Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24,729, for Gamaliel Reynolds, Connecticut
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Conn.  
Reynolds, Gamaliel
Mary

NUMBER
W.24728

CONTENTS
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Gamaliel Reynolds
of Bradford Co. in the State of Penna.
who was a Drumr. & Sergt. in the company commanded by Captain Aspicer [A Spicer] of the Regt. commanded by Col. Parsons in the Connecticut troops line for 9 months Drummer $33.00
5 " Sergeant 25.00
$58.00

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 58 Dollars -- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 2d day of April 1833 and sent to D. Bullock Smithfield Pa

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 116.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep. 1833 29.00
$145.00

Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by D. Brown Clerk
Book E. Vol. 5 Page 48
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Gamaliel Reynolds
Declaration



4257
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State of Pennsylvania
Bradford County
on this 6th of September 1832 Personally appeared before the Subr one of Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Bradford Gamaliel Reynolds a Resident in the Township of Springfield Bradford County & State of Pennsylvania aged 78 years who being duly sworn makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of made by the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.

That he was born in Norwich Town in the State of Connecticut in the year 1764- at the age of 14 years went to an apprenticeship in Groton in the aforesaid State in April or May in 1775 Enlisted under Capt Abel Spicer of said Town as Drummer for a Campaign to Boston the Regiment Commanded by Samuel Holden Parsons of Lyme in said State- the names of the field office he has forgotten- he marched from Newlondon [New London] through Groton Preston Plainfield Volingtown [Voluntown] other Town not recollected but what was called the lower road to Boston. when he arrived at Roxbury the place of our destination Charles Town [Charlestown] was on fire- his Enlistment he thinks was Seven Months- at the Termination of his Enlistment General Washington accompanied by Others Visited the Rigiments [regiments] requesting Therre [their] longer stay as Troops had not arived [arrived] he thinks that the most part of the regiment stayed his stay he thinks was two months after the Term of his Enlistment expired he was Wounded and did not return home untill [until] some time in Winter as to his discharge he does not remember he had any -- in the fall of 1776 he Enlisted as Sergeant in Capt Lothrops Company of Patipag [Pautipaug] a society of Norwich in said state with orders to Enlist men his time in Service and Enlisting was about five months in all- John McCallan [McLaren] Breed of Norwich Landing was Lieutenant one Tracy Ensign-- he marched in division(?) from Norwich on the Boston Road through plainfield Vollingtown [Voluntown] to Providence where he was stationed Barracked among the Inhabitants his Regiment commanded by Col Ely of Saybrook- Genelal(?) [General] Spencer commander of that division– his Serjeants [Sergeants] Warrant was printed and signed by Col Ely and he thinks his discharge– he served about five months in Enlisting men and other services– he had the muster Roll of the Company – he Relieves(?) all the officers names(?) of his Regiment with morning reports and Other documents which he has since lost a great number of years ago- he in 1777 shipped on board a sloop as Capt of Marines for a trip Priverteering [privateering] the Vessel was owned by Thomas Mumford of Groton bank opposite Newlondon [New London] the Commander Thomas Chester of Groton bank– Capt Bell of Stoningtown [Stonington] was first Lieutenant and Lodorick [Lodowick] Champlain [Champlin] of Newlondon [New London] Second Lieutenant [illegible] there guns taken on board at Bedford Massachusetts sailed from there on a Cruise had an engagement a British
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ship some were killed on both sides
Returned some time in the fall, I was attached to the Vessel between 4 and 5 months – In June 1778 he sailed out a Merchants Voyage in a letter of Mark [Marque] commanded by by [sic] Stephen Clay of old Haddam on Connecticut river the Vessel touched at several Islands – at St Coix [Croix] he was taken sick the Vessel left him on shore in June 1779 returned in a Brig letter of Mark [Marque] owned by John Brown of Providence – he has lived since in Groton, Montville, Colchester, Hebron, and Winsor [Windsor] on Connecticut river and Worthington Mass and Pittsfield, in Petersborough [Petersboro] Madison County State of New York and Rochester Monrow [Monroe] County- for the last Six Years he has lived in Springfield Township in Bradford County State of Pennsylvania where he now resides– as to proof of the above statements he say he knows no person to call upon for proof if any are living at this time– he hereby relinquises [relinquishes] every claim Whatever to a pention [pension] or annuity Except the present and declares that his name is not on the pention [pension] roll of agency of any State or ever has been
Gamaliel Reynolds

Sworn & subscribed Before me September 6, 1832  Jno. McKean associate Judge Bradford County State of Pennsylvania

We James Mattocks & John Parkhurst Residing in the Township of Springfield in the County of Bradford certify that we are acquainted with Gamaliel Reynolds who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 78 years of age and he is reported and believed in the Neighbour hood [neighborhood] where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
James Mattocks
John Parkhurst
Sworn and subscribed before me this September 6, 1832 
Jno. McKean
associate Judge Bradford County State of Pennsylvania

