Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 8184, Neilly Bybee, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
La.
Bybee, Neilly Mildred
N 8184
B.L.W. 35827-160-55
CONTENTS

218472 e really Bybee
To.
Mildred Wright
copy & cost trial
Recorders fees .30

State of Missouri
County of Monroe } } }
I Joseph R Mallory a Justice of the Peace of the Peace of the County aforesaid do hereby certify that I solemnized the rights of Matrimony between Nealey Bybee and Mildred Wright on the 21 st day of August 1837 both parties of the County and State aforesaid Given under my hand the date and year above written
Joseph R Mallory Justice Filed for Record on the 23 rd day of June A D 1838 and duly Recorded.
Thos. S Miller R M Co " "
State of Missouri
County of Monroe } } }
In the Recorders Office I George Glenn Clerk of the Circuit Court of the County aforesaid and Ex Officio Recorder of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing Marriage Certificate from Nealey Bybee to Mildred Wright is truly copied as fully as the same appears of Record in my Office
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at office in Paris the 1 st day of October A D 1855
George Glenn Recorder

Missouri 1948
Kentucky
Neilly Brybee -
of Clark in the State of Kentucky who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Lovely of the Regt commanded by Col. Gaskins in the Virginia line for 18 months from 1781-
Missouri
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 60 - Dollars - Cents per Ann. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 th day of Nov 1832 and sent to Saml. M c . Taylor Winchester. Ky.
  Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832  90 -    Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 th March 1833  30 -     $120. -  
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Nathan Lee Clerk, Book D Vol. 9 th Page 32. E 8 79
Transf d to Missouri from 2 nd Mar. 1834
Lt. A. W. Kunkle - Aug. 2/53.
Nov 1841

5636
Missouri
Mildred Bybee, widow of Willy Bybee who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 60. dollars 00. cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued 16 th day of Jany 1856. and sent to
A. W. Runkle Paris Mo.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 196. Vol. A
1857 Febr. 19. To A. W. Runkle.
Duplicate issued on 11 th Nov 1865 and sent to Pensioner care of H Wood St Louis Mo.
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Oct 18/85
Mildred Bybee with Nelly Bybee Nelly
000.35827/1p
Revolutionary Pensioner
Revolutionary
July 53-5636
ad: 160 Ac, July 28/86
W. J. [unclear]
Clerk of Monroe County Mo.
Vol B-2-123

State of Kentucky Revolutionary Claims Clark County etc.
For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the act of Congress entitled "An act supplementary to an act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved on the 7 th day of June 1832, I Neilly Rybee of the County of Clarke in the State of Kentucky do hereby aged 69 years, do hereby declare, that I enlisted in the service of the Army of the Revolution for the term of eighteen months under Cap t Lovely of the (Virginia) Continental line in the Regiment commanded by Col o Gaskins, in the month of April as well as I recollect in the year 1781. that shortly after my said enlistment I was transferred by order of the Col o to the waggon department under Waggon Master John B. Carter, that at the time of my said enlistment I resided in the County of Fluvanna in the said State of Virginia, that I joined the Army at the Barracks near the point forks of James River in the Spring 1781, and was discharged honorably from service by my captain at Santee in South Carolina with directions to get my discharge from Genl. Chas s Scott upon my return

which written discharge I obtained from Genl Scott in the year 1783, the captain having give me a certificate in the year 1782 at Santee where I was left sick, and when I recovered and applied to said Scott at his residence in Cumberland County Virginia, he gave me a written discharge in said year of 1783 which discharge I left with my sister in said County of Fluvanna (who has since died) in the year 1783 and supposes that the same has been lost, I left the state of Virginia in the year 1785 or 1786 and came to the state of Kentucky and remained in said last named state about one year when I returned to the state of Virginia where I remained until the year 1790 when I removed to said state of Kentucky, I have resided in the County of Clark in said state ever since, tho' it was within the boundary of Fayette County at the time I first came on The Army in which I served marched first from Point fork on James River Fluvanna County up in the forks of the River near Lynch- burg, and then returned back to the Barracks at Point fork, and next marched across to Staunton River at Coles Ferry, and marched back and crossed James River at Carters Ferry from thence to Richmond and from Richmond to Bottom's old Fields, from thence across the Wilderness Bridge above Fredericks

burg, from thence back to Bottoms field, at Bottoms old field, Capt. Kilpatrick of the same Regiment was shot in the eye by a soldier of the name of Grant, for which offence said Grant was hung. - From Bottoms old field we marched across Dismal Swamp to Cabin or Stony Point on James River, from thence to Williamsburg, from thence to York where we remained until Cornwallis was taken in the fall 1781. From thence marched up to Cumberland Old Courthouse where we staid thro' the winter, and in the spring 1782 we marched to South Carolina near the Savannah River where we staid until the fall of the year, where I was left sick & received a certificate of my having fulfilled my engagement from Capt. (name not recollected) which I produced to Genl. Scott in 1783 & received my discharge as first stated. - That Col. Posey Commanded the Regiment in which I marched to South Carolina - that I served the full term of eighteen months agreeable to the term of my enlistment - and I do hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. Given under my hand and seal this 25 th day of July 1832.
att Sam. M. Taylor
his Nelly & Blylee Marte

