Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 12107, for Eleazer Lewis, Connecticut
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Conn.
R.I.

Lewis, Eleazer
Thankful

NUMBER
W.12107

CONTENTS
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382
Albany New York
Thankful Lewis
Chenango in the State of N.Y. who was a [blank] in the [blank] commanded by Captain [blank] of the [blank] commanded by [blank] in the [blank] ["line for" crossed out] widow of Eleazer Lewis decd late a private in the ["company" crossed out] war of the Revolution R.I

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 24 Dollars 10 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 16 day of Jany 1837 and sent Hon Wm. Mason House of Reps

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1836, $132.55
Semi-anl. allowance ending 3 Mar 37 12.05
$144.60

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by DD Addison Clerk, 
Book A Vol 1 Page 133
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Thankful Lewis

July 4. 1836

For the Coms of Pensions
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Elezar Lewis and Thankful Lewis was married November ye 17th AD 1765 - &c - 

I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true Copy of Record taken at the Town Clerk's office in Hopkinton County of Washington in the State of Rhode Island this eighth day of November in the year 1836 - (Being an extract) 
Attest Chrisr. C. Lewis Town Clerk 

State of Rhode Island &c -
Washington County &c - 
At Hopkinton in said County November 8th 1836- Personally appeared Christopher C. Lewis (Town Clerk of the Town of Hopkinton) and on Solemn affirmation declared that the above Certificate, signed by him, is true in all its parts- 
Before me 
Henry M Wells 
Justice Peace
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The deposition of Moses Barber of Hopkinton County of Washington State of Rhode Island Aged 80 years being first sworn According to law testifies and says that in the time of the Revolutionary war and I think in the year 1776. I was well acquainted with Eleazer Lewis then living in Hopkinton aforesaid I am knowing to the said Lewis as being a Soldier of the revolution I was one tour with said Lewis in actual duty one month in guarding the Shores on the Narraganset [Narragansett] Bay in Rhode Island and his general reputation was that he was a soldier a considerable part of the revolution 
Moss his X mark Barber 
Test Nathan Willcox

State of Rhodisland [Rhode Island] and Providence Plantation 
Washington County Sc at Richmond 
In said County of Washington this 13th day of September AD 1836 
Personally came Before me the above Named Moses Barber signer to the above Deposition and made Oath the same as above written And I further Certify that the said Deponent is a man Entitled to Credit 
Rodman Kinyon Justice Peace
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The deposition of Moses Kinyon of Charlestown formerly residing in Hopkinton County of Washington State of Rhode Island Aged 79 years being first duly sworn according to law testifies and says that he was well acquainted with Eleazer Lewis then living in Hopkinton aforesaid and in the war of the revolution I am knowing to the said Lewis being a soldier I was with the said Lewis one tour of one month in guarding the shores of the Naraganset [Narragansett] Bay near Newport R. I. I was also with the said Lewis in actual duty as aforesaid one month at the least on the Island of Rhodeisland [Rhode Island] and was with him in what is called General Sullivans expedition 
Moses Keynon
Test Nathan Willcox

State of Rhodeisland [Rhode Island] and Providence Plantation 
Washington County Sc
at Richmond In said County of Washington this 13th day of September AD 1836 Personally Came Before me the above named Moses Kinyon signer to the above Deposition and made Oath the same as above written and I further Certify that the Said Deponent is a man Entitled to Credit 
Rodman Kinyon Justice Peace
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the Deposition of Nathan Willcox of Hopkinton in the County of Washington, State of Rhodisland [Rhode Island] &c 
Being first duly sworn testifys [testifies] and says that He was Well acquainted with Eleazor [Eleazer] Lewis formerly of said- Hopkinton since the Revolutionary war the said- Lewis was generally In the Neighborhood- Believed and Reputed to have been a soldier In the Army of the Revolution 
Nathan Willcox

