Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 8674, for John Reed, North Carolina
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SERVICE				NUMBER
N.C.		Reed, John		R8674
		Sarah
CONTENTS [blank]
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3833-
West Tennesse
John Reed
of Bedford in the State of Tennessee who was a Private in the compy commanded by Capttain Knight of the Regt commanded by Col. Bedford in the N. Car. line for 2 years. Inscribed on the Roll of West Tennessee at the rate of 80 – Dollars – Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831  Certificate of Pension issued the 3d day of [illegible] 33 and Send to Hon. J. K. Polk. House of Reps – 
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832  				120 –
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 mar:33		40
							$160-
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Nathan Rice Clerk, Book D  Vol. 9- Page 159-

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Paid at the Treasury [illegible] the Act of 6 April 1838 from 4 Sept to 7 Nov 1839 Agt notified 27 Nov 1841
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State of Tennessee Bedford County} On this 16th day of June 1832 personally appeared in open Court before John Lehill Samuel Phillips^& John B Armstrong Esqr,  Justices appointed to hold the Court of Pleas and Quarter sessions for Bedford County in the State aforesaid Now sitting John Reed a resident of said County and State about sixty eight years of age who being first 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 the 7th June 1832 He states that he was born in Randolph County North Carolina on the waters of the river but the year and month he does not recollect He states that he has no record of his age and to the best of his recollection never had any and all the information he ever had in regard to his age he received from his father -  He was living in Randolph County North Carolina when he first entered the service of the United States in the revolutionary war he first volunteered in the service between the age of sixteen & seventeen, for a term of three months under Captain John Knight who raised a company of volunteers at that time in Randolph County - Knights company served as minute men and were generally engaged during this
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term of service in scouting and ranging about in Randolph County after the tories endeavoring to put a stop to their plundering and ravages Knights company was frequently along with Edward Williams’ which was also a volunteer company performing like service with Knights this applicant states that during this time of service his company had several skirmishes with the tories, one of which was at [illegible] Creek at the expiration of this three month term of service he again volunteered for three months more under Captain Knight - at the expiration of this term of service he again volunteered under said so continued to volunteer under him immediately after the close of each of these three month terms of service until he had served eighteen months from the time he first volunteered during all  these terms of service comprising eighteen months he states that Knights company was principally ingaged in Scouting ranging and subduing the tories in Randolph and ocasionally in Guilford County S Carolina - and had a good many little engagements on skirmishes with them, but none of any importance - he further states that during all these three month then of Service Col Beford the colonel in command of Captain Knight and Capt Williams companies and probably others, but of this he is not certain, but just about the close of this applicants last term of three month's service which ted the eighteen months above mentioned
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Col Belford was killed by the tories - This applicant states that at the expiration of the last mentioned three months term of service he again volunteered under the same Captain Knight - and served under him six months before he was discharged during this term of service Knights company was still engaged in ranging and subduing the tories in the County of Randolph and occasionally in Guilford part of this term this applicant was, among others, employed in guarding to courts which sat at the cross roads in Randolph County, again the tories who were numerous and troublesome at the expiration of this term of service this applicant was discharged and never served any more- he states that after the death of Col Belford and during this last six months in Col Dougan was his Colonel in command. He further states that at the expiration of each and every term of his service he received a written discharge from his captain. These discharges were by him return ed to the board of war - this applicant states that he knows of no person now living by whom he can prove his services except the one whose affidavit is hereto annexed nor has he any documentary evidence of his services - he states that to the best of his recollection he was two years or upwards in the service of the United States during the
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revolutionary war he also states that it was about six months after the battle of Yorkton and surrender of Lord Cornwallis, that he to was finally discharged from the service- he further states that at the close of the war he continued to reside in Randolph County North Carolina for about twelve years he then removed to Washington County Virginia from thence he removed to Blount County Tennessee, from thence to Franklin County, and from thence to Rutherford County and lastly from thence to Bedford County Tennessee, where he has lived ten years or for and still continues to reside this applicant states that he is well acquainted with David Tucker Adam Dunlop David Phillips Jns Williams and many other respectable citizens of his neighborhood who will Testify as to his veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution - This applicant further that he was acquainted with in other officers of the Army during the revo lutionary war then those whose names are mentioned in this declaration This applicant hereby 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 Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid [illegible] John [his X mark] Reed
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[handwritten] John Reed was Marred to Sarah his wife July 4 31 day 37.8.3
