Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17975, Dudley Hayes, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
or Hayes, Dudley Hayes
W. 17975
B.L. Wt. 3815-160-55
Beda
CONTENTS

Connecticut
Dudley Hays, dec d of Hartford in the State of Connecticut who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Curtis of the Reg t commanded by Col Cook in the Connecticut troops for 6 months.
inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut the rate of 20 Dollars — Cents per annum, commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. Ending Jan y 1844. payable to Betsy Hays (wid w )
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 th day of May 1845 and sent to H. H. Sylvester Esq. Present.
Arrears to the 4th of Semi-annual allowance ending
{ Revolutionary Claim, { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by N. S. Evans Clerk, Book 5. 21, Vol. 3. Page 19.
Id. 6 I. D. Wilson Jan y 22 '46 This is in Ch. N. 17974 of Timothy Fuller

No. 5422
Connecticut
Beda Hayes widow of Dudley who was a private in _____ Captain _____ Conn. _____ Company _____ of the Revolutionary war _____ Regiment
Inscribed on the Roll of Hartford at the rate of 60 Dollars 00 Cents per annum month, to commence on the 1 st day of January 1860, deducting former payments made under act February 3 d 1853, 2 d Section, at the rate of $20 per annum.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 th day of Sept. 1860, and sent to
Thomas A. Wilcox Granby Ct.
Special ACT 942 JUNE, 1860  1859
Recorded by G. S. Gentry Clerk. Book 1 Vol. 1 Page 118.
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88.490
Act March 3/55
April 2/55
Beda Hayes, widow of Dudley Hayes, Min
Gen Gates
{
Ent - 1777
Priv Cook's Regt of Conn't Militia
War of Revolution
Rec Pension Act July 3. 1858
Biography
Adm 160 acb. Aug 15/55
Dudley
3815 ip Aug 17/55
Justus H. Wilcox West Granby Connecticut
Ms. A. 9. 2. 16

State of Connecticut } Granby Aug. 23/1844 Hartford County } ss
Office of the Pastor of the Church of the First Christian Society. I hereby certify that I have examined the records of marriage of said society kept by Rev. Isaac Porter the former Pastor and do find under the head of marriage the following record in the words and figures following 1805 February 11 th Dudley Hays Mr & Betsy Dewey
Israel D. Warren } Pastor of said Church

State of Connecticut } Hartford County } Frankly Aug-26 th 1844
Then personally appeared Thaddeus Hayes Age Seventy three years, who being duly cautioned examined and sworn according to law, doth depose and say that he was personally acquainted with Dudley Hayes previous to the time of his mar- riage in the year 1805, that at that time his name was Dudley Hayes Jr. that about that time he was married to a lady of my acquaintance by the name of Betsy Dewey. That sometime in the month of January 1844 the said Dudley Hayes died leaving the said Betsy a widow, and the common belief throughout the vicinity is that he was a soldier in the Revolutionary War Thaddeus Hayes
Sworn and subscribed this day and year last above written, and I certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Thaddeus Hayes that he is a credible witness, and his statements may be relied on. Sworn before me Justus D. McClosk Secy of Peace

State of Connecticut
County of Hartford } ss.
On this 28 th day of March A.D. One thousand eight hundred and fifty five, personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace within & for the County & State aforesaid, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, Beda Hoages aged Seventy six years, a resident of Granby in the State of Connecticut, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Dudley Hoages deceased, who was a private during the Revolutionary war. That by reason of age and loss of memory she cannot tell the names of the officers under whom he served no further than that he was in the army under General Gates at the taking of Burgoyne & was wounded in that battle & crippled for life, on account of which wound he procured a full invalid pension for life. That he volunteered at Simsbury in the State of Connecticut in the year 1777, and continued in actual service in said war for the term of not less than six months, & was honorably discharged; for further proof of which service the department is referred to documents accompanying her application for a pension under the act of February 3-1833, now on file in the pension office.
She further states that she was married to the said Dudley Hoages in Granby on the 11 th day of Feby. A.D. 1805 by one Isaac Porter a clergyman, & that her maiden name before her said marriage was Beda Dewey, that her said husband died at Granby on the 13 th day of January A.D. 1844 and that she is now

a widow. For proof of marriage & the death of her late husband Dudley Hays deceased reference is made to the documents accompanying her application for a pension under act of Feb'y 3 d 1853 before referred to.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3 d 1855 2
Beda Hays #
J. S. Wilcox Harlow Hays
We Ruddy S Godard and Harlow Hays residents of Granby in the state of Connecticut, upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Beda Hays in our presence; and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
We further declare that we have many years been near neighbors to said Beda Hays, & was well acquainted with her when she cohabited with said Dudley Hays as his wife; can well remember the time of his decease, & are well satisfied that the said Beda now remains his widow Ruddy S Godard Harlow Hays
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to & subscribed before me on the day and year above written, and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
Justus D. Wilcox, Not y of Peace
# The applicant's hand was traced in making her signature J. S. Wilcox S.P.

State of Connecticut
County of Hartford Esq. Probate district of Farmington
I George W. Wolcumb Clerk of the court of Probate aforesaid do certify that Titus D. Wheeler is a Justice of the Peace in & for the County & State aforesaid duly Commissioned & Sworn; That his commission took effect on the 4 th day of July 1854 and will expire on the 3 rd day of July 1856.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Farmington this 29 th day of March A.D. 1855 and I further certify that the signature hereon purporting to be his, is his genuine
signature
George W. Wolcumb Clerk

State of Connecticut — Hartford County, Probate District of Granby —
On this 16 th day of July 1938, Personally appeared, in open Court before Thomas Houbert B., Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Granby aforesaid. Dudley Hays, a Resident of Granby aged Twenty Eight Years, who being first duly sworn and being known to me to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7, 1932 — That he entitled, the Service of the United States under the following name: Apries H. See. As stated him or her —
1. That he entitled, the Service as a private in a company commanded by Capt. Eliphalet S. Tuttle in Col. Hooker's Regt. which Regt. was ordered to join the Northern Army, then he marched to Albany in the State of New York & that he See. according to his best recollection, from some time in the month of July 1977 until he was wounded on the 19 th of September in that year — That after being wounded he was bound to the Hospital at Albany after which he remained, until the last of November or the beginning of December in that year when he returned to his home in Dorisburg, now Granby, and that in consequence of his wound he was unable to pursue any business until the next spring, & that he was absent from home on this tour not less than three months — 2 d That in the months of November & December in the year 1978 he See. a term of not less than one month in a company of Militia commanded by Capt. Oscar Pettibone in the Scout Company commanded by Capt. Noah Phelps, as a guard, which conducted the Troops surrendered by Gen. Burgoyne from Saratoga in Massachusetts into the State of Connecticut to the Hudson River in the State of New York — The See. in this tour as a private —

3. In the year 1879 he went into the Service as a substitute for his Brother Jonas Hays as a private in Col. Brady Regt. in Huntington Brigade - That his Brother was sick on a furlough call? Continental Village between Fishkill & Poughkeepsie on the Hudson River - He went on there & took the place of his said Brother & his Brother returned home and did not rejoin the Army. That he saw him at that Village when he found his said Brother in a Guard Station. Then took his place. Served out his term & then came to Bamburg in Connecticut where he was discharged in February, 1880 after having served more than three months - After discharge he has either misled or lost
4. In the year 1901. he served not up there three months at New Haven in this State in a Company commanded by Capt. Batlin, whose given name was Joseph or also the name of the Commander of the Regt. He thinks he saw him from the last of August to the last of November in that year, but cannot now remember the exact time -
He further believes that he is now an invalid Pensioner of the United States on the Roll of the Government Agency in consequence of a wound he received while in Service. For proof of his Service & wound he wants Respectfully before the Department his original Papers, which he supposed in the office of the War Department & that he has no other proof of his said Service but what is hereto appended - He hereby relinquishes every claim to any Pension or Annuity except the Invalid Pension allowed him for the wound received in 1877 and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency of any State except on that of Connecticut for an Invalid Pension as aforesaid.
Sworn to before me this 17th day of June A.D. 1902 -
Dudley H. Hays Judge
Notary - Thos. Holcomb Joshua D. Jewett
Thos. Holcomb, Judge

We Isaac Porter a clergyman Residing in Town of Granby and Ragn Holcomb Residing in the same Town hereby certify that W. are well acquainted with Dudley Hays who has Subscribed to the foregoing Declaration - that We believe him to be Twenty Five Years of age that he is Reputed to be in the neighborhood where he Resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution & that We believe in that opinion because of Subscribed to the same & have often heard = for your honor Isaac Porter Roger Holcomb
To the said Court Do hereby Declare to the true opinion after the investigation of the matter & after hearing the interrogations presented by the War Department that the above named William Hays was a Revolutionary Soldier as he states - and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Isaac Porter who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman Residing in Granby Vermont, and that Ragn Holcomb who has also signed the same is a Resident of Town of Granby & is a respectable person & that their testimony is entitled to credit  Tho: Holcomb Judge

N o 34,630 Con t Granby. Dudley Hays Application for pension —
N o 1.

State of Connecticut Hartford County ss Probate district of Granby.
On this 10 th day of August A D 1844 personally appeared in Open Court before the court of Probate for the district of Granby now sitting Bedea Hayes, a resident of said town of Granby aged sixty five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the pension made by the act of Congress pass d & approved June AD 1832 -
That she was lawfully married to Dudley Hayes, then of said Granby on or about the 11 th day of Feby 1805 By the Rev Isaac Porter then the settled clergyman of the parish, but now deceased -
That her husband the said Dudley Hayes entered the service of his Country as a private in a company (according to her best recollection) commanded by Cap t Curtiss, in Col. Phelps Reg t .
That he was in service in the year 1777 and connected with the Army previous to, and at the time of Burgoyne's surrender, at which time he was wounded, and lay same time in the hospital.
He also served a tour at New Haven, and one at Danbury in this State - and was in service guarding prisoners through the state, in all was not less than fifteen months in service.
That in consequence of his wound, he received an invalid's pension, but received nothing for his service otherwise.
That some few years since, he the said Dudley Hayes, made application to the Department for remuneration for the above service, and forwarded the affidavits of Samuel Kepenger, David Hosking & Ziba Cannon.

who were with him in service and who are all now deceased, and the applicant further declares that according to her best recollection there were other depositions forwarded with the application of her said husband; to all of which testimony the department is respectfully referred.
She further declares that there was no decision on the application of her said husband; that the department appeared satisfied with the proof of a part of the service, but that the whole time claimed, not being satisfactorily made out, the decision was delayed until the decease of her said husband, which event occurred on the 13 th day of January 1844 - and no other proof has been forwarded -
She declares further that the place of residence of said Dudley Hays was said Grady at the time he performed the aforesaid services, and continued to be his place of residence until his decease -
She further declares this to be her first application for the pension due her late husband Dudley Hays deceased
Sworn & Subscribed on the day & year above written
Before me
D. D. Hays, Freeman Allen Judge
I Edmund Holcomb, Clerk of the court of Probate for the district of Franklin aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Betsy Hays for the award of pension due her late husband Dudley Hays deceased. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office the day and year aforesaid
Edmund Holcomb Clerk

W 17974 -
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 192
In reply to your request of _____, for the history of  Sidney Hays or Hayes , a soldier of the Revolutionary War, the following is taken from the soldier's claim for pension.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Sept 1, 77 4 mos Pol. Stephen Burtis Isaac Cook Conn.   Nov. or Dec 78 1 " Cyrus Pettibone Noah Phelps   '79 3 " ✓ P. B. Bradley   Aug 81 3 " Alexander Lathan ✓  
Battles engaged in, Stillwater where we left Hugh Residence of soldier at enlistment, Granby Conn Date of application for pension, Feb 4 1825 His cl was al Residence at date of application, Granby Conn Age at date of application, born Nov 5 1761 or 1769 Lumbury Conn Remarks: He d. Jan 13 1844 at Granby Conn
1777 16 6
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

N o 1134. R.
Connecticut
Dudley Hays Privat Captain E. Curtis' company of the New Jersey
Ratio of disability, three fourths
Date of discharge closing testimony 1 st February 1822.
Inscribed on the roll of Connecticut
at Six dollars per month, to commence on the fourth of February 1822.
Certificate of pension issued the 20 th of April, and sent to Deborah Huntington Hartford Connecticut.
Arrears to 4th March 1825. $ 6. 12
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Sept 1825. 36. 00
25/8. 3/31
$ 42. 12
(Set 4 th February 1822.)

See letter to S. H. Parsons, Oct. 7. 1839 do. to same May 8. 1832
Pension increased to $8 per mo. commencing May 1. 1832 and new certifi- cate issued 17 May 1832 and sent to S. H. Parsons Esq. Hartford Conn.
letter to D. Wilcox Mar. 21. 1844 " " " " " " Apr. 20. 1844

No. 31.490.
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
Received April 2, 18 55
Beda Hayes. Wid of Dudley Hayes. Gen: Gates. Rev: War. Conn: Mil
Warrant no 3815-160-55.
Justus D. Wilcox West Granby. Conn:

v 3815
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160 Acres

West-Granby, Conn. March 30, 1855- Hon. L. P. Waldo, Com d of Pensions &c.
Dear Sir, I herewith forward the applications of Leister Loonies, Ezekiel Hoages, Jesmina Case & Beda Hoages for bounty land under the Act approved March 3, 1855- & hope they will be found correct.
Please address Communications to Justus D. Wilcox, West-Granby Conn.

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 17975
Beda Hayes
Widow of
Dudley Hayes
Prio Rev War
Act: July 4 th 1836
Index:—Vol. 54 , Page 312
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1923 July 23 Rev. Chas. P. Hall 33 Capitol Av. Hartford Conn. (see his letter in John M. Case N o 23770. Av)
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2150
Connecticut
Beda Hayes.
widow of Dudley
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 20. Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
3 rd February 1853
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of Sept r 1853 and sent to
J. H. G. McCutchen Present
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act July 29, 1848, Page 60. Vol. A
Feb 1853
1853

Pension Office Sept. 22. 1860
Sir
The papers in the case of John Hughes, an applicant for navy invalid register

J. H. Gile Cloutchier Dec 17 1853 (old book)
Justus D. Miller Sep 5 1853 (53 book)
Hon. W. W. Welch Aug 5 1856
Hon. J. F. Potter Chf. Comt. Mr. Penn: with copies of papers -
Letter to J. W. Gurney Mar. 23/60.
" " Justus D. Miller to Thos. A. Welch Sep 1/60 Sep 17/60.

Beda Hayes widow of Dudley Hayes private Revol n War
Spec l Act, 9 June 1862
$ 60 per annum from 1 st Jan y 1860 during life
Hartford, Roll
Tho s A. Wilcox Granby Connecticut

MR N o 528
Beda Hayes.
widow of
Dudley Hayes.

Application of Beda Ways widow of Dudley Ways of Revolution. for a pension 2nd Section Act 3 rd July 1853.
H. G. McCutcheon Present

567
Beda Hoars widow of Dudley Conn.
Set. to J. H. G. Mcbrathen May 18. 1853 " " Aug. 23 "
Act Feby 3. 1853.

Dudley Hays -
July 77. Eliphalel Cudlip - 1 witness (4 mo)
Nov 78 Ozias Pettibone
79. substitute for Zenas Col Brablys capt
81. Captain (1 witness) / New Haven
3 SHD
x 4- x 3-
3

BEDA HAYES.
[To accompany Bill H. R. No. 528.]
MARCH 30, 1860.
Mr. POTTER, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, made the following
REPORT.
The Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Beda Hayes, widow of Dudley Hayes, of Granby, Hartford county, Connecticut, asking for the continuation of her husband's pension, report:
That it appears from the evidence before the committee that Beda Hayes was married in eighteen hundred and five to Dudley Hayes, who was wounded at the battle of Stillwater, being shot through the groin, and crippled for life; that for thirty-nine years she ministered to his care and comfort, he being a great sufferer during the latter part of his life; that the petitioner is advanced in years and in destitute circumstances. Your committee believe that she is rightfully entitled to a pension for fifteen months of service of her said husband, and therefore report a bill for her relief, with the recommendation that it do pass.

