Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23770, for Eli Lewis, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass
Lewis, Eli
S. 23770
CONTENTS

Rep d
Health and n. G B
Vermont. 1549.
Eli Lewis
of Addison in the State of Vermont who was a Pri in the Co. commanded by Captain Hitchcock of the Reg. commanded by Col. Vose in the Rev. time for 2 years. West
Inc d from $2.08/100
Inscribed on the Roll of Pensions at the rate of 80 Dollars 50 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28. day of Jan. 1827 and sent to Hon. J. Dillinger, H. of Rep.
Annuity to the 4th of Pension allowance ending
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. A. Wood Clerk, Book E. 2 Vol. 3. Page 82. —

Admitted.
Private. 21. mo 19 Do
$72.08

BRIEF in the case of  Elis Lewis  of Ringston in the State of Vermont  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?
In the county court.
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he?
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of Generals and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     In 1781 June 2 6 As a Gen. Continental Capt. Hitchcock, Col Vols  
5. In what battles was he engaged?
None mentioned
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
Oxford Massachusetts
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
Has heretofore been on the Pension Roll
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
Correct
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J McEffered
Examining Clerk.

State of Vermont, on the 3 d day of July Addison County p d 1832 personally appeared before the Judges of Addison County Court Eli Lewis a resident of Thingtown in said County of Addison and State aforesaid aged 69 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 th 1832 That he enlisted into the army of the United States at Ossipee in the State of Massachusetts on the 23 d day of June 1781 and served in the Continental line under the following named officers in the company commanded by Capt. Hitchcock until he was killed and then by Capt. Sunit in the Regiment commanded by Col. Rose in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental establishment. That he resided at said Ossipee when he entered said service. and that he continued to serve in said Corps until the 24 th day of December 1783. when he was discharged from said service at West Point in the State of New York. he hereby relinquishing 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 Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Eli Lewis
E. D. Barber Clerk

And the said Eli Lewis declares that he was formerly been on the pension roll of the United States under the acts of 1818 and 1820 and has been dropped therefrom in consequence of his property, and he declares that his residence is the same as it was when he first received his pension to wit at Kingston aforesaid That he received a pension as a private in the army of the revolution as appears by his pension certificate No 4698 Eli Lewis Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid E. D. Barber Clerk
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named ap- plicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states; and that Joel Doo- little whose affidavit is herewith sub- mitted is a person of veracity and en- titled to credit.
Edward D. Barber Clerk

J. Parker's Affidavit—
E-Lewis
Care of Mr. Lewis Affidavit to the

I Isaac Parker of Kingston County of Addison & State of Vermont of Lawful age do say that I have examined the Personal property of Eli Lewis of Kingston & county aforesaid, & the following animals & articles are all that are worthy of being named as possessing any value - & the following prices that I have here affixed unto the respective articles are correct according to the best of my judgment.
 - a small yoke of cattle & yoke - - - - - 40.00  - 2 cows one a middling sized one, the other a small one - - 25.00  - one horse aged & lame worth probably - - - - 15.00  - ten sheep - common breed & of middling quality - - 10.67  - single sleigh & harness - 7.00 - an ox sled - 1.00 - - 8.00  - a wooden clock - 5.00 a small stove 10.00 - - - 15.00  - a pine kitchen table - 1.00 eight kitchen chairs 1.00 - - 2.00  - 2 pine chests 2.00 - a handcrank desk 3.00 - - - 5.00  - six knives & forks - 50 an axe - 1.50 beam shovel - 75 - - 2.75  - a small iron pot - 50 tea kettle - 75 - - - 1.25  - a six quart dish pottle - 34 an iron skid - 25 shovel - 79  - one brass chain weighing seven lbs. 1.00 steel rods - 50 - 1.50  The cupboard of furniture or crockery consisting of plain white  - earthen ware tin & brown earthen ware - four cups & saucers  - iron plates - eight iron spoons - and also a small quantity of glass ware, & a number of other articles that are probably equal to the value of 1.00  - flat iron 30 - two iron candlesticks 25 - a pair of shears 72  - 3 pails - 50 looking glass 50 four earthen milk pans - 50 - 1.50  - 2 shovels - 34 2 augers - 1.00 handsaw - 50 broad axe - 2.00 - - 3.84  two gimlets, & a firetongs - 50 an old plough and harrow - 3.00 3.50 
The whole amount is - - - - - 140.53
The foregoing articles that I have named are probably just about all the personal property in possession except bedding - the

