Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17,648, for Amesiah Reed, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Reed, Amariah
S 17,648
CONTENTS
carded

Maine 27947
Amesiah Reed, rec d of Kennebec in the State of Maine who was a Pvt. in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the B th _____ commanded by Col. _____ in the _____ line for 2 years - Certificate of Medical Board - Maine -
Cop y for the Agent P.M.B.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine _____ at the rate of 50 Dollars _____ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 d day of Sep. 34 and Sub-R.C. 100 Augusta - Maine -
Arrears to the 4th of _____ Semi-annual allowance ending _____ from Jan. 1833 to _____ $163.50 the day of his death.
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Nath. Rice Clerk, Book _____ Vol. 1 Page 49

17648 INVALID.
File No. 17648
General Book
17648
Act: 17648
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 313
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Rev Star

Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
STATE OF MAINE, } ss. KENNEBEC COUNTY, }
On this third day of June A. D. 1834 personally appeared in open Court before the Hon. Nathan Weston, Junr., a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court , of said State, Jediah Reed a resident of Weld in the County of Oxford and State of Maine, aged seventy five years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year with Captain  and served in Col.  regiment of  the  line or troops under the following named officers:
That she the said Jediah Reed is the widow of Amariah Reed late of said Weld who she always understood & believed served as a private soldier in the Revolutionary war, viz, that he said Amariah Reed enlisted as a private in June 1781, in three regiments viz, Capt. John Williams company afterwards commanded by Capt. Girdale, in Col. Joseph Rose's Massachusetts regiment, that he served until June 1784, when he was discharged at West point. That said Amariah Reed died at said Weld on the eighteenth day of March 1833, without having made a declaration of his services in open court as required by the War Department, although he had frequently mentioned his said service I was preparing to leave home for the purpose of attending court, when he was taken suddenly sick & died on the said 18th day of March 1833. That she believes that said Amariah Reed was born at North Yarmouth, Maine in 1706, I would have been sixty seven years of age, in the May following his decease in March aforesaid. That her said husband was for forty years a member of a Baptist Church, I was at his decease an elder of the Church.
That he was placed on the Maine roll under the Act of Congress of March 18, 1818, and that his pension certificate is numbered  and dropped therefrom on account of his property. That at that time he resided in  in the County of  and State of Maine, and now resides in 
of which he was a member. That she has no documentary evidence of said service I know of no one living by whom she can prove it. That she has heard her said late husband speak of his said services & of the hardships he suffered, & fully believes he served as above stated.
She hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and she declares that his name is not  the name of said Amariah Reed was not to her knowledge on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State, except as aforesaid.
Jediah X Reed mark
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid, Before
Nathan Weston Asst. J.P.C.
And the said Judge does hereby declare his opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he stated by his said widow Jediah Reed.
Nathan Weston

State of Maine.
KENNEBEC, ss.—I, JOHN A. CHANDLER, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of Kennebec, hereby certify that the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Junr, before whom the within proceedings was had, is a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State; I also certify that the within contains the original proceedings of the said Judge, in the matter of the application of
Sedick Reed (widow) for a pension. It has also been satisfactorily proved in open court that the within named General Reed died on the 18th of March 1833, & that the within named Sedick Reed is his widow. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this 3rd day of June
A. D. 1834.
J. A. Chandler
I Zephaniah Bumpus of Livermore in the County of Oxford, State of Maine, aged fifty eight years, do upon oath testify & declare that I well knew the within named Amariah Reed & knew him for about thirty years previous to his death; that I have frequently heard him speak of his services in the Revolutionary war & of his hardships & sufferings; and have no doubt he served as is within stated. He was generally reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resided to have been a Revolutionary soldier. He died at said Weld on the 18th of March 1833, & the within named Sedick Reed is his widow.
Zephaniah Bumpus
State of Maine, Kennebec, ss: Supreme Judicial Court at Augusta, June term 1834, subscribed & sworn to in open court, the deponent being a credible witness.
Before me, Nathan Weston
Act S. J. C.
Augusta,
N. C. Paine
Mr. West the Esq. is a Justice of the Peace. Name White
not S.P.C. The final settlement of Zephaniah Bumpus account is not paid. This is not a certificate with the above statement in the case.
1850
about 28 March 1833
William (C) 3 years
about 3 years
of Amariah Reed
Sedick Reed widow
John Bumpus of Waterville, Kennebec County, Maine, aged eighty two years & upwards, do hereon in the name of the Lord & not of man, testify & say that he well knew the within named Zephaniah Reed, who was a soldier in Capt. William Cony's Co. Bct. Vols. He was a sergeant from 1777 until 1781, and was discharged at the close of the War in June 1783. That Amariah Reed was in service in said regiment from 1777 until 1781, and was discharged at the close of the War in June 1783. That he well knew Amariah Reed in the time of his service, and that he served as a soldier until he was discharged in June 1783. That he well knew Amariah Reed in the time of his service, and that he served as a soldier until he was discharged in June 1783.
John Bumpus
State of Maine, Kennebec, ss: Supreme Judicial Court at Augusta, June term 1834, subscribed & sworn to in open court, the deponent being a credible witness.