Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4117, Nathaniel Hoyt, Conn.
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Lewis Berry Inn Keeper, Judge Needhawn Maynard Farrier Gerra Theodore Sill Counseller [Counselor) at Law.
We hereby releinquishes [relinquishes] every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the pension and declare that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any state sworn to & subscribed by day & year aforesaid. [signed] Nathaniel Andrees
Joseph B. Read Def Clerk

We John Frost, Clergyman
residing in the Town of Whitestown in the County of Oneida & State of Newyork and Nathaniel  Bradley of the same place  
farmer residing in the place here by certify that we are well acquainted with Nathaniel Andrees who had subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be about [inserted] sixty nine seventy years of age. That he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion and that he is a man of truth and veracity.
Sworn & subscribed this day and year afore said 
[signed] John Frost, clergyman
Nathan Bradley
Joseph B Read Def Clk

And the said court do here by declare their opinions after the in investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogation precribed by the war Department that the bove named aplicant was a revolutionary soldier & srviced, as he states and the  Court further certifies that if appears to them that John Frost of Whitertown
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who has signed the proceeding certificate
is a clergyman residing in the Town of
Whitestown County of Oneida afore said
and that Nathaniel Bradley Farmer 
who has also signed the same is a resident
of the same place and is a credible person
and their statement is entitled to credit
By the Lawyer C.Hayden, [illegible]

I, George Brown Clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas of the County of Oneida
and state of New York do here by certifys 
that the fore going contains the 
original proceedings prcedings [marked out] of
the said Court in the matter of
^the application of
Nathanial Andrus for a pension

In testimony where, of I have here unto set 
my hand & seal of office this Eleventh
day of September 1832 
[signed] Geo. Brown Clerk
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State of New York 
Oneida County

p. Nathaniel Bradley of the Town
 of Whitestown in the County of
Oneida & State of New York being
duly sworn says that he resides in the town of
Whitestown, County of Oneida & State of New York & within about half a mile oof the residence of Nathaniel Andrus of the same place who is an appli-
cant for a pension, that this deponent is of the age of seventy three years, & was a soldier in
the army of the revolution that he has been ac-
quainted with me said Nathaniel Andrus previous to the year 1776, that this deponent & the said Nathaniel Andrus were both born in the same town is what was their home town of Far-
mington, now a part of which is the Town of
Berlin, County of Hartford & State of Connec-ticut, that he well knew ^him there & has been well acquainted with him ever since. That he will recollects that the said Andrus was drafted as a private soldier for the term of six months the year he can not recollect, that he said Andrus was absent im-
mediately after & was said & believed to have been in the service was pursuance of his said draft & this deponent still believes he was in the service for the hill term of six months. That he recollects seeing the said Andrus' son after he returned & understood have him there & it was understood & talked of & believed in the neighborhood that he had just returned from his said service as a soldier where he had been drafted. This deponent thinks the said Andrus was out in the service at another time but the particulars in the particular time he can not recollect with any certainty, that he remembers hearing of the office Pete Robinson mentioned  as said Andrus declaration.
affirmed this 28 day of August
1832 before me
[signed in black ink] Erustus Willard
town of [illegible]
[signed in black in on the right] Nathaniel Bradley
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I Erastus Willard Commisioner [Commissioner] of deeds as for the County of Oneida & authorized to take affidavits before whom the foregoing affidavit of Nathaniel Bradley was taken do certify that I am well acquainted with the said Nathaniel Andrus, that the said Bradley is a man where character for him & veracity is good & as whose testimony full reliance can be placed.
[signed in black ink] Erastus Willard

State of New York
Oneida County
p I George Brown Clerk of the Court of Com-
mon Pleas as & for the said County & Clerk
of said Penalty do hereby certify that Erastus
Millard before whom the foregoing affida-
vit of Nathaniel Bradley [purfants][illegible]
to have been taken was at the date 
of the same a [illegible marked out]
Commissioner of deeds in & for the
said County & authorized to take affidavits and that I am ^well acquainted with his hand writing & verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his
proper hand writing.
[illegible] my hand and seal of Office at the city of Utica, this fifth day of October 1832
[signed on right in black ink] Geo Brown Clerk
[signed in black in] Joseph B. Read D of Clerk