Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 5,975, for Philip Reed, Pennsylvania
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during which time he served as drafted militia [illegible] Genl [General] Howland on Staten Island just before Capt Sheifelys company arrived at Amboy.  The battle of [illegible] and the [illegible] and of August [illegible] took place while we were at Amboy but none of our Company were any [illegible] in it.  After the Battle, our company and others were marched to Elizabethtown and other places in the neighbourhood [neighborhood] of new york city to prevent any Disruption by the British. [illegible] Col [Colonel] Miles, Col Gertz [illegible] Bull, and Genl Washington's Sullivan & Robertdeau at Amboy in 1776. I went out again in the service as a draft militia [illegible] a private in Capt Sheifelys Company of militia attached to Col. Hiesters Regiment the middle of May 1777. [word middle and date were underlined] on a tour of three months. to the Delaware and New Jersey.  The militia had been drafted to prevent the British then in New Jersey from marching to Philadelphia. The company  [illegible] town above mentioned and after organizing marched to Newtown where they remained a short time and were joined by other companies of militia; then marched to Trenton thence to Middletown [illegible] Jersey near New Brunswick where they joined the army and marched a short time and then marched to the west side of the Delaware where we were stationed to prevent the British from crossing that River to reach Philadelphia and remained till the British retreated to Staten Island and New York the latter and of June. when we marched to [illegible]town and joined Genl Washington's army there. where we remained a short time and then we crossed the Delaware at [illegible] Ferry, and marched to [illegible] town [illegible] where we remained till the middle of August [last three words were underlined] when the period for which we were drafted expired & we were discharged and returned home the latter end of August. Declarant was almost continued
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continually in the neighbourhood of the British soldiers during this time but was not in any battle.  He well remembers Generals Washington Maxwell and Sullivan this campaign.  There were a [illegible] other generals and colonols also but he does not now remember their names.  He was out in the service from the time he marched till his return home and [illegible] three months and a half this time [three months and a half are underlined]. 
Immediately after the Battle of Brandywine a call was made on the militia and voluntary to turn out to prevent the British from crofsing [crossing] 
the Schuylhill and advancing into the country.   Declarant joined Capt [Captain] Schuylers company of volunteers attached to Col [Colonel] Dean's regiment and went out in the service as a private in said company and regiment a few days after the Battle of Brandywine, about the fifteenth or [illegible] of September 1777 [dates were underlined]. we marched to the Sweedes-ford [Swedes Ford] on the Schuylkill and encamped on the bank of the river.  The British were then in the valley on the west side of the river and marching on from Brandywine toward Valley Forge, our regiment marched in the night to Fatland Ford at the mouth of [illegible] creek and joined Genl [General] Washington's army.  They then marched to [illegible] then [illegible] to Faulkners Swamp where the army remained about two weeks. The British crofsed [crossed] the Schuylkill and proceeded on toward Philadelphia. and [and was crossed out] The American army marched from Faulkners Swamp to Skippack and [illegible] Regiment & Col. [illegible]'s regiment marched down the Ridge Road [Ridge Road is underlined] under the command of Genl [General] Armstrong (and the rest of the army in different [illegible] to Germantown; where we made an attack on the British Army the 4th of October, but were [illegible] & retreated some distance up the Schuylkill
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not less than three months and an half [illegible as corner of page missing] three months and an half.  I served as a private drafted militiaman in Capt. Sheifelys company Col. Hiester's Regiment in 1777.  For nine months and and an half I served as a private a volunteer in Capt Schuylers company Col. Deans Regiment in 1777-8 ---- For two months and an half I served as a private, a substitute for Baltzer Reed in Capt. Bartmans company Col. Moores Regiment in 1778.  For three months I served as a drafter militia officer as second Lieutenant in Capt. Sheifelys company Col. Kichlines Regiment in 1779.  For three months I served as a Second Lieutenant in Captain Reeds company of drafted militia Col. Brooks Regiment in 1780 in place of Henry Smith as a volunteer.  For two months I served as second Lieutenant in Capt. Sheifelys company of drafted militia Col. Currys Regiment in 1781.  For one month and an half I served as Lieutenant in Capt. Sheifelys Company of drafted militia Col. Currys Regiment in 1782, together not less than nineteen months as a private and nine months and an half as Lieutenant of Militia for which service I claim a pension.  I was out every year in the service during the Revolutionary War.  Col Jacob Reed and Col Philip Reed of the Pennsylvania Militia who were out much during the Revolutionary War (and who are now dead0 were declarants uncles.  Declarant lives twenty five miles from Norristown the Seat of Justice of Montgomery County where the court meets four times a year.  Declarant has been lame a long time and unable to wal and generally for the last two years unfit to be carried to the Court House and has [word has is crossed out] thus been unable to attend Court to make his application for a pension since he read of the passage of the Act of June 7, 1832.  All of the judges of the Court live upwards of
