Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32978, for Isaac Lewis, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Lewis, Isaac
S. 32978
CONTENTS

14-663 Massachusetts Isaac Lewis
of Millbraham in the state of Massa who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Saphir of the Massa line, for the term of 1 Year
Inscribed on the roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 15 of April, 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 of Sep r 1818 and sent to John Hickson Springfield Massa
Arrears to 4th of Sep r 1819  133.33 Semi-annual all'ce ending 1 st Mch 1820  48
16 2/3  $181.33
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{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
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28 54 16 2/3

Isaac Lewis
EW
14663
22 nd Apr 1819
Milwaukee
Mar 1850

COUNTY of Hampden
ss.
3
ON this tenth day of July 1820, personally appeared, in open court, before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas the same being a Court of Record and so established by a Statute of said Commonwealth, said Court being now in session at Springfield within and for said county of Hampden .
Isaac Lewis aged fifty eight years, resident in Siberaham who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: In the spring of the year 1781 he enlisted in the regular Continental Army of the United States he enlisted & entered the service at Amherst in the County of Hampshire & Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the Company of Captain Preuben Dickinson and immediately joined the Regiment commanded by Colonel Tupper of the Massachusetts Line and served in said Regiment in the Company commanded by Captain Buxton until the spring following viz 1782 comprising a period of eleven months that during said period he was at Nelsons Point & at West Point until after he was ranged out of said Regiment into the Regiment commanded by Colonel Jackson, after which he was marched up the North River about eighteen or twenty miles, from West Point near the then head quarters of General Washington, where he remained until he was discharged or released from the service - my original Application for a Pension under the act of March 14th 1818 was made April 15th 1818 & my certificate for a pension is Number 14,663.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 19th day of March, 1818; And that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any other manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby 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 18th day 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.
SCHEDULE.
  2 chains valued at $ 00.25 1 decanter $00.34 1 hammer $00.12 1/2   1 table 1.50 1 Sugar bowl 17 1 tub 25   1 tea kettle 25 1 pepper castor 12 1 keg 25   1 iron pot 92 1 tea canister 25 1 horse beam & weights 50   1 dish kettle 25 1 lamp 25   1 spider 17 1 quart bottle 12   1 pair fire dogs 50 1 salt mortar 25   1 iron shovel 25 1 chest 25   1 pair steel yards 25 1 blacksmiths bellows $00.00   1 looking glass 17 1 axe 50   1/2 doz plates 25 1 pair horse chains $00.50   1 pair shears 17 
Amounting in all to Sixteen Dollars & Eighty Cents.
And the said Isaac Lewis further on oath declares that he was bred to no particular trade, but has worked sometimes at casting iron in a small way, that his health is such as to prevent his labouring more than half the time & that when he would labour at casting, he is unable and has not the means to procure stock. That he has a wife who is infirm & one daughter 22 years old living with him who is also in feeble health, and unable to contribute any thing to his support.
Sworn to and declared on the tenth day of July 1820 before Isaac Lewis  Circuit Court of Common Pleas Attest John Ingersoll Clerk
Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath 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 Sixteen Dollars and Eighty Cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, on this fifteenth day of July 1820 John Ingersoll Clerk of the Court for the County of Hampden

Hampden Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
SS. B E IT REMEMBERED, That on the fifteenth day of April A. D. 1818, came before me, JOHN HOOKER,
Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western Circuit in said State, and including the said county of Hampden the above named
Isaac Lewis, I applied for the benefit of the laws of the Commonwealth entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval forces of the United States in the revolutionary war"
made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit, by him subscribed, and hereto annexed. I do thereupon hereby declare, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said
Isaac Lewis the applicant did serve in the revolutionary war, against the common enemy, for more than nine months, on the continental establishment, as set forth in his affidavit aforesaid, and that he is yet a resident citizen of the United States, is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of assistance from his country for support. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the said Circuit Court for the said county of Hampden
to be affixed hereto, this 15 th day of April 1818
Asst. Clerk John H. Russell I do therefore hereby certify the above & annexed as the testimony & proceedings had before me on the application aforesaid & transmit the same to the Secretary of the department of war of the United States - John Hooker

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampden Ss Springfield April 15 th A.D. 1818
Personally appeared before me John Hooker one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas within and for said County Isaac Lewis now resident in Wilbraham in said County and made solemn oath that in the month of April or May in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and eighty one he entered the regular service in the American Revolu- tionary army as a substitute for one Rice in the Company of Captain Brockton 8 th Regiment Commanded by Colonel Tupper of the Massachusetts line, and served as a private soldier on the Continental establishment against the Common Enemy, during about one year thereafter until the month of March in the year seventeen hundred and eighty two then at which time near West Point he received a permit or a discharge to return home which said permit or discharge he has since lost & has made diligent search therefor & can not find it - and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he stands in need of assistance from his Country for support Isaac Lewis
April 15.
See annexed affidavits
Isaac Lewis above named now on this 20 th day of Aug t A.D. 1819 before me John Hooker further declares on oath that when he left the service as above stated, his place was supplied by one Scott as his substitute - and that the service of himself & of Rice & of Scott was done on account of the Colaps in Amherst Mass ts when in every town Colaps were by the Laws of that State formed for ensuring a supply of Soldiers for the then Army - & that he, Lewis, did said service on account of the Colaps to which he belonged Isaac Lewis
Sworn to the day & year last aforesaid before me John Hooker above named

