Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 9370, for Levi Lawrence, Vermont
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SERVICE: Vt.

Lawrence, Levi

NUMBER: S. 9370

CONTENTS

carded
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24208

New York

Levi Lawrence

Ontario in the state of New York

who was a Private in the Comp. commanded by Captain Hutchins of the Regt. commanded by Col. Fletcher in the New York* line for 10 months and 23 days

*Vt. Line [Asterisk appears to indicate correction]
Dec, 19/04
Records corrected

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 35 Dollars 86 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 8 day of Nov. 1833 and [Illegible] Burford

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. '33 $89.65

Semi-anl. allowance ending 4M. '34 17.93

$107.58

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by G.C. Stiles Clerk, Book E, Vol. 4, Page 66

Certificate returned to this office and again enclosed to the clerk of [illegible] Canandaigua 31 [illegible] 1833

[Illegible] S Woodbury 23 [illegible] 183[illegible]

Let to David McNeil 24 March 1837

Let to Pension Agent 24 March 1837

[Illegible] to P[illegible] May 25 1837

See Letter to Pensioner Nov. 15 1834
" " J. [illegible] " " " [Ditto marks indicate "See letter to J [illegible] on same date"]

71.72
17.93
89.65 [Mathematical equation worked out on opposing page to the page listing arrears]
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JW Baker Esq

[Illegible, probably an abbreviation for "Concerning"] Pensions

Buffalo Dec 24, 1874

Sir, I enclose, to you, which please return with instructions how to collect the balance due of his death.

I am the executor of the Estate of the said Levi Lawrence deceased who left Several Children living, but his widow is dead. When the pensioner died there was about One hundred and Sixty dollars due. Please direct your reply to Samuel Lake of Buffalo NY, whom I have employed as my Attorney to collect the balance due.

[Illegible, probably an abbreviation for "Respecfully"] Yours
Jeremiah Cowan
Executor
L Lawrence, deceased

PS, The Executor informs me that Soon after his Appointment he was informed by a Sawyer here that to collect the balance due, it would be necessary for all the Heirs to come here and appear in Court, involving a large expence [sic] which the heirs could not pay, and the matter has rested til the present time. I suppose the papers can be executed where they reside
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and Countersigned by the MS [Illegible] residing in Canada, Hamilton, and the amount due can be Collected. Can you State the amount due. Respectfully, [struck through] can you state where [illegible] [end strike through] 

Samuel Lake

[Upside down stamp]

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
DEC 26 1874
PENSION OFFICE
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State of New York
Ontario County P. on this Twentieth day of August 1833 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said County now sitting, Levi Lawrence a resident of Burford in the County of Oxford and District of London in the Province of Upper Canada, aged sixty seven years, who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832, that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officer, and served as herein stated--In the year 1787 the 1st day of August he joined the company commanded by Captain Hutchins (thinks William Hutchins) in Col. Samuel Fletcher's Regiment of Vermont Troop, a private and substitute for Moses Powers, and served eight months at the Garrison at Castleton in the (now) State of Vermont, during his services at said garrison he was frequently called out on scout, and alarm, along the frontier towards Lake Champlain Otter Creek [illegible]--he was at no one time more than thirty miles out from the garrison and was not out at any one time more than five days; at the expiration of his engagement of this term of service on the 1st day of April 1782 he was verbally discharged--he resided at the time he entered service in Castleton in said (now) State of Vermont. In the year 1782 it was ordered by the authorities of Vermont, that certain townships should send a portion of men to keep and take charge of said garrison at Castleton while peace was negotiating--on the 1st day of April of this year he enlisted a private under Lieut. David Powers (then in Command) in Col. Samuel Fletcher's Regiment then under command of Major Gideon Bronson of
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he enlisted a private under Lieut. David Powers (then in command) in Col. Samuel Fletcher's Regiment then under command of Major Gideon Bronson of Vermont Troops, for the term of eight months and served during the full term of his enlistment in garrison at Castleton in said [small, inserted with a carat] (now) [end carat] State of Vermont He was discharged on the last day of November in the year 1782, verbally, by Lieut. Blanchard on pursuance of an order from Major Gideon Bronson of Vermont troops--resided at the time of his enlistment in Castleton aforesaid--his services were all performed with an embodied Corp, called into service by the authorities of Vermont, and for the time which the service was performed he was not engaged in any civil pursuit. He was born on the 9th day of August in the year 1766 in the old town of Athol, County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, he knows his age to be [illegible, page folded] years from a record kept by his parents, which he has seen, now in possession of his sister who resides in Alburgh Grand Isle County, Vermont. Since the Revolutionary War, he resided about fifteen years at Grand Isle in the State of Vermont from which place he removed to Burford, Oxford County, District of London in the province of Upper Canada where he now resides. He has no documentary evidence of service but is well acquainted with Alpheus Hall who resides in Milton, Chittenden County and State of Vermont--and also with William Blanchard of Isle La Motte in the County of Grande Isle and State of Vermont, who knew him while in the service and since, whose certificates are hereunto annexed--and he is also well acquainted with Daniel Freemen a clergyman and William H. Boss who reside in
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Windham. District of London Upper Canada also have certified to their belief of his having served in the revolution, and he is also well acquainted with Michael Miller and Abraham McCarty - who reside in Phelps County of Ontario and State of New York who will certify to his character for veracity and their belief of his having served in the Revolution. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. Levi Lawrence