I certify that the above applicant Gamaliel Reynolds cannot from bodily Infirmity attend court. Sept 6, 1832 
Jno. McKean
associate Judge Bradford County State of Pennsylvania
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I also certify that the foregoing named James Mattocks & John Parkhurst are men of good character & veracity- 
 Septr 6th 1832
Jno McKean associate Judge Bradford County State of Pennsylvania

State of Pennsylvania
Bradford County ss
I James P. Bull Prothonotary Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do certify & make known that John MKean Esquire who signed the foregoing and whose name is four times thereto subscribed is and was at the time of his signing the same an associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County duly commissioned as such and that to his official acts & proceedings in this behalf full faith and
credit are to be given
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand & seal of office the 12th day
of September 1832-
J.P. Bull

Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in & for the County of Bradford & State of Pennsylvania Gamaliel Reynolds who being
duly sworn deposeth & saith that by reason of old age & loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below & in the following grades- for nine months as a drummer in the vicinity of Boston as set forth in the preceding
declaration- for five months as a serjeant [sergeant] as set forth in the foregoing declaration- for four months as Captain of
Marine on board a sloop as set forth in the foregoing declaration- also for one year as a private on board of a letter of Marque as set forth in the foregoing declaration and for such service I claim a pension
Gamaliel Reynolds
Sworn & subscribed this
18th day of January 1833
before me James Mattocks Justice of the peace
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State of Pennsylvania
Bradford County ss 
Personally appeared Abel Fuller who being duly sworn deposeth & saith that there is no resident clergyman in the township of Springfield in said county.
Abel Fuller
Sworn & subscribed before me this 18th day of January 1833 (and I certify that said Abel Fuller is a man of veracity)
James Mattocks justice of the peace

Bradford County ss(?)
I James P. Bull Prothonotary of the court of Common pleas of Bradford County do certify that James Mattocks before whom the above & foregoing proceedings were had now is and at that the date thereof was an acting Justice of the peace & as such duly Recognized in the Court of said County & further that I am acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and believe the above & foregoing signatures purporting to be his to be genuine Witness my hand & seal of office at Towanda in said County this second day of February AD 1833-
for James P. Bull Proth
E.S. Goodrich Dep

Gamaliel Ryndals [Reynold's]
Declaration
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3981
New York
Mary Reynolds
widow of Gamaliel Reynolds
who was a Private & Serjeant [Sergeant]
in the Connecticut line

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 34 Dollars 11 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of December 1843 and sent to A Reynolds.
Rochester
New. York
(Act of March 3, 1843.)
Recorded in Book A
Vol 1. Page- 112.

1870 July 5. A N Corss- with date & evi of marriage - leaf copied

Reported
Dec 20(?) 1843
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V1148
Mary Reynolds
papers for pension.

Act of
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State of New York 
Monroe County ss: 
On this sixth day of August 1838, personal appeared before the Subscriber Recorder of the City of Rochester in the County of Monroe aforesaid Mary Reynolds a resident of Rochester in the County of Monroe aforesaid aged Eighty one years who being first sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress relative to widows of deceased pensioners. That she is the widow of Gamaliel Reynolds who was a [illegible] in the army of the Revolution. She further declares that she was married to the said Gamaliel Reynolds on the fourth day of April 1784- that her husband the aforesaid Gamaliel Reynolds died on the on the [sic] seventh of June 1836, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. 
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written.
Mary Reynolds
Subscribed and sworn to this 6th day of August 1838 before me, 
Isaac Hills 
Recorder of Rochester-
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State of New York 
Monroe County ss: Charles Smith of the City of Rochester in the County aforesaid being duly sworn doth [second "doth" crossed out] depose and say that he resides in the City of Rochester and is sixty three years of age. 
And this deponent further saith that he was well acquainted with the late Gamaliel Reynolds in his life time, that the said Gamaliel Reynolds and Mary Smith were married at Groton, New London County, Connecticut some time in the year 1784, as deponent verily believes, and deponent is certain that such marriage took place prior to the year 1786. Deponent was present at the marriage aforesaid, witnessed the ceremony, and has a distinct recollection of the same.
And this deponent further saith that the said Gamaliel Reynolds died about two years ago, and that his wife has remained a widow ever since the death of the said Gamaliel, and still is a widows [widow], and that Mary Reynolds who has made the declaration hereto annexed is the identical person whom this deponent saw married to the said Gamaliel. 
Charles Smith
subscribed and sworn to this 28th day of August 1838 before me, I Hills 
Recorder of Rochester-
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I certify that I am well acquainted with Mary Reynolds and Charles Smith who have made the depositions hereto annexed. that they are persons of entire respectability, and that in my opinion their statements are entitled to the fullest belief. 
Isaac Hills 
Recorder of Rochester- 

