Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8642, for John Redick, Pennsylvania
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(8--1776)
SERVICE
Penn

Redick, John   NUMBER R8642
              Susan


CONTENTS
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No. 3032

Susan Redick, widow of John Redick-
[Sct} D. P. Olive Oct 8/53
Rly

86.812

Rev
Act 3rd Feb 1853
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1922 May 11- list to- Geo. H. Redick- [E?]

REJECTED
8642
P.O.
Susan Redick
Service:
Enlisted:
Discharged:
Application filed:
Alleges:           Claim filed too late
Re-enlisted:    to have [cause] of 
                          rejection entered but
                          [illegible: furnished] list of 1832
Attorney:
P. O. ---
---Recognized. ---Contract.
---Cert. of Dis. Searched for ---
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Chicago, IL Apr. 3, 1922

Bureau of Pensions,
Revolutionary War Section,
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:

Desiring to join the Sons of the American Revolution,
find it necessary to append copy of my ancestor's pension certificate. May I be favored with same?
His name was JOHN REDDICK and while residing in Muskingon County, Ohio, obtained a pension. He was born about 1758 or 9.
Whatever data you may find on his record, will be greatly appreciated.
May I have the information at your early
convenience and oblige.
Yours very truly
George Hamilton Reddick
Room 1323 Stock Exchange Building,
Chicago,

STAMP: U. S. PENSION OFFICE
               K   Apr 5, 1922
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D. P. Olive
Oct 8/53
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112

Pension Office
Oct. 8. 1853

Sir
The papers in the case of Mrs Susan
Redick, who claims a pension as the widow
of John Reddick have been received, examined
and the claim suspended.
The description of the service of her alleged
husband is too indefinite for search of our records.
By making a proper application to the Auditor
General of the State of Pennsylvania, proof of
his service may possibly be found. In such
application, however, the claimant, must, of
course, state all the facts she is in possession or can collect, bearing upon said service
Very respectfully
&c
D. P. Olive Esqr
Sign,
Perry Co
Ohio
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State of Ohio Perry County
On this tenth day of August A.D. 1853 personally appeared in open Court being a Court
of Record before me William M Brown
Judge of the Probate Court of said County
Susan Recick a resident of Perry County Ohio
aged sixty seven years who being duly sworn
according to law doth on her oath make the
following declaration in order to obtain the
benefit of the provisions made by the act of
Congress passed Feb 3d 1853 that she is
the widow of John Redick who was a private
in the company Commanded by Captain George Gear the
[Colonel  not]recollected in the revolutionary War and that he resided seven in Lancaster
County State of Pennsylvania
[crossed out:when he] went into the service of United States
and that he was in the battle of
Brandywine and that she does not know
what length of time he served or what
year during the revolutionary War unless
it was the 1777 it being the year that the
Battle of Brandywine was fought She
further declares that she was married to the
said John Redick on the 30th day of March
AD 1830 that her husband the aforesaidJohn
Redick  died on the 30th day of December AD
1851 aged ninety two years that she was
married to him at the time above stated
and that the said John Redick never made
to the best of her knowledge an application
for a pension and that she was a widow at
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to passage of the act aforesaid and is still widow and that she has never before mad application for a pension.   Susan (her mark) Redick
Sworn to and subscribed in open court on the day and year above written.
                                   //s//
                        William M. Brown
                                 Probate Judge
   I William M. Brown Judge of the Probate Court of the County of Perry and State of Ohio do hereby certify Susan Redick maker of the aforesaid declaration is the widow of the aforesaid John Redick and that she was a widow at the passage if the act aforesaid and is now a widow in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Somerset, Perry County, Ohio the thirteenth day of August A.D. 1853 
                               //s//
                     William M. Brown 
                                 Probate Judge

Muskingum County ss.
 
    I hereby certify that on the 30th day of March 1830 I joined together in holy bonds of matrimony John Redick and Susanah Lane. (2-3 words illegible) my hand.
                                                //s//
                                       Charles Henkel 
                                                     M. Joshua


The State of Ohio Muskingum County ss.

    I Mahlon Lims, Judge of the Probate Court within and for said county hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the record of the marriage of John Redick and Susanah Lane as appears on the record of marriage now in my office.

    Witness my hand and the seal of said court at Janesville this 25th day of August 1853.

                                         //s//
                               Mahlon Lims Judge
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State of Ohio, Perry County  ss.

    Personally appeared before me the undersigned an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said county and state aforesaid, Benjamin Barnett of lawful age who being duly sworn according to law says that John Redick died on the 30th day of December A.D. 1851 and that he left Susan Redick his widow who has remained his widow ever since his death and she was a widow at the passage of the Act of Feb. 3rd, A.D. 1853 and is now a widow.

                                         //s//
                                Benjamin Barnett

    Sworn to and subscribed this 9th day of August A.D. 1853 before me. 

                                             //s//
                                   John Forsythe J.P.

The state of Ohio, Perry County ss.

   I John Beckwith Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said county do hereby certify that John Forsythe Esqr. before whom the above affidavit was taken was at the time of taking the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified as such and that his signature thereunto is genuine.

             In testimony whereof I have set my hand and seal of said court this 10th day of August 1853.
                                             //s//
                           John Beckwith Clerk
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Sego, Perry County, Ohio} ss.

    Honorable Commissioner of Pensions,

   I send you the declaration of Susan Redick widow of (John Redick decd. who was a revolutionary soldier) for a pension under the Act of February 3rd 1853.  Please inform me what else may be done in the William Burden dec. case that I sent proof and (2-3 words illegible) month ago and I have (illegible) to you there and (2-3 words illegible) from you direct to Sego, Perry County, Ohio (faded sentence)



Susan Redick.
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May 11, 1922.

George H. Reddick,
Stock Exchange Bldg.,
Room 1333, Chicago, Ill.

Sir:

   In response to your letter dated April 3, 1922, you are advised that from the papers in the Revolutionary War claim R. F. No. 8642, it appears that John Redick lived in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania at the time of the Revolution.  It is alleged that he served under Captain George (date not stated) and that he was in the Battle of Brandywine.  He died December 30, 1831, aged 92 years.

    He married March 30, 1830, in Muskegon County, Ohio, Susanah, or Susan, Lane.  She applied for pension August 10, 1853, while residing in Perry County, Ohio, aged 67 (?) years, but her claim was not allowed, as she failed to furnish satisfactory proof of his services as required by the pension laws.

                                 Very respectfully,

                                 Commissioner, 


(Transcriber's note: I am not sure the dated of marriage is correct.  It was copied as written but, if correct, it would make Mr. Reddick to have been 91 years old on his wedding day. Previous documentation puts his date of death as 1851.)