Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 41976, for Benjamin Reed, North Carolina
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State of North Carolina ⎬ At Court of Pleas and Quarter sessions
 Gates County
Began and held at Gates Court House for the County of Gates on the third Monday in November 1821. On the 19th day of November 1821, personally appeared
in open Court being a Court of Record for the said County of Gates Benjamin Reed aged Sixty three years resident in the County of  Gates who being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare  that he was in the revolutionary war as follows: Brandywine, Monmouth, the Eutaw Springs + was taken a prisoner at Charleston -
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it so to being my self within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "an Act to provide for certain him engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States, in the revolutionary war" passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that he has not any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debt due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed by me submitted
Schedule of all the Estate of Benjamin Read both real and personal excepting his clothes & bedding a small crop of corn not to exceed three bushels -that he is a farmer by  trade - that he has a stiff arm by fracture from a wound received in the revolutionary service - that he is hereby unable to perform any laborous business - that he has a wife by the name of Juasy [?]aged Sixty two who is also very old and infirm and that he has no other family and entirely depending upon rented land for except support the charity of the citizen of his County heretofore extended. Sworn to and declared on the 19th
day of November 1821 - before Summer O.
Benjamin Reed
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