State of New York 
City of Rochester ss:
I Hiram Leonard, Clerk of the Mayor's Court of the City of Rochester do hereby certify that Isaac Wills was on the sixth day of August last, and thence hitherto both been and still is Recorder of the City of Rochester, and one of the Judges of the Mayor's Court of the City of Rochester aforesaid. And I further certify that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Hills, and verily believe that the signature of Isaac Hills, attached to the foregoing deposition and certificate is the genuine signature of the said Isaac Hills. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Mayor's Court this thirtieth day of August 1838.
Hiram Leonard 
Clerk of the Mayors Court of the City of Rochester.
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Previously exd. No.
See No. 1148

Mary Reynolds
Act July 7. 1838
Married 4 Apl 1784
Husband died 7 June 1836

Admitted
Private 7 mo & 7 days
Sargeant [Sergeant] 2
9.17

J.W. Gilbert Esqr
Rochester
N.Y.

["Hon Timo. Childs" crossed out]
HR
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Births 
A Record of Gamaliel Reynolds Jun Family
Gamaliel Reynolds Jun May 20th 1754
Mary Smith May 12th 1757
They were married April 4th 1784

Abelard Reynolds Oct 2nd 1785.
Gamaliel Reynolds Jany 9th 1787.
Eliza Reynolds Jany 19th, 1790.
Fabritus Reynolds Decmr 22nd, 1793.
Mary Reynolds May 17th 1796.
Albert Reynolds Octr 24th 1799.

Deaths
Gamaliel Reynold Junr August 19th 1801
Eliza Brown Oct 16th 1817
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BIRTHS
Record of Nathan Smiths Family
Nathan and Elizabeth were Married July 1st 1747.
Lucy Smith June 1st 1748.
Nathan Smith 3d Nov 4th 1749.
Nathan Smith Sug 13th March 1816
Elizabeth Smith Sept 1st 1757.
John Smith Oct 9th 1753.
Sarah Smith August 4th 1755.
Mary Smith May 12th 1757. 
Lydia Smith March 12, 1759. 
Anne Smith April 27th 1761. 
Charlotte Smith March 6th 1763.
Phebe Smith April 20th 1765.
Abigal Smith June 9th 1767.
Denison Smith June 14th 1769.
Nathan Smith 4th Novr 1771.

DEATHS
Nathan Smith Sergt 13th March 1816
Elizabeth Smith Febr 7 1813
Lucy Smith May 1747
Nathan Smith October 1760
Elizabeth Avery Sept 15th 1789
John Smith Oct 9th 1754
Lydia Morgan Jany 12th 180[illegible]
Anne Smith July 12th 1766(?)
Charlotte Smith Jany 15th 1790(?)
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State of Newyork [New York] 
Monroe County s 
Rufus Smith of the town of Greece in the County and State aforesaid being duly sworn says, that he is seventy four years of age last October that he was born in a town of Groton in a(?) State of Connecticut, and resided there until [until] about ten years since when he removed to the State of Newyork [New York] - that was well acquainted with Gamaliel Reynolds late of the City of Rochester a revolutionary pensioner- that the said Gamaliel lived nine years in the family of the father of this Deponent. that he is well acquainted with Mary Reynolds formerly the wife of the said Gamaliel and now a widow. that he was present at the ceremony when the said Gamaliel Reynolds was married to the said Mary, sometime in the 1784- that the maiden name of the said Mary was Smith.- the exact month of the marriage this deponent cannot recollect.- that on the seventeenth day of May 1786- this deponent was married to Abigail Smith the Sister of the said Mary Reynolds, and has been well acquainted with the said Gamaliel Reynolds from 1784. to the time of his death, and with the said Mary Reynolds to the present time- that he knows that the said Mary is now a widow, and has never been married to any person but the said Gamaliel Reynolds.- that the said marriage ceremony was performed by Aaron Keney the congregational Minister in the town of Groton and further this deponent says not- 
Rufus Seth Smith
Sworn to this 3d of November 1838 before me Ashley Sampson First Judge of Monroe County
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No 7257

Pennsylvania

Suspended
Novr. 13. 1839(?)

[illegible]: 5 & 12(?)

P.51

Claimt(?)
Springfield
Bradford Co
Penna.

Admd.
["9 mos" crossed out]
["Sergeant 4.500" crossed out]

9 mos. Drummer 33.00
5 " Sergt 25.00
--------
$58.-

D. Bullock Esq
N. Smithfield
P[paper folded over]
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BRIEF in the case of Gamaliel Reynolds of Springfield County of Bradford in the State of Pennsylvania (Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Judge
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? It does
3. How old is he? 78.
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period.
In 1775
1776
1777
Duration of Service.
Years, Months, Day.
[blank] +9-7. 7
[blank] 52 [blank]
------------------
9-7
4 or 5 on Board a Vessel
Rank.
As a
Drummer
Sergt
capt of Marines
Names of General and field Officers under whom he served.
Gen.
Capt A Spicer, Col Parsons
" Lathrop, Col Ely, Genl Spencer
Capt Chester, Lt Bell
5. In what battles was he engaged? with a British ship
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Groton, Connecticut
7. In his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? 
Traditionary, with two credible [illegible] to testify to his character 
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? correct
Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

Jas C(?) Wilson(?) Examining Clerk.
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MMHF
Rev. and 1812 Wars Section

October 9, 1924

Marion H. Reynolds
120 Broadway, Room 1853.
New York City.