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on or Bo [illegible] the 3d Day of May I prommis to pay or  Cos to Be pad un to Jesse Reed his or his ord
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[handwritten] 	Declaration of Sarah Reed
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State of Tennessee Bedford County This 19 day of September 1845 personally appeared before me John S Cooper an acting Justice of the peace in and for the county of Bedford in the state uforesaid and one of the members of the state aforesaid Sarah Brame a resident of the county and state aforesaid and aged forty-five years who being first duely swarn accourding to law depseth and states as follows that more than twenty year ago she formed an aquaintance with John Read and Sarah Read his wife That when she first formed an acquaintance with man and wife and passed in society and were received in society as man and wife till the 17 day of November 1839 at which time he the said John Read died That he died in Bedford county in the state aforesaid Appiant states that – she first formed an acquaintance with the said John Read and Sarah Read
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his wife when they lived in Rutherford county in the state aforesaid at which time they were not the near neighbours of appicant But fifteen – years before the death of said John Read he said John Read ^with Sarah Read his wife removed from Rutherford County and settled in Bedford county in the state a foresaid not more than three miles from your appicant and he said John Read and Sarah Read his wife lived not more than three miles from appiant for fifteen years previous to the death of the siad John Read she states she was again in [illegible] with the following children of the said John Read and Sarah Read his wife Mary Read now Mary Dunlap Jessee Read William Read Jam C Read and Elizabeth Read now Elizabeth Price. All of whom were the children of said John Read and Sarah Read his wife all born in Wedlock Appcant further states that after the death of the said John Read that said Sarah Read his wife never married any other person whatever but is still a widow living in Bedford Cou
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nty in the state aforesaid 
Sarah [illegible]
State of Tennessee Bedford County  on this 20th day of september 1845 personally appeared before me an acting Justice of the peace in and for Bedford county in the state aforesaid and one of the members of the county court of Bedford in the state aforesaid^ William C Brame a resident of the county and state aforesaid and aged thirty years and who being first duely sworn according to law depseth and states as follows that about the year 1836: or 1837: he formed an acquaintance with John Read and Sarah Read his wife and they lived together as man and
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wife from the time he formed an acquantance with them till the 17th day of November 1839 at which time he died that he died in Bedford county in the state aforesaid Appicant states that he is acquainted with Mrs Elizabeth Price and Mary Dunlap and William Read who are the children of John Read and Sarah Read his wife. He states that after the death of said John Read that said Sarah Read never married again & still lives in Bedford county in the state aforesaid. W C Brame
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Declaration In order to obtain the benefit of the acts of and Congress of the 4th of July 1836 of the act of Congress passed the 7th of July 1838 entitled acts granting half pay and pensions to certain widows 
State of Tennessee Bedford County} On this day of personally 1845 appeared before me one of the acting Justices of the peace in and one of the city the County of Bedford & state aforesaid and one of the members of the county court of Bedford in the state aforesaid. Sarah Reed a resident of the county and state aforesaid aged [illegible] eight years 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 the 4 1836 and by the provision made by the act of Congress passed July the 7 1838 entitled acts granting half pay & pension to certain widows
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Declaration In order to obtain the benefit of the acts of and Congress of the 4th of July 1836 of the act of Congress passed the 7th of July 1838 entitled acts granting half pay and pensions to certain widows 
State of Tennessee Bedford County} On this day of personally 1845 appeared before me one of the acting Justices of the peace in and one of the city the County of Bedford & state aforesaid and one of the members of the county court of Bedford in the state aforesaid. Sarah Reed a resident of the county and state aforesaid aged [illegible] eight years 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 the 4 1836 and by the provision made by the act of Congress passed July the 7 1838 entitled acts granting half pay & pension to certain widows
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That she is the widow of John Reed who was a soldier of the revolutionary war That in the year 1780 or 1781 her husband the [illegible] John Reed in Randolph County in the State of North Carlina went into the service of the United as a volunteer and private soldier and went into Capt Knights company in a foot company that Beford his coronel she does not recollect his Generals name. that soon after he went into service he marched from Randolph County in North Carolina to what was called the Sandhills near Crosscreek That after he arrived in the sandhills he was then stationed with the army a few weeks at the expiration of which time he was in a battle with the tories in the sandhills near [illegible] in which battle the whigs were victorius And after sd battle was fought he [illegible] marched through different parts of North Carolina and continued in service till his first tour ended that hi first tour was five months At the experation of which time she does not know whether he ever received any written discharge [illegible] from his proper officer or not That a few days after his first tour ended he again went out into the service of the United states as a light-horseman and private^soldier that when he went in
