Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 8677, for Tallcot Reed, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Reed, Talcot.
P. 8677
CONTENTS

+ 2169 Fallcot Reed
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Pension papers
L.S.

State of Ohio
Huron County
St Norwalk 27 th July
AD 1832
At and before the Inferior Court for said State held in said Norwalk on said 27 th day of July A D 1832 On this 27 th day of July 1832 personally appeared before the Judges of the said Court Tollett Reed President of them in the County & State aforesaid aged sixty seven years & upwards 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 is the year that General Cornwallis was captured at York Town. He then belonging to Newtown in Connecticut, he enlisted under Captain Lodewick Morgan or Captain Morgan of said Newtown as a Teamster in the French Army which landed at Boston and Newport for ten months in the continental Line of the Revolutionary War. That Colonel Jeremiah Wadsworth of Hartford Connecticut was the head commander of all the Teams which were employed. That he then in about a Week joined the French Army abroad Newtown & then went to Danbury & joined the Company of Teamsters under the command of a Captain Pierce. The Teams belonged to the French Army went on with a Load to the White Plains, lay there about seven Weeks then went onto the South crossed the North river at Kings Bridge on the west side at Verplank on the East side of said river & marched down to Trenton Philadelphia & from there to the head of Elk river from there to Baltimore from there to Annapolis from there to York Town in Virginia. Here came a Cannon Ball Bombshell for seven or eight days from James River to York Town was then where when York Town & General Cornwallis was captured by the American Army, saw the British Army march out through the American Works & surrendered their arms. General Washington & Colonel Alexander Hamilton were there when he saw daily that he also saw General Washington at White Plains. That after Cornwallis was captured about two or three months he was dismissed - don't recollect that any discharge was given to him. He was a boy seventeen years of age when he enlisted as aforesaid. That he served about nine months. That he knows of no persons or person now living, excepting David Fort & Erasmus Green of Danbury Connecticut and Nathan Barber of Otsego County State of New York, whose deposition he procured about ten years ago last October & delivered them to the Honorable Eleutheroo Cooke member of Congress last State to carry them on to Washington, who can testify to his aforesaid services. That upon reflection he can't positively say that he saw Colonel Hamilton at York Town, but he presumes & believes he did, as

4. knows he frequently saw General Washington there, as he has mentioned before
Subscribed & sworn the day & year aforesaid
Talbot Reed
Attest D. Gibbs Clerk Sup. Ct.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any State.
Talbot Reed
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
Attest D. Gibbs Clerk Sup. Ct.
The Joshua Phillips a Clergyman residing in the Town of Berrien in said County - and Smith D. Baldwin in said County do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Talbot Reed who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be sixty seven years of age - that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion - and that we consider him a man of truth & veracity
Joshua Phillips S. D. Baldwin
Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Attest D. Gibbs Clerk Sup. Ct.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above Applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and served as such. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Joshua Phillips who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman residing in the Town of Berrien in said County of Huron, and that Smith D. Baldwin who also has signed the same is a resident in the Town of Ridgely in said County is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Attest D. Gibbs Clerk Sup. Ct.
I D. Gibbs Clerk of the Supreme Court in said County do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in said Court in the matter of the application of Talbot Reed for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal of Office this 27 day of July A.D. 1832 D. Gibbs Clerk Sup. Ct.

Salcott Beea
Ohio
No 2169-
8677
Act 7 June 1882

BRIEF in the case of
of Ypsilanti
Yalcott in the State of (Act 7th June, 1832.)
Ohio
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? 76 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.     In 1781 Enlisted as Teamster " 9 As a Teamster Gen. Gobernador Morris Commander of all the Troops Capt. Frederick Morgan   
5. In what battles was he engaged? Yorktown 6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Newton Connecticut 7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary 8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Site
Examining Clerk.

At Vicksburg i forgot to state the time i Enlisted and when i got home neither can just right But it was the last of April or the four part of May i Returned home i reckon about Newyears.
Talbot Reed Ohio.
Register see letter.
to L. B. Sturges 12 Nov 1832
Not to Hon. M. Bloodbridge
May 30th 1845
do to Hon. H. Johnson, Jan. 12.
1849 Left to F. A. Farquhar August 1st 49

Acts of July 17, 1902, and March 3, 1903.
81177
P. O. Salvador Reina
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
REJECTED
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

19/41
Wall

Washington D.C. July 28. 1849
To J. L. Edwards Esq. Com. of Pensions Sir
Some 16 years ago Isaac Reed , now living in Missouri filed app n for Pension, Mr Reed again calls for information, Senator Atchison had charge of case but it appears has not been able to furnish Mr Reed with any information - Will you do me the favor to inform me at your earliest convenience such information as your office affords - Reed was a Teamster war with Lafayette was at the surrender of Cornwallis - further particulars I cannot give
Very Respectfully,
A. M. Farquhar

Washington Jan y 25-
1845
James L. Edwards Esq Comm ee of Pensions do do h.
Sir
I take the liberty to enclose herewith a letter I have recently rec d from a Mr S. Vickery - a respected member of the Michigan Legislature now in session - Enclosed within it, is the state t of an aged relic of the Revolution of the name of Talbot Reed.
Will you do me the favour to examine these documents at your earliest convenience & advise me if the case of Mr Reed come within the scope of any provision heretofore made for the relief of those engaged in the war of the Revolution? - And will you be pleased to advise me what steps, in such an exigency, - it might be proper for the applicant to take? — When you shall have done with the papers will you do me the fav r also - to return them?
Very respectfully Yr obed t serv t Wm Lloyd Bridge

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Suleott Bocca which require 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 ? Yes 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 ? Yes XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it ? 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 ? Yes 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 ? 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 ? XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct ? Yes 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, deposeth 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 affidavits must be properly authenticated, as above directed.
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.

November 20 A D 1841
I now wish to state my services for my country to the friends of my country In the year 1781 There came an army from France to Assist America against great Britain they Landed at Newport near Boston they came on through Connecticut through Newtown Fairfield County where I Livd and wa Born They Employed Some of our men to By up Teams to draw there Bagage and Enlist drivers I was then in the seventeenth year of my age I enlisted for ten Months to drive a team and went on with the French army Down to the white plains about 20 miles South of the City of newyork there then Being a heavy British army in Newyork City at white Plains we fell in with General Washington and his army we lay here Seven or Eight weeks and then General Washington his army and the French Army all Marched to York town in the South part of Virginia and there took Lord Cornwallis i Drove a team in the Army All the way the Siege of station I think lasted Seven dayes firing was over the Sixteenth of October the Eighteenth Lord Cornwallis Genl Wallis came out with all his army and Surrendored to a Mexican army i Saw the doings of the day After this i assisted two days in hawling the heavy artillery from the halves and Placing them on the green where they were ordered up to Williamsburg twelve Mide a bore where all our teams Died with the Murrin

And soon after this they Discharge us and Let us go home to Connecticut and M y S r when the pension Act first came out i lived in the State of ohio Huron County i Employed Mr. Sturges of - V er mont he Enford me that all their came from Congress that i did not come within the Limits of the act Because i belonged to the french army A few years after Mr. Sturges was a mind to try again and did so at that time i moved to the State of Michagan he told me he would wright tome and Let me no how the matter went but the never wrote M r Ezekiah Morgan was the man who in List ed me me and he i believe was dishonest for he never paid me one sent Being unfortunate i now am poor i yet make out to live in Battung Charas and making Baskets if the Gentlemen of Congress would help me a little i should feel grateful
Salmon Reed