Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1693, John Andrews, Mass.
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Mass          Andrews, John                    W1693
                                    Esther
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Portsmouth    

21.689

John Andrews
of Strafford in the State of New Hampshire who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Libby of the Regt. commanded by Col. Gordon in the Mass. line for 10 months and 27 days. 

Inscribed on the roll of New Hampshire at the rate of 36 Dollars 33 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of October 1833 and sent J. Dearborn in Effingham, New Hampshire. 


Arrears to the 4th of september 1833 $90.83
Semi-ant, allowance ending [?] Mar 3   $18.17
                                                                                               $109.00

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7 1832

Recorded by 
D. D.  Addison, Clerk
Book E, Vol. 1st,   Page 71
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13.252
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DECLARATION. 
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. 

State of New-Hampshire, County of Shafford ss. At a Court of Probate holden at Eaton in said County On this thirteenth day of September 1832, personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of the Court of Probate now sitting John Andrews, a resident of North Effingham in the County of Shafford and State of N. H. aged 71 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. 

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein to state-- 

I enlisted as a volunteer in June 1779 for two months in Capt Benjamin Lordier in Col.  Nathaniel Jordan's Regiment. I marched to Falmouth, now Portland, in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine then Mass. at [illegible] Portland the company entered/[wintered?] on board a ship and went by water to the Penobscot river inland Maine 

to a place then called Bagadoon now Costine,  there the British had a fort and opposed our landing, had considerable of an engagement but we landed and drove the enemy. We built batteries staid [stayed] about six weeks when a British seventy gun ship and a fifty gun ship appeared in the bay, then we were ordered on board our vessels and sailed up the river, the enemy followed us to where harden [Hampden] now is, there we went out shore to avoid being taken by the enemy and General Wadsworth our General, I think, ordered the vessels to be burned and they were to and I suppose said vessels falling into the hands of the enemy.  I then returned to said Falmouth served the rest of my said term of enlistment then returned to said Scarborough.  In the fall of 1779 into Capt Roger Libbeys Company enlisted as a volunteer for one month and served marched to said Falmouth said company belonged to Col Nathan Jordan's Regiment. Most of the militia company to which I belonged were drafted I think, staid [stayed] at said Falmouth said month & returned to said Scarborough in 1780 in April men were called for to go to Penobscot Bay in Maine, then part of Massachusetts, the Company of militia to which I belonged in said Scarborough were called on to furnish a certain number of soldiers for eight months & volunteered as one and enlisted for and ight months & served said term of eight months I belonged to Capt Jonathan Andrews Company. we marched to Stevens Plains in said Falmouth passed muster then marched to Thomastown then Massachusetts, staid [stayed] there a number of months, from said Thomastown we marched [illegible due to folded page]
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to Camden this said term of Eight months expired and I returned to said Scarborough. I have no [unreadable]
-tary evidence to prove said facts nor do I know of any testimony that I can procure to prove the above terms of services. 

Major Burton commanded the part of the Regiment to which I belonged at said Camden & he gave the above terms of service and he gave a discharges which I have lost. Major Almore commanded at [illegible]


Then Mass. 20 Augt 1761 I was born as I have  I was born as I have ever been informed a word of my age is a bible that belonged to my father in the possesion of my brother Isaac Andrews of said Scarborough.  I lived at all of the times of said enlistments in said Scarborough of When I was about 28 years of age, I removed to Lemington in the County of York State of Maine & lived about ninteen years in said Lemington. Then removed to  North Effingham where I have been ever since which is twenty four years the first day of last January AD 1832 I was seventy one years old 6th Augt 1832.   

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. 

