Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 28796, for Lebbeus Loomis, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn. Continental
Loomis, Lebbeus or Libbeus
S. 28796
{ B.L. No. 1256-200-Lieut. Issued Apr. 20, 1790. No papers.
CONTENTS

32.264
New York
Gibbens Coomes, decd. of Otsego Co. in the State of NY who was a Lt Col in the Conn. commanded by Captain _____ of the reg 4th commanded by Colo Webber in the Conn. line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 480 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. Vending 10 Jan'y 1836 when he died
Certificate of Pension issued the 31 day of Decr. 1844 and sent to D.D. Addison Esq. Present.
Arrears to the 4th of
Semi-ann. allowance ending
Pay to D.H. Smith Esq. of Gibbens Coomes, decd.
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. Recorded by J. L. Swan Clerk, Book C 2 Vol. 4 Page 43
Outstanding $320 per Ann. since 4 1831 under the Act of 1828.
Repr. see Set. to Agf. Dec. 31 - 1844

25.900
Libbens Loomis
1836
N.Y.
Act 7. June '39
adm
2 yrs Ld adgt
480 $ did not what has been p? under act of 15 May '28 since 4 March '31. to 10 Jany 36 - the day of his death
To David H Little Esq. Exr of Libbens Loomis deceased
H. H. Addison Agent

I David H Little of Cherry Valley in the County of Otsego & State of New York Executor of the late Libbus Loomis make the following declaration in order to obtain the increase of pension due the said Libbus Loomis at the time of his death under the act of June 7 th 1832
Lieut Loomis late of Otsego County New York was a pensioner under the act of May 15 th 1828 at the rate of $320 per annum for his services as Lieutenant in the Continental Connecticut Continental Line and received his pension up to the tenth Tenth day of January 1836 the day of his death.
In addition to his services as Lieutenant in the Line I am informed Lieut Loomis served as Adjutant in the Staff which service I am informed entitled him to a higher rate of pension under the act of June 7 th 1832 viz $480 per annum Commencing on the 4 th day of March 1831 and terminating on the tenth day of January 1836 the day of his death.
Lieut Libbus Loomis having only received $320 per annum during the above period I now claim as his Executor the difference between $320 per annum the amount which he received under the act of May 15 th

1828 and $450 per annum the amount he was entitled to receive under the act of June 7 th 1832 from the 4 th of March 1831 to the day of his death And request that a certificate of pension may be issued accordingly in my name as his executor he having left neither widow or children
David H Little
Sworn & subscribed before me this Nineteenth Day of October 1844 and I certify that the above said David H Little is known to me as a credible person
J. Campbell
Justice of the Peace for the County of Allegany State of New York.
I, Joby D. Hammond one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in the County of Allegany & Chancellor at Law do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of said Court that Libbings Loomis late of Allegany County & State of New York died on the Tenth Day of January 1838.
That he left no widow or children or child and that David H Little is sole executor of said Libbings Loomis
Joby D. Hammond, one of the Judges of Allegany County Court of Common Pleas in the State of New York

I George B. Wilson Clerk of the County of Oregon do hereby certify that Henry J. Campbell is a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Oregon before whom the annexed declaration was sworn to by Daniel McLellan & that the signature of said Justice is genuine And I also certify that Gaby D. Haimann & Ermine is one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Oregon and that his signature to the foregoing certificate is genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal at office this 21 st day of Oct 1844.
G. B. Wilson Clerk

State of New-York, } ss. I, BENJAMIN FERRIS, Clerk of City and County of New-York, } the City and County of New-York, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the said City and County, Do hereby Certify, That PETER AUGUSTUS JAY , Esquire, before whom the annexed affidavit was made, and who hath subscribed his name to the Certificate also hereto annexed, was on the day when the said Affidavit was made, and the said Certificate signed, Recorder of the City of New-York, and a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, called the Mayor's Court of the City of New-York, and duly commissioned and sworn. And further, that the said Court is a Court of Record; that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Peter Augustus Jay, and verily believe that the signature of P A Jay ————— subscribed to the said Certificate, is the proper hand writing of the said Peter Augustus Jay.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, this 21 st day of July — 1819
Benj. Ferris Clerk

