Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42,842, for John Lewis, Massachusetts
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Continental (Mass)   Lewis, John   S.42,842
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16400

New York

John Lewis

of Oneida Co in the State of New York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Persons of the regiment commanded by Colonel Jos. Reed in the Massachusetts line, for the term of One year from January 1776 to January 1777

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 3rd day of December 1819

Certificate of Pension issued the 10th of February and sent to the Hon H R [Illegible]

Continued on the Roll on the 10th day of July 1827 and notification sent to Hon. H R [Illegible] at Whitesboro N York Pension commencing on the 22nd of June 1827

Amount due on 4th of         ______________
September  1827                   $19.46
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State of New York
       
Oneida County  On this third day of December 1819 before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of New York personally appears John Lewis resident in said County, aged sixty years, 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 a late act of Congress entitled "an 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 John Lewis enlisted in Roxbury in the State of Massachusetts in the Company commanded by Captain Samuel Payson in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Joseph Reed on the first day of January 1776, that the said Regiment was in the Massachusetts line & on the Continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said corps in the service of the United States until the first day of January 1777 when he was discharged at Trenton in the State of New Jersey-that he was in the Battle at Trenton & a skirmish at East Chester near New York
                      That he is in reduced
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circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support, that he never had a written discharge, but was honorably discharged by reason of his term of enlistment having expired.

Sworn to, subscribed & declared before me the day and year first aforesaid.

I Jonas Platt Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said John Lewis did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings &testimony taken there before me to the Secretary for the department of war pursuant to the direction of the aforementioned act of Congress.

I do further certify that I have resided upward of twenty years last [illegible] in the same town with the said John Lewis and he has uniformly sustained the reputation of an industrious honest man; and I have reason to believe
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that he is in [Illegible] in need of assistance from his country for support. Dec. 3 1819 Jonas Platt

I certify that Jonas Platt was at the time of the execution of the foregoing documents a Judge as therein described. I am well acquainted with his hand writing & the signatures are genuine.

Dated Dec. 16. 1819
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I Jeremiah Smith of Walpole in the County of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts testify and ay that I am knowing the John Lewis formerly of said Walpole now of Whitestown in the County of Oneida and State of New York served with as soldier for one year in the Revolutionary war on the Continental establishment in the Company commanded by Capt. Samuel Payson and Regiment of Col. Joseph Reed from the first day of January to the close of the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy six and was then honorably discharged.
Jeremiah Smith

Norfolk SS At Walpole the 16 day of September 1819 the above named Jeremiah Smith a credible witness personally appeared and made solemn Oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth
Before me Daniel Kingsbury Justice of the Peace

Norfolk, SS-Commonwealth of Massachusetts I, Horatio Townsend Clerk of the judicial Courts in said County of Norfolk, hereby certify that Daniel Kingsbury Esquire is a Justice of the Peace for said county, duly commissioned by the executive authority of the Commonwealth aforesaid; and that the signature to the within certificate is in the hand writing of the said Daniel Kingsbury.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this seventeenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
Horatio Townsend
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I Josiah Hall of Walpole in the County of Norfolk & Commonwealth of Massachusetts testify & say that I am knowing that John Lewis formerly of said Walpole now of Whitestown in County of Oneida & State of New York served with me as a soldier for one year in the Revolutionary was on the Continental establishment in the Company commanded by Capt. Samuel Payson & regiment of Col. Joseph Reed from the first day of January to the close of the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy-six and was the honorably discharged. 
Josiah Hall

Norfolk SS At Walpole the 16 day of September 1819 the above named Josiah Hall a credible witness personally appeared & made solemn oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is the truth, the whole truth & nothing but the truth.
Before me Daniel Kingsbury Justice of the peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Norfolk, SS I, Horatio Townsend Clerk of the judicial Courts in said county of Norfolk, do hereby certify that Daniel Kingsbury Esquire is a Justice of the Peace for said county duly commissioned by the executive authority of the Commonwealth aforesaid and that the signature to the above written certificate is in the hand writing of the said Daniel Kingsbury.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this seventeenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
Horatio Townsend
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In the matter of the application of John Lewis for a continuance on the Pension list of the United 
States
fees $2.87 1/2
(illegible) copy of
Declaration
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State of New York
Oneida County SS On this fourteenth day of June in the of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty six, personally appeared in open court being a court of Record having the power of fine & imprisonment, known  called the Court of Common Pleas in & for the said County of Oneida,. John Lewis a resident in the said County aged sixty six years on the eighteenth day of August last, who first, being duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the 1st May 1820, that he the said John Lewis enlisted for the term of twelve months some time in the month of December (the particular day the said John Lewis does not recollect) in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy five in the State of Massachusetts, in the company commanded by Captain Samuel Parsons in the Regiment Commanded by Coloney Joseph Reed in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Massachusetts continental established that his term of service under the said enlistment commenced the 1st day of January in the year 1776 and that he continued to serve in the said Corps until the first day of January in the year 1777 when he was discharged from the service in Trenton in the State of New Jersey. that he hereby relinquishes his every claim whatever to a pension, except the present, that his name has been placed on the pension list that the number of his Pension certificate is 16468, and that he never before exhibited a schedule of his property because his affairs were in an embarrassed situation & from the nature of the debts against him & the same being in an unsettled state with any degree of accuracy the precise situation & amount of his debts and property. and in pursuance of the act of the first May 1820
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I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 day of March 1818 and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale or in any manner, disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled, " an Act to provide for certain person engaged in the land  & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me, not have I any income, other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed. A schedule of the property of John Lewis the aforesaid declarant, owned by him on the 14th day of June in the year 1826 his necessary clothing & bedding excepted. The aforesaid declarant John Lewis has no real estate on the and year last mentioned.
Personal Estate
Two horses, one waggon & harness valued by the aforesaid declarant John Lewis at the sum of $100.00
4 cows valued at $60.00
One three year old calf $12.00
Four two year old calves $24.00
Four yearling caalves $16.00
Twelve sheep $24.00
Three hogs $12.00
One plough half worn $5.00
One half of an iron tooth harrow $2.00
2 pitchforks 6/  one old shovel 2/    $1.00
one hoe 5/ two axes 12/        $2.12 1/2
six old chains 12/ 2 tables $6         $7.50
crockery & cooking utensils sufficient for.my family of of three persons &  no more  $5.00
$270.62 1/2
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The whole value of the said property as estimated by this declarant the said John Lewis is Two hundred & seventy Dollars and sixty two cents & no more.
John Lewis

And the said John Lewis further maketh oath & declares that he the said John Lewis is a former by occupation and from his advanced age and infirmities has not much ability to pursue his said occupation and has in consequence of such his age and infirmities early abandoned all kinds of manual labour; that the wife of him the said John Lewis aged seventy two years some time in the present month of June and the daughter of him the said John Lewis aged thirty seven years in the month of August next reside with him the said John Lewis and constitute his family; that his said wife is unable to do much work & is frequently afflicted with sickness & in the belief of him the said John Lewis unable to earn her own support and subsistence, that the said Daughter of him the said John Lewis has been a cripple from her infancy and now is and ever has been unable to walk and in consequence of the bodily infirmities is unable to earn her own support & subsistence. And the said John Lewis further madeth oath & declares that on the Eighteenth day of March 1818 he was the owner & possessor of the following property that is to say About forty acres of land situate lying and being in the Town of Whitestown in the County of Oneida aforesaid being one half of Lot No. one and a Gore adjoining said Lot No. one in the first allotment of Oriskany ^ patent in the Town & County aforesaid. That the said Lot & Gore contain about eighty acres of land of which the one half there belonged to the same John Lewis. That on the said 18th day of March 1818 he the said John Lewis owned about Eighteen other acres of land in the said Town of Whitestown in the County of Oneida aforesaid it being part of a piece of twenty seven &three quarters acres of land
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in the said Town being part of lot no. two in the aforesaid allotment of the Oriskany patent, & that previous to the said 18th day of March 1818 he the said John Lewis had sold all the said twenty seven acres and three quarters except the said eighteen acres last above mentioned.
That he the said John Lewis is unable to state what articles of Personal property he owned on the said Eighteenth day of March 1818 except, that at that time he had ( as he believes) about the same quantity of stock, cattle, farming utensils & household furniture as is above set forth & which he now owns, that since the said 18th day of March 1818 he the said John Lewis has been in possession of the said piece of land first above mentioned & part of the said piece of Eighteen acres above mentioned & has therefrom raised produce & other articles & sold part of the same to different persons & applied some part of the proceeds thereof the and for the maintenance of himself & family and for the payment of some small debts contracted by him during that time to whom & at what time or times, the said John Lewis is unable to state, that the products of his said two pieces of land were not more than sufficient to support himself & family that he the said John Lewis has accumulated as property since that time but barely made a living. That since the Eighteenth day of March 1818 the following changes have been made in my property viz.
Description of Property: The said piece of land above described containing about forty acres situate in Whitestown aforesaid being half of Lot No. one & the Gore in the first allotment of the Oriskany Patent
Names of Person to whom disposed:
John Sweeting
Time when:
April 4th 1825
Amount of Money or description of property received in Return:
This land was given up & deeded to the said John Tweeting to satisfy a mortgage which the said John Lewis gave to the said John Sweeting on the 20th day of March 1818 for a pre-existing debt amounting at that time to six hundred & fifty six dollars twenty five cents as mentioned in said mortgage, the said
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land paid up the said sum of money & interest due on the said mortgage. The consideration expressed in said Deed is one thousand Dollars & was made up & consisted of an amount due on a mortgage given by the said John Lewis & one John Lewis Junior, bearing date the 29th day of November 1811 to the said John Sweeting of a certain piece of land situate in Whitestown Oneida County being the same piece of land which the said John Lewis deeded to one Stephen Bailey on the 10th day of June A. D. 1826. The amount due to the said John Sweeting upon both of said mortgages after deducting the said One thousand dollars was two hundred & ninety four Dollars & ninety seven cents.

