Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 7133, for Richard Reeves, North Carolina
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Reeves, Richard                               W. 7133
Mary
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Hon M. J. Hawkins
May 5, 1834
Letter to M. Hawkins
Dec 18, 1844 with
(illegible) testimonies

23908
North Carolina
Richard Reeves
Franklin in the State of N.C.
who was a private in the ___ commanded by Captain ___ of the rgt commanded by Col Laurie in the N. Car line for 6 months.

Inscribed on the Roll of N. Carolina
at the rate of 20. Dollars - Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of Apr 34.
and (illegible) C. Patterson
Louisburg C.H. N. Car
and sent C. Sale

Arrears to the 4th of Mar 34         60
Semi-anl allowance ending Sep 4 10
                                                     $  70

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Nath Rice, Clerk,
Book C Vol. (illegible, Page 71
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22
North Carolina (illegible)
Mary Reeves widow of Richard Reeves NC
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 20 Dollars 00 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the 13th day of December and sent to 
Hon. G.E. Badger U.S. Senate

(letter to G.E. Badger Dec 18 1834)
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Richard Reeves
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State of North Carolina 
December Sessions 1833
Franklin County

On this 12th day of December
AD. 1833. Personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Session now being Richard Reeves a resident of the said County of Franklin
in the State of North Carolina aged Seventy three years who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress and the June 1832 - That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and
served as herein stated that he was a drafted
Militiaman in Capt Ransomes Company in the
County of Bute now Franklin in the State of
North Carolina in the winter of 1779 & 80 and
marched from that County, under Capt Ransome towards the (illegible) of Ash and Edgecombe to Kingston in said State where he joined Col Lowrys and Col Sheppards Company or Regiment from thence
were marhed to Wilmington in the (illegible)
then to Charleston in the State of South Carolina where we remain untill I think about the month of April 1780. three weeks over three months the last being three months tours we were drafted for the reason I 
understood from my officers we could not be discharged at the end of the three months now that Charleston was then blockaded by the British forces and some reinforcement were expected a few weeks after my Discharge which was by Colo Lowry the City
Charleston was surrendered to the British forces.
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The Discharge given me by Colo Lowry at
Charlestown was in writing which I lost or destroyed not believing it to be of any use to keep it.  Tillman Patterson was acting as Sergeant in Capt Ransoms Company and afterward Ensign at Charlestown-- was discharged and came home with me.

This affiant further states that he was
again drafted in the North Carolina troops as a
Militiaman from the County of Bute now Franklin in the year 1781 the month he does not recollect was put under Capt Thomas for the space of three months, was marched from Bute to Harrisburg in Granville County from thence through Hillsborough to the high rock ford on Deep river Genl Greens Camp from thence to Guilford Compose where we were in the Battle Called the Guilford Battle and was there defeated by the enemy from thence we were march to the Iron works from thence to Ramseys Mill on Deep river from thence to Camblin in the State of South Carolina
where we remained until our three months as
expired and was then Discharged by Col Dudley which Discharge in writing and lost or destroyed long since supposing it to be of no use.  This affiant states that the Guilford Battle
was the only one he was ever in laying the
whole of his two tours each of which was
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three months tours though in the first he
could not get a discharge as before stated
while at Charlestown untill three weeks after
his tour was out- making in the whole service
Six month and three weeks
-
This affiant further states that he was born
in the the County of Sussex in the State of Virginia and removed to the County of Bute now divided in to warren & franklin-- when he was about thirteen or fourteen years of age that he has no record of his age that he was living in the County of Bute when first called in service and that he has lived in the same section of County and neigh (illegible) 
are ever since the Revolutionary war
and that he now lives there that he was on
each (illegible) called into service as a State Militia Man-

As I have state above I first serve in Capt
Ransoms Company from Bute was Discharged in the City of Charlestown in S.C. by Col Lowry after service of three months and three weeks

The 2d tour in Capt Thomas Company was
in the Guilford Battle & Discharge at
Captn (Illegible) in the (Illegible) of S.C. by Col Dudley after a 3 months tour.

