Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 31,735, Gershom Hewit, Conn. Green Mt. Boys
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[headings} 
SERVICE 
Conn. 
Green Mt. Boys
Hewit Gershom
NUMBER S 31.735
CONTENTS
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Hewit, Gershom
Conn D31735
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[Corner torn] Connecticut 
[missing text] hom Hewit
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Who was Sergt in the Com commanded by Captain Stevens of the Re[torn] command[torn] by Col Fitch in the Conn Troop line for 5 ½ mo-
Lieut. 6 Mo- 167.50 
Capt. 3 mo --- Note

Inscribed on the Roll of Con at the rate of 167 Dollars 50 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 2 day of Nov :33 and sent W.M. Burrall South Canaan

New one sent to – May 12th 1834.

Arrears to the 4th Sept 33 4418.7[torn]
Semi-Anl. Allowance ending Mar 4 83.7[torn]
[totalling] $502.[torn]
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by ED Bullock Clerk
Book E Vol. 3 Page 20

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Ansd. W.M. Burra[torn]
Apl. 14th 1834

Origil. Cu. Certificate [illegible] widow of [cut off] in Nov 22, 773-new one sent [cut off] sent to W. Burrel, May 12 1834
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State of Connecticut )
County of Litchfield  ) P Canaan
On this seventh day of November AD 1832. personally appeared Gershom Hewit before me William M. Burrall an Associate Judge of the County Court within and for the County of Litchfield. The said Gershom Hewit being a resident of the Town of Canaan in the County and State aforesaid and aged eighty nine years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officer, and served as  herein stated.  [in the left margin, written vertically "Gershom Hewitt 21098)
Viz. I was Born at Stonington in the State of Connecticut on the 16th day of May AD 1743 but have no record of may age and do not know that my birth was recorded and I continued to live in said Town of Stonington until I was twenty one [originally "sixteen," which was crossed out] years of age, and I then removed to said Town of Canaan where I have lived untill this time - excepting during the times I have been in the service of the United States. Before I removed from said Town of Stonington I enlisted & served two years during what was then termed the French War. served under Genl Amherst Genl Putnam was Lieut Colonel of the Regiment in which i served and Col Fitch commanded the Regiment -- And about the commencement of the Revolutionary War viz in May 1775. Capt John Stevens who then lived in said Canann informed me that an expedition was to be made to endeavor to take the Fort at Ticonderoga and wished to engage me to go with him as a Serjeant to which I consented and we immediately went to the State of Vermont and Joined Col. Ethan Allen who was to command the
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forces employed. we then marched to Lake Champlain and crossed it and lay in the woods at some distance from the Fort and I was sent by Col. Allen into the Fort as a spy to ascertain its situation and I accordingly went and was permitted to enter it on a Saturday morning and I continued there with the soldiers untill [until] sometime on Sunday when I left it and on that night I again joined Col. Allen & gave him information of the state of the fort & number   of men & and on monday morning before day we marched through the wicket gate into the Fort and formed and gave three huzzas and the Fort was surrendered. The Fort was commanded by a Dela Place for the British the commander after being first surprized [surprised] & taken was first asked if we were savages & then asked Col Allen to whom he was to surrender the fort. Allen replied "To the Great Jehovah & the Continental Congress." I then marched with the Prisoners consistent of the Cap and Lieutenant to Hartford in Connecticut & was discharged & returned home having served two months. 
And in the month of June 1776 I enlisted in a company commanded by Captain Timothy Moon for two months as a Serjeant the Brigade was commanded by Genl Fellows, we were marched to Peekskill on the Hudson River and having served six weeks were discharged. The Company were then called minute men. And I again enlisted under Captain Moon in the month of December 1776 in a Regiment commanded by Col. Noadiah Hooker and was marched to Kingsbridge in the State of New York and after being in that neighborhood for six weeks we were discharged and I returned home to said Canaan. And in the month of May AD 1778 I received a Commission as Lieutenant in a company commanded by Captain David Beebe of late of Salisbury in said State of Connecticut deceased and in a Regiment commanded by Colonel Roger Eno for one year. This Regiment was raised by the State of Connect.
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icut and order being sent to me to enlist men. I enlisted seventeen and in June 1778 I joined the company and regiment at West Point in the State of New York after being stationed there sometimes we were marched to White Plains and we were encamped there as a guard untill winter when we were marched to Norwalk in Connecticut and continued there untill May 1779 when we were discharged having served one year. This Commission I cannot now find and believe it to be destroyed. Altho I had it in 1818 when I made an application for a Pension.
In May AD 1779 I recd a Commission from a Captain from the State of Connecticut and during the same year in the fall was drafted to serve three months as a Captain in a Regiment commanded by Colonel Canfield. we were marched into the County of Middlesex in Connecticut on to the seaboard and from there marched along the coast to Norwalk in Fairfield County where I continued untill near spring when having served over three months we were discharged. I was after this time and before the peace several times drafted for short periods of service which I have not detailed. My Commissions were signed by Jonathan Trumbull Governor of the State of Connecticut and I enclose my Captains commmission. and I do not know of any witnesses now living who service with me. I made an application for a pension in April AD 1818 and then provided the testimony of a Nathaniel Stevens late Deputy Commissary and of a Mr. Moses Benedict whom I enlisted in 1778. But they are both now deceased and my application for a pension was refused because my services were not in the Continental Line. And I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a Pension or Annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the Pension Roll.
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of the Agency of any State.
Sworn to and subscribed the day ) 
and year aforesaid) Gershom Hewit
Mr. M. Burrall Associate Judge of Litchfield County Court
State of Connecticut) P Canaan - Nov 7th 1832
County of Litchfield )
Personally appeared Hepzibah Stannard the wife of John Stannard and made solemn oath that she is the daughter of the above named Gershom Hewitt and that she is now sixty seven years of age and that she resided in her fathers family during the time he has stated he served in the Revolutionary army and that she well recollects that he was absent from home at the different times he mentions in his declaration & that she was then told he was in the army. And I further certify that the said Hepzibah is a credible witness.
Wm M Burrall Associate Judge Litchfield County Court
Mr Pitkin Cowler a Clergyman residing in the Town of Canaan and James Finn a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Litchfield and residing in said town of Canaan do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Gershom Hewitt who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration. That we believe him to be eighty nine years of age. That he is reputable, and believed in the neighborhood in which he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in the opinion.
Sworn and subscribed to the day and year aforesaid.
Pitkin Cowler
James Finn
And I the said William M. Burrall Associate Judge of the County Court within and for the County of Litchfield as afore
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21098
Gershom Hewit
To be Returned within Certificate for Pension or
Papers to P. Office, South
Canaan Connecticut
further proof
Wm M Burrall
Canaan
Litchfield
Ct.
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WAR DEPARTMENT
Pension Office,
183
Sir,
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The note and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when you return return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your clai.