Washington City D.C. Dec 14 th 1853
I respectfully call up the case of Dudley Hays who was allowed a pension of $20 per annum. At 7 June 1832 and ask that said pension may be increased to the extent war- ranted by the proof on file. The papers I presume will be found in the name of "Beda Hays widow of Dudley Act 3rd Feby 1853"
Respectfully Yours &c J. H. W. Easton
Hon L. P. Waldo Commissioner of Pensions

Committee Room Revolutionary Pensions,
9 th March 1860
Sir,
I am directed to request you to forward copies of papers for examination by Com tee of the case of Bida Hager, widow of Dudley Hager for an increase of pension
Very Respectfully
Your Obedient
J. S. P. M.
Chairman
Geo: C. Whitney Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.

Washington City, D.C.
March 2 nd 1853
Sir
I enclose you the application of Betsy Hays widow of Dudley Hays decd of Connecticut for a pension Act 3 rd Feb, 1853.
You will find proof of marriage death of husband & all proved, as the said Betsy obtain as the widow of said Dudley, 6 months pension ($20) under act 7 June 1832 and the said Dudley drew an Invalid pension of $96. making $116. I therefore claim $116 for the widow. And as the case was proved in all respects under act 7 June 1832. a simple application for the Benefit of Act 3 rd Feb, 53. is all that can be required which please find enclosed. I also claim for the said Betsy Hays that her pension shall commence 4 th March 1848.
Horatio C. Hockett Comm ee of Pensions Washington City, D.C.
Respectfully J. H. G. W. Caton

Payment to be made at Wartford by
Seth Belden
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of
Connecticut
Payable on the 4th September and 4th March
Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 3d, 1853, Page 69 Vol. A
G. T. Getty Clerk.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
WIDOW'S PENSION.
I certify that in conformity with the 2d section of the act of Feb- ruary 3, 1853,
Beda Nages widow of Dudley Nages. who was a private in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of (Twenty) dollars and cents per annum, commencing on the 3d of February, 1853, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.
Given at the Department of the Interior, this Twenty fourth day of September , one thousand eight hundred and fifty three.
W. L. Ward
Secretary of the Interior.
Examined and Countersigned.
S. M. Wilson Commissioner of Pensions.

March 12 1841
For England you will find an inquiry respecting Dudley Hays' claim to an undivided portion, (an) subsequently, under the act of June 7, 1832. He has died during the last year, (as his widow has applied for the annuity due him under the act of June 7, 1832. Will you be so good as to let me see the papers in the case. Please return Mr. Wilson's letter to me. I am Respectfully A. H. Jenkins
Dr. Stevens

West Granby Ct Aug 25 th 60
Hon. Geo. C. Whiting Cohoes, I.
Dear Sir,
At the last session of Congress an act was passed for the benefit of Beda Hayes of Granby Cohoes, raising her pension from $20 to $60, per annum from June 1 st 1860. Will you be kind enough to inform me whether she will require a new certificate to obtain her said annual stipend under the late act, & if so what steps are required to obtain it.
I understand also that Congress has sustained the decision of the Court of Claims in allowing pensions to widows claiming under the act of Feb y 3 rd 1853, to pensions from the 4 th of March 1848 - If so, what course must be pursued to obtain those arrears? Respectfully Justus D. Wilcox Agent

N. B. Should there be Pamphlet acts of the last Session of Congress to space I would thank the Commissioner to forward me a copy
I feel under especial obligation therefor
Hester D. Wilcoy
Hon. Geo. E. Whiting Commr of Pensions

H. Granby Ct Aug. 13 free J. S. Edwards 13 Com d of Pensions Washington City

West-Granby 13 th Jan y . 13 th 1845
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Sir,
In the case of Dudley Hays decd. I take the liberty to suggest that his widow is infirm, & not knowing the precise time of her husband's service, or the place where performed, neither is she able to learn from Hon. E. Phelps who forwarded his papers, what service was claimed by his declaration, or what proof accompanied it - & furthermore the witnesses having all or nearly all deceased, she is under the necessity of applying to the Department for a return of his 2 nd application with its documents, (if consistent with the rules of the department) or otherwise an abstract from the same showing the time & place of his service, & the proof of each witness - This course is required from the difficulty of finding (at this late day) new proof to go over the whole ground. I wrote the Hon. J. H. Seymour on the subject (the member of Congress from our district) who informed me that he would attend personally to the subject, or write Hon. Eames respecting it, I do not know whether he has done so - Respectfully Yours Hon. J. L. Edwards Justus D. Wilson

Copy of Lunar Days Dep. taken in Jan'y 1821 &c
(No 4)

Lenas Days of lawful age being duly sworn deposes and says, that he is personally acquainted with Dudley Days of Gremby, Kentford County & State of Connecticut, & that he the said Lenas well knows the said Dudley Days was a Soldier in the Revolutionary War in Captain Eliphalet Dyer's Company, Col. Cook's Regiment, that he the said Lenas was in the same Company & Regiment, & that he well knows that he the said Dudley was wounded by a musket ball, being shot through his left thigh in the Battle of on the 19 th day of Sept. 1777, and that the said Dudley Days has been a lame man ever since in consequence of said wound— and further the deponent saith not.
Lenas Days Sworn & Subscribed to This 18 th day of January 1821.
Before me Job Griffin Justice of the Peace
The Original Deposition of Lenas Days of which the above is a copy. Sworn to before me Justice Griffin as a true & correct copy. is forwared to the Hon. Mr. Tomlinson of the H. B. with the former Petition of Dudley Days, & other depositions, in formal taken & forwared to the Secretary of War in December 1821— & this copy is forwared to explain the reasons why the said Lenas Days testimony is not now taken on behalf of his brother Dudley Days, by the fact, that Lenas Days resides in the Western part of the State of New York, many 100 miles from Gremby.

That he was undoubtedly on a visit at Gumbly in Jan y 1821. & at the request of his brother made the case - & altho' Mcguffie the Magistrate is a respectable man, it seems neither he nor the Gentleman who anno- dunced Levy's Petition & in Dec r 1821 - for the Enclosed the subject autolodow that the case was irregular - but Lenabergs being absent - is the reason his case was not taken at the present time -
W. W. Mack & M c Myrton Commissioners
July 14 th 1825 } 3

Increase of pension.
It is hereby certified that Dudley Hays formerly a private of Captain Curtis' company in Colonel Cook's regiment of foot or infantry, whom it appears by the accompanying certificate was placed on the pension roll at the rate of six dollars per month, on account, as he states, of having received a wound in the left thigh (occasioned) by a musket-ball passing through the inner part of the thigh four inches below the Os Pubis, carrying with it pieces of the stock of the gun (as he says) which caused considerable ulceration; & now there is a permanent contraction & frigidity of the muscles of the thigh & stiffness of the hip-joint occasioning so much debility of the limb as in our opinion to prevent him from obtaining a subsistence by manual labor and renders the limb nearly useless — while in the line of his duty and in the said service, on or about the 19 th day of September 1777 at a place called Still water in the State of New York, is not only still disabled in consequence of the said injury, but in our opinion is entitled to one third more than he already receives as a pensioner, being disabled to a degree amounting to a total disability. Said Hays represents himself to be about seven
years of age — Sworn & subscribed this first day of May 1832 Before me
Israel Morgan Lumber W. Morgan M.D.
Samuel A. Parsons Notary Public

State of Connecticut } Is: Hartford May 1 st 1832. Hartford County }
I certify That I am personally acquainted with Doctors Dwell Morgan & W H Morgan of the City of Hartford, signers of the within certificate, & they are to the respectable & reputable in their profession.
Office of Bank U.S.      Ch. Parsons Pres. &c at Hartford. Conn: John D. Sleeper

Increase of pension.
United States of America } B: New Haven District of Connecticut }
To Doctor Israel Morgan and William Morgan both of the City and County of Hartford within said District.
Pursuant to an act of Congress of the United States, passed the 4th day of February, 1822, entitled "An Act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the Revolutionary war, and for other purposes," you are hereby appointed and authorized to examine Dudley Hages, who is inscribed on the Pension List of the United States, and is claimant for an increase of pension conforma- bly to the 3rd Section of the act of the 10th April, 1806, revised as aforesaid; and you are to report, in writing, and on oath or affirmation, your opinion of the nature of his disability and in what degree it prevents him from obtaining a subsistence by manual labor; and in your proceedings in the premises you are to be regulated and governed by said act. Given under my hand and seal this first. — day of October 1821.
Wm Bristol Judge of U State. for the State of Conn.

State of Connecticut
County of Hartford } On this 25 day of Feby- eighteen hundred and fifty three personally appeared before me Elam Glendall a justice of the peace in & for the county & State aforesaid duly authorized by law to administer oaths Beda Hoages, who being duly sworn according to law, Declares that she is the widow of Dudley Hoages who received an Invalid pension of $96. per annum on account of wounds received in the Revolutionary War, & that said Dudley Hoages died on the 12 th day of January 1844 and after his decease she applied for and received the benefit of the act of 7 th June 1832 as widow of said Dudley & that she has never since been married. She therefore refers to said papers on file in the pension office for proof of marriage, death of hus- band & other facts necessary to enable her to procure the benefit of the Act passed Feby. 3 d 1853 granting pensions to widows &c, to obtain which she hereby makes application and appoints J. H. L. McCutchen of the city of Washington her attorney to prosecute her claim. Sworn to & Subscribed } Beda Hoages before me, & I hereby certify that I have no interest in the application of said Beda Hoages for a pension Elam Glendall Justice of the Peace
And I certify that the applicant's hand was steadied in consequence of her infirmities, when making her signature Elam Glendall J. P.

State of Connecticut } County of Hartford } ss
I George W. Holcomb, Clerk of the Court of Probate holden at Granby, in & for the district of Granby do hereby certify that Elam Kendall whose name is subscribed to the within declaration, is a justice of the peace for the County of Hartford, duly commissioned & sworn, that his commission took effect on the 4 th July 1852 & will expire on the 4 th July 1854 - and that the signature referred to is his genuine signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, & affixed my seal of office at Granby this 26 th day of Feby. in the year of our Lord 1853
George W. Holcomb Clerk

State of Connecticut
Hartford County, ss.
On this 1 st day of June A. 1853, personally appeared before the court of Probate holden at Granby, within & for the district of Granby, Bede Hayes a resident of said town aged seventy four years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the acts of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 & the act supplemental thereto of Febry 19 th 1833 - And also of the act of Febry 3 d 1853 entitled, "An act to continue half pay pensions to certain widows & orphans"
That she is the widow of Dudley Hayes who was a private in the Army of the Revolution, & a pensioner on the roll of the Connecticut agency at the rate of $96, per annum as an Invalid pensioner -
That the said Dudley Hayes died at Granby aforesaid on the 13 th day of January A. 1844 leaving her the said Bede his widow That after his decease she, (as his widow) applied under the first named acts for the benefits of his service, & obtained a certificate for only $20, per annum, or for six months service, when his actual service was not less than fifteen months, & was supposed to be nearly, or quite two years, as will appear by his own declaration & documents appended thereto, together with the deposition of Amos Holcomb attached to my own application under the first named acts, & now on file at the pension office, to which reference is made -
She further declares that she was married to the said Dudley Hayes at said Granby on the 11 th day of April A. 1805 by the Rev. Isaac Porter then the settled Minister of the parish, long since deceased

That from & after the said time of my marriage with Mr. Dudley Hayes I went to reside with him & continued to perform the duties of a wife, raising him four children, the joint issue of our marriage, besides taking charge, & aiding the bringing up of his four other children by a former marriage, until the time of his decease on the said 13 th day of Jan'y. A.D. 1844, when he left me his widow, & I have ever since remained such - She further declares that her maiden name was Bede Dewey. Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year above written
Before me
Belle Hays
The foregoing & heral settlement in making her signature by me Joel C. Holcomb Judge
I George W. Holcomb Clerk of the court of Probate held at Granby within & for the Probate district of Granby do certify that Joel C. Holcomb Esq. is Judge of Probate for the district aforesaid, & that his official acts as such are entitled to full faith & credit - & further, that the signature above written purporting to be his, is his genuine signature - Geo W Holcomb Clerk And I further certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to this court that Dudley Hayes, who was a Revolutionary pensioner, died at Granby aforesaid in the year 1844 on the 13 th day of Jan'y. leaving a widow by the name of Bede Hayes, & that she is the identical widow & person who this day has subscribed the foregoing declaration - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, & affixed the seal of said court, at Granby this 10 th day of June A.D. 1853 -
George W. Holcomb Clerk

State of Connecticut Hartford County
Town of Granby ss. Clerk's Office, June 1 st 1853
I Jaimus Case, Clerk of the town aforesaid, & having custody of the records thereof, do certify that I have carefully examined the records of said town under the head of marriages, & can not find a record of the marriage of Dudley Hays & Betsy Dewey, the maiden name of the present widow of the late Dudley Hages deceased. I further certify that the record of marriages in the year A.D. 1805 when this marriage is alleged to have been consummated, are very incomplete, & is no presumptive evidence that it did not take place at that time. Jaimus Case Town clerk
I Jaimus Case above named depose & say that I hold the office of Clerk of the town of Granby aforesaid having custody of the records thereof, & that the foregoing statement is true as certified by me.
Jaimus Case
State of Connecticut
Hartford County ss Granby June 1 st A.D. 1853
Then personally appeared Jaimus Case Esq. whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate & deposition & made solemn oath to the truth of the same. & I certify that I am personally acquainted with the deponent, that he holds the office named, & his statements may be relied on.
Jestus D. Wilcox, Notary Public

State of Connecticut
Hartford County } p. Granby June 1 st 1853.
I, Eunice Hayes of Granby in the county of Hartford & State of Connecticut aged Seventy five years, after being duly cautioned & sworn according to law, Depose & say That I have been personally acquainted with Mrs. Betsy Hayes, the widow of the late Dudley Hayes deceased, for a period of more than fifty years past. I well remember when she was reputed to be married to him & came to reside with him. It was in the Spring of the year of one thousand eight hundred & five, since which time they lived together as husband & wife & raised a family of children, until the said Dudley Hayes died about ten or eleven years ago. I have no doubt whatever that they were lawfully married, nor did I ever hear a doubt raised from any source whatever. & further deponent saith not.
Eunice Hayes
We Nathan Strong aged Seventy four years, & Theodocia Strong aged Seventy three years after being duly cautioned & sworn, Depose to all the statements set forth in the affidavit of Eunice Hayes above rehearsed, except the precise time of marriage. Nathan Strong Theodocia Strong
Sworn to, & subscribed the day & year last above named before me, & I certify that I am personally acquainted with said Eunice Hayes, Nathan Strong, & Theodocia Strong, that they are credible witnesses & their statements may be relied on. In testimony whereof I herunto subscribe my name, & seal of office. Justus D. Miller, Notary Public

State of Connecticut } County of Hartford } Parish of Granby June 1 st 1853 I Caleb F. Page Pastor of the 1 st Ecclesiastical Society in Granby aforesaid, do certify that I have carefully examined the marriage records of said parish kept by my predecessors in the ministry, & can no where find the record marriage of Dudley Hagg & Bede Dewey - I further certify that I can find no record of marriages previous to April 20 th 1842, which record appears to have been commenced by, & in the hand writing of Rev d Israel P. Warren, in a new book prepared for the purpose, which is prefaced by the fol- lowing entry "For the marriages prior to the settlement of Mr Warren see old records" The records here referred to appear to be lost. I further certify from information obtained from different individuals in the parish, that such a record was kept extending back to the settlement of Rev d Isaac Porter, June 20 th 1794.
Certified by me                      Caleb F. Page - Pastor I Caleb F. Page above named, after being duly cau- tioned & sworn, Depose & say, that I held the office of Pastor in the First Congregational Church & Society in said Granby & that the above statement is true as certified by me
Caleb F. Page.
Sworn to & subscribed in due form of law before me this 1 st day of June A. D. 1853, & I certify that I am personally acquainted with deponent & that he is a credible witness, & his statements may be relied on
Justus D. Wilcox, Notary Public

Justice D. Miles Notary Public
Probate Office } District of Granby } ss
I George W. Holcomb, Clerk of the court of Probate holden at Granby within & for the district of Granby, do certify that Justus D. Miles Esq. is a Notary Public in & for the State of Connecticut duly commissioned & sworn. That his Commission took effect on the 18 th day of August A. 1852, & will expire on the 18 th day of August A. 1854, & further that the signature on the margin, purporting to be his is his genuine official signature & that full faith and credit are to be given to his official acts as a Notary Public
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal of office this 18 th day of June A. 1853 -
George W. Holcomb Clerk
Not.

