Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2,781, Edward Day, Va.

SERVICE
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★ Day, Edward
NUMBER _____
R. 2781
CONTENTS

Edward Day, Alabama
Suspended let: 25 April 1837 Jesse Beene
2781

Edward Day. Revolutio n ary, suspended Alabama.
L.P.R. July 11/54

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Edward Day
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
NO. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contra
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

B672 3
April 22, 1837. Pineon office.
Ala.

Cahawba, Ala. 10 th April 1837.
Sir,
A very aged revolutionary soldier, Mr. Edward Bay, requests me to apply for his pension, under the act of Congress of the 7 th June 1832; and I herewith enclose his declaration, to which he would be pleased to have an early reply.
Very Respectfully
Jesse Beene
Hon. Genl. R. Poinsett Secretary of War Washington

34.856 Edward Day's Alabama! Declaration for a pension.
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Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7 th June 1832.
The State of Alabama } Dallas County. } ss.
On this 10 th day of April AD 1832 personally before James Bell, Judge of the Circuit Court of the County aforesaid, in open court, at the Court House in Cahawba, Edward Day, a resident of the said County of Dallas and State aforesaid, aged the 24 th of March past sixty seven 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 provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7 th 1832. He took the place of a drafted Militiaman and left home and joined the army on the 2 d day of October in the year of our Lord 1780 and returned home on the 26 th  of April as his memory serves him of February 1781. In this tour of service he was under the command of General Greene, in North and South Carolina, he was in the Regiment of Colonel Glenn, in the company of Captain William Mason. In this service he was absent engaged as a soldier in the cause of the revolution nearly five months. The next tour he was drafted as a Militiaman and remained in Loudoun County Virginia. In July 1781 he joined the company of Captain Sampson Maxwell in the Regiment of Col. Thomas Meriwether, under Genl. La Fayette, Commander. His tour this time was about three months, immediately before the taking of

Cornwall. When he entered the service he resided in Loudoun County Virginia, about eighteen miles from the falls of Potomac where his father raised him.
He marched through Virginia, North Carolina, and part of South Carolina during his first five months tour. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension, or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state.
Edward D. Doy
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion that the above applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
James Bell Judge C. G.
I James D. Craig clerk of the county court of the county of Dallas, State of Alabama, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court, in the matter of the application of Edward Doy for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal at office in Cahawba, this 10 th March D. 1887.
James D. Craig CLK