Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16172, Elisha Andrus, Continental (Conn)
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         SERVICE                                     NUMBER
Continental (Conn)   Andrus, Elisha    W. 16172
                                         Anna          B.L. Wt. 587-100
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               By His Excellency
           George Washington, Esq.;
General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the  
              United States of America.
These are to certify that the Bearer hereof
Elisha Andrus Private
in the 2nd Regt lt. Drag's, having faithfully
served the United State Five Years and 
Five Months and being inlisted for the War only, is 
hereby Discharged from the American Army.
Given at Head-Quarters the 12th Day 
of June 1783 ___ 
[signed] G Watherston

By His Excellency's 
command  J Trumbull 2nd
Registered in the Books 
of the regiment,
[signed] Fred J. Whiting, Adjutant

The above Elisha Andrus
has been honored with the Badge of Merit for Five 
Years Faithful Service.  
            [signed]  Elisha Sheldon, Col_
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The Hon'ble W'm Custis  Secretary of War of the United States

      Sir you will please to Deliver to Arunah 
Metcalf Esq. a Member of Congress a warrant for Lands
due me for Services Done in the United States Army  in the 
American Revolution and You will much Oblige Your 
Humble Servant        From yours &c
                                           





[signed] Elisha Andrus

Published 15th May 1812
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[illegible][marked out]
Hon'ble William Eustis
Secretary of War in the US
at Washington
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[written in pencil and circled] No. 587
Elisha Andrus
Private
2'd Reg't Lt Drag's
(Sheldon's.)

[written in pencil] 
Warrant Issued in his own
name, dated May 24th 1812.
 and [illegible] to Hon'ble Arunah Metcalf
May 25th 1812
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[on left]
5805 
New York
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Anna Andrus
widow of Elisha Andrus
who was a pensioner under the Act of 
 and who died on the 21st, April 1814
of Otsego Co. in the State of N. York
who was a Priv. Dragoons in the Conn. commanded 
by Captain ______ of the regiment commanded 
by Col. Sheldon in the Connecticut 
line for 2 years.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Albany, N.Y. 
at the rate of 100 Dollars ____ Cents per annum, 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. 
==========================
Certificate of Pension issued the 16th day of September, 
1840, and sent to Hon. J. H. 
Prentiss, Cooperstown, N.Y. 
===================
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1840                      $450.00
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 Mar, 1841 __$50.00___                                  
                                                                           $500
                                                           {Act July 7,} 
                                                            {   1838    }
Recorded by Wm. W. Edwards Clerk, [signed]
Book A Vol 2 Page 66
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                         Department of War
                            Bounty Land Office
                                        June 8th, 1840
Sir
The letter of Mr. Dan'l Andrus, received in yours of the 1st ins't, is herewith
returned, and in reply have the honor to inform you that, it appears by
the records in this Office, land Warrant No.587 for 100 Acres issued the 
21st May 1812. to Elisha Andrus, who was a Private of Sheldons Dragoons, 
and of the Connecticut Line; which warrant was delivered to his Attorney 
the Hon. Arunah Metcalf
                     Very Respectfully
                       Your Obt Servt 
              [signed] Wm. Gordon
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                                  Pension Office
                                     June 19, 1840
Sir,
     In reply to the enclosed letter of Daniel 
Andrus, Esq. relative to evidence of the revolutionary services 
of Elisha Andrus, &c I have the honor to state that a 
private of that name appears to have served in Colonel 
Sheldon's regiment of Dragoons from the 28th December 
1776 till the close of the war. If his widow was married 
at the time mentioned, viz. in 1787, she is entitled to 
the benefits of the act of July 7, 1838, a copy of which 
is herewith enclosed with the regulations annexed, by
which Mrs Andrus will be governed as to the mode 
of asserting her claim.
                               I have the honor to be
                                 Very respectfully
                                       Your Obt. Servt. 
                           [signed]  J.L. Edwards

[signed] Hon. J.R. Poinsett
               Secretary of War
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Declaration in order to obtain 
Pension under the provisions of
the Act of July 7th 1838.