Description of Property: The same piece of land above described containing about eighteen acres of land, situate in the Town of Whitestown in the County of Oneida, being part of lot No. two in the first allotment of Oriskany Patent.
Name of Persons to whom disposed:
Stephen Bailey
Time when: June 10th 1826 & 5 acrees about 3 years since
Amount of Money or description of property received in Return: Five acres & upwards of this piece of land was sold to the said Stephen Bailey about three years since at and for the price of twenty Dollars per acre but no deed was given to said Stephen Bailey & the amount of the said purchase money he the said Stephen Bailey paid to One Robert Canada upon a mortgage which he held against the said piece of land & the whole lot in which the same is situated given by one Mason Sweeting. The said land was bought by said John Lewis of said John Sweeting (who purchased of said Mason Sweeting) subject to the said mortgage. The remaining twelve acres & upwards was sold and Deeded to the said Stephen Bailey in consideration of his paying the whole amount due on the said mortgage to the said Robert Canada being three hundred & forty six Dollars and fifty cents being all for which the said John Lewis was holden to pay & the full value of the said twelve acres of land. The whole piece of land being eighteen acres was included in one Deed bearing date June 10th 1826.
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and the said John Lewis further maketh oath and declares that the said mortgage above mentioned give to the said John Sweeting dated March 20th 1818 was given to the said Sweeting to secure to him the payment of the sum of six hundred & fifty six Dollars & twenty five cents, which he the said John Lewis owed to the said John Sweeting as expressed in the said mortgage that the said amount became due to the said John Sweeting upon two promissory notes, which the said John Lewis gave to one Lewis J. Dauby & Eliphalet Sweeting for a good & valuable Consideration & that the said amount of six hundred & fifty six Dollars and twenty  five cents at the time of giving the said mortgage, was justly & honestly due to the said John Sweeting upon the said notes so as aforesaid give to said Lewis J. Dauby & Eliphalet Sweeting & which were purchased by the said John Sweeting.
And the said John Lewis further maketh oath & declares that when he purchased the said piece of land above mentioned containing twenty seven acres of the said John Sweeting of which on the eighteenth day of March 1818 he owned about eighteen acres he purchased the same subject to a mortgage given by the above named Mason Sweeting to the above named Robert Canada as this Deponent understood for the purchase money of the said land & that the said Mason Sweeting gave the said John Lewis a Deed for said land as he had never deeded the same to the said John Sweeting of whom the said John Lewis Purchased it that the said Deed above mentioned was given to the said Stephen Bailey in consideration of his paying the amount due from the said John Lewis to the said Robert Canada upon the said mortgage give by the said Mason Sweeting, the same being three hundred & forty six Dollars & fifty cents, and that no money has ever been paid by the
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said Stephen Bailey to the said John Lewis for any of the land included in the said Deed, and that he the said John Lewis never expects to receive any benefit from the said lands. Except the payment to the said Robert Canada of the amount due on the said mortgage give by the said Mason Sweeting & his consequent discharge from his liability to pay the same. And the said John Lewis further maketh oath & declares that he is now indebted to Doctor Isaac N. Meacham in the sum of sixty Dollars & seventy six cents for his services as a physician in the family of him the said John Lewis. That he is also indebted to Ambrose H. Edgerton (in the affidavit of the said Edgerton by mistake written "adjutant) in the sum of five Dollars & thirteen cents for the work and labour care & deliverance of the said Ambrose H. Edgerton, rendered by him for this declarant the said John Lewis. That he is also indebted to Thomas Mix in the sum of Twelve Dollars upon the like consideration as that of said Edgerton, that he is also indebted to Elizur Moseley in the sum of twenty one Dollars & seventy five cents from goods & groceries & merchandize purchased of him the said Elizur Moseley by the said John Lewis for the use of his family and that he the said John Lewis is also indebted to the above named John Sweeney  in the sum of one hundred & thirty six dollars for the balance of the above mentioned mortgage given by the said John Lewis & John Lewis Junior to the said John Sweeting, the said last mentioned mortgage was given by the said John Lewis & John Lewis Junior to secure part of the purchase money of the said piece of land included in said mortgage & purchased of said John Sweeting (who purchased
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it of Mason Sweeting) by said John Lewis the said amount due on the said mortgage to the said Robert Canada, not being the full value of the said Land, nor the amount agreed to be paid by the said John Lewis to the said John Sweeting therefore, The whole balance due upon said mortgage given by the said John Lewis & John Lewis Junior to said John Sweeting and originally two hundred & ninety four Dollars and ninety seven cents, but was reduced to the said sum of One hundred & thirty six Dollars by a payment made thereon by the said John Lewis by turning out cattle to the said John Sweeting and that the said last mentioned sum of one hundred and thirty six Dollars is justly & honestly due to the said John Sweeting, that the said John Lewis Junior has been & still is unable to pay any thing upon the said mortgage and that the said sum of money secured to be paid by the said mortgage given by the said John Lewis & John Lewis Junior has fallen upon him the said John Lewis to pay in consequence of the inability of the said John Lewis Junior to pay. and the said John Lewis further maketh oath & declares that the said sum of One Thousand Dollars above mentioned given by the said John Sweeting to him the said John Lewis for the said piece of land above mentioned containing forty acres is as much as the said land is worth in the opinion of this deponent & that the said piece of land above mentioned containing eighteen acres sold to the above named Stephen Bailey for the sum of Three hundred & forty six Dollars & fifty cents is in the opinion & belief of the said John Lewis not worth more than that sum. John Lewis
Sworn to & declared on the fourteenth day of June A. D. 1826, before H. R. Storrs, First Judge of Oneida County
Filed June 14, 1826
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I, John H. Ostrom Clerk of the County of Oneida do hereby certify that it appears satisfaction of the Court, that the said John Lewis Did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration, against the Common Enemy for term of twelve months under one engagement on the Continental establishment. I also certify that the foregoing oath & the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Two hundred seventy Dollars and sixty two & half cents.
In testimony whereof have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court of Common Pleas on this fourteenth day of June A. D. 1826.
x'd
J. H. Ostrom Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Oneida in the State of New York
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June 14, 1928

Reverend John Ward Moore,
33 Park Street
Methuen, Massachusetts

Sir;
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 42842, it appears that John Lewis was born August 18, 1759, place not stated.
He enlisted at Roxbury, Massachusetts, January 1, 1776 and served one year as a private in Captain Samuel Payson's Company, Colonel Joseph Read's Massachusetts Regiment, was in the battle of Trenton, and a skirmish at East Chester.
He was allowed pension on his application executed December 3, 1819, while a resident of Whitestown, Oneida County, New York.
In 1826 soldier referred to his wife who was seventy-two years old and a daughter thirty-six years old, their names not stated. A son is also referred to John Lewis, Junior.
There are no further family data.
In order to obtain the date of the last payment of pen-
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sion, the name of person paid, and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, John Lewis, S. 42842, you should apply to the Records Division, General Accounting Office, Washington D. C., citing all of the following data:
John Lewis, Certificate Number 16468, issued February 10, 1820, rate $8.00 per month, commenced December 3, 1819, Act of March 18, 1818, New York Agency.
Respectfully,
Winfield Scott,
Commissioner
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September 13, 1922

Charles F. Lewis
527 Erie Bldg.,
Cleveland, Ohio

In response to your letter dated August 1, 1922, you are advised that you were furnished the history of the Revolutionary War pensioner, John Lewis, S. File 42842, on July 8, 1913, and it is not the practice of this Bureau to send the same record twice to any person, owing to lack of clerical force available for such a purpose.
Very respectfully yours,
Commissioner
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Record Division  3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Pension
Washington D. C. ........................,19............

