GUERNSEY COUNTY OHIO - JARED BAILEY'S REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORD *********************************************************************** OHGENWEB NOTICE: All distribution rights to this electronic data are reserved by the submitter. Reproduction or re-presentation of copyrighted material will require the permission of the copyright owner. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Tim Bailey rtim@prodigy.net http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Park/2794 April 19, 2000 *********************************************************************** JARED BAILEY'S REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORD All the material following is from National Archives file W4884 State of Ohio Guernsey County On the 19th day of September 1832 personally appeared in open court of common pleas now sitting Jared Bailey resident of the Township of Centre, in the county aforesaid aged Seventy four years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth, on his oath, make the following decleration in order to obtain the benifit of the act of congress passed June 7th 1832. That he the said Bailey as well as he now recollects (not having the record of his birth having left it in the State of Connecticut) was born on the 20th day of August in the year 1758 near the town of New London in the State of Connecticut whilst he was young his father moved with his family to the town of Voluntown in the county of Windham in Said state, at which place he entered the Service of the United States under the following officers and Served as herein stated viz first he the Said Bailey, volunteered his Services under Captain John Gordon he thinks the Lieutenants name was Campbell & the Ensigns name was Edmonds and thinks they marched from Voluntown about the latter part of May or first of June, the year he does not positively recollect but beleives it was in the Year 1776. Col. Gordon commanded the Regiment and he thinks general Douglass commanded the Brigade. They marched through Newhaven, Old Fairfield, New Rochel, Rye, East=chester, West=chester to near Kingsbridge or Fort Washington, where they lay for a short time whilst the troops lay at this place he went on an expedition with about fifty or Sixty men to Hurlgate, he thinks the officers name that commanded on this expedition was Dunlap or Dulap on thier return to Kingsbridge the army marched to the white plains where they had a Battle with the enemy he thinks that he was discharged the day after this battle and that his discharge was Signed by Genl. Douglas, he had the discharge in his possession for a number of years but finally lost it=how long he was in the Service at that time he does not recollect but thinks it was five or Six months--he afterwards volunteered his Services for one year with what was called the minute men they had no particular officers to command them they slept every night with a part of thier clothes on, with thier Guns & Knapsacks at thier heads, they found thier own guns amunition & provisions and whenever any alarm was given they went under the first Officers they came across--he does not recollect what year this was in but it was at a time when the British army or a part of it laid at Newport in Rhode Island and freequently Sent marauding parties out to plunder &c. and they volunteered thier Services to assist in preventing them as much as possible--he afterwards enlisted under Capt Butts for three months to guard a Small town called Bristol in Rhode Island the other officers' names he does not recollect there was Several other companies there and the whole was under the command of Genl. West=they marched from Voluntown to Bristol some time in the month of april but does not recollect in what year--he afterwards volunteered for a Short tour under Capt. Moses Campbell to go to Newlondon in Connecticut the tour was Short perhaps not more than Eight or ten days--he the Said Baily afterwards enlisted in the State Troops at Voluntown in connecticut with lieut. Amos Frink for one year--he does not recollect in what year this was. They marched from Voluntown to Howlands Ferry near Old Bedford where they Joined Capt Hopkins Company. There leut Frink was discharged or Broke for Some misconduct, he does not recollect what officer took his place Col.Topham Commanded the Regiment in Genl. (illegible) Brigade, Genl. Sullivan had the chief command, they crossed over to Newport--he thinks about the first of September and remained on the Island for about a month during which time they had a Severe engagement with the enemy, the Regiment of Blacks about Eight hundred strong was nearly all cut off--he understood that Col. Greenes Regiment were all cut off to about Seventeen-- Shortly after the Battle they recrossed over to Howlands Ferry. Some short time after this Capt. Arron(?) Man(?) came to the camp and our officers told us that he wanted about thirty young men as near of a size as he could get them, they told us they were going on to take Quebeck, there was he thinks thirty three of them volunteered to go with him. he had then Served in col. Topham's Regt. about Six months five months of which he served as corporal Capt. Man marched them from Howlands Ferry to