Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 11720, Reuben Weed, Conn.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE Conn
CONTENTS
Weed, Reuben
NUMBER S. 11720
carded
CONTENTS
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Reuben Weed of Cayuga in the State of N. York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Smith of the Regt. commanded Hon E Morgan 13 Feb 185
by Col. ______ in the North _______ line 
 for 11 ½ mos.
Conn. Line.   May 1775
records corrected.
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Inscribed on the Roll of N. York at the rate of 28 Dollars Cents per annum commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of July 1833 and sent to A. Gould
Auburn
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Arrears to the 4th of May----$  16.00
Semi-annual allowance
 ending 4 Sept. 1833                  19.00
                             total           $   95.00

Revolutionary Claim,
June 7, 1832.


Recorded by Geo. C. Stiles
Book 6  Vol. 12  Page 38
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Reuben Weed
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A Gould
Auburn
Ny
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BRIEF in the case of Reuben Weed
of Cayuga in the State of NY

(Act 7th June 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  Open Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 67 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

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Period.           Duration of Service       Rank   Names of General & 
                                                                        Field Officers
Apr. 1781           9 mos.                        Pri.     Capt. Scofield
        1782                       15 days           "        Capt. Scofield
Apr. 1782     about 1/2 mo.                   "        Capt. Smith


5. In what battles was he engaged? none
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? 
                             Stanford Conn.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by
incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  ________
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Burnard Cotts
Examining Clerk
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Reuben Weed
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11th/63
and
11 ½ more
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State of New York
Cayuga County ⎬ ss
 On this 24th day of September 1832
before the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County personally appears Schuder Waring of Fleming in said County who being duly sworn says that he is acquainted with Reuben Weed of Springport in said County and was well acquainted with him in the time of the Revolutionary War. that he was a soldier in a company called the Stanford guards in the town of Stanford in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut for a term of nine months commencing in the month of April 1781, that said Reuben Weed was a
soldier in the same company during said time that said company was raised for the purpose of guarding the shores of Long Island sound against the incursions of the Refugees, Torys, & cowboys from Long Island - that he and the said Weed lived in the same town and about four miles distant from each other at that time and he knows the said Weed who now makes application for a pension to be the same person who was a soldier with him in the Company of Captain Scofield during said time of nine months.
                                       Schuder Waring

Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Asahel Fitch, Judge

And the Court declare their opinion that the said
Schuder Waring is a man of truth and veracity.
Asahel Fitch, Judge
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State of New York
Cayuga COUNTY
On this 24th day of September A.D. 1832
personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cayuga
and state of New-York, now setting, Reuben Reed, a resident of Springport in the County of Cayuga and state of New York, aged 67 years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he entered the service under the following
named officers and served as herein stated. That about the first April AD 1781 then being a resident of the town of
Stanford in the County of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut, he entered the service of the United States by enlistment in the company of State troops commanded by Capt. Reuben Scofield & Lieutenant. -How in the regiment commanded by Col. ____  
that he continued to serve in said company until about the first of December following a term of nine months, when he was discharged, that said company was divided & continued
to patrol and guard the shore opposite Long Island in said town of Stanford, that he served as such guard under the e immediate command of Captain Reuben Scofield during said term. He further declares that in the month of January
 of 1782 he again entered said company commanded by Capt. Smith  in the same Regiment to guard a company of prisoners from the town of Stanford to Hartford a distance of one hundred miles, that he was engaged as such under a Sergeant for a half a month 
 as he believes. He further declares that
in the month of April 1782 he again entered said service in the Company of Captain Charles Smith in the same Regiment that he marched with said company to the town of Stanage in
the same county where he continued to serve as a guard upon the lines a term of one month and a half when he was dismissed that he was detached from the company of Captain Scofield &
joined the company of Capt. Smith. He further declares that in the following fall he was called into said service three
times in case of alarm in the same company & continued to serve about half a month in all as he believes that he is unable to state the particular times, that he never received a written discharge from said service and has no proof of said service documentary or otherwise except the accompanying
affidavit that he was acquainted with Col Webb and Col Joseph Hoyt- that in said nine-month service he had no field officers-- that said company was called
the Stanford guard.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any State or territory.
        Reuben Weed

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

Asahel Fitch, Judge
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We, Samuel M Plumb, a clergyman residing in Fleming in Cayuga County and Nathan Sheffield
residing in Scipio in Said County hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Reuben Weed who has subscribed and sworn to the preceding declaration; that we believe him to be 68 years of age; 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.
       Samuel M. Plumb
    
  Sworn, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Asahel Fitch, Judge

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above-named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier
that it appears to them, that 
And the Court further certifies,
Samuel Plumb, who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman resident in Fleming
and Nathan Sheffield who has also signed the same, is a resident in Scipio and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Asahel Fitch, Judge

I, Michael Myers, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cayuga and State of New-York, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original
proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Reuben Weed for a pension.
______ me and the seal of said county on this Twenty fourth day of
September in the year of one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.
M. S. Meyers
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October 18, 1930

Miss F. E. Keeler
5220 Lexington Avenue
Hollywood, California

Dear Madam:

You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 11720, that Reuben Weed was born in January 1765, in Stamford, Connecticut.
The names of his parents are not given.
While residing in Stamford, Connecticut, he enlisted and served as private with the Connecticut troops, as follows:
From April 1, 1781, nine months in Captain Reuben Scofield's company of Stamford guards; in January, 1782, two weeks, in Captain Reuben Scofield's company;
 from April, 1782, six weeks in Captain Charles Smith's company;
 in October, 1782, nine days, and in November, 1782, seven days, called out on
alarms, names of officers not given.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 24, 1832, at which time he was living in Springport, Cayuga County, New York.
He died February 22, 1848.
in order to obtain the name of the person to whom the last payment of the above-mentioned pension was paid, you should address the General Accounting Office, Records Division, this
city, citing the following data: -- Reuben Weed, Certificate No. 14968, issued July 26, 1833, rate $38 per annum, to commence March 4, 1831, Act June 7, 1832, New York Agency.