(Copy)
State of Connecticut Hartford County } ss.
On this 1 st day of June A.D. 1853 personally appeared before the court of Probate held at Granby, within & for the district of Granby Betsy Hays a resident of said town aged seventy four years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Acts of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 & the act supplementary thereto of Feb'y 19 th 1833 - and also of the act of Feb'y 3 rd 1853 entitled, "an act to continue half pay pensions to certain widows & orphans".
That she is the widow of Dudley Hays who was a private in the army of the revolution, & a pensioner on the roll of the Connecticut Agency at the rate of $96. per annum as an invalid pensioner -
That the said Dudley Hays died at Granby aforesaid on the 13 th day of January A.D. 1844 leaving her the said Betsy his widow. That after his decease she (as his widow) applied under the first named acts for the benefits of his service, & obtained a certificate for only $20. per annum, or for six months service, when his actual service was not less than fifteen months, & was supposed to be nearly, or quite two years, as will appear by his own declaration & documents appended thereto, together with the deposition of Amos Holliday attached to my own application under the

first named acts, & now on file at the probate office, to which reference is made -
She further declares that she was married to the said Dudley Hays at said Granby on the on the 11 th day of April A.D. 1805 by the Revd Isaac Foster the settled minister of the parish, long since deceased. That from & after the said time of my marriage with said Dudley Hays I went to reside with him & continued to perform the duties of a wife, raising him four children, the joint issue of our marriage, besides take- ing charge, & aiding the bringing up of his four other children by a former marriage, until the time of his deceas- ed on the said 13 th day of Jany - A.D. 1844, when he left me his widow, & I have ever since remained such - She further declares that her maiden name was Bede Devey.
Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year above written before me
Bede Hays
The affiant hereat succeeded in mak- ing her signature by me
Isaac C. Holcomb, Judge
I George C. Holcomb clerk of the court of Probate held at Granby within & for the Probate district of Granby, do certify that Isaac C. Holcomb Esq. is Judge of

Probate for the district aforesaid, & that his official acts as such are entitled to full faith & credit - & further, that the said signature above written purporting to be his, is his genuine signature -
Geo W. Holcomb. Clerk. And I further certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to this court that Dudley Hages, who was a Revolutionary pensioner, died at Granby aforesaid in the year 1844 on the 13 th day of Jan'y leaving a widow by the name of Betsy Hages, & that she is the identical widow & person who this day has subscribed the foregoing declaration - In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, & affixed the seal of said court, at Granby this 1 st day of June A.D. 1853 - George W. Holcomb Clerk
State of Connecticut Hartford County } S. Clerk's Office, Jan'y 1853 James Bane, Clerk of the town aforesaid, & having a custody of the records thereof, do certify that I have carefully examined the records of said town under the head of Marriages, & cannot find a record of the marriage of Dudley Hages & Betsy Dewey, the maiden name of the present widow of the late

Stanley Hays deceased - I further certify that the record of marriage in the year A.D. 1805. when this marriage is alleged to have been consummated, are very incomplete, & is no presumptive evidence that it did not take place at that time.
I, James Case, Town Clerk of, James Case above named depose & say that I held the office of Clerk of the town of Granby aforesaid having custody of the records thereof & that the foregoing statement is true as certified by me.
James Case
State of Connecticut } Hartford County }
St. Granby June 1 st A.D. 1853 Then personally
appeared James Case Esq. whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate & deposition & made solemn oath to the truth of the same & I certify that I am personally acquainted with the deponent, that he holds the office named, & his statements may be relied on.
Justice D. Wilson, Notary Public.
State of Connecticut } Hartford County }
St. Granby June 1 st 1853
James Hays of Granby in the county of Hartford & State of Connecticut aged

am personally acquainted with said Dunbar Hayer, Nathan Strong & Theodore Strong, that they are credible witnesses & their statements may be relied on for testimony whereof I hereunto (Seal) subscribe my name & seal of office
Justice D. Wilroy, Notary Public.
State of Connecticut County of Hartford ss.
Parish of Granby June 1 st 1853
I, Caleb H. Page, Pastor of the 1 st Ecclesiastical society in Granby aforesaid, do certify that I have carefully examined the marriage records of said parish kept by my predecessor in the Ministry, & am no where find the record marriage of Dudley Hayer & Dora Dewey. I further certify that I am find no record of marriages previous to April 20 th 1842, which record appears to have been commenced by, & in the hand writing of Rev d Israel P. Warren, in a new book prepared for the purpose, which is prefaced by the following entry "For the marriages prior to the settlement of Mr Warren see old records". The records here referred to appear to be lost. I further certify from information obtained from different individuals in the parish, that such a record was kept extending back to the settlement of Rev d Isaac Patten.

June 25 th 1794.
Certified by me Caleb F. Page, Pastor , I, Caleb F. Page, above named, after being duly examined & sworn, do here- by say, that I held the Office of Pastor in the first Congregational Church & Society in said Granby & that the above statement is true as certified by me
Caleb F. Page
Sworn to & subscribed in due form of law before me this 1 st day of June A.D. 1853, & I certify that I am personally acquainted with deponent & that he is a credible witness, & his state- ment may be relied on.
Justice D. Meloy
Notary Public
Probate Office District of Granby } ss
Justice D. Meloy, Notary Public.
I, George W. Holcomb, Clerk of the court of Probate held at Granby within & for the district of Granby, Do certify that Justice D. Meloy Esq., is a Notary Public in & for the State of Connecticut duly commissioned & sworn. That his commission took effect on the 18 th day of August A.D. 1852, & will ex- pire on the 18 th day of August A.D. 1854, & further that the signature on the margin, purporting to be his, is his genuine Official Signature & that

full faith and credit are to be given to his official acts as a Notary Public.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal of office this 1 st day of June A.D. 1853—
George W. Holcomb, Clerk

I Beda Hayes of Granby in the County of Hartford & State of Connecticut aged Seventy two years after being duly cautioned & sworn according to law Depose & say That I am the widow of Dudley Hayes late of said Granby deceased. That the said Dudley Hayes was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and served, according to my best knowledge & belief a period of more than fifteen months as stated in his original declaration for a pension on account of his service separate from his pension as an invalid. That the said Dudley never obtained in his life time, any compensation for his service as provided by Congress, & the only stipend which I have rec d was for six months only of his said service, leaving a balance of pension yet unpaid for a period of not less than nine months, as his declaration & accompanying papers I think will clearly show.
Sworn to & subscribed this 29 th day of October A.D. 1881. State of Connecticut, Hartford County - ss } Bede her Hayes Be it known that before me a Justice of the peace in & for the County aforesaid, duly authorized by law to administer oaths personally appeared Beda Hayes, whose name is subscribed to the foregoing deposition & made solemn oath to the truth of the same; & I certify that the above named affiant is personally known to me, & is the same individual stated in her affidavit & a credible person - Justus D. Wilson Jus t of Peace

Know all men by these presents, That I Beda Hays of Granby in the County of Hartford & State of Connecticut, widow of Dudley Hays of said Granby who was a Revolutionary soldier of the United States, do hereby constitute and appoint J. H. G. McEuchen Esq. of the city of Washington in the District of Columbia my true & lawful attorney for me, & in my name to examine all papers forwarded by me, or by my late husband Dudley Hays deceased, to the War Department in relation to his, or my application for a pension, or arrear of pension on account of his said service, & to act for me in all matters appertaining thereunto.
Witness my hand & seal this 29 th day of October 1851 In presence of Lewis Hays Charles Musserman
State of Connecticut, Hartford County - p. Be it known that on the 29 th day of October A.D. 1851 before the undersigned a Justice of the peace in & for said County duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared Beda Hays above named & acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be her act & deed. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day & year last above mentioned.
Nestus S. Wilcox Just e of Peace for after whole will count all the letters to go these papers
Mrs. Hays formerly wrote her own name but is now unable J. H. Wilcox D. R. and therefore it takes her mark

Petition of Mrs. Bella Hayes of Granby Ct. for the continuance of the pension of her late husband.
Dec r 20. 1858 Referred to Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.
February 10 1860 Referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.
1860 Mar 30. Bill 328
Agree Mr Bishop

To the Hon. Senate, & House of Representatives of the U. S. A. in congress assembled.
The petition of Beda Hayes of Granby in the County of Hartford, & State of Connecticut, humbly shews that she is the widow of Dudley Hayes late of said Granby deceased - who was a private in the revolutionary war, & wounded in battle at the taking of Burgoyne, & rendered a cripple for life -
That in consequence of said wound, her husband, the said Dudley Hayes, applied for, and obtained a pension of $96.00 per annum during his natural life, which terminated in 1844, being thirty nine years after our intermarriage, during all of which time he required & received from me an invalid's care - could not walk without crutches, and from the effects of his wound, being a gun shot through the groin, he was subject to spasms of tetanus which, as he advanced in years, became more frequent & severe, until they at length relieved his sufferings by death -
Your petitioner further states that by far the greater proportion of her active cares, & labor of life, have been devoted to rendering aid & comfort to an invalid husband, made so, while engaged in his country's service, that she is advanced in life, of infirm health, her own pittance of dower less than $25. per year, & has no relative able to render her aid - She therefore prays your Honors to take her case into consideration & grant her a continuance of her husband's pension from the time of his decease - or in default the 2 d Section of the Act of Feb. 3-1853 - as to embrace the widows of invalids , as well as those of Bonafide pensioners, or in some other way grant relief - And your petitioner as in duty bound will ever pray.
Granby Dec 7 th 1858.
Beda Hayes

We Pliny Higley aged seventy five years & Eunice Hayes aged eighty one years both of Granby in the county of Hartford & State of Connecticut, after being duly cautioned & sworn to speak the truth, Depose & say that we are personally acquainted with Beda Hayes, the within named petitioner, & know her to be the identical widow of Dudley Hayes, deceased who was a soldier of the revolution & an invalid pension- er of the United States, & had his residence in said Granby at the time, & for many years previous to his decease. We further depose that we have examined the within petition of said Beda Hayes, & aver that her statements therein are true in every particular according to our best knowledge & belief.
Pliny Higley
Eunice Hayes
Sworn to & subscribed before me a justice of the peace within & for the county of Hartford this 10 th day of Dec r 1858. And I certify that I am personally acquainted with depo- nents who are credible persons & their statements may be relied on for truth. Justus D. Wilcox, Just e of the Peace
I George W. Holcomb, Clerk of the court of Bobbitt for the district of Granby, do certify that Justus D. Wilcox, is a Justice of the peace within & for the county of Hartford, duly appointed, commissioned & sworn - That his commission took effect on the 4 th day of July A d 1858, & will expire on the 4 th of July A d 1860, & further that the signature hereon purporting to be his, is his genuine signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said court, this 16 th day of December A d 1858.
George W. Holcomb Clerk

Know all men by these presents That I Beda Hayes of Granby in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut a revolutionary pensioner of the United States do hereby constitute and appoint Justus D. Wilcox of Granby in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to return to the Secretary of the Interior of the United States my pension certificate bearing date the twenty fourth day of September one thousand eight hundred and fifty three and procure therefor another to conform to an act of Congress passed in my favor and approved June 9 th 1860 Sealed and delivered this 18 th day of September 1860
In presence of
J. D. Wilcox
Beda Hayes
The foregoing hand was studied by me J. D. Wilcox N.P.
State of Connecticut } Hartford County }
Be it known that on the 18 th day of September 1860 before the subscriber a justice of the Peace in and for said County duly authorized by law to administer oaths personally appeared Beda Hayes above named and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be her free act and deed. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last above mentioned. Justus D. Wilcox, Jus t of the Peace
State of Connecticut } Hartford County }
Probate District of Granby
I George H. Dibble Clerk of the court of Probate for the district aforesaid do certify that Justus D. Wilcox is a justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly appointed, commissioned, and sworn. That his commission took effect on the 4 th day of July 1860 and will expire on the 4 th day of July 1862. and that the signature above purporting to be his is his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 18 th day of September A. D. 1860
Geo. H. Dibble Clerk

Pensioner's handsomely dressed and * entitled to D. Wilcox
Know all men by these presents That I Beda Hayes, widow of Dudley late of Granby, Hartford County, Connecticut, a revolution ary pensioner of the United States, do hereby constitute & appoint Thos A. Wilcox, of Granby in the County & State aforesaid, my true & lawful attorney for me & in my name to receive from the Secretary of the Interior a pension certificate in conformity to the act of Congress approved June 9 th 1860 & request that the same may be payable at the pension agency in Hartford, Connecticut Signed, sealed & delivered in presence of Beda Hayes H. W. St. John
T. A. Wilcox
State of Connecticut Hartford County } Be it known that on the 12 th day of September 1860, before the subscriber, a Justice of the peace in & for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared Beda Hayes above named & acknowledged the foregoing powers of attorney to be her act & deed. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day & year last above mentioned Justus A. Wilcox, Jus ice of the peace
The secretary of the Interior, or com ee of pensions please forward a certificate for Mrs Beda Hayes to Justus A. Wilcox, West Granby, Connecticut in conformity to the above Thos A. Wilcox

New York } Steuben County } p
Amos Halliday of the town of Dansville in said County being duly sworn by me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in said County deposes & says that Dudley Hays was a soldier in the Revolutionary war between the American Colonies & Great Britain & served with Deponent in said war as follows - viz
1st Tour - commenced in the summer of 1777 in a company commanded by Capt. Curtis Col. Cooks Regiment, & was at the taking of Burgoyne. Hays was wounded in the thigh & was in the hospital a time. The whole time in service this tour 4 months
2nd Tour - In 1778 having partially recovered from his wound he joined Capt. Olias Pettibone's Company & helped guard the prisoners taken with Burgoyne through the State of Connecticut to New York this tour was one month or thereabouts
3rd Tour - commenced in 1780 Deponent thinks in Capt. Johnsons Company was at Bushkill & Pechskill that the whole time of this tour was 9 months or upwards
4th Tour - was a militia tour - at New Haven in the fall of 1781 of 4 months under Capt. Samuel Hays & Lieut. Timothy Cossitt And further Deponent saith not
Sworn & subscribed } his before me this 26th day } Amos Halliday of Oct 1845 } mark
Wm Patchin } Justice of the peace
Steuben County } p
I certify that the cause of Deponent making his mark is in consequence of blindness Wm Patchin } Justice

State of New York } ss. 3 County of Steuben } I, Paul G Cook clerk of the said County do certify that M c M c Patchin Esquire before whom the affidavit purports to have been sworn and also who subscribed the within Certificate was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said County and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and justly believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit and the certificate to be his proper hand writing and signature.
Witness my hand and Seal of Office this Eleventh day of November 1845 P G Cook Clerk
Steuben County } ss 1 I do hereby certify that I have been personally acquainted with the within named Deponent for the last past Twenty years. That I have resided within some 4 miles of Deponent during the said 20 years That his reputation as a citizen for morality & integrity stands deservedly high. Beloved honoured, & Respected by all possessing a sterling mind & a generous heart. That altho he has lost his sight, he still retains his men- tal faculties altogether surpassing the generality of men of his age Oct. 26 th /45 M c M c Patchin } Justice of the peace

D. Hays.
Free
Shirley et Deptford Sept 3 In at 5.
J. S. Edwards Esq Conc of Penseons Washington

Simsbury 27 th Aug. 1838
Sir Your note of the 20 th is before me. In it you say, that Dudley Hays in his declaration of proof upon which his invalid pension was granted, claimed that his wound continued until 1780 & "It is very clear from that statement he could not have been able at the date of the alleged service of one month under Capt. Pittebone to perform the duties of a soldier in the ranks. It will be recollect ed that in 1777 Burgoyne & his army were captured & in the year 1778 were conducted from Massachusetts through this State to the State of New York. Each state furnished an escort, to conduct these prisoners through their limits respectively, to the City of New York, for embarkation. It required no very arduous or fatiguing duty. It partook more of the character of military escort than of a campaign. It was nevertheless a performance of martial duty. It is probable that those were called upon who were unable to take the field. In this state there was an invalid regiment, & I believe belonged to the continental army. we also had our alarm list, composed of men exonerated by age & infirmity from military duty. all were endeavoring to promote the success of our arms & establish our independence. Hays swears he belonged to that guard & performed his duty under Capt. Pittebone who it appears was there.

