Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 223, Eldad Andrus, Vt.
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(3-1776)                                                
SERVICE                                                   NUMBER

Vt.         Andrus., Eldad                            R. 223
                            Sophia
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CONTENTS
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State of Vermont ⎬ 
Addison County
On the 23 day of Nov AD 1838  personally appeared before me Calvin Slav one of the Judges of the County Court [illegible] and for the
County of Addison aforesaid Sophia Andrus a resident of Cornwall in the County of Addison and State of Vermont aged Eighty  Eight years who being first duly sworn according to Law
doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836. Section third that she is the widow of Eldad Andrus who was a private soldier in the Army of the United States during the Revolutionary war, that on the spring of the
year 1776 the said Eldad Andrus enlisted under Captain Jonathan Farrett in Col Brushes Regiment for the term of nine months, Col Brush's Regiment was raised by order of General Gates, that he the said Eldad Andrus enlisted at Cornwall in the County of Addison aforesaid where he and the said Sophia Andrus then resided, that immediately after his said
enlistment the said Eldad Andrus marched from his home in Cornwall to Onion River where he continue to serve as a soldier as aforesaid three or four months from thence he marched to Ticonderoga when he continued on a two weeks from thence he and the company to which he belonged were ordered on to the frontiers and marched to assist the inhabitants in moving from their homes and in guarding the frontiers where he continued to serve on said frontier and the expiration of his said nine month enlistment 
and was discharged and returned home to Cornwall aforesaid some time in December 1776, and brought home him with him his [illegible] dog that he had found in his absence, which had been stolen from him a short time before the commencement of the war and brought home also with him a bever (beaver?) skin which was given him by the man who stole the dog
to settle for the theft, and the said Sophia Andrus at the time the said Eldad Andrus returned home was living in the family of Doctor Feat, in 
Cornwall of and. and that she had [illegible] back to Cornwall but a few days before from
Pitsford. And that she and the said Eldad Andrus continued to reside at their home in Cornwall aforesaid until the 5th day of May 1777 when she the said Sophia Andrus moved to
Rutland with the rest of the inhabitants of Cornwall and the adjacent towns, that her husband the said Eldad Andrus had previously enlisted in April before. she thinks about
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the first of April 1777 as a private Soldier under one Capt Lee and he thinks in Col Chipmans Regiment, that he enlisted for nine months and was in the sum at the time the the said Sophia
and married to Rutland found and had previously marched from Cornell to Sherburn in Vermont, and he the said Eldad Andrus was in the Skirmish or both at the house of Mrs. Parson in Sherburn aforesaid at which time three of their neighbors from Cornell were killed and that the troops to which the Eldad Andrus belonged were called Rangers, that they were out on scouting parties and been guarding the parties and that he was out with Capt. Lee Capt. Liandchiland and Col. Chisnus, Lieut.  Buchanan which are all the offices that she is now able to reflect, and that some time in August 1777 according to her best recollection is the son Eldad Andrews was taken prisoner by the British and Indians at Caswell aforesaid, and was send to Crownpoint and that after being confined ten days he was paroled by
General Benyogum, and was served from Crownpoint to Vermont by an Indian as abate cana, and that after he landed the Indian made an attempt to kill him but fortunately he recorded in breaking down the Indian with a club which he picked up and then made his escape and son and his company and listened  as a soldier until the expiration of his said enlistment and was honorably discharged and tend to his home in Cornell aforesaid - that she has no documentary unknown on her pension of his services as a soldier as aforesaid but that he served in the whole one year and six months faithfully as a Soldier of the United States as aforesaid, that prior to her marriage,to her husband Eldad Andrus she resided at Arlington in Vermont, and that her marry name was Sophia Benedict, She further declares that she was married to the said Elder Andrews on the 12th day of October one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy fore at Arlington aforesaid Gen. [Ceshlthtree] Justice of the peace, that her husband the aforesaid Eldad Andrews died at Cornell aforesaid and on the 13th day of November one thousand Eight hundred and twenty six; and that she has remained a widower pensioner that period as awhile mournfully appear upon to the judge hereunto annexed , she further declares that during
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her intermanage with the said Eldad Andrews there were ban certe them the following children Polly Andrews was born May 25th 1778.  Mercy Andrews was born October 1781. Abraham Ramon Andrews was born June 3rd 1784, Dorothy Andrews born Jan. 23rd 1787 Esther Andrews  was born May 17th 1789 there she the said Sophia Andrews now resides at Cornnell aforesaid and has resided there
ever since the decease of the said Eldad Andrus her said husband and before that aforesaid seen after her intermarriage to the said Eldad Andrews except occasional being absent
during the hecer when her said husband was a soldier aforesaid and a few year after the war when they resided at Watertown in Connecticut- That she has me record of her marriage in her pensioner but that a copy of the Record of her children birth that were ban certe
her and the said Eldad Andrews during their application from the term Clark of Connell is herethford she hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that her name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State-
Sworn and subscribed the day and year first above written.       Sophia[X her mark]Andrews
Before me Calvin Galavy,  Judges of Addison County Court 

