Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22,504, Asa Way, Continental (Conn.)

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (Conn.)
Way, Asa Susannah
W. 22.504
CONTENTS

Reported
Letter to Mrs. J. Shingerland Oct 12, '48 Lett. M. 19.56.1.20.57
1140 New York Albany Susannah Way. widow of Asa Way, N.Y. who served in the Revolutionary war, as an Artificer
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 144 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 35 day of August 1848 and sent to Mrs. J. J. Shingerland Hof R
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 240 Vol. 4,

No 459 New York
As a way
of Cayuga in the State of New York who was a artificer in the Compy commanded by Captain Lizer of the Reg t commanded by Col Baldwin in the Connecticut line for Three years
Col S. M. Quigg Aug 29. '45.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 144 Dollars ~ Cents per ann. to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 th day of Sept r 1882 and sent to pensioner Henry, Cayuga Co. New York
  Arrears to 14th of  Sept 1882  216    Pension allowance ending  Mar 33  72      $288  
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Kela Clerk. Book D Vol. 5 Page 155

66 Aug 23 1832
Aurora N.Y. August 14th
How Lewis bafs
Suntary of State Washington County
FREE

Hon. Lewis Cass Secy. of War of the United States
Vernia, Cayuga County State of New York 12 Aug. 1832
Sir
In pursuance of instructions founded on the Pension law of 7. Jan. last I, enclose you my certificate for a Pension under the acts of 1818. and of the restoration of my name to the list again in 1827. which I tenders up and request you to enclose to me, at leaving my residence) a new certificate at the rate of twelve Dollars per month from 4 August 1832. in lieu of eight dollars as now allowed, I, having been an Artificer in the Revolutionary Wars, in the Regiments Commanded by Col. Jonathan Baldwin in the Connecticut line as will appear by my discharge filed in your office in 1818. My Pension of $8. per mo is paid to 4 th Proportionally Yours March 1832 Asa Hovey
Asa Hovey

Asa Way
N.Y. 768
Asa Way
Rec d 23 June 1824.
John Grover, Auburn N.Y.

State of New York Cayuga County ss: { Payroll Pleas
On this nineteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty four —
Personally appeared in open Court (being a court of common Pleas holden in and for the county of Cayuga) before me the subscriber Asa Lway resident in said county of Cayuga aged sixty four years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the Provisions of the acts of Congress passed of the 18 th of March A.D. 1818 first of May 1820 and first of March A.D. 1823 that the said Asa Lway enlisted for the term of three years in the State of Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain William Lizer in the regiment of Artificers commanded by Col. Sedutham Baldwin in the Connecticut line in the continental establishment that he enlisted on the fifteenth day of February in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight & continued in said service until the the fifteenth day of February in one thousand seven hundred eighty one when he was discharged from said service at Fishkill in the State of New York which will fully appear by his discharge now on file in the Secretary of War's office that his name has been placed on the Pension list as he has been informed & has been dropped therefrom.
I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March A.D. 1818 and that since that time I have not disposed by gifts sales or in

Any other manner of My Property or of any part thereof with intent thereby to to diminish it as to bring myself within the Provisions of an act of Congress Entitled, "An act to Provide for certain Persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States Passed eighteenth march A.D. 1818 or of any subsequent Act for that purpose, that I have not nor has any person in Trust or charge for me any Property or Securities debts, dues or demands, due or coming to me in any manner nor have I any other in name than or Property other than what is stated in the following schedule, to wit,
Fifty acres of Land worth six hundred dollars in which Sher man Beardsley Esq the town of of Kennebec in said County holds two mortgages executed about four years since for borrowed money & necessaries of life, on which Mortgages are due Six hundred & Sixty Eight dollars & Eighty Six Cents
   Two Horses worth $75.00 2 old hammers $00, 25   one High Wagon 10.00 1 Spade 00 25   one Wagon 10.00 1 Table 01 00   one Wag. Saddle 02.00 1 Stand 00 25   one ax. 00 50 2 Chancel. Sticks 00 75   Two Axes 01 00 1 Pair Plats 00 50   Two Chains 00 37 Tin ware 00 50   one Adze 00 75 Glass ware 00 30   one low 12.00 five Dags 00 20   one low 08.00 one hoe 10.00   Three Yokes 15.00 one farming knife 00 50   Two Calves 05.00 2 Pitchforks 02.00   Ten Sheep 10.00 1 Bible 02.00   1.4 bail Kettle 02.00 one old Clock 08.00   1.3 bail Kettle 01 00 four Swine 02 50   1 Small Do 00 25 1 old Saddle & Bridle   1 Tea Kettle 00 75   6 Kitchen Chairs 03.00 Totals $797.47   Shovel & Tongs 02.00   2 Pails 00 45   4 Chests 03.00   1 old Plow Share 01.00  

Debts Owed by him Asa May
Mortgages before mentioned $668,85 To Sherman Beardsley book a/c. 12.00 " John Beardsley. Note - - - - - 48 16 " Isaac Moore - Note - - - - - 13.85 " J. Morrison, Note - - - - - 18.00 $760.87
And I further depose and say that I am a Carpenter by Trade that I am unable to follow said trade as to get my living by labour that my family consists of myself & wife only that my wife is aged about sixty two years & unable to labour & that I have no family connections
Asa May.
Sworn in Open Court this 19th day of May A. D. 1824 before me.
Geo B. Throop Clerk
I George B. Throop Clerk of the County of Cayuga and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing Declaration and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Records of the said Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in Value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Seven hundred and Ninety Six Dollars & Forty seven Cents.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this Nineteenth day of May A.D. 1824.
Geo B. Throop Clerk

12086.
Swannah Way, Act July 7. 1898. N. York
2 years service as, Antypcei $144 per dm.
Ad a x Janu 17. 1894 to commence Jan. 6. 1895.
To J. W. Dugg, Mnaca N.Y.

State of New York Cayuga County, ss.
Office of J Philip Van Andale Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that Walter G Bradley was on the 11 th day of July A D 1845 a Judge of Cayuga County Court, duly appointed & qualified & that Harvey Heath was on the 12 th day of July A D 1845 a Justice of the Peace in for said County, duly Elected & qualified. And I also certify that I am well acquaint- -ted with the hand writing of said Judge & Justice & verily believe their signatures to the attached sheets to be genuine. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of said County this 28 th day of July A D 1845.
J. P. Van Andale Clerk Cayuga County

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7 th July 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows" and also a further declaration to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 17 th June 1844 entitled "An act to continue the pensions of certain Widows"
State of New York
County of Cayuga ss On this 11 th day of July 1855 personally appeared before the subscriber a Judge of the Court in and for said County Susannah Way of the town of Pennice in said County and State aged eighty three years and upwards 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 the 7 th July 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows" and also to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed 17 th June 1844 entitled "An act to continue the pensions to certain Widows" That she is the Widow of Asa Way who was a soldier in the War of the Revolution and that her husband was a Pensioner of the United States for his service in the War of the Revolution And that her husband the said Asa Way drew a pension at the rate of One hundred and forty four Dollars per Annum. She further declar that she was married to the said Asa Way on the Third day of January in the year 1787 (in the year Seven Hundred and eighty seven) That her husband the aforesaid Asa Way died on the Sixth day of January 1845 that she has not since married that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January 17 th Seventeen Hundred and ninety four namely at the time above sworn and subscribed on the 5 th dated.
day and year above written before. Susannah X Way Walter G. Bradley mark
Judge of Cayuga County Court
I certify that the above named Susannah Way is a respectable person and entitled to full credit in her statement and that I consider her to be of the age represented by her in the above declaration and that for her old age she ought not to be required to appear in open court. Walter G. Bradley Judge

State of New York County of Cayuga. On this 12 th day of July, 1845 personally appear- ed before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County & State Wing Tabor of Moravia in said County & State aged Sixty three years who on being duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath depose and saith that he has been acquainted with Asa Way who previous to his death was a Pensioner of the United States for his services in the Revolution and who died on the 6 th day of January 1845 and that he has been acquainted with the above named Asa Way for more than thirty Eight years That he has been acquainted with the within named Applicant for a pension Susannah Way who is the Widow of Asa Way the above named pensioner for more than thirty Eight years last past That she is the identical person and Widow of Asa Way and that they have lived together as Man and Wife for more than thirty Eight years This deponent's knowledge Sworn & subscribed before me } Wing Tabor This 12 th day of July 1845 }
Harvey Heath Justice Peace
N.B. The word years where it was written the last time in the above affidavit interlined (before execution) St. Heath Justice I certify that the above named Wing Tabor is a highly respectable person and his statement is entitled to full credit and belief
Harvey Heath Justice Peace
Answer directed to John W. Lewis & Thaeu gompkins Co m

"Marriages, seventeen hundred eighty seven" "Ara May & Susannah Kirby January Third seventeen hundred eighty seven"
I John R Lundon of Litchfield born of lawful age do certify that I married a daughter of the Rev d Judah Champion (now deceased) late the settled minister of the Gospel in s d Litchfield; that after his decease his records of marriage ceremonies performed by him came into, & still are in my possession & that the above is a true copy of the Record of the marriage of Ara May and Susannah Kirby with the exception of the date which is expressed in the Record in fair legible figures as follows
"Jan y 3 d 1787"
And I John R Lundon above named do hereby say that the above is a true extract from the Records of s d Champion with the exception above named as certified by me
Dated at Litchfield June 17 th 1845
John R. Lundon
State of Connecticut, Litchfield County ss June 17 th 1845
Personally appeared John R Lundon to me well known to be the person entitled to credit & made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by him in my presence subscribed
Before me
Geo. C. Woodruff Justice of Peace

STATE OF CONNECTICUT, } ss. Litchfield. LITCHFIELD COUNTY, }
I Douglas Bates Ass't Clerk Clerk Adison H. Hollister Geo. C.
of the County Court of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Woodruff is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and by Law authorized to administer Oaths and to take the acknowledgment of Deeds. And that his commission was dated on the 4 th day of June A. D. 18 44 and will expire on the 20th day of June, A. D. 18 45 and that the signature to the preceding cer- tificate which purports to be his is genuine
Given under my hand and the Seal of said Court this 17 th day of June A. D. 18 45 Adison H. Hollister Clerk.
12086. Sunnah May. Act July 7. 1858. N. York 2 years service as Notary $144 per ch. old act Janu 17. 1854 to commence Jan. 6. 1845. To J. M. Dugg. Mnaca N.Y.

