Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16235, for Ithel Reed, Connecticut
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Conn.
Reed, Ithel
S16235

carded
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Connecticut 22539
Ithel Reed
of Sharon in the State of Connecticut
who was a private in the [blank] commanded
by Captain Rogers of the Rgt commanded
by Col. Enos in the Connt
line for 7 and 23.33/100
12.895
Inscribed on the roll of Connect.t
at the rate of 23 dollars 33 cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the  [illegible] day of Oct 
1833 and sent to A C Peet cc Salisbury Ct
Arrears to the 4th of Sep 1833  $58.33
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Mar 34 $11.66
$69.99
Recorded by Wm R Palmer
Bok E Vol three Page 38
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State of Connecticut County of
Litchfield Probate Court of Sharon
October 2nd AD 1832


At a Probate Court holder at Salisbury in and for the District of Sharon in the 27th day of October AD 1832. Present
Samuel Church Esq. Judge

On this 2nd day of October AD 1832 Personally
appeared in open Court before the Court of
Probate for the district of Sharon
the same being about of record now sitting Ethel Reed of Sharon in the County of Litchfield & State of Connecticut, and a resident in said town of Sharon aged seventy two years who being first duly sworn unding to law doth on his oath make the following to ration in order to obtain the birth of the act of Congress passed June 1832.
That entered the service of the United States the following named officers and served as herein state as, I was born in Norwalk the County of Fairfield in said State on the 6 day of November 1760, and I have no record of my age unless it was on the records of said town of Norwalk.
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I rendered in the town of Salisbury in the said County of Litchfield when I entered the Army of the Revolution and serve the close of the war I have resided in the said town of Sharon where is my present place of residence. I enlisted into a company of State troops of Connecticut State as a private into Company by Captain Edward Rogers and a Regiment commanded by Colonel Roger and Eno Captain Rogers belonged to Comwall in said Litchfield County enlisted in the fore part of June A 1777 for six or seven months, I do not remember which we marched first to Horseneck, and afterwards to Kingsridge near New York and when the British shipping sailed up the North River I marched of to Northill. I afterwards returned to Anseneck in that vicinity, and after serving my whole term of enlistment. I was discharged at Marmick Bridge, I was at Fishkill when news arrived of the capture of Burgoyne's Army.
There were Continental troops on the North River when I was there the I do not remember the names of the officers. I had not receive any
written discharges. I am known to many
in said town of Salisbury & I have in the neighborhood of my residence among
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others to Elisha Sterling Lot Norton & Martin Strong, Esquire  of Salisbury & to Cyrus Swan, Charles F. Sedgwick and Anne Sterling Esquire of Sharon who can testify to my character for veracity & to their belief of my services as a soldier of the Revolution, and I was in no battle ongoing the time of my service. I know of no person now living whose testimony I can procure by whom my services can be proved except in testimony of Oliver Burnham Esq where deposition is hereunto annexed. And I hereby relinquish all and every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the main roll of the agency of any State 
                                                             Ithel Reed
Sworn to and subscribed the day and
year aforesaid.
 Samuel Church, Judge of Probate

As the same Court the said Ithel Reed produced
Court in support of his said application the deposition of Oliver Burnham Esq to him and sworn to before James Wadsworth, Esq and hereto annexed and this truth doth certify that the said James Wadsonth Esq is a Justice of the Peace
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Written and for the said County of Litchfield
in the certificate to said depontin annexed
the name of the said James Wadsworth thereto
affixed in the proper hand writers of the said James Wadsworth Esq. and this saith doth also certify that Oliver Burnham Esq who has subscribe & sworn to said depontant is well known to this truth as a witness of high respectability and cribitity this statement is entitled to credit.
And the said Court do hereby declare
the mon after the investigation of the matter
and after putting the interrogatories presented by the war department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states.
By the Court-Abijah C. Peet Clerk

I Abijah C. Peet Clerk of the Court of Probate
for the district of Sharon do hereby certify
that the foregoing contains the original
proceedings of the said Court in the matter
of the application of the deed for a pension

 In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal of office the Probate Office in Salisbury this 8th day of October AD 1832
Abijah C. Peet Clerk,
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I Oliver Burnham of Comwall County of
Litchfield and State of Connecticut of lawful age
share and say that I was acquainted with Ethel
Reed then of Salisbury in said State in the time of revolution and that he the said Ithel Reed enlisted into the service of the United States some time in the first part of June 1777 in a Company commanded by Edward Rogers Captain and in Col.  Roger Enos' Regiment and [that of] of Connecticut State troops as they were called at that time and that he served in
said Regiment until discharged near
Maronick Bridge in the State of New York on the
first of January AD 1774, which circumstances
I think,  I will recollect being a soldier in the same Company during said time and further saith not.                                 Oliver Burnham


