Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 37328, for Abraham Reed, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Mass.
Reed, Abraham
NUMBER _____
NUMBER S 37328
CONTENTS

Maine
Abraham Reed
of Pownal in the State of Maine who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain White of the regiment commanded by Colonel Putnam in the Massachusetts line, for the term of nine months from June 1778 to March 1779
scribed on the Roll of, Maine at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 17 day of April 1818 and
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 of March 1819 and sent Mr. Widgery Portland Maine
Restored to the Roll on 18 day of January 1831 and notification sent to Hon. J. Anderson at House of Reps. Pension commencing on the 5 th of January 1831
Amount due on 4th of March 1831 } $ 16. -
{ Revolutionary Claim, Acts March 18, 1818, May 1, 1820. } 1 March 1823.

Abraham Reed Private. 5 th Regt Mass s time: 1778 - 9 months
Dec. 17 April. 1818
cor.
Admitted -

To the Honorable WILLIAM WIDGERY , one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
RESPECTFULLY SHOWS....
Abraham Reed of Portland in the Maine District, that he served as a private soldier in the war of the revolution on the Continental Establishment, that he yet is a resident citizen of the United States at aforesaid, and that by reason of your applicants reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support, being an old and infirm man
And your applicant farther represents, that in the service aforesaid, he belonged in his said capacity of a private soldier to the 1st Company of the 1st Regiment, of the Massachusetts Line, that he entered said service on or about the 10th day of June one thousand seven hundred and 75 and that he left said service on or about the 10th day of March one thousand seven hundred and 81
WHEREFORE, inasmuch as your applicant, as he verily believes, comes under the provisions of the Act, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," he prays your honor to institute an enquiry into the circumstances of his case, and that such farther proceedings may be had touching the premises as are prescribed by law, in order that your applicant may be placed on the Pension List of the United States.
Dated at PORTLAND, this 10th day of March 1818.
Abraham Reed
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
BE IT KNOWN , that on the 10th day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally came before me, WILLIAM WIDGERY , one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, resident at Portland, within the County of Cumberland, in said Maine District—the said Court being a Court of record of said State, the above named applicant, and made oath that the several statements by him made in the foregoing application by him signed are true. And the said Abraham Reed farther offered in evidence
the deposition of Isaac Ross one of his messmates and they being credible men and entitled to due belief the facts appear to me to be proved
WHEREUPON it does appear to the satisfaction of me the said Judge, that the said Abraham Reed served in the revolutionary war as alleged in his application, against the common enemy, that in reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his country for support
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I the said Judge, have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the said Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the County of Cumberland, to be hereunto affixed, this seventeenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States the forty-second. all which is hereunto certified & transmitted
Wm Widgery
Associate Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
CUMBERLAND, ss. I the subscriber, Clerk of the Courts in said county, certify that Hon. WILLIAM WIDGERY , is an Associate Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, as stated in the annexed Certificate, and that his signature to the same is his own proper signature.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I do hereto subscribe my name, and affix the Seal of said Court, this 27th day of June A. D. 1818.
Geo. Bradbury

I have been thinking of you lately and wondering how you are getting on. I hope you are well and happy. I have been very busy lately but I have managed to find some time to write to you. I hope you will be able to come and see us soon. I am, as ever, Your affectionate friend, A. N. Ridgway
Before me A. N. Ridgway Judge etc

