Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 45237, David Bay, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Bay, David
S. 45237
CONTENTS

14.514 Ohio
David Bay
of Champaign Co in the state of Ohio who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel John Gibson of the Virginia line, for the term of 3 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 29 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 of Sep: 1819 and sent to John Runyon Esq: Judge Court Common pleas (6 th Circuit) Champaign County, Ohio.
Arrears to 4th of Sep: 1819. 16 mos 6 / 30 . 129.60 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 March 1820. 48
Death not in a.B. $ 177.60
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Discontinued
Application sent May 21 st 1821. to William West Esq: Col. Supreme Court Champaign County, Ohio. Copy of Attorney General's opinion sent 28 th Sept: 1821. to applicant at Newark, Ohio.

The State of Ohio } Champaign County } 3
Personally appeared before me John Runyon Esquire an associate judge of the court of common Pleas for the Sixth Circuit of the State of Ohio David Bay and under his corporal oath made the following declaration (Deponeth) That he the said David Bay that about the first day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & seventy six he Entered in the army of the United States in the company of Captain Tobias Sullivan belonging to the Eighth Regiment of the Virginia Line on the Continental Establishment in the Revolutionary War. and that he the said David Bay faithfully served in the army of the United States in the Revolutionary War in the capacity of a private soldier for and during the term of three years from the time of his first service there enlistment when he was honorably discharged at Pittsburgh in the State of Pennsylvania which said discharge has since been lost by time or accident: and the said David Bay further saith that he is a Resident of the County of Champaign in the State of Ohio is sixty three years of age & from his reduced circumstances in life he greatly needs the assistance of his country for support.
DAVID BAY
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 29 th day of April A.D. 1878.
John Runyon J. of the P.
The State of Ohio }
Champaign County, p; } S. Samuel Gibbs Clerk of the court of common Pleas of the county aforesaid (being in the Sixth Circuit of said state), do hereby certify that John Runyon, Esq. before whom the above deposition of David Bay appears to have been taken, is, and was at the time

time of taking the same, one of the Associate Judges of the said court, legally commissioned and qualified, and to all his official acts as such full faith and credit are due.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of our said court, at Urbana, this thirteenth day of May, one thousand, eight hundred and eighteen.
Samuel Gibbs Clerk
John Runyon Judge as within mentioned. Do further certify that I am personally acquainted with the within named David Bay. I am perfectly satisfied that he really stands in need of the assistance of his country for support. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 6 th day of April A.D. 1819.
John Runyon J. Judge
David Bay private Eighth Virginia reg t 1776 to 1779 29 April 1818
David Bay officavit

The State of Ohio Champaign County Supreme Court July term 1870
On the 28 th day of July 1870 personally appeared in Open court David Ray aged sixty four years resident in the said County of Champaign who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows to wit, He enlisted in the army of the United States some time in the fall of the year 1777 at West Mould County in the State of Pennsylvania in a company commanded by Captain Tobias Sullivan belonging to the eighth Virginia Reg t in Virginia line commanded at the time of his enlistment by Colonel William Crawford but a short time afterwards by Colonel John Gibson of the 9 th Virginia Regiment for the term of three years and that he faithfully served out the full term of his aforesaid enlistment when he was discharged from service at Pittsburgh in the State of Pennsylvania. That on the 29 th day of April 1818 he made a declaration in order to obtain a pension under the act of the 18 th March 1818 and has since received a certificate of his being inscribed on the pension list Roll of the Ohio agency which said certificate bears date on the 6 th day of Sept r 1819 and numbered 14,514. -
And I do solemnly 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 my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the

