Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31570, Sheriff Brewster, S.C.
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(8-1776)
SERVICE
S. C. 
Brewster, Sheriff
Bruster
NUMBER
S. 31,571
CONTENTS
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Georgia 16537
IG.524
Sheriff Brewster of Walton in the State of Georgia who was a Priv [Private] in the [blank] commanded by Captain Foster of the Regl commanded by Col: Wade in the So Ca [South Carolina] line for 10 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Georgia at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
Certificate of Pension issued in the 31st day of Aug and [illegible] P Lucas Monroe CH. Ga [Georgia] 
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 6666
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 1666
$8332
{Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Nath Rice Clerk
Cook C Vol. 6 Page 8G
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The declaration of Sheriff Brewster a Revolutionary Soldier in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832
State of Georgia County Walton}
sf: On this nineteenth day of November Eighteen hundred & thirty two personally appeared before the honorable Inf Court [Inferior Court] of the county & State aforesaid and now sitting being a court of record Sheriff Brewster a resident of the county of Walton in the said state of Georgia aged seventy years on the sixth day of March next who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pension made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated. Wade Hampton Colonel - Sumpter, General Jas. Rutherford Major Foster Captain first & afterwards Jacob Barnett Captain Andrew Baxter & William D'Armon Lieutenants James Flanegan orderly Seargeant and deponent farther declares that to the best of his remembrance he entered the service in the month of March seventeen hundred & Eighty one at any rate it was in the Spring of the year of the battle of Eutaw Springs in the state of South Carolina And deponent farther declares that he left the service sometime the month of January or February seventeen hundred & Eighty two & that he served for the period of ten (10) months And this deponent farther declares that at the time he entered said service he resided in the county of Mecklenburgh [Mecklenburg] & State of North Carolina & that he enlisted for the aforesaid term of ten months & served the same And this deponent farther declare that he was not engaged in any battle during his service And this deponent farther declares that he marched through different parts of South Carolina & Georgia Deponent marched to Averoms on the Congaree River and Orangeburg to Camden & to Georgetown in South Carolina to Ebenezer to within a few  miles of Savannah
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& to Spirit creek below Augusta in Georgia And deponent farther declares that he served with the following continental regiments Col Whites & Col Washington's continental regiments And deponent farther declares that he knew the following regular officers General Anthony Wayne Gen. Nathaniel Green Capt John Mills And this deponent farther declares that he has no documentary evidence of his services

 And this deponent 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 & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
J. P. Lucas UR
Sheriff Brewster
his mark [like a sideways B]

We John Barret a clergyman residing in the county of Walton State of Georgia & William Brand residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Sheriff Brewster who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be sixty nine years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open court
J.P. Lucas UR
John Barret 
hix X mark
William Brand [signature]
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To the interrogatories directed to put by the court to the applicant the said Sheriff Brewster answers as follows
The first-Int he answers He was born upon the Potomac River in Virginia the 6th day of March 1763
To the 2nd he answers he has it is in a bible that belonged to his father at the Mrs Brewster's his brother's widow in the Country
To the 3rd he answers he was living in Mecklenburg County North Carolina since the Revolutionary war he had lived two years two years in Lawence District South Carolina & twenty odd years he lived in Pendleton District in said last named State & the remainer in the State of Georgia where he still resides
To the 4th he answers I enlisted
To the 5th he answers he knew Gen Anthony Wayne Nathaniel Green & Capt John Mills
To the 6th he answers he never recd any discharge except an indent which came from under the hand of Sumpter 
To the 7th he answers the answer to this Interrogatory is embodied in his declaration & the affidavits of Wm Akins & Hugh Brewster thereto annexed 
Novr. [November] Term 1832}
Egbert B. Beale JJC
W Whatley JQC
James Orr JJC
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Received at Pension Office Dec 3rd 1832
Sheriff Brewster
19582

[sideways text]

States in his above declaration for this deponent enlisted & served in the same company & for the same time with his brother
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 19th Nov 1932
Hugh Brewster
Egbert B Beall, JJC
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And the said Court do hereby declare their 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 further certifies that it appears to them that John Barret who has signed the proceeding certificate is a clergyman and resident in the County of Walton & State of Georgia & that (John Barnet crossed out) Wm Brand who has also signed the same is a resident in the county of Walton & State of Georgia and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I John P Lucas Clerk of the Inferior Court of the county of Walton & State of Georgia do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Sherriff Brewster for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 19th day of November 1832
J.P. Lucas Clk
Georgia Walton County} Personally appeared before me Egbert B Beall one of the Justices of the Inferior court in the State aforesaid William Akins who being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he knows that Sheriff Brewster the above applicant enlisted or entered the service of the United States as stated in the above declaration that this deponent knew said Sheriff personally during the time of his service & deponent believes that he served out his time faithfully & that said Sheriff was in the first Regiment of the South Carolina State Troops commanded by Colonel Wade Hampton & this deponent knows that
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James Rutherford was Major under Col. Wade Hampton & that said Rutherford was killed at the battle of Eutaw Springs in South Carolina & that Jacob Barrett was Captain of the Campany in which said Sherriff Brewster served
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 19th day of Nov 1832
Egbert B Beall J.J.C
William Akins