230. Abraham Reed
Copy
8414. 24 Mar 189
6/10/19
not entitled

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. DISTRICT OF MAINE, ss.
At a District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland within and for the District of Maine, on the first Tuesday, being the ninth . . . day of June and by adjournment from day to day, on the twenty third day of June . . . in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable ALBION K. PARRIS, Judge of said Court.
ON this twenty third day of June . . . in the year above written, personally appeared in open Court, the same having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Maine District, Abraham Reed . . . aged seventy one . . . years, resident in Bethel . . . in said District, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a private . . . in the company commanded by Capt. White . . . in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Putnam . . . in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the seventeenth day of April . . . A. D. 1810, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 8414 . . . was granted. 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, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an 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," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818: and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly described on the back hereof, also subscribed by me.
Witness J. P. Boyd
Abraham Reed his mark
Sworn to and declared, on the twenty third day of June A. D. 1820.
BEFORE
Albion K. Parris
U. S. District Judge for the District of Maine.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. DISTRICT OF MAINE, ss.
At a District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland within and for the District of Maine, on the first Tuesday, being the ninth . . . day of June and by adjournment from day to day, on the twenty third day of June . . . in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable ALBION K. PARRIS, Judge of said Court.
ON this twenty third day of June . . . in the year above written, personally appeared in open Court, the same having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Maine District, Abraham Reed . . . aged seventy one . . . years, resident in Bethel . . . in said District, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a private . . . in the company commanded by Capt. White . . . in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Putnam . . . in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the seventeenth day of April . . . A. D. 1810, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 8414 . . . was granted. 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, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an 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," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818: and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly described on the back hereof, also subscribed by me.
Witness J. P. Boyd
Abraham Reed mark
Sworn to and declared, on the twenty third day of June A. D. 1820.
BEFORE Albion K. Parris , U. S. District Judge for the District of Maine.

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz:
Real estate - twenty acres of land & a small house thereon Personal estate - One yoke of oxen - one cow - three sheep - one swine - a few articles of necessary household furniture - I am in debt to the amount of one hundred dollars on account of sickness & the necessaries of life
witness J. P. Boyd
Abraham his X Reed mark
Sworn to June 23. 1820
Before
Albion H. Barris U. S. Dist. Judge
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Abraham Reed . . . who, by occupation am a farmer . . . which I am not able to pursue by reason of a broken thigh and other bones -
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     Easter Reed, wife. 69 very infirm   Nancy Reed, Granddaughter. 10 as well as children of this age   Witness J. P. Boyd Abraham his X Reed mark   Sworn to Before Albion H. Barris U. S. Dist. Judge  

MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
I, JOHN MUSSEY, Junr. Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the 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 one hundred seventy six dollars and twenty five cents, and no more
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty third day of June , A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
John Mussey Junr
{ Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.
$176.25

I John Reed of Downfall of Lawfull age do certify and say that I laboured for my father Abraham Reed three years after I was 21 years of age and that I paid Seventy five dollars cash to Doct A. M. Mitchell being a Debt due him from my father as his family physician. and further I have for several years past and do at present aid and assist my father towards his support that my father as part pay for the three years labour and the Debt which I paid Doct Mitchell for him gave me a Deed of fifteen acres of land valued at two hundred dollars being all the compensation he is able to make me
Dated at Portland the 4 th day February 1829
John his Reed mark
Cumberland ss February 4 th 1829
This certifies that I am well acquainted with the above named John Reed and know him to be a credible witness.
Personally appeared John Reed and made oath that the above Declaration by him sub- scribed is true
Before me Wm Sleeves Justice of the Peace

State of Maine
Cumberland County ss. I William T. Vaughan, Clerk of the Courts of Cumberland County, do hereby certify that William Cleaves, before whom the within affidavit was made is a Magistrate for said County, and that the within signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my Seal of Office and subscribed my name this sixth day of February in the year 1829.
W illiam T. Vaughan Clerk of the Courts of Cumberland County.

8414
Maine
Abraham Reed
of Portland  Dist. in the state of Maine who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Putnam of the Massachusetts line, for the term of nine months
Inscribed on the Roll of the Dist. of Maine at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 17 of April 1812.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 of March 1819 and sent to Mrs. Bridget Reed , Esq. Portland - Maine.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 - 10 \frac{14}{30} \frac{4}{31}  04. 76 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1819 40. 00
$ 132. 76
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Abraham Reed Private Massachusetts line 9 months

37 328 Rev INVALID.
File No. 37 328
Abraham Weed Rev Rev 1840
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index: — Vol. L , Page 515-
[Arrangement of 1870.]

