Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 20453, for Jacob Lewis, Connecticut
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Service
Conn.

Lewis, Jacob
Eunice

Number
W20453
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3694
New York
Eunice Lewis
widow of Jacob Lewis decd
Conn
who died on the 26th of July 1820
of Orange Co. in the State of New York
who was a Private in the Compy commanded by Captain Strong of the Regt commanded
by Col Bradley in the Connt
line for 7 months & 26
Inscribed on the Roll of New York City
at the rate of 26 Dollars 22 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29th day of March
1842 & sent to Hon J. G. Clinton
House of Representatives
Arrears to the 4th of March 1842 $288.42
Semi-annual allowance ending 13.11
$301.53

{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 8th}

Recorded by D. D. Addison Clerk
Book C Vol. 1st Page 121

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Let to Geo Wilks May 10. 1842
& to Pagent NYork Susp pay
do to G. Wilks May 25. 1842.
do to  J. W. Martin, Nov. 12. 1842
"   "  Hon. J. G. Clinton Dec. 13. '42
"   "  G. Wilks - Mar 17. 1843
"   "  J. W. Martin "   "
"   "  Pension Agent "   "
"   "  Nathan Leake
Mar 13 1845
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wife of Jacob Lewis
No 5522
Eunice Lewis -
N.Y.
Act 4 July '36
admd
7 mo. 26 as pri
$26.22/100

no deduction

Hon J. G. Clinton
HR
NY
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State of new York }
Orange County } Ss  On this 24 day of December 1841 personally appeared before the under signed a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said county Eunice Lewis a resident of the town of Monroe County of Orange and State of New York who age Seventy Eight 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 made by the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836; that she is the widow of Jacob Lewis who was a Private soldier in the war of the Revolution and served as she has been informed believes as follows, That the said Jacob Lewis enlisted sometime in spring or Summer of 1776 or 1777 as a common soldier for the term of three years, in the Connecticut Line and served the full term of three years and was discharged at the expiration of the said term. This service was done under Captain Strong and in the Regiment commanded by Col Bradley she has heard her said husband Jacob Lewis tell of his lying at Morristown with the regular army during the first hard winter
That after the aforementioned service was done the said Jacob Lewis he returned to the town of Monroe in the County of Orange and State of New York where he lived previous to the commencement of War and where he lived untill the month of April 1782 when he again entered the service of his country as one of the Services ordered to be raised by an act of the Legislature of the State of New York for the defence of the frontiers of the said State for the term of nine months which service he performed under Capt Abraham Westfall in the Regiment commanded by Col Weisenvelt on the western frontiers of the Counties of Orange and Ulster at a place called Minisink in the valley of the Neversink area
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her husband the said Jacob Lewis was discharged about Christmas of the said year.
She further declares that she was married to the said Jacob Lewis on the 26 day of November 1781 by Nathaniel Satterly then an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said County and who was authorized to perform the marriage ceremony her name before marriage was Eunice Miller and her marriage took place at her fathers house in the town county and State aforesaid she further states that she was married to the said Jacob Lewis at least four months before her husband entered the service under Capt Westfall and she has a perfect recollection of going across the Shawangunk mountains and living with her said husband Jacob Lewis three days in a block house called Kuykendalls block house and of standing and keeping the company of her said husband one night while he was standing out as a guard. And that her said husband Jacob Lewis died on the 26th day of July 1820 and that she has ever since remained a widow as will more fully appear by the proof annexed She further declares that she has no record of her marriage in her possession nor does she believe there is any in existence 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year before mentioned The words husband and Three days interlined before signing four written on an erasure
Eunice X her mark Lewis
Miles Hughes One of the Judges of Orange County Court

State of New York }
Orange County } Ss I Miles Hughes a Judge of the court of common pleas in and for the said County do certify that I am acquainted with Eunice Lewis who made and subscribed the foregoing declaration and believe that her statements made are entitled to full credit and belief and from personal examination believe she should be excused from attending the court of revue in and for the same county
Miles Hughes one of the Judges of Orange County Courts
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State of New York }
Orange County } SS John Redner of the town of Monroe in said County being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is forty years of age and that he was well acquainted with Jacob Lewis while living and his wife now his widow Eunice Lewis has often heard the said Jacob Lewis tell of his services as a soldier and heard him tell of being somewhere in the vicinity of Philadelphia and having a hard fight with the British and of his being wounded in the foot by cutting it upon a stone this was while he belonged to the Connecticut line That he was present when the said Jacob Lewis died on the 26th day of July 1820 and that Eunice Lewis still remains his widow
I certify that John Redner is a creditable witness
Sworn to and subscribed this 24 day of December 1841 before me
John Redner
Miles Hughes one of the Judges of Orange County Court