B. A. Tabor Del

State of New York
County of Cayuga ss. On this 22 d day of September 1851 Personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of the peace ins for the said county Benjamin H. Taber of the County of Hond du Lac in the State of Wisconsin who being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the acts of June 7 th 1832 July 7 th 1838 & subsequent acts thereto, That he is the Administrator of Susannah Way deceased who was the widow of Asa Way who during his life drew a Pension under the act of June 7 th 1832 New York agency at the rate of $144 per annum as an Artificer & died on the 6 th day of January 1845 leaving a widow viz Susannah Way who also drew a pension under the act of July 7 th 1838 & subsequent acts thereto at the rate of $144 per annum as the widow of the said Asa Way that she died on the 6 th day of December 1848. This declaration & application is made in order to obtain an increase upon the Pensions of the said Asa Way & Susannah Way to the full amount they were entitled to receive under the aforesaid acts subscribed & sworn to the day & year first above written before me { B. H. Taber I certify that the above named Benjamin H. Taber is a credible person
Harvey Heath Justice Peace
State of New York
County of Cayuga ss. I hereby certify that Harvey Heath who has subscribed the foregoing affidavit was at the time of so doing a justice of the peace ins for said County & that the foregoing is his genuine signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hands affixed my Official Seal at Auburn this 5 th day of November 1851
Edwin A. Mawson
Dep Clerk Cayuga County
Court
(Clerk absent)

Asa Way. discharge enclosed

State of New York Cayuga County ss
Asa Way of the Town of Seneca & County of Cayuga being duly sworn deponeth & saith that in February 1778 he enlisted for three years under Capt. Wilson & was soon after put under Capt. William Sires in Colo- nel Dideuthen Baldwin's Regiment of Artificers in the continental line of troops & served the whole term of three years & was discharged from the service the 15 day of February 1781 at Fishkill as by his discharge herewith enclosed will more fully appear. And this deponent further saith that by reason of reduced circumstances he is in need of assistance from his country for support. Asa Way
State of New York Cayuga County ss
Personally appears before me John Grover Esq r Judge of the Court of common pleas in and for the County of Cayuga and Asa Way above named, and to me known to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing affidavit and made oath upon the Holy Evangelists that the contents of the above affidavit are true. And I the said Judge do certify to the Hon. the Secretary of the War Department that I am satisfied that the above affidavit is true. Dated Apr y 15 th . 1818.
John Grover Judge of Cayuga Com. Pleas

State of New York County of Cayuga
I hereby certify that John Grover Esquire before whom the within Affidavit appears to have been made, is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County acting under the authority of this State that full faith and credit are due to his official acts in that capacity and that his Signature thereto subseri- bed is Genuine — In testimony whereof I have hereto affixed the seal of said County the fifteenth day of April 1818. E. T. M c Clusky
Asa May

J. E. Heath Esq. Commr Pennies

Restored 6 April 1827, coming 19 th March 1827, and Notification sent to E. Burnham Esq. Aurora New York.
Sept 1818.

See letters to Hon. L. Kellogg. H.R. 23 d March 1826. and 9 th February 1827 —————

to be filed with Mr. May's papers in N.Y. Roll.

See letter to Hon. C. Kel- log, 9 Dec: 1825—

1994
New-York.
Asa Way, private - Col: Jeduthun Baldwin's reg. of Artificers, Connecticut Line,
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New-York, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 15. of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29. of July, 1818, and sent to the care of John Lawrence Esq. Auburn, Cayuga County, N.Y.
Arrears to 4th of Septem r . 1818. $: 37-33.
4 months, \frac{20}{30} $: 37-33.
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Connecticut Line 3 years Discontinued Life - Cayuga

1994
New-York. ✓✓
Asa Way, private - Col: Jeduthun Baldwin's reg. of Artificers, Connecticut line,
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New-York, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month; to commence on the 15. of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29. of July, 1818, and sent to the care of John Grover, Esq., Auburn, Cayuga County, N.Y.
Arrears to 4th of Septem r . 1818. $: 37.33. from and since ending
4 months, \frac{20}{30} $: 37.33.
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Connecticut Line 3 years
Discontinued
Scipio - Cayuga

Discontinued, 19 th Apr, 1825 and notification sent to John Grove, Auburn, N.Y.
Restored 6 th April 1827, on my 19 th March 1827, and notifications sent to Eleazar Burnham Esq. Aurora New York.

B. H. Taverne

State of New York
Cayuga County ss. On this 22 d day of September 1881 Personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of the Peace in & for the said county Benjamin H. Taber of the County of Fond du Lac in the State of Wisconsin 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 July 7 th 1838 & subsequent acts thereto
That he is the Administrator of Susan-nah Way deceased who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States under the act of July 7 th 1838 & subsequent acts thereto at the rate of $144 per annum New York agency & died in the town of Venice Cayuga County N.Y. on the 6 th day of December 1848
This declaration & application is made in order to obtain an increase of the Pension of the said Susannah Way to the full amount she was entitled to receive under the said act of July 7 th 1838 & subsequent acts thereto
Subscribed & sworn to the day & year first above written before me. I certify that the above named Benjamin H. Taber is a credible person Harvey Heath Justice Peace
State of New York
County of Cayuga ss I hereby certify that Harvey Heath who has subscribed the foregoing affidavit was at the time of so doing a justice of the Peace in & for the said County & that the foregoing is his genuine signature
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Official Seal at Auburn this 5 th day of November 1858
Edwin B. Marvin Dep Clerk Cayuga Co Clerk absent

Revolutionary Claims
Under the act for the relief of certain Invalid Officers and Soldiers of the army of the Revolution passed 7 th Jan y 1832
Before me Benjamin Arnold a Commissioner of Deeds of Cayuga County State of New York personally appeared this day Asa Way of Venice in the County of Cayuga & State of New York who exhibited to me a certificate signed by John Hobb acting Secretary of War dated 17 th day of Sept r 1832 setting forth that he is entitled to pay under the above mentioned act as an (artificer) in the Army of the Revolution and entitled to receive one hundred and forty four Dollars per Annum Commencing on the 4 th March 1831. and the said Asa Way then and there made Oath that he is the person named in the said Certificate, I in testimony whereof signed his name to this affidavit Asa Way.
Witness my hand this 1 st Oct 1832 Sworn Before me
Benjamin Arnold a Commissioner of Deeds &c.
Note) the most convenient Branch Bank of the U.S. is at New York the most convenient post office is at Venice in the County of Cayuga N.Y.
State of New York Cayuga County
I Michael S. Myers Clerk of said county do certify that Benjamin Arnold Esq before whom the above affidavit was taken, was at the date of the same one of the Commissioners of Deeds in and for said county - and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to said affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature. Witness my hand and seal of Office, this Third day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
M. S. Myers Clerk for P. H. Myers S d Clerk

State of New York County of Cayuga ss. Be it known that before me Harvey Heath a justice of the Peace duly authorized by law, to administer oaths in for the county aforesaid personally appeared Benjamin H. Taber & made oath in due form of law, that he is the Administrator of Susannah Way dece- ased the identical person who was a Pensioner & is now dead & to wh- om a certificate of Pension was issued which is lost,
That the deceased Pensioner resided in the county of Cayuga, in the State of New York for the space of forty eight years before her death that previous thereto she resided in Onondaga County in the State of New York Sworn & subscribed before me this 22 d day of September, 1851
Harvey Heath Justice Peace
B H Taber
Know all men by these presents, that I Benjamin H. Taber of the County of Fond du Lac and State of Wisconsin the Admi- -nistrator of Susannah Way, deceased who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States do hereby constitute & appoint
H. H. Sylvester Esq. of Washington D. C., my true & lawfu- -l attorney for me in my name to receive from the Treasurer of the United States the balance of said Pension from the 4 th day of September 1848 to the 6 th day of December 1848 being the day of her death
Witness my hand and seal this 22 d day of September 1851
Sealed and delivered in presence of
H. Heath
B H Taber
Seth Stevens
State of New York
County of Cayuga ss.
Be it known that on the 22 d day of September 1851 before the subscriber a justice of the Peace in for said county duly authorized by law, to administer oaths personally appeared Benjamin H. Taber above named and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be his act and deed
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last above mentioned
Harvey Heath Justice Peace

State of New York Cayuga County ss.
I hereby Certify that Harvey Heath, who has subscribed the foregoing affidavit was at the time so doing a justice of the Peace in and for the County of Cayuga and State of New York duly comm- -issioned and authorized to administer oaths & take acknow- -ledgements, & that the foregoing are his signatures
In testimony whereof have hereunto set my hand as clerk of said County & affixed the Seal of the Supreme Court of said county at Auburn this
5 day of November 1851
Edwin B. Mason Dep. Clerk
Cayuga Co. of the Com. S. Wend (Clerk also)
B. H. Baker Receiver

Blank, best

State of New York Cayuga County
ss.
I Ebenezer B. Cobb Clerk of the Supreme & County Courts held at Auburn in said County do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said that Susannah Way, was a Pensioner of the United States at the rate of $144 per annum, was a resident of the said County and State & died in the town of Venice in said County on the 6th day of December 1848, and that Benjamin H. Faber is the Administrator of the said Susannah Way deceased
In testimony whereof I have here- unto set my hand and affixed my official seal at Auburn this 5th day of November 1851
Edwin B. Marvin Deputy Clerk of said County Court (Clerk absent)

Washington 2 Feb y 1827
J. L. Edwards Esq re
Sir
Enclosed I forward for your examination and decision the papers of Capt t Asa Way which I hope will be satisfactory and that he may be again placed on the pension list - I know him to be a very worthy citizen and worthy in want of assistance as can but hope that the papers will be perfectly satisfactory If any thing should be still wanting please point it out to me as soon as may be convenient
your Obed t Serv t
Charles Kellogg

