Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22048, for Joel Reed, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Nass.
Need Joel Keziah
N 22048
CONTENTS

May 23. 1821, informed that his name could not be restored. Sent to Danl Greenleaf, Esq. P. Master, Washington
Application sent to John H. Sumner Esq. P. Master Clement [illegible] Esq. 21 July 1820
5626 New Hampshire Roll
Joel Reed Private
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 th of Jan y 1819. and sent to Elisha Huntley Esq. Judge Marlow. Chesh. Ct.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818. Amt \frac{22}{30} — 37:86 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th March 1819 — 48:—
3 years
$85:06
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Discontinued
Washington Chesh Ct

Joel Reed of Washington in the County of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire labour do make the following declaration upon oath That some time in March in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven hundred and seventyseven I enlisted as a private soldier in the Army of the United States under the continental establishment in a Company commanded by Capt Nathan Dix of Hoburn in the State of Massachusetts and was attached to the ninth Regiment of the Massachusetts Line commanded by Col. James Wesson and went into immediate Service and continued under said officers during the time I enlisted for when on the twenty eighth day of March in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven hundred and eighty I was honorably discharged
I further state that I am poor and stand in need of the assistance of my country. Joel Reed
Tales of the Shannons, & their
April 13 th 1865 I, Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Ulster, do hereby personally appeared Joel Reed before me, named and known to me to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing Declaration, and acknowledged that he had executed the same as his free act and deed, but the truth and substance hereof is as follows: That He, the said Joel Reed, is now and has at all times since the time of signing the same been and is a true and lawful citizen of the United States, and that the said Joel Reed did serve in the revolutionary war against the Common Enemy in manner as by him stated in his declaration. Whereby testify and transmit the testimony in his here being his oath as aforesaid and his discharge. Signed by James Wilson Colonel To the Honable John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Shika Huntley.
{ name of the Society of the Count of Barnes Place Forster's Court

Chapman I Levi Chamberlain Assistant Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County hereby Certify that the above is the signature of the Hon. Elisha Hunting a Judge of said Court duly commissioned and that no particular impression is used by said Court as a seal In witness whereof I have hereunto Subscribed and affixed seal in form as used by said Court this 28th day of May A.D. 1814
Honorable Secretary War Levi Chamberlain This May Certify that I have examined into the records of the within noted Lock Need and finds him poor and standing in need of the assistance of his Country for Support Marble December 28th 1815 Elisha Hunting - { one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said County
Admissible as evidence of his indigent circum- stances to which the said Admitted Certifies as to the credibility of their certifying the same
By the discharge under the act to be returned to the War Dept with these papers

Joel Reed
5,626
(March 10/19.)
Not entitled
Real estate
Book of accounts
316 03

SCHEDULE,
Of the whole estate (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) and income of Joel Reed of Washington in the County of Cheshire and State of Newhampshire, Applicant for a Pension under the act of Congress of May 1st, 1820.
  About 60 acres of land valued at 225.00   Two oxen 4 years old 35.00   1 Cow & 1 three year old heifer 25. —   4 Sheep & 6 Lambs 8. 33   One calf 3. —   Hog & three pigs 5. —   1 Plow & chain, harrow & other farming tools 5. 50   Iron Ware tables chest & other furniture 10. 00   $310. 83 
I am in debt by notes & accounts two hundred and eighty four dollars and ninety cents  284. 90
Joel Reed
We the Subscribers testify and say, that we have viewed the property contained in the above Schedule, shewn to us by above named , as his property; and are of opinion that the sums set against the respective items are their true value.
Cheshire ss. 182 Personally appeared, above named, and made oath to the truth of the above statement, by them subscribed. Before me,
Justice of the Peace.
I certify, that named, are disinterested and credible witnesses.
above
Justice of the Peace.

