Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39033, for Giles Reed, New Jersey

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New Jersey
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S. 39033
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hmf sent to Mrs. Moore, Clarkburg, Va 27 Dec 1870
Expt from Roll July 6 1820 in the year about 4 years
This man for 10-17-20 deserted - in the Roll
9286 Virginia R Pennsylvania
Giles Reed
of Fayette County in the state of Pennsylvania who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Dayton of the New Jersey line, for the term of three years -
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 22 nd of August 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th of April 1819 and delivered to Mr Samuel Smith then at Washington City
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819. 6 1/4 mo. $ 51. 61 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Sep 1819. $ 48 $ 99. 61
Continued { Revolutionary claim, } Act 18th March, 1818. } transferred on 11 Nov 1820 (on 22 Dec 1870)

Giles Reed
3 N. Jersey reg. senior
Conect with roll Admitted
MS 59 Application of Giles Reed an old soldier for pension under the act of 18 th March 1815.
Rep. d 7 Ap. r 1819

On this eighth day of January A.D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty one personally appeared in open court (being a court of record for the county aforesaid) Elias Reed aged about seventy years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his affirmation make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the act of Congress of the 18 th March A.D. 1818 and the first May A.D. 1820 that he the said Elias Reed now resides in the county and State aforesaid and that he has been a resident of the place aforesaid for the space of thirty years and upwards. And that he the said Elias Reed served in the Revolutionary war in the manner following to wit. In the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five he enlisted under Captain Thomas Patterson of the third Regiment of the New Jersey Line commanded by Col. E. Dayton from whence said Reg t went by the way of New York, Albany &c. to Fort Muncie or Dayton in the year seventy six to Secondogoga where he enlisted for three years thence he went to head quarters Morristown about June A.D. 1777 and that he was in the battle of the Short Hills under Generals Sterling & Mawell. And that he was also in the battle of Redbank & Redbank town and Monmouth was also out in Sullivan's Campaign in 1779. was discharged in 1780 and that he enlisted afterwards under Lieut. Col. Francis Barber for during the war. And that on his march to join the Army with General Washington he received the account of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis and in consequence received orders to return to Trenton at which place he was discharged. Also that his original declaration to obtain a pension was dated on the second 22 nd day of August A.D. 1818 and that he has received a certificate for a pension N o 9286. And he also declares on his solemn affirmation that he was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that he has not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of his property or any part thereof with thereby to diminish it so as to bring himself 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 the 18 th day of March 1818. And that he has not nor has any person acting for him any property securities contracts or debts due him, nor has he any income other than what is contained in the following schedule hereto annexed and by him subscribed.
Schedule of Property
  1 Pewter tea pot $0.50 Skimmer ladle, buckets box $9.56   2 tea Canisters " 50 19th & hangings " 50   1 lamp & candlestick " 25 Pair wool dress " 20   1 Pepper box and Cruet " 50 Coarse cloth, fork, adze drawing knives 2.25   1 Tumbler & salt cellar " 25 Hummer's Chisel butchers knife 2.25   1 Gnu machine " 15 Shellet whetstone 2.25   2 Razors & shaving box 1.50 Books, spoon, pack saddle 2.25   4 plates, 1 hair sieve " 50 16..   " 25 

one Chest of Sundry articles & 2000
Giles his Reed
mark
And he the said Giles Reed on his solemn affirmation declares that he is by occupation a day labourer and that he has neither wife nor children living with him at this time and that he is not able to support, by his daily labor, by reason of his advanced age and frequent attacks of the Rheumatism. H
Giles his Reed (mark)
Jan 28 th 1820 Sworn and subscribed in open court John H. Blair.
Fayette County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ss.
I John H. Blair Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule 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 sixteen dollars and seventy four cents. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County the thirteenth day of June 1820 eighteen hundred and twenty one.
John H. Blair Prothonotary
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Fayette County ss Pennsylvania 3
Before me the subscriber one of the judges of the Court of common pleas in & for the County of Fayette
Personally came Giles Reed who with a view to obtain the pension allowed by the act of Congress passed the 18th day of March 1818 did declare upon oath that he entered in the revolutionary army in Captain Thomas Patterson's company at Princeton in the State of New Jersey in the Spring of the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy six that he was attached to the 3 d  New Jersey regiment of the line of the revolutionary army commanded by Colonel Elias Dayton - that he continued in the said service for upwards of four years, his first enlistment thereof being for one year, & his second enlistment at Fort Stanwix for 3 years in the same company - that he was in the following battles to wit the battle of the Short Hills - of Brandywine in 1777 - of Germantown in same year - of Monmouth in 1778 - also in the battle fought by Genl Sullivan in which he defeated the Indians in 1779 That he was finally discharged at the huts near Morris town in New Jersey aforesaid That he has no written evidence of his discharge or existence at this time - That he has never received his pay or compensation for his services aforesaid, or any pension from the State or United States, and if he had he doth hereby relinquish the same to the United States aforesaid in consideration of the pension allowed under this application, and he doth further declare on oath as aforesaid that from his reduced cir- cumstances in life he stands in need of assistance from his country for support. Sworn & subscribed before me this 22 nd day of August one thousand eight hundred and eighteen at Uniontown County of Fayette aforesaid.
John Roberts
Giles Reed his mark