iron ware is considerably broken & the chests-chairs-tables - & in fact all the furniture & farming implements are old & nearly worn out
Isaac Parker
Kingston Feby 7 th 1829 Then personally appeared before me Isaac Parker & took solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed contains according to the best of his judgment nothing but the truth - - before me Joseph Patrick Forster Esq.
State of Vermont, Addison County ss. I, Samuel Swift Clerk of the County Court for the said County of Addison, do hereby certify that Deol Goodale, before whom the foregoing affidavit of Sarah Lewis was sworn, and Joseph Patrick before whom the foregoing affidavit of Isaac Parker was sworn, were at the respective times Justices of the peace for said County authorized to administer oaths, - and that the said deponents are credible witnesses: - And I further certify, that it is within my personal knowledge, that Joseph Patrick Esq. by whom the foregoing copy of deed is certified, has for many years past acted as Town Clerk of said Kingston, that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and that his name subscribed to the certificate on said deed, and the other accompanying certificates is his own signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court this 10 th day of February 1829
Sam Swift Clerk

May 27, 1939
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BA-J/MCS Eli Lewis, S.23770
Mr. W. K. Maynard 4322 N. Kildare Avenue Chicago, Illinois
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your request for information relative to Eli Lewis, a Revolutionary War soldier who was born July 19, 1764, and died October 25, 1850; had lived in Middlebury or Granville, Vermont.
The data which follow were taken from papers on file in the pension claim, S.23770, based on the military service of the only Eli Lewis that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.
While a resident of Oxford, Massachusetts, he enlisted June 23, 1781, served as private in Captains Hitchcock's and Lunt's companies in Colonel Vose's First Massachusetts Regiment and was discharged December 24, 1783.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 1, 1818, at which time he was living in Kingston, Addison County, Vermont.
In 1824, Eli Lewis' son, Josiah, was living in Kingston, Vermont, and stated that he was twenty-one years of age in June, 1824. In February, 1829, the soldier was living in Kingston, Vermont, and stated that he was aged sixty-six years last July and that his wife, Olive, was sixty-five years of age and that his daughter, Clarissa, was nearly eighteen years of age. The soldier also had a son, Silas. In 1832 one Henry Collins, aged sixty-eight years, stated that he was a cousin of the soldier and that he (Henry Collins) lived in Southbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts, in 1781.

In 1847, Eli Lewis was living in Granville, Addison County, Vermont.
The place of birth of Eli Lewis and the names of his parents are not shown and there are no further data relative to family.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension of Eli Lewis, the name and address of the person to whom it was paid and possibly the date of death of this soldier, it is suggested that you address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, citing the following data:
Eli Lewis, Certificate #1542, issued January 28, 1847, rate $80 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Vermont Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. MILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

Letter to Hon. P. Billingsham Recd # 21. 1846.
15-42
Vermont
Eli Levis
of Kingston in the State of Vermont who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Hitchcock of the Regt. commanded by Col. Vose in the Continental line for 21 months & 19 days.
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 72 Dollars 08 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 th day of November 1832 and del d to S. Houghton Present.
Arrear to 4th of Sept. 1832 108.12 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 th March 1833 36.04 $144.16
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. M. Duffield Clerk Book D Vol. 4 Page 70

see letter to S. Swift, respecting app. to be continued, dated 2? April 1829
4,698
Roll of Vermont
Eli Lewis
Private Vose's R. Massach ts
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 st of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 st of December 1818 and sent to Col. Doolittle by Judge Middlebury, Addison Co. Vt.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818. 5 Mths \frac{1}{2} — 41:6
Semi-annual all'ce ending 4 th March 1818 — 48:—
89:6
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 19th March, 1818. }
Clinton Co. Addison

Payments to be made at Burlington by the Pres. U.S. Br. Bk.
Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of Vermont.
new Certificate increased 2 years per $10. deduct what has been paid
72 56.04
Can have cash Notebook or cash Sheet
Recorded by M c Duffield Clerk, in Book 1 Vol. 4
For Dillingham Page 70 H.R.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Eli Lewis of Kingston of the State of Vermont who was a private in the Army of the Revolution _____ is entitled to receive _____ Seventy two dollars and eight cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this sixth day of November one thousand eight hundred and thirty two .
Lee Secretary of War.
Examined and } Countersigned. }
J. L. Edwards

at Oxford June 23 1775 This may Certify that Eli Lewes this Day Paid master Before me for a man for the Town of some other is Engaged for the term of three years in the Continental Service Bartlett D. Dury (Master) Master

Dec. 15, 1936.
Veterans' Administration, Washington D.C.
Gentlemen:
Can you please tell me for what town, or towns, Eli Lewis (also spelled Lewes) enlisted during the Revolutionary War? The following is his record as given in the Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors records.

"Eli Lewes. Private, Capt. Luke Hitchcock's Co., Col. Joseph Vose's (1 st ) regt.; muster rolls for July - Sept. 1781; enlisted June 20, 1781; en- listment for three years; also muster roll for Oct. and Nov. 1781, dated York Hutts."
Also - Eli Lewis - same as above with also muster rolls for Jan. and Feb., dated Hutts - enlistment same as above - Thank you -
P.S. Did he ever receive a pension, 2 nd , the second place. (Mrs. H. A.) Grace T. Rungee

December 29, 1936
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BA-J/MCS Eli Lewis, S. 23770
Mrs. Harry A. Rungee 45 Penn Drive West Hartford Connecticut
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your request for information relative to Eli Lewis or Lewes, a Revolutionary War soldier who served in Colonel Joseph Vose's First Massachusetts Regiment.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 23770, based upon the military service of the only Eli Lewis (searched under all spellings) that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.
While a resident of Oxford, Massachusetts, he enlisted June 23, 1781, served as private in Captains Hitchcock's and Lunt's companies in Colonel Vose's First Massachusetts Regiment and was discharged December 24, 1783.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 1, 1818, at which time he was living in Kingston, Addison County, Vermont.
In 1824 Eli Lewis' son, Josiah, was living in Kingston, Vermont, and stated that he was twenty-one years of age in June, 1824. In February, 1829, the soldier was living in Kingston, Vermont, and stated that he was aged sixty-six years last July and that his wife, Olive, was sixty-five years of age and that his daughter, Clarissa, was nearly eighteen years of age. The soldier also had a son, Silas. In 1832 one Henry Collins, aged sixty-eight years, stated that he was a cousin of the soldier and that he lived in Southbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts, in 1781. Henry Collins

In 1847 Eli Lewis was living in Granville, Addison County, Vermont.
The place of the soldier's birth and the names of his parents were not given and there are no further data relative to his family.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator
Soldier's death not in A. B.

4322 N. Kildare Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. April 7, 1939.
Veterans Administration. Washington, D. C. Division of Pensions of Veterans of the Revolutionary War.
Gentlemen:
Can you give me the names of the parents and the place of birth of Eli Lewis, a soldier in the Revolutionary War, who was born July 19th, 1764, and died October 25th, 1850 ? Family records give his home in 1796 as Middlebury or Granville, Vermont.
"Military Annals of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1740-1865", by Henry S. Nourse, in a list of enlistments in 1781, for a period of three years, lists an Eli Lewis, age 17. However, there is nothing in our family records to indicate that the Eli Lewis we are attempting to trace was ever in Massachusetts.
Thanking you in anticipation of this courtesy, I remain,
Very truly yours,
W. J. Maynard

Production
23440 INVALID.
1936 Dec. 29. hist. to Mrs. Harry A. Rungee. Yes 1939 May 27. hist. to Rev. W. R. Maynard Yes
File No. 23,770
Eli Lewis
Rev. Rev. Rev.
Act: June 7 th 32 nd
Index: —Vol. 2 , Page 239
[Arrangement of 1870.]

