Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5,678, for Isaiah Reed, New Jersey
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Let to Phil McCay
August 3, 44

New Jersey 683
Susan Reed 
widow of Isaiah Reed
...bed on the 25 September 1798
...nterdon Co, in the State of N. Jersey
was a Private in the company commanded by 
Captain Anderson of the__________
commanded by ________ in the N. Jersey line for 
2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of N Jersry
at the rate of 80 Dollars ___ Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of May 1837 and sent to Zac Rossell
Trenton N. J. 

Arrears to the 4th of March '37  480.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept "  40.00
 $520.00

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act July 4, 1836,}
{Section the}

Recorded by D. Brown  Clerk

Book___ Vol.1    Page 151
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County Ss.⎬ 

Before me Samuel Evans one of the
Justices of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared Elizabeth Smith of the City of Trenton in the County and State aforesaid, a person well known to me and in her sixty eighth year and a sister of the late Isaiah Reed who being duly sworn, on her Solemn oath saith that her late brother Isaiah Reed was
married to Susan Hedger some time during the Revolutionary war, that she this deponent knew that the said Isaiah Reed served as a private during the whole of the war and
for at least three years after his marriage to the said Susan.
That the said Isaiah Reed her brother died on the twenty fifth day of September AD. 1794 leaving the said Susan his widow and five children_ that she has known the said Susan from the date of her marriage to the present time and that she has never been married since the death of the said Isaiah Reed her late husband and still remains his widow-
and further saith not-

his
Elisabeth X Smith
mark

Sworn and subscribed this 3d day}
of September A.D. 1836 before}
me}

' "of New Jersey "erased and
"aforesaid" inserted before execution
also figure "4" written on an erasure.

Saml. Evans.
Justice of the Peace
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[Official Stamp: U.S. PENSION OFFICE L
JUN 5 1918]
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House of Representatives U.S.
Washington D. C.

December 22nd., 1892.

Hon. G.B. Raum
U.S. Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

Kindly give me the information referred to in the enclosed communications and oblige

Yours truly
I. Rayner
4th. Md. Dist.

Dictated G. A. F.
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No. 8678 N. Jersey. Isaiah Reed issued 2 July 1789.
To whom was the above warrant patented & delivered and where located?
G.W. Crump

Mr.. Keller
The Warrant has now been surrendered for the reason of being satisfied
F Keller
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Revy WIDOW, &c.

File No. 5678
Susan Reed
Wid. of 
Isaiah Reed
Pvt. N. J. Line

Act: July 4th/36.
Index:- Vol. M, Page 153

1893 Feb. 24. Hist. to 
R.T. McCoy, New York City.
F. S.
_____________________________________
1893. Mar. 10
Hist. to M. I. McCoy.
Baltimore, Md.
F. S.
____________________________________
1918 June 8 Hist. to Mrs. Chas. E. Hall
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O. W. & N. DIV.
F. S.
W. 5678
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
WASHINGTON, D. C., February 24, 1893.

Sir:-

Replying to your communication, received in this Bureau, by the reference of Hon. Isador Rayner, in which you request information concerning the military history of Isaiah Reed, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, I have to inform you that his widow, Susan Hedger (maiden name), was granted a pension for his services in that war as a private in the New Jersey troops, he having entered the service at the beginning of the war and having rendered
at least two years actual service. Widow sates in her declaration that he served in Capt. Anderson's Co., New Jersey Regt., and that he participated in the battles of Monmouth, Elizabethtown and Germantown and that he was also present at the siege of York
town.

On September 6, 1836, the date of the widow's application for pension, she was a resident of Trenton, N.J., and seventy-eight years of age. She was married to the soldier in the month
of March, 1780, and he died Sept. 25, 1794.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

R. T. McCoy, Esq.,
106 Madison Ave.,
New York, N.Y.
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Trenton 7 Sept 1836
To 
James L Edwards Esq

Sir
Herewith you will receive the declaration and proofs of Susan Reed Widow of Isaiah Reed late a Revolutionary Soldier who applies for the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4, 1836 -
Your early attention to which will be gratefully remembered by the aged applicant & much oblige

Yr Obt St
Zac Rossell