Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24080, Stephen Drew, Mass.
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Mass.
Drew, Stephen
Jerusha
W 24080
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Maine 795

Jerusha Drew widow of Stephen Drew dec'd Mass who die on the 15 January 1825 of Oxford Co in the State of Me who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Mayhew of the Rgt commanded by Col. Cotton in the Massa. line for 14 months.

Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 46 Dollars 67 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.  

Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of Apl 1837 and sent A.K. Parris 2nd Comptroller

Arrears to the 4th of March 1837 $280.02 
Semi-anl (sic) allowance ending 4 Sept " {1837] 23.33 [=] $303.35

Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3.

Recorded by  [illegible signature ] Clerk
Book A. Vol. 1 Page 5
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Town of Middleborough
Mass Feby 24th 1837

I Allen Shaw do on Oath declare that I am Town Clerk of the Town of Middleborough, County of Plymouth, State of Massachusetts, and that I have the custody of the Records of said Town, that it appears by said Records that Mr. Stephen Drew of Plymouth and Miss Jerusha Byrant of Middleborough were married by the Rev. Silvanus Conant November the 27th 1777.-Allen Shaw, Town Clerk.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth County ss.  February 25, 1837.  Then Allen Shaw personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in & for said County & made an oath to the truth of the above written affidavit by him subscribed & I further certify that said Shaw is a witness entitled to full faith & credit.  Isaac Stevens Justice of the Peace.

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If you obtain a Pension please acknowledge it by forwarding 1.$ (sic)
A. Shaw.
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State of Maine
County of Oxford

On this twentieth day of March A.D. 1837 personally appeared before the Hon. Stephen Emery, Judge of Probate for said County Jarusha (sic) Drew a resident in the town of Buckfield in said County of Oxford aged 80 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 of the Act of Congress passed July 4, 1836-that she is the widow of Stephen Drew, late of said Buckfield, deceased, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War for several terms one of which was in the eight months service at Roxbury in the year 1775, another at Rhode Island and another at West Point., the last of which was for the term of six months. The Captain under whom he served at Roxbury I am pretty confident was Capt. Mayhew ^& I think Col. Theophilus Cannon commanded the regiment^ but I cannot remember the names of any other of the officers under whom he served. I was married to said Drew after the two first services were performed & before the last.  This took place ^to wit the marriage aforesaid^ at Middleborough in the County of Plymouth, Massachusetts in the year I think 1777 or 1778. I do not remember how long said Drew served at Rhode Island.    

The said Jerusha further says that her said husband died at said Brookfield about the middle of January A.D. 1825 and that she has remained a widow ever since that time, as will fully appear by reference to the evidence herewith presented.  Said Drew served as she fully believes, as a private and at the close of each period of service was honorably discharged.  She knows that said Drew served through the eight month service at Roxbury as above stated.  That her name before she was married to said Drew was Jerusha Bryant.  Jerusha Drew.  Her Mark X

Witness Stephen Emery

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And now, on this fourteenth day of April, A.D. 1837, I, the said Judge, from the evidence adduced by said Jerusha Drew, the applicant aforesaid, hereunto annexed, do adjudge , that the said Stephen Drew was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as in the foregoing application set forth-that the said Jerusha was lawfully married to said Stephen, and that said Stephen died at the [illegible word crossed out] time in said application stated-and that said Jerusha is his lawful widow and has remained unmarried ever since the decease of said Stephen.  In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, the day & year above written.      Stephen Emery, Judge [signature]

And I the said Judge do hereby further certify that the said Jerusha, by reason of advanced yrs & bodily infirmity was & is unable to attend personally court.  Stephen Emery, Judge [signature]

State of Maine
Oxford, ss

I the subscriber Register of the Court of Probate in said county, do hereby certify that Stephen Emery before whom the foregoing proceedings were had is Judge of the Courts of Probate aforesaid.  I also certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Judge in the Matter of the application of Jerusha Drew for a Pension.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court this fourteenth day of April AD 1837.

Levi Stowell, Register [signature]
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Rev

WIDOW, &c.

File No. 24080

Jerusha Drew
Wid of 
Stephen Drew
Pri Rev War

Act:  July 4th 36
Indes:  __Vol A. Page 196
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Stephen Drew-
75. Thos Mayhew.  Cotton [illegible] 8 mo  8 mo

80 Bejn Warren  23 July 80 6 mo.  6

On rolls for each term
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1599     Jerusha Drew widow of Stephen--Me [Maine]

Original case no deduction

[illegible]
14 [illegible-months?]
$46.66
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I, Abijah Bryant of Hartford, in the County of Oxford, State of Maine, aged 75 years, on oath depose and say that I served as a soldier in the Revolutionary ^war for two several terms, one of which was at West Point, in New York, in the year that Major Andre was hung, in a company commanded by Captain Benjamin Warren of Plymouth. The colonels name I cannot remember.  I served at this time six months.  I was discharged.  For this service, I [illegible-never?] drew a pension.    I further say that I [well?] remember that Stephen Drew, Late of Buckfield, deceased, was a soldier with me in the same company.   He went with me and came home with ^ me.  He was my messmate and bedfellow.  We were neighbors in said [crossed out] Middleborough, Massachusetts, where we both lived & where I was acquainted with his wife, Jerusha Drew who is now his widow living in said Buckfield.  I know she has remained his widow since his decease.  Abijah Bryant X his mark.

