Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2043, Robert Bay, Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Penn.
Bay, Robert
$ 2043
1812
carded
CONTENTS

Ohio 13107 Pittsburgh Robert Brady
Dead - Abt 10 W Dec 1. 1845.
Guerrilla in the State of Ohio who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Brady of the Penna Militia for only 6 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 60 Dollars _____ Cents per annum. commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 day of May and sent M c Grady Cambridge Ohio 1833
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833 $120.00 Pens ant. allowance ending 1. Sep. 33 30.00 $150.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Geo. B. Whiting Clerk book 4 Vol. 8 Page 186

R Bay
11640
Guernsey Shes
Poi in Pen in Milite 1.6 Cap Booby
N.W. Gray Cambridge Shes

The State of Ohio } On this eighteenth day of September in the Guernsey County } year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court before the Honorable Jeremiah H. Hallock President Judge and Turner G Brown, William Skinner and William Thompson Esquires Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said County now sitting Robert Bay resident of Spencer Township in said County of Guernsey aged seventy two 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. That he entered the service of the United States under the following na- med officer and service as herein stated, to wit, That he enlisted in the month of March in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy seven under Captain --- Brady (whose given name he does not recollect) for the term of eighteen months as an Indian Spy. That he served as an Indian Spy under the said Captain, until the expiration of his said term of eighteen months, when he was discharged from the service, that his discharge was signed by the aforesaid Captain Brady that said discharge was burned with his house many years since. That there were no commissioned officers in the company in which he served excepting Captain Brady, That Ruel Reed served as Lieutenant and Jonathan Grant as Ensign in said company but held no commissions. That he left the service in the month of September in the year 1778. That he was born in the State of Virginia on the waters of Cedar Creek, in the year Seventeen hundred & fifty That he resided at the time of his enlistment in Mount Pleasant Township Nottingham County Pennsylvania, that since the close of the Revolutionary he has resided in the County of Washington in the State of Pennsylvania in the County of Jefferson in the State of Ohio and in the said County of Guernsey, now resides in the Township of Spencer in said County where he has resided for the last eighteen years. That he has no records of his age, that he had a record in a family Bible which was burned with his discharge. That he was stationed at Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania during his term of service. That the scouts of his company extended down the Ohio River as low as Little Brown and up the Alleghany River. That he was not in any battle during his service. That there was a Regiment of Regular troops at Pittsburgh during his term of service. he does not recollect the Colonel's name but there was one Captain in said Regiment by the name of Robert

Waver and an other by the name of James Barneham. He names The Rev William Wallace, Rev William G Rife, Colonel James Bay, James Slater, Eli Rigdon, William Crawford and Henry Davis in the neighbourhood of his present residence who can testify to his char- acter for truth and veracity, and their belief of his as a soldier of the revolution services. That he has no documentary evidence, and that he does not know any person, whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his services; He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension, or annuity except the present, and declared that his name is not on the pension rolls of the agency of any state. Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
His Mark Robert Bay
The William G Rife a Clergyman residing in the County of Greenway and James Slater residing in the same, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the character of Robert Bay who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy two years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resided to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion, and the said James Slater certifies that I am personally well acquainted with the said Robert Bay. Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid
William G. Rife James Slater
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he stated. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that William G Rife who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the Township of Richland in said County of Greenway and that the said James Slater who has also signed the same is a resident in the said County of Greenway, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Moses Parchet Clerk of the Court of Com- mon pleas for the county of Greenway aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Robert Bay for a pension. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 18 th day of Fe- bruary A.D. 1832. Moses Parchet (Clerk)

The State of Ohio } Guernsey County } Personally appeared before the subscribers one of the acting Justices of the Peace in and for the said County of Guernsey, Robert Bay, the appli- -cant named in the within Declaration and the signer thereof, who being duly sworn, deposes and saith that by reason of old age lapse of time and consequent loss of recollection he cannot swear positively as to the day upon which he entered the service as stated in the within Declaration nor as to the day upon which he left the service, but that he served not less than the period mentioned below and in the following grade for one year and six months I served as a private in a Company of Indian Spies, and for such service I claim a pension — Sworn to & subscribed before me this Robert his Bay twenty sixth day of March, A.D. 1833 mark
Eli Rigdon Justice of the Peace
I Moses Sarchet Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Guernsey in the State of Ohio, do certify that the above signer Eli Rigdon before whom the above affidavit was sworn, was at the time a Justice of the Peace in and for said county of Guernsey, duly elected commissioned and sworn, and duly authorized to administer oaths — And I do further certify that the above signature of the said Justice is genuine.
Given Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Cambridge in said county this 30 th day of March A.D. 1833.
Moses Sarchet Clerk

