Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 5247, Thomas Andros, Conn. Continental Privateer
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Conn.
Continental
Privateer
Andros, Thomas
S. 5247
Carded.
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Schedule
Declaration in order to be continued on the Pension list under the act of May
1st A.D. 1820.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Bristol
On this seventeenth day of March A.D. 1829 personally appeared in open Court of 
Common Pleas holden at Taunton in and for said County, being a Court of record
its proceedings being according to the course of common law with a jurisdiction
unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings and having
the power of fine and imprisonment. Thomas Andrews resident in the town of
Berkley in said County Clerk who will be aged seventy years on the first
day of May next who being first duly sworn according to laws doth on his oath
make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts
of Congress on the 18th of March AD. 1818, and the first of May AD 1820. that the the
said Thomas Andres enlisted for the term of one year on the fifth day of ┃
December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy five
at Plainfield in the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut in the
Company commanded by Captain Christopher Ely of Lyme in the County of
New London and State of Connecticut in the regiment at first commanded
by Col _____ Parsons but after his promotion by Colonel _____ Tyler in the
line of the State of Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain
first Continental establishment that he continued to serve in said corps until the
26th of December A.D. 1776 when he was taken sick and in consequence thereof
was left at Westchester in the State of New York being unable to proceed
with the detachment of troops to which he belonged which detachment was
guarding prisoners from the State of New York to Hartford in the State of
Connecticut. After he regained his health and in the month of February A.D.
1777, he proceeded to said Lyme where he received his pay for his services
but his term of service having expired whilst he was in the State of New 
York he did not ask for nor did he receive any written discharge. That
he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present,
that his name has been placed on the pension list, that the number of his
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pension certificate is 10742. and that he never before exhibited a schedule
of his property because has heretofore entertained the hope and cherished
the belief that he should be able from his own labour and services to procure
a living and support without calling for the charity and aid of his country for
this purpose And in pursuance of the act of the 1st of May 1820.  I do 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 any manner
disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish
it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled
"an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and 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 in
- come other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and
by me subscribed - That since the 18th of March 1818. I have not made
any changes of my real estate and have made no material changes of
my personal property except the change of family provisions then on hand
and the sale of part of my Library the proceeds of which amounted to about
seven dollars which part of my library [the proceeding] I sold at rendue to
procure the necessaries of life for the use of my family and also the furnishing 
of a daughter with a few articles of household furniture who has since
that time been married which articles were worth about twenty five dollars
That my occupation is that of a religious teacher of the congregational denomination, that in consequence of the infirmities of age and disease I feel in a
great measure incompetent to continue in and to pursue the labours attendant upon this occupation and whenever I shall retire from the same or be dismissed by my society I shall be entirely unprovided both for the necessaries
and comforts of life That my family consists of eight persons viz
myself my wife Sophia who is in the fiftieth year of her age and in a
feeble state of health and has been so for many years -  my daughter Abigail
aged forty years my daughter Lydia aged thirty five years my daughter
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Sarah aged twenty years my son Leander aged fourteen years my son
Milton aged six years my son Richard P. S. aged seven years. As it respects
my daughters I have to contribute so much towards their support
as to furnish them with their board at my own expense, they by their
labour furnish themselves with clothes, as it respects my sons, Lander
probably pay for his support by labouring for me, Richard P.S. and
Milton I have to maintain and they can do but little if any thing towards their support
Thomas Andres

Schedule
The [usussuct] or improvement of about twenty four acres of land with a
dwelling house, an old barn and corn house on the same situated in York
by in the County of Bristol the improvement of which your applicant holds
in the right of his wife said real estate belonging to her, which [usussuct]
or improvement is of the annual value of  ---- 45.00
The wood standing upon a small tract of wild land
situated in said Forkley which land belong to your applicants 
wife so wit about five cords of the value of  ----- 12.50
Farming utensils  -----  11.00
One third part of a cow 5.00 one yearling heifer 6.00
One old horse 40.00 two small pigs 5.00  ----- 56.00
the sleigh $10,00 one old horse waggon 10,00  -----  20.00
my library -----  30.00
household furniture exclusive of necessary beds bedding
and wearing apparel  -----60.00
About 100 rot of english hay and about one ton of fresh
hay 9.50 Three bush of corn 2.50 two bush of rye
175 about 100 lbs of pork 7.00 ----- 20.75
----- 248.25

