Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8689, for Frederick Reed, North Carolina
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District of North Carolina
On this 7th day of February 1820, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the United States for the district aforesaid, personally appeared Frederick Reed aged sixty eight years, or thereabout resident in Orange County in the said district, who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath, make the
following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United it in the Revolutionary war: 
That in or about the month of May in the year 1778, to the best of his recollection, he the said Frederick Reed
turned out from Captain Horn's Company of Militia, at Nash Court house in the State of North Carolina, & took the bounty  to serve as a soldier in the North Carolina line on the continental establishment, for the term of nine months - that he received his said bounty of Col Hunter or by his orders; - that he was marched to Halifax and was then put into the company  commanded by Captain John Baker, of the tenth regiment of the said line and establishment - that he was then marched to the vicinity of Petersburg Virginia and his time of service was not permitted to commence until his arrived at the place last aforesaid, which was in or about the month of July of the year last aforesaid, that he continued to serve in the said company until the full end nine months - the year from the time his service commenced as last aforesaid until about the last of May in the year 1779 when to the best of his recollection and belief, he obtained his discharge from said service in the Philadelphia barracks, Pennsylvania; that he was in no battles, and that he is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his country for support
H. Potter Jr
Elisha Boon maketh Oath that he served with the aforesaid Frederick Reed in the company commanded by Captain Baker of the regiment on the North Carolina line on the continental establishment, for the term of nine months, in the revolutionary war - that said Frederick entered said service in Nash County, N Carolina, marched to Halifax and there to of Petersburg, where his said service commenced, which was about July 1778, and that he served fully nine months in said Corps -
the deponent left him in the Philadelphia hospital to April 1779 - that Frederick was then sick & unable to said H. Potter D C
Sworn to before 10 Feby 1820.