Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16,604, William Andrews, Continental Mass.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Continental
Mass

Andrews, William

NUMBER
S.16.604

Carded
CONTENTS
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523

Maine
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William Andrews
of York County in the State of Maine
who was a private & sergeant in the company commanded
by Captain Hill & other of the regiment commanded
by Colonel Varnum & in the R. Island [crossed out]
line for 9 months as a private and 1 year
as a sergeant. Mass and Continental
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Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of 90 Dollars - Cents per an
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 19, day of September 1832- and sent to John Murfsey
Portland. Me.
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Arrears to 4th of September 1832 $135.-
Semi=anl. [Semi-annual] allowance ending 4 March 1883 45.-
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$180
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{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Mrs Allison Clerk,
Book D. Vol. 1. Page 46
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William Andrews
Application for a Pension
July 1832

P.O July 24, 1832

Sergt. 1 year
Priv. 9 mo.

$90 per an

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(B-1776)
SERVICE      NUMBER
Continental      Andrews, William    S.16604
Mass.

CONTENTS        carded
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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MAINE DISTRICT SS.
At a Special District Court of the United States began and holden at Portland, within and for said District, on the Sixteenth day of July A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty-two. before the Honorable ASHUR WARE, Judge of said Court.

On this Sixteenth day of July aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge William Andrews - a resident of Buxton - in the county of York - in said Maine District, aged Seventy Seven 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832. That he was placed on the pension list roll of the District of Maine Agency, and a Certificate of Pension granted to him on his application made on the twenty third day of April 1818.. that he has been stricken from the pension roll on a count of his prospect, - that he served, in the company commerce by Capt. Hill in Col. Scammon's Regt. for eight months - & afterward in the Company commanded by Capt. Lane in the Regt. commanded by Col. Varnum in service as a sergeant one year and afterward, that he served as a volunteer at the request of Genl. Washington in the same company t'was in the battles of Trenton & Princeton - in the year 1777 - having served about twenty two months in all - that he now resides in Buxton aforesaid & resided there when he made his first application for a pension.
he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on any pension roll of any agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the agency in the State of Maine.

William Andrews

Sword to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Before,
Ashur Ware } U. S. Judge of the District of Maine

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary pensioner, and served as he states

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I John Mufsey
Clerk of said District Court, have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of 
the said Court, on this seventeenth day of July
A.D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two

John Mufsey { Clerk of the U. States District Court of Maine District.
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(B-1776)
SERVICE    NUMBER
Continental      Andrews, William   S.16604
Mass.
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CONTENTS
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16.604

INVALID.
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Case No. 16.604
Williams Andrews
Sergt Rev. War
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Act: June 7" 32
Dex: -Vol. 1, Page 430

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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7465

Maine 7465 Maine
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William Andrews
of Buxton in the state of [scratched out] Maine
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Varnum of the [R. Island scratched out] Mass + Continental
line, for the term of one year
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Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commerce of
the 23rd of April 1818.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 9th of March 1818
and sent to G. Thacher, Esqr.
Saco, Me.
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Arrears to 4th of March 1819 - 10.0.4/10.30.31  83.16
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Sept. 1819-      
48.00
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$131.16
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{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th, 1818}
York Co. Me.
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See letter to J. Mussey
3rd April 1829. See Jo. (Tu?)fton. J.-
Anderson on Jan. 29. 1831
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William Andrews




No evidence in the office of
being 9 months on continental
establishment
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Wm Andrews
Private
76 to
Varnum rep.
Rhode Island line