Union N.Y. 6 October
Respectfully referred to the War Department. Pres. signed Oct 1832
N.Y.
Sir
Secretary of the Treasury Washington City
Revolutionary claims

12086 July 28. 1845-
be Mrs. May.
July 7. 1838
John D. L. (Edward) Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Harrisburg Pa W.C.
20

Hon. P. S. Edmands,
Sir,
Enclosed the Paper of Surrounded Way for a Pension I hope they are all right
Your John W. Dugg

Nov 28 1817
Sir
I send herewith the papers of the Adm l of Susanna May for am l  as increase of pension due the d o
I am Respectfully
H H Sylvania
J E Hall Esq

J. L. Edwards Esq. Sir
Aurora Cayuga County New York March 29. 1827
On the 27 February last I received from the Hon Charles Kellogg, a Representative in Congress from this State your letter to him of the 9th of that month and most of the accompanying papers relative to the application of Asa Way to be restored to the Pension list, which were considerably foiled, having evidently been in water. The papers with four additions are now returned, with a correction of defects therein noticed in your letter.
Well persuaded as I am that Capt. Way was a meritorious Soldier of the Revolution, and that his situation for years past and now justly entitled him to the bounty offered by the acts of Congress, I hope he may obtain it. And he desires me to state that he is well persuaded that if after the passing of the act of 1820. those to whom he applied for aid had advised him to exhibit the facts now shown touching his age and inability to perform labor, and his indebtedness that he should not have been struck from the Roll of Pensioners the majority of which until of late he has been ignorant and that he humbly trusts that he shall now be restored to the pension list in such manner as to receive his pay for several years past, during which his inability to labor and indebtedness has existed as appears by the papers herewith.
That he deems his infirmities and inability to labor fully established by the depositions made by himself Dors. Silas Holbrook and Robert Dolep as early as 1819
And his embarrassment and indebtedness as early as 1820. and his total insolvency as early as 1821 is established the affidavits of himself, John Beardsley, Isaac Morse, Sherman Beardsley & Benjamin Hayward
vin - By John Beardsley that Way owed him in the fall of 1818 $60 - " Isaac Morse do do in May 1821 on acct of years standing 21.35 " Sherman Beardsley do do 23. Sept 1820 on 13 th and 14 th 415 - " Sherman Beardsley & by assuming to pay Hayward's Bond } 205.48 Benjamin Hayward & Mortgage to Maddy in Octr 1821 - } 707.83 and A Way -
All on intent and amounting in Decr 1826 to about Dlls. 860 - From which deduct the amt of his Inventory of property filed Seams him in debit above his property
It is Mr. Way's desire that any future communications from the War department relating to his application or pension be made to me
Respectfully Yours
Eleazar Burnham

This may certify that I hold two mortgages on Lot Number fifty two in the old township of Scipio in the Military tract) Now Village occupied by Asa Way one Mortgage dated September 23 rd 1820 the other dated October 10 th 1821 the amount of principal and Interest due on both mortgages up to the 22 nd day of November 1824 is Seven Hundred and Nine Dollars & Sixty Seven Cents
J. V. Beardsley
Cayuga County ss
On this 22 day of November 1824
came before me Sherman Beardsley who being sworn says that he verily believes the above statement to be true and correct
Isaac Morre J. P.

Scipio 13 th November 1824
Hon John C. Calhoun
Sir,
We have been acquainted with Asa Way for fifteen years past - and we cheerfully recommend him to your notice, as a man, who has hitherto sustained an unimpeachable character — We are very Respectfully
Your M c O b t Serv t
James Pomer
John Beardsley
P.S. We have examined a copy of the schedule of his property which was sent to the War Department, and are firmly of opinion that it is substantially correct John Beardsley James Pomer

Cayuga County ss.
Personally appeared before me Isaac Morse one of the Justices of the Peace in & for said County the within named James Glover and John McCreedy and made solemn oath to the same within
Isaac Morse } Just } of Peace
From a long acquaintance with the way I fully concur with the Gentlemen who have made oath to the statement within November 13 th 1824.
Isaac Morse Justice of Peace

STATE OF NEW-YORK,
Cayuga County } ss. Clerks Office. }
C ertify that Isaac Morse
Esquire, was on the 13th — day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty four (and still is) a Justice of the
peace in and for the county of Cayuga, duly commissioned and sworn as such Justice — and that full faith and credit are to be given to his acts in that capacity.
I further certify, that I am acquainted with the hand wri- ting of the said Justice — and verily believe the signature to the annexed Affidavits " Isaac Morse " — to be his.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the court of com- mon pleas of said county, and subscribed my name, this Eighth — day of April — in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hun- dred and twenty four .
Geo. D. Throop Clerk

Havre Pk. 9 March 1826
J. L. Edwards Esq r
Dear Sir
Enclosed I hand you the application for a pension of Asa Way which he supposed was in your office which he seems to have found in the Clerks office of Cayuga County N.Y. I am Respectfully your Obedt Servt.
Charles Kellogg

Asa Weyg Discharge.
Discharge
Asa Weyg, M. 22,504. Continental (Conn.)

Asa May Belongs to Litchfield in the State of Connecticut, having served three years in Lieut William Fizer's Company, in Col. Seduthan Baldwin Regiment of Artificers (it being the full time of his engagement) is Discharged the service (with thanks for his good service) and is Entitled to all the privileges and perquisites that have, or may arise for said service - Given under my hand at Fishkill this 15 th Day of Feb y 1701. — I allow two Days to return Home. J. Baldwin Col o Engineers, & Com d of Artificers

n.y. Salem April 9 th 1825
Sir, Herewith enclose you the documents relating to Mrs. Asa Way's Application to be placed on the Pension List. Roll - Enclosed. Thank you to communicate the result to me as soon as possible. — Yours G d Sir, John Glover Wm. James Fairborn Secretary of War

Nicholson MS. B. 1. 6 v. 31 p. 1894 Hon J. C. Calhoun Dear Sir
Enclosed You will find Capt Asa Ways pension papers, He is anxious to have you give a further investigation. It is to be gratifying to his friends and acquaintances to have him restored to his pension list. Presuming from his services and circumstances as to the means for his support in the decline of life that He justly merits the gratitude of his Country — Respectfully Yours John Groves

Also Mary } Mortgage dated 23 rd Sept. 1820 to } on 47. Acres of Lot 52. Scripps. Sherman Beardsley } To secure the payment of $415. One Year from date & interest. Recorded Sept. 23. 1820.
Benj. Hayward } Mortgage dated 10. Oct. 1820. wife to } on 28 1/2 acres of above lot Sherman Beardsley } To secure the sum of $205. ,48 per. One Year from date with interest Recorded Oct. 22 nd 1820.
Abstracts from the Records in Cayuga County Clerks-Office Nov. 16. 1824.
M. S. Myers. Dept. Clk.

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 22,504
Susannah Way Widow of Asa Way Artificer New was
Act: Feb 24 48
Index:—Vol. 16 , Page 312
[Arrangement of 1870.]

WAR DEPARTMENT, Pension Office, 6 th April 1827.
SIR:
IN conformity with the Law of the United States of the 1st March, 1823, authorizing the Secretary of War to restore the names of certain persons to the List of Pensioners, you are hereby notified, that your name has been this day restored to the Pension Roll of the New York Agency, and that, agreeably to the provisions of said Act, your allowance, as a Pensioner, will commence on the nineteenth day of March 1827, the day on which the evidence was closed, upon which you obtained a restoration to the List.
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. Edwards
To Mr. Isa Way United States' Pensioner.
To the care of Elazer Burnham Esq Seneca New York

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of 3 rd February 1848. Entitled, "an act making further provisions for surviving widows of Revolutionary pensioners"
State of New York Cayuga County ss.
On this 30 th day of June 1848 before the subscriber, a justice of the Peace, in and for said County, personally appeared, Susana Way a resident of Vienna in the County of Cayuga, aged Eighty Seven 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 act of 3 rd February 1848, That she is the widow of Asa Way, who was a resident of said town of Vienna and who was an artificer in the revolution, and she is the identical person who drew a pension under the act of 17 th June 1844, on account of the revolutionary service of her late husband, at the rate of $144.00 per annum.
She further declares, that she is still a widow. Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written, before me Angi Wood a justice of the Peace. Susana X Way mark
Witness. Angi Wood
I Certify, that the declarant, is personally known to me a widow and a pensioner, as she declares
Angi Wood, justice of the Peace

ad
admitted
J. J. Thierland Hof R

State of New York
Cayuga County Clerk's Office. I hereby certify that Amzi Wood Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken, was at the time of taking the same a justice of the peace in & for said County, duly Elected & authorized to take the same and that his signature is genuine thereto
In Witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix my official seal this 7th day of July 1848 E. D. Cobb Clerk of Cayuga County

affidavit of Solomon
New-York.
Asa Way -
Aged 64 yrs. - Carpenter - unable to obtain his living by labor. -
Wife, 62 yrs old - unable to labor - Served 3 yrs from 15 th Feb y 1778.
Sched: dated 19 th May 1824, and exhibits -
50 acres of land - $ 600:00 Personal property 197:47
not all: $:797:47
Says that Sherman Beardsley holds two mortgages, (executed about 4 yrs prior to date of sched:) on the said 50 acres of land, to secure the payment of $668:66, now due - and that he also owes, on notes, to four persons named, $92:01. - No vouchers to prove the above statement -
see letter Oct. 1824 to
John Groves, Auburn, N. Y.

87 New York.
Susannah Way, widow of Asa Way, who was an Artificer, in the Connecticut line.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 144 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1844, 6th: of January, 1845.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30th day of August, 1845. and sent to J. W. Quigg, Ithaca, New-York.
[Act of JUNE 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book D.
Vol. 1 — Page 189.

rec d . 28 March 1826.
C. H. A. S. S. Cunning the 28 th and 29 th May the return.
Admiral May N. O. March 28 th 1826 The Hon. the Minister of the Navy P. S. The above is a copy of the letter to the Hon. the Minister of the Navy from the Secretary of the Navy

Aida May Recd March 28 th 1826
Hon. G. D. Allen L. Edwards Clerk of the Supreme Court New York
N.Y. Recd. learned the 28 th and all May's letter returned.
recd 28 March 1826.

