Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8713, for Lewis Blew Reynolds, Virginia
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Va. Reynolds, Lewis Blew R8713
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State of Virginia County of Bedford Sct
On this 22nd day of October 1832 personally appeared before the Justices of the County Court of Bedford now Sitting Lewis Blew Reynolds a resident of said County & State aged about eighty 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 provisions made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 -
That he was born in the County of Buckingham in the State of Virginia on the 15th November 1753 as well as he remembers - He thinks there was a register of his age in the Books belonging to the Church of the parish in which he was born - what has become of that register he is unable to say since the Revolutionary War he has lived in the Counties of Buckingham Prince Edward Campbell and Bedford but mostly in Bedford - In consequence of a paralytick Stroke which he has unfortunately received, his memory has become somewhat impaired and he fears therefore he cannot well remember names and dates particularly as he was in the service many years during the revolutionary war under the command of great many different officers at different times and places and moving about from one Station to another - To enumerate all his services and all the Skirmishes in which he was engaged would be a thing almost impossible he proceeds however to State a part of them. In the early part of the war he volunteered under the command of Capt. Lewis and was a Sergeant in his company They rendezvoused at Buckingham Courthouse in the State of Virginia where he then resided and marched
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in rather a cucuilous route to Norfolk in Virginia - He remained there but a few weeks and was engaged in a Skirmish with the enemy - During his stay in Norfolk a part of the town took fire - He assisted in extinguishing the flames and was discharged - He does not know whether or not he received a written memorandum of his discharge from this service He thinks however that none was given He was in this tour but a few weeks, after his return home he enlisted under C Shelton he thinks either for five years or during the war as well as he now remembers - He believes it was in the County of Albemarle in the State of Virginia that he enlisted and was made a Sergeant at one time and Shortly after his enlistment he belonged as he thinks to the 5th Regiment of the Virginia line under the command of Colo Lawrence Major Belew and Capt Cobbs together with other officers From the County of Albemarle he marched Northwardly and under the command he thinks of Capt John Scott (Capt. Cobbs his first Captain at that time very sick) to the white marsh they then crossed the Delaware and he was in the Battle of Trenton Genl. Washington commanding He thinks there were about 600 prisoners taken at that place and Carried to White Marsh, he was also in the Battle of Princeton Genl. Washington Still commanding if he mistakes not there were about 300 prisoners taken at that place and sent to White Marsh - From Princeton he thinks he was marched to the Red Banks being engaged in some few Skirmishes and numerous scouting parties on the way he was in a battle at the Red Banks Genl. Greene
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he thinks commanding at this place being a Sergeant he had the command of a Cannon He was also in a battle at Mad Island Colo. Tuo he thinks commanding He was also in a battle at Stoney Point He was in the main army at one time under Gel. Washington and wintered with him at Valley forge - During that winter he was engaged in many Scouting parties - being a Sergeant (familiarly known as Sergeant Blew) he oftentimes had the command - He well remembers the taking of Major Andre having been sent on an express for some purpose, he does not now particularly remember - he met with Major Andre on the road but did not then know that he was a British officer he saw him after his arrest and recognized his person - The applicant was one of the detachment afterwards sent to arrest Arnold - he however had taken a vessel & sailed for England before they could reach the point at which he had been Stationed - He was in the Battle at monmouth under the command of Genl. Washington - Here he was wounded in the thigh - the ball was extracted by a Dr. Hopkins he thinks the Sear is still perceptible After his recovery from this wound he was for some time engaged in Scouting parties - after this he was marched to the south and on his way was in a battle at Falmouth Genl. Rochambeau he thinks having the command at that place - For his conduct in this engagement he thinks it was perceived from the commanding officer a written Statement of his valour - what that paper was he cannot pretend now to say some years ago he handed it to Major Saml. Scott of Campbell County Va for the purpose of endeavouring to procure for him a pension
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Major Scott Shortly afterwards died and the applicant has never since heard of it Perhaps it may be somewhere in the war department - On his way to the South he was in a battle at Moore Creek in N.C. under the command of Genl. Wayne. From Moores Creek he thinks he marched to Guilford Courthouse N.C. & was in the battle at that place under the command of Genl Greene at this place he was again wounded and the ball is still in his thigh - From Guilford C.H. he believes he marched to Camden S.C. he was in the battle at that place Genl. Greene commanding where they were defeated He then marched he thinks to the Utaw [sic] Springs and was in the battle at that place Genl. Greene commanding Col. Lynch and Capt. Saml Scott he remembers were at the Utaw [sic] Springs the declarant thinks that in this engagement he was under the immediate command of Capt Saml. Scott - From the Utaw [sic] Springs, he marched with the prisoners to the Barracks in Albemarle County Virginia - From thence he marched to Little York a while after the siege by Cornwallis and was there discharged. He had a written memorandum of his discharge highly Flattering to him as a Soldier and a man - It was signed by Genl. Washington, Genl. Wayne, Genl. Greene, Genl. Sullivan, Colo. Lawrence and a great many other officers of rank and distinction. This paper was also handed to Major Scott some short time before his death for the purpose of obtaining a pension for the applicant if it be not in the War Department he knows not where it is - The applicant further States that before his discharge he was at the Battle of Sullivan's Island Genl. S
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commanding - he was near McDonald when he fell and saw him die after his discharge from his Revolutionary services he marched with Genl. Wayne in his campaign against the Indians He was present and cut the first piece of lumber of timber for the building of Fort Wayne - he was a Sergeant in this Campaign, he thinks but was during it promoted from Genl Wayne he went with a detachment of the miammi [sic] to the miammi [sic] village - was in numerous Skirmishes with the Indians, Killed many of them and destroyed their huts and corn fields - He does not recollect how how long he was in this service From Genl Wayne he also received an honorable discharge in writing which was also handed over to Major Scott along with the papers before mentioned He cannot say Exactly how long he was in the Revolutionary war - it was how[ev]er for several years - almost from its commencement to its close. He has no documentary evidence of his services except the certificate of T Molloy who is now dead and which is in his [?] writing and knows of no person by whom he can prove the same - 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 the agency of any State 
Sworn to and Subscribed in open Court the day & year aforesaid
Lewis x his mark Blew Reynolds