Very truly yours
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner
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State of New York
Cayuga County ⎬
 Personally appeared before me the
subscribed a Justice of the peace in & aforesaid County, Reuben Weed, who being duly sworn doth depose & say that by reason of age & the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his services but according to his best recollection he served not less than the period mentioned below & in the following grade. For eleven months
and a half I served as a private soldier in ___ ___
service I claim a pension. One of my terms of service in the fall of 1782 mentioned in my accompanying declaration was about the first of October in that year & continued four days. Another of said times was afterwards during the same month and continued five days as I believe, and the other to was in the month of November afterwards and continued a time of seven days as I believe-
I was born in the town of Stanford in the County
of Fairfield & State of Connecticut in the year
1765. and have a record of age in a family Bible
at home. I continued to reside there until
the year 1786. when I removed to Saratoga County in the State of New York where I lived about twenty-eight years when I removed to Cayuga County aforesaid where I have resided ever since.
                      Reuben Weed

Sworn & subscribed the 22d day of April 1833 before me, John Grover, Justice of the Peace.
I certify that the said Reuben Weed is a man 
of truth & veracity.
 April 22d 1833
John Grover, Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Cayuga County ⎬
 I, Michael S Myers, Clerk of said County
do certify that John Grover before whom
the foregoing affidavit was made was on the day of the date of the same a justice of the peace in & for said County - that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said justice & believe his signature to the said affidavit & the foregoing certificate to be genuine.
Witness my hand and seal of office the
22d day of April 1833
M. S.  Myers
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Auburn N.Y. April 22d 1833

Sir
Enclosed I return the papers in the case
of Reuben Reed, with the objections answered.
Will you please issue his certificate and
send it to me.
Very Respectfully
Your Servant,
A. Gould


Hon. J. S. Edwards
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S
Seneca Falls      Jany 22 1865
S. Cole, Esq
Commissioner of Pensions

Dear Sir
I have before me the certificate of Reuben Weed of the State of New York a Private in the
Revolutionary army given at the war office of the United States, 26th day of July 1833, drawing $38 a year, commencing to draw the 4th March & the
September, he drew the 4th of September
1847, and died the next February. As I am informed, I think his children must be entitled to the book pension from the 4th of September till the time of his death, will you be so good as
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to inform me if I am correct, and if so, will you send me a blank for his Heirs to fill up of children so they can draw the back pension & much obliged.
James & Charles H. Reed
Seneca Falls N.
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INVALID.
File No. 11720
Rebber Weed
Pri. Rev. War
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●Act: June 7, 1832
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 899
Arrangement of 1870.)
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Alfred
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Aug. 10, 1895, Hist. to
R. Hovey, 22 E. Washington
Indianapolis, Ind. M.
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1911, Mar. 31 - Hist to
Mr. Frederick F. Wilcox
1930-Oct. 18. Hist to miss
F.E. Keeler is
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O. W.                                  3 -- 525.
and 1812
Section

DEPARTENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.,

In reply to your request of ____, received __
for a statement of the military history of
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension
on file in this Bureau.
DATES OF
ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.
LENGTH OF
SERVICE.
RANK.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
W
Battles engaged in,
Residence of soldier at enlistment,
Date of application for pension,
in any
Residence at date of application,
Age at date of application,
Remarks:
COLONEL.
guard his ____
head
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Battles engaged in:
Residence of soldier at enlistment:
Date of application for pension:
Age at date of application:
(Much of this is so faded as to be illegible)

 
Very respectfully,

Commissioner.
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Commissioner of Pensions


Dear Sir

With
the intentions of being of member of the
Sons of the American Revolution, I find it necessary that I ask of you certain information.
My Great Grand Father Reuben Weed, born in Stanford Conn 1765, enlisted in Apr 1781 in Capt. Rueben Scofield's company, is in Jan 1782 in Capt. Chas Smith's Company.  He died Feb 21st 1848 at Springport, Cayuga Co New York and according to the information that I have at hand was a
pensioner. 
My father was a civil war
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soldier serving some three years mostly 
in the US Reg. Artillery, as 1st Srgt T. Wilcox.
Thanking you in advance for any information that you may send me I am
Your very respectfully,
Frederick F. Wilcox

90360 Longwood Blvd.
Chicago 
Ills
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[round stamp]
U.S. PENSION OFFICE
K
MARCH 27 1911
S 11720
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5220 Lexington Are
Hollywood, Calif
September 30, 1939

Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Gentlemen

Would you please give me a
brief statement of the information you
have on file relative to Capt. Reuben
Weed who enlisted in Revolutionary War
 when 16 years old in Capt. R. Schofield's Company, Stanford, Conn.
I should appreciate a list of his children & any addresses you have for them.  Also please send me his parents names if you have them and any other dates for genealogical purposes - in
searching the Weed family
Sincerely
Miss J.E. Keeler