Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18,270, Lewis Webber, Continental Mass. R. I.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental
Webber, Lewis
S. 18,270
Mass.
R.I.
carded
CONTENTS

3850-
Maine
Lewis Webber
John in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Olney of the Regt commanded by Col. Hitchcock in the Rhode Island line for Mass State Troops R.I.S. & Continental Old Cash
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 11 3/4 Dollars 3 3/4 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 nd day of Jan'y 1833 - and sent to R.C. Dose Augusta Maine
Arrears to 14th of Sep: 1832 $ 64 99 Semi-annual allowance ending 14th Mar: 1833 - 21 66
$86.65
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by E.D. Bullock Clerk, Book D Vol. 3 Page 102

Lewis Webber
Private Rhode Island troops, Olney's Co: Mose's Regt 11 months
Private - Mass. troops, Blunt's Co: W. Cobb's Regt 4 months
admit
13 m. private
43. 33
R. C. Rose Augusta, Me.

Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
STATE OF MAINE, } ss. KENNEBEC COUNTY, }
On this twentieth day of July A. D. 1832 personally appeared before the Hon. NATHAN WESTON , Jun'r, a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, of said State, Lewis Webber a resident of China in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, aged Seventy five 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 by the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1776 with Captain Loggshall Olney and served in Col. Hitchcock's regiment of the Rhode Island Line or troops under the following named officers, viz. Olney (Capt.) & Hitchcock (Col.) . That he enlisted in said Company in March 1776 for eleven months & served until February or March 1777 when he was discharged. That he was drafted in May 1779 for five months into Capt. Blunt's company, 1st. N. H. regt. of the Massachusetts troops, was in the expedition to Brayaduce near Castine , taken prisoner by the enemy, carried to Portsmouth N.H. & a Cartel was there exchanged having served four months. That he was drafted into the latter service & served four months.
That he was placed on the Maine roll under the Act of Congress of March 18, 1818, and that his pension certificate is numbered 6661 , and dropped therefrom on account of his property. That at that time he resided in China in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, and now resides in the same town, which was formerly a part of Halloway .
He hereby relinquishes every claim 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, except as aforesaid.
Lewis Webber
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid,
Before
Nathan Weston Jun Just S. J. C.
And the said Judge does hereby declare his opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.
Nathan Weston Jun

State of Maine.
KENNEBEC, ss.—I, JOHN A. CHANDLER, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of Kennebec, hereby certify that the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, before whom the within proceedings was had, is a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State; I also certify that the within contains the original proceedings of the said Judge, in the matter of the application of Lewis Webber for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this 20 th day of July
A. D. 1832.
J. A. Chandler Clerk

Lewis Webbers priv. Maine Roll N o 6.661.
1 Sched. Feb. 18 th 1829.
Val. Prof. 738.
Income - 50.
72. Van Old -
Not entitled $708 cl. o. d Not
R. C. Vose Augent Mr

DECLARATION,
In order to be restored to the Pension List, under the act of the 1st March, 1823.
State of Maine.
COUNTY OF Kennebec , ss.
ON this Eighteenth day of February , 1829 personally appeared Nathan Weston, Junr. a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court being a Court of Record for said County, proceeding according to the course of common law, having original jurisdiction unlimited in amount, keeping record of their proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment Lewis Webber , resident in said County, aged seventy two years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Acts of the eighteenth of March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, the first of May, eighteen hundred and twenty, and the first of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-three—that he the said Lewis Webber enlisted for the term of one year on the not recollected day of March in the year 1776 in the State of Massachusetts in the Company commanded by Captain Beighall Olney in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Hitchcock in the troops of the State of Rhode Island on the Continental establishment; that he continued to serve in the said corps until Feby. or March 1777 when he was discharged from the said service in Monmouth in the State of New Jersey that his name has been placed on the pension list, and dropped therefrom on account of his property.  his pension certificate is numbered 6,661 that he did not make a schedule under the law of May 1. 1820, understanding at that time, no one could draw a pension who held any real estate.
AND, in pursuance of the Act of the first May, eighteen hundred and twenty, I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, 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 Naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the eighteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, 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.
Attest R. C. Morse,
his mark Lewis Webber
SWORN to and declared, on the Eighteenth day of February 1829, before
Nathan Weston, Junr.

