Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32116, Levi Bemis, Vt.
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Vt.          Bemis, Levi          S.32116
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Indiana  B737(cursive)  25137(in upper margin)
Levi Bemmis
Sullivan Co in the state of Tennessee who was a private in the (not legible) commanded by Captain Blalesby of the regiment commanded by Cpt Flechter in the Massachusetts line for 9 months.
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[left side]
Bemus
Pension



[right side]

Meromda [?]
Nov 16
Paid 25

J. C. Clark 

Squire Newton Esq.
Chenango County
Bainbridge
New York
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Declaration by and to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th June 1832
State of Indiana
County of Sullivan } On this 10th day of November 1832 personally appear'd before Josiah Mann Judge of the Probate Court in and for the County of Sullivan - Levi Bemas a resident of Gill Township in the County of Sullivan and state of Indiana Aged Seventy five years 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 7th 1832 
that he Enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1781 - with Captain Blakesley and Served in Col Samuel Fletchers regiment of the Vermont line under the following named officers under the command of General Enos in Col Fletchers Regiment in Major Ainsburys Battalion under Captain Blakesley and Lieutenant Rice - that he resided when he enlisted in Brattleborough in Windham County Vermont State that he Enlisted on the 3rd day of March 1781 - and was discharged about the 20th of December in the same year - during the time he was in service he was stationed at Castleton (& he hereby relinquishes Every Claim whatever to a pension or annuity
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Except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of any State 
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid /s/Levi Bemis
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier & served as he states
/s/Josiah Mann Probate Judge of the aforesaid co. 
I Benjamin Wolfe Clerk of the Probate Court of the County of Sullivan do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proc'dings of the Said Court in the matter of the application of Levi Bemas for a pension. 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of office this 10th day of November 1832. 
/s/Benjamin Wolfe clerk P.C.S.C. - 
Probate
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[top right corner handwritten ]
M.E.E.
[illegible]

[top left corner handwritten]
To. Hon Arthur H. Greenwood
House of Representatives 


January 6, 1930 [handwritten]

[typed]
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From the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 32116 [claim number underlined], it appears that Levi Bemis [name underlined] while residing in Bratteboro, Windham County, Vermont, enlisted March 2, 1781, served as a private in Captain James Blakeslee's Company, Colonel Samuel Fletcher's Vermont Regiment and was discharged December 20, 1781.

He was allowed pension on his application executed November 13, 1832, at which time he was seventy-five years of age and a resident of Gill Township, Sullivan County, Indiana.

There are no data concerning his family.
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[handwritten near bottom]
corresp. in claim
of Alexander Bailey
S.32101
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32 11b
INVALID
File No. 32,116
Levi Bemis
[illegible] Rev War
Act: [illegible] 32
Vol. 2, Page 33

1930 Jan 6, Hist to [illegible] Arthur H. Greenwood, [illegible] of Alexander Bailey, S.32/01, MEE.
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27.545 [faint]

Pension Application [underlined]
Levi Bemis [underlined]

from 1781  private
9 months
$30

Clark & Dusser
Dainbridge
Chenango Co. N.Y.
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State of New York
Chenango County 
Eleazer Church being duly sworn make the oaths and saith that he has been [illegible] acquainted with Levi Bemis for the last forty years, that [illegible] in the town of Brattleborough in the state of Vermont that this defendant and the said Levi Bemis both enlisted in the month of March in the year 1781 into Capt. James Blakelys Company, and continued together in said company during the period of nine months, that is, from the first of March 1781 to the month of December following. That is said month of December both this defendant and the said Bemis were honorably discharged. That said December stationed at Castleton in Vermont, in Captain Blakelys Company, in Gen. [illegible] command, under Col. Fletcher's Regiment in Major Ausburgs Battalion. 
Subscribed & sworn this 4th day of September 1803 Eleazer Church
Levi Bigelow  A Gusge of Chenango County [illegible] 
Hato of New York Chenango County 
Caleb Nurss being duly sworn saith on his oath that he has been well acquainted with Levi Bemis given the year 1781 that he first became.
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acquainted with said Bemis at Fort Castleton in the State of Vermont during the period this deponent & said Bemis were stationed there  under the command of Captain James Blakesley in Col. Fletchers Regiment & Major Ainsbury's Battalion, that this deponent and said Bemis both enlisted at the same time & into the same company in the month of March 1781. and continued in the services at Fort Castleton till the Month of December following each having served together for the period of Nine Months at the expiration of which time - both went together honorably discharged. 
/s/Caleb Nurss
Sworn & subscribed this 4th day of September 1833 } Before me /s/Levi Bigelow A Judge of Chenango Com'n Pleas
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the characters of Caleb Nurss and Eleazer Church who have signed the foregoing affidavits and that they are men of truth and veracity and perfectly credible
/s/Levi Bigelow Judge as above
State of New York 
Chenango County ss: I James K Pike Clerk of the said County do certify that Levi Bigelow before whom the preceding proceedings in the matter of Levi Bemis for a pension purports to have been
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had was at the date of the same one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for said county - And that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said declarations affidavits of Eleazer Church and Caleb Nurss and as to the credibility of the said Eleazer and Caleb to be his genuine hand writing and Signature.
[court seal affixed] Witness my hand and seal of Office this sixth day of September 1833
/s/J K Pike Clerk
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[addressed envelope]
Bainbridge NY
Sept 9 
Free
J. L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
[margin notes: Ind'a Levi Bemis Indiana Sullivan Co from 1781 private 9 months 
Blakesley Fletcher Vt.
Pensioner care of Benj Wolfe
clk Sullivan Co. Indiana
Clark H Dresser Bainbridge Co. New York]
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[handwritten letter]
Bainbridge Chenango Co. N.Y.

Dr Sir,
Enclosed are pension papers of Levi Bemis. Please demit to Clark H. Dresser Bainbridge, Chen. Co. N.Y.
Yours &c.
/s/Clark H Dresser
J. L. Edwards Esq -
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W. 24651

Bemis, Marcy
White Buckminster
Former Widow