Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 9345, Aaron Hays, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Hays Aaron
S. 9345
CONTENTS
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32.896 New York Albany Aaron Hays of Essex Co. in the State of New York who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Griffin of the Regt commanded by Col. Crawford in the Revolution time for one year (Conn. Line) Dec. 1806. Records completed.
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany. at the rate of 10 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 nd day of July 1831 and sent to A. Phelps Jr Esq Treasurer to the Ath of semi-annual allowance ending Present
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. } Entered by W. H. Wightman Clerk, Vol. 4, Page 38

Sam Keays Declaration for a Pension
32,389.
Am R Phalla

118 State of New York County of Essex 3p
On this 2 d day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Essex and State of New York now sitting, Isaac Hays a Resident of the Town of Essex in the County of Essex State of New York Age a Seventy two years Who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his said oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as here in stated.
First That in the Month of May in the year 1779 and between the 1 st & 5 th he enlisted under Captain Stephen Griffin in the Connecticut State Troops for six Months - and served in Colonel Cushing's Regiment He does not recollect the names of any others of his field or Company Officers - he Resided at Granby in Connecticut when he enlisted and then enlisted & joined his Company Marched from Granby with the Company under the said Capt Griffin to Salisbury in Connecticut and from thence to New Haven on Receiving Intelligence of Tryon's Assault upon the latter place remained at New Haven a few days & Marched from thence to Milford then to Stratford, & Tryon then being in Fairfield they were Marched to that place and from

Then to Norwalk, remained there a few days and marched to Stamford and from there to Horse Neck at which place they remained two months - at which place he first joined the Regiment from Horse Neck They marched to West Point on the Hudson River And remained at West Point until his first months had expired for which he first under-took enlistment - he was discharged at West Point in the forepart of the year of November 1779 having served the full term of six months the period for which he engaged Second On being discharged at West Point he immediately enlisted under the same Captain Stephen Guffey for the term of one year and served in the same Company and Regiment under the same Captain and in the same Col. Canfield's Regt he enlisted for one year and served the full period for which he engaged under the Regiment the name of Aug 1780 of his first or Company of this from the time he enlisted being fourth of Sept 1779. He was stationed at West Point for six months and was then marched to Fishkill at which place they remained about three or four months. And then marched to Esopus on the North or Hudson River was stationed here for a short time and then marched back to Fishkill where they remained until his year had expired and until discharged being forepart of November in the year 1780 Having done duty in the said Regiment without ever having to go home Eighteen months at both periods.

He does not now recollect the names of any of the Continental Regiments which he served in the neighborhoods where he was stationed. He was at Mil Point at the time the British were passing up the North River to New York and found upon the return from Mil Point as they passed. He does not recollect the names of any Continental officers who served with him or in the same neighborhood except that he recollects General Washington being at Mil Point where he was stationed then. He has no documentary evidence of his service and does not know of but two living witnesses who can testify to his service - namely, Elias Hays and Dudley Hays, if they be still living.
The said by relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension for military service and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. I solemnly subscribe the foregoing to the best of my knowledge and belief. Given under my hand this 2nd day of June 1874.  David Hays David Hays Court Clerk
We the undersigned and Subscribed to the foregoing do hereby certify that we have well acquainted with David Hays who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seven or eight years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.  Isaac H. Holcomb John Gibbs Court Clerk  Subscribed and sworn to in Open Court Oct 2nd 1874 upon the Court

The Clerk pronounced the following Interrogatories proposed by the Department & Rec d the following Answers thereto
1 When and in What year were you born
Ans. I was born in Granby Hartford County May 15 th 1762
2 Have you any Record of your age & if so where is it?
Ans. Have no Record of my age can find it in my Bible but it has got torn out —
3 When were you living when called into the Service when have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live
Ans. Lived at Granby aforesaid when called into the Service lived there — after the war until 1804 then moved to Say in Essex Co. New York lived there until 1829 & then moved to Lewis where he now resides —
4 How were you called into the Service were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute or a substitute for whom
Ans. He Enlisted or Volunteered for both terms of his Service
5th State the names of some of the Regular Officers who were with the Troops when you served such Continental & Militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general Circumstances of your Service
Ans. He recollects no other Continental officer but General Washington — on any Continental or Militia Regiment & he has already stated the general Circumstances of his Service
6 Did you receive a written Discharge from the Service & if so by whom was it given & what has become of it?
Ans. Did not receive a written Discharge from his last Service from the Years Service he did receive one signed by Colonel Canfield but has lost it has not seen it for many Years