Hann Rep. 27 March 1825
Mr J. L. Edwards Col te Pension Officer
Dear Sir
Permit me to solicit your reply to the queries contained in the enclosed and (with the enclosed) forward to me & oblige.
Respectfully Your
Oldest Servant
Charles Kellogg

Albany October 2nd 1848.
Hon Wm L. Marcy
Secretary of War
I received a "Widows Pension" to Susannah Way, widow of Asa Way, an officer in the revolutionary war, Having lost my memoranda I am unable to ascertain the Post Office of Susannah Way and by referring to "the roll of Pensioners under the act of February 2nd 1848, Page 240. Vol 4, 11" you will find her P. Office By leaving her P.O. ascertained you will confer a favor on myself and the Pensioner, as the Pension now lies in my desk unclap.
I have the Honor to be
Your Obedient Servant.
Wm L. Wingland

Asa Way application to be returned to the Pension Sits for arrears—

An Inventory & an appraisal of Asa Ways real & personal property taken November 28 th 1826
  50 Acres of Land at $12. $600. On lot 52 Town of Scipio $600.00   1 Old horse Wagon & harness 40.00   6 Drag teeth considerably worn $1. 1 Ax. 50 cts 2 Sugars 37 cts 1.87   1 Square 50 cts 2 Chairs 25 cts 2 Cows $16. 16.75   3 Yearlings & 1 Calf $10.50. 1 Kettle $1. 1 Dish do. 25 cts 11.75   1 Tea Kettle 44 cts 6 Old Kitchen Chairs $1.50 1.94   1 Old Shovel & Tongs $1. 1 Spider 25 cts 2 Pails & 4 Chats $1.50. 2.75   1 Old Table Stand & Hammer $1. Sad Irons 37 cts 1.37   1 Sdy 37 cts Tin & Glass ware 37 cts Hoe & Scythe Smith 63 cts 1.37   1 Old Fanning Mill $6. Pitch Fork & Bible $1.50. 7.50   1 Old Clock & Little Kettle $3. 3.50   School Books 50 cts 3.50   1 Old Saddle & Bridle $2. 4 Pigs $1.50 3.50   1 Old Iron Candelsticks 12 cts 5.12   10 Sheep $5. 2 Old Iron Candelsticks 12 cts $697.30 
I have a scanty supply of fodder to keep the stock through the winter & nearly or quite provisions sufficient for my family use but no more — Asa Way
We the undersigned being called upon to appraise fifty acres of land being part of lot number fifty two in the town of Venice in the county of Cayuga which is the same fifty acres owned by Asa Way and on which he now resides living and we being perfectly acquainted with the situation of said land do make up our judgement that the said fifty acres of land is worth six hundred dollars & no more
Wing Taker
John Brardsley
On this 9 th day of December 1826 appeared before me

Wing Taber and John Beardsley & made oath that the above statement to which they have sub- scribed is true according to their judgement & belief Isaac Morse Justice of the Peace
State of New York - Cayuga Common Pleas. Cayuga County ss.
On this 16 th day of January 1827 personally appeared in open court (being a court of record for the county of Cayuga in the State of New York) Asa Way resident in said county aged sixty six years and upwards who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of congress of the 18 th of March 1818 and the 1 st of May 1820; that he the said Asa Way enlisted for the term of three years on the 15 th day of February 1778 in the State of Connecticut in the company of artificers comm- anded by Captain Jairus Milcox in the regiment comman- ed by Major Eliha Painter in the line of the state of Connecticut on the continental establishment; that he continued to serve in said corps until the new arrang- ement of the army, or of that corps as he believes in the spring of the year 1779 when he was transferred into a com- pany commanded by Captain William Sizer in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Jeduthan Baldwin in the line of the State of Connecticut as he verily believes on the continental establishment; that he continued to serve in the said corps until the 15 th day of February 1781. when he was discharged from the service in Fishkill in the State of New York

that his name has been placed on the pension list and dropped therefrom on account of his property. And in pursuance of the act of the 1 st May 1820 I do Solemnly Swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of any property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" passed on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed - That the deponent in early life learnt the trade of a Carpenter but from infirmities of body has been for two years unable to pursue the same as an occupation since which his time when able to labour has been generally employed in the lighter exercises of husbandry - That he has for many years and particularly for the last seven years been exceedingly afflicted with a burst or breach in the groin which gives him great pain on attempting any hard exercise and habitually troubles him with pain & distress - That for many years past he has also been much afflicted with rheumatism affections and in or about the month of March 1819 he had an affection of his right arm which for about six months rendered it almost useless and it considerably diminished in size, but which with medical aid was in a degree improved, but which ever since has been and now is feeble and he hath at his advanced age much reason to fear and doth fear that it

will never be better - That I have no child and no other family than my wife who was sixty five years of age in July last, and the son of a poor man in the neighborhood named Horace Martin, which said Horace is about eleven years old and is of but little use except to go on errands and do chores and light labour and he is not intended or bound to deponents - This deponents wife for many years has been in poor health and feeble & he verily believes she has been for more than half the time for the last ten years unable to do the work of the family which the deponents has been obliged to procure to be done a great part of the time, that at present his said wife with the aid of said Horace and at times of this deponents is able to do the light work in the house except washing and such like business work which deponents hires or procures others to do and the deponent verily believes his said wife to be wholly unable to do anything more than as aforesaid toward maintaining herself - That since the exhibition of my first schedule the following changes have been made in my property - of which that disposed of by sale will be in the following columns
   Description of Property Name of person to whom disposed of Time of Sale Amount of money or description of Property received in return     One Mare harness, The Sleigh, Wagon are worn out - The three yearlings, two calves, and four swine, contained in my former inventory, have been made use of for meat in my family Isaac Bradsby October 1825 On a short credit two notes on which was rec d $50. in cash  
That he the said Asa Way applied all the said fifty dollars in the payment of debts justly due and owing by him or in the necessary support of himself & family - And that he paid John Beardsley as he believes upwards of forty dollars

The precise amount he is unable to state as the security then existing is lost or was destroyed — That said Bradeleys demand arose as follows as deponent verily believes some time in the year. Said John Bradeley sold this deponent a yoke of oxen for sixty dollars for which amount this deponent executed his note for to said John — which note remained unsatisfied and in the mean time the deponent had dealings with said John as a merchant, the particulars of which deponent cannot state more than that on or about the 19 th day of May 1824 the deponent & said John ascertained the balance due on said note and accounts when deponent was found in arrear and indebted to said John in the sum of forty eight dollars and sixteen cents for which sum deponent gave said John his note on interest and since the aforesaid payment of forty dollars or upwards and on the day of 1824 said old note was cancelled (and deponent is unable to say whether it was destroyed or not but he is unable to find it) and on said day said deponent gave said John a new note for the balance due thereon being about eight dollars and sixteen cents which remains due and unpaid — That since the making his former schedule this deponent has had no extensive dealings & is unable to state every application of money made since, but has as far as in him lies endeavoured to avoid contracting new debts and honestly to discharge his former ones that since the time of making out his former schedule he has paid of former debts upwards of twenty one dollars to Isaac Morse for a balance due him on settlement the 18 th day of May 1821. for shoe leather

furnished to and Shoemaking done for deponent and his family and two dollars to Doctor John Thompson for advice and medicine furnished on or about the April 1825 - but which he paid in the four part of the year 1826 That he has also paid Doctor David Foote about seven dollars for medicine and advice at or about the same time - but said deponent has no evidence of either of said two last payments -
That this deponent on the 23 d day of September 1820 executed his bond & a mortgage on the fifty acres of land owned by this deponent on lot number 52 in the original township of Scipio for four hundred & fifteen dollars to Sherman Boardley - That said Sherman also holds another mortgage on said farm and which deponent is liable to pay dated October 10 th 1821. for two hundred five dollars & forty eight cents on interest - That I am also indebted to said Sherman on book twenty one dollars & two cents - On which said three demands the sum of eight hundred & thirty five dollars & sixty six cents is as deponent believes justly due to said Sherman which are more fully explained in the deposition of said Sherman and of this deponent annexed to copies of said bonds & mortgages - All which aforesaid statements are true according to the best knowledge information and belief of deponent -
Asa Warr

Sworn to and declared on the sixteenth day of January 1827- in open Court before me—
J. S. Richardson first Judge of
Canajoharie County Common Pleas
I Abraham Gidley Clerk of the County of Canajoharie and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County do hereby certify that it appears to the Sat- isfaction of the Court that the said Asa Way did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common enemy for the term of three years under one en- gagement on the Continental establishment—
I also certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court: And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property ex- hibited in the aforesaid Schedule is six hundred ninety seven dollars & thirty cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this sixteenth day of January 1827—
Abraham Gidley— Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Canajoharie County

Jan 1841 Bishop $50. for man
Rev. Mr. [?] Hudson

State of New York Chautauqua County ss; Benjamin Hayward of Sturges  Elmer in said County living duly sworn deposeth and saith that Asa Way of the now town of Mexico late Safie in Cayuga county maintained and brought up this deponent from infancy until deponent arrived at full age, And that afterwards and in the year 1816 (at which time deponent had little or no estate real or personal) this deponent and said Asa Way agreed to rent and carry on a distillery on the north east corner of a small farm of about fifty acres then owned by said Asa on Lot number 52 in the then town of Sufie, and each to share equally in profits and loss and said Asa as part of said arrangement was to give deponent a deed of an equal half or moiety of a part of said land containing about two and an half or three acres of land without any other consideration than what grew out of said agreement and afterwards and with all convenient speed the said Asa & his deponent did erect a distillery on said premises and carried on the farm at their expense on equal terms — And afterwards and as deponent nearly believes on the 22 d day of April 1817 the said Asa Way and Susan his wife in pursuance of said agreement did execute a deed of one equal half or moiety of said Still House lot to this deponent containing about two and an half or three acres of land in which deed deponent believes the consideration of thirty seven dollars was expressed but not paid otherwise than as aforesaid — and which deed deponent afterwards procured to be Recorded in the Clerks Office of Cayuga County — That the said Asa Way & this deponent continued said business of distilling as he believes five or six years when this deponent had not only lost what he had lent was very considerably indebted by and what he had means to pay and then was and now is poor — and this deponent saith that from his knowledge of said Asa Ways affairs before and during the said distilling operation he hath no doubt the said Asa lost several hundred dollars of property and became embarrassed with debts to an amount entirely beyond his ability to pay from personal property or to farm except by a Mortgage on his farm — at which time deponent was justly indebted to said Asa on the ground that said Asa had made more advances in the carrying on said business than said deponent but this deponent is utterly unable to say how much — That this deponent on or about the twelfth day of October 1821 this deponent and Oliver his wife executed with deponent Bond a Mortgage on his said half or moiety of two and an half or three acres of lands to Sherman Bradley Esquire of the now town of Mexico late Sufie in Cayuga County for about two hundred and five dollars which was then justly and honestly due and owing from this deponent to said Sherman and hath not or any part thereof ever been paid by this deponent or any other person to his knowledge to said Sherman Bradley

