Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 11150, for William Read, Pennsylvania

SERVICE
Penn. Co.
Read William
R 11150
Red or
Warner, Susanna
(Former widow)
CONTENTS
John

Susanna Warner widow of William Read
Pet for Rev. Pension.
Feb 15. 1844, ref d to Com ee on Rev. Pension.
= May 2. 1844 Bill 358 =
N. York.

Is the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled.
State of Pennsylvania
Delaware County, ss
Be it known that on this day personally appeared Mary Read, known to me to be the person described in and who is the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same for the purposes and consideration therein expressed. Given under my hand and seal of office this 14th day of October, A.D. 1895. Notary Public in and for the State of Pennsylvania. My Commission Expires July 14, 1896. I, the undersigned, being the widow of William Read who was a Police Officer during the War of the Rebellion and deceased in different ranks and capacities during nearly the whole war from the year A.D. 1861 to the latter part of the year A.D. 1865 so lived in the State of Pennsylvania at the time he entered the service. He was a native of Delaware County, Pennsylvania and after the war continued to live until the time of his death in Delaware, a part of his native state. He served in the Militia at the outbreak of the war in the early part of the war in the Continental Service and the latter part of the war was a commissioned officer in the Militia. His commission being now on file in the War Department accompanying his former discharges it is impossible for her to tell what battles he was in or the officers under whom he served all the time as she was not married to him until after his discharge. Under an order nothing more than what she has learned from him and to the best of her knowledge never obtained. She believes that her husband the said William Read was at the Battle of Antietam in September A.D. 1862 and was in Fort Myer during a part of the time the main army of the Potomac was in camp near Washington whilst the District occupied Philadelphia in the latter part of the war.

part of the year AD 1777 under Major Hovey within as it also been or listed before this declarant can not say he was also at the Battle of Brandywine in June AD 1778 in was under Col. Best and returned to his Continental Regiment part of which time he was corporal he afterwards in the year AD 1779 was commissioned a Lieutenant in Captain Morgan Company of Militia volunteers and went into service as a Lieutenant under Captain Morgan the latter part of the year AD 1779 as the declarant believes he was in Virginia as Lieutenant during the campaigns of AD 1780 when he served for more than six months as stated in former declaration before Washington. As soon as the month of Decr. he accompanied it out in what can be called the winter but was always under order and believes that in Febry AD 1781 at the surrender of Cornwallis he was present there and was in that battle but never did he know his Major nor have he any written evidence of that. Moreover the declarant also states that in her former declaration she did not make a full statement because she had no evidence of fact and made portion of her services because her knowledge and belief was and is based only the repeated communications with her husband and because she had been informed it was not necessary for her to show her husband's services as Lieutenant for more than six months and that his other services would benefit her nothing she therefore made but the statement as a full history of her services rendered in war of the revolution as far as she can relate them.
She further declares that was Married to David William Read on the 10th day of AD 1785 as stated and proved in former declaration. She further states that her husband the said William Read died on the fifth of February AD 1798 as also stated and proved by papers now on file in the Pension department accompanying

In former application that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the State but prior to the first day of January A.D. 1874 to wit the time above stated the Register of the State that she married John Warot in the year A.D. 1870 and that the said John Warot died about the year A.D. 1883 as stated and proved in papers in connection with her full declaration and that she is now a widow.
Attest Pennsylvania Delaware County ss
Sasanna Warot
Subscribed and subscribed the twelfth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty four in the presence of the peace in and for Maple Township in the said County of Delaware in the State of Pennsylvania Thos Sheldon J.P.
A Certificate of Naturalization was shown to the Justice of the Peace for Maple Township Delaware County State of Pennsylvania in the matter of the estate of John Warot of the County of Delaware State of Pennsylvania at his home at Old Chester is now on file in the Post Office at Washington among the papers in a for verification of the foregoing declaration.

