Pension
Application of Elizabeth, widow of Nicholas Redder (Reeder): W3458
Transcribed and
annotated by C. Leon Harris
State
of Virginia, Montgomery county Sc
On
this 2nd day of March 1840 personally appeared before the county court of
Montgomery, being a Court of record now in session, Elizabeth Reeder a resident
of said county aged about 67 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 7th
1838 entitled “An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows”
That she is the widow of Nicholas
Reeder, who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, but the precise time
that he entered the service, or who his officers were, or when he was
discharged, she is unable to say, but would refer to the facts filed in the war
department, or elsewhere in Washington city, in support of a claim to a pension
and which pension was allowed to said Reeder in his lifetime it is probable that she has often heard her
late husband relate the particulars of his services, but she cannot now
recollect much about it, and therefore would refer to the facts above alluded
to, as being more accurate. he bore as many as twelve or thirteen wounds; She
further declares that she was married to the said Nicholas Reeder on the
[blank] day of August 1793. the particular day of the month she cannot
remember, but it was about the first. That her husband the aforesaid Nicholas
Reeder died on the 1st day of May 1833, That she was not married to him prior
to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the 1st day
of January 1794 viz. at the time above stated. she has made application to the
clerk of Augusta county (where she was married) who has furnished her with a
copy of the marriage bond, and states that he can find no certificate of the
marriage, returned by the minister She
thinks however that the fact of her having lived with the said Nicholas Reeder
from the day of their marriage until shortly before his death, as his wife, in
connection with the fact of his having obtained a license for his intermarriage
with her, ought to be regarded as conclusive evidence of this marriage. A short
time before the death of her said husband, he went to the county of Augusta in
this state on a visit where he died. Elizabeth
herXmark Reeder
NOTE:
The file includes a copy of the marriage bond referred to in the declaration,
signed by Nicholas Redder and Thomas Leggett on 29 July 1793. The last name of
Elizabeth appears to be Lindal.