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to service the second time he was a volunteer That Knight was his captain the second time when he went into service Bedford was his Colnoel she does not recollect his Generals name That he joined Captain Knights company in Randolph county in North Carolina. The second time he went into service and they marched from Randolph county through a different part of north Carlinia in service against the British and tories till his second tour expired That his second tour was six months, That she [crossed out] That he served in all eleven months, At the expiration of sd second tour he was discharged, but whether he received any [illegible] written discharge or not she does not at this time recollect That when the sd John Reed went into service the first and second time he resided in Randolph county in the state of North carolina. That several years previous to the death of the said John Reed he applied for and obtained a pension of eighty dollars^ from the government of the United States per annum which he continued to draw down to the time of his death. That the said john Reed died on the 17th day of November 1839 she states that she does not at this time recollect the time when she marri-
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age with the d John Reed took place with certainity, as the record of her marriage with him took place [crossed out] was sent on to the war department several years ago 9perhaps in 1840) for the purpose of getting a pension But she is [illegible] and believes it was previous to the first of January 1794: She further declares that she was ^not marrid to the sd John Reed her said husband prior to his leaving the services but she believes the marriage took place previous to the first of January 1794. she states that she never has married any other person whatever since the death of the said John Reed she states that the sd John Reed departed this life in Beford county in the state of Tennessee in which last mentioned county or [upside down A on side of page] state she resides at this time. She is [illegible] and believes that the sd John Reed’s pension certificate has been sent on to the pension office at Washington city and is there filed. That she has no further documentary evidence in support of
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her claim except that which has allready been adverted to in this declaration She [illegible] [illegible] sd record of her marriage was writen down by the sd John Reed [crossed out] Sarah [her X mark] Reed [written on top of ‘writen down’] by ^David Bowler the next day after sd marriage took place and that the same was retained and kept by her ^ [illegible] own possession till she delivered the same to a lawyer in order to get a pension for her several years ago after which time she is advised & believes it was sent on to the pension office at Washington city she prays for a pension 
Sarah [her X mark] Reed
said David Bowler is dead & there is no person that she knows of in this county by whom she can prove his handwriting
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State of Tennessee  I [illegible] Cooper and acting Justice of the Peace for Bedford County & state aforesaid do hereby certify that [illegible] to the Infirmity [illegible] the said Sarah Reed that she [illegible] [illegible] unable to attend in a court of record & [illegible] to the foregoing Declaration without [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] John [illegible] time of [illegible] for said [illegible] his Sept 20th 1845
state of Tennessee Bedford county} I Robert Hurst Clerk of the county courts of Bedford county in the state aforesaid do here by certify that John S. Cooper the person before whom the forgegoing declaration was sworn to ^&acknowledged was at that time and still is an acting Justice of the peace in and for the county of Bedford and state aforesaid and duely commissioned and qualified according to the constitution & laws of the state aforesaid In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and publick seal of office. At office in shelbyville on this 26 of september. 1845
Robert Hurst Clerk
By his [illegible] John. L Neel
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State of Tennessee County of Henderson On this twenty seventh day of March A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty four personally appeared before me an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, William Reed a resident of Henderson County in the State of Tennessee aged 59 years, [a resident Hendon County in the State of Tennessee – crossed out], who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th, 1838, entitled “An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows,” that his mother Sarah, is the widow of John Reed, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war and drew a pension for his services at the Agency at Nashville, at the rate of eighty dollars per annum He further declares that she was married to his farther, the said John Reed, on the day of  - in the year seventeen hundred and -; 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. William [his X mark] Read 
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written Eli Teague JP for Henderson County
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State of Tennence County of Henderson}ss
I Jesse Taylor, Clerk of the county Court, in and for the County and State above mentioned, do hereby certify that Eli Teague, whose genuine signature appears above, is and was at the time of signing the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn; that his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit; and that the aforesaid County Court is a Court of Record. Given under my hand and Seal of Office, at office, this [illegible] the day of April A.D. 1854 Jesse Taylor Clerk
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It is hereby certified that satisfactory proof has been exhibited before the Court of the tenth Judicial Circuit, for the County of Henderson, in the State of Tennessee by the affidavits of William Hortan and William Adcock, residents of Henderson County, in the State of Tennessee who are persons entitling to credit, that John Reed a Revolutionary pension died in the County of Bedford, State of Tennessee leaving a widow, Sally (Sarah) who died in the County and State aforesaid, in the year A D. one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, and that William Reid, Jesse Read, Elizabeth Price and Polly Dunlap are the only surviving children of said John Reed who was a Revolutionary soldier. 