We David Saunders and Thomas Mitchell residing in the County of Bedford in the State of Virginia do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Lewis B Reynolds who has subscribed and Sworn to the above declaration That we believe him to be about
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80 years of age that he is reputed and believed in his neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion - Sworn to and subscribed in Court the day and year aforesaid
David Saunders
Th. P Mitchell

I do hereby certify that myself and Lewis Runnels was in the United Service together in the year 1776 attached to General Wayne's Regiment at the Battles of P. Town
Given from under my hand T. Molloy
Recruiting Sg

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 and served as he states. and the Court do further certify that it appears to them that David Saunders and Thomas P Mitchell who have signed the annexed certificate are residents of said County of Bedford and are credible persons and that their statements is entitled to credit.

And I Robert N Dickerson deputy for Robert P. Mitchell Clerk of the County Court of Bedford in the State of Virginia, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains a true copy of the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Lewis B. Reynolds for pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, at office the 2nd day of November 1832 in the 57" year of American Independence.
Ro N Dickerson D.C.B.C.
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Lewis B Reynolds
declaration for a 
pension
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it was that a certificate of such a minister was not procured to his original declaration - to which this and the foregoing affidavit are to be combined as an application.
Lewis x his mark B Reynolds
Witness
M. H. Garland
Subscribed and Sworn to before me a Justice of the peace aforesaid this 22nd day of April 1833. 
Wm R Jones J.P.

State of Virginia, Bedford County towit
I Robert C. Mitchell clerk of the County Court of Bedford in the state of Virginia do hereby certify that William R Jones who has signed the two foregoing certificates was and is now an acting justice of the peace for the County aforesaid - duly authorized to administer oaths - that the two signatures of his name as above on this sheet are in his own proper hand writing and that all due faith and credit is and of right given to all his official acts.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at the office this 22nd day of April 1833 in the 57th year of American Independence
R. C. Mitchell C.B.C.
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State of Virginia Bedford County Sct
I Robert C. Mitchell clerk of the county Court of Bedford in the state aforesaid, do hereby Certify that David Saunders and Thomas P. Mitchell whose certificate is annexed to the foregoing certificate declaration of Lewis B. Reynolds are men of high respectability and standing; the said Saunders being one of the oldest members of the Court of said County and himself a Revolutionary Soldier.
Given under my hand this 23d day of April 1833.
R. C. Mitchell.
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Power of Attorney
Know all men by these presents: That I Charles B. Reynolds do hereby constitute and appoint CHAS. C. TUCKER, of Washington City, D. C., my true and lawful heir and Attorney to prosecute the Claim of Lewis B Reynolds ~ for any amount of Revolutionary Pension or increase of Pension that may be due under the provisions of the Act of ______ or any other Act or Resolution of Congress, and I hereby authorize my said Attorney to examine all papers and documents in relation to said Claim on file in the Department at Washington City, or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, and to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all things that I might or could do, were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney may lawfully do in the premises.
WITNESS my hand and seal this 10th day of February 1854.
In presence of } SS. C. B. Reynolds { Seal}