State of and Providence Plantation 
Washington County Sc at Richmond 
In said County of Washington 
this 13th day of September AD 1836 
Personally Came Before Me the above Named Nathan Willcox signer to the above deposition and Made Oath the Same as above written and I Certify that the said Deponent is a Man Entitled to Credit 
Rodman Kinyon Justice Peace
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Clerks Office of the Court of Common Pleas, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island 
I Elisha R Potter Jr Clerk of said Court hereby certify that Rodman Kenyon who has taken the three preceding depositions is a Justice of the Peace for the town of Richmond in said County and that his signature to the said three depositions is genuine 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this sixteenth day of September A. 1836 
ER Potter Jr
Clerk
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State of New York 
Chenango County ss 
On this 7th day of October A. D. 1836 personally appeared before Charles York a Judge of Chenango County Courts, Thankful Lewis, a resident of Norwich in the County of Chenango and State of New York, aged 90 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 of the Act of Congress passed July 4, 1836: 
That she is the widow of Eleazer Lewis deceased, formerly of Rhode Island: that she was married to the said Eleazer Lewis, on the 17th day of November 1765 at Hopkinton Rhode Island by John Tanner Esq. a Justice of the peace who gave them a marriage Certificate which was registered in the town Clerks Office- 
She further declares that her said husband died at the town of Exeter in Rhode Island on the 15th day of December, A. D. 1816, suddenly of Apoplexy: that she has remained his widow ever since that period, as will
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more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed:- 
That she has been informed always by her husband and believes that her husband was a private in the Rhode Island Militia during the revolutionary war: that owing to her advanced age and decay of memory she cannot now state when and where and under what officers he served: but she knows that he was engaged in the year (as she now thinks) 1776 in guarding the shores of the Narragansett Bay as a soldier at least one month: 
He was also under Genl. Sullivan at the time of his Expedition onto the Island of Rhode Island: She does not know the precise time he entered the service this time, but she believes it was in July and did not return till after the expedition was closed- He was gone more than a month on this tour- 
In March 1780 he removed from Hopkinton RI to Voluntown in Connecticut with his family and in July 1780 was drafted at that place in the Connecticut troops for six months
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- he was drafted out of Captain Moses Campbells Company of Militia - He marched onto the North River and she has always heard him say was present when Maj Andre was executed. 
After his six months were out, he continued in the service on the River one month longer in the place of a man who went home to his [note in margin: "7-"] family, whose name she has forgotten- he ["note in margin: "5.4"] was at the end of the month taken sick and came home on a furlough, and did not recover his health until after peace was declared- He came home in February 1781- 
She says she does not know how long her husband was in the service in Rhode Island he belonged to a class of men who took turns in serving and guarding the coast & shore One set serving a fortnight or month and then relieved by the other: for more than two years he was thus employed- 
She says she is so feeble that she cannot appear personally in Open Court to make her declaration and is compelled to make it before A Judge: She states that about 18 years
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since she removed from Voluntown, Ct. to her present residence and has resided constantly with her son in law Rathbon [Rathbun] Gates-
She has no documentary evidence to aid her claim- 
Thankful her X mark Lewis 
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written: and I certify that the above named Thankful Lewis is in my opinion, unable from advanced age and weakness ["from" crossed out] to appear in Court to make her declaration: I also certify that she is a credible person, and I have no doubt that her husband served as she has stated, in the Revolution 
Charles York Judge of Chenango County Courts
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13.
State of New York 
Chenango County ss: 
Rathbun Gates of Norwich in the County aforesaid aged 50 years and upwards, being sworn, says, that he married the daughter of the above named Thankful Lewis - that the said Thankful Lewis has resided with him since 1818: that he saw and heard from her often since her husbands death and prior to her coming to live with him and that he knows that she has not married again since her husbands death. If such an occurence [occurance] had taken place- he must have heard of and known it- and further saith not- 
Rathbun Gates 
subscribed and sworn to before me this 7. Oct: 1836 and I certify that I know the said Rathbun Gates to be a credible person 
Charles York Judge of Chenango County Courts
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State of New York 
Chenango County ss
I P. Randall Clerk of the said County do certify that Charles York, Esq. before whom the preceding declaration of Thankful Lewis, and also the preceding affidavit of Rathbun Gates purport to have been sworn was at the date of Each a Judge of Chenango County Courts- And that I am acquainted with his handwriting and believe his signatures to the preceding to be genuine- 
Witness my hand and seal of the said County, this 7th day of October 1836- 
P. Randall, clk
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Washington sc The Deposition of Sarah Barber of Exeter County of Washington and State of Rhodeisland [Rhode Island] and Providence Plantations of the age of Sixty Six years being Carefully Examined Cautioned and sworn testifies and Says I lived with my father Eleazer Lewis in Hopkinton in Said County & State about the year AD 1780 I recollect that my father was Called away from his family as a Soldier in the Revolutionary war several times and one time came home sick with what was then Called the Camp Distemper he then moved about that time to the town of Voluntown in the State of Connecticut he was then Called away into said war and was gone upwards of Six months I cannot say how long but when he came home he had the fever and ague very hard and was knowing to his Death on the 15th of December AD 1816 with a fit of the apoplexy so Called 
Sarah her X Mark Barber 