In testimony whereof I have set my hand and^private seal seal of office having no seal of office this twenty eighth day of March in the year A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty four, R B Jones Clerk Circuit Court Henderson County Tennessee 
[handwritten embellishment at left side of page] Fee 50 cts
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March 13, 1939 XXXXXXXXXXXXXX JOHN REED R. 8674 BA-J/MLB 
Mrs. R. L. Rose                                                                                                                             614 -- 5th Avenue East                                                                                                                Springfield, Tennessee 
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you furnish further information in regard to John Reed in whom you are interested, that is, that he received a pension for Revolutionary War service, while living in Bedford County, Tennessee. His record follows as found in pension claim, R. 8674, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War . John Reed was born on Deep River in Randolph County, North Carolina . The date of his birth and names of parents were not given. While residing in Randolph County, North Carolina, John Reed volunteered when about seventeen years old in a company of minutemen organized by Captain John Knight and served eighteen months on tours of three months each as minuteman in that company in Colonel Belford's North Carolina regiment, engaged in scouting and ranging about Randolph and Guilford Counties in pursuit of Tories and during that service was in several skirmishes with them, one of which was at Drowning Creek and was in a battle in the Sand Hills near Cross Creek. Upon the expiration of the last tour of that service, in which Colonel Belford was killed, he again volunteered and served six months as private in Captain John Knight's company, Colonel Dugan's North Carolina regiment, and was discharged about six months after the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. After the Revolution, the soldier continued to reside in Randolph County, North Carolina, for about twelve years, then moved to Washington County, Virginia; from there to Blount County, Tennessee, thence to Franklin County, then Rutherford County, and from there to Bedford County, Tennessee. The soldier was allowed pension on his application executed June 16, 1832, at which time he was aged about sixty-eight years and
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a resident of Bedford County, Tennessee. He died in that county, November 17, 1839. John Reed married July 31, 1783, place not stated, Sarah (sometimes called Sally) Bolen, daughter of David Bolen who died about 1805. The date and place of Sarah's birth and names of her parents are not shown. In 1840, she was aged seventy-five years and a resident of Bedford County, Tennessee. She died there in 1845. Sarah Reed, widow of John Reed, was survived by children named as follows: Mary or Polly, who in 1840 was aged fifty-six years and the wife of _Dunlap, his given name not shown; William Reed, who in 1854 was aged fifty-nine years and living in Henderson County, Tennessee; Jesse Reed; Elizabeth, who in 1854 was the wife of _Price, his given name not stated. Reference was made to one other child, namely, Samuel or Lamb Reed, whose name was not on the list of children who survived their mother, Sarah Reed. His age and other details concerning him were not given. In 1840, one Thomas C. Price made affidavit in Bedford County, Tennessee; his relationship to soldier's daughter, Elizabeth Price, not stated. In 1832, one Adam Dunlap was a resident of Bedford County, Tennessee , his relationship to soldier's daughter, Mary or Polly Dunlap, not designated. 
Very truly yours A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Sarah Reed widow of John Tenn
[manicule] Rejected not a widow July 7 1838 died 1865
P.C. Steele aug 22 1840
T.C. Whiteside 21 sep 1841
Jno Bruce nov 17 1845
Same May 11 1846
Hon G W Jones 27 Dec 1852
W F Bradford Mch 17 1852
Gm Talbit June 1852
8674
July 7 1838
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Tennessee Sarah Reed. widow of John Reed. decd Act July 7. 1838,
Rejected_ Let to P.C Steele Aug 22 1840. let 21st Sep 41 T.C. Whiteside, Let to John Bruce Nov 17.45 same May 11th 1846. Hon G W Jones 27 Dec 52 WF Bradford Mc 17/54 Act 38
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Washington, D. C., 	190
In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank] for a statement of the military history of John Reed a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow’s) application for pension on file in this Bureau. R.8674
[column headings: DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT  | LENGTH OF SERVICE  | RANK  | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED  | CAPTAIN  | COLONEL  | STATE.]
[illegible] 18 mos.| aker with Tories | John Knight | Bedford | N.C.
[illegible] | [illegible] | [illegible] | ‘’ | Dugan | ‘’
[illegible] | [illegible] | [illegible] 
Battles engaged in, [illegible]   Residence of soldier at enlistment, Randolph Co N. C.
Date of application for pension, June 16 1832. His [illegible] allowed:
Residence at date of application, Bedford Co. Tenn. Age at date of application, about 68 yrs. born on Deep river, Randolph Co. N. C.
Remarks: He mar. July 31, [illegible] 23 Sarah Bolson [illegible] Baird. Sol. died Nov. 17 1839  Bedford N.C. where she resided and [illegible] [illegible] old; she d. 1845 [illegible] following chi [illegible] Mary or Polly 36-1840 Dunlop, Jesse Reed, Elizabeth Price, and William Reed at 59 yrs in 1854. In 1840 Mary Dunlop [illegible]that she was 56 years of age. One other child Lamb or Saml Reed was referred to. [(illegible)] Very resectfully, CK
Rej – She was not a widow at the date of [illegible] act of 1838.
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1912 May 1. History to Mrs. S. B. Welch: c 
1918 June 26 Hist to Mrs Jas.U. Carpenter [crossed out] Caperton See her letter in Samuel Reed S 7372 aug 1939 Mar. 13-Hist to Mrs. P. L. Rose – [illegible]
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873. [crossed out]
8674
P.O. Sarah Reed
Service: John
REJECTED
Enlisted: [blank], 18 .
Discharged [blank], 18 .
Application filed: [blank], 18 .
Alleges: [blank]
Re-enlisted: [blank]
Attorney: [blank]
P.O. [blank]
[blank] Recognized. [blank] Contract.
[blank] Cert. of Dis.  Searched for [blank], 18 .