STATE OF Virginia. Campbell COUNTY-SS.
On this 10th day of February 1854, before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State above mentioned personally appeared Charles B. Reynolds and acknowledged the foregoing power of Attorney to be his act and deed for the purpose therein mentioned.
Peter Hunter J.P.

STATE OF Virginia
Campbell COUNTY,} SS.
On this 10th day of February 1854, before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace - in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Charles B Reynolds - a resident of said County, and made oath according to the law that he is the identical Chas. B. Reynolds who executed the foregoing power of Attorney, and that he is directly interested in said Claim, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my said Attorney may use in prosecuting said Claim.
C B Reynolds

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written. Peter Hunter J.P.

STATE OF Virginia
COUNTY OF Campbell
I Geo. Wm. Dabney Clerk of Campbell County Court - do hereby certify that Peter Hunter Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavit and acknowledgement were made and who has thereunto signed his name, was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name and affixed my official seal this
27 day of February 1854
Geo. Wm. Dabney Clk
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Bedford County Apl. 15th 1852
The Comr. of pensions will recognize Mr Robt H Gray as my agent, to investigate, and to prosecute my claim to any pension which was rightfully due my decd. husbd. Lewis B Reynolds decd of the Co. of Bedd. Va - whose declan. for a penn. under the Act of June 7, 1832 is on file in the pension office and was rejected - The Comr. of pensions will therefore please inform Mr. Gray, as to the cause of said rejection - and also what service was asserted by her husbd - and what was considered satisfactorily previous - and what part rejected, and for what cause.
Respectfully
Charity Reynolds
witness
Elizabeth Leftwich
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December 7, 1936.
BA-J/ILL
Lewis Blew Reynolds
R. 8713

Mrs. Oliver P. McCartney
Mesa, Arizona.

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Abner and Lewis B. Reynolds.

There is no claim for pension or bounty land on file based upon service in the Revolutionary War of an Abner Reynolds, under any spelling of that surname. The record  has been found of Lewis Blew Reynolds; his record is given herein as found in the papers on file in pension claim, R. 8713, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.

Lewis Blew Reynolds was born November 15, 1753 in Buckingham County, Virginia; the names of his parents are not shown. He resided in that county during the period of the Revolutionary War and for some time afterwards, later resided in Prince Edward County, in Campbell County, and Bedford County, all in Virginia.

He applied October 23, 1832, while a resident of Bedford County, Virginia, for the pension which might have been due on account of his service in the Revolutionary War. He stated then that he enlisted early in the war, served a few weeks as sergeant in Captain Lewis' Virginia company, during which he marched to Norfolk, that after his return home, he enlisted under C. Shelton, served as sergeant under Captains Cobbs, John Scott, Samuel Scott, Major Belew and Colonel Lawrence; in the Virginia troops, that he was in the battles of Trenton, Princeton, Red Bank, Mud Island, that he wintered at Valley Forge, that he was in the battle of Monmouth, in which he was wounded in his tight, was at Stony Point, marched against Major Andre and Arnold, afterwards went south, was in the battles of Camden, Guilford Court House, and Yorktown, length of said service about five years. He stated that he was familiarly called the "blue sergeant". After this service, he stated
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Lewis B. Reynolds
Va
Suspended
Letter 4 Nov: 1833 to
S & M. Garland
to Nov 22. 1833
" June 18 W L Goggin 1831
doc June 22 '36 Hon N. H. Claiborne
Act of June 18 32

