Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22816, Abraham Hayes, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Hayes, Abraham
S. 22816
CONTENTS

New York. 32.558.
Abraham Harges
of Westches r in the State of N. York, who was a Private in the Co. commanded by Captain Chapman of the Reg t commanded by Col. Crane in the N. York line for 8 months, 25 days.
Rep o .
Inscribed on the Roll of N. York City at the rate of 29 Dollars 44 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of April 1849 and sent to S. Porter, South Salem, Westchester, N.Y.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1837 $479.07 Pension allowance ending Sep 4.47 14.72
$493.79
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. H. MOORE Clerk, Book C 2 . Vol. 4, Page 32.

State of New York Westchester County ss, On this twelfth day of June eighteen hundred and forty personally appeared before M c Rae Lockwood one of the Judges of the Court of common pleas in and for said County Abraham Hays a resident of the town of Lewisboro late the town of South Salem in the County of Westchester and State of New York aged eighty two 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 being ch s passed June 7 th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That he Volunteered into the militia service under Captain Benjamin Chapman in Lieut Col. Thaddus Crans Regt and the Col was Thomas Thomas, and served under the s d Capt n Benjamin Chapman at South Salem in County of Westchester and State of New York as the said company was called upon, from the summer of 1777 at the s d South Salem, and Poundridge, and Bedford and to North Castle and White Plains about the lines at short tours untill the summer of 1781, and the said Captain Benjamin Chapman made due returns of the service rendered by this Applicant and a certificate issued by the Treasurer of the State of New York for this Applicant for levies and Militia services dated Nov r 15 th 1781. No 38.680 as a private for 22.15.11. the certificate of the Comptroller of the State of New York being here- unto attached, and that the two certificates issued July 1 st 1780. No 35.084 and 35.085. this Applicant does not recollect of rendering such service, unless he was placed under such officers when called out with the s d Capt n Chapman's militia company, and the reason of not making an application before this time was for the want of sufficient proof, not knowing that there was any record of services rendered by the militia in the Comptroller's office of the State of New York not

more than one month past. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on any Pension Roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to and subscribed this
12 th day of June 1840 before me his Abraham X Vlay. Ezra Lockwood One of the Judges mark of Connecticut Court of Com. Pleas.
And I the said Judge do hereby declare my 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 I the said Judge do further certify, That I am well acquainted with the above named applicant, That he a man of truth and veracity, and his statements is entitled to full credit - And I do hereby further certify That the above named Applicant can not, by reason of advanced age and bodily infirmity attend the Court, for the purpose of making the aforesaid declaration - And also for the reasons aforesaid he is unable to write his name -
Ezra Lockwood, Judge

35,074 Abraham Hayes - N.Y. act 7 June '32 Compt. pri 8mo 25 d adm 8mo 25 d 29.44
Stephen Pardoe St. Salem Westchester N.Y.

The number and amount of certificates issued by the Treasurer of the State of New York for Voted & Militia Services & Calibrated Gun Books March 1841
   Number issued     1780 July 1 33.084 Abel Hays private - 10 8   " " " 33.085 do private - 3 6   1781 Nov 15 38.600 Abraham Hays private 22. 15. 11  
State of New York Comptroller's Office Albany June 1. 1840
I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Books March 1841 now remaining in this office and that the services for which the first and second certificates above named were issued were performed under Capt Eben Boyd and the third under Captain Benjamin Chapman; and it also appears that the two first terms also named were performed in a regiment commanded Colonel Saml Dick & Lieut Col John Wyatt and the third term in a regiment commanded by Lieut Col Theodore Crane.
W. B. Duryea D. P. Smithhallen

State of New York Westchester County 3/8 Joseph Manrow of the town of Lewisboro, late the town of South Salem in the s d County of Westchester and State of New York, a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States aged seventy seven years, personally appeared before Samuel Scfield a Justice of the peace in and for said County, who first being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith, that he is well acquainted with Abraham Hays of the town of Lewisboro late the town of South Salem in the s d County of Westchester and State of New York, and have been for more than sixty years, who is now an applicant for a Pension
That he was knowing to the s d Abraham Hays serving in the Militia as a Volunteer under Captain Benjamin Chapman in Lieut Col. Thaddeus Cranes Regt from the fore part of May 1780 at the then town of South Salem now Lewisboro, and Danbury and Bedford and at North Castle about the lines until August 1781. much of the time from the s d first of May 1780 to August 1781 - and that s d Capt n Chapman Abraham Hays served with this detachment as much as eight or nine months in the s d Capt n Chapman's Company in Col. Cranes Regt from the s d first of May 1780 to August 1781.
Subscribed and sworn this Joseph Manrow 18 th day of June 1840 before me Samuel Scfield Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that I am acquainted with Joseph Marrow the said deponent and do believe the within statement is entitled to full credit
Samuel Scfield Justice of the Peace
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court and County this 13 th day of June 1820, Geo. W. Fisher Clerk,