Sir:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 24729 it appears that Gamaliel Reynolds, Junior, was born May 20, 1754.
While serving as an apprentice in Groton, New London County, Connecticut he enlisted May 10, 1775, served nine months as a drummer in Captain Abel Spicer's Company, Colonel Samuel Holden Parsons' Connecticut Regiment, received a severe wound of the foot by piece of falling timber while building winter quarters and returned home.
He enlisted at Norwich, Connecticut in the fall of 1776 and served five months as Sergeant in Captain Lothrop's Company, Colonel Ely's Connecticut Regiment.
In 1777 he [illegible] Captain of Marines on a
Privateer Ship commanded by Thomas Chester, was in an engagement with a British ship and returned in the fall
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having served four or five months.
In June 1778 he entered as a private on a Letter of Marque ship commanded by Stephen Clay, was taken sick and left at Saint Croix and in June 1779 returned on a Letter of marque brig owned by John Brown of
Providence.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 6, 1832 while a resident of Springfield, Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. He died June 7, 1836 in Rochester, Monroe County, New York.
Soldier married April 4, 1784 in Groton, Connecticut, Mary Smith of said Groton, born May 12, 1757. She was the daughter of Nathan Smith and his wife Elizabeth who were married July 1, 1747.
Soldier's widow Mary was allowed pension on her application executed August 6, 1838 while a resident of Rochester, New York. Their children were:
Abelard born October 2, 1785, of Rochester, New York in 1838.
Gamaliel " January 9, 1787, died August 19, 1801.
Eliza " January 19, 1790, married..... Brown (surname not given) she died October
16, 1817.
Jabritus " December 22, 1793.
Mary " May 17, 1796.
Albert " October 24, 1799.
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William A., the son of Abelard Reynolds, and
M. T. Reynolds were grandsons of soldier.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
Conn records give him 7 mos & 7 days but as he stayed longer at the request of Genl Washington Miss Wilson said I could use the 9 mos. as claimed by soldier & widow-
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Philadelphia
["Pittsburgh" crossed out] Penn

Gamaliel Reynolds Act June 7. 1832 to what time paid? $58 per ann
VL

Philadelphia
$58 - Died Jan. 7. 36 & Pd

Died 7th June 1836 p7(?) that paid 1H(?)

paid(?) 6 [illegible] and(?) 7 June 1836
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N. York
Mary Reynolds
let to J.W. Gilbert 9. Oct. 1838
to Hon. T Childs 24. Dec. 1838
to same 21. Feb. 1839

Act. 7. July 1838
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3963 
Albany N.Y.

Mary Reynolds-
widow of Gamaliel Reynolds, dec
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832-
and who died on the 7 June 1836-
of Monroe Co in the State of N.Y.
who was a priv & serg in the com commanded
by Captain Aspicer [A Spicer] of the regt commanded by Col Parsons in the Con
line for 2m sergt $10
7 m & 7ds priv $24.11

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 34 Dollars 11 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 7th day of June 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of Augt 1839, & sent to J.W. Gilbert Rochester N.Y.

Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1839 $93.52
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sep 39 17.08
$110.60
Act July 7, 1838.
Recorded by D. McCurdy, Clerk,
Book A. Vol. 2. Page 99.

Let to Agent 7 Sept 1839
& to J. W. Gilbert same date
to same 9. Jan. 1840
A new certificate issued & the original one cancelled on the 30 Jany 1840-
& sent to J. W. Gilbert, Esq Rochester, N.Y
Let to Hon. T. C. Chittenden 9. April 1840
" to A. Reynold May 9th 1840

Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6th April 1838 from 7. June 1836 to 4 Sep 1839. Agt notified 29. Oct 1840

Dec(?) 6th(?) to Hon. TJ Paterson
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Revy
WIDOW, &c.

File No. 24729
Mary Reynolds
wid of
Gambel [Gamaliel] Reynolds
Sergt Rev War

Act Mch 3rd 1843.
Index: Vol R, Page 156
(Arrangement of 1870.)

1924- Oct. 9- Hist to Marion H. Renolds- Letter in cl. S.4762 of John Reynolds
1925(?) Nov. 30. photos mailed to Jno. W. Reynolds, 207 W. 20th St. New York City (see receipt for payment in John Reynolds S.472) aw.(?)
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Payment to be made at Albany by T.W. Olcott Agent for paying pensions in the Agency of Albany, N.Y. Payable on the 4th March and 4th September in each year.