State of New York }
Orange County } Ss John W Martin of the town of Mt Hope in said County aged forty four years deposeth that search has been made for the record of the marriage of Jacob Lewis and none can be found and that he believes there is none in existence and further he saith not
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 25 day of December 1841 and I certify that the said John W Martin is a creditable witness
John W. Martin
Miles Hughes one of the Judges of Orange County
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In pursuance of a law passed the 27th of April, 1784, entitled "An act for the settlement of the pay of the Levies and Militia, for their services in the late War, and for other purposes therein mentioned," the following certificates have been issued, bearing interest at five per cent per annum, viz:

1782 Dec 26/ 40.14 Jacob Lewis/ Private/ 7 mo 26 ds _20_19_6
1780 July 31/ 12.323 Jacob Lewis/ " / _0_12_5
1780 August 31/ 12849 Jacob Lewis/  " / _2_13_4
1780 October 15/ 12891 Jacob Lewis/  " / _4_0_0

State of New York,
Comptroller's Office, Albany, January 17 1841 }
I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No. 1 now remaining in this office, and that the service for which the certificates above named were issued, were performed under the following officers, viz:

First - under Capt. Abm Westfall in Lt. Col. Comd Fred Wiessenfels Regt.
Second, " " John Hermance " " Morris Graham "
Third, " " John Hermance " " Morris Graham "
Fourth, " " John Hermance " " Morris Graham "
Fifth, " "  " "  "
Sixth, " "  " "  "
Seventh, " "  " "  "
Eighth, " "  " "  "
Ninth, " "  " "  "
Tenth, " "  " "  "

W. W. Treadway Dept Comptroller

fees 50. cents
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State of New York }
Orange County SS on this 28th day of December 1841 personally appeared before the undersigned a Judge of the Court of Common Please in and for the said County Abigal Letts and made oath as follows that she is 79 years of age and that she was well acquainted with Jacob Lewis and Eunice Miller of the town of Monroe in said County in the Revolutionary War and was present and saw the said Jacob Lewis and Eunice Miller married at the house of the father of the said Eunice Miller on the twenty sixth day of November seventeen hundred & eighty one in the town of Monroe County of Orange and State of New York and that the marriage ceremony was performed by Nathaniel Satterly then an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said County She further saith that in the spring of 1782 her husband Abraham Letts and the aforesaid Jacob Lewis entered the service of the country as Levy men and served as such under Capt Westfall and Col Weysenvelt for the term of nine months and she well recollects that while the said Abraham Letts and Jacob Lewis were in the aforesaid service that she with Eunice Lewis then the wife of the said Jacob Lewis crossed the Shawangunk Mountain into the valey of the Neversink on the western frontier of the Counties of Orange & Ulster and paid their husbands a visit and remained there with them for three days This deponent is not mistaken in the marriage of the said Jacob Lewis and Eunice Miller and that it took place before the term of service above mentioned was performed "at the time above stated That the said Eunice Lewis has not married since the death of her said husband but still remains his widow and further she saith not Sworn to and subscribed before me
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the day and year last before mentioned and I certify that I am well acquainted with the said Abigal Letts and believe her to be a woman of truth and veracity and her statements made in the foregoing affidavit are entitled to full credit and belief "one, interlined before signing by me
Abigail X her mark Letts
Miles Hughes one of the Judges of Orange County Courts
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State of New York, }
Orange county, } SS. I, Lebbeus L. Vail, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Orange, Do Hereby Certify, that Miles Hughes before whom the foregoing affidavits was subscribed and sworn, was at the time of taking the same, a Judge of County Courts in, and for said county; and further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and verily believe that the signature to the affidavits & Certificates is genuine.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of the said County, the 4th day of February 1842
Lebbeus L. Vail, Clerk

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Comptrollers Office
Hartford, Jany 1 1842
I Certify that on Application for evidence of the services of Jacob Lewis  3 years in the Revolutionary War Col. Bradleys Regiment, that I have examined the Records of Settlements made with the Connecticut Line of the Continental Army and find his name in a Settlement with the 5th Connecticut Regiment, Commanded by Philip B Bradley Esq Col. before 1780. where he is entered as a private Nov 15 1777 Time of settlement Jany 1 1780 having served two Years one month & sixteen days
Henry Kilbourn Compt

