Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31,096, Thomas Hay, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Hay, Thomas Hoy or
S 31,096
CONTENTS

Order to pay 8 Letter to 3 Auditor 15 th April 1839.
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 th April 1838 from 4 Sept 1835 to 4 M ch 1838. Act notified 29 April 1839.
Paid as above from 4 March to 4 th Sep 1839. Act notified 5 th Nov. 1840
Let to Hon B. F. Clark 21 Jan 45
Due 15 Sep, 1846.
Letter to 3 Auditor Aug d 48
Kentucky 28925 Thomas ... Wimp ... in the State of ... who was a ... in the ... commanded by Captain ... of the ... commanded by ... Fleming ... in the ... done for ... 6 ...
Inscribed on the Roll of ... at the rate of ... Dollars ... Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 th day of July and ...
Arrears to the 4 th of ... Semi-ant. allowance ending ... $10.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by ... Clerk, Book ... Vol. ... Page 93

31. 449
Thos Hoy Kentucky.
f 1781 pr. 6 mths f 20
Pension, Franklin, Kentucky

State of Kentucky Simpson County Vol
On this 16 th day of June 1834 personally appeared in open court, before the Justices of the County Court for the said County State, now sitting, Thomas Story, a resident of the said County State aged seventy years of age on the 13 th day of the present month, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on 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 named officers and served as herein stated.
That in the year of 1781 he was a resident of the County of Campbell State of Virginia, and that he was drafted under Captain Robert Carter of said County. That he with the other Troops under said Carter here marched from said County in the spring of 1781 the precise time in the spring of said year, he cannot now after so long a lapse of time recollect distinctly. down to a place called Cabin Point near Norfolk Virginia the other after the Troops had arrived at this place Captain Gilbert resigned & returned home in the aged City of Campbell from whence he had come.
That in the year of 1781 he was a resident of the County of Bedford City of Virginia then took Command of this Regiment and the other Troops which said Captain Gilbert had connected to, and left at Cabin Point upon his resignation as aforesaid. Here at Cabin Point the troops this Regiment lay near six weeks, then they were marched under the said Captain Carter across the Dismal Swamp to Portsmouth Va near the British lines, and that Lord Cornwallis near the Commander in Chief of the British of the British Army at and near Portsmouth as this Regiment was then informed and believed. That Tarleton was his Col.
Heutenburg was the General of the American Army at Portsmouth, and Fleming was the Col of the Army and Jones was the Major, and that Col Fleming commanded the Redgement of the Army from Cabin Point in its march to Portsmouth as aforesaid. And after some time had elapsed Lord Cornwallis left it, and moved off after destroying his Military Works and fortifications which he had erected at that place, to the South or to New York and consequently this Regiment and the other Troops

then forthwith discharged by Lieut. Fleming or some other officer. This declarant does not now recollect which, by parole some time in the month of August 1781, but he cannot recollect the day of the month. But afterwards Captain Chiles gave this declarant a written discharge and then this declarant returned home to his Father in the aged County of Campbell. In this Campaign this declarant served four months, he was drafted for three months at first, but remained with the army one month longer by the persuasions of the Commanding Officer and others to stay and fight for the glorious cause of liberty and to rid the American people of British tyranny and oppression.
In 2 nd Campaign within a short time after this declarant returned to his Father in the aged County of Campbell he again enlisted as a substitute for John Welch under Captain David Beard who served as the Captain of the Company, he cannot recollect the day of the month, he enlisted under Captain Beard. This declarant and the other Troops were then marched under Captain Beard from said Campbell City to head quarters near Little York or York Town as some call it which Lord Cornwallis had entrenched himself and his army.
And within a few days after this declarant's arrival here he was detached under Major Lee, who was then with General Greene's army, and who had lost his main baggage, and as such after said General Greene had taken this declarant from the ranks of the army, he said Lee, carried this declarant to the baggage and put him in command of the baggage under his command. This declarant went with them in driving said baggage, was engaged with them in holding cartridges, bombshells, and cannon balls from the Party at head quarters into the intrenchments and fortifications of the American army which was then laying before York Town, and had laid a siege to it and to Gloucester a little Town or place on the opposite side of York River to it, and also in hauling during the siege, and those who were very badly wounded and not expected to live were taken into the American lines and expected to live from the American intrenchments and fortifications, to the

General Hospital at Williamsburg, not very far distant from the siege, and upon his return from Williamsburg this declarant and his other baggage held provisions & measures for the support of the French Army, then encamped near the city of Yorktown, in company with the siege of Yorktown, and continued with him during the siege in it, and continued on the opposite side as also. In the above named baggage business in the manner as the declarant was engaged at least eighteen days, according to the best of his recollection that it may be more or less. General Washington was the General and Commander in chief of the American Army at this place during the long and protracted siege, and he was assisted by the Marquis de la Fayette and many other officers of distinction not now recollecting, that is their names, by this declarant, as he did not assist the besiegers in conducting the siege, but a few days upon his first arrival at Yorktown was employed the remainder of the time in baggage as is already stated as well as he can. On the 19th day of October 1781 as this declarant's memory serves him, General Cornwallis surrendered his forces to Yorktown and gave to the combined Army of America & France after the surrender of Cornwallis, General Washington gave to this declarant, to General Washington, who instructed his Clerk to send this declarant a discharge which was accordingly done, and General Washington put him at liberty to was  go . During the siege, this declarant was informed that about 300 of the American and French armies were killed and wounded, and of the British upwards of 500. In this campaign this declarant served not less than two months and after this declarant received his discharge from General Washington as also he then returned home.
To the 1 st Interrogatory put by the War Department, this declarant would respond and say that he was born in Buckingham County Virginia on the 13 th of June 1763, from information.
To the 2 nd He wants answer and say that he has no record of his age , the record of his age kept by the declarant's Father is destroyed or lost destroyed by lending of it as the declarant was informed, and which was in his Father's Bible.