(Revolutionary Claims)
FREE
Hon. Secretary of War
City of Washington
August 6, 18...
Pension Office

Middlebury 27 July 1832
It is requested that all communications relating to the enclosed applications for pensions may be sent to my care. Respectfully &c
Sam. Swift

Care of Eli Lewis
Henry Colleen Affedout

Henry Collins of Southbury, County of Worcester State of Massachusetts, aged sixty eight years, being duly sworn before and say, that I resided in the Town of Southbury aforesaid in the year 1781, and in that town enlisted into the Service of the United States, in the Second Massachusetts regiment commanded by Colonel Ebenezer Sproat, in the Second brigade, in the month of March I joined the army in the month of May of that year: — that in the month of July following, I saw Eli Lewis in the Service , now residing in Kingston in the County of Addison State of Vermont, and now present, in the Service in the army of the United States, in the First Massachusetts Regiment com- manded by Colonel Dole, — and saw him frequently afterwards for said Service in said regiment until the close of the war, when he was discharged in 1783; that at West Point in the State of New York: — That the said Eli Lewis is a Cousin to me, and had been acquainted with him previous to the war; — which circumstances induced us to see each other frequently: — and I know that the said Lewis was in the Service from the month of July 1781, to the fall of the year 1783.
Henry Collins
Sworn this 2 d day of July 1832
Before me
Elisha Brewster Juth Peabody

Case of Elisha Brewster vs Henry Collins Appellant
State of Vermont, Addison County ss. I, Samuel Swift, Clerk of the County Court for the said County of Addison, do hereby certify, that Elisha Brewster, before whom the within affidavit was made, was at the time a Justice of the Peace for said County, duly authorized to administer oaths. And I further certify that the said Henry Collins is a credible witness. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Middlebury this 2 d day of July 1832.
Sam d Swift

House Rep 19. Jany 1844
Sir
I herewith inclose the Declaration of E Lewis for an increase of Pension
Yours & P. Bellingham Jr.
Hon J. L. Edwards, Land Pensions

Washington 12 th Dec. 1846
Hon. J. L. Edwards Comm. Pensions.
Sir
I herewith send you the Pension Certificate of Mr Eli Lewis of Kingston Vt. which paid for $72 08 per Annum, and ask that one may be granted for a full pension.
I send the original Muster Certificate showing the true time of his going into service, to have been 23 rd June 1781. His Discharge, which is with his old Application shows he served till Dec. 1783. Hence there can now be no question about the time he served. Please give this case an early examination as it is called for to oblige
Yours ever
P. Dillingham Jr.

Vol Dootlette offspring
Eliz Lewis lass

Joel Doolittle of Middlebury in the County of Addison, do testify & say, that Eli Lewis, who has this day made his declaration here in court in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7 th June 1832, is the same identi- cal person who, by the same name, obtained a pension under the act of Congress of the 18 th of March 1818 - being a person well known to me -
July 3 d 1832 J. Doolittle
Known to me open heart
C. A. Phelps Judge Sup. Ct.

Payable semi-annually---the first pay- ment on this certificate will be made on the 4th of March next, By D. Robinson Agent, Bennington.
Eli Lewis
Recorded

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary claim
I CERTIFY That, in conformity with the Law of the United States, Of the Eighteenth day of March 1818
Eli Lewis _____ late a Private in the Army of the Revolution _____
is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Vermont Agency, at the rate of _____ Eight dollars _____ cents per month, to commence on the _____ 1 st day of December one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen -
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this _____ 1 st day of _____ December one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen -
J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War

Declaration of the Slaves
August 6 Lexington 1832 (Office)
21 17

STATE OF VERMONT, Addison County ss.
I, EDWARD D. BARBER, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Addison, do hereby certify that the annexed documents contain the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Eli Lewis for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court this 14 th day of July A. D.
1832
Edward D. Barber Clerk

