Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8,322, Oliver Dewey, Mass.
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SERVICE
Mass.
CONTENTS
Dewey, Oliver

NUMBER
S. 8322
carded
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26.174.
Ohio
Hillsburgh
Oliver Dewey
Portage Co in the State of
Ohio
who was in the Company Commanded 
by Captain Carter
of the Reg
commanded by 
Col. Brown in the Penn
line for
M
20
Mass. Line
Records corrected Oct 11
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
Pct
at the rate of 20 Dollars  - Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24th
day of March
and sent to
1824 Hon P. Horne
HR
Arrears to the 4th of March 13 60.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep 10.00
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70.00
⎨ Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by OS Sprague
Clerk
Book E Page 109.
Vol. 8
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8322
INVALID.
File No. 8322

8322
Oliver Dewey
Pri Rev War
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Act: June 7th 1832
Index: -- Vol. DeL, Page 93
Arrangement of 1870.}
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Ohio
I.S. Edwards Esq
Pension Office
Hon I. Sloan
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House of Reps
Washington Mar. 14, 1834
Sir
I send you
herewith three
applications for Pensions
which, I desire
you
to examine and
to return an
answer to me
as soon as convenient
Yours very
respectfully
 I. Sloane
I. S.. Edwards Esq
Commiss of Pensions
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29.872
Oliver Dewey Application for Pension
Adm 6. Months
Hon I Sloan
H. R
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State of Ohio
Portage County
On this 5th the day of March A.D. 1832
personally appeared before the
Court of Common Pleas for the County of Portage
now sitting Oliver Dewey a resident of Northampton in the County of Portage and State of Ohio
and aged sixty nine 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 act of Congress passed June
7th 1832 - That he enlisted in the Army of the United States
in September in the year 1779 in the Company
commanded by Capt. Carpenter in the Town of Westfield
County of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts
That from Westfield he marched to Springfield in
the State of Massachusetts and was stationed at Springfield under Captain Carpenter to guard the United States
Stores at that place and was at that place
until near the close of December which made the full
term of three months, which was the time he enlisted for. That in July 1780 he enlisted into Captain
Levi Ely's Company under Colonel Brown in the
Town of Westfield and from there marched to Albany
and thence up the Mohawk River to Stone Robby
and was there engaged in a battle with the
British and Indians and had to retreat from
that place to Stone Robby Fort (the battle being
four miles from the Fort) the action was on
the 19 of October and the three months that he
enlisted for expired on the 20th of October and
on that day he was discharged and returned home
That he was discharged with the company did not receive a written discharge. He hereby relinquishes every claim
whatever to a pension or annuity except the presents and
declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the
Agency of any State
Oliver Dewey
Sworn and subscribed the day and
year aforesaid before me Brice S. Hunter Dep. Clerk
We John McLean a Clergyman residing in the township
of Ravenna and Elkanah Richardson residing in Tallmadge
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Oliver Dewey
who has subscribed and [illeg] to the above declaration that we believe him to be sixty nine years of age that he is reported
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and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been
a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that
opinion
Elkanah Richardson
John McLean
Sworn and subscribed the day and year above
aforesaid, Before me Brice S. Hunter Dep Clerk
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after
the investigation of the matter and after putting the interogate
prescribed by the War Department that the above named
applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served
as he states And the Court further certifies that it appears
to them that the Revd John McLean who had signed the
preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in Ravenna
that E
Richardson who has also signed the same
is a resident of Tallmadge and is a credible person and that
their statement is entitled to credit
I George Kirkum Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas of Portage County aforesaid do hereby certify that the
foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said
Court in the matter of the application of Oliver Dewey for a pension
In Testimony whereof I have here
unto set my hand and seal of office
this Eighth day of March A.D. 1834
Geo. Kirkum Clerk