women reduced circumstances in life and needs the assistance of his country for support - P. Jay - 21 July 1819 - from the estate 1819
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Lebbeus Loomis Officer
Peter A. Jay Ruler City of N. York Recd July 27. 1819.
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To the Honorable Peter Augustus Jay Recorder of the City of New-York, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, called the Mayor's Court of the City of New-York, which is a Court of Record of the State of New-York,
The Declaration under oath of Lebrus Loomis formerly an Officer engaged in the Service of the United States, during the Revolutionary War, and now a Citizen of the United States, and resident of the City of New-York aforesaid
Respectfully showeth, that the said Lebrus Loomis Entered the Service in May 1775 as a Soldier in Capt. Wells Company Col. Spencers Regiment from the State of Connecticut and served until Jan'y 1776 - Enlisted in Jan'y 1776 in Capt. Wells Company, Col. Myllys Regiment, was in the Battle on Long Island in 76 - Served until Jan'y 1st 1777 - & enlisted as a Sargeant in Capt. Hydes Company 4th Connecticut Regiment, Commanded by Col. John Durkee - was in the Battle of Germantown the 4th of Oct r 1777 - in the Capacity of Serg t Major of said Regiment, was at the Battle of Monmouth Plains under the Command of Major General Lee 28th June 1778 - was then a Lieut. & Adjutant of the 4th Connecticut Regiment - Commanded by Col. John Durkee, & Continued in the Revolutionary War in the Connecticut line from May 1775 until Oct r 1783 - being then discharged at West Point - Having serv d my Country from the Commencement of the war to its termination, it being about Eight & a half years - As proof of my Service - Annex an two Subaltern Com- missions - One 2 Lieut. (Dated 5th March 1778 One 1st do - " 23 d April 1780 -
And this Declaration further representeth that the said Lebrus Loomis is now a Citizen of the United States, and residing in the City of New-York aforesaid,

and is by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, in need of assistance from his country for support;
Therefore he conceives himself entitled to the benefit of the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," approved, March 18, 1818, and requests that your Honor will examine into the truths of the matters aforesaid, certify and transmit the testimony in this case, and the proceedings had thereon to the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War, to the end that such relief may be had in the premises, as is by law in such case provided. And in support of the facts above set forth, he refers to the two Commissions of himself and of the testimony of Isaac Keeler Esq. hereafter set forth,
Dated, the 20 th day of July - 1819 Lebbus Loomis
City and County of New-York, ss. Lebbus Loomis of the City of New-York Aforesaid
being duly sworn, says, that the matters by him set forth in the foregoing Declaration, are in all respects just and true.
Sworn - the 20 th day of July - 1819 before me, } P. A. Jay -
Lebbus Loomis
City & County of New-York - Is - Isaac Keeler of the City of New-York aforesaid, being sworn, doth depose and say, that he Entred the army in the Revolutionary War, in the 3rd Connecticut Regiment in the year 1775. That he received a Commission in 1777 - in said Regiment. That he continued in said line until Peace 1783 - This deponent further saith, that he was personally acquainted with the above applicant Lebbus Loomis & I knew him to be a Lieutenant & adjutant in the Connecticut Line - from the year 1777 until Peace - when we were both of us discharged from the Army at West Point - in 1783 - That the deponent further saith, that he has known the aforesaid applicant for about twenty years last past to be a respectable Citizen -
Isaac Keeler
Sworn the 20 th July 1819 P. A. Jay - Before me

