Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 15835, Asa Heald, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Heald, Asa Jerusha
W 15835
CONTENTS

15-780 New York
Asa Heald
of Gay in the state of New York who was a Private in the regiment commanded Colonel Bailey of the Massachusetts line, for the term of Three years
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 1 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 of Novr 1818 and sent to G. Stone Esq. Elizabethtown N. York
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819  137.00 Semi-ann. all'ce ending Mar 1820  48.00 17/11/20  $185.00
Cont d { Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. } Notif n sent Dec y 4 th 1820 to G. Stone Elizabeth C. Stone Estate C. N. York

11.756
New York A.
Jerusha Heald - deced- widow of Asa Heald - who died on the of in the State of who was a private in the commanded by Captain of the commanded by Capt. in the Revolution - line for one year.
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany - at the rate of 40. Dollars 50. Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. and end 8th Sept 1839.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28th day of May 1855 - and sent to.
Arrears to the 4th of P. W. Baldwin Semi-annual allowances ending Present.
Y. J. Getty
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 7, 1838. }
Recorded by Book: No. Vol. 2.
Clerk. Page 64.

Asa Heald Private Yr to 80 Bailey Mapt ts Rept.
Admitted
Asa Heald
Enlistment March or Ap r 1777
3 years -
Capt. Maxwell's company -
Col. Bailey's regiment Mass. line
Being in ill health & finding an able bodied man in his room was Discharged , in May 1778. This discharge was annexed to his former declaration - The application was "found upon the rolls" but papers returned for the judge's certificate of indigent circumstances. This was obtained & the papers again transmitted to the War Department - where it seems they have never arrived -
The applicant in the present declaration recites the discharge & the judge certifies that it was annexed to the former one .
on Roll as declared
A.S.

State of New York
County of Essex J. On this ninth day of October one thousand eight hundred & nineteen, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas held in & for the County of Essex aforesaid personally appeared Asa Heald (pronounced Hale) aged sixty nine years, resident in Say in the said County of Essex who being by me first duly sworn according to law & oath on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War - that the the said Asa Heald enlisted for the term of three years in the month of March or April in the year 1777 in Townsend in the State of Massachusetts in a Company commanded by Capt. Maxwell in the Regiment commanded by Col. Bailey, in the Massachusetts line of troops on the continental establishment - that he continued to serve in the said Corps or in the Service of the United States for one year or thereabouts when he was permitted on account of ill health to go home on a furlough of two months - that his indisposition continuing he sent to the army a substitute by the name of Andrew Ruspel who was accepted in his stead - that thereupon this deponent received a regular discharge of the following tenor "Asa Heald being sick, absent, being sick & sending an able bodied man in his room is hereby discharged from the continental army on that account" - that this discharge was dated in May 1778 & signed by James Wesson or Weston Col. Commandant of Brigade in that this discharge accompanied his former declaration which was sent on to the

War Department & which by a letter from that office it appears has never been received then it is therefore lost that he was in the Battle of the taking of Burgoyne & that he is in regard indigent circumstances & stands in need of assistance of his country for support & that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services
Given to & declared before me the day of our aforesaid. - }
Asa Heath
Isaac Finch Judge
I Isaac Finch judge & as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Asa Heath did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common enemy for the term of nine months at one time on the continental establishment & I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid act of Congress I am also satisfied that he needs the assistance of his country for support - I also certify that he made a previous declaration on the first day of April 1813 & that there was annexed to it a regular discharge proving his service as stated in the preceding foregoing declaration of the said Asa Heath
Isaac Finch one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Essex
State of New York
County of Essex ss. I Thomas Stower Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do certify that Isaac Finch Esq. at the time the above

declaration purports to have been made was one of the Judges of the said Court & that his name above written is his proper signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court, this sixteenth of October 1819
Thos. Haver Clerk By Ashley Pond Dik.