State of Kentucky Clarke Circuit 3 d Set.
On this 25 th day of July 1832, personally appeared in Open Court before the Honorable Rich- ard French, judge of the Clarke Circuit Court now sitting. Neilly Bybee, a resident of Clarke County and State of Kentucky, aged sixty nine years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June the 7 th 1832 cont. (see it together with certifi- cate of proof of John B. Cartler hereto annexed) - and the said Court hereby declares its opinion after due investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories presented by the War department; that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states -
I Samuel M. Taylor clerk of the Court held for the Circuit of Clarke aforesaid do hereby certify; that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Neilly Bybee for a pension -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 26 th day of July 1832 and in the 41 st year of the Commonwealth.
Sam. M. Taylor

Commonwealth of Kentucky Woodford, County Court.
This day personally appeared before me John B. Cartee, a citizen of the county aforesaid and made oath That he the said Cartee during the war of the revolution was a waggon master a part of the time in the 17th reg t of the Virginia line that during that time Nalley Bybee was in said reg t a wag- goner enlisted in that service where he served One year and a half and was honor- ably discharged, at the close of the war
Sworn to and sub- his John B. Cartee scribed by the aforesaid mark affiant this 4th day of July 1832
J. M. [unclear] P.M.C.

Commonwealth of Kentucky. Woodford County set I John M c Kinney Jr. Clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid, do Certify that Thomas M c Millers Esquire whose name is annexed to the within Certificate is one of the Justices of the County in and for said County duly Commissioned & qualified and that his official acts are entitled to full faith and credit as such either in or out of this State.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office at Versailles this 18 th day of July 1832 and in the 48 th Year of the Commonwealth
John M c Kinney Jr. Clerk

State of Missouri County of Monroe Set
On this the first day of October one thousand eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared in the County Court of Monroe County in the State of Missouri Mildred Bybee a resident of Audrain County in the State of Missouri aged about 65 years who first being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3d February 1853 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war that she is the widow of Healy Bybee deceased who was a private in the Revolutionary Army that her husband received a pension in his lifetime and she refers the department to the evidence filed in his application to prove and substantiate this claim and asks that it may be made a part of this declaration
She does not know what act her husband was pensioned, that her said husband was paid at the agency established in city of St Louis in the State Missouri
She further declares that she was married to the said Healy Bybee on the 21 day of August 1837

in Monroe County in the State of Missouri — That her said husband died in Monroe County in the State of Missouri in November AD 1841 & That she was not married to him from to the second of January eighteen hundred but at the time above stated She further States That she is now a widow
Mildred her + Bybee mark
We Berry Sally and Martha H. Sally residents of Audrain County in the State of Missouri upon oath declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Mildred Bybee in our presence and that from a long & continued acquaintance with the ap- plicant we know her to be the person she represents herself to be that we saw the aforesaid Sally Bybee die and know from long and continued acquaintance with the claimant that she is the widow of Sally Bybee deceased
Berry Sally Martha H. her + Sally mark R
I do hereby appoint A. W. Knuckle of the Town of Paris County of Monroe and State of Missouri to be my agent and to prosecute my claim and receive my pension who will be paid with the same to me.
Mildred her + Bybee mark

State of Missouri, In the Monroe County Court County of Monroe } August Adj. term held October 1855
Among the Records and proceedings of said Court at said term, to wit on the 10 th day of October A.D. 1855 the following is found:
" The declaration of Mildred Bybee widow of Neely Bybee deceased and affidavit of Berry Tally and Martha Tally was this day submitted to the court and thereupon personally appeared in open Court the said Mildred Bybee and the said Berry and Martha Tally who being duly sworn according to law, upon their oaths say that the matters and things cont- ained in said declaration and affidavit are true to the best of their knowledge and belief all of which is ordered to be certified -
In testimony that the foregoing is truly copied from the Records of Monroe County Court W. A. Penn Clerk of said court have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at office in said this 10 th day of October A.D. 1855 W. A. Penn Clerk