I Calvin Golan as of the Judge of Addison County Sophia Andrews from her bodily infirmity and advanced age is incapable of attending out and I do further certify that she is a credible witness and that her Paternal is witness & credit

Calvin Golan Judge of Addison County Court
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State of Vermont}
Addison County ss.} 
Be it known that before me Thom H. Everest
Justice of the peace within and for the County of Addison is aforesaid personally appeared Danl Feat a resident of Cornell the County of Addison aforesaid who being first duly seen according to Gen Elseus, testifies, and says
that he was acquainted with Eldad Andrews late
of Cornell aforesaid deceased that his first acquainted with the send Eldad Andrews was at Watertown on in Connecticut when he the said Danl Feat that was a knoll leg, that he can the said Eldad Andrus both lived in Watertown afore said that he the said Danl Fact is now seventy eight years of age and aforesaid [Zereieng] was born on the 30 day of April 1760. And that the year he the said Danl Feat was fifteen years of
he married into the Town of Cornell and
and that the said deed Andrew Son of the and
into the town of Cornwall afore and that in the
spring of the year in the year 1776. The month and the day of the month he does not now recalled the said Daniel Feat and the above named Eldad Andrews enlisted both at the same time under Captain Jonathan Frank as private soldier at Cornell and for the time of nine month and on the recent Comments by Col. Briest Bennington raised by order of General Gates. that he the said Eldad Andrews with him the said Danl Feat.

Cornell enter to union River interment when thru confession three or four months according to
his the said Daniel Feats recollection, form thence they marched to Ticondiga when they certain to serve on the said Captain Jonathan Frank's Company not to exceed two weeks, from thence they were ordered on to the friends of Vermont to exist the inhabitants in moving from their home and guarding the frontiers and was on the frontiers Union River aforesaid South on the frontier him during the sum of these enlistment- that then hear quarter was as he been in Vermont- that he the said Eldad Andrews confession to Jesse ces a
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Soldier aforesaid in the company and Regiment aforesaid with him the said Danl Feat for and during the term of nine months the full time of his said entertainment and was discharged and the further aforesaid and was discharge by Lieut Lee. The captains and other officers of the Regiment not being present at the time, that at the time the said Eldad Andrews intestic as aforesaid he was living with his wife Sophia
Andrews, and  left her at his home in Cornell
and when he went into the same, and that she the said Sophia Andrews moved from Cornell to Rutterns when the inhabitants move from Cornell to Rutterns the same years of said enlistment and that he the said Danil Feat and Eldad Andrews together with the rest of Capt Frank's Company went with the inhabitant of Cornell to Rutterns at the time they moved-. And that after the close of the war the said Eldad Andrews and his wife Sophia Andrews moved back and to Cornell aforesaid when they lived and cohabited together as man and wife until the death of Eldad Andrews some was Senor and that the said Sophia Andrews is now living at Cornell- aforesaid-and that she has not been married since the death of the said Eldad Andrews  but contends the children of the said Eldad Andrews and- And the said Eldad Andrews and Sophia Andrews during the time of their cohabiting together aforesaid they had ban certe there the following named children Polly Andrews, Mary Andrews, Ransom Andrews,  Samantha Andrews and Esther Andrews while is all their children that he the said Daniel Feat can now recalled-