Fayette County } before Samuel Roberts President of the court of common personally appeared an open court  therein Mathias Chip and Laurence Sutton who being duly sworn did depose and say that they are well acquainted with Giles Reed the with- named applicant that they fully believe that the facts contained in his statement, are true under that from his reduced circumstances in life, and his inability in old age to support himself by his daily labour on which he has always depended, he stands in need of assistance from his country for support Sworn & subscribed in his Mathias Chip  mark the 21 st day of August 1818 mark Samuel Sutton
Sam Roberts
Fayette County } Pennsylvania }
Samuel Roberts President of the court of common pleas of the fifth judicial district in the Commonwealth etc Do certify that  the foregoing statement was reduced to writing from the testimony exhibited to me I am fully satisfied that the said Giles Reed served in the Revolutionary War in the army

Plan of the fifth district
upon the Continental establishment against the Common Enemy for Nine Months, at one period, I am also satisfied that he is in indigent circumstances. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this twenty first day of August A D One thousand eight hundred & eighteen.
Samuel Roberts
State of Pennsylvania I, John H. Blair, Prothonotary of the court of common pleas
in and for the County of Fayette. Do certify that Samuel Roberts Esquire before whom the foregoing Deposition was taken was at the time of so doing and still is Presi- dent Judge of the Courts of Common Pleas of the fifth district in the Commonwealth aforesaid - and that as such faith & credit are due and ought to be given to all his Official acts as well within court as thereout. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office the Twenty second day of August Eighteen hundred & eighteen.
John H. Blair Proth.

November 20, 1934.
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Mr. Lyle B. Hornor 405 Stanley Avenue Clarksburg, West Virginia
BA-J/ady John Sharp, S.38367 Giles or Jiles Reed S.39033
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Giles Read of New York, New York, who received a pension in Harrison County, Virginia, also, record of John Sharp of Pennsylvania, who received a pension in Harrison County, Virginia.
The record of John Sharp is furnished you herein and the record of the only Giles Read found on the Revolutionary War records is given also, as found in the claims for pension based upon their service in the Revolutionary War.
John Sharp, S.38367
The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of John Sharp, the name is also shown as Sharpe, are not shown.
He enlisted in 1776 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, served as private in Captain James Taylor's Company, Colonels Anthony Wayne's and Richard Butler's Pennsylvania Regiments; was in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown and the taking of Stony Point and discharged in the summer of 1781 by Captain Thomas Boude.
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 18, 1818 while a resident of Harrison County, Virginia.
In 1828 he was living in Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia, and aged seventy-two years.
In 1820 his wife was sixty-eight years old; her name not stated. There are no further family data.
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Giles or Jiles Reed, S.39033
Giles Reed applied for pension August 22, 1818 in

