Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 15,024, for Benjamin Lewis, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Lewis, Benjamin Sarah
W. 15.024
CONTENTS

Massachusetts ... 1323.
Sarah Lewis, widow of Benjamin Lewis, decd.
Man who died on the 1 st of February, 1817; of Middlesex co in the State of Mass: 2 who was a corp l . in the comp y commanded by Captain Burnham, of the Reg t commanded by _____ in the Mass: mi- liti ia 8 Mos. annual.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts - at the rate of 29 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 th day of Au- gust, 1837 and sent to W. Richardson, Woburn, Mass:.
Arrears to the 4 th of March, '37 $175.98 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept. " 14:66
$190:64
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 2 d . }
Recorded by S. A. Elliot, Clerk, Book A. Vol. 2 Page 54.

Certificate of Marriage Beryl Lewis & to Sarah Blanchard.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Town of Billerica
Town Clerk's Office
January 13 th A.D. 1837.
I Marshall Preston, do on oath, declare that I am Clerk of the Town of Billerica, in the County of Middlesex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts and that I have the custody of the Records of said Town, and that it appears by said Records that "Benjamin Lewis Junr, & Sarah Blanchard, both of Billerica were married by Rev. Henry Cummings, July 18 th 1775"
Marshall Preston Town Clerk Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex ss, February 13 th A.D. 1837. Then personally appeared Marshall Preston, the subscriber to the above certificate and made solemn oath to the truth of the same.
Before me Herman Winthrop Junr of the Bar

Widow Sarah Lewis. V 1100 of Bury Mass
M Married July 1775 - died 1817
Adn d Capt 8 mo 1729-33 for Ann - coming & mar 1831
Mch Milton Capt. Harnden See Vol 15 p 82
W Richard Esq Trabue Wash

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex County ss.
On this sixth day of December, A.D. 1836. personally appeared before me Sam l C. Fay Esquire, Judge of the Court of Probate, in & for said County of Middlesex; Sarah Lewis, a resident of Wilmington, in said County, aged eighty two years, who being first sworn duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision, made by the act of Congress, passed July 4 th 1836.
That she is the widow of Benjamin Lewis, late of Greenfield, in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, & formerly, in the years 1795-26, resided in Billerica, in said Commonwealth & afterwards, for nearly forty years in Milford in said State of New Hampshire. That he was in the Revolutionary service, at different periods, & under different engagements, as nearly as she can remember, as follows. That he engaged in the eight months service as a private, immediately after Rance's fight, in April 1775 - & served under Capt. John Harned of said Wilmington - her brother William Blanchard, was an Of- ficer in the same Company, & stationed at Cambridge, Massachusetts - & after having served eight months under that engagement, he im- mediately enlisted for the term of a year. That he returned home, she believes, the last of April, 1776 - & procured a substitute to take his place, the remainder of the year, - having served

himself, not less than four months, as she be- lieves, in this engagement, in a Capt. Lewis Company - but where he marched, or was stationed or in whose Regiment he was - she does not know - She afterwards in the same next year, engaged for four five months - but does not re- member the day or month he marched, & does not know the name of his Captain, or Colonel. - He went to the northward & was a part of the Army at Ticonderoga & returned in 1777, having served four five months - whether he was drafted, enlisted, or went as a substitute in either of these terms, she does not know. - He was in the War, according to her best re- collection sixteen or seventeen months in all; & she claims a pension for that term of time - She has not procured his discharge & has no documents to prove his services - & knows of no per- son living, who was in the same Company, or Regiment with him.
She further declares that her maiden name was Sarah Blanchard - That she was mar- ried to said Benjamin Lewis, on the eighteenth day of July 1775, by the Rev. Henry Cummings, a said of Pellicia, then the settled minister of that town. That her husband, the aforesaid Benjamin Lewis, died on the first day of February, AD 1817, aged 64 years, & that she has remained a widow ever since that period - as will appear by re- ferendum to the affidavits hereto annexed.
The said Sarah corrects the statement as first made above, in the year & number of months - to wit - she states, that A. in the year 1777, husband he enlisted to go the northward & according to the best of her recollection he marched in the month of July & returned home after Thanksgiving, which must have been about the first of December - The soldiers of his company were assembled at Wilton in New Hampshire where  where her husband then lived on a tract of land in New Hampshire, which is now

Milford - She is clear & confident in her recollection. That he served the first eight months, was in the battle of Bunker Hill - That he served four months in the early part of the year 1776 in the company of Captain Lewis which was from Rhode Island, as she has always heard her husband say - She also under understood that he enlisted & served as a sergeant in that company. He left on account of his getting lame & hired a substitute for the residue of his term - She is also very confident that he served as long as four months, was a third class enlistment probably longer, at least sixteen months -
Isaac Lewis
Subscribed & sworn to the day & year just above written
before
J. P. Pay Clerk
And the said judge of Probate hereby certifies his opinion after examination of said Applicant & full investigation the matter - that said Applicant's husband served as she is stated at least sixteen months four months of the time as sergeant - He does further certify that said Applicant is a respectable & credible person, & that her statements are entitled to credit -
J. P. Pay Clerk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex ss.
I Isaac Rootes Register of the Court of Probate in & for the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth aforesaid hereby certify that Samuel Rootes whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate is the judge of said Court duly commissioned & qualified. I also certify that William Richardson is a justice of the Peace in & for said County of Middlesex duly commissioned & qualified & that the signature written to the certificate of the deposition of Marshall Rootes herewith annexed is his genuine signature.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this twentieth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty seven.
Isaac Rootes By J. P. Pay Clerk

Sarah Lewis and of Benjamin Lewis Sus at Wlrichadsoo May 10 1837 Admitted
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Admitted 1836
2)29.13 14.66 1/4

A. Since Mrs Sarah Lewis made oath to her declaration, I have conversed with her, & she believes her husband Benjamin Lewis served in his Third & last engagement, in the Regiment commanded by Col. (Stephen she thinks) Peabody Peabody of S. H. That his Company assembled & went (mustered) in Milton, S. H. near where she & her husband then lived. The Captain's name she does not remember or never knew. The Rolls of that Regiment may show his name & term of service. Col. Peabody's given name, she is not certain about, & there may be another of the same name.
Feby. 23. 1834.
Wymore Christensen Attorney to B. Lewis.

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 15024
Sarah Lewis
Widow of
Benjamin Lewis
Corp. Rev. War.
Act: July 4 th 1836
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 429
[Arrangement of 1870.]