Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16446, for Abner Lewis, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
★ Lewis, Abner
S. 16446
carded
CONTENTS

16. 446
INVALID.
File No. 16.446
Agnes Lewis
Pris Row was
Act: June 7 th 82
Index:—Vol. 89 , Page 222
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Vermont 17.658-
Order to pay 6 Oct 1837.
Almon Lewis
Wadsworth in the State of Ver who was a Pri - in the Com commanded by Captain Stone of the Regt commanded by Col Wheelock in the Mass. Militia for 7 mo
Inscribed on the Roll of Ver at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 day of Sept 1833 and sent James Elliott New Haven Vt
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1833 $ 58.32 Semi-ann. allowance ending March 24 - 11.66 $69.98
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by E D Briscoe Clerk Vol. 3 Page 74

Abner Lewis - Case 2
Reverend James Tufts.
Affidavit.

I James Tufts of Wardsboro in the County of Windham Pastor of the Church and Society in said Wardsboro Do Vtestify and say that the last thing I believe I believe is of the age that he stat himself to be in his Deficit and that from common report that he was a soldier of the revolution and that I believe him to be a Man of Truth Dated at Wardsboro the 11 th Day of February 1833 James Tufts Minister
State of Vermont } Wardsboro February 11 th 1833 Windham County } then personally appear the Reverend James Tufts Pastor of the Church and Society of the Town of Wardsboro for thirty eight years and Made Sallom oaths that the above statement by him subscribed to was true before me So early Fairbank Justice of the peace
State of Vermont. Windham County Court Clerks Office,
New Haven February 15. 1833. I certify that Pearley Fairbank Esquire, is one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Wind- ham aforesaid, and that the above is his signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County Court on the day and year last above written.
James Elliot, Clerk.

No 30. - Windham County Vermont
Abner Lewis. Dec r . for Pension
July 31 st . 1832.
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Sealed
Admit
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James Elliott Esq New Haven Vt

STATE OF VERMONT.
County of Windham ss.
Probate District of Marlborough
At the Probate Court, within and for said District, being a Court of Record -
On this 31st day of July A. D. 1832 - Personally appeared in open Court, - At New France in said District, - Present - Hon. Marshall Miller, Esquire Judge -
Before the said Probate Court, within and for said District, - now sitting - Abner Lewis a resident of Wardsborough in the county of Windham and State of Vermont, aged seventy six 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, 1832 - That he entered into the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
Enlisted in August 1776 at Dedham, Mass. where he then lived, for four months, under Capt. Stow in Col. Wheelock's Regiment, went to Ticonderoga a few days and then served the time out at Mount Independence, does not know whether State Troops or continental - was discharged at Mount Independence - In November 1777 when Burgoyne's army had been taken and part of that army came to Cambridge Mass. as prisoners, I engaged for and served three months under Capt. Mayo (believe it was militia service) as one of the guard of the prisoners - I then served as a substitute for one Andrew Cunningham of Boston - and when that time was out I was called out and served about one month as a militia man at Boston under Col. Denny - Knows of no person whose testimony he can procure to testify to his services -
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.
Abner Lewis
To the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, he answers, upon his said oath, as follows:
1. Was born in Dedham, Mass. in the year of 1756 -
2. Has no record of his birth -
3. Lived at Dedham, Mass. when he entered the service - Removed to Vermont in 1804 and has lived in Wardsborough ever since -
4. Voluntarily enlisted - Served as a substitute as above stated -
5. Remembers Col. Bigelow and Major Stevens at Mount Independence - was in Colonel Wells' Regiment at Cambridge - Col. Symmes commanded when in Boston -
6. He received a discharge when he left Mount Independence, but cannot tell what is become of it -
7. He refers to William Kelly and Nathaniel Chamberlain as witnesses under this interrogatory -
Abner Lewis

 5. Remembers Col. Gygax and Col. Wells' Regiment at Cambridge - Col. Gygax commanded when in Boston.  6. He received a discharge when he left Mount Independence, but cannot tell what is become of it -  7. He refers to William Kelley and Nathaniel Chamberlain as witnesses under this interrogatory - 
Abner Lewis
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Marshall Miller Judge of Probate
We William Kelley a citizen , residing in the town of Wardsborough in said county and Nathaniel Chamberlain of Wardsborough in said county hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Abner Lewis who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy six years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
William Kelley Nathaniel Chamberlain
Marshall Miller Judge of Probate
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 named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them, that William Kelley who has signed the preceding certificate, is a citizen , resident in the said town of Wardsborough and that Nathaniel Chamberlain who has also signed the same, is a resident in the town of Wardsborough in said county, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I James Elliot , Register of the Probate Court, within and for the District of Marlborough aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Abner Lewis for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this
31st
day of July ,
A. D. 1832
James Elliot Prob. Register.