from Nov 15 1777 to Jany 1 1780. y2. m1. d16

Deserted 10 June 1780
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Finchville N Y Feby 23 1842
Dr Sir
In compliance with the letter of the Commissioner of Pensions I herewith send you the affidavits required to substantiate the claims of Hannah Lewis and Eunice Lewis. The affidavit of Levi Van Etten in the case of Isaac Lewis goes to show that he is the Isaac Lewis for which the evidence claims a Pension he says that he knew the said Lewis well and served with him in Capt Abraham Westfalls company and that he was from the town of Monroe and from Col Woodhully Regt now this confirms the evidence of Thomas Galloway who says that he is the Brother of the widow of Isaac Lewis was at the marriage of Isaac Lewis and his sister Hannah Little formerly Galloway and says that he was the same Isaac Lewis that he Galloways father hired to serve nine months for the class to which Galloway belonged under Capt Westfall in 1782
Mr Van Etten as you will perceive by his affidavit also swears that he was well acquainted with Jacob Lewis who was also from the town of Monroe and from Col Woodhullys Regt Now Dr Sir here is two affidavits made by one of the most respectable men in the town of Deer Park a man above reproach and one whose recollection of by gone days is still good I do not know that you have any acquaintance with old Mr Van Etten but two of his sons I think you must be familiar with I mean Thomas Van Etten formerly a member of Assembly and Levi Van Etten formerly a Supervisor of the town of Deer Park If you can conscientiously be so good as to state to the commissioner of pensions the character and standing of Mr Van Etten and the reliance that may be placed upon the old mans word for rest assured sir that their is not a man in the town where he lives that has a character for truth and veracity superior to Mr Van Etten
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I likewise send you the second affidavit of Mrs. Abigal Letts in confirmation of the marriage of Jacob Lewis and Eunice Miller I think this affidavit will put all cavilling at rest both as to the marriage and the service she unhesitatingly declare that she was present at the marriage and that she knows that the Jacob Lewis who served under Capt Westfall in 1782 is the person who she saw married to Eunice Miller and that the marriage took place previous to the said term of service Will you be so good as to urge the sufficiency of the evidence in those cases. The claim of Eunice Lewis for the three years service in the Connecticutt line under Col Bradley we will waive for the present although I have no doubt but at a future day I shall be able to substantiate that part of the claim and we will receive a Certificate for the nine months done under Capt Abraham Westfall on the Western frontiers of the Counties of Orange & Ulster in 1782
I am sir your Obt Set
John W Martin

Hon J G Clinton
House of Representatives

B In looking over Mrs Letts affidavit I find that her age is left off & should this be required of us just refer them to her former affidavit.
J W M

Hon JGC

[vertically at right] Hon J.G. Clinton HR
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2.50
40
10
52.50

20.90.52
90
[illegible] 4680
3c [illegible] 23.4
7.14
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House of Representatiaves
Feby 8. 1842
Sir
Permit me to call your attention to the enclosed declaration and proofs of Mrs Eunice Lewis widow of Jacob Lewis deceased a Soldier of the Revolution who served first in the Connecticut line, and afterward, in the New York State troops.
Yours Respectfully,
Jas G Clinton

J L Edwards Esq
Com of Pensions
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Hon J. G. Clinton
March 4th 1842
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65

Pen Off
March 4th '42
Sir
I have the honor to inform you that the addl evidence in the case of Mrs Eunice Lewis satisfactorily identifies her late husband with the soldier who rendered 7 mo 26 days service in 1782 in Westfalls company of Col Weisenfelts regt. of N.Y. Services -
The proof as to the date of the marriage is insufficient to shew that it took place prior to the above term of service -
In the case of Isaac Lewis decd I would refer you to my letter of 12 ult. - If any service should be established the Court should certify the day of his death & the name of his widow - before a certificate can be issued.
Hon J. G. Clinton
H.R.
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Revy
Widow, &c.
File No. 20453
Eunice Lewis
Wid. of
Jacob Lewis
Priv. Rev. War
Act: July 4, 1836
Index: - Vol. A Page 429

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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23.33
288
26.21

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5522
Eunice Lewis
NY
Let to Hon J. G. Clinton July 27, 1842
Same March 4 1842

act 4 July '36
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House of Representatives
Washington Dec 12. 1842
Sir
I enclose you a letter from John W. Martin Esq requesting a copy of the affidavit of Levi Van Etten in the case of Eunice Lewis, desiring me to enquire why her pension is suspended, and making some other enquiries, will you do me the favor of complying with Mr Martin's request and returning his letter to me.
I remain Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
J. G. Clinton

Col Edwards
Com of Pensions
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Hon
James L Edwards
Commis of Pensions
Washington City
D C