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State of Tenessee Bedford County} Before me Price C. Steele a justice of the peace for said County personally appeared Thomas Price, and, being first duly sworn, saith he was acquainted with John Reed a revolutionary soldier; that he deported this life, to deponent’s knowledge, on the seventeenth day of November A.D. (1839) eighteen hundred & thirty nine. Subscribed & sworn [crossed out word] to before me this sixth day of August 1840 & I certify that said witness is a person of respectability & worthy of Credit} Thomas C Price
 P. C. Steele [handwritten seal] Justice of the peace
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State of Tennessee Bedford County} I Robert Hurst Clerk of the County Court of Bedford County aforesaid do hereby certify that Price & Steele who has attested the foregoing and within deposition is and was at the time of attesting the same a Justice of the peace for our said County, duly elected and qualified and that the foregoing Signature purporting to be his is Genuine In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal of office, at office Sixth day of August A.D. One thousand Eight hundred and forty Robt Hurst Clerk of Bedford County Court 
State of Tennessee  Bedford County}To wit I William Galbreath Chairman of the County Court of Bedford County do Certify that Robert Hurst whose Signature is attached to the foregoing Certificate is Clerk of said Court and was at the time of Signing the Same and that his attestation is in due form given under my hand & seal this 6th August 1840
WmGalbreath [handdrawn] Seal
Chairman of Bedford County Court
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I William Reed [crossed out perpendicular on left side bottom of page]
Despsition of Lessu Leath-
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State of Tennessee Bedford County} Before me Jacob Green a justice of the peace in and for said County personally appeared Jessie Scott, who after being first duly sworn deposeth and saith that he has known John Reed and Sarah Reed his wife for about twelve years that he assisted at the funeral of said John Reed, who died in this County about the 17th day of November eighteen hundred and thirty nine. His widow Sarah Reid still resides in Bedford County, and has not married since the death of her said husband. Said John Reed was receiving a pension from the United States at the time of his death Subscribed & sworn to before me this 7th day April 1840, and I hereby certify that said Scott is a person Respectability & worthy credit Jesse Scott Jacob Green [hand drawn seal] Justice of the peace for Bedford County
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State of Tennessee Bedford County} I William D Orr Clerk of the County Court of Bedford County aforesaid, do certify that Jacob Green who has stated the foregoing deposition is and was at the time of attesting the same a justice of the peace for our said County duly elected and qualified, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his, is genuine In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, at office, this seventh day of April A D. 1840 William D. Orr Clerk of Bedford County Court
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State of Tennesee Bedford County} Towit I William Gabraith Chairman of the County Court of said County of Redford do certify that [illegible] William D. Orr who has made the foregoing certificate is and was at the time of making the same clerk of our said Court duly elected and qualified that said certificate is in our form of law and sealed with our county seal. Given under my hand and seal this 16th April 1840 W Galbraith [hand drawn seal] Chairman of Bedford County Court
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Hon J. L. Edwards will please examine the enclosed papers – and send the result to the undersigned for Wm Reed Very Respy. Price C. Steele
Aug 6th 1840 Shelbyville Bedford County Tenn
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W Declaration of Sarah Reed No 7290 Tennessee Married in 1783 husband died 17 Nov 19
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State of Tenneessee  Towit I Saml anderdson one of the Judges of the Circuit Courts of Law of said State presiding in and for the County of Bedford, do hereby certify that John T. Neil who has made the foregoing certificate is and was at the time of making the same Clerk of our said Court for Bedford County, duly elected and qualified - and that said certificate is in due form of law. Given under my hand seal; this 16th day of April 1840 S.Anderson [hand drawn seal] Judge &c
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Spring Creek, Tenn June 12th 1854 
Dear Sir enclosed you have the declaration of William Reed and the certificate of Court of Leirship &c
Mrs. Reed the mother of William Reed made application for pension during her life time but it was repealed or suspended, you will confer a favor by examining the papers filed and inform me of their difficulty, Your obdnt servt George W. Talbot
L.J. Waldo Esqr
Washington D. C.
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Sept: 25”
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Hon W [illegible] 
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Hon. W-Polk
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Shelbyville 5
August 22          Tloee
[illegible] Lewis Casse Secry
[illegible] war Washington city
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Murpeesborough. September 29th. 1845 
Sir I have in this letter transmitted to you the declaration and other papers in the case of Sarah Read for a pension. The record of the marriage in said case was sent on to the department several years ago perhaps in 1840. You will please advert to said record as the same will probably prove the marriage satisfactory. But in addition to said marriage record I have thought it most prudent to send on to you the affidavits of two creditable witnesses by whom she proves that for many year previous to the death of said John Read that she and said John Read passed as man and wife and were received in society as man and wife. In my judgement even in case where there is no other proof of marriage is the applicant proves that for many year previous to the death of her husband that she and him passed in society as man wife and were received in society as man & wife, & that the witnesses knew certain children of said two persons who pass in society as their children bearing the
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same name. And from the age of the born child that said two persons must have come together previous to 1794 that the legal presumption would be that said two persons were lawfully married previous to 1794 Sir I hope you will ^ not understand as [illegible]itating to the departments, for I have every confidence in the Judgement of the department. But as we have been communicating with each other for many years I therefore take the liberty to make the above remarks. Sir I received your letter this morning in the case of Ann Sockridge I admire your great prudence in giving her a proper discretion with regard to her pension. I will strictly attend to her interest    I am your obedient servant John Bruce. 