The State of Rhodeisland [Rhode Island] and providence plantations Washington Sc personally came the above named Sarah Barber and after being Carefully Examined Cautioned and sworn gave the foregoing Deposition which was by me Reduced to writing in he presence and by her subscribed in my presence and I further Certify that the above Sarah Barber is well known to me and a person Entitled to full Credit 
Isaac Greene Just peace
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Rev. and 1812
War Section.

October 25, 1926

Mrs. Alson H. Gleason
Keith Hill
Grafton, Mass

Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 12107, it appears that Eleazar Lewis, while a resident of Hopkinton, Rhode Island, served in 1776, one month in Captain George Thurston's Jr. Company, Colonel Joseph Noyes' Rhode Island Regiment; he served at other times in the Rhode Island Troops, was also in Sullivan's Expedition to Rhode Island, no details given. 
In 1780, he moved to Voluntown, Connecticut, and served from July 1780, seven months in Captain Moses Campbell's Connecticut Company. 
He died December 15, 1816 in Exeter, Rhode Island. 
Soldier married November 17, 1765 at Hopkinton, Thankful Lewis, ["her maiden name is not stated" crossed out]. She was
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allowed pension on her application executed October 7, 1836, while residing at Norwich, Chenango County, New York , aged ninety years, at this time she resided with her son-in-law, Rathbon (Rathbun) Gates, his wife's name is not given. 
A daughter, Sarah Barber, was living in Exeter, Rhode Island, in 1836, and aged sixty-six years. 
There is no further data on file as to family. 
Respectfully, 

WINFIELD SCOTT 
Commissioner.
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State of Rhode Island 
County of Washington
Clerks office of the Court of Common Pleas for said County Nov 8. 1836
I Elisha R Potter Clerk of said Court hereby certify that Nathan W Lillibridge and Henry M Wells Esqrs are Justices of the Peace for the town of Hopkinton in said County duly qualified to act in said capacity and that I believe their certificates hereto attached, purporting to be signed one by said Wells and the other by said Lillibridge are genuine and said signatures genuine and that full credit ought to be given to all the official acts of said Justices 
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and the seal of said Court this eighth day of November A 1836
ER Potter Jr
Clerk
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The The [sic] Deposition of Moses Barber of Hopkinton in the County of Washington State of Rhodeisland [Rhode Island] and Providence Plantation aged Eighty years being Engaged according to law testifies and says In the application of the Widow of Eleazer Lewis formerly of Hopkinton and late of Voluntown In the State of Connecticut Deceasd.. for a pension I am knowing the said Eleazer Lewis to be a Solder in the Army of the Revolution I was With the Said Lewis one tour of one Month In Guarding the Shores of the Narraganset [Narragansett] Bay in South Kingston Rhodisland [Rhode Island], And Near point Judith Lighthouse In the year AD 1776 and was under the command of Colo.- Joseph Noyes Jesse Champlin Lieutnt Colo and Jesse Maxson Major George Thurston Junr. was Captn But Jesse Burdick acted as our- Captain, and was In commission as Capt In the Next year said Lewis was always Reputed to have Been a Soldier In a Considerable part of the Revolution 
Moses his X Mark Barber 
Nathan W Lillibridge 
Nathan Willcox