State of Pennsylvania to the eighteenth day of September A.D. one thousand eight hundred and forty three personally appeared Thomas Jones one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Chester in the State of Pennsylvania, of known to me Warner a resident at the time of said County of Chester aged seventy nine years who by reason of total infirmity is unable to appear in person at the Court, being first duly sworn, according to their oaths and her solemn affirmations make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of March 20th 1838. An act "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain soldiers and their widows and daughters."
That she is the widow of William Reed who was a soldier in the service of the Revolution and who served in different capacity as rank of private, corporal and lieutenant, in the Pennsylvania Key Stone Battery, he served as private and as corporal under Captains Robert Lickhat and as a lieutenant under Captain Markai Hogan, does not know in what Regiment he served, nor when she left the day month and year, he entered the service as a private left the service, but she knows that he was a soldier during nearly the whole war, was at the battles of Brandywine and Monmouth, and was at Valley that he resided in Chester County Pennsylvania when he entered the service, the place of his nativity; a part of the time he was drafted and a portion of his service was as a volunteer but cannot tell how long

he served in any particular rank, but knowing that he served for more than two years as a private and corporal, and that he served as a lieutenant for more than six months as is proved by the testimony hereunto annexed.
She further States that she was married to said William Reed on the fifteenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty five as appears by the records of the German Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of St Michael & Zion in the city of Philadelphia; and that her husband the said William Reed died in Philadelphia on the fifth day of February one thousand seven hundred and ninety eight, that she was not married to him prior to her leaving the service, that the marriage took place prior to the first day of January one thousand seven hundred and ninety four, to wit, at the time above stated. That after the death of said William Reed, to wit in the year 1800 she married John Warner who died in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, and she still remains a widow.
Affirmed and subscribed before me one of the judges of the court of common pleas of Chester County on the Eighteenth day of September A.D. 1843
Thomas Jones
Susanna Warner
I further certify that said Susanna Warner is unable from bodily infirmity to appear in open court.
Thomas Jones one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Chester County

Delaware County } State of Penna } J. B.
Personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace in and for Delaware County aforesaid, Elias Worrell a respectable citizen of said County, whose testimony is denouncing of credit, aged eighty nine, who on his solemn affirmation duly administered to him say that he knows William Reed of Chester County Pennsylvania, who married around 1810 the petitioner named in the foregoing petition; that said William Reed served under Captain Morgan as first Lieutenant for a long time in the service that he knows he served as Lieutenant aforesaid over six months, that he lived in the neighborhood and was well acquainted with Captain Morgan and Lieutenant Reed and knows that they served as above stated. that William Reed died about the year 1840 at the age of one hundred and twenty eight.
Elias Worrell
affirmed and subscribed the 15th day of September AD 1843 before me
Thos Sheldon J.P.

State of Pennsylvania Chester County ss
Abner M. Chamberlain — Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County of Chester do hereby certify that Thomas Jones is one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Chester, and his foregoing sign- ature is genuine
Witness my hand and seal of office this twentieth day of September — A.D. One thousand eight hundred and forty three!
A. M. Chamberlain Prolo.
State of Pennsylvania County of Delaware ss
James Huston — Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Delaware do hereby certify that Thomas Sheldon is an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County of Delaware and his foregoing signature is genuine
Witness my hand and seal of office this twentieth day of September A.D. One thousand eight hundred and forty three.
James Huston Pro. Prothon.

Marriage Certificate for W m Read & J. May.

On the 15 th day of December in the year of our Lord 1785. William Read and Susanna Clay were lawfully joined in holy matrimony.
That the above is a true Copy from the Records of the German Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of St Michael & Zion in the City of Philadelphia, I certify with my hand this 2 d day of August in the year of our Lord 1843.
Ch o . R. Semmi, Pastor of said Congregat.