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year [illegible - page folded]

We Michael Miller, residing in the town of Phelps in the County of Ontario and State of New York and Abraham McCarty residing in the town, County and state aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Levi Lawrence who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be sixty seven years of age, that he is reputed and believed to have been a soldier in the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion, and further we have been acquainted with the said Lawrence for a term of more than eighteen years past - and [illegible] we believe him to be a man of good character [illegible] of truth and veracity
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(Top line illegible)
(smudge) of more than eighteen years past and (smudge) believe him to be a man of good character (smudge) of truth and veracity.

Sworn and subscribed the day and par aforesaid in open court. Michael Miller Abraham McCarty.

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Michael Miller who has signed the preceding certificate  as a resident in the town of Phelps County of Ontario State of New York and Abraham McCarty who has also signed the same is a resident of the town, county and State aforesaid, are credible persons and that this statement is entitled to credit.

I Charles Crane, clerk of the Court of Common Pleas aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court of the matter of the application of Levi Lawrence for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereinto set any hand and seal of office this twentieth day of August AD 1833 Charles Crane.
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November 28, 1925

Mrs P.J. Lawrence
2417 West Twenty-first St. 
Minneapolis, Minn

Madam I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S.9370 it appears that Levi Lawrence, the son of Joseph, was born August 9, 1766 in Athol, Worester County, Massachusetts.

In the early part of the Revolution his father sold his home near Skeenborough Landing, and with his family moved to the garrison in Castleton, Vermont where said Levi enlisted August 1, 1781, served as private in Captain William Hutchins Company, Colonel Samuel Fletcher's Vermont Regiment and was discharged December 1, 1782.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 20, 1833 while a resident of Burford, Oxford County, Upper Canada. He had a wife and children, no names given.

It is stated that soldier's father Joseph Lawrence was in the battle of Bennington, was one of the Green Mountain Boys, and also that in 1781 was Sergeant in Captain John.

This can be found in Vermont Book
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Stark's Company, Colonel Samuel Fletcher's Vermont Regiment.

There is no claim for pension on file on account of the services of said Joseph Lawrence.

Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner

[handwritten annotation] Date of death not [illegible] A.B.
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We Danl Freeman a clergyman residing in Windham
and Wm H. Ross residing in the same place do hereby
certify that we are well acquainted with Levi Lawrence
that we believe him to be 67 years of age, that he
is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he
resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and
that we concur in that opinion
to & Subscriby & before
me at Townsend London
Daniel Foreman
this 11th July 1833
Wm
G. Ross
J. W. Powell J.P.
in & for said District
O
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I Nathan Haswell Clerk
I Alpheus Hall of Milton in the County of Chittenden
and State of Vermont of lawful age do testify and
say that in the year AD. 1781 & 1782. Levi Lawrence
was living with his father in the garrison at Castleton
Vermont, his father was a sergeant in Capt. John Starks
company and Col. Samuel Fletcher Regiment Vermont A state
troops in 1781, the said Levi Lawrence was 
about 14 years of age and I have reason to believe
he served as a private solder about five months
in that year, further the deponent saith not
Given under my hand at Milton in Chittenden
County and State of Vermont the 14th day June AD 1833
Alpheus Hall
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Before me
Gideon Hoxsie Justice Peace
I hereby certify that Alpheus Hall who subscribed
the foregoing deposition is person to me well known
that the above is his genuine signature and that full faith
and credit should and can be given to his affidavit
given under my hand at Milton Vermont this 14th
day of June AD. 1833. Gideon Hoxsie Justice Peace
State of Vermont
Chittenden County
of Chittenden County Court do
hereby certify that Gideon Hoxsie
Esqr before whom the foregoing
Deposition is taken is a Justice
of the Peace duly qualified thing
under the authority of this will
and that his name thereto subscribed
is his own proper signature
In
testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and fixed
the seal of said Court this 14th day of June AD 1833
Nathan has will
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Lawrence
In testimony
Court the day and year and
Joel Allen Clerk
whereof
scribed my name and affixed the seal of said
Admitted
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William Blanchard of the Town of Isle La Mott in the
County of Grand Isle and State of Vermont of lawful age do depose
Testify and say that in the first week in December in the year
1781 I was removed from (Whitehall N. York now) then Skenesboro
to Castleton Vermont to the Garrison at that place where I found
and became acquainted with Levi Lawrence who resided in said
Garrison, he served in said Garrison during the time of my services
at that place which was untill November 1782 as a Soldier in
the State Troops of Vermont, and was by me as Lieutenant [illegible]
in pursuance of an order for that purpose Received from Major
Gideon Brownson I am, and was at that time well acquainted with
him the said Levi Lawrence and also with his Father Joseph
Lawrence who was called Sergeant Lawrence and his Brother Harmon
Lawrence. I also know that
Captain Hutchins and Brookings had
served in that place at the time stated by him, and also Lieutenant
David Powers and Sergeant Negus. and further this Deponent
saith not
Given under my hand at Isle LaMott this 5 day of
June 1833
Wm Blanchard

Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Before me
Harry Hill Justice Peace
I certify
that William
Blanchard who subscribed the foregoing
deposition is a person to me well known that the above is his Genuine
Signature and that full faith faith and credit ought to be given to 
his affidavit that good faith & Credence should & can be given
to his affidavit In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set [illegible] 
Signature at Isle La Mott this 5 day of June 1833
Harry Hill Justice peace
N.B. the words "that good faith & credence should & can 
be given to his affidavit" were added by me & the same are correct - 
to which I hereby set my official
Signature
Harry Hill Justice Peace
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Levi Lawrence
State of Vermont
Grand Isa County
Clerks office North
. June 12th 1833
I Joel Allen Clerk of Grand Isle
County Court do hereby certify
that Harry Hill before whom
the within affidavits purports
to have been taken and sworn was at that
time a Justice of the Peace in and for the
County of Grand Isle and duly qualified to
administer oaths, and that I believe the sign
niture attacked to be his genuine signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto sub
scribed my name and affixed the seal of said
Court the day and year and
Jack Allen Clerk
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I Elias Hall of Castleton in the County of Rutland and
State of Vermont of lawful age being duly sworn do
testify and say that in the year 1781 and 1782 I was
in the revolutionary army under Capts. Brookins 
and Hutchins and stationed at Castleton aforesaid, and was
a Lieutenant under both of said Captains, that 
in the summer of 1781, I know Levi Lawrence who resided with
his father in the Garrison at that place, that about
the 20th of November 1781, the said Levi Lawrence was a
volunteer under me, to keep possession of the fort at
said Castleton until relieved that the said Levi Lawrence
served at that place as a private soldier until
the 1st day of May 1782 under me that the said
Lawrence was a
soldier at the time of volunteering under 
me as aforesaid but I do not know at what
time, he entered the service
I further say that in
the summer of 1782, a [deleted word] military force was kept in 
the said fort, and I believe until the fall of that
year 
Elias Hall

