Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39970, Lewis Bender, Penn.

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Service
Penn

Bender, Lewis

Number
S. 39970

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Written on left: Sept. 20 1900
Ms. Edna G. Bender
City [illegible]
39970
Invalid
[illegible]
File No. 59,975
Lewis Bender
Srv Rev War
Act: 18 March 18
Index: - Vol. 3, Page 33
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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7884
Pennsylvania
Lewis Bender
of Kensington in the state of Pennsylvania who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Wayne of the Pennsylvania line, for the term of one year
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 3 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 of March 1819 and sent to Richard Peters, [illegible] 
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 [illegible] 28/30 4/31 $88.49
Semi. anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1819 . . . . 48.-
$136.49
Revolutionary claim; Act 18th March, 1818
Continued [illegible] May 1820

[writing on right hand side is illegible]

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I 
George Schively
one of the Guardians of
the poor for the district of Kensington
do hereby certify that Lewis Bender an old Soldiers of the Revolutionary War, is now, and has been for several years last part supported by public charity, the receiving as a pauper, a weekly allowance out of the Poor Rate of the said district
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed
my hand at Kennington in the County of Philad
this 23 day of July AD 1818.
George C Schively G Boo

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In the case of
Lewis Bender

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District of Pennsylvania
On the third day of April A.D. 1818 before me Richard Peters Judge of the District Court of the United States in & for the Pennsylvania District, personally appeared Lewis Bender who being duly sworn deposes and declares that during the War of the Revolution he served against the common enemy as a private soldier in the army on the continental establishment. That in the year 1770 he enlisted in Captain Caleb North's company in Colonel Anthony Wayne's Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line, and faithfully served [there with for] the term of One Year, for which he had enlisted and until he received an honorable discharge from the Service of the United States. That he is now in the seventy eighth year of his age and by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his country for support. That he never had received or been allowed any pension by the court of the United States. That he is a resident citizen of the United States and that his Discharge is not, to his knowledge, now in existence, having been long since lost or destroyed.

Lewis Bender

Sworn & Subscribed
this 3d day of April 1818
before me
Richard Peters

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Caleb North, late a Lieut: Col. of the Pennsylvania Line during the war of the Revolution, being duly affirmed deposes and declares that the within named deponent
Lewis Bender was a soldier in this Deponents company in Colonel Anthony Wayne's Regiment, Pennsylvania and that he enlisted in the spring of 1776, for one year that he served the time out, partly at New York and partly at Ticonderogas, and returned with the Regiment and was discharged at Chester
Affirmed and subscribed
this 26 day of April 1818
before me
Caleb North
Jack Griffith, Hon
Admitted on North's certificate
Judges gen certificate
[?]
Wayne comd the 4th [Infty?]
applicant is not to be found
[Judge's?] Gen certificate is on file.
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Lewis Bender
Continued
7884
20 March 1814

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District of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia County
On the 21st day of June one thousand eighteen hundred twenty, personally appeared in the court of common pleas for said county (the said court being a court of record having  prothonotary [illegible] and exercising common law jurisdiction) Lewis Bender, aged seventy seven years, residing in Philadelphia County aforesaid, who being first duly sworn in open court according to law on his oath [illegible] that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows [illegible] In the 4th Pennsylvania Regiment Colonel [illegible] and Company commanded by Captain Caleb North.
Date [illegible] declaration 3 April 1818
Number of pension Certificate (7884.)
_____________ and I the said Lewis Bender do further solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th 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 persons engaged in the land and navel service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war," passed the 18th 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; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
Sworn to and declared in open court
on the twenty first day of June 1820
[illegible]
Lewis Bender

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SCHEDULE OF THE PROPERTY OF Lewis Bender
I have no property excepting the following
Articles Viz - One stove, one table, one iron
pot, one tea kettle, one trunk, two chains,
two [lanterns?], one tub, one bucket, one hand
saw, and a small quantity of crockery worth
one dollar- am by occupation a carpenter
but am unable to get a living in consequence
of decrepitude and the infirmities of age
generally-- have no children residing with ┃
me, and am in such indigent circumstances ┃
as to be unable to support myself without ┃
the assistance of my country-
Signed Lewis Bender

Philadelphia County ss.
Joseph B. Norbury Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for the City & County of Philadelphia do hereby certify that the foregoing affidavit and the schedule
thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I do further
certify, that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is 20 dols. and cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the
said court, on this twenty first day June
1820.

W. B. Norbury
Prothy