Recorded in the Pension Office in Book A. Vol 2. Page 99. by 
D. McCurdy
Clerk.
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Five years' Pension. 
I certify that in conformity with the act of July 7, 1838, Mary Reynolds of New York widow of Gamaliel Reynolds, deceased, who was a private & Sergeant in the Revolution and died on the of the 7th day of June 1836, is entitled to receive five years' pension at the rate of Thirty four dollars and eleven cents per annum, commencing on the fourth day of March, 1836; and in case of the death or marriage of said widow before the expiration of said five years, the pension will cease on the day of such marriage or death. 
Given at the War Office of the United States, this twenty fourth day of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine. WAR DEPARTMENT. 

Exami[illegible]
Co[illegible]
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3963
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Reynolds

DEPARTMENT OF THE [illegible]
MAY 7 [illegible]
PENSION [illegible]
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Rochester May 4, 1870 
Hon. H. Van Aernam 
Comr. of Pensions 
Sir, I write to your office for a favor. 
About the year 184 or 2 Mrs Mary Reynolds obtained through the agency at Albany a pension as the widow Gamaliel Reynolds. to make the requisite proof of marriage she sent the leaf out of the family bible containing the family record. and we suppose it was filed with the papers in the pension office. It has now become important to have that leaf back. If you will cause a search to be made, and if found will return it to me, or to Wm A. Reynolds or to M.F.
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Reynolds who are grandsons of Gamaliel, or to Abelard Reynolds a son of Gamaliel, with the charges of the office they will be promptly & cheerfully paid. 
If it is so far against the rules of the office as to preclude(?) you from sending the original then send a copy. but the original is wanted. 
By so doing you will confer a favor on the family and on 
Yours Respectfully 
W. C. Rowley
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Hon. JL Edwards
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Hon. JL. Edwards 
Sir-
I enclose the additional statement of Mary Reynolds - I presume the case is now satisfactorily made out-
Your Obt Sert(?)
Timothy Childs

Ho(?) Rep- Jun 23- 38
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Hon. J.L. Edwards
Comr of Pensions
Washington 

Apl 6. 1840
NY

Mary(?) Reynolds(?)

Hon. TC. Chittenden
HR
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House of Reps.
April 6th 1840.

Sir,
I inclose [enclose] you the letter of a friend of mine, to the contents of which I invite your attention. I will thank you to return me your answer with the letter at your convenience.
I am Respectfully
Your Obt Sert
T.C. Chittenden

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Comr of Pensions.
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One(?)

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Comr of Pensions
Washington

May 18
N.Y.
addl proof
Mary Reynolds,

ROCHESTER N.Y.
MAY 1[Illegible]
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Rochester N.Y. May 11. 1839.

Hon J.L. Edwards
Dear Sir,
The enclosed certificate I believe will supply the defects in the proof made on the application of Mary Reynolds for a pension, pointed in your letter to Hon. Mr(?) Childs dated February 21. 1839.
Will you do me the favor to give your early attention to the case.
Very respectfully
Your Obt Sert
J.W. Gilbert
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT. 
Second Comptroller's Office, 
October 22d, 1840. 
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," Mary Reynolds,- a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany, N.Y. Agency, at the rate of Thirty four Dollars and 11 Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th July 1838. has been paid at this Department, from the 4th [written over "7th"] June 1836. to the 4th Sept. 1839. Respectfully yours, 
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller

To the Commissioner of Pensions, 
Present.
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Free
J.L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

ROCHESTER 
SEP
17

4013
R. 
Sept 20. 1843
Mary Reynolds
Act 1843
N.Y.
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Rochester Sept. 16. 1843
J.L. Edwards Esqr
Sir
Enclosed you have the authenticated declaration of Mrs Mary Reynolds which if correct will intitle [entitle] her to the benefits of a pension under the act of 3d March 1843 will you be pleased to forward to her a certificate for drawing the money, under cover addressed to A. Reynolds Rochester N. York
and oblige your obedient servt
A. Reynolds-
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Free
J.L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

