Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24737, for Silas Reed, New York
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10791
8954
New York
Silas Reed
Ontario Co in the State of New York who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Childs of the Regt commanded by Col. Platt in the N.Y. [illegible] line for 12 mo
Died Nov 12 1833

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 40 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 2 day of May 1833 and sent to C. Loomis.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 | $80.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept | 20.00
[total] | $10.00

Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk,
Book C Vol. 4 Page 30
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State of New York
Ontario County ss
On this fourth day of August in the year 1832 personally appeared before me Chester Loomis, a Judge of the County Courts of the County of Ontario aforesaid Silas Reed a resident of the town of Gorham in the said county, and state aged seventy four years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832 he being unable from bodily infirmity to attend the sitting of the County Court.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated

In the month of February in the year 1776 he volunteered to served for the term of two months in a company of Militia of the State of New York commanded by Captain Childs Lieut Lloyd and Ensign Shaw and was forthwith marched with the said company of Militia from Amenia in the county of Dutchess in the State of New York to the city of New York where the company to which he belonged was annexed to a Regiment of Militia there in service commanded by Colonel Humphrey. About two weeks after, the said company crossed to Long Island and was stationed at Newtown till the expiration of the said term of two months. The said company labored while so stationed in constructing a fortification on the East River at a place called Horn Hook. The said company at the expiration of the said term proceeded to Poughkeepsie, and being dismissed the said Silas Reed saith that the then returned to Amenia in the County of Dutchess aforesaid.

In the latter part of September of the same year (1776) he again volunteered to serve in a company of Militia at Norwalk in the county of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut as a substitute in place of his brother-in-law Matthew Fitch. The said Company was stationed at that place
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to guard the same against the enemy about three months during which period he the said Silas Reed saith that the served therein as a soldier. but that he has forgotten the names of the commanding officers of the said Company. Nor can he now recollect their names but hath the impression that one of the said officers was named Botsford. At the expiration of the said term the said Silas Reed was dismissed and returned to Amenia aforesaid.

He further saith that soon after such return and in the month of December 1776 he again volunteered to serve as a soldier in a Company of Militia commanded by Captain William Chamberlain, and Lieut. Reuben Doty and was marched a short distance below White Plains in West Chester County in the state of New York. and stationed at Wards House for about three months performing during that period an arduous and hazerdous [sic] period of Military service. and was then dismissed. 

In the Autumn of 1777 he was again called into military service in a Company under the command of the said Capt. William Chamberlain and marched to Fishkill and from thence to the Highlands. The said company was stationed at Rhinebeck when the British Fleet returned after burning Esopus. The said Silas Reed saith that he served at that time about three weeks when he was again dismissed.

He further saith that he was called into service as he thinks in the spring of 12778 under Col. Zepariah Platt and served at Amenia aforesaid one month and was during that time employed in building a Jail in which to confine Tories. The said Silas Reed further saith that he was at various other times called into military service,  on sudden alarms, or for short expeditions against the enemy in the war of the Revolution and that according to the best of his recollection and belief the whole time in which he was actually
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against the enemy in the war of the Revolution and that, according to the best of his recollection and belief the whole time in which he was actually engaged in military service cold not have been less than one year.

1st. The said Silas Reed further saith that he was born in the town of Norwalk in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut on 16th day of March 1758
2 That he has no record of his age, except a memorandum thereof in his family Bible.
3rd That he resided at Amenia in the County of Dutchess in the State of New York when called into service as aforesaid. that since the Revolutionary War he has lived six years at Pawlet in the State of Vermont, One year at Hillsdale in the County of Columbia and State of New York. Seven Years at Coxsackie in the same State, and for the last thirty five years in the town of Gorham in the County of Ontario where he now resides.
4 That he entered the service as a volunteer but served about three months at Norwalk in Connecticut as a substitute for Matthew Fitch
5 That he knew no regular officers with the troops where he served
6th That he never received any written discharge from service
7 That he knows of no person living whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his said service and that he is well known to Capt Henry Green and Jonathan Pratt of the town of Gorham aforesaid who can as he believes testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any state
Silas Reed
Sworn and subscribed to this 4th day of August 1832 Before me
Chester Loomis One of the Judges of the County Courts of the County of Ontario aforesaid
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State of New York
Ontario County ss
We Jonathan Pratt and Southmayd Garnsey residing in the town of Gorham in the said County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Silas Reed who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration. That we believe him to be of the age of seventy four years. That he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Jonathan Pratt
Southmayd Guernsey