A Statement, showing the Service of Gershom Hewett, C.T. 
[headings]
Period when the service was rendered
Duration of the claimant's service. 
[subheadings) Years. Months. Days. 
Rank of the claimant
Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served.
Names and Rank of the General and Field officers.
Battles in which the applicant was engaged.
Country through which he marched.
Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period. 
Evidence by which the declaration is supported.
May 1775 2 [months] Sergeant CP Stevens Col Allen Took Ft Tyconderoga Vermont NY 89 born at Stonington CT
June 1776 1 [month] 12 [days] " [sergeant] Capt Moon Ge Fellows Fishkill NY Lived in Canaan when he enlisted and now lives in said place CT One Witness knows absence from home & general service
Dec " [1776] 1 [month] 12 [days] ' [Capt Moon] Col Hooker . Kings Bridge, NY
June 1778 1 [year] Lieut. Col Eno ... .. Wt Point NY the Certificate of a Clergyman and a citizen is given together with documents.
Fall 79 3 [months] Captain ? Col Canfield . Served in C.T

I am, respectfully, 
Your obedient servant,
J.L. EDWARDS, 
Commissioner of Pensions

[handwritten]
Witness Stevens ?
? - Not under oath

[NOTE: Nothing is bracketed]
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832

The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army ad to include under the terms "Continental Line", "State troops", "militia", and "volunteers", all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.

Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers
3. Persons employed in the Naval service
4. Indian spies

As rolls of regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance, male application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.

DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of
County of} ss.

  On this    day of   personally appeared (a) before    A.B. a resident (b) of   in county of   and State, Territory or District of    aged (c)   years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the years (d)   , with   and served in the    (e) regiment of the    line, under the following names officers:

[Here set forth the names and ranks of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered to service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, sons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]

  He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that if the Agency of the State of    
 Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.        A.B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court]
   And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
  I       of the Court of      do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter f the application of     for a pension.
 In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this day of     &c.
 If, on the examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declarations, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
 (k)We, A.B., a Clergyman, residing in     and C.D. residing in (the same) herby certify, that we are well acquainted with     , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be    years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificates of the Court]
  And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A.B.    who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the    and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the     and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
   I,      Clerk of the Court of     do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of     for a pension.

   In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal     of office, this    day     &c.
  Every applicant will produce the best proof on his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at lease one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
  If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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3.

will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted ; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case. The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia. 
1. Where and in what year were you born? 
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it? 
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war , and where do you now live?
 4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom? 
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services. 
6. {To a Soldier} Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it?
    {To an Officer} Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it? 
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. 

The Court will see that he answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant. 
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons - one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, to the character and standing of other persons, giving such certificates. 

The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject. 

Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration be fore required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.

Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature. 
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure , taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter. 

[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance. 
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule. 
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned. 
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served. 
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: “Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:--For____year____months , and____ days, I served as a______ . For____months and_____ days, I served as a_______; and for such service I claim a pension." 

It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months, is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit. 
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable. 
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required. 
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case. 
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers. 

Mode of authenticating papers.

 In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

Proof of Service.

