Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 27,085, for Henry Lewis, New York
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
New York
Lewis, Henry
NUMBER
S.27085

CONTENTS
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See letter 24 Nov 1828
to the Pension Agent
New York

New York

Henry Lewis,
Ensign NY regt
in the Army of the United States
Inscribed on the roll of the
New York Agency, at $2 50/100
and increased to $3 25/100 per [illegible]
act 24 Apl: 1816
Formal certificate of pension
issued 1st February 1823, and
sent to Hon. A. Conkling
HR

Invalid
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AW
May 22, 1906
J F.
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Lewis, Henry
His name appears on a list of applicants
for invalid pension returned by the District Court for the District of New York, 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 93

Rank: Ensign.
Regt: Col. Vischer's.
Disability: Wounded in the shoulder in an
action with the Indians
When and where disabled; Aug. 6. 1777, Oriskie.
Residence: Mohawk town
Remarks: There are no militia rolls in this office.
Evidence transmitted by the District Court complete.
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State of New York
Montgomery County
Henry Lewis being duly sworn doth depose and say that he resides in Charleston
in the said County of Montgomery This deponent further saith that for several years
he was on the United States pension list of invalid pensioners that he was first placed
on the said pension list in the year 1794
according to the best of his recollection
and belief - That from that period until
about the year 1819, his drafts were always honored & paid since which time he has
Employed several agents and made several
drafts without success. That he has been
informed by his agent whom he last
[illegible] that before he could draw any money he must produce his certificate of being entitled to a pension. This deponent
further saith that after various Examinations or his papers and the strictest
search he has not been able to discover
or find any such certificate and that
he verily believes that all papers from
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The United States officers, to him certifying that he was entitled to such pension are utterly
lost. This deponent further saith that sundry
papers relating to his said pension were
handed by him to a person in the City
of New York several years ago whom
he this deponent employed then
as agent to Draw his pension but whose
name he does not recollect since
which time this deponent has never
seen the said papers this deponent
further saith that for several years
past he has been much harrassed
in his mind, has been considerable
in debt and been imprisoned in
the goal libertie, of said County &
that from these causes he has perhaps
lost some considerable part [illegible]
such papers. This deponent further saith
that some years after this deponent was
placed on the pension list the
sum was increased but the precise sum which
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he was entitled to draw either before or after the increase he does not recollect the money always coming to him through the hands of agents whom he employed who retained what
they chose for their trouble. That he thinks
and believes the first time he Drew on
the rate of thirty dollars per year
that the only paper he has in his possession
relating to the same is a form which he received
from the person in New York who he
believes was agent for the United States
is hereunto awarded.

Subscribed and sworn
before me this 17th day
of January in the year 1823
Roland Dewey

Henry Lewis his mark
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State of New York
Montgomery County ss. I Henry P. Yates Clerk of the said County, do certify that the name of Roland Dewey Esquire subscribed to the above affidavit is the proper hand writing of the said Roland Dewey. And that the said Roland
Devey now is one of the Justices of the peace of the said County, duly constituted and
qualified according to law. In testimony whereof
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I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the said
County, and subscribed the same with my name
this Seventeenth day of January in the year
of our Lord, one thousand Eight hundred
and Twenty three
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Henry [illegible] Yates Clerk
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April 7, 1938

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BA-J/EEL
Henry Lewis-S.27085

Mrs. Roy M. Hartman
526 N. Market Street
Wooster, Ohio
Dear Madam:


Reference is made to your letter in which you furnish further information in regard to Henry Lewis, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, in whom you are interested. You state that you have found that he served as ensign in the 3d Regiment, Tryon County, New York, and was wounded at the battle of Oriskany.

The record has been found of a Henry Lewis, who served as ensign in the New York Troops and was wounded in the battle of Oriskany. His record is furnished herein as found in the papers filed in pension claim, S.27085, based upon disability resulting from a wound received in service in the Revolutionary War.

Henry Lewis was born in Charlestown, Montgomery County, New York. The date of his birth and names of his parents are
not shown.

Henry Lewis served as ensign in Colonel Vischer's New York Regiment, was at the battle of Oriskany, where he was wounded by a ball which passed through his shoulder. No dates of service are given.

He was allowed pension from September 24, 1793, on account of disability resulting from the above noted wound. He was then a resident of Montgomery County, New York, where he stated, he had always lived.

There are no data as to this officer's family.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death
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of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Henry Lewis (S.27085), you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:

Henry Lewis, Ensign New York Regiment
Certificate issued February 11, 1823
Rate, $3.25 per month
Act April 24, 1816
New York Agency.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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Pension Office
15th

FREE

Genl Peter B Porter
[illegible]
Washington
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Albany November 1848
Sir aplication [misspelled] has been made for the payment of Henry Lewis pention [misspelled] in consequence of the papers being maid [misspelled] out incorrectly
he has not ran for two years and some
months the agent of New York
sis [misspelled] that you must
ortherise [misspelled] him to pay
it be fore he can pay it
Walter Conkling

As soon as you right [misspelled] to New York
I Want You to Direct a line to me so that can go down and draw the pay
To that can go down and Drake
pay

I live in Montgomery County and in the Town of Root
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Lewis must get a new [certificate] from the Secretary of War & then it will [arrive]
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Henry Lewis of Charlestown County of
Montgomery and State of New York do hereby
constitute and appoint John McArthur
of Johnstown my lawful Attorney to receive
in my behalf of the Commission of Loans
New York my Pension for three years as a
Pensioner of the United States from the fourth
day of March 1819 and ending on the fourth
day of March 1822
Signed and sealed ⎬
in the presence of

