Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 7,137, for John Reily, Virginia
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The State of Ohio Butler County ss.
On this 28th day of March in the term of March, One
thousand eight hundred and thirty nine personally appeared in open
Court before the Honorable Benjamin Esquire President and Daniel
Millikin, Squier Littell and Fergus Anderson Esquires associates Judges of
the Court of Common pleas of the County of Butler in the State of Ohio,
John Reily of Hamilton, in the said County of Butler aged near Seventy
six years, who being 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 the seventh, One thousand eight hundred
and thirty two
That in the year One thousand seven hundred and eighty for increasing
the army of the United States during the American Revolution, a draft 
was made in the State of Virginia of the Militia
over the age of eighteen years, the men to be raised to serve for the term
of eighteen months. Deponent being then a resident of the County
of Rockbridge in the State of Virginia having the Spring previous
passed the age of seventeen years only was not subject to the draft
but being willing to serve was accepted as a substitute for some
of the Militia, residing in Lexington in the said County of Rockbridge
who were obliged to furnish a soldier by draft or otherwise. The
Soldier who should serve the eighteen months, was to be entitled to
a Bounty from the State of Virginia of a Hogshead of Tobacco
The Soldiers who were thus raised in the County of Rockbridge.
were Mustered by Colonel Wallace of the Rockbridge Militia at
Lexington in the month of September, he thinks early in the month
and marched by him to Staunton in Augusta County and there
with the Soldiers raised in Augusta County, put under Officers he
thinks their Captains name was Anderson, and the name of their
Ensign Robert Evans they remained at Staunton but a few days
and were then marched from Staunton, through Charlottsville
and having joined other eighteen months men were marched through
Salisbury, and Hillsborough to Charlotte Court House in North Carolina
where they found the remnant of the Army which had been under the
command of General Gates consisting in part of two Regiments
of Continental Troops, one from Maryland, the other from Delaware
at Charlotte Court House, General Green took the command of the
Army. We remained here but a short time and were then march
to the Cheraw Hills on the Pedee, in South Carolina, here we
encamped and remained until in the month of February
One thousand seven hundred and eighty one when the army
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Salisbury in North Carolina, where they were discharged. I do not
recollect the name of the officer who brought us here, but I received
from him a written discharge and returned to my Fathers House
in Rockbridge County in Virginia where I arrived I think in
the same month of January
I have no memorandum of the names of our Officers and may not
therefore have given the names of our Captain and Ensign correctly 
but I think the Captains name was Anderson, and the name of our ensign Evans. 
our Captain was not much with us. but our Ensign was with
us all the time. Previous to the battle at Guilford Court House we had
two Majors the name of one of them was "Hill "the name of the other I
do not recollect, nor do I recollect that either of them was with us after
the battle of Guilford Court House. We had no regular Colonel
for our Regiment during the early part of the Campaign, but Colonel
Huger of South Carolina used occasionally to discharge the duties of
Colonel until after the Battle before Camden when we were joined
with the Continental Regiment from Virginia, under the command
of Colonel Campbell, under whose command we remained until at the but
the of the Eutaw Springs Colonel Campbell was killed
After my return to my Fathers, I remained there until the close of the
year one thousand seven hundred and eighty three, when I came to
Kentucky
Soon after I returned home I received a certificate for my Hogshead
of Tobacco the bounty which had been promised to be paid by the State of
Virginia, this Certificate I sold and transferred to a Mr Phillips in the
Summer of One thousand seven hundred and eighty two and my discharge
placed in the hands of Judge McDowell, who resided near to Danville
in Kentucky who was then a member of the General Assembly of the State of
Virginia from the County of Kentucky, and by the hands of Judge Mc
Dowell I received the interest which was then due to me on my pay for
the eighteen months service as we had never received any part of our
pay this payment of the interest is endorsed on my discharge dated I
believe in One thousand seven hundred & eighty five
Afterwards in the Summer of One thousand seven hundred and eighty six
being then in Virginia, I sold my pay then due to me to some Merchants
of Lexington in Virginia by the name or names of Carothers and transferred
the same to them with my discharge I do therefore expect that my discharge 
from the service, with the assignment thereon of my pay to the House
or firm of Carothers, and also my Certificate for the County of the Hogs head of
Tobacco, will both be found in some of the public offices either at Richmond 
in Virginia, or in Washington City.