Sworn and subscribed this 7th day of September 1838                      Daniel Feat
Before me, Edny H. Everest Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that the above named Daniel Feat is a credible witness and that his statement is written to [and] it
Edny H.  Everest Justice of the the Peace
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State of Vermont⎬ 
Addison County ss.}
Be it known that before me Edny H Everest a Justice of the peace within and for the County of Addison formed personally appeared
Eldad Andrews a resident of Muibury in the County of Addison aforesaid aged eighty two
years [That he was argued with] and aforesaid having been born on the 9th day of May 1756. That said Eldad Andrews  late of Cornell in the County of Addison aforesaid decided that the said Eldad Andrews was a brother of him the said Ethen Andrews- and that in the month
of year 1776 he the said Ethen Andrews was a soldier in the same of the unit state and had march from Watertown in Comchat to Whitehall and from there to march and under war Ticonderoga where he learned that his Brother
Eldad Andrews was a soldier in the line of the United States and soon after came to see him
the said Ethen Andrews, the said Eldad Andrews was then a Soldier at Ticonderoga
after General Gats then commander at Ticonderoga, the said Ethen Andrews at the time he saw his brother at march defend as aforesaid was recall and went one to Ticonderoga and being to Cornell that Gen Gates gave him the said Ethan Andrews a discharge and his brother Eldad Andrews at the same time get a permit to go home to his family on Cornell and stay for a few days and that he the sd Ethan Andrews went there with the sd Eldad Andrews to his home in Cornell, and he the said Ethan Andrews remained at Cornell  aforesaid on the family of him the sd Eldad
Andrews until the wife of him the sd Eldad Andrews moved to Pitsford together with all the inhabitants of Cornell and the adjacent county- in the fall of the year 1776.
During which time his brother Eldad Andrew was on the service of the United States as a soldier as aforesaid and that he the said Ethan Andrews rendered at the time that his Brother Eldad Andrews was an enlisted soldier  for the length of his enlistment he does not now remember and has always understand that he served the full time of his then enlistment, and the said Ethan Andrews further testifies  and says that in the forepart of Dec 1776 he went to his home is Watertown as Comchat and did not see his Brother Eldad Andrews from that time until two to three years afterwards-but he and
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during the time that he had again entitled at the same of the United States and served as he was rendered, but how long he did not know, and he the sd their  Ethan Andrews rendered at the time he the said Ethan Andrews was taken
a prisoner but how long he was confined cannot now state -The said Ethan Andrews has all  understand that his brother Eldad Andrews was absent from his family on the
terrain of the United States as a soldier as aforesaid something over one year and he hath this be rendered at the close of the war and even him and he verily believe that
he did to same, that he the said Ethan Andrews was not present at the time of the marriage of his Brother Eldad Andrews to Sophia Bendick but was informed soon the that they were married in a letter 1774. That they live and
cohabited together as man and wife from that time until death of the sd Eldad Andrews on the 15th of November 1826- that during their intermarriage then were born unto them the following children,
Polly Andrews, Mary Andrews, Ransom Andrews,  that Sophia Andrews widow of the said Eldad Andrews in family Sophia
Benedict is now living at Cornell in the County
of Addison aforesaid  and that she has not been married since the death of her husband the sd Eldad Andrews, but has remained a widow ever since the death of the send Eldad Andrews.

Sworn and subscribed this 7th day of September 1838. Before me, Edny H. Everest, Justice of the Peace

The word that he was acquainted with between the 5th and 6th term from the [less] enlisted 
 before July also the war.  "That he as
the less of the 2d day marched before signing
Ethan Andrews


I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted
with the old man Ethan Andrews and that he is a credible witness, and that his brother is dead to
end it
Edny H. Everest, Justice of the Peace
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Births of the family of Elder Andrews
Polly Andrews a Daughter born May 25th, 1778
Mercy Bostwick Andrews born Oct. 1st. 1781,
Abraham Ransom Andrews born June 3rd 1784.
Dianthy Andrews born Jan. 23rd. 1787-
Ethan Andrews Junr. born May 17th. 1789-
A true Copy
Attest Marcus O. Porter Town Clerk
Cornwall Sept 29. 1838-

State of Vermont ⎬ 
Addison County , ss} 
Be it known that before me Edny H. Everest Justice of the Peace within and by the County of Addison aforesaid  personally appear Marcus O.  Porter of Cornwall in the County of Addison aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law declare and said that he is town clerk of the town of Cornwall's aforesaid duly qualified agreeth to law and that the above is a true & that from the heads of the town of Cornwall aforesaid. Now in his pension as town Clerk as aforesaid- Marcus O. Porter


Sworn and subscribed  this 29th day of September 1838
Before me
Edny H. Everest, Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that Martha O Porter is a credible witness.
Edny H. Everest Justice of the Peace
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1922 Jan.  14 Hist.               No. 225
To Emma V. Vail


[Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 9, 1870]
REJECTED

Sophia Andrews
P. O. __________________________
Service:_______________________
Enlisted: List of suspended, 18
claims is printed in 1852

Discharged: gives cause of Sus-,18
Pension as follows: "Suspended for further proof." 

Application filed:_________________,18
Alleges:_________________________
Re-enlisted:______________________
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
3 -- 525
R. F. 2.2.3

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C.,....................,19...............

