Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4051, for William Reed, Pennsylvania
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Penn  Reed, William  S. 4051
Carded.
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Order to pay
see let to J W Groesbeck
2d June 1836
clo to [illegible], May 17, 1837
Paid at the Treasury under the
act of the 6 April
1838 from 4 Sept 1838 to the
4 March 1839. Agt Notified
20 April 1840
Paid as above from 4 March
1839 to 4 Sept
1839. Agent
notified 18th June
1840

No 7.705.
Ohio
William Reed
Delaware in the State of Ohio
who was a Private in the Company commanded by
Captain Kennedy of the Regt commanded
Col Culbert in the Penna Militia
6 months from 1777
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
the rate of 20. Dollars
Cents per annum
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of March
1833
and sent to Thomas
Reynolds Clerk of Delaware Co O.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $40.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep 33 10.00
-
$50.00
 
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by F.S. Evans Clerk. 
Book E Vol. 8. Page 22
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William Reed's application for pension. 20109
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The State of Ohio Delaware County.  Be it remembered that on the nineteenth day of November in the year eighteen hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in Ohio court, before the judges of the court of c[illegible-- commerce?]. Pl[ineligible] in and for the county of Deleware, now in [ineligible], William Reed a resident of Ohio; aged eighty on years on the 12th day of December next, who having first duty [ineligible] accounting to law, cloth[ineligible] on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the unit of [ineligible] June 7 1832. I [ineligible] William Reed whom my [ineligible...] in the County of Tyrone in London [ineligible]  (12th day of December in the years as well as I am informed) 1751; [ineligible] rain there until I was about the age of 22 years, whom in the year 1773, I left London and came to America. I landed at Newcastle in Delaware and immediately went to Philadelphia. Some time afterwards I settled in Cumberland County Pennsylvania about 9 miles from Carlisle. I was the first in the militia who were there [ineligible] into several [ineligible]. I belong to the [ineligible]. The first and second [ineligible] were [ineligible] on [ineligible] out into actual service a short time before the battle of Germantown for to serve a town of [ineligible] months. At that time I served under Captain Thomas [ineligible]. Do not recollect the name of our [ineligible] colonel's name, but the name of our 20 colonel was [ineligible] Culbertson whose given name was I think Robert ^ also we were under the command of general Potter. I do not recollect this day *smudge* called into actual service but I [ineligible] marched towards Germantown ^ with my company, and arrived at Reading the evening after the battle of Germantown. The militia to whom I helped were generally [ineligible] in routing watching the movements of the enemy; our guarding the ferries and [ineligible] of the Delaware river above Philadelphia. While this enveloped we took a number of [ineligible] of the enemy. After serving two months I was discharged.
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The state of Ohio
Delaware County Be it remembered that on the nineteenth day or November in this year eighteen hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open court, before the judges of the court of common place in and for the county of Delaware, now in Zepion, William reed a resident of Troy Township in this county of Delaware and state of Ohio, age eighty one years on the 19th day of December next, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declarationin order to obtain the benefits of the
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with the residence of my company and returned home. 
I think it was the next year that I was called out again with the [ineligible] to serve another tour of two months. I do not recollect the precise time . My company this time was commanded by a Lieutenant whose name I do not recollect, but we were under the command of Col. Gibson. We were this time marched up the [ineligible] River to a place called the [ineligible] stones; where we were stationed at a fort to guard the county from the [ineligible]. After serving my tour of two months I was again discharged and returned home. 
After some time I removed from Cumberland Country to the western part of Pennsylvania, to a place called [ineligible] Creek, which I think was in [ineligible]-ton county. I was here called on drafts again, about the close of the revolutionary war, to serve another tour of two months as before. I served this time under Capt. Baylor. We marched to a fort where one John backer resides at a place called the Mingo=Bottom on the Ohio river some where between Pittsburg and Wheeling. The fort and place was under the command of Col. Poke. After serving tour of two months at this place I was again discharged and returned home. 
The militia of Pennsylvania at that time, were all claped and liable to be called out into actual service to serve a period of two months at a time. The [ineligible] to which a person belongs was never changed though he changed his residence and company. 
If ever I received any written discharges from the service at the different times I served I have long since lost them. I do not know that it is in my power to produce any other evidence of my services. 
A few years after the revolutionary war, I returned to  Bourbon County Kentucky and resided for a number of years at [ineligible] in the vicinity of Paris. It is something more than twenty years since I left Kentucky and came to and since home [ineligible]
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Delaware County, where I now reside.  I shall be eighty one years old on the 12th day of December next.

I hereby relinquish every claim whatever toa pension or annuity except the present, and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.  Sworn and subscribe to the and year aforesaid.

          Wm. Reed

We Bejamin Martin a Baptist Clergyman and Samuel Gilpin residents of Troy Township in Saic County, and residing in the aforesaid county of Delaware and in the neighborhood of the above named William Reed hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with the said William Reed who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be eighty years of age as he states; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.  Sworn and subscribe this day and year aforesaid, 

Benj. Martin
Samuel Gilpin

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting this interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant, was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.  And the court further certify that it appears to them that Benjamin Martin who has signed the above certificate is a clergyman and Samuel Gilpin who have signed the preceding certificates are both residents as they have therein stated, and are creditable persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
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I Thomas Reynolds, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of William Reed for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of my office this nineteenth day of November A.D. 1832.