Fayette County, Pennsylvania. On June 2, 1818, he had made joint affidavit with one George Reed in Butler County, Ohio, that they served together in the Revolutionary War and George Reed stated that Giles Reed was then (June 2, 1818) a resident of Monongahela? County, Virginia. No relationship between these two soldiers is shown.
Giles or Jiles Reed stated that he enlisted in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1775 or 1776, served in Captain Thomas Patterson's Company, Colonel Elias Dayton's Third New Jersey Regiment, was in service at Fort Stanwix and Ticonderoga, was in the battles of Short Hills, Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, General Sullivan's campaign in 1779 and was discharged in 1780, that he again enlisted under Lieutenant Colonel Francis Barber for the duration of the war and on the march received news of the surrender of Cornwallis and they were ordered to return to Trenton where he was discharged.
On August 21, 1820, Giles or Jiles Reed was a resident of Harrison County, Virginia, and aged sixty-nine years. The date of his birth and names of parents are not stated. In January 1821, he stated that he was a resident of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and had been a resident of that county for more than thirty years and that he had neither wife nor children living with him at that time (January 1821). No names of his family are stated.
Giles or Jiles Reed was allowed pension on his application executed August 23, 1818, the date given above. It was later ascertained, however, that he was recorded on the military rolls as having deserted from the army in January 1780 and no evidence found that he ever returned to the army. In consequence of this, his name was dropped from the pension rolls July 6, 1821. He was deceased in 1838. The date of his death is not shown.
Very truly yours
A. D. MILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

Virginia Giles Reed,
of Penn: 1800.
certificate issued 15 April 1819.
Placed on the Pension list and draft, on ac- count of having deserted. See letters 6 July 1821 - 24 Oct. 1822 - 17 Ap. 1824 - 28 1825 - 19 Jan. 1825.
Hon. A. Stewart has a number of papers in this case in rela- tion to the charge of Reed's having de- serted.
copies of the within papers sent to Hon. A. Stewart H. R. March 31. 1828.
file Sept 1879

Of a Giles Reed. draws a pension, he applied for land, his papers is returned to me a marked desertion - only compare this with Poor Quaker Pearce

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39.033 Pay INVALID.
1934 Nov. 20. Hist. to Lyle B. Hormor, see Rev. War Clm. of John Sharp, S. 383067.92 3/4
File No. 39.033
Files Recd Pl. Rev. War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index: — Vol. 8 , Page 415
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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no 27 March 1828
for A Stewart
JLR
L. Edwards Esq
Pension Fund

Mr. J. L. Edwards will oblige A. Stewart by sending to him all the papers, exposition etc. on file in the Pension office in the case of "Giles Reed" now dec? who was stricken from the roll on an allegation of desertion his representations wish to make them the foundation for a special act in his case. respectfully
Mar 26. 1878
a prompt answer is requested.