State of New York}
Otsego County } ss
On this 19th day of August in
the year 1840 personally appeared
before me  James C. Walworth Esquire one
of the Judges of the Court of Common
Pleas of the County of Otsego aforesaid
Anna Andrus a resident of the
town of Richfield in said County
aged Seventy Six years. Who being
first duly Sworn according to law
deposeth and 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 7th 1838 entitled an act granting
half pay and Pensions to certain
Widows.
That she is the widow of Elisha Andrus
who was a private in Col Elisha Sheldons
Regiment of Light Dragoons and as she always 
understood
from him he Enlisted
in the town of Norwich in the State of
Connecticut as she now thinks on the
28th day of December 1776 and served
in that Regiment untill the close of the
War but the Company Officers that he
Served under she cannot recollect.

She further declares that she was married
to the said Elisha Andrus on the 30th day
of May in the year 1789 at the town of Flat
Lands or Flat Bush in County of Kings State
of New York by the Rev. Martinus Shoon
Curcher
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and after a careful examination she
has never be able to find any record
of the said marriage that her husband
the said Elisha Andrus died at the 
town of Buffalo in Erie County State of New York
the 21st day of April in the year 1814
that she was not married to him prior
to his leaving the service but the
marriage took place previous to the
first day of January Seventeen hundred 
and Ninety four viz at the time
said above.
That soon after the above mentioned
Marriage they moved to the State of
Vermont and in the year of 1791 then
moved into the said town of Richfield
where they resided untill her husband
died in the year 1814 and that her said
husband [1 illegible] returned to Long Island after
he first moved from there but that 
she (this [1illegible]) had often [1 illegible] those
[1 illegible] she further declares that the
time her said husband died he [1 illegble] on a
Journey west to the State of Ohio with his
Land Warrant to locate his lands on the
the
Military Lands in that State and was taken
sick at the Now City of Buffalo and there
died as above Stated
and from bodily infirmities this declarant
is unable to attend these Courts.
                                      her
                              Anna  X  Andrus
                                     mark
Sworn and subscribed on the 
day and year above written before
[signed] James C Walworth Judge of
Otsego County Court
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And the said Judge doth certify and declare
his Opinion after a careful examination
of this above described declarant Anna
Andres that he is fully convinced of the
truth of the above declaration and from
his personal acquaintance with her
she is entitled to full credit and from
bodily infirmities she is unable to attend
the Court or to write her name is
the reason she signs by her mark
and that the word Richfield in said County
was erased and the words [1 illegible] in Erie Cou't N. York
interlined before signed.
         [signed] J. C. Walworth Judge of
                           Otsego County Courts

State of New York}
Otsago County } ss   I Jesse Roze Clerk of said County do
hereby certify that James Hyde Esqr before whom the annexed
deposition of Obadiah Beardsley was taken and Jared C Mamon
before whom the annexed deposition of Elisha Andrus was taken
[1 illegible] and each of them respectively on the date of the same Commissioner of deeds in
and for said County duly commissioned & qualified
And I also certify that James C Walworth Esquire before whom
the annexed depositions of Cornelius Andrew & [1 illegible] Judge David R. Andreus was taken was at the
date of the same a Judge in & for said County duly commissioned
and Sworn: And I further certify that I am well
acquainted with the handwriting of each of said Commissions
and said Judge and verily believe their names described
to said deposition certification respecfully to be their genuine Signatures.
Witness my hand seal of office this
29th day of August 1840   
            [signed] Jesse Roze Clerk
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Elisha Andrus [illegible]
Was Born April 4th 1790
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Ephraim Andrus
Was Born April 12th 1791
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Daniel Andrus
Was Born April 7th 1793
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Anna Andrus
Was Born August 21st 1794
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Nicholas Andrus
Was Born April 18th 1796
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Temperance Andrus
Was Born June 9th 1797
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David B Andrus
Was Born Sept 28th 1798
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Cornelius Andrus
Was Born Nov 9th 1801
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Welthy Andrus
Was Born March 28th 1803
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         [in pencil]
429             1829
17           ___1773___
                       56
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T H E
NEW TESTAMENT
OF OUR
LORD AND SAVIOUR
JESUS CHRIST
Translated out of the Original Greek,
AND
WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY
COMPARED AND REVISED,
BY THE SPECIAL COMMAND OF
HIS MAJESTY KING JAMES I, OF ENGLAND.
[2 lines in Greek translated below]
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
                1 Cor. XV. 22.
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[4 lines crossed out]