[illegible] Nov 5

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10. Nov 1842
D.C.
Eunice Lewis
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Mt Hope Orange County
New York Nov 5 1842
Dr Sir 
Some time last spring a pension certificate was granted to Eunice Lewis widow of Jacob Lewis of the town of Monroe Orange County NY for services done in the Revolutionary war and it is asserted in the Newburgh Gazette that the said certificate was granted on the affidavit of a Mr Redner - John Redner - I believe who the Gazette say is under forty years of age and yet he swears to Mrs Lewis doing three years service in the Revolutionary war and the reference drawn is that I have fraudulently exaggerated the age of the said Redner.
Now Sir will you be so kind to me as to write me whether the pension was granted to the said Eunice Lewis on the affidavit of the said Redner or not I mean did he swear to the services upon which the certificate was granted I ask this for the reason that my name has been brought before the citizens of Orange County as a candidate for a seat in the next Legislature of New York and the publication referred to above is published for the purpose of degrading me in the eyes of the public. I am Sir your Obt Svt.
John W. Martin
Hon J L Edwards Comm of Pensions
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[vertically at left] May 20. 1842
Eunice Lewis

Monroe Works NY
May 17th [illegible]

free

John L Edwards Esq
War Office
Washington City
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Monroe May 17th 1842
John L Edwards Esq
Dear Sir
enclosed are the papers appertaining to Joseph Cruls Transfer for Pension to the new york Agency he is poor and in need of relief I therefore hope you will give it your attention as soon as your convenience will permit [foregoing text bracketed with notation:] Sent to JW Evans

On the subject of Eunice Lewis's Pension it would be necessary for me to have a copy of the law under which she claimed the names of the witnesses & what they have testified when I shall give it the necessary attention I remain sir very respectfully yours
Geo Wilks
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House of Representatives
Washington March 26. 1842
Sir
At the request of J.W. Martin I enclose you additional papers & proof in the case of Mrs Eunice Lewis, and Mrs Hannah Lewis widow of Isaac Lewis deceased. The purport and object of these papers are explained by the two accompanying letters of Mr Martin.
Very Respectfully
Yr Obt Servt
Jas G Clinton

James L Edwarads Esq }
Comr of Pensions }
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Dec 30 1842
N.Y.

Eunice Lewis

[vertically] 

[illegible} Dec 26

Hon James L Edwards
Commmis of Pensions
Washington City
D. C.
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3.33
44
2.89

Mt. Hope New York
Dec 26 1842

Dr Sir,
Your letter to James G. Clinton of the 13 Inst with the copy of an affidavit by Levi Van Etten 
in relation to the services of Jacob Lewis in Westfalls company of levies in 1782 has been forwarded by me
In your letter you say that the pension of Eunice Lewis was suspended upon information received by the department that it was fraudulently obtained I take it upon me to say that in the face of any information that may have been forwarded to you that there never was granted from the Pension Office a more honorable Pension or a more deserving one than that granted to Eunice Lewis - The character of Abigal Letts who swears to the marriage of Jacob & Eunice Lewis and her knowledge of his services is such that no one knowing her would doubt what she has sworn to for a moment She is a woman above reproach
The character of Levi Van Etten who swears that he knew the said Jacob Lewis and served with him is above reproach he is and always has been one of the most respectable citizens of the town of Deer Park of which town he has been a resident from his birth and thru the receipt for pay
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on the department that caused him to make the representations that he has but that the whole matter arose from a malicious disposition to injure those who acted in behalf of said widow George Wilkes is the person referred to as one who has not only injured a respectable widow who is his neighbour and beside whose character for truth and veracity George Wilkes must sink into eternal Oblivion For the truth of what I write in this matter I again refer you to the Hon J G Clinton And I now humbly and most respectfully ask that the Pension of Eunice Lewis widow of Jacob Lewis be renewed upon the evidence already in the Pension office
In closing my communication I would again say that there never a Pension more deservingly obtained than the one granted to Eunice Lewis
I am Sir Your Obt Servant
John W Martin

Hon James L Edwards
Commiss of Pensions
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found in the Comptroller office of New York sets all cavil aside and as for Mrs Lewis herself she is a woman of the strictest integrity and truth and amongst her neighbours bears an unimpeachable character and in making her declaration she was clear and explicit in all her statements Then who for a moment would believe that Judge Hughes a man whose character is above reproach and who has never stooped to any thing below the character of a Gentleman would be guilty of practising through his high station as a Judge any fraud whatever upon any department of our government Judge Hughes has not done it but on the other hand did most cheerfully sign the declaration of the said widow in and with a full belief of the truth of the statements therein made for a more full account of the character of Judge Hughes I refer you to our member of Congress J. G. Clinton And now respected sir permit me to say that if I am correctly informed the information upon which the Pension of Eunice Lewis was suspended came from one of the most corrupt sources that is to be found in Orange County a man whose motive when once raised knows no bounds and cares not who he injures and I am bold to say that it was not any fraud that he believed had been practised
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Monroe N.Y. May 5, 1842.
Geo Wilks
John Martin of that County has been for several years obtaining pension by fraud.
W187. Acct May 9, 1842
Pension Office