State of Vermont
Rutland County ss   } Castleton 4 March 1836.
Personally appeared Elias Hall who signed
the above affidavit and made oath that the facts
stated therein are true

Before me
S. H. Merrill Jus. Peace

I also certify that the said Elias Hall is a person of truth
S.H. Merrill Jus. Peace
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I Elias Hall of Castleton in the County of Rutland and
State of Vermont of lawful age being duly sworn [illegible] testify and say
that in the year 1781 I
was at Castleton aforesaid in the revolutionary war
and I further testify that Levi Lawrence was 
stationed at said Castleton as a private soldier in the
Company of Capt. William Hutchins and in the
Regiment commanded by Col. Fletcher and served
in that capacity in said Hutchins Company for nine
[left margin] 9- [/left margin] months in said Hutchins Company and that after
the expiration of said term the said Lawrence served 
[left margin] 1- [/left margin]one month in a company of volunteers of which I was
commandant, under the authority of
Gov. Thomas
Chittenden,
at the same place
and I further say that there were troops under the
command of Major
Brownson
stationed in said Castleton during the year 1782 and further say not
Elias Hall
Subscribed and sworn to before me
11. Feb. 1837.  S. H. Merrill Jus. Peace

State of Vermont    }
Rutland County  ss }
I Robert Pierpoint Clerk of
the County Court for the 
County of Rutland Certify
that Silas W. Merrill is a
Justice of the peace for said
County and that his
Signature to the foregoing
certificate is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal of said
Court at Rutland this 15th 
day of Feb 1837
R. Pierpoint
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[stamp] FREE

Hon. Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Washington City
D.C.

[faint pencil] No. 24208

[inverted] Levi Lawrence
[illegible]
NY

[faint writing; inverted] Pension Office
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[stamp] FREE

Hon. Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Washington City
D.C.

[faint pencil] No. 24208

[inverted] Levi Lawrence
[illegible]
NY

[faint writing; inverted] Pension Office
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Phelps Ontario N.Y.
Oct 15. 183[1]

Dr. Sir
In August 1833 I made a Declaration for  
services rendered the United State, during the Revolutionary War According to the Regulations of the Secretary of War for Carrying into effect the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832, In which Declaration I claimed 1[0] months service under the enlistments of 8 months each, and substitutes. and the same by living witnesses, will authenticate.
In return I received a pension from under you hand of $35.84/100 per Annum
The object of my asking you, at this time is to ask of you the first to Cause my declaration to be reviewed, fearing that an error has happened in allowing me my just claim, either in filling or with the pension power, or through some other cause. 

Hon. Lewis Cass | Secretary of War |

I am very respectfully
 Yr. obt. Servt - 
Levi Lawrence
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Extracts of a letter from Oliver Tiffany to Hon Levi Woodbury dated Ancaster W Canada Jany 11th 1836

"I cannot forego this chance of expressing some annoyance that I have felt at seeing the sacred revolutionary pension law taken advantage of by fellows living in this country who have no right to its benefit.   One Levi Lawrence particularly (as a sample) who is one of the richest farmers in this country, who did nothing in the revolution (as he says) but drive his father's team with a certain corps on a march, - who immediately after came into this county with a tory from Vermont - who has been throughout a supporter of Anti-American feelings here - who is said to have been voluntarily active during the last war and who now chuckles at getting the U States money while he speaks with derision of them reports I believe as residing at Lewistown N. Y. when put upon the pension [stricken roll] list he reported from Canandaigua N.Y.  that he might receive the money nearer home, however, he now ventriloquizes from Lewistown
   Could not all Agents of pensioners be required to make oath of the pensioners being bonafide, now citizens of the United State, and being not disqualified by any terms of the Law
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from receiving such pension or is the law
so persellanimously gracious that a boy having
driven a team a week or a month in or
carrying powder and ball to assist in establishing
the freedom of the country, cannot have
nentralized the merit of it by any subsequent ┃
systematic exertions of his in assisting the
enemies of that freedom of that country
A
true Copy
Dan Boyd
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[stamp] DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
DEC 26 187[illegible]
PENSION OFFICE