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State of Missouri } County of Monroe } Set
I W. H. Purse Clerk of The County Court within and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that George H. Palmer Esq. before whom the foregoing Declaration and Affidavit were made is, and was at the time of signing the same an Acting Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State the County and State aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and that his signature above is genuine In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of my Office this 18 th day of October A.D. 1853- W. H. Purse Clerk

State of Missouri County of Monroe Set
On this the first day of October one thousand eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me a justice of the peace within and for the county and State afore said Mildred Byke aged about 65 years a resident of Audrain County in the State of Missouri who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Healy Healy Byke deceased who was a private in the Revolutionary Army that her said husband did receive a pension and for the facts in regard to his services and to substantiate this claim she refers to the evidence now on file in the pension department of his services in the Revolutionary Army and upon which warrant he obtained his pension, and asks that it be made a part of this declaration. She further states that she was married to the said Healy Byke on the 21 day of August AD 1837 in the county of Monroe and State of Missouri by one Joseph P. Mallory a justice of the peace, and that her name before her said marriage was Mildred Wright that her said husband died in in Monroe County in the State of Missouri in November AD 1841 and that she is now a widow. She makes this declaration for

the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March the 3 1855
Mildred + Bybee mother We Berry, Sally and Martha H. Gally residents of Audrain County in the State of Missouri upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Mildred Bybee in our presence and that we know the applicant to be the person she represents herself to be that we saw the aforesaid Mildred Bybee alive and know from a long acquaintance with the claimant and her husband that she is the widow of Healy Bybee deceased Berry Sally Martha H. Gally mother
State of Missouri } I do Certify the foregoing County of Audrain } declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written and I Certify that the affiants to be credible persons that the Claimant is the person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in this Claim
Geo. S. Pohlner
I do hereby appoint A. M. Rumble S.P. of the Town of Paris County of Audrain & State of Missouri to be my agent and to prosecute my Claim and to receive my warrant. Mildred wife Bybee mother

March 6, 1940.
Mrs. Herbert V. Gorden 3609 Mitchell Avenue St. Joseph, Missouri.
BA-J/ILL Neilly Bybee W. 8184 aw
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Cornelius (or Benjamin) Bybee, from Gulpaper County, Virginia, who received a pension in 1832, aged seventy-one years, Montgomery County, Kentucky, also, the record in that war of Joseph Taylor, of Augusta County, Virginia, pension certificate #2075.
Because of the great demand for Revolutionary War data and the limited clerical force available for furnishing that information, it is impossible to comply in full with each request pertaining to soldiers of that war. The records have been searched and no claim for pension found based upon service of a Benjamin or Cornelius Bybee, variously spelled. The record has been found, however, of Neilly (Nealy) Bybee who was a pensioner of Clark County, Kentucky, in 1832, and later received his pension in Monroe County, Missouri. His record may be that of the soldier, Cornelius, in whom you are interested. The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, W. 8184, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
Neilly Bybee resided in Fluvana County, Virginia, at the time he entered service in the Revolutionary War.
He enlisted in April 1781, served as private in Captain Lovely's company, Colonel Gaskins' Virginia regiment, shortly afterwards, was transferred and served under Wagonmaster, John B. Carter, in the Virginia troops and was discharged from Colonel Posey's Virginia regiment, in the fall of 1782, having served eighteen months.
This soldier resided in Virginia until the year 1785 or 1786,

moved then to Kentucky where he remained one year, returned to Virginia where he resided until 1792, after which he moved back to Kentucky; he resided in Fayette County and in Clarke County in that state.
Neilly Bybee was allowed pension on account of his service in the Revolutionary War, on his application executed July 25, 1832, at which time he resided in Clarke County, Kentucky. He gave his age then as sixty-nine years, but did not state the date and place of his birth, nor the names of his parents. In April 1834, he had moved to live in Monroe County, Missouri. He died in November 1841 in that county.
This soldier married August 21, 1837, in Monroe County, Missouri, Mildred Wright; the names of her parents were not given. They were married by Joseph R. Mallory, a Justice of the Peace; the soldier's name was recorded then as Neayly Bybee.
Mildred Bybee, this soldier's widow, was allowed pension on her application executed October 1, 1855, at which time she resided in Audrain County, Missouri. She was aged then about sixty-five years. She was allowed also one hundred sixty acres of bounty land on warrant #35827, under the Act of March 3, 1855, on account of his service in the Revolutionary War. She was living in Audrain County, Missouri, in 1865.
This soldier referred to his sister who lived in Fluvana County, Virginia, in 1783, but did not state her name; she was deceased in 1832.
No reference was made to children of this soldier.
In 1855, William Hargrove and Henry Sims, of Monroe County, Missouri, stated that they were present at the marriage of Neilly Bybee and Mildred Wright. In 1865, John W. McRoberts, Jr. and Edward C. Wilson were present when Mildred Bybee made affidavit in regard to her pension. No relationship between these persons and the soldier's family was stated. Berry Tally and Martha H. Tally of Audrain County, Missouri, made affidavits in behalf of Mildred

