Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37,885, Justus Disbrow, Conn.
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(3-1776) SERVICE Conn. Disbrow, Justus or Desbrow NUMBER S. 37,885 CONTENTS
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see letter to E. Swift Nov. 26 1830. Duplicate certificate issued 4 March 1831 and sent to E. Swift Esq. Saugatuck, Con.
Notification sent October 7th 1820 to David Burr, Fairfield, Connt.
4,310 Connecticut Roll
Justus Desbrow Capt Pond Private Connecticut line In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 11th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 11th of Novr 1818 and sent to Pierpoint Edwards Esqr Judge Bridgeport
Arrears to 4th of September 1818 4W 21/30 38.40 Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4 March 1819 48. [equals] $86.40
Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. 77 Three years Continued Fairfield, Fairfield, Co.
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District of Connecticut ss
On this 11th day of April AD 1818 Justus Disbrow of Fairfield in said District, under oath declared before Pierpont Edwards, District Judge of the United States for the District of Connecticut, in which district the declarant now resides, and ever since the end of the war of the revolution hath resided,
that on the twenty first day of April in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven, the Declarant enlisted as a private into the service of the United States in Captain Charles Ponds Company Colonel Douglass Regiment in the Connecticut line on the continental establishment of the armies of the United States in the war of the Revolution, for the term three years, which term the Declarant faithfully served out in the armies of the United States, in said war against the common enemy, and at the end of said term was honourably discharged by a discharge signed by R. J. Meigs, Brigadier General of the Brigade to which he then belonged, which Discharge the declarant hath by time and accident lost.
And the declarant further maketh oath that he now is, and ever since the declaration of Independence hath been, a resident citizen of the United States, and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for his support. And the declarant further maketh oath that at the time of his enlistment, as above stated, he received a certificate thereof from Sergeant Major Disbrow, which certificate he now exhibits to said Judge.
[signed] Justus Disbrow
District of Connecticut ss April 11th 1818 the aforenamed Justus Disbrow came before me & in my presence subscribed the aforesaid declaration & made Oath that the same is true. Pierpont Edwards District Judge for District
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District of Connecticut ss
On this 11th day of April AD 1818 before me, Pierpont Edwards, District Judge of the United States for the District of Connecticut, came Joshua Disbrow and Captain Seymour Taylor, both of Fairfield in said District respectable citizens thereof, who being duly sworn depose & say
that the aforenamed declarant Justus Disbrow now is, and ever since the declaration of Independence hath been, a resident citizen of the United States, and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for his support.
And the said Joshua Disbrow further saith that he, as a Sarjeant Major, enlisted the said Justus into the service of the United States, as is in his declaration foregoing set forth, and at the time thereof gave to him a certificate thereof, which is the same certificate by him was exhibited to said Judge.
And the Deponent further saith that he well knows that the said Justus faithfully served the United States as a private in the war of the Revolution for the said time of his said enlistment, until the fifth day of August AD 1779, when the deponent was himself discharged from said service, in which he had been in the same company with the said Justus, from the said time of his said enlistment until his the deponents discharge therefrom as aforesaid.
[signed] Seymor Taylor, Joshua Disbrow
April 11th 1818 Sworn before me Pierpont Edwards District Judge of the District of Connecticut
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3. Justus Desbrow
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State of Connecticut, ss.
I, DAVID BURR, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Fairfield, in the said State, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule of Justus Disbrow is sixty nine Dollars twenty five cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Fairfield, this 25th day of July 1820. David Burr Clerk of the County Court for said County of Fairfield.
District and State of Connecticut, ss. Fairfield Jully 25, 1820
I, ROBERT FAIRCHILD, Chief Judge of the County Court for the County of Fairfield, in said State, do certify that DAVID BURR, Esq. is the Clerk of said Court, duly appointed and sworn; and that the said Court is a Court of record, made so by the statute laws of said State; that it proceeds according to the course of the common law, has a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, with the power of fine and imprisonment, and keeps a record of its proceedings.
Robert Fairchild Chief Judge of the County Court for the County of Fairfield.
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District and State of Connecticut Ss.

