Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23185, Stephen Hayward, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Hayward, Stephen Howard
W 23185
Ruth
CONTENTS

Vermont 83
Ruth Hayward
of Middlesex in the State of who was a Major in the by Captain  of the  by  in the  Major  Hayward who was a Private in the war of the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of - 50 - Dollars  Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15th day of Oct. 1835 and sent to David J. Putnam  Wethersfield
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1836 $40.00 Semest. allowance ending Mar 31  40.00 $450.00
Recorded by  Clerk, Book  Vol. 1 Page 38
Rept Jan 5 37-
to D. S. Putnam 18 Sep. 1837. To Pen Agt (Mundson) and Hon A. Hall 17 Jan'y 1838. do to Hon H. Hall, June 12 1838. Same person 9 July 1838. Order to pay 10. Oct 1838 Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6. April 1838 from 4 March to 11 Sept 1838. Agt notified 5 Nov 1838.
Lead Paid as above from 4 March to 15 May 1840. Agt notified 31 Oct 1844
Revolutionary Claim Act July 4 1836

No 235 Ruth Hayward ph
David L Putnam agent for applicant
Grafton
Almond 2 years in fact
South Plattsburg H. Massie, Co. Ed. R Pulman, Ref. Mass line from May 1777 per original master rolls Bundt 27 N 2 Mass Co $80 per ann
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State of Vermont District of Westminster County of Windham SS 3
Before the Hon Probate Court within and for said district at a session of said court held at Grafton in said district on the thirty first day of August AD 1836
Present Hon. H. S. Lampbell Judge personally appeared Ruth Hayward of said Grafton widow of Stephen Hayward late of said Grafton deceased and makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836 she first having been duly sworn according to law I Ruth Hayward of said Grafton depose testify and say that I am of the age of eighty six that I was born on the eighth day of July 1750 in Lancaster Massachusetts that my maiden name was Ruth Densmore that I was married in Sterling Massachusetts in March 1770 to Stephen Hayward of Templeton Mass by Rev. M. Miller of said Sterling that said Stephen was of the age of twenty three the 2 d of next June after said marriage and was born in Massachusetts as I believe that about the time of the battle of Lexington in the year 1775 said Stephen being a minute man and then residing with the said Ruth at Templeton Massachusetts entered the military service of the United States or rather the then United Colonies and was absent about a fortnight to Lexington as she understands He afterwards xxx entered said service and went to Fannytown Massachusetts as she understands and was absent about two months

He next entered said service by entering the Army of the United States as she believes under Col Putnam Capt Joseph Morse and Lieut Turner for the term of three years and that he was absent in said service all of said term excepting about four months of the last of the same for which last four months she understood and believes he employed a substitute by the name of Roger of Springfield Massachusetts and she understood and believes that while engaged in said service he and his corps first went to Saratoga N York thence to Albany and then remained awhile & thence to West Point. She further states that as she under- stood he was a volunteer each term of service and enlisted at Templeton Massachusetts each of said terms. and also that he was that he was a private each term That she and her said husband afterwards sometime since the year 1790 removed to Grafton aforesaid her present residence where they continued to reside until May 1818 when her said husband died of consumption having been declining several years. That ever since the said May 1818 she has remained unmarried and resided in said Grafton a widow ever since his death, That she cannot recollect so as to state from her own memory any further particulars as to the time of her said husband's entering or leaving the service aforesaid That she has no documentary evidence except such as she has furnished among which is a letter from her said husband to her while in said service Ruth her  mark Howard Subscribed on the day and year above written Before me Alexander S. Hapgood Judge of Probate

I certify that Ruth Howard before named is a credible person Alexander S Campbell Judge of Probate
State of Vermont District of Westminster } Middlen County ss } I David S Putnam clerk and Register of the Probate Court for said district of Westminster aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Court in the matter of the ap- plication of Ruth Hayward for a pension, that Alexander S Campbell is Judge of the Probate Court for said district of Westminster, that said Court is a court of record and the foregoing two signatures are the genuine signatures of said Judge
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 31 st day of August Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty six David S Putnam Register

STATE OF VERMONT,
Windham County, ss.
I Marshall Miller Clerk of the County Court, in the County and State aforesaid, do certify, that David L. Putnam is a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his Commission was dated on the 10 th day of November A. D. 1835 and will expire on the 30 th day of November A. D. 1836 and that his signature above written is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of the said County Court, at Newfane, in said County, this 17 th day of November A. D. 1836
Attest Marshall Miller, Clerk