7th State the names to of Persons to whom you are known in your present Neighbourhood who can testify as to your Character for morality and the beliefs of your views as a man of the Revolution -
Ans John Gibbs - Ishmael H. Holcomb. Capt. Salomon & then an Surgeon & others - I am not very well acquainted with any Clergyman then in the town. but I am not acquainted with him therefore do not know him to testify for me as he is not acquainted in the Neighbourhood where I resided -
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after investigating the Matter and after putting the above Interrogatories presented by the War Department that the above named Applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states and the Court further certify that it appears to them that there is no Clergyman in Lewis of present who is acquainted with the above named applicant or in the Neighbourhood where he resides and that John Gibbs and Ishmael H. Holcomb Esqrs. who have signed and sworn to the foregoing Certificate are both Residents in the said town of Lewis and that they are both Respectable & Respectable persons and that their Statements are entitled to credit.
Signed by Order of the Court
Edward S. Cuyler Clerk
I Edward S. Cuyler Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Essex and State of New York do hereby certify that the fore- going contains the Original proceedings of the said Court in the Matter of the

Application of Aaron Knapp for a Parson In testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and seal of Affix This 3 rd day of October 1834.
Edw S. Knapp Clerk

In the matter of the Application of Aaron Hays for a Pension
Affidavit
11

of Connecticut? District of Granby - ss, On this 16, Day of January 1835 - Personally Appear in Open Court, before the Court of Probate for the District of Granby, now sitting, Dudley Hays a Resident of said Granby aged 75 years, who being first duly sworn deposes & states, that he has a Brother, by the name of Aaron Hays, who was born in this Town & died here while after the close of the Revolutionary War, but who now for some twenty years past has lived in the State of New York - Further that he will further that Aaron Hays enlisted in May 1779, at Granby then serving, in Connecticut under Capt. Stephen Griffin in the Connecticut Line & that he saw him six months at Fishkill, New Haven, Milford, Stamford, Fairfield, Norwalk, Hornsbrook & West Point, & that he was discharged at West Point, the 10th of November 1779 - That immediately after his return home, that Aaron again enlisted into the same Company & Regt., the Colonel's Name he does not recollect, for the term of one year, & saw his Brother at West Point, Fishkill, & Poughkeepsie, & back to Fishkill & Poughkeepsie at Fishkill until some time in November 1780, when his term of enlistment was over - Further that the Deponent was in the Army of the War of the Revolution during the time his Brother Aaron saw as above stated, altho' the Deponent was not in the same Company, but frequently saw him in the Army & was well knowing to his performing service further, that he has often heard his Brother say that he was at New Haven at the time Tryon was there & that he was at Poughkeepsie when that place was burnt by the British
Dudley Hays X mark
Witness J. D. Jewett S. A. Jewett
Second Subscribed? The Day of Year Afore Before me - Joshua D. Jewett Judge of Probate

I hereby certify that the within named Dudley Hays is a disinterested & credible witness
Joshua D. Seville Judge of Probate
I Richard S. Porter Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Granby do hereby certify that Joshua D. Seville, before whom the within deposition was taken is on this 16. day of January 1835. Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Granby a true duly appointed Commissioned Officer, S. that Yule Yule Credit are the true & his official acts as such - & further that the signature hereon purporting to be his, is genuine —
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand seal of office this 16. day of January 1835 —
Richard S. Porter Clerk

Certificate of the Comptroller of Coarse- -ment.

State of Connecticut Comptrollers Office Hartford June 4 th 1851
I certify, that on application for evidence of the service of Aaron Hays in the War of the Revolution, who it is alleged served in Capt. Griffin's Company in Col. Canfield's Regiment, I have examined the books and documents remaining in this Office, and do not find the name of Aaron Hays on any Pay Roll, nor do I find any Pay Roll of Capt. Griffin's Company.
In Haskells Receipts under the following heading viz. "The United States Dr. To the State of Connecticut for sundry expenditures for Bounty, Wages &c. of Troops who served at West Point in 1781," I find an entry, as follows, "1 Dec 27 th 1781 Capt. Stephen Griffin "Bounty £112. 1 Wages £858. 7. 6. 1 Billeting Mileage &c. £22. 13. 1 Commission £24. 16. 6. 1 Amount paid in Specie £1,057. 17. 0. 1."
On the same page with the above and under the same heading, I find the following "1782 Jan. 24 Col. Samuel Canfield Field & Staff Officers, Bounty £2. 15. 1 Wages £31. 6. 16. 1 Billeting Mileage &c. £54. 19. 8. 1 Commission £10. 0. 10. 1 Amt. paid in Specie £414. 11. 6. 1"
R. G. Parney Comptroller by Geo. Robinson Clerk.

