Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22,520, Reuben Ward, New York
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE  NUMBER
New York   Ward, Reuben  W. 22.520
Jemima
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5350
Albany
New York
Jemima Ward
widow of Reuben Ward
who was a Corporal
in the NY Line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
36 Dollars 66
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued th
18 day of Apl 1844
and sent to
Hon Jon Russell
H Reps
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol.
Page 258.
up19 Apl 1844
let to Wm Gordon Mar 27 46
Date of death not
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7108
Jemima Ward
Act July 7. 1838
Married 13. Apl 1782
Hus died 5 July 1825
In role  of Capt Van Chess
Reuben Ward
Ent Corporal Marsh
1th 1776- Must to 17
Dec 1776
Disch 1 Jun 1777
10 months corporal
Admitted
Corporal 10 months
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State of New York
Delaware County
SS.
On this twenty eighth day of May in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
forty personally appeared before the circuit Court
of Oyer and Terminer
field at the Court house in Delhi in and for
the County of Delaware, Jemima Ward, a
resident of Meredith in the County aforesaid
aged seventy nine years the eighteenth day of
last January, 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 7, 1838, entitled "An act
granting half pay and pensions to certain
widows:"  That she is the widow of Reuben
Ward who was a soldier in the revolutionary
army, and that the said Reubin Ward was a
revolutionary pensioner at the time of his death
and that his certificate of pension has been 
destroyed or lost, and that it cannot now be
found. She further declares that she was
married to the said Reubin Ward on the thirteenth
day of April in the year seventeen hundred
and eighty two, and that she does not know of
any town, county, parish, church or family record of the aforesaid marriage, that her
husband the aforesaid Reuben Ward
died on the fifth day of July eighteen 
hundred and twenty five; that she was not 
married to him prior to his leaving the service
but the marriage took place previous to the
first of January seventeen hundred and ninety
four, viz; at the time above stated, and that
she has never since been married
Sworn to and subscribed, on
the day and year above written,
in open Court
The word circuit erased on third line vs 
the words "of yer and Terminer" intertined
C B Sheldon Clerk   Jemima Ward
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State New York
County of Delaware.  I Crawford B Sheldon
Clerk of the Court of Oyer and
Terminer in and for the County of
Delaware (the same being a
County record, do certify
that the foregoing contains the
original proceedings in the
matter of the application of Jemima Ward for a
pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court
this 28th day of May in the year 1840
Shelton Clerk
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Copy of 
Reuben Ward's
Oath & Schedule
Direct to
Augustus Sherrill
Ithaca N.Y.
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At a Court of Common pleas held at the house of Erastus S.
Marsh in the village of Owego in and for the County of
Tioga in the State of New York on the Second Tuesday in May 1822
Present
Honl Gamaliel H. Barstow First Judge
Benjamin Jennings
Jacob Willsey
Henry Miller
John McConnel
Esquires Judges-

State of New York
Tioga County 

On this 15th day of May 1822 personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record in said County in said State Reuben Ward aged Seventy one years resident in the town of Cayuta in said County, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows: he enlisted at a place called King's district in the County of Albany & State of New York now in the  Town of New Lebanon in the County of Columbia & State aforesaid .

On or about the first day of March in the year 1776 in the company commanded by Captain David Vanness in Col Goose Van Schaick, Regiment in the New York line for the term of nine months that he joined the said Regiment & marched with them to the northern frontier soon after his enlistment under the command of Lieut Col. Peter Gansevoort & served in said
Regiment through the whole term for which he so enlisted and that he was discharged at Albany in said State on the first day of January 1777.  And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled 'an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary War,' passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due me nor have I any other income than what is contained in the Schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed. And the said Reuben Ward doth further on his oath declare that he is an infirm man and has for between two & three years past been subject to an afflicting complaint commonly
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called the Gravel; by which means he has in a great measure been disabled from doing any labor.  That his family consists of a wife and one child, that his wife was sixty two years of age in the month of January past; that his child is in his fourteenth year.
(Signed) Reuben Ward
Sworn and Subscribed in open court this 15th May 1822 before me
Maxwell Clk

April 26 1822.  We the subscribers this day was called upon to appraise the property of Reuben Ward in Newfield (late Cayuta) in the County of Tioga.  We have appraised the following articles to their value vis.