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
CHESHIRE COUNTY SS.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
ON this eleventh day of July 1820 personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of said Court being a court of record for said county, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a record of its proceedings, Joel Reed aged sixty three years, resident in Washington in said county, who being first duly sworn, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows: That I enlisted for three years under capt. Na- than Dorr in the ninth Massachusetts Regiment in 806 James Wilson's regiment in the month of March 1777 and was discharged at Westpoint in the month of March 1780 & that previous thereto I served the first eight months therein at Cambridge Mass. in the year 1775 and in the year 1776 making in the whole four years & eight months. The date of my original declaration in order to obtain a pension is the thirteenth day of April 1818. The number of my pension certificate is 5626
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818: and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, 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 18th day of March 1818, 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.
My occupation is that of a farmer, but unable to pursue it as I am very lame, and in addition thereto am subject to epileptic fits. My family residing with me five viz. My wife aged 57 years unable to support herself by reason of the phthisis. My daughter Mary aged 26 years - has con- vulsions - has entirely lost her senses & under the doctors care all the time & cannot contribute anything towards her support. My daughter Sarah aged 24 years - and able to support herself. My daughter Olive aged 22 years able to support herself. son Asa aged 20, a broken arm & lame in his right foot but can support himself.
Joel Reed
Sworn to and declared at Charlestown in said County, on the eleventh day of July 1820 before
R Rose { Judge of said Court.
I, SALMA HALE, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for the County of Cheshire, 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 o- pinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property in the aforesaid schedule, is three hundred eleven dollars and eighty three cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 14 th day of July A. D. 1820
S. Hale

Refo
124.
New Hampshire Co. Keziah Reed widow of Joel Reed who was a private in the New Hampshire line for 2. years.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 th day of May 1843 and sent to
Daniel Greenleaf Washington N. H.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1. Page 20.

918 Keziah Reed moor of Joel N.H. abt July 38 Married in '87 Died in 1830
adm'd 2 years pri SOA
no deduction
David Greenleaf Washington N.H.

Declaration - In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, of the 7 th . July 1838. entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows"
State of New Hampshire. County of Sullivan ss.
On the twenty fifth day of August in the year eighteen hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before the Judge of the Court of Probate now in session at Nashua, in said County. Maria Reed a resident of Washington in the County of Sullivan aforesaid, aged Twenty four Years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed July 7 th . 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" That she is the widow of Joel Reed who was a Private, in the Army of the Revolution; That he was placed on the pension list Roll of the New Hampshire Agency at the rate of eight dollars per month in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 18 th of March 1818. For evidence of his service reference to the War department is solicited, as the claimant has no documentary evidence of said service - She further declares that she was married to the said Joel Reed on the fifteenth day of November A D. 1787 seventeen hundred and eighty seven. That her husband the aforesaid Joel Reed died on the nineteenth day of March eighteen hundred and thirty; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four in at the time above stated.
Heretofore mark Reed
Sworn and subscribed, on the day and year above written
Before John L. Putnam Judge of Probate

J. J. Gilchrist. Register of the Court of Probate for said County. hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Keziah Reed for a pension.
Witness my hand and seal of office this 21 day of August 1838
J. J. Gilchrist Regt Prob.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, August 25 th 1838.
I hereby Certify, That Abner Bartlett Esq e is a _____ Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex, _____ in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John D. Sleeper Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Woburn County of Middlesex, Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
I Oliver B. Coolidge do hereby certify that it appears from the records in my possess- ion, that Joel Reed and Hesterah Reed were married by the Rev: John Marnett on the fifteenth day of November in the year seventeen hundred and eighty seven, and I certify that the above is a true copy of record, with the exception of the date which is expressed in the record in plain leg- ible figures as follows. November the 15 th 1787.
I Oliver B. Coolidge above named do depose and say that I hold the Office of Town Clerk in the town of Woburn in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aforesaid, and the above is a true extract from the records of said town
O. B. Coolidge Town Clerk of Woburn.
County of Middlesex ss: August 25 th A. D. 1808.
Sworn before me,
Abner Bartlett Justice of the Peace

