Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8713, for Lewis Blew Reynolds, Virginia
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State of Virginia
Bedford County towit
This day personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid Lewis Blew Reynolds who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that by reason of old age the effects of a paralytic stroke and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the [illegible] 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 six years I served as a Sergeant in the revolution. For one year I served as a sergeant in Waynes expeditions against the Indians on the Miammi - and for such service I claim a pension.
Lewis x his mark B Reynolds
Witness
M H Garland
Subscribed and sworn to before me a justice of the peace as aforesaid this 22d day of April 1853
Wm R Jones J.P.

State of Virginia
Bedford County towit
This day Lewis B Reynolds personally appeared before me a justice of the peace for the County aforesaid and made oath that there is no minister of the Gospel residing in his neighborhood and therefore
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REVOLUTIONARY PENSION CLAIM.
ACT OF June 7. 1832
Lewis B. Reynolds.
Va.-

POWER OF ATTORNEY
TO EXAMINE CLAIMS.

CHARLES C. TUCKER,
Attorney
Present.
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that he served one year as sergeant under General Wayne against the Indians and that he cut the first piece of timber for the building of Fort Wayne.

Lewis Blew Reynolds' claim for pension was not allowed as he failed to furnish proof of service as required by the pension law under which he applied.

The soldier died about the year 1847, date not shown, in Bedford County, Virginia; he had lived for many years on a plantation belonging to John L. Leftwich, whose post office was Norwood, Bedford County, Virginia, in 1851.

Charity Reynolds, the soldier's widow, was living in 1851 in Bedford County, Virginia. At that time, it was stated that her two brothers, Jacob and Nathaniel Clark, of Buckingham County, Virginia, served in the Revolutionary War, and that one of them died in the army and the other, shortly after his return home. The date and place of the marriage of said Charity and the soldier were not given. One Elizabeth Leftwich witnessed the signature of Charity Reynolds in 1852 in Bedford County, Virginia; no relationship between them was stated. In 1854, Charles B. Reynolds was a resident of Campbell County, Virginia; his relationship to the soldier's family was not stated.

Very truly yours,

A. D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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OLIVER P. McCARTNEY, M. D.
PRACTICE LIMITED TO
EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT
MESA, ARIZONA

November 18, 1936.

Veterans Administration,
Washington, D. C.

Gentlemen:
I would like the Revolutionary War records of Abner and Lewis B. Reynolds, should they be in your files.
Thanking you for your courtesy, I am
Very Sincerely,
[signed] Florence C. McCartney.
Mrs. Oliver P. McCartney.

[stamp]
RECEIVED
NOV 23 1936
MAIL SUB-DIV.
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Washington, 
Feby 10, 1857.

Sir,
I herewith enclose a letter of Authority to examine the papers and prosecute the Claim of Lewis V. Reynolds, decd, of Virginia
This is a suspended or rejected claim under act 7 June 1832
Yours Respectfully
L. Godwin

Jas E Heath, Esq
Comr. of Pensions,
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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 Lewis B. Reynolds 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 his not doing so?  (no answer) 
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 from any other seal?   Yes
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Bedford Jany 30 1857 
Dear Sir
Mr Burwell our delegate from 
this county has written to one of our neighbors 
saying he had been applied to by you to 
know if he knew anything of an old revolutionary 
soldier by the name of Lewis Blue Reynolds 
The object of this note is to inform you that the widow of Lewis V Reynolds is living with me 
the old man lived on my plantation about 20 years 
& died about 4 years ago. he said that he was 
a revolutionary soldier & was entitled to a pension 
but being poor & not able to attend to getting it he 
never received anything, he used to say they called 
him the blue sergeant, in the army. 
At the request of Mrs Reynolds I write you this 
note asking that you will attend to the matter 
& if she is entitled to anything use some 
exertion to procure it for her. you will please 
write to me upon the receipt of this & whatever 
may be necessary to be done here I will attend to 
She says also that she had two brothers in the old 
war Jacob Clark & Nathaniel Clark both of whom 
are dead, one died in the army & the other a short 
time after he got home, they were from Buckingham 
county & that she is the only relation now 
living, if she is entitled to anything on their accord 
that also would be very acceptable. 
Most Respectfully Yr Svt
Jno. [?] Leftwich 
PS Our post office is Norwood. Bedford Co. Va
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was in the Battle at [?] Genl Washington commanding: [?] about 600 prisoners taken at that place and [?] he was also in the Battle at Princeton Genl Washington still commanding if he [?] there were about 300 prisoners taken at that place [?] he thinks he was [?] to the [?] having engaged in [?] he was in a battle at the Red Branch Genl Green he thinks commanding: at "this" place being a Sergeant he had the command of a Canoe he was also in a battle at [?] Island [?] he thinks the commanding He was also in a battle at Stony Point: He was in the [?] army [?] Washington [?] and interred with him at Valley Forge during that winter he was engaged in many scouting parties: being a Sergeant [?] only known as "Sergeant [?]" he oftentimes had the command: he well remembers the taking of Major Andre having been sent on an [?] for same [?] he does not now particularly remember, he met with Major Andre in the road but did not then know that he was a British officer he said hereafter he went and recognized his person. The applicant was one of the detachment [?] sent to arrest Arnold, but he never had [?] and sailed for England before they could reach the point at which he had been[?] he was in the battle at Monmouth [?] Commander [?] where he was wounded in the thigh [?] he was for some time [?] in [?]. After this he was marched to the South and on his was was in a battle at Falmouth Genl Washington he thinks having the command at that place How he [?] in this engagement he thinks it was, he received from the Commanding officer a written statement of his Valour [?] that paper was he cannot now pretend to say, some years ago he had it to major Gen'l. Scott of Campbell County Va for the purpose of endeavoring to seccure [sic] for him A pension Major Scott [?] afterwards died  the applicant has never since heard of it perhaps it may be some place in the War department. On his way to the South the was in a battle at moores Creek in N.C. under the Command of Gen'l Wayne. From Moores Creek he thinks he marched to Guildford Courthouse N. C. and was in the battle at that place under the command of Gen'l Green.  From Guilford [sic] Ct House he believes he marched to Camden S. C. he was in the battle at that place [?] he then [?] he thinks to Utaw [sic] Springs and was in the battle at that place Genl Green Commandered [sic] [?]
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He makes the following answers to the several
Interrogatories required to be put to him by the Court before which his original declaration was made and which seem to have been inadvertently omitted

1 Where and in what year were you born?
 Ans. In the County of Buckingham in the State of Virginia in the year 1753 on the 15th of November
2 Have you any record of your age? and if so
where is it?
Ans. I think there was a register of my age in the books of the Parish but what has become of it cant say
3 Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary war and where do you now live?
Ans.  See the body of my original declaration
4 How were you called into service; were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute
Ans. See the body of the Declaration for an answer
5 State the names of some of the regular officers
who were with the troops where you served, such
continental and militia Regiments as you
can recollect and the general circumstances
of your service
Ans. See the body of the Declaration for an
answer
6 To a soldier To an officer
Ans. See the body of the Declaration, he thinks he served at least 5 years in the war of the revolution and more than three years of that time was as a Sergeant, the other as a soldier; he cannot read writing and knows not one paper from another and if he had his commissions or his discharges did not know them when he saw them and took no particular care of them but thinks his discharges were put into the hands of Samuel Scott who soon after died. The certificate of T. Molloy which accompanies his declaration was given this petioner upon the road where he