25.10 7 4.1 11.20 11.20 59.0 20.50 153.10 892.60 1045.70

State of New York
Westchester County ss. On this 14 day of October 1840. Personally appeared before Ezra Lockwood one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the 2 d County of Westchester. Abraham Hayes, a resident of the town of Lewisboro, late the town of South Salem in the County of Westchester and State of New York aged eighty two years, who first being duly sworn according to law doth make the following Supplementary declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832, and that by reason of old age and disease of the shaking palsy that he has been afflicted with for as much as twenty years last past and the consequent loss of health and memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades. That he entered the service of the United States under Captain Benjamin Chapman in Col Thaddeus Cramers Regt the first of September 1777 at South Salem in the County of Westchester and served four months, from South Salem and Bedford and North Castle and White Plains. Also in the months of June and July 1779 he served under Captain Chapman in Col Cramers Regt at North Salem and Cromford for the term of two months — also in the same year 1779, he was billeted with Nathan Hale 2000 and Thaddeus Cramers and do not recollect the names of any other, that he turned out to do part of the duty required and served under Captain Chapman and Abraham Farcher Lieut at Bedford and North Castle for two months commencing the first of September 1779 and served the 2 d two months — also in the year 1780, served one month under Lieut. Abraham Farcher as a guard at Bedford in the months of June and July 1780. Also in the same year 1780, he served under Captain Chapman in Col Cramers Regt at North Castle and White Plains from the first of September 1780 for the term of two months — also in the following year 1781 he served under Captain Chapman in Col Cramers Regt from the first of October 1781 for one month — this deponent further saith that he has no other record

of his age but his family record in the family bible which is herewith annexed Sworn and subscribed his Oct. 14. 1840 before me Abraham X Hayes mark Ezra Lockwood Judge of Probate West: Conn. Prov.
I do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Abraham Hayes who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing Declaration and that he is a man of good moral character and that full credit is to be given to his statements - And that by reason of advan- ced age and infirmity he is unable to attend Court for the purpose of making his aforesaid declaration Ezra Lockwood Judge

State of New-York, County of Washington }
ss. I,
Chauncy Smith
Clerk of the County aforesaid, DO HEREBY CERTIFY,
That, Ezra Lockwood Esq. whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of the jury or acknowledgment of the annexed Instrument and endorsed thereon, was, on the day of the date of the said Certificate, a Judge in and for the said County, residing in the said County, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorized to take the same. And further, that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Ezra Lockwood and verily believe that the signature to the said Certificate is genuine.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said County, the Seventeenth day of October 18 40
C. C. Smith Clk C. C.
He is now a Judge

State of New York Sullivan County
On the 14 th day of September 1840 personally appeared before me the undersigned one of the Justices of the County of Sullivan aforesaid Sands Raymond of Neversink & County aforesaid aged 80 years next Nov. said to me well known and being first duly sworn according to Law made the following state- ment That he has been well acquainted with Abraham Hayes of South Salem in County of Westchester & State of New York aforesaid and that the said Abraham Hayes is now over 80 years of age that he knows that the said Abraham belonged in the War of the Revolution to Capt. Benjamin Chapman Com. Col. Thaddeus Cramers Regiment of Militia in Westchester County aforesaid he the said Abraham was in actual service in said Chapmans Company in June 1779 at Kurn Hattin in said County of Westchester he also saw the said Abraham on actual duty in said Company at the White Plains in Westchester in October 1780. That he knew nearly every man in said Col. Cramers Regiment that there was no other man of the name of Abraham Hayes belonging to said Regiment to his knowledge that he never knew any other man by that name during the Revolutionary War
Sworn before me on JAMES RAYMOND the day above written
Asst H. Hadenbough Justice
Sullivan County S.S. I certify that Sands Ray- mond the above named deponent is Cred- itable for truth and veracity
Asst H. Hadenbough Justice