That it is utterly impossible for this deponent to specify minutely the exact and precise dealings between him and said Shuman Bradley, previous to the execution of said Bond and Mortgage as such dealings were of several years continuance of very considerable amount and complicated but he hath no hesitation in saying and doth that the sum mentioned in said Bond and Mortgage was justly due and owing to said Shuman as the balance on a final adjustment and settlement of all their former dealings in which dealings said Shuman had furnished to deponent for the use of himself and family and eating and carrying on said distillery various goods wares and merchandise out of his store and some provisions and grain for carrying on said distillery from the time or soon after the aforesaid agreement between deponent and said Asa May to erect said distillery until near the time of executing said Bond and Mortgage to said Shuman Bradley, it was mutually agreed by and between this deponent and said Asa May that this deponent should relinquish and give up to said Asa all his interest in said still house and lot of lands subject to the said Mortgage which said Asa agreed to pay off and discharge and deponent then and now believes the said Asa then hoped and expected to be able to do so which was to be a final settlement between this deponent and said Asa - That that time and on or about the 10th day of September 1824 this deponent was informed by said Asa which he believes to be true, that he the said Asa was unable to pay his debts and he knew no other way but to give up his property and to enable him to do so requested deponent to convey deponent's half of said still house lot to him the said Asa as deponent and his wife did subject to said Mortgage executed by deponent to said Shuman as a security  appressed by the said  a copy thereof in the hands of said Asa May and thereupon this deponent and Olive his wife did execute such as  as to said Asa and deliver the same to said Asa after first acknowledging said deed before Almon Buel Esquire
Sworn before me - This 19th day of March 1827
Benjamin Hayward
Arturus Sharick Justice of Peace

State of New York } Chautauqua county } G. S. Oliver & Cabour Deputy clerk of the said county of Chautauqua do hereby certify that Artemas Fleaiick was on the 13 th day of March instant and now is one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the county of Chautauqua duly commissioned and sworn and that full faith and credit are due to his acts as such. And that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice & verily believe that the signature of "Artemas Fleaiick" sub- scribed to the within affidavit of Benjamin Gaywood is in the proper hand writing of the said Justice.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and affixed the seal of the said county to these presents at Mayville this 19 th day of March A. D. 1827.
Oliver S Cabour Deputy

This Indenture made the twenty Second day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventeen Between Asa May & Susana his wife of Sipio in the County of Cayuga and State of New York of the first part and Benjamin Hayward of Sipio aforesaid of the Second part Witnesseth that the said party of the first part, for and in Consideration of the sum of Thirty Seven Dollars lawful money of the United States of America to him in hand paid, by the said party of the Second part, at and before the sealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, hath granted bargained and sold, remised, released aliened, and confirmed, and by these presents doth grant bargain and sell, remise release, alien and confirm unto the said party of the Second part (in his actual possession now living) and to his heirs and assigns forever One Half Parts the whole to be divided into Equal shares the following tract and piece of land to wit in lot number fifty two in the town of Sipio aforesaid. Beginning in the center of the highway that leads from the dwelling house of Allen Davis to the dwelling house of Robert Delap and on the line between the aforesaid Asa & Davis and there running North north forty two rods or thereabouts to Robert Delaps laid thence West by Delaps laid ten Rods Thence South to the aforesaid highway Thence easterly in the center of the highway to the place of beginning containing two acres and one half of land in the farm more or less.
To gether with all and singular the hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining and the reversion and remainders and remainders, rents issues and profits thereof and also all the estate, right title interest property, claim or demand whatsoever of the said party of the first part either in law or equity, of in and to the above described premises with the said hereditaments and appurtenances To have and to hold the said premises above particularly mentioned, and described to the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns to the sole and only proper use benefit and behoof of the said party of the second part their heirs and assigns forever and the said party of the first part for himself his executors, and administrators doth covenant grant promise and agree to and with the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns the above bargained premises, in the quiet and peaceable possession of the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns, against the said party of the first part his heirs and assigns, and against all and every person or persons whatsoever lawfully or equitably claiming or to claim the whole or any part thereof will forever warrant and defend In Witness whereof the said party of the first part hath hereunto set his hand

and Seal the day and year first above written Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of Josiah Stephens —
Asa Way (L.S.)
Susanna Way (L.S.)
State of New York Cayuga County ss; On this 15 th day of October 1821 personally appeared before me Asa Way & Susanna his wife the said Asa to me known the said Susanna was proved to my satisfaction to be the person described in & who executed the within deed by the oath of Sherman Beardsley to me known both of whom acknowledged that they executed the within deed of their free & voluntary act The said Susanna wife of the said Asa being by me examined separate & apart from her said husband acknowledged that she executed the within deed freely without any fear or compulsion of her said husband let it be Recorded Andrew Groom Comr. V. for S. County
Recorded in the Clerks Office of Cayuga County in book K. of deeds pages 449 & 450 this twenty second day of October A.D. 1821 at 10. o'clk. A.M. Geo. B. Throop Clerk —
State of New York
Cayuga County ss. I Abraham Gridley Clerk of the County of Cayuga aforesaid do certify that on inspecting Book K. of the Record of Deeds in said County remaining in this Office I do there find the Record of a Deed and of the acknowledgment thereof and of the time of recording the same of which the preceding is a true Copy.
And I further Certify that Andrew Groom before whom such acknowledgment was taken was on the 15 th day of October 1821 a commissioner duly authorized and Commissioned to take such acknowledgments in and for said County of Cayuga
And that George B. Throop Esqr who recorded said Deed was on the 22 nd day of October 1821 Clerk of said County whom name subscribed to said Record is in his own proper hand writing In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand And affixed the seal of said County this 12 th day of March 1827
Gridley Clerk

Lipio May 18 th 1821
This day Recd and settled all accounts and found due to Isaac Moore twenty one dollars and thirty five cents
By me
Asa Hays

Ara May
21:35 21:35
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2:54
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2:45
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Jan 12 1844
Keep on the within nine dollars
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Dear Morse
Aft. of Ball. once
due up? to him

State of New York Clerk's office Cayuga County ss: I, Abraham G. Gidley Clerk of the said County of Cayuga do certify that Wing P. Baker and Isaac Morse Esquire, were severally during all the year eighteen hundred and twenty six and ever since have been and now are Justices of the Peace in and for said County of Cayuga duly Commissioned and sworn and that full faith and credit is due to and ought to be given to them and each of them acts as such. And I further certify that the name and official character of the said Wing P. Baker Affixed to the Affidavits of Isaac Morse, Robert Delap and David Beardsey hereto annexed is the proper hand writing and official signature of the said Wing P. Baker Esquire, And that the name and official character of the said Isaac Morse Affixed to the Affidavits of Daniel Birdsall, Silas Holbrook, John Beardsey, Asa Way and Sherman Beardsey also hereto annexed is the proper hand writing and official signature of the said Isaac Morse Esquire.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said County this thirteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight hundred and twenty seven
Abraham Gidley Clerk of Cayuga County.

State of New York
Cayuga County ss; Isaac Morse of Kennebec being part of the late Town of Sapiac in said County being duly sworn saith that for several years previous to the 18 th day of May 1827
he had sold various quantities of shoelaths to Asa Way of said town and had done shoemaking for him and his family and the price or particular items of which account this deponent doth not now recollect - That the deponent and said Asa Way on the day last aforesaid accounted together respecting said account when the sum of twenty one Dollars and thirty five Cents was found due to this deponent for which the said Asa gave this deponent the annexed writing which the deponent on the 12 th of January 1824 partly paid as appears from the endorsement thereon and at different times since but at what times particularly deponent cannot now state fully paid deponent the full amount of said balance -
And the deponent saith that said balance stated in said writing was bonafide and justly due to deponent and that the same has been bonafide and fully paid to him by said Asa Way and further saith not -
Subscribed and sworn before me this
18 day of December 1826
Wm J. Tabor Justice of the Peace
Isaac Morse

State of New York Cayuga County ss. John Beardsley of Seneca in said County being duly sworn, I have been a merchant in the neighborhood of Asa May of said town since which he has been well acquainted with said Asa May and has had various dealings with him that hitherto and he believes in the fall of the year 1818 the deponent sold said Asa a yoke of oxen for sixty dollars and took his promissory note for the same between which time and the 19 May 1824. said Asa made four payments on said note and had dealings with deponent as a merchant on which day last aforesaid deponent and said Asa ascertained the balance due on said note and his then account & dealings when the balance found due to deponent amounted to forty eight dollars and fifteen cents for which said Asa gave deponent his promissory note and said old note he believes was destroyed that some time he believes in October 1825 said Asa paid a note of twenty dollars received of said Beardsley in part of a and said Asa paid to him in my presence for fifty dollars and in some few months afterwards the said Asa paid deponent in cash a sum deponent believes a little more than twenty dollars which with a new note executed by said Asa to deponent for eight dollars and fifteen cents was the balance due on said note given in 1824 which deponent believes was cancelled and destroyed that said note for eight 16 / 100 dollars remains due and unpaid and although deponent is unable to state every minute circumstance touching the dealings between him and said Asa, he says without reserve that every transaction has been just and bonafide — The deponent is the subscribing witness to the bond & note executed by Asa May to Sherman Beardsley dated 23 d September 1820 for four hundred fifteen dollars — which deponent then understood and believes was due to said Sherman for the balance on a store account about one hundred dollars cash but by said Sherman to said Asa at the day of executing the same. The deponent has well known said Asa for many years past and believes he deservedly sustains the reputation of an honest man, as is generally esteemed a man of truth and veracity
John Beardsley
Subscribed before me this 16 Day of June 1826
Levi Morse Justice of the Peace

