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STATE OF CONNECTICUT, Comptroller's Office, Hartford, Dec. 12, 1849. I certify that, on application for evidence of the service of
Captain Joseph Jewett in the war of the revolution, I have examined the books and documents remaining in this office and find his
name in a pay roll headed as follows, viz: "Marched from Lyme for the relief of Boston, &c., in the Lexington alarm, April, 1775;" and
opposite his name are the following entries, viz: "Captain: number of days in service, 31; wages due, £6 4s.; billeting due, at 1s. 6d.
per day, £2 6s &d."
The above account is certified by the selectmen of the town of Lyme. I find also the name of Captain Jewett in "a pay roll of the 8th
company of the 8th regiment, raised per order General Assembly Colony Connecticut, July, A. D. 1775;" and opposite his name are
entries as follows, viz: "Time enlistment, July 6; when discharged, dead, or deserted, including time for the discharged to return
home, at 15 miles per day, December 10; wages due, £30 16«.; when received colony provisions, August 3; days billeted
themselves, 28; amount of billeting, £0 14s. Oct.; miles from home, 20; expenses home, at Id. per mile, £0 10s. 0d.; whole amount,
£32 0s. 0d."
ABU AH CATLIN,
Comptroller.
STATE OF CONNECTICUT, Comptroller's Office, Hartford, Dec. 29, 1849.
I certify that, upon application for further evidence of the service of Captain Joseph Jewett in the war of the revolution, I have
examined the books and documents remaining in this office, and find as follows viz: First, in a ledger of the pay table office, under
the following heading: "Colonel Jedediah Huntington's regiment, raised January, 1776, for one year," appears the name of " Captain
Joseph Jewett," and opposite said name are the following entries, viz: "arms and baggage taken or destroyed, £23; total, £23."
Second, the entry of the above is in the day book, as follows, viz: "United States Dr.: to order on treasury, Captain Joseph Jewett,
for loss, Huntington's battalion. '76, £23."
ABIJAH CATLIN,
Comptroller. By GEO. ROBINSON, Cleric.
STATE OF MICHIGAN,
Washtenaw County
Samuel P. Jewet, of Ann Arbor, county and State aforesaid, being duly sworn, deposes and says, that be is over twenty-one years
of age; that he was present at the time of the death of George W. Jewett; that said George W. Jewett died at Ann Arbor aforesaid on
the fourteenth day of February, A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty; that said George W. Jewett was an uncle of this deponent; that his
uncle, the said George W. Jewett, was a son of Captain Joseph Jewett, of Lyme, in the State of Connecticut; that the said George
W. Jewett, deceased, has left two surviving brothers, to wit: Joshua R. Jewett, who resides in the town of Granby, in said State of
Connecticut, and Josiah Jewett, father of this deponent, who resides in the town of Moravia, in the State of New York.
SAMUEL P. JEWETT.
STATE OF MICHIGAN,
Washtenaw County,'
On this twenty-eighth day of March, A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty, personally appeared before me, a notary public in and for said
county, the above named Samuel P. Jewett, who, being duly sworn by me, upon his oath says, that the facts set forth in the
foregoing affidavit, by him subscribed, are true, and further saith not.
SAMUEL P. JEWETT. Sworn and subscribed to before me the day and year above written.
TRACEY W. ROOT,
Notary Public, Washtenaw county, Michigan.
STATE OF MICHIGAN,
Washtenaw County
I, John C. Munday, clerk of the county of Washtenaw, and also clerk of the circuit court for said county, do hereby certify that Tracey
W. Root, before whom the annexed affidavit purports to have been taken, was, at the date of said affidavit, a notary public in and for
said county, duly commissioned and qualified, and by law authorized, to take the same. And I do further certify that I am acquainted
with the hand writing of the said Tracey W. Root, and verily believe his signature thereto is genuine.
In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said county court at Ann Arbor, this 28th day of March, in the year one
thousand eight hundred and fifty.
JOHN C. MUNDY, Clerk.
IN THE COURT OF CLAIMS.
JOSHUA R. JEWETT and other claimants, )
vs. > Claimants' brief and points.
THE UNITED STATES. The claim is founded upon a law of Congress. The consideration was for services in part executed, and to be
continued to the end
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