Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4053, for Isaiah Reed, North Carolina

SERVICE
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Reed, Isaiah
S. 4053.
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CONTENTS

13873 Jackson  West Tennessee
Isaiah Reed
Isaiah of Maury Co. in the State of Tennessee who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Graham of the regt commanded by Col Rutherford in the N.C. War time for 19 mos. from 1777
Inscribed on the Roll of W. Tennessee at the rate of 63 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 rd day of July 1833 and sent to H. B. K. Polk, Columbia
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833, $ 26 66 Semest. allowance ending 4 Sep " 30 86
$ 158.33
{ Revolutionary Claim, { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by H. H. Allison Clerk Book 8 Vol. 7 Page 95
See letter of Feb 1887 to Mr. G. D. Set to Hon. J. K. Polk, Aug 13. 1836.
Pension Jan 12: 37 do - do - May 15: 37 Tr. - C. - do - do - Transf'd to Jackson 9. June 1837 from 4 Sept 1836.

State of Tennessee On this 12 th day of September Nancy Gentry (1832) Personally appeared in Open Court before
the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, for the County aforesaid now sitting Deborah Reed a resident of the State and County aforesaid Agreed Security there Agreed who being duly sworn according to law did in his oath make the following de- claration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7 th June 1832 that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers as a Second Lieutenant in the State of North Carolina Rowan County about the age of Sixteen he entered the service of the United States as a Volunteer under Capt John Graham and James Wolfe in a Regiment commanded by Col. G. Rutherford march for South Carolina to a place called Raburns Creek where there were some encampments after scattering them and taking some prisoners soon we lay there a while then moved to the South fork of the Catawba River

Graham and in a Regiment Commanded by Colonel Park the troops then moved down the country through deep creeks crossed Cape Fear River at that place and continued our march for Wilmington Stopped at New Glyn Roads and lay down there three days and nights. When Wilmington to a Bridge Applicant there was called Belford Bridge at this place the new reached here troops that came with us was taken and a General Rejoicing was among the troops from there they were marched a circuitous route through the country to Salisbury where Applicant got his discharge for five months he remembers that previous to his being attached to the Regiment Command by Col Park they had served two months and after they had marched down the country and on their return conducted to here on little all were discharged this he has a clear recollection of. This discharge was signed by Capt. Richard Graham all of which dis- charge he has no doubt is in his own hand

2 and lay there about several weeks from then marched back to Rowan County where Applant was discharged for a time and on the day his discharge was signed by Capt John Gra- ham. By the orders of the Colonel after this same time he entered the Service again as a Volunteer under the same Capt John Graham and Lieut Benjamin Baker and commanded by the same Colonel Ruther- ford march'd for the Chickamauga and entered the nation to what was called the Nashville Campaign after demolishing them toward and lay at different points we were march- into the State of North Carolina Rowan County and discharged. Applicant was discharged he thinks for five months his discharge signed by Capt John Graham Under the orders of the Col Rutherford. Applicant went the next time as a Drafted Soldier under the same Capt John Graham and com- manded by the same Col. Rutherford

3 Ben dizavos in Salisbury N. Carolina and from there the troops was commanded by a Regular officer a Colonel Martin from then marched to Cross Creek N. Carolina lay there a while then marched for a place called the Rapp Swamp where we encountered a number of Tories were lodged then we were sent back to Salisbury N. Carolina and Applicant was discharged for a three months term by the same officer after this Applicant entered the Service again as a Volunteer under Captain John Brandon and was commanded by Colonel Davis in this term had Skirmer with the British while Cornwallis was marching through the country particularly at Charlotte after they marched for Guil- ford Applicant was taken Sick and received a Furlough from Col. Davis to leave the troops until able to perform duty but Ap- plicant did not return until his time expired and for that three months he thinks he never had a discharge tho' justly entitled to it — after this he was drafted and was under Capt. Richard