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thirty miles from declarant and he [illegible] not procure the attendance of either of the Judges of the Court at his residence in order to make the Declaration before him which the act of congress requires.  Nor was he able by reason of bodily infirmity to be taken before either of said judges at their residence to make the Declaration required.  Nor had he the means of paying the expenses of the attendance of said judges at his residence at so great a distance from their homes.  He took the first opportunity in his power of attending the court to make his declaration concerning his Revolutionary services.  He makes this statement to account for the apparent delay on his part, of making application for this pension which from his age infirmities and poverty he much needs for his support.  Declarant has no documentary evidence of his claims and services.  When he was elected as Lieutenant in 1779 he received a commission or appointment from the Colonel but don't remember who it was signed by.  This paper was lost during the Revolutionary war but he cannot tell when or where.  He has not seen it since  He knows of no person living who can testify to his Revolutionary services He has made inquiry by every opportunity for some of his companions in army and has requested others to inquire for him.  He knows that all the officers who served with him are dead, nor has he any knowledge of any of the private are living.  After the most diligent inquiry made he believes there is no person in existence who served with him or had a personal knowledge of his services.  He therefore submits to his own statement on oaths corroborated by the testimony of the Rev. McRedler & [illegible] as the only evidence of his services in his power.
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thereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
1st  I was born in Berks county Pennsylvania on the third day of March one thousand and seven hundred and fifty five 1755.
2  I have no record of my age
3  I lived in Marlborough township then Philadelphia now Montgomery County Pennsylvania, when called into the service and have lived there ever since the Revolutionary War and now live in said township and county.
4.  I was drafted into the service in the tours I served in Capt. Sheifelys Company 1776, 1777, 1179, 1781, & 1782.   I served as a volunteer in Capt. Scuylers [Schuylers] Coy [company] in 1777-8 & the residue of my services was as a substitute for my Brother Baltzer Reed who was drafted to serve in the militia as above mentioned in 1778 & as Lieutenant in place of Henry Smith in 1780.
5.  I remember Col. Small and Genl [General] Washington at Amboy in 1776 & Genl Wayne & Genl Potter in 1777.  I also remember Genl Lafayette, Genl Dickerson, & Genl Wayne in N. Jersey in 1778 & Washington & Wayne in 1779 -80. The names of the Captains & Colonels under whom I served and the general circumstances of my service as far as I can recollect them are mentioned in my Declaration above written.
6.  I never received any written discharge.
7.  I am known to the Rev. George Redler, minister of the Gospel and Danl. [Daniel] Freas Philip Reed [Illegible] Danl {Daniel] Jacoby [illegible] Tobias Sellers & Peter [illegible] who resides in my present neighbourhood who will certify to my character for veracity and their belief of my Revolutionary services
Sworn & subscribed in open court the day & year aforesaid} Philip Reed [signature - between Philip and Reed are the words 'his mark', with a curved mark resembling a backwards capital C]

Adam [illegible]r  Proly
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31.950

Declaration and papers of 
Philip Reed a
Revolutionary Soldier
Pennsylvania

Service 19 mo as a private 
& 9 [illegible] as Lieutenant
28 1/2 months service
Entitling to a pension of [illegible] 14328

{The above paragraph has 7 vertical black marks covering the paragraph]

Send to Philip Reed
Norristown
Penna

[the above sentence has multiple horizontal curlicues through all the words]

J. B. Sterigue
Norristown  Pa
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Rev. & 1812
No. 118.
September 13, 1932
541
Rev.&1812 Wars Section
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MAKE ENDORSEMENTS IN JACOB RIEDT.R.8809.
Rev. War claim for pension of
Philip Reed, File No.S.5975. Actual 1 of each page. 
$3.15 ........21 pages
xxx
Kindly leave margin of 1 1/2"
in. at top of each page and
return papers in each case
in folder with corresponding 
name and number.
The word "omit" written in
pencil on those pages which
are not to be copied.

[Along side of page]  See order in Jacob Riedt, P.8809 -
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Pa (underlined)

Admit as private
2 years  $80


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J.L. Edwards Esquire
Commifsioner [Commissioner] of Pensions
Washington D.C.