Com of Pensions
attend in dismissal

Ramapo NY }
May 5 }

free

Honble John C Spencer
Secretary of War
Washington City
D C

Mrs. ONeal
Mrs.  [illegible]
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(Rockland county, N.Y.)
Monroe May 6. 1842
To The Hon~ble the Secretary of War Washington City
Sir
I am impelled by the Veneration in which I Hold the institutions of the Country to lay Before you the Conduct of a Certain individual in this County who has by Subornation of Perjury committed frauds on the Government to some Extent the man is John Martin who has made a Business of obtaining Pensions for Several Years back and always works for Half the Spoils I have myself assisted a few Persons whom I believed to be worthy & Honestly Entitled to Pensions to obtain them but never charged one Cent for services of that Kind in my life nor in the many instances Where I have been Called on by Pensioners or their Widows as a magistrate Have I ever made a Charge Believing that it is the Duty of Every Patriotic man to assist those who achieved our independence.
I Call your attention to one Case of so flagrant a nature that it Cant admit of a moments Doubt after the Passage of the Law Granting Pensions to the Widows of Revolutionary Soldiers. I called on the Widow of John Oneil Who resided in my neighbourhood & who was worthy But Very Poor supposing her to be Entitled owing to Law But she candidly & honestly told me that she was not married to John Oneil till after the Peace & his Discharge from the army
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Therefore Knowing her not to be Entitled I made no move in her favour But after a Lapse of some years John Martin took the Case into his keeping & obtained a Pension for her & made an Equal Division of the spoils after first Deducting his Expenses as I am informed thereby Pocketing some two or three hundred Dollars this is a case so Easily Detected that I Hope your Honour will notice it There are as I am informed Two recent cases of Widows of Jacob Lewis & Isaac Lewis which are Barefaced Frauds on the Government the Men in their lifetime tryed for Pensions & from my knowledge of their unworthiness I made it the subject of Communication to the then Secretary of War which had the Desired Effect of Foiling them altogether if your Honour will furnish me with the names of the Witnesses & what they have I will undertake to Detect the frauds Tis High time a stop was Put to John Martin in his career of infamy I know there are many good men who see such things pass unnoticed But if we all done our Duty to our Country in noticeing such things the Government would not be subject to so many Frauds nor the morals of the People to so many Breaches
I have the Honour to remain 
Your Very Humble Servt
Geo. Wilks

Any Communication to me
Directed to Monroe Works
Post Office will be attended
to Promptly -
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State of New York } Ss
Orange County } On this twenty second day of February Eighteen Hundred and Forty two personally appeared before me Abraham J Cuddeback Justice of the Peace in and for the said County Levi Van Etten of the town of Deer Park in said County aged Eighty four years & upwards to me well known as a respectable member of community and a man of strict truth and veracity and made oath as follows That in the spring of 1782 Capt Abraham Westfall raised a company of men for the term of nine months to serve on the Western frontier of the Counties of Orange & Ulster against the Indians and that the said company Rendezvoused at the house of the said Westfall about the first of April of the said year and after a short time a portion of the said company was sent to a place called Bathows ?) land a part at Gumears(?) part at his own house and a part at Kuykendalls Blockhouse near where the Neversink River and the Delaware come together and this deponent further saith that during the year 1782 he served with that part of the company which was stationed at Kuykendalls Blockhouse several times during the said campaign and at one time served at least one month with Capt Westfalls men at the said Blockhouse and he well recollects serving during that time in company with Isaac Lewis who was a private belonging to
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Capt Abraham Westfalls company and of messing with the said Isaac Lewis while he was in service at the said Blockhouse There was two men in the said company by the name of Lewis who were brothers one by the name of Isaac Lewis and the other by the name of Jacob Lewis and he further deposeth and saith that the said Isaac Lewis was from the town of Monroe in the said County and from Col Woodhulls Regiment and he verily believes that the said Isaac Lewis served in the said company the full term of nine months in the Regiment commanded by Col Weisenvelt He further saith that he makes his mark because he is blind and cannot write and further he saith not Sworn to and subscribed by making his mark before me the day and year before written Levi X his mark Van Etten
Abraham J Cuddeback
Justice of Peace

