Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7,382, for David Rea, North Carolina
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N.C.
Rea, David
S. 7.382
Born in Delaware 
carded.
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N.C.
Rea, David
S. 7.382
Born in Delaware
carded.
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North Carolina 16.5225
David Rea
[illegible] in the State of No Ca
who was a pri [illegible] man in the [blank] commanded by Captain [blank] of the Regt commanded by Col Polk on the [illegible] line for 6 mo: 20 days

Inscribed on the Roll of No Carolina at the rate of 23 dollars 88 cents for annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 31 day of August 1832 and [illegible] J.H. Wilson Charlotte No Ca

Appears to the 4th of March 1830
Semi-ann allowance ending [illegible]

47.76
11.94
$59.70

Revolutionary Claim 
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by Nath Rice Clerk,
Book E Vol. 6 Page 59

[illegible] 11 April 1837 order appeared 17 May 1837

Paid at the Treasury under the Act of April 6th 1838 from 4th March 1839 to Oct 1st 1839. [illegible] June 2nd 1842
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State of South Carolina
Mecklenburg County

Court of Pleas and quarter [illegible] August [illegible] 1832

On this the 29 day of August 1832 personally appeared in afore Court before the Matthew Wallace [illegible] of said Court, [illegible] David Ray amendment of the County and State aforesaid, aged 75 years the 10th of March 1832, who being first duly sworn according to [illegible] doth on his oath mark the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the net of [illegible] June the 7th 1832. 

That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers and served as herein stated - his served as a volunteer under Col Thomas Polk as commandant and John McRea Capt of militia company to which I belonged. [illegible] 25th Nov 1775 and left service on the 2nd of January 1776. Lived in Mecklenburg County, State of North Carolina. Engaged in no battle [illegible] River at the old nation [illegible] York District on to the Broad River and served at this ferry and on to Rayheon Creek. Served with no [illegible] has no doe. [illegible] evidence by which the claim may be clearly established. The campaign in which he served was called the Snow Campaign from the fact that a great storm of snow fell on us during the time of our service. William Polk was a resident of Raleigh in this State was dangerously wounded by a [illegible] during that expedition and was one who took care of him transduced him home through the Snow. 

The second Campaign in which he served was the "Cross Creek Campaign." Served as a volunteer under the same officers as in the former Campaign. Entered about the first of Feb 1776 and left service about the middle of March '78. Engaged in no battle. March from Charlotte through Salisbury on to Fayetteville. Served with no regiment has no documentary evidence. 

The third time he was called and to march to Lincoln on the 22nd of June 1780 under Gen Rutherford. Rich Springs Capt. Left service on the 22nd of September 1780 who served about  4 weeks. Was a volunteer. In no battle. Marched from Charlotte to [illegible] which he was attached [illegible] flying from the [illegible] which was fought 1 mile west of Lincoln on the day before he arrived. From marched as a award on to Salisbury. At this he served as a substitute who served about 3 or 4 months, until the [illegible] of Gen Gates at Campten. After which he was called out and served under Col Davie and Capt Harrison in scouting parties against the Tories for the balance of the 3 months. Served with no continental troops. No documentary evidence in [illegible]. The fourth and last expedition in which he served was as a volunteer in a troop of eight dragoons under Capt Chas Pol Joseph Graham Major Rutherford Brigadier Gen from some time in the month of Sept 1781 and left some time in [illegible] of '81. In all [illegible] months of which was considered equivalent to 3 months service on foot.
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the British near the same place and took 2 prisoners. Scoured the country, were attacked by the Tories and some of the company killed. Served with no regular troops. Has the certificate of the Capt Majors. And your re-evaluate does hereby [illegible] every [illegible] whatever to a pension or [illegible] except the request, and believes that his name is not one the pension made of the agency of very State. 

[illegible] the day and year afores aid. David Rea [illegible]

The Robert H Morrison, a Clergyman [illegible] in the County of Mecklenburg and State of North Carolina, and [illegible], residing in the [illegible] County that we were acquainted with David Ray, who has serviced and [illegible] to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy five years of age: that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides to having been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that belief. 

