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Pension File
Revolutionary War Pension File for William Baley for service in NJ & NY
#W.18570 B.L.Wt 3221-160-55
Spouse: Elizabeth
William Baley of N.Y. City in the State of N. York who was a private …. Of the 
Regt commanded by Col. Williams in the N. Jersey line for 21 months. 
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 70 dollars per annum to 
commence on the sixth day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of March 1834 and sent to New York.
Recorded by D. Brown Book E. Vol 4. Page 116
State of New York, City and County of New York 
On this twentieth day of October one thousand and eight hundred and thirty two, 
personally appeared in open court before the sitting Court of Common  Pleas 
held at the City Hall of the City of New York. Now William Baley, a resident of 
the City, of the County and State of New York, aged seventy-eight years, to his 
being first duly 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 was born May 10th 1752 at Elizabeth Town – that he has a record 
of his age in the family bible, which is now in his possession : that when 
called into service, he was living at Elizabeth Town. County of Essex and State 
of New Jersey: that he removed to the City of New York, in the year 1789, and 
has resided therein from that time to the present day.
	That he enlisted in the army of the United Sates in the year 1775, very 
soon after the Battle of Bunker (but the precise date he does not recollect) in 
the company of Captain David Lyon, and in the Regiment of Colonel Richmore, but 
what was the number of the regiment or of what line, he does not recollect.  
That he came immediately to the city of New York with his Company, and lay 
there until the regiment of Colonel Richmore was full: that he sailed from New 
York to Albany in one day: that they marched immediately to a Tavern called 
the “Half Moon” opposite Troy:  That he marched thence to Stillwater, where 
they waited with his company three or four days for troops, when some joined 
them: that from Stillwater he marched to “Knichborough”? in one day, where he 
stayed one night: that from thence, he sailed to Ticonderoga, where he met 
General Montgomery, but whether he had any troops, he does not recollect) 
distance being about 16 miles, where he was joined with some troops: that he 
sailed across Lake Champlain, 166 miles to Isle au Noix  with General 
Montgomery: that he laid at Isle au Noix three or four days, when troops kept 
coming on to join them: of the troops, he recollects the Green Mountain Boys: 
and also Colonel “Gweiffewelt” from New York: that a draft for 1500 men was 
determined on: that he was drafted to lay siege to Fort St. John’s that he 
still remained under Captain Lyon: that they went in Batteaus to St. John’s, 
about three miles from the Fort: that they were driven away by the British and 
____, who killed 13 or 14: that they landed at about 3 o’clock the next morning 
at Isle au Noix: that they laid there three or four days when he went back 
again and landed near the same place as before: that afterward 5 or 6,000 
troops came to join them: but whether they were drafted or not, he does not 
know: that he remained there about six weeks: that he was not at the reduction 
of Fort Chamblee, and does not know any far ____: that there were some 
skirmishes, but never did more than two or three men come out of the Fort at a 
time: that the United States Troops erected immediately opposite St. John’s 
Fort, a little “bomb battery” as they called it: on which were placed several 
cannon, for the purpose of _____ British vessels, if any should attempt to go 
down the lake to injure out men: that the garrison capitulated in about six 
weeks, but he does not recollect any circumstances attending the capitulation: 
that he came down from St John’s in Bateaus with some prisoners, of one of whom 
he has distinct recollection, a sergeant, by name, John McFall, that he 
delivered the prisoners at the Fort at Ticonderoga. 

That he received his discharge, but the exact time he does not recollect: it 
was quite cold weather: that he reached his home at Elizabeth Town about the 
latter part of February 1776.

That he continued to reside at Elizabeth Town, when the enemy landed at Staten 
Island in the harbor of New York, which is the best of his recollection and 
belief, was about the latter end of May 1776: that immediately thereafter, he 
entered the service of the United Sates under Jacob Crane, Captain and ___ 
Williamson, Colonel; that he was a volunteer for two months or more, during 
which time he was ordered together with all the soldiery that could be 
collected to Elizabeth Town Point to guard the Jersey shore, to dig 
entrenchments and to go in boats to Amboy in the night to spy the enemy; that 
he obtained his discharge. 