Sworn to and subscribed, in Court [signed ] John Andrews 

We, Stephen Swett residing in North Effingham and Ebenezer Wilkinson residing in Eaton, certify, that we are well acquainted with John Andrews,  who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 71 years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

 in open Court Sworn and subscribed in open court  

[signed] Stephen Swett,  Ebenezer Wilkinson 

And the said Court do hereby declare the opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court certifies, that it appears that Stephen Swett has signed the preceding certificate, is a resident in the North Effingham and that Ebenezer Wilkinson, who has also signed the same is a resident in Eaton and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

Daniel C. Atkinson Judge of Probate 

James Bartlell Register of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court, in the matter of the application of  John Andrew for a pension.

 In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this 13th AD. 1832 day of September James Bartlett, Regt.
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John Andrews
N. Hampshire

19 of Apr 17 1833

P.  341

Private 10 Ms [Massachusetts] 27 day 

13252

3633            33.33
2.66                3.00
18.1?              36.33

90.83

J. Dearborn
Effingham
NH
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Brief in the case of John Andrews 
of Strafford Co. in the State of New Hampshire

(Act 7th June 1832)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  Open Court

2. If before a judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  [blank]

3. How old is he? 71

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period

-In June 1779 enlisted, 2 months 3 days, as a Private, under Captain Larabee, Col Gorham.

-In 1779 enlisted for 1 month as a private, under Captain Libby, Col. Gorham. 

-in 1780 extra tour for 7 months, 24 days, as a private, under Captain Andrews 

5. In what battles was he engaged?
Had an affair with the enemy at Penobscot

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Scarborough

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary 

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?  [blank]


I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned. 

[signed] George Taylor,  Examining Clerk
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295                              Portsmouth

New Hampshire

Esther Andrews

Widow of John Andrews

Who served in the Revolutionary War
as a private, Mass. 

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of Aug. 1849. 

And sent to 

                                     Hon. C.B. Smith
                                     Washington, D.C.

recorded on roll of Pensioners under act July 29, 1848, Page 39, Vol. 1

Book D
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Declaration                                 412

Esther Andrews

for the benefit of act of 29th July 1848

Ester Andrews, New Hampshire

admitted Pr $36. to 4 March 1848 

Mr Edwards will please give this case as early an examination as convenient.

10 Aug 49 [illegible] 

Act 29 July 1848 
Hon. C.B. Smith 
Washington, D.C.
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Declaration 
State of New Hampshire 
County of Carroll SS 

On this twelfth day of June Eighteen hundred and forty nine before the Court of Probate in and for the said County personally appeared
in open Court Esther Andrews and after being sworn in due form of law made the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed on 29th July 1848- 

that she is resident of Freedom in said County of Carroll and aged seventy five years of age last April, that she is widow of John Anders who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution and who a pension from the United States at the rate of about $40 and [?] cents per annum under the act of 7th June 1832 to the time of his death -

She further declares that she was married to the said John Andrews on the thirtieth day of June in the year seventeen hundred and ninety Six.

 by Jonathan Atkinson
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in the town of Limington and the State of Maine- that her husband aforesaid John Andrews died on the twenty fourth day of November Eighteen hundred and forty -
- that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place before the second day of January Eighteen hundred  viz - on the day and year above mentioned. 

She further declares she is now a widow and has never made any application for a pension 
[illegible] 

Esther Andrews [her mark]

 Sworn to and subscribed in open Court the day and year above written 

Junr G Chase, Judge
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State of New Hampshire 
Carroll ss 

I Abel Hall, Register of Probate for the County of Carroll and State of New Hampshire hereby certify that Jonathan T. Chase is Judge of Probate for the County of Carroll that their signature attached to the certificate of the oath herto attested is his true and genuine signature and that full faith and [illegible] may be even to all his official acts in Witness hereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court of Probate is tenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty nine 

Milkell Rye of Probate
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State of Maine 

York, SS, 

I J.O. McIntire, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in said County, do hereby certify that Isaac Mitchell of Limington in said County of York is a Justice of the Peace. 

in and for said county, as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is duly commissioned and qualified to act as such; that his commission is dated May 8, 1849 

and that the accompanying signature purporting to be his is genuine. 

TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said State, this nineteenth day of July Anno Domini 1849.. 

J.O.McIntire Clerk.
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State of Maine
York County. Town of Limington SS

I Joshua W. Frost Town Clerk of Lemington in the County of York & State of Maine do certify that in the Records of said town the publication of the banns of Matrimony & the Marriage of John Andrews & Esther Gray is recorded as follows viz 

The banns of Matrimony hath been published in the town of  Limington as the law directs, between John Andrews & Esther Gray both of Limington, Limington June 12th A.D. 1796 

Abner Libby, Town Clerk

Lemington June 30th 1796 

Mr John Andrews and Miss Esther Gray both of Limington were Married by me - Jona Atkinson 

Abner Libby- Town Clerk 

The above certificate, the banns of matrimony and of marriage is a true extract from the Records of said town now in my possession.

Joshua W. Frost,  Town Clerk
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State of Maine
 York SS

 " I Joshua W. Frost within named do affirm that the within is a true copy 1 2 the record of the Marriage of John Andrew & Esther Gray 

that the date is expressed in fair legible figures as follows 

June 30th 1796

John W. Frost, Town Clerk 

Sworn to and subscribed before me this ninth day of July 1849

Isaac Mitchell - Justice of the Peace
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May 22, 1900 
Edith Andrews Wells 
Norwood Park. Illo 

of WIDOW, &c. 

File No. 1693 
Esther Anchew, 
Widow 
John Andrews. 
Priv. Rev War --- 

Act July 29. 1848 
Index:--Vol A, Page 13 

[Arrangement of 1870.} Miss
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Josiah Dearborn [illegible]

Effingham
New Hampshire
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts - 

Secretary's Office, May 22d 1833

 I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of "John Andrus is borne on a Roll of  Capt Benjamin Larrabee's Company belonging to Col Mitchels Regiment in ye expedition against - Penobscot, - that he is therein stated to have enlisted . July 9. 1779; to have been discharged Sept. 12, 1779, and is allowed $4.40 the balance due him for his service which is made up 2 months 3 day.

The name of "John Andrews" is borne on a Roll of Capt. Jonathan Andrews Company -Col. Joseph Primus Rgt. under the command of Brig. Gen. Wadsworth A. D. 1780 - he is therein stated to have served from May 8th to Dec 31. 1780- and is allowed for 7 months to 24 days Service 

Said Andrews claims for one months service in Capt Roger Libbey's Company.  I find one Roll of said Company & on it is borne the name of John Anderson for
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service in the county of Cumberland from October 1 to October 23 1779 - But the name John Andrews is not therein. 

Edward D. Banks [illegible]
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NH Aug 19 

Effingham 1871
June 14

Hon Lewis Cass

Claim for Pension
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Effingham June 4, 1833

Sir,

Enclosed is my John Andrews affidavit accompanied with the certificate of the Secretary of Massachusetts as to the service of said Andrews. You will preserve that it corresponds as near as could be [illegible] with Mr Andrews [illegible] after so long a lapse of time Evaluation to the months service in Capt. Libby's Company the name Andrews is not correctly spelt. And in relation to the two months service in Capt. Larrabee's company in Col. Nath'l Gordan's Rat. he [illegible] to state Luiet. Col. Luiet. Col. Jordan was the [illegible] commanding of this Regt. although Mitchill was [Cor]

Your Obt. Serv't

Jonah Dearborn
Atty for John Andrews
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Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir, 


Will you kindly give me the grounds for granting a pension to Esther Gray Andrews, widow of John Andrews?

And did John Andrews (the above mentioned) of Limington, Me. serve in the War of 1812 r in the Revolutionary War?
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Any information respecting this soldier will be most gratefully received. 

Not understanding the modus operandi of your office, I do not know whether any expense is incurred in recuring the above information.

If so, kindly let me know,

Resp'y

Edith Andrews Wells 
204 Mulberry Ave
Norwood Park, Ill