Sworn and escribed that day and year of [illegible]

12.246
David Rea

[signature] Robert H. Morrison
Isaac Alexander

I Joseph Graham Resident in Lincoln County North Carolina do hereby certify that I acted as a Major in the North Carolina Militia and that David Ray who has signed and sworn to the [illegible] Declaration has in the [illegible] under my command as a soldier and was at several skirmishes in North Carolina on the [illegible] during three months in the year 1781.

[signature] J Graham

And said Court do hereby certify this opinion after the investigation of the requester and after [illegible] the investigations of the War Department prescribed, that the above applicant was a Revolutionary believer and service as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Robert H Morrison who has secured the foregoing certificate as a clergyman resident in the County and State aforesaid, and that I saw at Alexander who has also secured the same is a resident of the place aforesaid, and is a credible person, and that his statement is credible to believe. 

I, Isaac Alexander, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and greater Affairs, do certify that the foregoing contains the appeal proceedings of this Court in the matter of the application of David Rea for a pension. In testimony where of I have hereafter set my hand and seal of office, this 29th of August 1832. 

[signature] Isaac Alexander C.M.C
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Treasury Department
Second Comptroller's Office
May 16th, 1842

Sir:

Under the date of the 6th of April 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States,"
The inspector of the last will of David, Rea, dec..." a Pensioner on the Roll of the North Carolina Agency, at the rate of twenty three dollars and 88 cents for annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1839 to the 1st of Oct 1839. 

Respectfully yours, 
[signature] Albion K. Parris
Comptroller

To the Commissioner of Pensions, 
Present
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David Rea
North Carolina

Anum 2 mo paid 8.33
4.20 of 13.33
2.22
23.88

3-14
Int 12.6
April 27.33
12,246 Per

[signature] JH Wilson
Charlotte
N.C.
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Brief in the case of David Ray
Co of Mecklenburg in the State of N.C
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

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

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

3. How old is he? 75

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

[Table]
Period
25 [illegible] in 1775
[illegible] 1776 volunteered 
22 June 1720
[illegible] 1721

Duration of Service
Years, Months, Days. 
..1.8
..1.12
..2..
About.2..
..6.20

Rank
As a
''
''
''
Lt. Horse
''

Names of General and Field Officers
under who he served
Gen. 
[illegible] McRee, Col. Polk
''  ''  ''  ''
[illegible]
[illegible] Tunuken, Col. Davie

5. In what battles was he engaged? Took some [illegible]

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Mecklenburg N.C

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, by the [illegible]? [illegible]

8. Are the papers defective as to form an authentication? and if so, in what respect? The amount of service is very [illegible] given

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

[signature] George Payton
Examining Clerk
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November 12, 1935

Robert Rea-8.32474
BA-J/AWF

Mrs. Max Healey
613 E. Second Street
Madison, Indiana

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Robert Rea and Samuel Welch both pensioned in Jefferson County, Indiana. 

Because of the great demand for Revolutionary War data and the limited clerical force available for furnishing such information, it is impossible to comply in full with each request similar to yours. 

The record of Robert Rea is given herein as found in the papers on file in pension claim, 8.32474, based upon his service in the War of the Revolution. 

He was born June 7, 1762 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, names of his parents not given. 

While residing in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, Robert Rea enlisted sometime in November, 1778, served six weeks in Captain James Harris' North Carolina company. He enlisted May 20,1780, served seven months in Captain Wiley's company, Colonel Harris' North Carolina regiment. He enlisted December 27 or 28, 178- served three months in Captain Wiley's company, Colonel Henderson's regiment, and was in an engagement on the Catawaba River; He enlisted sometime in April, 1781, served under Captain Thomas Shelby, William Hutchinson, Samuel Martin, a part of the time in Colonel William Polk's regiment; during this service he was in "Snipes Defeat at the Horse Shoe" under General Sumter, and was
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discharged April 17, 1782. 

Robert Rea moved from Mecklenburg County, North Carolina to Buncombe County, North Carolina, thence to Jefferson County, Indiana. 

It is not stated that the soldier, Robert Rea, was married. His brother, David Rea, was living in 1834 in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. 

If you desire information in regard to the last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D.C., and cite the following:

Robert Rea
Certificate #25204
Issued December 9, 1833
Rate $79.66 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
Indiana Agency

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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James L. Evans as Esquire
Commission of Pension
Washington:-
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[illegible] April 20 1837

J L Edwards Equu
Commissioner of Pension

Sir, 

Your letter of the 11th [illegible] the papers in the law of David Rea. [illegible] to you in [illegible] of the 18th March. The letter [illegible] contain any intention to pay the pensioner [illegible]. [illegible]. 