Rev War
9345
INVALID.
File No. 9345-
Tharm Hays
Dis Rev War
Act: June 7 th 82
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 161
[Arrangement of 1870.]

N. York Aaron Hays
Let to Hon. D. Rufus 21 Feb. 38 to L. Jenkins 8 Sep. 1839 to W. (Hulst) 7 May 41
Act June 1832

New York
Rev.
Aaron Hays
Suspended
In lib to Hon. R. Wharton
Feb. 14, 1835 — Lib to William Allen March 18 1835 —
Left E. J. Custer's Office March 10, '35 Mr. R. Smith 13. Sept. 1, '36.

Sept 10.
J. L. Edwards Esq. (Commissioner of Pensions) Washington #
216

Albany Sep. 7. 1835-
Sir -
An application for a let pension was made at your Office, some time in 1835 - on behalf of Aaron Hays - His original papers are on file in your Office, and the certificate of the Comptroller of Connecticut I now forward you, as corroborating or rather establishing one point (which in your letter of March 18. 1835 - you considered as against the applicant) viz - the service of Col. Canfield in 1779 -
Age and poverty, has prevented the old Gentleman from (whose residence is in Essex County in the State -) from proceeding to Connecticut, where he has no question, that he could collect from the neighbourhood in which he resided at the period referred to, ample evidence of his revolutionary services - You will please inform me of the decision of the Department, & if granted forward me the certificate -
Respectfully Your obed - servt
J. L. Edwards Secy
W m R. Cantine

House of Reps D.C. Dec 18 th 1837.
J. L. Edwards Esq r
Dir
I herewith enclose your several appts relating to the claim for a pension by Aaron Hays of New York to which your attention is directed as soon as your leisure will permit
I am Respectfully D. Russell

Aron Hages-
Elizabeth town N.Y. March 18th
Comm ee of Pensions U.S. J.M.
Col. J. M. Edwards.
Comm ee of Pensions War Department Pensions Office - Washington D.C.
May 23
NY

Elizabethtown Essex County New York March 17th 1835
Sir Enclosed is the Certificate of the Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Connecticut of his Search for the Rolls & pay table of Capt Stephen Griffin Co. Militia - in which Aaron Hays alleges to have served in 1779 - & 1780 - Eighteen months - it appears that the Service must have been in 1780 & 1781 - as appears from the enclosed Certificate - this is all the proof Mr Hays can furnish in support of his Claim - as he knows of no person living by whom he can make further proof of his Service - he says he cannot be positive as to the year but - thinks he was right in his first Application - as there is no Rolls of this Company in Existence - I presume he must go on the same footing with other Militia Men - I believe he has complied with what is required of them & there be any defect in his Papers which is in his power to remedy you

Will please forward the same. But - this Certificate was obtained from the Comptroller's book for the year by Mr. Tibbets of Albany for Mr. Hays & was not sent up until the present time - Mr. Hays being here at the time your communication to Hon. R. Harrison on this subject of May 14. 1835 - Any communication on this claim you will please address to me at this place.
I am Respectfully
Your Most Obedient
Edw. H. Hughes
Edw. H. Edwards. Com te of Pensions

✓ No 32.389
Aaron Hays.
MS
Act 9 June 1832,
Adm d 12 mos per $40 per annum
Albany
O. Phelps Jr
Present

Washington, D.C. June 30, 1851.
Hon. J. E. Heath.
Sir,
Enclosed you will find a certificate of the Comptroller of Accounts in relation to the service of Capt. Stephen Griffin, and Col. Samuel Canfield, during the Revolution, under whom, Aaron Hays alleges to have served, whose declaration was filed in the Pension office, in 1839, by Samuel Perkins, and suspended for want of the Proof I now produce: He alleges service at West Point (New York, I presume), and served one year and three months, but the Pay Rolls, are not to found in Mass. and I suspect you have it in the Pension office.
I am most Respectfully,
Oliver Phelps Jr.
H. J. E. Heath, Commissioner of Pensions,