John Bradsley

Jared Bradbury att Bt of? $50. for man
Jared Bradbury Husband

State of New York Cayuga County
Is — Personally came before me Jared Beardsley of Seneca in the county and after being duly sworn saith that in the month of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty five he bought of Asa May one mare for which he paid the said May fifty Dollars and further saith not
Sworn before me December 6 th 1825 Jared Beardsley Wing Tabor Justice

State of New York Cayuga County } Coy. Com. Pleas } ~~~~~
On this nineteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty four, personally appeared in open court (being a Court of Common Pleas holden in & for the County of Cayuga) - before me the subscriber Asa Way resident in said County of Cayuga aged sixty four years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions of the Acts of Congress of the 18 th of March A.D. 1818. first of May A.D. 1820 & first of March A.D. 1823., that he the said Asa Way enlisted for the term of three years in the State of Con- necticut in the Company commanded by Captain William Liger in the regiment of Artificers comman- ded by Col. Seduthum Baldwin in the Connecticut line in the Continental establishment that he enlisted on the fifteenth day of February in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy eight & continued in said service until the fifteenth day of February one thousand eight hundred and eighty one when he was discharged from said service at Fish Kill in the State of New York which will fully appear by his discharge now on file in -

the Secretary of War's office. That his name has been placed on the Pension List , and as he has been informed has been dropped therefrom
I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March A.D. 1818. and that since that time I have not disposed of my property or of any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled " an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States passed Eighteenth March A.D. 1818. " or of any subsequent act for that purpose. That I have not nor has any person in trust or charge for me any property or securities debts dues or demands, due or coming to me in any manner, nor have I any other income or property other than what is stated in the following Schedule, to wit.
Fifty acres of land worth six hundred dollars on which Sherman Bransdill Esquire of the town of Venice in said County holds two mortgages executed about four years since for borrowed money & means of life, on which mortgages are due six hundred and sixty eight dollars & eighty six cents.

   two horses worth . . .  $75.00  1.4 pail kettle . . . . .  $ 2.00    one Sleigh & harness . . . . .  10.00  1.3. Do. Do. . . . .  1.00    one waggon . . . . .  10.00  1 Small Do. . . . .  0.25    six Drag chains . . . . .  2.00  1 Tea kettle . . . . .  0.75    one ax . . . . .  0.50  6. Kitchen chains . . . . .  3.00    two Augers . . . . .  1.00  Shovel & tongs . . . . .  2.00    two Chisels . . . . .  0.37  2 pails . . . . .  0.45    one Adze . . . . .  0.75  4. Chests . . . . .  3.00    one Cow . . . . .  12.00  1. old plough share . . . . .  1.00    one Cow . . . . .  8.00  2 old hammers . . . . .  0.25    three Yearlings . . . . .  15.00  1. Spider . . . . .  0.25    two Calves . . . . .  5.00  1. Table . . . . .  1.00    ten Sheep . . . . .  10.00  1. Stand . . . . .  0.25    tin ware . . . . .  0.50  2. Candlesticks . . . . .  0.15    Glasp ware . . . . .  0.50  1 pair flats . . . . .  0.50    five Dogs . . . . .  0.30  1 old Clock . . . . .  2.00    one hoe . . . . .  0.20  4 Swine . . . . .  8.00    one farming mill . . . . .  10.00  1 old Saddle & bridle . . . . .  2.50    two pitch forks . . . . .  0.50      one Bible . . . . .  2.00        Totals . . . . .  $797.47   

Debts owing by him, Asa way
Mortgage before mentioned . . . . . $668.86 to Sherman Beardsley bookcase . . . . . 12.00 John Beardsley note . . . . . 48.16 Isaac Morse . . . . . note . . . . . 13.85 J. Morrison . . . . . note . . . . . 18.00 $ 760.87
And I further depose and say that I am a carpenter by trade that I am unable to follow said trade or to get my living by labor, that my family consists of myself & wife only, that my wife is aged sixtytwo years & unable to labour, that I have no family connections.
Asa way.
Sworn in open court this 19th. day of May A.D. 1824. before } me Geo. B. Throop Clerk }

State of New York
Cayuga County
Clerks Office
§ I Abraham Gidley Clerk of the County of Cayuga and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that the preceding declaration, oath and Schedule of Asa Avery is a true copy of the original now on file in this Office.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the said County & Court this second day of February 1826.
A. Gidley Clerk

State of New York Cayuga County ss Silas Holbrook of Union in said County, Physician, being sworn, deposeth & saith in the spring of the year eighteen hundred & nineteen Asa Way of said town & County was seriously affected in his right arm with a paralytic affection connected with rheu- -atism for many months insomuch that his said arm consid- -ably declined and emaciated so as to become almost useless and the said Asa has ever since been affected thereby so as to be in a great measure disabled from manual business and the deponent doth actually believe from his knowledge of the human system and from the advanced age of the said Asa he will never recover the use of that limb so as to perform manual labor of any consequence and further that the said Asa has a hernial rupture in his left groin, which disables him from riding on horseback almost totally and disables him from walking in a great degree — which incapacitates him from supporting himself & family that the deponent has well known the said Asa for twenty years past and that he has been his family physician for that term of time —
Silas Holbrook
Sworn before me Isaac More Justice of the peace Union December 13 th 1826

Silas Holbrook

State of New York ss Robert Delap of Vermo- Onondaga County ss said County being duly sworn saith that he has been acquainted with Asa Hays rising of twenty six years during which time he has found him as with the said Asa - Deponent further saith that from the advanced age of the said Asa together with a rupture in his groin and a Paralytic affection in his arm is unable to do but very little of manual labor - Deponent further saith that the fifty acres of land on which said Asa now resides is the only and all the land the said Asa has owned for sixteen years - Deponent further saith from his own personal knowledge and information from others the proper- ty which the said Asa has in possession is not sufficient to pay his debts - Deponent further saith from his long acquaintance with the said Asa that the utmost confi- dence may be placed on any statements which he the said Asa may make in being generally considered by his neighbo- -urs an honest good man and a worthy citizen
Subscribed & sworn to before me this 18th De- cember 1826
Robert Delap
Wing Tabor Justice of the Peace

David Pridsall offt. that A. May our line $13.03 for repairing Wagon in summer of 1826

On this 2. Day Decr 1826 came before me Daniel Burdick and made oath that as a Way said him the said Daniel thirteen dollars and three cents for repairing an old one horse waggon $13.03 the sum in part
Isaac More Justice of the peace

State of New York
State of New York Cayuga County ss; As a Way of Notice in said County being duly sworn saith that he is justly indebted to Daniel Prindle in the sum of Thirteen dollars and three Cents for repairing an old ox horse waggon during the term of lease as appears by said lease  lease  agreement  agreement  to  to  the  the  deponent  deponent  that  that he purchased fifty acres of land on lot number fifty two in the original township of Seneca now Venice in Cayuga County in the year 1799 of James Ennis and paid for the farm as early as 1802. or 1803 and moved his family on to the farm in April 1800. and hath lived thereon ever since and hath not owned any other land in the last sixteen years, which fifty acres of land is the farm intended to be inclu- -ded in the two Mortgages of which the annexed Copies are marked A. X. — That until about the year  time of 1816 — this deponent was embarrassed when Benjamin Hayward a young man that deponent had brought up urged deponent to embark in erecting and carrying on a distillery and thereupon the deponent and said Benjamin who possessed but little property agreed to erect a distillery and house on the the North East Corner of deponents fifty acres aforesaid and carry on the farm each to share equally in profit loss and deponent to convey said Benjamin an undivided half or moiety of the price of land described in his Mortgage to Sherman Bradby of which the annexed is a Copy which by estimation contained two and one half or three acres of land. That after said buildings were erected and on or about the 22 day of April 1817 this deponent executed said Deed to said Benjamin and they continued said operation of distilling for about five years during which time  time said Benjamin lost all he was worth and was  was  otherwise  otherwise  indebted  indebted and that  this deponent lost more than five hundred dollars and became indebted and embarrassed and abandoned the distillery which has gone to ruin within the four last years — That said Benjamin during the said business of distilling and erecting said works became on his own account indebted to Sherman Bradby to the amount mentioned in his Bond and Mortgage bearing date the 10 th day of October 1821. of which Copies marked A. X. are here to annexed the sum which he executed the farm Bond & Mortgage — and afterwards and on the 10 th day of September 1824. the said Benjamin conveyed his moiety of said three acres of land to deponent fulfil- ling the said Bond & Mortgage as aforesaid executed to said Sherman and which the deponent agreed to pay off and discharge but hath never been able so to do, nor is he now able on which there was due as deponent believes on the 10 th day of December 1826. the sum of two hundred ninety one dollars and forty Cents —

And this deponent further saith that during his said distilling operation he drew orders on said Sherman Bransley & Stone & purchased goods on credit at his store and some grain to distil to a large amount and made various payments the particulars of which dealings this deponent is utterly unable to state except that the deponent and said Sherman Bransley on the 23 d day of September 1820 examined and settled all their former accounts and dealings and as deponent well believes justly and fairly when the deponent was found in arrear and indebted to the said Sherman in the sum of three hundred dollars and fifteen dollars, and this deponent at the time being pressed for the amount of an award or judgement against this deponent in favor of Eli Palmer in the Court of Common Pleas in Cayuga County and having no means to pay the same without loosing the money applied to said Sherman for the loan of one hundred Dollars to enable him so to do and the said Sherman offered to do so in case deponent would give the same with the former Balance by Bond and Mortgage and thereupon said Sherman on the day and year last aforesaid advanced this deponent one hundred dollars in Cash and deponent executed to said Sherman his Bond and a Mortgage on his said fifty acres of land excepting the half of said Still House lot before then devised to said Benjamin Hayward, which is now wholly annexed to four hundred fifteen dollars and now remains wholly unpaid excepting sixty dollars and forty five Cents which he paid on the first day of July 1822 which is endorsed on said Bond and which Bond & Mortgage then was due on the 8 th day of December 1820 as deponent believes the sum of five hundred twenty two dollars and ninety five Cents - and that of the one hundred dollars so as aforesaid loaned by said Sherman to deponent he paid Jonathan Haysy Esquire the Attorney of said Eli Palmer Ninety five dollars and fourteen Cents as will appear by his receipt hereunto annexed marked B. This deponent cannot say that he believes the judgement in favor of said Eli Palmer to have been just or righteous but as deponent employed able Counsel who with deponent made all the then deponent practicable and judgement was awarded against him he was compelled to submit thereto and pay the same contrary to his inclination and will,

