afterwards commanded by Capt Joshua Trafton [or Trafter?] in Col Henry Sherburnes Regiment --I joined said Regiment at a place called Rye in the State of New York -- In Febry 1778 I had the Small Pox at Fishkills -- after which I marched to West Point -- 
I was discharged in the Month of August 1781 at Orange town in New Jersey -- I left my discharge some years ago in Bosten [sic] -- I thought it of no value.
Samuel Baily

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Saml. Bailey's
Declaration &c.
Copy


Continued
9166

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STATE OF MAINE

COUNTY OF PENOBSCOT, ss the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, began [illegible] at Bangor in & for said County, on the Fourth Tuesday of June AD. 1820.
On this twenty seventh day of June in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty, personally appeared in open court, being a court of record within and for said County, and State of Maine, having the power of fine & imprisonment established by a law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, made and passed on the twenty first day of June, A. D. 1811, and recognized by the Constitution of the State of Maine, 
Samuel Bailey aged: 64 years, resident in Sunkhayes  Plantation, in said County of Penobscot, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows; viz. 

in the year 1777, I enlisted for three years, and served on the Continental Establishments, during that term, as a Musician under Captain Benjamin Burton and under Captain Joshua Trafton [Traftoin?], in the Regiments commanded by Col. Henry Sherburne & Col. Henry Jackson; and at the expiration of said term was honorably discharged. I served three other years during the Revolutionary War, but not on the Continental Establishments. All which will appear by my original declaration made on the twenty second day of April. A.D. 1818; on which declaration my Certificate of Pension numbered 9166 was granted. I served in Bunker Hill battle -- also at Rhode Island in 1778 -- also in a private expedition under Lord Stirling at Staten Island in January 1780.

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[Due to the quantity of printed text on this image, I will restrict my transcriptions to the handwritten parts:]

Samuel Bailey
Signed / Samuel Bailey
Schedule of property belonging to me the subscriber necessary beding and cloathing [sic] excepted. viz.
Real estate. None.
Personal estate. 1 Cow & some small Pig.
I have no debts of any kind due to me.

Schedule of the family residing with me. 
Samuel Bailey, who am by occupation a Housewright, which I am unable to persue by reason of great debility and broken constitution -.
My wife, aged sixty three years, who is very infirm.
My son Daniel, aged nineteen years.
I have for many years subsisted on the charity of friends until my Pension has relieved them from the burthen. 
/Signed/ Samuel Bailey
Sworn to and declared on the twenty seventh day of June A. D. 1820, before the Court.
Oct 1. Thos Cobb Cler.

oath

twenty

twenty seventh -- June

Thos. Cobb

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[This is all typewritten except for one parenthetical note next to the return address:]
(Helen C [I think, but I'm not one hundred percent sure about the initial capital letter]

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[no transcription needed]

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Rev
WIDOW, &c.

File No. 21,629
Eleanor Bailey
Widow of 
Samuel Bailey
[illegible faded ink]
Act: July 4th .... /36
Index:---Vol. A, Page 38
[Arrangement of 1870.]

[To the left at 90 degrees, written from top towards the bottom]

1928 July 31. Hist. to Mrs. F. A. Crane, AW
1932 - Nov 2 - Hist. to Helen E. Lovdisorth [the ink is very faded and this is the best I can do.]
...........................................................................EEL

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4336
E Bailey
Maine
act 4 July 36
m 77. d 29
~
admd [or aomd]
2 years Musician
$88
~
No deduction

Jacob McGaw--
Bangor
Me

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State of Maine.
Penobscot ss:
I Charles Stetson Clerk of all the judicial Courts (being Courts of Record in said State) within and for the County of Penobscot hereby certify that the Hon. David Perham is and at the October Term A. D. 1838 of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County was a Judge of Said Court and held that Term. I further certify that James Adams Esquire whose certificate appears to the certificate next below the signature of Eleanor Bailey, was at the time of holding Said October Term of said Court of Common Pleas, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in said County.
I also certify that said Perham was and is duly appointed counsel and qualified to discharge the duties of Judge as aforesaid; and that the said Adams was so appointed, commissioned and qualified as Clerk, and that the signature of the said Adams is genuine and true.
In witness whereof I the Said Stetson have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court of Common Pleas at Bangor in said County this second day of February A.D. 1839. Charles Stetson, Clerk.