Deduct for bona fide debts due sundry individuals
which I am bound to pay on demand and for
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the payment of a part of which my wife's real
estate is mortgaged
585.00
N.B. Whether I ought to state in this schedule of property the annual
avails of my personal services as a religious teacher I am not advised -
What the regulations and requisitions of the War Department are in 
this particular and what construction has been given to this question
I know not. The regulations of the War Department of the 26th of
December 1818. mention under the first sale that when the whole property
of the applicant consists in a yearly or fixed income &c-- As it respects
the avails of your declarants religious services (these avails for
services to be received on condition that the services shall be rendered, he
does not consider as property or the income desired from property) they
are to be received by your declarant as long as he shall continue to labour in
the society & Parish in which he is now situated and no longer, and his
society have the liberty of dismissing him when they shall deem proper
and as is said in his declaration from the infirmities of age and disease he
is already in a great degree incompetent to discharge the duties and per
form the labours of a religious teacher, but so long as he shall render them
to the society where he is now situated with their consent and approbation
your declarant is to receive the sum of four hundred and fifty
dollars annually. 

Thomas Andres
Sworn to & declared, on this Seventeenth day of March A.D. 1829.
before Jas Sproat Clk

I James Sproak, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the
County of Bristol, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath & the
schedule think annexed, are truly copied from the record of 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
afousaid Schedule is Two hundred & forty eight dollars & twenty five cents

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed
seal of said Court, this second day of April A.D. 1829.

Jas Sproat 
Co Clk C.C. Pleas for the
County of Bristol
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3017.
Massachusetts
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Thomas Andros
Berkley in the State of Mass
[ ] was a Private in the company commanded
Captain  [blank] of the Regt commanded
Col Parson in the Mass
[ ]e for 16 mos Private
2 mos musician

Continental, Conn., and Privateer,
(Not Mass.)
Records corrected Apr 25/04
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Inscribed on the Roll of Mass
at the rate of 60 Dollars 66 Cents per annum
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
------
Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of Decr
1832 and Sent on
Bassett Dighton Mass
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Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832    $90.99
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 33   $30.3
$121.32

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by I H M Blair Clerk
[ ]D   Vol. 2nd  Page 34
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Bristol ss- At a Court of Probate holden at
Dighton in and for said County on the seventeenth day of August
One thousand eight hundred and thirty  two by adjumment before the Hon.
Hodijah Balies, Judge of the Probate, & for said County, personally
appeared Thomas Andros, a Clergyman and resident of
Berkley, in the County and Commonwealth aforesaid, who will 
be aged seventy four years, on the first day of May next, who being
first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, in order to
obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June seventh,
one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, make the following
statement and declaration: that he has been previously on
the pension list roll of the Massachusetts Agency, as appears by his
Pension Certificate, now in his possession, dated the twelfth day
of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, No. 10,742
that he was placed upon the pension list, because the said Thomas 
enlisted for the term of one year, on the fifth day of December
in the year of our Lord one thousand, seven hundred and seventy 
five, in in the State of Connecticut in the company commanded 
by Capt. Christopher Ely, in the Regiment, at first, commanded
by Col. Samuel H. Parsons, but after his promotion by Col. John
Tyler in the line of the State of Connecticut, on the first continental
Establishment; and served in said corps from said fifth day of
December, One thousand, seven hundred and seventy five, until 
the twenty sixth day of December in the year of our Lord,
one thousand, seven hundred and seventy six, when he was
taken sick, with the inflammatory Rheumatism, and left by
the detachment to which he belonged at Westchester,
which detachment was guarding prisoners from the State of New 
Jersey to Hartford in the State of Connecticut; that his sickness
which was occasioned by his expose to a severe and cold storm,
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continued to sometime in January in the year of our Lord seventeen 
hundred and seventy seven, when, though feeble, he was able to
ride to his home, which was then in Plainfield in the County of
Windham and State of Connecticut, where he arrived sometime in
the month of the same January. The expenses of his sickness and journey 
home were at his own charge: That for this term of Service, (which
was about thirteen months, he was placed upon the pension list as afore
said, but that under and by the Act of May first, one thousand,
eight hundred and twenty he was struck from said lists that
his place of residence, when he first made application to his Government
and was placed on the pension list, was in the Town of Berkley
where he now resides. The evidence of this service the said Thomas supposes
is on file in the War Office

