Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16,606, Joshua Andrews, Mass.
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Mass.
Andrews ,Joshua
S16606

carded
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3929
New Hampshire
Joshua Andrews
Bradford in the state of N. H.
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Pearly of the Regt commanded 
by Cogswell in the Mass militia for one year and eleven days from 1775.
Inscribed on the Roll of N. Hampshire at the rate of 41 dollars 22 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of pension issued the 5 day of Jany 1833 and sent to Hon J M Harper, H. R.

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $61.83
Semi=anl allowance ending 4 March 1833 $20.61
[illegible] $82.44

Recorded by Henry H. Sylvester, Clerk
Book D, Vol 2 Page 139
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J. Andrews
8185
Joshua Andrews
Private
12 mos 11 days

[illegible]
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We, Jonathan Rowe, Minister of the Free Will Babtist Church residing in the town of Bradford, and Stephen Ward, residing in the same Bradford hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joshua Andrews of Bradford in County of Merrimack and state of New Hampshire, that we believe him to be eighty one years of age, that he is reputed, and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Jonathan Fowe
Stephen Ward

I, Charles W Cutter, Clerk of theDistrict Court of the United States for 
State of New Hampshire
Merrimack     August 24th 1832
Personally appeared Jonathan Rose and Stephen Ward and made solemn oath that the above certificate by them signed is true.  Before me,
Samuel Jones, Justice of the Peace and of the Quorum.

State of New Hampshire
Merrimack
I Charles W Cutter, clerk of the District Court of the United States for N H District, being a court of record in said state do hereby certify that Samuel Jones is a Justice of the Peace and of the Quorum within and for said County and that I believe his signature above is genuine.
Witness my hand and the seal of said court at Concord this 28th day of August 1832.
Charles W Cutter, Clerk
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 DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832
State of New Hampshire
County of Merrimack

On this twenty eighth day of August 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the District Court of New Hampshire, now sitting, Joshua Andrews, a resident of Bradford in the County of Merrimack and State of N.H. aged 81 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, both on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. He was born in Boxford, Mass 1751.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated in the month of February 1775 he enlisted in the town of Boxford in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as a soldier in Captain William Perley's company of volunteers were called minutemen and on the 19 day of April 1775 he marched from said Boxford Col. Fryo regiment at Cambridge in said Massachusetts and served under said Perley until December
 of 1775 when he was verbally discharged and returned home to Boxford.  After eight months and one half, and in September 1776 he enlisted in said town of Boxford under Timothy Johnson of Havenhill Massachusetts for the term of two months and passed muster at  Massachusetts and marched to Fairfield in the State of Connecticut, stayed [missing] weeks and then to Rye, New York and from thence to a place called Rice in said New York and served his timeout and was verbally discharged by the officer Jonathan Cogswell, was Colonel. Page Lt. Col, Bodwell Major Thomas Bush was adjutant, Elisha White, Surgeon, Rev. John Chanland Chaplain and the  last or first of September 1777 he enlisted in a volunteer regiment commanded by Col Johnson of Andover Mass in Captain Benjamin Adams company who resided in New [illegible] for the term of three months on the fifth of September 1777 to Bennington, 
 Vermont  and then to a town called Follett in said Vermont and then to still in the State of New York in the battle on or about the 7th of 1777 against Burgoyne Army and Burgoyne Army surrendered on Nov 17 of the same month and Col Johnsons  regiment marched to Albany, NY and then to White Plains, so called and was [illegible] discharged and the time served was 13-1/2 months in the whole, and he knows  of no other document or person only what's annexed viz Elijah Perkins and Stephen Perley.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State.
Sworn to and subscribed the 28th of day of August 1832.
Joshua Andrews and  the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.  And the Court certifies that it appears to them that Jonathan Rowe, who has signed the annexed certificate, is a Minister resident in the same Bradford and that Stephen Ward, who has also signed the same is a resident in the same Bradford and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, Charles W Cutter, clerk of the District Court of the United States for the District, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Joshua Andrews for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 28th day of August AD 18--.
Charles W. Cutter, Clerk
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Rev.& 1812 Wars Section
ILL

Mrs. W H Porter
Hotel Curtis
Mount Vernon, Ohio

Dear Madam:
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.16606, that Joshua Andrews was born in 1751 in Boxford, Massachusetts.
While a resident of Boxford, Massachusetts, he enlisted and served as a private in the Massachusetts troops are follows:
from Aril 19, 1775, eight and one half months in Captain William Pearly's Company, Colonel James Frye's regiment; from September 1776, two months in Captain Timothy Johnson's Company, Colonel Jonathen Cogswell's Regiment, from August or September 1777. three months in Captain Benjamin Adams' Company, in Colonel Samuel Johnson's regiment and was in the second battle of Stillwater.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 28, 1832 while a resident of Bradford, Merrimack County, New Hampshire.
Soldier died August 26, 1838.
There are no data relative to his family in the papers in this claim.
Very truly yours,
E. W.Morgan,
Acting Commissioner
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16.606
INVALID
File No. 16,606
Joshua Andrews
Priv Rev War
Act:  June 7  32
Index: Vol 1, Page 430
1908 Oct 28 Hist to L P Andrews
May 9 Hist to Mrs W H Porter ILL
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I, Elijah Perkins of Sale in Massachusetts, aged 76 years, on oath testify,
That I am well acquainted with Joshua Andrews, now resident at Bradford in New Hampshire in 1777, he and I were neighbors.  I recollect that in the last of August or first of September, 177 he and I both went to Marblehead and there enlisted in Capt Benj. Adams Company in Col Samuel Johnson's Regiment of Massachusetts militia and marched to Bennington, Panlet and Stillwater and we served together three months in said company and were discharged in the state of New York on the first of December at White Plains. [illegible[  
State of Massachusetts 
[illegible]
On this 17th of August 1832 personally appeared the said Elijah Perkins, a credible and disinterested witness, and subscribed and made oath to the above affidavit before me.
Benj Merrill, Just Peace and Quorun
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex county
I, John Prince Jr Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas being a court of record in said county do hereby certify that Benj Merrill is a Justice of the Peace and Quorum within and for [illegible]  county and that I believe his signature within is genuine.
Witness my hand and the seal of said court at Salem this 17th day of August 1832.
John Prince, Clerk
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Secretary of War
Washington City D C
[illegible] of J L Edwards
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Bradford, Merrimack 
County
State of New Hampshire 
August 29, 1832