the Town of Providence. There they were attached to Genl. Sullivans life guard under the command of Capt. Man the Lieutenants were Potter and Hopkin he remained at Providence as a private untill his time was out when he was discharged, he thinks this discharge was Signed by Captain Man he believes it was dated on the 16th day of March but does not recollect the year--the Said Bailey afterwards drafted in the State of Rhode Island for one month but could not go, but hired a Substitute for which he paid him fifteen dollars & equipped him--After the War he the Said Bailey Settled in Rhode Island and lived there Some years but does not recollect how long, he moved from there to the Town of Cambridge in the County of Washington, State of New York he lived there about six years, then moved to Roxbury in Deleware County State of New York he lived there about Eight years, he then moved from there to the county of Guernsey Centre Township for the last fourteen years-- 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--Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Jared Bailey We John Beaham, and Bennet Lucas--residing in the county of Guernsey, State of Ohio hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Jared Bailey, who has Subscribed and Sworn to the above decleration, that we beleive him to be Seventy four years of age, that he is reputed and beleived, in the Neighborhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion--Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid John Beaham Bennet Lucas 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 abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that John Beaham & Bennet Lucas who have signed the preceeding certificates, are residents in the county of Guernsey, and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit. I Moses Sarchot(?) Clerk of the Court of Common pleas of the county of Guernsey in the State of Ohio, do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the Application of Jared Bailey for a pension. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this nineteenth day of September A.D. 1832--- - Moses Sarchot Clk Apparently, Jared's original deposition did not meet all the requirements for a pension, for in May he was back in court: State of Ohio County of Guernsey Amended decleration of Jared Bailey (illegible) on 22nd day of May 1833-- personally appeared before me, the undersigned Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid Jared Bailey, who being duly Sworn deposeth and Saith, 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 mentioned below and in the following grades. For five months I Served as a private. For one year, I Served as a private. For three months, I Served as a private. For Eight days I Served as a private. For five months, I Served as a corporal, and for Seven months I served as a private. The whole period I Served I think was at least two years three months and Eight days as a private and five months as a corporal making all together two years Eight months and Eight days. And for such Service I claim a pension. I further state that at the time I made my first decleration before the court that it was not considered to be absolutely necessary to have a clergymen to certify me and it being very inconvenient for me at that time to procure one, the court therefore dispensed with that part but I have now procured The Reverend William Jarvis who is a Resident of the Said County of Guernsey Ohio and Zaccherio(?) A. Beatty of the Town of Cambridge in that County. Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Jared Bailey Nicholas (illegible) Justice of the Peace Jared's request for a pension generated the following response: WAR DEPARTMENT, Pension Office 11 July 1833 Sir: 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 your 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 shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them, and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim. A Statement, shewing the Service of Jared Bailey Guernsey Co Ohio (following is a table showing the service Jared alleged starting in 1776, totalling 2years, 8 months, and 8 days, 7 months of this as a private, 5 as a corporal, and 1 year as a Minute Man. It lists him as serving under captains Gorden, Butts, and Moses Campbell. It gives his current age as 74 years, and his place of abode at the time he entered service as Windham Co, CT. It lists his proof by which the declaration is supported as "Traditionary"). The form continues: I am respectfully, Your obedient servant, J. L. EDWARDS, Commissioner of Pension. (Then, as an addendum): The applicant is advised to apply to the Comptroller of the state at Hartford, Connecticut for evidence of service. There is apparently a gap in the record. Jared must have satisfied the War Department because this record appears next: Wheeling 279 Jared Bailey Guernsey Co. in the State of Ohio who was a Pr in the Company commanded by Captain Gorden in the Regt commanded by Col (illegible) in the (illegible) 5 Mo Corpl 18.34 (illegible) 63.33=81.67 Inscribed on the Rolls of Ohio at the rate of 81 Dollars 67 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834 Certificate of Pension issued the 28th day