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War Department Oct. 31, 1822
Mr. J. Smith Union Town, Penn.
Sir:
In answer to your letter respecting Giles Reed, whose case has lately been re-examined. I have to inform you, that his claim is rejected. It appears from the rolls in the Pension Office, that he deserted; and as no other evidence is admissible in this case, the credit of a record being greater than the testimony of witnesses, he can be considered in no other character than that of a deserter. The invariable rule is, that whoever quits the service by desertion, forfeits every claim to the bounty of his country. The claimant is not therefore entitled to a pension. I am etc.
J. C. Calhoun
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War Dept. April 13th, 1824.
Hon. A. Stewart H. R.
Sir:
In answer to the enclosed letters, I have to state that as the rule of the Department has invariably been in revolutionary claims, to consider the credit of a record greater than the testimony of witnesses, and as Giles Reed's name is noted on the records of the Department as a Deserter, the decision in his case cannot be reversed.
It is contrary to the regulations of this Department to give information in regard to revolutionary services from the rolls, in order to obtain bounty lands, I can merely state, therefore, that John Clark proved his service by two witnesses, and on that evidence his name was placed on the Pension list.
J. C. C.
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War Department Pension Office January 8, 1825
Hon!ble A. Stewart H. Rep.
Sir:
The papers forwarded by you to this Department in the case of Giles Reed have been examined. It appears from the Rolls in this office that he deserted, and as no evidence is admissible in this case the credit of a record being greater than the testimony of witnesses, he can be considered in no other character than that of a deserter. The invariable rule is, that whoever quits the service by desertion forfeits every claim to the bounty of his country.
The claimant therefore is not entitled to a pension. I return herewith the pension certificates of Joseph Hicks and John Pratt and have to state that the 3d section of the act of March 1st, 1823 expressly prohibits any pension allowed after that time from commencing at a date previous thereto. It is not in the power of this Department to allow their pensions from the time of completing the testimony which was at first taken, but they have been allowed from the date of that act.
J. L. E.
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War Department Pension Office 19th January 1825
Hon. A Stewart H. Rep
Sir:
I have again examined the papers in the case of Giles Reed. He is recorded in the office as a deserter, and does not appear to have returned to the Army afterwards. This evidence is deemed the best as the credit of a record is greater than the testimony of witnesses. The rule in cases of this kind has invariably been to reject the claim, and I cannot dispense with the rule without special instructions from the Secretary of War.
J. L. E.
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War Department Pension Office 19th January 1825
Hon. A Stewart H. Rep
Sir:
I have again examined the papers in the case of Giles Reed. He is recorded in the office as a deserter, and does not appear to have returned to the Army afterwards. This evidence is deemed the best as the credit of a record is greater than the testimony of witnesses. The rule in cases of this kind has invariably been to reject the claim, and I cannot dispense with the rule without special instructions from the Secretary of War.
J. L. E.
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War Dept. Pension Office July 6, 1821
Mr. G. Reed Harrison Co. Virginia care of Thomas P. Moore Clarksburg, Va.
Sir:
Since your name was inscribed on the pension list, it has been ascertained that you deserted from the army January 10, 1780. The Secy. of War, therefore, has directed Agent to strike your name from the list of pensioners.
I am etc. J. L. E.
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Virginia At a court held for the County of Harrison on the 21 st day of August 1870 being a court of record established by an act of the General Assembly of this Commonwealth Personally appeared before the Court against Silas Reed aged 69 years resident of Harrison County V.A. who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows that he enlisted in the Year 1776 in the 3 d Jersey Regiment Captain Pattersons Company commanded by Col t Dayton at the Jersey line that his former declaration was dated on the 22 d day of August 1818 and that his former certificate for pension was No 9286 and I do solemnly affirm that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner whatsoever disposed of any property or any part thereof with intent thereby to or 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 & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed on the 18 th day of March 1818. 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 herunto annexed & by me subscribed. viz I have no property except a few Books & some little house- hold furniture estimated to be worth about 16 dollars & 14 cents Silas his Reed Mark
And he further declares that he is by occupation a labourer and that he has neither wife nor children serving him at this time that he is unable to pursue his daily labour as usual by reason of age & infirmity that as he now resides in Harrison County Virginia he prays the Honorable Secretary of War to place him on the Virginia agency Pay roll.
John Wilson Clerk of the County Court of Harrison Co. certify that the foregoing

is truly copied from the records in my office, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the above schedule is is 16 dollars & 14 cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said County the 18 th day of August 1820
Wilson J. Giles
J. Reed
Com.

State of Ohio } Butler County } ss.
Before the subscriber an associate judge for the county of Butler Personally came Giles Reed George Reed who being duly sworn according to law deponeth and saith that Giles Reed who is now present that he was was in the service of the United States during the revolution- ary war at the company of Captain Pat- terson in the third regiment in the New- Jersey line that he saw him doing the duties of a common soldier in said com- pany at Ticonderoga in the fall of seven- teen hundred and seventy six. This deponent further saith that he served with said Giles Reed in said company from the spring of seventeen hundred and seventy six for the term of nine months at which time this deponent left the service of the United States the said Giles still continued in the service This deponent further saith that himself and said Giles were present at the battle of Monmouth This deponent believes that said Giles Reed now lives in the county of Monongahela county in the state of Virginia & further this deponent saith not sworn to
2 d day June A. D. 1818
Giles his Reed X Mark George his Reed mark
Robt. Saylor

State of Ohio } ss Butler County
I Robert H. Saylor associate Judge for the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Butler in the State of Ohio do hereby certify that from the deposition of George Reed and from the deposition of Giles Reed it appears to my satisfaction that Giles Reed served in the revolutionary war against the common enemy as a common soldier in the third Regiment in the New Jersey line in the Company of Captain Thomas Patterson for the term of nine months and that reside in the County of Monongahela in the State of Virginia and June Second AD 1818 Robt H. Saylor
The State of Ohio Butler County } ss I John Reily Clerk of the court of common pleas of the county of Butler aforesaid do certify that Robert H. Saylor Esquire before whom the deposition within and stated was taken and the certificate above was made was at the time of the making the within and above one of the associate Judges of our said court of common pleas of the said county of Butler and that to all his Official acts as such full faith and credit is due and ought to be given
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Official Seal at Dayton the third day of June One Thousand eight hundred and eighteen John Reily