Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4570, for Luther Reeves, Connecticut
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Conn Reeves, Luther W.4570
or Reeve
Anna
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802
Connecticut Roll
Luther Reeves
Capt Ely
Sergeant         4
Connecticut Line 1777 6 years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on
the 3 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 of May 1818
and sent to Jeremiah G. Brainard
Esqr New London, Con
Arrearages to 4th Septr 1818
5 month, 2 /30                            $32.53 
Revolutionary claims,
Act 18th March, 1818
Discontinued
Act 1st May 1820

Notification sent to Henry M Wait Esq
Lyme Connecticut
4th July 1820
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State of Connecticut
New London
Be it remembered that at said New london
on this 3rd day of April 1818 before me
Jeremiah G Brainard a Judge of the
Superior Court of the State of Connecticut
personally came and appeared Luther Reeves
of the town of Lyme in said State of Connecticut
and being duly and solemnly sworn according to law and
the usage of said State on such solemn oath
by me to him administered declared and
said that on the first day of February
1777, he enlisted as a (sergeant) private soldier
in the company commanded by Captain Christoph
Ely in the first Connecticut Regiment of the con-
tinental army. then commanded by Colonel
Jedediah Huntington, to serve during the war
that after having served about three years
he was appointed Sergeant in which capacity
he served until the eighth day of June
1788. when he was honourably discharged
at West Point as the document herewith
accompanying will shew - that he now is
and always has been a Resident Citizen of
the United States. That he is now 59 years
old and that from his reduced cir-
cumstances he needs the assistance of his
country for support
Luther Reeves
Sworn by me this day and date aforesaid
In witness whereof I have caused the seal of the Superior Court of the State of Connecticut to be hereunto affixed at New London in the State of Connecticut the day, month and year aforesaid
Jeremiah G Brainard Judge of Sup Court 
of said State
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I Jeremiah G Brainard Judge &c as aforesaid do
certify that (said Luther) appears to my satisfaction that the
said Luther Reeves did serve in the revolutionary war
as stated in the preceeding declaration
against the common enemy and now
transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had
before me to the Secretary of the Department of
War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned
act of congress-- The foregoing declaration was
made to me as the aplicant declared 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 States in the Revolutionary War"
New London April 3 1818
Jeremiah
Witness to the seal aforesaid
Jeremiah G Brainard Judge of Sup Court
State of Connecticut
Luther Reeves
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Luther Reeve


$81.75 per year
May
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State and District of Connecticut, ss.

On this 27th day of June 1820 personally appeared
in open Court, before the County Court holden at New London
within and for the County of New London in said State, on the
2nd day of June 1820, the same being a court of record, proceeding according to the course of common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping
a record of its proceedings, and having power of fine and imprisonment, Luther Reeves aged sixty one years, resident in the town of Lyme in said State, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served
in the revolutionary war as follows: (That he the said) In July 1776 I entered in the New York line and served six months
in February 1777 I enlisted in Capt Christopher Hays Company in Col. Huntington's regiment during the war and served until the peace. I served in the whole before I was discharged upwards of seven years
I was in the battles in Long Island in the battle at the (???) of Danbury Connecticut and was stationed in the party around
two days until they went on board their ships I was, at the battle of Monmouth
I enlisted a private and asfter about three years I was made
a sergeant and as such continued
My original declaration was made about the 3rd April 1848
and I have received a pension certificate dated May 7th 1818
and is No. 402

