Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37169, for Jabez Lewis, Connecticut
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SERVICE   Conn.
Lewis, Jabez
or Jabish
NUMBER  S. 37169
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18,132 R.
Connecticut 
Jabez Lewis  
of Farmington in the State of Connecticut who was a private in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Burrall  of the Connecticut line, for the term of one year 
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 9 of June 1818 
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 of April 18 and sent to Thos Chester Esq Hartford, Conn
Arrears to 4th of March 1821. 32 mos 22/30 & 4/31   262.89
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sep 1821 48  
$310.89 
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.} 
first of May 1820
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AW
Aug 14, 1906
W.J.F.
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Lewis, Jabez 
His name appears on a list of claimants to be placed on the pension list returned by the Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on April 25, 1794, and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, page 115.    
Rank: Private. 
Regt: Col. Bunnel's [Burrall]
Disability: Lame and ulcerated leg, from being beaten by the Indians at St. Lawrence, where he was captured. 
Where disabled: Cedars. 
Monthly allowance: $4.45 
Arrearages: $200.00 Remarks: 
There are no returns of this regiment in this office 
Name not found on printed list of Comr Invalid Pensioners
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AW
July 16, 1906
L.M.H
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Lewis, Jabez 
His name appears on a list of applicants for invalid pension returned by the Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on Dec. 4 1792,, and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, page 66.    
Rank: Private. 
Regt: Col. C. Burrall, 1 year 
Disability: Wounded and beaten by the Indians when taken prisoner. 
Date of certificate:  Oct 2, 1792
Monthly allowance: $4.44 1/3
Arrears due: $200.00 
Name not found on printed list of Conn Invalid Pensioners.
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Jabez Lewis 
Jabez Lewis 
Private 
Jany 1776 to 1777 
Burrals Connecticut Regt 
[unreadable]
Not on Continental establishment
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DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT  -ss- HARTFORD 
On this 9th day of June 1818, before me the subscriber, Judge of the County Court for the County of Hartford for the said district, personally appeared Jabez Lewis aged 68 years resident in Farmington  in the said district, who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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:" That he, the said Jabez Lewis in the month of January 1776 enlisted in Canaan in the state of Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain John Stevens of the Regt commanded by Col Charles Barral [Burrall]  in the Connecticut Line to serve for one year   that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States until the close of the year for which he engaged when he was discharged from service, 
that he was in the battle of the Cedars in Canada where he was taken prisoner and detained about 18 or so days & then being was released  and being sick was permitted to return home and remained at home until discharged.  
and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services. 
Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid 
Jonathan Brace Judge of the County Court for the County of Hartford 
Jonathan Brace- Judge, &c. as aforesaid, do certify that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Jabez Lewis  did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months on the continental establishment, and that he is in reduced circumstances and needs the assistance of his country for support; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.   
June the 9th 1818 Jonathan Brace Judge as aforesaid June 9th 1818 sealed with the seal of said Court by direction of Hon. Jonathan Brace who is the Presiding Judge of said Court, 
Thomas Chester Clerk
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State of Connecticut County of Hartford 
June the 9th 1818 
I hereby certify that Ebenezer Sedgwick personally appeared before me and made Solemn Oath that he was a soldier in the within named company commanded by Capt John Stevens at the same time that the within named Jabez Lewis was. that he was Well acquainted with him & knows that he served the army for the time & in the manner stated in his affidavit.   
Jonathan Brace Judge of the County Court for the County aforesaid  
I know that Jabez Lewis is very poor.   Tim’o Pitkin
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Mr Gan
Jabez Lewis 
Admd [admitted]
J.L.E.
Thomas Chester Esq  
Agent 
Hartford Conn 
Con.
Rec’d Mr See application
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STATE OF CONNECTICUT, County of HARTFORD, 
ss. Special County Court or Court of Common Pleas, holden by order of the Chief Judge of said Court, on the first Tuesday of August, 1820. 
On this 2d day of August, 1820, personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of record for the County of Hartford
Jabez Lewis aged 67 years, resident in Farmington in said County of Hartford,  who being first duly sworn according to law doth, on his oath, 
make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the act of Congress of the 28th of March 1818 & the 1st of May 1820.   That he the said Jabez Lewis enlisted for the term of one year on the 15th day of January 1776 in the State of Connt in the company commanded by Capt John Stevens in the regt commanded by Col Charles Burrall in the line of the State of Connt in the continental establishment, that he continued to serve in the 3d Corps until the 15th of January 1777 when he was discharged from the said at service on Mount Independence in the State of Vermont & that he served as a volunteer in the battle of Stillwater in which service he continued about two months & that out of the States in Act of the 1st February 1820  
I 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, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so 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 service 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, any property or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. 
