Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 215, John Andrews, New Yrok.
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Service New York
Andrews, John
Number R. 215
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State of New York County of Broome
On this 28th day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Broome now sitting, John Andrews resident of Colesville in the County of Broome & state of New York, aged seventy two 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 provisions made by the Act of Congress passed 7th June 1832.  That he enlisted the service of the United States while residing at Fish Kill Dutchess Co. N.Y. under the following circumstances: In the year 1777 hew was enrolled in a company commanded by Captain Champlin of Fish Kill, being a substitute in place of a drafted man, by the name of John Reasnor. On or about the first of May 1777 he marched to Fort Constitution up on the Hudson River where he served three weeks & was dismissed. His regiment was commanded by Col. Burchard.  the only Company of officers beside the Capt. that he now recollects was Lieut. Wheeler.
In the middle of July 1777 he marched from Fish Kill to Fort Constitution under the same
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Col. & in a company commanded by Capt. Veille of Oswego. He served at this time till the first of August same year when he was again discharged.  This enrollment w/ Capt. Veille was under the following circumstances;  a class of twelve or fourteen men was kept in reserve, & when this class men called on for a man he was drawn by lot; It was his lot to be drawn at this time.
Next year, 1778, he was again called out in the month of June, and marched from Fish Kill to Fort Constitution [crossed out] Arnold on the Hudson Rived under Capt. Veille and Col. Burchard where he served another three weeks, at the end of which time being again discharged.
In the month of November 1779 he was again in service three weeks, under Capt. Veille at his native place Fish Kill.
The remainder of his service was in the capacity of a Minute Man, under Col. Vanderburg & Capt. Lamb a continental officer who had the charge of continental stores in the town of  Batesman.  [at Fish Kill marked through] This Minute Service he commenced next year 1780, in the month of October and he continued in the same till the end of the war.  During this period of service he stood guard
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over the continental stores at Bateman Town [Fish Kill marked out], went out frequently in pursuit of Tories, & once helped take three persons who were stealing horses and engaged in robbery, two of whom were hanged.
Since the war he has resided at Fish Kill, and in the Town of Bateman, & now resides at Colesville, Broome County N.Y.
He was born in the Town of Fish Kill, Dutchess County, State of New York in the Year 1760 January 15th.  He has no record of his age.
He never received any written discharge form the Service, nor has he any documentary evidence of his service nor does he know of any living witness by whom he can establish his service.  There is no clergyman residing in the neighborhood of the applicant to whom he is known.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present, & he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State.
Sworn to and published the day & year aforesaid and on name [illegible]

B. Marion, Clerk

We Joseph Welton & Orson Marsh residing
in the Town of Colesville hereby certify that we
are well acquainted John Andrews who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy two 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 and subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Orson Marsh
Joseph Welton

B. Marion , Clerk
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And the said court do hereby certify & declare
their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories
prescribed by the war Department, that the
above named applicant was a Revolution
soldier & served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Joseph
Wilton & Orson Marsh
who have signed the preceding
certificate, are
residents of the Town of Colesville & creditable persons, & that this statement is entitled to credit.
J. B. Marvin, Clerk of Broome County, & of the
Court of Common Pleas of said county, do
hereby certify that this contains the original proceedings 
of said court in the matter
of the application of John Andrews for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand & seal of office this 28th
day of November 1832
B. Marvin Clerk
of Broome com pleas

In the matter of 
John Andrews
19888
Pension Application

Geo. Parks Atty Binghamton, N.Y.

J. B. Marvin Clerk of Broome County & of the Court
of Common pleas of said County do hereby certify that the
foregoing (four pages), contains the original proceedings
of said Court in the matter of the application of John
Andrews for a pension. In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand & the seal of my said
office at Binghamton in said County this
27th day of August 1835
B. Marvin Clerk
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State of New York
Broome County SS.
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said county on this 11th day of March 1835 John Andrews of Colesville in said County who being duly sworn deposeth and saith (in addition to his Declaration heretofor made and  & in explanation  thereof) that  by reason of old age and the consequenial  loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than two years and three months as a private. - he this  deponent further saith that from the middle of October 1780 to the end of the war he served under Cap. Vandeburgh in Capt. Lamb's Company in the Continental Service, and that in his declaration of this service which is there stated as "Minute Service" he would be [cross-out] understood as saying that he was detached from the militia and did duty as above stated under Capt.  Lamb as a Continental Soldier - he further stated that wherever the word  "Bateman" occurs in said Declaration it should have been written "Beckman".-
Sworn & subscribed before me this 11th day of March 1835                  
George Parks Justice of the Peace

John Andrews
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State of New York
Broome County
Clerk's Office

I Benjamin Marvin, Clerk of said County, Do hereby certify, that George
Park Esq. before whom the within affidavit  purports
to have been sworn, was, at the time of taking said affidavit
a Justice of the Peace, in & for said County, duly authorized
to take the same. And further I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and believe his signature as Justice
to be genuine.