State of New York
Otsego County   ss
      David B Andrus of the
Town of Richfield County of Otsego and
State aforesaid being duly Sworn deposeth 
and says that he is a Son of
Elisha Andrus and Anna Andrus
who is an applicant for a Pension
under the Pension Laws of the United States
and is forty one years old-- That Elisha
Andrews the father of this Deponent obtained
his Land Warrant for Bounty Lands Sometime
about the year Eighteen hundred and twelve
or thirteen and that the said Elisha Andrus 
a short time previous to his death
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took his Land warrant and went to
see his Lands - This Deponent further saith
that he saw his fathers Land Warrant
and that his Journey to the west was to
ascertain its situation. That the said
Elisha Andrus went as far as the City of
Buffalo where he was taken sick
and on the twenty first day of April
Eighteen hundred and fourteen died.
                   [signed] David B Andrus
Sworn on this 19th day
of August 1828
Before me J. C.
Walworth Judge 
of Otsego County

I certify that I am acquainted
with   David B Andrus and that
he is a cretable person.
J. C. Walworth Judge [signed]
of Otsego County
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State of New York}
Otsego County } ss

Cornelius Andrus of 
the Town of Richfield County of Otsego 
and State of New York being duly sworn deposeth and says that he this deponent 
is a Son of Anna Andrus an applicant 
for a Pension under the Pension Laws of 
the United States. That he this deponent
about the first of August Eighteen hundred 
and forty went to the Towns of 
Flatbush and Flatlands in the County of 
Kings for the purpose of obtaining recorded proof of the marriage of the said Anna 
Andrus and Elisha Andrus. That this 
deponent used due diligence to obtain 
such proof but Could not obtain it. 
That this deponent was informed by the 
Citizens of Flatbush that Martinus Schoonmaker by whom the said Anna 
Andrus informs this deponent she was
 married had been dead several years. 
That this deponent called upon a Son of 
the Said Schoonmaker residing in the 
Town of Flatbush by whom this deponent was informed that there were many marriage ceremonies performed by his father 
which were not recorded and that few
if any marriages were recorded except 
those who were married in the Church. 
That this deponent then on the fourth day 
of August 1840 Called upon John Wyckoff and John Drew of the Town of Flatbush 
and obtained their affidavits of the 
marriage of the said Anna Andrus 
and Elisha Andrus. That this deponent at the request of the said John Wyckoff
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and John Drew, [1 illegible] their affidavits and  that this deponent [1 illegible] them substantially 
as the said John Wyckoff and John Drew instructed this deponent. This deponent further saith that he has never seen nor been able 
to obtain any family records of said marriage either in the Town of Richfield or in Flatbush or Flatlands.
                      [signed] Cornelius Andrus

And on this 19th day of 
August, 1840 before
me J. C. Walworth
Judge of Otsego County

I certify that I am personally 
acquainted with Cornelius Andrus 
and that he is a very credible 
person and entitled to full credit. 
                    [signed] J C Walworth
                                   Judge &c.
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State of New York
Otsego County   ss
                  Obadiah Beardsley of
Richfield in said County being duly
Sworn Saith that he is aged Seventy
Seven years and upwards. That
this deponent moved into said town
 of Richfield in the year 1790 where
he has ever Since resided- That
Elisha Andrus moved into said town
in a few years after this deponent
did.  The precise year this deponent
does not recollect but is quite Sure
it was previous to the year 1794-
That shortly after this said Elisha
Andrus moved into this town
he became acquainted with him
and his wife Anna and was
on terms of neighborhood [1 illegible]
with them until about the 
time of the death of the said Elisha
Andus. That said Elisha Andus
moved into this town with his
said wife and that they resided
together as husband and wife
until the time or about the time
of his decease. This deponent
further Saith that there have been
Nine children of the marriage of
the said Elisha Andrus & wife.
That several times many years
ago this deponent had conversations
with the said Elisha Anrus relating
to his revolutionary Services and
he gave to this deponant a
minute account of his Services
which however this deponent
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cannot now detail-- this deponant
however recollects that he stated
that he served in Col Elisha Sheldons
Regiment of Light dragoons and
that he served mainly during the
War. This deponent further saith
that this [1 illegible] town of Richfield
when this deponent moved here was
a part of the now town 
of
Otsego and was then called
Otsego  and further this deponent
saith that he has continued to be
well acquainted with the said
Anna since the death of her
husband and that she has remained
his widow and has never since
been married to the knowledge or
belief of this deponent.
and further saith not.
                             [signd] Obadiah Beardsley
Sworn and Subscribed
before me August 21. 1840
James Hyde Comm
            of Deeds