That early in the spring in February or March, and to the best of his 
recollection and belief in 1777, he was drafted for a service of three months: 
that he was in the lines, on guard and on the shore; that he obtained his 
discharge. 

That he enlisted under Colonel Seely for three or four months at Elizabeth Town 
and to the best of his recollection and belief in 1778; that he guarded the 
lines, and had frequent skirmishes with the British coming from Staten Island; 
that he frequently went to Morristown to draw provisions from the Quarter 
Master there Joseph Lewis.

That just before the battle of Monmouth Court House, the Morristown Militia 
were called upon to go to Monmouth; that that the order was countermanded.

That he was a volunteer when General Knox ____ landed from New York at 
Elizabeth Town; that he believes this was in the year 1780; that he was at 
Morristown in the Morris County Militia, and as he believes under Captain Ward; 
the name of the Colonel he does not recollect; that his company did not engage 
but remained at Chatham, Morris County:

That he was in the company of Captain Ward at Chatham, when he heard of the 
revolt of the New Jersey Troops, as he thinks, near ____ Ridge; that he 
received notice from his Captain to be ready to march; which was countermanded.

That he was engaged in the service nearly all the time from his first 
enlistment till the peace, at one time in active service, at another, on the 
farm: but that he considered himself as liable at all times, to be summoned to 
active duty.

That he obtained discharge at the end of every enlistment; but that they and 
all other documentary evidence, if he had any, were burnt at a fire which 
occurred several years ago in the City of New York, and that he knows of no 
person who can certify his service, all his captains and fellow soldiers being, 
to the best of his beliefs, now dead.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the 
present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of 
any state.
That his above mentioned services are related in the order as he believes and 
recollects them to have been successively rendered, and that his memory, much 
impaired, does not enable him to give them respective dates.

That he knows of no clergyman at present living who can testify in his behalf, 
but that William H. Ireland and Abraham King, late Alderman, of the City of New 
York can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services 
as a soldier of the revolution.
Signed: Will’m Baley
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid…

William H. Ireland and Abraham King ---- residing in the City and County of New 
York hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Baley, the above 
named deponent; 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. 
Signed: Wm H. Ireland, Abraham King

And the said court do hereby declare 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 sates. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them 
that William H. Ireland and Abraham King – who have signed the pre…..

Pension Office:
The evidence in support of your claim under the act of June 7, 1832, has been 
examined and the papers are herewith returned.  The following is a statement of 
our case in a tabular form.  On comparing these papers with the following 
rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections 
exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed.  The notes and 
the regulations will show what is necessary to be done.  These points to which 
your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the 
margin with a brace.  You will, when you return your papers to this Department, 
send this printed letter with them, and your will by complying with this 
request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim. 

In the matter of the application of William Baley for a Pension:
City and County of New York, William Baley of the said City, the said applicant 
being sworn, deposed and says, that by reason of old age and the consequent 
loss of 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 herein mentioned.  ___ not less than two months in the company’s 
Captain Crane in a service thereafter, but the name of the Captain he forgets, 
not less than three months, nor less than four months in the regiment of 
Colonel Seely the Captains name he forgets.  And not less than eight months in 
the company of Captain Ward: That in the whole he served as a private, not les 
than two years and for such service he claims a pension: That he is fully 
persuaded that he served much longer but owing to the loss of his memory, he is 
unable to state the circumstances of such service, as he was engaged in arms 
almost during the whole of the war… 
Signed: Willm Baley
Sworn and subscribed his 27th day of May 1833 I do certify that the said 
William Baley is a person of credibility: James Hopson, Justice of the Peace

I, Abraham Arten, Clerk of the City and County of New York, whereby certify 
that James Hopson, before whom the above affidavit of William was taken at a 
Justice of the Peace ______said City and that the signature attached ___ his 
genuine signature and verily believe witness my hand & seal office the 2 May 
1833, Abm Arten, Clerk.