In reply to your request of................, received.........for a statement of the military history of Elda Andrews a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the
information as contained in his (or his widow's ) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
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DATES OF     |LENGTH OF SERVICE|      RANK
APPOINTMENT|         
Spring 1776               9 mos                       Pvt
April 1777                  9  mos

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN              COLONEL            STATE
Jonathan Fasset      Brush                Vt
Lee                           Chipman
And was taken prisoner at Cornwell in Aug 1777
taken & Greene Point thee paroled & joined
his company & served until the expiration of his
enlistment.

Battles engaged in, ....Skirmish of Shelburne
Residence of soldier at enlistment,... Cornwall, Addison Co
Date of application for pension,...Nov. 23, 1838 
Residence at date of application,....Cornwall Addison Co, Vt
Age at date of application for,...She was 88 year 
The claim was not allowed as the failed to furnish
Remarks:... proof of the alleged services
He was Oct. 12. 1724 of Arlington Sophia Benedict and died Nov. 15. 1826 at Cornwall, Vt.
Children were Polly b. May 25, 1778.
Mercy [or Massy] Bostwick Andrews b. Oct. 1, 1781. Abraham Ransom Andrews to b. June 3,
1784 Dianthy Andrews B. Jan. 23, 1787. Esther Andrew b. May 17, 1789. & Samantha  

Respectfully,
Brother Ethan

6 -- 2856                                     Commissioner.
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Sophia Andrews
Suspended see letter to Hon. W. Slide, Dec. 21
1838
W. G. Wade, Dec. 31, 1846. Lieut.  & Hon J. Meastianson Ja. 22/50

July 4, 36
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Sophia Andrews and others
{Suspd see letter to Hon 1886]
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Rachel Griger, Widow of Cato N. Y. 38 Suspended
Obadiah Lodger- N. Y. 38 Suspended
John Holey           N. Y.  1832- Suspended
Samuel Rogers    N. Y.       32- Suspended
Sophia Andrews  Vt.          36- Suspended
John Pepper        Vt.          32-Suspended

See authority with papus
Dec 27-51

W. G. Wade
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Department
Pension Office
Dec. 21. 1836

Sir:
I have examine the claim of Mrs Sophia Andrews, widow of Eldad Andrews
and have paid her pension upon on ples
Wm Andrey Alleys that he tell Hurbard, profound the of Military duty with Vermont
the militia or State troops of Neal Mally
east, and that she was name in 1774
1774.
Before acting definitely upon
this claim the deponent will require aforesaid he had hath-rolls of the army man or plea to the Office of the Marin of family. The end aforesaid we profound and Captain Fassett & Lee; Col Bruett Chipman. Record proof of her marriage
will he be required of truth aforesaid.
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The claim will remain suspended until
the service of the application in
the Marine office be made known Mr. White claim has the day been administer. She certified will be said to you  in a few days.
I had the honor                          
Hon W. Slide Dec. 21, 38 OC

Hon W. Wade HR

OC 
Ae 4 hg 36
4142
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Pension Office
Dec. 31, 1846
Sir
In answer to your letter of the 15. Just
I have to inform you that Sophia Andrews widow
of Eldad Andrews assisted a claim under the
act of 4 July 1836. For two term of service of in
each under Capt. Fassett & Lee, of Cole Brush
and Chipman Regiment of the Vermont Troops,
she was required to establish this service by the certificate of the Records in the State
Defendant and the date of their marriage by the
record of the Town where the ceremony was suspended. This requisition has not been complied with.
John Pepper was pensioned at the rate of 82nd per ann. His name was dropped from the rolls with all those whose claims were presented by R Temple and he repent to establish his service by the certificate of the Secretary of State of Mass. The Certificate of this Officer presented by W B. Perro, sustained his declaration for 5 mos 5 days only consequently his name
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not restored to the pension list

Dec. 31. 1846

W. G. Wade Esq
Rose, N.Y.
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State of Vermont I 
Addison County ⎬ 
I Calvin Solan one of the Jude of 
of Addison County Court weather
and for the County of Addison aforesaid do duly
declare my opinion that the dear name
Sophia Andrews the applicant is the widow of Eldad Andrews late of Cornwall death-That the 
 said Eldad Andrews was  a Revolutionary soldier of the United States that he did on the 15th day of November
1826 at Cornwell aforesaid as she states and I further certify that the said Sophia Andrews who has met the aforesaid didn't and Ethan Andrews.   Marcus O Porter

Daniel Feat and Pries Sanford who have made their declaration an credible witness and that
three claim is entitled to credit
Calvine Solan Place Judge of Addison County Court
I Calvin Solan, Judge aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing certain the original
 preceding in the Judge in the matter of the application of Sophia Andrews for a foreign-Intermarriage whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 23rd day of November 1838.