To the Secretary of War
Sir, I send you six applications for a pension.   viz Joshua Andrews, Jonathan G Knight, Abram Smith, Abel Gorden, Micah Howe and Abner Ward and for further information of the Department I would say that I am personally acquainted with these applicants and can say they all sustain a good moral character for truth and veracity and I think if any error as to date has crept into either of their declarations, it is of the head and not of the heart.  I am yours,
Samuel Jones
P.S. If any further information is wanted you will write me.  The  Clerk lives near 70 miles from here.  On examination I find out omissions which cannot be corrected without great expense.  I therefore send them as they are presuming no exceptions will be taken. You may return their certificates to me, and I would say of Abram Smith that no honester man lives.  Early information is desired.
S. Jones
Care of J L Edwards
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I, Stephen Perley of Topsfield in Massachusetts do on oath testify that I am well acquainted with Joshua Andrews formerly of Boxford in Massachusetts and now resident in Bradford in the county of Merrimack and State of  New Hampshire and I do know that he entered into the army of the revolution at the commencement of the war.  That he did on the eighth day  of April as a private soldier in Capt William Perley's company of minutemen and marched to meet the British troops near Sesington and continued his march to Cambridge and there he reenlisted as a soldier for the term of eight months into said Capt William Perley's company of foot. Col James Fry's regiment of Mass. line and that he continued i said service untill the full term expired making in the whole about eight months and a half.  I also was a soldier in said company and marched on said 19th day April  and continued in the company of said William Perley during said eight months service.
Stephen Perley

State of Massachusetts
Essex Couty
August 16th 1832 
[illegible] the abovenamed Stephen Perley, who is a credible witness, subscribed and made oath to the above affidavit before me.
H. Cleaveland, Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex County

I John Prince Jr Clerk of the Court of C0mmon Pleas being a Court of Record in said county do hereby certify that M. Cleaveland is a Justice of the Peace and Quorum within and for said county and that I believe his signature within is genuine.
Witness my hand and the seal of said court at Salem this 17th day of August 1832.
John Prince Jr Clerk
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Commissioner of Pensions
U S A
Sir;,
Will you please advise me whether the names of any of the following is borne on the pension rolls of the Revolutionary
Gerry Weyman or Weiman
Marianna Weyman (his wife)
John Weyman (or Johan Weiman)
Joshua Andrews
The information is for family history purposes.
Truly yours,
R P Andrews
5317 Master St
Phila
19 Oct 1908
Date stamped:  Record Division Oct 21 1908
Date stamped: U S Pension Office Oct 19 1908
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Date stamped: Revolutionary and1812 Wars
Section
Aprill 3 1931

Hotel Curtis
European Plan
W H Porter, Prop
April 1, 1931

Pension Bureau
Washington D C
Gentlemen;
Will you kindly give me any Rev. war records of the following:
Christopher Andrews, Corporal
Capt Ezra Whittelsey's Company, 3rd Berkshire Co. Regt. Massachusetts, Oct 1780
Joshua Andrews. Private, Capt Benjamin Adam's Co. Col Johnson's Reg Aug 1777 (Mass.)
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Page II.
Hotel Curtis
European Plan 
W H  Porter, Prop
Mt. Vernon, Onio

Samuel Andrews, Barnstable, Private, Capt Matthias Tobey's co., Col Aaron Willard's regt, sent to Ticonderoga Jan 1777.

Samuel Andrews, Stockbridge, private, Capt Job. Woodbridge Co., Col Brown's regt, July 1777 (Massachusetts)
Very truly yours,
Mrs. W H Porter
Hotel Curtis, Mt Vernon, O
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In reply to your request of ___________ received ______________ for a statement of the military history of Joshua Andrews, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau.
S File 16,606
Dates of enlistment: Apl 19, 1775
Length of service: 8 1/2 months
Rank: Private
Captain: Wm Perley
Colonel: James Frye
State: Mass
Date of enlistment: Sept 76
Length of service: 2 mos.
Rank; Private
Captain: Timothy Johnson
Colonel: Jonathan Cogswell
Date of Enlistment: Sept 77
Length of Service: 3 mos
Rank: Private
Captain: Benj Adams
Colonel: Sam'l Johnson
Battles engaged in, second battle Stillwater.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Enlisted at Boxford, Mass
Date of application for pension: Aug 28, 1832
Residence at date of application, Bradford, Merrimack Co., N H
Age at date of application, B. 1751 Boxford, Mass.
Remarks: died Aug 26, 1838 (agency book)