And the said Thomas Andros, doth on his oath as aforesaid further
declare, that beside the afore mentioned service, and afterwards
he was engaged in the service of the Revolution at various times
and places, but doubts whether he can recollect all the times he was so
engaged.  He has, however, a perfect recollection of being a soldier
in a company of drafted Militia of the State of Connecticut, which
company was stationed in the Town of Groton in the County of
New London, and State of Connecticut, and of his being employed 
during this term of one month (he thinks) under the command of
the brave Col. Ledyard in the construction of Fort Griswold which
was afterwards taken by the bloody Major Beckworth under the direction ┃
of the infamous Arnold, and the garrison put to the sword: he
was upon fatigue duty during this term of one month, and went
from Plainfield, which was then his place of residence, in the
County of Windham, and State of Connecticut, to said Groton as a
substitute for his eldest brother, Abel Andros, who is now dead.
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3d

He cannot recollect, so as to be certain of the name or names of
any of his company Officers, nor can he recall to his recollection,
year in which this service was performed: he knows, however,
that this service was rendered as aforesaid, after the commencement
of the year, one thousand, seven hundred and seventy seven, and
before the taking of the Fort by the then enemy as aforesaid. He
has no recollection of any Continental Troops being at Groton
during this period of service: nor does he recollect of having recceived
any written discharge when this term of service terminated,
nor does he know of any person now living, whose testimony he
can procure, who can testify to this service. He was discharged
at Groton aforesaid.

He the said Thomas Andros has also a perfect remembrance of 
having served, and declares that he did serve, another month as a
soldier in a company of drafted Infantry, of the State of Connecticut, 
which company was also stationed at Groton near to the
Mystick river; that said company guarded the shores of said river
and Fisher's Island Sound during that period, to prevent the landing 
of the enemy and plundering of the Inhabitants in that place
and vicinity. This term of service was rendered after the month of service before mentioned at Fort Griswold, and the said Andros
thinks not in the same year. He is not certain in what year this service
was rendered, but knows it was after the Commencement of the year
one thousand, seven hundred seventy seven, and previous to the
taking of Fort Griswold by Major Beckworth. There was no other
company at the place where the company to which he belonged was
stationed at the time of this Service. At this period of his service he is
also unable to recollect the name or names of any of the Company Officers
nor does he now know any individual who is alive and who was engaged
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n this service with him, so as to testify to the same. He, the said
Thomas, at the commencement of this term of service, marched from
Plainfield aforesaid, where he then resided, to the said Mystick river. 
He recollects many incidents that occurred during this period 
of service (such as hearing the famed Jemima Wilkinson preach
to the soldiers, which was the only time he ever heard her, and also
his, the said Andros, having found, on a certain night one of the
guard sleeping upon his post, in consequence of fatigue, &c &c &c
He was discharged, however at said Groton
He presumes this discharge was a verbal and not a written one.

