Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7,371, for Alexander Reid, Maryland
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(3 - 1776) [drawing of a star]
Service                    Number
Md. Reid, Alexander S.7.371 
carded.

contents
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11.612
Maryland
Alexander Reid
of Montgomery in the state of Maryland who was a Pr in the Company commanded by Captain Smith of the Rgt commanded by Johnston in the Maryland [illegible]

6 Mo 14 Sg Private 21.33

Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland at the rate of 20- Dollars 53 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension ifsued the 25th day of May 1833 Uriah Fomear, Rockville, MD

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 - 43.06
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept - 10.76%
$53.82

Revolutionary Claim,
Ac June 7, 1832
Recorded by J. T. Sprague, Clerk,
Book 6 Vol 6. Page 116.
See - D Columbia Roll
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RevWar 7371
Invalid

File No. 7371
Alexander Reid
Pri Rev War

Act. June 7th 32
Index:-Vol. Feb, Page 312
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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application of Alexr Read for a Pension

Addref [illegible] 
Rockville Montgomery County Maryland

To the Pla agency
for the Dist. of Col.

[signature]

11mos 1407

H 21.53
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State of Maryland
Montgomery County 
set

On this ninth day of May eighteen hundred and thirty personally appeared in open court before the Judges of Montgomery County Court Alexander Reid a Resident of Montgomery County in the state of Maryland in the eightieth year of his age who being according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of that pension made by the act of Congress of June 7th 1832
That he entered the service of the in the year 1776 as a volunteer soldier that at the time of entering the service he serviced in Montgomery County in the state of Maryland, that he marched from Montgomery County to Annapolis in the state of Maryland where he remained ten months and two weeks that he served in the company commanded by Richard Smith that Walter White was the first Lieutenant and Thomas Sprigg the Ensign - the not needed any of the officers at Annapolis on  [illegible] there [illegible] whom he served and who are named by him above.
That in the latter part of the summer or early in the fall of the year 1777 he again entered the service of the United States as a substitute for his brother Jonathan Read who was drafted, that at the time of his entering the service he resided in that same County and state, that he served in a Company commanded by William Duvall, the first Lieutenant Peter Haphart, served Lieutenant Joseph Hill in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Baker Johnson and George William Luckett, that he marched from his home in [illegible] County and state to Baltimore, from there to General Washington's Head Quarters in Pennsylvania, that he was in the battle of Germantown, after the battle he was marched about
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in different parts of Pennsylvania until the [illegible] Petition of the Company of Frederick County in the State of Maryland, that he was out and served during this period of that war four months that on his return to Frederick the Company delivered up their arms and were discharged by the Captain that he did not receive a written discharge that he was not [illegible]  with any officers except those named by him, alone, that he was born on the 17th day of September 1753, that he was from his Montgomery County (but then Frederick County) that he has always serviced his Madonna State and County except for a very short period of time when he remained [illegible] but returned in a few months, that his age was recorded in a book belonging to his Father which has since been burnt, that he has no documentary services to support his claim for a pension and knows of no person now living who can testify to his services, that there is no Clergyman now living in his neighborhood who is acquainted with him that Benjamin White and John L Trundle are well acquainted with him and have been for many years and can testify to his character for veracity and that it is believed and repeated in the neighborhood where he resides that  he  was a soldier of the Revolution. He 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
Alexander [+his mark] Reid
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
By order
B Selby CM
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We Benjamin White and John L Trundle residing in Montgomery County in the state of Maryland hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Alexander Read, who has subscribed and sworn in the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty years; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a solider of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion Benjamin White John L Trundle
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid

Brice Selby

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states, and the Court further certifies that Benjamin White and John L Trundle who have signed the above certificate are residents of Montgomery County and are credible persons and that this statement is entitled to credit 

By order of court
BSelby

I, Brice Selby above of Montgomery County Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings
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Of this said Court in the matter of the application of Alexander Read for a Pension
In testimony tohereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this ninth day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty three

Brice Selby M
of Montg Cnty Court