Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4471, for Lewis Keeler, Connecticut
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(3 - 1776)

SERVICE
Conn.
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Keeler Lewis
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NUMBER
S 4471.

Carded.
CONTENTS
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8757
N Jersey
New York
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Lewis Keeler
of Saratoga in the State of New York
who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Scofield of the Regt commanded by Col Eno in the Ct. line
for 18 mo.
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Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 60 Dollars 00 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of Apl 1833 and sent to 
Seth W. Higgins Half Moon
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Arrears to the 4th of March 1833     $120.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept-     30. 00
                                                           $150.00

{Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk,
Book E Vol. 4 Page 23

See Cir. tra -- June 11th. '35
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To New Jersey from 4th. Sept. 1834 --
June 20th. 1835-
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1st Brief
No. 10955
Lewis Keeler
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admitted
18 mo. Private
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4.5. 1416
15 Sep 1832
10 Dec 1832

Seth W Higgins
Half Moon
Saratoga Co
N. Y.
D 143
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No. 10955
BRIEF in the case of Lewis Keeler of Halfmoon County of of Saratoga in the State of New York.
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?
In Open Court.
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
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3. How old is he?
74 Years, ___
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
(heading) Period.
June 1st In 1777.
April 1st  1778.
                  1779.
(Heading) Duration of Service.        
Years, Months, Days.       
              7.                       
              0.                       
              2.                       

(Heading) Rank.
As a 
private
Minute Man
Substitute

(Heading) Names of General and Field Officers
under whom he served.
Gen.
Capt Scofield.  Col Roger Enos.
David Olmstead Capt.
Capt Shute.

5. In what battles was he engaged?
______________________________________
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
Danbury County of Fairfield. Connt.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by
incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
By two living witnesses. ---
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
They appear to be in due form.

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
James Ord Examining Clerk.
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State of New York
Saratoga County}
Amended declaration of Lewis Keeler of Saratoga County N York as taken before Isaac E Garnsey one of the Justices of the peace in and for the County of Saratoga 
On the 26th day of January 1833--
Claimant declares for services in his first declaration which claim is supported by the testimony of Silas Rockwell Edward Tyler whose testimony is hereunto amended as follows claimants- first tour of duty was from the first of June 1777 to the first of January 1778 a term seven months 
the second tour as stated in the declaration
was performed in the year 1778 that is from the first of April 1778
to the first of January 1779 a tour of nine months under the Liability of again being called into service at any time during the year for which he enlisted
The third tour of duty as stated in claimants declaration was in the year 1779 on the first day of August as stated in an
annexed affadavit of Silas Rockwell and served two months
Refference to Silas Rockwells affadavit hereunto annexed
The claimant in addition to the former declaration made by him in Court called to mind the following service performed
by him which at the time of making his
first declaration he did
not recollect of which the following is the statement afirmed
In the year 1776 as near as I can recollect I entered the service of the
United States as a substitute for Justice Barnham who was drafted
in a company of Militia of the State of Connecticut Commanded
by Captain Noble Benedict for six months. I was at that time an apprentice to the said Justice Barnham and after the said Barnham
had served about half his time for which he was drafted he the said Barnham wrote me a letter to come down and take his place I went
Joined the company which was then stationed at Bargon Point
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previous to joining the company as afore stated Captain Benedict was taken prisoner with a part of his company and carried to New York he was taken prisoner at the time the British took Fort Washington and a part of his company made their escape, this part that made their escape was on the same that the said Barnham belonged to and was with at the time they made their escape and the same company which I joined at Bargon Point and served the remaining part of this time for which the said Barnham was drafted which time of service I then performed was three months as a private. At the time I was at Bargon Point there was about one hundred militia stationed there Yet the names of many of the officers there I do not recollect.