See L. G. Godwin July 9/51
R. H. Gray Aug 27 22
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8713.
P.O.
Lewis B Reynolds
Service:
Enlisted: ____, 18
Discharged: ________, 18
Printed Volume - Rejected & Suspended
Pensions - Page 250
Reason for Suspension
"For further proof."
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.
______ Recognized. _______ Contract.
_______ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _________, 18

1931 - Dec. 7 - Hist to Mrs Oliver P McCartney - ILL
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Jas. E Heath Esq
In Mr. Reynolds case.
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Lynchburg apl. 16th 1852

Sir
Enclosed is a letter of Mrs. Charity Reynolds of Bedd Co. Va. you will please afford me the information therein ask for, and greatly oblige
Rob H Gray.
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142
Robt. H. Gray's
Aug 27/52
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414
Pension Office
Aug 27 1852

Sir
The claim of Lewis B Reynolds of Va. has been examined, There is not among his papers a particle of proof of service, He asserts that he served in the 5 Regt. Va Line. but his name cannot be found on the Rolls of that Regt. There may possibly be some evidence of his service in the State Department of Virginia, The case, however, will not be re opened without the production of material evidence which could not have been procured at an earlier day

Robt H Gray Esq
Lynchburgh
Va
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Nathl H Claiborne
June 22 1836

OC

recd. Vol 44 Pg 1
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War Dept
Pension Off
June 1836

Sir
Agreeably to your request I have the honor to enclose herewith a copy of the last letter in the case of Lewis B. Reynolds - no papers in relation to his case have been recd. since its date

Hon Nathl. H Claibourne
Ho. Reps
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Department of War
Pension Office
September 20 1833

Sir:
The declaration of Lewis B. Reynolds has again been examined and is herewith returned.
It appears from the statement of the applicant that he alleged to have enlisted in the Virginia line, a circumstance that seated the notice of the Clerk who briefed the case originally I have since however caused the rolls of the Virginia Continental and State Troops to be carefully examined, but cannot find the name of Mr. Reynolds upon them.
Proof of Service, by the testimony of at least one credible witness will be required to sustain his claim.
I also return the letter of Mr. Garland -
I am respectfully
Yr. Obt Servant
J. L. Edwards

Maj: JW. Garland
Present
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S & M H Garland
Lynchburg
Va

16, 871
Lewis B. Reynolds

Suspd. see letr
4 Nov 1833
S. & M. Garland
Lynchburgh
Va
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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?   No
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?  No
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?  Yes
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?  (no answer)
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?  (no answer) 
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?  (no answer)
XVI. ++ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?   No
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?  Yes

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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(illegible)
31 Jan     5

Mr. S. Godwin
Claim Agent
Washington Cty
D C
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ENVELOPE