He has already stated that he was living in Campbell Co. Virginia when he was drafted & and that the 21 st is fully answered in the body of this Declaration.
That this declarant's Father moved from Buckingham Co. Va. to Campbell Co. Some time after the Revolution and was as ever as this declarant was poor and had no education, and his Father being likewise poor, and having nothing to give this declarant to advance him in any respect, he this declarant having to shift for himself, concluded to emigrate to some new country to make a living and consequently he went from Campbell County Va to Miller, in Georgia, where he remained about two years and at the end of which time he concluded that he would pay his Father a visit in Campbell Co. Va., the two written discharges spoken of in this declaration, given by Capt. Miller and Genl. Washington (Kirk) as app. to this declarant he put into an old pocket book with some other papers and which this declarant handed to George Taylor at the age of 18 in Miller and requested him to hand it to Captain Miller as said by him and with which this declarant had left his sword and pistols which he had used in his campaign in the rear, to keep for him, until this declarant returned back to said Co. in Georgia.
But this declarant declined returning to Georgia, made various attempts to obtain his sword and pistols and his old pocket book from said Miller, but failed entirely in so doing on the request of Captain Miller which happened within a short time after this declarant departed from thence for his Father. But after this declarant started for his Father in Virginia he changed his notion and consequently his route and came on to Kentucky, (he thinks right in 1793, and landed at Hays Station in Madison Co. of said State) there he moved out of Madison Co. into Bourbon Co. Ky. an adjoining Co. to Madison, and in Bourbon Co. lived about fourteen or fifteen years after which he moved from Bourbon Co. to Logan County Ky. where and he continued to reside in Logan Co. until the Legislature

of Kentucky in 1819 made a new county out of Logan Hancock and Allen, and called it Simpson Co., and this Declarant was included in the new County of Simpson out of Logan by the aforesaid act, and in which county of Simpson he has continued to live ever since its formation and now resides in said County.
No 5 th He has answered in the body of the Declaration as well as he can after so long a lapse of time.
No 6 th He has answered in the declaration and under the 3 rd & 4 th Interrogatory, and that he never received any Commission from any person, except the Authority Genl. George W. gave this Declarant over the five Regiments mentioned at Fort Donelson and this Authority was given from the mouth.
No 7 th He states that William Harris, Michael Wood, Matthew Miller, James Raper, Frank Dawson, and Berry Dawson, are persons residing in this Declarant's present neighbourhood and are near neighbours to him who can testify to this Declarant's character for veracity and honesty, and their belief of his services as a soldier in the Revolutionary War.
This declarant would here state, that having stated every thing as he can, for by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot recollect the precise time that he was drafted and enlisted and see as unchar- ged in the aforesaid two campaigns, except when he was discharged, after Cornwallis was taken as a prisoner, nor neither can he swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the 4 months stated in the 1 st campaign and the 2 months stated in the last, as set out in this Declaration. For he has no documentary evidence of his Revolutionary services nor any data to enable him to make precise statements, as to dates of the months &c and that he knows of no person, whose testimony
# 8 that was done within a very short time after being called to render an account of his services in the Revolutionary War. He has no Commission or any other document to show that he was ever in the service of the United States. He has no other document to show that he was ever in the service of the United States. He has no other document to show that he was ever in the service of the United States.

he can procure, who can testify to his services in the aged two campaigns in the Revolutionary War
The third declarant hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of the any state
Sworn to, and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Thomas his H. Keay
E. H. C.
mark.
We William Dawson a Clergyman and Patrick H. Baifman are a citizens residing in the County of Simpson State of Kentucky do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Keay, who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy one years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier in the revolution and that we concur in that opinion Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
William Dawson
P. H. Baifman
W. Dawson
P. H. Baifman
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the 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. and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that William Dawson who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman resident in the County of Simpson State of Kentucky, and that Patrick H. Baifman who has also signed the same, is a resident in the said County of Simpson State of Ky. and

is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit James Herndon Jr
State of Kentucky Simpson County ss June County Court 1834.
I John L. Moore Clerk of the aforesaid County Court of Simpson, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Thomas Hays for a pension
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal at my office this 16 th day of June 1834
Just Moore, Clerk of Simpson County Court.