Washington Sc at Hopkinton November 8th 1836- personally came the above named Moses Barber Signer to the above deposition and made solemn oath to the same and I further certify that the said Moses Barber is a man entitled to Credit 
Witness Nathan W Lillibridge J. Peace
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New York
Thankful Lewis
Widow of Eleazer Lewis
Act of July 4, 1836
Suspd. Oct 18, 1836 see Let to B. P. [P.B.] Prindle-
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To the Hon. J.L. Edwards,
Comr. Pensions

Sir, please to Examine, these papers, and let me know, the result, as Early as Convenient-
Yours-
Wm Mason
H. R.
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For Coms of Pensions

[illegible] to [illegible] 1781 [illegible]
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Norwich, Chenango Co. N.Y 
Oct: 7. 1836 
Sir
I send herewith the declaration of Thankful Lewis, with the evidence accompanying it, for a pension under the 3d Decr. of the Act of July 4, 1836 
The Town Clerk of Hopkinton R.I. whose certificate of the record of the marriage is sent did not deem it necessary to swear to its accuracy & have his deposition authenticated- I hope it will be satisfactory- 
I am aware that the names of Mr Lewis' officers and the precise times & places of all his services are not stated in the declaration or the depositions with the particularity required by the regulations- 
The want of knowledge or memory of the widow prevented her from doing it, and the ignorance of the magistrates who drew some of the depositions was the cause of the Witnesses not stating facts as fully, probably as they knew them- But I know that it is a just claim, and relying upon its justice, I trust for a favorable issue- I regret that the depositions are not more full- but I must send them as they are- 
Respectfully Yr Obt Servt 
P. B. Prindle

J. L Edwards Esq
Coms of Pensions
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Clerks Office of the Court of Common Pleas
County of Washington State of Rhode Island
I Elisha R Potter Jr Clerk of said Court hereby certify that Isaac Greene who has taken the two accompanying depositions is a Justice of the Peace for the Town of Exeter in said County and that his signature to the said two depositions are genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this sixteenth day of September A 1836
E R Potter Jr
Clerk
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Thankful Lewis

July 4, 1836

For the Coms. of Pensions
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Comptrollers Office 
Hartford Connecticut 
Novemr. 29, 1836 
On application for evidence of the revolutionary service of Eleazer Lewis, I have examined the documents remaining in this office relating thereto, & find and certify as follows, viz: 
A "Pay Roll of the short Levy Men who have served "in the late Cap. Phelp's Company in the 4th Connecticut "Regt. for the Campaign 1780." and signed "S. Holt Lieutt." and certified as "agreeable to the weekly returns" by "J Huntington Brig. Genl," and dated "Highlands 28 Dec. 1780," which Pay Roll is evidently original - and in which is this item:- 
"Eleazer Lewis - Voluntn.- Commencemt. of Pay. 10 July - What time paid. 14 Dec. - Time of Service 5M. 4D." "discharged." - "Whole amount £10.5.4."
Wm Field Comptroller
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Rev. and 1812
War Section.

October 29, 1926

Florence Lewis Smalley Babbitt
Hawkins Hotel
Ypsilanti, Mich

Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 12107, it appears that Eleazer Lewis died December 15, 1816 in Exeter, Rhode Island.
Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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Clean Rooms Bath Hot Water 
HAWKINS HOTEL 
Under New Management 
Ypsilanti, Mich Oct 4th 1926 
Pension Beaureau [Bureau] 
Rev. War Washington D C.- 
I would like the date and place of the death of Eleazer Lewis born at Richmond RI. Jan 11th 1737- Enlisted at Voluntown Conn July 10th 1780 in the 4th Reg. Conn. line commanded by
over
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Col John Durkee.
He was honorably discharged Dec. 14th 1780- My Grandaughter [granddaughter] is a member of D.A.R. but she wants a Lewis for I am 80 and don't know if I have written this so you can understand but I hope so I thank you- most sincerely
Florence Lewis Smalley Babbitt
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3-049
Ex. A. W. F. Div. Rev. & 1812
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C. Aug. 19, 1926

The attached letter is respectfully returned with the information that the data furnished is not sufficient to enable this Bureau to make intelligent answer to the queries therein contained. 
Please fill out such of the blank spaces below as the information in your possession will permit, and return to this Bureau.