T. Reynolds, Clerk


Written in lower left corner:
William Reed's Application for Pension
20109
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                              20109

William Reed
       Ohio


Admitted for 6 months 
from 1777

$20.---




Th. Reynolds Clk
Delaware
Ohio
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BRIEF in the case of William Reed County of Delaware in the State of Ohio
(Act 7th June, 1832)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?    Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3.  How old is he?  81

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period:
Drafted in 1777
Duration of Service: 2 months
Rank: Private
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served:  Capt. Kenedy Col Culbertson

Drafted in 1777
Duration of Service: 2 months
Rank: Private
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served:  Col Gibson

Drafted in 1777
Duration of Service:  2 months
Rank: Private
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served:  Capt Baylor, Col Polk

5.  In what battles was he engaged?  None

6.  Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Cumberland County, Pa

7.  Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by rolls?   Traditionary

8.  Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?  Correct

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

Chs W Forrest 
Examining Clerk
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August 3, 1939

BA-J/AWY
William Reed
S. 4051

Mrs. V. B. Wood
1019  East 8th Street
Pueblo, Colorado

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your request for the Revolutionary War record of William Reed who served from Pennsylvania, later lived in Ohio.

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in claim for pension, S. 4051 based upon the military service of William Reed in the Revolutionary War.

William Reed was born December 12, 1751, in County Tyrone, Ireland; in the year 1773 he left Ireland and came to America, landed in New Castle, Delaware, and shortly afterward moved to Philadelphia, and later settled in Cumberland  County, Pennsylvania, about nine miles from Carlisle.  The names of his parents are not given.  

While residing in said Cumberland County, William Reed, about the time of the battle of Germantown, served two months as private in Captain Thomas Keneday's company, Colonel Robert Culbertson's Pennsylvania regiment and was engaged in guarding the Ferries and Passes of the Delaware River above Philadelphia.  He served the "next year", two months in Colonel Gibson's regiment marched un the Juniata River to the "Standing Stone:, stationed there to guard the country against the invasions of the Indians.  He moved from Cumberland
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County, to the western part of Pennsylvania, in Washington County, and served towards the close of the Revolution, two months in Captain Baylor's company, under Colonel Poke, stationed at "Mingo Bottom" on the Ohio River between Pittsburgh and Wheeling.

The soldier, William Reed, a few years after the close of the Revolution, moved to Bourbon County, Kentucky, lived a "number of years" , and moved to Delaware County, Ohio.

He was allowed pension on his application executed November 18, 1832, then a resident of Troy Township, Delaware County, Ohio, where he had lived about twenty years. 

The papers on file in this claim contain no discernible data relative to the family of William Reed.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and furnish the following data-

William Reed
Certificate # 7705
Issued March 31, 1833
Rate $20.00 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
Ohio Agency.

Very truly yours

G. H. SWEET
Acting Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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Copy of Envelope

Addressed to:

Veterans' Administration, Washington, D. C.

Dated: Apr 26, 1939 at 9am from Pueblo, Colo.

Stamped received Apr 28, 1939
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Dear Sir - Do you have data pertaining to Wm Reed, Revolutionary War soldier?

Wm Reed b. Aug 10, 1752  d. July 27, 1818. Wife Tabitha Walker b. Mar 24, 1779  d. Mar. 11, 1863. Believe Wm Reed served from Pa. and that his death occurred in Ohio.

Yours truly,
Mrs. V. B. Wood
1019 E. 8th St.  Pueblo, Colo


Notation in lower left corner:
4/2511939
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Top Left Corner:  Rev. War     

4051
Invalid

File No.    4051
William Reed
Pri  Pa. M

Act:  June 7, '32
Index:   Vol.  A, Page 311

{Arrangement of 1870}

Top Center and Right side:
1939 Aug 2 hist to Mrs. V. B. Wood
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which these answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of [signed] William Reed [end handwritten] which require further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides ?

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?

V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled ?

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed ?  And if so, has it a device or inscription by which is can be distinguished from any other seal?
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2
XI.
Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
XIV If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath,
certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?
XV Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? 2 6 7
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how
long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being
duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he
cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For year -months, and days , I served as a . For months and --- days, I served as a; and for such service I claim a pension
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
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Franklin Bank of Cincinnati
10th January 1837

Sir,

The enclosed pension voucher of William Reed who was a private in the war of the revolution, and pension under the act of 7th June 1832, is for your examination, which if found correct you will please return to this agency with  an order for payment. 

I am yours very respectfully,
John W. Groesbeck P. Agt
By R. W. Lawrence

J. L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
April 8th 1840

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April 1838, entitled " An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," William Reed a pensioner on the Roll of the Ohio Agency, at the rate of Twenty Dollars per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1838, to the 4th March 1839.

Respectfully yours,

Albion K. Parris
Comptroller


To the Commissioner of Pensions, 
Present.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office, 
June 13th, 1840

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838 entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," William Reed, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Ohio Agency, at the rate of Twenty Dollars per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1839, to the 4th Sept. 1839.

Respectfully yours,

Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pension, Present.
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Envelope:

Left side:  
7705 Jan 16 
Wm Reed
Ohio

Addressed to:
J. L. Edwards Esq. 
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

Above the address to the right is written Free and underscored twice.