One half of a waggon                             $13.00
One drag $2.50  1 Rifle  $10                     12.50
1 Chain $2.00   1 lot of tools $4.00             6.00
1 saw $1.00  1 iron shovel  $1.00                2.00
2 old [illegible] 0.37 1/2 1 iron fork .50        .87 1/2
1 Wooden Block $5.00 1 plough & share   7.00
1 iron wedge 0.50  1 chest $1.25                1.75
4 old chains .50  2 locks  0.27                       .77

                                                                 $43.89 1/2

1 foot wheel $2 1 iron kettle $3                  5.00
1 tea kettle 0.75  1 iron (illegible) 1.25        2.00
1 pot 0.25  1 pan 0..50                                   .75
fire shovel [illegible]                                     1.50
table furniture churn, pails, milk pans          5.00
2 cows $20 4 pigs $4 1 old [illegible] .50   24.50

                                                                  $38.75
                                                                  +43.89

                                                                  $81.64

We certify the above property is appraised to their value.
(Signed) 
Jared Patchin
Joseph Myres

Wheat on the ground                                $20.00
to the amount of 
One Note                                                     10.00

                                                                   $30.00
                                                                   +81.64

                                                                  $111.64

Debts that I am owing 

One note                                                   $ 18.15
Due Doct.                                                       4.00
One note which I am security on                101.25
with William Dikeman
Due William Stilson                                         8.00

                                                                 $131.40

Signed Reuben Ward

Tioga County 
I certify that the foregoing oath & schedule are truly the records of the Court of Common Pleas of said county and that it is  the opinion of the said county that the property contained in the schedule above copied is in value to the amount of One Hundred & eleven dollars sixty four cents (exclusive of the debts, inumerated as owing by the said Reuben Ward.
Witness my and and the seal of the said court the 15th May 1822.

Tho Maxwell Clk
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State of New York
Columbia County SS. On the fifteenth day of April
in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and
twenty two personally appeared before me
John W Edmonds one of the Commissioners
to take afft & David Van Ness to me
will know who being duly sworn testifies
and says that he is well acquainted with
Reuben Ward that the said Ruben enlisted
in the company commanded by said
deponent in the first regiment of the New York
line commanded by Col Van Schaack
about the last of February or the first of March
Seventeen hundred and seventy six. that he
joined the Regiment in March, that he
served in said Regiment untill the [illegible]
 then [illegible], when said Reuben was
discharged at Albany-

David Van Ness
Subscribed & Sworn before me on the day & year first above written

Jno. W. Edmonds [illegible] to take [illegible] under the
act of the Legislature of the State of
New York passed March 1818

State of New York
Columbia County ss 

T. Fletcher M Beckman Deputy Clerk of said County
do hereby certify that John W Edmonds was on the day
of the date of the above affidavit a Commissioner duly
authorized & commissioned & that I am acquainted with
his hand writing & know it to be his signature

Given under my hand with the seal of said County
affixed thereto this 13th day of April 1822
J M Beekman Dep Clk
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State of New York
Columbia County ss On this fifteenth day of April
in the year of our Lord one thousand
Eight hundred & twenty two personally
appeared before me, Gen Peter J Vosburgh
who being by me duly sworn, says that
in the year 1776. he was first Lieutenant
under Capt & David Van Ness in the first
Regiment of the New York line commanded
by Colonel Van Schaack, that according to
the best of this deponent's knowledge and
belief Reuben Ward, enlisted into said
company sometime in the month of March
of February 1776 & continued in the service
in said company until January 1777
when said Ward was honorably discharged
at Albany

P. Vosburgh
Sworn & Subscribed before me the day & year first
above written

Jno. W. Edmonds Comm

State of New York
Columbia County ss T Fletcher M Beckman Deputy Clerk of said County
do hereby certify that John W Edmonds was on the
day of the date of the above affidavit a Commissioner
duly authorised & commissioned by law and that I am
acquainted with his hand writing & know to be
his signature
Given under my hand with the seal of the County
affixed thereto this 15th day of April 1822
Beckman Dep Clk
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Hon. Judson Allen
HR
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State of New York
Delaware County ss