The Honourable J. L Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington City
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1 ¾ oz 40
The Honourable J. S. Edwards.
Commissioner of Pensions Washington City
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Oct 8. 1845 [circular stamp, illegible]
Supplemental decd be Sarah Read. July 4. 1836.
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[circular stamp] MURREESBORO Te JAN 30               10
The Honourable J. S. Edwards  Commissioner of Pensions Washington City
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Ja 7 1846  Recd  Sarah Read
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Murpeesborough January 29th 1844 
Sir Your letter of the 17th November last in the case of Sarah Read is at this time before me In said letter you stated that the date of the marriage prior to 1794 is satisfactory. But that the service of the husband in the North Carolina Militia must be verified by the certificate of the Comptroler of Public Accounts of North Carolina Sir in compliance with your request I wrote on to the Comptroler of Public Accounts of that state and have receintly received a letter from him in said letter he stated he had entered the books in his office and had been looking over those books and in the same he had found the case of John Read wherein he said John Read in his own name had received divers payments they had received into a way of certificates. But yet said Comptroler did not send his certificate to me The payments to which he alluded were no doubt the payment for the services of said John Read at the expiration of each tour of service he performed. Said Com
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proler in his letter stated to me stated [crossed out] me that [crossed out] that he would send me his certificate certifying the facts above stated if I would again send on to him But sir I cannot obtain said certificate wi out considerable additional trouble and expence. Sir I hope said case is allready fully made out to the entire satisfactoriy the Department If it is you will of course grant Mrs Read a Pension, if it is not, please file this letter with the other papers in this case, and write me again, and I will write on to the Comptroler of Public Accounts of North carolina obtain his certificate and transmit the same to you. I am respectfully your obedient servant John. Bruce. 
The Honourable J. S. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington City.
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Rev. and 1812 Wars Section. June 26, 1928 
Mrs. James W. Carpenter Richmond, Amberley Ky.
Madam: I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim R. 3674, it appears that John Reed was born on Deep River, Randolph County, North Carolina, date not stated. While a resident of Randolph County, North Carolina, he enlisted, when he was about seventeen years old, and served eighteen months as a minute man in Captain John Knight's Company, Colonel Belford's North Carolina Regiment , and was in several skirmishes with the Tories; he again enlisted and served six months in Captain John Knight's Company, Colonel Dugan's North Carolina Regiment, and was discharged about six months after the surrender of Yorktown. There are no specific dates of service given. He was allowed pension on his application executed June 16, 1832, while a resident of Bedford County, Tennessee , aged about sixty-eight years. He married July 31, 1783, Sarah Bolen, daughter of
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David Bolen. The soldier died November 17, 1839 in Bedford County, Tennessee, and she was residing there in 1840 and was aged seventy-five years. She died in 1845, leaving the following children Mary or Polly Dunlap, fifty-six years old in 1840; Jesse Reed; Elizabeth Price; and William Reed, aged fifty-nine years in 1854. One other child, Lamb or Saul, was referred to. Respectfully, WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.
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H. W. WATSON COMMISSIONER OF STREETS JOHN E. GARNER MAYOR T.T. RUDOLPH COMMISSIONER OF SCHOOLS 
OFFICE OF CITY TREASURER
 Dr. R. L. Rose – DVS.. City Veterinarian  CITY OF SPRINGFIELD, TENNEESSEE 
[black and white stamp on right side of page] [illegible] JAN 21 1939
January 17- 1939 
Veterans Administration Washington, D.C. Dear Sir: Some time ago, I wrote you, in regard to my ancestor John Reed’s, Revolutionary War Record & Pension. I am now writing you again, and have a little more definite information regarding him, and hope that you can give me his Record and the number of his pension, and to whom it was paid-which I will appreciate, most highly. Please give me, if possible, more fully all the information you may have, regarding him, as I know he does have a Revolutionary War Record. As follows: U.S. Pensioners, of Revolutionary War- List of 1835 TENNESEE Section, page 46:- John Reed, then a resident of Bedford County, TENN., a Revolutionary Veteran of the North Carolina line, was placed on the Pension roll, January 3, 1833, his annual rate being $80. He was then 70 years old. From the above John Reed was born in 1763. - I do not know date of death - Please let me hear from you soon. Sincerely Mrs. R. L. Rose. 614-5th Ave. East, Springfield, Tennessee.