He stated to me that he did not now know any person living who was with him. I trust that no inference will be drawn, from the fact that the wound was not healed in 1778, which shall falsify the testimony of a man of truth. Mr Hays I have known many years, & I have no reason to believe that he would swear to any thing which he knew to be untrue.
He knows of no person by whom he can prove his service under Capt. Cather.
If consistent with the rules of your office I wish to ascertain whether Lemuel Hays signed the receipt roll, or note.
I trust you will not limit the applicant's claim to a pension, by the time of his draft, or enlistment in 1777, but by the time he was absent from his home by reason of his wounds. I had supposed the pension law extended to the sick as well as to the captured soldiers. Confinement or restriction by an enemy, perhaps, does not present a stronger claim for pension than confinement in the hospital by reason of wounds received while in service. Ignorance of your rules has, perhaps, inspired me with a delusive anticipation.
I am very respectfully
Yours &c O. Phelps

Sept 20 Washington D.C.
Free
L. Edwards Esq Com d of Pensions Washington
Hayes

Limberburg 14 Aug 1838
Sir
In Dudley Hays petition for a pension he claims from for having served from his draft or enlistment until he left the hospital. Is the time from the discharge of the regiment to which he belonged to his leaving the hospital to be rejected?
You object to allowing him a pension for the time he served as a substitute; for his brother Jonas Hays, in 1779, because the brother is credited for the service, & because probably Dudley Hays was not able to serve as a substitute.
As to the first objection, it was not an unusual occurrence in that war, as it is now common in our militia, for the substitute to answer to the name of the principal at roll calls. Testimony was sent to prove that he was seen returning from camp where he there said he had taken his brother's place & I am now told that Jonas Hays the brother was a pensioner & did not obtain a pension for any part or whole of the campaign in 1779. If so, there must be satisfactory proof, that Jonas Hays did not consider himself as entitled to a pension for this term as he served as a substitute. Jonas Hays I am told in deed. His testimony cannot be had or any other proof which has not been presented. Again Jonas Hays belonged to a guard at the Continental Village & Dudley Hays claims he took his place, Jonas being sick. If the applicant was received and served as a substitute, the same, his claim is not objectionable. His wound, I think was, in his hip & made him a cripple.

It was a trifle, when I first became acquainted with him, nearly thirty years ago. Notwithstanding this, very few men manifested more decision and perseverance than he did, in some kind of business. He is a very honest man, I believe, from what I know of him; and I have no reason to doubt his sincere & conscientious belief in the claim he makes.
As to regard his service in Capt. Callens company, he does not know a person living, who served with him. I suppose the company consisted of drafted militia men, from various regiments & from remote places.
I am sorry to trouble you so much respecting the claim of Samuel Myserger, for an addition to his pension. He is an old man & does not know for what particular service his pension was granted. I suppose he was allowed for service in 1780 & 81. He claims for service in 1779, which was disallowed upon his former application.
To prove he served in 1779, the Crompton certificates, that his name appears upon a roll of that service for that year. And you will observe by reference to Dudley Hays papers, that Lucas Hays name is borne upon the same roll.
I had believed that the pay roll furnishes a strong presumptive evidence of service which I mistook. The name of Samuel Myserger of Simsbury now in Granby, the commencement & termination of his service is upon the pay roll of his company. Is this proof? If not, do you require him to prove by living witnesses, when I believe he knows of none, that he did serve in 1779.
If this is required, I presume the requisition amounts to a rejection. If there is any

other objection to his being for service in 1779, it would afford me great pleasure to be informed, what this objection is. I am very respectfully
Yours &c D. D. D.
seal in name
1

April 13 1844
H. Brantly Esq. April 12
free
Dudley Wood to Julia
See file B2
Col. L. Edwards Comm ee of Pensions City of Washington.

West Granby Ct. April 12 th 1844. Hon. A. L. Edwards Sir
In a former communication, I made enquiry for information relative to the service of Dudley Hayes, who was an invalid pensioner, and who, in his life time, made application for a further compensation for services actually rendered during the Revolutionary war. His application was forwarded by Hon. Elisha Phelps of Simsbury, and was accompanied by the affidavits of Lemuel Hespenger, David Haskins and others (relative to his service), who have since deceased, and whose testimony was understood at the time to be satisfactory for a certain amount of service, though not for the whole time claimed by the applicant. Now the widow of said Dudley Hayes, wishing to avail herself of the arrears due her deceased husband, asks for the benefit of that testimony, and wishes the Department to inform me what amount of service was proved by those witnesses, or to return the papers accompanying the application of said Hayes, her husband, in order that she may improve them.
Mrs. Hayes has never applied in her own name for a pension, as would seem to be implied, by the answer to my former letter.
Please direct to
Justus D. Mitchell Hon. Com te of Pensions West Granby Connecticut

July 30 Simsbury Co July 25 th
Dear
Cl- Dudley Hays Act 1832
J. L. Edwards Esq
Com te of Pensions Washington
20

Simsbury July 24 th 1838
Sir
I send you Dudley Hays's petition for a pension.
I am very respectfully your's D. Phelps

Sept 2 nd 44
Mr. Francis the Aug 30 th
Ct. W: June 7 1832 advised Dudley H. dec
was an Inw. Gen.
D. P.

West Granby Ct. Aug. 30 th 1844.
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Comm ee of Pensions
Sir,
I herewith enclose the application of Betsy Hayes for the pension of her late husband Dudley Hayes deceased.
Mr. Hayes in his life time forwarded his application through the Hon. Elisha Phelps, but owing to some cause which was understood to be a failure of proof for a part of the time claimed the decision was delayed.
Mr. Hayes (while living) informed me that a witness was living in the Western States who was with him during that part of the service which was not satisfactorily proved, but owing to Mr. Hayes' lameness and other obstacles the proof has never been obtained, neither is it known by the widow whether it can be.
It is the purpose of the present applicant to refer to the proof forwarded by her late husband, now in the Department, and after ascertaining what part of the service was satisfactorily proved, if she cannot find further proof to rest her claim on the proof already made -
Please direct communications to me at
West Granby, Connecticut
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Justus D. Wilson

one do. per week
J. A. Garrison Esq.
Increase to $8 per mo. from 1 May 1832
Remainder per
W. H. Eastman
Washington

Hartford May 14 1832
hi.
I herewith return the documents of Dudley Hays with the Surgeon's certifi- cate amended in the manner suggested by your favor of the 8 th inst.
I am, in great haste, I. Edwards Esq. your obedient Pension Office Sam d A. Parsons War Department Washington

J. D. Wilson
New Granby CA
Dec 23 - 25 - 18m W Granby answered Dec 26
Free J. D. Wilson P.P.
Hon. Thos. H. Seymour House of Representatives on pension business. Washington City D. C.

Washington
March 11 1875
Dear Sir
Will you be good enough to examine the files and answer the questions to me contained in the letter I herewith enclosed - it being the one I spoke to you about last night. Direct to me at Hartford and return the letter if you please. By attending to this you will very much oblige me and I shall be happy to reciprocate the favor
Truly &c
Yours sincerely T. H. Seymour

West Granby Dec 23 rd 44
Dear Sir,
Without further acquaintance than an introduction by Genl. Hillyer of East Granby, I trust you will excuse the liberty taken to address you on business, explained as follows -
Some years since an aged soldier of the Revolution, by the name of Dudley Hayes applied for an invalid pension in consequence of a severe wound rec d at the taking of Burgoyne, which pension he obtained - He was subsequently informed that he was entitled to a prorata pension for services, for which he applied through the Hon. Elisha Phelps of Linsbury, who forwarded his 2 nd application, accompanied by the affidavits of several old soldiers stating the time and places of his service - These documents were forwarded some 6 years ago, and replied to by the Department requiring further proof. This reply Judge Phelps now thinks he never rec d of if rec d was forgotten by reason of his ill health, and not attended to - Since that time, or during

The present year Dr Dudley Hays has deceased leaving a very needy widow who had lived with him about 40 years, and who, (though not entitled to a pension herself) would be entitled to the arrears due her husband - I have forwarded her application, but she has but a very limited knowledge of the details of his service, and the witnesses whose depositions were forwarded have nearly all deceased, so that she neither knows what services were set forth in her husband's decla- ration, nor what particular service was sworn to by the witnesses - The object of this communication is to request, if consistent with your duties & the rules of the Department, to examine the application of Dr Hays, & the proof attending it, & inform me what services were claimed & when performed, the time when &c. also the particulars of the proofs forwarded that we may be enabled to know what further proof is required. This course seems to be required in conse- quence of the decease of nearly every person who has any knowledge of the facts - There is no question among the aged persons in the neighborhood but that he was in the service some 15 to 24 months

There is a record in the Controller's office at Hartford showing that he was in the hospital, but proves no particular length of time — If you sir can aid in establishing the claim, you will render an essential service to the helpless widow, and if successful, will receive ample compensation Yours Very Respectfully Hon. Thos. H. Seymour Justus D. Wilcox
Please address J. D. Wilcox P.M. West Granby Ct.

Watrous 14 th Feby 1825
Sir
Herewith is transmitted the Petition of Dinah Doyce, praying for a pension, with the Papers annexed.
It may be proper to explain, respecting the testimony of the examining Surgeons, which, informed as it appears, was not taken written this day. Doctor Benjamin & another Medical Gentleman were required to attend at Granby on the 4 th inst. Doctor Benjamin did so, the other was absent.
The Petition was sworn to & examined, & I hence the original draft of the deposition as it appears, drawn by Doctor Benjamin at that time. — He was then called to attend a sick Person in Dixie's at some distance, & engaged to be at Hartford & close the business the next day, but circumstances then unforeseen prevented. The Petition was notified & with great diligence came this day to Boston & while Doctor Sumner, was examining the Petition — Doctor Benjamin unexpectedly arrived, here where they residing & further explaining, & giving his Opinion of the Depn as originally drawn by Doctor Benjamin was transmitted & adopted. by both.

These circumstances account for the Baptists being delayed for 11 days
In the event of a favorable report on the Petition of Days, to which it is intended no objection will appear, the Petitioners have requested a member of the House to solicit for him a Special Grant, allowing his Division to commence as early as Dec. 1821, when the informal Baptists were prepared forwarded in that State, & which he considers, his misfortune, tho' not his fault
I have the honor to be with very Great Respect Sir, your obedt Servant J. W. Mickel
Hon. John C. Calhoun Secretary of War

Brief.
Beda Hayes widow of Dudley Hayes, private in the Revolutionary War for increased pension under special act approved June 9. 1860.
On the 24 th Sept. 1853, applicant was placed on the pension list, under the act of 3 rd of February 1853, at the rate of twenty dollars per annum, and has received the same to the fourth of March last.
The Special act directs the Secretary of the Interior "to place the name of Beda Hayes, widow of Dudley Hayes, of Granby, or Hartford County Connecticut, on the pension roll, at the rate of sixty dollars per annum, to commence from the first of January eighteen hundred and sixty, and to continue during her natural life."
Pension $60 per annum, during life, payable at Hartford, Conn d , deducting amount ac- cruing & paid under former certificate, at $20 00 month, from 1 st January to 4 March 1860.
agent Thos A. Wilcox Granby Connecticut
J. Johnson Smith Exam r Clerk Sept 24. 1860

I hereby certify that the Hon ble Elisha Phelps and Jacob Griffin Esq r were Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Hartford the year preceding the 20 th day of June A D 1838, as appears by the record in this office
State of Connecticut Office of the Secretary of said State July 2 nd A D 1838
I hereby certify that the above is correct, by the seal of this State hereto annexed and my official signature
Royal A. Kimball Secretary of State

For official business
Hon. L. P. Keating Comm. of Pensions Washington D.C.
W. Briscoe W. Briscoe Sept 9

West Granby ct Sept. 9 th 1853. Hon. L. P. Waldo,
Dear Sir,
I forwarded the application of Mrs. Betsy Hoag, for a pension under act of Feb. 3 d 1853 & also for further allowance of arrear due her husband Dudley Hoag, dec d - which was to be attended to by Esq. M c Cutchen of Washington - As a longer time has elapsed since newspapers were forwarded than usual for returns, I addressed a line to Esq. M c Cutchen, & have rec d no answer -
As the day of the Semi annual payment has arrived the old lady feels anxious for returns, & on her account I take the liberty to request a statement of the situation of her case as soon as convenient
& I remain Very Resp y . Your ob t Serv t Nestus D. Wilcox
Hon. L. P. Waldo } Comm ee of Pensions }

Washington Augt 16 th 1806
Hon J Minor Dear Sir
Enclosed is the letter of J Wilcox. I desire to submit to your Examination and obtain a reply by the Board of Consistent - I desire to know If the widow of a Revolutionary Soldier in the condition of Mrs Hays is not entitled under the law of 1853 to the same pension her husband would be if living - Please inform me by the Board and Adige - Yours with Respect M c W h Welch

Brief in the case of Beda Hayes: Widow of Dudley, Wartford County and State of Connecticut! act 3 d Feby: 1853.
Claim, ("original," or "for increase")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Deceased was a pensioner under the act of 7 th June, 1832. Parole proof of marriage.
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
J. H. G. McIntchen Esq., Present.
Name and residence of Agent
J. C. Bryant, Examining Clerk.