I do hereby certify that I have been in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War - passed the 18 th day of Sept 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 nor know I any income other than what is in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed -
And I do further swear that my occupation in life is a Farmer & that in consequence of my advanced age in life and my bodily infirm- ities I am unable to work at it and that my family consists of two sons one aged 17 years who is an apprentice to the printing busi- ness and does not reside with me and the other aged 19 years who resides with me
Schedule of property Account by David Bay
  " 80 acres of 3 rd rate land lying in Hampshire county of the value of $160 00   " 1 House of the value of 20 00 " 1 Barn value - 50   " 2 Cows 2 Steers & 1 Heifer value of 61 00 " 1 Old Table - 50   " 1 Wash Kettle value 4 00 " 1 Iron bucket 1 00   " 1 Dutch Oven 1 00 " few old Union forks and spoons 1 00   " 1 Skillet value 1 00   " 1 Wash tub - 50 I am indebted to the amt of 46   $20 430 
Subscribed and sworn to in Open court July 19 th 1820 David Bay Attest Wood for Clerk S.C.

The State of Ohio Champagne Co. Supreme Court July term 1820
Personally appeared before me the subscriber a justice of the Peace for Champagne County Jacob Hoyle of lawful age and made oath that he is personally acquainted with David Bay a revolutionary soldier who now draws a pension under the act of Congress of 18 March 1818 & that from his own knowledge he verily believes that his schedule made out under the act 1 st May 1820 & herewith exhibited is true as to quantity and value -
Jacob Hoyle -
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 18 th day of July 1820
Saml McCracken Justice of the Peace
The State of Ohio Champagne County ss
Be it remembered that at a Supreme Court held at the courthouse in the Town of Urbana on the 18 th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty the following Order was made in said court (towards David Bay) On application for pension under Acts of Congress of 18 th March 1818 and 1 st May 1820 - The Declaration of the applicant having been sworn to and subscribed in open court, and, together with the accompanying due corresponding deposition of witness, being filed it is ordered that a copy of the same be ready made out and certified.
The State of Ohio Champagne County ss I William Wood Clerk of the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio

Do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy made and from the Original and now on file in said Office —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Affixed the seal of said Court at Urbana this 14th day of November in 1820
William Ward B. Clerk S. 6,69
14.574.
Sept 17
Not Ind.
March 20
[Large handwritten signature, likely "W. Ward"]
J.L.E.

March 14, 1939.
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BA-J/CC Am David Bay S.45237
Miss Lillian S. Hodge Mechanicsburg, Ohio.
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of David Bay of Virginia, who was granted a pension in 1819, and to know where he is buried. Also the record of his son, Hugh Bay, said to be buried in Champaign County.
There is no claim for pension on file based upon service in the Revolutionary War of a Hugh Bay. The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in pension claim S.45237, based upon service in the Revolutionary War of David Bay.
Date and place of birth of David Bay, and names of his parents are not shown.
nothing  in  Westmoreland Co. Pa. (which then was claimed by Pa) David Bay enlisted in sometime in December 1776, served three years as private in Captains Tobias Sullivan's and Robert Vance's companies, Colonels William Crawford's and John Gibson's Virginia regiments.
The soldier was allowed pension on his application executed April 29, 1818, at which time he was aged sixty-three years and a resident of Champaign County, Ohio.
In 1820 David Bay referred to two sons, one aged seventeen years and an apprentice in printing, and the other aged nineteen years. In 1823, while still a resident of Champaign County, Ohio, he stated his wife died in 1820 and since that time he had lived with his married children. He also referred to children who were young and unmarried. The names of his wife and children are not shown.

The date and place of death, and place of burial of David Bay are not shown.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of David Bay, you should address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:
David Bay Certificate #14514 Issued September 6, 1819 Rate $8.00 per month Commenced April 29, 1818 Act of March 18, 1818 Ohio Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

1939. mar. 14 sent to William S. Hodge co
45237 Rev INVALID.
File No. 45237 David Bay Pri Rev Hon
Act: 18 March 1818
Index:—Vol. 3, Page 25
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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The evidence of two credible and disinterested witnesses corroborating the applicant's statement wanted. the Judge is requested to certify to the credibility of the witnesses.
The name of the col. who commanded the regt. must be mentioned

