Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 28,850, for Ward Reed, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Reed, Ward
S. 28,850
CONTENTS

Maine - N o 27,251
Ward Reed
of Penobscot in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Comp y co m manded by Captain Williams of the Reg t commanded by Col. Sprague in the Miss. Ma. line for 2 years -
Special -
act of 1818
Inscribed on the Roll of - Maine at the rate of 110 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Copied for Land Office
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th day of March 1834 - and R. C. Vose - Pres!
Arrears to the 4th of Mar. 1834 - 330.00 Semest. allowance ending 4 th Sept. " 55.00 $ 385.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by R. Brundine Clerk, Book E. Vol. 1. Page 49

State of Maine.
KENNEBEC COUNTY, ss.
ON this fifth day of September , 1820, personally appeared before Nathan Weston Junior , a Justice of the General  Supreme Court of Common Pleas, for the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec, and Somerset,  this State being a Court of Record for said Counties, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having original jurisdiction, unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Ward Reed aged sixty one years, resident in Dixmont in the County of Penobscot within said Circuit,  State who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz. in the Company commanded by Captain Daniels then Williams and Regiment commanded by Colonel Smith, then Sproats of the line of the State of Massachusetts , upon the Continental Establishment, for the period of Three years .
that his original declaration was made before Judge Kimble on the first day of April 1818; that he is now on the Maine Roll, and that his pension certificate is numbered 14,204 . And I, the said Ward Reed do further 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.
Ward Reed
The following is a Schedule of my whole Estate and income, necessary clothing and bedding excepted, viz:
Real estate - None
One cow, of the value of twelve dollars;
six sheep, of the value of six dollars;
two swine, " " six dollars.
Old household furniture (besides bedding) not exceeding five dollars. - Farming utensils of the value of three dollars.
I have no debts due me, and I owe as much as forty dollars. My occupation is that of a farmer; but from age & infirmity, am able to labour very little. - My family at home consists of ten persons, viz: - Myself; my wife Abigail, aged forty seven years; my daughter Sally aged eighteen, sickly and generally under the hands of a Physician; my son Ephraim aged fifteen years; my daughter Hannah aged thirteen years; my son William aged ten years; my daughter Betsey aged eight years; my son Alexander aged seven years; my daughter

Alsenah aged four years; & my daughter Rexelana aged twenty one months. — Except the foregoing, and my necessary clothing & bedding, I have no estate or income whatever.
Ward Reed
Subscribed, sworn to and declared, both the oath and schedule, on this fifth day of September 1920.
Before me Nathan Weston Juv. Jurat. S. J. Court.
State of Maine.
Hancock Co. At the Supreme Judicial Court begun and held at Castine within the County of Hancock and for the Counties of Hancock, Washington & Penobscot, on the Second Tuesday of October (being the tenth day of said month) A. D. 1920.
I Mason Shaw, Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for the Counties of Hancock, Washington & Penobscot do hereby certify, that the original of the Schedule hereto annexed was exhibited in open 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 thirty two dollars .
Mason Shaw Clerk
I Thomas Cobb Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Third Eastern Circuit, in the State of Maine, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oaths, and the Schedule thereto annexed, as also the above certificate of Mason Shaw, Clerk &c. are truly copied from the records of the said Court.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court, on this sixteenth day of October A. D. 1920.
Thos. Cobb, Clerk of said Court for the County of Penobscot.
Ward Reed - (14304)

Ward Reed.
no proof that he was
serv
For proof see letter of March 10. 1853 & Depo of credible witness in the back thereof. —

