Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L. Wt. 2073-200, Joseph Andrews, Continental (Mass.)
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Continental (Mass.).   Andrews, Joseph.  B.L. Wt. 2073-200
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To

W. Joseph Andrews


P. Col. Jarvis.                             Boston


W. Thomas Loran is________
to forward this letter
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Trenton Dec. 11th. 1777


Sir,

To a mind possesed with tender feelings of humanity, it is even painful to be the messenger  of sad tidings, but circumstances may arise, in which we forgoe the sensation of sympathetic tenderness, and it becomes humanity nay even charity to tell the unwelcome tale--Such, Sir,  is the situation I stand in with respect to you, to whom I am intire stranger of it is more than improbably had ever remained so, unknown even by name , had not your son Lieut. Joseph Andrews, who was wounded at the Battle of Brandewine in Pennsylvania, on the 11th of September, last, fallen under my care as a surgeon---Before you read thus far, your anxious mind full of paternal tenderness, will have anticipated the worst of consequences and I need scarcely add, that after suffering much, which he bore with the fortitude of resignation, characteristic of a good soldier of a christian, he resigned his breath on the morning of the 22nd November, last----As it may afford you some consolation to know the particulars of his case: your son received the fatal stroke, before he was brought to the hospital at this town & put under my care-----

His wound was in the thigh, just above the knee, and went pretty deep so as to touch the  bone---at first, as he
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often told me, it appeared slight, both to himself and the surgeon that attended, but in a few days he was seized with a violent fever, which continued with very little intermission until his death-----the fever was of the most obstinate kind, all of the power of medicine---it rendered his habit of body very bad, disposes his wounds to gangreen of mortification, which in the end proved fatal--you may assure yourself , he had every assistance and necessary that his case required after he came to this town----The Family where he was accommodated were kind to him in the greatest degree, had he been their dearest relavtive, they could not have done more or accessed greater anxiety for his recovery---had he survived I believe he would never have forgot their kindness---His clothes are yet in the possession of Mrs Still, the gentle woman where he lodged; I have wrote to the Camp, desiring the Captain of his Company either to come himself or send some person for them---- The ----- of this is Col. Jarvis' a relation of Mrs Still, who goes to Boston on business; whatever civility you are pleased to show this stranger, that good lady will take as done to herself --- I remain 
Sir your most Obedient Servant

Dr Jackson
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Department of War


State of Massachussetts
Essex. County

I, John Andrews, a brother of an heir at law to Joseph Andrews, deceased, do upon oath and testify and declare, that to the best of my knowledge and belief, Joseph Andrews aforesaid , about or in the year 1777 entered or enlisted into the service of the United States, for the term of "during the War" and the he continued in the service aforesaid, until battle of brandewine where he was killed from the Artillery Regiment of the Massachusett's line commanded by Colonel John Crane and when he was a lieutenant. 

I further testify that Joseph Andrews my late brother was a lieutenant in Colonel Cranes Regiment of Artillery and that during the Revolutionary war, said Joseph was mortally wounded at the Battle of Brandywine , and died soon there after and left neither a widow or children. 
I further declare that I have never received a warrant of Bounty Land promised to Joseph Andrews aforesaid on the part of the United States. 
Therefore , know all men by these presents, that I John Andrews, aforesaid do hereby constitute and appoint Reuben Baldwin of Freehold in the state of New York my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, a Warrant for the quantity of Bounty Land due me and the other heirs at law of Joseph Andrews aforesaid. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the 11day of October in the year 1834.

Signature.                         John Andrews
Signature

Be it known that on the Eleventh day of October in the year of 1834. Before the subscriber, on the of the Justices of the Peach in and for said County, personally appeared John Andrews subscriber to the above declaration, who made solemn oath to the truth of the same: and likewise acknowledged the power of attorney thereunto subjoined, to be his free act and deed; dated at Newberry ______ is said County the day and year above mentioned. 
Signature.               Justice of the Peace.


State of Massachusetts

Essex County

I, John Prince clerk of the Courts of Essex County, do hereby certify, that John Porter before whom the foregoing declaration was sworn, and the subjoined power of attorney purports to have been acknowledged, is and was at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, in and for the County of Essex. duly commissioned sworn and qualified by law to take affidavits, &c. afnd further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice, and verily believe the signature purporting to be his genuine.  In witness whereof I have here unto affixed the seal of the said courts and subscribed my name at Salem this 14 day of October in the year of 1834. 


Signature
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Commonwealth of Massachussetts



Norfolk.      I, Sherman Leland, Judge of the Court of Probate of said county , hereby notify, that satisfatory evidence has been introduced to me, to proved, that Joseph Andrews, a lieutenant in Col Cranes Regt of Artillery in the Army of the Revolution, died on the twenty second day of November 1777, that he left no widow or issue. That John Andrews of Newburyport in the county of Essex, is his brother that Rachal Cushing of Brookline, in the county of Norfolk and Jane Norton of Hingham in the county of Plymouth, are his sisters and that Lucy L Andrews and Ephraim Andrews of said Hingham Ferdinand Andrews of Salem in the County of Essex and Joseph Andrews of Boston in the county of Suffolk are the only children of Ephraim Andrews late of said Hingham, deceased and that the said Ephraim Andrews , deceased was also a brother to the said Joseph Andrews, and that the said John Andrews, Rachal Cushing , Jane
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Jane Norton, Lucy L Andrews, Ephraim Andrews, Ferdinand Andrews and Joseph Andrews , are now living and are the only surviving heirs at laws of the said Lieutenant Joseph Andrews.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this eighteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four. 

L. Leland
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This man is also recorded on the book, containing the list of Revolutionary War Officers, on account of whose services, bounty land was allowed prior to 1800 and for whose claims there are no papers on file, the same having been destroyed when the War Office was burned in November 1800, as follows:

Warrant No. 2,559, Joseph Andrews., 200 acres  Crane's Artillery, Massachussets, issued June 9, 1790, Joseph Andrews Jr., Legal representative; remarks, this warrant sent from the General Land Office for examination on September 15, 1837 and information given that Warrant No. 2,073 New Series issued to the heirs of Lieut. Joseph Andrews, deceased.

copied by A. Wilson, Sept . 22 1917