State of Vermont, At Middlebury in said County on this Addison County ss) 9 th day of February 1829, before me, one of the Justices of the peace for said County, personally appeared Sarah Lewis of Hinton in said County, and being duly sworn deposes and says, that I arrived at the age of 21 years in June 1824, - and at that time my father Eli Lewis of said Hinton, was possessed of about 75 acres of mountain land in Hinton, more than half of which was so rocky as to be entirely useless even for pasture, - which was wholly insufficient for the support of himself and family without his own labour; - and at that time, in consequence of his age & infirmities, (having two bad breaches or bursts) he was unable to labour; and he requested me, to continue with him, and assist him by my labour to support the family. - I accordingly continued to labour for him until the 16 th of October following; but And proposed to give me all his property, on condition I would support him & my mother during their lives. I accordingly continued to labour for him until the 16 th day of October following; but con- sidering the amount of his property wholly inade- quate as a compensation for their support I declined to accept the proposition. The said Eli Lewis then proposed to sell me about fifty acres of his land for one hundred & fifty dollars, to be paid in such articles, as he might need for his support. - We accordingly estimated the amount of my labour

Since I had come of age, - the amount of which I do not now exactly recollect - I also gave him three notes of hand, which I have since taken up and now have in my possession, for twenty five dollars each, payable in good wheat, corn, beef or pork with interest - one payable in one year, one in two years, and one in three years from the first day of January then following - I also agreed to pay him the balance in labour, - to assist him in procuring his hay and wood. - I have since assisted him every winter in getting up his wood, and every summer in getting his hay, - And since I had finished paying for the land, he has occasionally paid me a little, in farming tools & such articles as he could spare, - but I have never received a full compensation for all I have done for him. And I think the sum I gave for said land, was a full compensation for it; and I know of no way in which he would have got along with the support of his family, without the assistance I have afforded him towards the land. - And I further say, that in consequence of what I have laboured for the said Eli Lewis, it is considered between us that several of the articles mentioned in his schedule are mine, and I have the principal use of them: This is particularly the case in relation to the single Sleigh & harness, Fox Sled & other farming utensils, although he occasionally uses them when he is able. I have also principally kept & fed the oxen & old horse and have used them more than the said Eli

Lewis, although they are called his property. And I further say, that I assisted the said Eli, with Isaac Parker Esquire, in looking up his property, and in making a list of it; and I know of no other property, which he has, except what is contained in his schedule this day presented to the Probate Court. — And I further say, that I recollect, that my father, eleven or twelve years ago last Spring sold to my brother, Silas Lewis, thirty acres of his land — and took of him grain & other articles to assist in the support of his family. —
And I further say that Joseph Patrick Sun. Esq. assisted my father and myself in making the above mentioned contract for the purchase of land, and made the writings for us, and has since died.
Submitted & sworn this 9 th day of February 1829
Isaac Lewis
Before me Isaac Doolittle Justice Peace

Eli Lewis's Schedule
1781 On Balance

State of Vermont } On this 9 th day of February 1829, before District of Addison } the Probate Court for the said District of Addison (being expressly made a Court of record by the laws of this State) personally appeared in open Court, Eli Lewis resident in Hinton in said District aged 66 years last July, 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 Congress of the 18 th of March 1818, and 1 st May 1820, that he the said Eli Lewis enlisted for the term of three years, on the 23 rd day of June 1780, at Oxford in the State of Massachusetts, in the company commanded by Capt. Hitchcock until he was killed, and then by Capt. Hunt, in the regiment command- ed by Colonel Vose, in the line of the State of Massa- chusetts, on the Continental establishment, that he continued to serve in the said corps until the 24 th day of December 1783, when he was discharged from said service, at West- Point in the State of New York; that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present; that his name has been placed on the pension list; that the number of his pension certificate is 4,698; that he never before exhibited a schedule of his property because he determined he would not apply for a pen- sion, as long as he was able to subsist by his labour. And pursuant of the act of the 1 st May 1820, I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property 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 & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18 th day of March 1818; and that I