State of New York
City and County of New York.  On this Sixteenth day of September in the year 
eighteen hundred and thirty eight before the Judges of the Court of Common 
Pleas in and for the City and County of New York appeared Elizabeth Baley, a 
resident of said City and County aged seventy two years and upwards, who being 
first duly sworn according to law, on her oath doth mark the following 
declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by this and of 
Congress passed July 7 1838 entitled “An act granting half pay and pensions to 
certain widows”; that she is the widow of William Baley who was a private in 
the Revolutionary War and to whom a pension was grounded of which and the 
endorsements a copy is as follows: the original being provided before the said 
Judges and compound with said copy: viz “War Department Revolutionary Claim”
I certify that a conformity with the law of the United Sates of the 7th June 
1832, William Baley of the State of New York, who was a private in the 
Revolutionary War is entitled to receive seventy dollars per annum during his 
natural life commencing on the 4th of March 1831 and payable semiannually on 
the 4th of March and 4th of September in every year.

Given at the War Office of the United States this 25th day of March one 
thousand eight hundred and thirty four.
Signed Lew Cass, Secretary of War

Payment to be made at New York by the Pres. Mechanics Bank & agent for paying 
pensioners in the Agency of N. York.

Recorded in the Pension office in Book E. Vol. 4 Page 116 by D. Brown, Clerk.
And said Elizabeth Baley under her said oath further saith that she was married 
to the said William Baley in Hopewell, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, on the 
twelfth day of August in the years seventeen hundred and eighty eight; that her 
husband the aforesaid William Baley died in January last; that she was not 
married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place 
previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four, namely, at 
this time above stated
Signed the mark of Elizabeth Baley

State of New York City and County of New York:  I Joseph Hoxie, Clerk of the 
Court of Common Pleas for the City and County of New York held at the City Hall 
in said city do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to 
said court that the above named Elizabeth Baley is the widow of William Baley 
the pensioner named in the above declaration: And that she was married to said 
William Baley after his leaving the service and before the year seventeen 
hundred and ninety four, to wit, in the year seventeen hundred and eighty eight 
and that she remains the widow of said William has not married again since his 
death, which occurred in January last, and further that Michael Ullshaeffer, 
Esq, whose name is subscribed to the ___ or certificate of the first deposition 
was at the time of signing the  ____ and now is First Judge of said Court of 
Common Pleas, that George Ireland, Junr,  Esqr whose name is subscribed to the 
J___ or Certificates of the two next depositions, was at the time of signing 
the same and now is a Commissioner of Deeds for said City, and that Daniel 
Ingraham, Esq, whose name is subscribed to the above Certificate was at the 
time of signing was same and now is Associate Judge of said Court of Common 
Peas, all said officers, duly commissioned and sworn and authorized to 
administer oaths, and that I am will acquainted the handwriting of each and 
verily believe the signatures subscribe to the ____ or Certificates are 
genuine. 
Signed: Joseph Hoxie 18th day of September A.D. 1838

Family Records
                      Births						
	Births
William Baley  May 10th 1756                        William Baley …..
Elizabeth Saxon  April 9th 1766                    Ann Baley December 25th 1721
(Married August 12th 1788)                          The Children of Wm & Ann 
Baley
The Children of Wm & Elizab. Baley               Hannah Baley Jan 6th 1748
Thomas S. Baley  August 12th 1789		Sarah Baley  July 8th 1749
Hannah Baley January 28, 1792			James Baley May 3, 1752
Abbey Baley October 1st 1794			William Baley May 10, 1756
Susan Baley December 25th 1796		
William Baley September 26th, 1799		Nathan Saxon  July 17th, 1732
James D. Baley   January 16th, 1802		Edith Saxon May 1st, 1735
                  Deaths				       Children of 
Nathan & Edith Saxon
Susan Baley October 2nd, 1798			Reuben December 27, 1754
William Baley Jr October 5, 1800		Kezia April 8th, 1756	
Hannah Phillips  September 6th, 1798		Hannah  Sept 8, 1758
Abbey Baley July 27, 1826			Geasham April 28, 1761
William Baley Sr Jan 22, 1838			Nathaniel Sept 27, 1763
							Elizabeth April 9th 1766