Bybee, in 1855, but did not state any relationship to this soldier's family.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name of person paid and, possibly, the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, this city, and furnish the following data:
Mildred Bybee Certificate #5636 Issued January 16, 1856 Rate $60 per annum Commenced February 3, 1853 Act of February 3, 1853 Missouri Agency.
Very truly yours,
A. D. MILLER, Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

Paris Mo July 15 1868 Com of Pensions
Dear Sir
The case that I have now to attend to is the case of the widow of Neal Bybe who was a pensioner, and a revolutionary soldier. The wid ow has no other evidence of the service of her husband except that now on file in your office upon which he obtained his pension, she wishes to procure the what is due her from Government as widow of the said Neal Bybe, and the bounty land that is due her under the act approved March the 3 1855. I wish to know if proving by living witnesses that she is the widow of the said Neal Bybe will entitle her to draw the pension due since her husband's death and obtain the bounty land. She does not remember the facts that are required by the declaration and unless she can obtain it on the evidence upon which her husband obtained his pension she cannot get what is due her according to law

The meadow is old and very poor and they needs it very mutton Give me how to proceed in this case and you will oblige me very miter,
Yours Respectfully
Hon. J. P. Waldo
A. M. Knapp
Leone of Penobscot

Netty Bybee's Papers.
Revolutionary claim 18 months from for 1786 private No. 3023
$60 Kentucky admitted
look in her will
To John McKinney Versailles
To Sam M. Taylor Winchester Ky.

Officers of the — Pension Office War Department Washington City. —
Paris Monroe County Missouri May 17 th 1834
Gentlemen
Enclosed is the Evidence of Healy By her formality as the Heir of this State. Showing himself the holder of a Revolutionary Certificate for a pension with the Certificate of the Clerk of the Circuit Court indorsed thereon; — It is his request that any communication to him on the subject will be addressed to him My Care at this place he wishes the disbursement to make some arrangement by which he may hereafter receive his money in this State in place of St. Louis —
Yours &c.
Edward St. Holden

Paris Mo Aug 14 1855
Cam of Pensions
Dear Sir
Healy Bybee was married to Mildred Wright on the 21 day of August 1837 in the County of Monroe and State of Missouri.
Yours Respectfully
R. M. D.

Nealey Bybee
20 } Copy marriage certificate
Melrose Wright
Recorders Fees 30

State of Missouri } County of Monroe } S.S
I Joseph R Mallory a Justice of the Peace of the Peace of the County aforesaid do hereby certify that I solemnized the rights of matrimony between Stealey Bybee and Mildred Wright on the 21 st day of August 1837 both parties of the County and State aforesaid. Given under my hand the date and year above written
Joseph R. Mallory Justice
Filed for Record on the 23 rd day of June A D 1838 and duly Recorded
Tho S Miller R M Co
State of Missouri } County of Monroe Jct }
In the Records Office
I George Glenn Clerk of the Circuit Court of the County and State aforesaid and Ex Officio Recorder of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing Marriage Certificate from Stealey Bybee to Mildred Wright is truly copied as the same appears of Record in my Office
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal of Office at Office in Paris this the 1 st day of October A D 1855
George Glenn Clerk By E W Sims fr d c

A. W. Kunkle,
Oct. 15 '85
1883.

Pension Office
Octo 15 1855
Sir
The application of Mildred Bypsee widow of Neil Ly of Mo has been examined and filed under the 2 d Sec of the Acty Feby 3 1853,
She must prove by, at least, two credible witnesses that she is the widow of the pensioner 1853) bearing her husband's name,
At Knuckle End Sir Knuckle End Paris Mo