[illegible]
[signature] Jno Hinke
[illegible]
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February 16, 1932
BA-J/AWF

Memorial Branch
Office of the Q.M.General
War Department
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your request for information in regard to Robert Rea, a soldier of the Revolutionary War. 

The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 32474, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Robert Rea. 

He was born June 7, 1762 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. 

While residing in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, he served with the North Carolina troops, as follows- from sometime in November 1778, six weeks in Captain James Harris' company; from May 20, 178-, seven months in Captain Wiley's company in Colonel Harris December 27 or 28, 1780, three months in Captain Wiley's company in Colonel Henderson's regiment, and was in an engagement on the Catawba River; from early in April 1781, under Captains Thomas Shelby, William Hutchinson, Samuel Martin, a part of the time under Colonel William Polk, and was discharged April 17, 1782. He was in Snipes Defeat at the Horse Shoe, under General Sumter. 

He was allowed pension on his application executed February 12, 1833, then a resident of Jefferson County, Indiana. 

Very truly yours, 
A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator
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[first sentence not captured in scan] pension on file in this Bureau. Robert Rea S.F. 32474

[Table]
Dates of Enlistment or Appointment
Nov. 1778
May 20, 1780
Dec. 1780
Apr. 1781 [arrow connecting to note] discharged Apr 17, 1782

Length of Service
6 mons
7 mons
3 mons

Rank
[illegible]

Officers Under Whom Served
Captain
James Harris
Wiley
Wiley
Thomas Shelby
William Hutchinson
Samuel Martin

Colonel
Harris
Henderson
William Polk

State
N.C.

Battles engaged in, Snipes Defeat at the Horse Show under Gen Sumter
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Mecklenburg N.C.
Date of application for pension, February 12, 1833 [illegible]
Residence at date of application, Jefferson County, Ind
Age at date of application, Born June 7, 1762 in Lancaster, Pa. Date and place of death not shared. 

Very respectfully, 
[illegible] 
Commissioner
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Oct 31 1935

Veterans Administrator
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir:

Will you kindly send me the records of 

Robert Rea
Samuel Welch Wayne's [illegible]

This will be a great help to the local chapter of D.A.R. in compiling their records. Thanking you in advance -

Mrs. Max Healey
Madison, Indiana

613 E. Sec. S
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April 28-1908-

Bureau of Pensions-

Will you kindly send me the pension records of Robert Rea who was born in Penn-June 10-1761 and died at Madison. Send Nov. 4, 1832. He enlisted about 1777 and served under Gen. Green in North Carolina and after [illegible] Curlyn E. Ford. 

618 [illegible] St

Madison -
Indiana -
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War Department
Office of the Quartermaster General 
Washington
[stamp] Feb 5 1932     1931

Memorandum for 
The Surgeon General
Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department, 
Commandant, United States Coast Guard, Treasury Department, 
The Commissioner of Pensions, Interior Building, 
General Accounting Office, F Street, between 4th & 5th, N.W.

1. The attached application has been submitted to this office for Government headstone to be erected at the grave of the decedent named thereon. In order that the proper inscription may be placed on the stone it would be appreciated if your office would verify the name and service on the application, checking and making such corrections in red ink as may be necessary to show the correct spelling of the name and complete designation of the organizations. 

2. In addition, please advise State from which  decedent came. 

Request for Robert Rea
Feb. 15, 1932 [illegible]
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32474
Ray INVALID

File No. 32,474
Robert Rea
[illegible]

Act: June 7 32
Index:- Vol. 2, Page 337

1908 Max Healey and Carolyn E. Ford [illegible]
1932 - Feb 16 [illegible]
1935 Nov 12 [illegible] Max Healey
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7382
INVALID

File No. 7382
David Rea
[illegible]

Act: June 7th 1832
Index:- Vol. Feb, Page 312

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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David Rea
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of David Ray, which require further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes

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

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

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

V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? No

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

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

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Yes

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished. Yes
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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? Yes

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?

XIV. If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? Yes
       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
        Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?