SCHEDULE of the Real and Personal Estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted)
belonging to me the subscriber, viz: A life estate during my natural life in a lot of land about twenty acres under improvement with a house & barn thereon the value of said property, does not exceed $650. And the yearly income of the same does not exceed $50. a year { 650.- 40 acres of wild land worth $1.50 per acre { 60. One horse of the value of twenty dollars { 20. Old household stuff besides bedding, viz. 4 chairs - 1 Table - 1 old desk - 1 low chest - 1 iron pot - 1 tea kettle - 1 bake kettle - a few articles of crockery ware - 4 knives & forks & a few spoons - all not worth more than eight dollars } 8.00 No debts due me that can be collected some about $30. } $738.00
Except the above my necessary bedding & clothing I have no estate or income whatever, Attest R. C. Rose, Lewis his X Webbe
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me. Lewis Webbe who, by occupation am a farmer which I am unable to pursue by reason of old age & a stoppage in my water, for the last seven years.
   Names. Ages. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     Rezah my wife 70 Rheumatick feeble in health.   Attest R. C. Rose, Lewis his X Webbe mark.  
That since the exhibition of my first Schedule, the following changes have been made in my property.
   Names of the persons to whom sold. Time of Sale. Amount of Money, or description of property received in return.      
I, Robert C. Rose, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts within the said County of Kennebec do hereby certify, that it appears, to the satisfaction of the Court, that the said Lewis Webbe did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, under one engagement, on the continental establishment. I also certify, that the foregoing oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Records of said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is Seven hundred thirty eight dollars and that the total amt. of income of said Lewis Webbe, does not exceed $50. per annum.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this eighteenth day of February 1829, R. C. Rose, Clerk of the Court of the County of Kennebec.

I Joseph Stuart aged forty five years of China in the County of Kennebec, Esq, do affirm & declare that I am well acquainted with Lewis Webber, within named, I have a near neighbor to said Webber I have for fifteen years last past. I have been one of the assessors of said Town for seven years during that time & I am well satisfied that the value of the property mentioned within does not exceed the value affixed to the same & that the yearly income of his life estate in said property, viz, fifty dollars a year, is estimated at the extent of the yearly income of the same. The said Webber is very infirm wholly past labor.
Joseph Stuart
Subscribed & affirmed to before me, this eighteenth day of February A.D. 1829 - the deponent being to me known as a credible witness.
Nathan Weston, Junr.
a true copy
attest R. C. Vose, Clerk.

November 10, 1938.
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Miss Georgia M. Clark P.O.Box 254 Centerville, Massachusetts
Lewis Webber S.18270 BA-J/ady
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letters in which you request the Revolutionary War record, in duplicate, of Lewis Webber, and the record of Charles Jackson of Vassalborough, Maine.
There is no claim for pension or bounty land on file based upon the military service in the Revolutionary War of Charles Jackson as described by you, all spellings of the names searched.
The record of Lewis Webber is furnished you herein as shown in his claim for pension, S.18270, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War. A carbon copy is enclosed also, for your convenience, and your three cent stamp, also.
Lewis Webber was born in York, Maine, date and the names of his parents are not shown.
Lewis Webber enlisted, place not stated, in March 1776, and served eleven months as private in Captain Coggeshall Olney's Company, Colonel Hitchcock's Rhode Island Regiment. He enlisted about May 1779, served as private in Captain John Blunt's Company, Colonel McCobb's Massachusetts Regiment, was in the expedition to Bagaduce, was taken prisoner, carried to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and was then exchanged; length of service four months.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 1, 1818, at which time he was aged sixty-one years, and a resident of Harlem, that part which was later China, Kennebec County, Maine.