[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set for in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses , and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. 
[A symbol of a pointing finger] The notes from (a) to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops only. 
[k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases. 
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact. 
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration

Witnesses on former application not sworn- &
one not certified credible- application is referred to Elisha Phelps Esqr. who doubtless can substantiate his claim.
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September 29, 1938
Mr. Charles R Hale   BA-J/ady
Connecticut State Library     Gershom Hewit
Hartford, Connecticut    S.31735
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter relative to 
Gershom Hewitt, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The date contained herein were obtained from
the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, S.31735, based upon the military service of Gershom Hewit in that war.
Gershom Hewit, the name is also shown as Hewett and Huit, was born May 16, 1743, in Stonington, Connecticut, and when twenty-one years old moved to Cannan, Connecticut.  The names of his parents are not given.
While a resident of Stonington, Connecticut, he
served two years in the French War under Lieutenant Colonel Putnam, Colonel Fitch and General Amherst. While a resident of Canaan, Connecticut, he enlisted in  May 1775, served two months as sergeant in Captain John
Stevens' Connecticut Company, Colonel Ethan Allen's Regiment and was at the surrender of Fort Ticonderoga.  He enlisted in June 1776, and served six weeks as sergeant in Captain Timothy Moses' Company, Colonel
Neadiah Hooker's Connecticut Regiment.  In May 1778 he was commissioned Lieutenant in Captain David Beebe's Company, Colonel Roger Enos' Connecticut Regiment and served
one year.  May 25, 1779 he was commissioned Captain of the First Company, Fourteenth Regiment of Connecticut
Militia, and in the fall of 1779, he served more than three months as Captain in Colonel Camfield's Connecticut Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed November 7, 1833, at which time he was a resident of Canaan,
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Litchfield, County, Connecticut

In 1832, Hepzibah Stannard, aged sixty-seven years, a daughter of Gershom Hewit, made affidavit in Litchfield County, Connecticut. She was then the wife of John Stannard. No reference was made to the wife of Gershom Hewit, and there are no further family data.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name of person paid and possibly the date of Gershom Hewit's death, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D.C., and cite the following data; "Gershom Hewit, Certificate No. 22770, issued November 2, 1833, rate $167.50 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Connecticut Agency."

Very truly yours,

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Augustus Pettibone, Esg; Judge, Litchfield, Connectt.
Gershin Huit, lieut.
Colo Roger Enos reg. of Connecticut
Revolutionary claim
There are no rolls of Connecticut, on the Continental establishment, in the pension office, that recognize this applicant, or the regiment to which he was attached. If he was in the militia service, the law makes no provision for him. Satisfactory testimony, on oath, provide 9 months service, in continuation, on the continental establishment, and of his indigent circumstances, under the seal of the court
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State of Connecticut Litchfield County, April 30th day AD 1818 Before me Augustus Pettibone Chief Judge of the County Court for said Litchfield ^County^ aforesaid approved Gershom Huit aged seventy four years resident in the Town of Canaan in said County of Litchfield who being by me being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the late act of Congress entittled [entitled] an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and navel [naval] service of the United States in the revolutionary war - that he the said Gershom Huit in the month of May AD 1775 went with Colo Ethan Allen in the Expedition of the taking the Fort of Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain which was affected and took a Capt and a Lieutenant and forty privates which prisoners were taken to Hartford Connecticut and in the summer season in the year 1776 ? went to the Fishkill on the Hudson River in the State of New York in the company of Capt Timothy Moses and in General Fellows' brigade and served about six weeks - and again in the year 1776 he thinks in the month of December he enlisted into Capt Timothy Moses Company and in the regiment of Col Noadiah Hooker for six weeks and went to the King bridge and served in that quarter untill discharged in the month of May 1778 he received a Lieutenant commission to serve in the Company of Capt David Beebe and Col Thayer Eno Regiment to serve one year and he accepted of the said Commission and a Company was enlisted of which he enlisted seventeen men and marched in June following to the White Place from there marched to Westpoint and he served the full time of his enlistment and was discharged at Norwalk in Connecticut where the company with himself were discharged in the year 1779 he was detached as a Capt to command a company in Col Canfields Regt
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to serve three months marched to Middlesex on the seaboard in Connecticut which service he performed as a Capt and was discharged. His service was in the Connecticut Line. And he further declares that he is poor and in reduced circumstances and in need of assistance from his country for support.

Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid.
Augustus Petibone Judge

I do hereby Certify that Gershom Huit the aforesaid Deponent served as a Lieut in Capt David Beebes Company and Col Roger Eno brigade ? Connecticut troops in the year 1778 and the said deponent drew provisions from  my store at the White Plains for a number of weeks at which time the said Huit often cald on me and also that the said regiment ... of 1778 ... went from the White Plains to West Point where I understood the regiment were stationed for some time. 
? 30th April 1818
Nathl Steves, late Deputy Commissary Clerk (In the Revolutionary War)

Litchfield County Canaan April 28th 1818
I hereby Certify that in the year AD 1778 I enlisted under Lieut Gershom Huit for one year in the service of the United States and went into the service under him and service for the time aforesaid.
Benjamin Benedict
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I Augustus Pettibone Chief Judge of the County Court for said Litchfield County do humbly certify that it appears to me satisfaction that the said Gershom Huit did serve in the revolutionary way against the Common Enemy as stated in the preceding Declaration and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary of the Department of War ? [fold in the document] ... the aforementioned Act of Congress certified this 30th day of April AD 1818.
Augustus Pettibone Chief Justice
[paper seal affixed] 

I Frederick Wolcott Clerk of the County Court in the Count of Litchfield & State of Connecticut 
Petition by Judge of the ? Court that the above signature in his handwriting and that the Seal  hereto annexed is the Seal of said County. May 5th 1818
Frederick Wolcott, Clerk
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[Left page]
31735
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INVALID

File no. 31,735
Gershom Hewitt
Srgt Rev War

Act: June 7th 32"
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 180
[[Arrangement of 1870.]]