Comptroller's Office Hartford Connecticut October 7. 1835.
I certify that on examination of the books of the late "Pay-Table" Office now remaining in this office, on application of Aaron Hays, I find as follows:—
In "Harkills Receipts", under head of "The United States Dr. To the State of Connecticut for sundry expenditures for Bounty, Wages &c. of Troops who served at West Point in 1781", the name "Capt. Stephen Griffin, Bounty, Wages &c. £1017:17:6 (Specie)". And in a Pay-Table acct. book, the same sum, and date, with the addition of the words "Pay Roll &c." after his name.
Also, in "Harkills Receipts" under the head first above mentioned, near the name of Cap. Griffin, is that of Col. Samuel Canfield. And in same book, under head of "Expense of Post at Greenwich" Col. S. Canfield is mentioned in several entries as serving at Greenwich from 1779 to 1783—And under another head he is mentioned as being at Horse neck in 1781. And under head of "Militia Service from April to Novr. 1779" his name also occurs in two entries, and opposite £40.9.4 & £90.3.8 Specie Value.
Gideon Wells Comptroller

Albany June 20. 1839.
James L. Edmunds Esquire Commissioner of Pensions,
Sir,
In the case of Aaron Hays who claims a pension under the act of June 7. 1832 & who applied in the year 1835 I enclose a supplemental statement or affidavit in compliance with a suggestion in your letter to the Hon. David Russell, M.C. - of the 21 st of February 1838, to which I beg leave to refer you.
Mr. Hays made the enclosed statement on oath before me, without the aid of or reference to any documents, and solely, as appeared to me, from memory - How far it may correspond or disagree with his original certificate I have not the means of knowing, except from your letter to Mr. Russell above referred to & your letter to Miss Williams & Allen of the 11 th of March 1835 - to Edward C. Gwynn Esq. of the 20 th of April 1835 & to W. R. Gantaine Esq. Sept. 13. 1836 -
I am convinced that Mr. Hays' claim is an honest one, and that his memory will not enable him to give a more particular statement as to dates than that

now enclosed -
I beg leave to commend the case to your further attention & examination, hoping that the result will be more favorable than heretofore - and am,
With great respect
Your ob. Servt.
L. Jenkins.

Feb 10
a. Rogers
Mr. Rogers
J. L. Schwan
Union Office
Wm D. Russell H.R.

Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Connecticut Certificate.
In the Matter of the Application of Aaron Hays for a Pension L. L.
to Col. N. Edwards Com. of Pensions War Office D.C.

Comptrollers Office Dec r 28 th 1884
I Elisha Phelps, Comptroller of the Public Accounts of the State of Connecticut, do certify that the pay roll of Capt. Stephen Griffin's company "militia Westport" is charged to the United States, on the books of the Pay Table, under date December 27 th 1881; and that no roll of this company has been found or evidence of the discharge of its services; or regiment in which it served. E. Phelps

Anna Hayer

State of New York
Albany County I do, Aaron Hages, being duly sworn, depose as follows - Yes - I now reside in the Town of Keene, Essex County, State of New York - I am seventy six years of age and upwards - and am an applicant for a pension under the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832, having made such application in the year 1835.
Objections having been made by the Commissioner of Pensions, in various letters, to the statements contained in my original declaration, particularly in regard to dates, I now make the following statements of my services, without reference to said declaration as but according to the best of my recollection and belief, my memory being now as it was in 1835 impaired by age -
I enlisted in Granby, Connecticut as a private in the Company commanded by Capt. Stephen Griffin, to serve for six months - I was then about fifteen years of age, and that is all that I can state with regard to the time of my said enlistment, except that it was in the Spring - I do not recollect the month - I went from Granby to Litchfield where I joined my Company - they belonged to the Connecticut State troops - From Litchfield I went with my Company to New Haven, staid there but a short time - and from thence to Horse Neck, passing through Milford, Stratford, Fairfield, Norwalk & Stamford - We were stationed at Horse Neck about three months - From Horse Neck, we went to White Plains, & from thence to West Point, and there served out the remainder of the six months for which I had enlisted -
In the fall of the same year, I re-enlisted for the term of one year, at Fishkill, under the same Captain, Griffin - I do not now recollect who were in said company - I recollect the name of the Colonel of the Regiment we belonged to was Canfield, & the Major's name was Wright - the