Samuel Tiffany of the town of
Hamden in said County being duly sworn
deposeth and saith, that he is the brother
of Jemima Ward (formerly Jemima Tiffany)
that the said Jemima was married to
Reubin Ward, now deceased about the close
of the war of the American Revolution, as
near as this deponent can recollect, by Seth
Smith Esquire a Justice of the Peace of Bark-
hamsted in the State of Connecticut, and
that this deponent was present at said
marriage and witnessed the same; that
they lived together till the death of the said
Reuben Ward who died in July in the year 1825.
that the said Reuben Ward, and Jemima
his wife, removed from the State of Connecticut
about fifty years ago to Hamden in the said
County of Delaware, that they removed a few
years before his death to the town of Mere
dith in said County, where the said Reuben
Ward died, and that the said Jemima
still remains the widow of the said Reuben Ward
And this deponent further states that a record
of the family of the father of this deponent was once
kept, but that it has been many years since wit
or destroyed, and that this deponent knows now of
of no record of any kind of the aforesaid marriage
and further that this deponent is seventy eight
years old, and further saith not.

Samuel Tiffany

Sworn and Subscribed before
me this fifth day of June 1840

Walter Chace  [illegible]
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I Walter Chase, a Justice of the peace of the town of
Hamden in the County of Delaware and
State of New York, do hereby certify, that
Samuel Tiffany appeared before me on the
14th day of June 1840 and made oath in due
form of law to the foregoing affidavit, and
that I am personally acquainted with the
said Samuel Siffany who sustains a fair
and respectable character, and to the truth
of which said affidavit I am fully satisfied
Walter Chase

State of New York County of Delaware
I Crawford Sheldon Clerk
of the County of Delaware do
certify that Walter Chare Esquire
the person before whom the within
affidavit purports to have been
Sworn was at the date of the Same
a Justice of the peace in and for said
County Commissioned and Sworn and that his
name subscribed to the within affidavit and
the above certificate is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and and affixed the Seal of the
said County June 10th 1840
C. Sheldon    Clerk
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June 21, 1937

Josiah Mack
W. 17103
Reuben Ward
 W. 22520
 BA-J/AWF

Mr. Floyd C. Paine
Pavilion
New York

Reference is made to your letter in which you
request the Revolutionary War records of Joshua Banks,
Josiah Mack, and Reuben Ward,

Revolutionary War data furnished by this office
are obtained from claims for pension and bounty land
which have been made to the United States, based upon
service in that war.

A search of the records fails to show such
claims on file on account of the Revolutionary War
service of Joshua Banks.

The Revolutionary War records of Josiah Mack and
Reuben Ward are furnished herein as found in pension
claims based upon service in that war. These are the
records of the only Josiah Mack and Reuben Ward
found on file in the Revolutionary War records of this office.

Josiah Mack-W. 17103

The data which follow concerning Josiah Mack were
obtained from papers on file in pension claim, W. 17103,
based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
The date and place of birth of this soldier were
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not given, nor were the names of his parents shown.

Josiah Mack enlisted in the month of August,
1776, served three months as a private in Captain
John H. Wells' company, Colonel Obadiah Horsford's
Connecticut regiment. He enlisted in the month of
July, 1779, served eight months as corporal in Captain
Daniel Tilden's company, Colonel Levi Wells'
Connecticut regiment.

Josiah Mack married June 30, 1790 at Hebron,
Tolland County, Connecticut, Mary Porter; at the
time of their marriage, he was referred to as Josiah

Mack, Junior, and they were both of Hebron.

He died in Hebron, Connecticut, January 15,
1827.

The widow, Mary Mack, was allowed pension on
her application executed October 23, 1838, at which
time she was seventy-five years old and living in
Hebron. She was living in 1848 in Marlborough,
Hartford County, Connecticut. She died February 10,
1853. The names of her parents were not given.

The papers on file in this claim contain no
reference to children.

In order to obtain the name and address of the
person paid the last payment of this pension, you
should apply to The Comptroller General, General
Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D.C.
and give the following data: Mary Mack, widow of Josiah
Mack; certificate #4070; issued February 28, 1849; rate
$36.66 per annum, commenced March 4, 1848, Act of February
2, 1843; Connecticut Agency.

***********************

Reuben Ward-W. 22520

The data which follow were obtained from papers on 
file in pension claim, W. 22520, based upon the service
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Reuben Ward in the Revolutionary War.

The date and place of birth of this soldier were
not given, nor were the names of his parents stated.

Reuben Ward enlisted in "King's District", Albany
County, New York (later New Lebanon, Columbia County,
New York) March 1, 1776, served as a private in
Captain David Van Ness' company, Colonel Goose Van
Schaick's 1st New York regiment, and was discharged
January 1, 1777.