 In the
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In the month of December One thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.
I left Kentucky, and came to the North Western Territory, I resided in Columbia
a few miles from Cincinnati, a few years. I then came to Cincinnati
and resided there until the Summer of one thousand eight hundred
and three at which time I came to Hamilton in the County of Butler
to reside where I have continued to reside ever since
I was in the Battle at Guilford Court House and before Camden
at the seige of Ninety six, and in the Battle of the Eutaw Springs
I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a Pension or annuity, except
the present and declare that my name is not on any pension
Roll, of the Agency of any State.
The reason why I did not sooner apply for a pension is that
I did not need it for my support, or for any immediate pecuniary necessity.
John Reily
Sworn & subscribed
the day & year aforesaid
in open Court
B. Hickson Pres Judge
And the 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 further certifies that it
appears to them that William Caldwell and Francis Dunlavy
Esquire who have signed the depositions hereunto attached are
credible persons and whose statements are entitled to credit
I Benjamin Hinkson President Judge of the said Court of Common
pleas, (the applicant John Reily, being the Clerk of said Court) do
hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings
of the said Court in the matter of the application of the said John
Reily for a pension
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and caused the Seal of the said Court of
Common pleas to be hereunto affixed the
twenty eighth day of March One thousand
eight hundred and thirty nine
Benjamin Hinkson
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State of Ohio Butler County of
On this the 20th day of October personally appear
ed before me Thomas H Wilkins the Probate
Judge of the Probate Court for and within the
County and State aforesaid Nancy Kelly
aged 64 years a resident of Butler County
and the State of Ohio who being duly sworn
according to law, does on her oath, make the
following declaration in order to obtain
the benefit of the provisions made by act of
Congress passed February the 3d AD 1853
That she is the widow of John Reily who
was a soldier in the Revolutionary ware, who
was a pensioner and who drew sixty Dollars
per annum at the Cincinnati Pension Office
and that the said John Reily now deceased
was a resident of Butler County Ohio in the
Town of Hamilton
Affiant further states that she was married
to the said John Reily on the 23d day of
February AD Eighteen hundred and nine
by the Rev Matthue G Wallace in Butler County
and State of Ohio and that her said
husband John Reily, died on the 8th day
of June AD (1850) Eighteen hundred and fifty
in his Eighty seventh year. that she was married
to him at the time above stated and that she was a
widow at the passage of the act above refered to
and is still a widow and that she never before
has made application for a pension
attest James Patchell.
