Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36253, for Joseph Reed, Connecticut
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(8-1776)
SERVICE 
Conn. [Connecticut]
Reed, Joseph
NUMBER
S.36253
CONTENTS
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From
New York Rolls
to Connecticut (N. 1768]
Joseph Reed
Capt Wyllys Musicians Connecticut line in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 dollars per month to commence the 25 of April 1818
Certificate of pension issued the 16 of July 1818 and sent to Phenias Randall Cherry Valley New York
Arrears to 4th of September 1818
[strike out "Semi-anl all'ce ending"]
4 mos 10/30 $34.66
S.B. Webb
77 three years
Continued
Canajoharie Montgomery 
Notification sent to the pensioner 27th Oct 1820 Lyma Cont
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State of New York Montgomery County ss
On the twenty fifth day of April in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the court of Common Pleas for the county of Montgomery personally appears, Joseph Reed of the town of Canajoharie and county aforesaid [illegible strike out] aged fifty six years who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" that he there saw Joseph Reed was enlisted in the month of June AD 1779 in the town of Hartford and state of Connecticut [strike out "in the town [illegible]"] by Capt. Caleb Bull of Hartford Conn [Connecticut] and entered immediately into the service as a fifer in the company commanded by John Rols Graves Willis [illegible strike out] in Samuel B. Webbs reg't [regiment] in the Connecticut line in Gen'l [General] Marion's brigade for the term of three years which said reg't [regiment] was called the British Dragoons Reg't [regiment] during which term of three years he served in said company whin [wne

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[when] he was discharged to wit June AD 1780. By order of Gen'l [General] Washington ^ in Morristown in New Jersey^ which said discharge is since lost and [illegible] his knowledge was in the battle at Monmouth, Fort Montgomery and at Rhode Island and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Joseph Reed
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid
Seth Wotman
Seth Wotman - Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Montgomery to certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Joseph Reed did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the secretary for war department & to the directions of the aforementioned act of congress.
Seth Wotman
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Montgomery County ss
Benjamin Higgins of Canajoharie and County aforesaid being duly sworn says that he is personally knowing to the within facts concerning the said Joseph Reed with whom he is well acquainted to wit that he did enter the service is within stated and that he did so continue in the continental army therein. [illegible] for the term of three years and further this deponent saith not
Benj'n Higgins
sworn the 24th day of April 1818 before me 
Seth Wetmore one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in afores'd [aforesaid] county
State of New York
Montgomery County ss
I John McCarthy clerk of the said Montgomery County do certify that Seth Wetmore whose name appears signed to the within certificate and before whom the within declaration and the above affidavit appear to have been made and sworn to was one of the Judges of the Court of common pleas in and for said county on the 25th day of April 1818 In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court the first day of May 1818.
Jno McCarthy
Affidavit of Revolutionary Services Joseph Reed
Correct
P. Randall
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Joseph Reed
1760
Sept [September] 1818
Cont
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State and District of Connecticut
On this 29th day of September 1820 personally appeared in open Court, before the superior
Court holden at New London within and for
the County of New London in said State, before the Honorable Asa Chapman one of the Judges of the Superior Court of Connecticut, the same being a Court of record, proceeding
according to the course of common law, with a
jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount
keeping a record of its proceedings, and having power of fine and imprisonment-- Joseph Reed aged fifty nine years resident in the town of Lyme in said State, who being first
duly sworn according to law, doth on his
oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows-viz-- in the Connecticut line of the continental establishment, in a regiment of decoyers commanded by Col [Colonel] Samuel B. Webb, in John R Wylly's Company as more particularly stated in his original declaration dated April AD. 1818. That he has received a pension, the certificate of which bears to the number 1768 - And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time
by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my
property, or any part thereof, with intent
thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself
within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons
engaged in the land and naval service of the
United States in the revolutionary war passed
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the eighteenth day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I an income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. And I the said Joseph Reed do also swear that my occupation has been that of a laborer at farming & the shoemaker's business that by reason of my age my infirmities and a constitution naturally feeble I am unable to do more than a very little towards my support as I have lost my wife and have no family & no home.
My sole dependance for my support is now upon my pension.
Joseph Reed
Schedule &co. I have no property whatsoever except my necessary clothes and a few old shoemakers tools of the value of $1.00 only I owe to different individuals more than thirty dollars
Joseph Reed
Signed sworn to and declared on the 29th day of September 1820 in open court.
Charles Lathrop clerk
I Charles Lathrop clerk of the superior court of the state of Connecticut in New London county do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is one dollar only 
In testimony thereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this 29th day of June 1820
Charles Lathrop clerk of said superior court in New London county
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APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER
State of Connecticut
County of New London ss Lyme
On this 22 day of July 1820 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said county of New London personally appeared Joseph Reed who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain John P Wyllys in the regiment commanded by Colonel Samuel B. Webb in the service of the United States that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of New York from whence he has lately removed that he now resides in the state [strike out "(district or territory)"] of Connecticut where he intends to remain and wishes his pension to be there payable in future.
Joseph Reed
Sworn and subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid.
Chas Smith Justice of Peace
Note. The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate whose official character and signature must be properly authenticated.
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United States of America
State of Connecticut
County of New London ss Lyme
This may that Charley Smith Esquire whose signature is affixed to the foregoing application for a transfer is a Justice of the Peace of the state of Connecticut for he county of New London duly commissioned and sworn
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal at Lyme aforesaid this 2[illgible] day of July AD 1820
Henry M. Wait Notary Public
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36253
Revy INVALID
File No. 36,253
Joseph Reed Musician Rev War
Act: 18th March 18
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 474
[Arrangement of 1870]
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Joseph Reed's application to be transferred from NYk [New York] to Connt [Connecticut] 22 July 1820
Transferred 29 July 1820
Hon'bl [Honorable] Secretary of the War Department Washington DC
free
Jonsimes
Sep 18
Lyme court July 25
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Lyme July 24 AD 1820
Sir
Enclosed is Joseph Reeds application for a transfer of his pension. If correct please inform us when the transfer is made.
Repectfully [respectfully] your obt servt [obedient servant]
Henry M Wait
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To whom it may concern
This may certify that Mr. Joseph Reed one of the pensioners under the late act of congress is and has been for several years an infirm man Trouble with lameness in his feet which at times almost presents him from laboring at all. He is about 60 years of age and his constitution feeble and I believe entirely destitute of property except his pension 
Lyme 26 June 1820
Sylvester Wooster Phy's [physician]
A.B. Mr. Reed has no trade which he follows but when he is able to labor hires himself out at the [illegible - farming?] business