Conn Es B. D. [?] Dudley Aug 5-3-2 [?] 1855
Joseph
West Granby Ct Aug 31 st 1855
Hon. J. Meint Comr of Pensions, Dear Sir,
Under the act of Feb. 7. 1853 I forwarded the application of Beda Hayes, (widow of Dudley Hayes who was a soldier and invalid pensioner of the revolution) supposing, in the spirit of former acts for the benefit of widows, that this act entitled her to the same amount of pension which her late husband would receive if living, & I find this to be the general opinion among those who are conversant with the subject of pensions.
The late Comr however forwarded her a certificate for only $20 per annum, predicated on the length of service without regarding the invalid pension. Surely so far as equity, or merit, or consistency are concerned in granting this bounty, those widows, whose husbands were crippled, & endured suffering through life, had

a much harder task in "rendering them aid & comfort" than those widows whose husbands were in ordinary health, although longer in service.
It will be observed that the applicants under the act of .. 53 "Shall be entitled to a pension in the same manner as those who were married before that date" (That is of 1800) - Now, it will be recollected that when certificates of pension began to be issued to the widows of those soldiers who were entitled to pensions under the act of 1818, for a less sum than their husbands received, Cong. pass d an act granting them the full am t to which their husbands were entitled, & it is believed that the same purpose was designed by the act referred to; & that the liberal construction of the act, taking former acts as a guide, would entitle this widow to the full am t of her husband's pension (To wit) $96, per annum as an invalid, and $20, as a pro-rata pension - Whether there are other cases of the same kind I am not aware, but believing that equity requires a different construction, a reexamination of the case is respectfully solicited by the present Com ee , a request which would have been made to Mr Waldo (after much consultation since the certificate was issued) had he continued in office - An answer is solicited, directed to Justus D. McCook, West Granby, Conn.

W. Gruby at June 3 d 1853. Hon. L. P. Waldo,
Sir I forward the application of Mrs. Hayes, soliciting attention of the commission to the following statement.
When Dudley Hayes applied for an invalid pension he omitted (because he deemed it unnecessary) to rehearse the whole period of his service, the object being to shew that he was wounded while in actual service; and afterwards, when applying for a pro rata pension , objections were raised by the department because he failed to give his whole service in the first instance - Most surely, this omission ought not to destroy the applicant's credibility.
Another circumstance which seemed to govern the Dept t in lengthening the period of service, was the fact that a portion of Hayes service was performed as a substitute for his brother Lucas Hayes, whose name was on the pay roll; & answered to, & the service performed by said Dudley. & although these facts were claimed to be clearly proved, it was found that said Lucas Hayes, who resided in a distant State had taken advantage of his name, being on the pay roll, & had counted that time in the estimate of his own service - Therefore as the brother had wrongfully re d the benefit of his service, it was deducted from that of Dudley - A decision we think against equity.

Another period of one months service (to wit) that of guarding the prisoners of Burgoyne Army on their return march from the east back to the State of N. York, was discredited; because it was thought he could not have sufficiently recovered from so severe a wound, to perform that duty. How fully that portion of service was proved I cannot say, having never seen the evidence; but those who have heard him relate the particulars as I have done (when preparing his semi annual vouchers) how they surrendered their charge of the prisoners at the state line, into the charge of the troops of N. York, & how on his return, in attempting to ford a river full with anchors in he fell into the water exposing his injured limb &c, could not for a moment doubt the verity of his statements -
During Hayes life, & while his agent (Hon. Elisha Phelps of Simsbury) was aiding his application for a prorata pension I often heard him regret that he knew not the residence of Issac Holliday, who he said was an old neighbor & fellow soldier, & was with him in every instance where he was in the service; But Hayes died without learning his whereabouts - Hon. E. Phelps also died without a decision from the Department, & the business left until the widow requested my assistance, & learning that Holliday was yet living, I procured his affidavit without caution; and he, without proper reflection, swore that he was with Hayes through

His whole service, had a first impression that Hayes was also with him through his whole service, which produced a discrepancy in the evidence which Holliday would undoubtedly have explained had he the opportunity. As my correspondent informed me that he was a man of integrity & mind re- markably clear, though blind, & 98 years of age - Without giving Mr. Holliday opportunity to correct his statement, because attended with very great inconvenience, I requested Gov. Seymour when a member of Congress to enquire at the Department in relation to this case; but being much engaged towards the close of the session, he committed the trust to a friend who returned him a certificate for six months service, or $20, per annum, when we all supposed that full fifteen months service was proved, & believed that eighteen months were due -
The widow in this case has authorized Mr. J. H. G. McCutchen of the city of N. to appear for her - whose acquaintance I have formed by corres- ip pondence only, & as such, request for him a favorable introduction -
Very Respectfully
Justus D. Wilcox
West Granby
Conn.
See
To the Comr

34/130
Dudley Hays and Co
ad. 7 June 1832
acmd Emmerson $20
1832
H. H. Lydon Present

State of Connecticut Secretary's Office I Danl P. Tyler I Justus D. Wilcox
State of Connecticut Secretary's Office } Hartford 27. August 1844.
I Danl P. Tyler Secretary of the State of Connecticut do hereby certify that Freeman Allen Esq is Judge of Probate for the district of New Britain in said State, duly appointed commissioned & sworn, & that full faith and credit are to be given to his official acts as such, and further that the signature hereon purporting to be his is his genuine signature.
I further certify that Justus D. Wilcox is a Justice of the peace for the County of Hartford, in said State duly appointed commissioned and sworn, and that full faith and credit are to be given to his official acts as such, and further that the signature hereon purporting to be his is his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said State at Hartford, this 27th day of August A.D. 1844.
Danl P. Tyler Secretary of State

State of Connecticut, Hartford County ss
Personally appeared Ziba Cannon of the Town of Suffield County of Hartford and State of Connecticut, aged 74 Years who being first duly sworn, deponeth and saith, that he is well acquainted with Dudley Hays of the Town of Granby, in said County & State that said Dudley Hays was a Soldier in the Revolutionary war. That in the Year 1781. The said Dudley Hays Entered the Service as a private, in Captain Catlin, Company of Connecticut Militia he Mustered at Simsbury, and marched to New Haven, and there Joined the Regiment sometime between the 26, day of Aug. and the 4 th day of September (The Name of the Col. of the Regiment does not recollect,) and was discharged the fore part of December, in the same Year, having served not up than three months, the Deponent having belonged to the same Company, and same Regiment, at the same time, well knows that the aforesaid Dudley Hays Entered the Service, served, and was discharged as aforesaid. ZIBA CANNON
Sworn & subscribed
this 3. day of Jan. 1838
before me
Isaac Griffin Jus t Peace and I Certify that the said Ziba Cannon is a credible witness
Isaac Griffin Jus t Peace

I Daniel Will of Hartland, County of Hartford and State of Connecticut, being seventy nine years of age, do testify and say that I have been well acquainted with Dudley Hays of Granby in said County before and ever since the revolutionary war, that I served in the company with him in the year 1777 I was  there at the capture of Gen. Burgoyne's army in the month of October of that year - that said Hays was wounded in an action previous to the surrender of that army - the company we served in was commanded by Capt. Elephat Gurtis then of Simsbury in said County, but now dissolved - The regiment was commanded by Col. Cook, whose given name I do not now remember - the period for which the company was raised was four months - and that said Hays was left in the hospital at Albany where the company had served out their term and returned home, but how long he remained in the hospital I do not recollect.
Daniel Will
Subscribed & sworn to this 11 th day of November 1837
Before me
Elisha Phelps Justice of Peace
I certify that I am personally acquainted with Daniel Will & know  him to be a credible person
Elisha Phelps Justice of Peace

I Samuel Mispere of Granby in Hartford County & State of Connecticut age Seventy Eight years before say was in the year 1779. I enlisted into the Continental Army as a short term man in Col. Brundage's Regt in Huntington Brigade. That Jonas Hays a Brother of Andy Hays of this Town enlisted & was there at that time - We were stationed at a place called Nelson Point - after I had received my discharge & was upon my return home I fell in company with the 1st Andy Hays between Danbury & Litchfield in this State & when home in company with him - I will declare that Andy Hays told me that his Brother Jonas had been killed & had left the Army & that the 1st Andy had been on with the Army & taken his place here as a man at a place called the Continental Village a place on the Housatonic River between Fishkill & Pehstake. That he had at his discharge & was returning home to Simsbury - I have been well acquainted with the 1st Andy Hays both before & since the Revolutionary War having always lived in the same Town & near neighbors -  Samuel Mispere
Hartford County ss Granby July 16. 1830. Personally appeared, the above named Samuel Mispere to me personally known & made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed -  Before me Joshua D. Scott Justice of Peace
And I hereby certify that the above named Samuel Mispere is a credible & disinterested witness -  Joshua D. Scott Justice of Peace

Comptroller's Office 12 th June 1838
I Henry Kilborne Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Connecticut do certify that there is charged upon the books in this office under date 27 th August 1777 vir, "Capt. Stephen Burleigh D r To order on Treas r as advance pay of 20/ each his company militia & Jacket ordered to join the Northern Army @ rat £50, 0, 0.
Also under date May 12 th 1778, vir, "To order on Treas r for Dudley Hays for hospital expenses etc. Books M ls Reg t N. Army £15, 4, 6.
Also under date March 11 th 1779 vir, "To order on Treas r for Capt. O. Pettibone guarding convention troops £209, 8, 4.
Also, that by a roll of eight months men in the 5 th Connecticut Reg t commanded by Col. D. B. Bradley in 1779 that Lucas Hays served therein as a private from the 24 th Sept r 1779 to 15 th January 1780 being three months & twenty two days.
Also by Haskell's receipts it appears under date 16 th January 1782, that Capt. Alexander Catter had been paid for military service at New Haven, Coast Guards £356, 12, 6.
Henry Kilborne Comptroller
I further certify that no rolls of Capt. Burleigh, Capt. Pettibone and Capt. Catter's companies have been found or evidence of the duration of their service.
Henry Kilborne Comptroller

I, ROYAL R. HINMAN , Secretary of the State of Connecticut, and keeper of the Seal thereof, do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern,
THAT Joshua D. Hine Esquire, is, and for more than one month last past, has been a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Hartford in said State, duly appointed, commissioned and qualified, having full power and authority, by the laws of said State, to take the acknowledgement of Deeds and to certify the same; also to administer oaths to witnesses and to take Affidavits and Depositions out of Court, and to give certificates thereof; and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to the official acts and attestations of the said Joshua D. Hine in Court and Country.
In testimony whereof, I have, in my capacity of Secretary as aforesaid, hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of said State, at the City of Hartford, in said State, the 17 th day of
July — in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight
Royal R. Hinman Secretary

State of Connecticut, Hartford County, - Probate District of Granby.
On this 16 th day of July 1838, personally appeared in open Court before Thomas Holcomb, Esq., judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Granby aforesaid, Dudley Hays, a resident of S d Granby, aged seventy-eight 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. 1832: That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as stated herein, viz:-
1.- That he entered the service as a private in a Company commanded by Captain Elisha H. Curtiss in Col. Cook's Regt., which regiment was ordered to join the Northern Army; that he marched to Albany in the State of New York, and that he served, according to his best recollection, from some time in the month of July, 1777, until he was wounded on the 19 th of Sept r in that year; that after being wounded he was carried to the hospital at Albany aforesaid, where he remained until the last of November or the beginning of December in that year, when he returned to his home in Hunsbury, now Granby, and that in consequence of his wound he was unable to pursue any business until the next Spring; and that he was absent from home on this

tour not less than five months.
2 d - That in the months of November and December in the year 1778, he served a term of not less than one month in a Company of Militia commanded by Capt. Oria Pettibone in the Escort commanded by Col. Noah Phelps, as a Guard, which conducted the troops surrendered by Genl. Burgoyne from near Boston in Massachusetts through the State of Connecticut, to the Hudson River in the State of New York; he served in this tour as a private.
3 d - In the year 1779, he went into the service as a Substitute for his brother Zenas Hays, as a private in Col. Bradly's Regt. in Huntington's Brigade; that his brother was sick at a place called Continental Village between Fishkill and Peekskill, on the Hudson River. We went on there and took the place of his said brother, and his brother returned home and did not rejoin the Army; that he served at said village when he found his said brother in a Guard stationed there, took his place and served out his time, and then came to Danbury in Connecticut, where he was discharged in January 1780, after having served more than three months.
4 th - In the year 1781, he served not less than three months at New Haven in this State, in a Company commanded by Captain Calthin, whose given name he has forgotten as also the name of the Commandant of the Regiment. He thinks he served

there from the last of August to the last of November in that year, but cannot now remember the exact time.
He further declares that he is now an Invalid pensioner of the United States, on the roll of the Connecticut Agency, in consequence of a wound he received while in service, and for proof of his service and wound he would respect- fully refer the Department to his original papers which he supposes in the Office of the War De- partment; and that he has no other proof of his said service but what is hereto appended. He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the Invalid pension allowed him for the wound received in 1777, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any Agency of any State, except on that of Connecticut for an Invalid pension as aforesaid.
Dutly his Hays. mark
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Witness- Thos Holcomb Joshua R. Jewett.
Thomas Holcomb, Judge.
We, Isaac Porter, a Clergyman residing in said town of Granby, and Roger Holcomb, residing in the same town, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Dutly Hays who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing Declara-

18 lion; that we believe him to be seventy-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 Porter.
Roger Wolcomb.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid, - in open Court.
Joshua R. Sewell, Clerk.
And the said Court does hereby declare it to be their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states; and the Court further testifies that it appears to them that Isaac Porter who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman, resident in Granby aforesaid; and that Roger Wolcomb, who has also signed the same, is a resident of said town of Granby, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Thomas Wolcomb, Judge.
I, Joshua R. Sewell, Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Granby, do hereby

Certify that Thomas Holcomb is Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Granby aforesaid, duly appointed, commissioned and sworn, and that full faith and credit are to be given to his official acts as such, - and further, that the signatures herein purporting to be his are his genuine signatures.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office, this 16 th day of July, 1838. Joshua R. Jewett, Clerk.
I, Joshua R. Jewett, Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Granby, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Dudley Hays for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this 16 th day of July, 1838. Joshua R. Jewett, Clerk.
And to the Interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, the applicant gives the following answers, viz:-
 1. - In the year 1759. - Then Linsbury, now Granby.  2. - Was no record of his age.  3. - In Linsbury, now Granby - In Granby. 