[Right page]
1893 - Feb. 7.
Hist. to M. b. Olmste
Brookline, Mass. F.S.

Feby, 16. 1897 - Etcumined
[] Mr. Aspinwall B of R.
1938 may 14. Hist. to WM.
J. Laun: A.D.Y.
1938 Sept. 29. Hist. to Charles
R. Hale. A.D.Y.
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War Department
Pension Office 27 Dept 18

Sir,
The regiment of Col Roger [unk] in 1778 was a Regiment of Minute Men raised for the terms of one year, upon the express condition that they were to hold themselves in constant readiness, but were not to be kept in service more than a term of three months at one period. The papers are again returned for correction.

I am Sir very respectfully your obt servt [obedient servant]

J.L. Edwards


W. M. Burrall Esq
Canaan 
Litchfield County
Connecticut
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State of Connecticut
County of Litchfield}

Probate Court District of Sharon at a court of Probate holdin at Canaan within and for the District of Sharon aforesaid, on the 8th day of July AD 1833.

Present William M Burrall Judge

In the matter of the application of Captain Gershom Hewit of said Canaan in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress paper June 7th, 1832 granting pensions to persons who performed military services during the revolutionary war. And the said Gershom Hewit now in open Court as further proof of his services as a revolutionary soldier, as stated in his declaration made before a Judge of the County Court on the seventh day of November AD 1832, and hereunto annexed, presents to this Court the Certificate of the Hon. Elisha Phelps, Comptroller of the Public accounts of this State and that the signature to said Certificate, which is hereunto annexed, is in the proper hand writing of the said Elisha Phelps,  and that full faith and evidence and
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to be given the same.
And with {unk{ just to an objection made to the former declaration of the said Gershon Hewit by the Commissioner of Pensions., to wit, that he has not stated with sufficient pension the length of time, and the particular periods of his service. This Court do find and is of opinion, after having evidence on the subject, and from personal view of the said Gershon Hewit that from his very advanced age, and infirmities ad [unk] of memory, he is unable to detail the circumstances of his services in any more particular manner, than he has already done in his first Declaration, by the court.
Wm P Burrall Clerk

I William P Burrall Clerk of the Court of Probate for the district of Sharon do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court & in the matter of the application of Gershom Hewit for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office at the Probate Office in Canaan this 8th day of July AD 1833.
Wm P Burrall Clerk
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said do hereby declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter that and after putting the interrogations subscribed by the [unk] Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And I further certify that it appears to me that the Rev Pitkin Coeler who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Canaan aforesaid and that James Fenn [unk] who has also signed the same is a Justice of the Peace within & for the said County of Litchfield and a resident on said Town of Canaan and that both said Cowler & Fenn are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit. And I further certify that I was personally acquainted with Nathaniel Stephens and Moses Benedict last of said Canaan but now deceased and that his signature on a former applicant for a pension made by the present applicant April 30th, 1818, are in the proper hand writing of the said Nathaniel Stevens and Moses Benedict and that they were both when living among the most respectable  of the citizens of said Town, and credible witnesses.
And I also certify that the said applicant Gershom Hewit from his age and infirmities of body is unable to attend any Court and I have therefore attended at his house in said Town of Canaan and received his declaration and the testimony in support of the same as before stated.
Certified and signed this 7th day of November AD 1832

William N Burrall Associate Judge of the County Court in the County of Litchfield, Connecticut
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I Frederick Wolcott, clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut, certify that William M Burrall Esq before whom the preceding declaration of Gershon Hewit and the affidavits of Hepizibah Stannard, Pitkin Cowler & James Fenn appear to have been taken, now is, and for more than one year last past hath been an associate Judge of the County Court for said County, (which Court is a Court of Record) and that the signatures to the preceding certificates which [unk] to be his same genuine & his own hand writing. in testimony where I have unto set my hand & affix the seal of said Court at Litchfield in said County this 25th day of December A.D. 1832.

Frederick Wolcott Clerk
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Sir
On this sheet you will find a certificate of Mr Judds service in 1775; & accompanying it all the evidence I can supply you with except the report of Comtee [committee] & Grant of General Assembly in Jan 1780.
I found Col. Enos [illegible], report & grant thereof some time ago, procured an extract & sent it to Washington for Richard Goodman, & since there Mr. [illegible] obtained full copies, I believe, for Col. Grant of E. Windsor.
That Comtee [committee] say that Enos Regt had served eight months, but whether that term includes the whole service, or only that which was performed in Connecticut, is somewhat doubtful. I did think of procuring an authenticated copy but I concluded that a reference to that already sent would be sufficient. If you should need then I will procure thereof. 
I have copied the act under which this Regt was raised. I presume no objections will be made to it because not [illegible] by the clerk.
I am truly your obt svt [obedient servant]
E. Phelps

[margin note]
If your employees are able they ought to pay me $4 or 5 if ]illegible] is worth [illegible]
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An act for raising two brigades for the defense of their State.

