Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 216, Israel Andrews, Mass. Sea Service Mass
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State of Maine
Washington SS

On this Eighth day of March A.D. 1841. personally appeared before the Honorable John C. Talbott Judge of Probate within and for the County of Washington and State of Maine,
Mary Andrews a resident of Machias in the County aforesaid, aged seventy nine years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4th A.D. 1836. 
that she is the widow of Israel Andrews who was in the service of the Revolutionary War, as a mariner and private; that he served in the Massachusetts Militia under Capt. Joseph Sevey in the several engagement at Machias
and also in the regular line of United States troops under command of Col. John Allen at Machias;
that he was in the service at least one year before her marriage with him and continued therein during the next year - that he was a mariner & second officer on board the United States vessel under command of Capt. Ephraim Chase an armed Schooner with four carriage guns employed in transporting munitions of
war to the troops stationed in the Eastern section of the
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District of Maine. was present at the taking of Bigaduce (sic)- (now Castine) and was in a boat with two others and an Indian, that the boat was fired upon by the enemy & the Indian was Killed, was in Boston on board the aforesaid Schooner laden- with provisions when a French ship arrived at Boston laden with specie; after the discharge of said ship she was ordered as convoy to the Schooner, and Andrews was put on board the French ship as pilot, that on their voyage they were chased by British frigate when off Bigaduce (sic) and that he (Andrews) was put below in the hold for fear that he might be Killed & they thus lose his services as pilot; arrived at Machias and there the commander of the French ship in presence of Col. Allen offered to pay Andrews for his services, and Col. Allen told him "not to pay him as he (Andrews) was in the service of the United States and received his pay from the Government"- 
was an inhabitant of Machias at the time he entered the service; that he has no documentary evidence of any Kind in support of his claim as all his books and papers were destroyed by fire- 

She further declares that she was married to the said Israel on the sixth day of November in the year seventeen hundred and eighty, her husband the aforesaid Israel died on the first day of February in the year eighteen hundred and ten, of consumption, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period,
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State of Maine
County of Washington Ss.

On this Eighth day of March A.D. 1841 Personally appeared before me J C Talbot, a Justice of Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by the laws of the State, to administer oath, John Andrews, a resident of Cutler, in the County aforesaid, Aged Seventy seven years, who being first sworn according to law, doth on his oath say

that he is well acquainted with Mary Andrews, the foregoing applicant, that she is the widow of the late Israel Andrews, of Machias, and that the said Israel Andrews was a brother of his, that I have been intimately acquainted with him from early life, to the time of his death, we having both of us lived in this vicinity, that in the fall of the year Seventeen Hundred & Eighty, my Brother, the said Israel Andrews, was married to Mary Sevey (daughter of the late Capt. Joseph Sevey of Machias) now Mary Andrews, the widow of said Israel Andrews, and the foregoing applicant, that I was present at the time the Marriage cerimony (sic) was performed by the Hon Stephen Jones, that I have been acquainted with them
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ever since that time, that they always lived together as Husband & Wife, untill the time of his death, which was some where about the year Eighteen Hundred & ten, that they had while living together a large family of Children and that the said Mary Andrews has remained a widow ever since the decease of my Brother, the said Israel Andrews, and is now a Widow, that at the time of the Marriage of my Brother, the said Israel Andrews, he was in the service of the United States, on board an armed Schooner called the [[Nasconett]], mounting ten carriage guns, of which Schooner Ephraim Chase, was Commander, and he the said Israel Andrews, was Lieutenant, which [[bend]] was imployed (sic) in the carrying of munitions of war, and troops along the eastern coast of the State of Maine, that said [[bend]] did [[hutle]] on board the troops at Machias for the purpose of transporting them to Bigaduce (sic) (now Castine at the mouth of Penobscot River) at or about the time of the defeat there and I have frequently heard my Brother Israel & also my Brother Timothy, (who was also a hand on board of said [[vessel]]) with many [[ ]] say that he was in said [[bend]] at the time of the siege and defeat at (Bagaduce) the Penobscot River, and took a part in the engagement,- 
the said Israel Andrews entered the service as a volunteer, but the precise time of the entry I do not now recollect, neither do I now recollect the time of his leaving the service, but from the best of my present recollection I think he must have been in the service two years or more, he was in the service some time before
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his marriage, at the time of the marriage and continued in the service a considerable time after the marriage, at the time my Brother entered the service of the Revolutionary War, he was a citizen of Machias, and always continued such untill the time of his death, that [[at that]] time previous to this death, he had his dwelling House burnt with all its contents.-
N3. the word 'that' [[eraect]], and the word 'un' [[Interlineed]] before signing.
John Andrews

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year before written,-
Before me J. C. Talbot Justice of the Peace

I hereby Certify, 
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Soldier much of the time at Machias for
about three years that he [[and]] to [[go in sentry
the some as others]], and perform all other
duties required of soldiers at that time, [[the same as I]] and other soldiers did, that he
worked much on [[futiary]] duty, in building
the Block House, Fort, and other public
works, and was employed as a solder, or on
the works much of the time as aforesaid, &
was subject to the like order [[said sales]]
at all times as I myself or others who were
in the service with us at that time, as
for as come to my knowledge, according to the
best of my belief & present recollection.-
And I further say that I know that the said
Israel Andrews was frequently called into the
service as a militia man during the wars as aforesaid.-
John [[Bezoact]]

Witness
J C. Talbot,

Joseph Andrews


Washington ss
May 19th 1843
subscribed and sworn to
Before me J. C. Talbott Justice of the Peace