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[circular VETERANS ADMINISTRATION seal stamp, upper left hand corner of page]
VETERANS ADMINISTRATION WASHINGTON, August 16, 1938 - - IN REPLY REFER TO BA-JAHF:MLB
Mrs. R. L. Rose 614 5th Avenue East Springfield, Tennessee 
Dear Madam: Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of John Reed and Thomas Smith of Virginia who, in 1784, at West Point, New York, signed a petition to Congress for payment for their services. This office has no record of the petition cited above, nor of the payments which may have been made to John Reed and Thomas Smith. In order to identify the records in this office of the John Reed and Thomas Smith in whom you are interested and who may have applied for United States pensions, as much as possible of the following data are essential in regard to each: approximate dates of birth and death, places of residence at enlistment and after service and given name of wife or widow. Very truly yours A.D. Hiller A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator [circular stamp RECEIVED JAN 21 1939]
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[circular stamp] PENSION OFFICE U.S. APR 26 1912
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To the Commissioner of Pensions at Washington City Dist. Columbia U.S.A. Gentlemen Can you furnish me with the Revolutionary War Record of £8674 John Reed Reid or Read He enlisted or went in before he was of age served all through the way he went every year to Nashville Ten to obtain his pension His wifes name was Sallie Bowling The above is as near as my mother (Mrs S.E. Vawter and who is a grand child of Reed) can relate it to me she is in her year and has misplaced or lost her family record in some way. My reasons for desiring the record is in order to become a member of the Organization of the Daughter of the Revolution. Please let us hear from you at once and what will be the consideration if any and oblige Apr 28-1902 Mrs S. B. Welch Edna Kansas
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State of Tennessee Bedford County}
I Robert Hurd of the county cou Bedford county state aforesaid by certify tha S. Cooper the person before whom two foregoing affidavits were swor and subscribed was at that time still is an acting Justice of the in and for the county of Bedford in state aforesaid. And duely comm qualified according to the coms and laws of the state aforesaid timony whereof I have hereunto hand and publick seal of office. At in the town of Shelbyville on 26 day of September 1845
Robert Hurst Clerk Court of Bedford By his deputy John S
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State of Tennessee Bedford County}
I Robert Hurst Clerk of the county court of Bedford county in the state aforesaid do hereby certify that John. S. Cooper the person before whom the two foregoing affidavits were sworn to and subscribed was at that time and still is an acting Justice of the peace in and for the county of Bedford in the state aforesaid. And duely commissed I quallified according to the constitution and laws of the state aforesaid in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and publick seal of office. At office in the town of Shelbyville on this 26 day of September 1845
Robert Hurst Clerk of the County Court of Bedford County By his deputy John S. NicC
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Shelbyville Tennessee March 11th 1854
Dear Sir
You will please inform me in relation to the pension due the [illegible] of John and Sarah Reed and the [illegible] of Bardville & Ann Harrison as [illegible] power of attorney the first [illegible] named filed last fall and for the last named files last spring appointing myself & John T Nuly Agents Jointly or seperately you will please inform me what will be necessary to estalish said claim which were filed in the life time of the said (Sarah & Ann) and were suspended what services is it shown they [illegible] by muster rolls and where they [illegible] [illegible] drawing Yours Truly W. F. Bradford
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT 
Second Comptroller's Office September 21st 1841. 
Sir: Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States, the widow of John Reed, decd a Pensioner on the Roll of the Nashville, Ten. Agency, at the rate of Eighty Dollars and [blank] Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1839 to the 17th Nov. 1839 Respectfully yours Albion H. Parris Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions Present.
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State of Tennessee Bedford County ⎬ S.S. on this sixteenth day of April eighteen hundred and forty personally appeared before the Judge of the Circuit Court of the State of Tennessee, held for the County of Bedford, at the Court house in the Town of Shelbyville, in open court Sarah Reed aged seventy five years a resident of the County of Bedford and State of Tennessee, 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 7th 1838, entitled ""an act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows"" That she is the widow of John Reed who was a private in the revolutionary war and for his services received a pension of eighty dollars per annum from the United States under the act of 7 July 1832. The certificate for which is now in her possession, bearing date 3 January 1833, & numbered 3833- She further declares that she was married to the said John Reed on the 31st day of July in the year seventeen hundred and eighty three (31 July 1783) as will more fully appear by the annexed evidence, which is the best she can obtain of her
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said marriage; that her husband the aforesaid John Reed died on the seventeenth day of November in the year eighteen hundred and thirty nine (17 Nov. 1839) that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four (1st South 1794), viz, at the time above stated Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year above written in open Court. In Testimony whereof  John T. Neil Clerk of said circut Court, have hereunto set my hand & having no seal of offer have affixed my private seal the day & for above written John S. Niel [hand drawn seal] Clerk of Bedford Circuit Court} Sarah [her X mark]