State of New York Sullivan County —
§ 3 I Darius Martin Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Thomas P Hardenburgh Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the Peace residing in said County competent and sworn and further that I am well acquainted with hand writing of said Deponent and verily believe his signature to the same is genuine —
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affix ed the Seal of the said County the 13 th day of Sept 1840
Darius Martin Clerk

Before Christ Cir. 397.
CHAP. IV. 1 Gods judgement on the wicked, 2 and his power on the good: 4 he executeth the law of Moses, 5 he telleth of Elijah's coming and office.
a 2 Thess. 1. 7, 8. b Isaiah 2. 17.
For behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven, and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble, and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
c Luke 1. 75. Joh. 1. 14 d John 15. 2.
2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise, with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
3 And he shall tread down the wicked; for then shall he arise under the soles of his feet. 4 For it shall be in that day, that I shall do unto you, as I have said unto you, O ye law of Moses.
5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.
6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
2. 31. a Luke 1. 17. b Zech. 14. 12. Rev. 16. 14.
The End of the Old Testament.
Esther Sanchez died march 31. A.D. 1815
ordination acts 6 chapter 6 verse Church planted by philip acts 8 ch 6 v 12 paul & barnabas ordain acts 13 6 h 3 verse Elders ordained ordained in every Church acts 14 ch 23 timmothy put in mind of his charge first letter 4 chapter 14 verse charge to titus first chapter 5 verse

Abra born Hayes August 3
Elizabeth Hayes born January 14 th D 1761
Esther Hayes born October 14 th D 1797
Abra Hayes born March 3 rd D 1799
on the 8 th Day of may D 1803 it Snowed In the morning and Snowed soft til after twelve o'clock in the the Day I Se Snow That That fell on the tenth Day at too O'clock. Abra Hayes

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Pawlings Dutchess County October 4 th 1840 These papers forwarded by John Wolines Swm agent for Abraham Knap

Production
22816 INVALID.
File No. 22816
Abraham Mayes
800 ...
Act: June 7 th 1891
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 105
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Washington Feby 4 th 1867
Sir
I send herewith the application of Abram Hays for a Pension. Your early attention is respectfully requested
Yours
J. H. Anderson H. R. N. J.
James L. Edwards Esq.

11 e 10 35 074 Abraham Hoagie NJ
Set to Jno H. Holmes June 23 '41 " " do do Nov 9 '40 " to Wm I. No. Ludusin Feb 11th '47
act 7 June 1832

Abraham Hays-
N.Y.
Suspended
See let. to Mr. Holmes
June 23 d 1840. to same 9. Nov. 1840
act 7 June '32

March 27, 1897
Dear Sir,
J. A. Grand Com. of Inquiry Washington D.C.

South Salem Luerboro 23 rd March 1847
Sir
Your Letter of the 11 th Feby last, (enclosing a Copy of Letter of the 9 th November 1840 to John Holmes Esq) directed to the Hon Joseph H Anderson, was duly forwarded by Mr Anderson to me.
Mr Hays alleged in his former declaration that he served two months in 1777, two weeks of a month each, and one of two months in 1779, two months in 1780, and one month in 1781, under Capt Chapman, and you say that the records in the Office of the Comptroller of New York do not confirm his statement, except as to a term of six, and one of two days in 1780.
The Comptroller on application of Mr Hays has forwarded him a Certificate of L 22, 10, 11 which was duly transmitted to your office. You further say that from the Certificate of the Comptroller is private of the name of Abraham Hays served in 1781 eight months and fifteen days in a company of Livies — but that the Soldier for whom that Certificate was issued must be a very different person from the present Applicant — that the Certificate in question was issued for and