That I am acquainted with Tilmon Patterson
(Illegble) (Illegible)
and Jones Cook Esq.
(illegible) who can testify
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Sworn to and subscribed in open
Court this 12th day of December
1833-
Richard Reeves (x his mark)
Richard Rever
S Patterson Clrk

Richard Reeves hereby relinquish any claim whatever to a pension annuity except the present and declare that my name is not
on the pension roll of the Agency or of any state or if any on that of the Agency of North Carolina 

Richard Reeves (x his mark)
S. Patterson Clk


State of North Carolina
December seven 1838
Franklin County

Jones Cark Esq. come into open court
and on oath states himself to be eighty eight
years old that he is known Richard Reeves
since his infancy has always lived in the same neighborhood with him that he is a man of good carater  has always been called a Revolutinary Soldier and he believes it - that he would believe any statement he would make on the subject on oath or otherwise
Sworn to in open Court
●
this 12th day of December 1833-
I
S. Patterson
Jones Cooke
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State of North Carolina
Franklin County   December (illegible_) 1839

William Cook of the said County came into 
open Court and make oath that he is
Seventy nine years old and that he
as known Richard Jones upwards of
all fifty years that he is a
of good caracter and has always been, and that he has always been called revolutionary soldier and this affiant has no doubt of
fact - he has also always understood he was in the Battle at the Guilford Court House by the (illegible) said persons who had a right to know and that he was always called a good soldier.

This affiant further states that he would as soon believe the said Richard Reeve on oath or other such as he would any man.  Sworn to in open court this 18th day of December 1839.

S. Patterson
Wm. Cook
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State of North Carolina
Franklin County
December Sessions 1833.

William Arendell Clergy residing in the County of Franklin in the state of North Carolina
hereby Certify that I am well acquainted with
Richard Reeves in the same county who has subscribed and served to the above declaration.  I believe him to be seventy three years of age that he is (illegible) and beliefs in the neighborhood where he resided to have been a soldier of the revolution and that (illegible) in that opinion.

Sworn to and subscribed in open court this13th day of December 1833.

Wm. (Illegible) Esq.
S. Patterson

State of North Carolina
December Session 1833

(Illegible) the said court (illegible) declare that (illegible)


was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.  It appears William Pendell who has signed the proceeding certificate of a man resident in


(the ink in the rest of the letter is very faint, and difficult to decipher.)

Wm T Hollingsworth J.P.
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State of North Carolina
Franklin County

December 4, 1831

Tilman Patterson of the said County of Franklin aged (illegible) Seventy-two or seventy three said case in open court and saith oath that his is well acquainted with Richard Reeve of the said county and has been since the year 1779 that is that year he entered the service of the Revolution.

The said Reeves as a drafted citizen in Capt Ransomes Company that his (illegible) at the time sergeant of the said Company that the march rode through Dover County through Edgecombe and the (illegible) (illegible) to (illegible) (illegible) through South Carolina to the City of Charlestown in the state of South Carolina where we remained (illegible) three months and three weeks from the time we got home the reason we were not discharged at the end of the three months the time on (illegible) of Charlestown was the (illegible) to the (illegible) and our officers were (illegible) of the reinforcements we were discharged a few months before the said city (illegible) that men stationed in Charlestown 

(THE REST OF THE PAGE IS ILLEGIBLE)
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He had before noted in (illegible) that said Richard Reeves had acted a soldier a good one too.  during the state of said time and that Reeves and himself came home together after they were (illegible) that they were about ten days as this was (illegible) after said discharge - of their affidavit further states that the said Richard Reeves was of good caracter

(Illegible)
Sworn in open court (illegible)

State of North Carolina
Franklin County

Superior Court of the Spring term A.D. 1854

This day came into open Court Crawford Harney John Dent who maketh oath that they are well acquainted with Simon Patterson who signed the above affidavit, they state
that he is credible person and that his statement is entitled to Credit - sworn to and Subscribed in open Court this 9th day of April A.D. 1884
---
N Patterson
Clekkr of the Supr Court of Law for Franklin Countyy



And the said Court do hereby declare the opinion that the said Telmore Patterson who signed the above affidavit from above affidavit of Crawford Kearney & John Dent is a credible
person and that his statement is entitled to credit

T Patterson (illegible)
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State of N. Carolina
(Illegible) County

I Smith Patterson clerk of the court
and aforesaid county that at (illegible) 
(illegible) of the said court as the matter of (illegible) of Richard Reeves (illegible) (illegible) 
and (illegible) to the State of North Carolina, 
{next several sentences are illegible)  