Calvin Solan Judge of Addison County Court
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State of Vermont}
Addison County ss}

Be it known that before me Calvin Solan one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Addison aforesaid personally appeared Ethan Andrews of Cornwall in the County of Addison aged forty nine years, who being first duly sworn according to law, deposes testify and says, that he was acquainted with Eldad Andrews late of Cornwall in the County of Addison aforesaid deceased, that the said Ethan Andrews died at Cornwell afores on the 15th day of November 1826 and that his widow Sophia Andrews is now living at Cornwall aforesaid and that she has not been married since the decease of her husband
the Eldad Andrews, but that she has remained a
widow ever since his death.

Sworn and subscribed the Ethan Andrews
23d day of Nov 1838
Before me Calvin Solan fasting the I hereby certify that the above named Ethan Andrews is a credible witness.
Calvin Solan Justice of the Peace
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Vt.  V 223/4142

Sophia Andrews widwod of Eldad
Act 4 July 1836-223

Hon. W. Slade Hr
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State of Vermont⎬ 
Addison County ss}.

Be it known that before me Edny H. Everest one of the Justice of the peace in and for the County of Addison and personally appeared on as Stanford of Sherburn in the County of Addison aged forty four years who
being first duly sworn according to Law deposes certify and says that he was acquainted with
Eldad Andrews late of Cornwall as the County of
Addison aforesaid deceased, that the said Eldad Andrews died at Cornwall and on the 15th day of November 1826. and that his widow Sophia Andrews is now living at Cornwall aforesaid and that she has not been marriman since the death of her husband the said Elder Andrews, but that she has remained
a widow ever since his death
Sworn and subscribed this 21st day of November 1838
Before me Edny H. Everest, Justice of the Peace

They certify that the man Ana Lanford
is a credible witness. 
Edny H. Everest Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont}
Addison County }

I Samuel Swift, Clerk of the County
Count for the said County of Addison do hereby
certify that Calvin Solane, before whom the annexed proceedings were had, and who
certified the same, was at the time a Judge
of said Court, and his name subscribed to
the certificate annexed thereto in his own signature
And I further certify that Edny H. Everest, before whom the following affidavit of Daniel Feat, Ethan Andrews, Marcus P. Porter & Ozias Sanford  were made was at the several times, a Justice of the peace for said County, and his name
Subscribed to the same is his own signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this 4th day of December A.D. 1838.
Saml Swift Clerk
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December 19, 1838

Sir
I send herewith the application of Sophia
Andrews for a pension. The person who sent
it to me says he has not yet unable to obtain any evidence from the Town Clerks records in Arlington in regard to the marriage.
It is a notorious fact universally known
in tenant that then no words by Town Clerks
of marriages in that State of early as 1774, now in existence. the utterly settled state of my thing there, in that Serial succeeding
years, sufficiently accounts for the absence of all words of that kind

Respectfully
William Stade

J L Edwards Esq
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Rose, New York
December 15th 1846
Sir,
In behalf of Sophia, widow of Eldad Andrews, an applicant for a pension from Addison County Vermont, under act of Congress of 4th of July 1836. I be have to request the favour of being
informed of the objections to the admission of her claim, her agent having died before the claim was a published, no effort has been made
the perfect the proof.
Yours  Respectfully
Your Observant Servant,  W. G. Wade

I certify satisfactory documentary evidence 
has been exhibited to me to show that the above named  W. G. Wade of Rose N.Y.
is the Attorney duly authorized to investigate
the claims of  Sophia Andrews of Vermont

Dated [Rose ] Dec. 15, 1846
C. B Collins Justice of the Peace

Hon J.L. Edwards
Commission of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.
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RECORD
DEC 28 1921
Division
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29. Postage Stamp rec'd F.N.E. Returned
Jan. 14, 1922.
Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions-


Dear Sirs
My Great Grand-Father Eldad Andrews
was a Revolutionary Soldier and I have been advised to write to you for information in regard to him such as would make me eligible to join the Daughters of the American Revolution, he lived in Cornwall Vermont-going there from Conn- the information will be very thankfully received

Very Sincerely yours
Mrs. Emma V. Vail
Middletown Springs Vermont
Dec. 26, 1921

PENSION
U. Dec. 28, 1921 S.
OFFICE