after the division of the town, and where I now live. 4. - I think I served every time as a drafted man, except one, and then as a substitute.
5. - When in the Northern Army I recollect Gen. Gates and Gen. Arnold.
6. - I do not recollect receiving but one written Discharge, and that was at Danbury, when I left Col. Bradley's Regt., and that one I have lost.
7. - I would mention the names of Joshua R. Jewett and Daniel Hays, Esq.
State of Connecticut, } ss. Hartford County, }
Personally appeared Ziba Cannon of the town of Suffield, County of Hartford, and State of Connecticut, aged 74 years, who being first duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with Dudley Hayes of the town of Granby, in said County and State; that said Dudley Hayes was a soldier in the revolutionary war; that in the year 1781, the said Dudley Hayes entered the service as a private in Captain Collins Company of Connecticut Militia; he mustered at Linsbury, and marched to New Haven, and there joined the regiment sometime between the 26 th day of August and the 4 th day of September, (the name of the Col. of the regiment does not recollect) and was

discharged the fore part of December, in the same year, having served not less than three months, the deponent having belonged to the same company and same regiment at the same time - well knows that the aforesaid Dudley Hayes entered the service, served, and was discharged as aforesaid.
Ziba Cannon. Sworn & Subscribed.
this 3 rd Day of Jan. 1838, before me,
Joel Griffin, Jus t Peace, and I certify that the said Ziba Cannon is a credible witness.
Joel Griffin, Jus t Peace.
I, Daniel Hill, of Hartland, County of Hartford and State of Connecticut, being seventy-nine years of age, do testify and say that I have been well acquainted with Dudley Hays, of Granby in said County, before and ever since the revolutionary war; that I served in the company with him in the year 1777. I was at the capture of Genl. Burgoyne's army in the month of October of that year; that said Hays was wounded in an action previous to the surrender of that Army: the company we served in was commanded by Capt. Elphalet Curtis, then of Simsbury in said County, but now deceased - the regiment was commanded by Col. Cook whose given name I do not now remember, - the period for which the Company was raised was four

months, and that said Hays was left in the hospital at Albany where the Company had served out their term and returned home, but how long he remained in the hospital I do not recollect.
Daniel Bill.
Subscribed and sworn to this
11 th day of November 1837, before me,
Elisha Phelps, Justice of Peace.
I certify that I am personally acquainted with Daniel Bill & know him to be a credible person. Elisha Phelps, Justice of Peace.
I, Samuel Messenger of Granby in Hartford County, and State of Connecticut, aged seventy-eight years, depose and say that in the year 1779, I enlisted into the Continental Army as a short levy and served in Col. Bradley's Regiment in Huntington's Brigade; that Zenas Hays, a brother of Dudley Hays of this town enlisted and was there a short time; we were stationed at a place called Nelson's Point. After I had received my discharge and was upon my return home I fell in company with the said Dudley Hays between Danbury and Litchfield in this State and came home in company with him. I well recollect that Dudley Hays told me that his brother Zenas had been sick and had left the Army, and that the said Dudley had been on to the Army and taken his place and served as a guard at a place called the Continental Village, a place

on the Hudson River between Fishkill & Pekkkill, that he had got his Discharge and was returning home to Simsbury. I have been well acquainted with the said Dudley Hays both before and since the revolutionary war, having always lived in the same town and near neighbors.
Lemuel Messenger.
Hartford County, ss Granby, - July 16, 1838, personally appeared the above named Lemuel Messenger, to me personally known, and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed.
Before me, Joshua R. Jewett, Justice of Peace and I hereby certify that the above named Lemuel Messenger is a credible and disinterested witness.
Joshua R. Jewett, Justice of Peace.
Comptroller's Office 12 th June 1838.
I, Henry Kilborne Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Connecticut do certify that there is charged upon the books in this office under date 29 th August 1777, viz: "Capt. Eliphalet Curtiss Dr to order on Treas r as advance pay of 20/ each his company militia & jacket ordered to join the Northern Army Dr acct £ 50.0.0."
Also under date May 13 th 1778, viz: "To order on Treas r Dudley Hays for hospital expences Cols. Cooke Mil t Reg t ct. Army £ 15. 4. 6."
Also under date March 11 th 1779, viz "To order on Treas r £ Capt. O. Pettibone guarding convention

troops £ 209. 8. 4."
Also, that by a roll of eight months men in the 5 th Connecticut Regt. commanded by Col. P. B. Bradly in 1779 that Jonas Hays served therein as a private from the 24 th Sept r 1779, to 15 th January 1780, being three months and twenty-two days.
Also, by Haskell's receipts it appears under date 16 th January 1783, that Captain Alexander Callin had been paid for military service at New Haven. Coast Guards £ 386. 12. 6
Henry Kilbourn, Comptroller.
I further certify that no rolls of Capt. Curtiss', Capt. Pettibone's, and Capt. Callin's companies have been found or evidence of the duration of their service.
Henry Kilbourn, Compt r .
I, Royal R. Hinman, Secretary of the State of Connecticut, and Keeper of the Seal thereof, do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern, That Joshua R. Jewett, Esquire, is and for more than one month last past has been a justice of the Peace within and for the County of Hartford in said State, duly appointed, commissioned and qualified, having full power and authority by the laws of said State, to take the acknowledgment of Deeds and to certify the same; also to administer oaths to witnesses and to

take affidavits and depositions out of Court, and to give certificates thereof; and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to the official acts and attestations of the said J. R. Sewell in Court and out of Court.
In testimony whereof, I have in my capacity of Secretary as aforesaid, hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said State, at the City of Hartford in said State, the 17 th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.
Royal R. Hinman, Secretary.

State of Connecticut, } Probate District Hartford County, ss. } of Granby.
On this 10 th day of August A.D. 1844, personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate for the District of Granby now sitting, Beda Wayes a resident of said town of Granby, aged sixty-five years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Act of Congress passed and appeared June 7 th 1832.
That she was lawfully married to Dudley Wayes, then of said Granby on or about the 11 th day of Feby. 1803, by the Rev. Isaac Porter, then the settled clergyman of the Parish, but now deceased.-
That her husband the said Dudley Wayes entered the service of his country as a private in a Company (according to her best recollection) com- manded by Capt. Curtiss in Col. Phelps' Regt.
That he was in service in the year 1777, and connected with the Army previous to and at the time of Burgoyne's surrender, at which time he was wounded and lay some time in the hospital.
He also served a tour at New Haven, and one at Danbury in this State, and was in service guarding prisoners through the State, in all was not less than fifteen months in service.
That in consequence of his wound, he received an Invalid's Pension, but received nothing

for his service otherwise.
That some few years since her the said Dudley Hayes made application to the Department for remuneration for the above service, and forwarded the affidavits of Samuel Messenger, David Noskins & Ziba Cannon who were with him in service, and who are all now deceased; and the applicant further declares that according to her best recollection there were other depositions forwarded with the application of her said husband, - to all of which testimony the Department is respectfully referred.
She further declares that there was no decision on the application of her said husband, that the Department appeared satisfied with the proof of a part of the service, but that the whole time claimed not being satisfactorily made out, the decision was delayed until the decease of her said husband, which event occurred on the 13 th day of January 1844, and no other proof has been forwarded.
She declares further that the place of residence of said Dudley Hayes was said Graply at the time he performed the aforesaid services, and continued to be his place of residence until his decease.
She further declares this to be her first application for the pension due her late husband, Dudley Hayes, deceased. Beda Hayes.
Sworn & subscribed on the day } and year above written, before me, } Truman H. Allen, Judge.

I, Edmund Wolcomb, Clerk of the Court of Probate for the district of Granby aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Beda Hayes for the pension due her late husband, Dudley Hayes, deceased. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office the day and year aforesaid.  Edmund Wolcomb, Clerk.
State of Connecticut } Granby, Aug. 23 rd 1821. Hartford County, ss } Office of the Pastor of the Church of the first Ecclesiastical Society.
I hereby certify that I have examined the record of marriages of said society kept by Rev. Isaac Porter, the former pastor, and do find under the head of marriages the following record in the words and figures following:—
"1805 February 11 th Dudley Hayes for & Beda Dewey"
Isaac Warren, Pastor of said Church.

State of Connecticut, Hartford County, ss.
Granby Aug 26 th 1844.
Then personally appeared Thaddeus Hayes, aged seventy-three years, who being duly cautioned, examined, and sworn according to law, doth depose and say that he was personally acquainted with Dudley Hayes previous to the time of his marriage in the year 1805; that at that time his name was Dudley Hayes Jr; that about that time he was married to a lady of my acquaintance by the name of Betsy Dewey; that some time in the month of January 1844, the said Dudley Hayes died, leaving the said Betsy a widow, and the common belief throughout the vicinity is that he was a soldier in the revolutionary war. Thaddeus Hayes.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year last above written, and I certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Thaddeus Hayes, that he is a credible witness and his statements may be relied on. - Sworn before me,
Justice D. Wilson, Just: of Peace.
State of Connecticut, Secretary's Office
Hartford, 27 August 1844.
I, Daniel P. Tyler, Secretary of the State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that Truman Allen, Esq., is Judge of Probate for the district of Granby in said State, duly appointed, commissioned and sworn, and that full faith and

Freeman c. Ulver, Judge. Justus D. Wilson, Justice of Peace.
credit are to be given to his official acts as such, and further that the signature hereon purporting to be his is his genuine signature.
I further certify that Justus D. Wilson is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Hartford, in said State, duly appointed, commissioned, and sworn, and that full faith and credit are to be given to his official acts as such, and further that the signature hereon purporting to be his is his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said State at Hartford, this 31 st day of August, A. D. 1844.
Dan l P. Tyler, Secretary of State.
New York, } ss. Steuben County, }
Amos Halliday, of the town of Dansville in said County, being duly sworn by me the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in said County, deposes and says that Dudley Hays was a soldier in the revolutionary war between the American Colonies and Great Britain, and served with deponent in said war as follows, viz:-
1 st tour. - Commenced in the summer of 1777, in a Company commanded by Captain Curtis, Col. Cook's Regiment; was at the taking of Burgoyne.

Ways was wounded in the thigh, and was in the hospital a time. The whole time in service this tour 4 months.
2 d tour. - In 1778, having partially recovered from his wound, he joined Capt. Osias Pettibone's Company and helped guard the prisoners taken with Burgoyne through the State of Connecticut to New York: this tour was one month or thereabouts.
3 d tour. - Commenced in 1780 Deponent thinks in Capt. Johnson's Company, was at Fishkill and Peekskill that the whole time of this tour was 9 months or upwards
4 th tour - was a militia tour at New Haven in the fall of 1781, of 4 months under Capt. Samuel Ways & Lieut. Timothy Cosseth.
And further deponent saith not.
Amos his Halliday. mark
Sworn and subscribed before me this 26 th day of Oct. 1845.
U. M. Patchin, Justice of the Peace.
Shuben County, - ss. - I certify that the cause of deponent's making his mark, is in consequence of blindness. U. M. Patchin, Justice.

State of New York, } County of Steuben, } ss. I Paul C. Cook, Clerk of the said County do certify that M. M. Patchin, Esquire, before whom the affidavit purports to have been sworn, and also who subscribed the within certificates was, at the date of the same, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County, and that I am acquainted with his hand- writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit and the certificates to be his proper handwriting and signature. — Witness my hand and Seal of Seal } Office this Eleventh day of November, 1845. P. C. Cook, Clerk.
Steuben County, ss.— I do hereby certify that I have been personally acquainted with the within named deponent for the last past twenty years; that I have resided within some 4 miles of s d deponent during the said 20 years; that his reputation as a citizen for morality, and integrity, stands deservedly high. — Beloved, honored, and respected by all, possessing a sterling mind and a generous heart.— That altho' he has lost his sight he still retains his mental faculties altogether surpassing the generality of men of his age. M. M. Patchin, Oct. 26. 1845. Justice of the Peace.

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United States Connecticut District, S.S.
I Pierpont Edwards Judge of the District Court of the United States of America for the Connecticut District by authority of an act of the Congress of the United States, approved the tenth day of April, eighteen hundred and six, entitled "An act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the Revolutionary War," and of other acts of Congress subsequently passed and approved, to receive and continue in force the said acts of Congress first mentioned, and for other purposes. Do hereby espicially authorise and commission Henkiah Huntington of the City and County of Hartford in the District of Connecticut, to take the testimony pursuant to the rules and regulations prescribed by the act of Congress aforesaid, for substantiating the claim of Dudley Hays of Granby in the County of Hartford, in the District of Connecticut, to be placed on the Pension List of the United States, by reason of known wounds received in said war while in the actual service of the United States, and in the line of his duty - and when the same shall be completed, to return the evidence, affidavits, certificates and proceedings had in this behalf, together with this commission, to the Secretary for the Department of War.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal, and subscribed my name at Bridgeport in said District, this twenty-fifth day of November in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty-four. Pierp. Edwards District Judge for Connecticut.

Connecticut District, ss.
Granby, in the County of Hartford February 4th A.D. 1825. Depositions and other proceedings had and taken under the commission granted by the Hon. Pierpont Edwards, District Judge bearing date the 25th day of November, A.D. 1824, authorising Menkiah Huntington to take the testimony of wit- nesses produced by Dudley Hays, of said Granby, in support of his application to be placed on the Pension List of the United States.
To the Honorable John C. Calhoun, Secretary of the Department of War of the United States of America.
The Petition of Dudley Hays, of Granby, in the County of Hartford, and State of Con- necticut, most respectfully represents.
That in the month of August in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred and Seventy seven, he was one of a detachment of militia raised from this State to join the Northern Army, and was a private soldier in the Company commanded by Captain Eliphalet Curtis, in Colo. Madi- son Cook's Regiment, about the first of September 1777 - the Company, or most of them, were mustered at New Hartford in the County of Litchfield, and marched and joined the Re- giment at Stillwater, and shortly after he arrived there, the number of days he cannot now recollect, (he was not six- teen years of age until the fifth day of November then next, following a brother of the Petitioner's, Jonas Hays, was in the same Company and a friend and neighbor to his father, was detached for the tour, which was for three months, having a family and so situated that rendered it difficult for him to leave home, and at his request the Petitioner was, by his father, per- mitted to go the tour as a substitute.) On the nineteenth day of September 1777, the Petitioner with said Captain Curtis' Company were engaged in the Battle of Stillwater, and while so engaged, and approaching within a short distance

from the Common enemy, the Petitioner received a wound by a Musket Ball which passed through the inside of his left thigh, near the groin (having primed, and in the act of sending down the Cartridge, the ball first struck his gun stock, and shivered it,) by the wound and consequent loss of blood, he was wholly unable to get off from the field of Battle, and was carried off to a low ground, adjoining the plain where the Battle was fought, and Grover Moore, who belonged to the same Company, assisted in carrying him off, and as the Petitioner has been informed, and believes, David Moore, if living, now resides at Rutland, in the State of Vermont, from the place where he was first left, and late in the afternoon of the same day, the Petitioner, with others, was carried in a waggon to the encampment, and had his wound dressed. The next day the Petitioner was removed and placed with other wounded men on board a boat, and carried to a place then called Old Stillwater, and thence to the Hospital at Albany, where he arrived on the 21st day of September 1777, and where he remained some two or three weeks. In consequence of the Battle of the 19th Sept. and other interesting events connected with the Northern Army, other detachments of Militia came in, and many of them, on horseback, and a considerable number of horses were to be sent home that would pass directly on the rout where the Petitioner belonged: and inquiry and notice thereof was given at the Hospital, and the attending Surgeon informed the Petitioner and others, that such of the wounded as were able to ride, might embrace the opportunity to return home, and the Petitioner was removed across the Hudson River, and was placed on a horse, and with extreme difficulty got home in seven or eight days, a distance of about seventy-five miles. The Surgeon at the Hospital gave him a writing which he called a pass or furlough, permitting him to return and be absent for a period the Petitioner cannot now recollect, but knows it was for more than three months, the term for which he was detached: and the Petitioner further states that he was confined under the care of a Surgeon nearly twelve months before the

wound healed, and ceased to discharge, and the Petitioner was able to get about with the help of crutches, but unable to perform much labor. and afterwards, as nearly as the Petitioner can now recollect, about one year after it first healed he became very lame, and the wound painful, and again broke out, and was not healed until in the fall of the year 1780, or about three years from the time he received the wound. The Petitioner further states that his father was a poor man, and from his infancy until nearly the time when he went into the Army at the time mentioned, he lived in the extreme out part of the said Town of Granby, and according to his best recollection there was no School of any description within, or nearer than about three miles from where his father lived - and the Petitioner says he never, to his recollection, had the benefit of schooling for the term of more than four or five weeks, in the whole; and when he came out of the army, he was illly able to read or write, he was destitute of property, no means of support other than by his daily labor; he has a family, and hath at all times found it necessary to attend to his concerns as a laboring man; - he was married in the year 1783, and he never, until so late as the year 1823, or about that time, took, or had in his family a newspaper, and the reason has been that he could not read them. He does not recollect of ever hearing of the act of Congress which he is informed was approved the 10th of April 1806, until he was informed there had been such an act of Congress providing for those who were wounded in the Revolutionary war etc. but that it was then too late to apply for a Pension, as the time for making application for such relief had expired. He recollects some time since or some year since, to have been informed that the law had been revived, but obtaining no very definite information on the subject. Some time in December 1821, he was advised to apply for a pension, and had a petition prepared, and depositions taken in support of it and which he understood was forwarded to the War Department.