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I Joseph Leah [or Treat?] of Bangor in the State of Maine aged Sixty years do depose and Say, That I have been personally acquainted with Mr. Samuel Bailey and Mrs. Eleanor Bailey his wife who removed from Boston to Penobscot river about the year 1796, and resided with their family in Brewer and Bangor Six of Seven years and then removed to a place called Sunkhaze (now the town of Milford. Where they resided until the year 1829 when Mr. Samuel Bailey died his widow Mrs. Eleanor Bailey continued to live with her sons at Sunkhaze until 1832 when she removed with her son Mr. Daniel Bailey to the town of Lincoln in the State of Maine where she now resides. --
I have often heard Mr. Samuel Bailey say that he was a Soldier, and Served as a Musician nearly the whole of the Revolutionary war, and that he received a Pension from the United States for that service.~
This deposition is given on the personal request of the said Mrs. Eleanor Bailey widow of the Said Samuel Bailey Late of Sunkhaze deceased., for the purpose of making her claim to the War Department of the United States for her

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Pension granted to the Widows of Officers & Soldiers of the Army of the United States who served in the Revolutionary War aplicably[the best I can do: I have no idea what this word is] to an act of Congress passed July 4th 1836.

Joseph Treat
~

Penobscot Ss C C Pleas October Term A D 1838
Sworn to in open Court before D. Perham Judge
attest James Adams Clerk

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[since this is mostly print, I will transcribe only the handwritten parts:]
22 April

Samuel Bailey [the first half of Samuel is thoroughly faded, but it's barely possible to make out the letters Sam]

Samuel


M. Kinsley

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J.L.-- Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

[to  the left written from bottom to top are the following:]

Conn Oct 23 [or possibly 28]
Saml Baily
Merrk[??] 18781

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Bangor Oct 16 - 1838

J L. Edwards Esqr. Commission of Pensions

Sir- I am requested by Eleanor Bailey. (who is widow of Saml Bailey late of Junkhaze in the State of Maine deceased), to ask that you will do 
her the favour to say whether she is entitled to a pension under the law of July 4 -- 1836. -- The facts are -- That she was married to said Saml, Octr 12. 1777 -- He served as a musician. during the whole of the Revolutionary war, and was a Pensioner of U. S. under the Act of March 18 - 1818 about eleven years -- Mr Bailey died in May 1829 -- All of the facts (as I suppose) appear in your office --
Will you pardon the trouble I have given you, and give me an answer to Mrs Baileys question, who is perfectly poor -- all necessary further facts will be found --
Respectfully Sir. Your Obdt. Sert, Jacob McGaw

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J-L - Edwards Esqr
Pension agent U.S.
Washington

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Bangor Feby. 2 --1839
J L. Edwards Esqr}
Pension Agent U.S--}
Sir - Having received the legal evidence of Mrs Eleanor Bailey's marriage, I now enclose all the documents that I suppose to be necessary in order to entitle her to the benefits of the Act of July 4 -- 1836 excepting that documentary evidence which (probably) is filed your office. and by virtue of which Mr Saml Bailey in his life time obtained a pension --  I hope Sir - that I do not give you unnecessary trouble for want of knowledge on my part, of any thing that ought to have been done -- Will you do me the favour to let me know whether all is right in the present case, or otherwise --
Very respectfully Sir
Your Sert  Jacob McGaw -

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Oct. 19th 1932 [I think this has to be October, because of the ct., but the first letter looks very much like the "D" in D.C. and in Dear Sirs]
United States Pension Bureau
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sirs:
Would it be possible for you to send me the service record or proof of the service of Samuel Bailey (Bayley) who enlisted for the Revolutionary War from Boston or near vicinity of Boston. 
The Bangor Historical magazine Vol. III p.45 gives his name in a list of Revolutionary soldiers who received pensions in Penobscot Co. Maine. He died in Milford near Bangor May 16th 1829 age 73 -and is buried in W. Milford (Costigan) having migrated to Maine in 1784.
I know that he served and saw on his grave last summer a flag

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in a 1775 metal holder[I think]. There are so many Samuel Baileys in the 13[or B] Vol. of Mass. Soldiers & Sailors[perhaps] that it is impossible for me to know which is my ancestor but it seems likely that he is the Samuel Bayley who appears twice in the fighting about Dorchester. His marriage took place in Dorchester and he spelled the name Bayley. I am anxious to get this record for a D. A. R. paper and will be very grateful for any help which you can give me. Am enclosing $2.00. If that is not sufficient please let me know.
Very truly yours
(Mrs. L. B.) Helen E. Woodworth
Newtown
Conn.