And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day
of March, 1818; and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within
the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled, ""An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War"
and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor
have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed
And I do further swear that in consequence of my long
service in the war, my constitution was greatly impaired so that I left the service  sick and so continued for Nearly a year.
The duty I had to perform was at times very hard, at one time I was sent while in the army with a detachment of men to take a body of (??) near Maid fort and for the need to respectively we had to cross the Schul kill by wading  through the snow porridge and ice and we without any opportunity of charging or drying our clothes. I have been more or less afflicted with the Rheumatics ever since I left the army, and also lame in the leg  which was badly broken some years ago.
I have not been able to perform any labor for about five years past my occupation was formerly that of a labourer at farming and I have worked some at the business of a Carpenter. My wife Anna, aged 56 years has been sick about 16 years
as past & for about 2 years old and the most of the time - she is unable to do anything to support herself upon -- My 
daughter Mary aged 24 years lives with us, she is of a feeble weakly constitution. I have a son in law that lives in the house
with us and improves my land. We are entirely dependant upon our pension and what little we get from our son in law for our support - beforeI got my pension I generally had my head abated from the payment of taxes often I was obliged to leave off laboring I sold all the cows I had except one, to buy something to live upon. I also got considerably in debt-- Since I drew my last pension. I saved money enough out of it to buy two cows - I have ever lived in the most frugal & economical
manner, when I came out of the army I had very little property that little was as all spent in the sickness that followed on What little property I now was acquired by my boys before they came of age 
Luther Reeves
signed Sworn to and declared on the 27th day of June 1820
before said County Court
Charles Lathrop Clerk
I, Charles Lathrop Clerk of the County Court for New London County, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is eight hundred &
nineteen dollars and seventy five cents, and that said
Luther jointly owes the sum of four hundred & twenty five dollars.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of
the said Court, on the 27th day of June
1820
Charles Lathrop
Clerk of the County Court for the County of New London.
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a schedule of the real and personal estate of Luther
reeves, comprising every article of the same, except
my necessary bedding and clothing viz
about 100 acres of land, it is very poor, rough, barren & mostly covered with ledger there is very little land upon it that can be improved at all. There is an old small one story house and a Small old barn upon it
                                                                                    $500.00
1 yoke oxen $50, 3 cows $40.00,, 1 heifer $8, 1 old mare 7 old waggon $25,00 1 hog $3.00 1 old plow $1.00., 1 axe ,50, 2 old saws ,50, 1 adz ,50. 1 old watch $1.00, 1 old  gun, given me when I left the army $2.00
                                                                                     131.50
a few old articles of necessary furniture consisting of
old case drawers 2 chests 3 old tables, 11 chairs 1 iron pot 2 
                                                                                       15.00
Kettles & 1 draw bar .75 1 grindstone $1.00
I shovel .50, 1 churn $1.00
                                                                                         3.25
                                                                                     649.75
I owe to different persons about $395, besides
the interest upon some of the debts amounting
to between 50 & 60 dollars
I have due to me about $170.0
Amount of property                                                  $649.75
deduct debts                                                               395.00 
and for debts due me                                                 170.00
                                                                                   ---------
                                                                                    422.75
Deduct Interest say                                                       30.00
                                                                                   ---------
                                                                                  $392, 75

Luther Reeve
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OHIO  6276
Anna Reeves, decd
widow of Luther Reeves
who was a Sergeant
in the Connecticut line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
120 Dollars -
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843 ending on
the 28th  November 1843 the day of her death
Certificate of Pension issued the
21st day of October 1844
and sent to Elliott Hathaway
Hambden 
Geauga County
Ohio
Act of March 3, 1843. ┃
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2. Page 209
Re to Pen Agt:  Oct 22d 1846
amt due to be paid to
Banin, Rumsey & Hannibal
Re Sareptor Brown, Mary
Gand Nancy Baabcock in
lieu ren of Ann Ree7 ves decd
Benjn Reeves May 1852
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The State of Ohio
Ashtabula County ss
On this eleventh day of July
Anno Domini One thousand eight hundred & forty
three - Personally appeared before me Jonathan
Warner one of the Associate Judges of sd County
Anna Reeves a resident of the Township of New Lyme
in the County of Ashtabula aged seventy nine
years 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 7th 1838 entitled
an act granting half pay and pensions to certain
widows. That she is the widow of Luther Reeves
who was a Sergeant in the third Connecticut Regi-
ment in the service of the United States taking rank
from the fifteenth day of August AD 1780 which
Regiment was commanded by Col Samuel B Webb
his warrant was given him at the Garrison of West
Point and bears date the first day of January
A D 1783 for further particulars reference may
be had at the above Department he having regular-
ly received a pension as Sergeant during his
life time
she further declares that she was married
to the said Luther Reeves January the thirty first AD
one thousand seven hundred eighty five that her husband
the aforesaid Luther Reeves died on the thirteenth day
of December AD 1842, that she was not married to him
prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took
place previous to the first of January seventeen hun-
dred ninety four (viz) at the time above stated
and that she still remains the widow of Luther Reeves
not having since been married to any person
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the said Anna Reeves further declares that by reason of great bodily infirmity she is unable to attend Court
Anne Reeves
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written
Jonathan Warner
Associate Judge
I hereby certify that the above named
Anna Reeves is unable to attend court by reason
of great bodily infirmity
Jonathan Warner
Associate Judge
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Jonathan Warner
Associate Judge
The State of Ohio
Ashtabula County
I A C Hubbard, Clerk of the Court
of Common Pleas within the County and
State aforesaid, do hereby certify that
Jonathan Warner Esq. is an associate Judge
of said Court duly commissioned and
qualified agreeably to the laws of the
State of Ohio and that his signature
above written is genuine
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court this
Eleventh day of July AD 1843
A.C. Hubbard Clerk
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State of Connecticut Probate District of Lyme
New London County do sign June 26th 1843
& hereby certify that Oliver T Lay of said Town of Lyme
and County of New London is a Justice of the year for sd
County duly appointed and legally qualified to admin-
ister Oaths & in Witness whereof I have caused
the seal of this Court to be affixed on the day and year
above written
Lodowick Bill Judge
of
of Gray
a
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The State of Ohio
Ashtabula County
I. A.C. Hubbard, Clerk of the Court
of Common Pleas within and for
the County of Ashtabula and State
Ohio aforesaid, do hereby certify
that Zophar Gee is an acting
Justice of the Peace within and for
said County duly commissioned and qualified. And that
his signature above written is genuine
Given under my hand, and the seal of said
Court this 4th day of June A.D. 1844
A.C. Hubbard Clerk
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Hon Geo Wm Crump acting Comm of Pensions
Dear Sir
We herewith send the Declaration and
application of Benjamin Reeves praying for
a certificate to be granted to the children of his mother
Widow Anna Reeves deceased to draw a pension which
was due his said mother. Please to make a returns
to us at Hambden Geauga County & State of Ohio
Sept 20th 1844 Respectfully your servent
Elliot & Hathaway
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7691
Ohio                                 Let to Elliot Hathaway Sep. 44
Anna Reeves
widow of
Luther Reeves
who was a pensioner under the Act of May 15th 1828
and who died on the 13th. December, 1842-
of Ashtabula Co in the State of Ohio
who was a Sergeant in the
commanded by Captain
of the
Regt. commanded by Col. Webb in
the Connecticut - line for 2 years-
Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh
at the rate of 120 - Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day
of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27th day of
September 1843 and sent to Jonathan
Warner, New Lyme, Ashtabula Co. Ohio