of April and Sent to (illegible) Z. A. Beatty, Cambridge, Ohio Arrears to the 4th of Mar 36--245.00 Semi-anl. allowance ending Sep (illegible) 40.83 $285.83 {Revolutionary claim, Act June 7, 1832}Recorded J. T. Sp--Clerk Book 6--Vol. 8 Page 3-- Let. to Pension Agent--Ohio Feb. 21, 1837, informing him that the Pensioner will receive his pension in Wheeling, Va. Let. to Pen. Agt Wheeling, (illegible) informing him that pensioner was paid to the 4th of March, 1836, in Ohio Letter 21st April 1837 Pen Agent let to MM Tracy Aug 7, 1843 Jared died August, 1839. Some time later his widow, Elizabeth applied for more pension funds: Declaration In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th of July 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows," State of Ohio County of Guernsey} On this day of (?) in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and forty four personally appeared before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Said County of Guernsey in open Court Elizabeth Bailey a resident of Center Township in the County of Guernsey aforesaid aged Seventy-six 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" that she is the widow of Jared Bailey deceased who was a private and corporal in the Connecticut line of the Army of the Revolution, that she is unable to state the Regiment or Company in which he so served she also thinks it probable that her said husband served for (illegible) in the Rhodeisland line of the Continental army during the Revolutionary war, but of this she is not certain. she further declares that she was married to the Said Jared Bailey on the Seventh day of May in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty-eight, that her husband the aforesaid Jared Bailey died on the Twenty- sixth day of August in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the Service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January, Seventeen hundred and ninety- four (illegible) at the time above stated, that the said Jared Bailey received a pension from the United States on account of his Service in the Revolutionary war under the act of 1832 and that he resided in Said Guernsey County at the time of obtaining his pension and at the time of his death. Sworn to and subscribed in open Court the day and year aforesaid saith(?) Thos. M. Peacock Clerk (illegible) Elizabeth (her x mark) Bailey Included in Jared's National Archives record is the following deposition by John T. Bailey, son of Jared and Elizabeth, apparently in support of his mother's request for a pension: Territory of Wisconsin Dodge County__SS Be it known that on the eighteenth day of November AD 1844 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared John T Bailey of the town of Watertown in said Territory aged fifty two years who after by and being first duly sworn according to Law, did depose and say that he is a sone of Jared Bailey and Elizabeth his wife that his said father resided at the time of his death in the County of Guernsey in the State of Ohio and that his said mother still resided in said County of Guernsey, that from his earliest recollection his said father and mother lived together as husband and wife and he has no doubt but that they were legally married before the Year 1790, that deponent has always understood and believed that his father was a soldier in the revolutionary war and that he drew a pension for some time previous to his death on account of such service. That the record hereto attached is taken from the family Bible of this deponent and contains according to the best knowledge and belief of this deponent a true record of date of the birth of this deponent, that said record was made by this deponent and is in his hand writing that the same was made about the year eighteen hundred & fifteen, and this is certain that the same was made before the year eighteen hundred & seventeen and that the said Record has remained in the possession and custody of this erponent until the present time and further this deponent saith not. John T Bailey The pension file also contains pages from a family Bible which are, unfortunately, completely illegible. Historical notes: The Battle of White Plains, in which Jared saw action, took place on Oct. 28, 1776 and was commanded by George Washington. The Americans lost that battle, as they did most battles. A map clearly showing the route Jared's unit took to White Plains may be seen by clicking http://earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/maps/map1/. Click on the small map to see a readable version. This map was made in England in 1777, and shows Washington's losses in 1776. The Battle of Newport (or Rhode Island) took place August 29, 1778. The Americans lost that one, too. As Jared noted in his deposition, there was a mixed unit that had about 125 Black Americans--the First Rhode Island Regiment, commanded by Col. Nathanael Greene-- which took heavy losses. An essay about that unit may be found at http://revolution.h- net.msu.edu/essays/adams2.html In that action Jared was with Sullivan's Life Guards, commanded by Major Gen. John Sullivan. A drawing of the flag used by Sullivan's Life Guards may be seen by clicking at http://www.walika.com/sr/flags/flag-sullivan.htm.