Be it enacted by the Governor Counsel & Representatives in General Assembly assembled and by ^the^ authority of the same, that there be forthwith raised by voluntary inlistment [enlistment] six battalions to be held in constant readiness to march upon the shortest notice upon any tour of duty whenever the militia of this State are liable to be called, which battalions shall consist of eight companies each, and each company of ninety men including officers, each of the Field Officers to command a company, each Company (except the Field Officers) to be commanded by one Captain, and every company to have two Lieutenants, and one Ensign, four Sergeants, four Corporals, one drum & one fife, each battalion to be commanded by one Colonel , one Lieutenant, Colonel, and one Major wo shall be appointed by the General Assembly of this State, which said Field Officers of each battalion shall nominate all the commissioned and staff officers of said battalions out of such as have borne like commissions, and to be commissioned by the Governor, and there shall be appointed to each battalion an Adjutant
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one Quarter Master, one surgeon, a Sergeant Major, and Quarter Master Sergeant; which said battalions shall be formed into two brigades; each to be under the command of a Brigadier General to be appointed by the General Assembly, and the recommissioned officers & soldiers who shall enlist into said battalion and furnish themselves with a good gun & bayonet cartouche box blanket & knap sack shall be allowed as a premium therefor [therefore], viz, ten shillings for a gun & bayonet two shillings for a cartouche box, sixteen shillings for a blanket & two shillings for a knap sack. And the said Brigadier General shall each have power to appoint a Brigade Major to each Brigade, and each able bodied & effective private who shall enlist & furnish himself as aforesaid shall be entitled to a bounty of three pounds ten shillings exclusive of what is before allowed and shall receive the sum of twenty shillings per calendar month during his continence in said battalion when when they are not upon duty & all commissioned officers noncommissioned officers & Staff officer is said battalion shall receive half pay when they are not upon duty. And whenever they shall into actual service both officers & soldiers shall be entitled to the same pay wages & rations as the continental troops raised in this State.
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have, and if called and while serving out of this State to the same refreshments on the same terms as said continental troops, & their rolls shall be exempted from all taxes during their continence in said battalion.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that said battalions shall be kept up until the first day of March 1779 unless sooner discharged, and each of said companies shall be called  out for military exercise once in every fifteen days and said battalions shall be called out for regimented exercise three times in each year at the discretion of the Colonel and shall receive the same wages and rations when called out as aforesaid as when in actual service, provided [illegible] that said battalions nor any detachment therefore shall be continued in actual service more than three months at any one time, to be [unk] from the time they shall arrive at the place of their destination, and the said battalions shall be under the Article Rolls and Regulations formed by the State for preserving order good government and discipline among the militia of this State when called into actual service, and said regiments shall be furnished with a sufficient quantity of cartridges which shall be lodged in the hands of the commanding officers of each company to be by him delivered out at his discretion as occasion may require, and each regiment with one ammunition wagon
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which shall be always in readiness for use and when occasion requires each company shall be supplied with a baggage cart or waggon [wagon] tents & other camp equipment, for which lends the commanding officer of each company shall be accountable to the town from which they are received and for baggage carts or waggons [wagons] and the camp equipment of his company to the Treasurer of the State.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that there be forthwith raised by enlistment as aforesaid two matross companies, the rest of this section related to them only. 

Be it further enacted that said battalions shall ^be^ from time to time subject to the orders of this assembly, to the orders of his Excellency the commander in chief of this state and other their superior officers. And his Excellency the Governor & Council of Safety are authorized to make any orders and directions for carrying this act into execution which may appear to be wanting & necessary. Provided that if said battalions shall not be filled up in a reasonable time it shall be in the power of the Governor with the advice of the Council of Safety in the rolls of the General Assembly to discharge so many of the commissioned officers as are super numerary in proportion to the privates according to the rates adopted by Congress, & such officers shall be allowed their proper wages to the time of their discharges, The foregoing is a transcript of the act, except the section relating to the two matross companies.
October 16th 1833.

E Phelps
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Capt Hewett
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Comptrollers Office
July 3rd 1833. 
I Elisha Phelps, Comptroller of Public Accounts for the State Connecticut, do certify that it appears by the journal of the Council of Safety under date 15th June 1778, that the six collections ordered to be raised by the General assembly at their session in February 1778, were reduced to two, & that the companies ordered to be properly formed out of the whole, & that those in the first fourth & sixth brigades of militia be formed into one collection, & to be commanded by Roger Enos Col. Seth Smith Lt. Col. & Eleazer Curtiss Major.   This collection consisted of eight companies; & the officers of them, who were ordered to continue in service, are mentioned of the seventh company, in the order of the officers, David Beebee was Capt. Titus Ives 1st Lieut. ____ Hewitt 2nd Lieut. (no ensign named.)