Name of the second Major was Bailey - we were first stationed at West Point - how long I do not recollect - we were also stationed at Fishkill & Esopus or Kingston, and in these three places, West Point, Fishkill, and Esopus or Kingston, I served out my term of enlistment - and received my discharge at Fishkill, which was signed by Col. Banfield - My discharge was lost when I resided in the Town of Grafton - My Wife took it & pasted it on a board window, instead of a pane of glass -
I was never in any action or battle - I served at Kingston, after it was burnt by the British - but I cannot recollect how long afterwards - but I think it was three or four years after that event, & after Burgoyne was taken - I remember that whilst I was in the service Genl. Washington had a number of boats built at different places on the North River, with an intention as was generally supposed of attacking New York, which was then in the possession of the British - and about that time, the Army was moved to the Southward to attack the British Army under Genl. Cornwallis - I think I was at Fishkill when I first heard of the capture of the British Army at Yorktown -
The above is all I can now recollect with any distinctness or certainty of my services in the Revolutionary War -
NORON HOAG
Sworn and subscribed this 18 th day of Jany 1839 before me J. P. King Comr. of D. C.
State of New York
Albany County -
I Henry B. Haswell Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that Samuel Prukins before whom the foregoing

Day of Jany 1839 before me I J. King C.M. & V.D.
State of New York Albany County - {
I Henry B. Haswell Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that Lemuel Jenkins before whom the foregoing affidavit purports to have been sworn was on the day of the date of the same a Commissioner of Ducts in and for the said County, and that his name subscribed to the same is his proper handwriting and signature.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of the said County this 18 th Day of June 1839.
H.B. Haswell Clerk " " "

State of New York Essex County ss
Zimri Hays being duly Sworn says that he is thirty eight years of age and resides in the Town of Lewis in Said County is the Son of Aaron Hays that he has heard the annexed affidavit of Mrs Susan Shipmans read that the same is true as to the time place and fact of her residing at his Fathers and it is also true that Said discharge was by some person pasted upon the window as she has stated; this deponent having seen it while on the window as well as before recollects of hearing the discharge read and thinks it stated the time of Service as Mrs Susan Shipman has stated in her affi- -davit and that he never heard it questioned but that his Father did Service as stated in Said discharge this deponent further says that he does not live with his Father, has no interest in procuring his pension, did not aid or assist, nor in fact did he know of his Fathers making application at the time — that he believes his Fathers habits character and capacity and circumstances to be as stated in Susan Shipmans affidavit
Zimri Hays
Subscribed and Sworn before me this 24 th day of June 1837
R. B. Chase Justice of the peace

State of New York Essex County ss
Stephen Heays being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is forty one years of age resides in the Town of Lewis in Said County that he has heard the annexed affidavit of Susan Shipmans read that the same is true as to his own knowledge as to the time place and fact of her residing at his Fathers and that he has often seen the Said discharge being for the time & purposes in her affidavit mentioned and which was then understood and believed and by this deponent still believed to be (and by all others as far as this deponent has heard) a genuine discharge from Service in the revolution but does not now recollect distinctly what length of time was mentioned in Said discharge but has ever understood it to be Eighteen months - does not recollect having seen it on the window or of having seen it since the time or about the time she speaks of its being put on the window - this deponent further says that he does not live with his Father has never taken any part in procuring his pension has no interest in it now and was not till recently called upon for the Statement aforesaid that he believes his Fathers habits character capacity and circumstances to be as stated in Susan Shipmans affidavit
Subscribed and sworn Stephen Heays before me this 26 th day of June 1837
W. B. Chase Justice of the Peace

State of New York Essex County ss.
I, Susan Shipman wife of Eliza Shipman, being by me duly sworn doth depose and say that she is thirty nine years of age and said in Keene in said County that her maiden name was Susan Hays. That in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen she resided and worked in the family of Mr. Aaron Hays in the Town of Hays in the County of Essex State of New York the house in which Mr. Hays then lived was a log house situated in the west part of said Town - had this deponent for the faith that in the fall of said year while making preparations for the winter the broken windows in said house were repaired by pasting papers upon them among which papers so used, she distinctly recollects, was a written discharge of said Aaron Hays from service as a revolutionary soldier and was signed by some person but by whom she cannot now recollect with sufficient distinctness to be able to state but well recollects it to be a discharge from service in the revolution and stated the services to be lighted upon the said paper had the appearance of, and this deponent then believed and still believes was what it purports to be - This deponent further says that she has not been called upon by said Hays or by any one in his behalf for a statement in the matter until within the last two or three months. This deponent further says that said Aaron Hays lives in Keene Essex County - that he now is and ever has been reported a man of truth and veracity temperate honest and industrious but at present in very indigent circumstances which this deponent believes true and is laboring under the infirmitis of age, and the accuracy of his memory perhaps something impaired.
Subscribed and sworn before me June 28 th 1843
Susan Shipman
A. C. H. Chase Justice of the Peace

