Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16087, for Jacob Lewis, Massachusetts
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(3 - 1776)

SERVICE:   Mass

NUMBER:    W. 16087

Lewis, Jacob
Winter, Abigail
     (Former widow)

CONTENTS:
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Reported
let to D. Greenleaf of July 7. 42
letter first in case

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3813.
N. Hampshire
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Abigail Winter
widow of
Jacob Lewis, dec'
who died on the 1 March 1837
of Sullivan in the State of N.H.
who was a Pri in the com. commanded
by Captain Mass of the Regt commanded
by Col. Prescott in the Mass.
line for 18 months
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Inscribed on the Roll of Concord
at the rate of 60 Dollars .......Cents per annum
to commence on the 1st day of March, 1837, when he died; (her second husband)
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Certificate of Pension issued the 8 day of Dec'r 1842 and sent to Daniel
Greenleaf Esq. Washington, N.H.
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 42  ...................... 28.74
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mch 43 30
...................................................................................58.74
{Revolutionary Claim Act}
{July 4, 1836 Section the 3d}

Recorded by Theo Smoody, Clerk
Book  6   Vol. 3    Page 36
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April 2d, 1774 Received the names of Jacob Lewis and Abigail Colman of this town
with their intentions of Marriage, and was
out published April 14, 1774, and a certificate
given,
Per. Jonas Barrett Town Clerk
In same book page 32, found the following
on record, viz. "Child of Jacob Lewis and
Abigail his wife, Abigail born at Ashby March
6. 1775.
The above are true extracts of the records of
the Town of Ashby in the County of Middlesex
and State of Massachusetts, and I further find
by inspection of the records of said town that there are no records made of marriages untill the 30th of March 1779
A True Copy of record
April 7. 1837
Cushing Burr ck
Town Clerk

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex ss. I hereby certify that Cushing Burr Just. above named is Town Clerk of Ashby for this present year 1837-
John Locke   Jus. of the Peace
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the 3d section of the Act of Congress of the 4 July 1836--
State of New Hampshire} On this 17 day of
Sullivan SS}  May 1837
Before the Judge of Probate for said County, personally appeared Abigail Winter, a resident of Lempster in said County aged 78 years who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed 4 July 1836. That she is the widow of Jacob Lewis formerly of Ashby in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts who was a private in the Army of the Revolution. That he enlisted in 1775 into Capt. Wymans Company, Colonel 
Prescotts regiment, and served his period of enlistment. In the latter part of said year he again enlisted for the term of one year in Captain Fullers Company in Colonel Bonds regiment. After having served ten months, he was taken sick, and returned home and died shortly afterwards.
She further states that she was married to the said Jacob Lewis on the 20th day of April 1774, who died on the 30th day of November 1776. That before her marriage as aforesaid, her name was Abigail Coleman, That on the 6th day of May 1786 she was married to Andrew Winters, who died on the 1st day of March 1837 & that she has remained a widow since that period as will more fully appear by reference.
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to the proof hereunto annexed-
Sworn and subscribed the day & year above
written - and I certify that the above Deponent is a credible person
Abigail Winters

John L Putnam Judge of Probate
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I, Betsy Wright of Ashby in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts being in my sixty eighth year of my age do testify and say that I was born in Ashby and have lived in the same town ever since that when I was about six or seven years
old  I knew Jacob Lewis of said Ashby and his wife Abigail who lived in the same house with my father Peter Lawrence that the said
Jacob Lewis came home from the army at the westward (as it was said) sick, that he remained at my fathers sick til he died that his said wife was with him and took care of him as long as he lived, that they had a little girl named Abigail and I believe she was born at my father, but I am not certain of that, that his wife lived a very considerable time after she
was a widow at my father's-  That Mr. Lewis died some time in the fall of the year, it being wet weather and my belief is that it was in the year 1776. And the said Abigail his wife is now Abigail Winters and lives at Lempster in the State of New Hampshire. I further remember very distinctly his being sick particularly going
into the room when he was and seeing him sick very much
   Betsey Wright

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middleser ss. April 7th 1837
Personally appeared Betsy Wright above named and made oath to the truth of the above declaration by her made  and subscribed Before me
John Locke Jus of the Peace