In reply to your request of .............,received..........for a statement of the military history of John Lewis a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.

Date of Enlistment or Appointment: January 1, 1776
Length of Service: 1 year
Rank: Corporal
Officers under whom service was rendered:
Captain: Samuel Payson, Colonel: Joseph Reed
State: Mass.

Battles engaged in: Trenton, & a skirmish at East Chester
Residence of soldier at enlistment: (illegible) Roxbury, Mass.
Date of application for pension: Dec. (?) 1819 (illegible)
Residence at date of application: Whitestown, Oneida Co., N. Y.
Age at date of application : b. Aug. 18, 1759, place not stated
Remarks: April 26 his wife was 72 years old and there was a daughter 36 yes. old Their names not stated. A son John Lewis Jr. (illegible) There are no fur. fam. data
Very respectfully
Commissioner
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S. 42842
John Lewis
Dec. 3 1819, Whitestown
Oneida Co., N.Y.

enl. Roxbury  Mass Jany. 1, '76
Capt. Saml. Payson
Col. Jos. Reed
Mass line cont. est.
bat. Trenton & East Chester
dis. Jany. 1, '77 Trenton NJ 1 yr.

1826 wife -72 born June
cripple dau 35   "  Aug.

John Lewis Jr.
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First Baptist Church
John Ward Moore, Minister
32 Park Street
Methuen, Mass.  
August 30, 1927

Commissioner of Revolutionary War Records and Pensions
Washington D. C. 

Dear Sir: Will you please send me information regarding a soldier of the War of the Revolution as per the enclosed data and questions?
Very truly yours
John Ward Moore
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Information desired regarding John Lewis, Revolutionary soldier said to have enlisted at Roxbury, Mass. Jan. 1, 1776 and was granted a pension when living at Whitestown Oneida Co. N. Y. Date of pension application believed to be 1819.
Data desired-
1. Birth, Place  Date
Death- place- date
2. Fathers name
Residence when son enlisted-
Birth, place, date
Death, place, date
3. Mother name
Birth, place, date
death, place, date
4. Date and place of his father and mothers marriage
5. Date and place of his marriage
6. His wife's name
Birth place, Date
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Place of wife's death, date
7. If his wife survived him, did she receive pension
8. His service
Rank
Company
Regiment
Period
Battles
Reinlistments if any
9. His children, name and dates and places of birth &c
10. any other information available.
11. Place of record of above information
-over-
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Please send the requested information as far ass it can be found,
Rev. John Ward Moore
32 Park St.
Methuen, Mass.
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Bridges and Viaducts
Reinforced Concrete
Buildings and Roofs
Municipal Engineering
General Consultation
Walter P. Rice, M. AM. Soc. C. E. 
Chas. F. Lewis, C. E.
Difficult Foundation
Drainage
Sewerage and sewage disposal
Examinations and reports
Correspondence solicited
Bell North 859

The Walter P. Rice Engineering Co.
527 Erie Building
Cleveland, Ohio, August 1, 1933

To the
Hon. Commissioner od Pensions,
Washington, D. C.,
Dear Sir:
Will you kindly furnish me with a certified copy of your Pension Record of one John Lewis born in Walpole, Mass., about 1759 serving as a soldier in the Revolution, drew a pension of $86.00 per year and died Oriskany, N. Y. about 1832. Was in the battle of Trenton and several other engagements, I believe.
Yours very truly,
Chas. F. Lewis (signature)
Chas. F. Lewis,
527 Erie Building
Cleveland, Ohio
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Bridges and Viaducts
Buildings and Roofs
Structural Work
Electrical Railways
Water Works
General Consultation
Reports
Superintendence
Inspection
Estimates and Designs

Chas. F. Lewis
Consulting Civil Engineer,
The Osborn
Cleveland, O.
July 1st, 1913

Tels. {Office, Bell, North 859
      {Res., Bell Doan 1053-J
To the
Hon. Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir;
The Adjutant General's Office has referred me to your Department for information concerning one John Lewis, a Revolutionary soldier.This john Lewis drew a pension of $96.00 per year and after the war lived at or near Oriskany, Oneida Co. N.Y. where he died about 1833 at the age of 73.
According to family history John Lewis was born at Walpole, Mass, near Boston, about 1760 and enlisted three times; the first time for three months, the second time for six months and the third for during the war. He was with Genl. Stark at the battle of Bennington.
He was in the battle of Trenton in 1776 when Washington left Valley Forge with a part of his army. He was one of the first to cross the Delaware with Washington that Christmas morning, above Trenton.
Any information concerning this person as to his service, and regiments and companies in which he served and Officers under which he served Etc. which may be contained in your Records will be greatly appreciated by
Yours very truly.
Chas. F. Lewis
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(left side)

42842
Revy. INVALID

File No. 42,842
John Lewis
Priv Rev. War

Act: 18 March '18
Index: Vol 3 Page 292

[Arrangement of 1870]

(right side)

1913 July 8 Hist to Chas. F. Lewis, V.L.N.
1922 Sept 15-Letter to above same
reason not sent twice. E.W.
1928 June 14 Hist to Rev John Ward Moore
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See letter 25th July 1826
to The Hon. H. R. Storrs
Whitestown N. Y.
and to the same
17 October 1826

See letter to Hon. H.R. Storrs
22d March 1827
31 May 1827


March 1820
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Last evidence
22d June 1827

rec'd. Hamilton New York
Sept 1820
John Lewis 
(illegible)

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Pension Office 
War Dept.
Washington

Rec'd June 28 1827
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Whitesonny
June 22, 1827

Sir
I have been acquainted with Mr. John Lewis about fifteen or twenty years. He resides about two miles from me and has sustained the character of an honest man in all respects. His reputation is unusually good and it is not supposed that he is worth any thing. He was much involved in debt for many years-far big and all his property and since he has been unable to work for age, has been broken down and has been very from I think from what I know of him and from inquiry also that he is a fair subject of the Revolutionary Pension Law.
Mr. Hamlin of Rome, whose papers I left last winter is one of the same character except that his affairs became so perplexed before he became destitute that the old man can hardly give any account how they in fact stood. There is a good deal of sympathy for Mr. Hamlin
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(illegible) from his extreme infirmity as well as poverty and fair reputation.
Yours respectfully
(illegible)
Henry R. Storrs 

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Pension office
Washington
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Pension Office
Aug. 28, 1827
John Lewis
N. Y. Mar. 1820

Hon. H. R. Storrs
Whitestown

J. L. Edwards Esqr.
War Department
Pension Office
Washington
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Whitestown May 21 1827

Sir
Enclosed are the additional papers required in your last instructions relative to John Lewis. The notes given to Eliphalet Sweeting & Lewis J Dauby were not given to them jointly but were separate notes & has no connection in any way with each other.
Please inform me of the result of your examination as soon as may be.
I have the honor to be
very respectfully
your obt. servt.
Henry R. Storrs

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Pension Office
Washington
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Rec'd Oct. 17 1826

1 May 1820
John Lewis 
N. Y. 

Hon. H. W. Storrs
Whitesboro, N.Y.