February 28, 1935.
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Mrs. A. C. Ehrhart Greenacre Mifflinburg, Pennsylvania
BA--J/ady William Read, R.11150 Samuel Blair, W.3067
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter relative to soldiers of the Revolutionary War.
Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension and bounty land based upon military service of soldiers in that war.
A careful search of the records fails to show such a claim on file on account of the services of John Reed and Samuel Kennedy as described by you, or Phillip Ammerman, all spellings of the surnames searched.
The records of William Read and Samuel Blair are furnished you herein as found in the claims for pension based upon service in the Revolutionary War.
William Read, R.11150
William Read, the name is also shown as Reed, was born in Chester County, or Delaware County, Pennsylvania, date and the names of his parents are not shown.
Soldier married December 15, 1785, Susanna, the name is also shown as Susannah, Clay. Their marriage was recorded on the records of the German Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of St. Michael and Zion, in Philadelphia.
William Read died February 5, 1798 in Philadelphia.
Susanna Read, soldier's widow, married in 1800, place not stated, John Warner, who died in 1813, place not stated.
Susanna Warner, applied for pension September 18, 1843 on account of service of her former husband, William Read,

at which time she was aged seventy-nine years and a resident of Chester County, Pennsylvania, and stated that William Reed while a resident of Chester County, Pennsylvania, enlisted in 1775, served as private and corporal in Captain Robert Lockart's Company and in Colonel Bull's Pennsylvania Regiment and was in the battle of Brandywine, at the memorable defence of Fort Mifflin and battle of Monmouth; on May 17, 1779 was commissioned First Lieutenant of a Company of Foot, Fifth Battalion, Chester County Pennsylvania Militia; that he served as Lieutenant in Captain Valentine's or Captain Mordecai Morgan's Pennsylvania Company and was in the battle and surrender of Cornwallis at which time he was a Brevet Major and that he served to the latter part of 1781.
Her claim was not allowed as she failed to furnish proof of his service for six months as required by the pension law.
In 1844 she was living in Marble Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. There are no further family data.
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Samuel Blair, W.3067
The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of Samuel Blair are not shown.
Samuel Blair enlisted in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, in December 1776 and served three months as private in Captain Cookson Long's Company, Colonel James Potter's Pennsylvania Regiment. He enlisted in the fall of 1777 and served two months as a substitute for his father in Captain John Nelson's Pennsylvania Company. He enlisted in the spring of 1778 and served two months as private in Captain John Chatham's Pennsylvania Company against the Indians. He enlisted in June 1778 and served six months in Captain R. Arthur's Company, Colonel James Morrow's Pennsylvania Regiment. In the spring of 1779 he enrolled in the Northumberland County Pennsylvania Militia under Colonel Hunter and was frequently out on duty from that time until peace was made. He also served one tour under Colonel Thomas Hartley in the Pennsylvania troops, but no details or dates given.

Samuel Blair received a pension of $40.00 per annum, from the State of Pennsylvania, for his service in the Revolutionary War.
He died May 8, 1825 in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.
Soldier married March 22, 1790 in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Rebecca Hetherington.
She was allowed pension on her application executed March 2, 1839 while a resident of Chillisquaque Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, aged sixty-seven years. There are no further family data.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

HR. 358
Susannah Warner Wid. of Wm Read 96 77

9677
Lib to Ken. J. Vot
March 3 47
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House of Reps Washington Feby 22/47
S. S. Edwards Esq. Sir
Will you please examine the enclosed papers & above letter & if the applicants are entitled to pension, (which it appears they were) inform me of it at your earliest convenience. Yours truly L. S. Gort,

1935 Feb. 28. Hist. to Mrs. A.C. Ehrhart. See letter in A.D.Y. Samuel Blair Rev. War. clm. W. 3067.
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1878.
REJECTED
P. O. 11.10.0
Service: Susannah Warner 1-0 9th Road
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: 1852 Printed Rejected + suspended Pensionist
Re-enlisted: gives Reasons for suspension. "not a single tour specified - proof + specifica- tion requested".
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

