Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40,939, for Samuel Lewis, Pennsylvania
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Penn

Lewis, Samuel

NUMBER
S.40,939
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6270.

Pennsylvania

Samuel Lewis

 of Huntingdon Co in the state of Pennsylvania
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Butler of the Pennsylvania Line, for the term of 6 years.


Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of --8 Dollars per month, to commence on the [illegible] of May 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 2d of Feby 1819 and sent to 
Hon. W. P. Maclay
House of Representatives

$ 40.80 Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818 3 mos
   48.00 Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 May 1819
_________
$88.80

{Revolutionary  claim,  }
{Act 18th March, 1818.}


['Continued 'written in very faint]
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[illegible] sent to the Pensioner 10 April 1821

Huntingdon Pa.
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40939
INVALID.
Revy

File No.  40939
Samuel Lewis
[illegible] Rev  War

Act: 18"March 18"
Index:-- Vol.  [illegible], Page 291

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Hollidaysburg March 4th, 1821

Sir,

   In the case of Samuel Lewis an old soldier of Huntington County who has (illegible) of informed by the prothonotary has been sent to you no return but yet (illegible) Wm. Lewis situation is deplorable  he has nothing to support him and every day it is held back is on injury he must have been placed in the township before this had not some be able (illegible) him he wishes to have the papers sent as soon as possible and as this place is twenty-eight miles from Huntington.  He wishes you to let him know when the are sent.
                                    Yours,
                                 C. Garber
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FREE

Hollidaysburg
March 8

Secretary of War
Washington City
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Samuel Lewis

Adm

Hon. W. P. Maclay
H of R
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Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County   SS

(seal)  Before me the subscriber  one of the 
[illegible] Judges of the Court of Common Pleas Quarter Sessions in and for the County also personally came Samuel Lewis who being sworn as law [illegible] Doth say that he enlisted in the year 1777 under Capt. Fishbourn in the Continental Army of the United States.   Pennsylvania 4th Regiment commanded by Col. W. Pearson Butler. Deponent was at the Battle of Brandywine under General Anthony Wayne, he was also in the Battle of Germantown then in the Battle of Monmouth he then [illegible] under the command of Col. Butler to [illegible] Valley against the Indians and remained there two years - he then joined the Army again and remained in the Army  during the war and was discharged by General Richard Butler which 
discharge he sent to Harrisburg to get assistance from the State of Pennsylvania and he has not seen it since.  

Deponent saith that [ illegible line] to him by any act of Congress of the United States [rest of line illegible].
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he hereby fully relinquishes it to the United States and this deponent is now and has always been a citizen of the State of Pennsylvania since the time he was discharged from Army of the United States at the end of the Revolutionary War and deponent has then saith that from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his country for support.  

Sworn and Subscribed before }   Samuel Lewis
me the 2d day of May  1818   |
Joseph W. Cune
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Huntington County ss

    I Joseph McCune an associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for county aforesaid Do certify to the Hon. The Secretary of War for the United States that I am now satisfied that Samuel Lewis named in the aforesaid declaration on this sheet of paper is in indigent circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support.  In testimony of which i have hereunto set my hand and seal this thirteenth of August 1818.

                                          //s//
                                Joseph McClune

State of Pennsylvania
Huntington County ss

I William Steel Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county do certify that Joseph McClune Esquire before whom the within affidavit and declaration of Smauel Lewis appears to have been made & who has signed the above certificate, was at the time of taking said declaration and signing the above certificate and now is one of the aforesaid Judges of the Court of Common Pleas duly commissioned and sworn in and for said county and that to all his official acts as such full faith and credit is due and ought to be given as well in the court of Justice as thereout.
    In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Huntington the 15th day of August A.D. 1818.

                                  //s//
                        William Steel  Prothy.
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Application of
Samuel Lewis
6270
March 1819

(illegilble) Pensioner
Huntington
Penn..  Apr 10, 1821.
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Huntingdon County 
District of Pennsylvania ss

   In open court of Common Pleas held at Huntingdon in and for Huntingdon County aforesaid held before the honorable Charles Huston Esqr., President and David Stewart and Joseph McClune Esquires associates being a Court of record declared such by Act of Assembly of Pennsylvania on the 10th day of January A.D. 1821 resident in Hampton Township in said county, aged 79 years and upwards. Personally appeared in open court Samueal Lewis who being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is the same Samuel Lewis to whom a Certificate of Pension was granted at the war office of the United States dated 22nd February 1819, No, 6270 and he doth on his oath aforesaid declares and say that he served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War as follows for six years four months and twenty two days and was discharged at Carlisle in Pennsylvania the 27th September 1783 from the #rd Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line and was honoured with the badge of nail for his faithful services and I the said Samuel Lewis do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner deposed of my property of any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to entitled due act to provide for certain person engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed one the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contract or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. 

                                             //s//
                                     Samuel Lewis

Sworn & subscribed in
open court 10th day 1821.
               //s//
William Steel Clerk,
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schedule of all the Petitioner's Property & income a Pension of forty dollars a year granted by the state of Pennsylvania and no other property whatsoever real personal or mixed as to occupation he follows now nor has been able to do it for many years he has no family nor any relations whatsoever that he knows of.

                                     //s//
                             Samuel Lewis

Sworn & subscribed in
open court 10th Jany. 1821
              //s//
     William Steel Clerk