4 Mar 1820

J. L. Edwards Esquire
Clerk Pension Office
Washington
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State of New York
Oneida County SS
Eliphalet Sweeting of the County of Oneida and State of New York being duly sworn deposeth & testify that he is the person mentioned by John Lewis the applicant for a continuance on the pension list of the United States, that the amount of the large note given by the said John Lewis to this deponent and which this deponent sold and transferred to John Sweeting was at the time it was given about one hundred and six dollars and that at the time of the transfer to John Sweeting which was about four years after it was given it amounted to about one hundred and thirty four dollars that according to the best of this deponents recollection the said note was given in the year 1814, that the said note was given by the said John Lewis to this deponent for a potash kettle and other iron hollow ware which the said John Lewis bought of this deponent and the amount of the note was the sum found due to this deponent on a settlement between them some time after the articles were furnished to the said John Lewis, and according to this deponents recollection no payment whatever was made on the said note by the said Lewis at the time of the transfer above mentioned. That the above note was given to this deponent alone and not to this deponent & Lewis J. Dauby. That this deponent was well acquainted with the said Dauby and knows that they had considerable deal together but to what particular amount or what the amount of the note said to be given to the said Dauby was this deponent does not know. 
And this deponent further saith that the small note dated June 1, 1820 amounting to thirteen dollars and fourteen cents which was mentioned in a former affidavit made by this deponent was given for money borrowed of this deponent by the said John Lewis and for some articles of iron hollow ware furnished him by this deponent, and this deponent saith that
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the above sum of thirteen dollars and fourteen cents with the interest on the same is all that is due to this deponent at this time from the said John Lewis. And further this deponent saith not.
Eliphalet Sweeting
Sworn & subscribed this 26 day of April 1827 before me
Lewis Berry a commissioner under the Act of
April 19 1823

State of New York
Oneida County SS
John Sweeting of the County of Oneida and state of New York being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is one of the persons mentioned by John Lewis the applicant for a continuance on the pension list of the United States, that he is the person to whom the note of the said Lewis given to Eliphalet Sweeting was transferred by the said Eliphalet and amounting at the time of the transfer to about one hundred and thirty four dollars, that he bought of Lewis J. Dauby a note against the said John Lewis which amounted to about five hundred dollars besides a few months interest on the said and which was mentioned by this deponent in a former affidavit made by him, this deponent was well acquainted with the said Dauby & Lewis that he well recollects that the said Lewis purchased of said Dauby a span of horses waggon & harness several years before the transfer of said note to this deponent, and also knows that the said Lewis had borrowed considerable sums of money of the said Dauby at different times and for which with the interest owe th
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same which had been of several years standing the note of five hundred dollars above mentioned was given a short time before the same was transferred to him by the said Dauby, this deponent resided in the same neighborhood with the said Dauby & Lewis and recollects the sale of the horses waggon & harness and was informed by both Dauby & Lewis of the said Lewis having borrowed money of the said Dauby, that he was present at the time the old notes which had been given by the said Lewis  was taken up and the interest added and the amount being five hundred dollars for which the new note was given which was soon after transferred to him as the said Dauby was about purchasing some land of his deponent for which he was to receive in part pay his demand against Lewis, the transfer took place in 1817. And this deponent further saith that the said notes were not given to the said Eliphalet Sweeting & Lewis J. Dauby jointly but that the first mentioned one amounting as before mentioned to about $134 was given to the said Eliphalet & the latter of about $500 to the said Dauby & that there was no sort of connection between the said Dauby & Eliphalet with regard to the said notes. And further this deponent saith not.
John Sweeting
Sworn & subscribed this 26 day of April 1827 before me
Lewis Berry a commissioner under the act of April 19 1823
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State of New York
Oneida County SS
Clerks Office
I John H. Ostrom Clerk of the County of Oneida and clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County which is a Common Law Court of Record do hereby certify that Lewis Berry whose name is subscribed to the within certificates was on the day of the date of the within certificates a commissioner &c.  in & for the County of Oneida commissioned & sworn & duly authorised by law^ to take affidavits and to act as such commissioner &c.
And I further certify that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said Lewis Berry and verily believe the signature "Lewis Berry" subscribed to the within certificates is the proper hand writing of the said commissioner.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County & Court of Common Pleas this eighth day of May A.D. 1827
J. H. Ostrom, clerk
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War Department
Pension Office
 22 March 1827

Sir,
The affidavit of Eliphalet Sweeting in the case of John Lewis is herewith returned. The claimant states in his declaration that he gave two notes to Lewis J. Dauby and Eliphalet Sweeting to the amount of $656.25 for a good and valuable consideration and as Dauby was dead it was supposed that E. Sweeting could state the amount of said notes, and the consideration for which they were given. In his affidavit he has failed to do so merely referring to other evidence for the facts required. The paper is now returned in order that it may be properly amended.
The case of Asa Hamlin owing to a press of business has been necessarily delayed but will be immediately taken up for examination.
I have the honor to be very respectfully 
Your obt. servt.
J. L. Edwards
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State of New York
Onondaga County
Clerk's Office SS
I Reuben S. Hess Clerk of the county of Onondaga do hereby certify that on the 31st day of August Eighteen hundred and twenty six Martin M. Ford Esq before whom the annexed affidavit was taken was a Commissioner under the act of April 19, 1823 in and for said County duly appointed and qualified as such. And further that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe the signature "Martin M. Ford" subscribed to said affidavit to be his own proper hand writing. Witness my hand & the seal of the Court of Common pleas of said County this 18th day of December 1826
Reuben S. Hess Clerk
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State of New York
Onondaga county SS
Mason Sweeting of the County of Onondaga, being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is the person mentioned by the applicant John Lewis for a continuance on the pension list of the United States, that he this deponent purchased of one Robert Kennedy a part of lot number two in the just allotment of Oriskany Patent containing about one hundred acres, that this deponent gave his mortgage to the said Robert Kennedy for the purchase money of the said piece of land; which said mortgage is recorded in the Clerks Office of the County of Oneida, that soon after this deponent purchased the said piece of land he sold the same to his brother John Sweeting subject to the said mortgage so by him given as aforesaid, that he this deponent did not pay to the said Robert Kennedy any of the principal sum of money executed by the said mortgage, but only the interest, and that the said whole sum of money secured by the said mortgage was due to the said Robert Kennedy at the time this deponent sold the said land to the said John Sweeting-and this deponent further saith that after he sold the said land to said John Sweeting, he understood & believes that said John sold about twenty eight acres of the said land to the said John Lewis, subject
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to the said mortgage, that as this deponent had not given the said John Sweeting a deed of an part of the said premise, he this deponent at the request of the said John Sweeting & John Lewis gave his deed of the said part so sold to the said John Lewis to the said John Lewis in order to save the necessity of executing two deeds and this deponent further saith that at the time of the said sale to the said John Lewis, there was (illegible) due on that part of the said premise upon the said mortgage, about the sum of three hundred & forty six dollars which the said John Lewis was to pay to the said Robert Kennedy-and this deponent further saith that he cannot recollect at what time the said mortgage was given, but that it was a number of years since, that he this deponent never gave but one mortgage to the said Kennedy, which is the one above mentioned. And further this deponent saith not.
Mason Sweeting
Sworn & subscribed this 31st day of August 1826 Before me
Martin M. Ford, a comissioner &c

(noted on the side-In the matter of John Lewis an applicant for a continuance on the U.S. Pension list
Affidavit of M. Sweeting
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State of New York
(Oneida-crossed out)
Saratoga County SS
Robert Kennedy of the County of Saratoga being duly sworn deposeth and saith that on the Eighth of June A. D. 1811, Mason Sweeting then a resident of the County of Oneida, since of the County of Onondaga, executed to this deponent a mortgage of part of lot number two in the Just allotment of the Oriskany patent for the consideration of thirteen hundred & eight five dollars thirteen cents with interest annually, which said mortgage is recorded in the Clerks office of Oneida County which is the only mortgage this deponent recollects the said Mason Sweeting ever executed to the deponent. That soon after the said morgage was executed this deponent understood that John Lewis (who this deponent now understands is an applicant for a continuance on the pension list of the United States) purchased one fourth part of the aforesaid mortgaged premise of one John Sweeney subject to the said mortgage, that (illegible) since that time the said John Lewis a his son John Lewis Junior (illegible) for part of the time
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occupied apart of the same, has annually paid the interest upon the said fourth part of said mortgage to this deponent,  the principal has not been paid by the said John Lewis or any other person on his behalf, and that there now remaining due to the deponent, upon the said fourth part of the said mortgaged premises from the said John Lewis the sum of three hundred & forty six dollars and twenty eight cents for which the said mortgage & holden lender the sum of nine dollars & seventy four cents for apart of the last pay interest on the said principal sum of money so due as aforesaid and further this deponent saith not.
Robert Kennedy
Sworn this 27th day of September 1826
Before me D. Boyd
first Judge of the County of Schenectady
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Robert Kennedy the person who subscribed the above and know him to be a person of the strictest varacity. D. Boyd
Schy. Spet. 27. 1826
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State of New York
County of Schenectady, Clerk's Office
I, John S. Vrooman, clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the said county do certify, that d. Boyd Esq. whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of the proof of the annexed affidavit and endorsed thereof, was on the day of the date of the said Certificate a First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the said county, commissioned, sworn and duly authorized by law to take the proof & affidavits and acknowledgements of Deeds, and discharges of Mortgages &c. And further, that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and truly believe that the signature of "D. Boyd" subscribed to the said certificate is the proper hand writing of the said Judge.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said court, this twenty sixth day of December 1826
John S. Vrooman, Clk.
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War Department
Pension Office 17 October 1826