[and  the is a stamp indicating that the letter was received]

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Eastern Star Name, Boone, Lowa. - June 28.1923
To the U. S. Bureau of Pensions,
Revolutionary Section, Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen: - From the Secretary of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, I have a certified statement of the service of Samuel Bailey of Rowley, Mass; as Fifer as follows: --
Samuel Bailey -- Appears with rank of Fifer on Muster Roll of Capt. Thomas Mighill's co., Col. Samuel Gerrish's regt., dated Aug.1.1775 - 
Time of Enlistment, May 23, 1775.
Length of service, 2 months, 13 days.
Then to which soldier belonged, Rowley.
Vol. 15 page 64
Samuel Bailey -- Appears with ranks of Fifer on Company Returns of Capt. Thomas Mighill's Co.,
Lieut. Col. Loammi Baldwins, late Col. Samuel Gerrish's 38th regt., dated Sewall's Point, September 26, 1775. Residence Rowley.
Vol. 56. page 257

[there is a stamp below the message indicating the pension office Jun 30, 1923]

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2
Samuel Bailey -- Appears with rank of Fifer on a List dated Sewall's Point December 24. 1775, signed by Capt. Thomas Mighill, of men who consented to tarry for one month, from the last of December 1775.
Rank Fifer
Vol. 58 - page 3 - file 1.
Samuel Bailey - Appears with rank of Fifer on Pang[??] Abstract of Capt. Robert Dodge's co, Col. Ebenezer Francis's regt: for travel allowance to camp and home. 
Said Bailey credited with allowance for 2 days.
Residence Rowley.
Roll sworn to November 29, 1776.
Vol. 18, Page 156
The foregoing service is found also in "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors" -- Vol. 1. Pgs. 459[I think] and 464: in "Gage's History of Rowley, Mass. -- fig. 282: and also appears in the 
Torben [I can't figure this word out--I assume it's a name, but it doesn't show up in a Google search in any configuration I can come up with] Records of that place.
Samuel Bailey was born in Rowley, Mass. on Novemr. 25, 1709 -- died there on August 1. 1796 -- "Rowley Records."
He married in Newbury, Mass. on February 7, 1733. --
Jane Wyatt., as per "Newbury Vitals" -- Vol.2. fig. 27
They had nine children - the first two born in Newbury, the rest in Rowley. The second, or son Samuel,


[There is a stamp on the left side of the document indicating that the letter is probperty of the Pension Office, and is dated Jun 30, 1923]

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Was born November 3.1735 -- date of death not found but the youngest[I'm guessing] child, born May 4, 1757, Was named Samuel, which would indicate the previous death of the former Samuel.
This son was living in Rowley, aged 18, at time of the Fifer's service -- they being the only two Baileys there at this time by the name of Samuel, as per Town Records of the time, and reports from genealogists living there at present date.
Le- is a question at Continental Hall which of these, the father at age of 66 years or the son aged 18, served as Fifer. I do not know whether such service, or anything but actual fighting, could claim a pension, nor do I know whether one was ever accorded Samuel Baily, [illegible], but I am hoping that records of your office may throw some light on the matter, that will definitely determine which of these two performed the service. Can you find anything? I shall greatly appreciate it if you can, not so much for any honor that thereby may come to me, but that one man of those grand old [illegible] may receive the proven honor his due.
I am told that no fees are charged by your office for such proofs and so am enclosing none, tho' I am sending, in advance, many thanks for your kindness in advising me. 
Very respectfully, Mrs. F. A, Crane
Eastern Star Home, Boone, Loma. [or Lowa.]