ROCHESTER N.Y.
MAY 4

May 8, 1840

M Reynolds
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Rochester May 2d. 1840
J.L. Edwards Esqr 
Sir  
The certificate for a five years pension granted Mary Reynolds, has been recd
It appears from the act of Congress passed July 7 1838. That the widows contemplated in said act, "shall be entitled to receive, for and during the term of five years from the 4 day of March 1836, the annuity or pension which might have been allowed to her husband in virtue of said act," (meaning the act of 18 June 1832) "if living at the time it passed"- 
It appears that Gamaliel Reynolds, the husband of Mary Reynolds who died 7. June 1836, was entitled to and actually drew $58 per annum; while the certificate granted to Mary Reynolds authorizes only $34.11 per annum 
Mrs Reynolds has desired me to say, that she feels thankful for the benevolent design manifested by Congress in the passage of the act for the relief of indigent widows of which she is one- and only wish that she is justly entitled to receive, by the provisions of said act, Will you therefore do her the favour, to explain why the certificate does not authorize $58. pr annum instead of $34.11. And why the payment does not commence on the 4. of March 1836. (instead of 7. Jun. 1836)
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as specified in the act. I am sorry to trouble you with this communication- but there appears to her so much discreppancy [discrepancy], between the certificate and the provision of the act, that apprehensions are entertained, that an error may have been committed in making out the papers
I am sir most truly
and respectfully
Your obedient servant
A. Reynolds
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Rochester Sept 1. 1838.
Sir,
I present herewith papers, to obtain a pension for Mary Reynolds under the laws of July 7th
1838.
Be pleased to inform me of the result of the application as soon as practicable.
Very respectfully
Your obt sert
J.W. Gilbert

Hon J.L. Edwards
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Comptrollers Office 
Hartford May 9 1839 
I Certify that on application for evidence of the services of Gamaliel Reynolds I have examined the Books papers remaining in this office relating to the War of the Revolution and find his name on a Pay Roll of the 10th Company 6th Regiment raised by order Genl Assembly Connt(?) 1775 where he is entered as a private May 10 Time of Discharge Decr 17 having served Seven Months & Seven days (Commanded by Capt Abel Spicer) ~
Henry Kilbourn Compr

I further Certify that no Pay Roll of Capt Lathrop can be found in this office that on Pay Table Book is the following account 
Capt Ebr Lathrop /Col. Elys Battn / Dr 
Dec 10 1776 To order on Tres(?) pr(?) [for(?)] a/c Enlisting bounties(?) your(?) Company £172.0.0 Henry Kilbourn Compr
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[illegible]

J.L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

Dec 6 43

N.Y. 
Mary Reynolds

ROCHESTER
DEC 2
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Rochester November 29th 1843 
Honered [Honored] Sir as you wrote to my son that my Husband served but 7 months I thought I would write you the Particulars of his Servise [service] he Enlisted in May 1775 in Colonel Samuell [Samuel] H Parsons Ridgment [regiment] and Capt Spicers Company marched for Boston in June performed his duty as a Drummer but when it became Cold the Officers Set them to pull Down Some Houses to use the lumbers to build Huts to Live in but in pulling Down a House a timber was let fall upon his foot which Injured it so badly that he was laid by the rest of the time he Remaind [remained] there but in December he had an opportunity to be Carried Home lame when he got Home could not wear a Shoe and as he was wounded in the Service and in Obedience to Orders he thought it just to in to Include the whole of his Inlistment [enlistment] when he presented his Claim for his Pension which term was 9 months I appeal to your justice and Equity for the
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for the Remainder of my Pension which has been kept back I presume for the want of the knoledg [knowledge] of these particulars I dont know as you can read these croocked [crooked] lines they come from a trembling hand I am Eighty Six years of age and need all that is my due I suppose the information you had was that they numbered to him only the 7 months that he performed his Duty as a Drummer but as he was wounded in the Service and in Obedience to Orders I see not why he Should be cut of from his pay for the rest of the term I submit it to you Sir and am your Petitioner with Respect 
Mary Reynolds 
PS I shared Deeply in the Sorrows and troubles of that war when the Massacr [massacre] took place at Fort Griswold I was within a mile of the fort at my Sisters her Husband and his Brother killed and two of his Brothers wounded and She left a Brokenharted [brokenhearted] Widdow [widow] with Six Small Children MR
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1838-3963
1843-3481
Rochester N.Y.
June 18, 1870
Genl A.N. Corss
Dr. Sir
I recd(?) yours of 10th inst, giving the information desired, for wh. please accept
my thanks-
Although a stranger to you personally, I am about to ask a favor-
my Grandfather Gamaliel Reynolds, was a Revolutionary Pensioner - My Grandmother
as his widow, continued to receive a pension till her death - the papers for her pension were made about the year 1839 or 1840- My father then attended to the business- There was some difficulty, I understand
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in furnishing the proof satisfactory to the Pension Agency at Albany N.Y. (where the business was then transacted) that she was the widow of Gamaliel Reynolds, and among the documents produced in confirmation of that fact, was a leaf from the old family bible containing the record of their Marraige [marriage]. It was the intention of my father to have that returned, when the purpose for which it was sent was subserved- but it was forgotten & neglected- I wrote to Albany a few weeks since for information and was informed that all the papers Connected with the Albany Agency, were returned to Washington, when the Agency was discontinued-
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that page Contains the only record we have of the birth & Marriage of my Grandfather & Grandmother - I have made an effort to supply the dates from the town records of Groton, & Norwich Ct where they severally resided but without success 
It(?) is [illegible] possible that a search of those old papers returned from Albany may reveal the missing document- Hon: H. Van Aernam I understand is the Comr 
Will you be kind enough to make enquiry on the Subject- and ascertain what the process is to have a thorough examination made- I am wholly unacquainted with the customs of the department in regard to Similar Cases - If the Commr Will
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pay the fees(?) charged for the service- or he perform, you may employ someone to make the Search - When the last pension was paid after her death pension papers were required to be returned so we have no data to aid in fixing dates of pension, surrender &c- 
Will you be Kind enough to make enquiry, and ascertain how those old papers are Kept & whether an attempt to hunt for the one wanted is practicable- and write me?- 
Yours very truly 
WA Reynolds
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Request for Photostating
(To be prepared in duplicate.)