State of Vermont } Grafton September 12 th 1836 Windham County ss } Then personally appears Thomas Hayward and made solemn oath that the within affidavit by him subscribed is true Before me David L Putnam Justice Peace
I Abijah Hayward of Grafton in the County of Windham and State of Vermont being duly sworn testify and say that I am of the age of sixty years the 8 th day of May last that I am the son of Stephen Hayward formerly of said Grafton deceased and Ruth Hayward his wife and surviving widow that I well know from common reputation in my father's family & elsewhere from my earliest recollection, that said Ruth was my father's only wife and was married to him before the Revolutionary war and as I believe prior to the year 1771 - and prior to the birth of their first child which was in the year 1771 & her name was Ruth - and I testify that my father died about eighteen years since
I Abijah Hayward State of Vermont } Windham County ss } Grafton Sept 12 th 1836 Then personally appears Abijah Hayward and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true
Before me David L Putnam Justice Peace I certify that I am well acquainted with the foregoing deponents, Abijah Hayward & Thomas Hayward and that they are credible witnesses David L Putnam Justice Peace

I Thomas Hayward of Grafton in the County Windham and State of Vermont being duly sworn do depose testify and say that I am of the age of 56 years and am the fourth child of Stephen Hayward late of said Grafton deceased and Ruth Hayward his wife and surviving widow that my father the said Stephen died about 18 years since and I well know from common reputation in my father's family and elsewhere from my earliest recollections that said Ruth was his only wife and that she was married to my father before the Revolutionary war commenced and sometime prior to the year 1771 and my said mother has now in her possession a book of memorandums in which within the past week I have seen in my father's hand writing the ages of rather the dates of the births of their children set down by himself a part of which is as follows viz Ruth Hayward born Sept 1771 Sept 11 1771 Stephen Do Do Feb 11 1774 — Abijah Do Do May 8 th 1776 Thomas Do Do Nov 19 th 1779 and I have always understood that said Ruth was married to my father — before the war both from my father and others and before the birth of either child and have never heard the court very stated, and I believe the above dates of the births of their children to be accurate
Thomas Hayward

To
Mrs
Ruth Hayward all
Templeton this with care
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Fort Arnall May 14 1865 or West point
Loving wife these few lines are to let you now that I am well through the great goodness of god and I hope that they will finde you and my Dear children all well as they have me I would inform you that we expect to stay here all summer for I should be very glad you would send me a letter if you can for I want to hear from you so that I now not what to do for I cant hear from you Since Sawyer came to camp this place is very rocky and uneven and there is rattle snakes thick brother Eleazer killed four this fore noon there has been 14 or 15 killed a yesterday and to day at our fort they just begin to come out of their dens we are stationed on a hill 4 hundred feet high and our fort is a great deal higher our duty is to salute every day but begins to be some liter we are of one day in a week now I do no duty but cook for the mess and they are my duty my mess is my love & brothers brothers are both well and hearty and we have good pork & bread now but no sauce I suppose you would think that a little of pork and potatoes was a poor dish but I have eaten eight miles and gave a dollar for a bushel of potatoes and brought them on my back and thought my self well of I have now great herbs to ride but there is a great deal of talk about making peace god grant that it may be true for I am tired of being a continental soldier any longer but I hope to live through and come home again but I fear not till my time is out and do as well as you can if I live to come home I shall never list again for so long a time for I now not how to live without a woman so long and I suppose that you are as bad as I am about such things I hope that if I live till next fall I shall get leave to come home and see you and then we will talk about it and see some thing besides talk if you can

you must allow me to get some thread So far apart for I hope to be as close as ever I was I would have you make me two pair of Stockings and if any body comes that you may send them to me for I want them very if you can make me a pair of long trousers and Send them to me I shall be glad Do not Send them that I sent home for they are too small I should be Very glad if Mr Baldwin would send me a letter and let me know how the price of things are for we hear that the State am Sorry to hear for they are so dear now that a man can't hardly carry money enough to go a hundred miles tho' it is so light being so extravagant as every body is I shall conclude by Desiring your prayers to god for me that he would keep and preserve me from Sin Sickness & Death So no more at present but I remain your loving Husband till Death
Stephen Hayward
my Duty to father & mother & love to brother and Sisters and all inquiring friends Templeton men are all well William Hail is got well and is at Fish kill amusing the Small pox

