Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 20455, for Joseph Lewis, Connecticut
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SERVICE                                              NUMBER

Conn.                Lewis, Joseph               W 20455
Continental                 Esther
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    4, 174

    Massachusetts

      Joseph Lewis
          private,
Massachusetts line [two words crossed out]
In the army of the United States during the      
         Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
at the rate of 8 - Dollars per month, to commence on the 8th of May, 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 6th of Novr. 1818 and sent to Jos. Woodbridge, Esq
      Stockbridge, Mass.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1818                31.25
                3ms 24/.?.    4/.?.
Semi-anl. all'ce 4th Mar 1819.                   48.00
                                                                 _______
                                                              $  79.25
                             {Revolutionary claim,
                              Act 18th March, 1818.}

                                     3 Years
Sandisfield,
                      Berkshire Co.
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The Application [ink faded, word partially illegible] sent September 6th 1820 to
Parker D. Hall, Lenox, Massachusetts
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                                                     3695
  Massachusetts
Esther Lewis
widow of Joseph Lewis
who was a Pri of Cavalry
in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
          43Dollars   33
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 
11th day of Decr 1843
and sent to
                             J Vamner
                               Great Barrington
                                           Mass.

    [Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1   Page 47

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Reported
S.M. Knight  May 8 1853
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Samuel Boardman of Wethersfield in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut personally appeared before the Subscribers and made solemn Oath that he was  acquainted with Joseph Lewis in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy seven or seventy eight and that he knew of his having enlisted into the army of the United States and was gone from Wethersfield a number of month and returned to said Boardman home - in the [illegible word] of a Soldier of the United States Army -
    [Signed]  Samuel Boardman

Wethersfield  April 23d  1818
Subscribed & sworn before
   {signed]  John Williams   Justice of Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Berkshire County, SS.
  On this eighth day of May in the year of our Lord 1818 before the subscriber Samuel Putnam one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of said Commonwealth personally appeared Joseph Lewis aged Sixty Seven years, resident in the Town of Sandersfield in the County of Berkshire aforesaid, in the said District- who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provisions made by the late act of Congress, entitles "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in land and naval services of the United States in the revolutionary war."   That he the said Lewis enlisted in Bethlehem in the State of Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain Caleb Trowbridge of the Regiment commanded by Col. David Worster in the month of April 1775 & continued to serve in said Company until September 1775, & was transfered [sic] to the Company commanded by Capt. Oliver Hanchet of the Regiment commanded by Col. Benedict Arnold -
That he continued to serve in the said corps, in the service of the United States, until the month of June 1776 - he enlisted in the month of March 1777 in Stoddards Company of Col Elisha Sheldons Regt of Dragoons and continued to serve in sd Corps until the eleventh day of January 1778 when he was discharged from service in Trenton - State of New Jersey - wore my discharge all to pieces - years ago -
   That he was in the battles of Brandywine & Germantown and was at Quebec with Arnold so called - and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support; that he has never been  on the pension lists & relinquishes all claims to any others and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services except the two certificates hereto annexed -    Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid.   The certificate annexed are genuine  
[Signed]   S Putnam Just
                 SJ Court of Mass.
   [Signed] Joseph Lewis

I Samuel Putnam Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Joseph Lewis did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act  of Congress.  Given under my hand & the seal of said Court the 8th May 1818
   [Signed] S. Putnam Just
                  S. J Court of Mass}

I Joseph Woodbridge, Clerk of the Supreme Court within the County of  Sandersfield do certify and attest that the abovenamed Samuel Putnam is one of the Justices of the Supreme Court aforesaid and that the foregoing is his signature. 
  In testimony whereof, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court, the day and year first above written.
     [Signed]    Jos. Woodbridge Clerk
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District of Massachusetts, SS}
On this 29th day of June 1820; Personally appeared in Open Court before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, begun and holden at Lenox, within and for the County of Berkshire, in the Western Circuit, on the 4th Monday of June 1820, the same Court, being a Court of records for said Circuit; proceeding according to the course of the common Law, with a jurisdiction, unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Joseph Lewis - aged Sixty nine years, resident of Sandisfield