Upon the journal of the Pay Table under date of 19th March 1779 there is credited to Capt. David Beebee “By account rendered for his Co. £2510, 15, 7; which sum is charged, under the
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same date to the United States.
In the abstract of the claims of this State against the United States, for disbursements made during the revolution there is charged for payment to Capt. David Babee the sum of L7095.74,0 in addition to the aforesaid sum of L2510.15,7 For the vouchers of these claims, there remains in this office the receipt of E. Haskell Comr
I further certify that, under date 24th of March 1780, there is charged upon the journal of the Pay Table Office, to the United States" to order on Treasurer [] Capt. Gershom Hewitts ^pay roll^ Coast Guards L3135,7,2; and that this sum is endorsed in the list of claims against the United States and the voucher therefore was delivered to and receipted by E. Haskell Comr.
E Phelps.

I unofficially state, that I have examined the records of State, this day, and find that Gershom Hewitt was appointed Captaincy of the 1st Co. 14 Reg of Militia, by the General Assembly at their office in May 1779.
E Phelps
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Thomas Judd
&
Gershom Hewitt

Free

Lost Certificates

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City District of Columbia

Canaan Ct
April 23d

Issue Duplicate Certificates

22.773 Judd
22.770 Hewitt

Thomas Judd
&
Gershom Hewitt
take an affidavit that they have never rec'd their pension certificates
April 28 1836
Connt.
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South Canaan April 22d 1834

J. L. Edwards Esq

Sir,
I have rec'd your letter of the 14th ins't [instant] in which you state that the pension certificate of Thomas Judd & Gershom Hewit were, (as it appears by your Books) forwarded to me by mail on the 3d day of November last, but as none have been rec'd. I have given notice to Judd & Hewit who have appeared before me as a Judge of Probate for this District & I have taken their affidavits. I have also added my own certificate that they have never had this pension certificates & I now enclose the evidence taken.

Mrs Judd & Hewit now wish to have you forward to me duplicate certificates as soon as convenient as they are in very poor & entirely being so that he cannot write & is obliged to make his mark.

I hardly know conjective what can have become of the certificates but have thought it possible that they may have been missent to some other Post Office and they would be on or about the first of this month, returned to the Gen'l Post Office & ought to be returned to your office. Perhaps it would be well for you to have one of your clerks call at the Gen'l Post Office & ascertain whether any papers of the kind have been returned.

Please direct to me at South Canaan Post Office County of Litchfield Conn't.

I am respectfully 

Wm M. Burrall
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Admit
5 1/2 M Sergt
6 M Lieut
3 M Capt
W. M. Burrgall South Canaan

I will be taken that Ed Enos Reg served agreeably to the terms of their engagement unless the contrary is shown. Whatever liberality the state of Connecticut thought proper to show to the officers of that regt can have no influence with the Dept which is Commd by law to compute pensions upon actual service in the field or garrison. 6 months has been allowed as the extent of that service.
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South Canaan 1833

Hon J. L. Edwards

Sir, in pursuance of your letter of 27th Sept last, I have again applied to the Hon Elisha Phelps Comptroller, for further proof of the services of Capt Hewitt as a Lieutenant on Col Enos Regiment in 1778,9 and I enclose his certificate, and letter. I do not know how it can be ascertained with perfect precision how long these troops served in the field , it seems they were under pay the whole time whether in full or in part., and were also obliged to be called out for exercise once in 15 days when at home, it appears also by the comptrollers certificate, that this state made a further grant to the officers which I supp-on from Mr Phelps l' letter you have in your property this grant I expect, restored the officer to full pay, and from all I can ascertain from apt Hewit the officers were constantly employed with in the field, of or at home enlisting soldier, or attending to their different companies, but you have undoubtedly ranted certificate to other officers in the same regiment& for the same services, and I presume you will decide on Capt Hewits' case upon the same [unk] you have already adopted.

Capt Hewit is so broken down by age & infirmity, being now 90 years old, that no further information can be derived from him, & I hope you will decide upon his case without delay, as he is very poor and cannot live but a short period at most, and if he is to have any aid from his country, he wants it soon, or it will do him no good.

I am respectfully

Wm. M. Burrall
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U S Pension Office 
September 24, 1892

Envelope
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Brookline Mass. Sept 20/92

U.S. Pension Commissioner 

Dear Sir 

If it is within your provinse, will you kindly give me what information you have, in your archives, about Gershom Hewitt of Canaan Ct & Randall Hewitt of Seneca Falls N. Y. --- --- both revolutionary soldiers.
You will greatly add [illegible] obligation if you can give items about others of the name of whom I have not heard.
Deathie Hewitt, Captain, was killed, in the service, at Wyoming 1778. I am compiling a history of the family & have so far only hearsay about both soldiers.

Very truly yours 
M. C. Olmsted
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26 April 1938

Veterans Administration
Washington, D. C.

Gentlemen:
I have an ancestor Capt Gershom Hewitt resided in Canaan & Litchfield, Conn. He died 11 Sept 1834 (aged 91?). According tot he Public Records of Conn. Vol 1 p 267 & Vol. 2 p. 297 he was appointed Lieutenant of First Co. Fourteenth Regiment of Conn. in May 1777 and Captain of the same outfit in May 1779. Tradition in our family also claims that he was with Ethan Allen at the capture of Fort Ticonderoga in 1775. He drew a pension according to family tradition.
Will you please send all information you may have on his dates, places of residence, members of his family especially his wife and children, his service during the Resolution, his parents and any other information you may have on him. Also where did he die?
Thank you,
William Laun
1358 Stebbins Ave
Bronx,
New York

(1358 Stebbins Ave)

[stamped]
RECEIVED
APRIL 28 1938
MAIL SUB-DIV.
VETS. ADM. 
READER #15
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O. W. AND N. DIVISION

Department of the Interior
BUREAU OF PENSIONS

Washington, D. C., ............., 189....