Witness my hand and seal of office
at Binghamton, this 26th day of
Augt A.D. 1835
B. Marvin, Clerk

In. J. C. Moore, Dep. Clk
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[illegible]
REJECTED
John Andrews
P.[ ].

Service:

Enlisted:____________, 18
Discharged:________, 18
Application filed:  ___________, 18
Alleges: 
Re-enlisted: 
Attorney:
P.O.
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May 77
July 77
78
Nov 79
Capt           Co
Champlin Burchard
Vielle
21
15
21
21
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No 19888
New York
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John Andrews
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Rejected
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[illegible] Geo Park 3 Sep 1835
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State of New York
Dutchess County ss
Personally appeared before me the
undersigned a Justice of the peace in & for the  said County
Isaiah Burch who being duly sworn according to
Law Deposeth and saith that he is now about
Seventy Seven years of age and further that
this deponent was a private in the army of
the Revolution and that he now is a pensioner
of the United States for his services as a soldier
as aforesaid that in the time of the Revolutionary war
he was well acquainted with John
Andrews then of the Town of Beckman in
County aforesaid - that this deponent while performing
a portion of his service in the year 1782 Near
west point in the State of Newyork Saw the said
John Andrews there frequently performing
the duties of a private soldier as this deponent believes
under one Captain Lamb and from the best of this
Deponents recollection the said John Andrews Served
There
for at least three months as a soldier
and further this deponent saith not
Sworn and Subscribed the 23rd day
of
September 1834
Before me 
James Delong

         his
Isaiah X Burch
        mark

State of New York
Dutchess County SS ⎬ I Henry I. Traver Clerk of said County do hereby certify that James
Delong Esqr before whom the above & annexed affidavits or examinations were made, was at the times
when the same purport to have been taken an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid
And that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe
that the signature annexed to the said examinations are his genuine signatures (being four in number)
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
Seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County this
fifteenth day
of January AD. one thousand Eight hundred and thirty five
for Henry Traver Clerk
by Rich Pudney Dept
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James W Howe
James us
James W. Howe
)
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state of New York
Dutchess County ss
Benjamin Sprague being
Duly
Sworn deposeth and saith that he is
well acquainted with Isaiah Burtch within
Named and that
he believes him to be a
Person of truth and veracity.

Sworn & Subscribed
the 25 day of October
1834. Before me
James Delong Justice of the Peace 

Benjamin Sprague
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State of New York
Dutchess County  ss⎬ Personally appeared before
me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and
for the said County Elisha Champlin of the Town of
Beckman in the said County who being duly
Sworn according to law deposeth & saith that he is now
about Eighty three years of age and that he served
as a private soldier in the war of the Revolution under
Major Tucker in company with John Andrews then also
of
Beckman who likewise served as a private under the said
Major Tucker at least seven months according to the best
of this deponents recollection & belief - and that the service
This deponent & the said John Andrews was engaged in during the
said Seven months under the said Major Tucker (which was
in the year 1779) was to guard a large quantity Military
Stores at & near Colonel James Vanderburgh in the Town
of Beckman aforesaid - at that time
a considerable body
of the American Troops was stationed in Fishkill
near
the Hudson River - and this deponent
further says that
he resided near the said John Andrews
during the war
that the said John was absent a large portion of the
time and as this deponent then understood and now
Believes
to be true was then engaged in the service
as a Soldier

Sworn & subscribed
the 29th day of September 1834
James Delong J.P

Elisha Champlin
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State of New York
Dutchess County ss Benjamin Sprague being
Duly sworn deposeth & saith that he is well
acquainted with the within named Elisha Champlin
and that he is a person of truth and veracity
as this deponent verily believes

Sworn & Subscribed the 25th
Day of October 1834
Before me
James Delong Justice
of the Peace

Benjamin Sprague
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Binghamton Broome Co N.Y
Aug. 27 1835

Sir,

The papers of John Andrews, with the additional evidence in support of his claim are herewith enclosed. I believe a printed letter or brief was sent to me with his papers but the same is lost or mislaid. This has in some measure delayed a sooner return of the enclosed to the department. I must beg leave to enquire in relation to the application of Solomon Robbins, whose papers were transmitted to the Pension Office in Aug. 1834. The extreme anxiety of the Claimant in the matter must be my apology for calling your attention to his case.

Very respectfully, 
Your Obt Servt
Geo. Park