wearing apparel
His Wife died in 1820, & he has can hardly do work enough to support himself —
12 acres only of his land is under cultivation —
see letter July 22 d 1823, to
J. Cooley Esq Ast. Urbana, Ohio
Ohio.
Mar 1'20
Danid Bay, Private — 3 years from 1777.
1 st Schedule dated July 1820
Real Estate — 80 acres of 3 rd rate Land valued at $2 p r acre // 160 1 Horse $20 — 2 Cows — 2 Steers and 1 Heifer — all valued at $60 — a few articles of furniture amt. total of schedule
$ 250 —
His age 64 — a Farmer no
1 Son, aged 19
2 d Schedule 6 June 1823
80 acres of Land — $160 1 pair of Steers 25
Total $185
He swears that all the property, exhibited in 1 st schedule, except the above, has been sold to pay his debts & to buy necessary

Urbana Ohio June 18th
Free
David Bay
Re: July 1823
March 1/1823
Hon. John C. Calhoun Secretary of War Washington City
W. H. ...

Nobara June 17 1823
Sir,
I forward you enclosed the application & schedule of Daniel Bay for the portion of being restored to the public roll from which he was struck on account of his probate. I am Yours
J. Cooley
Hon. J. C. Calhoun

Warwick Bay
Capricornia

State of Ohio (Champaign County) ss
In this 6th day of June 1823 personally appears in open Court the Court of Common Pleas of Champaign County, the same being a Court of Record, David Bay a resident of said County aged Sixty seven years, who being 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 18th of March 1818, and the 1 st May 1820, That he the said David entitled for the term of three years in the month of December 1776, the precise day this deponent cannot recollect, in the State of Virginia in the Company (commanded by Captain Tobias Sullivan) but which was afterwards commanded by Captain Robert Vance in the Regiment (commanded by Colonel William Crawford) called the Eighth Virginia Regiment, but which was afterwards consolidated and called the Ninth Virginia Regiment under the command of Colonel John Gibson, that he continued to serve in said Corps until in the month of January 1780 when he was discharged from the said Service at Pittsburgh in the State of Pennsylvania. That his name has been placed on the pension list, and dropped therefrom an account of his property. And in pursuance of the Act of the first of May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever disposed of any property or 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 Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War' passed on the 18th 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 since the exhibition of my first Schedule the following changes have been made in my property to wit. The horse mentioned in my first Schedule died soon after making my Schedule. The two Cows sold for Twenty dollars to pay a debt which I owed of forty five dollars and the residue of the debt is still due. The Heifer and the little house-hold furniture I proposed to have sold to buy myself necessary wearing apparel. — This declarant also maketh oath that he is by occupation a farmer, that from age and bodily debility, he is unable to labour. That he has no family residing with him, he has abandoned housekeeping since the death of his wife in 1820 his Children that are young and unmarried, are gone away, and those who are married are in low circumstances, and the little property they possess has been acquired by their own industry. That for the last two years and a half he has lived with one or the other of his Children, entirely upon

except the small rent derived from the improvements on his land which he had leased. That the improvement consists of about twelve acres, and the whole tract is there a very poor land, and the whole rents, derived the two last years from it was twenty and a half bushels of corn, and that during the present year in consequence of the poor crop of the land he was unable to rent it for anything. That the land as mentioned in his schedule was purchased by him at $2. per acre, and one hundred dollars of the purchase money was paid by this declarant out of the money which he received as a pensioner under his first application, and that he has since repeatedly endeavoured to sell it for $2. per acre, and has been and now is unable to get that for it.
Schedule of the property real and personal of David Bay    So. West - Eighty Acres of Land worth not more than $2. per acre  $160.00    Amounting to _____     One pair of Steers worth not more than _____  $25.00     Total $185.00  
June 6th. 1823
David Bay
Subscribed and sworn to before me this _____ day of June 1823
John Pearson
Notary Public
[Large decorative flourish or signature]

