Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35,610, for John Reily, Pennsylvania
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Penn. Reily, John  S. 35.610
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20.437
Connecticut
John Reily of Litchfeild, Co [?] in the State of Connecticut who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Talbot of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Stewart in the Pennsylvania line, for the term of three years from 1777 to 1780.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 11th day of April 1832.  
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 of April 1832 and sent to [illegible]
J. Boardman, New Milford, Con.
Arrears to 4th of September 1832 $39.06
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 
   $39.06
Revolutionary Claim Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820.  
Rec. Book D. 1 of 3
for 63.
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35610
Invalid
Reily   
File No. 35610
John Reily 
Pri. Rev. War

Act: 18 March 18
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 474
{arrangement of 1870}
[initials on upper right corner]
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State of Connecticut
County of Litchfield
On this 11th day of April 1832 formally appeared before me Daniel J Boardman Chief [judge] of the County Court for said County of the same being a Court of Records, John Reiley, resident in [?hent] in said County aged eighty [illegible] years, in the said time being, through age and infirmity, incapable of appearing in open court, who being first duly sworn according to law doth in his Oath made the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the act of Congrefs of the 18th of March  1818 and the first of May 1820, that he the said John enlisted for the term of three years some time in the summer of the year 1777, in the state of Pennsylvania, in the [court?] of my commanded by Capt. Talbot, in the Reg-iment commanded by Col. Stewart, in the line of the State of Pennsylvania, in the Continental [illegible] enlistement when he was regularly discharged [illegible 2 words] while drinking has been lost by time and accident, that he relinquished every item whatever to a Private except the pennant, that his name is not upon the roll of any State except the State of Pennsylvania, and that the forthcoming and the reason for not making an earlier application was his living at a great distance from the State of Pennsylvania among the [illegible] where of he served at the time of the happenings thr  of the 18th of March 1818, to  same that [illegible] and not knowing where to find a single individual by whom he could prove his service, having at an early period forwarded and application which for some
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came not hear to him was never answered being for the whole of the time oppressed with extreme poverty & on the greater part of the period which has elapsed since the passing of the first pension and borne down with disease infirmity and old age
A foreigner by birth & having no one to aid
or advise him or encourage him in the [judgement?] of the object, he had given up the hope of being able to obtain any part of his adopted Country's bounty until recently
advised that if his name would be found upon the Rolls of the Regt in which he served his application would be attended to. although in an [illegible] by the affidavit of persons who knew how him while in service.
and I do in pursuance of the requirement
of the act of the first of May 1820 I solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 of March 1818 & that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part there 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 & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18th of March 1818, that I have not nor has 
any person in trust for me any property or securities in wants or debts owe to me, nor have I any property or income
whatever, nor have I any
property whereof to inhibit an [ investing?] having for a long time passed been supported by public and private charity
that I am wholly unable to labour through extreme age and infirmity, or to pursue any other [illegible] for or supports
that I have no
family residing with me or no persons
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able to support me and that from age
infirmity and decrepitude I am unable to
attend personally in Court. That I had not
on the 18 of March 1818, nor have I since
that had owned any real estate, nor personal property further than was necessary for
my daily support that from partial blindness
I am incapable of writing though once a good
writer
John [his mark] Reily
Sworn & declared in the 11 day of
AD 1832, before me David S. Boardman, Chief Justice of the County Court for Litchfield County
I David S. Boardman, Chief Justice of the County Court for the County of Litchfield wherein the Discharge of merits do hereby certify that the above named
John Reily is from old age & infirmities of
various kinds  & particularly from a disease called the Rheumatism with which he has long been afflicted, as I am informed & believe, to wit, for the share of seven or eight years & that he is unable to attend said Court of which I am a Judge as above stated I do not think from his present [appearance?] that he will be to attend said Court at its next session. I have therefore in pursuance of the act of Congress of the first of March 1823 attended at his place of abode & administered the foregoing Oath.
David S. Boardman, Chief Justice
I Frederick Wollcott Clerk of the
County Court for the County of Litchfield in
the State of Connecticut we hereby certify
that David P. Boardman, Esq. before whom
affidavit of John Reily, who is now infirm and
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fined to his House, was made, is Chief Judge
of said Court as aforesaid, and I do further
certify that the foregoing declaration and
Oath to the truth thereof have been filed
in the office of the Clerk of said Court
and that the same are truly [paid?] therefrom.
In testimony
whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal
of said Court on this eleventh day
of April 1832
Frederick Wolcott Clerk
of the County Court Litchfield County
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April 23 183[2]
Pension Office


New Milford Ct
April 17

free
The Hon Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
ren, to com: April 11th 1832
The Pension Office

Washington
Stewart's 3d Rgt.
[Pvt line?]
pensions 11 Apr 1832
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New Milford Cont Apl 18th 1832
Sir
In transmitting to you the enclosed declaration
of John Reily, I think it proper to state, as a reason for deviating from the prescribed forms in sundry particulars, that I found the old mans memory such a mere [ruin?], that I dare not administer to him an oath in regard to some of the particulars ordinarily inserted in such declarations, & prescribed in your forms, perceiving that the old mans memory
regarding them could not be trusted at all-- and in all honesty declared that he had no certain recollection upon the subject, as to the time of his enlistment, for instance, all he could say was that it was in Pennsylvania where he then & for a long time after coming to this County, resided & in Philadelphia as he thought & at no very long period before the Battle of Brandywine which you know, was on the 11th Sept 1777
and all he could tell about his discharge was that it was at the expiration of the 3 years for which he enlisted
He said true indeed that he thought it was in the State of New Jersey and probably
 it was so but his memory seemed to be so indeterminate upon that part that I did not
set it. I have, for examining into doubt at
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all of his having served in the Campaigns of '77 and '78 or of his having been present at the battles of Brandywine, Germantown & Monmouth, & of course no doubt of his having served as he says he did for the
3 years- nor have any doubt of his having served in the year 1776 in Canada, & being at the battle at the Three Rivers & being there made prisoner;
but thinking not so probable that the Muster
Rolls of that service are to be found in the War office I did not think it worth while to incumber the declaration with a state of it, especially as I found his broken memory would betray him into errors expecting many of the required particulars
It is quite certain that he has not mind enough left to devise or execute a plan of information, nor is their  [there] in him the Court appearance of such an attempt
It is believe more than 30 years since I first
knew the old man, he has for many years been a State [pauper?] as they are called here, being supported by the State & in the last stage of miserable old age & decrepitude; a pension can to [illegible] be of no great consequence to him, but I have no doubt of his being entitled sit-- Whatever answer is given to the application, it is requested that it may be forwarded to me.
I am Sir Respectfully
Honorable David L. Boardman