Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4,535, Lewis Hammond, Va.

SERVICE
Var.
★ Hammond, Lewis
NUMBER
R. 4535
CONTENTS

35 575 - Indiana Lewis Hammond
By
Rejected did not serve but 5 mo.
Act to S. Hammond June 13 1843
4535
Act 7 June 1832

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
4535 REJECTED
P. O. Lewis Hammond
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

June 5-1843
William H. Brown Esq. Hon. J. P. Edwards
Free
Indiana
Louis Handford
Comms. of Pensions
Washington City D.C.

The State of Indiana } Switzerland county } See
Personally appeared before me, the undersigned a justice of the peace, within and for said county Lewis Hammond, of said county, aged eighty three years, on the 11 th of last October, who after being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he served as a private in the militia of the State of Virginia in 1781 for three months under the command of Capt n Reynolds, under Col. Holman at Winchester in the State of Virginia. The company was employed at that place to guard the prisoners taken by General Morgan &c and, he also served as a private in the said militia for two months, under Captain Samuel Glass: the company to which he was attached during this tour, was em- ployed in guarding the prisoners on their route to Fredericktown in Maryland. Again he served in a company of militia, and served three months, under Captain Nighswanger. See of which service was performed. in the militia of the State of Virginia in the Revolutionary War. The lieutenant under Nighswanger was named Jenkins, and further saith not.
Witness my hand William C. Keen
his Lewis V. Hammond mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 25 th day of May A.D. 1843.
Wm J. Wiley Justice of the peace

Sir, Annexed I send you a statement of the services of Lewis Hammond of services rendered in the Militia of Virginia in 1781 and 1782. It is not made out in accordance with the form of 1832; for the judge of our court is now absent from the State and will be gone some time. On his return the application will be made out in due form, in the mean time the records can be examined to ascertain the correctness of his statements.
I have the honor to be your Ob d Serv t .
William C. Green

35.575
Lewis Hammond Indiana Kentucky
act 7 June '32