Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1,082, for William Reagan, Pennsylvania
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6283 
Tennessee Knox 
Mary Reagan deed widow of William Reagan who served in the Revolutionary Penn war, as a private 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848. & end June 21. 1848 
Certificate of Pension issued the 16th day of August 1834 and sent to J. W. Stevens Abingdon Va 
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under Act February 2, 1848, Page 304 Vo. 3
 L. Winneford June 26 /55
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attached at Bordertown retreated to Fort Lee thence to Trenton, where he remembers to have seen Genl Putnam, after we returned to Trenton he was taken sick of Camp fever, whilst he was sick the Battle took place in which the Hessions were defeated, this he thinks occured on Christmas or Christmas eve He was then removed in a sick waggon to Philadelphia and in a few days thereafter was discharged, having served a full term of six months, he has no recollection whether he obtained a discharge, if so he has long since lost it, after this he was again drafted in the Militia service under Capt George Levy this was a short time before the Battle of Brandywine and he believes the draft was made in anticipation of some insurgency he was in service under this requisition two months and was in the engagement at Brandywine after which he was discharged at a place called the big swamp. in this service he was but a private. He has no documentary evidence of his service, and knows of no one living by whom he can prove service, he will state as a circumstance for as much as it is worth, that some years ago Michael Reagan his brother was placed on the pension roll of the U. States in part upon his testimony taken before then Col. (now Genl. Francis Preston, the said Michael then resided in Pulaski County State of Kentucky, and has since departed this life, he herewith exhibits the Letters of his brother Michael which he hopes may be examined. He further states that whilst he was at fort Lee, three British ships of war called the RedBuck and two tenders passed up the north river and was fired on from Fort Washington and from an excursion near fort Lee, this took place