NANSEMOND COUNTY, VA - MILITARY - Bray Baines, War of 1812 Pension Application
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DECLARATION OF SURVIVING SOLDIER FOR PENSION

ACT OF FEBRUARY 14, 1871

STATE OF VIRGINIA        }
NANSEMOND COUNTY } SS.

      On this _____ day of March, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy 
one, personally appeared before me (1) I. D. Brady, Clerk of the Court of 
Hastings, a court of record within and for the City of Portsmouth and State 
aforesaid (2) Bray Baines, aged 79 years, a resident of the County of Nansemond, 
and State of Virginia, who, being duly sworn according to lay, declares that he 
is not married: (3) that his wife’s name was Lavinia Harrell to whom he was 
married at Nansemond County on the _____ day of _____ 1840; that he served the 
full period of sixty days in the (4) Military Service of the United States in 
the war of 1812; that he is the identical Bray Baines who (5) was drafted in 
Captain Arthur Smith’s Company and transferred to Lacock’s Company, Col. Joseph 
Riddick’s Regiment, at Suffolk Nansemond County in the State of Virginia, on the 
_____ day of _____ 1813, and was honorably discharged at Nansemond County on the 
_____ day of _____ 1813; that (6) served at Suffolk, at Craney Island & at the 
“Poplars” as a private.  He received Bounty Land but number and under what act 
issued not recollected, that he at no time, during the late rebellion against 
the authority of  the United States, adhered to the cause of the enemies of the 
Government, giving them aid and comfort, or exercised the functions of any 
office whatever under any authority of pretended authority in hostility to the 
United States; that he is not in receipt of a pension under any previous act; 
(7) that he makes this declaration for the purpose of being placed on the 
pension roll of the United States under the provisions of he Act of February 
14,1871; and he hereby constitutes and appoints, with full power of substitution 
and revocation, CHARLES C. TUCKER, of Washington, D.C. his true and lawful 
Attorney, to prosecute this claim and obtain the pension certificate that may be 
issued; that his post office is at Suffolk, County of Nansemond, State of 
Virginia, and that his domicil or place of abode is in said county.

                                                                          
(8) Bray   X   Baines (his mark)
                                                                        



ATTEST:

       D. J. Godwin




Treasury Department
Third Auditor’s Office

August 8th, 1871

Respectfully returned to the Commissioner
of Pensions with the information that the
name of Bray Baines is not borne on the Rolls
of Captain Arthur Smith’s Company of Virginia
Militia, War of 1812, on file in this office.

Signed (??)

Acting Auditor






WAR OF 1812

ACT FEBRUARY 14, 1871

BRIEF OF CLAIM FOR A SURVIVOR’S PENSION

In the case of Bray Baines, a __________________________________________________
Of Captain or Lt. A. Smith’s Company, Colonel _________Va. Mil. ___________Reg’t
_________ Residence, Nansemond Co, Va. _________________________________________

POST OFFICE ADDRESS

Suffolk, Nansemond Co, Va.

Enlisted __________________ 1812, discharged, ____________________________1812.
Served afterward from ___________  18     , to __________________________ 18  .
In Captain ___________________ Company, Colonel ________________________  Reg’t.

Declaration and identification in due form, filed March 31, 1871.


SERVICE FOR SIXTY DAYS, SHOWN AS FOLLOWS:

Report from B. L. D. shows that Bray Baines served in Capt or LT.A. Smith’s Co, 
Va. Mil. For two months in 
War of 1812 as appears from comrades affidavits.

Length of  service, 60 days.

Claimant declares he is not a pensioner under any previous act.  Name not on 
list of pensioners.  Loyalty, claimant’s averment and testimony of, Shem Loomis 
and James N. Cone whose credibility is certified to by Jos. H. Clement, P.M.

Oath to support the Constitution of the United States subscribed.

Admitted January 29, 1872 to a pension of eight dollars per month, from February 
14, 1871.

Chas. C. Tucker, Esq.                  A.W. Fisher, Ex’r
Washington D. C.            App’d.      H Hartung, Reviewer










WAR OF 1812

Survivor’s Pension Claim

No. 5086

Soldier       Bray Baines
Served in Capt. Arthur Smith’s Co.
Virginia Militia

Warrant No.  5133-120-155

Required:  To Know Service:

Has rec’d warrants.

10th August 1871

W. H. Mills, Examiner

Report:  Above warrant issued to 
Bray Baines for service in
Capt. or Lt. A. Smith’s Co, Va.
Mil. for two months in War 1812
as appears from comrades 
affidavits.

      John Sherman
      Chief, B-ty L’d Div.

Oct 10 / 71


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