Payments to be made at New York
by [illegible]
Agent for paying Pension [illegible] in the Agency of New York

Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book E. Vol 4. Page 66 by [illegible]

Clerk
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Cert. No. 24,208 | Freleh 9370

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

   I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Levi Lawrence of the State of New York
Who was a private int eh Revolutionary }
Army}
is entitled to receive Thirty Five - dollars and Eighty =Six cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi=annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.

Given at the War Office of the United States, this - 8 - day of November one thousand eight hundred and thirty =three
Lew Cass
Secretary of War.

Examined and } 
Countersigned.}
J L Edwards
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[Rotated ninety degrees counterclockwise] Mar 4

NY
[illegible]
Act 1832 [end rotated text]

[Illegible]
Phelps NY

J.L. Edward Egmire
Commission of Pensions
Pension Office
Washington City
D.C.

[inverted] Levi Lawrence
[illegible]
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Phili March 10. 1837

Dear Sir 
Enclosed is paper relating to the application of Levi Lawrence for a pension I think the proof is now sufficient, please give it your early attention.
Yr Obt Servt
David McNeil

P.S. If pension is granted, please address to my [illegible]
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COPY.

Inv. File #40911,
Rev. War.

[handwritten annotation] Inv. File 9370
Rev War

is [illegible] ancestor referred to - letter however holds good in [illegible] claim [end handwritten annotation]

L.M.H
April 6, 1906.

Mrs. Adelaide Gage,
Manitou, Colorado.

Madam:

In response to your letter dated March 29, 1906 and received April 2, 1906, you are advised that there is no law which would entitle the descendants of Revolutionary War soldiers to pension.

Very respectfully,

Commissioner.
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MRS. PERCY J. LAWRENCE
2417 WEST TWENTY-FIRST ST.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.

October 22, 1925.

Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen;
Will you please send me a record of pension of one ANDREW McGAFFEY, Lieut. of Epsom, N.H. He was born about 1742 and died 1826 and was married to Hannah Wallace of Epsom.   Would like place of birth and death and any dates in connection with the wife.
Have you a record of pension of Levi Lawrence? He was born in Athol, Mass. and died in Burford, Ontario, Canada his wife was Mary Miller.  I am Anxious to get names of children and any other information you may have.  I think he enlisted from Vermont at a very early age.

Appreciationg[sic] a prompt reply, I am, 
Sincerely,
[signature]
(Mrs. P. J.) Maude Levering Lawrence
Regent,
Capt. John Holmes Chapter D.A.R.
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Bureau of Pension

Will you Kindly state to me whether Levi Lawrence of Burford Brant Co. Canada
was in the Revolutionary war, enlisting from Vermont was a pensioner at the time of his death Which occurred in 1838 at Burford.  
I am desirous of getting these facts Which will establish a connecting link in something very important to me. His last wife [stricken 'whose'] was my Grandmother and was a Mary Miller of Lyons New York.  If you can give me the desired information I will be Thankful. If you cannot-, advise me what way I could proceed to get such information-
 Most Truly yours
 Mrs. Adelaide Gage | Maurton

[date stamp & A. DIVISION APR 14 19 RECEIVED
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Pension Bureau
[Date stamped | O.W.&N. DIV.| APR 3, 1906 | FILES]
Washington D.C.

