Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 35889, Isaac Dewees, Navy (Penn)
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(3-1776)
Service               Number
Navy (Penn)     Dewees, Isaac.                    S35889

Contents
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Cond & [illegible]
Nathn Smithen
April 11, 1821
Dover Del

4,628
Roll of Delaware
Dec'd
Isaac Dewees
Penn
Mariner
Ship Andrew Doria. N. Biddle [crossed out Capt.] 
In the [inserted] Navy of the United States during the Revolutionary War
1775.. 1 year.

Inscribed on the Roll of Delaware at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 30th of March 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 27th of Novemb. 1818 and sent to the Honble John Fisher- Dover Del.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1818. 5W 2/31 + 4/30. 41:57
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4. March 1819  48.
$89:57

{Revolutionary Claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
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United States
Delaware district;

Depositions of witnesses produced sworn or affirmed and examined before me John Fischer District Judge of the United States for the Delaware district, on the claim of Isaac Dewees, late a corporal of Marines in the Navy of the revolutionary war, and now a resident of the district aforesaid, for a pension in pursuance of the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war"; approved on the 18th day of March 1818.

The aforesaid Isaac Dewees aged sixty seven years and upwards, personally appeared before me and being affirmed in due form of law, (he being conscientiously Scrupulous of taking an oath) declares as follow, viz, That in the month of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five the declarant enlisted in the naval service of the United Colonies then so called, at the city of Philadelphia ^as a marine and was put on board a brig of war, then belonging to the Said United Colonies, called the "Andrew Doria", under the command of Capt. Nicholas Biddle; that the first expedition or cruize the said brig sailed on was as one of the fleet of Commodore Hopkins, to New-providence one of the Bahama Islands, and
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and belonging to the crown of Great Britain; that on the arrival of said fleet at New Providence, both forts surrendered to said fleet and gave up all their munitions of war, which were brought home to said Colonies and landed safely at New London in the State of Connecticut; that after the aforesaid expedition to New Providence, the brig aforesaid continued to cruize on the American coast and captured a number of British prizes, through the summer ^ of 1776 until the month of August 1776, at which time Capt. Biddle left the command of said brig and she came under the command of Capt Robinson, under whose command she made a voyage to St. Eustatia for naval and military story for account of the then Continental Congress; that on the voyage from St. Eustatia to the United States said brig captured two prizes the one a sloop named the "Race-horse", the other a Snow named the "Tom Jones"; that the affirmant was put on board the Tom Jones under [crossed out Commodore] Lieutenant Joshua Barney (since Commodore) who was appointed by Capt Robinson her prizemaster; that said prize got safe into Chincoteague inlet in the Commonwealth of Virginia, at which place the affirmant was discharged from said prize, the term of his enlistment, it being one year, having expired; that the discharge was in the month of January in the 1777, and was a verbal discharge, given to the affirmant by one Thomas Cummins, he being Lieut Barney's mate of said prize, the Lieutenant himself having
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gone to Baltimore, and the affirmant further declares, that he is now, by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, in need of assistance for his country for support; and further the affirmant saith not.
Taken, affirmed to and Subscribed, at Dover, the 30th day of March 1818
Isaac Dewess

before
John Fischer District Judge
Delaware district

Samuel Dewess aged Sixty-five years ^&upwards being duly affirmed according to law (he being conscientiously Scrupulous of taking an oath) deposes and declares as follows, viz, That he has known the above named Isaac Dewees ever since the affirmant ^has had a recollection of persons, having lived within a half of a mile of him and being cousins; that said Isaac Dewees went away in the fall of the year 1775 and was absent from the usual place of his residence for more than a year; that said Isaac Dewees returned home some time before the British to possession of Philadelphia; that this affirmant saw the aforesaid Isaac Dewees soon after his return home and heard him give an account of his voyages and heard him speak of engagements he had been in and of prizes that had been taken by vessels he had served on board of; and that this affirmant thinks he then heard said Isaac Dewees speak of his having been at New-Providence during the cruizes he had taken; and the affirmant further
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further saith that the services of the aforesaid Isaac Dewees in the Navy of the United States were matters of public notoriety with the people then living in the neighbourhood where the said Isaac usually dwelt; and this affirmant never heard them disputed by any person; that after the said Isaac returned from his cruize in the Navy this affirmant and the said Isaac volunteered their services for about four months, as militia men, during the time that the British were in Philadelphia; that this affirmant is confident that by reason of the reduced circumstances in life of the aforesaid Isaac Dewees, he is now in need of assistacne from his country for support; and further this affirmant knows nothing.
Samuel Dewees
Taken, affirmed to and Subscribed, at Dover this 4th April 1818 - Before
John Fisher District Judge
Delaware district
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Issac Dewees