State of New York, }
Orange County, } SS. I, Lebbeus L. Vail, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Orange, Do Hereby Certify, That Abraham J. Cuddeback before whom the foregoing affidavit was subscribed and sworn, was at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace in, and for said county; and further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe that the signature to the said affidavits is genuine.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of the said County, the 28th day of February 1842
Lebbeus L. Vail Clerk
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Oct. 22/48
Recd - 36 - 5694
Eunice Lewis

Hon J. L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions
Washington
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Washington Oct 21st 1845
Sir
I have been employed to look after the case of Mrs. Eunice Lewis of N.Y. widow of Jacob who was placed on the role of 4th July 1836 for her husbands services in the State of N. York in the year 1782. She alleges as I am informed in her declaration that he served prior to that in the Connecticut line Bradley Regt for more than two years, which is also corroborated by the Comptrollers certificate filed in his case, I am told.
I would respectfully ask that her case be examined with a view to increase of pension for said service, as she believes herself justly entitled to full pension. I have the honor to be
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servant
Nathan Leake

Hon. J. L.  Edwards
Comm of Pensions
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State of New York } Ss
Orange County } On this twenty third day of February Eighteen Hundred and Forty two personally appeared before the undersigned a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County Abigal Letts of the town of Cornwall in the said County to me well known as a respectable woman and a woman of truth & veracity and made oath to the following effect that she is the widow of Abraham Letts who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution and served in the nine months service in 1782 under Capt Abraham Westfall on the Western frontier of the Counties of Orange & Ulster against the Indians and that she is now a Pensioner of the United States for the service done by her said husband under said Westfall. And she further deposeth and saith that she was well acquainted with Jacob Lewis who she knows was soldier in the company of Capt Westfall in 1782 and who at that time this deponent well knows was the husband of Eunice Lewis who is now an applicant for a pension from the United States She further saith that she was well acquainted with the said Jacob Lewis and Eunice his wife before they were married and knew them as her neighbours untill the death of the said Jacob Lewis and still knows the said Eunice Lewis as the widow of the said Jacob Lewis And further she deposeth and saith that she was present and saw the said Jacob Lewis married to Eunice Miller at the house of the father of the said Eunice Miller in the town of Monroe in the County of Orange and State of New York on the twenty sixth
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day of November Seventeen hundred and Eighty one And that the said Jacob Lewis and Eunice Miller was married by Nathaniel Satterly then an acting Justice of the Peace then living in the neighbourhood of the parties above mentioned and who was by law privileged to perform the marriage ceremony she further saith that she is not mistaken in the marriage of the said Jacob Lewis and Eunice Miller and that it took place previous to the said Jacob Lewis serving under Capt Abraham Westfall and she knows that the said Jacob Lewis is the same that served with Capt Westfall in 1782 and further she saith not 
Sworn to and subscribed by making her mark before me the day & year before mentioned
Abigail X her mark Letts
Miles Hughes One of the Judges of Orange County Courts

State of New York } Ss
Orange County } John W Martin of the town of Mt Hope in said County aged forty four years being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose that he has searched in the family of the said Eunice Lewis for the family record and can find none and he verily believes that there is none in existence and that he has searched for the records of Nathaniel Satterly and cannot find any record of Marriages as kept by the said Justice in existence and he is satisfied there is none to be found. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 23d day of February 1842 and I certify that the above named Martin is a credible witness
John W Martin
Miles Hughes one of the Judges of Orange County Court
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State of New York, }
Orange County, } SS. I, Lebbeus L. Vail, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Orange, Do Hereby Certify, That Miles Hughes before whom the foregoing affidavit was subscribed and sworn, was at the time of taking the same, a Judge of Orange County Courts in, and for said county; and further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and verily believe that the signature to the said affidavit is genuine.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of the said County, the 23d day of February 1842.
Lebbeus L. Vail Clerk