self & wife must be dependent on public charity for support. Attested by 3 witnesses under oath, before Salome Waldo. It does not appear, that the land was even under any incumbrance, or that there were any judgment debts against him at the time he was struck from the roll.
= In the 2 nd Sched: The name of the son, named in the 1 st Sched: is omitted.
Agent Dan l Greenleaf, Esq. P. Master. Martington N. H.
Restored Apr 1 1823 see letter to Pension Agent & F. Meats on May 8: 1829.
Joel Reed
N. Hampshire.
Served 3 y rs from 1777.
1 st Sched: exhibits real estate (60 acres) valued at $ 225. 2. Hen, 4 yr old, $ 35. 1 Cow, 4 1 3 yr old heifer, $ 25. 4 Sheep 26 Lambs - $ 8. 33 - 1 calf, $ 3. Hog, & 3 pigs, $ 5. - 1 plough - 1 chain - harrow & farming tools. $ 5. 50 - Iron ware, table, &c. $ 10. over, $ 204.90.
Aged 65 y rs : very lame, & subject to fits - wife 50 y rs asthma. Mary, 20 y rs convulsions, has en- tirely lost her senses, & unable to contribute to her support. - Sarah, 26 y rs - healthy. - Oliver, 24 y rs healthy. - Asa, 22 - can sup- port himself. - Off, 21 July 1820. Application for restoration - 10 Oct. 1820 rejected. May 23 rd 1821, informed that she could not be reinstated.
= 2 nd Sched: exhibits no proper- ty of any kind. He states, in a letter, (16 th Oct. 1820. that after his name was struck from the roll, his creditors have taken away all his property, & that him,

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 22048
Keziah Reed wid. of Job Reed Priv. Rev. war
Act: March 3 d  1/43
Index:—Vol. 16 , Page 156
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1054
New Hampshire
Regimental Record
widow of Joel Reed, dece'd
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1816-1818, and who died on the 19th day of March 1820
of Sullivan in the State of N.H.
who was a P.M. in the Capt. commanded by Captain [illegible] of the Reg't commanded by [illegible] in the N.H. line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of [illegible] at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1834
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 day of Nov 1838, and signed [illegible] Clerk
Arrears to the 14th of Dec - $200.00 Semi-annual allowance ending
$240.00
{ Act July 7, 1838. }
Recorded by R. Burdick Clerk, Book A Vol. 1 Page 23

Washington D.C. March 21 st 1843
Sir I send you enclosed the Declaration of Miriam Reed, for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the act of January of March 3 rd 1843. She is the Widow of Joel Reed, a Pensioner under the act of March 18 th 1818, the widowhood of his services was furnished at the time he obtained his Certificate, and the widowhood of her being his Widow was furnished at the time she obtained her Certificate under the Act of July 7 th 1838
I am very respectfully Your Obedient Servant Daniel Greenleaf
J. H. Edwards Esq. - } Commr of Pensions } Washington City } D.C. }

Joel Reed a Soldier in Capt. Nathan Dixons Company in the Ninth Massachusetts Regt. in the Service of the United States of AMERICA Having served Out the full time of his Engagement of three Years and is hereby Discharged From the Army and Leave to Pass Home to said State and is also entitled to all Priviledges
that may arise to the three years here from the State or States of North AMERICA To Whome it may Concern J. Wespencott
West Point March. 28 1780

Sept 1 1833 7 71 113
Hon. J. A. Edwards. Commissioner of Pensions Washington City War Department
Wash
Sept 1 1833 7 71 113

Washington D.C. Augt 27 th 1838.
Dear Sir
Inclosed I send you the Declaration, of Keziah Reed, Widow of Joel Reed, with the evidence of her Marriage to the said Joel, his Death , and of her remaining his Widow; for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of an Act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838, granting pensions to certain Widows &c.
Respectfully yours &c
Daniel Greenleaf
Hon. Th. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington City

State of New Hampshire Washington ss and Sally Fisher both of Washington in the County of Sullivan & State of New Hampshire of lawful age testify and say that we were well acquainted with Joel Reed late a Division of the G. Sales and that he died at said Washington on the nineteenth day of March eighteen hundred and thirty. We further testify that we are well acquainted with Maria Reed widow of said Joel and that she has not married since his death but is now living a Widow in said Washington
Benjamin Fts Sally Fisher
State of New Hampshire
Sullivan ss } Personally appeared the above named August 17th 1835 } Benjamin Fts and Sally Fisher and made solemn oath that the above affidavit is true
Before Me Ward Sampson Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Benjamin Fts and Sally Fisher and that I consider them competent witnesses entitled to full credit
Ward Sampson Justice of the Peace

The State of New Hampshire Sullivan Co. I M c Gilmore Clerk of the Superior Court of Indictments. do hereby certify that Wadsworth is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County and that the within signature purporting to be his is in my belief genuine - Given under my hand and seal of the Court this 21 st day of August A.D. 1838 J. M c Gilmore Clerk

