Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40329, for Abijah Reynolds, New York
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(3-1776)
SERVICE N.Y.
Reynolds, Abijah
NUMBER
 
S40329
CONTENTS
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14.883
Pennsylvania
Abijah Reynolds

Bradford G in the state of Penn who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Gansevroot of the New York line, for the term of 2 years
Inscribed on the roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence of the 25 of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 of September 1819 and sent to Sa Kilburn Tioga Pennsa
Arrears to 4th of September 1819 $122.80
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 March 1820  48
15 mo 7/31 4/30
$170.86

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
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Abijah Reynolds
Private
Col Gansevoorts Regiment
New York Line
1779-2 years
25 May 1818

The deposition of two credible & disinterested witnesses duly so to be taken & authenticated (or that certificate of an officer of the regt) to move the services of applicant required
Services proved admitted
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State of Pennsylvania Bradford County ss. On this twenty fifth day of May 1818 before me the subscriber, one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Bradford, in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, personally appears Abijah Reynolds aged fifty four years, resident in Wells Township Bradford County in the State aforesaid, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled, "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War." That he the said Abijah Reynolds enlisted in the army this December 1779 in [illegible]  the state of New York in the company commanded by Major Peter Gansevroot’s Regiment of the New York Line that he continued to serve in the said corps two years and two months in the service of the United States, until the Feb 1782 when he was [unreadable] to go home on furlough – furlough was given at Morristown  within the state of New Jersey and [unreadable] the Said Corps no more pay / reason of a fever Sore that came upon his leg shortly after he returned home which rendered him unable to walk to return to the Service.
Said was in the Battle of Taking Cornwallis and prior to this is the above mentioned enlistment he was at the Battle of Monmouth and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of assistance from his Country for support and that he hath no other evidence now in his Power of his Said Service.
Abijah Reynolds, his mark

Sworn to Subscribed and [unreadable] this day and year aforesaid
[unreadable] John McKion 
Associate Judge of Common Pleas Bradford County and State of Pennsylvania
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John McKian one of the Associate Judges in and for Bradford County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Abijah Reynolds did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the Common Enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. I further certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the late Abijah Reynolds [unreadable] of reduced circumstances and life stand [unreadable] from [unreadable] his country for support.  
August 21 1818 John McKian Associate Judge of the Comon pleas State of Pennsylvania, Bradford County, ss. 
I George Scott Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Bradford aforesaid do certify and make known that John McKian is, and was at the time of signing and taking the foregoing depositions and certifying the same, Associate Judge of the County of Bradford, in the State of Pennsylvania, that the signature is his proper handwriting, and that full faith and credit are due to his acts as such. In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and Seal of Office, at Meansville, the county of Bradford aforesaid. this twenty ninth day of August AD 1818 George Scott Prothonary
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14883
18 July '19
Abijah Reynolds
N13 A Reynolds
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District of Pennsylvania
County of Tioga
On this 19th day of September AD 1820 personally appeared in open court of common pleas held in Wellsborough for the county of Tioga being a court of record proceding according to the court of common law with a jurisdiction unliited in point of amount and keeping a record of procedings. P Abijah Reynolds aged sixty-years in ay last resident in the Township of Elkland in said district who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress of the eighteenth of March AD 1818 and first of May 1820 that he served in the revolutionary War in the company commanded by Capt Waterbury in the regiment commanded by Col. Livingston second enlistment in the company commanded by Capt Andrew Austin in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Peter Gansevroot in the line of the State of New York and has obtained a pension under the act of the eighteenth of March 1818 his certificate being numbered 14883. dated the twenty-seventh day of one thousand eight hundred and nineteen to commence on the twenty fifth day of May one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818. and that I have not since that time by gift or sale
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or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring my self within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States in the revolutionary war pased on the 18th day of March 1818. And that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property of securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed

Abijah his x mark Reynolds
Sworn and Subscribed in open court this 19th day of September AD 1820

