Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4,059, for Andrew Reeder, New Jersey
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the
act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled an
act granting half pay and pensions to certain
evidences:
State of New Jersey
Mercer County SS  ⎬

On the twenty Eighth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and thirty eight personally appeared before
me Charles Burroughs one of the Judges of 
the Inferior Court of Common pleas in
and for said County Sarah Reeder a resident of the said County aged seventy six years,
who I am satisfied is a person of respectability upon whose statement are placed reliance may be placed, and 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 Andrew Reeder who was a volunteer Militia Soldier and officer in the war of the Revolution; and who departed this life on the fourteenth day of April A.D. eighteen hundred and twenty four. That she was acquainted with the said Andrew Reeder during the Revolutionary War, and before _ She lived in the township of Hopewell with her father until she was married _ Mr. Reeder lived at the time in the township of Trenton, in the same County. She has no personal knowledge of the services of the said Andrew Reeder, except from what she has heard from him, and other persons; but from these sources she has always understood and she verily believes, that the said Andrew Reeder entered the Company of Militia first commanded by Capt. Robert Hoops and afterwards by Capt. John Mott as a private volunteer soldier at the commencement of the said War, and that soon after he was made an officer, and that he served as a Lieutenant in the said Company to the end of the war. I remember seeing his Commission as a Lieutenant, under the seal, after we were married, but it was afterward destroyed with other papers, being supposed of
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before mentioned tours viz to Amboy, Smith's Farms, and Elizabeth town, Andrew Reeder was serving in the said Company_ the first tour as a private Soldier, afterwards as an Ensign, and in a short time after his appointment as ensign, he the said Reeder was made a Lieutenant, but I cannot tell exactly at what period. After we had served as before mentioned at Elizabeth town, we, the said Andrew Reeder and myself served a tour of a month together in the same Company at Steel's Mountain, Reeder was then a Lieutenant. On another occasion we served together up the Raritan _ Lieutenant Reeder and myself served together in that neighbourhood a month. I also served a month with Lieut Reeder on two different occasions _ at the Blazing Star on the Sound. Lieut. Reeder served a tour of a month with us a Springfield_ while there we had an engagement with the British - our troops were commanded by Genl Dickinson on that occasion. Lieut Reeder and myself were also together in a tour at Trenton and Monmouth, and were both present and engaged in the Battle of Monmouth: on that occasion we were, I think, out under arms about a month. I know Jos. Reed, who is now living in Trenton, he was a soldier in the same Company with myself & Lieut. Reeder, and generally served with us. I also know Joshua Furman and Jesse Moore, of this County, they were both members of the same Company_ 
Joshua Furman generally served the months that I did not_ he belonging to the alternate class. I remember Ralph Lowes and Nathaniel Temple, they were both Lieutenants in Mott's Company. Lowes died during the war with the Small pox. The Regiment to which we belonged was commanded by Col. Jos. Phillips. Gen Dickinson commanded the Brigade. I am not able to recollect the dates or order in which we made our tours with accuracy. I have no memoranda to guide me. But I remember the places to which they were made distinctly. According to the best of my recollection Lieut. Reeder served during
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the whole war. I remember him distinctly
the first tour we made_ and I remember his
being in the service doing duty as an ensign or a Lieutenant in all the tours I have mentioned, and up to the close of the war. He was a brave soldier and officer, and always did his duty. I believe Andrew Reeder served as often as I did during the war_ have no doubt he served as much and probably more. I have no doubt he served two full years-
John Burroughs

Sworn and subscribed before}
me at Trenton this fourth day}
of October A.D. 1838, the said deponent}
being unable he consequence}
of age and bodily infirmity}
to attend in Court}
Chas. Burroughs

I hereby certify that John Burroughs whose
name is subscribed to the foregoing affidavit is a person of respectability and his statements are entitled to full faith and credit
Oct. 11, 1838
Chas. Burroughs
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State of New Jersey
Somerset County ss ⎬
Personally appeared Before me, James Taylor one of the Judges of the inferior Court of Common pleas of the County of Somerset Hannah Dumont, wife of Peter B Dumont, a person of respectability in whose statements full confidence may be placed, who Being duly sworn according to Law, Saith that she is in her seventy sixth year of her age. That she is personally well acquainted with Sarah Reeder the Widow of Andrew Reeder who was reputed to have been a soldier in the war of the
Revolution, and during a part of the war an officer in Capt John Motts Company of Jersey Militia. That the said Sarah Reeders maiden name was Sarah Burrows and she was a sister of this Deponants first husband Stephen Burrows: That she well remembers the
marriage between the said Sarah and Andrew Reeder was present at the marriage, and witnessed it, they were married at
the house of the said Stephen Burrows her former husband by the Rev Joseph Rue, a regularly licensed Presbyterian Clergyman at the time and for many years afterwards pastor
of the Presbyterian Church in Pennington, County of Hunterdon and State of New Jersey. The marriage took place in the month of August or September in the year of our Lord
One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Six. The said Sarah Reeder and Andrew Reeder lived together as man and wife after the marriage untill the day of the death
of the said Andrew Reeder, and this Deponant Expresly says that the said Andrew Reeder and the said Sarah Reeder were married at the time and place aforesaid in her presence, and that the said Sarah has never been married to
any other person. But remains the widow of the said Andrew Reeder

Hannah Dumont

Sworn & Subscribed this Eighth
day of September A.D. 1838, at the residence⎬
of the Deponent in the Township of Hillsborough County of Somerset _ before⎬ 
me, and I do Certify that the deponent by reason of age & bodily infirmity is unable to⎬ attend Court
James Taylor
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New Jersey. 2415
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Sarah Reeder
widow of Andrew Reeder
who was a pensioner under the Act of ____
and who died on the 14th Apl 1824
of Mercer in the State of N. Jersey
who was a Pri & Ens. in the Company commanded by Captain Mott of the Regt commanded by ________ in the N Jersey
line for 6 months 22 dys

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 47 Dollars 32 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 18 day of Apl
39, and sent to  S. G. Potts
Trenton, N Jersey

Arrears to the 4th of March - $141.99
Semiannual allowance ending   23. 66
                                                $165.65
{Act July 7,}
{1838.}

Recorded by R Burdien    Clerk,
Book A  Vol. 2 -  Page 133
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2203.
New Jersey
Sarah Reeder
widow of Andrew Reeder
who was a Private & Ensign
in the New Jersey line

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
47 Dollars 33
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the
20 day of December 1843
and sent to Jasper Scudder
Trenton New Jersey

[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1 Page 125
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P. Dickinson
Pension Agent
Trenton, N. J.
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
I, CHARLES G. McCHESNEY, Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify, that Charles Burroughs Esquire, before whom
the within affidavit was taken, was, at the time of the doing thereof, a Justice of the Peace
in and for the county of Mercer in said
state, duly commissioned and sworn; that full faith and credit are to be given to his official attestations, and that the signature thereto is in the proper handwriting of the said Charles Burroughs

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my seal of office, at Trenton in said state, this twenty sixth day of September A. D. one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight

Charles G. McChesney
Sec'y of State.