Middlesex ss April 7th 1837. I hereby certify that Betsy Wright above named lives in the town where I do and is a very credible witness-
John Locke   Jus of the Place
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Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 16087
Abigail Winter
Widow of
Jacob Lewis
Pri Rev War
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Act July 4th '36
Index: Vol. M, Page 342
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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D. Greenleaf
July 7. 1843
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Pen Off
July 7 '43

Sir
The application of Abigail Winter a pensioner under the act of July 36 for the services of her first husband Jacob Lewis, for arrears from 4 March 31 to the 1 March 37 when she became a widow by the death of her second husband, has been examined & disallowed. By the decision of the Acts Genl she cannot under that act claim any thing in her own right while she is at the time covered and her first husband having died before the passage of the act of 7 June 32 there is nothing due him
which becomes payable to her

Danl Greenleaf Esqr
Washington N.H.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, September 1st 1842
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears
that the name of Jacob Lewis is borne on a
Return of the names of the officers and
men belonging to Capt. Abijah Wyman's Company in Colonel Wm Prescotts Regiment, as a private from Ashby, the said Return is dated at Cambridge October 3. 1775 and signed by the first Lieutenant Isaac Brown.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John P Bigelow
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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Washington N.H.   Nov 17th 1842
Sir
I send herewith the Declaration of the Widow
of Jacob Lewis, a Revolutionary Soldier with
depositions and certificates to prove her claim which I hope may prove sufficient to entitle her to Pension
I am respectfully
Your Obt St
Daniel Greenleaf


J L Edwards Esquire
Comm'r of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
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Washington N.H. June 22 1843
Sir
Enclosed I send the declaration of Abigail Winter formerly widow of Jacob Lewis for the purpose of obtaining the arrear of Pension due from the
fourth of March 1831 to first of March 1837
I am very respectfully
Your Obl. Servant
Daniel Greenleaf


J. L. Edwards Esqr
Commr of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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I Stephen Meads of Washington in the County of Sullivan & State of New Hampshire depose and say that I am eighty four years of age and that I have lived in Washington aforesaid more than fifty years. In the year 1775. I lived in Westford in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. I enlisted that year into the eight months service and continued in the service during said eight months in Capt. Wyman's Company and Col Prescott's
Regiment. Jacob Lewis of Ashby in Massachusetts aforesaid, was a private in the same Company and Regiment, and for the same term of eight months with myself. I was well acquainted with him. He was married before that time to a Miss Coleman. When he had served out the eight months, I believe he enlisted for another term but am not certain.
I further depose and say that about a year
after I left the service, I saw the said Jacob
Lewis in said Ashby, and that he died soon
afterwards, but I cannot give the precise
dates.
   Stephen Meads

State of New Hampshire} April 15 1837
Sullivan SS.}
The said Stephen Meads personally appeared and made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is just and true
Before     Joseph Healy Just Peace

I hereby certify that the above named
Stephen Meads is a man of truth and veracity
and that his testimony is entitled to full
and entire credit-
Joseph Healy Just. Peace
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State of New Hampshire}
Sullivan Ss } April 15, 1837
I, Thomas Laws, Notary Public for said County of Sullivan, do hereby certify that Joseph Healy within named is a Justice of the Peace, and now in commission for said County of Sullivan. In witness whereof I hereunto affix the seal of my office
   Thomas Laws

State of New Hampshire
Sullivan Ss.
I,.  T. W. Gilmore Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature, do hereby certify that Joseph Healey is a Justice of the Peace for said
County and that his signatures herewith are genuine. Given under my hand & Seal of the Court this 12th day of July A D 1837
T. W. Gilmore    Clerk
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J Winter
March 28 '40
INo 5712
Abigail Winter
former wid. Jacob Lewis
Act 4 July 36
m74. d76-
Secy. 75..........8 mo
Witness 76....10
........................pri 18 mo.
Admd
18 mo. pri
the pre
$60
to commence on 1 March
1837. the day of her husbands death
Daniel Greenleaf  Esq
Washington
N.H.
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State of New York}
Cattaraugus County} Ss.
Jacob Winter and Sally Winter being
duly sworn depose & say they were acquainted with Andrew Winter the husband of Abigail Winter and they were present
at the time he died which was on the first day of March one thousand Eight hundred & thirty seven at the town of Yorkshire in the County of Cattaragus
Subscribed & Sworn
   Jacob Winters
   Sally Winters
this 26th day of March 1841
before me
Miles Carter Justice