have not nor has any person entrusted for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed by me subscribed.
  About 20 acres of land on the Green Mountain in Kingston with a small house, which I built (the nails & glass for which I bought with pension money.) 100.00   About 5 acres wild land in Kingston, worth nothing only for wood 5.00   1 Small yoke of oxen & yoke (which I bought when young with pension money) 40.00   2 Cows (one of which I bought with pension money) 25   1 Old horse & lime 15.00   10 Sheep 10.67   1 Single Sleigh & harness - 7.10 & Sled 1. 8.00   1 Wooden Clock 5. 1 Small Stove 10. 15.00   1 Pine Kitchen table 1. 8 Kitchen chairs 1. 2.00   2 Pine Chests 2, 1 Hard maple desk 3, 5.00   6 Knives & Forks, 50 1 ax 1.50 - Barn Shovel, 75 2.75   1 Small iron pot, 50 - Tea kettle 75 1.25   1 Iron gt. dish kettle, 34 - 1 iron Spider, 25 - Skillet, 20. .79   1 Sft. Chain 1, Stulyards, 50 1.50   Crockery, Earthen, Glass & Tin ware 4.00   1 flat iron, 30 - 2 iron candle sticks, 25 - 1 ax shears, 17 72   3 Nails, 50, Looking glass, 50 - 4 Earthen Milk pans, 50 1.50   2 Gimblets 8 Cts - Fire tongs, 50 - 1 Old plough & harrow 3. + 3.58   2 Chests, 34 - 2 Augers, 1.00 - Handrow, 50 - 1 Broad ax 2.00 3.84   245.60 
That since the 18 th March 1818, the following charges have been made in my property.
50 acres of land, lying on a Rocky Mountain, full half of which is rock, I sold to my son, Joseph Lewis on the 11 th day of October 1824, for one hundred & fifty dollars, seventy five of which was payable & has since been paid in wheat, corn & other provisions, which have been consumed in my family - and the remainder in labor, which has been paid in assisting me to get my hay & wood, necessary for my family's

use. Not being able to labour, and my land being poor & wholly insufficient to support me, without my labour, I was obliged to sell said land to procure necessaries for my family. Before the pension law of 18. March 1818, I had been obliged to sell another piece of thirty acres to my son Silas Lewis, for the purpose of procuring necessaries for the family.
I had no more stock in 1818, that I now have.
I had then no more farming tools, except a few articles, which I sold the said Silas Lewis for labour in assisting me to get wood when I was unable otherwise to procure it.
And I had no more furniture, except that it has since been worn out by use in the family.
That I am by occupation a farmer, and am not now able to labour at all, on account of my age and two breaches or bursts, on account of which I have been obliged to wear one truss for the last 12 years, and am now compelled to wear two; that I have in my family a wife, Olive Lewis, aged 65 years, who has been sick for the last five years & the present winter has had two shocks of palsy & is unable to labour, and one daughter, Clarissa aged nearly 18 years. Eli Lewis. —
Sworn & declared this 9 th day of February 1829, before the Court aforesaid.
Sam d . Swift Judge of the Probate Court.
I, John Simmons Register of the Probate Court for the District of Addison in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oaths 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 Two hundred & forty five dollars & sixty Cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court, on this 12 th day of February 1829.
John Simmons

Hon R Dillingham Esq. 1872

Declaration
State of Vermont } On this 4 th day of January A.D. 1847, Addison County ss } before the undersigned a justice of the Peace within and for the County of Addison afore- said personally appeared Eli Lewis a resident of Granville in the County Addison and State of Vermont aged 82 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain an increase and arrear of Pension due him under the act of Congress passed 7 th of June 1832.
That he is a Pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress passed June 7: 1832, receiving the sum of Seventy two dollars & eight cents per annum at the Vermont agency; that he considers himself to be entitled to a larger sum than $72.08, having served in the War of the Revolution as a private more than two years, the evidence of which Service together with his pension certificate has been transmitted to the Pension Office, and he suppose are now in the Office, that he received the Semiannual payment upon his pension certificate, in September last,
Witness Sarah Barnes
Eli Lewis
Freeman B. Gann
Subscribed and sworn to on the day and year first above written Before me; I further certify that the above declar- ant is personally known to me and that he is a pensioner as he alleges in the above declaration
Sarah Barnes Justice of the Peace