Schedule of property as follows viz: 
one horse                             10
one old waggon                     7
1 old chest                             0.50
1 iron kettle                           1.
1 note of hand for 35 dolls  35.
$53.50
I am a shoe maker by occupation but am unable to follow my trade in consequence of great debility occasioned by a fever sore which has made me very lame & several large pieces of bone have worked out of my leg,  I have no wife & no child living with me or any in any place that are able to help me or even to maintain themselves.   I am also indebted about ninety dollars. 
Jabish Lewis  
(deposition & annexed)   
The deposition of Benjamin Stevens & Daniel Jackway of lawful age of Canaan in Litchfield County & State of Connecticut is as follows that the within named Jabez Lewis was in the years service with them in the company commanded by Capt John Stevens & regiment commanded by Colo Charles Burrall & that he went with them into Canada & as nigh as we can remember he tarried in service until his time for which he enlisted expired which was in the month of January or February 1777 & further the deponents faith not.  Canaan 27th July 1820 
Benjamin Stevens 
Daniel Jackways 
Litchfield County ss Canon 27 July 1820 personally appeared Benjamin Stevens & Daniel Jackways & made solemn oath that above deposition by them subscribed in my presence
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contains the truth the whole truth & nothing but the truth & I do also further certify the above deponent Benjamin Stevens & Daniel Jackways are credible & disinterested witnesses  
Nathl  Stevens Justice of Peace 
[seal]  I Frederick Wolcott Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut certify that Nathaniel Stevens Esqr is a Justice of the Peace within said county legally commissioned & qualified that he has a right by law to administer oaths take affidavits & that his name subscribed to the above certificate is his hand writing & that the seal hereto affixed is the seal of said Court.   Witness my hand this 29th day of July AD 1820 Frederick Wolcott
the militia at the northward in 1777 & that he was in the battle of Bennington & also in he has no other evidence of his service except what is hereunto annexed & in pursuance of 
Sworn to and declared by said Jabish Lewis day of August, 1820, before said Court, and it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Fifty three dollars and fifty cents. 
I Thomas Chester Clerk of the County Court or Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Hartford aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the record of said Court. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said 26 day of August 1820 
Tho Chester Clerk of the County Court or Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Hartford.
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I further certify that on the 26th day of February 1821 the Honorable Jonathan Brace was chief Judge of the County Court aforesaid that the signatures of his name on two papers marked each J. B. & S.C. I believe all his signatures - Witness my hand & the Seal aforesaid of said Court, Hartford March 14. 1821 
Thomas Chester Clerk as aforesaid 
Jackways &
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Rev & 1812 Wars Section
March 17, 1927
Mrs J. R. Wood
602 N. Kentucky St.
Powell, N. Mex.
I worded it this way for the Com Archives report him as a deserter at that time & as he is not recorded in the regiment at a later date they evidently did not know his whereabouts, that often happened
Madam
I have to advise you, that from the papers in the pension claim, S. 37169, it appears that Jabez, or Jabish, Lewis enlisted at Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut, January 15, 1776, served as a private in Captain John Stevens Company, Col. Charles Burrall's Connecticut Regiment.  He was taken prisoner at the battle of the Cedars in Canada, was beaten by the Indians, held about twenty days, then released and being sick returned home. 
He also volunteered in 1777, in the militia, officers not stated and served two months, he was at the battles of Bennington and Stillwater. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed June 3, 1818, while living in Farmington, Connecticut, aged sixty-five years, names of wife and children are not on record.  
Respectfully, WINFIELD SCOTT, 
Commissioner.
He must have had A. W. & ch W statement in 1820
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In reply to your request of received a statement of the military history of Jabez Lewis soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his  application for pension file in this Bureau. S. 37169
Error
Error
* all of this belongs to the record of Jabez Lewis of Sharon Conn S. 42837 and the papers have been placed in that claim.
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(over) 
2” Page 
Sec of Interior 
Pension Bureau 
Washington D C 
Dear Sir  My Great Grand Father Jabez Lewis was in Rev War and received a pension.   Can you tell me when he got the pension?  And in what year he died?  
Kindly answer 
Mrs Josephine R Wood 
602 N Kentucky St Roswell N. Mexico
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Jabez Lewis went to Rev War from Litchfield Conn
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Jan 24th 1827 
To the See of Interior 
Revolutionary section 
Washington D.C  
My family records say that Jabez Lewis my great grandfather received a pension being a soldier in Revolutionary War.  He was from Litchfield Co Conn
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Also date from State Librarian Conn.   Will you kindly give me any information concerning it. 
very sincerely 
Mrs. Josephine R Wood. 