and which papers were afterwards returned, and he has been informed on account of some informality his pension was not granted - the expense of which application he sett d and was discouraged until lately his friends advised him to apply again. The Petitioner says he has always lived in said town of Granby in Hartford County, and he has never been on the Pension List of any State, and is now in his sixty fourth - has a small estate worth a few hundred dollars, and is considerably indebted, and his disability to obtain subsistence by labor is daily increasing. He therefore most respectfully prays to be placed on the Pension List of his country, in whose service he received the wound, at the time and place mentioned, and under which he has suffered so severely to the present time. Dated at Granby, the fourth day of February in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty-five
Dudley Hays
Connecticut District ss.
St. Granby in the County of Hartford on the fourth day of February, A.D. 1825, the above named Dudley Hays was, by me, carefully examined, cautioned, and sworn, according to law, in my presence subscribed the foregoing application to be placed on the Pension List of the United States, and made oath that all the material allegations therein stated are true as therein set forth, and that all and singular the other matters and circumstances therein narrated and set forth as being according to his belief and best recollection are also true according to his best knowledge and belief. Ex d and sworn the day and year above written.
By me.
Henkiah Huntington
Commissioner.
We George Sumner of the City and County of Hartford, and Daniel Benjamin, of Granby, County of Hartford, and State of Connecticut, Surgeons, depose and say that we have examined the left thigh of Dudley Hays, of Granby, in said County, who it is said was wounded by a musket ball at

The Battle of Stillwater, on the nineteenth day of September, in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-seven. It appears that the ball passed through the inside of the thigh, a little below the groin, and injured the parts in such manner as to render him unable to pursue his common business, as a laboring man, without pain and difficulty. The wound producing a sore that discharged at times for several years. It happened at about the age of sixteen years and prevented the growth of the limb, which is smaller and shorter than the other. He halts considerably in walking, and suffers from almost constant pain in the left hip, extending down to the foot, and which is materially increased by every exertion of the limb. From an examination of the limb and his complaints, (on oath duly administered to him by the Commissioners authorized to take his testimony) we are of opinion that the disability is fully equal to three-fourths of a total disability. We further consider from the nature of the wound and the parts effected by it that the disability must necessarily increase with his age. Hartford 14th February, A.D. 1825.
Daniel Benjamin George Sumner } Surgeons.
I further certify that I have been acquainted with the said Dudley Hays about twenty years and from personal observation have noticed that the disability has increased as above stated.
Daniel Benjamin. Hartford, 14th July 1825.
Connecticut District ss.
City & County of Hartford February 14th, A. D. 1825.
Personally appeared before me the above named Dudley Hays, and Doctor George Sumner (Professor of Botany at Washington College in this City) and Doctor Daniel Benjamin, both personally known by me, and said Dudley Hays was by me duly sworn to make true answers

to such interrogations as the said examining Surgeons should put to him touching his said wounds and disability arising therefrom, and said Surgeons then and there carefully inspected said wound and examined said Dudley Hays, respecting the same, subscribed the foregoing Certificate or affidavit and being examined and sworn according to law, severally made oath that the same contains the whole truth, according to their best knowledge and belief, and further certify that said Doctors Sumner and Benjamin are much esteemed as upright enlightened men, and highly respectable in their professions as Physicians and Surgeons. Sworn and certified by me.
Henkiah Huntington, Commissioner.
Elizabeth Case, of Grimby in the County of Hartford, and State of Connecticut, being examined cautioned, and sworn according to law, deponeth and saith that she is now in the Seventy third year of her age, since the 12th of October last, that she now enjoys unusual health both of body and mind for a person of her age, that she well recollects the Summer and fall of the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy seven when the Militia were called to march to join the Northern Army and among others that Zenas Hays and Dudley Hays (then Dudley Hays, Jr.) sons of Dudley Hays (then of Grimby, since deceased,) went off in Captain Curtis' Company - they then lived, very near neighbors not more than about twelve rods from where she then lived. She well recollects hearing that said Dudley Hays, the younger was severely wounded in the battle of Stillwater, on the 19th Sept. 1777, and some time after the witness cannot now recollect precisely how many days, said Dudley got home, and said Elizabeth having in early life lived in the family of a Physician and Surgeon and afterwards practiced some at New Setting, was called

on and visited and saw said Dudley Hays - it was then obvious the young man had suffered severely in getting home - she did not presume to advise or dress the wound - and Doctor Jeremiah Emmons of Portland was sent for immediately and said Elizabeth was also called and attended and assisted in dressing the said Dudley Hays wound, and as the wound and his situation was considered dangerous, the said Doctor Emmons came again the next day, and as he lived at some distance he instructed or advised as to the mode of dressing the wound, which she attended to the next day, and after that the Doctor attended every other day, and dressed the wound and left it with her to dress the wound on the days when he did not attend. The second time she dressed the wound, she took out of the wound a splinter, which appeared to be part of said Dudley's gun stock - she then learned that the fall which wounded him struck and shattered the gun stock - the piece taken out was more than three inches in length - and the day following when Doctor Emmons came and was informed of the fact mentioned, the said Elizabeth recollects the Doctor took a thin silk handkerchief and dipped it in spirits, and fastened one corner to his probe and carried the handkerchief through his thigh, the object was to cleanse and remove the splinters if any remained in the wound which was extremely painful, and said Elizabeth thinks it was nearly a year before the wound healed and ceased to discharge. The witness says she recollects many observations made by the Doctor about the wound which she supposes not material to notice. She knows the wound was very painful, and the father of said Dudley was a poor man - and the young man had all necessary care and attention paid to the wound, but the family were destitute of those comforts and conveniences enjoyed by people in different circumstances, and either in consequence of too much exercise and labor, or from some other cause, the wound became painful, and

said Dudley was confined again, and the wound broke out again and continued to discharge for a considerable time. The witness says she cannot recollect precisely, but thinks after it first healed it was about _____ and she thinks it was some time in the Summer or fall of the year 1780 before the wound was entirely healed. Said Elizabeth has been acquainted with said Dudley to the present time - he has lived to this time. (Since he had a family) in about two miles, and has at all times been a lame man, and still a very industrious, hard laboring man.
Elizabeth Case.
Richard Case of Grimby aforesaid being examined and sworn according to law deponeth and saith, that he is now in the sixty fourth year of his age, that his native place is Grimby that he has heard read distinctly the foregoing deposition of Mrs. Elizabeth Case and verily believes the same to be correct and true. He will recollect that said Jonas and Dudley, two Sons of the late Dudley Hays of said Grimby went off with the detachment of Militia in Capt. Curtis' Company in the year 1777 and with the news of the Battle of Stillwater, on the 19th of Sep. 1777 came also the report that said Dudley Hays then Dudley Junr. was wounded. I lived near his father and saw him soon after he returned, and as to the appearance of the wound I agree to the description given by said Elizabeth Case, I have been acquainted with said Dudley Hays to the present time - he has been lame and halting in his walk ever since he was wounded - has been a very industrious, hard laboring man, and has supported his family - but as he advances in life his disability increases and at present he is able to do but a small proportion of the labor of well able bodied men! Richard Case.

David Hoskins, of Simsbury in said County of Hartford, being examined cautioned and sworn according to law, deponeth and saith that he will be sixty-six years of age if he lives until the 12th day of April next, that before and after the year 1777 he lived about four miles distant from Dudley Hays late of Granby, deceased - that he was acquainted with Jonas Hays and Dudley Hays (then Dudley Hays Jr. sons of said Dudley) - that said Jonas and Dudley Hays, junr. were with the deponent in the same Company, commanded by Captain Elizabeth Curtis, and Col. Mather's Cook's Regiment of the detachment of Militia, was mustered and marched with said Dudley, some time about the 1st of Sep. 1777, and proceeded to the encampment at Stillwater, and was engaged in the Battle of Stillwater, on the 19th day of September 1777, and stood, very near and saw said Dudley Hays immediately after he was wounded, and he also well recollects seeing the break of his said Dudley's gun, and where the ball struck which also wounded him, but did not assist in carrying him off the field of battle, but in the same action one Martin Wilson, who belonged to the same Company was wounded - and this deponent assisted in carrying him off to the place where the wounds were dressed, and there the deponent saw said Dudley Hays, and also saw him again the day following at the encampment - he appeared to suffer severely from his wound. This deponent remained with the army until after the British Army surrendered, and returned home in the month of November following, and was part of a guard that conducted persons to Hartford in this State and soon after his return home he saw the said Dudley Hays, and having heard read the preceding deposition of Mrs. Elizabeth Case believes it correct and true, according to his recollection of what was said about his wound at the time said David Hoskins has been acquainted with said Dudley Hays to the present time, he has at all times since been a lame man. Said Dudley

Hays has from his infancy to the present time, resided in said town of Granby, and his employment that of a laborer or husbandman, and his business increased as he advanced in age. Said Dudley Hays has at all times sustained a fair character as a man of integrity, sober, discreet and temperate. David Hoskins.
David Griswold, of Granby, aforesaid, being examined, cautioned and sworn according to law deponeth and saith that he is now seventy years of age, that before and since the year 1777 he was acquainted with and lived a near neighbor to Dudley Hays, late of said Granby deceased, was intimately acquainted with Jonas Hays and Dudley Hays (then Dudley Jr.) and some time about the first of September in the year 1777 he this deponent was of the detachment of militia and was in said Captain Eliphalet Curtis' Company, and Colo. Thaddeus Cook's Regiment - and this deponent hath been present at the taking the deposition of David Hoskins, and hearing the same read over and examined by said Hoskins, and concurs with said Hoskins in most of the material facts by him deposed. He well knows that said Jonas Hays and Dudley Hays his brother, and said Hoskins, and the deponent said Griswold, were all in the same Company, and were all in the Battle of Stillwater, on the 19th Sep. 1777, and knows that said Dudley was wounded in his left thigh in that action, and carried off the field, but was not so near to him as said Hoskins was, and did not see him that day after he was wounded. He hath also heard read the deposition of Mrs. Elizabeth Case, and well recollects after he returned home in the month of November 1777, seeing said Dudley Hays, and that said Mrs. Case attended him as she has stated, and verily believes the statement by her made is correct and true, according to his recollection, living very near

said Dudley Hays; father of said Dudley, who now applies for a pension this deponent has been acquainted with said Dudley Hays ever since he was wounded he has been a lame man that to the present time and from inspection this day it is evident, his disability increases. Said Hays has always been an industrious. Said Dudley Hays sustains a fair moral character, as a man of integrity, temperate and prudent in his affairs. Said Dudley Hays has lived in Granby from his infancy until this time, and his occupation that of a laborer or husbandman.
David Griswold
District of Connecticut, ss.
Granby, in the County of Hartford:
On the fourth day of February in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty-five, the before named Elizabeth Case, Richard Case, David Hoskins, and David Griswold, whose depositions are written, and by them respectively subscribed in my presence, on the next preceding pages, from 10 to 15 both inclusive, were by me then and there severally examined, cautioned and sworn according to law, and severally made oath to the said depositions by them respectively made and subscribed, and that the same contained the whole truth and nothing but the truth. And I further certify that said witnesses above named, and each of them, are persons of fair moral character, sober, intelligent and temperate, and in all respects credible witnesses.
Sworn and Certified by me the day and year above written.
Henkiah Huntington Commissioner.

Increase of Pension.
United States of America District of Connecticut } S.S. New Haven.
To Doctors Dwell Morgan, and William A. Morgan, both of the City and County of Hartford, within said District.
Pursuant to an act of Congress of the United States, passed the 24th day of February 1822, entitled "an Act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the Revolutionary war, and for other purposes," you are hereby appointed and authorized to examine Dudley Hays, who is inscribed on the Pension List of the United States, and is claimant for an increase of pension conformably to the 8th Section of the act of the 10th April 1806, revised as aforesaid; and you are to report, in writing, and on oath or affirmation, your opinion of the nature of his disability and in what degree it prevents him from obtaining a subsistence by manual labor; and in your proceedings in the premises you are to be regulated and governed by said act. Given under my hand and seal this first day of October 1831.
Wm. Bristol, Judge of U. States for the State of Conn.
Increase of Pension.
It is hereby certified that Dudley Hays, formerly a private of Captain Curtis' Company in Colonel Cook's Regiment of foot or infantry, who it appears by the accompanying Certificate was placed on the Pension roll at the rate of six dollars per month, on account, as he states, of having received a wound by a musket ball passing

through the inner part of the thigh, four inches below the Os Pubis, carrying with it pieces of the stock of the gun (as he says) which caused considerable ulceration; and now there is a permanent contraction and rigidity of the muscles of the thigh and stiffness of the hip-joint, occasioning so much debility of the limb as in our opinion to prevent him from obtaining a subsistence by manual labor, and renders the limb nearly useless, while in the line of his duty, and in the said service on or about the 19th day of September 1777, at a place called Stillwater, in the State of New York, is not only still disabled in consequence of said injury, but in our opinion is entitled to one third more than he already receives as a pensioner, being disabled to a degree amounting to a total disability. Said Hays represents himself to be about seventy years of age.
Sworn and subscribed this 3 Devell Morgan, Surg n first day of May 1832. } Before me, } W. H. Morgan, M.D. Seal } Samuel H. Parsons } Notary Public }
State of Connecticut } Hartford County. } ss. Hartford May 1st. 1832 I certify that I am personally acquainted with Doctors Devell Morgan and W. H. Morgan, of the City of Hartford, signers of the within Certificate, and they are both respectable and reputable in their profession.
E. W. Parsons Pres. &c
Office of Bank W. I. at Hartford Conn.

Zenas Hays, of lawful age, being duly sworn deposeth and says, that he is personally acquainted with Dudley Hays of Granby, Hartford County and State of Con- necticut and that he the said Zenas well knows the said Dudley Hays was a Soldier in the Revolutionary war in Captain Eliphaleth Curtis' Company, Col. Cook's Regi- ment - that he the said Zenas was in the same Company and Regiment and that he well knows that he the said Dudley was wounded by a musket ball, being shot through his left thigh in the Battle of on the 19th day of Sept. 1777, and that the said Dudley Hays has been a lame man ever since, in consequence of said wound. And further the deponent saith not. Zenas Hays.
Sworn and subscribed to this 18 day of January 1821. Before me.
Joab Griffin, Justice of the Peace.
The original deposition of Zenas Hays of which the above is a copy, sworn to before me Justice Griffin, as above certified, is forwarded to the Hon. Mr. Comlinson, of the A. R. with the former petition of Dudley Hays, and other depositions informally taken and forwarded to the Secretary of War in December 1821, and this copy is forwarded to explain the reasons why the same Z. Hays' testimony is not now taken on behalf of his brother Dudley Hays by the fact that Zenas Hays resides in the western part of the State of New York, many 100 miles from Granby. That he was accidentally on a visit at Granby in Jany 1821, and at the request of his brother made the depon - and altho Mcguffin the Magistrate is a respectable man, it seems neither he nor the gentleman who drew Dudley Hays' petition, &c. in Decr. 1821, so far examined the subject as to endorse

That the dep r . was irregular - but Jonas Hays being absent is the reason his dep r . was not taken at the present time
Henkiah Huntington, Commissioner.
July 14 th , 1825.