I William Cleaves of Portland of lawfull age do testify and say that I was called upon in June 1824 by Abraham Reed of said Portland to make a Deed from him to John Reed of fifteen acres of land which Deed I made and the said Abraham acknowledge the same. The consideration in said Deed was two hundred dollars.
I am knowing to said John Reed's labouring for his father Abraham Reed for two or three years after he the said John was twenty one years of age that he now and for years past has assisted his father towards his support
I am well acquainted with said Abraham Reed and family and have been for several years and know them to be in very poor circumstances as to a living
Abraham Reed I know to be past labour having had one thigh broken and very much hurt other ways by a cart wheel with a heavy load pressing over him and has now lost one eye
Dated at Portland February 6 - A.D. 1829
Wm Cleaves
Cumberland ss. Feb. 6 1829
Subscribed and sworn to the day and year above written
Thomas Amory Dabbs Justice of the Peace

State of Maine
Cumberland County ss: I William T. Vaughan Clerk of the Courts of Cumberland County do hereby certify That Thomas Amory Dobbins before whom the within affidavit was made is a magistrate in and for said County and that the within signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said County and subscribed my name this ninth day of February 1829 -
Wm T Vaughan
Clerk of the Courts of Cumberland County.

Copy
N 366
Abraham Reed
A. T. March 1828
Maine.
N. R.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.  DISTRICT OF MAINE, ss.
At a District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland within and for the District of Maine, on the Tuesday, being the sixth day of February and by adjournment from day to day, on the day of in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine before the Honorable ELIZABETH K. BARRENS , Atwood Ware Judge of said Court.
ON this sixth day of February in the year above written, personally appeared in open Court, the same having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Maine District, Abraham Reed aged eighty years, resident in Conway in said District, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolution make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress, of the 18th March, 1818, and the 1st May, 1820; that he, the said Abraham Reed enlisted for the term of nine months on the 14th day of June in the year 1778 in the State of New Hampshire in the company commanded by captain Wilt in the regiment commanded by colonel Putnam in the line of the State of New Hampshire on the continental establishment; that he continued to serve in the said corps until the last of October 1779 when he was discharged from the service, in do not recollect the town in the state of New York that his name has been placed on the Pension List and dropped therefrom on account of his property - In my first schedule I gave a statement of thirty five acres of land in Conway . Since the exhibition of my first schedule the following changes have been made in my property viz in June 1824 I sold by auction fifteen acres of said land and the buildings thereon to John Reed for two hundred dollars - which I realized from him by his paying for me sundry debts, some of which he has been allowed to pay for me for several years after the time of sale and which he is justly owed him for -
   Description of Property. Names of the Persons to whom disposed of. Time of Sale. Amount of Money or Description of Property received in return.     15 acres of land John Reed June 11 th 1824 Two hundred dollars as follows viz paid to Colt Mitchell for me his bill about $75   The stock cattle mentioned in my first schedule have been subsequently disposed of as follows viz in the year 1824 I sold to John Reed for two hundred dollars which I realized from him by his paying for me sundry debts, some of which he has been allowed to pay for me for several years after the time of sale and which he is justly owed him for $30 A small debt to Colt Mitchell for store bills which I account at this time particularize as $30 The balance 100  

in the line of the State of _____ on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the day of _____ A. D. 181_____, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered _____ was granted. 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, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an 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," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818 : and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me ; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed ; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly described on the back hereof, also subscribed by me.
Abraham his Reed mark
Sworn to and declared, on the sixth day of February A. D. 1820 }
BEFORE
Asbur Ware
{ U. S. District Judge for the District of Maine.

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz:
Of Real Estate I have in my possession twenty acres of land - I have no other real estate
Of Personal estate, I have one cow - two sheep and one swine. I also have a few articles of ordinary household furniture. I have no income of any description
his Abraham X Reed mark
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Abraham Reed who, by occupation have been a farmer which I am not able to pursue by reason of great age, infirmity & blindness, having lost one eye. I had my thigh broke & shoulder hurt several years ago by a cart wheel running over me -
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     My Wife Esther 57 intolerable health for so old a person Abraham X Reed mark   Feb. 6. 1829 Sworn to before Ashur Ware J. Judge  

MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
I, JOHN MUSSEY, Esq. Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the 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 two hundred twenty nine dollars and _____ cents.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this tenth day of February A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine .
John Mussey } Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.