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State of New York } Ss
Orange county } On this twenty second day of February Eighteen Hundred and Forty two personally appeared before the subscriber Abraham J Cuddeback a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County Levi Van Etten of the town of Deer Park in the said County aged Eighty four years and upwards a man to me well known as a man of the most respectability and whose honor truth and veracity has never been doubted and made oath to the following effect That in the spring of 1782 Capt Abraham Westfall raised a company of Levies to serve on the western frontier of the Counties of Orange and Ulster against the Indians that the said companies rendezvoused sometime about the first of April of 1782 at the house of the said Westfall which was about one mile and a half from where this deponent then and still lives and there the said company was divided into different sections one section went to a place called Bashaw land another to [illegible] fort another section remanned at the fort where the said Westfall lived and another section served at Kuykendall Block house near the Junction of the Deleware and Neversink Rivers At this Block house this deponent served several times during the Campaign of 1782 and done duty with the men belonging to Capt Westfalls company at one time this deponent was at the said Block house at least one month doing duty every day with the men
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belonging to the said company and he has a distinct recollection of a soldier serving there as a levy man by the name of Jacob Lewis and well recollects of doing duty with the said Jacob Lewis and of messing with the said Jacob Lewis at the said Block house for at least one month during that campaign and he further saith that when this deponent was at the said Block house doing duty that he was on the most friendly terms with the said Lewis that the said Lewis had been a soldier before and this deponent often got him to learn this deponent how to perform the manual exercise That he always understood that the said Jacob Lewis was from the town of Monroe in the said County and belonged to Col Woodhulls Regiment and he verily believes that the said Jacob Lewis served the full term for which the said company was raised in the Regiment commanded by either Col Weisenvelt or Paulding and further he saith he further deposeth and saith that he makes his mark because he is entirely blind and cannot see to write Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year before written
Levi X his mark Van Etten
Abraham J Cuddeback
Justice of Peace
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State of New York, }
Orange County, } SS. I, Lebbeus L. Vail, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Orange, Do Hereby Certify, That Abraham J Cuddeback before whom the foregoing Affidavit was subscribed and sworn, was at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace in, and for said county; and further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe that the signature to the said affidavit is genuine.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of the said County, the 23d day of Febry. 1842
Lebbeus L. Vail, Clerk