Affidavit to prove the widowhood of Mildred Bybee in pension claim
A. W. Kunkle

State of Missouri County of Monroe 3 Set
On this the 13 day of November one thousand, eight hundred and fifty five personally came before me a justice of the peace within and for the county and State aforesaid Henry Simms and William Waregroom who being duly sworn according to law deposited and sayeth that they were personally acquainted with Neely Bybee deceased and Mildred Bybee his wife that we knew that the aforesaid Mildred Bybee to be the lawfull wife and widow of the aforesaid Neely Bybee deceased from the fact that we saw the aforesaid Neely Bybee and Mildred Bybee joined in marriage at the residence of the aforesaid Mildred Bybee then Mildred Wright on the 21 day of August 1837 that we have been acquainted with the aforesaid parties ever since their marriage that they have lived together as husband and wife ever since their marriage aforesaid until the death of the aforesaid Neely Bybee, that we saw the aforesaid Neely Bybee die that we helped to bury the said Bybee that from a personal knowledge of the aforesaid facts we know

the afore said Mildred Bybee to be the lawfull widow of the afore said Neely Bybee deceased and that the afore said Mildred Bybee is now and has remained a widow ever since the death of the afore said Neely Bybee deceased
J. Gentry Sims William Hargrove
The foregoing affidavit was sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year first above written and I certify that the officers are credible persons W. J. Fulford Justice of the Peace
State of Missouri } County of Morgan } Set
I W. A. Penn clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Morgan do hereby certify that W. J. Fulford is and was at the time of signing the same, an acting Justice of the Peace within the said County of Morgan duly commissioned and qualified and that his signature above is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of my office this 14th day of November A.D. 1855
W. A. Penn Clerk

Pension Agency St Louis, July 11 / 65
Sir
Enclosed please find applica- cation of Mildred Bybee for New Certificate.
Yours most respectfully Horatio Wood
Pension Agency St. Louis Mo
To
Joseph H. Barrett Esq. Court- Pension Washington D.C.

Brief in the case of, Mildred Bybee, wid of Neilly Rev in the Revolutionary War
Audrain County and State of Mo
act 3 rd Feb 1853.
CLAIM FOR NEW PENSION CERTIFICATE,
PROOF EXHIBITED,
The name of the Pensioner was placed on the roll on the 16 th of January 1856, at $60.00 per annum, to commence on the 3 rd Feb 1853.
She now applies for a duplicate certificate alleging that the original was been lost.
Pensioner Care of
Name and residence of Agent.
H. Wood E. St Louis Mo
A Weeks
Examining Clerk.

Brief in the case of Mildred Bybee, widow of Neilly Bybee Monroe County and State of Missouri act February 3, 1888.
Claim, ("original," or "for increase" )
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was a pensioner under act of June 7, 1832, at rate of $60 per annum, as a private, for 18 months service.
Marriage proved by certified transcript from County Court records - It took place Aug. 22, 1837.
Husband was paid to 4th Sept. 1841, as per 3d Auditor's Certificate, and died in November following. (If for increase)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Identity of the claimant as the present widow of the above named pensioner, and his death proved by William Hargrave and Henry Sims.
Allowance accordingly
A. W. Kunkle Esq.
Name and residence of Agent.
Paris, Missouri
R. Seddes Examining Clerk.

Pension Office Dec 1 1853-
Sir
The claim of Mildred Paybee of Mo can not be admitted until she proves, by credible witnesses, that she is the widow of Neilly Paybee who was a pensioner upon the Missouri Roll. This was the requirement of my letter of the 15th of Octo- ber,
1853/
A. W. Kunkle Esq
Paris Mo

Pension Office, Dec. 28/55
The Third Auditor will please certify the date to which the within named pensioner was paid, and, if in his power, the name of his widow —
Very respectfully
R. M. Blair
Mr Commissioner
3 d Auditor's Office Dec r 29. 1855
Sir.
The within named pensioner has been paid, in full, to 11 Sept 1841. No evidence of the name of the pensioner's widow.
J. Minto Pay Comm r of Pensions.
John Johnson Auditor.

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N o 6078
Mildred Bybee, widow of Neilly Bybee Missouri
Admitted Act Feb'y 3. 1853 at rate of $60 per annum Commencing at date of said act.
Husband was a private of Infantry 18 months Pay widow
Certificate to A. W. Kunkle Esq. Paris, Missouri

No 6078. Mildred Bybee widow of Neilly Mo.
W. Hunter Oct 15 1855 same Dec 11 1857
3 Feb 1853

Palmer Jan 10 56 Com of pensions
Dear Sir
Directly after receiving your last letter to me in relation to the case of Mildred Byhre, I made out an affidavit in conformity to your letter and transmitted it to the you without backin- ng it. But you can tel from the body of the instrument where it belongs it belongs to the case of Mildred Byhre and if it has not been filed in that case it must be and in so doing you will oblige me very much and I promise not to be so careless the next time
Yours
Most Respectfully
A. H. Knutle

A. W. Rankeo Garrig Mo.
mo.
Rev. sumner $60: pram.
21842
Mildred Byler 35.837 10 a a Aug 1/50 St. J.
Mr McRae St. J.
so as the last post of the letter.