Thomas Hay. Ky. act 7 June 1832. $20 00 per An.
- To what time was he last paid? Pension Office G. C. A. January 7. 1833
Paid to 4 th Mar. 1841 - B. B.
Jan. 8 th 48

Mr Edwards will please examine & inform me when Thomas Hoy of Simpson City Ky last drew a pension B. L. Clarke of the Home Rep.

Franklin Ky June 18 th
Testimony
Original
June 26/1834
J. L. C.
Dear Friend

2 Edward
Sir Be so good to make my pension, if allowed payable at Nashville, as you did in the case of John P. Pugh who lives within five miles of me, the request I make because from this to Lexington is 170 or 180 miles, and from this to Nashville is 40 miles, and as I am old and infirm and my pension need be trifling I can obtain it from Nashville no person but from Lexington I should have to employ an agent to obtain it and the expense in so doing would quite swamp one half annuity Your compliance will be thankfully received & long remembered by an old infirm man
I am Sir, Respectfully Thomas his mark Hays

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.
April 21, 1936.
Mrs. James T. Watts, 4425 N. Ashland Ave. Chicago, Ills.
Madam:
I have to advise you, that you should apply to the Record Section, Civil Division, General Accounting Office, Washington, D. C. citing all of the following data, in order to obtain the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner Thomas Hay ; Certificate 28938 issued July 18, 1834, rate $20 per annum to commence Mar. 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Kentucky Agency.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT, Commissioner.

3-2233
113
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Finance Division
April 7 1926
Chief Rev. Sect. Division.
I have this day received from Mrs James T. Watts .....
..... M.P. No. 991782 .....
for $ 1.30 ....., requesting
photostat copy post-office address } as per
letter herewith.
1926 Apr. 14 - photo mailed Ex Francis J. W. May AW
O. J. RANDALL
Chief Finance Div.
26.6 L

4425 North Ashland Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
April 5, 1926.
Mr. Winfield Scott, Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:-
I enclose herewith money order for the following:-
Photostat Copy of Revolutionary War Pension Claim, S. 31096 of Thomas Hay, Simpson Co., Ky. 7 pages 1.05 Certification of same . 25
1.30
Very truly,
Mr. James T. Watts

Request for Photostating (To be prepared in duplicate.)
3-2006
Ex. aw
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF CLERK
3230
Job No. _____
Date Apr 10 26
Subject _____
Shore Bay Rev
831096
_____ copies of _____ pieces consisting of _____ pages to be (No.) (No.) (No.) forwarded when completed to the Rev 91821 Ward Section Division.
Remarks: _____
Approved:
W. P. Wilson
Chief Division Sect.
Chief Clerk.

March 31, 1926.
Mrs. James T. Watts, 4425 N. Ashland Ave. Chicago, Illa.
Madam:
I have to advise you, that if you wish photo- stat copies of the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 31096 of Thomas Hay of Simpson Co., Ky. the same will be furnished at the rate of fifteen cents a page, with twenty-five cents extra for certi- fication if that is desired. The number of pages to be copied is seven.
The proper amount should be forwarded to this Bureau by money order, or certified check, drawn to the order of the Secretary of the Interior, ( not to the Commissioner of Pensions.).
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT, Commissioner..

4425 North Ashland Avenue,
Chicago, Illinois.
March 25, 1926.
Mr. Winfield Scott, Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:-
Referring to Report from the Secretary of War in relation to the Pension Establishment of the U.S. Washington, 1835. Kentucky Pension Roll of Simpson County, p. 138.
S31096 Thomas Hay, Private.
Annual Allowance, 20.00
7 pages Sums received, 60.00
Description of Service, Virginia Militia.
Placed on Pension Roll, July 18, 1834.
Pension commenced, March 4, 1831.
Age 71 years, March
Kindly advise number of pages in the above pension claim as I wish to remit the amount for a photostat copy of the same.
Very truly yours,
Edith L. Watts
(Mrs. James T. Watts)

4425 North Ashland Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
April 17, 1926.
Mr. Winfield Scott, Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:-
Referring to Revolutionary Pension Claim of Thomas Hoy, Simpson Co., Ky. Virginia Troops, Survivor File No. 31096 of which I have received a photostat copy, I do not find date of his death in it. Will you kindly inform me to what department I shall write to learn when last payment of pension was made and what place, also date of his death, any mention of widow or heirs and if a widow, did she apply for a pension.
Thanking you in advance for the information, I am,
Very truly yours,
Mrs. James T. Watts

31096 Rev INVALID.
File No. 31096
Thomas Hoag His Rev Mar
Act: June 7 th 32 nd
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 173
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1926 Apr. 14, photo. Mailed to Mrs. J. T. Watts 1926 Apr. 21. Mrs. J. T. Watts fold below to get identity date. au.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
October 27 th 1840.
Sir :
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Thomas Hoy, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Kentucky Agency, at the rate of Twenty Dollars and Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March, to the 4 th Sept. 1839.
Respectfully yours,
William B. Passmore Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office,
April 17 th , 1839.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838 entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Thomas Hoy, — a Pensioner on the Roll of the Kentucky — Agency, at the rate of Twenty Dollars and — Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June, 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept., 1835, to the 4 th March, 1838.
Respectfully, yours,
William H. Parris Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.