He was allowed pension on his application executed
May 15, 1832, at which time he was seventy-one
years of age and living in Cayuta (later Newfield)
Tioga County, New York.

Reuben Ward married April 13, 1782 in the State of
Connecticut, Jemima Tiffany. She was born January
18, 1761 or 1762, place not shown, nor were the names
of her parents stated.

Reuben Ward and his wife, Jemima, moved from
Connecticut about the year 1790 to the State of New York.
He died July 5, 1825 in Meredith, Delaware
County, New York, where they had lived "only a few
years".

The widow, Jemima Ward, was allowed pension
on her application executed May 23, 1840, then a
resident of Meredith, New York, where she was still
living in 1844.

Reference was made in 1822 to a son then in his
fourteenth year; his name not stated and there is no
further reference to children.

Samuel Tiffany, brother of the widow, Jemima Ward,
was seventy-eight years of age in 1840, and living in
Hamden, Delaware County, New York.
The papers on file in this claim contain no fur-
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other reference to family.

In order to obtain the date of last payment
of pension, name and address of person paid, and
possibly the date of death of the pensioner, Jerima
Ward, you should apply to The Comptroller General,
General Accounting Office, Record Division, Wash-
ington, D. C., and give the following data:
Jemima Ward, widow of Reuben Ward; certificate #5350;
issued April 18, 1844, rate $36.66 per annum; commenced
March 4, 1843, Act of March 3, 1843; Albany,
New York Agency.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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5464

Jeremiah Russell

Jemima Ward
Act '43

$36.66 per an

Hon J. Rupell
H. Rep
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3d March 1843 granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the act
of July 1838.
State of New York
Delaware County ⎬ ss. On this first day of March 1844 personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the County of Delaware aforesaid Jemima
Ward a resident of the town of Meredith in the County of Delaware aforesaid aged Eighty three years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the
of Congress passed on the 3 of March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war.
That she is the widow of Reuben Ward who was a private in the army of the Revolution (but is unable to State in what regiment he served) And that she was a pensioner under the act of July 7 1838 and received under the said at the annual pension of Thirty Six dollars & sixty cents. She further declares that she is still a widow
Jemima Ward X [her mark]

Sworn to and subscribed on the the day and year above written
Before me
James H. Graham
Justice of the Peace

And I further certify that the said Jemima Ward who has signed the above declaration is personally known to me as the widow of Reuben Ward
James H Graham Justice of the Peace ┃
West Meredith Dela Co N York
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State of New York
Delaware County
Clerk's Office

I Crawford B Sheldon Clerk of the County of Delaware do certify
that James H Graham Esq before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County & that his name subscribed to the within affidavit is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County
March 2, 1844
C B Sheldon Clerk
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Hon. Judson Allen
M. C.
Washington D.C.

J. Allen
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Delhi N.Y. June 10. 1840
Hon. Judson Allen

Dear Sir,
Enclosed I forward the deposition of Samuel Tiffany containing the proof of the marriage of Jemima Ward, widow of Reubin Ward
deceased, referred to in my letter to you of the first instant.

The declaration and clerks certificate were forwarded you on the first
instant which, together with the deposition enclosed, I suppose furnish the proper basis for granting her a certificate of pension.

Will you have the goodness to present them to the Department and
inform me of the result as soon
as convenience will admit.

Respectfully
Your O.Svt
Peter P. Wright
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Will Col Edwards answer the inquiries and
give the explanation requested in the
letter of Mr. Stilon herewith enclosed
S. Gordon
Washington March 24 1846
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Pension office

March 27. 1846

Sir,

Mr Stilson's letter is hereunto returned , and in reply I have the honor to
inform you that Mrs. Jemima Ward is not entitled to a higher rate of pension than she now receives. He decd husband was a Corporal, and as such was entitled under the act of March 18. 1818, to $96 per annum; but the laws under which the widow obtained a pension gave her the same annual rate that he would have received under the act of June 7, 1832. That act allows a corporal who served two years and upwards $88 per annum, and a proportionate rate for less than two years service.  Reuben Ward served as a Corporal 10 months only, and his widow was allowed $36.66 per annum, which is all that is due for that amount of service. 
Hon. S. Gordon
H R
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18,471
Rueben Ward
Tioga Co N. Yk.