Declaration of Keziah Reed, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the third of March 1843, granting pensions for one spouse to certain widows who have received a pension under the act of July 27 th 1838.
State of New Hampshire ss. On this sixteenth day of March 1843 personally appeared before me David Farnsworth a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid. Keziah Reed a resident of Washington in said county aged twenty eight years who being first duly sworn according to law, do hereby make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the third day of March 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Joel Reed late of said Washington deceased, who was a private in the Revolution whose name is inscribed on the Pension list of all of the New Hampshire agency at the rate of eight dollars per month. That she received a pension of eight dollars per year from the 4 th of March 1836 to the 4 th of March 1841, of the Pension agent at Concord New Hampshire under the act of Congress of July 27 th 1838.
She further declares that she is still a widow.
Witnesses
Silas Fisher
David Farnsworth
Keziah Reed Mark
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above mentioned before me
David Farnsworth Justice Peace
I further certify that the above named Keziah Reed is to me personally known and to the truth of her statement I am fully satisfied

years per month. That she received a pension of eighty dollars per year from the 4 th of March 1836 to the 4 th of March 1841. of the Pensions agent at Concord New Hampshire under the act of Congress of July 4 th 1838.
She further declares that she is still a widow.
Witness
Sister Esther
David Farnsworth
Kiziah
for X Reed mark
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above mentioned before me
David Farnsworth
Justice Peace
I further certify that the above named Kiziah Reed is to me personally known and to the truth of her statement I am fully satisfied
David Farnsworth Justice Peace
State of New Hampshire Sullivan County SS.
J. M. Gilmore Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature of the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that David Farnsworth is an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned & qualified; that his commission was dated on the 17 th day of January 1842, and will expire on the 16 th day of January 1847. and that the signatures above written are in my belief purporting to be his are in my belief genuine.
Given under my hand, Seal of the said County this 20 th day of March 1843.
J. M. Gilmore Clerk

Sir it is a great disappointment to me and a wonderment to all who are acquainted with my circumstances, that I am stricken again the Pension letter. When I made application 13 th Oct r 1818 it was granted to your Honor that I was in indigent circumstances and putting dependence on the Pension granted by the act of the 18 th of June 1818 I received in a different manner from what I should had not I expected a Pension. And when my creditors found my Pension was stopped they called on me for payment and I was obliged to turn out what property I had, not being able to pay them any other way by which means and by late sickness I have nothing left and am not myself nor my wife able to work and therefore must be dependent on publick charity for subsistence.
Washington Oct 10 1820 I am Sir your Humble Beggar Isaac Merriam John Metcalf Deborah Tufum Oct 18. 1820 S. Hale & Prun

Joel Reed
5626
July '19
Answer to be returned to Daniel Greenleaf P.M. Washington N.H.
For re-correspondence

Joel Reed
5626
June '19
Answer to be returned to Daniel Greenleaf P.M. Washington N.H.
For 20 - 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
CHESHIRE COUNTY ss.
Superior Court of Judicature
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
ON this eighteenth day of October 182 0 personally appeared in open Court
being a court of record for said county, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a record of its proceedings, Joel Reed aged sixty three years, resident in Washington in said county, who being first duly sworn, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows: that I enlisted for three years under Capt. Nathan Dyer in the ninth Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. James Nelson in the month of March 1777 and was discharged at Mil Point in the month of March 1780 and that previous thereto I served the first eight months since at Cambridge Massachusetts in the year 1775 and in the year since in 1776 making in the whole four years and eight months
The date of my original declaration in order to obtain a pension is the fifteenth day of April 1818 The number of my pension certificate is 5.626
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818: and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, 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 18th day of March 1818, 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. my occupation is that of a farmer but unable to pursue it as soon very lame and in addition thereto am subject to epileptic fits. in family residing with me three viz my wife aged fifty seven years unable to support herself by reason of the Phthisis my daughter Sarah aged 21 years and able to support herself my daughter Olive aged 22 years able to support herself
Joel Reed
Sworn to and declared at Keene in said County, on the eighteenth day of October 1820 before
Wm H Richardson  Levi Woodbury } Judges of said Court. Attest. S. Hale Clk  Superior Court of Judicature
I, SALMA HALE, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for the County of Cheshire, 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 in the aforesaid schedule, is  dollars and  cents
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this fourth day of November A. D. 182 0
S. Hale