In 1829 soldier's wife, Keziah, her maiden name not stated, was aged seventy years. There are no further family data.
The soldier, Lewis Webber, died January 4, 1838, place not stated. en 1/3.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

Lewis Webber

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, November 9 th 1832.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that Lewis Webber served in Capt. John Hunt's company in Col. McCobb's reg t , in the expedition against Penobscot from commencing the 25 th of June, ending the 28 th of Sept. 1779, and was paid for three months service.
82 additional
Edward D. Bangs. Secy

6661 /
Maine,
Lewis Webber, private
Rhode Island line, 14 years In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of the District of Maine at the rate of — 8 — Dollars per month, to commence on the 7 th of April 1818 —
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 th of Feby. 1819 and del d . R. C. Vose
Arrears to 4th of Sep r 1818. 5 mo 4/30 41. 06 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 March 1819. 48.00
$89.06
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Has been Discontinued
Letter R.C. Vose 28 3/4 Dec 1832
Modification sent to R.C. Vose May 11, 1837

Levi Wilson

I William Pullen of Waterville in the County of Kennebec and State of Massachusetts aged sixty five do testify and declare on oath that I well knew Lewis Webber at present of Harlem in the County & State aforesaid as a private soldier in the War of the revolution against the common enemy and that the said Lewis Webber served in Captain Coggeshale's Company and Col. Holbrook's Regiment from March 1776 to January 1777 the full period of nine months at which time he took his honorable discharge at Peekskill in the State of New York the term of his enlistment having ended. William Pullen
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Kennebec ss
On this fourteenth day of January 1819 personally appeared the abovenamed William Pullen and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed before me
Asa South Justice of the Peace

House of Representatives July 22 1818
I certify that I am acquainted with William Patten, within named he is a credible witness Frederick Porter, - who subscribed the annexed deposition is also in my opinion a credible witness - and I further certify that Asa Soule Esq within is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Kennebec —
Joshua Gage

Lewis Webber, Harlem, p. Col. Hitchcock, R.I. Reg March 1776. 11 mo
April 1. 1870
Admitted
Lewis Webber

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
to the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
The subscriber, being Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify to your Honor, that Lewis Webber , a citizen of the United States, now resident in Harlem , in the said County of Hancock , in the District of Maine, on the first day of April , A. D. 1818, made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and such other evidence, as was in his power to produce; and to transmit the same, and the proceedings had thereon, to your Honor; that he might be placed on the pension list of the United States, agreeably to the provisions of an Act, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed March 18, A. D. 1818, which declaration, and the other evidence produced by the said applicant, is hereunto annexed.
And I do further certify to your Honor, that after a full examination of the said applicant, and a careful consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me that the said applicant did serve as a private soldier , in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, for more than nine months, as stated in his declaration aforesaid; and so far as it is within my knowledge, of which I have no other evidence that from his reduced circumstances, he needs the assistance of his country for support.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the Court in which I preside, to be hereunto affixed, this eighth day of June in the year of our LORD one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Nathan Weston Jun. C. J. C. C. C. Pleas 2 d E. Circuit

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
KENNEBEC, ss.
THE Subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Kennebec, hereby certifies, that the Honorable NATHAN WESTON, Junior, Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset ; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto his Certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he presides.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand : Dated at Augusta, in said County of Kennebec, this tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
John Davis

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Lewis Webber, aged sixty one years, born in York in the District of Maine, but now of Harlem in said District, a citizen of the United States, upon oath testify and declare, that I enlisted as a private soldier into the continental service of the United States against the common enemy in the fore part of March 1776 into the company commanded by Coggeshall Olney, and regiment commanded by Col Hitchcock of I think the Rhode Island line. In this service I continued until February or March 1777 when having served out the term of my enlistment and one month more, I took my honorable discharge from the army, at Springfield New Jersey. I am nearly passed my labor, have no means of living but my labor, and stand in need of the bounty of the government. And I do hereby relinquish all my claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the U. States, if any; but I am not bound, to my knowledge, upon any pension list whatever. I request that I may be put upon the pension list for the District of Maine. My discharge from the army I have not preserved.
Lewis Webber
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Kennebec Co.
On the first day of April A D 1818 Lewis Webber above named, after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration, by him submitted.
Before me Nathan Weston Esq.
Chief Justice C. Court C Plead, Second Eastern Circuit
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Frederic Porter of Pittston in the District of Maine of lawful age upon oath testify and declare that I am acquainted with the abovenamed Lewis Webber. I know that he served as he has above stated, as I served the whole time in the same company with him. I have no doubt but he is fully to be believed. Frederic Porter
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Kennebec Co.
On the first day of April A D 1818, Frederic Porter above named, after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition, by him submitted.
Before me, Nathan Weston Esq.
Chief Justice C. Court C Plead, Second Eastern Circuit

MASSACHUSETTS DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
MRS. FRANK L. NASON STATE REGENT
MISS GEORGIA M. CLARK, STATE VICE CHAIRMAN CONSERVATION COMMITTEE, IN CHARGE AMERICAN INDIANS P. O. BOX 254, CENTERVILLE, MASS.
September 30, 1938.
Director of Pensions Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir;
Have you any record of the revolutionary service of Ensign or Capt. Charles Jackson of Vassalborough, Maine , According to the Town Records of Vassalborough, he was chosen Ensign, Jan. 16, 1776 of the Town Company, Ezekiel Pattee, first Lieut. On the marker at his grave in the Chadwick Cemetery at South China it says; "Capt. Charles Jackson, Continental Army", but there are no dates. According to our records his wife's name was Elizabeth ----- and my great grandfather, his son was Alexander. There may have been other children but we have no record of them. If you have any data of him, would you give it to me, please. This is also for D. A. R. work. I cannot find anything in Mass. Sailors and Soldiers in the War of the Revolution, that is, anything that I can prove as mine as I have so little about him. I know he was Constable in 1780, surveyor 1782. In the first Census of the U. S. Heads of Families in Maine, 1790, Lincoln County, Vassalborough Town; it reads
"Charles Jackson 2 males 5 females."
Any help you can give me will be most gratefully received and if there is any fee for services, I shall be happy to comply with same.
Very truly yours,
Georgia M. Clark

USETTS DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
MRS. FRANK L. NASON
STATE REGENT
MISS GEORGIA M. CLARK, STATE VICE CHAIRMAN CONSERVATION COMMITTEE, IN CHARGE AMERICAN INDIANS P. O. BOX 254, CENTERVILLE, MASS.
September 30, 1938
Director of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir;
In accordance with information received from the Adjutant General at Augusta, Maine., J. W. Hanson) I am writing to you in regard to the following named person in the hopes you may be able to give me a little more information. I quote from the letter of the Adjutant General to me under date of September 26th.
"Lewis Webber appears as a Maine Revolutionary pensioner with the following references:- List, '35 d; Service, R.I. line; Rank, Private; age, 80; County, Kennebec."
This Lewis Webber was my great, great grandfather and I should like to know about his service in the Revolutionary war and any dates you may have concerning him. My records are very incomplete. I have that he died bet. 1836-39, but that is only from another member of the family and I am not certain. His daughter Rebecca married Ephraim Clark. Can you give me this man's data and if possible I should like it in duplicate as I want to use in in D. A. R. material and must have two certified copies of his record. I shall be glad to pay any charges for same.
On a separate page I am asking for another service and hope you can give me this record too. I am anxious to get both records for D. A. R. papers.
Very truly yours,
Georgia M. Clark

I 18270
INVALID.
File No. 18270
Lewis Webber
Miss Rev War
Act: June 7 th 39
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 401
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1938 Nov. 10. Hist. to Georgia M. Clapp.