Sir
The affidavits transmitted by you in the case of John Lewis are herewith returned for another situation. The official characters and signatures of W. King, Martin M. Ford, and D. Boyd should be certified by the clerk of some Court of record of the county in which they reside under his seal of office.
The absence of L. J. Danby's testimony required in a former letter is accounted for by proof of his death, but no reason is offered for the now production of Eliphalet Sweeting's testimony which was also required to show the origin of the large amount stated to be due to him, and which is very important in the examination of the case.
The claim of Mr. Lewis may be a very fair one, but the officer charged with this branch of business is not at liberty to dispense with established regulations.
I have the honor to be
very respectfully
Your obt. sevt.
J. L. Edwards

The Hon. H. W. Storrs
Whitesboro New York
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Whitesboro Oct 11 1820

John Jas. Barbour
Sir
I herewith forward to you additional documents in the case of John Lewis an applicant for a continuance on the Pension list of the United States.
I am Respectfully 
Your obedient servant
Henry R Storrs
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In the matter of John Lewis an applicant for a Pension re of U. S. 

Affidavit of A. G. Dauby
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State of New York
Oneida County SS
Augustine G. Dauby of the village of Utica being duly sworn deposeth & saith, that the brother of this deponent Lewis J. Dauby as this deponents is informed did verily believe died in the state of Ohio about nine years since & tht being informed of the death of his said brother he this deponent went to Ohio and was there  informed of the death of his said Brother and paid his funeral expenses and further this deponents saith not.
A.G. Dauby
Sworn this 11th day of October 1825
Before me W. King. Com.

(attached paper)
Clerk's Office 
Oneida County, SS
I, John H.  Ostrom, Clerk of the County and the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County of Oneida, do hereby certify that Walter King whose name is subscribed to the certificate of oath of the annexed paper and endorsed thereon, was, on the day of the date of said certificate Commissioner &c. to take affidavits and the proof and acknowledgment of Deeds, and discharge Mortgages, &c. and further that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said commissioner and verily believe the signature of "W. King" subscribed to the said certificate, to be the proper hand writing of the said Commissioner.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court of Common Pleas and the seal of said County, this 29th day of December A. D. 1826
J. H. Ostrom Clerk
by Henry H. Pease Deputy clerk
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Whitesboro February 7 1827

Sir
Enclosed are the affidavits relative to the claim of John Lewis an applicant for a pension which were returned by Mr. Edward's for authentication with the affidavit of Eliphalet Sweeting which was also required by him. All that was required to be done by Mr. Edwards in his letter of 17 October we have intended to do (the letter is herewith enclosed). Mr. Lewis wishes you to forward the papers to the pension office and let him know the result as soon as may be.
Respectfully yours
Ichabod C. Barker

Hon. H. R. Storrs
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Exemplification of a Mortgage from Mason Sweeting to Robert Kennedy

(illegible)5/
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The People of the State of New York, By the Grace of God, Free and Independent. To all to whom these presents shall come or may concern Greeting.
Know Ye, That we having Inspected the Records & proceedings remaining in our Clerks Office of our Court of Common of Common Pleas of our County of Oneida, in our said state, Do find there a certain record of a mortgage. Recorded in Book D. of Mortgages pages 82 and 83 in the words and figures following, to wit:
Mason Sweeting of Whitestown on the Eighth day of June one thousand Eight hundred and Eleven for securing the payment of the sum of thirteen hundred and eighty five Dollars thirteen cents in seven Equal annual installments from the above date with the interest annually on the several instalments. Hath Mortgaged unto Robert Kennedy of the Town of Half-moon County of Saratoga  and State of New York. All that certain peace or parcel of land situate lying and being in the Town of Whitestown aforesaid being the South East part of Lot number two of the first allotment in the Oriskany patent and beginning at the most westerly corner of Lot number one in the above allotment at a stake and stones standing at the root of small hemlock, cornered and marked No. 182 running thence North fifty degrees west twenty three chains thirty five links to a stake standing in the edge of a small brook. Thence North forty degrees East forty six chains to a stake & stones standing in the highway, thence along the same South thirty Eight degrees East twenty three chains seventy five links to a stake standing in the line between lots number one and two. Thence along the same South forty degrees west thirty one chains. Thence North fifty west, two chains, thence South forty degrees West five chains,
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thence South fifty degrees East two chains to the above line between Lots number one and two thence along said line four chains and fifty links to the place of beginning and contains one hundred acres of land. But in case of the non-payment of the said thirteen hundred and Eight five Dollars and thirteen cents, in the seven equal annual instalments as above specified or any part thereof at the time or times above limitted for the payment thereof then and in such case it shall and may be lawful for the said party of the second part his heirs executors administrators or assigns and the said party of the first part doth hereby empower and authorise the said party of the  second part his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns to grant bargain, sell release and convey the said premises with the appurtenances at Public auction or Vendue, and on such sale to make and execute to the purchaser or purchasers his her or their heirs and assigns forever, good ample and sufficient deeds of conveyance in the law pursuant to the statute in that case made and provided, rendering the surplus money (if any there be) to the said party of the first part, his heirs, executors or administrators after deducting the costs and charges of such vendue and sale as aforesaid, acknowledged before Morris S. Miller Judge &c. the Eighth day of June  one thousand eight hundred & eleven by the Mortgagor known &c Restered and power of sale recorded the tenth day of June 1811 at nine o-clock a. M. Thomas Colling Dep. Clerk X'd "All which we have caused by these presents to be exemplified and the seal of our said court of Common Pleas to be hereunto  affixed witness Henry R. Storrs Esquire First Judge of our said Court of Common Pleas at the Court House in the Town of Rome in said County the 17th day of June A. D. 1826. and of the Independence of the United States the Fiftieth
Fees 5/  J. H. Ostrom Clerk
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J. L. Edward Esq.
Clerk Pension Off.
War Depart.

Rec'd. 24th July 1826
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Whitesborough
July 18 1826

Sir
I enclose herewith at the request of Mr. John Lewis his papers for having restored his name to the pension List as a Revolutionary Pensioner.
Please adress me on his behalf of the result.
I am sir
Your (illegible)
Henry R. Storr