Uriah Spencer Proty
I have besides necesary beding and clothing
1 Cow ... $12.00
1 Heifer...$1.00
1 Sheep 1 small hog ... 3.25
1 hoe and living wheel   2.50
2 chairs & 4 wooden bowls    1.25
2 knies and forks ... .25
25.37
1 small ax 1.25 
26.52

I am by trade a shoemaker but by age and infirmity am unable to pursue that occupation I have one child Susanna aged fourteen years
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Healthy my wife Margaret aged sixty three years infirm like myself

Abijah his x mark Reynold

Sworn & subscribed in open court the 19th day of September AD 1820

Uriah Spencer Proty

War Department Revolutionary Claim certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 18th of March 1818. Abijah Reynolds late a private in the army of revolution is inscribed on the pension list Roll of the Pennsylvaia Agency at the rate of eight dollars per month to commence on the twenty fifth day of May one thousand eight hundred and eighteen given at the war office of the United States this twenty seventh day of September one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Payable semiannually the first payment on this certificate will be made on the 4th day March 1820. next in Philadelphia at the bank of the United States
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Tioga County ss

Uriah Spencer Promontary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said Court do hereby Certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereunto annexed are truly copied from the Records of said Court. And I do further Certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is thirty dollars [illegible] bents on testimony wherof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at Wellsborough the 19th Day of September AD 1820

Uriah Spencer Notary

14883
18 [illegible]
[illegible]

Abijah Reynolds
No 13 A Reynolds
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September 27, 1936
Mrs. Anna C. Rippier
413 Third St. ,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the
Revolutionary War pension claim 2. 40329 it appears that
Abijah Reynolds was born in May 1760,place not stated.
 
He enlisted, date not given,served 8.3 a private in
Captain Waterbury's Company, Colonel Livingston's New
York Regiment and was in the battle of Monmouth, no further
details of this service given.
He enlisted at Nine Partners, Dutchess County, New
York in December 1779, served as a private in Captain Aaron
Aorson's Company, Colonels Peter Gansevoort&s and Goose
Van Schaick's New York Regiments, at the Siege of York-
town and was discharged in June 1783.
He was allowed pension on his application executed
May 25, 1818 while a resident of Wells Township, Bradford
County, Pennsylvania.
In 1820 he was living in Elkland Township. Tioga County,
Pennsylvania and referred to his wife Margaret aged sixty-
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three years and his daughter Susanna aged fourteen years, both living.
Respectfully,
E.W. Morgan
Acting Commissioner.
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40.329
INVALID
revy

File No. 40,329
Abijah Reynolds
Pri Rev War

Act:  18 March 18

Index:  Vol. 3  Page 415

[Arrangement of 1870.]

1926 - Sept 21 - Hist. to Mrs. A.C. Rippier MMSTF
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Rev & 1812

[stamp]  US PENSION OFFICE L AUG 2 1926
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The Reynolds Family Association
Mrs. A.C. Rippier, Sec'y. and Treas.
413 Third Street
Brooklyn, N.Y.

July 31, 1926

Bureau of Pensions
Washington DC.
Honorable Sir:
Abijah Reynolds mentioned in Penna Archive 111 are Revolutionary pensioner 1820-26
There were two Joseph Reynolds in New Hampshire in 1832. drawing pensions for service as privates in Ma Contl Lines
Can you send me any information relative to the above.
Will greatly appreciate this courtesy
Yours Sincerely
Anna C. Rippier
(Mrs)
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Tioga County SS

Personally appeared before me Samuel W Morris Esq one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Tioga Abijah Reynolds of the County aforesaid a soldier of the Revolutionary Army, and on his solemn oath doth depose and say that he enlisted during the war in the Regiment commanded by Col Peter Gansevoort in the New York line in Captain Aaron Austin's company in the year before Major Ander was hang that his last service was in the first New York Regiment commanded by Col G. Vauschacik and that he was discharged by General Washington at Snake Hill near Newburg in the State of New York in the summer of the year 1783 and this deponant further saith that he is the same Abijah Reynolds who was placed on the Pension Roll under the Act of Congress of 18 March 1818 and 20 May 1820 as a Revolutionary Pensioner and the number of his certificate is 14.883 and that this affidavit was made for the purpose of obtaining the bounty Land agreeable to the Second Act of Congress in such case made and provided
Sworn to and subscribed before me
This seventh day of December AD 1826