23rd April 1818





Jabez Land 
                            }Witnesses
Phinehas Fowle



Admitted [faded]
Admitted
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I William Andrews of Buxton in the County of York and Commonwealth of Massachusetts & a native citizen of the same aged sixty four, declare & say that some time in the month of May 1775 according to my recollection listed as a private soldier in Captain Hill's Company & Col. Scammons Regiment of the Massachusetts & Continental establishment for the term of eight months and was stationed at Cambridge near Boston. And as (to-on?) the eight months expired I enlisted again as a Sergeant in Captain John Lane's Company & in the Regiment that was for a little while commanded by one Col. Foster; whose * name I have forgot; afterward our Company was put into a Regiment commanded by Col. Varnum of the Rhode Island line & in General Green, Brigade - & we remained about Cambridge till the enemy evacuated Boston -  Then by order of the Collonel I took charge of General Green's (baggage?) to New London; & then I joined the Regiment & I joined with them to New York where we remained a little while  & was then stationed on Long Island, & then at Red Hook where we tarried till the army retreated from the (front?) and when my time expired at the particular request of General Washington, communicated by General Wayne I tarried in the army & did duty as before for one month, when I was discharged, but I don't remember that I had any written discharge -  I have no pension & am in reduced circumstances or the property, & too feeble of body to do labour for a support. & stand in need of support & assistance from the United States- all the pay I received while in the army would not on my return home purchase one cow.

April 23. 1818.

William Andrews

*-ineligible
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts -

Be it known that on 23d day of April, 1818 before the subscriber One of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts personally appeared William Andrews of Buxton in the county of York & citizen of said of Massachusetts aged sixty four years, and being duly sworn made oat of the truth of the foregoing declaration by him signed in my presence, in order to obtain the provision made by the late Act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the  land & Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War- From which Declaration & sworn to an aforesaid I George Thacher Justice (true?) do certify that it appear to my satisfaction that the said William Andrews did serve in the Revolutionary War as Stated in his said declaration against the common enemy. That he is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his country for support - And I now transmit the proceedings & testimony had before me to the secretary for the department of War, (pursuant?) to the directions of the aforesaid Act of Congress.

In Testimony whereof I have hereto at my hand & have caused the (belief?) of said Court to be hereunto affixed the twenty sixth day of [May crossed out] June eighteen hundred eighteen.

George Thacher
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I Phinehas Fowle of Buxton in the County of York & Commonwealth aforesaid aged Seventy Six years do testify & declare that I enlisted as  Sargent in the American Army under Col. Jeremiah Hill in Coll. Scammon regiment in May A.D. 1775 for eight months. On the expiration of said time I enlisted again in February  A.D. 1776 under Capt. John Lane in Colon. Varnums Regiment for 12 months and was discharged in January A.D. 1777 -
During this time I was acquainted with William Andrews who subscribed the declaration ofn the first page of this paper; he served as [private scratched out] Sergeant in the same regiments with me [ineligible] & was discharged from the service about the same time that I was. I have always been acquainted with the J? Wm. Andrews & know that he is the same man that served in the same regiments that I did in the American War

Phinehas Fowle


York fs.
June 2nd - 1818 - Then personally appeared the above named Phinehas Fowle & made oath that the above testimony & declaration by him in my presence subscribed was true in all its parts - before me

Sam P.S. Thacher Jus Peace

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I Jabez Lane [name underlined] of Buxton aforesaid aged seventy five years, do testify & declare that I served in the American Army, on the Continental establishment as a Lieutenant in Capt. John Lanes Company & Colonel Varnums Regiment in the Rhode Island line from January 1776 to January 1777 - I further declare declare [written twice] that William Andrews, who subscribed the declaration on the first page of this paper served as a Sergeant in said company regiment during said year as a good faithful soldier & was dismissed at Chatham at the expiration of the War 1776 with the remainder of the company & regiment

Jabez Lane

York fs. February 8 1819 -  Then Personally appeared the above named Jabez Lane & being duly sworn made oath to the truth of the foregoing testimony by him signed before me

Sam P.S. Thacher Jus Peace
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(B-1776)
SERVICE      NUMBER
Continental    Andrews. William     S.16604
Mass.

carded
CONTENTS
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William Andrews - 

Payable semi-annually...the first payment on this certificate will be made on the 4th of September next, at the Cumberland Bank, Portland,
Maine






Recorded
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WAR DEPARTMENT.

Revolutionary Claim.

I CERTIFY That, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March 1818, ~,,~
William Andrews, late a Private in the Army of the Revolution, ~,,~
is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Dist: of Maine Agency, at the rate of Eight ~ dollars ~,,~ cents per month, to commence on the Twenty Third day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen

GIVEN at the War Office of the United States this Ninth day of March one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.

J.C. Calhoun