Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39269, Levi Caezer, R.I.

NUMBER
Walzer, Levi (Colored) or Levy
S 39269

(4,995)
Rhode Island Roll
Lovi Baezer Cole Green privatized
1775 Rhode Island Line
Rhode Island Line In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Rhode Island at the rate of — 8 — Dollars per month, to commence on the 22 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 of Decr 1818 and sent to Benjamin Corvett esq r Clerk U. S. District Court, Providence R. I. -
R. J. - Arrears to 4th of Sep 1818 - 4 mos 13 14 18 Semi-aul. all'ce ending March 1819 33 48 "
$ 62.78
Dear Mehri,
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
for Conferred
3 years Rev. Pison 35. 76 Mvalia L. 21. 28 difference between Rev. Pison & Mvalia 14. 18

It appears by the Regimental Book, That Levi Caesar, the beaver, on the third day of January 1781 - enlisted to serve three a Man of Colour, by me well recollected, years, into the Regi- ment then commanded by Colonel Christopher Greene, in the Rhode Island Line, on the continental establishment; - That he served a Private Soldier in said Regiment while it was commanded by said Greene, and afterwards by Colonel Jeremiah Olney from the time of his enlistment aforesaid until the twenty fifth day of December 1783 - when he was honorably discharged from said Regiment. —
W. G. Dexter Major of Providence April 22 nd 1818. — said Regiment at the close of the War.

I Levi Caeger of Johnston in the District of Rhode Island on solemn oath do declare and say that in the month of February in the year 17 81 I enlisted as a private soldier in Capt. Holden's Company & Col. Christopher Green's Regiment in the Continental Army of the United States, in the Rhode Island line. In which service I continued there until the close of the war years then next following when I received my discharge which discharge is now lost, I further declare that I am now in reduced circumstances & stand in need of the assistance of my country for support - & have relinquished my former pension, - Levi Caeger X Mark
Rhode Island District ss
Be it remembered that on this twenty second day of April 1818 came before me the above named Levi Caeger & made solemn oath to the truth of the declaration to which his mark is affixed. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & have caused the seal of the Court to be hereunto affixed -
Laurel Howell District Judge.

Rhode Island District in Providence this 22 day of April 1810 The signature of the Judge and the seal of the District Court of the United States for said District are here affixed
Attesty Benjamin Russell Clerk of Dist Court

Levi Caeyer
Levi Caeyer - Private Greene. Rhode Island. Reg
1771 to 1783 -
Admitted
Sc  Admitted
Benjamin Powell Clerk US Dist. Court Providence (R.I.)

Penobscot Island District Providence 2 Dec. 1868. Levi Casar within mentioned is, by Major Benton certified to be a man of colour - and from his appearance before me I deemed no further proof of his poverty requisite - and now declare that I am satisfied that he is poor enough to receive the pension. In fact. I never thought it needful to call on a Negro, whose appearance indicated no sal  pin to prove his poverty. The presumption of his poverty being satisfactory to me. It has been a very unpleasant circumstance to me that I have been called on for proof of the poverty of so many negroes whose almost universal poverty is notorious among us here. David Howell Dist. Judge.

Levy Bergar
4955
March 10/16
Con
RECEIVED DISTRICT
CLERK'S OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE U.S. FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
RECEIVED DISTRICT COURT OF THE U.S. FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
RECEIVED DISTRICT COURT OF THE U.S. FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
RHODE-ISLAND DISTRICT.
Providence, sc.
August District Court, Special Term,
A. D. 1820
On this fifteen day of August 1820, personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record, within and for said District  Levy Bozar (Samuel Bozar) who being aged 61 years, residing in the town of Johnston in said County of Bristol who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows:
That he served as a private in Col. Green's Regiment of Colored men of the Rhode Island Line
that he made a previous declaration on the 22 o day of April 1818, and that he has received a certificate for a pension, being No. 4,995 And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, 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 and naval service of the United States, in the revolutionary war," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen: that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
Levy Bozar Mark
A SCHEDULE of Property and Income (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) of Levy Bozar
That he has no property of any description whatever except a small piece of poor land from which he has never received any income, — That he has a wife 49 years old & no other family That he is lame & unable to do any labour having lost all his toes on one foot & part of them on the other, that he has been in the habit of making baskets for a living but gets but very little for them — Should his Pension be taken from him he must become chargeable to the Town or Public Charity for support
Levy Bozar Mark
Sworn to and declared in Open Court on the 15 th day of August 1820 before the Hon. D. Howland U.S. District Judge Notary, Benjamin Cowen Clk
RHODE-ISLAND DISTRICT.
Clerk's Office of the District Court, A. D. 1820
I, Benjamin Cowen Clerk of said Court do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, 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 amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is Twenty five dollars and cents . In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this
Third day of August
1820
Benjamin Cowen Clerk of said Court.

October 21, 1932
Levi Caezer-S.39269
The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.39269, based upon the military service of Levi Caezer in that war.
Levi Caezer(his name also appears as Levy Cezar), a man of color, enlisted, place not stated, January 3, 1781, served as a private in Captain Holden's Company, Colonels Christopher Greene and Olney's Rhode Island Regiment and was discharged December 25, 1783.
He was allowed pension from January 26, 1789, on account of disability incurred while in the service.
In 1820, he was residing in Johnston, Providence County, Rhode Island and stated that he was then aged sixty-one years and that he was lame in consequence of having lost all of his toes on one foot and a part of the toes on the other foot, but did not state whether this was the disability incurred while in the Revolutionary War and for which he was pensioned. At that time he referred to his wife as aged forty-nine years but did not give her name or the date of their marriage, and there is no reference to children.
To be sent if ever called for. It was written just to have a record of negroes.
I used Jan.26, 1789, as date of commencement of pension, as that was date given in case- Act of June 7, 1785, act under which pensioned; in 1835 list he is listed as pensioned from Mar. 4, 1789, under Act Sept. 29, 1789. He was later pensioned under Act of 1818.

39 2 69
Rev INVALID.
File No. 39, 269
Levi Caesar Pr. Rev. Wm
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index: —Vol. 8 , Page 72
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Certificate of Levi Caesar Invalid. Surrendered March 16 th 1819

T HE Committee appointed by the Honorable GENERAL ASSEMBLY of the State of Rhode-Island , in Conformity to an Ordinance of Congress, passed on the 7th Day of June, 1785, for examining the Claims of all Officers, Soldiers, and Seamen (Resident within said State) who have been disabled in the Service of the United States, do hereby Certify, That, upon Examination of
Levi Ceasear  (private) an Invalid, Levi it appears, that the said was so far disabled, while in the Service of the United States, as to entitle him (in future) to receive a Pension of Three Dollars, per Month, during his Life, as a full Compensation for his Disability and Sufferings, while in the Service of the United States.
GIVEN under our Hands, at Providence, this 26.
Day Jan y 1786.
Saml. Allyn Jeremiah Olney } Committee.
Whom concerned.