1855 J. B. Allison Guernsey County Dysans Corners Ohio May 26 th
Robert Bay abt 1832 Ohio admitted

May 26 th /55 Izsons Guernsey County Ohio F E Hapler Esqr Dear Sir
there is due the heirs of Robert Bay Back dues who was a pensioner for services rendered in the revolution war His heirs say that he never drew all due him Can you look into the matter and answer this soon
yours &c J B Allison
Said Robert Bay was also hired as a substitute in the war of 12 for which he never received pay or land, the heirs are all over 21 and think they are entitled on account of his being a revolution soldier J B A

Cambridge March 30
Free
Volume 2, Case 1
Mr
Hon Lewis Cass Secretary of War Washington City D.C.
Pension Office

Cambridge March 30 th 1833—
Dear Lewis Cag Secretary of War.
Sir
I herewith
enclose the papers relating to the application of Robert Bay for a pension. I have amended his application according to the instructions forwarded by the Department and hope that Mr Bays papers will now be found satisfactory — I also enclose the application of James Callahan for a pension — On the 29 th of October last I enclosed to the Department the application of Richard Larmer for a pension, made before the Court of Common Pleas for Suffolk County — this State. I expect to see Mr Larmer about the first of May and if I could be informed of the result of the examination of his application before that time it would oblige me.
I have the honor to be Very Respectfully your obed Servt.
William W. Shady
Col. Secy of War Washington

July 18-1900 Mrs. Fredk. Dorr Fremont Ohio,
Rev War x Subst in War 1812.
2043
INVALID.
File No. 2043  Am
Robert Bang
Point Rev War
Act: June 7.  1832
Index:—Vol. A , Page 17
[Arrangement of 1870.]

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims , of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Robert Day — — — which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes. II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes. III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes. V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? Yes.  No VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? Yes. VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? Yes. VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Yes. IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes. X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? Yes.

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? Yes. XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? Yes. XIV. †If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? XVI. ‡Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? Yes. XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? Yes. (He has no record of his age & having been born)
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

Mar 31 45
Robt Play Miss Lett. Ash
FREE
L. Edwards Esq. Cannipion & Puerus Washington D.C.

Cambridge Ohio. March 26 th 1845.
J. L. Edwards Esq. Counsel of Pensions Sir.
Robert Bay late of Greene County Ohio deceased was in his life time a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States he died on the 22 nd of February last he left no widow nor minor children he left I think four children who have all been long married and reside in several different countries he had no property I ask whether under such circumstances his executors can draw the balance pension due at his death to pay funeral expenses and if so the just necessary to obtain it.
I am Most Respectfully Yours
W. M. Tracy

To the Commissioner of Pensions.
I should like to give the daughters of the Revolution and write to ask if you can send the name of Robert Bay of Pennsylvania on the list of Revolutionary pensioners. My Great Grandfather Robert Bay served on the frontiers of Pennsylvania. In Moresland

county, as one of the Rangers 1778 to 1783.
For reference see Third. Miss Bonna.
Archives, Vol 23, p. 280.
Please let me hear from this and I will be most grateful.
Very Respectfully
Isaac W. Dorr
Address
Mrs. Frederick Dorr Sandusky Co. Fremont, Ohio c/o Dorr Bros.

RECORD & PENSION OFFICE, N. DIVISION NOV 17 1899 RECEIVED. 564127
Fremont, Ohio, _____, 189
Robert Bay
_____, Co. _____, Pa. Reg't Rev. War,
Mrs. Frederick Dorr desires pension record of this man.
WRAPPER.
(515)
Address: "Chief of the Record and Pension Office War Department, Washington, D. C."
Record and Pension Office,
WAR DEPARTMENT,
O. W. & N. DIVISION, Washington, November 10, 1899. NOV 17 1899 Respectfully returned to
Mrs. Frederick Dorr, Fremont, Ohio.
For information as to the pension record of a soldier of the Revolu- tionary War inquiry should be ad- dressed to the Commissioner of Pen- sions, Washington, D.C., who is the custodian of the pension records of all wars, and whose office is sepa- rate and distinct from the Record and Pension Office of the War De- partment.
BY AUTHORITY OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:
T. P. Anisworth Colonel, U. S. Army, Chief of Office.
Per [signature]
(300a)

was directed to write to you. as I was told that my Great Grandfather was a pensioner of the Revolutionary War. I will gladly pay a reasonable amount for information - Hoping to hear from This I am Very Respectfully Mary H. Dorr Mrs Frederick Dorr Fremont Sandusky Co. Ohio
Colonel Hunkins
Dear Sir
I write to ask if you can find on the pension list of the Revolutionary Soldiers - the name of Robert Bay of Pennsylvania. I wish to pay the daughters of the Revolutionary and