Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 2395-300, Joshua Williams, Penn.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Penn
CONTENTS
Williams, Joshua
NUMBER
B.L.Wt. 2395-300 Capt
Issued Dec. 12. 1794 to Joshua Williams no papers

[black star above name]
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Penn.
Williams, Joshua
B. L. Wt 3395-300 - Capt.
Issued Dec. 12, 1794, to Joshua Williams
No papers.
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November 18, 1936
Joshua Williams
Wt. No. 2395-300-Capt.
Lewis Williams
S. 40696
BA-J/AWF

Madalyn L. Leitzell
Hartwick College
Oneonta, New York
Dear Madam:Reference is made to your letter in which you
request information in regard to Joshua and Lewis Williams from Pennsylvania in the Revolutionary War.
The records of this office show that Joshua
Williams was Captain in the Pennsylvania Line in the Revolutionary War and served to the close of the war.
Warrant No. 2395 for three hundred acres of
bounty land was issued December 12, 1794 to Joshua
Williams, on account of the service noted above.
There are no further data relative to service
of this officer and no data in regard to his family,
because of the destruction of papers in such early claims for bounty land, when the War Office was burned in 1800.
In order to obtain information relative to the
location of the land referred to herein, you should
apply to The Commissioner of the General Land Office,
this city, and give the following-
Warrant No. 2395 - 300 acres - issued December 12, 1794.

Lewis Williams -- S. 40696
The data which follow were obtained from
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pension claim, S. 40696, based upon the service of
Lewis Williams in the Revolutionary War.
The date and place of birth of Lewis Willaims
are not shown, nor are the names of his parents given.
Lewis Williams enlisted March 15, 1778, served
as a private in Captain Samuel Brady's company, Colonel Brodhead's 8th Pennsylvania regiment, and was
discharged at Pittsburgh in the month of October, 1782.
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 4, 1818, at which time he was a resident of
Muskingum County, Ohio, then in the seventy-seventh year of his age. He was still a resident of Muskingum
County in 1820, and then referred to his
son-in-law. He did not give the name of his son-in-law, and there is no further reference to family.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of
pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly
the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office,
Records Division, Washington, D. C., and give the following data:
Lewis Williams
Certificate 14489
Issued September 10, 1819
Rate $8.00 per month
Commenced May 4, 1818
Act of March 18, 1818
Ohio Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator