Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8648, for Jacob Reese, Maryland
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Service
MD

Name
* Reese, Jacob

Number 
R.8648
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See Md Muster Rolls

Jacob Reese
Md Original
COLE

Widow's Pension

J. Minot Esqr.
Comm. of Pensions

H.G. Fant present
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No 39049
Jacob Reese decd
Maryland
H.G. Fant Feby 28, 1856

8648

June 7, 1832
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8648

Jacob Reese

REJECTED
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State of Maryland
City of Baltimore

On this 31st day of January AD one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six personally appears before me a justice of the peace within and for the city and state aforesaid Elizabeth Fant aged fifty years a resident of Baltimore City in the state of Maryland who being duly sworn according to law decares that she is the daughter of [illegible] Jacob Reese who was a private in the company commanded by blank in the regiment of Volunteers commanded by blank in the war with Great Britain (known as the War of the Revolution) declared by the United States on the day of [illegible] AD: That her said father Jacob Reese volunteered at the city of Baltimore for the term of the war and continued in actual service at Fort McHenry until the close of the war. She further states that she is the only surviving child of her parents that her father Jacob Reese died at the City of Baltimore on the 18th day of August AD 1850. That her mother [illegible] Reese also died at the city of Baltimore on the 21st day of July AD 1844. That she [illegible] married that by a reference to the muster and payrolls of the proof that her father married well before [illegible]. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the provision to which she may be entitled as his legal heir and representative and the act approved March 22nd 1852. She also declares that she has never received a pension or applied for the same that she is confident that neither her father or her mother applied or received one under this or any other act of congress. She does most solemnly declares that she is the only legal and [illegible] child now living of the aforesaid parents deceased. She hereby appoints Hamilton G Fant her attorney [illegible] claim and receive her amount of pension.

ILLEGIBLE

We Charles Williams and Jacob Palsfray residents of Baltimore City and State of Maryland, on our oath declare that the foregoing declaration signed and [illegible] by Elizabeth [illegible] in our presence, that we know the applicant to be the [illegible] person she represents herself to be that she is the legitimate and only surviving child of the aforesaid Jacob and Alay Reese deceased.

Charles Williams - SEAL
J B Palsfray - SEAL

The foregoing declaration and affidavits were sworn to and subscribed in open court on the day and year before written and I hereby certify that I know the applicant to be of sound [illegible] that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in this claim.  

Saml Hollingshead - J.P. SEAL
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State of Maryland
City of Baltimore 
To Wit

I hereby certify that Samuel Hollingshead Esqr before whom the aforegoing affidavits were sworn and who has [illegible] and subscribed the name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in and for the City of Baltimore duly commissioned and sworn.

In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Superior Court of Baltimore City
this 1st day of February 1856

Edwd Dowling - clerk

H.G. Fant
Present

358.