My Grandfather Livi Lawrence Who died in Burford Braut Co. Canada was a Revolutionary Pensioner, Certificate issued to him about November 8th 1833.
It has been rumored there was a back pension of about $160.00 due him, at the time of his death. And I can find no proof that the two minor heirs ever received any of it.
there was an administrator of the Estate by the ame of Jeremiah Cowan.
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Information on the Subject will be gratefully received. hoping I have not overstepped the limit of my privilege I beg leave to subscribe myself

Mrs Adelaide Gage,
Manitou,
El Paso leo
Colorado

March 29 1906

[stamp] PENSION OFFICE
A
APR
2
1906
US

[stamp] Q.W. & N. DIV.
APR
3
1906
FILES
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widow's ) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
DATES OF
ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.
LENGTH OF
SERVICE.
RANK.
Aug 1, 1781 to Dec. 1. 1782 Pot.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
J. Hutchins
COLONEL.
March Berlin
STATE.
V
Battles engaged in,
Residence of soldier at enlistment, that I
---
Date of application for pension, Aug 20, 1833. His claim was allowed
Residence at date of application, b for Upper Canada
Age at date of application, born Aug 9.266 in that date of death not so
Remarks: His father, name not state of
Capt. John Stark's company Colonel Samuel Fletcher's
Reg. U. troops in 1781, Soldier had a wife and
children, no names stated (added May 9 - 1923 by
Chilton
of Miss Wilson) and
205810311 - 05
Commissioner.
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United States Veterans Bureau 
District No. 10.
[illegible]
March 26th, 1923/

Bureau of Pensions, 
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:
I should like to have all information as to service, family, birth, marriage, looalities mentioned, etc. of Ebenenser, Davis, who applied for Pension for Revolutionary service, from Albany County, N.Y.

I should also like the same information of Levi Lawrence, who served in New York and Vermont organisations and who applied for a pension from Canada, probably Oxford County, Ontario.

Will you also please inform me if Thomas Wheeler who served in 6th Regiment of New York Militia from Dutchess Co. N.Y.  ever applied for pension and if so what data is given?

Thanking you for you kindness in the matter

I am
Very truly,
A. H. Beach

Alfred H. Beach
Legal Advisor.
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INVALID. 

File No. 9370
Levi Lawrence
Priv. Rev War

Act: June 7th /23
Index:-Vol. 1, Page 216

[Arrangement of 1870]
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In the matter of Levi Lawrence for a Pension
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State of New York }
Ontario County ss } On this 4th day of March One thousand Eight Hundred and thirty-seven, personally
appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace for said
County Levi Lawrence, who being duly sworn according to Law
deposed & says that he received a letter dated at War Department
Pension Office November 15th, 1834. from J. L. Edwards  Esq. saying
that, on servicing the evidence on which his pension was granted
that his claim was inadvertently admitted, & that the agent
had been directed to suspend payment until further notice -
That He has since obtained the affidavits of Elias Hall, who
lives in Castleton & State of Vermont, which affidavits are herewith
Annexed And which affidavits together with those of Alpheus
Hall and William Blanchard, now at the Pension Office, constitutes 
all the evidence he can procure in support of His claim
He claims to have served Eight months under
Captain Hutchins in Col Fletcher Regiment of Vermont Troops a private & 
Substitute for [illegible] Power at Castleton  in said State, the greater part 
of the time the  he commenced said service on the first day of
August 1881, and was discharged on the 1st day of April 1882 -
that he again served from said April 1st 1782 until the 1st day
of December 1782 making Eight Months more under Lieutenant
David Powers (then in command) 
in Col. Fletchers Regiment 
under command of  Maj. Gideon Bronson of Vermont Troops &c-- That said services
so claimed to be performed,  he has before more particularly set
forth in his original Declaration, now at the  pension office to which he would more particularly refer.  That he now asks the pay to which he is entitled according to the proof of the three witnesses
Alpheus Hall, Elias Hall and William Blanchard
all of which affidavits are herewith forwarded and now at the said pension office aforesaid - further this deponent saith not
Levi Lawrence
---
Sworn to & Subscribed before me the day & year aforesaid
Joseph Van Demark Jun J.P.
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State of New York  }
County of Ontario  }ss
I Stephen Sammons Deputy Clerk
of the County Courts of the County and State
aforesaid do hereby certify that Joseph Vandermark Jr. is a Justice 
of the peace in and for said County duly Elected and qualified that his term of office commenced on the 1st January 1835 and will
Expire on the 31st day of December 1838, and that his signature to the annexed affidavit is genuine