Be it remembered that in the County Court held in and for the County of Fairfield in the state aforesaid the same being a Court or record, and having a seal under the authority of said State on the 25th day  of July 1820 Personally appeared in open Court Justus Disbrow aged sixty nine years resident in the town of Fairfield in Said County & state and being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, that is to say for the term of their years in Douglass' Regiment Capt Charles Pond's Company in the Connecticut Line in the Continental Establishment & was discharged Meigs's regiment, reference for a more particular description being had to his original declaration dated the 11th day of April 1818 and transmitted to the Secretary for the war department that in pursuance thereof he was entered in the list of Pensioners and received a pension Certificate No 4,310 and I do further solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part there of with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of the act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain has on engaged in the Land & Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any Income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed- Schedule- an old dwelling house containing one room and a small bed room standing on about half an acre of Land enclosed on the highway, one Weavers Loom. 1 Cow, 11 Sheep, two swine about 50 each one Lon pottage pot. 
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one Iron dish Kettle, One Small Copper Kettle, six old Chairs, 1 old chest, one fire shovel & tongs, 2 trammels, one old axe, one hoe, six Knives and forks, 6 Tea Cups & Saucers, Six Earthan Plates, 3 Earthan Platters, Six pewter spoons, one Iron Tea Kettle, one pr Iron Dogs, 1 pail, one washing tub, one tin pail, 3 tin Milk pans, 2 old Spinning Wheels, 1 Riel, one old brass warming pan, 1 Iron Spider, 1 Earthan Tea Pot, 1 old Table, 4 pigs
[signature] Justus Disbrow
And I do further declare that my occupation is that of a Weaver, but being far advanced in life, can work but little at it, or at any other employment. That my Family consists of three persons beside myself, viz, my wife Elizabeth Disbrow, aged Seventy one years, very infirm being constantly troubled with Heystericks, & having always been a Cripple, and unable in any way to contribute towards her support, and my Daughter Lucinda, aged twenty one, whose time is so much taken up in attending on her mother, that she is unable to contribute but very little to her support, and my Grand daughter Harriet, aged Eleven years. All which is subscribed by me on the day and year aforesaid.
[signature] Justus Disbrow
Sworn to and declared in the Court aforesaid. Whereupon said Court is, on satisfactory proof exhibited in Court, of opinion that the total amount in value of the property contained in the aforesaid Schedule is sixty nine Dollars and 25 cents, and doth order these proceedings to be entered in the records of said Court. Attest David Burr Clerk
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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.   Justus Disbrow, S. 37885.

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment.
 Apl. 21 1777

Length of Service.
3 years

Rank.
Private

Officers under whom service was rendered. 
Captain Charles Pond
Colonel Douglas, Colonel Meigs j

State
 Conn.

Battles engaged in, [check mark]

Residence of soldier at enlistment, 
    Fairfield Conn.

Date of application for pension, 
  April. 11, 1818. His claim was allowed

Residence at date of application,
Fairfield Conn..

Age at date of application, 
 1820: 69 years.

Remarks: in 820 he referred to his wife Elizabeth at 71 years, daughter Lucinda at 21, and grand daughter Harriet- 0 11 years
 (parents not stated).

Repectfully, 

Commissioner.

d-285C
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Justus Disbrow’s Certificat from Joshua Disbrow Serj Major
DISBROW, JUSTUS CONN. S 37885
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Fairfield April [illegible] AD 1777
These May Certify that Justus Disbrow of Fairfield Inlisted in The 6th Connecticut Battallion on the 21 of April 1777 for three years To Whome it may Consern Inlisted by Me
Joshua Disbrow Serjt Major
[stamp] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES
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[illegible in upper left corner]
Rev. War Section. 
[illegible]
March 22, 1917.
Aileen Gantt,
North Platte,
Nebraska.
Madam:
In response to your letter dated the fourth instant,
relative to Justus Diebrow S. File No. 37,885 Rev. War, you
are advised that in the papers in his claim, it is not stated
when and where he was born and died, nor is there any family
data other than that furnished you under date of November 24,
1916.
For the date of soldier's death, and name of the 
person to whom the arrears of his pension were paid, application
should be made to the Auditor for the Interior Department,
Washington, D. C. giving him all of the following data:
"Justus Desbrow, certificate no. 4310, issued
November 11, 1818, for $8 per month from April
11, 1818, under the Act of March 18, 1818, at
the Connecticut Agency".
Very respectfully,
GM Saltzgaber
Commissioner.
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REGULAR EXAMINATION DAYS
Third Friday and Following Saturday-January, March,
May and November
Lincoln County Schools
Aileen Gant
SUPERINTENDENT
NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA
[illegible] OFFICE DAY-SATURDAY
March 4, 1917-
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.,
Gentlemen:-
I wrote for a statement of the 
military history of Justus Disbrow
which you sent me.  It was record
S. File 37,885 with the initials I. S. C.
above.  He was from Fairfield, Conn.
Can you give me this information 
in addition?  When and where did 
he die and when and where 
was he born?  Also do you have the 
names of his children?
Yours very truly
Aileen Gantt
P. S. I am particularly anxious
for his death date- A. G.
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REGULAR EXAMINATION DAYS
Third Friday and Following Saturday-January, March
May and November
Lincoln County Schools
AILEEN GANT
SUPERINTENDENT
NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA
Rev
OFFICE DAY-SATURDAY
P
Nov. 6,1916-
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:,
I am trying to look up my
record for the D.A.R.  I have three
ancestors who were in the 
Revolution, John Murray, Chas.
Murray (formerly from Scotland)
One was an aid to Gen. McClane
(Allan, I believe.)  They were from
Connecticut.  There was a Justus
Disbrow from Fairfield. Conn. (I
think.) and Samuel Edwin
Gruman from Norwalk Conn.
Can you give me any information 
about these men?
Yours very truly,
Aileen Gantt
[round stamp at lower left corner]
PENSION
       N
    NOV
U.   10   S.
     1916
   OFFICE.
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37885
INVALID.
Revy
File No. 3,885
Justus Desbrow
Pri Rev War
____________
Act: 18" March 18"
Index: -- Vol. 2, Page 125 ┃
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1916 Nov. 24. History to
Aileen Gantt. [cent symbol]
1917 Mch. 22. above referred to
auditor for date of death etc. [cent symbol]
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Pension Office
March 2, 1821
Saugatuck Ct
Feb 25
[illegible]
Hon John H. Eaton apn. for new cert:
Secretary of War
Washington
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Hon John H Eaton Secy of War

Sir
My letter of the 26th Nov last J.L. Edwards Esq I received instructions in relation to the proof required by the war department an application for a new pension certificate where the former had been destroyed. The application was made in behalf of Justus Disbrow of the Town & County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut - I herewith include the proof prepared in conformity with the instructions & presume it will be satisfactory - Please forward me the new certificate as soon as convenient. These old soldiers are miserably poor - we have had a hard winter, and the time at which they ordinarily receive their pension is near, their old stock is expired, Disbrow's pay must be deferred until his certificate arrives, It would be an act of benevolence if you would have the goodness to give the subject our prompt attention
Respectfully
Yours
E Swift

Saugatuck
Fairfield County
Connt Feby 25th
1831
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Justus Disbrow,
private,
Connecticut line,
11th. April, 1818.
========
Admitted
on Connt. roll
Pierpont Edwards, Esq.
Judge,
Bridgeport, Fairfield Co.
Connecticut.
Recd. 27. May, 1818.
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The
Honorable John C. Calhoun
Secretary of the Department of War
Washington
[the following is written vertically along the upper left edge of the page from bottom to top]
Justus Desbrow
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I Pierpont Edwards District Judge of the District of Connecticut do Certify that it appears to my satisfaction that Justus Disbrow who made & subscribed the declaration contained in the annexed Schedule did serve in the Revolutionary war against the common Enemy as stated in his said declaration & I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me in his care to the Secretary of the department of War pursuant to an Act of Congress in such case made & provided said proceeding & testimony are contained n the annexed schedule March 20th 1818
Pierpont Edwards
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APPLICATION FOR A NEW CERTIFICATE.