By Mr Stagg sold to Miss Seymour as stated in his declaration, there cannot be any doubt. — It will be impossible to show that any other individual by the name of Abraham Stagg resided any where within the limits of Capt Chapmans Company. — In support of this I forward herewith the Affida- vit of Jeremiah Keller of Lewisburg, a neighbor and always an intimate friend of Mr Stagg. — The testimony of all the old inhabitants of the town of Lewisburg and its vicinity in further support of his credibility can easily be procured and if you wish shall be forwarded to your office. — Mr Stagg sustains as far a character for truth and integrity as any man in this County, and those who know him best, have no doubt but he served as he states.
I cannot but indulge the hope, that on a review of his case, you will grant him a pension for the time of the service as proved by the Certificate of the Comptroller.
Respectfully Yours
Hon J S Edwards Com d of Pens ns Washington
Stephen P. Hildreth

State of Connecticut Fairfield County ss.
On this 28th day of January 1847 personally appeared in Open Court before the Honorable Jacob J. Hasland, Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Ridgefield in said County and State now sitting (the same being a Court of Record). De Abraham Hays of Lewisboro' in the County of Westchester and State of New York, Aged Eighty Eight years, who being first sworn According to Law, doth, on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States and served under the following officers as herein stated. — That he was enrolled in the Militia of the of the State of New York at the age of Sixteen years, and there belonged to a Company commanded by Capt. David Purdie. — And that soon the commencement of the War of the Revolution, he was engaged in

the Service of the United States in the Company aforesaid, being called upon by draft for short service, of service in Col. Cramy Regiment, after which the Company of Capt. Purdie was divided and this Declarant then belong- ed to Captain Benjamin Chapman Company. The officers of the said Company were Abraham Franklin, Lieutenant Joseph Sycamore, Ensign and John Chapman Brother of the Captain was Orderly Sergeant, In this Company this Declarant performed several days of service at White Plains, Kings Street, North Castle, & other places in said Middlesex County. He also performed a term of service in Captain Daniel Rowley Company of Militia, serving as a private, in all the several towns as aforesaid, — But he cannot state with certainty the precise length of any of the periods aforesaid — Nor does he know of any person living by whom he can prove any part of said service — This Declarant

South State, that after the Close of the war of the Revolution, the An Act was passed for the Settlement of the pay of the Cows and Militia for their services in the war, and that a Certificate was issued for this Declarant to the Amount £22, 13, and some odd pence - Soon after the issuing of the aforesaid Certificate, Jesse Deymon who was an Ensign in the Company to which Declarant belonged , and with whom he had shared all the hardships and dangers of the war, and who ought to have been the friend rather than the enemy of the Declarant, called at the house of the Declarant, and by fraud and misrepresentation purchased the said Certificate for the sum of ten Shillings - Afterward we were informed that Colborne Crane, had received a Number of the said Certificates, and notified the Members of our Company to meet him at the Old Church in South Salem, where he would deliver them This Declarant having with others learned the fraud which

which had been practiced upon them by the said Lyman, referred to the said Old Church Armed with clubs, and other hostile, determined to take vengeance upon him, should he present himself there, to receive the Certificate, but he did not come, and we were thus prevented (perhaps) from shedding his blood.
This Declarant formerly made a declaration claiming a pension under the Act of June 7 th 1832, and furnished all the proofs, which he was able to procure to substantiate his Claim — He was unsuccessful, his Claim being disallowed.
And now while he is fully confident that he performed all the services stated in his said decla- -ration — yet as he is drawing near the end of his pilgrimage, he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever except for the services stated in the accompanying certificate of the Comptroller of the State of New York. He declares that when he was about L

The foregoing is Mark by reason of Age and infirmity Attest William B Jones Clerk
Six years of Age his father removed from New York in the State of Conn- ecticut to the town of South Salem New York, and to the neighborhood where declarant now resides and where this declarant has gone since residing — He further declares that he has ever been known by the name he now bears, that he knows there was no other man of the same name in either of the companies in which he knew, and that he never knew any one of the same name except his eldest son — And further that his name is not on the ass insurable roll of the Agency of any State this Abraham Hayes mark
I William B Jones Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Ridgfield do hereby certify that the foregoing constitutes the original proceedings of the

Said Court in the Matter of the Appli- cation of e Abraham Hayes for a Pension.
In Witness whereof I hereby set my hand and affixed my Seal of Office this 28th day of January A.D. 1847.
William B Jones Clerk
State of Connecticut Ridgefield County ss
I Jacob S. Haveland, of Ridgefield in the County and State aforesaid Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Ridgefield, aforesaid, do hereby certify that William Jones Esq. who hath signed and certified the foregoing proceedings of the Court of Probate, and the Certificate of Caption of the Application herein to Connecticut is Clerk thereof, and was such Clerk duly appointed and sworn at the time the same purport to have been therein signed and certified by him, that the signature purporting to be the signature of said William B. Jones

is in his proper hand writing, and that full faith and credit are due to his Official Acts as such Clerk
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand at Ridgefield, aforesaid, this 28th day of January A.D. 1847.
Jacob T. Hasland
Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Ridgefield Connecticut