Augustus Sherrill
Ithaca N. Yk
Recvd 4 June 1822

FREE
Hon John, C. Calhoun Esq.
Secretary at War
Washington City
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Ithaca, May 24th 1822

Hon. John C. Calhoun Esq.
Sir,
Enclosed are the application of Reuben Ward for a pension as a Revolutionary soldier with the proof of service & schedule of property annexed. Please to inform me of the result of the application & send the certificate to me should
his name be placed on the roll/

I am in yours respectfully
Augustus Sherrill
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Respectfully referred to the chief of O. W. & N  Div with the request that this information be furnished.
Louis Kimburg
July 5/93
[stamp] O.W.& N. DIV JUL 5 1893 CHIEF'S DESK
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N. York
Jemima Ward
[illegible] to Hon. J. Allen 10 June 1840


Act July 1838
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Left Column

See letter to Hon. J. Rupell
H.R. March 14, 1844

Right Column

Albany 5520

Jemima Ward
widow of Reuben Ward
who was a pensioner under the Act of March 1818
and who died on the 5 July 1825
of Delaware Co in the State of N. York
who was a Corporal in the company commanded
by Captain Van Ness of the rgt commanded
by Col Van Schaick in the N York
line for 10 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 17 day of June 1840
and sent to Hon Judson Allen House of Representatives

Arrears to the 4th of March 1840                  146.64
Semi+annual allowance ending to Sept          18.33
                                                                      $154.97

Act July 7, 1838.
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, 
Book A Vol. 2, Page 110
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Left Column

1893 July 5 - Hist to
F. J. Willis, [illegible] Genl Off
City 
JCB Jr

1937 June 21 hist to Floyd E. Paine
See Rev Cl Josiah Mack W. 17803

Right Column

Rev.

WIDOW, &c.

File No. 22520

Jemima Ward
wid of Reuben Ward
Corpl Rev War

Act March 3 '43

Index:  Vol M  Page 312

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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18.688
New York
Reuben Ward (aged 71)
of Tioga Cy in the State of New York
who was a private in the Regiment commanded by
Colonel Van Schaick of the New York
line, for the term of nine months (in 1776)

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 15 of May 1822.

Certificate of Pension issued on the 26 of June 1822
and sent to Augusta Sherrill Esq
Ithaca, N. York

Arrears to 4th of 
Semi-anl all'ce ending Sept 1822     29.44

Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.

May 1 1820

put on list
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Paymaster Generals Office
June 29, 1893

Mr. Reinberg
Dr Sir:

Can you give me any information touching the question submitted in inclosed letter
If so you will greatly oblige.

Yours etc
F J Willis
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THE LEAADING JEWELRY ESTABLISHMENT OF DELWARE COUNTY [LETTERHEAD]

C. R. & H. M. Stilson,
Successors (1886) to
M. Stilson & Son,
Successor (1879) to
Minor Stilson

Established 1837

Delhi N. Y.
June 7, 1893

Dear Cousin,

Would it be a great deal of trouble for you to ascertain if our great grandfather Reuben Ward was a revolutionary soldier?  I have heard that his wife Jemima drew a pension.

I suppose if he was a soldier his name would be on the roll.

I don't know how much of a job it is to find out but it is not worth while going to too
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much trouble.

I am trying to find an ancestor among the revolutionary soldiers.

Sincerely,

[illegible]
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O. W. and N. Division
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS&lt;

Washington, D.C., July 5, 1893.

Sir:

In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Reuben Ward, a soldier of the Revolutionary War you will please find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau.

DATES OF ENLISTMENT. -----March 1776
LENGTH OF SERVICE. -----9 months
RANK. -----Pri.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. -----Captain David Van Ness                                               ------Colonel Van Schaick
STATE. -----N. Y.

Battles engaged in,-----None mentioned
Residence of solider at enlistment, -----King's District, Albany Co., N.Y.
Date of application for pension -----May 15, 1822
Residence at date of application -----Cayuta, Albany Co., N.Y.
Age at date of application, -----Seventy-one
Remarks: -----He died July 5, 1825, and his widow, Jemima Ward, was allowed a pension in 1844.    She lived then in Meredith, Delaware Co., N.Y.

Very respectfully,
--------------Commissioner.

Mr. F. J. Willis
Paymaster Gen'ls Office,
Washington, D.C.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*


NAME - Ward, Robert
GRADE - Private
LINE - New York

WARRANT NUMBER - 7964
ACREAGE - 100
ISSUED - November 11, 1791 to Samuel Broome, Assignee

*The information concerning the issuances of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates.  Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.  Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.