Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8391, for Reuel Powders, Delaware
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[printed card with handwriting]

SERVICE
Del.
Powders, Reuel
NUMBER
R. 8391
CONTENTS
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[handwritten]

Rejected
See letter to John C Handy 25th Jany 1821 -
ctd
8391
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[printed form with handwriting]

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873. [lined out]
8391
Ruell Powders
REJECTED [ink stamp]
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17,305.
Ruell Powders.
[illegible lined out]
Worcester Co: Maryland.
Declaration cc
28. July, 1820.
Colo. Hall's [lined out] Haz^[insert]elett regimt.
Delaware line,
1776-one year.
The Secretary of State for the State of Delaware is requested to certify from the rolls, the period of this applicants' service.
worth $:40.00.
John C: Handy, agt.
Snow-hill, Maryld.
28. Augt. 1820.
[appears vertically on left side]
Rejected on Certificate of dec: of State of Delaware.
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Original Claim
District of Maryland
Worcester County Ss
On this 28th
day of July 1820 personally
appeared in open Court being a Court of record
for the said County 
Ruell Powders aged sixty one
years who being first
duly sworn according to law doth on his oath
make the following declaration in order to obtain
the provision made by the act of Congress of the
18th March 1818 and the 1st May 1820 that he
the said Ruell Powders enlisted for
the term of twelve months on the 
[blank] day of [blank]
in the year 1776 in
the State of Delaware
in the company 
commanded by Captain David Hall
in the regiment commanded by Colonel David [lined out]
- Hazelett in the line of the State of Delaware on the continental
establishment that he continued to serve in the
said corps untill [sic] February 1777
when he was discharged from the said service in
Philadelphia in the State of Pensylvania [sic]
That he was in the battles of Trenton and
Princeton
and that he has no
(other)
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other evidence now in his power of his said
services except the affidavit of Thomas Dazey hereto ┃
annexed

And in pursuance of the act of the 1st May 1820
I do solemnly swear that I was a Citizen of the
United States on the 18th day of March one
thousand eight hundred and eighteen 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 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
on the 18th day of March one thousand eight
hundred and eighteen 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 any income other than what is contained
in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me
subscribed-
Two cows and one calf. Three [lined out] Common Gabley One Desk and
chest of Drawers Ten common chairs, Two chests, One Trunk
one loom five Pewter dishes six knives & forks sixty
chickins. [sic] That this declarant is a carpenter that he is infirm
that he has but his wife sarah who has been long infirmed
and a small negro girl called Sarah in his family 
Reuel Powders
sworn to and declared on the 28th day of
July 1820
Before
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$40 -
I John C Handy Clerk of Worcester County
Court do hereby certify that the foregoing
oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are
truly copied from the records 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 the property exhibited in the aforesaid
Schedule is of the [lined out] Forty - dollars and
[blank] cents. In Testimony whereof I have here
unto set my hand and affixed the seal of the 
said Court on this
21st day of August 1820
John C Handy
Clerk of the Court of the County Worcester

State of Maryland
Worcester County Ss} Personally appeared before me the 
subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County
Thomas Dazey and made oath in the holy Evangelist 
of Almighty God that Ruel Powders
was a Soldier in the American Army under Capt William Perry
Sussex County State of Delaware during the year Seventeen
Hundred and Seventy Seven and that he said
Dazey served with said [illegible lined out] ^[insert] Powders under
said Capt Perry during said year 1777
Given under my hand and seal this 3d day of July 1818
John Williams seal [hand circled]
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Office of the Secretary of the State of Delaware
Dover 11 Jan 1821-
There is in this office "a muster roll of Captain David Hall's company & Delaware
Regiment of Continental Troops commanded by Colonel John Hazlet, and in the service
of the United Colonies in barracks at Lewis Town the eleventh day of April 1776", which
I have carefully examined and the name of Reuel Powders does not [underlined] appear
therein.
The same in this office Pay Rolls of "Col. David Hall's company of the Delaware Regiment
commanded by Col. David Hall from September 1778 to March 1780, and muster roll for the
said company for the month of August September October and November 1779 and April 1780,
all of which was carefully examined and the name of Reuel Powders does not [underlined] appear
in any of them - Except this [illegible] and muster rolls above mentioned there are no others for this
aforesaid company in this office when to my knowledge
Then an in this office no pay or muster rolls of Captain William Perry's company
That company known never was attached to the Delaware Regiment nor in the service
of the United States, in the Continental establishment during the revolutionary war 
as it is believed -
H. M. Ridgely
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Ruel Powders
Declaration &c.
Recd. 2 July 1821.
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Original Claim
State of Maryland
Worcester County ss} On this twentieth day of April
1821 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of
record of unlimited civil and criminal jurisdiction keeping
a record of proceedings and having the power of fine
^[insert] and imprisonment for the County aforesaid Ruel Powders aged sixty three
years who being first duly sworn according to law
doth on his oath make the following declaration
in order to obtain the provision made by the acts
of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the 1st May 1820,
that he the said Ruel Powders enlisted for the term
of one year in the month of January in the year 1776
in the State of Delaware in the company commanded by Captain
David Hall in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Hazlet 
in the line of the State of Delaware in the company commanded [lined out]
in the continental establishment that
he continued to serve in the said corps until the 1st day
of January 1777 when he was discharged in Trenton in
the State of New Jersey and immediately volunteered for
the period of six weeks in the company commanded by the same
Captain and in the Regiment commanded by the same
Colonel after which said period of voluntary service
he was discharged from said service in the City of Philadelphia
in the State of Pennsylvania. That he was in
the Battles of Trenton and Princeton and that he has no
other records now in his power of his said services.
And in pursuance of the act of the 1st May 1820 I
solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United
States on the 18th day of March one thousand eight hundred
and eighteen 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 on the 18th day of
March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and
(that)
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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 any income other than what is contained in the schedule
hereto annexed and by me subscribed
One pair of brass andirons, one pair of tongs and shovel
one desk, one chest of drawers, three tables, eleven chairs
two trunks, two chests, three looking glasses, twenty framed
pictures, one dozen cups and saucers two dozen plates
six dishes, and coffee pot, one tea pot, a half dozen silver
tea spoons one dozen pewter spoons, three brass candlesticks
one pair of silver candle snuffers, a half dozen knives
and forks, two cows, three hogs, twenty [?] fowl. The
principal part of this property I acquired by marriage,
in more prosperous days, and and [duplicate] indebted more then it is
worth. My occupation is that of a mill Wright and and [duplicate]
at intervals severely afflicted with rheumatism. My
wife is aged about sixty six years and is very infirm and
she is the only member of my family except a negro girl
which was formerly my property but given in security for
a debt which owe
Reuel Powders
Valued at $50 -
Sworn to in open Court
Test John C Handy Clk.
I John C Handy Clerk of Worcester County do hereby
certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule
thereto annexed are truly copied from the
Record of said Court and I do further certify, that
it is the opinion of the said Court that the total
amount in value of the property exhibited in the
aforesaid Schedule is fifty Dollars
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of the 
said court on this 25th day of June 1821
John C Handy Clerk of the Court
of the County of Worcester