Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35044, for John Reed, Maryland
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Service
MD

Name
Reed,[^2d] John

Number
S.35044
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8914 
Maryland roll.
John Reed, 2[illegible: annotation denoting 2nd]
of Harford Co. in the state of Maryland who was a Private in the regiment commanded by colonel Rogers of the Maryland line, for the term of three years to 1779

Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 28 of Aug. 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 3. of April 1814, and sent to Henry Dorsey, Clk of Harford Co., Ct. Maryland.

Arrears to 4th of March 1819..... 50.06 
Semi-anl. all'ce Sept. 4. 1819....   48.    "
amt 6mo 8/31                    $98.06

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March 1818.}

Continued

Settlement Letter sent [illegible]
House of Rep Jany 13, 1821

Date of Death not on PB
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35044
Revy
INVALID

File No. 35,044
John Reed
Pri Rev War

Act 18th March '18

Index Vol 2 Page 474

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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John Reed 2nd
Rev Pensioner
Copy of Affidavit
0914
verify
Arches [possibly abbreviation of Archives] of Maryland
C
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SCHEDULE

United States of America
Maryland Harford County

On the 5th day of September 1820 personally appeared in open court being a court of record that is to say Harford County Court John Reed 2nd aged seventy years resident in Harford County aforesaid in said state who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows: That he was enlisted in Harford County, Maryland by Capt. Prawl in the year 1777 for and during the war first mustered under Capt. Prawl, ordered to Baltimore under Cap. Price and joined the 1st Maryland Regiment and from thence ordered to Philadelphia and then to New York and from thence ordered to Long Island in which engagement I fought under Prawl until I was taken prisoner and remained a prisoner about three months before I was exchanged, after I returned I joined my Reg't near West point and after the siege at West Point I was ordered on to South Carolina to the Quarter House at which place I was encamped and then ordered to Camden at which place I fought and received a wound and after I got well joined my Reg't at Camden and remained there until the British drove us away and after that I was continually on scouting parties until I was ordered on to Annapolis MD at which place I was honorably discharged by the order of General Green and I lost my discharge that he hath been placed on the Revolutionary pension list of the Maryland agency as will more fully appear by his pension certificate bearing date the 3rd day of April 1819 and numbered on the back 8914 and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th March
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1818 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 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contract, or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed, Schedule referred to Viz: one bucket 25 cents that he hath no trade and lives at the Harford County Alms House that he has no family and were it not for his pension aforesaid it would not be in his power to support himself, as he has for the last seven years been supported by the County as he is old and unable to work.

John Reed 2nd
His X Mark

Sworn to and declared on the 5th day of September 1820.

Before Wm H. Ward associate Judge of the Sixth Judicial District of Maryland

I Henry Dorsey clerk of Harford County Court in the sixth judicial district of Maryland 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 said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is only twenty-five cents.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court on this fifth day of September 1820.

Henry Dorse - Clerk of Harford County Court in the Sixth Judicial district of Maryland
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Further proof of the applicant having served on the continental establishment required.

Adm.

Auditor Gen'l 
of Maryland
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State of Maryland

On this 28th day of August 1818 before me the subscriber, Chief Judge of the sixth Judicial District of Maryland personally appear John Reed aged about seventy four years resident in Harford County in the said district who being by me first duly sworn according to alw doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the late act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary war". That he the said John Reed enlisted in the army about 1775 in Harford County in the state of Maryland in the company commanded by Captain Payer of the first Maryland Regiment

That he continued to serve in the said corps or in the service of the United States until the end of the war when he was discharged from service at Annapolis State of Maryland; that he was in the battles of Long Island, Eutaw, Brandywine, Trenton and Germantown and at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at York; and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his county for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his paid services.

Sworn before Walter Dorsey

I, Walter Dorsey, Judge as aforesaid of the sixth judicial district of Maryland do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said John Reed did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the proceeding declaration against the common enemy, during the whole of the revolutionary war on the continental establishment and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and held before me to the secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of congress.

August 28th, 1818

Walter Dorsey
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State of Maryland, Harford County Md.
I hereby certify that the honourable (honorable) Walter Dorsey Esquire before whom the within affidavit appears to have been made and by whom the within certificate appears to have been given and who has thereto signed his name was at the time of so doing and now is Chief Judge of the Sixth Judicial District of Maryland duly commissioned and sworn.

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this twenty-ninth day of August eighteen hundred and eighteen.

Henry Dorsey - Clerk
Harford County Court
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Auditor Office Annapolis March 22, 1819
I hereby certify that it appears from the Master
Rolls remaining in the Auditors Office that
John Reed enlisted as a private in
the first Maryland Regiment on the 10th
day of December 1776 and was discharged on the 27th, December 1779
Thos. Karney Audr
State Md