Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33,544, for John Reed, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Mass
Reed, John
NUMBER
S. 33.544
CONTENTS

13. 977 R
Massachusetts
John Rea 2 a ,
(Middlesex Co)
Attest in the state of Massachusetts who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Prescott of the Massachusetts line, for the term of One year
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 6 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 of July 1818 and sent to Samuel Danks Esq. Groton Massachusetts
  Arrears to 4th of  Mar. 1819  87. 69    Semi-ann. all'ce ending  Sep. 1819.  48. 00    10 Mo \frac{25}{30} \frac{4}{31}   $135. 69  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
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John Reed - Private y6 to 77 Prescott Mapac to Regt
Admitted
Proof of service & the Judge's Certificate as to indigence required.
13 The deposition of witness, certified by the magistrate who administers the oath, to be credible & disinterested, as to the service and discharge of the applicant is required. The official character & signature of the magistrate must be properly authenti- cated.

To the Honorable JOHN C. CALHOUN, Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I, the undersigned Samuel Dana , Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Middle Circuit, (comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being a Court of Record, duly established by Law, Do hereby certify, That on the sixth day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen . Personally appeared John Reed and made and subscribed the declaration which is hereunto annexed.
from which it appears to me, that the said John Reed did serve in the War of the REVOLUTION, against the common Enemy, upwards of nine months.
Wherefore, in pursuance of the directions of an Act of Congress, made and passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," I have transmitted the said Declaration to you the said Secretary, that such further proceedings may be had in the premises, as the said Act may require.
In testimony of all which, I have caused the Seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand within the said Circuit, the sixth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Sam d Dana

+1 John Reed. -

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
BE it remembered, that on this Sixth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen before me, SAMUEL DANA , Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Middle Circuit, (comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex, in the Commonwealth aforesaid) comes John Reed
of Acton in said county of Middlesex  two and on oath declares, that he served in the War of the Revolution for the space of two years, and two months, against the Common Enemy, that he entered the service of the State of Massachusetts in the month of June in the year of our Lord one thousand, Seven hundred and Seventy Five, and remained therein, till the last of December in the then enlisted upon the Continental establishment, for the term of one year, in the Company of Captain Morse, in the Regiment of Col. William Prescott, Lt. Col. Moulton and Major Hemenwood, in the Massachusetts line, he remained a short time at Red Bank  Brooklyn when his Regiment repaired to the City of New York, & from thence to Governors Island in the harbor of that City, & he continued doing duty in New York, and New Jersey until the expiration of his term, when his Regiment, lay at Peekskill, where they were all dismissed and returned home to his residence, in a place called Halles . He next served at the Capture of Burgoyne's Army, and was afterwards employed to Guard that Army. He is now sixty years of age, is nearly destitute of property, and his ability to procure a subsistence by labor is fast declining so that
1755 $50 1915
He stands in need of assistance from his country for his support, by reason of his reduced circumstances in life
Thus made, subscribed, and sworn to, at Acton in said county of Middlesex - the day and year aforesaid.
Sam d Dana John Reed

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John Reed 2nd 7
13479 July 1847
[Faint signature or initials]
John Reed

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A. D. 1820
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice, and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, } of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, John Reed 2d resident in Acton in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 13.979 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
“ WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM. ”
“ I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, John Reed 2d late a Private in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the Sixth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ” “ Given at the War Office of the United States, this fifteenth day of July one thousand eight hundred and nineteen . ”
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,”
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
“ Real Estate none. Personal estate viz.
  1 swine of the value of 4.00 Shovel .50 hoe .15 $4.65   Dry fork .50 3 axes 4.00 2 stone hammers 2.00 6.50   2 pails .25 - - 6.75   5 chairs .75 knives & forks .50 tea kettle 1.50 2.75   Brookery glass & earthen ware 9.00 audirons 1.50 - 10.50   Shovel & tongs 1.00 crane 1.00 pot .50 2.50   2 chests 1.00 coffee mill .58 - 1.58   John Reed, 2d $23.75 
And the said John Reed 2d having been first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served as a Private in the Revolutionary war one year viz. in Capt. Joseph Morse's

