Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R.17,331, for Benjamin Reeder, Maryland
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Md. Reeder, Benjamin R.17,331
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Benjamin Reeder
Tennefee
Rejected
lot: 29 Nom: 33
J.S. Kennedy

did not perform six months actual service in a regularly organized corps.

Act 7 June 1832
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873
Revolutionary 17331

P.O. Benjn Reeder

REJECTED
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34,906 Sept. 13

Tenn
Benjamin Reeder 

[sideways]
[illegible]
August 30th
JL Edwards Esqr
Dept of Pensions
Washington City
DC
Pension office
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Pallmall 
30th August 1839

Sir, 
I enclose to you the Declaration of Benjamin Reever please communicate this [illegible] this office
I am very respectfully your humble servant,
JL Kennedy

JL Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City DC
Pensions Office
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#34906
Benjamin Reeder
Tennessee
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State of Tennessee
Overton County         ss
on this 22nd day of August A.D. 1837
Personally appeared Benjamin Reeder before me
William S Hill a Justice of the peace for said County who being a resident of the county of Overton & State of Tennessee aged Seventy nine years from his best information which is the record handed him by his father who from old age and bodily infirmity is unable to attend court and after first being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to claim the benefit of the provision of congress passed June 7th 1832____that he entered the service of the United States un the following named officers and served as herein stated.  That he entered the service by first volunteering under Captain John Armstrong in the County of St. Mary's in the State of Maryland it there being the State ad County wherein he resided and was attached to a regiment the number he cannot state but was commanded by Colonel Barns, other officers names he has forgotten only he know that his own brother John Reeder was then Lieutenant of the Company he enrolled at was about the first of July in the year 1779 that he first engaged in Service for the time of six month and marched to different points and places and met with the enemy once at the bank of the River in the edge of St. Mary's in the State of Maryland and had a severe engagement in which our side came off victorious then after the time of six month had lapsed he was verbally discharged and returned home to St. Mary's County and remained out of service for a considerable time by what arrangement he cannot state but his Brother John Reeder then had the command of the Company and was Captain of the Company
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in the first of September 1781 and by some ensigns was called to march toward Carolina and was attached to a regiment commanders by Colonel Campbell but was in no particular engagement at the time the news of several engagements in which the Americans had came off victorious and not being needed in that part the company was ordered to return and guard planters in the State of Maryland and was there engaged for several months.
But from old age and consequent loss of memory he cannot swear precisely as to the precise length of his service by according to the best of his  present mentioned below viz in Capt. Armstrong Co_ as a private full six months and for such service he claims a pension, after the expiration of his service he returned home and lived in St. Mary's County State of Maryland for 7 years then Co. removed to Prince William County State of Virginia and lived there for twenty years hence to Overton County State of Tennessee where he has remained ever since and this is the first application this applicant not knowing of any person by whom he can prove his service had concluded not to apply til lately being now quite helpless and needy and being informed that he may make his declarations in the present manner he can prove by Joseph Conner who is the nearest clergyman to his present residence and by many other good citizens of this county that he is a man of veracity and reputed and believed in the county where he lives to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that the same is not doubled by any person he hereby relinquishes any claim to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension list of any State Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written.

William S. Hill               Benjamin Reeder
(before me)
a Justice of the Peace
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We Joseph Conner a clergyman residing in the County of Overton and on the immediate neighborhood of Benjamin Reeder the present applicant and Sampson Evans, William Riley & George C. Jones residing in the same county & neighborhood hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Benjamin Reeder who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy nine years of age, that he is a man of undoubted veracity and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and we concur in that above  nor do we believe that the same was ever doubted by any persons Sworn and Subscribed this 22nd day of August 1839 before me }______                  his
Williams S. Hill                   Joseph X Connor
A Justice of the Peace           mark   clergyman
                                           Sampson Evans
                                           William Riley
                                           & George C. Jones

I William S. Hill one of the acting Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Overton before when the Declaration was made do certify that this above named applicant is unable to attend court from old age and bodily infirmity and declare my opinion after investigating the matter and after butting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states, and I further certify that if appears to me that Joseph Conner who has signed the proceeding certificate is a Clergyman residing in the neighborhood of the applicant and that Sampson Evans William Riley & George C Jones who has also signed the same is all creditable persons whose statements are entitled to credit given under my hand

William S Hill  }    22nd August 1839
A Justice of the Peace
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State of Tennessee    Jer
Overton County } I John Daugherty Clerk of the County Court of said Overton County hereby Certify that William S. Hill is a Justice of the Peach as above and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.

In testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand and adding my seal of office this 28 day of August 1839
John S. Daugherty  (ELL)


# 34906
Benjamin Reeder
Tennessee