Wm S Lobdell
Henry Lewis
Amos Rood
Acknowledged before me this sixteenth day of
July one thousand Eight hundred and twenty two
Amos Rood

State of New York
Montgomery County ss. I Henry V. Yates Clerk of the said County do certify, that the above named Amos Rood Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the above acknowledgment, affidavits and certificate, was on the Sixteenth
day of July, in the year of our Lord, one thousand Eight hundred and twenty two, one of the Justices of the peace of the said County, duly commissioned and qualified according to
law, and that faith is due to his official
acts. In testimony whereof I have hereunto
affixed the seal of the said County and subscribed
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scribed the same with my name, July 16th 1822.
Henry F. Yates
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March 15, 1938
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BA-J/EEL

Mrs. Roy M. Hartman
526 N. Market Street
Wooster, Ohio

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to Henry Lewis, who served as sergeant in Colonel Marinus Willett's New York Regiment.

There is no claim for pension or bounty land on file based upon the service of a Henry Lewis, who rendered service in Colonel Marinus Willett's Regiment. However, if he served in any
other regiment and you will furnish as much as possible of the following data in regard to him, a further search of the records will be made in your behalf and a report furnished you approximate dates of birth and death, places of residence at enlistment and after service and given name of widow.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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526 N. Market St.
Wooster, Ohio
March 17. '38
Veterans Administration
Washington
Mr. A. D. Hiller
Executive assistant to the
administrator. c/o BAJ/EEL

Dear Sir
I wish to thank you for your trouble in
trying to find for me information in regard
Henry Lewis, Sergeant in Col. Marimus Willets
N.Y. Regiment.
Since writing to you on March 2, I have found
same now information which may help. Henry
Lewis enlisted from Rhinebeck N.Y. Reenlisted in 1778 in NY [illegible]. Ensign in 3rd Regiment 
Tryon Co. NY. In militia in Tryon Co 1775. He was wounded in battle of Oris Kany Aug 6. 1777.
Also he was in Capt. Peter B Tearse or Tierce
Co. when he served in Col. Marimus Willets Reg.
1st Regiment N.Y.
I do not know the dates of birth and death or
places. [It is very necessary that I find this data]. However, he was on the Tax list July 17, 1764 of Schohaire Tryon Co. N.Y. Henry Lewis married Sara Clark.
Yours very truly,

Mrs. Roy M. Hartman

Received
Mar 21, 1938
Mail Sub-div
Vets Adm 29
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114 E. Mill St Ithaca N.Y.
Apr. 1, 1903
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
Will you please
send me a copy of the
Revolutionary record of the
two Revolutionary Pensioners
named below, if you have it.
I am particularly desirous
to secure any information
bearing on their birth place
or dates, names of wife or
parents.
Ensign Henry Lewis of
Montgomery Co. N.Y. and
Thaddeus Scribner of
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Saratoga Co. N.Y
Both were soldiers in the N.Y.
forces
Thanking you in advance,
I am Yours Truly
Mrs Frances Pearson
.
Apr 6 1903
Files

Pension Office 
US
Apr 2 1903
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27085
Invalid
Revy
File No. 27085
Henry Lewis
Ensign N.Y. Regt
Act
Index: -- Vol. 2 Page 240
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Apl 10-1903 His
Mrs. Frances Pearson
Ithaca N.Y.

1905, Nov 20 - residence in
1822 to
John C. Pearson [Eller in W. [illegible]
16338, William Mathewson] [illegible]
1938 Apr. 7 Hist to Mrs
Roy Hartman EL
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State of New York
Montgomery County

Henry Lewis Came before
me one of the Justices of the peace for the
County of Montgomery aforesaid and made
oath that he is the same Henry Lewis
who was placed on the Pension list under the
act of Congress passed the 23d March
1792 and that he now resides in the Town
Charlestown in said County and has
there resided ever since his birth. That he
served in the Revolutionary war in the capacity
of an Ensign in which service he was wounded
And further that he has lost his original
certificate in consequence of which he is
unable to transmit a copy
Sworn and subscribed
before me this 16th day of July
year 1822
Henry Lewis
of Rood
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State of New York
Montgomery County

We the Subscribers Practicing Physicians
and surgeons of the Town of Johnstown in
the County aforesaid do hereby certify that after a careful examination in the case of Henry Lewis of the Town of Charlestown in said County who is now on the Pension roll of the State of New York. We are of opinion that his disability still continues. That his wound was occasioned by a ball passing through the shoulder, and that the degree of disability under which he labours at present is total
being as great as his original degree of disability.
Sworn to and subscribed
before me this 11th day of June 1822
Oran Johnson
Wm S. Lobdell
Amos Rood [illegible]

I do hereby certify that the above named
persons are practicing physicians & surgeons
and [illegible] [illegible]
Amos Rood
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Henry Lewis came before me One of the Justices for the County of Montgery and made oath that he is the same Henry Lewis who was placed on the Pension List Under the Act of Congress passed the 13th March 1792 and that he now resides in Charlestown Mongomery County and has resided there ever since his Birth.

Sworn before me
this day of 1794

Copy

A Copy of the above certificate must be sworn to every six months, on the fifth of March 1795