Cattaragus County, SS
Saxton S. Winter being duly sworn depose & says that he was acquainted with Andrew Winter the husband of Abigail Winter & that he was present, when he died, which was
on the first day of March A.D. 1837
at the town of Yorke & County & aforesaid
   Saxton S Winters
Subscribed & Sworn this 26th day of March 1841
Before me
Miles Carter Justice

I hereby certify that I made the coffin and attended the funeral of Andrew Winter
and by referring to my books I find that he
was buried on the 3d day of March 1837-
Yorkshire March 26th 1841
Miles Carter
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I, Susanah Colman of Ashby in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts in my eighty sixth year do
testify and say that I have lived in Ashby more than twenty five years that I well know Jacob Lewis of Ashby and his wife Abigail that he lived with late husband Benjamin Colman that his wife was Abigail Colman sister of my husband, that Lewis courted his wife when he lived at our house and after being published they went away to be married & some where but of town there being no clergyman in the town; they returned and soon went to live at one Amos Brooks where they lived till the next year, after that they went and lived at one Peter Lawrence's they had a child born at the
house of said Lawrence, whose name was Abigail, the year was 1775- Lewis, went into the Army at Cambridge, I believe he was one of the eight months men, after wards he went
into the army at Saratoga, or some where at the westward-came from the army in the fall of the year very sick and lived at the house of said Peter Lawrence till he died, which was a few weeks after. His wife remained with him, and took care of him till he died- she remained in Ashby a widow, for a length of time, she is now the widow Abigail Winter & lives in the town of Lempster in the State of New Hampshire
   Susannah Colman

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex ss. April 9th 1837. Personally appeared Susana Colman above named and made oath to the truth of the above
declaration by her made & subscribed
Before me John Locke   Jus of  the Peace

Middlesex ss April 7th 1837. I hereby certify that Susana Colman, is a very near neighbour is well known to me & a credible witness
John Locke   Jus. of the Peace.
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I, Benjamin Lawrence of Ashby in the County
of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts and in the seventy fourth year of my age do testify and say, that I have always lived in us by since I was a child, that in the years 1775 & six. I knew Jacob
Lewis of Ashby, that he lived at the house of Peter Lawrence in Ashby, that he went into the army about the time of Bunker Hill fight, at it was said, and afterwards into the army at the westward and that he came home to Ashby some time in the fall of the year, and I think in the year 1776 and soon after died at the house of said Peter Lawrence that his wife Abagail as she was called, and I have a
ways supposed and believed, lived with him and took care of him in his sickness. I lived near where they lived and remember them wel-l the said Abigail is the same person that is now the widow Abigail Winter, and lives in the town of Lempster in the State of New Hampshire
   Mary Lawrence

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex ss April 7th 1837. Personally appeared Benjamin Lawrence above named and made oath to the truth of the above declaration by him made and subscribed
Before me
John Locke Jus. of the Peace

Middlesex April 7th 1837. I hereby certify that Benjamin Lawrence above named, is a near neighbour of mine, and is a credible witness
John Locke    Jus of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston September 23d 1842
I hereby Certify, That John Locke is now and was at the dates of his several attestations to the papers hereunto annexed a Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John P. Bigelow
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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Abigail Winter
NH
Act 7 July 38


Daniel Greenleaf
Washington NH
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State of New Hampshire}
County of Sullivan  } Ss.
On this seventeenth day of June Eighteen hundred and forty three, personally appeared
before the subscriber, a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Sullivan aforesaid Abigail Winter of Lempster in said County of Sullivan, aged eighty four years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration  in order to obtain the arrears of Pension due from
the fourth of March eighteen hundred and thirty one to the first of March eighteen hundred and thirty seven. That she was formerly the widow of Jacob Lewis who
was a Private in the Army of the Revolution who died in the year 1776 as will fully appear by reference to her declaration of May 17th 1837, and the proof thereunto annexed; she now requests that the arrears of Pension from the 4th of March 1831 to the 1st of March
1837, that her husband Jacob Lewis aforesaid, would have been entitled to, had he been living at the time the act of June 7th 1832 was passed, be now paid to her agreeably to the 3rd Section of the act of July 4th 1836
and the act of August 23d 1842 entitled "An Act to amend the act of July eighteen hundred and thirty six and eighteen hundred and thirty two allowing pensions to certain widows."
She further declares that she is still a widow. That she is now a Pensioner as will fully appear by the annexed Certificate.
              Her
   Abigail  X     Winter
             mark
Signed in presence of us ⎬ 
Samuel Fletcher
Ward Sampson