City and County of New-York, ss. Be it Remembered, That on the twentieth — day of July — in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Nineteen before me, Peter Augustus Jay — Recorder of the City of New-York, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, called the Mayor's Court of the City of New-York, which is a Court of Record of the State of New-York, personally appeared the aforesaid Lebrus Loomis — Applicant, and Isaac Kierle Esq well known by me to be a Respectable Citizen
entitled to the fullest credit, who being by me duly Sworn  deposed to the truth of the facts stated in the foregoing declaration —
Whereupon I being satisfied that the said Applicant did serve in the Army of the United States, on the Continental Establishment, in the Revolutionary War, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months and longer, to wit, for the term and in the manner stated in the declaration of the said Applicant; and that he is fairly and justly entitled to the benefit of the Act aforesaid.
Therefore, I do hereby Certify and transmit the testimony in the case, and the proceedings had thereon, as before set forth, to the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War.
Given under my Hand and the Seal of the said Court, at the City of New-York, the day and year last above written.
P. A. Jay —
City of New York ss: Richard Greenwood Williams being duly sworn saith that is a Clerk and Book Keeper of the above named Lebrus Loomis and knoweth that he hath recently sustained loss to a very considerable amount and that he is now in reduced circumstances in life and needs the assistance of his Country for support.
Sworn 20 July 1819.
Before me
P. A. Jay —
R. Williams

I Peter Augustus Jay Recorder of the City of New York do certify that I am personally acquainted with the within named Deponent Isaac Keler who is a respectable man & to whom testimony full faith may be given - and further that I have personally known the within named petitioner Lebbeus Loomis for fifteen Years & upwards & that he has sustained an irreproachable Character. That he is a merchant & has been in good circumstances, but that I am satisfied by his oath and that of Griswold witnesses that the said Lebbeus Loomis is now in reduced circumstances in life and needs the assistance of his Country for support - P 21 July 1819 -
From the 21 st July
1819
4444 Lebbeus Loomis Officer Peter A. Jay Recorder City & Ct. N.Y. Mar. 27. 1819.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
October 1, 1894.
Sir:-
In response to your request for the military history of Lebbeus Loomis, an officer of the Revolutionary war, you are advised that he made an application for pension in July, 1819, and in his dec- laration he made the following statement relative to his services:
"Entered the service in May, 1775, as a soldier in Capt. Wells' Co., Col. Spencer's Regt., from the State of Connecticut, and served until January, 1776; enlisted in January, 1776, in Capt. Wells' Co., Col. Wylllys' Regt., was in the battle on Long Island in 1776, served until Jan. 1, 1777; re-enlisted as sergeant in Capt. Hyde's Co., 4th Connecticut Regt. commanded by Col. John Durkee, -- was in the battle of Germantown the 4th. of October, 1777, in the capacity of Sergeant Major of said Regt; was at the battle of Monmouth Plains under the command of Major Gen. Lee, 28th. June, 1778, --- was then a Lieut. and Adjt. of the 4th. Connecticut Regt. comman- ded by Col. John Durkee; continued in the Revolutionary war on the Connecticut line from May, 1778, until October, 1783, being then discharged at West Point and having served my Country from the commence- ment of the war to its termination, it being about eight and one half years."
Very respectfully,
Chief, O. W. & N. Division.
John Durkee

18.180 New York
Sebbens Loomis
New York in the state of New York was a Lieutenant in the regiment commanded by Colonel Durkee of the Connecticut line, for the term of 8 years.
scribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on the 20 of July 1819
ertificate of Pension issued the 7 of Sep. 1819 and sent to the Pensioner City of New York
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819 1 mo \frac{12}{31} + \frac{4}{30} 30.59 semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 March 1820. 120 -
$150.59
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED
To Lebbeus Davis Gentleman Greeting. We Reposing especial trust and confidence in your Patriotism, Valor, Conduct and Fidelity, DO by these presents constitute and appoint you to be an Ensign in the 10th Connecticut Regiment in the Army of the United States to take rank as a 2nd Lieutenant from the 1st day of March A.D. 1775. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of an Ensign by doing and performing all manner of things therein belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your command to be obedient to your orders as given to you and that you are to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time, as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United States or Committee of Congress for that purpose appointed, a Committee of the States or Commander in chief for the time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your superior Officer, according to the rules and discipline of War, in pursuance of the trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in force until revoked by this or a future Congress, the Committee of Congress before mentioned or Committee of the States.
Entered in the War Office and examined by the Board Attest
E. Huntington Secretary of the Board of War
Witness His Excellency John Jay Esq. President of the Congress of the United States of America at Philadelphia the 10th day of March 1775 and in the third year of our Independence.
John Jay