Sir:
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of [crossed out "Gershon Hewitt"], a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will please find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau.
Gershom Hewit

[column titles]
DATES OF ENLISTMENT
LENGTH OF SERVICE.
RANK.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
STATE.
May 75 | 2 mo | Sgt | Captain Stevens | Colonel Allen | Conn.
June 76 | 1 mo | Sgt | Captain Moses | Colonel Fellows | Conn.
Dec 76 | 1 mo | Sgt | Captain Moses | Colonel Hooker | Conn.
June 78 | 1 yr | Lieut | Captain Beebe | Colonel Enos | Conn.
Fall 79 | 3 mo | Capt | ~ | Colonel Canfield | Conn.

Battles engaged in, None mentioned
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Canaan Conn
Date of application for pension, Apr 30, 1818
Residence at date of application, Canaan Conn.
Age at date of application, 74 years
Remarks: Pension allowed & owing etc only one

Very respectfully,
.............................
Commissioner

M. C. Olmsted
Brooking Mass.
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SERVICE
Conn.
Green Mt Boys

Hewit Gershom

NUMBER
S. 31.735
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May 14, 1938

BA-J/ady
Gershom Hewit
A. 31735

Mr William J Laun
1358 Stebbins Avenue
Bronx, New York

Dear sir;

Reference is made to your letter relative to Gershom Hewitt, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.

The data contained herein were obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, S. 31735, based upon the military service of Gershom Hewit in that war.

Gershom Hewit, the name is also shown as Hewett and Huit, was born May 16, 1743, in Stonington, Connecticut, and when twenty-one years old moved to Canaan, Connecticut. The names of his parents are not given.

While a resident of Stonington, Connecticut, he served two years in the French War under Lieutenant Colonel Putnam, Colonel Fitch and General Amherst. While a resident of Canaan, Connecticut, he enlisted in May 1775, served two months as sergeant in Captain John Steven's Connecticut Company, Colonel Ethan Allen's Regiment and was at the surrender of Fort Ticonderoga. He enlisted in June 1776, and served six weeks as sergeant in Captain Timothy Moses' Company, Colonel Neadiah Hooker's Connecticut Regiment. In ,May 1778 he was commissioned Lieutenant in Captain David Beebe's Company, Colonel Roger Enos' Connecticut Regiment and served one year. May 25, 1779 he was commissioned Captain of the First Company, Fourteenth Regiment of Connecticut Militia, and in the fall of 1779, he served more than three months as Captain in Colonel Canfield's Connecticut Regiment.

He was allowed pension on his application executed November 7, 1838, at which time he was a resident of Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut.

In 1832, Hepzibah Stannard, aged sixty-seven years, a daughter of Gershom Hewit, made affidavit in Litchfield County, Connecticut. She was then the wife of John Stannard. Ne reference was made to the wife of Gershom Hewit, and there are no further family data.
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In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name of person paid and possibly the date of Gershom Hewit's death, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C., and cite the following data: "Gershom Hewit, Certificate No. 22770, issued November 2, 1833, rate $167.50 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Connecticut Agency".

Very truly yours
A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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the Enemey Surrouned the hous in the Night and fired in Everey Direction thrue the hous and killed one of their one Men and Wounded Another. And one ball went thrue the head bord where they [illegible] then Took their Ded and Wounded and left.
[the Enemy surrounded the house in the night and fired in every direction through the house and killed on of their own men and wounded another. And one ball went through the headboard where they [illegible] then took their dead and wounded and left.]
Sir
I Send You a Coppy [copy] of Cathrine Oakleys Decleration [declaration] for Pension for the Service of her first Husband Wm Douglass. And a Coppy [copy] of James Wool Evidence in the Case the Man that brought me finest wool from A Child the Case Confirmed by thre More Cr Witnesses who was with Said Douglass in most of his Service & Due A Pension. And they admit She was Intitele [entitled] to Pay for Service both before & After Marrag [marriage] the Allowense [allowance] to Widow was for 9 Months Service as you will see by the Inclosed [enclosed] leaf. I Cant [can't] see how they Could Com [come] To Such A Desision [decision] after admitting Service both before and after marrag [marriage] as the Inlistment [enlistment] to Quebeck [Quebec] was 9 Months and was Gone 15 m
[written along side of paper]
Catharine Oakley N.M. Act 1836
for y. widow of Wm Douglass
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You Sir Will tak [take] a Vue [view] of the Case and let me have your Opinion for an Incres [increase] of Pension in the Case & if the widow is not Intiteled [entitled] to [illegible] for the Qubeck [Quebec] Service.
Yours Respectfully,
Andrew Jellet
 