602 N Kentucky St 
Roswell N Mexico 
Jabez Lewis 
Soldier Revolutionary War.
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Rev War
Howell, Mich Apr 17 1920 
Bureau of Pensions  
Washington D.C 
Will you please send me the war record of James Lewis who enlisted at Canaan Connt in the Revolutionary War. 
Also do you have any record of Josiah Patterson?   He was born 1757 so would be old enough to take part in that war.  Will you tell me what service (if any) he preformed.. 
Thanking you I am  Respectfully 
Mrs Claud Burkhart Howell Mich 
I believe Josiah Patterson was from Vermont
[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE  D APR 26 1920
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37169 
Revy INVALID 
File No. 37,169 
Jabez Lewis 
Pri   Rev  War 
Act: 18 March 18” 
Index: -- Vol. 2 Page 291  
[Arrangement of 1870]  
1916 Nov. 13. Hist. to Miss Helen F. Backus letter in S. 9810 John Backus  
1920 May 11. History to Mrs. Claud Burkhart AW 
1927 Mar 17. last. to Mrs. J. R. Wood  AW
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The Deposition of Daniel Jakeway of Canaan in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut of lawful age is as follows,  That Jabez Lewis of Farmington in said State of Connecticut (but now here present) was an enlisted soldier in the month of February in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Charles Burrall and Company commanded by Captain John Stevens for one year on the continental establishment and that in company with me he marched and joined the Northern army in Canada and was there with me a prisoner at a place on the river St. Lawrence called the Cedars and that he joined the regiment in Mount Independence and helped build the fort on said Mount and according to the best of my remembrance continued in said Regiment untill his years service expired.   
Daniel Jakeway 
Litchfield County ss Canaan 21st November 1820 personally appeared Daniel Jakway and made Solemn oath that the above Deposition by him subscribed contains the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth.   I do farther certify that the said Daniel Jakway is a credible and disinterested witness 
Nathl Stevens Justice of Peace
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I Frederick Wolcott, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut, certify that Nathaniel Stevens Esq is a Justice of the Peace within said County legally commissioned & qualified - that his name subscribed to the within Certificate is his hand writing & that the seal hereto affixed on the seal of said Court 
Litchfield, November 29th AD. 1820  
Frederick Wolcott Clerk 
State of Connecticut County of Hartford Feby 26th 1821 
I hereby of the within named Daniel Jakeway is a credible witness and disinterested 
Jonathan Brace Judge of the County Court for said County
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Litchfield County ss January 5th 1821 
I certify that I am personally acquainted with Daniel Jackway the aforesaid deponant and know him to be a Crediable witness 
Augustus Pettibone Judge Litchfield County Court
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Admitted on the testimony of Daniel Jackway & Benjamin Stevens  April 25 1821
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The Deposition of Benjamin Stevens of Canaan in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut of lawful age is as follows 
That Jabez Lewis of Farmington in said State of Connecticut but now here present, was an enlisted Soldier in the month of February in the year one thousand Seven hundred and seventy six in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Charles Burrall and Company commanded Captain John Stevens the Continental establishment and that in company with me he marched and joined the Northern army in was there with me a Prisoner at Canada and a place on the River St Lawrence called the Cedars and that he joined the Regiment on Mount Independence and helped Build the Fort on said Mount and according to the best of my Remembrance continued in said Regiment untill his years service expired 
N.B. the words (for one year) was interlined before signing 
Benjamin Stevens
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Litchfield County S.S. Canaan 24th November 1820, personally appeared Benjamin Stevens and made Solemn Oath that the within deposition, by him subscribed contains the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth, I do farther certify that the said Benjamin Stevens is a Credible and disinterested witness,  Nathl  Stevens Justice of Peace 
State of Connecticut County of Hartford Feb 26 1821 
I hereby certify that Benjamin Smith Signed the within deposition is a credible and disinterested Witness 
Jonathan Brace Judge of the County Court for said County 
J.B.T.C. 
I Frederick Wolcott, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut, certify that Nathaniel Stevens Esq. is a Justice of the Peace within said County legally commissioned & qualified that his name subscribed to the above certificate in his hand writing, & that the seal hereto affixed is the seal of said Court 
Litchfield, November 29th AD. 1820 
Frederick Wolcott, Clerk-
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Litchfield County January 4th 1821 
I Certify that I am personally acquainted with Benjamin Stevens the aforesaid deponant and know him to be a credible witness 
Augustus Pettibone Judge Litchfield County Court