Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4570, for Luther Reeves, Connecticut
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The Lyme O                   Fnr
July 12th 1843

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Pension Office
Washington 
City
District of Columbia

9354 July 17 '43
Ohio
July 7 1838
Anna Reeves
Luther
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Lyne January the thirty first A.D. one thousand seven hundred and eighty five when I the subscriber married Luther Reeves and Anna Pierson both of said Lyme to each other
Test Seth Ely Justice of Peace
the foregoing is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed in the record in fair and legible figures as follows. "January the 31st A.D. 1785"
Certified from record by 
Joshua R Warren
Town Clerks
Town Clerks Office
Lyme Connecticut
June 19th 1843
I Joshua R. Warren above named
depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the
Town of Lyme County of New London and State of Connecticut and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town with the exception above named as certified by me.
Joshua R. Warren Clerk
New London County sd Lyme June 19th 1843
Personally appeared Joshua R. Warren Eqr Clerk of the
town of Lyme and made oath that the above is a
true extract from the records of said town
Before me
Oliver T. Lay Justice of the Peace
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The State of Ohio
Sandusky County
I Benjamin Reeves hand of
of said who being first duly sworn according to law doth make the following declaration
for the Children of the widow Ann late of said
W 45 deceased the benefit of the are of long part
to day of years pensioner under the lot of the
that he is the last will of the said that his mother the said the twenty eighth day of November that the said grant the following Camsey Chaves of Sold or meant Hale 
Benjamin Reeves
Zophar Gee JP
I furher certify that I was aguainted with the Said Kidd SanRuns and can say from my own personal knowledge that she died on or about the 28 day of November 1843
Zophar Gee JP
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Luther Reeves                                                   619
Pittsburgh Roll                                                  Sgt Conn
Act May 15 1828                                              ohio rolls
Let to Pitts Agent Dec
28 1841. Same Apl 2.
1842, do 3 and W H Denny
Oct 11. 1842. do to S Dun
ing Apr 19, 1843, same
May 8 1843.


L  19050
File No.
Luther Reeves
Sergt  Revy War
Conn Line
No 619
Act:  May '28 15
on Ohio roll
Index:- Vol 1   , Page   327

(arrangement of 1870)
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Apl. 14, 1903, List
Lew Piere Shank
the
1907 Jany 21. History to
H. D. Reeve
Rcy  WIDOW, &c.
File No. 4570
Anna Reeves
Wid.
Luther Reeves
Sergt. Conn line
Act: Mch 3rd '43
Index: - Vol. M, Page 153
(Arrangement of 1870.]
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147-348-636
O. W. and N. Division.    3-525

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.,
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history
of Luther Reeves a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR,
you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
DATE OF ENLITMENT	LENGTH OF	RANK	OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVISE WAS RENDERED				STATE
 OR APPOINTMENT	SERVICE		                               CAPT		COL		
							
July '76	                        6 mos	          Pvt			                                                                                                         N Y
July '79,                           3yrs                 	Pvt                            Ely		Jedediah Huntington	
         '80		                                         Sgnt	
June 1783	                  3 mos	
	
Battles engaged in, L.I., Danbury, Mon
Residence of soldier at enlistment,
Date of application for pension, Apl 3 1818
Residence at date of application, Lyme Conn 1828 New Lyme Ashtabula, O.
Age at date of application, 59 yrs died Dec 3 1842 at New Lyme Ohio
Remarks: Sgt mar at Lyme Jan 31st 1785 Anna Pierce who died
at New Lyme Ohio Nov 7 1843 her pension was paid to ????
Benjamin Rumsey,

Very respectfully,
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9354
Anna Reeves
Ohio
Act 7 July 38
M 85. d 42
aomd
2 yrs lengt
120$

Jonathan Warner
New Lyme
Astabula
Ohio

Affidavit of
Benj Reeves
Mary S Latimer
in the case of Anna Reeves
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WAR DEPARTMENT
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 3d March 1843. Anna Reeves, deceased, who was the
widow of Luther Reeves, a Sergeant in the Revolutionary War,
was entitled to a pension at the rate of $120 per annum,
commencing on the 4th March 1843 and ending on the
28th November, 1842, the day of her death, which will be paid upon the production of the proper vouchers
to Benjamin Reeves, Renney Reeves Sarepta Brown, Mary Gee, Nancy Babcock Hannibal Reeves children of said Anna Reeves, deceased


Given at the War Office of the United
States, this 21st. day of
October one thousand eight
hundred and forty-four.-
Secretary of War.
Examined and
Countersigned.
Commissioner of Pensions
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REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Aug. 27. 1828
Luther Reeves of New Lyme, in the County of
Ashtabula in the State of Ohio has applied to the Secretary
of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he
enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Sergeant in captain Botts company, in the third regiment of the Connecticut line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve
of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of
March, 1826, nothing
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary
A. Dickins

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
2nd September 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Luther Reeves in the Connecticut line
It further appears that that Luther Reeves is not now on the pension list of (the) any agency, and has not been so since the
3 March 1820
( dollars per month)
Peter Hagner And
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Jefferson July 23. 1828
Dear Sir 
Enclosed you receive the application
of Luther Peace for a pension, you
will find his discharge
in the Department of War it was forwarded to that office
in 1818. you will also receive a warrant signed by Col
Webb appointing him a sergeant. Your communications
find him at his residence in New Lyme in this county

Yours with Respect
J. R. Geddings
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Sergt. Luther Reeves
1st Company
3d Regiment
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BY HIS ExCELLENCY
GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esq
General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the
United States of America.
THESE are to CERTIFY that the Bearer hereof
Luther Reeves a Sergeant
in the Third Connecticut
Regiment, having faithfully
served the United States from February 1st 1777
to the date hereof and being inlisted for the War only, is
hereby DISCHARGED from the American Army.
GIVEN at HEAD-QUARTERS the Eighth
day of June 1783
G. Washington
other to
By HIS ExCELLENCY'S
Command,
J Trumbull  Tech Secry
REGISTERED in the Books
of the Regiment,
Jos Clark Adjutant.

THE above Sergeant Luther Reeves
has been honored with the BADGE of MERIT for six
Years faithful Service,
Saml. W. Webb Colonel