Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1375, Eli Brush, Conn.
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SERVICE                                         NUMBER

Conn             Brush, Eli                      R. 1375
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        Eli Brush
  Ct. 7.June 1832
    Suspended

See letter as below
              (not found)
20th Decb 1833

          (not found)
do     31 Jany 1855

Hon Jeremiah McLane.
             1375
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Born in Fairfield Con June 6 1757
statement so improbable + 
[two words illegible]  a not given

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                      1375.
P.O.        Eli Brush
Service:  _____________________
Enlisted: _____________________, 18___
Discharged: __________________, 18___
Application filed: ____________, 18___

Alleges:  List of suspended claims
pri ted in 1852, shows cause

Re-enlisted:  of suspension as follows: 
"For further proof from the
Hartford records".
Attorney: _________________________
P.O. ______________________________

_____ Recognized,  _______  Contact.
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Eli Brush
application for a pension
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The State of Ohio
Delaware County } Js   Be it remembered that on this twenty sixth day of August in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty three personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Please in & for the said County of Delaware, now in session Eli Brush a resident of Monroe Township in the said County and State of Ohio aged seventy six 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, 1832.

I the said Eli Brush on my oath state that I entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated, to wit:
   I was born in Fairfield County Connecticut June 6th 1757. I have no record of my age except an entry in a family bible.  In May 1776 at Fairfield County I enlisted as a private soldier in what I was informed and believe to have been Connecticut State troops or militia for the term of three months.  I enlisted under Cpt. Phineas Beardsly and Col   _____ Swift.  Soon after I was marched north with the company to which I belonged, and at length joined the expedition under Genl. Montgomery against Canada.  We marched with our company through Pittsfield Lenox in Massachusetts. Bennington and then to Ticonderoga where we ere stationed some time.  I was next marched with a large body of troop, (but I can not recollect the names of Offices on the troop except my own company to St. John in Canada.  I was next marched to Montreal where I remained in garrison while Genl. Montgomery went to Quebec. But about that time my Company was marched
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back to Fairfield with our Officers, late in the fall or fore part of winter.  We marched  through the same places as on our way out.  We remained quartered at Fairfield after our return untill [sic] the next spring when I was 8 months with the company under Capt. Penfield to the vicinity of New York.  There I was in many military operations and skirmishes with the enemy which I cannot recollect on account of old age & the lapse of memory.   I recollect I was at White Plains and I believe I was in that battle.  In the fall I was marched north to meet the enemy under Genl. Burgoyne. I was there under the command of Genl. Arnold.  I was sent during that time over to Bennington and was in the battle there under Genl.  Marks [?]. After that I was marched back to New York and [illegible word] quarters the next winter at or near the White Plains,  The next spring I was discharged from the service upon my procuring a substitute to serve out the residue of my time which was left then six months.  My  substitute was one Charles Brown.  I thus acted as a minute soldier in the war of the revolution at least two  & a half years no part of which was that in any civil employment and for which I claim a pension.

   I never received any written discharge I have no documentary evidence and know no person by whom I can prove my service.

  I resided after the revolution in Connecticut until 1815 when I removed to the State of Ohio and settled in Monroe Township where I now reside.  There is no clergyman residing in my present neighborhood but I can refer to the following named persons who do & who can testify as to my character and as

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We Benjamin E  Ball and Ananius C. Leat residing in the sd County of Delaware & in the neighborhood of the said Eli Brush hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the said Brush who has signed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy six years of age that he is reputed & believed in the said neighborhood to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion -
  [Signed]  Benjamin E Ball
                  Ananius C. Leat

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 above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.  And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that there is no clergyman residing in the neighborhood of the sd Brush. That Benjamin E. Ball and Ananias C Leat who have signed and sworn to the preceding certificate are
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residents in this said County of Delaware, and in the neighborhood of the above named applicant, and are creditable persons and their statement is entitled to credit -

   I Thomas Reynolds Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said Court in the matter of the application of Eli Brush for a pension.

                    In testimony whereof I have
                    hereunto set my hand and my 
                    Official seal this sixth day 
                     of Decr. 1833

                 [Signed] Thomas Reynolds Clerk
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES       DIVISION OF VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION 
     Form VAM-51                                                                         ARCHIVES
        12-5-41   
                           BOUNTY LAND WARRANT CARD

NAME  Brush, Eli                GRADE  Private       LINE  New York

WARRANT   6799           ACREAGE   100          ISSUED   July 10, 1790
NUMBER                                                 to John Quackinboss, assignee

* The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.  Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in the National Archives.