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written; and I hereby certify that the above declarant is a credible witness
Ward Sampson Justice of the Peace
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383
Lempster N. Hampshire June 17th 1843
I hereby certify that Abigail Winter, named in the foregoing declaration, is the identical Abigail Winter named in an original Certificate, in her possession, of which the following is a copy:
War Department     V 3813
Revolutionary Claim
I certify that in conformity with the 3d section of the law of the United States of the 4th July 1836, Abigail Winter of New Hampshire formerly widow of Jacob Lewis deceased who was a Private in the Revolution, is entitled to receive sixty dollars per annum during the time she may remain unmarried commencing on the first day of March 1877 and payable
Semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September-
Given at the war office of the United States
this eighth day of December one 
thousand eight hundred and forty two
John C. Spencer
Secretary of War

Examined and countersigned
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.

Ward Sampson  Justice of the Peace
State of New Hampshire}
Sullivan County SS.}
I, J. W. Gilmore Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature of the County & State aforesaid do
hereby certify that Ward Sampson is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned & qualified; that his
Commission was dated on the 5th day of September 1842 and will expire on the 4th day of September 1847 and the signature herewith purporting to be his are in my
belief genuine Given under my hand & the seal of the County, this 21st day of June 1843
J. W. Gilmore Clerk
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I Jacob Wright of Washington in the County
of Sullivan and State of New Hampshire, depose and say that I am seventy eight years of age and that I have lived in Washington aforesaid for more than fifty years last past. In the year 1774 and for some years afterwards I lived in Ashby in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the latter part of the year 1775 I enlisted into the service of the United States for one year, a few weeks before the eight months men were discharged
I was well acquainted with Jacob Lewis of said
Ashby who had enlisted into the service for eight months, and whose term of service had not expired at the time I enlisted. When his term of eight months expired, he also enlisted into the same Company and Regiment with me for one year. Capt Nathan Fuller of Newtown Massachusetts, commanded the Company, and Col. William Bond of Watertown, Massachusetts commanded the Regiment to which we both belonged. About two months before said Lewis' year expired, he was taken sick with what was called the Camp Fever, and was discharged. He barely reached his home in said Ashby, and
died shortly afterwards.
I further depose and say that said Jacob
Lewis was married to Miss Abigail Coleman
before he went into the service. I further more depose and say that the said Lewis and myself were first stationed on Prospect Hill near Boston and continued there until the
British evacuated Boston- We then marched
to New York, where we continued about four
weeks. From New York we marched, by the way of
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Albany, Fort Edward Fort George, Lake Champlain to St John, thence to the St Lawrence River, thence down the St Lawrence River until we met Burgoyn's army; we then retreated back to Ticonderoga, where the said Lewis was discharged
   Jacob Wright

State of New Hampshire}
Sullivan Ss }  April 15 1837
The said Jacob Wright personally appeared
and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is just and true
Before    Joseph Healy Just Peace

I hereby certify that the above named Jacob
Wright is a man of truth and veracity & that full and entire credit may be given to his testimony
Joseph Healy Just. Peace

State of New Hampshire Sullivan ss. April 15 1837
I, Thomas Laws, Notary Public for said County of Sullivan, do hereby certify that Joseph Healy above named is a Justice of the Peace and now in commission, for said County of Sullivan
In witness whereof I hereunto affix the seal of
my office
Thomas Laws
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State of New Hampshire
Sullivan Ss.

I, T W Gilmore, Clerk of the Superior Court
of Judicature do hereby certify that Joseph
Healey is a Justice of the Peace for said County
and that his signature herewith are genuine
Given under my hand and seal of the Court
this 12th day of July AD 1837
T W Gilmore Clk