Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16448, for John Lewis, Virginia
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State of Indiana
Rush County Rush Circuit Court April Term 1833 [?]
On this 10th day of April AD 1833 Personally appeared in open Court before the honorable the Judges of the said Rush Circuit Court the said Rush Circuit Court being a Court of record now setting in and for the same County of Rush John Lewis of said County aged Eighty five years the 23 day of June next who being first
duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1833.
 States that he volunteered as well as he can recollect in July 1776 in Captain George West's company
in Loudon County in the State of Virginia, in what was
commonly called the minute men -  that was held in readiness at a moments warning to march into service on any urgency [?] -that he armed and equipped himself as directed and that he stood in readiness to perform duty when called on for the term of Eighteen months - but was not called on and the company was disbanded - that immediately after he was discharged from Captain Wests company he removed west of
The Alleghany Mountains - That in the month of May 1777 he was drafted at Cox fort at the month of Cross Creek on the Ohio river above Wheeling for one month's service under Captain Mason and was stationed at fort Wheeling under Col Abraham Shepherd for that time, -that he served out his time of one month as aforesaid - when he was drafted for six months in the service commonly called the Wood rangers under the command of Major Henry Taylor in the company commanded by Captain Isaac Pierce, that the Company
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was organized at Cox's fort from thence the battalion marched up the Ohio river to a place called Bakers fort where they remained about three months when orders came for them to repair to Rariden's Bottom about 12 miles above the place last mentioned where we remained three months when we were dismissed - that the duty this battalion performed was defending the frontier settlements from the Indians - that at this tour applicant states he served six
months - that he then removed from thence
to Washington County in Pennsylvania,-that some time
in the year 1780 he was drafted for one month to guard
and pack provisions to the army at Fort Lawrence on
the Muskingum river now the State of Ohio - that he
went in company with Col Campbell's regiment
of regulars to that place in the Company commanded
by Captain Bates as a guard and remained in that
service for the term of one month. - This applicant
States that he served as a private in Captain West's
Company as a private for the term of Eighteen months and in as a private Captain Masons Company for the term of one month in Captain Pearce Company of Wood rangers
the as a drummer for said Company for the term of six months and in Capt Bates Company as first Sargent for said Company for the Term of one month, making in all the term of Two years and two months. That for said tours of
duty he never received received any compensation or