Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 20397, for Lyman Lee, New York
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[printed card with handwriting]

(3-1776)
SERVICE
New York
Lee, Lyman
NUMBER
R. 20397
CONTENTS
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Rejected
Ex'r. OLD WAR.
File No. 20,397
[ink stamp] REJECTED
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 8, 1873. [lined out]
Lyman Lee
Drummer
Capt Fowler
N.Y. Line
Revy War
Died at [blank]
other claim.
, 187 [blank]
clerk
Application filed: [blank] , 18
Attorney: [blank]
P.O. [blank]
Not allowed
Act 1828
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not allowed Act 1828
2038.
Revolutionary Claims.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
12 June 1832
Lyman Lee of New Windsor in the county of
Orange
in the State of New York has applied to the Secretary
of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled ""An act for the relief of certain surviving officers
and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the
Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination
, at which period he was a Drummer
in captain
Fowlers company, in Col Cortland's Regiment of the New York
line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the
15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list
of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By Order of the Secretary.
F. A. Dickins
Exd. Rej.
" Au Inv.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
13 June 1832
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to [lined out]
It further appears that Lyman Lee cannot be found among those of the New York, line to whom certificates for the gratuity of Eighty Dollars, were issued -
Peter Hagner Aud
No Record
Nov 6/80
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War Depart.
Bounty Land Office
June 15. 1832
The name of Lyman Lee is not returned with
those of the New York line, as entitled to Bounty
land of the U. States, nor has a
Warrant issued for him
Wm Gordon
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[handwritten]

OW Revy
#20. 397
In the matter of Lyman Lee
a revolutionary sol. 
to administer Oaths -
In testimony thereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of 
of the said court this sixth day of June 1832
Asa Dunning
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[handwritten]

Comfort Lee being duly sworn testifies that he is a brother
of said Lyman Lee -  that said Lyman entered the service
at or about the commencement of the war that he enlisted
about the year 1779. that he continued during the war
that he is now in indigent circumstances - is a cripple and
helpless
Subscribed & Sworn 25th January 1832
before me Robert Sly Justice of the Peace
Comfort his X mark Lee
Daniel Belknap being duly sworn testifies, That he knew
said Lyman Lee before the war - that said Lee enlisted in
or about the year 1779 at Newburgh under Captain James
Fairley- served under Uriah Mitchell deputy Quartermaster
or Forage Master General - that said Lee continued
in the service during the war - that he had examined
said Lee's papers and had seen his discharge from the
service sometime before said Lee had his house burned and
charged him at the same time to take care of said 
discharge as it might be of use to him at some future day 
that said Lee is a cripple, poor & helpless 
Daniel Belknap
Subscribed & Sworn 25th Jany 1832
before me Robert Sly Jus. of the Peace
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[State] of New York
[Ora]nge County ss Israel Bellknap of the
Town of Newton in the County
aforesaid being duly sworn doth depose
and say that he is personally
acquainted with Lyman Lee in
the annexed affidavit mentioned
& has been acquainted with him 
thirty years last past and lived during
a great part of
that time in the same
Town with the said Lyman
and has allways [sic] during
said term understood and believes
from common report that said
Lyman served as a private
Soldier in the army of the
Revolution as stated in said
affidavit
Israel Belknap
Sworn this 22d day
of May 1832 before me
Ward M Garlay
Justin of the peace
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[Sta]te of New York}
[O]range County ss }
Benjamin Eaton of the
Town of New Windsor a
Revolutionary Pensioner of the United
States being duly sworn doth
depose and say that he is well
acquainted with
Lyman Lee with
in named that he has been
acquainted with the said Lyman
about thirty five years last past
That said Lyman has been reputed
during that period to have been
a soldier in the army of the
revolution for the war & deponent believes
it to be true
Sworn this 10th day of May 1832 before me}
Benjamin Eaton
Ward M Garlay Justice of the Peace
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I Asa Dunning Clerk of the Court of the Court of the County
of Orange in the State of New York do hereby Certify - 
That Ward M Garlay & Robert Sly before whom the within
annexed affidavits were Sworn were at the time Justices
of the Peace and duly empowered to administer Oaths -
In testimony thereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
the seal of the said Court this sixth day of Jany 1832
Asa Dunning
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11 June 1832
2038.
for the purpose of obtaining the
benefit of an act for the relief of
the surviving officers and holders of
the arms of the Revolution approved
the 15th of May 1828 I Lyman
Lee of the Town of New Windsor
in the County of Orange in the
State of New York do hereby declare
that I enlisted in the Continental
line of the arms of the Revolution
for and during the war and
continued in its service untill [sic]
termination at which period I was a
drummer in Captain Fairlies
Company in
Van Cortlands Regiment
of the line of the State of New York
and I also declare that I was entitled
to a certificate for the reward
of eighty dollars under a resolve
of Congress passed May 1778
and I further declare that I
was not on the fifteenth day of
March 1828 on the pension list of
the United States
Lyman Lee [signature]
Sworn this 19th day of May 1832 before me}
Ward M Garlay
Justice of the Peace Orange County N.Y-