State of Connecticut}
County of Litchfield ss}

Cornwall Personally appeared Oliver Burnham Esq made oath to the foregoing deposition by him [certified]

 James Wadsworth,   Justice of Peace
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Hon D. L. Perry, a Clergyman residing in
the Town of Sharon in the County of Litchfield, and Cyrus Swan also residing in said Sharon
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ethel Reed who has subscribed and sworn to a declaration for a Pension hereto annexed. that we believe him to be seventy three years of age and 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- We also certify, that said Reed is a credible witness
David L Perry
Cyrus Swan


Litchfield County ss, Sharon July 1st AD 1833

Personally appeared Daniel L. Perry and Cyrus Swam and subscribed the foregoing
affidavit and made oath to the same Before me.

Chas. H. Sedgwick Justice of the Peace
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 State of Connecticut ss}
County of Litchfield}       District of Sharon   
                                 
At a Court of Probate holden at Canaan in and for the district of Sharon on the 5th 1833 personally appeared Ethel Reed of Sharon in the said district and produced his original declaration and application for a pension made
before this Court on the 2d day of October AD 1832. and also produced in further support of his said declaration the Deposition of the Rev
David L Perry and Cyrus Swan Esq. which deposition with said original declaration
deposition is hereto prefixed deed this Court doth certify that the Rev'd David L Perry who has signed said a Clergyman resident now and for many of Sharon, and that Cyrus Swan, Esq who has also signed said deposition is a quithman of high respectability and an edge of the County Court for said Litchfield County, and is now and for many years past has been a resident of said Town of Sharon and this Court
of the certify that Charles F Sedgwick Esq before who said deposition purports to have been taken, was at the date thereof and now is a Justice of the Peace for said ditch
full County, and the signature to the certificate upon said Deposition purporting to be his is in his own proper handwriting and that full faith and credit is an thereto

Wherefore this Court doth order said original
declaration, and deposition & prefixed this certificate connected together under the seal of this Court. 
By the Court
Wm P Burnall Clerk
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I Wm P Burnall Clerk of the Court Probate for the district of Sharon do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original prounding of said Court in the matter of the original and
supplementary applications of Ethel Reed for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal of office this 5th day of July A 1833

Wm P. Burrall, Clerk
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12845
Ithel Reed
C.t
Sharon
Adm 7. months
$23.33
     6.61
    17.62
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$ 58. 33
 $ 11. 66
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$  69.99


Wm P. Burrall Clk of Probate
S. Canaan Ct

A. C. Peet
Conn.
Sharon
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Pension Office,
183

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.
________________________________________
Statement, showing the service of Ethel Reed Ct
Period when the                  Duration of the                  
June                                   claimant's service.
                                            Year| month|Day 
                                                        7
Rank of the claimant |   
                                                                                     
Names and Rank of the Company  officers under whom he served.|-Private E  Rogers

|Names and Rank of the General and Field officers|-Col. Eno

|Battles in which the applicant was engaged|

|Country through which he marched|
Marched to HorseNeck, Kingston, Fish Hill, N.Y.

|Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period.|
72 born entered now lives

|Evidence by which the declaration  is supported|
In Fairfield Ct
At Salisbury, Ct
In Sharon, Ct aforesaid

I am respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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Service proved by a surviving witness
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army,  and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers, all  persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval service.
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming
the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance
, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.

DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of}ss
County of
On this           day of         personally appeared (a) before              A.B. a resident (b) of
in the county of      and State, Territory or District  of aged(e)        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 Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d)        and              served in the
(e) regiment of the        line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers, the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged,
and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.                                            A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court]

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
of the Court of do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of
for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand at If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the
hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with
and C. D. residing in (the same)
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 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.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.
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 states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B.
who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the
and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the place that the foregoing for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal & c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted
; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected.
All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war
, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute?
And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
{To a Soldier, and what has become of it?
unfier. Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify. as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
{The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons -one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed
and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion.
If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, to the character and standing of other persons, giving such certificates. proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the
enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the sub-  Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record.
or by a Justice of the peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will fol-
The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not
The age of the claimant must invariant may be mentioned.
The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the
claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: 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 persons mentioned anew, and in the following year months, and days
, I served as a -. For - months and - days, I served as a -; and for such service I claim a
it is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which uncis apparent served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months. is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is
highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority that he was either in the hold or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil
The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
The opinion of the Court is always required.
The device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the  papers.
Mode of authenticating papers. In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must
pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses , and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
The notes from (a) to (l) are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops, The proof required by rule in note applies to continental troops only.
In witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
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16235
INVALID.
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File No. 16235 
Ithel Reed
Priv. Rev. War
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Act: June 7" 37

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