of them neither has any document to possess the name of David Jones of but one only who is living by whom he can prove his actual Service as a Revolutionary Soldier David Pong who has Certificate will be hereunto Annexed by him by the language every claim which is to a pension for Service in the present war is declined that his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any State
I was in the Army Subscribed the day and
Year aforesaid H. S. Porter his Clerk Isaac B. Root
I David Pong do certify that about the year 1777 I was a soldier in the Service of the United States in an expedition against the Tories and Cherokee Indians I saw David Root the man who made an oath as to his Service to the foregoing declaration in almost every in that expedition again I saw him in an expedition down the country to the Creek and was with him in the same company and in the same way in Capt Bell's Georgia Company after ward I saw him in a brigade General Rutherford led to go to Minnesota and from my own knowledge having in the same Captain

46 Company when at home with him I am certain he has entered in a Service as he has declared that I was not in all the time he served with him yet had a knowledge of them all in that day - for we lived near neighbors during the Revolutionary war Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid -
Thos J Porter Clerk David Long Esq The Formal State of Robert Heddin -
both of the county of Manzan a State of Tennessee hereby certify that we are well in guaranteed with Sarah Reed who has subs and Sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be Seventy three years of age that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we received in that Opinion
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid Cobb McAdoo Esq Thos J Porter Clerk Samuel Hester Esq Where and in what Year was you Born
And I was born in the State of Pennsylvania and County of York in the Year (1759)

Q 2 nd Have You any Records of Your age and, if so, where is it Ans I have none I have kept my age from what my parents told me
Q 3 rd Where were You living when called into Service where have You lived since the revolutionary war and when do You now live.
Ans I was living in the State of North Carolina when called into Service from there I moved to the State of Georgia Oglethorpe County when I lived fifteen Years from there to the State of Kentucky Logan County when I lived four Years from there to the State of Tennessee Maury County where I now live
Q 4 th How were You called into Service was You drafted, did You volunteer or were you a Substitute and if a Substitute for whom
Ans I went five times three of which I was a Volunteer and two Drafted

Q 5 th State the names of some of some of the regular officers who were with the troops when you served as such Continental and Military Regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service
Ans 6 th Col l Austin and Captain Branton were called regular officers I knew many regiments and the Colonels but cannot recollect their numbers the general circumstances I have stated in my declaration
Q 6 th Did you receive a discharge from the Service and if so by whom was it given and what has been of it
Ans 7 th I received from discharges and think there were signed by Capt s Graham and one by Capt s Richard Graham I cannot tell what became of them
Q 7 th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution
Ans 8 th James M. Baker Esq r James Wardlaw Capt s M c Shaton Samuel Sher

And the said Court do hereby return their opinion after the investigation of the matter and hiring David Long Sworn and subscribe to the Certificate in open Court relative to his knowledge of the actual terms of the said Search Writ in the revolutionary war and after setting the tenor thereof prescribed by the war Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states in the Court further states that it appears to them that David Long Samuel State of Colt Hall  late residing in  the  of the county of Henry who has signed the foregoing certificates are Respectable men and that their statement is entitled to credit —
Robt Wortham (S) John Vincent (S) Jas Henry (S)
Thomas J Porter Clerk of the Court of Pleas and quarter Sessions for the county and state aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel State for a pension in testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 12 th day of September (1833)
T. J. Porter Clerk

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I do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration of Isaac Reed - & the affidavits thereto annexed - contain on this and the annexed sheet, - are the original papers acted on in court. I am acquainted with Daniel Day and both Hester & Samuel Hale the witnesses whose affidavits are respectfully annexed & know them to be men of reputability & truth. -
James H. Dole
June 11 th 1833. -
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7305  BRIEF in the case of  Isiah  Reed  County of Maury  in the State of  Tennessee  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? _____  3. How old is he? 73  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years. Months. Days.     Vol. In 17 not stated 3 private Gen. Rutherford   Vol. 5 " Same officers   Infantry 3 " Same officers & Col. Martin   Vol. 1 3 " Capt. G. Brandon Col. Davis   Infantry 5 " Capt. B. Graham Col. Lark  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Roan City N.C.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? traditional & a witness  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? The declaration is not attached to the Clerk's seal as required 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J. Waugh  Examining Clerk.

