Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 19051, for Peter Reynolds, Rhode Island
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was over Genl.  Cornwall asked him to stay longer, told him he had better stay,  or when he got home the new questions would bite him and his place would be filled up and he would be sorry and he seemed to  express much confidence in the deponent, and he had access to his book containing the  the counter [illegible]
[illegible] sworn before me this 11 Aug. 1832
R.  Temple Jus. Peace; Artillery, [illegible] 

He is in very feeble health, and does not feel able to go to R.I.  to look up testimony--he has not been there for many years.

Peter Reynolds
Add. Statement
sent Aug 11.1832

 Gen. Rogers of Brandon said 2 years in Col. Staish : Artillery [illegible] 1778, Capt. Carlisle [illegible] at Pawtuxet says the Regt. was divided into small parties , he said till enemy evacuated Newport.
See also Walter Durpee
470
let 31 July 32
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Peter Reynolds
Orwell in the state of Vermont
who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Nixon of the Mass. and R. I. for the term of 9 months
Inscribed on the roll of Vermont at the rate of 8--Dollars per month, to commence the 16 if May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 of March 1818 and sent to Judge Smith Orwell, Vermt.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819  [illegible] 20/30 77.16
Semi anl.all'ee ending Sept 1819 48.--
$125.16
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818
See letter 22nd April 1829 [illegible]
See letter L. A. [illegible]
July 31, 1829
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Philada., Pa.
Aug 12, 1929The Commisioner of Pensions,
Washington, D>C>
Honorable Sir:
  A Peter Reynolds of Sudbury, Vt., was a pensioner June 1, 1840, at that time he was 79 years old.
May I have a copy of his record?
Thanking you for this courtesy
I am
Most Sincerely
(Miss) Dorothy M. Corydon

[Post marked] Aug 14 1929
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Payable semi-annually---the first payment on this certificate will be made on the 4th of September nex by Herman Allen Esqr.
Agent at Burlington, VT
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War Department
Revolutionary claim
  I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
Peter Reynolds late a private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Vermont Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to commence on the sixteenth day of May one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred and nineteen
J. C.  Calhoun
Secretary of War.
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Known all men by these presents that I Peter Reynolds of Sudbury in the county of Rutland and state of Vermont for the consideration of one thousand and one hundred dollars received  to my full satisfaction of John Jackson of Orwell in the county of Rutland and state of Vermont do give grant bargain sale and confirm unto the said John Jackson his heirs and assigned one continuous farm in Orwell to wit Beginning at the southeast corner of Pitt W Hydes farm on Sudbury line thence south on Sudbury line eighty six rods and twenty three links to Abigail [illegible] land then west one hundred and two rods to the east line of the highway, then north fourteen rods and three links to the line of Peter Reynolds house from thence on the west line of said highway or the side on Ballands land and running west on said widows land thirty seven rods to old line of the  Publick lot now owned by Jonb Smith Esqr thence west fifty two to [illegible] line marked thence north fifty two rods to a stake of [illegible] thence east one hundred and ninety one
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Peter Reynolds
Sept 1819
not entitled
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Peter Reynolds
July 16 1832
Pension Office

Admitted
Private 2 yrs and mon
$80
R. Temple
Present
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State of Vermont
Rutland County ss
  on the 5th day of July 1832, personally came before the undersigned one of the justices of the peace for said county, Peter Reynolds, resident of said county, aged 72, and to us known, who being duly sworn doth [illegible] and say, that he served in the Revolutionary war was eighteen months in the year 1776 and 1777 in Capt. Garzee: company in Col. Elliot Regt of R. Island line--and nine months in 1789 in capt Speer: company and Col Nixon: Reg of the Massachusetts line, during which period he was wounded by a musket shot in his hip at East Chester, NY- and the deponent further served three months in Capt. Cory: company in one of the Rhode Island Regiments 
(the name of the Col. not recollected and the year also not remembered )--that the deponent was placed on the Pension roll under the act of 1818 and was dropped therefrom on account of his property--that his certificate dated 5 March 1819 accompanied this --that he lived in Orwell when he made his original application before Judge Pliny Smith, and now lives in Sudbury in the county of Rutland. 
Peter Reynolds
Subscribed and sworn before me the day and year above
R Temple Jus. Peace