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Pension Office
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Exemplification of a Deed from John Lewis
to Stephen Bailey
(x'd) (illegible) 6/
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The People of the State of New York, By the Grace of God Free & Independent
To all to whom these presents shall come or may concern, Greeting, Know Ye that we having inspected the Records and proceedings remaining in our Clerks Office of our Court of Common Pleas, of our County of Oneida in our said State, do find there a certain Record of a Deed. Recorded in Book L.L. of Deeds pages 104 & 105 in the words and figures following to wit:
This Indenture made the 7th day of June in the year of Our Lord One thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty six 26. Between John Lewis of Whitestown County of Oneida and State of New York Yoman of the first part and Stephen Bailey Yoman of the same place of the second part witnesseth, That the said Party of the first part for and in consideration of the sum of Three Hundred and forty six Dollars and fifty cents at being the amount due on a mortgage on said land to which Robert Canady holds against said premises in hand paid by the part of the second part the receipt whereof is hereby confessed and acknowledged. Have granted, bargained, sold, revised, release aliened and confirmed and by these present Doth grant, bargain, sell, revise, release, alien and confirm unto the said party of the second part in his actual possession now being and to his heirs and assigns forever, all, that piece of land lying on the South East corner of Lot No. two in the Oriskany Pattent, begining on the South westerly corner of Lot No. one thence North fifty degrees and thirty minits west six chains and thirty links to a stake and stones, thence north thirty nine degrees and thirty miits East Eight chains and sixty links to a stake and stones thence South fifty degrees and thiry minits East six chains and twenty four links
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to a stake and stones, thence South thirty nine degrees and thirty minits west Eight chains and sixty links, to the place of begining containing five acres, one rood and twenty to perches of land. Also another piece of land lying lot No. two begining at a stake and stones on the westerly line of Lot No. one thence South thirty nine degrees and thirty minits west ten chains and nineteen links to a stake and stones, Thence North fifty degrees and thirty minits west twelve chains and thirty eight links to a stake and stones, Thence north thirty nine degrees and thirty minits East ten chains and nineteen links to a stake and stones, Thence South fifty degrees and thirty minits East twelve chains and thirty eight links to the place of begining containing twelve acres two roods and eighteen perches of land. Together with all and singular the hereditaments and appertenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining and the reversion and reversions, remainer and remainders rents issues and profits thereof, and all the estate right, title, interest, claim and demand whatsoever of the said party of the first part, either in Law or equity of in and to the above bargained premises with the hereditaments and appertenances. to have and to hold, the said described premises and all that appertain thereto to the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns to the sole and only proper use benefit and behoof of the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns forever. And the said party of the first part for himself his heirs execution and administrators Doth covenant grant, bargain promise and agree to and with the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns the above baargained premises in the quiet and peaceable possession of the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns against all and every
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person or  persons lawfully claiming or to claim the whole or any part of the above mentioned and described premises will forever Warrant and Defend the above subject to a mortgage which Robert Canady holds against said  lands, the amount due on said Mortgage is three hundred and forty six dollars and fifty cents. In Witness thereof the parties of these presents have hereunto interchangeable set their hands and seals the day and year first above written John Lewis ( L.Y..)
signed sealed and delivered in presence of W. C. Noyes, C. C. Young, Oneida County SS On this tenth day of June Eighteen Hundred and twenty six personally appeared before me John Lewis known to me to be the person described in and who executed the withing Deed & acknowledged that he executed the same, there is an interlineation not noted in the sixth line as follows "Which Robert Kanady holds against said premises" let it be recorded Henry R. Storrs First Judge of the County of Oneida Recorded this 10th day of June A. D. 1826 at 2 O-Clock P. M. Henry H. Pease Deputy Clerk
All which we have caused^ by these presents to be exemplified and the Seal of Our said Court of Common Pleas to be hereunto affixed, Witness Henry R. Storrs Esquire First Judge of our said Court of Common Pleas at the Court House in the Town of Rome the seventeenth day of June A. D. 1826. And of the Independence of the United States the Fiftieth.
J. H. Ostrom, Clerk
(x'd) Fees 6/
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The People of the State of New York by the Grace of God Free and Independent-To all to whom these presents shall come or may concern Greeting, Know Ye That we having inspected the Records of proceedings remaining in our Clerks Office of our Court of Common Pleas of our County of Oneida in our said State, Do find there a certain Record of a Mortgage Recorded in Book E of mortgages pages 543 and 544 in the words and figures following to wit:
John Lewis of Whitestown in the County of Oneida and State of New York Gent. on this twentieth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen for securing the payment of the sum of Six hundred and fifty six Dollars and twenty five cents in manner following (viz) One hundred Dollars in one year after date together with interest on the whole sum, the one half to be paid in neet stock at cash price to be delivered at Westmoreland at said John house and the further as sum of five hundred and fifty six Dollars and twenty five cents in yearly payments together with annual interest on the whole sum, the one half to be in neet stock in cash price delivered at said John house in Westmoreland to be paid in five years after the first payment is to be maid. Mortgaged unto John Sweeting of the same place all that piece of land called John Lewises farm described as follows the one half of the easterly part of that lot of land together with the building thereon bounded and described as follows All that piece of land situate in the Town and County aforesaid being a part of Lot number one of the first allotment in Oriskany Pattent, beginning at the South most corner of lot No ten of said allotment on the Southerly line or bounds of said lot No. one from thence running along the same South forty nine degrees and thirty minutes west forty four chains and seventy two links to a stake and stones from thence north forty degrees West to Daniel Pratts land to a stake and stones, from thence North
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thirty nine degrees thirty minutes East to the place of beginning Containing Sixty Six Acres and one hundred & twenty three rods of land be the same more or less. But in case of the non-payment of the said sum of Six hundred and fifty six dollars and twenty five cents or any part thereof, at the time or times above limited for the payment thereof then and in such case it shall and may be lawful for the said party of the second part his heirs executors administrators or assigns and the said party of the first part doth hereby empower and authorise the said party of the second part his heirs executors administrators or assigns to go and bargain sell release and convey the said premises with the appurtenances thereunto belonging at Public Auction or Vendue and on such sale to make and execute to the purchaser of purchasers his her or their heirs and assigns forever good ample and sufficient deed of conveyance in the Law pursuant to the statute in that case made and provided Rendering the surplus monies if any there be, to the said party of the first part his heirs executors, administrators or assigns after deducting the costs and charges of such vendue and sale as aforesaid. Acknowledged before Nathan Cheever a Master &c, on the 25th day of March 1818 at three O-clock P. M. Francis A. Bloodgood CR x'd. All which we have caused by these presents to be exemplified and the seal of our said Court of Common Pleas to be hereunto affixed, Witness Henry R. Storrs Esquire First Judge of our said Court of Common Pleas at the Court House in Whitestown the 17th day of February A. D. 1826. and of the Independence of the United States the Fiftieth.
J. H. Ostrom, Clk.
(x'd) Fees 5/ paid

Exemplification of a Mortgage from John Lewis to John Sweeting (x'd) Fees 5/ pd.
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Exemplifications of a Deed From John Lewis to
John Sweeting
(x'd) Fees 6/ pd
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The People of the State of New York by the Grace God Free and Independent to all to whom the presents shall come or may concern Greeting, Know Ye that we having inspected the Records of proceedings remaining in our Clerks office of our Court of Common Pleas of Our County of Oneida in our said State Do find there a certain Record of a Deed recorded in Book M. M. of Deeds pages 60 and 61 in the words and figures following to wit: This Indenture made the forth day of April in the year of Our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and twenty five Between John Lewis of Whitestown County of Oneida and State of New York Yoman of the first part and John Sweeting of Westmoreland County and State aforesaid Yoman of the second part Witnesseth that the said part of the first part for and in consideration of the sum of One thousand Dollars to him in hand paid by the said party of the second part the receipt whereof is hereby confessed and acknowledged, have Granted, bargained, sold, remised, released, aliened and confirmed, and by these presents doth grant, bargain, sell, remise, release, alien and confirm unto the said party of the second part in his actual possession now being and to his heirs and assigns forever, all that ceartain piece or parsail of land situate lying and being in Whitestown County and State aforesaid being a part of Lot No. one of the first allotment in Oriskaney Pattent being one half of that Lot of land together with all the said Buildings thereon the Easterly part to include the gore so called or in other words to bound on James Wilsons land and bounded and described as follows beginning at the Southern most corner of Lot No ten of said allotment to the southerly line or bounds of said Lot No. one from thence 
(illegible) along the same south forty nine degrees and thirty minits west forty four chains and seventy two links to a stake and stones, from thence North forty degrees west to Daniel Pratts land to a stake and stones from thence North thirty nine degrees and thirty minits East forty one chains and fifteen links to a stake and stones, from thence South fifty degrees and thirty minits East forty one chains and
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fifteen links to a stake and stones from thence South fifty degrees & thirty minits East to the place of beginning containing eighty acres of land more or less, Together with all and singular the hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining and the reversion and reversions remainder and remainders rents issues and profits thereof and all the estate, right, title, interest, claim and demand whatsoever of the said party of the first, either in Law or equity of in and to the above bargained premises with the hereditaments and appurtenances. To have and to hold the said premises according to the true intent and meaning of this Indenture to the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns to the sole and only proper use, benefit and behoof of the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns Forever. And the aid party of the first part for his heirs executors and administrators Do Covenant, grant, bargain, promise and agree to and with the said party of the second part, his heirs and assigns, the above bargained premises, in the quiet and peaceable possession of the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns against all and every person or persons, lawfully claiming or to claim the whole or any part of the above mentioned and described premises will forever warrant and Defend. In witness whereof the said party of the first part have hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year first above written, The above indenture to be subject to a mortgage given on the same premises to John Sweeting for six hundred fifty six Dollars twenty five cents Mar 20th A. D. 1818 Eighteen hundred & eighteen. John Lewis (L.Y.) signed sealed and delivered in the presence of Ebenezer Edgerton.
State of New York Oneida County SS Be it remembered that this eighteenth day of May in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and twenty six Before me Lewis Berry Commissioner under the Act of April 19th 1823 came John Lewis to me well known to be the person described in and who executed the within Indenture as Grantor and acknowledged
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State of New York Oneida County SS Be it remembered that on this Eighteenth day of May in the year of Our Lord Eighteen hundred and twenty six Before me Lewis Berry a Commissioner under the act of April 19, 1823 came John Lewis to me well known to be the person described in and who executed the with Indenture as Grantor, and acknowledged that he executed the said Indenture for the uses and purposes therein mentioned, and I having examined the said Indenture,, do allow it to be recorded. Lewis Berry, Recorded this 24th day of May A. D. 1826 at 12. 0-clock M.
All which we have caused by these presents to be exemplified and the seal of our said Court of Common Pleas to be hereunto affixed Witness Henry R. Storrs Esquire First Judge of our said Court of Common Pleas at the Court House in Whitestown the 17th day of February A. D. 1826 and of the Independence of the United States the Fiftieth.
J. H. Ostrom
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16,468
New York
John Lewis
of Oneida Co. in the state of New York who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Jos. Reed of the Massachusetts line for the term of 1 year

