Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 799, Lewis Ayers, New Jersey
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New Jersey
Ayers, Lewis
S799
Carded
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17.381
New Jersey

Lewis Ayers
of Monmouth County in the State of New Jersey
who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Dennis, of the (not readable) commanded by (blank) in the N.J. (not readable)  
line for 1 yr 11 mos.
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Declaration of Lewis Ayers in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress 
June 7th 1832
State of New Jersey
County of Monmouth}S.S.  On this thirty first day of July Anno Domini 1832 personally appears in Open Court before the Judge of this Interior Court of Common Place in and for the County of Monmouth now sitting at (not readable).  Lewis Ayers a resident of the Township of Howell in the county of Monmouth and state of New Jersey aged seventy years on the sixteenth of October last past 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 June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following officers and served as herein stated.  That he entered the service as a militia man sometime in the month of March 1778 he having been sixteen years of age the October preceding, he then residing in the same place where he now lives, though then it was called Shrewsbury Township. Howell Township having since been (not readable) off from it; the Militia Men in that district were called out every other month except when there was a general alarm, when they were all called out together that he served his monthly tours of duty from the time he was called out in the month of March 1778 until the fall of the year 1781 every other month, besides being out two weeks under a general call when Colonel Morris with a detachment (unreadable) landed at Red Bank in the