James Baley was married Aug. 21st 1773

State of New York, City and County of New York on this sixth day of July in the 
year eighteen hundred and thirty nine before me George Ireland Jr. a 
commissioner of deeds in and for said City and County appeared Thomas S. Baley 
a resident of said City and County to me well known as a person of truth and 
veracity and entitled to full credit, who being by me duly sworn did depose and 
say, that he is the oldest child of William Baley now deceased late a pensioner 
of the United States, and of Elizabeth Baley his widow; that the above copy of 
the family record is a correct copy from the family record contained in the 
family bible of said William Baley, which original record is written on the 
back of a printed leaf of said bible, of which printed part a copy is written 
on the first page hereof (which bible is produced by deposed before me, and the 
whole of which copy is compared by me also carefully with said original) and he 
saith that said record is the only existing record known to him of the marriage 
of his said father and mother; and that said original record and said copy 
record are in the handwriting of the deponents brother James D. Baley, and are 
genuine and correct. That the said original record was copied by this deponents 
said brother from the family bible which was then nearly worn out, and which is 
since lost, this deponent not having seen the same for at least three years 
past, that the record contained in said old family bible was in the handwriting 
of this deponent, and was made about thirty years since by this deponent from 
statements then made to him by his father and mother, which corresponded with 
his previous knowledge and information, and was also made as to the times of 
the births of the Saxon family, and of the family of William & Ann Baley, his 
grandparents, from a memorandum then before him.  That both said bibles were in 
the possession of deponents father until the old one was lost, and that the 
present one was in his possession until his death, and since his death has been 
in the possession of deponents mother: that the deaths since said coy was made 
were correctly noted about the times of said deaths in said record, that 
otherwise the same remains unaltered.  THOMAS S. BALEY

In writings whereof the said deponent has above signed his name and I have 
subscribed my name to these ____ the day and year above mentioned.
                                                     George Ireland, Comm. Of 
Deeds

State of New York, City and County of New York.  On this Sixth day of July in 
the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty nine before me George Ireland 
Jr a commissioner of deeds in and for said City and County appeared James D. 
Baley a resident of Essex County, New Jersey to me  well known as a person of 
truth and veracity and entitled to full credit, who being by me duly sworn doth 
depose and say that he is now aged thirty seven years and _____ is a son of 
William Baley and Elizabeth Baley named in the preceding affidavit, that the 
family record contained in the family bible now produced and of which a copy is 
written on the preceding page is in this deponent’s handwriting and was made by 
him in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty five from an old family bible then 
nearly worn out was since destroyed or lost, and which is referred t in the 
preceding affidavit, and that the record in said present bible was copied by 
him correctly from said old family bible, and is genuine, and has always been 
considered correct, and that the said copy record hereto annexed is also in 
this deponents handwriting. That both said family bibles were in the possession 
of deponents father until the loss of the old one, and the present bible in his 
possession until his death, and after his death in the possession of deponents 
said mother: that here were two fires in the house of deponents father after 
deponent made the copy in the present bible, and he presumes the old bible was 
lost in one of those fires: that the deaths since said copy was made, were 
correctly added to said record about the times of said deaths: that the record 
in said present bible cannot be taken from said bible without mutilating the 
printed part thereof, as will appear by the copy of the said printed part on 
the first page 
hereof.                                                                	JAMES 
D. BALEY
In writings whereof the said deponent has above signed his name, and I have 
subscribed….

State of New York
New York City and County
	On this sixth day of July 1855 before me a Commissioner of Deeds, in 
and for the said County of New York, personally appeared Elizabeth Baley, a 
resident of the City of New York in said county, aged eighty nine years, who on 
her oath declares, that she is the widow of William Baley deceased, who was a 
private in the Revolutionary War; that her said husband continued in actual 
service in said war for fourteen days and over, as will appear from the 
evidence already produced and on file at the Pension  Office at Washington, 
that she now receives a pension of seventy dollars per annum, under the act of 
Congress of February 2nd 1848; on account of the services of her said husband 
in said war.  She makes his declaration, in order to obtain the bounty land to 
which she may be entitled, under the act approved March 3rd 1855 and further 
declares, that she has never before applied for, nor received any bounty land, 
under this or any other act of Congress.  She furthermore declares that she is 
now a widow.
ELIZABETH (her mark) BALEY
Witness: George Ireland Jr & George Ireland

We, George Ireland and Elizabeth Welling, residents of the city of New York 
above named, upon our oaths declare that we are personally acquainted with the 
above “affiant” Elizabeth Baley; that we know her to be the same person she 
represents herself to be, in the foregoing affi - …..

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