Georgia Walton County} Personally appeared before me Egbert B Beall one of the Justices of the Inferior Court in aforesaid County Hugh Brewster who being duly sworn desposeth & saith that he knows that his brother Sheriff Brewster the above applicant did enlist and serve as stated in his above declaration for this deponent enlisted & served in the same company & for the same time with his brother 
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 19th Nov 1832
Egbert B Beall J. JC
Hugh Brewster

[sideways text]
Received at Pension Office Dec 3rd 1832
Sheriff Brewster
19582
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Sheriff Brewster
Ga
No 18582
Admit as priv [Admitted as private]
10 mo $3333

Jno. P Lucas [John P. Lucas]
Clk: Inf Court
Walton Co, SC
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WAR DEPARTMENT
Pension Office, 
April 16th 1833
Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist; which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed.  The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim. 

A Statement, shewing the Service of Sheriff Brewster
Period When the service was rendered 1781 enlisted
Duration of the claimant's service
Years [blank]
Months 10
Days [blank]
Rank of the claimant Pri. [Private]
Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served
Capt. Foster Capt. Jacob Barnett
Names and Rank of the General and Field officers.
Col. Wade Hampton Genl Sumpter Maj Jas. Rutherford Col. Washington Col. White
Battles in which the applicate was engaged [blank]
Country through which he marched.
Thru different parts of So. Ca [South Carolina] and Ga [Georgia] Ancorms Orangeburg Camden & to Georgetown to within a few miles of Savannah creek below Augusta in Ga. [Georgia] 
Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period.
69 years
Mechlenburg Co. N.C. 
Evidence by which the declaration is supported. 
Traditionary Witnesses 
I am, respectfully Your obedient servant, 
J. L. EDWARDS, Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Arm and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval service.
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Cout of Record.
DELCARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of [blank] County of [blank]}ss.

On this [blank] day of [blank] personally appeared (a) before [blank] A.B a resident (b) of [blank] in the county of [blank] and State, Territory or District of [blank] aged (c) [blank] 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 provion made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) [blank], with [blank] and served in the [blank](e) regiment of the [blank] line, under the following named officers: [blank]

[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]

He herby relinquishes every claim (f) [illegible] to a pension or any annuity except the [illegible] declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State or [illegible] the Agency in the State of [blank]
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. A.B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. 
I [blank] of the Court of do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of [blank] for a pension. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this day of [blank] &c. 
If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the [blank] and C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with [blank], who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be [blank] 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. 
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their 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 further certifies that it appears to them that A. B. and that E. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
I, [blank] Clerk of the Court of [blank] do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of [blank] for a pension. 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this [blank] day of [blank] &c.

Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will the procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicate, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.

If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6. To a Soldier. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it?
To an Officer.
Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that he answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.

The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons -one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from
their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, to the character and standing of other persons, giving such certificates.

The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed up the subject. 

Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of the Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend to Court. 

Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, [illegible] State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.

No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.

[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance. 
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words.

"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot sear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: -For ____ year_____ months, and _____days, I served as a ________ ; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months, is to indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.  Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent
authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit. 
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

Proof of Service.
[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.

The notes form [a] to [i] are equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops only.
[k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
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April 14, 1936
Sheriff Brewster
S.31570
BA-J/AWF

Mrs. M. D. Collins
Fairburn, P.O. Box 154
Georgia
Dear Madam:
The data furnished herein were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, S. 31570, based upon the service o Sheriff Brewster in the Revolutionary War.

Sheriff Brewster was born March 6, 1763 in Virginia "upon the Potomac River". The names of his parents were not given.

While a resident of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, he enlisted March 15, 1731, served as a private in Captains Foster's and Jacob Barnett's companies, Colonel Wade Hampton's South Carolina regiment, and was discharged January 15, 1782.

After the Revolution he moved to Laurens Districts, South Carolina, where he lived about twenty years, then to Pendleton District, South Carolina, and thence to Walton County, Georgia.

He was allowed pension on his application executed, November 19, 1832, then living in said Walton County. 

He stated in 1832 that his brother's widow was then living in Walton County, Georgia, but he did not give their names.

The papers in this claim contain no reference to the wife and children of the soldier, Sheriff Brewster.

If you desire information regard to the last
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payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly date of death of this pensioner, you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C. and give the following:
Sheriff Brewster
Certificate # 16527
Issued August 31, 1833
Rate $33.33 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
Georgia Agency.