Augusta, Me. March 10 th , 1833, —
TO THE HON. LEWIS CASS, Secretary of War.
SIR:—Being now a pensioner on the Maine Roll in the receipt of a pension under the Act of Congress, of March 18, 1818, and being entitled to the benefits of the Act of Congress of June 7, 1832, by first relinquishing my further claim to the pension under the first named Act. I do accordingly hereby relinquish my further claim to such pension, and state that I served as a / in Capt.
Company, in Col. Regiment of the line or troops
Enlisted in February 1781. as a private for three years in Capt. Dyer's company in Col. Weston's regiment of the Massachusetts troops, that I continued to serve for one year & was then transferred to Capt. Daniel's company in Col. Calvin Smith's regiment, in which company I served a short time as a duty sergeant. I was then in March 1782, was transferred to Capt. Williams' company in Col. Dymond's regiment. In the same month of March 1782 Capt. Williams was promoted to the rank of Major & D. Haskell took command of our company & I was appointed 2 d Lt. sergeant of the company in which capacity I served from March 1782 until I was honorably discharged in December 1783.
and do therefore respectfully request that I may be placed on the Pension List under the Act of Congress of June 7, 1832. My pension, under the first named Act, was Eight — dollars per month. My pension certificate which is herein enclosed, in numbered 14304 — and I was last paid at the Branch Bank of the United States, at Portland, Maine, the fourth day of March 1833 I now live in Dymond in the County of Penobscot Maine, and it is my request that any communications upon this subject may be addressed to ROBERT C. VOSE, Esq. of Augusta, Kennebec County, Maine.
I am Sir, very respectfully, Your obedient servant.
Walter Mee
State of Maine
Kennebec ss
Subscribed & sworn to this 9 th day of September 1833.
Before me Wm Mearl Esq. Not. Pub.

I Jonathan Green of Sackville, in the State of Maine, a pensioner on the Maine Roll, do upon oath testify & say that being myself a soldier at the same time in Col. Sprout's regiment, I well knew that Ward Reed within named served as a sergeant in St. Haskell's company in Col. Sprout's regiment from March 1782 to December 1783. I am well acquainted with W. Reed know him to be a man of truth, Jonathan Green
State of Maine } Waldo County, p: } Subscribed & sworn to this twenty first day of March A.D. 1833. the deponent being a credible witness. Not to be used Before me
Justice Peace
State of Maine } Kennebec p: } I the subscriber Clerk of the County of Kennebec County, hereby certify that Thomas Wetmore Esq., is a Magistrate as above & that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine witness my hand & the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, this 21 st day of March 1833. J. A. Chandler Clerk

No 14.304
Augusta, Me. September 29 th 1832
TO THE HON. LEWIS CASS, Secretary of War.
SIR:—Being now a pensioner on the Maine Roll in the receipt of a pension under the Act of Congress, of March 18, 1818, and being entitled to the benefits of the Act of Congress of June 7, 1832, by first relinquishing my further claim to the pension under the first named Act. I do accordingly hereby relinquish my further claim to such pension, and state that I served as a Sergeant in Capt. Six, Daniels & Williams Company in Col. Wesson & Tupper & Strutt Regiment of the Massachusetts line or troops. that I enlisted in the year 1781. and served as a Sergeant , first in captain Six's company in Col. Wesson Reg t and afterwards in captain Daniels & Williams company in the 6 th  Massachusetts line, and was finally discharged in Dec. 1783 — as belonging to Col. Strutt's Reg t my discharge is now lost —
and do therefore respectfully request that I may be placed on the Pension List under the Act of Congress of June 7, 1832. My pension, under the first named Act, was Eight dollars per month. My pension certificate which is herein enclosed, in numbered 14.304 and I was last paid at the Branch Bank of the United States, at Portland, Maine, the fourth day of September 1832. I now live in Dumoine in the County of Penobscot Maine, and it is my request that any communications upon this subject may be addressed to ROBERT C. VOSE, Esq. of Augusta, Kennebec County, Maine.
I am Sir, very respectfully, Your obedient servant.
Ward Kee

Additional Explanation
I Ward Reed by whom the within & annexed letters were signed, do upon oath declare that I was transferred to Capt. Daniel's Company as mentioned in the annexed declaration for the purpose of being appointed a Sergeant. I immediately received the proper warrant & continued to serve in that capacity until transferred to Col. Sprout's Regiment in March 1782, as mentioned in the annexed declaration, when I was immediately appointed an order Sergeant. I served as such until honorably discharged in December 1783. I was transferred to Capt. Daniel's Company the first of February 1782. My services as a duty then as an order Sergeant were from that time until I was discharged in December 1783. My warrants as a Sergeant were long since lost.
Ward Reed
State of Maine Piscataqua Co. Subscribed & sworn to this 9th day of September 1833. Before me Wm Ward L. L. L.