Paris Mo Aug 1 1858
Com of Pensions Dear Sir
The claim of Mildred Bybee for bounty land was made out and marked about the 1st of October 1855. I do not recollect of ever having received any notice of its reception at your office. This Lady is now on the Pension Roll at the rate of $60,000 a year when she received her pension from the agent at St Louis he sent her a paper from which I conclude that she is also entitled to the five years half-pay. Please let me know if this is the fact.
Yours
Most Respectfully
A. W. Runkle

APPLICATION FOR A NEW CERTIFICATE.
A blank space is left at the close of applicant's affidavit that the time, place, and manner of the loss or destruction of the original certificate may be set forth.
The pensioner's oath must be supported by the evidence of another person as to identity. The witness must swear that he or she well knows applicant to be the same person described in his or her affidavit, and the magistrate must certify that the deponent is a person of veracity.
When a person acting as agent or attorney for a pensioner loses the certificate, the affidavit of that person, duly authenticated, is also required.
The official character and signature of the officer before whom the affidavits are made must be authenticated by the certificate of the proper officer, under his seal of office, and in every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or small ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer.
STATE OF Missouri COUNTY OF St. Louis , ss.
On this 8th day of July , 18 65 , before the subscriber, a clerk of circuit court for said county, personally appeared Mildred Dylse , who, on her oath, declares that she is the niece of  William Dylse  deceased who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Captain _____ in the Regiment commanded by Colonel _____ in the service of the United States; that her name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Missouri ; that she received a certificate of that fact under the signature and seal of the Secretary of Interior ; which certificate, on or about the _____ day of March , 18 63 , at or near Alton in the county of St. Louis in the State of Missouri and which was numbered (5636) the by some means lost and of her possession
Sworn and subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid
John W. McRoberts Jr Edward C. Wilson John H. Clarke Mildred Dylse Mark
STATE OF Missouri COUNTY OF St. Louis , ss.
On this 8th day of July , 18 65 , before the subscriber, a clerk of circuit court for said county, personally appeared John W. McRoberts Jr who, on his oath, declares that they well know Mildred Dylse who has executed the foregoing affidavit, to be the identical pensioner named therein.
Sworn and subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid.
John H. Clarke

Pension Office,
January 7. 1855.
The third auditor will please certify whether there is any evidence of the death of within named pensioner. The last certificate states he was paid "in full".
Very respectfully J. M. [?] For Commissioner
(Endp.)
3 d Auditor's Office Jan'y 8. 1855
Sir,
There is no evidence of the death of the within named pensioner on file in this office.
Very Resp'y Robt J. Stearns Auditor

State of Missouri County of Monroe 3 rd Set.
On this the 11 day of December one thousand eight hundred and fifty five personally came before me a justice of the peace within and for the County and State aforesaid said William Hargrave and Henry Simms who being duly sworn ab- juring to have declared that Sally Bybee was married to Mildred Wright on the 21 day of August 1837 by one Joseph R. Hollery a justice of the peace within said for the County & State aforesaid, That we saw the aforesaid Sally Bybee and Mildred Bybee then Mildred Wright joined that in marriage we gave the aforesaid Sally Bybee as and same him married that from the above facts we know that the aforesaid Mildred Bybee to be the law- ful wife and widow of Sally Bybee who was a pensioner upon the Missouri Roll and that the aforesaid Mildred Bybee is now the widow of the aforesaid Sally Bybee who was a pensioner on the Missouri Roll that we know the above facts from our actual and personal knowl- edge of them.
William Hargrave Henry Simms
The foregoing affidavit was

Sworn to and subscribed to on the day and year first above written and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons and that I have no interest in this claim.
William J. Freeland S.P.
State of Missouri County of Monroe } Set
I hereby certify that William J. Freeland Esq. before whom the foregoing declaration and affidavit was made, is and was at the time of taking the same, an Acting Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid duly Commissioned and qualified and that his signature above is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office This 12th day of December A.D. 1855 W. H. Penn Clerk

State of Missouri to wit
I Neilly Byler named in the foregoing certificate, as a revolutionary soldier, doth appear in open Court in said state, at the town of Paris in the County of Monroe, before the Circuit Court then & there held by David Dodd Judge thereof, and I do solemnly swear that I am the same person named in said certificate; and that since the 4 th of March last past, when I received payment at the Agency for pension payment at Lexing- ton Kentucky, I have removed to the state of Missouri in the said County of Monroe, and am now, and shall continue, a resident of the County and state last aforesaid. Given under my hand this twenty first day of April in the year 1834. Neilly Byler
True