State of New-York
Ontario County ss. Court of Common Pleas 27th August A.D. 1832
I, Charles Crane Clerk of said Court do hereby certify that the above named Jonathan Pratt and Southmayd Garnsey appeared this day aforesaid before the Judges of said Court and in open Court subscribed and was sworn to the above certificate; and that the said Court after interrogating the said persons upon their oaths respectively, are satisfied that he said persons both reside in the town of Gorham, are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
And I, the said Charles, do further certify that Chester Loomis whose name is subscribed to the preceding certificate, is, and was at the date of said Certificate, a judge of said Court; and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and believe the signature aforesaid to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this first day of September A.D. 1832
Charles Crane

Silas Reed
Declaration
10791

C. Loomis Agent
Rushville N.Y.
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State of New York
Ontario County ss
Silas Reed who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration being duly sworn doth depose and say in addition to his preceding declaration that by reason of old age and consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service as a soldier in the war of the revolution as stated in his said declaration, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than one year as a soldier and for such service he claims a pension. He further saith that by reason of bodily infirmity - having lost one of his legs more than twenty years since he is and has long been entirely unable to attend the sitting of the county court. He further saith that the only clergyman with whom he is acquainted who could probably testify as to his reputation in the neighborhood where he resides, and as to his knowledge of the general report and belief of the said neighborhood, that he the said deponent was a revolutionary soldier, now resides in the county of Seneca, in this state and at such a distance that it would be attended with much expense and inconvenience to procure his testimony-- and further the said deponent saith not.
Silas Reed
Sworn and subscribed to this 4th day of January 1833
Before me
Chester Loomis
Judge of the County Courts of Ontario County aforesaid
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State of New-York
Ontario County ss.
I, Charles Crane, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that Chester Loomis whose name is subscribed to the within certificate of Affidavit, was at the date thereof a Judge of the Courts in and for said county. And that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Judge, and verily believe the said signature to be his proper act and deed.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed m name and affixed my seal of office this fourth day of January A.D. 1833
Charles Crane

10791
Silas Reed

admitted
12 mo. Private
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Reported
1890
May 5 P H Taylor history Privt hr Deputy

502
New York Albany
Bethiah Reed widow of Silas Reed NY who was a Private in the Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 40 Dollars per [struck thru] Cents [struck thru] per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of June 1843 and sent to Jack Gilbert
Rochester N. York

(Act of March 3, 1843.)
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1 Page 112
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or militia as a volunteer or "Minute Man"

She further declares that she was married to the said Silas Reed on the twenty sixth day of November in the year seventeen hundred and eighty two by a clergyman of the name of Rose at Amenia aforesaid. that her maiden name was Bethia Hurd. That Mr Rose the clergyman aforesaid (whose Christian name she has forgotten) was driven out of New Your, at the time the British took possession of that place and resided at Amenia only for a temporary period.

She further declares that her said husband Silas Reed died on the twelfth day of November in the year eighteen hundred and thirty three. that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz at the time above stated.

She further declares that her said husband Silas Reed was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States from March 1831 up to the time of his death as above stated.

Bethia Reed

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before me
Isaac Hills Recorder of the City of Rochester
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Isaac Hills Recorder of the City of Rochester

State of New York
Monroe County ss
Seneca Reed of the town of Fairview in the County of Monroe aforesaid, being duly sworn doth depose and say, that he is a son of Silas Reed and Bethia Reed, named in the foregoing declaration of the said Bethia Reed and that he is fifty three years of age.

And this deponent further saith that the said Silas Reed and Bethia Reed lived and cohabited together as man and wife from a period previous to the first day of January in the year seventeen hundred and ninety four, up to the time of the decease of the said Silas Reed, which took place on the twelfth day of November in the year eighteen hundred and thirty three, and that his father the said Silas Reed, received from the United States, a pension on account of his services in the war of the Revolution, from March 1831 up to the time of his decease as aforesaid.

And this deponent further saith that he has caused a search to be made at Aminia in the County of Dutchess and state aforesaid, for a record of the marriage of the said Silas Reed and Bethia Reed, but that no such record could be found, and this deponent verily believes no such record exists if any such record was made.