State of Massachusetts County of Middlesex Names of Persons lawfully Married by the Reverend Samuel Dix of Townsend A D Seventeen Hundred and eighty nine April second Asa Weld with Jerusha Carter both of Townsend
I Certify that the above is a true Copy of the Record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows A D 1789 2 d April
R. J. Bartlett
Town Clerk of Townsend
I R J Bartlett above recorded depose and say that I hold the Office of Town Clerk of the Town of Townsend in the County and State aforesaid and that the above is a true Copy from the record of the said town with the exception above named as Certified by me
R J Bartlett Town Clerk of Townsend
State of Massachusetts } The foregoing affidavit was County of Middlesex ss } sworn to & subscribed before me this Seventh day of May 1855 & I certify that I know the affiant to be a credible person
Before me J A Norcross Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I, Seth Ames, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the county of Middlesex, do hereby certify that F. A. Worcester, whose name in his own genuine handwriting is subscribed to the foregoing certificate, was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace within and for that County duly Commissioned and qualified, having full power and authority to administer oaths and certify affidavits. — and that full faith and Credit are due to all his official acts and certificates
In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the seal of the said Court, which is a Court of Record this Twelfth day of May A. D. 1855
Seth Ames Clerk

250 Jerusha Headlee widow of Asa New York
July 7/1838
B.H. Baldwin Present

State of New York County of Essex } ss.
On this Eleventh day of December A.D. 1854 personally appeared before John E. M c Kim County Judge of the County of Essex David Heald, a resident of the town of Kurn in the County of Essex aforesaid, and State of New York aged Fifty Three years who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth in his oath make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the acts of Congress in such cases made and provided; That he is the administrator on the estate of Jerusha Heald deceased widow of Asa Heald deceased, who in his life time was a pensioner of the United States in the State of New York under Act of 18 March 1818, that said Asa Heald died on the 28 th of July 1822, that the maiden name of said Jerusha Heald was Jerusha Carter, that she was married to said Asa Heald in Townsend Massachusetts on 2 d of April 1789. That she the said Jerusha Heald died on the 8 th of September 1839. That she never remarried after the death of the said Asa Heald but remained a widow until her death which occurred on the 8 th of September 1839 as above stated and that she left the following named children surviving her, who are the only heirs at law of said deceased viz Noah Heald aged 51 years, David Heald aged 53 years, Olin Heald aged 47 years James Heald aged 63 years, Lucinda Kimney wife of Asa Kimney aged 58 years - Persis Heathaway wife of Hiram Heathaway aged 49 years, Lucy Horton wife of Andrew Horton aged 61 years and Thomas W Heald aged 45 years. —
For proof of the services of said Asa Heald the Administrator would refer to the evidence on file

in the Pension office, with the original claim of said Lisa Healey under act of 18. of March 1818
Daniel Healey
Sworn to and subscribed this Eleventh day of December A.D. 1854.
before me
John E. McKim Assistant Judge
No Jerusha Healey widow of Asa New York
July 7/1838
B.H. Barstow Present

in the Pension office, with the original claim of said Lisa Heald under act of 18. of March 1818.
Daniel Heald
Sworn to and subscribed this Eleventh day of Decr 1854
STATE OF NEW YORK, } ESSEX COUNTY, SS.
I, E. A. Adams, Clerk of said County, Do Certify that
John E
The Vine
Esquire, whose name is
subscribed to the certificate of proof or acknowledgment of the annexed affidavit
County Judge & Surrogate
was, on the day of the date of the said certificate of proof or acknowledgment, a Justice of the Peace
in and for said County, dwelling therein, duly qualified and authorized by law to take the Proof and Acknowledgment
+ affidavit of Deeds, &c. + Surrogate
County Judge
and verily believe the signature to said Certificate of proof or acknowledgment to be genuine, and that the said instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the Laws of the State of New York.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said County, this Eleventh day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four
E. A. Adams Clerk.
No Jerusha Heald nee Widow of Asa New York
July 7/1838
B.H. Buel Esq. Present