Nancy Reily 
State of Ohio B.C. Ohio
Sworn to and subscribed before me on the day
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[Typed form with written responses]

STATE OF -- Ohio
COUNTY OF Butler} ss
On this the 28th
day of May 1855
Personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for said County,
Nancy Riley widow of John Riley and aged sixty five
years, a resident of the County of Butler the State of Ohio
who being duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her
in order to obtain the benefit of provision made by the
oath make the following declaration,
passed March 3d 1855
section of the Act of Congress,
Declares and sayes
That she is the widow of John Riley Deceased who was a private
in the Revolutionary war. That her said husband received a
pension for his services in said ware of sixty Dollars per
annum during his life. That affiant does not know the
Company or Regiment of the length of time said John Riley served
in said ware will therefore refer to this proofs on file in the app
lication of John Riley now Deceased produced to
prove service in making out this claim and will ask that they
be made a part of this declaration. She also states that she is
the identical Nancy Riley to whom a pension certificate
issued on the 6th day of November last 1854 Numbered 4696
recorded in Pension Office under act of February 3d 1853 page 19 Vol
one (1) under which she now draws the sum of sixty Dollars per
per annum and that she asks that the proofs on file in this
application may be refered to and made a part of this declaration 
in proof that she is the widow of John Riley Deceased a revolutionary
 pensioner. She further states that she was married to the said
John Riley on the 6th day of February AD 1809 in Butler County
Ohio by Rather G Wallace and that her name before marriage was
Nancey Hunter and that her said husband died at Hamilton
Butler County Ohio on the 8th day of June A.D. 1850 & that she is still
widow and has remained such since his death,
She makes this application for the benefit of the County Land act
approved March 3d 1855 that she never has applied before
nor received any Land warrant under this or any other acts
and that she constitute and appoint Tos B Millikin of City of
Hamilton Butler Co Ohio Attorney in the premises and request that said want
when issued may be sent to said Millikan at Hamilton Butler Co Ohio
ATTEST
JM Johnson
Nancy Reily
Sworn to and subscribed & acknowledged on the day and year first above written, before me, and on the Same
day personally came before me Charles Snyder
and Thomas Millikin
residents of the County Butler and State of Ohio to me Known as
credible witnesses, who being duly sworn according to
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declare and say that they are personally acquainted
with Nancy Riley who has made and
subscribed the foregoing declaration, that they
were present and witnessed her sign her
name to said declaration and that from
then personal acquaintance to her and the
John Riley now Deceased that they know that
is the identical widow of John Riley Deceased
Revolutionary Soldier & pensioner, that they
now the said John Riley died sometime in
month of June A D 1850 that they were
present at his funeral services that they
are disinterested in the event of this claim
---
C Snider
Thomas Milikin
---
Sworn to & subscribed before me, and I certify that I am
at interested in the claim or consioned in its
prosecution and I believe that the claimant is
the person she represents herself to the
May 28th 1/55
J M Johnson JP

The State of Ohio Butler County SS
I Michael C Ryan Clerk of the
Court of said County do hereby certify that James M Johnson
is and was at the time of making the foregoing signature (which
I certify to be genuine, an acting Justice of the Peace within and
for said County having been duly commissioned and qualified
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed
the seal of said Court & subscribed my name
at Hamilton this 8" day of June AD 1885
M.C. Ryan C But Cou Pleas
By E.A. Dalton Deputy
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8 June 50
Pen off. Nov 1 1854
Sir
John Riley, Ohio Rolls. Act 1832, at $60 per year. Please state to what time paid.
Very Respectfully
S. Cole
ChClerkPenOff
Triplett
R.J. Atchison
Third Auditor
He died June 1850 paid in full
J.S. Rinds
acting auditor
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31648 
4074 4098
Frederick J. Flagg
Attorney and Counsellor at Law
318-319 The Valentine
Toledo, Ohio, March 3, 1900.
Pension Office,
Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:
Will you kindly forward me a copy of the record of JOHN REILLY
who was a soldier of the revolution and lived in Pennsylvania and after
wards moved to Ohio.
Very truly yours.
Frederick J Flagg

O.W. & N. DIVISION
MAR 7 1900
RECEIVED

US PENSION OFFICE
K 
MAR
5
1900
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Finance Division 
MAR 1 1897
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
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STATE OF OHIO.
Adjutant General’ s Department
Columbus, Feb. 24 1897
General A. V. Rice,
Pension Agent,
Columbus, Ohio.
Sir: --
I have the honor to supply additional information
concerning request of this Department for record of service as
shown on the pension rolls of one, John Reilly or Riley.
The initial name is John and this soldier died between
1835 and 1840. The pension which he was then drawing was
transferred to his widow, Jane, who died about Dec. 1849.
This additional information was requested from this office
in order to assist in obtaining the record of this revolutionary
soldier, and if I recollect correctly, the case is in the hands
of your Mr. Pontius.
I would be glad to have you supply this Department with
some information in this connection.
I have the honor to be, Sir,
Very respectfully,
H.A. Axline
Adjutant General
OLD WAR & NAVY
MAR 9 1897
FILES.