Declaration
State of Vermont } On this 4 th day of January A.D. 1847, Addison County ss } before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Addison aforesaid personally appeared Eli Lewis a resident of Granville in the County Addison and State of Vermont aged 82 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain an increase and arrear of Pension due him under the act of Congress passed 7 th of June 1832.
That he is a Pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress passed June 7:1832, receiving the sum of Seventy two dollars & eight cents per annum at the Vermont agency; that he considers himself to be entitled to a larger sum than $72.08, having served in the War of the Revolution as a private more than two years, the evidence of which service together with his pension certificate has been transmitted to the Pension Office, and he supposes are now in the office, that he received the Semiannual payment upon his pension certificate, in September last,
Witness Lerah Barnes
26. Rev.
Freeman B. Gann
Subscribed and sworn to on the day and year first above written before me; I further certify that the above declar- ant is personally known to me and that he is a pensioner as he alleges in the above declaration
Lerah Barnes Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont
Secretary of State's Office Montpelier January 9. 1847
I hereby certify that Terah Barnes Esquire, whose name is subscribed in his proper handwriting to the foregoing certificate, is, and was at the date thereof, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Addison in said State, duly constituted and commissioned, and that full credit is due to the official acts of said Secretary Justice of the Peace.
Given under my hand and the seal of this Office this 9 th day of January A.D. 1847.
Ferrand K. Dyer, Jr. Deputy Secretary of State

Copy of a Deed Eli Lewis W Joseph Lewis

Shingston February 7 th 1829
This may certify that I have examined the Records for Deddins Shingston and find Mr Eli Lewis owns about sixteen acres & 37 Rods of tot No 103 & a piece of Land adjoining Estimated in his Deed at about four acres but I think it is doubtful whether there is so much of it also five acres & 14 square Rod in a neither piece about one Mile North from his Farm which is all he owns to my knowledge Joseph Patrick Wren Clerk
Mr Lewis has a small & Barn on his
Mr Eli Lewis has a small House I should judge about 18 by 24 or 26 and a small Barn on his Land where he lives but it would not sell for but little his five acres & 14 rods in wild Land and worth but very little Joseph Patrick
knoweth his heirs and assigns, to his and their own proper use, benefit, and behoof, forever. And I the said Eli Lewis do for myself my heirs, executors, and administrators, covenant to and with the said Joseph his heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, that at and until the sealing of these presents, I am well seized of the premises in fee simple; that I have good right and lawful authority to bargain and sell the same in manner and form as is above written; and they are free and clear of all incumbrances; and that I will warrant and defend the same against all lawful claims and demands of any person or persons whatever.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this Sixteenth day of October Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine
Signed, Sealed, and Delivered, in presence of Harriet Patrick Joseph Patrick
Eli Lewis (S)
State of Vermont, } Adams County, ss. } Personally appeared
Shingston Oct 16 th 1829 Eli Lewis
the signer and sealer of the above instrument, and acknowledged the same to be his free, voluntary act and deed Before me, Joseph Patrick Justice Peace