Asa Heald
15.780 Oct 19
Kane Episc NY
Car

State of New York
County of Essex ss. On this twenty sixth day of September 1820 personally appeared in open Court in the Court of Common Pleas of said County being a Court of record for the said County of Essex Asa Heald aged seventy years resident in Keene ( lately Jay ) in said County of Essex who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows He in the Spring of 1777 enlisted for three years in Captain Maxwell's Company - Colonel Bailey's Regiment, in the Massachusetts line of troops - he served one year when his health being poor & finding a substitute named Andrew Russell he was discharged from the army - That his original declaration was dated & made on the first day of April 1818 & that his pension certificate is numbered (15,780)
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 & that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property 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 provision of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18 th day of March 1818 & that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or security contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed
And the said Asa further declares on oath as aforesaid that his family consists of seven persons - himself - his wife Deborah aged forty nine years of a weakly & infirm constitution & barely able to support herself - his wife's mother Mary D. Coaster, aged eighty three years & helpless in a great degree & unable to support herself - his son Noah aged 17 years who has a fever sore on his leg, is infirm of constitution & can labor but little - his daughter Parris aged fifteen years of weakly constitution & unable to support herself - his son Otis aged thirteen years, healthy but not yet sufficiently able to support himself & his son Thomas aged Eleven years - healthy - but can do little towards his support - that as to himself he is able to labor but little owing to his age & to rheumatic affections with which he is affected and

that his occupation is that of a farmer sworn to & declared on the 25 th day of September 1820 before
Asa Heald Thos. Storer Clerk
Schedule
Real Estate - I have none - Personal Estate - 1 Cow - 3 yearling Calves - 3 last spring &c - 1 ax - 1 hoe - 1 bush scythe - 2 pails - 2 tubs - 1 Churn - 1 fine pail kettle - 1 porridge pot - 1 dish kettle 1 tea kettle - 1 Skillet - 1 doz. knives & forks - 4 doz. pewter spoons 6 tea Cups & saucers - 10 plates - 1 tin tea pot - 5 Chairs - 1 old chest with drawers - 1 other chest & I have due me about twenty five dollars, supposed to be a bad debt - no contracts, securities or income - but I am indebted to different persons in the amount of two hundred fifty dollars
Asa Heald
I Thomas Storer Clerk of the above mentioned Court do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath & the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the aforesaid Court & I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the foregoing schedule is forty five dollars & no more - I further that the said Court is a Court of record having the power of fine & im- prisonment - In testimony whereof I have set my hand & affix the seal of said Court this twenty sixth day of September 1820
Thos. Storer Clerk
By Ashley Pond Dep.

State of New York } County of Essex }
On this Sunday  Monday day of November 1854, before me personally appeared Otis Heald, a resident of the town of Keene in the State of New York aged 47 years, who being duly sworn according to law deposes and says that the following is a true and correct copy of a record made by him on or about the dates therein mentioned, of the death of his father Asa Heald and of his mother Jerusha Heald, viz:
Here copy the record Father died July the 28 th 1822 Mother died the 8 th of Sept 1839
That said record was made in his family Book, in his own handwriting, and that said record has been kept in his possession for fifteen  fifty years
Otis Heald Otis Heald
Sworn to and subscribed this Sunday  Monday day of November 1854, and I certify that Otis Heald, who made the above affidavit is a credible witness and entitled to full belief. The word "record" interlined before signing
Levi L. Ladd S.P.
Notary Public by cert of Co Clerk & Co Seal

State of New York } County of Essex }
On this Sunday  Monday day of November 1854, before me personally appeared Otis Heald, a resident of the town of Keene in the State of New York aged 47 years, who being duly sworn according to law deposes and says that the following is a true and correct copy of a record made by him on or about the dates therein mentioned, of the death of his father Asa Heald and of his mother Jerusha Heald, viz:
Here copy the record Father died July the 28 th 1822 Mother died the 8 th of Sept 1839
That said record was made in his family Book, in his own handwriting, and that said record has been kept in his possession for 15 fifteen years
Otis Heald Otis Heald
1854, love full p.

Rev  WIDOW, &c.
No. 15835-
Jemima Beald Widow of Asa Beald Pre New War
Act July 17 th 38
Index: Vol. A , Page 326
[Arrangement of 1870.]