Isaac Reed,
W. Jan to Jan Reed
In at May 15 Mr. Andrews
J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington City
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Application for a Transfer State of Tennessee Gibson County 3 ss
On the 27 th day of April 1837 before me the subscriber a justice of the peace for the said County of Gibson personally appeared Isak Reed who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Grimes in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Rutherford in the service of the United States that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Tennessee that he now resides in the County of Gibson in the state of Tennessee where he intends to remain and wishes his pension payable in the future at the agency in Jackson in said State of Tennessee instead of the agency at Nashville in the state of Tennessee the following are the reasons the following are the reasons for his removing from Murray County to Gibson in Tennessee his children are residents of the County of Gibson Tennessee he wished to be with them
Sworn to and subscribed to before me this day and year after said A. Davidson J.P. his Isaiah Reed mark

State of Tennessee Gibson County } This day personally appeared before me Abraham S Davidson an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County of Gibson Daniel Reed a man of respectability and a credible witness who made oath in due form of Law that the person who has taken the above oath is the identical person described in the affidavit on the other side of this paper Daniel Reed Sworn to and Subscribed before me the 27 th April 1837 A Davidson J.P.
State of Tennessee Gibson County } I Allen C Munroe Clerk of the County Court of said County do certify that Abraham S Davidson before whom the oaths of the foregoing affidavits were made is and was at the time of making the same an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County duly qualified, and that due faith and credit are due his official acts as such Justice of the peace whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at office in Trenton this the 27 th day of April 1837
Allen C Munroe C.C.
I A S Davidson Chairman of Gibson County Court do certify that A C Munroe is an authorized Clerk of said Gibson County Court at the date of his certificate Witness my hand at office in Trenton this 27 th April 1837 A S Davidson Chairman

February 21, 1940.
Mrs. W. T. Congleton 525 Russell Avenue Lexington, Kentucky
BA-7/ADY Isaiah Reed S.4053
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter relative to soldiers of the Revolutionary War, Asariah Doty and Isaiah Reed.
Because of the great demand for Revolutionary War data and the limited trained clerical force available for furnishing such information it is impossible to comply in full with each request pertaining to soldiers of that war.
The data contained herein were obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.4053, based upon the military service in that war of Isaiah Reed.
Isaiah Reed was born in York County, Pennsylvania, in 1759, day, month, and the names of his parents are not shown.
While a resident of Rowan County, North Carolina, Isaiah Reed enlisted about 1776, and served three months as private in Captain John Graham's Company, Colonel G. Rutherford's North Carolina Regiment. He enlisted in the spring of 1777, served five months as private in Captain John Graham's Company, Colonel G. Rutherford's North Carolina Regiment; was in a campaign against the Cherokee Indians and destroyed the valley towns. He then enlisted and served three months as private in Captain John Graham's Company, Colonels G. Rutherford's and Martin's North Carolina Regiments. He then enlisted, served about three months in Captain John Branton's Company, Colonel Davis's North Carolina Regiment and was in a skirmish at Charlotte and in other skirmishes, not named. He enlisted, served as private in Captain Richard Graham's Company, Colonel Locke's North Carolina Regiment and was dis-

charged after the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, having served five months.
He lived in Orglethorpe County, Georgia, fifteen years, then moved to Logan County, Kentucky, and four years later moved to Maury County, Tennessee.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 12, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Maury County, Tennessee.
In 1836, he moved to Gibson County, Tennessee, his post office address was Trenton, Gibson County, Tennessee. to be with his children, their names are not designated. No reference was made to soldier's wife.
In 1837, one Daniel Reed was of Gibson County, Tennessee, his age and relationship are not given. There are no further family data.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name of person paid and possibly the death date of soldier, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C., and cite the following data: "Isaiah Reed, Certificate No. 13873, issued July 3, 1833, rate $63.33 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, West Tennessee Agency transferred to Jackson Tennessee Agency".
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

1940 Oct. 21. Histo. Mrs. W. D. Congleton, W. Va.
Rechar
4053
INVALID.
File No. 4053
Isaiah Reed Putt N.E. Mila
Act: June 7/32
Index:—Vol. A , Page 311
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Isaiah Reed.

