Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5,678, for Isaiah Reed, New Jersey
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( 3 - 1776)
SERVICE
New Jersey

Reed, Isaiah
Susan

NUMBER
W. 5,678

CONTENTS
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No. 138
8679. N. .J.  issd 7 July 89 -
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State of New Jersey
New Jersey Ss.  On this sixth day of September
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and thirty six, personally appeared
before the Justices of the Supreme Court of .
Judication of the State of New Jersey, in open
Court Susan Reed, a resident of the City of
Trenton in the County of Hunterdon and State
aforesaid, aged Seventy eight years and seven
months, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the
benefit of the provision made by the act of
Congress passed July 4th 1836. That she
is the widow of Isaiah Reed who was a
private in Captain Ephraim Anderson's
Company of the First Jersey Regiment, during the Revolutionary War. That the said
Isaiah Reed first entered the army as a
substitute for one ____ Fish, and subsequently
enlisted for during the war, and that he the said Isaiah Reed, served during the whole
period of the war - That he was engaged in
the Battles of Monmouth, Elizabeth town &
of Germantown - and was at the siege
of Yorktown-- that he was some time duing his service, promoted to the Office of
Sergeant - that he was regularly discharged
at the close of the war. And the Certificate
granted him for land was sold by the declarant to one Nathan Peaks Esq of the City of Trenton, and she also gave to the said N Beaks the  discharge of the said Isaiah.
She further declares that she was
married to the said Isaiah Reed, at
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Princeton in New Jersey by Joseph Olden Esqr
in the month of March in the year Seventeen
hundred and eighty. That her husband the
aforesaid Isaiah Reed died on the 25th
day of September, Seventeen hundred and
ninety four_ And that she has remained a
widow ever since that period as will more
fully appear by reference to the proof hereto
annexed_

Susan Reed

Sworn and Subscribed}
on the day and year above}
written in open Court-}
" The word "four" written}
on an erasure before execution}
Jos. C. Hornblower

I Zachariah Rossell Clerk of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the name "Jas C Hornblower" appended to the Jurat to the above declaration is the proper signature of Joseph C. Hornblower Esquire who was
at the time of signing the same and now is Chief Justice of the said Supreme Court of the State of New Jersey_

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court at Trenton this seventh day of September in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty six (1836)
Rossell Clk
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County S.S.⎬

Before me Samuel Evans one of the Justices
of the Peace in and for the said County personally appeared Joseph Reed of the City of Trenton in the County and State
aforesaid a person well known to me and who is now past eighty eight years old who being duly sworn on his solemn oath saith, That he was well acquainted with the late Isaiah
Reed, and know that he entered the army of the Revolution first as a substitute for one _____
Fish, and afterwards enlisted for the whole period of the war, and he served as a private in
the regular Jersey Troops during the whole period of the war, and at the close of the war he the said Isaiah Reed was regularly discharged - that some time during the war he the said Isaiah Reed was married at Princeton in New Jersey to Susan Hedger, that this deponent knows the said Susan who is now the widow of the said Isaiah Reed, that he has known the said Susan Reed from the time of her marriage to this date, that she has never been married since the death of the said Isaiah Reed her late husband and still remains his widow that the said Isaiah Reed after his marriage with the said Susan served in the war of the Revolution near three years and further  he this deponent saith not

his
Joseph
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Reed
mark

Sworn and subscribed this 3rd day}
of September A.D. 1830 before}
me}
Saml. Evans.}
Justice of the Peace}
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Secretary’s Office
Trenton NJ

State of New Jersey ss.
I, James D. Westcott Secretary of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that in the “Return of the non-commissioned officers and privates of the first Jersey Regiment in service in January 1781 with the sums and to each on account of the depreciation of their pay agreeably to an act of the Legislature passed Jany 6 1781" I find an entry of the name of "Isaiah Reed" as a private in the company of "Captain Anderson" with the amount of the depreciation of his pay from "June 5 1777 to Augt. 1 1780" as will appear by the record of the said return in Book B. of Auditors Accounts page 5, now remaining in this office. _ I also certify that in the first section of the said Act of the Legislature, of January sixth, seventeen hundred and eighty one, (entitled "An Act for making compensation to the troops of this state in the service of the United States for the depreciation of their pay") commissioners were appointed, who were by the second section of the act "required and directed immediately after the foregoing of this act to repair to the Quarters of the troops of this state in the service of the United States, and to make application to the commanding officers of each Regiment for complete and accurate returns of all the officers, non-commissioned officers and privates, belonging to their respective regiments who now are in the service and engaged during the war"_&c &c_ _ 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at the city of Trenton, in said state, this fifth day of September, in the year of our LORD, one thousand eight hundred and thirty six - (1836.)
James D. Westcott
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Susan Reed
Application for
pension, proof
of Marriage-
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State of New Jersey}
Hunterdon County} Ss.
 