And the claimant further states that his first declaration contains a brief account in detail of his services as is in his power to give that he has no documentary evidence in his possession nor does he know of any person living whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his last service as a substitute for Justice Barnham as above stated
Lewis Keeler

I Isaac E Garnsey one of the Justices of the peace in and for the county of Saratoga hereby certify that on the 26th day of January 1833 personally appeared before me the above named Lewis Keeler and swore and subscribed to the above declaration and I further certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Lewis Keeler and believe him to be a man of truth and veracity
Isaac E Garnsey Justice of the Peace
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State of New York Saratoga County SS
I Alpheus Goodrich clerk of the County of Saratoga o certify that Isaac E. Garnsey before whom the foregoing affidavit of Lewis Keeler purports to have been sworn, and who has certified as to the credibility of the said Lewis Keeler, was on the date of the same one of the Justices of the peace in & for the said county, attest I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit and certificate hereto annexed to be his proper hand writing and signature. Witness my hand and seal of office the thirtieth day of January 1833
A Goodrich clerk
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State of New York Saratoga County 
On this sixth day of September 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Court of Common Pleas now sitting Lewis Keeler resident of the town of Halfmoon in the County of Saratoga and state of New York aged 74 years who being 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 entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
That he this deponent entered the service of the united States by enlistment on or about the first of June 1777 in a company commanded by Reuben Scofield as Captain Caleb Church was first Lieutenant Ezra Benedict second Lieutenant which company belonged to the State troops of the State of Connecticut that Colonel Roger Enos commanded said regiment that he this deponent enlisted for one year and was discharged from said service at the expiration of seven months the full time for which he enlisted from said enlistment on the lst day of December 1777 or the first day of January 1778 and this deponent further saith that during the term of the service as above stated this deponent was stationed at Horseneck Stanford King Street to guard that section of the country. And this deponent further states that on or about the first day of April in the year 1778 he this deponent again enlisted in another regiment of State Troops of the State of Connecticut commanded by the afore named Roger Enos as Colonel in a company commanded by Captain David Olmstead in which company Lewis Mills was first Lieutenant but the names of the other subaltern officers this deponent cannot now recollect that this deponent enlisted on or about the first day of April as afore stated for one year as a minute man and served in this company as above stated untill the first day of January in the year 1779 - when this deponent together with the remainder of the company was dismissed under the liability of again being called on at any time during the year for which he was enlisted and this deponent further
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saith that on the last mentioned tour of duty he this deponent was stationed at Horse Neck Kings Bridge and at other posts in that vicinity that he this deponent was at King Street at the time Colonel Thomas was taken prisoner at the time that he this deponent was stationed at King Bridge Colonel Meigs commanded a regiment of Continental troops called the fourth Continental Regiment in the Connecticut line which regiment was also stationed at Horse Neck a part of the time. 
And this deponent further states that in the year 1779 the month this deponent does not now recollect - he entered the service again as a militia man in a company of militia commanded by Captain Shute the names of other subaltern officers he this deponent does not now recollect that he this deponent entered the service as above stated in the company above named as a substitute for John Foot who was drafted to go on an expedition for two months that he this deponent went as a substitute as stated and served the time for which he the said John Foot was drafted and was dismissed with the rest of his company, that the militia to which he belonged was the militia of the State of Connecticut.  
And the deponent further states that he was at Danbury Cont. at the time the enemy came and destroyed it by fire that he was also at Fairfield, also at that conflagration, and that he was also at Norwalk at the time the enemy landed and destroyed that place. That on the last mentioned times of service he was a volunteer not under the particular direction of any officer and this deponent further saith that he was born in the town of Richfield in the County of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut on the fourth day of April 1758 that he lived in the town of Danbury in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut at the time he entered the service of the United States and that since said revolutionary war he has resided in the town of Lansingburgh [unreadable]