State of North Carolina
Franklin County
I Nathan Patterson clerk of the Superior Court of Law for the County of Franklin aforesaid do (illegible) certify that the certificate of the credibility of Telman Patterson in the (illegible) page was made in open court.  Thomas Settle Esquire in the Judge of the Superior Court of Law and (illegible) for the State of North Carolina presiding and that his
presiding and that his official signature appears of thereto is General
Given under my hand & seal of
my office at (illegible) the
13 April 1834
N Patterson C.S.C.
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 29th July 1848

State of North Carolina
Franklin County

On this Eleventh day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty, personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Court of Pleas & Quarter sessions in and for said County duly authorized by law to administer oaths, Mary Reeves a resident of said County aged seventy eight years, who being duly sworn, according to
law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed on the 27th day of July 1848

That she is the widow of Richard Reeves a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States as appears by his pension certificate now in her possession that of which I certify the following is a true copy:

War Department"
Revolutionary Claim
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June 1832 Richard Reeves of the State of North Carolina
who was a private in the war of the Revolution
is entitled to receive Twenty dollars per annum
during his natural life commencing on the 4th of March 1831, and payable semi annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September in every year.

Given at the War office of the United States, this 21 dayof April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty four
℗
Examined and countersigned

J. L. Edwards
Secretary of War.
Commissioner of Pensions

Lew Cass
Secretary of War
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On the back of said certificate as the following endorsements

Payments to be made at Fayetteville by the (illegible) Bank Agent for paying Pensioners in the Agency of War. Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book E. Vol. 2 Page 71
by Nath Rice, Clerk

She the said Mary Reeves declares that she was married to the said Richard Reeves on or about the 16th day of October in the year 1799, that her name before marriage was
Mary Davis; that she was not married to the said Richard Reeves prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the second day of January, eighteen hundred
viz at the time stated. She further swears that her husband the said Richard Reeves died on or about the 17th day of November A.D. 1839 that she still remains his widow and that she has never before made any application for a pension
Witness

Wm J. Clarke
(illegible)

Mary Reeves (x her mark)

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above written before me
Robt Caffrey
Justice of the Court of Pleas & Quarter
Sessions of Franklin County N.C.
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State of North Carolina
Franklin County

I Young Patterson, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Franklin County aforesaid, which is a Court of record, do hereby certify that Robert Jeffrey is a Justice of the Court of pleas & Quarter Sessions presiding and holding said court during the
present year, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal of said Court
this fifteenth day of November, A.D. 1850
Patterson
⎬
Clerk of the Court of pleas & Quarter
Sisions of Franklin County
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State of North Carolina
Franklin County ⎬ SS


On this eighth day of November A.D. 1850 before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly authorized by law to administer oaths personally
appeared Young Patterson Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for said County, a person known to me and whom I certify to be fully entitled to credit, who being first duly sworn according to law doth upon his
oath declare that he is wholly disinterested in the statement which he now makes: That the Marriage Bond which Richard Reeves gave when he took out License to be married to Mary Davis appears of record in his office
and that the following is a true copy of the original bond, with the exception of the date, which is expressed therein in fair legible figures as follows:

Know all men by these presents W Richard Reeves & Samuel Young are held & firmly bound unto the Govt of the State of North Carolina in the sum of Five Hundred pounds which payment well & Truly to be made we bind ourselves our Heirs &c. But to be void
on condition that there doeth not hereafter appear any lawfull impediment to obstruct the marriage of the said Richard Reed & Mary Davis for which the said Richard hath obtained a Licence this sixteenth day of October Seventeen hundred and ninety nine

Richard Reeves (seal) ℗
Samuel Young (seal)
Test

Tho.  Brickell
I Young Patterson above named depose and say that I hold
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the office of Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in the County and State aforesaid and the above is a true and exact copy of the records of said Court with the exception above named as certified by me
G. Patterson
Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter sessions of Franklin County North Carolina
Sworn and subscribed the day and year above written, before me
P. J Brown

State of North Carolina
Franklin County ⎬
I Young Patterson Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Session of Franklin County aforesaid do hereby certify that P.J. Brown Esq. is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and author
ized by law to administer oath, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed my seal of office this
eighth day of November A.D. 1850
J. Patterson C.C.
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Regd - did the
(illegible) (illegible) 

Smith Patterson
Clk (illegible)
Franklin County
2,27 (illegible)
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BRIEF in the case of
Richard Reeves
of Franklin in the State of N.C
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 72
4. State his service, as directed in the form 

Period.   Duration of  Rank  Names of 
               Service                    General and Field 
              Years Months Days  Officers under  
                                               whom he served 

1780     nearly    3     private   Capt Ramsow 
                                                Col Lowrie  
1781                   3     private    Capt Harris
                                                 Col Dudley        

5. In what battles was he engaged? None mentioned

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Bute Co.Carolina

7> Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? traditionary two living witness

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
mentioned.

Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above
George Taylor
Examining Clerk.
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(ENTIRE PAGE IS BLANK)
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

October 11, 1928.


Mrs. T. Norris
Hotel Sir Walter
Raleigh, North Carolina

Madam

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W.7133, it appears that Richard Reeves was born in Surrey County, Virginia, date not
stated.

while a resident of Bute County, which was later called Franklin County, North Carolina, he enlisted and served as a private with the North Carolina troops as follows:
From January 1780, three months and three weeks in Captain Ransom's Company, in Colonel Lowry's Regiment.

In 1781, three months in Captains Thomas and Harris' Companies, in Colonel Dudley's Regiment and he was in the battle of Guilford Court House.

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 11, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Franklin County, North Carolina, aged seventy-one or seventy
-two years.
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He died November 17, 1839 in Franklin County, North Carolina
.
He married, October 16, 1779, Mary Davis. She was allowed pension on her application executed November 11, 1850, while a resident of Franklin County, North Carolina, aged seventy-eight years.

There are no further data on file relative to the
soldier's family.
Respectfully,
MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.
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Payments to be made
at Fayetteville
by the (Illegible) Bank
Agent for paying Pension
in the Agency of N. Car

Recorded in the Pension Office
in Book E Vol. 6
Page (illegible) by Nath Rice
Clerk
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Richard Reeves - of the State of North Carolina
who was a private in the war of the
Revolution is entitled to Twenty dollars and __ cents 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 21 day of April one thousand eight
hundred and thirty four.

Lew Cass
Secretary of War
Examined and
Countersigned.
J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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Immediate attention requested (
(written sideways on page)

Mr. (Illegible)
Please attend to this
(written sideways on page)

(illegible) G. E. Badger
James E Heath Esq
(illegible)
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Letter written on HOTEL SIR WALTER letterhead
12-12-278


Will you kindly give me all connected
with Richard Reavis Revis, Reaves
Revainner- of Franklin Co. N C
who in 1834 seems to have been 74
therefore born 1760 at least 74
when pension was (illegible) out

(illegible)
Ellis M. T. Norris
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Postal Stamp

D
Feb 2 1916

US Pension Office
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Aurora, N. C.,
Jan. 31st, 1916.
Department of the Interior,
Washington, D. C.
Sirs:-

Please send me a statement of the
military history of Richard Rives of
North Carolina, who was on the pension
list in 1835 for services in the Revolution.
Thanking you in advance for any
information, I am,
Very sincerely,
Eugenia Rives
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1916 Feb 8 History to Mrs.
Eugenia Reeves. M.B.H
1918 Oct " hist to
Mrs. M. J. Morris
Revolutionary War
WIDOW, &
C.
1833
File No.
Mary Reeves
Wid
Richard Reeves ┃
But Rev War ┃
Act: July 29 1848
I
Index: -- Vol. M, Page 154
Arrangement of 1870.]
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James E. Heath Esq
Board of Pensions
May I ask the early attention
(illegible) of Pensions to the
enclosed paper
G. E. Badger
Dec. 11 - 1850
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(illegible) Patterson
Apl 2 1834
No 12.27
Richard Reeves
No 6
Admit as private
him $20
Rejected
see letter to S. Patterson
Clerk Franklin Co. N.C.
April 27. 1833-
See let 1 S. Patterson Apl 22 1834
Louisburgh CH
N. C.
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Senate Chamber
Decr 18. 1850


Sir
I received three days ago the pension
certificate of Mary Reeves under of Richard Reeves, and thank you for the very prompt attention what you have given the case. In order to complete the benefit to her, will you please send me the directions necessary in order that she may obtain payment at
Fayetteville