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED
To Colonel William Howe Greeting. We, reposing special trust and confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct, and Fidelity, DO by these presents constitute and appoint you to be a Lieutenant in the Pennsylvania Key-Stone Battery, in the Army of the United States, to take rank as [blank] from the 20th day of July 1776. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of [blank] by doing and performing all manner of things therein belonging. And we do hereby charge and require all Officers and Soldiers, under your command, to be obedient to your orders, as And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions, from time to time, as you shall receive from this, or a future Congress of the United States, or a Committee of Congress for that purpose appointed, or a Committee of the States, or Commander in Chief for the time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your Superior Officer, according to the rules and discipline of War, in pursuance of the trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in force until revoked by this, or a future Congress, the Committee of Congress, before mentioned, or a Committee of the States.
Entered in the War Office and examined by the Board of Officers
Witness the Congress of the United States of America, at the day of 17, and in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy six. Independence. Secretary of the Board of War
President of the Congress. Thos. M c Intire

INVALID.
File No. 28,796
Libbens Loomis
Lieut Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32 nd
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 286
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1894 Oct. 1 Mil. Hist. to Gen. W. F. Dana chief Q.M. Div. Pension office, City.

Libbey Loomis
NY Oct 32
Dear Addison Present

Comptroller's Office Hartford Connecticut
December 21 1844
I certify that the following is the proof of the service of Libbicus Loomis as appears on the Books containing the rolls of the Conn- t'l Service in this Office
Settlement with the 4 th Conn't Reg't John Durkee Esq re Col l before Jan y 1 st 1781
Page 41
Libbicus Loomis Lieut. & Adj t commenced Service March 1 st 1778 time of this Settlement Jan y 1 st 1781 Amount of Wages £264 term of Service 1 year & 10 months
Page 203
Libbicus Loomis Lieut. & Adj t commenced Service Jan y 1 st 1780 time of this Settlement Jan y 1 st 1781 term of Service 1 year Amount of Wages £144.
A. Harrington, Comptroller

Oct 30. 1844.
A.
Libbey, Loomis & Co Oct 1828
Junicean Oct 32
Franklin Co.
Miss. Miss. Farmers

Washington October 29 th 1832
Wor Sir,
Enclosed is the application of the Executor of Debeus Stormis deceased for an increase of pension due said Stormis, at the time of his death. Mr Stormis, was a pensioner under the act of May 15 th 1828, at $320 p. annum, for his services as Lieutenant and his Executor now claims an increase under the act of June 7 th 1832, on account of his additional services as Adjutant .
Most respectfully requesting an early examination of the same
I remain Yr. m. O. S. W. O. Addison
James L Edwards Esq. (Comm. of Pensions)

1528 papers to be filed with ad awd
# 42,888

New York 19 June 1828
Hon. Richard Rush Secretary of the Treasury Washington Sir
I enclose papers to obtain the benefits of the act for the relief of certain summing Officers of the Revue as also a letter for Colo Ogden
The amount to which I may be entitled which I hope may include an allowance as Adjutant I wish to have inclosed to me in this City
I am Sir with perfect respect your ob't Servt
Nathaniel Lewis

no of orig Pay 160
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REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
10 July 1828.
Lebbens Loomis. — of the City ————— in the County of and ————— in the State of New York has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he was as an officer on the Continental line, and served as such to the end of the war,
at which period he was a Lieutenant in the Col Swifts regiment of the Connecticut line; and that he received commutation certificates for the five years full pay granted by the re- solve of 22 March, 1783; and, further, that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, Nothing. ————— dollars, paid to him by the agent in the State of
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary, A. G. Smith.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
11. July 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that final settlement certificates have been issued for the commutation of five years full pay to Lebbens Loomis - Lieut. - in the Connecticut line, amounting to Sixteen Hundred dollars.
It further appears that Lebbens Loomis - is now on the pension list of the any - - - agency, and has been since the 3d March 1826 at the rate of per month.
John H. Agner Aud
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correctly.