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in the town of Half Moon Saratoga County and has lived in said town for some time past that from the several terms of Service he this deponent has served his county in actual service by Enlistment and otherwise as herein stated is herein set forth.   
To the interrogatories propounded by the Court the applicant answers as follows 
1  I was born in the town of Richfield in the County of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut on the 4th day of April 1758 
2  I have no record of my age but derive this information from my parents  
3  I lived in the town of Danbury in the County of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut at the time I entered the service of the United States,  that since the Revolution I have lived in the town and Village of Lansingburgh Rensselaer County and State of New York and I now live in the town of Half Moon Saratoga County N York 
4th   I enlisted at two different times and Entered as a substitute at another time being in the service actually engaged at three different periods 
5  To this I would give the names of Roger Enos Colonel,  Reuben Scofield, Caleb Church, Ezra Benedict,  Job Smith,  David Olmsted,  Lewis Mills,  Colonel Meiggs of the Continental.  
6  I never received a written discharge during the period of my service but was dismissed in all cases.   
7th  I would propose the names of Aaron R. Patterson and Seth W Higgins who are known to me in my present Neighborhood who can testify to my character for veracity and their belief as to my service as a soldier of the Revolution
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that he this deponent has no documentary evidence of his services Except such as is hereunto annexed and that he knows of none other whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services as a Soldier of the Revolution.   
That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State 
Lewis Keeler
Sworn and subscribed to in Open Court the 6th day of September 1832 
Thomas Palmer Clerk 
I Jonathan Ferris of the town of Providence in the County of [Saratoga] of York on oath depose and say this in the war of the revolution I served [unreadable] Elnathan Finch in a regiment commanded by Colonel Luddenton [Henry Ludington] State troops of the State of New York Stationed near the White Plains that I have been acquainted with the said Finch from my infancy to at present date 
Sworn & Subscribed 
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories 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 Seth W Higgins resident of the town of Calton Park County of Saratoga State of New York and Aaron R Patterson who has also signed the same as a resident of the town of Milton in the County of Saratoga & State of New York
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Aaron R Patterson residing in the town of Milton County of Saratoga NY and Seth W Higgins residing in the town of Clifton Park in the above named County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Lewis Keeler who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be Seventy four years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.  
Seth W. Higgins
A R Patterson
Sworn and subscribed to in open Court September 1832 
Thomas Palmer  Clerk
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are credible persons and that their testimony is entitled to credit and it further appears to said court that there is no clergyman living in the vicinity of said applicant whose attendance can be procured in court.
I Thomas Palmer Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Saratoga and State of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Lewis Keeler for a pension And also further certify that the deposition of Aaron R. Patterson was subscribed and sworn to in open court. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this seventh day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
Thomas Palmer Clerk
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10955
Lewis Keeler
admitted
18 mos private
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State of New York 
Greene County SS }  Silas Rockwell of the town of Granville in the County of Greene aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth & saith that 1 he know Lewis Keeler now of the town of Lansingburgh in the County of Rensselaer in said state that during the war of the revolution said Keeler resided in the town of Danbury in the County of Fairfield State of Connecticut that he was in the service of the United States a  part of the time during the war of the revolution - that on or about the first of firm in the year 1777 he knows that said Keeler Enlisted for & served seven months in Colonel Roger Enos’ regiment of Connecticut State Troops in the company commanded by Captain Reuben Scofield of which Caleb Church was first Lieutenant & Ezra Benedict second Lieutenant & John Smith Ensign that said deponent also served in said company during said service.  That said Keeler was discharged from said service on the last day of December following said enlistment.  
This deponent further saith that said Keeler again entered said service on or about the first day of April in the year 1778 in