1st name of widow [illegible word x'd out] Thankful Lewis
Name of soldier ELEAZER LEWIS

["P. O." x'd out] address of ["claimant" x'd out] soldier at enlistment & after service. Hopkinton- ["Company" x'd out] R.I. and Voluntown ["Regiment" x'd out] Conn. 
State where enlisted Rhode Island
Date of ["enlistment" x'd out] birth Jan. 11- 1737
Date of ["discharge" x'd out] death Dec. 15, 1816
If unable to furnish company and regiment give names of commanding officers.
Served in Capt. Geo. Thurston Jr's Co., from 1776 to 1780. After moving from Hopkinton R.I. to Voluntown Conn. he served in Capt. Moses Campbell's Co.. in Conn. Troops-
Return attached letter with reply.
E. W. Morgan
Acting Commissioner.

6-2469

June 13, 1926-
[illegible] please send [illegible] war record [illegible] Voluntown [illegible] drafted into [illegible] Troops in [illegible] you for [illegible] yours-
E. Gleason
[illegible] H.)
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MRS. ALSON H. GLEASON 
KEITH HILL 
GRAFTON, MASSACHUSETTS 

June 13, 1926-

Bureau of Pensions-
Dear Sir, 
Will you please send me the Revolutionary War record of Eleazar Lewis of Voluntown Conn. who was drafted into the Connecticut Troops in July 1780. Thanking you for this- I am very truly yours- 
Maude E. Gleason 
(Mrs. Alson H.) 

from Hopkinton R.I. to Voluntown Conn. he served in Capt. Moses Campbell's Co.. in Conn. Troops-
Return attached letter with reply.
E. W. Morgan
Acting Commissioner.

6-2469
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New Haven, Conn. March 5 1891
The Hon. Commissioner of Pensions

Sir
I would respectfully request information in regard to the military record of Eleazer Lewis, a soldier of the Revolutionary war- I believe he enlisted July 10th 1780 at Milford, Conn. in the Fourth? Conn. Regiment, under Col. Canfield, and was discharged Dec. 13th 1780. 
I believe that he had a pension. 
He died April 26th 1835- in Oxford Conn. aged 79 
Very truly yours 
W. C. Lambert 
34 Clark St. 
New Haven Conn
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Conn.

Rev WIDOW, &c.

File No. 12107
Thankful Lewis
Wid.
Eleazer Lewis
Pri. Rev.

Act: June 7" 1832.
Index:- Vol. A, Page 428
(Arrangement of 1870.)

Apr 7- 1897- History Mr. W. C. Lambert
34 Clark st. New Hav
1926. Oct. 25 Hist to Mrs. Alson H. Gleason awf
1926 Oct 29 - Florence Lewis Smalley Babbitt inf date of death of sol. awf.
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Thankful Lewis'
declaration under July 4. 1834-
No. 333

Admitted
Private 7 mo & 4 days

Declaration, at page 9- of blue sheets

Direct
P.B. Prindle
Norwich
Chenango Co
N.Y-
Hon Wm Mason
House Reps
US
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Washington Sc The Deposition of Reynolds Barber of Exeter in Said County of Washington & State of Rhodeisland [Rhode Island] of the age of Eighty two years being carefully Examined Cautioned and sworn testifies and says that I was well acquainted with Eleazer Lewis family of Hopkinton in said County and in the year 1780 the said Eleazer Moved to Voluntown Windham County and State of Connecticut and on the 15th day of December AD 1816 I was knowing to his falling dead in the highway in Said Town of Exeter with a fit of the appoplexy [apoplexy] near to my house and further the deponent says that he was knowing to its being said that the said- Eleazer was Called into the Revolutionary war from said Hopkinton as a Soldier of the Revolution a number of times 
Reynolds Barber 

The State of Rhodeisland [Rhode Island] and providence plantation Washington Sc at Exeter September the 12th AD 1836 personally Came the above name Deponent and after being Carefully Examined Cautioned and sworn to tell the whole truth and Nothing but the truth gave the aforegoing Deposition which was by him subscribed in my presents [presence] and by me Reduced to writing in his presents [presence] and I further Certify that the above named Reynolds Barber is well known to me and Entitled to full Credit 
Isaac Greene Just Peace