Va. June 18

Free

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of
Pensions
Washington
City
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Liberty Bedford County Va 
June 9th 1835 
Dr Sir,
Mr. Lewis B. Reynolds an old Revolutionary 
Soldier of this County has applied to me to draw up 
a petition which he wishes presented to the department 
over which you preside, asking a pension under the Act of Congress of June 7th 1832, he having heretofore filed his declaration for 
that purpose; this I have accordingly done as 
you will percieve by the accompanying 
Documents. Mr Reynolds is an extremity 
poor man but so far as I know or 
believe is a man of truth he is also very 
old and much afflicted which may 
account for his imperfect recollection 
of the events and circumstances of the 
War in which he served; he was among 
the first of those in this County who endeavoured 
to avail themselves of the provisions of he Act of June 7th 1832, it seems from his statement 
he was disappointed at first, owing to some 
informality in his declaration; he tells me he 
thinks it was sent on again, since which time 
he has heard nothing from it, and that 
now nothing but a consciousness of the 
justice of his claim would induce him 
again to bring it to the notice of the Department, although his poverty is 
extreme and his afflictions of a long standing character which renders his poverty 
still more wretched. The certificates he furnishes of his good character as shown 
by the papers forwarded and the reputation 
and general belief that he was a soldier 
of the revolution and served as he states 
are from men of the highest standing 
character and worth. He prays that his 
claims be examined into and his pension allowed, 
I am with the greatest respect 
 [?] Goggins
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State of VIrginia
Bedford County to wit
On the 22nd day of October 18[??]
personally appeared before ____ the Justices of the Circuit Court of Bedford, Lewis Blew Reynolds a resident of said County & State aged about 80 years who being first sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832, that he was born in the county of Buckinham [sic] in the State of Virginia on the 15th day of November 17[??] as well as he remembers he thinks there was a register of his yr in the books belonging to the Church of the parish in which he was born what has become of that register he is unable to say; Since the [?] lived in the counties of Buckingham [?] and [?] but mostly in [?] Stroke which he has unfortunately received [?] impaired [?] impaired and he has therefore [?] as he was in the [?] many years [?] under the Command of a great many different [?] to another [?] to all his service and all the skirmishes in which he was engaged [?] of the [?] in the State of Virginia where he [?] he does not know [?] after his return home [?] he thinks either for four years or having the war so [?] as he now remembers [?] it was in the County of Albemarle in the State of Virginia in that he recollected [?] made a Sergeant.  [?] Shortly after his enlistment he belonged to [?] the 5th Regiment of the [?] under the Command of the Lieutenant Major [?] and Capt Polk, together with other officers from the County of Albemarle he [?] and under the Command he thinks of Capt Jno Scott (Capt [?] his first Capt at that time being sick) in the white march, they then Crossed the Delaware and he
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Capt Scott  to remember was at the Utaw [sic] Springs: [?] think that in this engagement he was under the immediate of Capt Samuel Scott; from the Utaw [sic] Springs he marched the prisoners to the Barracks in Albemarle County Va. From thence he marched to Little York while after the Seige [sic] by Cornwallis and was then discharged: the [?] and of his discharge highly [?] & him as a soldier and a man. It was signed by Gen'l Washington, Gen'l Wayne, Gen'l Green, Gen'l Sullivan, Cap't Lawrence and a Great many other officers of rank & estimation. The paper was also handed to Major Scott some short time before his death for the purpose of attaining a pension in the Applicant; if it be not at the war department he knows not where it is.  The applicant further states that before his discharge he was in the battle of Sullivan Island Gen'l Lee Commanding--he was near McDonald when [?] and saw him die; after his discharge from his [?] marched with Gen'l Wayne in his Campaign [?] the first [?] of timbers for the building of fort Wayne [?]--was in numerous skirmished with the Indians. Killed many of them & destroyed their huts Y cornfields. He does not recollect, long he was in this service [?] Gen'l Wayne he also [?] discharge in [?] was also handed [?] with the [?]; He cannot say exactly how long he was in the revolutionary [?] -- it was however for several years almost from [?] to the Peace: he has no documentary evidence of his [marked out: Weding [sic]] Service except the certificate of [?] who is now dead & which is in his records [?] and he knows of no person by whom he can prove the service.  He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present. I declare that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to & Subscribed in Court the day & year aforesaid
Lewis  his X mark  Blew Reynolds

We David Saunders Thomas B. Mitchell residing in the County of Bedford in the State of Virginia do hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with Lewis B. Reynolds who has [?] & sworn to the above declaration --that we believe him to be about 80 years of age that he is respected & believed in his neighbourhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that
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opinion.
Sworn to & subscribed this the day & year aforesaid
David Saunders
Thos. D. Mitchell

[?] of the [?] foregoing [?]
"I Do hereby certify that myself [?] was in the [?] we were together in the year 1776 attached to General Waynes Regiment at the Battle of P[?]town. Given from under my seal
T. Mollay Recruting [sic]  S. G.

And the Said Court do hereby declare their opinion after an investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & Served as he states and the Court further certifys [sic] that it appears to them that David Saunders & Thos P. Mitchell who have signed the above certificate are residents of the said  County of Bedford and are [?] persons and that their statement in entitled to full credit.

