Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42,838, for Jabez Lewis, Connecticut
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(8-1776)

SERVICE
Conn.

Lewis, Jabez

NUMBER
S.42,838

CONTENTS
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11.975 R
New York
Jabez Lewis
of Livonia in the state of New York
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Swift of the Connecticut
line, for the term of Six Years
Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 5th of March 1819
Certificate of Pension issued the 18th of June 1819
and sent to Stephen Phelps Esq
Canandaigua New York
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819 48.02
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 
mo. 27/31 4/30 $48.02
 
[Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
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Examination
Jabez Lewis
New York
filed 1 April 1852
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Power of Attorney
For ascertaining whether any increase or arrears of Pension are due the Widow or heirs of Revolutionary Pensioners, &c.*
State of New York }
County of Livingston } Be it known that before me Seth N. Chamberlin a Justice of the Peace personally appeared Roxana Chamberlin aged 60 years, who being duly cautioned and then sworn in due form of law, states that she is the daughter of Jabez Lewis who was a Revolutionary Soldier and Pensioner of the State of Connecticut & New York and that he died on the 11th day of March 1838 and that her mother named Lucy Lewis died on the 1st day of July 1836 and that they were married on the ___ day of ___ in the year 17 ___ and that they were residents of Sharon in the State of Connecticut and that they resided there short time years, and that she resides in Livonia and that furthermore she By These Presents, constitutes, appoints and fully empowers and authorises irrevocably and with powers of substitution - F. E. Hassler of Washington City, D. C., as her true and lawful Attorney for her and in her name and stead, to examine into, to prosecute, to demand, and to receive from the U.S. Government Officers all her rights in all and in any manner of claim for increase or arrears of Pension or Land, that may be due her as daughter of Jabez Lewis who died leaving the same undrawn, as in right of law, custom, or equity she is or may be entitled.
In Witness Whereof She has on this 19th day of March 1852, hereunto signed her name and affixed her seal
Roxana Chamberlin
Witness: Seth N Chamberlin
Witness: Stephen B Powell
Signed, Sealed, acknowledged and Sworn to before me, on this 19th day of March 1852.
Seth N. Chamberlin J.P.
At the same time personally appeared before me Seth N. Chamberlin a Justice of the Peace two credible and disinterested witnesses named Rowland Powell and Rhoda Powell residents of the aforesaid County and State, who having been by me cautioned and then duly sworn according to law, do depose and say each for himself, that they has always heard it said and it is generally believed by the community that Roxana Chamberlin was the daughter of Jabez Lewis who was a Revolutionary soldier and that she was always around as such was by him always treated as and is by the witnesses believed to be the daughter of the said Revolutionary Soldier. Rowland Powell
Rhonda Powell
Sworn to before me the day and year first above written. 
Seth N Chamberlin J.P.
State of New York }
County of Livingston } to wit
I hereby certify, that Seth N Chamberlin Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavits and acknowledgment were made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature above written is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the County Court, this 22nd day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty two
Israel D. Root Clerk

[seal affixed at left]

*If a Widow [illegible] "the date of marriage, and date of death of her husband."
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Jabez Lewis
application for
a Pension
March 5th 1819

Jabez Lewis private Colonel
Swifts Regt Connecticut
line 1776-77 - war
Connecticut Roll

[illegible] of War
Admitted
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State of New York }
Ontario County } Ss On this 5th day of March 1819 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County and State, personally appeared, Jabez Lewis, aged sixty five years resident in the town of Livonia in the County aforesaid State aforesaid 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 "the 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 enlisted in December 1776 or January 1777, in Sharon in the State of Connecticut, in the Company commanded by Captain Theodore Woodbridge in the 7th Connecticut Regiment, commanded by Col. Herman Swift, that he continued to serve in said Corps until the close of the war, where he was honorably discharged from service at West Point in the State of New York, that he was in the Battle of Germantown and Monmouth and at the Capture of Lord Cornwallis, and that he is in reduced circumstances, and in need of assistance from his country for support and that having lost his discharge he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services, except what is herewith transmitted.
Jabez Lewis
Sworn to and declared the day and year aforesaid before me }
Stephen Phelps a Judge of Ontario Com Pleas
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I Stephen Phelps, a Judge of Ontario Common Pleas 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 or more on the continental establishment, 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. And I also certify that Jabez Lewis, the said applicant is in indigent circumstances and in need of the assistance of his Country for support.
Stephen Phelps A Judge Ont

Canandaigua }
March 5th 1819 }
It was the request of the aforesaid applicant to have his Certificate if allowed forwarded to me
Stephen Phelps
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State of New York }
Ontario County }
Clerks Office } Ss In testimony that Stephen Phelps whose name is subscribed to the foregoing declaration and affidavit, and that John A Graham whose name is subscribed to the foregoing affidavit was on the day of the date of the
[all preceding text marked out]

State of New York }
Ontario County }
Clerks Office } In testimony that Stephen Phelps, whose name is subscribed to the foregoing declaration and affidavit was on the days of the dates of the same a Judge of Ontario Common Pleas, and that John A. Graham whose name is subscribed to the foregoing affidavit was on the day of the date thereof one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County, and that the same are their respective signatures, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said County at Canandaigua this 6th day of March 1819
Hu McNaer Clerk

[seal affixed at left]
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Certified copies of the documents in the case of Jabez Lewis, sent to the Hon. J. Hawks, Ho. Reps. 7th Jany 1823.
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This may certify that Jabez Lewis served as a private soldier in Col Heman Swifts regiment of infantry in the Connecticut line in the revolutionary war, and that I was personally acquainted with said Lewis for a number of years while in said regiment. That I served from the fore part of the year 1777 to June 1783 - in said regiment as a Non Com Officer - and I have no doubt of said Lewis being regularly discharged
Dated at Bloomfield
Jan 12th 1819.
Samuel Handy

Sworn and submitted this 11th day Feby 1819
Before me
John A Graham }
One of the Justices of the Peace for Ontario County }
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675.
Revolutionary Claims.
No. of Original payment 587

Treasury Departament,
Augt. 14. 1828

Jabez Lewis, of Livonia, in the County of Livingston, in the State of New York, has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private in captain ___'s company, in the Col Swifts regiment of the Connecticut line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing.