I Samuel Evans, a Justice of the Peace in
and for the said County, Do hereby certify that on this fifteenth day of November in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty six, personally appeared before me Susannah Reed (widow of Isaiah Reed deceased) of the city of Trenton, county and State aforesaid and exhibited to me her Family Bible which contained among other records of births &c. the following viz: "Isaiah Reed & Susannah Hedger was married March 20th 1780."
Witness my hand and seal the day and year
above written.
Saml. Evans.

State of New Jersey ss:
I James D. Westcott Secretary of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that Samual Evans Esq. who hath signed the above certificate and whose seal is thereto affixed was at the time thereof and now is a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County of Hunterdon in said state, duly appointed, commissioned and sworn and that full faith and credit are, and ought to be given to his official acts.
Given under my hand and seal of office at Trenton, this twenty eighth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty six - (1836)
James D. Westcott

N.B. The erasure in the }
above certificate made}
before signing. J.D.W.}
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C. W. & N. DIV.
F.S.
W. 5678.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 1, 1893.

Sirs:-

Replying to your communication requesting information concerning the military history of Isaiah Reed, a soldier of the Revolutionary Wa
I have to inform you that his widow, Susan
Hedger (maiden name), was granted a pension for his services in that war as a private in the New Jersey troops, he having entered the service at the beginning of the war and having completed, at least, two years actual service. Widow states in her declaration that he served in Capt. Anderson's Co., of the First New Jersey
Regt., and that he participated in the battles of Monmouth, Elizabethtown and Germantown and was also present at the siege of Yorktown.

On September 6, 1836, the date of the widow's application for pension, she was a resident of Trenton, N.J., and seventy-eight years of age. She was married to the soldier in the month
of March, 1780, and he died Sept. 25, 1794.

Owing to the large number of inquiries of this character an earlier reply was impracticable.

Very respectfully,

Commissioner.

M. J. McCoy,
930 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, Md.
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C.,
W.F. 5,678

In reply to your request of ______________
received ___________________ for a statement of the military history of Isaiah Reed 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.|
To End of War|

RANK.|
Pvt. & Sgt.|

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE| 
WAS RENDERED.|
CAPTAIN.|
Anderson|
COLONEL.|
-
STATE.|
N. J.|

Battles engaged in, Germanton, Monmouth, Elizabeth Town, Yorktown
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Not stated
Date of application for pension, Sept. 6. 1836 Her el was al
Residence at date of application, Trenton Hunterdon Co. N. .J.
Age at date of application, She was 78 yrs & 7 mos. old
Remarks: He married Mch. 20, 1780 at Princeton, N.J. Susan or Susanna Hedger
Susanna Hedger and died Sept 25, 1794. Five children are referred to also a grand daughter but no names are stated

The only soldier this name N. J. Service &c.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

Brother Mahlon
Sister Elizabeth Smith
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Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir: Am in search of war service information of Isaiah Reed, private in 3rd Battalion New Jersey Continental Army.
Has any one ever been granted a pension, from his record. If so, whom? Tell all you can of this man, and whatever charge there is for this labor, will forward the money at once, as soon as informed of amount.

Thanking you in advance,
Very truly yours,

Lulu Hammond Hull,
(Mrs. Charles E.) Regent "Isaac Hull" 
Chapter, D. A. R.
Salem, Illinois.
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[Official stamp: CONGRESSIONAL
U.S. Bureau of Pensions.
DEC 23 1892]
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106 Madison Ave N York
Dcember 14th 92

Hon Isador Rayner
Washington D C

Dear Sir,

Some time between the years 1833 & 43 a Pension was granted my Grandmother
Susannah Reed of Trenton New Jersey for services surrendered in the Revolution
by her husband Isaiah Reed. My recollection of the matter is of course not very good but I do remember we had his discharge from the
Revolutionary Army & it or a copy of it was used in proof. this is the only record I know of
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and all the family are long since dead. You will do my family as well as myself a special service, if you will give the matter your attention & furnish us with the record of the services of Isaiah Reed in the Army of the Revolution & who most probably went from New Jersey, & the pension granted his wife will show this especially if the discharge is among the Evidence offered the government and on which Evidence the pension was granted. I think I am safe in saying between the years 1832 & 1843.
Vy Respectfully
Yours
R. T. McCay
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930 N Charles St
Baltimore Feb 12
Pension Depart
Washington