4628
March
1819
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State of Delaware ss

    On this second day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, personally appeared in the Court of Common Pleas of the said state of Delaware held at Dover in and for Kent County, in open court, Isaac Dewees aged seventy years and upwards and resident of the said county of Kent in the stat of Delaware aforesaid (the said court being a court of record for the said county expressly made do by the constitution and law of said state which created it and proceeding according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited  in point of amount and keeping a record of its proceedings) and the said Isaac Dewees being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his solemn oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows; - that he enlisted for one year in the year 1775, in the Navy in which he served fourteen months on board the Brig called (he believes) : "Andrew Doria" under Capt. Nicholas Biddle in the continental establishment: - and the said Isaac Dewees further declareth that his trade or occupation is that of a cabinet maker; at which business he worked as a journeyman; but for his advanced age in life he can do very little more than half as much work as an able hand can do; that he has a wife and one child - that his wife is upward of fifty years of age and is very infirmed and unhealthy; and that his child is about ten years of age; - That he has received a pension and the number of his pension certificate is 4,628 and the date of his original declaration the 30th of March 1818.
    And I, the said Isaac Dewees, do further solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March 1818. And that I have not since that time by gift, sale of in any manner, disposed of my property or any part thereof, with the intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18th day of March 1818; - and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me
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any property or securities, contracts or debts to me, nor have I any income; other than what is mentioned in the schedule here.
to annexed and by me subscribed. Isaac Dewees
Sworn to and declared in open court on the 2nd December 1820 N. Smithers, Pro
 A Schedule of the property of Isaac Dewees 
(necessary wedding and clothing excepted)
 1pine table 100 1 small cupboard 150.  2 pine chests 150 
lot of earthen ware + 2 iron pots 200. 1 Duch oven + 4 old chairs 200 1 small chest 75. Some joiners tools 6.00. lot of Cedar ware [illegible] 75.
Shovel and tongs and over 15 old andirons 125. Can of razors 50,tin ware 25. wood saw and ax 100. weeding hoe 50 .1 old spinning wheel 200
Garden containing cabbage and beets 2.
[illegible] N Smithers  total $23.00 Isaac Dewees
State of Delaware Kent County 
I Nathaniel Smithers , Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the State of Delaware and for Kent County, do certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said court: And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total account in value of the property exhibited in the afore said schedule is twenty three dollars.
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Invalid

File No. 35889

Isaac Dewees
Mariner
U. S. Navy

Act March 18/1818
Index: Vol _____Page _____

(Arrangement of 1870.)
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The Honorable the Secretary of the War Department of the United States

Washington
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Dover March 19. 1821.
Honorable Secretary of War.
Sir
I some time since transmitted
to the war department, the
application of Isaac Dewees 322
Thomas Strayton and others, to
be continued on the pension
sold, but have received
no return. Be pleased to
inform me the cause of delay
that I may communicate the same
to them.
I am sir your Humble
& obt servt
Nathaniel Smithers, Pro.
Court C.P. Kent County in
the State of Delaware.
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(Transcriber's note: A careful review of this page indicates it is the reverse of page 14 which has bled through the paper. This side includes applicant's name and action taken with respect to his application.)

Isaac Dewees

Navy

Admitted
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To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War:
The undersigned District Judge
of the United States, for the Delaware district,
prays leave to certify,
That it appears to the satisfaction
of the undersigned, that the foregoing applicant Isaac
Dewees served in the revolutionary war, as a marine in
the navy of the United States against the common enemy and
for the term or time substantiated by the foregoing testimony.
and that the witness who has testified in favour of the
above applicant is entitled to full faith and credit;
The undersigned accordingly transmits the said deposition
to the Secretary of the Department of War, equally
to the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An
act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land
and Naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" passed 18th March 1818.
In testimony whereof the undersigned
hereto set his hand, at Dover in the
District aforesaid; and has caused
the seal of the United States court for
said district to be hereto affixed, this
twenty-first day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and eighteen; and of the Independence
of the United States, the forty -second.
John Fisher District Judge
Delaware district
Attest Tho Witherspoon Clk Dis Ct
Del Dist