Underhays Petition for a Pension
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No 1-

1 United States, Conner et al vs. Dist. Ct. S.D. Before Edwards,
Judge of the District Court of the United States, of America for the Connecticut District, by Authority of an Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled The tenth day of April, eighteen hundred and six, entitled "An Act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds, received in the Revolutionary War." & of other Acts of Congress. Subsequently passed & approved, to revive & continue in force, the 3rd of Congress, first mentioned, for other purposes. Do hereby specially authorize and commission, Richard H. Huntington — of the City & County of Hartford in the District of Connecticut, to take the testimony, pursuant to the rules & regulations prescribed by the Act of Congress, aforesaid, for substantiating the claim of Dudley Hays, of Granby in the County of Hartford in the District of Connecticut, to be placed on the Pension List of the United States, by reason of known wounds received in said war while in the actual service of the United States, & in the line of his duty. And when the same shall be completed, to return the evidence, the  testimony  the affidavits, certificates and proceedings, had in this behalf, together with this commission, to the Secretary for the Department of War.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my Seal, & subscribed my name at Hartford this 24th day of February, 1806. Twenty-fourth day of February, 1806. Richard H. Huntington Commissioner

Connecticut District
Grenby in the County of Hartford February 4 th A.D. 1825.
Depositions & other Proceedings has Station under the Commission Granted by the Hon. Pinckney Edwards District Judge. Bearing date the 23 rd Day of November A.D. 1824 Authorizing Special Commissioners to take the testimony of the said Darius Hays of S d Grenby in support of his Application for a place on the Pension List of the United States.
To the Honorable John C. Calhoun Secretary of the Department of War, of the United States of America. The petition of Darius Hays of Grenby in the County of Hartford & State of Connecticut, most respectfully represents.
That in the month of August in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & seventy seven, he was one of a Detachment of Militia ordered from this State to join the Northern Army, & was a Private Soldier in the Company commanded by Captain Eliphalet Curtis in Col. Hoadley's Regiment about the first of September 1777 - the Company or most of them were mustered at New Britain in the County of Litchfield & immediately joined the Regt at Stillwater, & shortly after he arrived there, the number of Days he cannot now recollect (he was not Sixteen years of age, until the fifth day of November then next following. A Brother of the Petitioner Darius Hays was in the same Company & a friend, & neighbor to his father was Detached for the town which was Fortified

Months, having a family & so situated that removing it difficult for him to leave home & at his request the Petitioner was by his Father permitted to go the town as a substitute. On the Nineteenth day of September 1777 the Petitioner, with 58 Captain Bell's Company, were engaged in the Battle of Stillwater, & while so engaged & approaching within a short distance from the Common Deny, the Petitioner received a wound by a Musket Ball which passed through the waist  (having passed through the cut of sending down the cartridge, the ball just struck in the muscle of the thigh) inside of his left thigh, near the groin, by the wound & consequent loss of blood. He was wholly unable to get off from the field of Battle & was carried off to a low ground in Grove Moor who belonged to the same company, assisted in carrying him off - & as the Petitioner has been informed, & Moore is living now resides at Rutland in the State of Vermont. From the place where he was first left, &  Early in the afternoon of the same day the Petitioner with others, was carried in a  litter wagon to the encampment, & had his wound dressed; - The next day the Petitioner was removed & placed with other wounded men on board a boat & carried to a place then called Bell - Stillwater, & thence to the Hospital at Albany - where he arrived on the 21 st day of September 1777
Where he remained for two or three weeks, in consequence of the Battle of the 19th Sep  intensity  events surrounding

with the Northern Army, 5 Other detachments of Infantry, Cavalry, & many of them on Horseback. A considerable number of Horses were to be sent home, that would pass directly on the route. Where the Petitioner belonged; & in giving Notice thereof was given at the Hospital to the Attending Surgeon. informing the other Plw that Sick of the Wounded as were able to ride, might have the Opportunity to return home, & the Petitioner was removed across the Hudson river - down, & placed on a Horse. & with extreme difficulty got home distance of about Seventy five Miles. in at the Hospital a light at the Hospital days & is the Surgeon, General in writing which he called a pass or furlough. Permitting him to return, & be absent for a period, the Petitioner cannot now recollect; but knows it was for more than three months; the terms for which he was detached - & the Petitioner further states, that he was confined - under the care of a Surgeon nearly twelve months before the wound healed. He says to discharge & the Petitioner was able to get about with the help of crutches, - but unable to

perform Munklabr' - & afterwards - as near as about one year after it first started the Petitioner can now recollect, became very lame, & the wounds painful, & again broke out. Broke not healed until in the fall of the year 1780, or about three years from the time he received the wounds. - The Petitioner further states that his Father was a poor man, & spent his infancy until nearly the time when he went into the Army, at the time mentioned, he lived in the outskirts out part of the town of Granby, & according to his best recollection there was no school of any description within or nearer than about three Miles from where his Father lived. & the Petitioner says he never, to his recollection, had the benefit of schooling for the term of one, or five years, in the whole, & when he came out of the Army, he was ill able to read or write, he was destitute of property, no means of support other than by his daily labor; he has a family, & hath at all times found it necessary, - to attend to his business as a laboring man, - he was married in the year 1783 - The next winter, so late as the year 1823 or about that time, to him or had in his family a Newspaper. & the reason has been, that he could not read them. He does not recollect of soon hearing of the act of forgery, which he is informed

was approved the 10 th of April 1806. until he was informed - there has been such an act of Congress. providing for those who were wounded in the Revolutionary war & - but it was then too late to apply inasmuch as at that time for making application, for such relief has expired - he now recollects for sometime since, or some years since, to have been informed that the law has been renewed, but obtaining no very definite information on the subject. Sometime in December 1821. he was about to apply for a pension, & had a petition prepared & depositions taken in support of it, & which he understood was forwarded to the War Department, & which papers were afterwards returned - & he has been informed on account of some informality - his pension was not granted, - the application  the  expense of which he felt. & was discouraged until lately his friends advising him to apply again. The Petitioner says he has always lived in the town of Grenby. in South Berks He has now been on the Pension list of any State - & is now in his sixty fourth year. - has a small estate worth a few hundred dollars & is considerably indebted. & his disability to obtain subsistence by labor is daily

increasing, he there 8 upon took resentfully several total plans on the division side of his boundary, in whose force he remains the former wounds at the time & place mentioned, & under which he has suffered so greatly. To the present time. Dated at Gumbay the fourth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty five.
Dudley Hays
Connecticut Distincts.
60mruent Dismiss - Petition by in the formity of Deutson on the south clay of Jubilee. As 1825 the above named D. and A. C. S. was by me carefully examined, cautioned, & sworn according to Law. In my presence subscribed the foregoing Application - We the undersigned the President of the United States, & made Oath that all the material allegations therein stated are true as to their substance, & as to the particular matters therein narrated set forth as a sums according to his belief & best knowledge, are also true according to his best knowledge & belief - In witness whereof I have hereunto
By me William Huntington Commissioner
we Ginge Somme of the 3  Deputies City of Hartpury &
Daniel Benjamin of Granby, County of Franklin & State of Connecticut, In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand. The foregoing is a true copy of the original now on file in my office. I have examined the left thigh of Daniel Benjamin of Granby in said County, & find it is said, was wounded by a musket ball at the Battle of Stillwater on the nineteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand & seven hundred & seventy seven. It appears that the ball passed through the inside of the thigh, a little below the Groin, & injured the parts in such manner as to render him unable to pursue his common business as a laboring man without pain & difficulty. The wound producing a sore that discharged at times for several years, & happening at about the age of sixty years & prevented the growth of the limb.

which is smaller, & shorter than the other, he walks considerably in walking, & suffers from a constant pain in the left hip, extending down to the foot & which is materially increased by every exertion of the limb. From an examination of the limb & his complaints, (on both duly administered to him by the undersigned authority to take his testimony) we are of opinion, that the disability is fully equal to the fourths of a total disability. We further consider, from the nature of the wound & the prostrated effort by it, that the disability must necessarily increase with with his age. — Watrous 11/11/25
Daniel Benjamin } George Sumner } Surgeons
In the City of the Newbern Regiments with the 3 d Dandy Bays about twenty years and from personal observation, have noticed that the disability has increased as above stated Watrous 11/11/25
Daniel Benjamin Commodore District City & County of Watrous February 11 th A.D. 1825
Personally appeared before me the above named Dandy Bays & Doctors George Sumner, Professor of Botany at Washington College in this City & Doctor Daniel Benjamin, both Personally known by me & Dandy Bays, known by me to be sworn to make true answers to such interrogations as the examining surgeons should put to him touching his wounds & disability arising therefrom, & the surgeons then & there carefully instructed & warned & examined Dandy Bays, respecting the same, — Subscribed the foregoing Certificate & affidavit & being examined & sworn according to law. Finally made oath that the same contains the whole truth according to their best knowledge & belief, & I further certify that the Doctors Sumner & Benjamin are true & detailed as well as experienced men, & highly reputable in their professions as Physicians & Surgeons — Sworn & Subscribed By me H. N. Mark Washington Commissioner

Elizabeth Bane of Grimsby in the County of Hartford, State of Connecticut, being examined, Cautioned & Sworn. According to law as per oath & Saith that she is now in the seventy third year of her age since the 14 th of October last. That she now enjoys unusual health both of body & mind, for a person of her age, that she will recollects the summer & fall of the year seventeen hundred & forty seven when the Militia was called to Menkto, & joined the Northern Army & among others that Lucas Hays & Dudley Hays then Dudley Hays & Sons of Dudley Hays, then of Grimsby, since deceased went off to the Captain's Camp Company - they marching very near Nighood with more than about twelve rods from where she then lived she will recollects. hearing that Dudley Hays the younger was severely wounded in the battle at Stillwater on the 19 th Sept r 1777 - & some time after, probably from many days the soldiers cannot now recollects - Dudley got home - & Elizabeth having in early life lived in the family of

a Physician & Surgeon & afterwards practising some at bone setting - was called on & visited David Dugay Boys - it was then obvious that young Wren had suffered severely in getting home - she did not presume to advise or dress the wound - & Doctor Anniah Emmons of Burlington was sent for. immediately Elizabeth was also called & summoned & assisted in dressing the this situation Dugay Boys wound - & as the wound was concerning - dangerous the Doctor Emmons came again the next day - & as he lived at some distance, he instructed or advised as to the mode of dressing the wound, which she continued to the next day - & after that, the Doctor attended, every other day, & drying the wound & left it with her to dress the wound on the days when he did not attend - the second time she dressed the wound, she took out of the wound, a splinter which appears to be part of the Dugay's Gunstock & there being that the bad which wound him struck & threw the Gunstock the piece taken out was more than three inches in length - & the day following when Doctor Emmons came & was informed - of the fact mentioned, the Elizabeth recollects, the Doctor took a thin sick & handkerchief & dipped it in spirits & fastened one corner to his probe. He used the handkerchief

through his thigh 12 , the object was to cleanse & remove the shunkins, if any remained in the wound, which was extremely painful. Elizabeth thinks it was nearly a year before the wound healed & ceased to discharge. The witness says she recollects many observations made by the daughter about the wound, which she supposes not material to notice. She knows the wound was very painful, & the father of S d Dudley was a poor man. - & the young man had all nursing care & attention paid to the wound, but the family were destitute of those comforts & conveniences enjoyed by people in different circumstances. & either in consequence of too much exercise & labor, or from some other cause, the wound became painful, & S d Dudley was confined again , & the wound broke out again & continued to discharge for a considerable time. The witness says, she cannot recollect precisely; but thinks it was about after it first healed some time & she thinks it was some time in the summer or fall of the year 1780 before the wound was entirely healed. - Elizabeth has been acquainted with S d Dudley to the present time, he has lived to this time, in about two miles. - He has at all times been a lame man. & still is very inconsiderable, should laboring man Elizabeth Cane

Richard Lee of Granby aforesaid being examined concerning Sworn, according to Law Dependent & Faith. That he is now in the Sixty fourth year of his age that his native place is Granby, that he has had very intimate the foregoing deposition of Mr. of Granby  Elizabeth & verily believes the same to be correct & true - he where recited, that S d  of Granby  Jeremiah two Sons of the late of Granby  Dudley  Jeremiah  Boys went off with the of Granby  Detachment  of Granby  Infantry Company, in the year 1777 & with the news of the Battle of Stillwater on the 19 th Sep 1777 - came also the report that S d  of Granby  Dudley  Jeremiah  Boys then Dudley was wounded, I was near his father & saw him soon after he returned & as to the appearance of the wound. I gave to the description given by S d  of Granby  Elizabeth Boys to the present time. - he has been lame & crippled in his walk since he was wounded has been a very industrious hard laboring man & has supported his family that a considerable time - his disability increases & at present he is able to do but a small proportion of the labor of well able bodied men -
Richard Lee
David Hoskins of Simsbury in company of Hartford being examined concerning Sworn according to Law - Dependent & Faith, that he was in Sixty Six years of age if he lives until the 12 th day of April next - that before & after the year 1777. he lived about four miles of Granby  Detachment from Dudley Boys late of Granby and - that he was acquainted with Jeremiah Boys. Dudley Boys then

14 Sept 1777 Dudley Days Dudley Days's Story - That S er General & Dudley Days was - some with the American, in the Schuylkill Army, Commanded by Captain Ephraim Curtis. & Col. Shadwell took command of the detachment of militia was marching. &  sometimes to a point the 1 st of Sept. 1777 & prior to that marching north of Dudley to the encampment, at Stillwater, & was engaged in the Battle of Stillwater on the 19 th day of September 1777 - & stood very near S er General Dudley Days, immediately after he was wounded - & he also will recollect firing the first of his S er Dudley's Gun. & while the Ball struck, & which also wounded him - but did not assist in carrying him off the field of Battle, but in the same action, one Martin Nelson who belonged to the same Company was wounded - & this respondent, assisting in carrying him off, to the place where the wounded, were dressed. & that the respondent saw S er Dudley Days - & also saw him again the day following at the encampment, he appeared to suffer severely from his wounds - This respondent remained with the Army until after the British Army Surrendered - & returned home in the month of November, following - & was part of a guard that conducted Prisoners to Bennington in this State - & Soon after his return home, he saw, the S er Dudley Days's & his wife heard read the preceding deposition of Mrs Elizabeth Bace, besides it cannot time - According to his recollection, of what was said about his wounds at the time S er David Hoskins has been acquainted with S er Dudley Days to the present time, he has at all times since been all in the S er Dudley Days has from his infancy to the present time since his return of growth & the employment that of a soldier or a soldier more

his 15 remains as he was  nowadays was Dudley. Days has at all times. Sister of John a man of Wingham. John's mother is the same - David H. H. in

District of Connecticut ss.
Gomby, in the County of Hartford
On this fourth day of February in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty five, She before Nanny Elizabeth Case, Richard Case, David Perkins, & David Griswold whose depositions are written & by them respectively subscribed in my presence on the next following pages from 10, to 15 both inclusive - To wit by me then & there Severally Examined, Cautioned & Sworn according to Law, & Severally made oath to the facts depositions by them respectively made and subscribed that the same contained the whole truth & nothing but the truth - And I further certify that said witnesses above Nanny, and Parsons of fair moral character sober intelligent & temperate, & in all respects credible witnesses. Sworn & testified by me the day & year above written
William H. Smithson Commissioner 3

I Joshua D. Scott Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Granby. Do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of David Hays for a Pension — For testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand Seal of Office this 16. day of July 1830 —
Joshua D. Scott Clerk
Referred to the Interrogatories previously by the War Department The Applicant gives the following answers — viz — 1. In the year 1759 — John Lonsbury, now Granby — 2. Has no Record of his age — 3. In Lonsbury, now Granby; In Granby after the division of the Town — I when I was here — 4. I think I saw my father a Draft man & also one of his sons a Substitute — 5. When in the Northern Army I received Gen Bates & Gen Arnold — 6. I do not recall receiving but one written discharge & that was at Danbury when I left Col. Bradley's Regt. I think one I have lost — 7. I would mention the names of Joshua D. Scott and Daniel Hays Esq —

I Joshua D. Scott Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Grimsby do hereby certify that Thomas Thompson Esq is Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Grimsby aforesaid duly appointed Commissioner, I do hereby certify that the said Judge is the true and lawful Judge of the said Court and that the signatures hereunto subscribed are his true and lawful signatures
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand Seal of Office this 16 th Day of July 1838 —
Joshua D. Scott Clerk —