He the said Thomas, further declares that he served another
month in a company of drafted Militia of the State of Connecticut, 
that he marched from said Plainfield, his then place of residence,
to the Town of New London and State of Connecticut,
the place where the company was stationed that he belonged to
and served in the company commanded by Capt. Bacon of Canterbury, 
in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut that
said company was engaged in guarding the shores of the River
Thames and that part of the shore of Long Island Sound which
are in the Town of New London, to prevent the enemy from
landing and plundering the Inhabitants of said Town and its
vicinity-- The company to which he belonged was the only one
which was (at this period) stationed at New London: He is unable
to fix the precise time when this service was rendered, he knows however, 
it was rendered before the taking of fort Griswold, as aforesaid
by the enemy, and after his service in the army, which terminated in
one thousand, seven hundred and seventy seven. He was discharged 
at the expiration of one month's service at said New 
London by Capt Bacon, but has no recollection of receiving a
written discharge, nor does he know any person by whom he can prove this
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5th

He, said Thomas, further declares, that he served another month;
he thinks it was in the Autumn of one thousand, seven hundred &
seventy seven. This service was rendered in the expedition of Gen.
Joseph Spencer to Rhode Island; that he, the said Thomas, was
enlisted by Lieut. John Cobb of Canterbury Connecticut: that
he enlisted in the Town of said Plainfield where he then resided:
that he was a soldier in a company of the Connecticut State
troops, but does not recollect the name or names of either of his
company Officers, unless said Cobb was one of them, and of this
he is not certain, nor does he recollect the name or names of either
of his regimental officers, except that of John Peirce of said Plainfield 
who was the Sergeant Major of the Regiment. The brigade
to which he belonged was commanded by Gen John Douglass of
said Plainfield: That he, the said Andros, marched with the
of Brigade from Connecticut to Providence, Rhode Island and
thence to Tiverton, in the same State: that several attempts were
made to cross over to the Island, but did not succeed-- When one of
these attempt was about to be made, the Brigade was assembled
in the Woods in Tiverton, out of the view of the enemy:  Here our
enterprise was explained to the soldiers: Gen. Douglass harangued 
the army & told us that it was expected we should soon be
engaged with the enemy & be assured the army, that he was so
much of a predestinarian that he did not believe any man
died the sooner for going into battle; but how far this doctrine
took away, from the army, the fear of Cannon Balls, Musketry &
he, the said Andros, is unable to say; soon after this harangue, and
after dark, the Brigade marched with great stillness down to Fogland point
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6th

But the wind blowing very flesh from the southward, and one or
two British frigates lying just below, the attempt to cross then to the
Island was given up--- At another time, when we expected to cross
to the Island, we were formed before our barracks, near Howland's
ferry, when an Officer informed our Brigade, that a Battle was
expected to be fought, and if any one was afraid to cross & fight, if
he would shew himself, he need not go over--- One man marched
out, but he was hooted & laughed at by the rest of us, but he said
he was sick and that it was not fear which and induced him to
step forward.  At the period, when this service of one month terminated, we were discharged at Tiverton R. I. but he has no recollection
of having received a written discharge, nor does the said Andros know
of any persons now living by whom he can prove this service.


And the said And further declares, that about the commencement 
of the summer months, in the year one thousand seven hundred
and seventy eight, he was drafted, and soon after he was drafted, that
he served the further period of two months, as a musician in the company 
of Infantry commanded by Capt. Cutter in Col Smith's Regiment, 
being a part of the troops of the State of Connecticut; that he,
the said Andray, resided when he was thus drafted in said Town of
Plainfield, that he marched with the company, from said Plainfield
to New Haven in the County of New Haven and State of Connecticut
where the company guarded that part of the shore of Long Island
sound, to prevent the landing of the Enemy and the plundering of the
inhabitants upon that part of the sea coast. Here the company were
engaged in this duty about one month. When the French fleet, under
Count De Estaing arrived at Newport, R.I. we were ordered to march
to that place: that he, with the Company marched as ordered---
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When they arrived within about four miles of Providence, Rhode-
Island, they heard the firing of the French Fleet upon the fortifications 
at Newport, as the fleet was passing from the harbour in pursuit of
the British fleet, which had appeared in the Offing:- That the said Thomas
with the company, continued their march through Providence, and crossing
Taunton Great River, in Massachusetts, at Slade's Ferry, so called,
proceeded to Howland's Ferry, so called, in Rhode-Island, and soon
crossed to the Island and invested the Town of Newport and threw up
batteries in the face of the British lines - But the French Fleet, having 
been damaged in a violent storm, he thinks in the month of July or of
August in that year, and repairing to Boston to refit: the works before
the town of Newport were afterwards abandoned, and the American
army, under the command of Gen. John Sullivan retired to the northerly 
end of the Island, marching in three colums, he, the said Andros, 
being in the centre Column, but the American Army being
closely pressed by the British Army, faced about, and met the British 
in a valley to the South of Butts hill so called. Here a battle
was fought, and [a member in] the company to which the said
Thomas belonged, was in the same [killed] in which Battle the Americans not only
by maintained their ground, but have the enemy back upon Quaher
hill so called, and there held them in check, until the Amercan
army crossed to the mainland - Soon after this, the said
Thomas, together with the company & regiment to which he belonged
were marched to Providence, and thence to Warwick Rhode-
Island, where they were discharged, after they had served two months
one of which months was spent as before mentioned, guarding
that part of the shore of Long Island Sound in the vicinity of New Haven,
the other month in this expedition, (commonly called Sullivan's
expedition to Rhode Island.-- He was discharged by Capt. Cutler
but did not, at the said Thomas recollects, receive it in writing.
He does not know of any person now living, by whom he
can prove this term of service, ---
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8th

Beside the several before mentioned terms of service, which
make in the whole about nineteen months, the said Thomas, upon ┃
his oath as aforesaid, further declares, that sometime in the month
of October, one thousand, seven hundred & eighty, he entered as a mariner 
at New London in the State of Connecticut on board of a Privateer, the Schooner, Young Cromwell, armed with twelve carriage guns,
that she had a full crew and sailed soon after he entered on board
on a cruise, commanded by Capt. Hilliard; that she did not
have any action, whilst she was on her cruise, but being often and almost constantly chased by British Cruisers, and not falling in with
any vessels of the Enemy, except ships of war, he, the said Thomas, returned
in the Privateer to New London, whence he sailed about one
month thereafter: He was discharged when the Cruise closed, by
Capt. Hilliard but has no recollection of its being in writing
He does not know of any person now living by whom he can
prove this service.

And the said Thomas further declares, that about the first of
August Anno Domini, one thousand, seven hundred eighty one
he entered as a mariner at New London aforesaid, on board of another privateer, the Brigg, Fair American, armed with sixteen
carriage guns, that she had a full crew and sailed soon after he
entered on board, on a cruise, commanded by Capt. Samuel
Champlain.   About two weeks after the privateer sailed she
fell in with a British Brigg, and after a short conflict, captured 
her. The said Thomas, with others, was put on board the
prize, and ordered to carry her to New London. Soon after the ┃
prize left the privateer, she was captured by the Sole Bay, a
British Frigate, and carried into New York. This was about the
middle of August. The said Thomas, with twelve other prisoners
, constituting the prize Crew of the prize Brigg, were put on board
of the Jersey, the prison ship, noted as the grave of so many thousand American seaman.
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the time he was put on board of the Jersey, there were up
wards, (as he thinks) of twelve hundred persons confined on board
of her.  Sickness and death prevailed here in their greatest horrours,
Nine of the prize crew of the prize Brigg out of thirteen died soon
after they were put on board of that human Hell, the Jersey.
There, the said Thomas, endured a most distressing confinement, 
by sickness and dangerous captivity, from which about the
middle of October, then following; when, by a remarkable providence
of a kind God, though feeble, weak and emaciated, he effected 
his escape, and after a long time he was enabled to reach
his home, through the kindness of patriots & Friends, his place of
residence, being at that time in said Plainfield.   The said Thomas,
says, that from his sickness & sufferings, during this horrible captivity 
his constitution received a shock from which he has never fully 
recovered. He received no discharge when he left this service,
either verbal or written but thank God for the opportunity of his
escape. He knows of no person now living by whom he can prove
this service of this imprisonment.

the said Thomas, further declares
in order more fully answer the interrogatories propounded by
the Secretary of War
That he was born in the Town of Norwich, in the County of
New London & State of Connecticut on the first day of May
in the year of our Lord, One Thousand, seven hundred & fifty
nine: that he has a family Bible, in which is the record of his
age as he received it from his mother, his Father having died
when the said Thomas was a young child. ---

That he resided in said Plainfield at the several periods when he was called
into service- That he now resides in said Town of Berkley, when he has resided
nearly forty five years now last past. That after the revolution he resided
in said Plainfield untill he removed to Berkley. How he was called
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into the service and also the names of his officers so for as he can recollect
them, with the names of other officers, together with such regiments as
he recollects and the general circumstances of his service and the
manner in which he was discharged are before mentioned and
described in this declaration,  he names of the persons who can
testify to his veracity and belief that he rendered the afore described
services in the Revolution are the Rev. Philip Hathaway who resides in Freetown about
two miles from him the said Andros, and John Nichols Gentleman
also a resident in said Freetown

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or
annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on
the pension roll of the agency of any State, as his name as he supposes was stricken from the same or (if any) only on that
of the agency of the State of Massachusetts.
Thomas Andros

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
H. Baylies Judge of Probate

We Philip Hatheway a clergyman residing in the town of
Freetown and John Nichols of the said Freetown hereby
certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Andros
who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration
that we believe him to be seventy three years of age
that he is reputed & beloved in the neighborhood where
he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and
we concur in that opinion,
Philip Hatheway
John Nichols

Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid
H. Baylies, Judge of Probate
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and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the
investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogations
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
Elder Philip Hathaway who has signed the preceding
certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of Freetown
in the County of Bristol, which town of Freetown adjoins
that of Berkley aforesaid and that John Nichols who has also signed
the same is a resident in the same town of Freetown
and is a credible person & that their statement is
entitled to credit
H. Baylies Judge of Probate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Bristol
I Anselm Barnes, Register of the Court
of Probate in and for said County, do hereby
certify that the foregoing contains the original 
proceedings of the said Court in the matter
of the application of the Revd Thomas Andros
of Berkley in said County, for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and the seal of the said Court the day and year
first above written
Anselm Bassett
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April 10, 1933
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Nathaniel Littlefield
W.20485
Thomas Andros, 5.5247
BA-J/MCS

Mrs. Jessie L. Richardson
632 Fenelon Place
Dubuque
Iowa

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your request for the Revolutionary War
records of Nathaniel Littlefield and Thomas Andros.

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in
the pension claim, W. 20485, based upon the military service of
Nathaniel Littlefield.

He was born September 11, 1762, in Stoughton, Massachusetts.
The names of his parents were not given.

While living in Stoughton, he enlisted June 5, 1778, and
served five months and nine days as private in Captain Benjamin
Beal's company in Colonel Gerrish's Massachusetts regiment. He
enlisted May 19, 1779, and served one month and sixteen days as
private in Captain Job Cushing's company in Colonel Pierce's
Massachusetts regiment. He enlisted August 11, 1779, and served
one month and three days as private with the Massachusetts troops
under Captains Joseph Richards and Samuel Fisher. He enlisted June
25, 1780, and served six months and sixteen days as private in Captain
Jackson's company in Colonel Crane's regiment of artillery.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 18,
1832, at which time he was living in Stoughton, Massachusetts.
He died there January 29, 1833.

This soldier married April 22, 1790, in Stoughton, Massachusetts,
Rebecca Tucker,
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As the widow of Nathaniel Littlefield, said Rebecca was
allowed pension on her application executed August 10, 1838, at
which time she was seventy-three years of age and was living in
Stoughton, Massachusetts.

Darius, a son of Nathaniel and Rebecca Littlefield, was living in
Stoughton in 1838.

The papers in this pension claim contain no further data
relative to the soldier's family.

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The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in
pension claim, S. 5247, based upon the military service of Thomas
Andros.

He was born May 1, 1759, in Norwich, New London County, Connecticut. His father, whose name was not given, died when he was a young child.

While a resident of Plainfield, Windham County, Connecticut,
he enlisted in December, 1775, as private in Captain Christopher
Ely's company in Colonel Samuel H. Parsons' Connecticut regiment;
after the promotion of Colonel Parsons, Colonel John Tyler had command
of the regiment and Thomas Andros served until sometime in
January, 1777. Between the commencement of 1777 and the time of the
capture of Fort Griswold he served three tours of one month each and
one tour of two months with the Connecticut troops under Captains
Bacon and Cutler and Colonels Ledyard and Smith and was in General
Spencer's Rhode Island expedition and in the battle of Rhode Island
during General Sullivan's expedition to that place; one of these
tours was as substitute for Abel Andros, his eldest brother, who was
dead in 1832. In October, 1780, he entered the service at New London,
Connecticut, as mariner on board the privateer schooner, Young Cromwell' 
Captain Hilliard, and served about one month. About the first
of August, 1781, he again entered the service at New London, Connecticut' 
as mariner on board the privateer brig, Fair American, Captain
Samuel Champlin; when out about two weeks said vessel captured a
British brig and Thomas Andros, along with others, was placed on
board the prize and ordered to carry her to New London; soon after
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the prize left the privateer, she was captured by the British
frigate, Sole Bay, and carried into New York and Thomas Andros
was placed on the prison ship, Jersey, but he made his escape
about the middle of October, 1781, having been held on said ship
since about the middle of August. 

He was allowed pension on his application executed June 12,
1818, at which time he was living in Berkley, Bristol County,
Massachusetts, having moved there about 1787.

In 1829 Thomas Andros referred to his wife, Sophia, as being
in her fiftieth year and also referred to the following children:
Abigail, aged forty years; Lydia, aged thirty-five years; Sarah,
aged twenty years; Leander, aged fourteen years; Richard L.L., aged
eleven years; Milton, aged six years.

This is the history of the only Thomas Andros of Massachusetts
that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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Oct. 13 '96.
Sold. pensioned to
Miss Sophy M. Andros
East Norton, Mass

1933, Apr. 10 hist to Mrs
Jessie L. Richardson Dec 
letter in  Nathaniel Litt
field. W. 20485 MCS
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Rev War
5247
INVALID
File No.  5247
Thomas Andros
Privt Rev War
Act: June 7 1832
Index: - Vol. M, Page 9
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10,742
Massachusetts
Thomas Andros
Berkley in the State of Massachusse
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Parson of the Connecticut
line for the term of one year
Continental, Conn and Privateer.  Records corrected. 

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 12th of June 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 18 of May 1819
and sent to Nahum Mitchel Esq
East  Bridgewater Masstts

Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819.  70.00
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sep 1819.   48.00
8 mo 19/30   4/31
$118.09
{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}

Discontinued
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Dropt from Roll. Special letter written
to T. Andros May 22, 1829

Notification sent to Pensioner 22 May 1809
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Cancelled

Massachusetts
Thomas Andrews [struck out]
see endorsement on declaration
of Berkleyin the state of Masstts
who was a private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Parsons of the Connecticut
line, for the term of one year
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on
the 12th of June 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 of April 18
and  [unknown] Inage Nahum Mitchel
East Bridgewater, Ma
Arrears to 4th of March 1819. - 70.09
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819.- 48.00
$118.09
{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
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one of this name already on rolls.
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Thomas Andros
Berkley Ma
1776
y6 - 1 yr
Parsons Connect.
Regt
Admitted [struck out]
a certificate of pension was
issued & sent to Saml Putnam, Esqr 
of Salem on the
30th June last for Tho
Andrews
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Secretary at War
Washington
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Secretary of the
War Department
of
East Bridgewater May 6.
1819
I recd a letter from the war office
of the 1st inclosing several pension
certificates - but among those enumerata
in the letter were Oliver Wenilows
and James Neals, which I do not find
among the Certificates, but instead
of them I find the original papers
marked on the back "admitted", which
leads me to conclude they were forwarded
to me by mistake. I therefore return
them, that the certificates intended for
them may be forwarded. I also enclose
Colson Sampson's papers again with
my certificate of indigence which was
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omitted at first by mistake. I also forward 
again the application of Thomas
Andros, whose papers were returned to me
supposing the applicant to be the same
person, who has already had a pension by
the name of Thomas Andrews. My certificate 
accompanying the papers will shew
this not to be the case, but that they are
two distinct persons, of which fact I entertain 
no doubt.
With due respect
yr obed serv {your obedient servant]
Nahum Mitchell
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I Squire Cady of Plainfield in the County of Windham
State & Connecticut of lawful age & being duly engaged
do Testify & say that Thomas Andrus formerly of said
Plainfield now an Inhabitants of Berkley in the
County of Bristol & Commonwealth of Massachusetts
was an enlisted soldier in the Company of Capt
Christopher Ely in Col Samuel H Parsons Regiment
afterwards said regiment was commanded by Col. John
Tyler in the Connecticut Line & continental
Service for the term of one year commencing
the first of January & 1776 in which Company
I was a Serjeant & I do further say that he served
untill the end of the year at which time his
enlistment expired - & further says not
Plainfield Sept 5th AD 1818
Squier Cady

I Reuben Bryant of Plainfield in the County of Windham
& State of Connecticut of lawful age & being duly engaged
do testify & say that I was an enlisted Soldier in the above
said Company & regiment & do fully agree with
Squire Cady in the facts testified to in his deposition
above written in regard to Thomas Andrews enlistment
& Service

Reuben Bryant
his mark
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State Connecticut
Windham County & Plainfield September 1818
Personally appeared Squire Cady & Reuben
Bryant both of said Plainfield & made oaths
to the truth of the within & foregoing depositions
by them respectively subscribed

Sworn before James Gordon Jun.
Justice of Peace & Quorum
for the County of Windham

I Samuel Gray Clerk of the County Court in &
for the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut
do Certify that James Gordon Junr Esq before whom
the foregoing affidavit has been made is
duly enrolled as one of the Justices of the Peace
and Quorum in and for the said County
and that the above Signature is his hand writing
and full faith and credit ought to be given
to his acts as such - In Testimony whereof
I have hereunto Subscribed my name and
affixed the seal of said Court at Windham this 7th day
Septem ADom 1818
Sam Gray
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I hereby certify that this claimant's name I find
upon enquiry should be spelt "Thomas Andros" and
that Thomas Andrews to whom a pension has already 
been granted lives in the County of Essex
fifty miles from this claimant. Andros came from
the State of Connecticut. He has never made any
other declaration as I have the fullest reason
to believe, excepting the one which accompanies
this certificate, and which was made before me.
Nahum Mitchell Judge Vue
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Revd Thomas Andros
Private

Private - 16 months
Musican - 2 di (ditto months)
18 Mos

$60.66

With No 2831
A Bassett Es
Dighton
Mass
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[seal] [blank page]
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Thomas Andros
Berkley
Payable semi-annually -- the first payment
on this certificate will be made
on the 4th of September next,
in Boston at the U S
Branch Bank
Recorded
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY That, in conformity with the Law of the United 
States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
Thomas Andros late a Private
in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension
List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the
rate of Eight dollars per month, to commence on the Twelfth
day of June one thousand eight hundred and
eighteen.

GIVEN at the War Office of the United 
States, this Eighteenth day of
May one thousand eight hundred
and Nineteen
J. L. Edwards
in the absence and on behalf
of the Secretary of War

[seal]
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East Norton, Mass

Commission of Pensions
Washington, D.C
The following words are
copied from the pension
certificate, issued at the
War Office Dec. 12, 1832
to Thomas Andros of
Massachusetts, a Revolution
any soldier.
"Recorded by I. H. McBlair
Clerk, in Book D. Vol. 2
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We are anxious to know
what proofs were presented
for the pension, where
and when the claimant
enlisted also in what
regiment. Can we learn
this of the Department?
Very respectfully
(Miss) Sophy M. Andres
East Norton, Mass
Oct. 2, 1896