Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13358, James Hewitt, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Hewitt, James
S 13358
CONTENTS
Carded

2863 New York
James Hewitt of Jefferson in the State of New York who was a Private in the Comp y commanded by Captain Brownus of the Reg t commanded by Col. _____ in the New York line for 12 months _____
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 40 Dollars per per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 th day of Decbr: 1832 — " — and sent to Mr. Gamblin Evans Mill
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832 $ 60 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 th Mch '33 20 $ 80
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Geo. C. Stiles Clerk, Book D. Vol. 5. Page 99

1 st Brief
No 10740.
James Smith.
admitted
   1. Since the receipt, or rejection in the form mentioned.   2. In what manner was he engaged?   3. Where did he reside when he entered the service?   4. In his statement supported by being witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls;   5. And the papers indicative as to form or authentication, and if so, in what respect;   6. Whether the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.  
James Smith
Crowning Clerk.

No 10740.
BRIEF in the case of James H. Smith of Albany County of Suffolk . — in the State of New York .
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?
In Open Court.
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he?
70. 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.     April In 1778. 9. As a Gen. Captt. Marmans. Major Hughs.   1776. 3. Captt. Turner. Captt. Niles.  
5. In what battles was he engaged?
None.
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
Stephen Town, County of Washington, New York.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
By One living Witness.
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.

James Hewett
10,740.
admitted
12 mo.
40 $
+ Lon 5/-

State of New York & ss Jefferson County
On this Eleventh day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the court of Common pleas of the said County of Jefferson now sitting James Dewitt a resident of the town of DeRuy in the county of Jefferson and state of New York Aged Seventy 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 herein after stated. That at the time of the revolution he resided in the town of Stephen Town in the county of Washington in the State of New York That in the month of April 1778 according to his best recollection he enlisted into the Service of the United States for the term of Nine months That he served in Captain Broomans company Lieut Phelps in in part of a Regiment commanded by Major Hughes That he joined the Army at Fort Edwards about the first of May was Stationed at Fort Edwards about three months and then at Fort Stanwix (now Rome) till the end of his term of Service While Stationed at Fort Stanwix a party of sixty two were out on a Scout and had a skirmish with the Tories and Indians all the detachment Except two were killed and taken among the killed was Lieut Phelps Capt Brooman was taken was discharged the first of January at Fort Stanwix

There was no Continental troop at fort Edwards or fort Stawix at the time thinks there were only one company at fort Edwards when they left fort Edwards there were no troops remaining at the place when they went to fort Stawix they were joined by other troops the whole would be about a regiment at the end of the term of service were marched from fort Stawix to Schenectady where they remained about three days and were discharged about the first of January — and the said James Hewet further declares that in the latter part of the summer of 1778 he was drafted from Captain Turners com- pany of Militia belonging in the town of Stephen- town aforesaid for the term of three months that he served the said term in a company commanded by captain Niles that the company did not join any regiment they were stationed at Cobus- Hill about eight miles west of Schoharie that there was but one company stationed at the place — the Lieutenants name was Peter Morey about that he does not recollect the precise time he was dis- charged but it was cold weather in the fall That he was born at Sturminster town in the State of Connecticut a day of September 1762 that he was not quite fifteen years old when he went into the army first that he has no record of his age — that he lived in Greenfield in the State about forty years after the Revolution has since and now resides in the town of Philadelphia

in the county of Jefferson in the state of New York that he did not serve at any time with the regular troops - that Johnathan Carr Eph- raim Smith Nathan Ingerson reside in his present neighborhood and can testify to his character for veracity and that he is reputed to have been in the Army as stated in his declaration He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to pension or annu- ity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state that there is no clergyman residing in his neighborhood James Stewart Sworn to & subscribed the day and year aforesaid P. Burchard Clerk
We Johnathan Carr a soldier of the revolution and residing in the town of Philadelphia aforesaid and Ephraim Smith of the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with James Stewart who has subscribed to the above declaration and sworn to the same that we believe him to be seventy years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he lives to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion Subscribed and sworn the 8 Johnathan Carr day & year aforesaid P. Burchard Clerk Jonathan Carr
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations 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 the said Johnathan Carr and Ephraim

Smith are residents in the town of Philadelphia aforesaid and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit and that there is no clergyman residing in the vicinity of the said applicant
I Peleg Burrough Clerk of the court of common pleas aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of James Hewett for a pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto to set my hand and seal of the Court, this 12th day of September 1832 P. Burrough Clerk

State of New York } Jefferson County } ss " Oliver Hewit of the town of Philadelphia in the County of Jefferson in the State of New York being duly Sworn before me deposeth and saith that he was acquainted with James Hewit  Hughes , during the war of the revolution and has ever since been acquainted with him that in the year 1880 according to the deponent best recollection and belief the said James Hewit volunteered into Capt Vroomans Company that this deponent saw the said James when the company assembled that he was a private in the said Company and saw him march with it as was then said for Fort Edwards that the said James was absent some months that he saw him when he returned home after being discharged. That the said James Hewit was out in the militia and sta- tioned at a place then called Cobus Hill that he this deponent does not recollect the precise time he was out but thinks it was two or three months. That the said James Hewit was out several other times for a short in alarms and this deponent further saith that the said James Hewit is the mentioned in this affidavit is the same identical person who signed the fore- going declaration
Oliver Hewit
Subscribed and Sworn This 7th day of July 1882 before me
J McCrae Judge

I John Macomber a judge of the court of common pleas of the county of Jefferson in the state of New- York do hereby certify that Oliver Hewitt who subscribed and made the foregoing affidavit is a person known to me to be a credible witness July 7 th 1832 J Macomber Judge
Clerks office } Jefferson county } I Deleg Burghard Clerk of the court of Common pleas in the county of Jefferson in the state of New York do hereby cer- tify that John Macomber before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn was at the time a Judge of the said court of common pleas and duly empowered to administer oaths In testimony whereof I have here- unto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court this 10 day of July 1832 — J. V. Burghard Clerk

Mr. see.
Rehman
✓ 13.358 INVALID.
Feby. 17-1897. Examined by Aspinwall, Bd. of A.R.
File No. 13.358
James Hewitt Rev. Boer War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 170
[Arrangement of 1870.]