except the small rent derived from the improvement on his land which he had leased. That the improvement consists of about twelve acres, and the whole tract is there a very poor land, and the whole rents, derived the two last years from it was twenty and a half bushels of corn, and that during the present year in consequence of the poor crop of the land he was unable to rent it for anything. That the land as mentioned in his schedule was purchased by him at $2. per acre, and one hundred dollars of the purchase money was paid by the declarant out of the money which he received as a pensioner under his first application, and that he has since repeatedly endeavoured to sell it for $2. per acre, and has been and now is unable to get that for it, and further says not.
David Day
Sworn to and declared in open court on the sixth day of June 1823
I John Pearson clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Hampshire do certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said David Day did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding Declaration against the common Enemy for the term of three years under an engagement — an other Continental Notable Infantry
I also certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly before the Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of said Court that the total value of the property described in the said Schedule is One Hundred and Eightyfive dollars
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Urbana in the County of Ills.
Twelfth day of June 1823
John Pearson (Seal)
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The State of Ohio Madison County ss
Personally came before me S. Bashreville an Associate Judge for & in the said County aforesaid the Subscriber Simon Cochrun a respectable Citizen of Franklin County & State aforesaid, and he being duly sworn on the holy evangelist of Almighty God doth depose & say that he the said Simon was well acquainted with David Bay when a Soldier in the 3 rd Virg a Reg t at least two years, that in the year 77 or 78, the 3 rd was annexed to the 9 th and then com- manded by Col. John Gite son Stationed at Fort Pitt (now Pillsburg) that the said David Bay was about that time put into Capt. Robert Vance's Comp y of Infantry & 9 th Reg t where he the said David served as a Private Soldier till he was regularly discharged from the service of the United States. And further this deponent saith not.
Simon Cochrun
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 7 th Day of July 1849
S. Bashreville
Notary Public

The State of Ohio Madison County ss
I John Moore Clerk of the court of common pleas for the county aforesaid, do certify that Samuel Baskerville Esq before whom the within deposition appears to have been taken and whose name is subscribed thereto was at that time and now is the Senior Associate Judge of the court of common pleas for the aforesaid county of Madison duly commissioned and qualified, and that full faith and credence is and ought to be given to all his official acts as such as well in courts of Justice as thereout.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court of common pleas at London this eighth day of July
A.D. 1819
John Moore Clerk

The State of Ohio Champaign County ss
Personally came before me John Runyon one of the Associate Judges for and in the said County before the subscriber Charles Bothin a Creditable and Respectable Citizen of Shelby County in the State of Ohio and he being duly sworn. Deposeth and says that he said Charles was intimately acquainted with David Bay while he was a soldier in 8 th Virg a Reg t . He believes for at least the term of two years and that in the year of 77 or 78 the 8 th Reg t was attached to 9 th and then commanded by Col s John Gibson and stationed Fort Pitt and that the said David Bay he believes about that time was put into Capt. Robert Vances Comp y of Infantry and 9 th Reg t and that the said David served as a private soldier in the Comp y aforesaid and at least for the term of two years and further this deponent saith not Charles Bothin
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 13 th Day of July 1819
John Runyon Atty. Judge
The State of Ohio } ss: Champaign County } —
I Samuel Gibbs clerk of the court of com- pleas of the county aforesaid do hereby certify, to all whom it may concern that John Runyon Esquire before whom the above Deposition of Charles Bothin appears to have been taken, and who has subscribed his name thereto at the time thereof and now is one of the Associate Judges of the court of common pleas within & for the county aforesaid, duly Commissioned and sworn into office and to support the Constitution of the United States & this state.

and that full faith and credit are due and out to be given to all his Official acts as such both in all courts of Record and thereout.
In Testimony whereof I Samuel Gibbs clerk, as aforesaid have hereunto set my hand and Official seal affixed, at Urbana this Sixteenth day of July in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred & nineteen, and in the nineteenth year of said state Samuel Gibbs clk. b. b. p. b. b. q

Mechanicsburg, Ohio
January 18, 1939
Pension Department;
May I learn data on David Bay of Va. who served in the Revolutionary War and granted pension 1819 Did he have a son Hugh?
Have you a record of a Hugh Bay, served in same war and said to be buried in Champaign county?
Could I learn where David Bay is buried?
very truly yours,
Lillian S. Hodge Lillian S. Hodge