Subscribed and sworn to this 24th December 1838 before me
I. Hills, Recorder of Rochester
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I certify that I am well acquainted with Seneca Reed the person making the annexed affidavit that I have known him for several years. he is a man of respectability, and his testimony would be considered as unimpeachable, and worthy of entire credit in the County of Monroe, State of New York - where he resides - in this opinion of his credit, I entirely concur.
Timothy Childs
Ho Rep Jan 2 1839
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No 10791
Brief in the case of Silas Reed, of Gorham County of Ontario in the State of New York
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?
Before a Judge

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

3. How old is he?
74 years

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
[following is in table format in original document]
Period: Feby in 1776
Duration of Service: 2 Months
Rank: [blank]
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served: Capt Childs, Col Humphrey

Period: Sept in 1776
Duration of Service: about 3 Months
Rank: substitute
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served: Botsford

Period: Dec in 1776
Duration of Service: about 3 Months
Rank: [blank]
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served: Capt Wm Chamberlain

Period: Autumn 1777
Duration of Service: about 21 days
Rank: [blank]
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served: ditto ditto

Period: spring 1778
Duration of Service: 1 Months and of [illegible] less than one year
Rank: [blank]
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served: [blank]

5. In what battles was he engaged?
[blank]

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
Amenia, County of Dutchess, New York

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
By traditionary Evidence

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
[blank]

I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
James Bod
Examining Clerk
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August 4, 1832, at which time he resided in Gorham, New York. He died there November 12, 1833.

Silas Reed married November 26, 1782, in Amenia, Dutchess County, New York, Bethia Hurd (her maiden name) of that vicinity. They were married by a Minister of the Gospel.

Bethia Reed, the soldier's widow, was allowed pension on her application executed November 21, 1838, at which time she was aged seventy-nine years. She did not state the date and place of her birth nor the names of her parents. She resided in Greece, Monroe County, New York, in 1838.

In 1838, Seneca Reed, son of Silas Reed and his wife, Bethiah, was a resident of Parma, Monroe County, New York, aged fifty-three years. He married the daughter of Elijah Murray, her name not given; her father served from Massachusetts in the Revolutionary War and died in 1817 in Canadaigua, Ontario County, New York.

In 1838, Betsey Sutherland was a resident of Livingston County, Michigan, aged seventy-one years. She stated then that she was present at the marriage of Silas Reed and Bethian Hurd in Amenia, New York, but did not state any relationship to the soldier's family. One Solomon Sutherland was an Associate Judge of the Circuit Court for Livingston County, Michigan, in 1838.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name of person paid, and possibly, the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following:

Bethiah Reed, widow of Silas Reed
Certificate #502
Issued June 21, 1843
Rate $40 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1843
Act of March 3, 1843
New York Agency.

Very truly yours,
A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

2.
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To what time was Silas Reed of Albany Agency last paid?
(Act June 7 '32)
J L Edwards
June 7 '38

Died 12th Novr 1833 paid to that period
JH

New York Albany
Silas Reed a pensioner under the act of June 7th 1832 at the rate of $40 per ann. to what time paid
A L
John Harry Esq
3d Auditors office

Died 12 Nov 1833 paid to that period
JH
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State of Michigan
Livingston County ss
Came before me Betsey Sutherland of Livingston County aforesaid being Duly Sworn Doth Depose and say that she Resides in Livingston County Aforesaid and is Seventy one Years of Age And this Deponent further Says that She was well Acquainted with the Late Silas Reed in his life Time that the said Silas Reed was Married to Bethiah Hurd at Amenia in Duchess County New York some time in the year one Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Two as Deponent Verily believes And Deponent is Certain that Such Marriage Took place prior to the Year Seventeen Hundred Eighty four Deponant was present at the Marriage Aforesaid Witnessed the Ceremony and has a Distant Recollection of the Same
Betsey Sutherland
Subscribed & Sworn To This Twenty Second Day October 1838
Soloman Sutherland
Associate Judge
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Being personally Acquainted with the Within named Deponent I verily Believe him to to [sic] a Woman of Sound Mind & of a good carector [sic] Given under my hand this the 22nd day of Oct 1838
Soloman Sutherland
Associate Judge

State of Michigan
Livingston County Clerks Office ss
I, Ely Barnard Deputy Clerk of Said County do certify that Solomon Southerland before whom the foregoing affidavit purports to have been sworn & subscribed & whose name is also subscribed to the above certificate was at the date of said affidavit & certificate an Associate Judge of the Circuit Court in & for Said County duly Elected & sworn & authorized by law to act as such. And further that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to said affidavit & certificate is the proper hand writing of said Judge.
Witness my hand and the seal of said County this 
22d October A.D. 1838 E. Barnard Deputy Clk
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[seal of the International Association of City Managers]
The International 
City Managers' Association
Secretariat: Lawrence, Kansas