Saml W Morris

Abijah his Mark X Reynolds
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Abijah Reynolds
Application for Bounty land as a revolutionary soldier

14883

Rev war

Recd 18th December 1826
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Commonweath of Pennsylvania
Prothontary's office Tioga County ss
Meriah Spencer Prothanatary of the court of common pleas in and for said county do certify that Samuel Melloms Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit appears to have been made is and was at the time of taking the same one of the associate judges of the court of comon pleas in and for said county regularly appointed commissioned and affirmed that the signature is his proper handwriting and that full faith and credit are due to his acts as such In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court at Wellsborough this seventy day of December anno domini one thousand eight hundred and twenty six
Uriah Spencer Prothy for Chauncey Alford
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State of New York
Cortland County  Alexander Morong being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was well acquainted with Abijah Reynolds and was in the revolutionary war and knows that he served in Captain Daron Swiftons company Colonel Van Scikes Regiemnt and that he knows that he sered at least two years to the close of the close of the war in June 1783 and the last he saw him was at Smoke Hill where the army was discharged and further saith not
Alexander Marong
Sworn to and declared before me this 24th day of July 1819
John Keep
First Judge of the court of Common pleas in and for the county of Cortland

I John Keep first judge as aforesaid do certify that I am well acquainted with Alexander Morong who made the above declaration and he is a credible and [illegible] witness and may be [illegible] as the truth and veracity.
John Keep first Judge aforesaid
dated this 24th day of July AD 1819

Clerks office
Cortland County to wit I certify that John Keep Esqr before whom the foregoing afft was made, was on the day of the date thereof first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for a said County acting upon the authority of the State of New York and also that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said Judge & verily believe his name thereto subscribed to be his proper handwriting Witness my hand and the seal of said county this 25 July 1819
Saml Hotchkiss J.Dep Clk
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declares Abijah Reynolds
J.C. Calhoun Esqr
Washington City; department of War
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Tioga County PA
Personally appeared before me Ezekiel Thomas and upon his oath declares and says that he was well acquainted with Abijah Reynolds (who is now an applicant for a pension) in the revolutionary war of the U.S. and that he served in the first N. York regiment commanded by Col Goose Vnschank in the campaign of 1781 and that this deponent was first sergant of one of the companies of the same regiment and at the same time. and that the applicant served from Spring to about the first of Dec. but cannot tell the number of months exactly does not doubt but that he served longer but hs not the knowledge within himself
Ezekiel Thomas
August 11th 1819 Ezekiel Thomas swore to and subscribed the above deposition in my presence, who is a credible and disinterested witness, and is entitled to full confidence as to truth and veracity
Ira Kilburn associate judge
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State of Pennsylvania Tioga County Prothonotary's office ss  I Uriah Spenser prothontary of the court of common please in and for the county of Tioga do certify and make known that Ira Kilburn is and was at the time of signing and taking the foregoing deposition and certifying the same a sitting judge of the court of common pleas in and for the county of Tioga in the State of Pennsylvania that the signature is his proper handwriting and that full faith and credit are due to his acts or such in testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and official the seal of office at Wellsborough in the county of Tioga aforesaid this thirteenth day of August anno domini one thousand eight hundred and nineteen
Uriah Spencer Proty
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Tioga County 11th Aug 1819
Sir
I enclosed some time since to you an application for Ezekiel Thomas, who no doubt served in the revolutionary war upwards of seven years on continental establishment, but have received no returns, think it may have [illegible] or have been mislaid

yours Ira Kilburn
J.C. Calhoun Esqr

B Enclosed another certificates and requisite depositions in favor of Samuel Tubbes and Abijah Reynolds