[vertically at left] Hon. J. G. Clinton

[seal affixed at left]
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State of New York } Ss
Orange County }  On this 22nd day of March Eighteen hundred and forty two personally appeared before the undersigned a Judge of the Court of Common Please in and for the said County Eunice Lewis a resident of the town of Monroe in the County of Orange and State of New York aged Seventy eight years and upwards and made oath to the following declaration made as a supplemental declaration to a former declaration made by her before the undersigned Judge on the 24th day of December 1841 That she may obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836 granting half pay and pensions to certain widows of soldiers of the Revolution That she is the widow of Jacob Lewis who was enrolled as a militiaman in Captain Francis Smiths company and Col Woodhulls Regiment Orange County militia That in the month of July or August 1776 the said Jacob Lewis volunteered into a company of five months men raised by Capt Seth Marvin and went as she has been informed and believes to fort Montgomery and from thence to Kingsbridge and Harleam where the company remained untill after New York was taken when they retreated towards the white Plains area there encamped untill they were overtaken by the British and was in the battle at that place and fought under the command of Gen McDougal after the Battle they retreated to Peekskill area from thence she believes they went to New Windsor where they remained untill their term of five months expired and were discharged at the place about the first of January 1777 That her said husband Jacob Lewis served the full term of five months under Capt Marvin and in the Regiment under Col Nichol and was discharged with the rest of the company but she does not know that he received a written discharge That in the spring or summer of 1777 her said husband Jacob Lewis was out to Fort Montgomery and other places along the Hudson River but she is unable to describe the tours or the length of them
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That in the month of October of the year 1777 the said Jacob Lewis left the town of Monroe in the County and State aforesaid and went to a place called Wyoming on the Susquehannah River in the State of Pennsylvania to visit his brother James Lewis who lived at that place That while at Wyoming a recruiting offer from Connecticut came to that place a recruiting soldiers and that the said Jacob Lewis there enlisted into the Connecticut Line of the army and after he had enlisted with others that had also enlisted were ordered to Connecticutt and there were enrolled in Capt Strongs company as a private and in Col Bradleys Regiment That after he was enrolled he went to Litchfield where he had the small pox after he got well he followed the fortunes of the army untill his time expired when he was discharged and that after his discharge he returned home to his parents not far from the beginning of the year 1781 That she further deposeth and saith that she is certain that Jacob Lewis her late husband is the identical person who served in Capt Strongs company and in Col Bradleys Regiment in the Connecticut Line That after he returned home to his friends he remained amongst them untill the Spring of 1782 when he volunteered as a Levy man from Capt Smiths company Col Woodhulls Regiment into a company under Capt Abraham Westfall in Col Weisenvelts Regiment for the term of nine months and that her then husband Jacob Lewis left home in April of the said year and went to Minisink and served at that place untill the last of December when he was discharged but she does not know that he received a written discharge She further deposeth and saith that she was married to the said Jacob Lewis on the twenty sixth day of November Seventeen hundred and eighty one by Nathaniel Satterly then an acting Justice of Peace in and for the County of Orange duly authorized by law to perform the marriage ceremony That she was married at her fathers house in the town of Monroe County of Orange and State of New York and that her name before marriage was Eunice Miller
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She further deposeth and saith that the said marriage took place before the last term of service performed by her husband Jacob Lewis was done and she further saith that while her husband Jacob Lewis was out in the service under Capt Westfall she lived with her brother Abraham Miller in the town county and State aforesaid She further saith that in the month of June while her husband Jacob Lewis was in the service under Capt Westfall she with Abigal Letts and Elizabeth Dunbar went on horseback from Monroe to Minisink on horseback to visit their husbands who were all in Capt Westfalls company this deponent found her husband Jacob Lewis doing duty as a soldier at Kuykendalls Block house near where the Neversink and Deleware River joins together and she well remembers of their having shad at that place caught out of the Deleware River Mrs Dunbar and Mrs Letts had to go about two miles further to a place called Bashaws land they staid three days & then returned and came home she further deposeth & saith that she has no record evidence of her marriage in her possession nor does she know of any neither has any record of her family she never had but three children once they died when young which is the principle cause of her not keeping a record That her husband Jacob Lewis died on the twenty sixth day of July Eighteen hundred and twenty one that she still remains the widow of the said Jacob Lewis Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year before written by making her mark because she never could write the word record interlined before signing
Eunice her mark Lewis
Miles Hughes one of the Judges of Orange County Courts
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State of New York } Ss
Orange County } I Miles Hughes a Judge of the court of Common Pleas in and for Orange County do certify that I am well acquainted with Eunice Lewis the within named person and have known her for the last fifteen years and know her to be a remarkable woman for memory and her character is of the fairest known That she is a woman of an unexceptional character for truth and veracity and I have no doubt but her husband Jacob Lewis done all the service that she has herein described Miles Hughes
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State of New York } Ss
Orange County } Abigal Letts of the town of Cornwall aged Seventy nine years & being duly sworn deposeth and saith that she is not mistaken in her former affidavits made in the case of the marriage of Jacob Lewis and Eunice Miller and she now repeats that she was present at the marriage of Jacob Lewis and Eunice Miller at the residence of the father of the said Eunice Miller in the town of Monroe in the County of Orange & State of New York and she further deposeth and saith that the said Jacob Lewis and Eunice Miller was married on the twenty sixth day of November Seventeen hundred and Eighty one by Nathaniel Satterly then an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Orange she further saith that she is not mistaken in the marriage of the said Jacob Lewis and Eunice Miller and she knows that it took place before the said Jacob Lewis done the service under Capt Westfall in 1782 and she knows that the Jacob Lewis who served under Capt Westfall was the same Jacob Lewis who was married to Eunice Miller on the 26th day of November 1781 and she further saith that she went in company with Eunice Lewis & Elizabeth Dunbar across the Shawangunk Mountain in the summer of 1782 to visit their husbands who were then in service under Capt Westfall and she there saw the said Jacob Lewis doing duty as a Soldier at Kuykendalls Block House near the Deleware River she there left Mrs. Lewis and went about ten miles further and Mrs Dunbar went with her and found their husbands doing duty at a place called Bashaws land that after visiting three days this deponent with Mrs Dunbar and Mrs Lewis returned
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home and their husbands commenced doing duty until their terms expired this deponent knew Jacob Lewis when he was married she saw him in the service after he was married and knew him after the service as the husband of Eunice Lewis the present applicant for a pension untill his death and she still know the said Eunice Lewis as the widow of the said Jacob Lewis and further she saith not Sworn to and subscribed before me by making her mark this 22d day of March 1842 and I certify that Abigal Letts is to me well known as a woman of respectability and truth and her statements are entitled to the upmost confidence.
Abigal X her mark Letts
Miles Hughes One of the Judges of Orange County Courts

State of New York, }
Orange County, } SS. I, Lebbeus L. Vail, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Orange, Do Hereby Certify, That Miles Hughes before whom the foregoing affidavit was subscribed and sworn, was at the time of taking the same, a Judge of the County Courts in, and for said county; and further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and verily believe that the signature to the said affidavits & certificates is genuine.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of the said County, the 22d day of March 1842
Lebbeus L. Vail Clerk
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State of New York }
Secretary's Office }
Albany March 16. 1842

I Certify that it appears by the minutes of the Council of Appointment of this State in this Office that on the 29th day of September 1780 Nathaniel Satterly was duly appointed and commissioned a Justice of the Peace for the county of Orange in this State.
Archd Campbell
Dep. Sec. of State