XV. Does it appear from any 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? Yes

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? Yes

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? Yes 1.2.6

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. R. 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 now indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that 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 marks 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. Made 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 of 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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State of North Carolina
Mecklenburg County

Court of Pleas and greater Services

May Seven 1833

On this the 28th day of May A.D. 1833, personally approved in the open Court, David Rea, of the County and State aforesaid, aged 76 years the 10th of March. A.D. 1833, 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 [illegible] June the 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as hereinafter stated. Your declarant states that he served as a volunteer in all his service. The first tour, that he served Colonel Thomas Polk was commandant and John McKnea  was captain of the company to which he belonged. Entered on the 25th Nov 1775 and left service on the 21 of January 1776. Was in service in these times six weeks. Lived in the county and state aforesaid at the time. Engaged in no battle. Marched into South Carolina, into Rayburned Creek. Served with no regular troops. Has no documentary evidence of this service. The Campaign was called the Snow Campaign. The second campaign in which he served was called the Cross Creek Campaign. Served under the officers as in the Snow Campaign. Entered in the month of February 1776, left the service in the month of March '76. In service six weeks. Marched from Charlotte, [illegible]. Engaged in no battle. Has no documentary evidence. 
The third campaign, Rutherford was General, Richard
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actual services during this time for two months. Marched from the County of Mecklenburg in the State aforesaid to the Town of Lincoln in the State aforesaid. The company to which e was attached took 30 or 40 Tories, flying from the Battle of [illegible] which was fought one mile West of Lincoln on the day before he arrived. From there marched [illegible] toward [illegible]. At this time he himself a substitute who served 4 weeks, until the Defeat of Gen Gates at Camden. After which he was called out and served under Polk service and Capt Tunuken in scouting parties against the Tories for the balance of three months. Served with no committal troops. No documentary evidence in [illegible]. 

The fourth and last Campaign he served as a light [illegible] under Capt Charles Polk, Joseph Graham Major, Rutherford General. Entered service in the month of September 1781 left in the month December 1781. Served at this time two months. Marched from Charlottee N.C. onto Layetteville in the same state. From there on an expedition to rout a large party of Tories at the Rafting [illegible] and succeeded in killing near [illegible]. From there marched against the same body of Tories, who had [illegible] near [illegible] there again. A few days after attacked the [illegible] near the same place and took two prisoners. Scoured the country and attacked the Tories and some of the company killed. Served with no regular troops. Has the certificate of Capt Charles Polk, which he [illegible] submitted as proof of this campaign. Your declarant states that he served,  altogether, seven months, for which he claims is [illegible] in under the Act aforesaid. Your declarant states that he was born in the county of Kent in the state of Delaware. Has no record of his age in a family Bible. He knows of no person, some Colonel William Pol of Raleigh who can testify to his services to his [illegible], and he lives such a distance from your
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the residence of your declarant that this [illegible] any cannot be heard without subjecting your beclaimaint to great inconvenience. Your declarant states that the certificate of the Rev Samuel Williamson who is the pastor of the congregation to which your declarant belongs, cannot be had in consequence of unsurmountable engagement at home. And that he knows of no other clergyman who is sufficiently acquainted with your claimant that can certify as required. Your declarant hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or anything, except the [illegible], and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state known to and subscribed. David Rea, Sir

We Isaac Alexander and Ezekiel Black, citizens, residing in the county of Mecklenburg  and state of North Carolina so hereby certify that we are well acquainted with David Ray, who has subscribed and sworn to the whom declarative, that we believe him seventy six years of age. That he is respected and believes in the neighborhood in which he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that belief known to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. 

[signatures] Ezekiel Black 
Isaac Alexander

And the said court do hereby declare [illegible] after the investigation of the matter and after hearing just the interrogations prescribed by the [illegible] that the above mentioned applicant was a soldier of the Revolution. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them, that Ezekiel Black and Isaac Alexander, who have signed the preceding certificate one residents in the county of Mecklenburg and state of North Carolina, and that they are credible persons.
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I, Isaac Alexander, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and greater services for the County of Mecklenburg and state of North Carolina, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said court, in the matter of the application of David Rea for a pension. 

The last money where of I have hereonto let my hand and seal of office this 28th of May 1833. 

[signature] Isaac Alexander Clerk of Mecklenburg County