And I John R Steptoe Deputy for Robert C Mitchell Clerk of the said County Court of Bedford in the State of Virginia, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains a true copy of the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Lewis B Reynolds for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at office this 16th day of June 1835 in the 59th year of American Independence
Jno. R. Steptoe DC
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The petition of Lewis B. Reynolds humbly represents that on the 22nd of October 1832 he filed his declaration under the Act of Congress of the 7th of June of that year; that upon the filing of his declaration in the County Court of Bedford in the State of Virginia, his papers or a copy of the said declaration he has been informed was regularly forwarded to the War Department; that the same remained on file there for a considerable length of time when he believes it was sent back for some informality in the declaration or the accompanying certificates; that he thinks after this, he endeavored to have his papers and declaration or some part of the same
amended in the parts considered defective,
which was done either in Court or before a justice of the peace, which he does not now remember although it has not been long since the same was done; that he supposed the papers were then again forwarded to the department by the gentleman who undertook the business for him, yet he has not heard from it since it was last forwarded, the gentleman who had the management of it residing then as he does now in a different County, at a considerable distance from the Petitioner and he seldom sees him so as to be enabled to make enquiry of him in regard to the matter; he does not therefore know whether his claim is still pending or whether it has been rejected; he prays therefore if it is still pending that the department will examine into it and allow him his claim to which he conceives he is justly entitled and if the same has been rejected he prays that that it be accidental in connexion with the additional or supplemental parts of his declaration not found in the and  which is on record in the office of this Court a copy of which is hereto annexed. The parts amended in the first, although in same respects merely formal, seem to be essential according to
the rules and regulations of the War Department as adapted in other cases coming within the
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knowledge of your petitioner or of those of his
acquaintance who inform him of these facts, he being so old and infirm so racked and tortured by disease and his mind or his recollection so much impaired, as to know but little of anything relative even to his own affairs. He was unable in his first or original declaration to prove the certificate of a Clergyman as to his belief in his services as a soldier of the Revolution for the simple reason that when he entered the service he resided in a distant County viz in the County of Buckingham and removed to this County long after the war was over having lived also in two other Counties in the State viz Campbell and Prince Edward, before he came to the County of Bedford where he was a total stranger, and owing to his poverty was compelled to move from place to place almost every three or four years to provide subsistence  for himself and five children with a wife whose condition was rendered the more deplorable and is now Died so from the fact that he your petitioner
has been for 45 years part afflicted with the paralysis of the head; he has however he trusts (though not sustained by the certificate of a Clergyman as required, which he probably could have proved if he had resided --- in Buckingham or had been able to have visited his friends there) the certificates of gentlemen as shown by the paper annexed to his declaration of as high character as any in the County of Bedford Viz Col David Saunders, one of the oldest and most respected Citizens and a Magistrate in the County; and also the certificate of said Thomas P. Mitchell, than whom none ranks higher either at a physician or a mag he hopes therefore that the circumstances will show satisfactorily why he did not provide a Clergymans certificate and that that deficit will be amply supplied by the certificate of the gentlemen above alluded to
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accidentally met with him and he resides in the
County of Tazwell therefore it was not sworn to:  he has heard also since that said Malloy is dead. This affiant is made at this time to attend Court no Court being in session and he resides some
distance from the Courthouse his bodily
infirmity prevents his going about in a great
degree and his extreme old age renders him
almost an invalid. Your petitioner respectfully
asks that his declaration and papers be received
and his pension allowed as he humbly considers
himself entitled to the same & as in duty &c
Lewis B [his X mark] Reynolds

The foregoing petition was subscribed and sworn to before me a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Bedford in Va. this 9th June 1835
Fredk Aunspaugh J P

Bedford County to wit
Fredrick Aunspaugh a justice of the peace in and for the County of Bedford do hereby declare that I have put the serial interrogatories prescribed by the war department to Lewis B. Reynolds a soldier of the Revolution and he gave to the same the answers  above at Court.  And I further certify that David Saunders who has signed a certificate annexed to the original declaration of said Reynolds is a magistrate in the said County one of his oldest Citizens and a highly respectable man and that Thomas P. Mitchell who has also signed the same is a practicing physician in said County of high standing that they are residents of the County of Bedford that they are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit Given under my hand this 9th day of June 1835
Fredk Aunspaugh J.P.
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State of Virginia Bedford County to wit
I John R. Steptoe deputy for Robert C Mitchell
Clerk of the County Court of Bedford and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Frederick B. Aunspaugh is an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified according to law and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at office --- 3d day of June 1835 in the 59th year of American Independence
Jno R. Steptoe D.O.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME Reynolds, Martin 
GRADE Private
LINE Pennsylvania 
WARRANT NUMBER 10279
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED January 16, 1790 to - not shown-

The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates.  Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.  Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in the National Archives.