Total amount,                              $600.00 
(Act July 7, 1838.)
Recorded by W M Stewart  Clerk,
Book  A  . Vol 2    Page 215
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Pension Agency
Pittsburgh March 30, 1842
J L Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
as directed by your
letter of 28th Decr last, I have stoped
the last payment
of Luther Reeves, a
pensioner under Act 15 May 1828
and herewith forward to you his voucher
& receipt
Very Respectfy
Your Obt Svt
Wm Robinson Jr
Pension Agent
By. K T Friened
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New Lyme May 3d 1843
Dear Sir
in answer to your favour of the
ult I would state that the widow of the late
Luther Reeves  deceased was married in the year
1785 to the deceased & is yet a widow of about
78 years of age; now if she is entitled to a
pension please to state to what amt what
Course is to be pursued to obtain sd Pension
Esqr Reeves died December 13th 1842
I am sir
Respectfully
Yours
Wm S Dunning
J L Edwards Esq
Com Pensions
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I
New Lyme Jan. 19th /52
Direct to New Lyme Ashtabula Co. Ohio
Sir
I am one of the heirs of Luther
Reeves Seargent in the Revolutionary
Army from Lyme Ct. The rest of
the Heirs live in this place also
We have had some information
that we are entitled to some
claim or claims of his that are
due for his services in the Revolutionary
War Luther Reeves widow Anna Reeves
drew $600 after her Husbands death under
an act of congress passed July 7 1838
and subsequently under an act
passed March 3 1843 to the time of
her death in November 1843.
I wish you to send us the act of
March 5/43 & any other act that has
been passed since that would be
of interest to us. And if we are
entitled to any pension in virtue
of Luther Reeves services in the
war, or any land for the same. I wish
you to give me all the information
upon the subject that is in your
possession
Benjamin Reeves
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N: 4870
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FIFTY - NINTH CONGRESS.
JOHN AT HULL CHAIRMAN.
RICHARD WAYNE PARKER.
ADIN S CARRON
GEORGE W. PRINCE.
ELIAS HOLIDAY.
H. OLIN YOUNG.
JULIUS RANN.
LOREN FLITCHER.
REMAN G. DAWES.
THOMAS W. BRADLEY.
JAMES M. MILLER.
JAMES J. BURKE
WILLIAM SULIER
JAMES HAY.
JAMES L. SLAVOIN
ROBERT E GROUSSARD.
JOSHUA F. COVASOTT.
ARIOSTO A Wary.
BIRD S. McGUIRE
HIRMAN D. REEVE, CATRE.
CLIFTON C. STANLEY, ASST CLERK
Committee on Military affairs,
House of Representatives U. S.,
Washington, D. C. December 31 1906.