NB. The words "and the said Elisha
Andrus" erased before sworn to. I certify
that I am well aquainted with the
above named Obadiah Beardsley
and that he is a credible person.
           [signed]  James Hyde Comm
                                       of Deeds
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State of New York
Otsego County  ss
           Elisha Andrus of the Town 
of Richfield County and State aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth and says 
that he is a son of Anna Andrus an 
applicant for a Pension under The Pension
Laws of the United States. That he this Deponent is fifty years of age and upwards. That he is the oldest of the family and that 
he has no knowledge of any record of the 
marriage of Elisha Andrus the father 
of this deponent and the said Anna 
Andrus. That the record of births hereunto 
annexed containing the record of 
Births of Elisha Andrus, Ephraim 
Andrus, Daniel Andrus, Anna Andrus, 
Nicolas Andrus, Temperance Andrus 
and David Andrus is a record of Origal [Original] entries. And that the entries of the births of Elisha Andrus, Ephraim 
Andrus, Daniel Andrus, and Anna 
Andrus is in the handwriting of Elisha Andrus the father of this deponent and 
that the other entries are in the opinion 
of this deponent in the hand writing of 
some one of the family but in the hand 
writing of which one of the family this deponent can not say. This deponent 
further Saith that the record hereunto 
annexed containing the additional names 
of Cornelius Andrus and Melthia
Andrus was transcribed many years 
ago from the original with the addition 
above stated and that it contains the 
record of births of the whole family 
that this deponent since the death
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of Elisha Andrus, the father of this deponent has resided with Anna Andrus the mother 
of this deponent and that the annexed
 records have always been kept in The 
family and that the same are the genuine records of the births of the family in 
the knowledge of this deponent. This deponent
further saith that the transcribed 
record hereunto annexed is in the opinion 
of this deponent in the hand writing 
of Daniel Andrus a brother of this 
deponent.
                                 Elisha Andrus
Subscribed and sworn before 
me this 28th day of August 1840.
                 Jared C Munson 
                              Comm of Deeds

I certify that I am personally acquainted 
with Elisha Andrus and that he is a 
credible person and entitled to credit
                  [signed] Jared C Munson
                                Court &c
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April 4 Day 1790
Elisha Andrus was
Born
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April 12th 1791
Ephraim Andrus
was Born
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Daniel Andrus
Born April 7th
1793
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Anna Andrus was
Born August the 21st day
1794
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Nicholas Andrus Born April
13 Day 1796
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Temprence Andrus was Born
June 9th Day 1797
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David Andrus was 
[page torn]
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THE NEW
TESTAMENT
Of our LORD and SAVIOUR
JESUS CHRIST,
Translated out of the
ORIGINAL GREEK;
And with the former
TRANSLATIONS
Diligently Compared and Revised,
By His MAJESTY'S Special Command,

Appointed to be Read in Churches.

EDINBURGH:
nd Charles Kerr, His Majesty's Printers
MDCCXCI. [1791]
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[on left]
July 21 '96
[cut off] d paid to LWB
[cut off] ws Carter
NY City - NY

[on right]
Rev Widow, &c.
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File no. 16172
Anna Andrus
Wid. of Elisha Andrus
Pri. Rev. War
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Act: July 7th / 38
Index: - Vol. A, Page 18

[Arrangement of 1870].
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7382 
Anna Andrus
      -------
Act July 7, 1838

Married 30 May 1789 
Husband died 21 Apl 1814
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Col Sheldon reg of
Dragoons -- War

Admitted
Private of Dragoons   2 years 
$100-

[signed] Hon. J. H. Prentiss
             Cooperstown
                          N.Y
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Ostego County } ss
   Elisha Andrus Came before me Obadiah Beardsley one of the Justices of the Peace 
of the County 
of Ostego and State of New York and made oath 
that he is the same Elisha Andrus to whom the
Original Discharge in his possession was given which 
Doth Accompany this affidavit. 
                                     [signed} Elisha Andreus
            Attest
[signed] Wightman Randall
[signed] Jacob Brewster
     Sworn the 11th Day of May 1812
     Before me- Obadiah Beardsley Justice Peace
Personally came before me Wightman Randale 
 & Jacob Brewster of Lawfull age well known to me and of good 
fame and made Solemn oath that they are and have 
been for a Long time past well and intimately acquainted 
with Elisha Andrus the Signer of the above Deposition and 
that he is an Actual Resident of the Town of Richfield and 
County above Mentioned
                         [signed] Wightman Randale
                         [signed] Jacob Brewster
Sworn this 11th Day of May 1812
at Richfield in the county of Ostego
Before me - [signed] Obadiah Beardsley Justice Peace
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State of New York}
Otsego County Clerk's Office} ss
     I hereby certify that Obadiah Beardsley Esq
     whose signature appears on the within certificate
    was at the date of said Certificate a 
    Justice of the peace for the County aforesaid.
         Given under my hand and the seal
         of the Court of Common Pleas for the
        County aforesaid this 11th day of May
         1812.-
                    [signed]  John Rassell
                                      Clk
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STATE OF NEW-YORK}
County of Kings. }  ss

I, Charles E. Bulkeley, Clerk of the County of Kings, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and
for said county, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, that John A Lott Esq
whose name is subsribed to certificates and
affidavits annexed was
on the day of the date thereof First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas
in and for said County, commissioned and sworn and duly authorized by law to act as such. And further, that
I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Judge and verily believe that the signatures thereto
subscribed are genuine.

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for said County, this
fifth day of August 1840.
                 [signed] Chas. E. Buckeley  Clerk
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State of New York}
County of Kings }  ss
                 John Wyckoff of 
the Town of Flatbush in the County of 
Kings and State of New York being 
duly sworn deposeth and says that 
he this deponent is a resident of the 
Town of Flatbush aforesaid and is 
aged sixty nine years. This deponent
further says that he is acquainted with 
Anna Andrus an applicant for a Pension 
under the Pension Laws of the United 
States and was some acquainted with 
Elisha Andrus about the years of seventeen hundred and eighty nine and ninety. This deponent further saith 
that he was knowing to the marriage 
of the said Elisha Andrus and Anna 
Andrus and that according to the best recollection and belief of this deponent they were married in the year of seventeen 
hundred and eighty nine and 
knows from the time of this deponents marriage that they were married before 
the Expiration of the Year seventeen hundred and ninety. He this deponent living 
at the same time within about two miles 
of the place where the said Anna Andrus 
then resided and was married 
but can not say on what particular 
day or month in the Year they were 
married.
                          [signed] John Wyckoff

Sworn & subscribed}
this 4th day of August 1840}
[signed] John A. Lott First Judge of this Co Court
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I, John A. Lott by whom the oath to 
the within named John Wyckoff was administered 
do certify that the said John 
Wyckoff is a man of credibility and a 
respectable person resident in this County 
of Kings - Dated August 4, 1840 
 [signed] John A. Lott
                First Judge of Kings Co 
                Courts of the degree of 
                Counsellor in Supreme 
                Court
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State of New York} ss
Kings County}
          John Drew of the Town of 
Flatbush County and State aforesaid being 
duly sworn deposeth and says that he is acquainted with Anna Andrus an 
applicant for a Pension under the Pension 
Laws of the United States and was some acquainted with Elisha Andrus the husband
 of the said Anna Andrus about the Years 
of Seventeen hundred and Eight Nine and Ninety. This deponent further saith that he 
well remembers the Marriage of the said 
Elisha Andrus and Anna Andrus. That 
at the time they were Married he this deponent resided within about one hundred 
and fifty yards of the House where the said Anna Andrus resided and was Married 
and that according to the best recollection 
and belief of this deponent they were married about the Year Seventeen hundred 
and Eighty nine and knows that they were married previous to the Year Seventeen hundred 
and Ninety four but can not say 
on what particular day or in what particular month they were married. 
                                        John Drews
Sworn this fourth day }
of August 1840 before me } 
[signed] John A. Lott, First Judge of Kings County
Courts
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I John A. Lott by whom the oath
to the within named John Drew was administered
do certify that the said John Drew
is a man of credibility and a respectable
person resident in the County of Kings.
Dated August 4. 1840-
            [signed]John A. Lott
                        First Judge of Kings
                        Co Court of the degree of
                        Counsellor in Supreme Court
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No 7328
Anna Andrus
Act. 1838

