Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35042, for Tobias Reynolds, Maryland
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SERVICE                                        NUMBER
 Md.              Reynolds, Tobias      S.35042
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350
Maryland Roll
Tobias Reynolds 4
Capt Norwood
Private Maryland Line In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 15th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 4th of May 1818 and sent to T. Bailey Esqr. in Baltimore
Arrearages to 4th Septr. 1818
4 months 21/31-     $37.41
{Revolutionary claims, Act 18th March,1818}
Three years from 1777
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1320  INVALID.
[illegible]   35042
File No. 35042
Tobias Reynolds Priv Rev War
Act: 18th March 1818
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 337
Arrangement of 1870
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State of Maryland,
Anne Arundel County let
April 6th. 1818.
Tobias Reynolds of the said state and county, appeared before me the subscriber chief judge of the third judicial District in the said state, and being duly sworn on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God, disposed, said and declared as follows - to wit, that he the said Tobias Reynolds entered into the
military service of the United States as a private soldier in the 4th Regiment of Maryland troops (then commanded by Col. Hall) on the 3rd day of April 1777; that he joined the army at a place called Rocky Hill in the state of New Jersey, soon after in the same year, that he was in the battle of Brandywine,
the battle of  [illegible] and the battle of
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State of Maryland, Anne Arundel County Court.
  I hereby certify that the honorable Jeremiah Townley Chase Esquire who appears to hence taken and signed the aforegoing affidavit was at the time of taking and signing thereof, Chief Judge of the third Judicial District of the State of Maryland [illegible] comprehending the Counties of Calvert, Anne Arundel and Montgomery, duly commissioned and qualified and to all his acts as such full faith and credit are and ought the given as well in Courts of Justice as thereout.
In Testimony whereof I hereto set
my name and affix the seal of Anne
Arundel County Court this same
day of April in the year of our Lord
one thousand Eight hundred and eighteen
Wm S Greene [illegible]
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I certify that it appears by the Masters of Maryland Troops that Tobias Reynolds a private in Captn. Norwoods Company of the 4th Regt Enlisted on 3rd of April 1777 & was Discharged on 24th May 1780.
R Lockerman Retd. Genl.
Auditors Office Annapolis 6th April 1818
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This is to certify, that, Tobias Reynolds, soldier in the 4th regiment of Maryland troops, having served the fill term of three years for which he was enlisted, is hereby discharged from the said regiment and troops,
Given under my hand, in the city of Annapolis, this 13th day of May 1780.
W Forrest LtCol. [illegible] Officer

State of Maryland, Baltimore County Ss
On the Fifteenth day of April in the year eighteen hundred and eighteen. personally appear Richard Biddle, now resident of the City of Baltimore aged seventy two years or thereabout who being by me duly sworn, deposed and said that during the Revolutionary War he was regularly enlisted into the service of the United States in Captain J. Sillmans Company of foot in the Regiment Commanded by Col. J. Gavin Hale in the Maryland line for the term of three years that he first got acquainted with Tobias Reynolds new private at West Point on the North River in the year 1777, served with him in said Col. Hales Regiment during the term for which he enlisted and well known that said Tobias Rynolds, now present, to be the person entitles to the above discharge -
Scribed and sworn to at the City of Baltimore
before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for said County this 15th April 1818 Tho Bailey
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              Richard       X        Biddle
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Baltimore County} [illegible]
I hereby certify that Thomas Bailey Esquire before whom this written deposition of Richard Biddle appears to have been made may at the time of taking and subscribing the same [illegible] Justice of the Peace in and for Baltimore County duly commissioned and qualified: and to all his acts as such full faith and credit are and ought to be given.
In testimony whereof and hereunto subscribed
my name and affixed the seal of my office this fifteenth day of April ano [illegible] eight hundred and eighty -
Wm Gibson [illegible] Balt. County Courts
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Tobias Reynolds
351
Sep 1818
Con
JLS
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District of Maryland for Anne Arundle County
On the 25th day of Apr 1821 Personally appeared Tobis Reynolds aged about 60 yrs resident of Anne Arundel County, who being first  duly sworn according to Law with on his oath declare that he served as a private soldier in the 4th Maryland Regmt. commanded by Col. C Hale in the Company commanded by Capts. Edward Norwood from May 77 until 24 May 80 when he was discharged in Annapolis in the State of Maryland by Col. Uriah Forrest, and he does solemnly swear that he was a [illegible] Citizen of the United States on the eighteenth of March 1818 and that he has not since then  [illegible] date or in any manner disposed of his property or any funds thereof with intent thereby so as to diminish it as to bring himself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the law [illegible] service of the US. in the revolutionary War" prepared on the 18th day of Mar. 1818 and that he had not [illegible] any person in trust for him any property or securities contracts or debts due to him [illegible] he any income other than what is contained in his Schedule [illegible] and by him described.
      Schedule of property
1 old horse - 3 cows- 9[illegible] hogs -17 Sheep - 1 old plough, 2 shovels - and 3 old hoes - 2 old iron pots - 1/2 dozen plates - 6 knives & forks, He has
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a wife 55 years of age very infirmed - 8 children the oldest son 28 yrs he is a cripple, another son 22 yrs able to work, the other 6 children are some of them are able to work and some of them are not able, and that he himself is unable to perform hard labour he being a labourer by profession, and that he is in such Indignant circumstances as to be unable to support himself without the assistance of this County, it does also appear by a Certificate from the war department and he was placed on the pension list to commence on the 15th day of Apr. 1818 and he believes he had [illegible] his pension this time.
Property contained in the Schedule valued by the court ab Eighty five dollars.
                               his
                   Tobias   X  Reynolds
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Sworn to and declared in Open Court this 25th day of April 1821 Before the