Dear Sir
I should be much obliged to you for information of pension paid to Isaiah Reed's wife, Susanna Reed, for his services in Continental Line. Isaiah Reed served as private in Capt Sam'l Flanning [Illegible] Co. 3d. Battalion 2d. Establishment N. Jersey Continental Line, Rev'l War; also in Anderson's Company 3d Reg't - Also as corporal in 1st Reg't of N. Jersey Continental Line. For this service his wife received a Pension. I
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should like to know of it. If this letter is not addressed to the proper Depart I should be much obliged if you would send it to the right one for me & oblige
Yrs & C
M. C. McCay
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[Official Stamp: US PENSION OFFICE. B DEC 31 1892]
[Official Stamp: OLD WAR AND NAVY
JAN 5 1893]
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930 N Charles St
Baltimore Dec 30

Pens Bureau

Dear Sir

Can you give me any data concerning Isaiah Reed who rec'd a pension after 7 year service in Rev'l War. The "discharge" is in the family. A prompt reply will oblige.
Yrs &C  M. C. McCay
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Dr Sir

Some two weeks since I sent you on
the claim of Susan Reed for a pension
under the Act of Congress 4 July 1836 - since
which I have heard nothing from you on
the subject. Will you be kind enough
to let me hear from you, as the old lady 
is extremely anxious -

Very respectfully
Yr Obt St
Z Rossell
Trrenton N. J. 22 Sept 1836

To J. L. Edwards Esq
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(ESB)
Subject:
(1 enclo-)
Address: " Chief of the Record and Pension Office, War Department, Washington, D.C."
353524
Record and Pension Offire,
War Department,
Washington City,

December 19th, 1892.

Hon. Isador Rayner,
House of Representatives.

Sir.

In returning herewith the letter, received by your reference this morning, of R. T. McCoy, No. 106 Madison Avenue, New York City, who desires to be furnished with the record of Isaiah Reed in the war of the Revolution, I have the honor to inform you that the records of that war have not yet been transferred to the War Department, but are still on file in the Pension Office.

It is respectfully suggested that you refer the letter of Mr. McCoy to the Commissioner of Pensions, from whom, it is believed, you will be able to obtain the information desired.

Very respectfully,
W E Ainsworth
Colonel, U. S. Army,
Chief, Record and Pension Office.
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Washingtonville Pa. Nov. 20/43
Hon J. L. Edwards

Sir enclosed you will find a copy of an original discharge which was received by me this day from an old lady who lives in the City of Trenton N Jersey the widow of the said Isaiah Reed who is a pensioner of the United States.

My object in writing to you is the following viz
The original discharge of Isaiah Reed was only found a few days since and from the circumstance I hope it is not too late for his widow to be allowed the same pension that
her husband would have received if living

During the time the Hon Garret Wall was Senator of N Jersey I received a letter from him if my recollection serves me that you had granted to Susannah Reed the widow of Isaiah Reed a pension of Eighty dollars per annum

Now I should be much pleased if you would
give me the necessary information first if the original discharge had been presented at the time the widow made this application would she have received a larger pension.
If so is it now too late for this pension to be increased

My reason for thinking she ought to have received a larger pension is that Mrs McCartey of Coningham Luzern County a widow of Daniel McCarty gets a yearly pension of $100.

Would not his being a corporal entitle him to
a larger pension then a private

I am well acquainted with Widow Reed 
She is a worthy old lady and is in indigent circumstances being old and infirm and obliged to keep a widowed
Daughter to mind and take care of her

If any thing can be done for this to increase this pension if you will inform me I will forward 
to you the original discharge that you may see for yourself

Respectfully your O.
Robert McCay
M
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Trenton 2 Dec 1836
J L Edwards Esq

Sir
Some weeks since I enclosed
you additional proof for establishing the
claim of Susan Reed to a pension under the
late act of Congress, among which was
enclosed a Deed in which she was named
as one of the grantors with her late Husband
Isaiah Reed, the deceased soldier, that Deed
I borrowed from the present owner and gave
a receipt for it, will you have the goodness
to return it to me. In addition to those
proofs already sent, I now enclose you
an extract (duly certified by the proper
authority) from Susan Reed's family
Bible, which was found in the possession
of one of her Grand Daughters, and which
clearly establishes the fact of her marriage
during the war. May I ask thee in her behalf, as speedy a settlement of her claim as possible, as she is quite aged, miserably poor, and cannot in the course of nature long survive, to enjoy the bounty of her country, even if she should long enough to taste it.

