Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 46,230, for Basil Lewis, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn
Lewis, Basil or Bazgel
S. 46,230
CONTENTS

ctf No. 1106
Very War.
16230
me: Basil Lewis. mk: Pri. Spauldings Comp'y: g't: Col. Butler's C. Line.
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RATE PER MONTH, AND DATE OF COMMENCEMENT,
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Allowed Act 1828.
DATE OF CERTIFICATE, AND TO WHOM SENT.
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at 14th July, 1862. Bk. G., Vol. _____, Page _____ registering Clerk:
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27.2.02
Marcel Lewis
to 3 Declaration for
Pension
final settlement certificate No 1 page 69

2094 Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832.
State of Kentucky County of McCracken
On this 9 th day of September 1833. Personally in open Court, before the Honorable the Justices of the County Court of the said County of McCracken now sitting Bazel Lewis a Resident of said County and State aforesaid aged eighty two 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 act dictated in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832, that he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1776 under Capt. Adam Mance and served in the first Regiment of the Maryland State line under the following named Officers (V.M.) the said Adam Mance as Captain, and Adam Cressh as first Lieutenant, Peter Bowyer as second Lieutenant & William Nicholson as ensign of the company, and Colonel Griffin and Major West Collected of the Field officers, that he continued in the said service for the term of five months when he was regularly discharged by the officers aforesaid which he has lost. That at the time of said enlistment he resided in the County of Frederick and State of Maryland and that during the said service he was in the battle of Long Island, of Point-Look on York-Island, the White Plains, also the battle of Trenton, that during the said period he marched from Long Island to Point Look then to the White Plains (Hoping) through the State of New-York crossing North-River at Kings Ferry & from the said Ferry to Trenton passing through New Jersey, and that he has no documentary evidence, & he knows of no person, whom testimony he can procure who can testify to his said service. The said Bazel Lewis further declares & states, that at Trenton he was discharged as aforesaid & took his departure for home, but on arriving at the White House near Philadelphia he again enlisted in the said Army of the United States in the

year 1777 under Capt Anthony Caline of The Pennsylvania Line,
for the term of three years and serve in what was called the Free Corps under the following named officers (viz) Lieutenant Adam Myers and the said Capt Caline, and Colonel Berragh That I Buller in succession and that he served out the said three years and was discharged at Old-Fort Wyoming under the said Capt Caline by the said Colonel Buller, that during and while in the said service, he was engaged in the following Battles, the Battle of Red Bank, the Battle of Christiana Bridge in Pennsylvania, the Battle of Brandywine, also the Battle of Germantown, That from the place of the White House where he enlisted, he proceeded to join the army at Quittapattown, from whence the army marched to Christiana Bridge through Pennsylvania, crossing Susquehanna & Delaware Rivers, the former not far from the head of Elk the latter at Trenton, from Christian the army marched to Brandy- wine by the way of Brandywine Creek, from there to Germantown crossing the Schuylkill River at Philadelphia, from Germantown the army marched to White Marsh Hills, where he was detached from the general army and put under the com- mand of General Sullivan and with him marched up the Susquehanna to the Genesee Country (then so called) in the State of New-York and from there back to Old-Fort-Wyoming, where he remained until his said term of three years service was expired, that he has no documentary evidence & that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his said service. He will further declare to State, that after the end of the said three years service and while at Old-Fort, Wyoming he again enlisted in the said Army of the United States in the year 1780, for & during the War and served in the first Regiment of the Continental Line of the said United States Army, under the following named officers (viz) Capt. John Spalding

Asuncion Bazzel & Lewis
Sworn to in Open Court the day and year aforesaid.
Kentucky Whitley County Ky. Mr. J. Branton Small Clerk

above declaration that we believe him to be eighty two years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
James F. Wilson
Samuel Grace
Sworn to in Open court the day and year aforesaid Attest Branton Small Clerk
Kentucky McCracken County Sd.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above mentioned applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that there is no Minister of the Gospel residing in the vicinity of the said applicant and that James F. Wilson residing in the County of Solon and State of Illinois and who has signed the preceding the preceding certificate and the said Samuel Grace of the said County of McCracken and State of Kentucky who has also signed the said certificate are creditable persons and that their state- ments are entitled to credit.

Kentucky, McCracken County Set
I Braxton Small Clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Bazzel Lewis for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this ninth day of September Eighteen hundred and thirty three.
Braxton Small

Paducah Ky 13 Nov
Gov
Treasury department Washington City

No of orig Payt 1153
2094.
Revolutionary Claims.
Treasury Department, 25 Nov. 1833.
Basil Lewis ————— in the County of McCracken in the State of Kentucky 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 Revolution," approved the 15 th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private — in captain Spaldings — s company, in the  Battalion regiment of the Connecticut — line, and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15 th of May, 1778, and further, that he was not on the 15 th of May, 1828, on the Re- -volutionary pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3 d of March, 1826, nothing .
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
Francis A. Dickinson.
By order of the Secretary.
Treasury Department,
Third Auditor's Office, 26 November 1833
It appears by the records in this office that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Baz. Lewis ————— in the Connecticut line It further appears that Basil Lewis ————— is not on the pension list of the any ————— agency, and has been so since the 3 d March 1826 the records  in this office
John Hagner Aud
No Record L.S.
N o 6691

Department of War Bounty L d Office Nov. 27 th 1833.
The name of Baz (but not that of "Basil") Lewis, is returned on the records of the Connecticut line on file in this Office, as a Private in the 1 st Reg t of Infantry and as being entitled to bounty land from the U. States
No application appears to have been made, or papers filed, in relation to a claim for land bounty by Baz Lewis his claim to that bounty, remains unsatisfied
M c Gordon

Rev 25 Nov 1832
Paducah Kentucky Nov. 10 th 1833. 5532.
Dear Sir
Enclosed you will find the declaration of Bazel Lewis made for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the act of Congress passed June the 7 th 1832.
This declaration has been transmitted to the pension office together with an inquiry whether the said Lewis in consequence of his almost unprecedented services (in point of time) was not entitled to a pension under the law of Congress of May 15 th 1828 and at any rate to a larger pension than ordinary cases.
In answer to the inquiry, the Commissioner of pensions Geo. W. Greenup informed me that he thought it more than probable that said Lewis was entitled to the benefit of the act of 15 th May 1828 inasmuch which he would receive at the rate of $20 per annum commencing the 3 rd of Sept. 1826, as well as his bounty land.
That in order to obtain the benefit of this act, application must be made to the Secretary of the Treasury for the pension; and to Mr. Gordon of the Bounty land office for the land. —
And in conformity to the motion of said Commissioner the present application is made, and that it may be seen what proof the said Lewis is capable of making his said declaration is sent you, not as proof itself in this case but as a specimen of what he can prove. —
If in case the claim shall be thought to be tenable, it is requested (that if need be) that forms & instructions be forwarded to me at Paducah that they may be complied with and the said Lewis obtain his reward.
Yours Respectfully J. B. Husbands

Yale Burtons bakers Colo. Street to West R. Craig R.R. Feb. 4 1836