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of
8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 3d of December 1819
Certificate of Pension issued the 10th of Feb. 1820 and sent to Hon. H. R. Storrs, House of Reps.
Portion of Semi-anl. all'ce ending
4 Mar. 1820  $24.51
$24.51
29/31
2
4/31

{Revolutionary claim,}
{Act 18th March, 1818}
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In the matter of the application of John Lewis for a continuance on the Pension List of the United States
affidavits
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State of New York
Oneida County SS
John Lewis being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is the person mentioned in the annexed affidavits by the applicant for a continuance on the pension list of the United States, that he the said John Lewis was informed that it was not necessary to obtain the affidavit of Mason Sweeting the mortgagor and Robert Kennedy the mortgagee in a mortgage dated and given the eighth day of June eighteen hundred and Eleven, as to the consideration of the said mortgage,  because he the said John Lewis purchased of the said Mason Sweeting subject to the said mortgaged long before the passage of the said act of the eighteenth day of March 1818 and because of the length of time antecedent to the passage of the said act, that the said mortgage has existed and the said John Lewis further saith that he paid Mason Sweeting resides about sixty miles from the residence of this deponent & somewhere in the County of Onondaga-and that the said Robert Kennedy lives in the county of Saratoga & about one hundred miles from the residence of this deponent, and that it will therefore be very inconvenient for this
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deponent to obtain the affidavits of the said Mason Sweeting and Robert Kennedy and this deponent further saith that by a mistake of this deponent the name of the said Robert Kennedy in the Declaration of this deponent was written "Canada" by the person who drew the said declaration for this deponent & this deponent further saith, that the said Robert Canada in the said Declaration mentioned and that the said Robert Kennedy in this affidavit and in the said mortgage mentioned are one and the same person and further this deponent saith not.
John Lewis
Sworn this 18th day of July 1826
Before me
Henry R. Storrs
First Judge of the County of Oneida
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State of New York
Oneida County SS
Stephen Bailey being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he is the person mentioned & named in the Declaration of John Lewis an applicant for a pension under the acts of Congress of the United States, that he purchased the piece of ^land containing five acres mentioned in the said declaration of the said John Lewis about three years since, at the rate of Twenty Dollars per acre but never received a deed for the same until the 10th day of June A. D. 1826. that he paid the amount of the said purchase money at the request & by the agreement of the said John Lewis to Robert Canada upon a mortgage which this deponent understood the said Canada held against the said (illegible) which said Lewis had agreed to pay, & that he has never been paid any money or other valuable thing to the said John Lewis for the same-and this deponent further saith that on the 10th day of June A.D. 1826 he purchased the remaining twelve acres of land as mentioned in the said declaration of the said John Lewis and recorded a deed thereof ^ this containing the five acres above mentioned. that at this time he the said Stephen Baily should pay to the said Robert Canada the amount due on a mortgage held by the said Canada against the said piece of land given by one Mason Sweeting as is confessed in said deed, the same being three hundred forty six dollars and fifty cents, and this deponent further saith that the said piece of land is not in the opinion said John Lewis (illegible) unable to pay any thing upon the said mortgage that the said
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State of New York
Oneida County S
Stephen Bailey being duly sworn deposeth saith that he is the person mentioned & named in the Declaration of John Lewis and applicant for a pension under the act of Congress of the United States, that he purchased the piece of ^land containing five acres mentioned in the said declaration of the said John Lewis about three years since, at the rate of twenty Dollars per acre but never received a deed for the same until the 10th day of June A. D. 1826. That he paid the amount of the said purchase money at the request & by the agreement of the said John Lewis to Robert Cananda upon a mortgage which this deponent understood the said Canada held against the said land which said Lewis had agreed to pay, & that he has never paid any money or other valuable thing to the said John Lewis for the same and this deponent further saith that On the 10th day of June A. D. 1826 he purchased the remaining twelve acres of land as mentioned in the said declaration of the said John Lewis and received a deed thereof^ including the five acres above mantioned. That at this time he the said Stephen Bailey paid no money or other thing to the said John Lewis, but he consideration of the said Deed was that he the said Stephen Bailey should pay to the said Robert Canada the amount due on a mortgage held by the said Canada against the said piece of land given by one Mason Sweeting as is expressed in said deed, the same being three hundred forty six dollars & fifty cents and this deponent further saith that the said piece of land is not in the opinion
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State of New York
Oneida County SS
Stephen Bailey being duly sworn deposeth saith that he is the person mentioned & named in the Declaration of John Lewis an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress of the United States, that he purchased the piece of ^land containing five acres mentioned in the said Declaration of the said John Lewis about three years since at the rate of twenty dollars per acre but never received a deed for the same until the 10th day of June A. D. 1826. that he paid the amount of the said purchase money at the request & by the agreement of the said John Lewis to Robert Canada upon a mortgage which this deponent understood the said Canada held against the said land which said Lewis had agreed to pay, that he has never paid any money or other valuable thing to the said John Lewis for the same and this deponent further saith that on the 10th day of June  A. D. 1826 he purchased the remaining twelve acres of land as mentioned in the said declaration of the said John Lewis and received a deed thereof^ including the five acres above mentioned. That at this time he the said Stephen Bailey paid no money or other thing to the said John Lewis, but he consideration of the said Deed was that he the said Stephen Bailey should pay to the said Robert Canada the amount due on a mortgage held by the said Canada against the said piece of land given by one Mason Sweeting as expressed in said deed, the same being three hundred forty six dollars & fifty cents, and this deponent further saith that the said piece of land is not in the opinion
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of this deponent worth more that that sum.
Stephen Bailey
Sworn this 10th day of June 1826 Before ne
Henry R. Storr First Judge of Oneida County