Very Respectfully
Yr Obn S
Z Rossell
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Trenton 12 Oct 1836
J L Edwards Esq
Dr Sir
I now enclose you the affidavit
of Mrs Beakes the Widow of Nathan Beakes who purchased of Susan Reed her husband's land warrant as a Bay Man on the Jersey line who distinctly recollects the fact of the purchase and of her having seen it together with the discharge of Isaiah Reed - Also the affidavit of Fransene Reed widow of the Brother of Isaiah who testifies to the marriage of Isaiah & Susan_ and I have borrowed from the owner & likewise have transmit you a Deed, (accompanied by Susans affidavit of Isaiah  & herself being the granters then named) from Isaiah & Susana Reed (the present applicant) to James Grant, by which you will perceive she is then called his wife & signs the same as such-- as this deed belongs to another you will please return it to me. I have given a receipt for it- In preparing her petition & affidavit I inserted Ephain Anderson's name as the Captain Anderson with whom Isaiah served having taken the name from a copy of a Roll of a company of the Jersey line in the posession of Mr Wm P Shuman of this place, the widow however stated to me that she did not know the
Christian name of his Captain, but that it was
Captain Anderson with whom her husband served_
I hope these documents may prove sufficient to
procure her pension, and that soon, as she is very
old very poor & well worthy the bounty of her
Country
I am Sir Respectfully
Your Obt St
Zac Rossell
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N.J.
4 July 1836
original

Sept 9
James L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D. C.
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Affidavits in 
Support of 
Susan Reed's 
application 
for pension -
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County Ss.⎬

Before me Samuel Evans one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county, personally appeared Mary Beakes (widow of Nathan Beakes Esq. late of the City of Trenton in said State) a person well known to me and whose testimony can be relied upon, who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that she has been acquainted with Susan Reed (widow of Isaiah Reed) for the space of near forty years, and that the said Susan Reed has been occasionally employed in deponent's family for the whole of that period, that shortly after the death of the said Isaiah Reed, the husband of the said Susan, she the said Susan brought to Nathan Beakes Esq. the husband of this deponent, the said Isaiah Reed's discharge and land warrant as a warman of the New Jersey line in the Revolutionary war, and urged the said Nathan Beakes to the purchase of the same, which he did do and paid the said Susan Reed for it, but what amount was paid this deponent can't recollect_ that she this deponent saw the discharge and Land warrant after the said purchase in the possession of her late husband Nathan Beakes Esq., but what became of the same this deponent don't now know - and that her late husband Nathan Beakes never realised any thing for the discharge and Land warrant this deponent ever heard of - and that she this deponent is in her [Illegible] fourth year of her age according to the family register now [Illegible] and further saith not.-
Mary Beakes

...and Subscribed, this 7th day}
...A.D. 1836 before}
...Evans Justice of the}
...the County New}
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County Ss.⎬

Before me Samuel Evans one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County personally appeared Fransene Reed (widow of Mahlon Reed late of Trenton N. J. Decd.) of the City of Trenton, County of Hunterdon and State of New Jersey, now in the seventy third year of her age, a person with whom I am well acquainted and have been for upwards of thirty years last past and whose testimony full credit should be given, who being duly sworn on her solemn oath saith, That she knew Isaiah Reed late a Soldier of the Revolutionary Army and that he was a brother of her late husband Mahlon Reed, and that she is well acquainted with Susan Reed who is now the widow of the said Isaiah Reed, and has known her from the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty one, and then knew her as the wife of the said Isaiah Reed, and that the said Susan Reed lived with the said Isaiah Reed as his wife and was known to the whole neighborhood as such - and from what she knew of the said Isaiah Reed, she is fully satisfied that he the said Isaiah Reed was a Soldier of the Revolution during the whole of the Revolutionary War, and Susan Reed from the year 1780 lived with the said Isaiah Reed as his wife up to the day of his death.
Fransene Reed

Sworn and Subscribed this 11th}
day of October A.D. 1836}
before me,}
Saml. Evans J.P.}
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County Ss.⎬
Before me Samuel Evans one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county personally appeared Susan Reed (widow of Isaiah Reed, Deceased) who being duly sworn on her solemn oath saith, That she is the same individual who sometimes was called Susan and other times Susanna and signed her name in both ways, and says that the Deed marked on the back with my own handwriting in the following words viz 
"This Deed shown to me Saml. Evans, Justice 
"of the Peace of Hunterdon County New Jersey "Oct. 11th 1836" and bearing date 25th day of April 1793 between Isaiah Reed and Susanna his wife and James Grant is the original Deed made by Isaiah Reed and this deponent as his wife to the said James Grant and that the signatures to the said Deed is the genuine Signature of Isaiah Reed late a Soldier of the Revolutionary Army and the husband of the said deponent and the Signature Susanna Reed is the genuine signature of this deponent as the wife of the said Isaiah Reed-
Susanna Reed

Sworn and Subscribed this
11th day of October A.D.
1836 before me,
Saml Evans. J.P.