State of Missouri County of Monroe In the Monroe Circuit Court April Term 1834 Amongst the Recordings and proceedings of The said Court is the following to Wit:
Really. Dyke presents here in Court his affidavit — Showing himself the holder of a Revolutionary Certificate for a pension, payable in Kentucky and stating his removal to this County. Which was signed by him in Open Court, And duly sworn to and is ordered to be Certified to the pension office
In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the Circuit Court for the County of Monroe aforesaid hereunto sets my Seal of Office at Paris this 17th day of May A.D. 1834
Edward M. Woodson Clerk
Kentucky Bybee Nerly y rs June - 49 48 111508 trans for
In the case

War department
Revolutionary claim
I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States of the 7 th June 1832, Neilly Bybee of the State of Kentucky who was a private in the Army of the Revolution, is entitled to receive sixty dollars and — Cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4 th of March 1831, and payable semi annually on the 4 th of March and 4 th of September, in every year.
Given at the war office of the United States this 14 th day of November one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
John Robb Acting secretary of war
Examined and countersigned J. L. Edwards
Endorsed Payments to be made at Lexington Ky by the Pres. t U. S. Br. Bk. Agent for paying pensioners, in the agency of Kentucky.
Recorded by N. Rice Clerk in Book D. Vol. 9. page 32 "

1926 Aug 24. Heist to A. E. Austin Au 1926 Nov 6. More data A. E. Austin Au 1940 March 6. Hist. to Mrs. Herbert V. Gordon. J.L.L.
Pay WIDOW, &c.
File No. 8184
Mildred Bybee Wid
Neilly Bybee Post Rec War
Act: July 31  1868
Index:—Vol. 4 , Page 111
[Arrangement of 1870.]

St Joseph, Mo.
Feb. 10, 1940.
Veterans Administration, Washington D. C.
Dear Sirs: - Can you please give me any information on the following Revolutionary War Soldiers. Reasons for wanting. D. A. R. proof.
Cornelius (or Benjamin ) Bybee - enlisted in Va. Continental Infantry. (according to family papers - was awarded a medal for bravery. Was from Culpepper Co. Va. Awarded pension 1832 - age 71, Montgomery Co. Ky.) Would like Pension Certificate no. and date of death, name of wife if surviving - age - death.
Also Joseph Taylor - b. 1747

Augusta Co. Va. enlisted at Staunton Va. Feb. 1, 1866, served 11 months, as wagoner in Colst. John Hays Co. Col's. Thomas Fleming and Geo. Matthews Va. Regiment. Pension Certificate No. 3075. (Date of death) wife name - age if surviving - death?
Thanking You -
Sincerely -
Mrs. Herbert V. Lorden, 3609 Mitchell Ave., St. Joseph, Mo.

Rev. & 1812 War Section
Woodburn Ore Sept 4 th 1926
Mr E.W. Morgan
Acting Commissioner
Dear Sir, My husband
A. E. Austin, has been corresponding with the pension department in regard to my grandfathers - great, great -, Matthew Jones and Neilly Bybee, but has asked me to relieve him. By yours of Aug 24 th I find that you have papers concerning Neilly Bybee . Have you the exact date of his birth? Does he say that he was born in Bybee, Florence Co, Va.? Will you please give me his Post Office was it Bybee in Clarke Co, Ken. and also in Monroe Co. Missouri. You say he enlisted in April 1781 and was discharged in the fall of 1781 and - that he served eighteen months. Was Wagon Master John B. Carter connected with Washington's service in any way?
I wrote in Mr Austins name with regard to Matthew Jones but wish to add to that letter daughter of Neilly Hisson, Thomas Jones who married Frances Bybee in 1791, was as I dated born 1785 in Southampton Co. Matthew Jones home county was either Nansemond or Southampton, and he was born about 1768. We dont know whether Thomas Jones came west alone or with the family but Matthew Jones' brother Berryman came to Greenbrier prior to 1790. Matthew Jones married Mary Crumpler or Crumble. He died of cancer 1818?
I want to thank you for the letter I have
furnished Oct 30: 26

already received and for any other that may be necessary and subscribe myself
Yours Sincerely
Mrs. Grace J. Austin
215-8 th St
Woodburn, Ore.
My grandparents crossed the plains to Ore in 1853 or I might not have found it necessary to get my information at this late date.