Witness Samuel H. Brown  Ephraim Fiddler[?]

State of Maine, County of Oxford ss.  February 14, 1837.   Then the above named Abijah Bryant to me know as a  man of veracity made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed before me.  Samuel F. Brown Justice of the Peace.
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State of Maine, Oxford County ss.  I the subscriber Register of the Courts of Probate within and for said County of Oxford hereby certify that Samuel F. Brown, whose proper signature is affixed to the within Deposition is a Justice of the Peace within said county duly appointed and qualified and that full faith and credit are due to his acts as such.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and set the seal of said Court this fourteenth day of April in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty seven.  Levi Stowell, Register
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I Cornelius Holmes of Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth & Commonwealth of Massachusetts on oath testify and say that I am eighty two years old, was born & lived in Plymouth in said county till 1779:  that Stephen Drew, late of Buckfield in the State of Maine, deceased, & formerly of said Plymouth, was about my age, was my cousin & lived near me in said Plymouth till 1779.  that said Stephen & myself used to work together shoemaking & I have always been well acquainted with him & saw him the last time at his house is said Buckfield in 1817-& I heard of his death a few years ago--During the time of the Revolutionary War, said Stephen's home was in Plymouth aforesd (Sic) & I very well remember & knew of his serving in the war in the year 1775 in the neighborhood of Boston.  He served in the eight months campaign under Captain Thomas Mayhew in Col. Theophilus Cotton Regiment.  I did not serve in that campaign,  called Roxbury Campaign myself but said Mayhew's company was formed immediately after the Lexington Battle, I [illegible-well?] recollect  the time when said Company left Plymouth, & that said Drew was one of the soldiers in said Company & went off with them.  Afterwards in the course of a month or two, I was at the quarters or camp of said Company in Dorchester & I saw said Drew then doing duty as a soldier.  that said Drew enlisted for eight months & served in the Roxbury [campaign, crossed out] eight months ^ Campaign.  Also during the time of said Drew being in said Campaign, I was acquainted with Jerusha Bryant of Middleborough
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to whom said Drew was then engaged, & at the request of said Jerusha I wrote a letter to said Drew. [illegible] Drew & myself lived in houses adjoining in Plymouth aford [aforesaid] & I was well acquainted with said Drew's movements at this time & if said Drew had left the service before the expiration of the eight months, I think I must have known it & should now remember it. After said Drew returned from this campaign, he married said Jerusha Bryant, & I was present at the wedding at the house of her Father Josiah Bryant, & they were married by Rev.  Sylvanus Conant--they lived in said Middleborough many years after they were married & then moved to Maine sometime about 1798--I am unable to say whether he served in the war after he was married or not, during the year 1775 I was living in Plymouth all this time, but during the 3 or 4 years after that year, I was absent a good deal of the time, & so do not know or recollect as much about his doings.  I have always heard & [supposed?] it was always so [taken?] & understood in our family that said Drew served the full period of eight months in said Roxbury Campaign--I served in 1776  & 77.  Bridgewater March 25, 1837.  Cornelius Holmes. [signature]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth ss Bridgewater  March 25, 1837

Then the above named Cornelius Holmes [continued on next page]
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personally appeared & made oath, that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is true.  Before me Williams Latham (Justice of the Peace). & I the said Justice hereby certify that I have been, for several years last past, personally acquainted with the above named Cornelius Holmes, living in the same town with him, & that said Holmes is a credible witness, & is considered a man of truth & veracity.  Williams Latham, Jus. Peace [signature]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts  Plymouth ss.

I, [partially illegible] Thomas, Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the County of Plymouth aforesaid, hereby certify that Williams Latham Esquire, before whom the foregoing deposition was sworn, is a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Plymouth duly commissioned & qualified & acting under the authority of the said Commonwealth--and that his signature above written is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court on this twenty seventh day of March, in one year one thousand eight hundred & thirty seven.

[partly illegible]  Thomas
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Hon. Albion K. Parris
of the Treasury Department
Washington
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Buckfield, ME April 17, 1837

Hon. A. K. Parris, Sir

Accompanying this, you will receive the papers in the application of the widow Jerusha Drew, for a pension. They are sent to your care by request of the friend of Mrs. D with a further request that you [illegible-would?] send them to the Pension Office, with a kind word of yours, to urge an early examination, that the old lady might have the benefit of her country's gratuity, which she much needs, as soon as possible.  They believe that such a kind word will be as freely given as it will be effectual in its action. Your friends are all well here.  We have now larger quantities of snow [continued on next page]
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on the ground that sleighing has been [illegible] for some 6 or 8 days.

I am respectfully your F. Servant
Samuel F. Brown

I have an other case of like nature pending at the Pension Office (the application of the Widow Richwell widow of Col Seth Richwell which I fear has not been attended to in due time.  If it be proper & you can consistently call the attention of the Commissioner to that case also, you would much oblige the old lady and her family in Hartford.   SFB
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J.L. Edwards, Esq. Commissioner
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Washington, Ap. 24, 1837

J.L. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner

Sir-

I hand you the application and papers of Mrs. Jerusha Drew entrusted to my care, and hope the proof will be found sufficient to entitle her to a pension.

I am, very respectfully

Albion K. Parris