In pursuance of a law passed the 27th of April, 1784, entitled "An act for the settlement of the pay of the Levies and Militia, for their service in the late War, and for other purposes therein mentioned," the following certificates have been issued, bearing interest at five per cent per annum, viz :
  15 th Nov r 1781 Wraham Hagse Prin, £ 22 15 11    
STATE OF NEW-YORK,
COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, Albany, 20 th Jan y . 1847.
I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No. 8. now remaining in this office, and that the service for which the certificates above named were issued, were performed under the following officers, viz :
  First—under Capt. Benjamin Chapman in Col. Sheldon Co. Reg't.   Second " " " " "   Third " " " " "   Fourth " " " " "   Fifth " " " " "   Sixth " " " " "   Seventh " " " " "   Eighth " " " " "   Ninth " " " " "   Tenth " " " " "   Eleventh " " " " "   Twelfth " " " " " 
Philip Phelps Comptroller

I Hancy Smith of Ridgefield, in the County of Fairfield, and State of Connecticut Aged fifty four years being first sworn according to Law, do testify depose and say that for the last twenty five years I have been acquainted with Abraham Hayes, whose Application for a Pension is herewith transmitted And I do not hesitate to say that his character for truth is unblemished - and that his Statements are fully entitled to Credit.
Hancy Smith
Sworn and subscribed this 28th day of Jan'y 1847 In Open Court and I Certify that the Deponent is a Credible Witness
Attest William B Jones Clerk

I Thaddeus Kelce 2 d of Ridgfield in the County of Fairfield and State of Con- necticut Aged Sixty One year, being just Sworn According to Law, do testify before and say, that I am now and have been for more than thirty years acquainted with Abraham Stacy of Larchburs in the County of Westchester and State of New York whom Application for a Pension under the Act of June 7, 1832 is herewith Appended, that I have lived a greater part of the last thirty Seven years about three Miles from, and have had intercourse with him occasionally during all that time, and I do not hesitate to say that from my first knowledge of him he has sustained a char- acter for truth & veracity unblemished and that his statements are entitled to full credit.
Thaddeus Kelce 2 d
Sworn to, and subscribed in Open Court this 28th day of January 1847, and I certify that the Deposition is a Credible Witness Attest William B Jones Clerk

I, Jeremiah Ruler of Lewisboro, in the County of Westchester and State of New York Aged Eighty Six years on the 6th day of Febry Last, being first duly sworn according to Law do testify depose and say, that I was born in the Town of Ridgefield, in the County of Fairfield, & State of Connecticut about half a Mile from my present Residence, in which place I have ever resided except when in the Army of the Revolution; — That from my earliest re- collection, I have been acquainted with • Abraham Hays of Lewisboro aforesaid, who is now an Applicant for a Pension, for revolutionary services — That in my youth I resided about three Miles from him, but for the last fifty years, our resid- ences have been only about two Miles distant from each other — And I have always known him and returned him as a Man of the strictest integrity & honesty of character — That I was also intimately acquainted with Captain Benjamin Chap- man of said Lewisboro who had the Com- mand of a Company of Militia, in the War of the Revolution — and that the said • Abraham Hays resided within the limits of his Company — I was also thoroughly acquainted with in said Lewisboro, and am confident that there was no other Man of the name of Abraham Hays, in said Lewisboro except the Oldest Son of the present Applicant — Who was too young to have been in the United States Service, his Regiment was in the Continental Service, and consequently could not have had particular knowledge of the

Militia Service, but do say that the fullest reliance may be placed upon the statements of the said Abraham Hayes. Deposition is a Penalty of the United States at the rate of one hundred and twenty dollars per Annum Jeremish Heeler
Sworn and Subscribed this 2 nd day of March 1847, before me, and I Certify that the Deposition is a credible Witness.
Harvey Smith Justice of the Peace for Fairfield County Connecticut