State of Maine
Kennebec, p: I the subscriber Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within & for the County of Kennebec, hereby certify that William Lovart L. is a Magistrate as appears by the foregoing certificate, the signature to which is genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name & affix the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State this 18 th day of January 1834.
J. A. Chandler

In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Marcus Wood S.F. 28.850, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Feb 1781 Private Dix Mason, Mass.   Feb 1. 1782 Sergt Japheth Daniel Calvin Smith. "   Mch 1782 Ord Sergt. Williams, later Lt Haskell. Sprout. "   Discharged Dec 23 1783  
Battles engaged in, ✓
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Woburn, Middlesex Co. Mass.
Date of application for pension, April 5. 1818; his claim was allowed
Residence at date of application, Dumont, Penobscot Co. Mass.
Age at date of application, 61 years.
Remarks: Wife Abigail, 47 years: Children; Sally 18 years; Ephraim 15 years; Hannah 13 years; William 10 years; Betsey 8 years; Alexander 7 years; Arsenah, 4 years; Bexelana, 21 mos. in 1820.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

Col. J. L. Edwards May 24 th 1833.
Ward Reed Zoe Withers & Others New Orleans
Johnson Crane March '81 to Dec '83,
Spring of '81 to Dec '83 White Mountain

War Department Pension Office May 24. 1833
Sir,
The papers of Richard Staples have been examined and placed on our files. He states that he served for 2 years, and the witness avers that he was employed at a Navy Yard. It was evidently performed under a civil contract, and is not provided for by the act of 7. th June 1832. His claim is therefore rejected.
The declaration of Samuel Taylor was not made in the County where he resides. Some satisfactory reason must be assigned for this departure from the rules of the Department. His papers are herewith enclosed.
In no previous statement of his services has Zee Withee alleged that he was a Bombardier. As his name is not on the Rolls of Loran's Regiment, reference cannot be had to them in order either to sustain or reject his demand. He must produce proof of it by the testimony of two living witnesses, authenticated in the usual manner. His papers are retained on file.
A similar objection exists to the admission

of the allegation, now, for the first time, made by Asa Gree that he was a Sergeant in Crane's regiment, and it must be removed by the same means. His papers are also retained.
The additional affidavit of Ward Reed is not satisfactory, and is herewith returned to you for further amendment. As his pension can only be computed to the date of the ratification of the definitive treaty of peace, it is absolutely necessary that he should assign some exact time for the commencement of his services as Sergeant. He is not sufficiently explicit. Did he, immediately upon his transfer to Col. Smith's regiment, assume the duties of a Sergeant, and continue to serve as such, under the proper authority of a warrant, until he was removed to Colonel Sproat's regiment? And in the latter regiment was he a Sergeant during his service in it? He should give a clear account of his services.
I am respectfully Your Ob't. Serv't. J. S. Edwards
B. C. Vose Esq. Augusta Maine

O.H.H.
R
Everett, Mass. Nov. 12, 1905.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.:
Dear Sir--
It is understood in my family that my great-grandfather, Ward Reed, who was a soldier in the Revolution and whose name is on the Massachusetts rolls (printed), was probably a pensioner.
Will you be so kind as to find out for me if this is so or not, and to send me the facts of his war record if he was a pensioner?
Yours very truly,
Lillian E. Bartlett
28 Sherman street, Everett, Mass.

28850 Rev  INVALID.
File No. 28850
Miss R. C.
Dept. Rev. Div.
Act: June 1 st 1897
Index: Vol. 9 , Page 886
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1905 Nov. 21. History to Miss Gillian E. Bartlett m. 13. H.

See let B E Wood 14 Jan'y 1823
See let. R. C. Dole
May 24 1883
4 30 1/4 Maine R Ward Reed 29,945
of Penobscot in the state of Dist: of Maine who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Sprout of the Massachusetts line, for the term of 3 years
Inscribed on the roll of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 1 st of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th of Sep 1819 and paid to Mr. Kingsley Esqr in 1 st Dist 3 rd Eastern Circuit Court Penobscot, Maine
Arrears to 1 st of Sep 1819: 11 mos 30 137.06 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th March 1820 48 —
$185.06
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Private 2 years $110

Ward Read
14304
Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of March next, in Portland, at the Cumberland Bank
See mort
W. Read

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 19th March, 1818,
Ward Reed late a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Maine — Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to com- mence on the First day of April — one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this Sixth day of September one thousand eight hundred and nineteen
J. H. Wilson
Secretary of War.