3 - 2006
Ex.AW(?)
2694 
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF CLERK
Job No. 
Date Nov. 21.25
Subject Gamaliel Reynolds. Rev. W24729
1 (No.) copies of 8 (No.) pieces consisting of 19 (No.) pages to be forwarded when completed to the Rev. & 1812 War Section ["Division." crossed out]
Remarks: see receipt for payment in John Reynolds S4762
Approved:
WE Wilson
Chief ["Division" crossed out] Sect.
Chief Clerk.

Nov. 7, 1935. 
[illegible] you, that if you wish photostat 
[illegible] Revolutionary War pension claims, 
[illegible]hed you at the rate of fifteen [illegible]ty-five cents extra in each 
[illegible] if that is desired. 
[illegible] should be forwarded to this 
[illegible] drawn to the order of the Secretary of the Interior. The number of pages to be copied in the claim of John Reynolds, Conn. S. 4762, is seventeen. The number of pages to be copied in the claim W. 24729 of Gamaliel Reynolds and his widow Mary, is nineteen. Please return this letter with your reply. Respectfully, WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.
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Nov. 7, 1935.
George W. Reynolds,
207 W. 25 St.
New York City.

Sir:

I have to advise you, that if you wish photostat copies of papers in Revolutionary War pension claims, the same will be furnished you at the rate of fifteen cents a page, with twenty-five cents extra in each claim for certification, if that is desired.
The proper amount should be forwarded to this Bureau by money order drawn to the order of the Secretary of the Interior.
The number of pages to be copied in the claim of John Reynolds, Conn. S. 4762, is seventeen.
The number of pages to be copied in the claim W. 24729 of Gamaliel Reynolds and his widow Mary, is nineteen.
Please return this letter with your reply.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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one

J.L. Edwards Esq
Comr of Pensions
Washington

Jan 2. 1840

N.York
Reynolds
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Rochester Dec 26th 1839.

Dear Sir,
The enclosed was left with me five(?) months ago to be transmitted to you, but was mislaid among my papers.
There is an error in the certificate as to the time at which the pension commenced; and in regard to the interests of my client a [illegible] more(?) [illegible] error in the amount of the annuity(?).
By the certificate, and by the evidence on which it is founded it will appear that(?) Mr Reynolds the husband was a Sergeant. Is not the widow then entitled to an increased pension?
I beg you will cause the matter to be investigated and a full correction to be made.
Very respectfully
Your Obt Sert
J.W. Gilbert
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One(?)

J.L. Edwards Esq
Comr of Pensions
Washington

ROCHESTER N.Y.
JAN 25

Jan 30 1840

Mary Reynolds
NY
3963-36 Comr(?)
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Rochester Jany 24th 1840
Dear Sir:
I suppose there is an error in the enclosed pension. Should it not run(?) from the 7. June 1836. instead of 4 March 1836? I was requested to return it to you, soon after it was issued, that
some error(?) I have forgotten about, might be corrected.
Your obt sert
J.W. Gilbert
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Mary Reynolds

$34.11

4013

A. Reynolds
Rochester
N.Y.
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STATE OF NEW-YORK. 
County of Monroe ss. 
On this sixteenth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-three before the subscriber, Samuel Miller Senior Judge of the County Court of said County personally appeared Mary Reynolds a resident of the City ["town" crossed out] of Rochester in said county, aged eighty six years who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3d of March 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war: 
That she is the widow of Gamaliel Reynolds deceased who was a private in Col Parson's regiment and Sergeant under Capt Lathrop in the Revolutionary war- his annual pension was fifty eight dollars, & he died on the 7th day of June 1836 
She further declares that she was a Pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress, passed July 7, 1838, and that the annual amount of the pension which she received under the said act was thirty four dollars & eleven cents 
She further declares that she is still a widow. 
Mary Reynold 
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written. 
Samuel Miller Senior Judge of Monroe County Courts 
Certify that the above declarant is personally known to me. 
Samuel Miller 