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims , of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim which require
Isaiah Reed further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? _____ IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? No V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? Two citizens XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? No XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? No no witness XIV. †If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? No Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office? _____ XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? yes XVI. ‡Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? yes
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent 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, and in the following grades: For _____ year _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
†QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
†QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

Union Bank of Tennessee Nashville 25 th May 1837
J. L. Edwards Esq. Dear Sir,
Your esteemed favor of the 15 th instant asking information to what time Isaiah Reed a private in the Revolutionary Army under the Act of Congress of the 7 th June 1832 at the rate of $63.33 per Annum was last paid is duly to hand, and in reply have to say to you he was paid to the 11 th September 1836. I am respectfully Sir
Yr. ob. t. Serv t
John M. Bais Post & Pension Agent By S. Cantrall

WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
March 11 th 1833
SIR :
I return herewith the papers in support of the claim s of the person s whose names are hereto annexed.
These papers are in several respects defective. Each  The case is accompanied by a brief. The objections are contained in the negative answers, in red ink, given to the questions.
Particular attention should be paid to the accompanying regulations and to the explanatory notes subjoined to the brief.
The extraordinary press of business in this office, arising from the great number of claims under the act of June 7, 1832, has hitherto prevented us from attending to the applications sent by you. The investigation of the cases presented under this law has been difficult and laborious, and notwithstanding the greatest exertions have been made by this Department, an earlier attention to your business has been found impracticable.
The brief has been prepared to meet all cases, and thus to save the excessive labor which would otherwise be imposed upon the office, and which would consume so much time as to render the delay two fold greater than it now is in the investigation of claims and writing letters. Each case is considered correct in all respects except in relation to those questions to which a negative answer is affixed. No other alteration or addition will be required.
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. Edwards
Thos. J. Porter Esq Clerk of Marray Co. Columbia Pa.
Isaiah Reed -

Lexington, Ky., February 2nd,, 1940.
Veterans Administration, Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:
I would be pleased to have you send me the Revolutionary record of Isaiah Reed , Gibson County, Tenn.
Also that of Azariah Doty born 1745, living in Tennessee, age 105 in 1850. He was one of Marion's men.
Thanking you,
Mrs. W. T. Congleton
Mrs. W. T. Congleton.
525 Russell Ave.
Send rec

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J. W. Brundage
Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington City
Jackson to Mr. Lee
Dear Sir,

Nashville. 29th Dec. 1836
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Dear Sir
I am on the Pension List of the Agency of Tennessee as Revolutionary Pensioner under the Act of Congress of the 7th June 1832 at the rate of Sixty three dollars & thirty three cents per annum and have hitherto resided in Maury County of this State and have always been paid at Nashville. I now reside in Gibson County Tennessee and have resided there for upwards of a year. I find it would be more convenient for me to draw my pay at the Agency at Jackson Tennessee. I reside in about forty Miles of Jackson to which place I would be pleased if agreeable to you to have my name transferred to I have been paid at Nashville up to the 1st Sept. 1836 I am Respectfully Sir
By O. H. Sew c Isaiah his Reed mark
P.S. write me to Trenton Gibson County Tennessee

Columbia S.C. June 11 th 1833
W m Sir
Will you be pleased to examine & decide upon the enclosed copy of Isaiah Reed & advise me of the result.
J. S. Edwards Esq r Com. of Pensions. —
I am Very Respectfully
Yrs Affec t ly
James K. Jackson
S. F. 4053.
Isaiah Reed N.C.