Deposition of Jon a Greene off
March 1782 1
60 30 20 110
noted

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Subscribed to
I Jonathan Greene of the town of Jackson in the County of Hancock, aged fifty nine, on oath do testify & say that in or about the 29 th day of December 1780. I enlisted into the Revolutionary war for three years; I served two years & ten months & was honorably discharged: I was in Col. t Matthew Chambers's Company; Col. Calvin Smith's Reg. t Gratons Brigade (the 3. d ) Massachusetts Line: In the month of July 1782. I became acquainted with Ward Reed , of the same Reg. t & in Col. t Joseph Daniels Company; I continued in service with him until the 13. th day of October 1783. At this time I was discharged from the service as an Invalid; and then left him the said Reed doing the duty of a sergeant: during this time (viz two years & about three months) I was intimately acquainted with him & know that he did his duty as a good & faithful soldier.
Jonathan Green
Subscribed to.
On this 20. th day of July 1819. Personally appeared the above named Jonathan Greene; & made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing Declaration by him subscribed in my presence, being a credible Witness.
M. Kingsley J. C. C. P.

Deposition of Sam l Holden

I Samuel Holden of lawful age do testify and say, that Ward Reed to my certain knowledge, served a soldier in Capt. Gapheth's Daniel Co. Sixth Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Calvin Smith, two years & upwards; of which Co. I the Deponent was first Sergeant during the term above said. Samuel Holden
Penobscot ss. In on this 21 st day of June 1819 the above named Samuel Holden being contem- plated to the above deposition by him sub- scribed, that it is the truth, the whole truth, & nothing but the truth. — before me Elijah L. Norcross Jr. here
I certify that the above deponent is a man of truth & veracity. Elijah L. Norcross Jr. here
New Charleston June 24 th 1819 Penobscot ss. I hereby certify that Elijah L. Norcross Esq r is an acting Justice of the Peace within & for the County of Penobscot: And that the above is his proper signature. Mrs. Hensley J. C. C. S.

Ward Reed. — Minister Col Smith & Reg. 9 1781 3. young
1780 1781
Corrected for Mail

I Ward Reed now of Dixmont in the County of Franklin & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged sixty one, do testify & depose That in the month of Febr y 1781. I enlisted as a private soldier in the service of the United States, for the term of three years, being then an inhabitant of the town of Woburn in the County of Middlesex; I was marched to Boston & from there to Providence under a sergeant's order: And from there to New White Plains in the state of New York; & was involved in Col t Joseph Daniels Company & Col t Smith's Regiment: About two years after this I was transferred from to Col t Williams's Company & Col t Sprout's Regiment: And was honorably discharged at West Point on the 23 d day December 1783. I hereby relinquish all claim to any Pension from the United States in consequence of the R d service. — Witness my hand. Ward Reed
Witness Saml. Smith
I do hereby further testify & say, that I have lost my discharge; which I recollect was signed by Gen t Henry Knox: — I am now in dire circumstances; & need the assistance of my Country for support. —
Ward Reed

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
PENOBSCOT, ss.
ON the 5 th day of April A. D. 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Third Eastern Circuit, of the Court of Common Pleas, in said Commonwealth, including the Counties of Hancock, Washington and Penobscot : Personally appeared Ward Reed who, being by me first duly sworn according to law, on his oath made the statement and declaration by him subscribed, and hereto annexed, in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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."
And thereupon, I the said Judge do certify that I am satisfied the said Ward did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in his said declaration, against the common enemy, and that he has made it appear to me, that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support.
Which proceedings and the testimony annexed, being all he has been able to produce, I now transmit to the Secretary, for the department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my name and caused the seal of said Court to be hereto affixed M. Kinsley Esquire, Judge of the Court as aforesaid.