Given under my hand and the seal of said County the 8th March 1837
S Sammons Dep Clerk

[seal]

[left margin] In the matter of Levi Lawrence for a pension [/left margin]
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I. 535

25 May 1837
Pension office
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the Honorable Gentlemen
who compose the book of
pension in
the City of Washington having had conversation
 heretofore by agency wish to give you a me
Setch of my fathers family in the time of the old
Revolutionary war my father being on of trade
Sold his farm which lay near Seborough Larding
and took it all in store goods at St Landing
preparing to take so goods to old contague
for the use of the american army but in
Short time old Johnney burgham come down
along the Lake and Captered all the property
what made my father poor man at once
having
●
other Resorce for living was obliged to engage
in the war him and my Eldest brother through was
and both died without the bennifit of pention
they was in the battle of Bennington So Cart
where they suffered every thing but death and some
near that in contending with her for who say
serted in bush after changing several shots to that
black silk handkerchief through that being about my
Fathers neck to wife of his suit of his fee but the
That my fate observed the smoke of his given and
Slea
his for and then ceeded on in the fit
the Contest was over and some of Conner
Before this period I and family was given
Mills before the contending parties without
of
or money enly depending on Charrity and he part
by in borns or sheds in the front
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My mother and six children threw on the open
world for sustainance in those perilous times it was
dark day our property of one and without house
or time after the bathe we collected under to gether
as well as we could and went into the farm
on the frontiers in the State of Vermont where we
was
Serve during the contest my father one of the green-
Mountain boys so cold who commanded a party that
Captined mount defiance near contaroque on the west
Gentlemen give you this statement
To awaken or are the on human feelings as you
have testimony of my goner at Carretter in the part
you are
somewhat bound to believe in the present
your Law is gone out into all the world, and all
people believe it began to say if a man served
Two years in the war he shall be intitled to receive
dollar of full age
and so down to Mary
have not I proved more than 15 months and yet
half 96 dollars. after calling for Elias Hall
deposition making me agony of new has mild
and Spending 50 dollars and proved 9 months
by him and not one penney added to my pention
think it grevious hardship that Law and man
feelings is so great astranger in so publick place
my only desire is to receive but Sennefit of the Law
then shall be not withstanding the
Suffering and hardships I and family was cut throug
submit the cause to deserving Gentlemen
in these will find place in our warmest
Burford May 15 182 or Laurence
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[envelope]

[illegible].535
25 May 1837
[illegible] office

[front of envelope] 
Burford
17 May '37

[postmark] LEWISTON MAY 19 [remainder illegible [/postmark]

Honbl Lewis Cass
Secretary at War
City Washington
United States
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[H] 40,911
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[handwritten at top of page] 1876 Sept 20 Answered - Office just moved and files are inaccessible to refer to it - but writer informed that by Section 4719 a Surviving widow or widow or minor child ^only^ have the right to apply for restoration of unclaimed pensions. [illegible] [/handwritten at top of page]

J. A Bentley Esq
Comr. Pensions

Buffalo Sept 14, 1876

Sir -- On the 24 December 1874 I mailed an enquiry by Jeremiah Cowan Administrator of [underlined] Live [Levi] Lawrence [/underlined] who died in Canada, a Revolutionary pensioner ^certificate^ issued to him November 8, 1833 for $35.86 as stated in his note to [deleted word] the Department, and that at his death there was about $160 due He did not give the date of the death but Stated he left no widow [illegible] surviving and Several Children & no Minors
I was not certain that the pension was due to his children, have forgotten the provisions of the laws and decisions of the long ago, and to relieve the parties I wish you would refer to the matter  and inform me, If any Report was made to me or to him in Canada, and if anything is due to his Estate, except funeral expenses and what will be necessary to collect what is due if anything.
Respy Yours
Samuel Lake
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Lawrence, Michael
see
Lorance.

+ Michael Williams