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another regiment of Connecticut Troops which was commanded at the time by the same Colonel as above in the company. of Captain David Olmstead that Lewis Mills was first Lieutenant of said Company; the names of the other subaltern officers this deponent does not recollect.  That said Keeler enlisted for one year as a minute man & was dismissed on the first day of January following his enlistment under the liability to be called into the service again at any time thereafter during the year for which he enlisted.  
This deponent further saith that he service in the same company with said Keeler, during the period aforesaid and further this deponent saith not. 
Silas Rockwell 
Sworn this 10th day of July 1832 before me  Perkins King a Judge of the Court Common pleas in & for said County of Greene  
State of New York 
Greene County }  Edward Tyler of the town at of Van Buren in the County of Onondaga & said State being duly sworn deposeth & saith he served in the war of the revolution with Lewis Keeler described above affidavit of [unreadable]
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Silas Rockwell & Edward Tyler in the matter of  Lewis Keeler a revolutionary soldier
[unreadable]
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Rockwell that he has examined said affidavit & knows the facts therein stated to be true and further this deponent saith not.   
Edward Tyler
Sworn this 10th day of of July 1832 before me Perkins King a Judge of the Court of Common pleas in for said County of Greene  
State of New York
Greene County ss}  I William V.B. Heermance Clerk of the County of Greene State of New York  do certify that Perkins King Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavits purport to have been sworn was at the date of the same a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Greene, and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavits to be his proper hand writing and signature in witness my hand and seal of office this Eleventh day of July 1832. 
William V. B. Heermance Clerk
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ber 10,955.
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State of New York 
Saratoga County } ss  Aaron R. Patterson of Milton in said county being duly sworn, says, that he has been personally acquainted with Lewis Keeler of the town of Halfmoon past in said County for several years that the said Keeler resided in Lansingburgh, County of Rensselaer N. Y till within a short time since -  the time said Keeler removed from Lansingburgh to the town of Halfmoon aforesaid, he is unable to state that Lewis Keeler the applicant for a pension at the present court of common pleas of said County of Saratoga is the same Lewis Keeler whom he knew in Lansingburgh and he has no doubt and believes is the same Lewis Keeler referred to in the affidavit of Silas Rockwell the Jurat of which was signed by Perkins King a judge of the Court of common pleas of the County of Greene on the 10th July last past.   And further saith not. 
Amos R. Patterson 
Sworn & subscribed to in open Court 
Thomas Palmer Clerk
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The words “on the first day of the month” interlined before sworn to
of New York 
County ss}  I Silas Rockwell of the town of Granville in the county of Greene aged 72 years on oath depose and say that in addition to my former declaration, which I made on the 10th day of July 1832 before Perkins King Esqr (which declaration is  attached to the Declaration of Lewis Keeler in application for a pension) I entered the service of the United States in the Militia of the State of Connecticut as a Substitute for my Brother in a company commanded by Captain Sheets entered in the Month of August on the first day of the month in the year 1779  and was dismissed on the first of October in the year 1779.  
That at the time I entered Lewis Keeler now of Halfmoon Saratoga County N York formerly of Lansingburgh Rensselaer County N York Entered and served as a substitute for one John Foot in the same company that I served, we were stationed at North Street adjoining Horseneck as a guard and continued in the service as afore stated two months the time for which we entered when we were both dismissed and returned home.   
Silas Rockwell 
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Sworn to & subscribed this 23rd day of January 1833 before me 
Perkins King a Judge of the Court of Common pleas for the said County of Greene 
State of New York 
County of Greene } ss I Perkins King the Judge hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Silas Rockwell who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing affidavit and that he is a person entitled to credit 
Perkins King Judge as aforesaid
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State of York 
County of Greene } ss  I Perkins King a Judge of the court of Common pleas in & for said County the same officer before whom the foregoing affidavit of Silas Rockwell and Edward Tyler were taken hereby certify that I am well acquainted with said Rockwell and that he is a credible person and entitled to credit.   I further certify that I cannot certify to the inability of said Tyler for the reason that 1 do not know him have had no other acquaintance with him than what was formed at the time of taking said affidavit.   
Perkins King Judge as aforesaid 
Dated January 23d 1833 
State of New York 