The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office. By order of the Secretary,
A. Dickins.

Treasure Department,
Third Auditor's Office
Aug. 19. 1828

It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Jabez Lewis in the Connecticut Line.
There is now on the Connecticut Pension Roll at the rate of $8 per month, a man by the name of Jabez *Lewis who it appears from his pension papers enlisted for one year on the 15th January 1776 in Capt. John Stevens Company, Col Charles Burralls Regiment of the Connecticut line - According to accounts rendered he has received his Pension up to the 4th Sept. 1827 -
Peter Hagner Aud
*See S37169 - another man
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Jabez Lewis has been a pensioner of the New York Agency but has never been continued on the roll under the act of May 1. 1820, consequently has not received a pension since the 4th of March 1820.
War Dept
Pension Office
4 Sept 1828
B L Beall for
J L Edwards
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Jabez Lewis
Revy - N Y
(Absent 6 years)

37169
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Canandaigua Ontario Co N.Y.
July 15. 1826.

Sir,
Mr Jabez Lewis who obtained a pension certificate on the 14 June 1819 and for some reason unknown to him was stricken from the list some time before the 4th March 1820 - he left, he says, this part of the Country late in 1819 and presumes the reason for his removal was, that the Secretary at War supposed him dead - he has just returned from Ohio and has employed me to have him reinstalled, if possible - his faculties are much impaired and his story of his case is very incoherent and unsatisfactory and as an overplus of property could never justly have been the cause of his removal I hope it will be regarded sufficient, if he complies with the formalities of those who draw regularly.
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Will you have the goodness to communicate as soon as may be the alleged reason of Mr Lewis' removal and if the suggestion I have just made is correct -
With great respect
Your obt Servt
Peter A. Mower

J L Edwards Esq-
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[left side of page]
Act 1828
Settled at
Treasury
Consd with
Invalid file
#37.169

[right side of page]
664.
Jabez Lewis -
declaration & -

Rec'd 26 July 
Colonel
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Mr. Lewis would wish to make another affidavit which he furnished to obtain his pension under the act of 1818, as evidence in this case - the name of his witnesses then were Amos Hall Samuel Handy & __ whose name is not recollected -  A. Hall and the one said recollected are dead - And Mr. Lewis will necessarily be subjected to much sacrifice & inconvenience to obtain other evidence - Mr Lewis can send if necessary his pension papers by which he recd his pension under the act of __ 18 __
Post office - Livonia - Livingston County N. York

Colo. Aaron Ogden
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42838
Invalid.
Revy
File No. 42.838
Jabez Lewis
Pri Rev War
Act: 18 March 18
Index: - Vol. 3, Page 292

[Arrangement of 1870.}
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For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of an act entitled "an act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the army of the revolution" - approved on the 15 of May 1828 - I Jabez Lewis of Livonia in the county of Livingston and state of New York do hereby declare that I was a soldier in the continental line of the army of the Revolution and served as such to the close of the war - to the time when the arrangement of the army provided by resolves of Congress of the 3rd and 21st of October 1780 was carried into effect and that I was deduced under that arrangement at which period I was a private in the first Regiment of the Connecticut line. (Heman Swift Col). and that I served as a during wars men in said service six years and seven months -
And I do further declare that I received of the U. States as a pensioner under the Law of the U. States of the 18 of March 1818. the sum of ninety six dollars paid to me by the agent for paying pensions in the state of New York -
Witness my hand this 24 day of June in the year 1828 -
For evidence to corroborate the above statement reference may be had to the evidence furnished to obtain the above named pension in the office of the secretary of war
Jabez Lewis
In presence of Leman Gibb
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State of Newyork }
Livingston County }
Henry Pierce and George Pratt being duly sworn depose and say that the within named Jabez Lewis is "generally reputed and believed to be a soldier of the revolution.
Henry Pierce
George Pratt
Sworn & subscribed this 27 day of June A.D. 1828 - Before me }
Leman Gibb
Justice of the Peace

State of New York
Livingston County Ss - I Levi Hovey Clerk of the county courts for the said county do hereby certify that Leman Gibbs is a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county duly authorized by law to administer oaths - and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe that the name of "Leman Gibbs" subscribed to the jurat of the above affidavit is the proper hand writing of the said Justice - In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of this said court this 27th day of June 1828
Levi Hovey, Clerk
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State of NewYork }
Ontario County } Ss Bartholomew Barret being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he the Deponent became acquainted with Jabez Lewis (now a resident in the town of Livonia in the county of Ontario) in the year 1777 and that he the said Lewis was then a private soldier in the Company Commanded by Theodore Woodbridge in the 7th Connecticut Regiment Commanded by Col Heman Swift on the Continental Establishment and that he Deponent at that time belonged to the company & Regiment aforesaid as a sergeant and that he knew the said Lewis continued in said service for the term of three years at which time  he deponent left said service and the said Lewis continued in said service and further saith not.
Barthol Barrett

Sworn to and Subscribed this 2 day of March 1819 before me
Stephen Phelps a Judge of Ontario Com Pleas

I Certify that I am personally acquainted with Bartholomew Barrett the aforesaid Deponent and know that he sustains a respectable character as it respects truth and veracity.
Stephen Phelps a Judge

2nd March.