[very light pencil]
Married 30th May  1789
Mary May
Husband died 21st April
1814
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[envelope]
J. H. Prentiss
            M. C. 

J. L. Edwards
Com'r of Pensions
Washington,
    D. Columbia

[ vertical]
No 7328    Sept 1 1840

[1 illegible]

Anna Andrus
N.Y. July 7 '38
wid. of Elisha

   [Postmark]
COOPERSTOWN
        AUG
          30
          NY
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[The writing is so poor that, except for a few words here and there, this was all I could read.]
Cooperstown My. 29. 1840
J. L. Edwards, Esq.
 Sir:
     I submit to you
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Department of War
Bounty Land Office
July 6th, 1840

Sir
     In answer to yours of the 27th. ult, I have to inform you that, among the 
papers filed in this office in relation to the grant of land Warrant No. 587, 
on the 21st, May 1812.  I find the original "Discharge" granted by Gen. Washington, on the 12th, June 1783 to Elisha Andrus, a Private of the 2d. Regiment of Light 
Dragoons, commanded by Col. Elisha Sheldon.  This Discharge shows that 
the said Andrus, having served Six years and five months, and having 
inlisted for the war only, was entitled to the same, at the date aforesaid.
                        Resp'y Y'r ob. St 
          [signed] Wm. Gordon
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                             War Department
                              June 20th 1840.

Sir,
      In answer to your letter of the 14th instant asking for information in relation to the course to be 
taken to obtain a pension under the Act of 7th July 1838, 
I enclose you a report of the Commisioner of Pensions 
accompanied by a Copy of the Act in question and the 
rules adopted by the department for the government 
of applicants under its provisions.
                 Very Respectfully
                  Yr mo ob'd Svt 
                   [signed] J. R. Poinsett

Mr. Daniel Andrus
Auburn,
Cayuga County,
New York.
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[postmark]
  PENSION 
      D 
U.  JUL   S.
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    1896
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OLD WAR & NAVY
       JUL 17 1896
            FILES
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Cable Address "Carswal"
                         Carter, Hughes & Dwight.
                         Attorneys & Counsellors at Law.
                         Suite 150-160, 96 Broadway & 6 Wall St.
                         New York, July 14th, 1896

[Left edge attorney list]
Walter L. Carter,
Charles E. Hughes,
Edward F. Dwight,
Arthur C. Rounds,
Marshall B. Clarke,
George W. Schurman.
                                        A
[typewritten] 
The Honorable Commissioner of Pensions,  
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:-
On page 654 of the "Record of Connecticut Men in the War of 
the Revolution", etc, compiled by authority of the General Assembly and 
published under direction of the Adjutant General, I find the name of 
Elisha Andrews [Andrus], as a pensioner residing in New Haven County, in 1832.  
Elisha Andrews [Andrus]  was my great great grandfather, and through him I am 
eligible to the Sons of the Revolution.  I do not find, however, elsewhere
 in the book any record of his military services in the Revolutionary 
War, and if in accordance with the rules of your office, I will feel 
obliged if you will cause his application for a pension to be examined, 
in order that I may be informed what such service was and where it was 
rendered.  I believe your office has no fee for such a service, but if it 
has, I will gladly pay it, whatever it may be.
Very respectfully yours,
[signed] Walter S. Carter.