I do hereby certify that the undersigned Edward A. Clegg Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Essex in the State of New York do hereby certify that I have personally acquainted with Mrs. Deborah Hays and that I am but partially acquainted with Stephen Hays and Zimri Hays and know not whether they are also persons of good moral character and that the foregoing is given under my hand at New York the 25th day of June 1837.
State of New York Essex County ss
I Edward A. Clegg Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Essex do hereby certify that Deborah H. Chase Esq. whose name is subscribed to the above Certificate is the true Image of the foregoing Certificate of Deborah Hays and Zimri Hays and that the foregoing is a true and just copy of the same in and for the said County of Essex and that I am the true and lawful Clerk of the said Court and that I am now qualified with the Board of Justices of the said Court and that my commission as such Clerk expires on the 25th day of June 1837.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal this 25th day of June 1837.  Edward A. Clegg
for 25.
[Faint, illegible text at the bottom of the page]

Know all men by these presents That I Aaron Hays of Criminsville in the County of Essex, and State of New York, have constituted and appointed and by these presents do constitute and appoint Oliver Phelps, Jr. of Washington D.C. My true & lawful Attorney generally for me and in my name to examine the declaration & other papers filed by me in the pension office at Washington about the year 1839, for the purpose of obtain- ing the benefit of the provision of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 which claim was suspended on account of additional evidence, & to receive for me from the United States the pension certificate to which I may be found enti- tled according to the provisions of the act aforesaid; And generally to do all lawful acts & things whatsoever touch- ing the claim aforesaid hereby confirming all & whatsoever my said Attorney shall in my name legally do or cause to be done in & about the premises,
And I hereby countermands annul and make void any letter or letters of attorney heretofore given to any other person or persons and all power & authority hereby given or intended to be
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and seal this 21 st day of June A. D. 1851. In pursuance of Aaron Hays E. A. Adams

State of New York,
Essex County ss. Be it known that on the 21 st day of June A.D. 1851, before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared Aaron H. Ayres above named and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be his act and deed, executed for the purposes therein mentioned. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, this day and year last above mentioned.
E. A. Adams Justice Peace
Power of Attorney to Aaron H. Ayres Jr.
State of New York Essex County ss. I George S. Nicholson Clerk of the County Court & Supreme Court in & for the County and State above mentioned do hereby certify that E. A. Adams whose same genuine signature appears above is and was at the time of signing the same a justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit; and that the aforesaid County Court of record having general jurisdiction
Given under my hand and seal of office at Elizabethton, this 24 th day of June A.D. 1851. G. S. Nicholson Clerk Essex Co.

Anne Hays
Mar 17
NY
J. P. [?] (Parker office) Washington D.C.

Albany March 12 1835
Dear Sir In the matter of Aaron Ways application for pension there seems to have been some clerical mistake in relation to the Colonel's name - The name is Canfield (as I understand it) but has been written Kenfield or in some like manner - If this explanation is insufficient, or incorrect, it will probably be necessary to have the declaration amended - Please say to us whether this explanation is satisfactory, and if not, what shall be done
Respy Your Sec
Williams & Allen
J. S. Edwards Esq
Aaron Ways lives in Essex Co. N.Y.

St. Edwards Crown of Hudson Washington D.C.

Waverly Dec. 10 1837
Yrs Obedience Obedient Servant Orms of Punsals
In Herewith we send an additional proof of the Service of Warren Hays - His residence in the interior of the State his poverty and the infirmities of age have occasioned much delay; and the latter, to our minds, fully explains any apparent inconsistency in his Statements - The fact of his serving the time 18 mo. also appears from each and every affidavit as well as from his own Statement See affidavit of
Dudley Hays 1835
Dason Hays 1837
Limus Hays
Stephen Hays
If there we could add if necessary the general affidavit of Mrs. Hays that she then knew that Mr. H. was in the West at the time - could also add a volume of general facts - But we suppose it would be unnecessary to multiply affidavits - The case is again respectfully Submitted
Yours M c O'Leary
William Hays

In the Matter of Sarah Hays Application for Probate of Will —
Personship Linn Hays } off dt Stephen Hays }
Keene N.Y. 3 Lumber & } 
Amount 25
Mr. Samuel Tibbals
Albany Hon D Russell N.Y. RR
Williams Ave Albany 10

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Hays, Archibald GRADE Private LINE Pennsylvania
WARRANT NUMBER 9625 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED May 6, 1793 To Joseph Henszey, Adm l .
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.