SUSANNAH WARNER.
[To accompany bill H. R. No. 358.]
MAY 2, 1844.
Mr. McILVAINE, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, made the following
REPORT:
The Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, to whom was referred the case of Susannah Warner, widow of William Read, a revolutionary soldier, make the following report:
The declaration of the petitioner, made before one of the judges of the court of common pleas for Chester county, Pennsylvania, represents that she is in the eightieth year of her age, and that she is the widow of William Read, who was a soldier in the Revolution, and served in the capacities of private, corporal, and lieutenant, in the American army; that he served as a private and corporal for more than two years, and as a lieutenant more than six months; that she was married to the said William Read on the 15th day of December, A. D. 1785, (proven by record evidence,) and that her said husband died in 1798; that in the year 1800 she married John Warner, who died in 1813, and that she has since remained a widow.
Enos Worrall, aged eighty nine years, testifies that he knew William Read, of Chester county, Pennsylvania, and that the said Read served under Captain Morgan, as first lieutenant, for a period exceeding six months; that he lived in the neighborhood, and was well acquainted with Captain Morgan and Lieutenant Read, and knows that the latter served as above.
From the original commission of said Read, it appears that he was commissioned a first lieutenant by the executive council of Pennsylvania, on the 17th of May, A. D. 1779.
Copies of certificates from the auditor of Pennsylvania show that there were two persons of the name of William Read who served in the Pennsylvania line; but as their period of service embraces the time of the date of the above commission, neither of them could have been the husband of the petitioner. The committee are of opinion that he served at least six months as lieutenant, and therefore report a bill for her relief.
Blair & Rives, printers.

Sir
Yours of March 3. 47
I have the honor to inform you that the papers (including the report of the House Committee of 2 May '44) of Susan Mab Warner dec? have been examined & filed.
This claim is based upon service as a patient in the Militia of Pa which was limited by law to monthly tours in rotation of classes — and the pension is a pro rata compu- -tation of the half pay while in ser- -vice — You will perceive that it is indispensable to the adjustment of her claim understanding that the tours rendered by her hus- -band should be made out with reasonable precision — But in this case not a single tour has been either specified as to period — station

be as the rules require Unless a definite specification of a least six months are furnished her claim can not be allowed
file with other papers charged to Comt.
Mar. 1. 1891 March 3. 91
For J. C. Gost H.H.

In the NAME and by the AUTHORITY of the FREEMEN of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ,
The SUPREME EXECUTIVE COUNCIL of the said Commonwealth,
To William Reed Gentleman
WE, reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, DO, by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be first Lieutenant of a company of foot in the Fifth Battalion of Militia, in the County of Chester . You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of first Lieutenant by doing and performing all Manner of Things thereunto belonging. And We do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under Command, to be obedient to your Orders as first Lieutenant . And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions as you shall from Time to Time receive from the Supreme Executive Council of this Commonwealth, or from your superior Officers, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, and in Pursuance of the Acts of Assembly of this State. This Commission to continue in Force until your Term, by the Laws of this State, shall of Course expire.
GIVEN under the lesser Seal of the Commonwealth, at Philadelphia, this seventeenth Day of May in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and seventy nine
ATTEST.
W. Matlack Secy.
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Chester = = County } } State of Pennsylvania
Personally came and appeared before me the subscriber one of the justices of the peace in and for said County of Chester - Penn s aforesaid. John Taylor a respectable citizen of said County whose testimony is disinterested, who on his solemn affirmation duly administered doth say that he knew William Read well of the Chester County now Delaware County Pennsylvania who married Susanna Clay the petitioner named in the annexed petition, and that said William Read died in the year 1798 and he believes the facts stated by said petitioner to be strictly and correctly true as to the services rendered in the American Army by her late deceased husband William Read, and further saith not.
Affirmed and subscribed This 18 th day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three
Benjamin Wetherby { Justice of the peace
John Taylor

State of Pennsylvania, Chester County ss }
I Abner M. Chamberlain — Prothonotary of the Court of Common pleas of said County of Chester do hereby certify that Benjamin Wetherby is an acting Justice of the peace in and for the said County of Chester and his foregoing Signature is Genuine
Witness my hand and Seal of office this twentieth day of September
A. D. one thousand eight hundred and forty three —
A. M. Chamberlain Proth.