Friday 2nd Nov 18... Hon John Anderson, Portland

The subscribers Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor of the town of Pownal in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine, hereby certify that Abraham Reed of said Pownal became chargeable in and to said town in the month of July last past, and that said Reed together with both his wife has been chiefly supported at the cost and charge of said town continually since that date, and that they still continue to be so chargeable; said Reed was inscribed on the Pension list Roll of the United States, as a Revolutioner Pensioner some time in the year 1818 or 1819, and was dropped therefrom about two years afterwards in consequence of the amount of his property. His property at that time consisted of forty acres of very poor land - an old house and Barn that by the Assessors of said town were not considered of the value of twenty dollars and consequently were not placed on the valuation of said town. The whole amount of his Real and Personal property on the valuation list from 1820 to 1825 in each year did not exceed two hundred and fifty dollars, and we presume that he said Reed possessed no other property except a very small amount of household furniture and bedding and wearing apparel. Since the year 1825 - said Reed has been under the necessity of disposing of a great part of what little he possessed for his necessary support and that at the present time he has only the income of fifteen acres of land, hogs  one one swine, the net income yearly of said fifteen acres of land we think would not be more than ten dollars. -
Said Reed is now about eighty years old and is a completely past labour. Twenty one years ago he had a cart wheel pass over his badly heavy loaded with bricks which broke

one of his thigh one Shoulder and several of his ribs since that time he has entirely lost the sight of one of his eyes. his reason is very much impaired so much so that he does not recognize his nearest neighbours. he cannot now remember the time of his service in the Revolutionary war nor the officers who he served under in said war but as he has been on the Pension list - it must be that those particulars have been proved -
we further State that we are positive that said Reed and wife must continue to remain chargeable to this town for their support during their lives unless he should be restored to the Pension list. -
Said Reed has no Relatives who are able to render him any assistance towards his support. we also State that we are intimately acquainted with several Pensions in this town and several in other towns and we know of no one who is more needy of help from his country than the above named Abraham Reed
Esther Reed wife of said Abraham is about seventy five years old and able to perform but little labour.
Dated at Parnach the 25th November 1830
Henry Glaves (Selectmen Nichol Dyer of Joseph York) said town

Copy Abraham Reed to John Reed

KNOW ALL MEN by these Presents, That
Abraham Reed of Pownal in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine Yeoman in consideration of the sum of two hundred dollars paid by John Reed of Pownal County and State aforesaid Yeoman
the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, do hereby give, grant, bargain, sell and convey unto the said John Reed his
heirs and assigns forever fifteen acres of land more or less situated in said Pownal (and being a part of lot Numbered Eleven on Range 4) and is the westerly end of said lot, being the same whereon my buildings now stand (and is my home place) and all that I own in said lot together with all the buildings on the same.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the aforegranted and bargained premises, with all the privileges and appurtenances thereof, to the said John Reed his heirs and assigns, to his and their use and behoof forever. And I do covenant with the said John Reed his heirs and assigns, that I am lawfully seized in fee of the premises; that they are free of all incumbrances; that I have good right to sell and convey the same to the said John Reed to hold as aforesaid; and that I and heirs shall and will warrant and defend the same to the said John Reed his heirs and assigns forever, against the lawful claims and demands of all persons.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I the said Abraham Reed and Esther my wife in token of relinquishing her right of dower in the above premises have hereunto set our hands and seals this Eleventh day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty four
SIGNED, SEALED AND DELIVERED IN PRESENCE OF US
Wm Cleave Mary Reed
Abraham X Reed (and) mark Esther X Reed mark
Cumberland ss. June 11 th 1824 Personally appeared Abraham Reed above named and acknowledged the above instrument to be his free act and deed.—Before me,
Wm Cleave Justice of the Peace.
Received July 8. 1824 and recorded from the original Elias Merrill Regr
A true copy as of record Book 98 Page 546 Attest Samuel Merrill Register

15 Persian Office
Aug. 5. 1831
S. L. Edwards Esq. Pension Office War Department
Reston -
pen: to com: 5 Jan. 1831

Home of Nath. L. Taylor 1831
Sir - I am requested to lay the enclosed statement of the Selectmen of Pownal before you, & to request you disburse on it under care.
I am personally acquainted with Jas York one of the selectmen & fully believe what he states is true -
I am ever your obliged
Very respectfully
Yours obed Servt
John Anderson