Office of the President
Harrison Gray Otis
Clarksburg, West Virginia
Feb 9, 1927
Hon Winfield Scott
Washington D.C.
My dear Sir: I shall be happy to receive, if possible, pension records, if any of 
[margin note] not as 1.) John Otis b. New London, Ct 1732 Lived at Oneida, N.Y. D. Whitingham, Vt., 1817
[margin note] not as 2) James Otis, b. 1756. Lived Battleboro Vt. 1794 - 1823.; d. Leone Mich 1840. - Wounded at Battle of Bennington
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1927 Apr 5 Hist to H. G. Otis MMN
1928 Aug 5 Hist to Mrs Genevieve Flanders J.L.L.

Revy Widow, &c.
File No. 24737
Bethiah Reed wid of Silas Reed Priv Rev War

Act: Mrch 3d 1843
Index: Vol. R, Page 156
(Arrangement of 1870)
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Albany 1696
Bethiah Reed widow of Silas Reed who was a pensioner under the Act of 7 June '32 and who died on the 12 Nov 1833 of Monroe Co. in the State of N. York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Childs of the Regt commanded by Col. Platt in the N. York line for 12 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 40 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836

Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of January 1839 and sent to Hon Timothy Childs, H.R.

Arrears to the 4th of Sep '38 | 100.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar 39 | 20.00
[total] $120.00

Act July 7, 1838

Recorded by D Brown Clerk, 
Book A, Vol 2 Page 99
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short tours and alarms, about four months in all, a part of which was under Captain Doty and under Colonel Colby Chamberlain in the New York Troops.

He was allowed a pension on his application executed August 4, 1832 while a resident of Gorham, Ontario County, New York. He died November 12, 1833 in Gorham, New York.

Soldier married November 26, 1782 in Amenia, New York, Bethiah Hurd (her maiden name) of that vicinity. She was allowed pension on her application executed November 21, 1838 while a resident of Greece, Monroe County, New York aged seventy-nine years.

Their son, Seneca Reed, was living in Parma, Monroe County, New York in 1838 aged fifty-three years. He married the daughter of Elijah Murray, her name not given. Her father also served in the Revolution from Massachusetts and died in 1817 in Canadiagua, Ontario County, New York. There is no other data on file as to the soldier's (Silas Reed) family.

Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner
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Hon J L Edwards
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Ho Rep - Jan 2 1839

Hon J. L. Edwards

Sir-
I enclose additional affidavits in support of the application of Bertha Reed for a pension - I hope the testimony new submitted will be considered as satisfactorily [illegible] in the fact that Bertha Reed the applicant is the widow of Silas Reed the deceased pensioner
Yours Respectfully
T Childs
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Wartburg, Tenn.

Veterans Administration
Revolutionary Section,
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir,
I am writing you for information regarding the revolutionary record of one, Silas Reed, who was my grandfather and my genealogical history tells [illegible] that he had a daughter Sarah who married Matthew Fitch. I think he was a resident of either New York or Connecticutt. [sic] He is mentioned in a book, Reed and Reed Lineage.

I am at loss to know his company or date of enlistment, but perhaps you may be able to find something, notwithstanding.

Sincerely Yours,
Mrs Genevieve Flanders
Wartburg, Tenn.

[stamped]
RECEIVED JUL 19 1938
 [illegible]
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Silas Reed
[illegible]
[illegible] 5 [illegible]
[illegible] Albany
Silas Reed Paid $40.- NY
died 33 and was pd $40. N.Y.
he served as sergeant
July 22 [illegible] [illegible] No history
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West Greece Monroe Co Septr 28 1846
Willis & Wade
Sir
Having noticed in the Monroe Democrat a notice of yours relative to pensions & bounty lands I will state a case for your consideration Elijah Murray who Died in the Town of Canandaigua Ontario Co in the year 1817 was a Lieutenant in the Regular Service During the Revolutionary War he was a native of Massachusetts and enlisted in that state and belonged to the Regular forces of that state we have no Vouchers to prove these facts but presume that his name is to be found at the proper place We have been told that there was Land set apart in the state of Maine for the soldiers of Mass. there has never been any exertions made to recover the Lands or any thing else. I Married a Daughter of sd Murray and there are Living of his children one son and three Daughters. two sons & one Daughter having Died Another Case Silas Reed was my Father he enlisted in Dutchess Co this state in the New York state Volunteers as a Minute Man and was held to be ready at a moments warning, he held a Sergents Warents [sic] During the war was Frequently calld out and was on Duty most of the Time During the war Some times at home geting [sic] Recruits some times away from home on business for the service he was at West Point on Duty six months at one time and was calld away several other Times for 3 4 & Six months besides. I suppose that he was entitled to a full pension from the Date of the Law granting pensions to all soldiers of the Revolution My Father was Living at the time that the Laws were passed granting pensions to all Revolutionary Soldiers. he applied and obtained only forty Dollars per year because he could not prove positively any more than one years services all together. he Died in 1833 in the Town of Gorham Ontario Co My Mother is still living and has Drawn the forty Dollars per Annum for all the time since my Fathers Death that Widows have Drawn pensions I do not know whether this class of soldiers drew bounty Land or not
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if you can Do any thing for us in either of the above cases we shall be willing to pay Well