County of Greene } ss  Silas Rockwell of the town of Granville in said County being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose & say that he is well acquainted with Edward Tyler who has Sworn to & subscribed the foregoing affidavit and that he is a credible person and entitled to credit.   
Silas Rockwell
Sworn to and subscribed this 23d day of January 1838 before me 
Perkins King a Judge of the court of Common pleas in & for said County 
State of New York 
County of Greene ss} I Perkins King Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County in by certify that I am well acquainted with Silas Rockwell who has sworn to & subscribed the foregoing affidavit and that he is a credible person are entitled to credit.  
Perkins King Judge aforesaid
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State of New York 
Greene County ss } I, William V.B. Heermance Clerk of the County of Greene do certify that Perkins King Esq. before whom the annexed three affidavits of Silas Rockwell and affidavit of Edward Tiler were sworn and who subscribed the certificates to the credibility of said Rockwell was at the date of the same a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the and that his signature thereto is genuine.  
In testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said County this twenty fourth day of January 1833 
William V. B. Heermance Clerk
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Application for a Transfer 
County Bergen ss  
On this thirtieth  day of May 1835 before me the subscriber a Justice of the the peace for the County of Bergen personally appeared Lewis Keeler who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Reuben Schofield & David Hamstead in  the Regiment commanded by Colonel Rodger Enos  in the service of the United States that his name was placed on the pension Roll of the State of New York from whence he has lately removed that he now resides in the State of New Jersey when he intends to Remain and wishes his pension to be there payable in future.  The following are his reasons for removing from the State of New York to the Township of Franklin County of Bergen He has a daughter living in the Township aforesaid by whom he wished to take his home (she being a widow with a family of children) is one, the other is that he was not knowing that it made any diference where he resided expecting he could draw his money as usual untill he was informed by the agent for paying pensions in City of New York that he could not draw in the State of New York if he resided in the State of New Jersey.   
Lewis Keeler
Sworn and Subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid 
John Bogert Justice of the Peace 
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State of New Jersey 
Bergen County ss} of on this thirtieth day of May 1835 before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County personally appeared Albert G Lydacker who on his oath declares that he is acquainted with Lewis Keeler the person who has subscribed and sworn to the within affidavit that he knows him the said
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Lewis Keeler to be the same person described therein and that said Lewis Keeler to be the same person described therein and that the said Lewis is a pensioner of the United States.  
Albert G. Lydacker
Sworn & Subscribed to before me this 30th day of May 1835 
John Bogert Justice of the Peace 
I John Bogert do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Albert G Lydacker the person who has subscribed to the above affidavit and that his is a man of truth and veracity & that his statement may be relied on 
John Bogert JP
State of New Jersey 
Bergen  County } SS: I Abraham Westervill Clerk of the County of Bergen in the State of New Jersey do hereby Certify that John Bogert Esq before whom the within and foregoing Depositions of Lewis Keeler and of Albert G Lydacker were taken is a Justice of the peace in said County, duly authorized and commissioned and that the signature of his name to the Jurat of each of said depositions, as well as to the above certificate is genuine. 
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of my Office at Hackensack this first day of June A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty five
Abm Westervill Clerk
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Dear Sirs 
The enclosed contains John A Blauvetts and Lewis Keelers Pension Certificates, with their application for a Transfer, will you do them the favour to send the returns to the subscriber as soon as conveniently.   
The war department I presume have decided on the subject - if not will you have the goodness to inform me of the same (the old men are very anxious to know).   
I must acknowledge yours of the 3d March and thank you for your kindness in giving me all the information necessary.
Very respectfully yours Obt Servant 
A.G. Lydacker 
J. L. Edwards Esqr
June 3rd 1835
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4471 
Rev War INVALID. 
File No. 4471 
Lewis Keeler 
Privt Rev War  
Act: June 7" 1832 
Index: -- Vol. A , Page 202 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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June 11
Mr. Burdine
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J L. Edwards Esqr  
Commissioner of Pensions  
City of Washington D.C.
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Lewis Keeler
Albany
4
N. J. 
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