"AN ACT FOR REVOLUTION,"
of in the State of the Army
State of New-York, } ss. CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW-YORK, }
I, NICHOLAS DEAN, Clerk of the City and County of New-York, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said City and County, Do hereby Certify,
THAT Richard R. Waite Esq! before whom the annexed depositions were made was on the day when the same were so made a Commissioner duly appointed and sworn and by law authorized to administer Oaths and take Affidavits to be read in all Courts of Record within the State of New York
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court and County, this 18 day of
June 1828
N. Dean

For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an Act, entitled, "AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF CERTAIN SURVIVING OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS OF THE ARMY OF THE REVOLUTION," approved on the 15th day of May, 1828, I, Lebina Loomis of City and in the County of New York - in the State of New York do hereby declare, that I was an Officer in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution, and served as such to the end of the war at which time I was first Lieutenant and Adjutant in Colonel Heman Swift's Regiment in the Connecticut Line. I further declare that I served as a private soldier in the campaign of 1775 - was a sergeant in the campaign of 1776 in Capt. Hyde's Company in Col. Samuel Myles's Regiment. A. Sergeant & Major in 1777 in Col. John Brooks's Regiment. That in November of that year I received an Ensign's Commission; was in the same month appointed Adjutant Brooks's Regiment. That I received a Lieutenant's Commission in March 1778 & acted as adjutant in the different Regiments of the Connecticut Line to the close of the war at which time I was adjutant to Col. Swift's Regiment; that I served as Adjutant three years & was discharged when the regiment was disbanded at West Point by order of General Washington in October 1783. Having served 8 1/2 years from the 1st May 1775 to the close of October 1783. And I also declare, that I afterwards received Certificates (commonly called Commutation Certificates) for a sum equal to the amount of five years' full pay; which sum was offered by the resolve of Congress, of the 22d of March, 1783, instead of the half pay for life, to which I was entitled under the resolve of the 21st of October 1780.
Witness my hand this Twentieth day of June , in the year 1828
Before me - Richard R Ward Commissioner
BEFORE ME, Richard R Ward a Commissioner duly authorized to administer Oaths &c. &c. in the City & County of New York in the State of New York personally appeared, this day, Rufus H. Lewis and Jeffery Ward of the said County, who did, severally, make oath, that Lebina Loomis by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been an Officer in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated.
Witness my hand, this Eighteenth day of June in the year 1828
R R Ward Commissioner
Robt Morris Henry Ward

Extract from a paper without date or signature, endorsed, "Arrangement of New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut, by Committee at White Plains, with some few alterations. — Copy."
"Arrangement of the Connecticut Regiments.
X      X      X      X      X      X      X
4 th Regiment.
   Rank. Names. Date of Commissions.     Colonel John Durkee August 10 th 1776   Lt. Colonel John Sumner Sept. 24 1777   Major Eli Levensworth Feby 10 1778   Captains 1 John Harman Jany 1 st 1777   2 John McGregor do do   3 Nathaniel Webb do do   4 Andrew Fitch do do   5 Robert Hallam resign? May 20 th 79. July 31 st do   6 Seth Phelps June 1 st 1778   Captain Lieut. Samuel Clift 1 st Jany. 1777   Lieutenants 1 Daniel Wait deserted Jany 1 st 79. do do   X      X      X      X      X      X   Ensigns 1 Ebenezer Wales Rank as 2 d Lieut. Jany 1 st 1777   X      X      X      X      X      X   9 Lebbeus Loomis Rank as 2 d Lieut. August 1 st 1778   Paymaster   Adjutant Lebbeus Loomis. "  

Department of State, December 5 th 1844.
J. L. Edwards Esquire, Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir,
Your letter of the 2 d instant asking evidence from the Washington Papers of the service of Lebbeus Loomis as a Lieutenant and Adjutant in the Connecticut Line of the Continental Army, has been received, and enclosed I send you an extract from those papers, containing the only evidence found in the case.
I am, Sir,
Your obedt. servt.
H. C. Calhoun

see let: to D.D. Addison No. 35.900.
Nov. 29. 44
See letter to same Oct. 9. 44
Ms. Libberty Looman N. York
ad June 7. 1832