And this deponent further saith that over and above the above indebtedness he is justly indebted to the said Sherman Beardsley as a balance due on his store book of twenty one Dollars and ten Cents for various small articles purchased at said store for the use of himself and family but which he cannot particularize as the account has been running for a year or two That the deponent hath no other means whatever to pay and discharge his said debts other than by turning out the estate mentioned in his the Schedule which estate the deponent doth not believe could be sold for a sum sufficient to pay his aforesaid debts —
That in order to be restored to the position roll the deponent proceed a Schedule and Valuation of his real estate to be made out on the 8 th day of January 1824 and employed one John Groom Esquire to pursue the same for him & he hereby believes said papers were duly attended to and soon afterwards forwarded to the War Office at Washington or such of them as were proper
Isaac Hays
known before me — 3 January 9 th 1824
Isaac Hays Justice of Peace

State of New York
Cayuga County ss; Sherman Beardsley of New Haven in Said County being duly sworn Faith that he has well known Asa Way of said town for upwards of some sixteen years during which time he has sustained the reputation of an honest and industrious man during which time he has had frequent dealings with said Asa who till about 1816 appeared to be in the unencumbered after which he gradually became indebted to deponent for goods & merchandise out of my store for the use of himself and family and in carrying on and renting a dwelling house and distillery and for grain to distil in which business deponent never knew Asa a was unfortunate and just as the Considerable loss that on the 23 d day of September 1820. This deponent said Asa had a full examination and settlement of all unsettled dealings then to be had between them, on which the said Asa was found in arrear and justly indebted to deponent in the sum of three hundred and fifteen dollars and one Eli Palmer as deponent having understood Huleius having obtained an award or judgment of about one hundred dollars against said Asa was pressing him for the amount thereof and said Asa solicited this deponent to loan him the money to discharge said debt upon which deponent loaned said Asa one hundred dollars for that purpose most of which deponent since Huleius was paid in satisfaction of said Palmer's demand - and said Asa on the day last aforesaid executed to deponent his Bond and a Mortgage on fifty acres of land owned by him on Lot number fifty two in Sapsis an undivided moiety of two and an half or three acres then to Benjamin Hayward for the sum of four hundred and fifteen dollars on interest which still remains due and unpaid to deponent excepting sixty dollars and forty seven cents received by me thereon July 1. 1822 on which the balance due on the 8 th day of December 1820 amounted to five hundred twenty two dollars and ninety six cents as deponent Huleius
That the before named Benjamin Hayward on the tenth day of October 1821. was justly and truly indebted to this deponent in the sum of two hundred five dollars and forty eight Cents for goods and merchandise purchased at deponent's store for several preceding years to which he executed to deponent on the day and year aforesaid his Bond and a Mortgage on the aforesaid undivided moiety of said fifty acres conveyed him by said Asa Way with interest which still remains wholly unpaid

and unsatisfied, That some when about two years ago the deponent understood and believes the said Benjamin reconveyed said premises to said Asa July 1st to the payment and discharge of said last mentioned Bond & Mortgage which said Asa has often agreed to pay off but has not now any part thereof That on the 10 th day of December 1826 from a computation on said last mentioned Bond & Mortgage the sum of two hundred ninety one dollars and fifty Cents was due thereon — That the annexed four papers marked AX. are true Copies of said two Bonds & two Mortgages and of all endorsements thereon —
That said Asa May is also justly indebted to the deponent over and above said Bonds & Mortgages in the sum of twenty one dollars and ten Cents for sundry small articles of Merchandise furnished to him out of my store within one or two years past for the use of himself and family —
Given before me 1827 January 9 th
Sherman Beard
Seal Notary Public

Know all Men by these Presents, That I, Asa Way of Scipio am
held and firmly bound unto Sherman Bradsby _____ in the Sum of Eight hundred _____ Dollars, Money of Account of the United States : To be paid to the said Sherman Bradsby _____ or to his certain Attorney, Heirs, Executors, Administrators or Assigns : To the which Payment, well and truly to be made, I bind myself my Heirs, Executors and Administrators, and each and every of them, Jointly & severally firmly by these Presents. Sealed with my Seal Dated the twenty third Day of September in the Year of our LORD one thousand eight hundred and twenty The Condition of this obligation is such, that if the above bounden obligor his _____ Heirs, Executors or Administrators, shall and do well and truly pay or cause to be paid unto the above named obligee his _____ Heirs, Executors, Administrators or Assigns, the just and full Sum of four hundred & fifteen Dollars by the twenty third day of September eighteen hundred and twenty one with interest as specified in a Mortgage bearing even date herewith
without any Fraud or other Delay, then this Obligation to be void and of none effect, or otherwise to remain in full Force and Virtue.
SEALED AND DELIVERED, IN THE PRESENCE OF
John Bradsby (copy)
Asa Way (S.S.B)
Ax

(Copy of endorsement)
Recd Supt July 1 th 1822 on the within bonds Eighty Dollars forty seven Cent — $80.47 —
(190) Ax

Know all Men by these Presents,
That I, Benjamin Hayward of said town —
held and firmly bound unto Sherman Beardsley of the town above mentioned in the Sum of four hundred five Dollars Dollars, Money of Account of the United States: To be paid to the said Sherman — or to his certain Attorney, Heirs, Executors, Administrators or Assigns: To the which Payment, well and truly to be made, I, bind myself my Heirs, Executors and Administrators, and each and every of them, jointly & severally firmly by these Presents. Sealed with my Seal Dated the tenth — Day of October in the Year of our LORD one thousand eight hundred and twenty one
The Condition of this obligation is such, that if the above bounden obligor his
Heirs, Executors or Administrators, shall and do well and truly pay or cause to be paid unto the above named obligee his
Heirs, Executors, Administrators or Assigns, the just and full Sum of two hundred five dollars forty eight cents by the tenth day of October in the year Eighteen hundred and twenty two with interest as specified in a certain Mortgage bearing even date herewith —
without any Fraud or other Delay, then this Obligation to be void and of none effect, or otherwise to remain in full Force and Virtue.
SEALED AND DELIVERED, IN THE PRESENCE OF
Ulysses Spalding
(Copy) Benjamin Hayward
L.S.
Ax

I. Hufsey
Ref.
[Faint, mirrored handwritten text, likely bleed-through from the reverse side of the page. The text is mostly illegible but appears to be a formal letter or account.]

Gay. Com. plus
Eli Palmer
See "Way
Eli Saltonstall vs Anna May et al Pay d of the defendant in this suit the sum of Ninety Six dollars and fifty Cents in full of the Costs and disbursements in the above cause & in full satisfaction & discharge of the said Costs. Oct r 2. 1820.
Happy atty for you
Eli Palmer
896. 14
B

Asa Way application to be restored to the Pension Rolls —
Asa Way's petition to be restored to the Pension Rolls and for arrears of pay
Way, Asa Conn. W 22504

State of New York Cayuga County ss.
I Abraham Gridley clerk of the County aforesaid do Certify that on inspecting Book 4. of Mortgages Registered in the Clerks office of said County that I do find therein unsatisfied the Registry of a Mortgage of which the within is a Copy and of the Proof and time of Registering thereof of which the within are Copies.
as at March 1821
And I further Certify that on the 10 day of Andrew Groom before whom said Mortgage was acknowledged was a Commissioner in and for said County duly Authorized to take the acknowledgment of Mortgages and that on the 22 nd day of October 1821 George B Throop was Clerk of said County of Cayuga whose name affixed to said Record as Clerk is of his own proper hand writing.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County this 12 th day of March 1827.
A. Gridley Clerk

This Identity
Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty one — E
Cayuga County New York
Shuman Beardsley of the town County of the second part, Witnesseth, That the said part of the f right. Cuts _____
of the second part, the receipt whereof is hereby confessed and acknowledged, grant, bargain, sell, release, alien and confirm unto the said part 4 land laying and being in the town of Sipio the Center of the highway that leads from the line between the said Allen Davis's and As land there west by Setap land ten Rods highway to the place of beginning containing (and distillery) be the same more or less -
TOGETHER  with all and singular the hereditaments therein.
Printed by Websters and Skinners, at their Bookstore and Office of the Albany Gazette and Daily Advertiser, White House, corner of State and Pearl Streets, Albany, 1819.
Cayuga County, N.Y. On this fiftieth day of October Eighteen Hundred Sixty one James Wilson and Priscilla Hawkes and their children to wit: Mary Wilson the daughters of said James Wilson and also the and finally all of that they were then of and in their present and said and the said Wilson on said James Wilson after before me personally and his said daughters also acknowledged that the same was obtained said mortgage without any form or complaint of her said daughters therefor without record (copy) The above is a true copy of the original for said County

Indenture,
hundred and twenty one — E New York
sseth, That the said part of the f
whereof is hereby confessed and ackm alien and confirm unto the said part 4 being in the town of Sipio highway that leads from the said Allen Davis's and As by Delap land ten Rods an of beginning contain the same more or less —
Made the twelfth day of October in the year of our ETWEEN Benjamin Hayward and Oliver his wife of the town of Sipio
and State aforesaid of the first part, and
st part, for and in consideration of the SUM of two hundred five dollars and 67 1/2 Dollars, money of account of the United States, to them in hand paid, by the said party wledged, hath granted, bargained, sold, released, aliened and confirmed, and by these presents, do of the second part, and to his heirs and assigns, ALL that equal undivided half of on Set number fifty two and bounded as follows viz Beginning in dwelling house of Allen Davis to the dwelling house of Robert Delap on a way then running North forty two rods or thereabouts to Robert Delap thence South to the aforesaid highway thence Easterly along the center of the ing two acres and one half of land (on which stands a dwelling house
and singular the hereditaments therein to in any wise belonging, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues, and