Respectfully

your obs serv
Geo. E. Badger
To James E. Heath Esq
Board of Pensions
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The Honorable

James. L. Edwards
Com. of Pensions
Washington City
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To the Hon Heward

Henderson Depot
Granville County N. Carolina
December 13th 1849

Dear Sir:

Richard Reeves a Revolutionary Pensioner
lived and died in Franklin County about ten
years ago, having a widow Mary Reeves who is
entitled under the act of 1848 to a Pension in
right of her widowhood of Richd Res. She
has asked me to prepare her case and to get
the Pension for her. The Rules of your Department are strict in form as well as substance and show not the necessary forms. 
Will you do me the favor to have me sent the
necessary blanks (illegible) to the case and what year the amount of Pension drawn by
the late Richard Reeves & to which his
widow is entitled & when did his Pension
cease?
I have the honor to be
very respectfully
J. D. Hawkins
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of
Richard Reeves which require further proof or explanation.

1. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes

V. *Has he mentioned 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 amout of pension he is entitled? yes

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?

XIV. If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? yes
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath,
certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? yes
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? yes

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? yes

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? yes
EXPLANATORY NOTES
QUERE V. 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: Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. 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- year ---months, and --- days, I served as a --- For---_onths and
--- days, I served as a -; and for such service I claim a pension.
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant 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 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 shewn 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 field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
QUERE XIV. 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 claimants 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.

QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating
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 paper 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.
in every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, 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.
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War Department
Pension Office
(illegible) 1836

Sir:
I have examined the amended declaration
and it is herewith and that the credibility of Selman Patterson may or certified (illegible).
I am Respectfully
 (illegible)
J L Edwards


Smith Pattison Esq
Louisburgh
M
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
3 -- 525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., ---- 19--

In reply to your request of ---, received --- 
for a statement of the military history of
Richard Reeves  a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
28.7133
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.
1780'
1781

LENGTH OF SERVICE. 3 mos 3 weeks
3 months
3
---
RANK. Private 
erate
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
Battles engaged in,
CAPTAIN.
Ransom
(illegible)
(illegible) 

COLONEL.
(illegible)
(illegible)

STATE.
NC

Battles engaged in - Guilford
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Bute Co
Date of application for pension, Aug 2 (illegible)
Residence at date of application, Franklin Co, NC
Age at date of application, 72
-
-
Remarks: He married Oct 16 1799 Mary Davis He died Nov 17, Nov 1839 aged 78 years resident of Franklin Co, (illegible)  and

There is no further family data on file
Respectfully,
6 -- 2850
Commissioner.
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No 844
Mary Reeves
widow of Richard
NC
Act 29 July 1841
Married 1799
Hus died 1839
(illegible) 
$20 per annum,
(illegible) 1848

W. G. E. Badger,
U. S. Senate
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State of North Carolina
Franklin County
On this ninth day of November A.D. 1850 before me a Justice of the Court of pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County aforesaid personally appeared in said County Christopher C. Ing a person well known to me and whom I certify to be fully entitled to credit, who being first duly sworn according to law doth upon his oath declare that he is wholly disinterested in the statements which he
now make; that Mrs. Mary Reeves, who made the foregoing declaration, is the widow of Richard Reeves deceased, that he knew them well having been a near neighbour of them
for many years, that they lived together as man and wife and were always held and recognized as such, that the said Richard Reeves departed this life on the 17th day of November 1839
that this deponent made his coffin and was present when he was buried, that he often heard him speak of being a Revolutionary soldier and receiving a pension for his service
and that Mary Reeves, widow of said Richard still survives and she is still a widow

Sworn to on the day and year above written
before me the date 1839" being first interlined
Samuel Harris
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State of North Carolina
Franklin County ⎬

On this ninth day of November A.D. 1850 before me the undersigned a Justice of the Court of pleas & Quarter Sessions in and for said County duly authorized by law to administer oaths personally appeared Lucy
Murry a person well known to me and
whom I certify to be entitled to the fullest credit, aged about 17 years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth upon her oath declare that she is wholly disinterested in the statement, which she now makes, that
she was well acquainted with Richard Reeves deceased and knew Mary Davis whom he married before he married her, that she is the identical Mary who now survives him, that she did not attend the wedding but well remembers that her mother did, and that she went to a wedding shortly afterwards and that Richard Record and his wife Mary also attended it, that this deponent was married in September 1802 and that Richard Reeves and Mary Davis about two years before to the best of his recollection
Witness

