Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37160, for Abel Lewis, Connecticut
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(3 - 1776)

SERVICE
Conn


Lewis, Abel


NUMBER
S. 37160
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(2,677)
Connecticut
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Abel Lewis, private
Connecticut line -
Captain Kimball 6 years
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 30th of March 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 18 of September 1818 and sent to the care of Jonathan Brace esqr Hartford Connecticut
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Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818................... 41.57
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 March 1819 ...48.
[Total] ..................................................$89.57


{ Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}


Connecticut
Glastonbury Hartford Co.
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(2,677)
Connecticut
==========

Abel Lewis, private
Connecticut line -
Captain Kimball 6 years
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
==========

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 30th of March 1818
==========

Certificate of Pension issued the 18 of September 1818 and sent to the care of Jonathan Brace esqr Hartford Connecticut
==========

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818................... 41.57
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 March 1819 ...48.
[Total] ..................................................$89.57


{ Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}


Connecticut
Glastonbury Hartford Co.
Notification sent to Thomas Chester Esq 20 Oct. 1820
Hartford, connecticut
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37160
Revy INVALID.

File No. 37,160
Abel Lewis
Priv Rev War


Act: 18 March 18
Index: Vol. Q, Page 291

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Abel Lewis

Correct
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State of Cont & }
County of Hartford}

Abel Lewis of Glastonbury in said county aged fifty seven years being duly sworn doth depose & say that he served as a private in the revolutionary war, on the continental establishment & in the Connecticut line for about five years - 

That he entered the service in the spring of 1777 as a private & faithfully served until the expiration of his two terms of his enlistment viz in December AD 1783 when he received an honorable discharge in the vicinity of West
Point in the State of New York - that he first belonged to Capt. Kimball's company & Col John Chandler's Regt & at the time of his discharge he belonged to Capt Rice's
company & Col Isaac Sherman Regt - 

That he is a resident citizen of the United States - has never had any pension -  is in reduced circumstances & in need of assistance from his country for support -

Abel Lewis [signature] 

Sworn to & subscribed 
this 30th day of March 1818
Before me-
Jonathan Brace Judge of the County Court
for the County of Hartford in the State of Connecticut
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STATE OF CONNECTICUT }
and County of Hartford Hartford } ss. Hartford

I JONATHAN BRACE, Judge of the County Court, within and for said County, the same being a Court of Record, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that Abel Lewis
who swore to and subscribed the foregoing affidavit, served as a private in the Revolutionary war against the common enemy, and on the Continental establishment, for at least the term of nine months, and is a resident citizen of the United States, in reduced circumstances, and in need of assistance from his country for support.
His discharge he also swears is lost.

And in addition to the proof contained in
the foregoing affidavit, and in support thereof, I further certify that it is proved to
by the testimony under oath of Amos Andrews, who served in the same corps & who is a credible witness, that the said Lewis
served in the revolutionary war, as aforesaid;
and from the like testimony of Sam'l Welles Esq that the said Lewis is in reduced  circumstances, and in need of assistance
from his country for support.

In testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of the said Court to be hereunto affixed, and subscribed my name at Hartford aforesaid, this 1st day of May A. D. 1818.

Jonathan Brace Judge of the Court as aforesaid
May 1st 1818
Sealed with the seal of said Court by direction of The Hon'a Jonathan Brace who is the Presiding Judge of said Court

Thomas Chester Clerk
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Abel Lewis

2677
March 1819
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STATE OF CONNECTICUT, County of HARTFORD, ss. County Court or Court of Common Pleas, holden at Hartford in sd County on the second Tuesday of August, 1820.

On this 9th day of August, 1820, personally appeared in open Court, the same Court
being a Court of record for said County, having the power of fine and imprisonment,
Abel Lewis,  aged 60 years, resident in
Glastonbury in the County of Hartford,
who being first duly sworn according to law doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows:

I enlisted in April or last of March 1777 into Capt Kimballs company in Colo John Chandlers Regiment in the Connecticut line Continental establishment for three
years & continued in service five years and was honorably discharged - my original declaration was March 30th 1818.  My Pension Certificate is No 2677.

"And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed."

I am by occupation a Wheelwright but have not been able to labour for about three years. I have a wife aged 58 very sickly and infirm has been from home under a Physicians
care for the whole part year, have no other family with me - my inability to labour results from a Bayonet wound received from the enemy at Red Bank which has troubled me about ten years.  Glastonbury Aug 2nd 1820
Abel Lewis [signature]
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At the request of Mr Abel Lewis of Glastonbury in the County of Hartford in the State of Connecticut a Revolutionary Pensioner We the subscribers did on the first day of August 1820 make the following schedule of property belonging to the said Abel & appraised the same according to their just value in money, Viz 

1 Chest with one drawn 34 cents 
One table 10 cents...........................$0.44
4 chairs 50 cents, small wheel 25 cents 
one [illegible] 25 cents.....................  1.00
2 Old [illegible] 25 cents
One rocking chair 100 cents.............. 1.25
1 Iron Pot, Kettle & Spider................... 1.25
Shovel & tongs & Andirons.................  .75
2 flat irons 25 cents Bellows 25 Cents .50
2 Augers & 3 gimlets.......................... 1.00
6 Chisels 1 Gouger part of an iron
square 2 [illegible] irons .................... 1.25
1 jointer for plane of chalk line 
& compasses.......................................  .66
1 Carpenter Adz 100 Cents Bridles 50 cents small Adz 50 cents............................. 2.00
1 Saw 75 Cents 1 Gouger 34 Cents.... 1.09
1 Dwelling House & 1 acre of Land.. 225.
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[Total]..............................................  236.19


Nathaniel Porter }
Asa Scott } appraisers
 

Hartford County ss Glastonbury August 1820 Personally appeared Mssrs Nathaniel Porter & Asa Talcott signers to the foregoing Schedule & appraisement and made solemn oath to the same before me
Samuel Willis Justice Peace

My debts amount to $215.31 besides interest on some of said debts

Sworn to and declared by said Abel Lewis
on the 9th day of August, 1820, before said Court, and it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is two hundred thirty six dollars and nineteen
cents.

I, Thomas Chester, Clerk of the County Court or Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Hartford aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the record of said Court. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 31 day of Aug
1820
Th. Chester
Clerk of the County Court or Court of Common Pleas in and for
said County of Hartford.