Sir the Heirs of Capt Gershom Hewet of the Connecticut line who served under Col Werner & Col Puteet the takeing [taking] of Ticonteronge [Ticonderoga] the Heirs have found A letter that their was Considerable back pay Due him And [illegible] & if any lesser or back Pay is Due him they [illegible] you to Eminte their Claime and let me no and I wil [will] make an Agment [agreement] with their Return an [illegible] Soon
[written along side of paper]
Capt Gurshum Hewett
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State of New York 
County of Renselear [Rensselear]. 
On this ___Day of 1837 Personally Appeared Before the Court of ______County & State Afforesaid [aforesaid] Catherine Oackley [Oakley] of Lansingburgh County and State afforesaid [aforesaid] who being first sworn according to law deposeth and saith She was married to her first husband William Douglas on the furst [first] Day of January 1778 and that he died on the furst [first] of March 1832. and that On the 11th of Sept 1834  I again Married to William Barkley who died 2nd of [illegible] 1835. Ever since I have remained a widow and I Depose and say that I have often hird [heard] my said husband William Douglass under whome [whom] I Clame [claim], State over his toils and Suffering he indured [endured] in the Revolutionary War both with hunger & Cold in his Campain [Campaign] to Qebeck [Quebec] in 1775 and being taken prisner [prisoner] at the Serender [Surrender] of Ticonderoga while trying to save his Chest of [illegible] and that sum [some] years after the war In passing that way near the fort we stopt [stopped] an he Showed me the fort and Cell he was confined in & from which he made his escape & I further depose that in the year 78 or 79 her said husband Wm Douglass Inlisted [enlisted] and went to Albany and I went with him & he served as an Artificer in stocking Guns & {Done?] his [duties?] and I direct his Bord [board] till late in the fall, and that in the year 1782 or 1783 he again inlisted [enlisted] to my best Recollection [illegible]  and went to Fishkill and served as an Artificer at making Carriags and I Remined with him as before tell sum time [sometime] in the fall. And that the lenght [length] of Each tour Coul [could] not be less than six months  & agane [again] I well Remember of his being called at the Allarm [alarm] at [Sheensborough?] and was gone this time About three or four weeks and while absent the Indians In the night came to the front Dore [door] and tried to brake [break] in I discovered them and made my Ascpe [escape] out of the back window with my Child in my Arms about Eight munths [months] oald [old], an ran about two mils [miles] thru [through] the Woods and alarmed the nabours [neighbors] and Capt Dwelly & Capt Lansing and Men pured [pursued] them and they fled into the woods and at another time
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the Enemey Surrouned the hous in the Night And fired in every Direction thrue the hous And killed one of thier Men And Wounded A Mother And one ball went thrue the head bord whare I lay [illegible] then took their Ded and wounded and left______________________

[sideways in left margin]
Catharine Oakley N.Y. ad 1836
fory. widow of Wm. Douglass 

Sir,
I send you a coppy of Cathrine Oakleys Decleration for a Pension for the Serivce of her first Husband Wm. Douglass- And a coppy of James Wood Evidence in the Case the Man that brought up [illegible] Wood from a Child &amp; the Case Confermed by three More
witnesses who was with Said Douglass in most of his Service &amp; Drue a Pension- And they admit She was intitled to Pay for Service both
before &amp; after Marrag the Allowense to widow was for 9 Months Service As you will see by the Inclosed leaf.  I Cant see how they could Reach A Desision After 
After
 admitting Serivce both before and after marrag As the inlistment to Quebeck was 9 months And was gon 15 M.
You Sur will tak^a [illegible] of the Case And let me have your Opinion for an Incres of Pension in the Case &amp; if the widow is not Intitled to land for the Qubeck Service.

Yours Respectfully,
C Andrew Jellet

[sideways in left margin]
Capt. Garshum Hewett

N?
Sur the Heirs of Capt. Gurshum Hewett of the Connecticut line who Served Under Col. Werner &amp; Col. [Lutest?] the taking of Ticonteronge-the Heirs have had a letter that there was Considerable back pay Due him
and land &amp; if any land or back pay is Due him they will imploy you to Examin to thear Clame And let me no And I wil make an agreement with them Return an Ansure Soon
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JONATHAN TRUMBULL, ESQUIRE
Captain-General, and Commander in Chief, of the State of Connecticut, in America.

To Gershom Hewett, Gent. Greeting.

You being, by the General Assembly of this State accepted to be Captain of the First Company on [illegible] in the 14th Regiment in this State, Reposing special Trust and Confidence, in your Fidelity, Courage, and good Conduct, I do, by virtue of the Laws of this State, me thereunto enabling, appoint and empower you to take the said Company into your Care and Charge, as their Captain carefully and diligently to discharge that Trust; exercising your inferior Officers and Soldiers in the Use of their Arms, according to the Discipline of War; keeping them in good Order and Government; and commanding them to obey you as their Captain for the Service of this State.  And you are to observe all such Orders and Directions, as from Time to Time you shall receive, either from me, or from your superior Officer, pursuant to the Trust hereby reposed in you.

Given under my Hand, and the Seal of this State, in Hartford, the 25th day of May, Anno Domini, 1779.

By his Excellency's Command,
George Wyllys, Sec'ry.

Jon'th Trumbull

[Illegible paper seal attached upper left side]