STATE OF NEW-YORK, 
County of Monroe ss.
I, James W. Smith clerk of said county, do hereby certify that Samuel Miller was on the day of the date of the above jurat and certificate, ["a" crossed out] Senior Judge of the County Courts in and for the said county, duly appointed and qualified, and that the signature above, purporting to be his, is genuine. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name, this sixteenth day of August 1843. 
James W Smith Clerk of Monroe County
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I certify that I am well acquainted with Ashley Sampson before whom the annexed affidavits are sworn, and with his handwriting, and I know that he is first Judge of the County  Court of the County of Monroe State of Newyork [New York] and that his signature to the annexed affidavits is genuine- Washington Dec 5-1838 
Timothy Childs -
Mem Con(?) - from Monroe Co. N. York 

of the said Gamaliel Reynolds; that her husband died on 7th day of June 1836 a pensioner of the United States for revolutionary services, that she has no other testimoney [testimony] of his services, than that which is on the files of the department, and upon which her said husband was allowed a pension 
Mary Reynolds
Sworn to this third day of November 1838 before me Ashley Sampson First Judge of Monroe County
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State of New York 
Monroe County ss 
On this 2d day of November personally appeared before me Ashley Sampson first Judge of the County Court for said County, Mary Reynolds to me known to be a resident of the City of Rochester in the County & State aforesaid aged Eighty one years, who being 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 Gamaliel Reynolds, who inlisted [enlisted] as drummer in the army of the revolution. She further declares that she was married to the said Gamaliel Reynolds on the fourth day of April 1784, by the Revd Aaron Keeney Presbyterian Clergyman in the ["said" crossed out] Town of Groton, County of New London & State of Connecticut; and that her husband, the aforesaid Gamaliel Reynolds, died on the 7th day of June 1836. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January 1794, viz at the time above stated; That her name before marriage was Mary Smith of the aforesaid Town of Groton in the State of Connecticut, and that she is now the widow of the said Gamaliel Reynolds; that her husband died on 7th day of June 1836 a pensioner of the United States for revolutionary services. That she has no other testimoney [testimony] of his services, than
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State of New York
Monroe County ss
On this 2d day of November 1838. Personally appeared before me Ashley Sampson first Judge of the County Court for said county, Abelard Reynolds to me known to be a resident of this City of Rochester in the County & State aforesaid; who being duly sworn says on his oath, that according to the best of his knowledge & belief he is the son of Mary Reynolds this applicant for a pension, as in this papers annexed, and of her husband Gamaliel Reynolds, who died a pensioner on the 7th day of June 1836; That he knows, that the said Mary Reynolds is a widow of the said Gamaliel Reynolds, and that she has never, either before or since her marriage to the said Gamaliel Reynolds, been married to any other person; he further says, that the Records of births and deaths hereto annexed, is a true copy from the original entry in a family Bible belonging to the parents of this deponent; and that he made the above copy more than twenty six years since, for the purpose of preserving the record, as the original entry was much worn and defaced A. Reynolds
Sworn to this 2d day of November 1838 before me
Ashley Sampson
First Judge of Monroe County
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In the matter of 
Mary Reynolds
Supplementary Declaration
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Hon Timo Childs
HR
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State of New York
County of Monroe ss: 
on this Eleventh day of January in the year 1839, before me personally appeared Mary Reynolds who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration (as supplementary to the declaration heretofore made by her) in order to obtain the benefit of the ["act" crossed out] provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7. 1838. entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows' that her husband Gamaliel Reynolds was placed on the Pension Roll of the United States, according to the best of her information and belief under the law of June 7th 1832, and that he then resided in the town of Springfield Bradford County and State of Pennsylvania 

She further declares that her said husband, during the year previous to his death, resided in the City of Rochester County of Monroe and State of New York, that after the death of her said husband, she received(?) from the agent of the United States for paying pensions, in the City of Philadelphia, the arrears of his said pension, to wit from the 4th of March 1836, to the 6th of June in the same year and by the directions of the said agent of the United States, transmitted and delivered(?) [illegible] to him the Pension certificate by virtue of which the said pension was paid.
Mary Reynolds
Subscribed and sworn before
me the day & year first above written
Isaac Hills Recorder of Rochester.
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State of New York
Monroe County
City of Rochester ss
I Hiram Leonard Clerk of the Mayors Court of the said City of Rochester (The said Court being a Court of Record, having Common Law Jurisdiction, a Clerk & seal) do hereby certify that Isaac Hills Esquire before whom the foregoing deposition was taken, is, and was at the time of the taking thereof, to wit, on the Eleventh day of January instant, the Recorder of the said City of Rochester & one of the Judges of the Mayor Court aforesaid - that the signature thereto, "Isaac Hills, Recorder of Rochester" is the genuine hand writing of the Said Isaac Hills, with which I am well acquainted. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Mayors Court this fourteenth day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine.
Hiram Leonard
- Clerk &c