State of New York
Oneida County SS
John Sweeting being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he is the person mentioned and named in the declaration of John Lewis the applicant for a pension under the act of Congress of the United States and the mortgage mentioned in the said declaration dated March 20th 1818 & give by the aid John Lewis to this deponent was given to this deponent to secure to him the payment of the sum of one hundred & fifty six dollars and twenty five cents which the said John Lewis then justly (illegible) to this deponent as expresses on the said mortgage, that the said amount became due to this deponent upon two promissory notes which the said John Lewis gave to one Lewis J. Dauby & Eliphalet Sweeting that he this deponent purchased the said notes at their full amount & that he was a bona fide (underlined) holder thereof, that the amount of six hundred and fifty six dollars & twenty five cents at the time of giving the said mortgage was holy and honestly due to this deponent from the said John Lewis at the time that said mortgage was given upon the said notes so by him, purchased as aforesaid.
And this deponent further saith that he purchased the said piece of land containing about forty acres being half of lot No. one  & the gore in
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the first allotment of the Oriskany Patent as mentioned in the said declaration of the said John Lewis, of the said John Lewis on the fourth day of April A. D. 1825 for the sum of one thousand dollars as expressed in the deed given by the said John Lewis to this deponent, that the said amount of one thousand dollars consisted of an amount due on a mortgage given by the said John Lewis & one John Lewis Junior bearing date the 29th day of November 1811 to this deponent of a certain piece of land situate in Whitestown Oneida County being part of the same piece of land which the said John Lewis deeded to the above named Stephen Bailey on the 10th day of June A. D. 1826. That at the time the said deed was given to this deponent (April 4th 1825) there was then due to this deponent upon the said mortgage by the said John Lewis to this deponent the sum of eight hundred & sixty four dollars & ninety seven cents & upon the said Mortgage given by the said John Lewis and John Lewis Junior to this deponent the sum of three hundred & Thirty dollars and that after deductions the consideration of the said deed (one thousand dollars) there remained due to this deponent the sum of two hundred & ninety four dollars & ninety seven cents upon both of said mortgages that the became due this deponent has been reduced to the sum of One hundred & thirty six dollars by a payment made by the said John Lewis to this deponent in cattle. that the said sum of one thousand dollars is in the opinion of this deponent as much as the said piece of land is worth-that the said John Lewis Jr. has been & still is unable to pay any thing upon the said mortgage & that the said
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sum of money (illegible) to the land by the said mortgage given by the said John Lewis & John Lewis Junior has fallen upon the said John Lewis the aforesaid applicant to pay in consequence of the inability of the said John Lewis Junior to pay.
An this deponent further saith that he is acquainted with Mason Sweeting & that the mortgage mentioned in the said declaration as given by the said Mason to the said Robert Canada was given to the said Canada to secure part of the purchase money of the said land included in the said mortgage, & that he this deponent purchased the said land of the said Mason Sweeting subject to the said mortgage & sold the same to the said John Lewis^ also subject to the said mortgage, and that the said land was deeded to the said John Lewis by the said Mason Sweeting as the said Mason had never given a deed to the deponent.
And this deponent further saith that he is well accquainted with the said piece of land containing eighteen acres deeded to the said Stephen Bailey as mentioned in the affidavit of the said Stephen Bailey hereunto annexed. & the said declaration of the said John Lewis and that the same is not in the opinion of this deponent worth more that the sun of three hundred & forty six dollars and fifty cents, being the sum given by the said Stephen Bailey for the same.  an further this deponent saith not.
John Sweeting
Sworn this 10th day of June 1826 before me
Henry R. Storr First Judge of Oneida County
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State of New York
Oneida County SS
Isaac N. Meacham being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he is now a practicing physician & surgeon in the town of Whitestown in the county of Oneida, that he has attended as such physician the family of the said John Lewis the applicant for a continuance on the pension list of the United States & that he the said John Lewis is now justly & honestly indebted to him this deponent in the sum of sixty Dollars and seventy six cents for attendance as aforesaid upon his family and for the (illegible) and medicines administered by him this deponent to his  said family on occasion of the attendance aforesaid and further this deponent saith not.
I. N. Meacham
Sowrn & subscribed this 24th day of May 1825
Before me
E. S. Cozier, Commr.

State of New York
Oneida County SS.
Elizer Moseley being duly sworn deposeth & saith, that he is a merchant in the town of Whitestown in the County of Oneida, and the  above mentioned John Lewis is now honestly indebted  to him this deponent in the sum of twenty one dollars & seventy five cents for goods & groceries & merchandize purchased of
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him this deponent at different times out of his store. And further this deponent saith not.
Elizur Moseley
Sworn & subscribed this 10th day of June 1826 before me
Henry R. Storr
First Judge of Oneida County

State of New York
Oneida County SS
Eliphalet Sweeting being duly sworn deposeth & saith, John Lewis the aforesaid applicant is now justly indebted to him the deponent, in the sum of Thirteen Dollars and fourteen cents for cash loaned to the said John Lewis & for iron ware purchased of him by the said John Lewis for the use of his the said John Lewis's family- and further this deponent saith not.
Eliphalet Sweeting
Sworn & subscribed this 1 day of June 1826 Before me
Asahel Curtiss J. P.F.

State of New York
Oneida County SS Ambrose Adjutant being duly sworn deposeth & saith that John Lewis the aforesaid applicant is honestly and justly indebted to this deponent in the sum of five
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dollars and thirteen cents for the work and labour, care & deliverance of his this deponent rendered by him in and about the business of the  said John Lewis-and further this deponent saith not.
Ambrose Sedgerton
Sworn this 1st day of June 1826 Before me 
Truman Enos J.P.

State of New York
Oneida County SS
Thomas Mix being duly sworn deposeth & saith that John Lewis the aforesaid applicant is honestly & justly indebted to this deponent in the sum of twelve dollars for the work and labor of this deponent rendered for the said John Lewis, and further this deponent saith not.
Thomas  X   Mix
his mark
Sworn & subscribed his mark this first day of June 1826 Before me
Truman Enos J.P.
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Exemplification of a Mortgage from John Lewis and John Lewis Jr to
John Sweeting

(x'd) Fees 5/ pd.
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The People of the State of New York by the Grace of God Free and Independent, To all to whom these presents shall comm or may concern, Greetings, Know Ye That we having inspected the Records of proceedings remaining in our Clerks Office of our Court of Common Pleas of our County of Oneida in our said State Do find there a certain Record of a Mortgage Recorded in Book  E of Mortgages pages 484 and 485 in the words and figures following to wit.-----
John Lew & John Lewis Jur. of Whitestown County of Oneida and State of New York Yeomans, on the twenty ninth day of November in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight Hundred and Eleven for securing the payment of the just and full sum of Two hundred Eighty five Dollars and Ninety two cents in manner following (viz) One Hundred Dollars together with interest on the whole sum in one year from from date and the further sum of One hundred Dollars in two years from the date together with interest on the whole sum, and the further sum of eighty five Dollars & ninety two cents together with interest on the same in three years from date. Mortgaged unto John Sweeting of the same place all certain piece or parcal of Land situate and lying in the Town of Whitestown aforesaid being a part of lot number two, Begining at the South westerly corner of lot number one, running from thence North fifty degrees and Eighteen minits, west twelve chains & fifty links to a Stake and Stones, Thence South fifty degrees & Eighteen minits East twelve chains & fifty links to a Stake Standing in the center of the line between lots number one and two thence along said line Southly nine degrees & forty two minits west Eighteen chains to a Stake, Thence North fifty Degrees & Eighteen minits West two chains, Thence Southerly nine degrees
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& forty two minits west five chains then South fifty degrees & Eighteen minits East, two chains to the place of beginning containing twenty seven acres & three quarters of Land. But in case of the non-payment of the said sum of Two Hundred Eighty five Dollars & Ninety two cents together with interest stipulated aforesaid or any part thereof at the time or times above limited for the payment thereof then and in such case it shall and may be lawful for the said party of the second part his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns and the said party of the first part doth hereby empower and authorise the said party of the second part, his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns to grant, bargain, sell release and convey the premises with appurtenances thereunto belonging at Public Auction or Vendue; And on such sale to make and execute to the purchaser of purchasers his her or their heirs and assigns forever good, ample and sufficient Deeds of Conveyance in the Law pursuant to the Statute in that case  made and provided, Rendering the surplus monies (if any there be) to the said party of the first part his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns after deducting the costs and charges of such vendue and sale as aforesaid acknowledged before Noah Hoyt a Judge &c. on the 2d day of Dec, 1811 by the Mortgagors known &c. Registered and Power of sale recorded the second day of January 1818 at two o-clock P.M.
Francis A. Bloodgood Ck. x'd
All which we have caused by these presents to be exemplified and the seal of our said Court of Common Pleas to be hereunto affixed Witness Hanry R. Storrs Esquire First Judge of our said Court of Common Pleas at the Court House in Whitestown the 17th day of February A. D. 1826 and of the Independence of the United States the Fiftieth.
(x'd) Fess 5/paid
J. H Ostrom Clerk