PENSION: Lewis Hewitt; Sempronius, Cayuga Co., NY

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Peter Gordon Evans [pgevans@eznet.net]

PENSION FILE of LEWIS HEWITT
File No. W17066

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Lewis Hewitt Born Nov. 14, 1757
Charlotte Dean do Jan. 16, 1762
Lewis Hewitt married to miss Charlotte Dean 1781
Clarrisa Hewitt born in Plainfield March 9th AD 1783
Mary Hewitt born in Windham March 23rd 1787
James Dean Hewitt Born in Franklin April 30th 1792
Betsy Hewitt born in Franklin August 1st 1797
Charlotte Hewitt Junr. Born in Franklin Sept. 18th 1800
Charlotte Hewitt Junr. Died in Franklin March 18th 1809

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2H.121
New York
Lewis Hewitt
of Cayuga in the State of New York
who was an Ens. 1c in the Company commanded
by Captain Gordon of the Regt. commanded
by Col. Douglas in the New York
line for 12 months as Ensign

12 months as Private
$120 Conn. + $40 Conn. Sea Service
Inscribed on the roll of New York
at the rate of 160 Dollars 00 Cents per Annum
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 1st day of Nov.
1833 and sent to Claimant

Sempronius

Arrears to the 4th of Sep. '33 $400
Semi-anl. allowance 4 Mi'34 80

#480

Revolutionary Class

Act June 7, 18--

Recorded by Go. C Stiles
Book E Vol. 4 Page 104

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State of New York
Cayuga County

On this fourteenth day of September 1832 personally appeared before me,
Gershom Norse one of the judges of the Court of Commons pleas for the County
of Cayuga Lewis Hewitt a resident of the town of Sempronius County of Cayuga
and State of New York aged Seventy four years who being first duly sworn
according to law doth on his oath make this following declaration in order to
obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named
affairs and served as herein states That about the first of April 1775 he
enlisted in the town of Preston County of New London State of Connecticut for
seven or eight months under Lieut. Col. John Tyler who commanded the company
from Preston he marched to Roxbury Massachusetts That the regiment was
commanded by Col. Samuel Parsons that he was stationed at Roxbury during his
tour of service that in the latter part of the month of November or first of
December he was discharged That in the month of January 1776 he enlisted for
three months under Captain James Gordon 1st Lieut. Henir Dason 2nd Lieut David
Cady and commanded by Col. John Douglas That he marched to Cambridge
Massachusetts that he was garrisoned in the Colleges at Cambridge a part of
the time and a part of the time at Roxbury that he served three months that
Generals Washington Putman Green and Thenurs were at Boston at the time that
he was at Dorchester heights when the British evacuated Boston that he marched
into Boston and to Roxbury where he was discharged. That in the spring of 1776
he enlisted in the town of Preston County of New London State of Connecticut
for six months under Captain William Belcher Col. Gay Lieut. Col. Lotterman
and Major Watterman Clift commanded the regiment that marched from Preston to
the City of New York that he was stationed in the

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City of New York until the British entered the City that the regiment to which
he belonged was mostly surrounded by British troops that the Col. was taken
prisoner after which retreat Lieut. Col. Lotterman commanded the regiment that
he retreated to Harlem Heights near Kings bridges and near Fort Washington
there continued the retreat to White Plains from there to North Castle near
the highlands. That in the month of November 1777 he was drafted for three
months in the town of Preston in the County of New London State of Connecticut
that he was marched and stationed at Fort Griswald under Capt. Richard
Starkweather that he did his duty in Fort Griswald and at New London that he
was discharged when his time if service had expired. That in the month of
August 1778 he entered into service on board the Brig Nancy Captain Wm Leeds
for a cruise that he was taken prisoner off the West port of Long Island a
short time after sailing from New London by the British frigate Greyhound and
carried into the City of New York That the Greyhound was commanded by Capt
Durson that he was kept on board the prison ship Good Hope nearly three months
that there were confirmed at the same time a large number of prisoners it was
said about seven hundred prisoners that Captains Griffin and Perkins were
prisoners at the same time that he was discharged and sent to Boston and was
landed from the visit. That in the month of July or August he enlisted in the
town of Plainfield County of Windham and State of Connecticut to go a cruise
under Capt. N Fosdick of the Sloop Randolph of eighteen guns. That he sailed
from New London that the sloop Randolph took the British vessel Nilurna and a
schooner that was privi to her and he was sent to New London under prison
Master Hibbard that he was out about two months

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that in the month of March or April 1781 he recieved an ensigns commission in
the State Troops of the State of Connecticut in the town of Plainfield County
of Windham and State of Connecticut and entered the service for one year under
Captain James Dana Lieut. Cogwin in Col. Edwin Shipman's regiment Col.
Humphreys commanded a regiment in the same Brigade The Brigade commanded by
General Waterbury that he marched to Stamford from there to White Plains in
the State of New York from there to Frogs Point where he was in an engagement
with the British and Tories called Dunasee' or Dundasies Corps that this Corps
was driven from the plain from Frogs Point he marched to near White Plains was
at Frogs Point when the French and American Armies marched to the Southward
that the Brigade to which he was attached wasa flying comp and marched from
plain to plain to horse mills then to Grenwich then to Kings Street and
finally marched to Stamford in the State of Connecticut where he went into
Winter quarters that he continued at Stamford until the expiration of his time
of service that his Captain and Lieutenant were both absent and he as ensign
Commandant discharged his Company That he lost his commision in the town of
Windham and County of Windham and State of Connecticut And that he has no
documentary evidence of service that he cannot prove any personal testimony
except the testimony of -------- on Whipple ------ -------

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the
present one and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the
agency of any State

Sworn and Subscribed Lewis Hewitt

The day and year aforesaid
before Mr Gershom Norse 
a Judge of lay Com pleas

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Declaration - In order to obtain the benefit of the third section of the Act
of Congress of the 4th July 1836 and the joint Resolution of July 7 1838

State of New York
Cayuga County

On this 29th day of August 1848 personally appeared before the undersigned
Wing Tabor ca Judge of the County Court in aforesaid County, Charlotte Hewitt
a resident of Moravia County and State aforesaid aged 78 years, who being
first duly sworn according to Law doth in her Oath make the following
declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act
of Congress passed July 4th 1836 and the joint resolution of July 7 1838, That
she is the widow of Lewis Hewitt who was a pensioner of the United States in
the Revolutionary Army, She further declares that she was married to the said
Lewis Hewitt on or about the month of October Seventeen hundred and eighty
one, That her husband the aforesaid Lewis Hewitt died in the 15th day of March
1837, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more
fully appear by reference to the proof hereinto annexed,

sworn and subscribed in the day and year aforewritten Charlotte Hewitt

Before me
Wing Tabor Judge

Cayuga County Court

And I the Said Judge do hereby Certify that I am well aquainted with the above
named Charlotte Hewitt and that she cannot from bodily infirmity attend Court,
and I further Certify that she is a respectable person and that her testimony
is intitled to credit and belief - and that she still remains the widow of
said Lewis Hewitt deceased,

Wing Tabor Judge

Cayuga County Court