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampden ss Springfield May 4 th A.D. 1818
I Isaac Lewis above named on oath do further depose and say that I have made diligent enquiry & can not find, nor do I know any person now living who was in said service with me - that in the fall of the year 1781 while in said service I was placed at the Hospital near Nelson's point in the State of New York on the sick list that while there, the surgeons who visited & attended me were Doctors Mott, Wright & Cogswell, that I do not recollect the name of the head surgeon who superintended said Hospital that I am now in the fifty seventh year of my age Isaac Lewis
Sworn to the day & year last afore said before me
John Hooker
And now on the day & year last aforesaid personally appeared before me Joel Frost of said Wilbraham & on oath testifies & says that in the year 1782 when said Lewis returned from said service to his house in Ludlow in said County he s d Frost saw him s d Lewis & rowed him across the ferry that he then had with him his military equip- ments, that he s d Frost did not then doubt that s d Lewis had been in s d service, that he said Frost has been acquainted with s d Lewis about twenty five years that he has uniformly sustained a good character that he is honest & poor, & that he verily believes he served in revolutionary war as he has above testified Joel Frost
Sworn to May 4 1818 before
John Hooker affd

23 43 The Declaration and the certificate of Isaac Reed do not correspond as to the applicant having served as a substitute or whether he was returned
Isaac Lewis - Mass line Col. Tupper May 1701 1 yr -
I hereby return this application to the Secy of the department of War with the additional evidence of Mr Rice & Isaac Reed hereto annexed - Nov 10 th 1818 - John Hooker acting secretary
I hereby return this application with the supplementary declaration of the Applicant. Nov 20. 1819 - John Hooker
to Willard

32978 Ray INVALID.
File No. 32,978
Isaac Lewis
On Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 241
[Arrangement of 1870.]

I Isaac Reed of Northfield in the County of Franklin and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawfull age do testify and say that in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty one I served as a Soldier in the Massachusetts line of Continental troops in the tenth Regiment commanded by Col o Simeon Tupper, and that in the month of April or May of the same year Isaac Lewis joined the same Regiment as a Soldier in the Company commanded by Cap t Buxton and he served in that company for Ten or Eleven months — I further testify that I was well acquainted with said Lewis before he joined the Army and that I frequently did duty with him during the whole of said Ten or eleven months, when he was relieved by a substitute whose name I do not recoll- =ect during the abovesaid time of ten or eleven months we were both transferred into the tenth eighth Reg t command- =ed by Col o Jackson and further saith not. Isaac Reed Franklin J: Oct r 26 1818. Then personally appeared Isaac Reed signed to the foregoing deposition by him subscribed and made solemn Oath to the truth of the same before me Obad h Dickinson Jus Pac i
Franklin J: Oct r 26 1818 I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with Isaac Reed the aforesaid 'deponent' for eight- =een or twenty years past and believe him to be a man of truth and veracity
Obad h Dickinson

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Franklin ss.
I Rodolphus Dickinson, Clerk of the Judicial courts in said County, do hereby certify, that Obadiah Dickinson, whose name is subscribed was  there to the within-written certificates, is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, ac- cording to the Constitution and Laws of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit is, and ought to be given, to all his acts and attestations as such; and that the said certificates and signatures thereto are in his hand-writing. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the Western Circuit Court of Common Pleas in said Commonwealth, of which Circuit the said County is a part, this twenty seventh day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and the forty third year of American Independence.
Rodolphus Dickinson

I William Rice of Amherst in the County of Hampshire & Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age, do testify; that sometime during the revolutionary war I served as a soldier in the tenth Massachusetts regiment , commanded by Col. Tupper, & in the company commanded by Capt. Duckton, for the term of six months; at the expiration of which term Isaac Lewis enlisted in said company as a soldier in my stead, & I was in consequence thereof discharged; said regiment at the time of said Lewis' enlistment was stationed at Nelson's Point, in the state of New York. said Isaac Lewis was at that time an inhabitant of Amherst aforesaid, & belonged to the same class with myself; & further the deponent saith not W m Rice
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampshire ss. Oct. 29. 1810. Personally appeared William Rice, subscriber to the above affidavit, and made solemn oath that the same contains the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, the said W m Rice being a man of truth & integrity, & known to me. Before me Samuel F. Dickinson justice of the peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire ss. I Josiah Dwight Clerk of the Supreme Judicial of said Commonwealth for the said County of Hampshire certify that Samuel P. Dickinson Esq. is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County & that his signature to the within Certificate is his proper hand writing - In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court & subscribed my name this twenty ninth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & Eighteen — Josiah Dwight

To whom it may concern,
This may certify, that the assailed Sarah Lewis, native of Wilbra- ham in the County of Cambridge is so far as in indigent circumstances —
Wilbraham October 31 st 1818 —
Chester Deyton Moses Burt
Selectmen of Wilbraham