Columbia S. Aug 2 Aug 13
Isaac Reed for 12
Ms 13,573
James S. Edmondz Cammpion Parsons Newport Tenn Washington City
From S. H. Smith
St. Pat
1845

Columbia Tennessee August 1 st 1836. -
Sir
Isaiah Reed a Revolutionary Pensioner - heretofore resided at the Agony of Parkville, has lately removed from his former residence in Maury County Tennessee to Gibson County Tennessee and desires for the future to receive his pension at the Agony at Jackson instead of at Parkville as the former will be more

Commence to his present place of residence. - Will you cause the order to be issued, as if they  it will be necessary for the Prisoners to make any statement as to the facts of his removal, and his desire to be joined at Lock Haven, until you forward to me the necessary instructions for his guidance. -
I am Very Respectfully Yr Obedt Servt James H. Ladd
S.F. 4053
Isaiah Reed N.C.
J. S. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Prisons New York - Washington

Isaac Reed Amended Dutchess Co New York
Isaac Reed Amended Dutchess Co New York

Amended declaration of Isaiah Root of Maury County, Tennessee, in order to obtain the pension. —
State of Tennessee } Want of Pleas and Quarters Maury County } before June 1833
This day being the 11 th day of June 1833 - personally appeared in open court Isaiah Root a resident citizen of said County in the 74 th year of his age - and upon his oath makes the following amended declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1833 granting pensions to the soldiers of the Revolutionary army - viz - He states - that the first campaign he served as stated in his former declaration - was as well as he remembers with the first mother troops that were marched from North Carolina to the South, after the commencement of the War, - and must have been in the year 1776 or 1777, - perhaps in the winter of the year 1776-7, for he remembers - a deep snow fell during the campaign; - the first campaign he served was for three months as stated in his former declaration; - his next campaign as stated in his former declaration to the Chobato Nation was commenced in the Spring immediately after the first

campaign was over and must have been probably in the year 1877-; his discharge from this campaign was he thinks for five months; His next tour - after his return from the Chakanaw nation was commenced a short time after his return home, he thinks not exceeding from three to six months after his return home; this tour was for three months -; His fourth tour was commenced  performed after Gates's defeat and while Burnside was marching through Abbeville; - this was a three months tour - apparently was taken sick during this campaign of as stated in his former declaration served a period until able to perform duty - but did not receive order to join the army - until his tour of three months expired - and for this tour he thinks he never had a discharge - Though partly entitled to it; - he was sick near six  three weeks - and the balance of the three months was in extreme ex- -haust with his company. - He left the tour near the close of the war - and for he remem- -bers that during its continuance - many weeks there of the surrender of Burnside at York- -town - and there was a general rejoicing among the troops; - Upon this tour he served five months; the whole of his service together as stated

was nineteen months - and for that length of time he thinks himself entitled to a pension The reason why he did not in his original declaration mention the evidence of a disgrace as to his char- -ter and reported services as a revolutionary soldier was, that there was some some  who lived some distance from him, at the time he made his application, and had promised to attend Court - but failed to attend, - and he was informed - that two of his neighbors - who had long known him and were respectable citizens would answer the same purpose. Applicant states that he can prove no other witness by whom to prove his services but Daniel Seng whose deposition accompanies - his original declaration. -
Isaiah his D. Rude mark
Sworn to & subscribed in open Court - this 11 th
June 1833 -
Tho: J. Porter Clerk
By Deputy Wm. E. Emmons
I Thomas J. Porter Clerk of the Court of Pleadings & Justice Superior for the County of State of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the annulled Declaration of Isaiah Rude for a seal of office  seal of office  in testimony whereof I have minutes of the same & the same this 11 th day of June 1833
Tho: J. Porter Clerk By Deputy Wm. E. Emmons