Levi Wright
Lucy Murry (x her mark)

I certify that the foregoing affidavit was sworn to andsubscribed the day & year first above written before me and that I have known Mrs Mary Reeves about forty years and am fully satisfied of the truth of the foregoing state
ments with the exception of these relating to the marriage
Robert Jeffries
Justice of the Court of Pleas and
Quarter Sessions of Franklin County
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State of North Carolina
Franklin County

I, Young Patterson Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Franklin County aforesaid do hereby certify that Robert Jeffreys is one of the Justice of said Court who has presided and held said Court during the
present year & that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine - I also certify that Samuel Harris is a Justice of the Peace duly qualified to administer oaths and that he was such at the time of signing the foregoing
Certificate and that his signature thereto is genuine.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of Office this fifteenth day of November A.D. 1850
G. Patterson
Clerk of the Court of pleas & Quarter Session
of Franklin County North Carolina
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State of North Carolina
Franklin County

On this eighth day of November A.D. 1850, before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared Davis Young aged fifty nine years on the 22d of December next, a person well known to me and whom I certify to be fully entitled to credit who being first duly sworn according to law doth upon his oath
declare that he is wholly disinterested in the statements which he now makes. That he was born and raised at a place very near the residence of Richard Reeves, that he knew
Mary Davis whom he married before she was married, that he well recollects the neighbourhood report of their marriage
at the time the said Richard Reeves was married to the said Mary Davis; that he has been frequently to their house and
knows that they lived together as man and wife; that said Richard Reeves was he thinks, about thirty five years of age when he (this deponent first knew him, that he knows by
the neighbourhood report that said Richard Reeves died some years ago, some here between the year 1830 and 1840 he furthermore states that to the best of his recollection the marriage of the said Richard and Mary took place about the year 1800, and that the said Mary still remains the widow of the said Richard and that he believes that she
is still alive but cannot speak positively as she lives, about eight miles from where this deponent now lives.
Sworn and subscribed, the day and D. Young
year above written before me
J. Brown
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S
State of North Carolina
Franklin County
I, Young Patterson Clerk of the Court of pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that P.J. Brown Esq. is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn and
authorized by law to administer oaths, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed my seal of office this eighth
day of November A.D. 1850
G. Patterson Clk
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State of North Carolina
Franklin County
Pleas & Quarter Sessions
September Tenn 1832

On this the 11th day of August personally appeared in open Court before the Justice of the Court Pleas Quarter Sessions now sitting Richard Reeves a resident of the County & State aforesaid aged 72 years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth
on his oath make the following statement in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officer & served as herein stated
That he was drafted in the Militia service of this
State in the year 1780 whilst a resident of the County in which he now lives, then called Bute for the term of 3 months under Col Lowrie & Capt Ranson - that he was marched on to Charleston Carolina immediately after he was drafted & there remained untill his three months were near by expired - that he
joined the service in January & left Charleston
about the 9th of April - when he was discharged.
That in 1781 he was drafted in the militia for the term of 3 months under Col Dudley & Capt Harris
-
That he marched to Guilford Court House under Gen Green whom he had gained in Orange Count & was there at the engagement, from thence after all in the troops Gen Greene marched all his men to Ramsay Miller in Chatham County in pursuit of Ld Cornwallis after remaining then for a week or two, Gen Greene marched to Camden South Carolina.
& there this declarant until his time
expired
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he has no documentary evidence to establish his service.  He hereby relinquishes all claims whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid

T. Patterson 
Richard Reeves (x his mark)
Tilmon Patterson & Jane Jones

a soldier of the revolution & having served in the same both tours mentioned in the above declaration certify that we are well acquainted with Richard Reeves who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration: that we believe him to be 71 years old that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in the opinion 
sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid 
David Jones
Tilmon Patterson

And the said Court do hereby declare their
opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states.
And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Tilman Patterson &
who have also signed the same are residents of Franklin County & are credible persons & that their statement is entitled to full credit with Callenor 




I Tilmon Patterson Clerk of the Court of Pleas Quarter so (illegible) do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Richard Reeves for a pension-
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this the 4th of September 1832
T Patterson Clerk