July 7/83

Ara Heald died July 18 1822 } m 2 Jemima Heald died Sep 8 1839 } 1789
Nora Heald - David Heald = Otho Heald 3 Jas Heald & Lucinda Kinney 5 - Parris, Kathi- away 6 - Lucy Horton 7 & Thos W Heald 8
Mary O Johnson, Mary E Welch
David Heald Adm

New York week of July 1822 paid in full Mr. [unclear] Lincoln
Pen Off. May 24 1858
Sir
Please inform me when Asa Heath of NY, acct 1887-1890, was last paid,
R. J. Atkinson Esq Third Auditor
July 22 1858
Very Respectfully L. P. Moulton Commr of Pensions
Triplett

A. J. H. H. H. Thursday
Thurs. Oct. 15
28 July 22
Onizuka
Very Respectfully J. Brown Con. of Penn.
Please inform me when they reach NY, Oct 18 th 1820, on each one,
 תס 
Pen Off. May 24 1853.
Ava Heald died 28 July 1822 / paid in full.
Yours sincerely K. S. S. S.
Dear sister

Asa Harkness
Rev. Pensioner
Act of 18 th March 1878 Essex county, State of New York
P. of Atty to examine papers on file
Anderson
A. M. Hargreaves Atty Present

the kind of letter which John Dougherty.
Dear Heed
Rev. Paine
Oct 9 18 th March 1878 New York, State of New York
Pr. allow to examine papers on file
Anderson
With kind regards Present with

Know all Men by these Presents,
That I, David Heald, Heir of Abraham Heald, a pensioner of the United States, and Rebecca, his widow, A. M. Ganger have constituted and appointed, and by these Presents do constitute and appoint, A. M. Ganger of the City of Washington, my true and lawful Attorney, irrevocably, with power of substitution, for me and in my name, place, and stead, to ask, and receive of and from the United States any Bounty Land, Pensions, Money or Moneys that now is or are due to me on account of services rendered, disbursements made, or expenses incurred by him while in the service of the United States, or on any other account whatsoever, and in my name to give receipts and other sufficient discharges for such Bounty Land, Pensions, Patents, and Money due as aforesaid, and to attend to and prosecute any and all business of whatever nature I may have with or before any of the Departments of the Government or Congress, and, generally, to do any and every other act of acts, that I myself might or could do, were I personally present at the doing thereof: hereby ratifying and confirming whatsoever my said Attorney shall do in and about the premises by virtue hereof.
The words "A. M. Ganger" interlined before signing.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand and seal this 25th day of July 18 53 .
David Heald
Signed, Sealed and Delivered in the presence of } Two Witnesses.
Samuel H. Joyce Harry E. Hull
W. H. Burns
John G. [unclear]
in file
Rev. J. [unclear]
Heir of [unclear]

Town of Gene County of Essex
} Ss.
On this twenty fifth day of July
1858 personally appeared David Heald before me, and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his own act and deed for the purposes therein contained.
Wm H H Hull Justice of the Peace
State of Vermon County of Essex
} Ss.
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That Wm H H Hull
Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit and acknowledgment was made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of Essex County Court, this 29th day of July one thousand eight hundred and fifty three
E. A. Adams Clerk.
July 26 1858
Adams Atty Present

Washington City D.C. August 4, 1883
Sir,
Enclosed you will find Power of Attorney from David Heald, son and heir of Asa Heald, a soldier of the Revolution who drew pension under Act of 18 March 1818 in the State of New York.
I wish to examine the papers on file in his case.
Yours Truly Adolphangewer
Hon. L. P. Waldo Commr. of Pensions
He lived in Essex county NY

State of New York
County of Essex ss. Nancy O. Johnson and Nancy E. Hinch, being duly sworn each for herself deposeth and saith, that she resides in the town of Keene, in the County and State aforesaid, and has resided there for Twenty five years last past.
And these deponents further depose and say, that they were well acquainted with Jerusha Hoad, late of Keene, in the County and State aforesaid, deceased in her life time, and at the time of her death, and were so acquainted with the said Jerusha Hoad for a number of years previous to her death - And these deponents further depose and say, that the said Jerusha Hoad, died at Keene aforesaid, on the Eighth day of September A.D. 1839 - that both of these deponents attended upon and took care of the said Jerusha Hoad, during her last sickness, and were with her at the time of her death, and saw her die, that both of these deponents attended the funeral of the said Jerusha Hoad, and saw her buried, and that the said Jerusha Hoad was a widow at the time of her death aforesaid, and the widow of Ezra Hoad, deceased.
Sworn to and subscribed } Nancy O. Johnson before me this 14 th day } Nancy E. Hinch of April A.D. 1855 }
Horton Brannen Justice of the peace -