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 23185
Keith Hayward Widow of Stephen Hayward their Rev War
Act: July 4 th 1836
Index:—Vol. A , Page 316
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Jan 5 W. M. ... 10 ...
for Jan 5 '35 Hon J. L. Edwards Comm Pension Washington
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Bk Windsor Dec r 28 1836
Hon C. J. L. Edwards Comm ee Pensions
Sir Nath Hoveyward has sent on his papers to receive his Pension from March 4 1831 to Sept 4 1836 - at $80.00 per annum
we have not received orders to pay him from your Department - therefore have declined payment
with great Respect your obed t
for Thomas Emerson
Pension agent
P.S. If you have printed tables for calculating sums due deceased Pensioners, it will be a favour to receive one.

Sept 16
In at N. Evans
Hon. J. P. Edwards Commissary General Washington D. C.

Grafton Vermont Septm 11 th 1837
Sir
Will you have the goodness to give me the desired information on the following matter —
Beth Hayward Revolutionary Pensioner under act of July 4 th 1836 drew her money as stated in the note on the enclosed voucher of Thos Emerson Pension Agent on two vouchers at different times which were returned as defective. The agent sent her a letter of the date of May 30 th together with the defective vouchers, to which letter was a postscript of which the following is a copy viz ("PS It is desirable that the dates in all cases be the same in the new vouchers as in those returned to you, that they may correspond to our accounts rendered the Pension Department, as you executed the first voucher presented in the case of Widow Hayward I return that also to you for correction. I send you also a printed form — I know no cheaper way for the widow than to send you by mail direct")
As I had no right as I conceived to comply with the agents direction by antedating my papers to take the place of those rejected I drew the enclosed voucher embracing the whole period with the accompanying notes on the back which was presented to the agent by the Attorney therein named and rejected not only on account of its embracing the whole period but he still insists and in another letter that there must not only be separate concurrent vouchers but they must be dated back to the time the others were dated
The object of this letter is to enquire whether the Department do insist that the Justice Reac in such cases must date the vouchers back to correspond with those rejected or otherwise they will not be received?
Very Respectfully
D. L. Putnam
Hon J L Edwards
(See other side)

PS I also wish to inquire relative to the voucher of - Joseph Gumb of this town embracing one year from - to March 1 st last which the agent informed was for - re-acted to Washington and respecting which not very long - since he Brady has been informed re return has been made
- D L Putnam -

Spokane 1887 Sept. 30
Free
Hon J. L. Edwards Commissioner Pension Washington D C
Ret. ... ... ...

Sir
Grafton Vermont Septm 25 th 1837
I acknowledged a letter dated the 11 th inst, in which you in- dicated an effort that Rev. Taggard of the town Rev- Pnt under act of July 4 th 1836 drew money of the same - American agent on two vouchers which were referred as defective and that said agent insisted by letter that the new vouchers to be taken in substitution of the defective ones should be dated back so as to correspond with those rejected that I had no right as I conceived so to date back, and that the object of said letter was to inquire whether the Department did insist that the Justice Peace in such cases must date the vouchers back to correspond with those rejected, otherwise they would not be received. In answer to which I received your letter of Septm 18 th which stated "that the vouchers should be amended, and the facts stated by the magistrate exactly as they exist." Not being sure sure that I understood the matter I now beg leave to inquire whether vouchers for the same per- iod and amount with those rejected (both of which together in would embrace the whole period up to March last) and the same agent (the same in the same place the agents were different) dated the day of their execution of course, with an accompanying note of the magistrate, stating in - each case, that it is in substitution of one rejected - and describing it, would be accepted by the Depart- ment?
I am Sir very Respectfully Yours Obedt Servt D. L. Putnam
Hon J. L. Edwards Washington

In - at Jan 15:
Mr Wray
Col J. S. Edwards
Cousin of Previous
Am Hotel AK

Ho Reps July 12. 1838
Sir
I enclose you a letter & copies, from D. L. Putnam, in regard to the Pensions of Ruth Haysmoot & Joseph Crouch —
You will oblige me by furnishing me an answer to Mr Putnam's letter, — returning it —
Very respectfully
W. H. Lunt
Wailand Hall
Col J. L. Edwards

May 24
Ruth Heryward W. D. '36
Miss J. P. Colburn House of Pioneers Washington Hall Hall TR

Ho. Reps Washington May 21, 1838
Sir
Sometime in Jany last I wrote you on the subject of Ruth Hayward's Pension, & in answer you informed me that Mr Emerson the agent had been written to, & when heard from you would do inform me the result &c —
I have heard nothing further on the subject — Will you inform me the present condition of Mrs Hayward's Pension, & oblige Sir Yr Ob't Serv't
A Hall
Col J. L. Edmunds.
P.S. If I recollect Mrs Hayward's case — she had drawn her pension once or twice, & payment had afterwards been refused, by John Emerson, in consequence of some alleged informality.