State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield ss

On this 21st day of Befruary 1831, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Fairfield aforesaid personally appeared Justus Disbrow of Fairfield in said county who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Charles Pond in the regiment commanded by Colonel Meigs in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Connecticut that he received a certificate of that fact, on or about the fifth day of October 1830, a the Town of Fairfield in said County was consumed by fire, that his dwelling house was there set on fire by an infant daughter & will all its contents was entirely consumed , that said certificate was in said house at the time the house was burnt, & was consumed therein, this deponent was absent from home at the time his house was set on fire & did not reach it in time to save any thing. The word [illegible] in the 15th fire from the you [unknown] before signing and all the word "he: between the 15 & 16 line from the top
Justus Disbrow

Eliph A Swift Justus of the Peace for the County of Fairfield
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NOTES.- The last four blanks are left for the applicant to set forth the time, place, and manner of the loss or destruction of the original certificate.
The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be properly authenticated.
If the pensioner has never received a formal certificate, but has drawn his pension on a mere notification, as was the case in a few instances many years ago, he should leave out the above words in italics, and insert, in lieu thereof, "but has never received a formal certificate, and now wishes to obtain one."
The pensioner's oath must be supported by the evidence of another person as to identity. The person must swear that he well knows him to be the same person described in the above affidavit. The magistrate must certify that the deponent is a person of veracity. This oath must also be authenticated by the certificate of the proper officer, under his seal of office, setting forth that the officer before whom the affidavit may be made is a Justice of the Peace, Judge, or Notary Public, as the case may be.
when a person acting as an Agent or Attorney for a Pensioner, loses the certificate, the affidavit of that person is also required, which must be authenticated as above.
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State of Connecticut County of Fairfield Ss Fairfield February 23d 1831 - Personally came before me the subsitute? Justice of the Peace for said County, Samuel Wood of the Town & County aforesaid & made solemn oath that he has been acquainted with Justus Disbrow of said Town & County during all the time for more than fifty years last past, that he is a revolutionary pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818, that he has often seen said Disbrow's certificate signed by J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War, that the deponent well knows that the person described in the within affidavit is the same identical Justus Disbrow above named, and that he is a revolutionary pensioner as aforesaid; that the deponent has lived within about one mile if said Disbrow, about forty years, & has no doubt his house was burnt as sworn to by him in the within affidavit & also that said certificate was burnt in it. This deponent also knows that said Disbrow is a man of truth & full confident may be placed in his declarations         Samuel Wood
Sworn & Subscribed to
before me on the day
& year aforesaid
Eliph A Swift Justice of the Peace
for the County of Fairfield

State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield SS Fairfield Feby 23d 1831
I certify that the within named Justus Disbrow & the above named Samuel Wood are both men of truth & well known to me as such & that full confidence may be placed in the foregoing affidavits sworn by them
Eliph A. Swift Justice of the Peach
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State of Connecticut}
Fairfield County Ss}
I Thomas B Osborne Clerk of the County Court within and for said Fairfield County; do hereby certify that Eliphalet Swift Esquire whose signature appears to the foregoing certificates is now and was at the date of his said Certificates a Justice of the Peace for said Fairfield County, duly commissioned and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are all genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County Court in Fairfield this twenty fourth day of February one thousand eight hundred & thirty one
Thomas B Osborne Clerk
of said County Court