I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the foregoing affiants, and that they are credible persons -
Horan Brannon
Justice of the peace

State of New York, In Surrogate's Court. May 16. County of Essex } A.D. 1858
I John E. McKim, County Judge of the County of Essex, in the State of New York, and Ex officio Surrogate of said County, do hereby certify that sat- isfactory evidence has been adduced to me, by the Affidavits of Nancy O. John- son and Nancy E. Winch, to prove that Jemsha Heald, late of Keene, in the County of Essex and State of New York, deceased, died on the Eighth day of September, in the year of our Lord, one thousand Eight hundred and thirty nine at Keene, in the County and State aforesaid, and that she was the widow of Asa Heald, deceased.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the Seal of the Surrogate's Court of said County, this Sixteenth day of May A.D. 1858.
John E McKim County Judge Surrogate

State of New York } In Surrogates Court. May County of Essex } 16 th A.D. 1855. Present J. E. McKim. Essex Co. Judge
I, John E. McKim, County Judge of the County of Essex, in the State of New York, and Ex officio Surrogate of said County, do hereby certify, that in pursuance of the Statutes of the State of New York, such proceedings were had in this Court, that Letters of Administration were duly issued to David Heald, of Keene, in the County of Essex and State of New York, on the Eleventh day of December A.D. 1854, on the Estate of Jemima Heald, late of Keene, in the County of Essex and State of New York, deceased, - And I further certify that the said Letters of Administration were on the same day recorded in the Office of the Surrogate of said County in Book B. of Letters. Kept by me for recording Letters of Administration, on pages 296 and 297. And that said Letters of Administration are now in full force, and in no way annulled or set aside. - And I further certify that on the Eleventh day of December A.D. 1854, David Heald, the said Administrator, and before the said Letters of Administration were issued to him, duly filed in the Office of the Surrogate of the said County of Essex, a bond in the penal sum of Five hundred dollars, executed by himself, together with two Sureties, and executed and acknowledged according

to the form of the Statutes of the State of New York -
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the Seal of the said Surrogate's Court, this Sixteenth day of May A.D. 1855 -
John E. McKim Cont. Judge Surrogate

State of New York County of Essex (p.
I Elisha A. Adams Clerk of the County Court in and for the County and State above named, do hereby certify that John E. McKim Esq. by whom the foregoing attached certificates were made, and who has thereunto signed his name, was at the time of so doing County Judge, and Ex Officio Surrogate, in and for the County and State above named, duly Commissioned and sworn, that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit, and that his signature thereto is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto signed my name and affixed my Official Seal this Sixteenth day of May A.D. 1858. E. A. Adams Clerk

Brief in the case of Jemima Head dec. dau of Am
Coffey
County and State of Mo
act July 7 1888
Claim, ("original," or " for increase ")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Her husband was a pensioner under the act of 1878 & 1880 at $50 a year, (Service on Rolls)
Record copy of marriage
Identity, death & heirship proved by Mary O Johnson & Mary Edmiston, proper affidavits,
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Her husband had service a year, and as she did not live to July 1 1884, the children are not entitled to a pension for his actual service
Name and residence of Agent B.H. Baldwin Esq Present
Thomas L. Lipton Examining Clerk.

Jerusha Heald decd widow of Asa, Essex Co, New York, adm'd July 7/1838 1 year from $40 a year from March 1836 to 8 Sep 1839 when she dies, Pay to David Heald adm for himself & Noah Heald 2 Otis Heald 3 & Jas Heald 4 Levi Heald 5 - Persis Hathaway 6 - Lucy Horton 7 & Theo. W. Heald 8  and children
Cert to B. H. Baldwin Esq Present

Washington May 29. 1855
Hon L. P. Waldo Comm. of Pensions
Sir I enclose herewith the Claim of the Children of Lemuel Heald widow of Asa. In arrear of Pension due the said Lemuel under the act of July 7. 1838.
I have no doubt but further Evidence of the death of Asa will be found at the Third Auditor's Office, and other facts showing the identity of said Lemuel
Respectfully, Your O bl d Servt Benj W Baldwin