Ruth Hayward, Vermont Will - act
4 July 1836.
Be pleased to say to what time the pension was last paid.
Pension office
June 12. 1838.

Ruth Hayward, Widow of Stephen on the Mineser, Vermont roll for Act 4 th July 1836 was paid to the 4 th September 1836
JH

In at July 9. 1838
W Evans
at H. H. Schumann
Hall
Conway Pensions

No of Rep. July 7. 1838
Sir,
Will you have the goodness to inform me whether Ruth Hay- wood's pension can now be drawn at the at agency, or whether un- der the law of the present service it must be drawn at the Treasury— If the latter please furnish me with the proper forms respectfully H. Hall
Dear Bennington, H.
col J L Edmards

Treasury Department,
Second Comptroller's Office,
Oct o 25 1838.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Ruth Hayward a Pensioner on the Roll of the Bellona Falls N t Agency, at the rate of Eighty Dollars and Cents per annum, under the law of the 4 th July 1836 has been paid at this Department, from the fourth of March 1837 to the 4 Sept. 1837.
Respectfully, yours,
William H. Parris
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
June 20 th 1844.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, The Adm: of Ruth Hayward, decd., a Pensioner on the Roll of the Montpelier, Vt. Agency, at the rate of — Eighty — Dollars and Cents per annum, under the law of the 4 th July 1836, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March — to the 15 th May 1840.
Respectfully, yours,
J. Wilson
Comptroller.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS,
Present.

No 79 1111111111 Feb 79

I Daniel Davis of Chester in the County of Windsor & State of Vermont aged Seventy Eight years before I say that I have formerly been acquainted with Stephen Hayward formerly of Grafton in the County of Windham & State of Vermont who died in Grafton a number of years since; that some time in the month of May 1777. Having myself enlisted in the service of the United States in the revolutionary War was well knowing & now recollect that the above named Stephen Hayward also enlisted into service in the Company then commanded by Capt. Joseph Morse, in the Regiment commanded by Col. Asaph Root in which I served, that said Hayward & myself then residing in the Town of Templeton in the State of Massachusetts. That said Hayward marched in company with me to Fort Edward, having enlisted for three years; and according to my best recollection said Hayward served his time out as he was in camp with me at Plattsburg Soldiers' Fortune in December 1779. and I think discharged at the time I was. I also recollect that the above said Hayward was then married to the same woman now reported to be his Widow - who I now believe to be living in the aforesaid Town of Grafton.
Sworn and Subscribed this 30 th day of August A.D. 1836.
Daniel Davis
Before me Amos Heald Justice of the Peace.
I hereby certify that the above named Daniel Davis is well known to me and is a credible Witness.
Amos Heald Justice of the Peace
State of Vermont ) I Benjamin Swan Clerk of Windsor County Court Windsor County ss ) Do hereby that Amos Heald is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County, duly commissioned & qualified and that the above are his Signatures —
In testimony whereof I hereto affix the seal of said Court this tenth day of September A 1836 —
Benj. Swan Clerk

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Aluminum tea cups 3 2 ounces indigo a pipe 3 yards of tape Screw Box and Screw Shinga Pleasure

4000 lbs tea cups 4 2 oranges & mugs 4 pipes 3 glasses of lager Sweet box and sweet Sugar 1 lb each
to barge room 4 - 6 - 8 - 12 9 0 76 4 8
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Camp Litchfield Decm 8 th 1779
This may certify that I the subscriber have Engaged to serve in the Continental Service for Stephen Hayward Militia in Captain Joseph Morse's Company, from the first day of January next to the fourteenth day of May 1780 - he the S d Stephen Hayward having paid me to my satisfaction for said Service
W th . On Supposition Either of us Should Decease this life before the first day of January next, then the Bargain Shall be of none Effect - And further I promise that the Money paid me for S d Service shall be return'd to the S d Stephen Hayward or his heirs - as Witness my hand
Witness
Abraham Hager
W th 2 nd S d J. D. P. Jed L. Phelps Jura Samuel Emnett