Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6310, for Ebenezer Lewis, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Cann
Lewis Ebenezer
P. 63/10
CONTENTS

1 st Brief
No 10787.
Ebenezer Lewis.
Reserted 1 st muster.

N o 10787  BRIEF in the case of Ebenezer Lewis, of Columbia County of Ontario, — in the State of New York. (Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?
Before a Judge. —
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
Yes. —
3. How old is he?
79. Years. —
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     May — In 1775. 7. private Gen. Capt E. Stan. Col. Hinman   1776. 7. Capt S. Goodwin   1777. about 3. serjeant Capt Eli Cutton. Col. D. Duryea.   " Capt Converse. Col. H. Swift.   Served 3 years & 8 months — time, when at home  
5. In what battles was he engaged?
White Plains. Va. —
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
Goshen, Connecticut. —
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
By traditionary Evidence. —
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
X  Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
James Ord
Examining Clerk.

Ebenezer Lewis Declaration
10787.
E. Lewis Agent Rushville N.Y.

State of New York Ontario County, p. 5
On the eighth day of August in the year 1832 before me Chester Soons, One of the Judges of the County Courts of the County of Ontario aforesaid personally appeared Ebenezer Lewis, a resident of the town of Gorham in the County of Ontario aforesaid aged seventy-nine 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 of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as as herein stated -
In the month of May of the year 1775 he enlisted as a soldier at Goshen in the State of Connecticut to serve in a company of State Troops or Militia under Capt. Ephraim Starr, for the term of seven months and was immediately marched with the said Company and in a Regiment then under the command of Col. Heman, to Scituate in the State of New York, at which place he continued to do duty as a soldier till the expiration of his said term of enlistment. when he was discharged -
On the opening of the Campaign of the year 1776 he again enlisted for a like term of seven months as a soldier in a company of State Troops of the said State of Connecticut under Capt. Stephen Goodwin. He cannot recollect the month of such enlistment but saith that he was immediately marched to the vicinity of the City of New York, and that the company to which he belonged was first stationed at New York - Then on Long Island and subsequently at White Plains and other points on the Hudson River in Westchester County in the State of New York - The said company was attached to different Regiments in the course of the season the commanding officers of which were strangers to him and he has forgotten their names. He further declares that he was personally engaged in three battles during his said term of service under Capt. Goodwin, two of which were fought

on Long Island and one at White Plains - and that he was with the troops which were brought from Long Island on the night after a battle in which the American Troops were defeated. The said Company under Capt Goodwin suffered severely in the said engagement having many men killed and wounded, and was nearly destroyed. At the expiration of his said term of enlistment he was again discharged.
The said Ebenezer Lewis further declares that early in the summer of 1777 according to the best of his recollection but in what month he cannot state he enlisted as a soldier in the Continental Service in a Company under Capt Eli Butlin in Col. Bradley's Regiment to serve for the term of three years , or during the war . The Number of the said Regiment he cannot now recollect.
On such enlistment he was appointed a Serjeant of the said Company and was stationed at Danbury in Connecticut about three months, at the expiration of which time, owing to some disagreement and dissatisfaction with some of the officers officers of the said company, he felt himself justifiable in returning to his father's house in Goshen aforesaid. He further expressly declares that after remaining at home sometime, but what length of time he cannot recollect with any certainty, he voluntarily returned and rejoined the Army at West Point in the State of New York where he was enrolled in a company of regular troops under Capt. Converse & Lieut. Scofield or Scoville in Col. Heman Swift's Regiment, where he continued in service till the expiration of his said term of enlistment at which time he received an honorable discharge at West Point aforesaid.
The said Ebenezer Lewis further declares
1 st That he was born in the town of Bethlehem in the State of Connecticut in the year 1753 2 nd That he has no record of his age except a memorandum thereof contained in his family Bible - 3 rd That he lived in the town of Goshen in the State of Connecticut from the commencement of the War, and was residing at that place when he enlisted as above stated and that he continued to reside at the same place above

thirteen or fourteen years after the War - When he removed to the town of Gorham in the County of Ontario in the state of New York at which place he has since resided and now resides
4 th That he enlisted as a soldier - was not drafted nor a substitute for any one -
5 th That he recollects - Col. Matthew Mead - while he was stationed at Peekskill in New York - Col. Herman Swift, General La Fayette - and Gen. Washington at West Point -
6 th That he received a regular discharge from service at the expiration of the term which the troops were generally disbanded - That he cannot recollect the name of the officer by whom it was signed - and that he lost the same as he verily believes before he removed to his present place of residence
7 th That Jonathan L. Sweet and Elijah Durham are persons to whom he is known in his present neighborhood and who can as he believes testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution.
And he further declares that he knows of no person living who has personal knowledge of his said services - except Timothy Buel of Bloomfield, who as he is now informed is now absent from this state, and in parts to him unknown
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state -
Witness Jonathan L. Sweet      Ebenezer his Lewis mark
Subscribed and sworn to This 8 th day of August 1832.
Before me Chester Loomey
Judge of the County Courts of Ontario County aforesaid
And I certify that the said Ebenezer Lewis was unable from bodily infirmity to appear at court at the time he subscribed and was sworn to the above declaration -
Chester Loomey Judge of the County Courts as aforesaid

State of New York Ontario County ss ?
We Jonathan L Sweet and Elijah Dunham residing in the town of Gorham in the County of Ontario aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ebenezer Lewis of the same place who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration, that we believe him to be seventy nine 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 fully concur in that opinion
Subscribed and sworn to this 8 th day of August 1832 Before me Chester Soomus
Jonathan L Sweet Elijah Dunham
Judge of the County Courts of Ontario County aforesaid ?
I Chester Soomus, One of the Judges of the County Courts of the county of Ontario aforesaid, do hereby declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. I further certify that it appears to me that Jonathan L Sweet and Elijah Dunham who have signed the preceding Certificate, are residents of the town of Gorham aforesaid, and of the same neighborhood in which the said applicant resides, and are respectable citizens, of good character for veracity and that their statement is entitled to credit
Chester Soomus Judge of the county

are respectable citizens, of good character and veracity and that their Statement is entitled to credit
Chester Loomis
Judge of the County Courts of Ontario Co- aforesaid.
State of New-York, } ss: County of Ontario. }
I, CHARLES CRANE, Clerk of the county of Ontario, do hereby certify, that Chester Loomis -- whose name is subscribed to the Certificates of Affidavit to which this certificate is annexed, was at the date of said Certificates and at the time the said affidavits purports to have been sworn -- a Judge of the Courts Justice of the Peace in and for said county. And I further certify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Chester -- and verily believe his signature as aforesaid to be genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said county, at Canandaigua, this first -- day of September in the year of our Lord 1832.
Charles Crane Clerk.

Ebenezer Lewis New York Rev:. Act 7 June 1832.
Rejected
see letter 6 th Dec 1832 to Loomis
Rushville J. Chadderton W 257857
6516

Nov 19 - 1857/ Erie Co State of Pa  NY
To the Commission of Pension I wish to know if any Person has drawn a pension on the following names: Elizeran Dennis on Daniel Arney - Alameda Query
Benjamin Dennis Margaret Ann Dennis Elizeran Albram Dennis Dennis Almant Dennis Frances Semane
if anybody has drawn on the above names or any one of the names in me family name it is drawn or if they are in title to one Please answer this Letter
Respect Yours
James Chaddendon M c At South Alden - Erie Co. NY
the will

6310
P. O.
Ebenezer Lewis
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
Recognized. _____
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