October Benjamin in the said premises having an interest from me until said time wife's dower right
 TOGETHER with all and singular the hereditaments thereunto profits thereof: To have and to hold the said premises hereby and only proper use, benefit and behoof of the said part 7 of the express condition, that if the said Benjamin Hayward well and truly pay or cause to be paid unto the said part 7 of the two hundred and five dollars and forty five and twenty two with interest
in the manner particularly specified in the condition of a  Hayward _____ to the said part shall cease and be void, any thing herein contained to the contrary of said principal Sum of two hundred and five dollars or times when the same ought to be paid as aforesaid, that then and Do the covenant, grant, promise and agree to and with the said part  that if the said Benjamin Hayward the said part 7 of the second part, his heirs, executors, administrators part or parts thereof, at public vendue, to any person or persons whom premises, or the part thereof so sold, to the purchaser or purchasers, to retain in his hands the said two hundred five dollars interest then due , together with all costs, charges or expenses that shall (if there be any) shall, when demanded  on the same being due and at the be paid to the said part 7 
IN WITNESS whereof, the said parties have hereunto inter
SEALED AND DELIVERED, IN THE PRESENCE OF
Myles Spalding
Andrew Groom
(Copy)
Registered this day in the Clerk's Office of Congress County in book G of Mortgages page 390. for the sum of two hundred and five dollars and 45/100. at 10. o'clock A.M. day of October 1821. at 10. o'clock A.M. Geo. B. Hovey Clerk (Copy)

and singular the hereditaments thereunto and to hold the said premises hereby r and behoof of the said part 7 of the said Benjamin Hayward to be paid unto the said part 7 of the two five dollars and forty E with in Aut
to in any wise belonging, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues, and released and confirmed, with the appurtenances, unto the said part 7 of the second part, and to the sole second part, his heirs and assigns for ever. Provided always , and these presents are upon this his _____ heirs, executors and administrators, do and shall second part, his certain attorney or attorneys, heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, the Sum of eight Cents by the tenth day of October in the year Eighteen Hundred
specified in the condition of a c to the said part 7 of the second part, that then and from thenceforth these presents and every thing herein contained y thing herein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. But in case default shall be made in the payment of all or any part two hundred and five dolla ht to be paid as aforesaid, that then and enise and agree to and with the said part d part, his heirs, executors, administr lic vendue, to any person or persons whom so sold, to the purchaser or purchasers, l two hundred five dollars ith all costs, charges or expenses that sha demanded, be paid to the said part 7 of, the said parties have hereunto inter
ertain bond or obligation bearing even date herewith, executed by the said Benjamin y of the second part, that then and from thenceforth these presents and every thing herein contained in any wise notwithstanding. But in case default shall be made in the payment of all or any part two and forty eight Cents _____ Dollars, or the interest thereof, at the time in such case, the said part 7 of the first part, for their _____ heirs, executors and administrators, y of the second part, his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, that it shall and may be lawful for the said part 7 of the second part, his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, at any time or times thereafter, to sell and dispose of the said premises hereby granted, or any ever, and on such sale to make, sign, seal and deliver any deed or deeds of conveyance in the law for the said is, her or their heirs and assigns for ever; and out of the monies arising from such sale or sales to keep and and forty eight Cents _____ Dollars, with the or may be due, accrue, arise or happen by reason or on account of such sale or sales; and the overplus money of the first part, their heirs, executors, administrators or assigns.
hangeably set their hands and seals, the day and year first above written.
Benjamin Hayward (L.S.) Oliver Hayward (L.S.)
(Copy)
Ax

State of New York
Cayuga County ss. I Abraham Gridley Clerk of the County aforesaid do certify that on inspecting Book G. of Mortgages Registered in the Clerks Office of said County that I do find therein unsatisfied the Registry of a Mortgage of which the within is a Copy and of the proof and time of Registering thereof of which the within are Copies
And I further certify that on the 23 rd day of Sept. 1825. John Beardsley Esq. before whom said Mortgage was acknowledged was one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County. and duly authorized to take the Acknowledgment of said Mortgage. and that on the day last aforesaid Henry Tiff was deputy Clerk of said County whose signature affixed to said Record as Deputy Clerk is his own proper hand writing In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County This 12 th day of March 1827
Abraham Gridley Clerk

This Indentu
BE
Lord one thousand eight hundred and Twenty
Thomas Bradley of the town & County State of the second part, Witnesseth, That the said part of the first Dollars
of the second part, the receipt whereof is hereby confessed and acknow- grant, bargain, sell, release, alien and confirm unto the said part of land lying and being in the town of Sipes land the south east corner of fifty acres of land, owned to Allen Davis land there worth about five there West about one hundred and for of Beginning excepting an equal number premises above described on which a dist
TOGETHER with all and singular the hereditaments thereunto profits thereof: To have and to hold the said premises hereby re and only proper use, benefit and behoof of the said part of the express condition, that if the said Asa May his well and truly pay or cause to be paid unto the said part of the four hundred and fifteen dollars by the time
Printed by Websters and Skinner, at their Bookstore and Office of the Albany Gazette and Daily Advertiser, White House, corner of State and Pearl Streets, Albany, 1819.
(Copy)
State of New York County of On the 23. day of Sept. 1820 before me John Bradley Judge of Cay. Co. New York Asa May to me known to be the person described in & acknowledged the within Mortgage deed to be his act and seal for the sum and purposes therein mentioned therefore as to the Records (Copy) John Bradley
Registers of the Power records in the Clerk office of the County of Cayuga in Book A. of Mortgages page 183. September 23. 1820. at 3. O'clock P.M. Henry Safford Deputy Clerk (Copy)

TOGETHER with all and singular the hereditaments thereunto profits thereof: To have and to hold the said premises hereby re- and only proper use, benefit and behoof of the said part 7 of the s- express condition, that if the said Asa May his well and truly pay or cause to be paid unto the said part 7 of the four hundred and fifteen dollars by the time Interest —
in the manner particularly specified in the condition of a a to the said part shall cease and be void, any thing herein contained to the contrary of said principal Sum of four hundred and fifteen or times when the same ought to be paid as aforesaid, that then and Do the covenant, grant, promise and agree to and with the said part the said part 7 of the second part, his heirs, executors, administrators part or parts thereof, at public vendue, to any person or persons whom premises, or the part thereof so sold, to the purchaser or purchasers, he retain in his hands the said four hundred and fifteen interest then due, together with all costs, charges or expenses that shall (if there be any ) shall, when demanded, be paid to the said part 7
IN WITNESS whereof, the said parties have hereunto inter-
SEALED AND DELIVERED, } IN THE PRESENCE OF }
John Beardsley

denture, Made the twenty third — day of September in the year of our BETWEEN Asa May of Seneca County of Cayuga State of New York —
U.S. 9 Made the same BE TWEEN As a Way of Sufios County of Cayuga State of New York — —
& County State, upon aid _____ of the first part, and
said part of the first part, for and in consideration of the SUM of four hundred and fifteen Dollars Dollars, money of account of the United States, to him in hand paid, by the said party y confessed and acknowledged, has the granted, bargained, sold, released, aliened and confirmed, and by these presents, do n unto the said part of the second part, and to his heirs and assigns, forever  ALL that certain piece or parcel town of Sipio lying a part of Lot No. fifty two and is bounded as follows Beginning at as of plants owned by Eli Coons then due East about one hundred and forty eight rods north about fifty rods along Allen Davis line to land owned by Robert Delap hundred and forty eight rods to Eli Coons lands then a fourth sixty rods to the place equal undivided half of three acres of land in the North East Corner of the which a distillery is situated containing forty seven acres of land
hereditaments therein in any wise belonging, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues, and

hereditaments thereunto in any wise belonging, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues, and said premises hereby released and confirmed, with the appurtenances, unto the said part 7 of the second part, and to the sole said part 7 of the second part, his heirs and assigns for ever. Provided always , and these presents are upon this his heirs, executors and administrators, do and shall the said part 7 of the second part, his certain attorney or attorneys, heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, the Sum of Dollars by the thir  ty third day of September Eighteen hundred and twenty one with
condition of a certain bond or obligation bearing even date herewith, executed by the said Asa Wey to the said part 7 of the second part, that then and from thenceforth these presents and every thing herein contained remained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. But in case default shall be made in the payment of all or any part one hundred and fifty Dollars, or the interest thereof, at the time foresaid, that then and in such case, the said part 7 of the first part, for him his heirs, executors and administrators, and with the said part 7 of the second part, his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, that it shall and may be lawful for his, executors, administrators or assigns, at any time or times thereafter, to sell and dispose of the said premises hereby granted, or any person or persons whomsoever, and on such sale to make, sign, seal and deliver any deed or deeds of conveyance in the law for the said purchaser or purchasers, his, her or their heirs and assigns for ever; and out of the monies arising from such sale or sales to keep and one hundred and fifty Dollars, with the expenses that shall or may be due, accrue, arise or happen by reason or on account of such sale or sales; and the overplus money to the said part 7 of the first part, his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns.
As have hereunto interchangably set their hands and seals, the day and year first above written.
(Signed by) Asa Wey  L. A.
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Asa May Payable on the 4 th of March, and 4 th Sept. in each year, by Isaac Lawrence, Esq; Branch Bank, U. States, City of New-York.
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.—
I CERTIFY, That in conformity with the Law of the UNITED STATES, of the 18 th of March, 1818, Asa Way, — _____ late a private _____ in the regiment of artificers commanded by col o . Jeduthun Baldwin, in the Connecticut line of the revolutionary army. is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New-York Agency, at the rate of Eight _____ dollars, _____ cents per month, to commence on the fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
GIVEN at the WAR OFFICE of the UNITED STATES, this twenty ninth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War.