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State of Tennessee Bedford County ⎬ Before me Price C Steele Justice of the peace in and for the County of Bedford aforesaid personally appeared Mary Dunlop aged fifty six years who after being first duly sworn deposeth and saith, that the annexed paper containing the marriage of - John Reed and Sarah Bolen, (now Reed) is an old record cut from the family bible, from which it appears that they were married on the thirty first day of July Seventeen hundred and eighty three (31 July 1783)- said record as she has been informed is in the hand writing of David Bolen the father of Sarah Bolen (now Reed) David Bolen has been deed for thirty five years to deponent’s knowledge Deponent has seen the record for a longer time than that. Sarah Reed the widow of John Reed deceased resides in Bedford County Tennessee & has not married since his death subscribed & sworn to before me this 16th April 1840, & I do certify that said witness is a lay person of respectability & worthy of Credit P. C. Steele [hand drawn seal] Justice of the peace} I Mary Dun lay
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State of Tennessee Bedford County ⎬ Before me Price C Steele Justice of the peace in and for the County of Bedford aforesaid personally appeared Mary Dunlop aged fifty six years who after being first duly sworn deposeth and saith, that the annexed paper containing the marriage of - John Reed and Sarah Bolen, (now Reed) is an old record cut from the family bible, from which it appears that they were married on the thirty first day of July Seventeen hundred and eighty three (31 July 1783)- said record as she has been informed is in the hand writing of David Bolen the father of Sarah Bolen (now Reed) David Bolen has been deed for thirty five years to deponent’s knowledge Deponent has seen the record for a longer time than that. Sarah Reed the widow of John Reed deceased resides in Bedford County Tennessee & has not married since his death subscribed & sworn to before me this 16th April 1840, & I do certify that said witness is a lay person of respectability & worthy of Credit P. C. Steele [hand drawn seal] Justice of the peace} I Mary Dun lay
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State of Tennessee Bedford County} James Robert Hurst Clerk of the County Court of Buford County aforesaid, hereby certify that Price C. Steele who has attested the foregoing deposition is and was at the time of attesting the same a justice of the peace for our said County, duly elected and qualified, and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at this 16th April Office 1840 Robt Hurst Clerk of Bedford County Court 
State of Tennessee Bedford County}I  William Galbreath Chairman of the County Court of Bedford County do hereby certify that Robert Hurst who has made the foregoing certificate is and was at the time of making the same Clerk of our said Court duly elected and qualified that said certificate is in due form of Law and sealed with our County Seal. Given under my hand and seal this 16th April 1840 WGalbreath [hand drawn seal] Chairman of Bedford County Court
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Shelbyville 7 Sept [illegible] Thomas C Whitender Read 18 Amd 25th
Last paragraph of this letter respectfully referred to the Comt of Pensions [illegible] & the [illegible] inform 3rd auditors office Sept 25th 1841 Mr. Allison

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[circular stamp] SHELBYVILLE SEPT 8 Te. 
[stamp] FREE
Peter Haguer Esqr Audition [illegible] Washington City D C
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[circular stamp] SHELBYVILLE SEP 8 Te. 
[handwritten] Peter
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Shelbyville 7th Sept 1841
Sir
In the month of June last I enclosed to you the claim of Mrs Reed the widow of John Reed Decd for the balance of the pension due him at his death, on the 26th of June you write to me that the regulations of the Department required the surrender of the original pension certificate on the final settlement of a pension claim [crossed out word] Mr Reed's certificate is herewith enclosed it would have been forwarded sooner but was mis laid and could not be found until recently. Mrs Reed is in very indigent circumstances and hopes that you will forward the small sum due her as soon as warrant. She also deseres to know whether she is, or not intitled to a pension under any of the act of Congress giving pensions to the widows of Revolutionary soldiers Very Respectfully Your obt svt Thos. C. Whiteside
Peter Haguer Esqr 3rd Auditor &c
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Honl Lewis Cap Secretary of War Washington City
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well acquainted with John Reid who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration I have known him for a munber of years. believe him to be about sixty eight years of age,- he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and served as he states and I concur in that opinion Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Adam [his x mark] Dunlop
Ja. McKesick
And the said 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 the Court further certifies that John Williams and Adam Dunlop who have subscribed and sworn to the foregoing certificates are residents of Bedford County Tennessee and are credible persons and that their statements are entitlled to credit
J. L. Neill  Samuel Phillips [illegible]
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I James McKesick Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Bedford County in the State of Tennessee do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Reed for a pension 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 17th day of August 1832
J. P. McKesick
Shelbyville 17th Aug 1832
Honble Lewis Cap
Sir Any communication which you may be disposed to make relative to the claim of John Reed for a pension after its examinations, you will please address to me
Very Respectfully Your obt svt Thomas C Whiteside
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Deposition Mary Dunlop
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[vertical on page] Aug 21 1840
[circular stamp] [illegible] AUG [illegible]
Mrs Reed Tennesee
[horizontal on page] Free
Hon Jas L. Edwards Pension agent Washington City
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Shelbyville Tenn Aug 11 - 1840 
Hon Jas.L. Edward at the time of the death of John Reed, whose widow Sarah Reed, is now applying for a pension there was a balance and of fifteen or twenty dollars From the proof now before you as to his death her being his widow, & the pension certificate. She requests that the proper authority of Washington will and her check for the balance. I sent on her papers two or three days since 
I am respy Yrobtsert  Price C. Steele