Company in the Regiment commanded by Col. William Prescott, Massachusetts line and also served about one year in other corps was in one of the battles with Gen. Burgoyne previous to his surrender all which is set forth in his original declaration on file in the war of 1812 dated April 5 th 1818 - that he is sixty two years of age a common labourer but unable to perform more than half a man's common labour - that his family consists of his wife Sarah aged 57 years very sickly and unable to labour and his daughter Nancy aged 17 years who enjoys common health.
John Reed 2 o .
Sworn & declared to before me.
L. Dana Judge. 4

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Samuel Dana — a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, John Reed do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so 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 and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and 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 hereto annexed and by me subscribed. So help me GOD.
John Reed
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. junio Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed John Reed took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me,
Samuel Dana Judge of said Court.
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW , Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and 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
Twenty three dollars and seventeen cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 20th day of July 1820
Attr.
Abraham Biglow

33 544 Recy INVALID.
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File No. 33, 5 44
John Reed His Recd Recd
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 9, Page
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Mch. 23. 1897. History to Mrs. Henry Hall c/o Henry Hall. N.Y. Tribune - N.Y. City. (see Inv. 29.906)
John Reed born in 1818 In 1870 on your list of children of John Reed & son C. 1818 Elizabeth & John Burgoyne had in 1890 wife Sarah Burgoyne died March 1897

I Jonathan Parker now of Hollis in the State of New Hampshire do testify and say that I served as a Soldier in the Army during the war revolution was in the year service so called which commenced the first of January A.D. 1776 in the Company commanded by Capt. John Nutting in Col. John Prescott's Regt. we marched from Small's point in Cambridge in Mass to New York, and at that time I well knew one John Read name of Adon in Mass. who belonged to Capt. Moore's Company in the Regiment aforesaid the said Read was said to belong to Hollis, I well remember him, at Small's point, in the winter of 1776 and afterwards, at New York, and I well know that he served during the said year, that he commenced at Cambridge, and was at the end of his year on the first of January A.D. 1777. dismissed at Fort Kilin, in New York the said Officers of said Regiment are all dead and I have understood Capt. Moore, his Lieut. Cheney, Woods, & Sanger are also dead.
JOHN PARKER
I William Adams, name of Hollis in the State New Hampshire, do testify and say, that I belonged to Hollis when the American Revolution commenced, I was in the first Campaign, & was in the Battle of Bunker Hill, I enlisted for the year service which commenced the first of January A.D. 1776 in Capt. Moore's Company in Col. Prescott's Regiment served out my year - at that time I knew one John Read name of Adon in the State of Massachusetts, we both belonged to Hollis, had both been in the eight months service, & enlisted into the Company at the same time, & we both served the said year, which we commenced at Small's point, and finished at Fort Kilin, in New York, where we were dismissed the first of January A.D. 1777, no discharges were given to any of the

Soldiers of that Regt. — I lived a short distance only from Col o Prescott, & may afterwards find Henry Woods, all the field Officers of that Regiment, and all the Capt s & Subalterns except Capt s Morris, Lieut s Bartlett, & Walker, & Sign Lawrence have died. —
William Adams
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
On the twelfth day of June in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and nineteen, personally appeared the above named William Adams and Jonathan Parker before me the Subscriber Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the middle Circuit and a Justice of the Peace throughout the same Commonwealth, and each for himself severally made Oath that the foregoing Depositions by them respectively subscribed are just and true. —
And I Certify that the said Jonathan Parker and William Adams are credible Witnesses entitled to belief before all tribunals, & in all places, and that they are disinterested in the application of John Read to be placed on the pension list — And I further certify that I know the situation & circumstances of said Read, that he is wholly destitute of property & that he stands in need of assistance for his support — Given under my hand the day and year aforesaid
Levi Dana