Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4070, for Griffith Rees, Pennsylvania
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(3 - 1776)
Service
Penn.

Rees, Griffith

Number
S. 4070

carded
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Rev War
4070
INVALID.
File No. 4070
Griffith Rees
Pvt.  U.S. Army Pa

Act April 24, 1816
Index: - Index A, Page 311
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Pennsylvania
Griffith Rees
Private Pa Troops
In the Army U. States Red
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Inscribed on the roll of 
Pa st $2.50/100 per mo -
Increased to $4 by law
of the 24th of April 1816
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Cert issued 24 Sept 
1819 sent to Wm G Duane, Esq. Philadelphia
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City of Philadelphia Ss.
Griffith Rees of Montgomery county, having been duly sworn, says that he served in the revolutionary war, and received eight wounds of the bayonet; that he received a pension which Gen Maycan had the care of such matters but no recollection that he received a certificate, if he did receive now it is lost:  that he has hitherto drawn his pension at the loan office iwthout difficulty, being well known to the gentlemen therefor trust the office of his disposition is to Obtain a certificate to enable him to draw his pension as heretofore -

Sworn and acknowledged this 21st day of Sept, 1819, before me an Alderman of said city - 

J Badger
Ald'm

Griffith Rees
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NAME Rees, Griffith  
Pa.
SERVICE
Soldier states that he served in the Revolutionary War and received eight bayonet wounds.

The name Griffith Rees appears unpon a list of applicants for invalid pension returned by the District Court for the District of Pa submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on APril 25, 1794 and printed in the American State Papers, class 9 pages 99 and 172.  Rank Private and Lieut.  Capt Brooke's detachment of Pa militia.  Wounded in the body and on the head, in the month of October or November 1777, in Chester County, near Darby, being attacked by the British, said Rees was left on the field supposed to be dead.  
Residence, Upper Merion, Montgomery Co, entitles of half pension.  [small note]over

ALLOWED FOR. disability.  Private 
SOLDIER Sept 24, 1819
WIDOW None.

DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH [checkmark]
DATE AND PLACE OF DEATH March 9, 1820 from printed list of pensioners.
PLACES OF RESIDENCE Montgomery co, in 1819.
DATE AND PLACE OF MARRIAGE [checkmark]
NAME OF WIFE [checkmark]
NAMES AND AGES OF CHILDREN [checkmark]
DATE OF SOLDIER'S APPLICATION [checkmark]
DATE OF WIDOW'S APPLICATION [checkmark]
WIDOW'S AGE AND PLACE OF RESIDENCE [checkmark]
CERTIFICATE [checkmark]
ACT April 24, 1816.
AGENCY Pa
FILE NO. S. 4070
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The list of invalid pensioners of Montgomery Co. Pa. printed in 1835 shows Griffith Rees pensioned from March 7, 1794 under Act June 7, 1785.

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