My dear sir:
Please have the kindness to give me such information
as your records afford relative to the record and pension of one Luther Reeve who served during the Revolutionary War. He was
born in 1760 and died December 13th 1843 at New Lyme, Ohio.
Also the same information relative to one James Baldwin who
was born May 28th 1742 and died at Saybrook, Connecticut in
1818.
I desire this information, not for the purpose of any
claim, but simply to complete family records.
Yours very trull
H D Reeve
Clerk Mil Com
HR
Hon. Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
PENSION
O
JAN
2
1907
OFFICE
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PENSION
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APR
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1903
OFFICE
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O. W. & N.                                          812 B St., N. E.
                                                              Washington, D.C.,
                                                                            April 3, 1903.
The
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.
Sir:
Will you please furnish me a statement of the military service of my
great grandfather Luther Reeve of Connecticut in the Revolutionary War, as shown by his pension papers.
His name appears in a list of pensioners living in Connecticut in 1818, printed in Connecticut in the Revolution at page 636, as "Luther Reeves, Serjt."
Very respectfully,
Mrs Lena Reeve Shunk
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The State of Ohio
Ashtabula County ss
Benjamin Reeves being of lawfull age
depose and say that I attended my fathers
Luther Reeves last sickness and that he died
December 13th AD 1842 and that my mother
Anne Reeves still remains his widow
further this deponent saith not
NewLyme July 11 1843
Benjamin Reeves
Sworn to and subscribed before me this July 11th
1843                     Jonathan Warner
                             Associate Judge

The State of Ohio
Ashtabula County ss
Mary S Latimer being of lawful age
depose and say that I reside near the house
of the widow Anna Reeves that Luther
Reeves her husband died on the thirteenth day of December
AD 1842 and that she still remains his
widow
New Lyne July 11th 1843     Mary S Latimer
Sworn to and subscribed before me this July 11th 1843
Jonathan Warner
Associate Judge
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New Lyme O                  Roll
April 12th

Pension agent
Washington D.C
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New Lyme Ashtabula County Ohio
April 8th 1843
Dear Sir
at the request of the Widow of the
Late Luther Reeves Deceased (a Revolutionary
Soldier) I would enquire what the Late
act of Congress relative to Widows of
Pensioners allows & what course is
to be pursued by her to obtain her pension
& C
I am Sir Respectfully
Yr Obt Svt
W S Dunning
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WAR DEPARTMENT
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States,
 of the 3d March 1843, Anna Reeves, deceased, who was the
widow of Luther Reeves, a Sergeant in the Revolutionary war,
was entitled to a pension at the rate of $120 per annum
commencing on the 4th March 1843 and ending on the
28th November, 1843, the day of her death, which will be
paid upon the production of the proper vouchers
to Benjamin Reeves, Renney Reeves Sarepta Brown, Mary Gee,
Nancy Babcock Hannibal Reeves children of said Anna
Reeves deceased.

Given at the War Office of the United States, 
this 21st. day of
October one thousand eight
hundred and forty-four
Secretary of War.
Examined and
Countersigned.

Commissioner of Pensions
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Act 1828
Settled at
Operasing
Conn & with
File 4570
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for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of an act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the revolution act passed on the 15th of May 1828 I Luther Reeves of New Lyme in the County of Ashtabula in the State of Ohio do hereby declare that I enlisted in the continental line of the army of the revolution for and during the War, and
continued in its service until its termination at which period I was a Sergeant in Capt ???? Betts company in the third Regiment of the Connecticut line, and I also declare I afterwards received a certificate for the pension of eighty dollars

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Luther Reeves
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Before me Samuel Hendry Clerk of this Court of Common Pleas for the County of Ashtabula in the State of Ohio Personally appeared ???? Thomas Whelpley who did severally make oath that there in the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally was believed to have been non commissioned office in the army of the Revolution  therein stated
the word is intertiled before signing
Saml Hendry Clerk, C.P.
I Samuel Hendry Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Ashtabula in the State of Ohio do certify that Samuel Hendry signer of the foregoing Affidavit duly sworn was at that the age of said time Clerk of said Court as therein stated & as such duly empowered to administer oaths
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of the said Court this 28 May 1828.
Saml Hendry Clerk, C.P.
tion
or
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For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of an act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the revolution approved on the 15th of May 1828 I Luther Reeves of New Lyme in the County of Ashtabula in the State of Ohio do hereby declare that I enlisted in the continental line of the army of the revolution for and during the War, and
continued in it until its termination at which period I was
company in the third Regiment of the Connecticut
line, and I also declare I afterwards received a certificate for the pension 

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Luther Reeves

Before me Samuel Hendry Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Ashtabula in the State of Ohio Personally appeared Billings and Thomas Whelpley who did severally make oath that Luther Reeves by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reputed and
believed to have been a non commissioned officer in the army of the Revolution in manner and herein stated
Saml Hendry Clerk.
The word as  intertine before signing-
I Samuel Hendry Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Ashtabula in the State of Ohio, do certify that Samuel Hendry before whom the forgoing Affidavits were sworn was at that time Clerk of said Court as therein stated & as such duly empowered to administer oaths
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of the said Court this 23 day 1828
Saml Hendry Clerk, C.P.