A. E. AUSTIN
DEALER IN FURNISHINGS, DRY GOODS, HATS AND CAPS BOOTS AND SHOES
WOODBURN, OREGON
6-30-'26
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington D.C.
Dear sir;—
Since addressing the Pension Department on the 6th I have learned that Neilly Bybee was a pensioner of the War of The Revolution from Va. Will you please send me a copy of his record on file in the Pension Dept?
I also asked in that letter if Mathew Jones, of Va. was a pensioner of that war. ?
Yours truly,
A. E. Austin

A. E. AUSTIN
DEALER IN FURNISHINGS, DRY GOODS, HATS AND CAPS BOOTS AND SHOES
WOODBURN, OREGON
7-26-126
Commissioner of the Pension Bureau Washington D. C.
Dear sir;-
I am presuming that there is some good reason why my letters of June 4th and June 30th have not been answered but am in the dark as to why. If my request was not in line with the rules of your department I, at least, am entitled to know wherein.
I am not asking any favors other than are extended in the regular way but have no way to find what that procedure is unless you inform me. Hon. W. C. Hawley, member of Congress, is my personal friend but I am reluctant to bother him with so small a matter unless I find that the approach to your department should come through that channel.
I would like to secure the information asked for in the regular way if you will inform me how to proceed.
Yours very truly,
A. E. Austin
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A. E. AUSTIN
DEALER IN FURNISHINGS, DRY GOODS, HATS AND CAPS BOOTS AND SHOES
WOODBURN, OREGON
7-26-'26
Commissioner of the Pension Bureau Washington D. C.
Dear sir;-
I am presuming that there is some good reason why my letters of June 4th and June 30th have not been answered but am in the dark as to why. If my request was not in line with the rules of your department I, at least, am entitled to know wherein.
I am not asking any favors other than are extended in the regular way but have no way to find what that procedure is unless you inform me. Hon. W. C. Hawley, member of Congress, is my personal friend but I am reluctant to bother him with so small a matter unless I find that the approach to your department should come through that channel.
I would like to secure the information asked for in the regular way if you will inform me how to proceed.
Yours very truly,
A. E. Austin
RETURN THIS LETTER
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Ex. ars Div. Record
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS, WASHINGTON, D. AUG 2 1926
The attached letter is respectfully returned with the information that the data furnished is not sufficient to enable this Bureau to make intelligent answer to the queries therein contained.
Please fill out such of the blank spaces below as the information in your possession will permit, and return to this Bureau.
No. of claim _____
Name of soldier, Neilly Bybee
We know he was a pensioner
His wife's name was Bybee
P. O. address of claimant, Mary (Norman) They moved to Ken. after the war
Company He was at surrender of Cornwallis
Regiment _____
State where enlisted Virginia
Date of enlistment _____
Date of discharge _____
If unable to furnish company and regiment give names of commanding officers.
He was connected with Washington's staff
Return attached letter with reply.
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.

AW
August 21, 1908.
A. E. Austin, Woodburn, Oregon.
Sir:
I have to advise you, that from the papers in the pension claim, W. 8184, it appears that Neilly Bybee lived in Fluvanna County, Virginia, when he enlisted in April 1781 as a private under Captain Lovely in Colonel Gaskins' Virginia Regiment, he was shortly after placed under Wagon Master John B. Carter and was discharged from Colonel Posey's Virginia Regiment in the Fall of 1781, having served eighteen months.
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 25, 1832, while living in Clarke County, Kentucky, aged sixty-nine years. He died in Monroe County, Missouri, in November 1841.
He married in Monroe County, Missouri, August 21, 1837, Mildred Wright and she was allowed pension on her application executed October 1, 1855, while living in Audrain Co., Missouri, aged about sixty- 65- nine years. It is not stated whether he had any children.

In order to make a proper search of the records for any particular Mathew Jones of Virginia, you are requested to furnish as much as possible of the following data in regard to him: approximate dates of birth and death, places of residence at enlistment and after service and given name of widow.
Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN, Acting Commissioner.

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.
Nov . 8, 1928.
Mrs. Grace J. Austin, 215 3 rd St. Woodburn, Oregon.
Madam:
I have to advise you, that in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 8184, the date and place of birth of Neilly Bybee are not on record. He lived in the counties of Clarke in Kentucky and of Monroe in Missouri and did not give any post office addresses. His pension certificate was sent to Mr. Samuel Taylor at Winchester, Ky. and her certificate was sent to A. W. Munkle at Paris, Mo. the former was clerk of the court and the latter was her agent.
At the time of Neilly Bybee's service, J. B. Carter was wagon master of the Seventeenth Virginia Regiment.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT, Commissioner.