Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6306, for Abel Lewis, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Com. Sea Service
Lewis, Abel
P. 6306
CONTENTS

Rejected
Letter to
Giles B. Kellogg
Octob r 22 nd 1832
New York, Troy N.Y.
G.M.C.
Suspended
Chas Davis Ms. 6306

6306
P. O. _____
Abel Lewis
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized.
_____ Contract.
Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____
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Abel Lewis
application for Pension
6506
for Henry St. Clair for year of 1853

Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of June 7, 1832.
Form for State Troops, &c.
Printed & Sold by Kemble & Hooper, 8 State-st. Troy, N.Y.
State of New York, } ss. County of Rensselaer }
On this eighty - day of August 1832 personally appeared in open Court, before the Mayors of the Court of the city of Troy now sitting, Abel Lewis a resident of Petersburgh county of Rensselaer and State of New York, aged eighty 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, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
In the fore part of April 1777 he entered on board a ship called The Oliver Cromwell fitted out for service by the state of Connecticut which was engaged in active service in the north - that he left the service about the first of October following - that when he entered the service he resided in the town of Preston in said state of Connecticut - that he entered the service as a volunteer - that the ship on board which he served was commanded by Seth Harding as captain and Parker and Chapman as lieutenants whose given names deponent does not recollect - that some time in the month of September an engagement took place between the Cromwell and an English ship whose name deponent does not recollect in which the latter was captured - that during his time of service thus other English vessels were taken by the Cromwell - that he has no documentary evidence of his service - and knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to the same - Deponent does not recollect the day of the month on which he entered into the service nor the day on which he left but is confident that it was six weeks or more. He hereby relinquishes 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 the agency of any State, or (if any,) only on that of the agency of the State of
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Daniel Gardner Recording Clerk
Abel Lewis
We, Debulon Lewis a Clergyman, residing in the Petersburgh and Ziba Hewitt residing in Grafton hereby certify that we are acquainted with Abel Lewis who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty 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.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Archibald Bull Clerk
Debulon Lewis Ziba Hewitt
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 Debulon Lewis who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman, resident in the Town of Petersburgh and that Ziba Hewitt who has also signed the same, is a resident in the Town of Grafton and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, Archibald Bull Clerk of the Court of Mayors Court of the city of Troy do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Abel Lewis for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this eighth day of August 1832
Archibald Bull Clerk

State of New York } Rensselaer County } ss:
Abraham Lewis of Petersburgh in the county and State of aforesaid being duly sworn saith that he is personally knowing to the fact that the ship within mentioned called the Oliver Cromwell was fitted out for service in the port of Pockahon-nuck and cleared at the port of New London - That he understood the within named Abel Lewis served on board the said ship in the year 1777 - That he has been acquainted with the said Abel Lewis more than thirty years - That he is reputed in the town where he resides and is there so esteemed to have been a Mariner in the Revolution - and that he believes that the declaration within subscribed by the said Abel Lewis is true.
Sworn this 8th day of August 1832 before me,
Abraham Lewis
for my Dowling Andrew Raper of Troy
Abel Lewis application for Pension 6506