if you should want any other information write me and I will go to our place and give you all the information in my power

Yours Respectfully
Seneca Reed
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State of New York
Monroe County ss.
On this twelfth day of April A.D. 1843 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the town of Parma in the County of Monroe aforesaid Bethiah Reed a resident of the town of Greece in said County aged Eighty four years who being first duly sworn according to laws doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed on the 3d of March 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War: that she is the Widow of Silas Reed who was a private in the New York Militia during the Revolutionary War and a Pensioner under the Act of 1832. She further declares that the annexed amount of the Pension which she received under the Act of July 7 1838 was forty dollars
She further declares that she is still a widow.
Bethiah Reed X her mark

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me
Andrew Kingsbury J.P.

I certify that I am personally acquainted with Bethiah Reed the declarant named in the foregoing declaration and who made and subscribed the same before me and that I verily believe said declaration to be true. I further certify that said Bethiah is entirely blind so as to be unable to write her name.
Andrew Kingsbury J.P.

State of New York
Monroe County ss.
I certify that Andrew Kingsbury Esquire was at the time the foregoing jurat and certificate purport to have been made a Justice of the Peace in and for said County. and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe that the signatures to said jurat and certificate are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this day of April 1843
James W Smith
Clerk of said County
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State f New York
Monroe County ss.
On this twenty first day of November in the ear 1838 personally appeared before The Mayors Court of the City of Rochester Bethiah Reed, a resident of the town of Greece in the County of Monroe 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 Silas Reed who was as she has been informed by her said husband and believes a Sargeant [sic] in the militia in the Revolutionary War. That she resided in the same neighborhood with the said Reed before they were married and knows from information received at the time and thinks she has been told same by said Reed the following facts. that sometime in the year 1775 as she now recollects said Reed enlisted to go to Canada; under what officer she does not recollect. he did not go to Canada as his father hired another man to take his place.  In March or April 1776 he volunteered as a minute man during the war at both the times of his enlistment he resided in the Town of Amenia Duchess County, State of New York. He was frequently off on the lines for two and three months at a time. Thinks he once went to New York before the British took possession of it. was on duty near New York several times but at what precise point does not recollect. was on duty once or more at Horse Neck
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Does not recollect hearing that he was ever in any engagement. He was never called out after they were married. Thinks the names of the Captain under whom he first served was Childs, does not recollect his Christina name. Also served under one Capt Doty. and Captain or Col Colby Chamberlain. Does not recollect the names of any other officers under whom he served.

She further declares that she was married to the said Silas Reed sometime in the month of November in the year 1782. and that her husband the aforesaid Silas Reed died about the middle of November in the year 1833. that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January 1794 viz at the time above mentioned
Bethia Reed

Sworn to Nov 21 1838
Isaac Hills Recorder of the City of Rochester and one of the Judges of the Mayors Court of said City

State of New York
Monroe County
City of Rochester ss
I, Hiram Leonard Clerk of the Mayors Court of the City of Rochester (the said Court being a Court of Record, having Common law jurisdiction, a Clerk & seal) do hereby certify that Isaac Hills Esquire whose signature appears to the above deposition was at the time of the taking thereof, Recorder of the said City of Rochester
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being a Court of Record, having Common law Jurisdiction, a Clerk & Seal) do hereby certify that Isaac Hills Esquire whose signature appears to the above deposition was at the time of the taking thereof, Recorder of the Said City of Rochester

and one of the Judges of the said Court that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and that the above signature "Isaac Hills Recorder of the City of Rochester, and one of the Judges of the Mayors Court of said City" is the genuine signature & hand writing of the said Isaac Hills and entitled to full faith & credit.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Mayors Court this twenty ninth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty Eight
Hiram Leonard
Clerk