Know all Men by these Presents, THAT I Eli Lewis of Kingston in Addison County and State of Vermont
for and in consideration of the sum of one Hundred & fifty dollars current money of the United States, received in full to my satisfaction of Joseph Lewis of Kingston afore said
the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, have given, granted, bargained, and sold, and by these presents do give, grant, bargain, sell, alien, convey and confirm, unto the said Joseph his heirs and assigns forever a certain piece of Land lying in Kingston aforesaid and described as follows viz part of lot No 103 beginning at a Stake and Stone on the line between lots No 102 & 103 twenty seven Rods from the original corner of said lot on the west line of said lot from thence Southwesterly about one Hundred & five Rods to a Stake and Stone stand- ing on the line between lots No 103 & 104 twenty two Rods from the west line of said lot and bounded on the north on lands owned by Eleazar Kindell on the East on lot No 91 and land owned by the said Joseph Lewis & on the south on land owned by the said Joseph Lewis & also land containing about fifty acres be the same more or less
TO Have and to Hold the above granted and bargained premises, with all the privileges and appurtenances thereof and thereto belonging, to him the said
Joseph his heirs and assigns, to his and their own proper use, benefit, and behoof, forever. And I the said Eli Lewis do for myself
my heirs, executors, and administrators, covenant to and with the said Joseph his heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, that at and until the sealing of these presents, I am well seized of the premises in fee sim- ple; that I have good right and lawful authority to bargain and sell the same in manner and form as is above written; and they are free and clear of all incumbrances; and that I will warrant and defend the same against all lawful claims and demands of any per- son or persons whatever.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this Sixteenth day of October Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and twenty four
Signed, Sealed, and Delivered, } in presence of Harriet Nutrich Joseph Patrick
Eli Lewis (Seal)
State of Vermont, } Addison County, ss. } Personally appeared
Kingston Oct 16 th 1824 Eli Lewis
the signer and sealer of the above instrument, and acknowledged the same to be his free, voluntary act and deed Before me, Joseph Patrick Justice Peace

Kingston February 7 th 1829. I hereby certify that the within is a true copy from the Records in my office of a Deed from Eli Lewis to Josiah Lewis Joseph Patrick Wren Clerk
Copy of a Deed Eli Lewis to Josiah Lewis

Eli Lewis
Declaration to
Cl.
Correct by Genl. Morris D. H.
Admitted — the —

I Eli Lewis of Kingston in the County of Addison State of Vermont, do on oath declare & say that I served in the army of the United States in the War of the Revolution, on the continental establishment, for the period of one three years against the common enemy, that is to say, On the 23 d June 1781 I enlisted into the service of the United States, in the company of Capt. Hitchcock, in the First Massachusetts Regiment, commanded by Col. Vose - for the period of three years - which term I faithfully served, until the end of the war - and on the 24 th day of December AD 1783 I received an honorable discharge under the hand of Maj Genl. Knox and left the service - I further say that I am a resident citizen of the United States - Eli Lewis April 1 st 1818
Sworn and subscribed at Middlebury in the County of Addison and State of Vermont this first day of April AD 1818 Before me Jall Doolittle Judge Supreme Court and I the said Eli Lewis do further on oath de

declare and say, that I am in reduced circumstances in life - and need assistance from my Country for Support -
Eli Lewis
Sworn and subscribed before me
Joel Doolittle Judge Sup. Court, Vermont
State of Vermont p-
I Joel Doolittle Judge of the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Eli Lewis did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceeding and testimony taken and had, before me, to the Secretary of the Department of War, - in order to his Eli Lewis the said Blindness Johnson obtaining the provision made by the late act of Congress - entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the War of Revolutionary War" pursuant to the directions of said act -
Joel Doolittle
State of Vermont } I Derrius Matthews Clerk of the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont within and for the County of Addison Do certify that the Hon. Joel Doolittle is a Judge of the said Supreme Court, and that the foregoing is his signature.
Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Supreme Court this 28 th day of April A.D. 1818.
Derrius Matthews

BY THE HONOURABLE MAJOR-GENERAL K N O X,
Commanding the AMERICAN FORCES on Hudson's River.
Eli Lewis soldier _____ in the First Massachusetts _____ Regiment, being inlisted for Three Years, is hereby honourably DISCHARGED from the Service of the United States.
Given in the State of New-York,
the Twentyfourth Day of December
1783
H. Knox
By the General's Command,
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
Ralph H. Bower Capt & Adj't

Joel Doolittle Judge as aforesaid, on full & satisfactory proof, do certify that the said Eli Lewis is in reduced cir- cumstances and stands in need of the affection of his country for support Joel Doolittle