Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 9077, for Thomas Reynolds, Virginia

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No 38353 Tho s Runnels dec d
Ohio
Letto H. Turner June 21/52 " D. L. Regan dec. Nov. 1/53
9076
Act June 7 1832

No. 9077
, Ex'r.
Am
OLD WAR INVALID.
Thomas Runnels
P. O. at Reynolds
REJECTED
Service :
Enlisted : _____ , 18 .
Discharged : _____ , 18 .
Application filed : _____ , 18 .
Alleges : _____
Re-enlisted : _____
Attorney : _____
P. O. _____

Tiffin City Seneca County, Ohio. Monday, October 24 th 1853
L. P. Waldo Esq. } Comm. Pension } Sir.
About one year ago, I made application for a pension, for the services of my Grandfather. Thomas Reynolds who was a Soldier of the Revolution and was killed at the battle of Yorktown, after serving in the U. S. Army two years and six months (in the Virginia Continental line), he had enlisted for during the war. - My papers are on file - and I would be glad to hear what has been done with my application. I am the only son of John Reynolds decd. who died in Virginia, and said John Reynolds was the last surviving son and heir of said Thomas Reynolds for whom services I am now trying to get a pension.
Please let me hear from you on the subject. and much obliged Yours Very Respectfully
J. C. Reynolds.

Tiffin City, March 4 th 1852.
Sir.
Enclosed you will please find the declaration and power of Attorney of Mr Runnells. which you will have the goodness to have attended to in due time. according to the nature of the case.
I am very respectfully yours &c.
J. G. Furner.
Please submit it to the proper officer of the War Department.
Hon J. C. Heath. Commissioner Pensions.

David S. Reynolds, heir of Thos. Runnels, Ohio
Act

State of Ohio } On this day of March in Seneca County } ss. the year One Thousand eight hundred and fifty-two Personally appeared David S. Reynolds a resident of Seneca County in the State of Ohio being of lawful age and after being sworn in according to law. Declares that he is the lawful heir of Thomas Runnells who enlisted in the Virginia Continental line, for during the war of the Revolution. deponent further states, that he has no remembrance of the names of his company or field officers, or No. of his Regiment. and that he is dependent on the War Department for instructions. Relative to said Ancestry, he further states that the said Thomas Runnells was killed in battle. letter
David S. Reynolds
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written. I hereby certify that David S Reynolds who has signed the above declaration is a person of known respectability for truth and veracity. D Cunningham J.P.
Justice of the peace.
Know all men by these presents that I. David S Reynolds as aforesaid do hereby constitute and appoint J. G. Turner of Tiffin City, Ohio. my true and lawful attorney to receive any information from the records of the War Department at the City of Washington, in reference to the services of Thomas Runnells as aforesaid, and my said attorney is hereby

fully authorized, and empowered to appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him for the special purpose above expressed.
Attest.
D. Cunningham
John Delaplaine
2 Witnesses.
David S. Speegle
Personally appeared the above named _____ Subscribed to the foregoing declaration and made the to the same and in my presence, acknowledged the power of attorney to be his free act and deed for the purpose therein mentioned. D. Cunningham J.P.
Justice of the peace.
State of Ohio } I Philip Spelman Clerk Lucas County } ss of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, and State aforesaid do hereby certify that D. Cunningham Esq. whose genuine signature appears to foregoing declaration and power of attorney was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the peace duly commissioned and sworn that all his official acts are entitled to full faith and credit; and that the aforesaid Court of Common Pleas is a Court of Record having General Jurisdiction.
Given under my hand and seal of office at Tiffin this fourth day of March 1852. Philip Spelman Clerk

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD* 2
NAME Reynolds, Timothy GRADE Private LINE New York (Ronalds)
Pencil notation only
WARRANT NUMBER 7685 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Oct. 20, 1790
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*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.