Very truly yours
A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Georgia Walton County}
Personally appeared before me Leroy Pattillo one of the Justice of the peace in aforesaid County Hugh Brewster who being duly sworn deposeth & saith that Sheriff Brewster the aforesaid applicant enlisted into the service of the United States in the revolutionary war & entered said service on the fifteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & Eighty one & that he left said service on the fifteenth day of January [Eighteen hundred crossed out] Seventeen hundred & Eighty two & that said Sheriff served out his whole tour of ten  months faithfully & that on the day & year last aforesaid he was honorably discharged & received an indent for eighty pounds That said Sheriff served in the first Regiment of the South Carolina line or State Troops under Col Wade Hampton of Gen. Sumpter Brigade in Capt. Jacob Barnett's Company & in the battalion commanded by Major James Rutherford & this deponent served in the same Company with said Sheriff.
Hugh Bruster [signature]
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 27th day of May 1833 the words "Eighteen hundred &" being first erased by a pen mark
Leroy Pattillo JP
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Georgia Walton County} I Leroy Pattillo Esquire one of the Justice of the peace in & for county & State aforesaid do hereby certify that I am acquainted with William Akins & Hugh Brewster whose names appear to the foregoing affidavits that they are both credible witnesses & men of fair standing & that full faith & credit ought to be had & given to their affidavits. 
Given under my hand & seal this 27 day of May 1833
Leroy Pattillo JP [circle with word "seal']

State of Georgia Walton County}
I John P Lucas Clerk of the Inferior Court, do hereby certify that Leroy Pattillo whose name appears to the above and foregoing affidavits and certificate is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Walton and that his foregoing signatures are genuine, and in his own proper hand. In Testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of my office this [illegible] day of May 1833
J. P. Lucas Clk
Inferior Court Walton
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State of Georgia Walton County} Before me Leroy Pattillo a Justice of the Peace in and for said County. Personally came William Akins who being duly sworn deposeth and saith the Sheriff Bruster of the County of Walton the above applicant enlisted or entered the service of the United States on or about the fifteenth day of March in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred and Eighty one and was Honorably discharged by receiving an indent on or about the fifteenth day of January Seventeen hundred and Eighty two. that he served for the period of Ten Months faithfully in the first Regiment of the South Carolina line or State Troops under Col. Wade Hampton of General Sumpters Brigade in Captain Jacob Barnett's company and in the Battalion Commanded by Major James Rutherford that he is now & was during the Revolutionary War personally acquainted with the said Sheriff Bruster.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 4th day of May 1833. 
Leroy Pattillo JP [signature]
Willliam Akins
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MRS. B. F. SIMS
180 NORTH CONVERSE STREET
SPARTANBURG, S. C.

Spartanburg S. C.
11/4 - 1905
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D. C. 

Sirs.
Gass Roster of the Revolution [illegible] 40815 437 state that Sheriff Bruster was a pensioner of the Federal Government. May I receive a copy of account. His wife was Eleanor Dunlap. His [illegilble] were rendered in this state.
Respectfully
Mr. B. A. Simms

[circular stamp]
U. S. PENSION OFFICE
A NOV 5 1925
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31570
Revy
INVALID.
File No. 31, 570
Sheriff Brewster
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7th 32
Indes: -Vol. 2, Page 54
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1925 Dec 9 hist to Mrs B. F. Simms [illegible]
Mrs. Paul A Duke Her letter in cl. of Hugh Brewster S. 31578 ME . E.
1936 April hist to Mrs. M. D. Collins - see her letter in Hugh Brewster S. 31578
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
MEE
Copied from letter by MCS. dated Dec. 9, 1925

August 25, 1928
Mrs. Paul A. Duke
1054 S. Main Street
Cedartown, Georgia
Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 31570, it appears that Sheriff Bruster (pensioned Brewster) was born March 6, 1763, in Viriginia, near (upon) the Potomac River.

Thile a resident of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, he enlisted March 15, 1781, served as private in Captains Foster's and Jacob Barnett's Companies. Colonel Wade Hampton's South Carolina Regiment, and was discharged January 15, 1782.

He was allowed a pension on his application executed November 18 (19), 1832 while living in Walton County, Georgia.

There are no data on file relative to wife and children.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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WCS
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
December 9, 1925

Mrs. B. F. Simm
180 N. Converse St.
Spartanburg, S.C.

Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 31570, it appears that Sheriff Bruster, (pensioned as SHERIFF BREWSTER) was born March 6, 1763, in Virginia near the Potomac River.

While a resident of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, he enlisted March15, 1781, served as private in Captains Foster's and Jacob Barnett's Companies, Colonel Wade Hampton's South Carolina Regiment, and as discharged January 15, 1782.

He was allowed pension on his application executed November 19, 1832, while living in Walton County, Georgia.

There is no data on file relative to wife and children.
Respectfully
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner