Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42,275, for Andrew Sherburne, New Hampshire
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(3-1776)
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]
9468
To New York
from Ohio.

Andrew Sherburne
of Cincinnati in the state of Ohio
who was a Seaman in the ["regiment" crossed out] ^ Ship Ranger commanded by
["Colonel" crossed out] ^ Capt. Simpson of the ["N.H." crossed out]
["line," crossed out] for the term of one year ~~

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio ~
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 14th of April, 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 19th of Apl 1819
and sent to the pensioner at
Cincinnati, Ohio

Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1819. [illegible] 17/30 4/11	85.56
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Sept 1819. 		118.00
							$133:56

		{ Revolutionary claim, }
		{ Act 18th March, 1818. }

[illegible]

[perpendicular on right]
Notification sent January 15th 1821
Admt N. Campbell [illegible]
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I Andrew Sherburne of Arundel in the county of york 
and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Clerk, do certify and 
say that I am a native citizen of the United States resident 
therein. That sometime in the month of April 1779 
being then a lad, I entered the United States service 
on the continental establishment on board the Continen-
tal [Continental] ship of war Ranger, mounting 18 carriage guns, 
then laying in Portsmouth harbour in Newhampshire 
commanded by Thomas Simpson Esqr. That shortly after 
I entered on board said ship she sailed and joining in company 
with ^ the frigate Providence and ship Queen of France of 20 
guns proceeded on a cruise in quest of the British Jamaca 
fleet, and on the coast of Newfoundland fell in with, and captured ten sail of the 
said fleet and then returned to Boston: Several of our 
prizes having been recaptured -- from Boson the said 
ship Ranger returned to Portsmouth discharged part 
of her crew and shiped [shipped] others and immediately proceeded 
to Nantuckett rode [road], rejoined her old consorts and proceeded 
on a second cruise on the coaste [coast] of the southern states 
and sent into Charlston [Charleston] harbour S. C. and after obtain
-ing [obtaining] some fresh provisions waters &c. went cruising on the 
coast of Florida took several small transports of 
but little consequence, and were chased and driven into 
Charlston [Charleston] harbour by a vastly superior British fleet 
which for many weeks blocaded [blockaded] the harbour; in which 
interval the British armey [army] pressed on, and beseaged [besieged] 
the town on every part by land -- While in this 
harbour, the Ranger drawing the last water of 
any of the ship, was sent on several expeditions 
against batteries which the British had erected on 
Jame's Island and on the margin of the rivers
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When the crewes [crews] of said ships could be no longer service-
able [serviceable] ["by land" crossed out] on board, a large proportion of the men 
were taken out to man the ports. After sustaining a 
hard siege
in all the month of may 1780 and our provisions being 
intirely [entirely] expended, the town and shiping [shipping] by capitulation 
were surrendered to the British abut [about] the ["month" crossed out] ^ last of May 
1780. I having therefore served onboard the aforesaid ship 
Ranger in the service of the United States more than 
nine months in continuation viz. from April 1779 until 
the last of May 1780. and never was formally Discharged from 
said ship -- While a prisoner in Charleston I had the small pox 
and having had no medical assistance, the foundation of ill 
health was here laid from which I have never fully recovered
	The circumstance of the ship having changed a consider
able [considerable] part of her crew and there being bet butfew living, I am 
not able to say whether any one now surviving belonged to the 
said ship all the time that I did -- In the winter of 1788 I 
traveled to the city of New York and settled for my wages 
with Col. Benjn. Walker and received a final setlement [settlement] 
so called of about 73 Dollars which at that time was not 
worth ten Dollars -- I am now 53 years of age in poor health 
and in reduced circumstances, have no real estate and am 
much dependent on my friends for a living and absolutely 
need the assistance of my country for support.
	Portland July 7th 1818
		[signature] Andrew Sherburne
			[flourish]
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I William P. Preble Attorney of the United States for the 
Maine District depose and say that I am well acquainted with 
Andrew Sherburne now present. He is an elder in one 
of the baptist churches in the town where he resides and 
sustained a fair character and standing. Ever since I have known 
him which is about six years I have always understood and do 
verily believe that he did in fact belong in the revolutionary 
war to the Navy of the United States -- His truth and veracity 
are I believe unquestionable.
		[signature] Wm. P. Preble

I Thos G Thornton Marshal of Maine depose & say I have 
for about sixteen years been acquainted with Andrew Sherburne 
of the town of Arundel, as far as my knowledge of him as stands, he is 
considered a reputable man, I have found him faithful & honest 
in an employment I gave him as an assistant to me in official 
business -- his character for veracity is fair -- he is poor -- subsisting on 
the voluntary contribution of his hearers, being a teaching elder his 
[cross out] ^ congregation are poor & in number small, his subsistance [subsistence] from their 
support, is small & precarious I have since I knew him always 
understood he was in the revolutionary war as a sailor  [signature] TG Thornton
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Andrew She [page torn]
Con
amt $172

94  68
Sept 1819

Hon J. W. Campbell
Ohio
Jany 15. 1821.

[perpendicular at right margin]
B.C.
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State of Ohio }
Brown County } Ss.
	On this fourth day of August 1820, 
Personaly [Personally] appeared in open court being a court 
of Record for the said state and county of Brown, 
by possising [possessing] the power of fine and imprisonment, 
Andrew Sherburne, Clerk, aged fifty four ^ years on the 
30th day of September last, resident in Bind Town-
ship [Township] in Brown county in said state. Who, being 
first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his 
oath, declare that he served in the revolutionary 
as followes [follows] vizt.
	"That I the said Andrew Sherburne, sometime 
in the month of April 1779 did enter, or ship, 
on bord [board] the United States Ship of war Ranger 
mounting Eighteen six pounders, commanded by 
Thomas Simpson Esqr. then lying in Portsmouth 
harbour in the state of New Hampshire. That 
shortly after the said ship put to sea, and in 
company with the Providence frigate, and 
Queen of France of 20 guns, went in persute [pursuit] of 
the British Jamaca fleet with which we fell in 
on the banks of Newfundland [Newfoundland]. And having cap-
tured [captured] ten sail of said fleet, made our best way 
to Boston where we arrived with most of our prizes 
the Ranger ["soon Returned to Portsmouth" crossed out] 
	["The" crossed out] soon returned to Portsmouth, discharged 
part of her crew and shiped [shipped] her old consorts in 
Nantuckett [Nantucket] Road, togeather [together] with the Boston 
frigate and all together put to sea and went cruising 
on the southern coast, and once a more put in 
to Chalestown [Charleston] harbour S.C. At length we wore [were] all 
driven ^ in to said harbour, by a vastly superior
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British fleet, and there blocaded [blockaded] untill [until] the city of 
Charlestown [Charleston] was besieged by a division of the british [British] army 
here we endured the siege untill [until] the city and naval 
force surendered [surrendered] to the british [British] sometime in May 
1789. I was therefore one of the said ship Ranger's 
crew, and continued to do my duty onboard the 
said ship, from April 1779, to May 1789, nor was I 
ever formally discharged from the said ship, or service
	I being at that time but a lad in my fifteenth year 
was a waiter to an officer. While a prisoner in -- 
Charlestown [Charleston] I had the small pox and having no 
medical assistance was left in a poor state of health 
	The officers being peroaled [paroled] I was so fortunate as to 
get a passage with Mr. Powers my master to Rhode 
Island, from thence with much dificulty [difficulty] ^ I traveled 
home to Portsmouth, a poor, sick, beger [beggar].
	The date of my original declaration was April 
the fourteenth One Thousand eight hundred and ["eightn" crossed out] 
eighteen -- My cirtificate [certificate] is No. 9468.
	And I do solemnly sware [swear] that I was a 
resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th 
day of March 1818, and that I have not, since 
that time, by gift, sale, or in any other manner, 
disposed of my property or any part thereof, with 
intent thereby so to domonish [diminish] it as to bring my 
self within the provision of the Act of Congress, 
entitled "An act to provide for certain persons en
gaged [engaged] in the land and naval service of the United 
States, in the revolutionary war, passed on the 18th 
of March 1818." And that I have not, nor has 
any person in trust for me, any property of securities, 
contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income
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income other than what is contained in the schedule 
hereunto annexed, and by me subscribed.
		[signature] Andrew Sherburne

	In compliance with the requsitions [requisitions] of government, 
and of the War Department, Andrew Sherburne the 
subscriber presents the following schedule of his 
property, having no real estate, or habitation of any 
discription [description] of my own. -- But at present residing in an 
ordinary Ca^bbin [Cabin], in said Bird Town Ship, belonging to -- 
Mr. Adam McPherson, of whom I rent a few acres of pasture 
and between eight ^ or nine acres of corn ground on which I 
have corn now growing; one third part of which, when 
grown, is to go to the said McPherson for rent.
	I have in my posession [possession] one horse for which I have obligated 
myself to pay eighty Dollars on the 15th of September next; 
but have only forth Dollars of the last payment of my pension 
which I have deposited in the hands of a trusty friend to 
pay this debt with, having been under the necesity [necessity] of take
ing [takeing] [taking] the remainder to procure a plough.
	The said hores [horse] (being lame) is now estimated at $60.00 
saddle, bridle, post baggs [bags] &c. $10.50 -- One Plough, $7.00. 
a Cow & calf $14.-- 2 hogs $7.-- 21½ yards of domestick [domestic] petent -- 
Cord, $30.00 -- 9 silver Teaspoons, $7.00 -- 1 Looking Glass $3.00 
sundrees [sundries] of Glass ware $2.25. Ditto of Crocery [Crockery] ditto $1.75. 
Pewter & tin ditte, $3.60 -- Earthen $1.00. 
Castings, Tin Kettle, and frying pan, $6.00. Shovel & Tongs $2.50 
Steelyard, $1.00 -- K^nives [Knives] & forks $2.00 common spoons, $1.00 
One Spining [Spinning] wheel $3.25. One cradle $1.00.
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2 Trunks, $4.00 -- one traveling ditto, $2.00 -- One pine Chest, $2.00 
Three Boxes, $1.50 One pine Table, $1.00 -- 4 common Kitchen 
Chaires [Chairs], $2.00 One Wash tubb [tub], $1.25 -- One Barrel .75 -- One pail, 25 
One baskett [basket], 25 One hoe .75 -- 2 axes $4.00
	A two horse waggon [wagon] harnes [harness] left at Cincinatia for sale, but 
being of eastern construction was unsaleable and which I have 
directed to be sent to Maysville, but do not know whether it 
will ever come to my hands. I should be worth say $20.00 
I have also a Silver watch worth $10.00
		[signature] Andw Sherburne
	With respect to my family, it is five in number, 
Myself, my wife, and three sons. I was fifty four years of 
age on the 30th. of Septr. last past. The imprisonment 
and sickness alluded to in my declaration, togeather [together] with two 
subsequent imprisonments, in each of which, I endured a 
long, and distressing fit of sickness. -- one in Mill Prison in great 
Briton [Britain], and the other on board the Old Jersey prison ship 
in N Y harbour, and many other hardships endured 
in the revolution, such as compulsion to serve onboard 
a british [British] man of war, shipwreck starvation &c has so 
wrecked my constitution, that I have been able to perform 
but little manual labour since. I have been under the 
neessity [necessity] of wareing [waring] a swathe, or a lased [laced] stocking, on 
on [sic] my left leg, for near twenty years past, and since 
I came into this state ( as it is not two years since, 
I came from the District of Maine) I have had much 
to endure from an inflamation [inflammation] of the eyes (a disease 
common to emigrants) that it has almost disqual
lified [disquallified] [disqualified] me for teaching school, a business by which 
I have heretofore obtained a considerable part of my 
suport [support], I am frequently indisposed with an
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astmatick [asthmatic] complaint and am no stranger to the rhumatism [rheumatism] 
	Betsy Sherburne, my wife, is thirty five years of age of a 
delicate constitution and a considerable part of the time unable 
to take care of the family. John Elliot Sherburne my only 
son by my first marriage, is almost twenty five years of age 
is of a very weekly [weakly] constitution frequently raises blood from his 
lungs never has been able to support himself has always lived 
with me and probably will as long as we both live 
	Andrew my second sone was three years old on the 
first day of the present month
	Saml. Wm. Wiltshire my youngest son is thirteen 
and a half months old.
	The foregoing is respectfully submited [submitted]
		[signature] Andrew Sherburne

State of Ohio §
Brown County § Ss
	Sworn to and declared on the 11th day 
of August 1820 in open court
		[signature] Abraham Shepherd clk

The State of Ohio §
Brown County § Ss
	I Abraham Shepherd clerk 
of the court of Common pleas within and for 
the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the 
foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed 
are truly copied from the records of said court 
and I do further Certify that it is the opinion 
of said court that the total amount in ["this" crossed out]
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value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid 
schedule is one hundred and seventy two dollars 
and sixty cents In testimony whereof I have 
hereunto set my hand and 
affixed the seal of our said court 
at Repley this 15th day of December 
1820
		[signature] Abraham Shepherd clk
			B.C.
[illegible seal affixed lower left]
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Ohio Roll.
Andrew Sherburn's
claim for pension,
14. April, 1818.
(The pensioner now resides at Cincin-
nati [Cincinnati], Ohio.)

Admitted

[begin cross out "If Mr S did not enter the 
service 'till 1799, his 
claim is impossible.
The state of the year 1799 
was an error war of the pen, made 
by me by mistake; & should 
have been 1779, as appears from 
Mr Sherburnes original statement.
	[signature] D Sewall" end cross out]

	Mr Sherburne has removed into 
the State of Ohio, from whence he 
expects to write to the Secretary at 
War, and also to furnish evidence 
if necessary

	["[illegible] A S" crossed out]
		["writes" crossed out]
["D. Sewall Esqr" crossed out]
["Kennebunk" crossed out]
["Maine" crossed out]
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	Andrew Sherburne of Arundel in the county of 
York and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, clerk, upon 
oath makes the following declaration.
	That the said Andrew Sherburne some time in the 
month of April, in the year of our Lord 1779, entered 
the continental service on board the continental sloop of 
war Ranger, mounting eighteen guns, then laying in 
Portsmouth harbour in the state of Newhampshire, com-
manded [commanded] by Thomas Simpson Esqr. -- That the declarant 
continued and faithfully served as one of said ship's crew 
until the last of May 1780, when the said ship together 
with the frigate Providence, and ship Queen of France of 20 
guns were all captured in Charleston harbour in South 
Carolina, where they had for some time been blockaded by 
a vastly superior British fleet. After several weeks 
detention, in which time the declarant had the small pox, 
he went in a cartel to Newport in Rhode Island, and 
landed in a very poor state of health, having had no 
medical assistance. From thence the declarant travelled 
home to Portsmouth, a poor sick beggar.
	That the declarant never received any written discharge.
	That the aforesaid imprisonments which the de-
clarant [declarant] suffered, one in Great Britain, and the other on 
board the Old Jersey in New York harbour from which 
he escaped at the close of the revolutionary war, has so 
impared [impaired] his constitution, that the declarant has been a 
valetudinarian since the close of said war.
	That the declarant is in the fifty third year of ^ his age, infirm, 
and from his reduced circumstances in life, is now in great 
need of assistance from his country for support. And he 
relinquishes his claim to every pension heretofore allowed 
him by the laws of the United States.
		x [signature] Andrew Sherburne
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
York ss.	On this fourteenth day of April A.D. 1810, 
personally appeared before me, Stephen Thacker, 
Judge of the Court of Probate in the county of York, and 
Commonweath [Commonwealth] aforesaid, ~ the aforenamed 
Andrew Sherburne, and in my presence subscribed 
and made oath to the aforewritten declaration and 
affidavit by him made; and it appearing to my 
satisfaction that the aforenamed Andrew Sherburne 
served for the term of more than nine months, to wit, 
from April 1779, to May 1780, at one period of the 
war of the revolution on the continental establish-
ment [establishment] against the common enemy: I hereby certify 
the testimony in the case and the proceedings had 
thereon, to the Secretary of the department of War.
	In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my 
hand, and cause the seal of the said Court 
to be hereunto affixed, the day and year aforesaid
		[signature] Stephen Thacker Judge

Daviel Sewall, Regr }
	of said Court. }
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	The subscribers being neighbours 
to Mr. Andew Sherburne do not hesitate 
to say, that in our opinion he is in such 
reduced circumstances that he needs the 
assistance of his country for support -- 
And that in regard to his circumstances 
and state of health he comes under the 
denomination of those for whom a 
pension has recently been provided by 
government -- And that without assistance 
from some quarter (more than his present 
income) he cannot discharge his debts 
and support his family.

Arundel, April 14, 1818.
		[signature] John Mitchell
		[signature] Robert Patten
		[signature] Benja Thompson
		[signature] Thomas Durrell
		[signature] Daniel Patten
		[signature] William Patten

I Daniel Sewall, a justice of the peace in the county of York 
in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, hereby certify, that the above 
named persons are respectable citizens of the town of Arundel and 
county of York, and persons of veracity.
Wells, April 14, 1818.		[signature] Daniel Sewall

			Paid 2 Dollars
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The applicant at Cincinnati
Address her as "Elder"
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

MAINE DISTRICT, ss.

	BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the eighth 
day of July in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight 
hundred and eighteen, personally came Andrew 
Sherburne the applicant named in the papers hereunto 
annexed, and after being duly cautioned and examined, made oath that the 
several statements by him made in the annexed application, signed in my 
presence, are wholly true.
[illegible seal affixed at left of paragraph above]
	And the said applicant further offered in evidence the affidavits 
of William P. Preble, esqr. 
United States District 
Attorney and Thomas 
G. Thornton, esqr. Marshal 
of said Maine District

	And it appearing to me in the examination here had, that the several persons above named are credible 
witnesses, I do hereby admit the annexed declarations as evidence, and certify the same as being satisfactory 
proof to me that the said Andew Sherburne the applicant, served as a 
Mariner in the revolutionary war, against the common enemy, 
for the term of nine months and upwards in continuation on the continental establishment. And I do further 
certify, that from the declaration of the applicant made before me, under oath as aforesaid, it does appear 
that in consequence of his reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for sup-
port [support]; all which I do hereby certify and transmit to the Secretary of the Department of War, agreeably to 
the provisions of an Act of Congress, passed March 18, 1818, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons 
engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war."
	IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused my 
official Seal to be affixed the day and year first mentioned.
		[signature] Albion H. Parris
		Judge of the United States in and 
		for the District of Maine.
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]
Invalid.
["WIDOW, &c." crossed out]
Navy
File No. 42275
Andrew Sherburne
Seaman
Ship Bangor
Revolutionary.

Act March 18, 1818.
Index: Vol. [left blank], Page [left blank]
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Lieut Wm. Morriss
Deposition
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	I William Morris of South Berwick in the County of 
York and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age certify and 
say that I served on board the United ship called the Ranger 
as Lieutenant commanding the marines in the revolutionary 
war, from August A.D 1778 to May 12th A.D 1780 and I well 
remember that Andew Sherburne lately a resident in Arundel within 
County of York aforesaid Clerk, entered on board said ship and as a marine 
about the last of April A.D 1779 and continued to do his duty on 
board said ship until he was captured at the siege of Charleston 
in May 1780 --
		[signature] Wm Morris

	York Ss August 29th 1818 Then the above named William 
Morris personally appeared and made sotomn [solemn?] oath to the truth 
of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed before me
	Benj. Greene, Chief Justice 
	of the Circuit Court of Com. Pleas 
	for the first Eastern Circuit and 
	Justice of the Peace throughout the 
	Commonweath [Commonwealth] of Massachusetts
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Mr Storer
Respecting [illegible]
[illegible]
Genl. Clement Storer
[illegible]

Washington City
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		Batavia Clermont Co O.o. Feby 3. 1819
Dear Sir
	Inclosed are the papers of which I spoke to 
you at Dr Cutters when I was last at Portsmouth. I believe 
I mentioned to you sir, that I had previously made 
application by the aid of Judge Thatcher, and having 
not succeeded have obtained the within and should 
have provided them earlier, had I not expected some 
information from Kennebunk respecting the sta 
tus [status], or fate of my first application, as it would be quite 
an object with me to have been placed on the last 
when I first applied, and I presume that if the depo
sitions [depositions] of Capt. Hall & Lieut Morris had accompanied that 
application I should have succeeded, but I did not then 
know that they were living, nor did my self or the 
Judge at that time so understand the Act of Congress 
as to render them necessary, neither can I see 
why I should not succeed by virtue of my first 
application if it can be found in the office If it 
has ever been noticed in the office it may have been 
returned to Kennebunk for more proof. I believe 
that in applications being informal, or proof wanting 
they are indorsed and returned for rectification and 
forwarded again -- You will notice sir that Judge Parris's 
letter to the Secretary of War is not sealed. I had some 
thought of inclosing in that letter the depositions of 
Mssrs Hall & Morris -- but on reflection I presumed 
that said depositions might go to establish my first 
application -- Before I left Maine I spoke to Mr 
Holmes to assist me in this matter and you two 
gentlemen can surely decide what is necessary
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I shall therefore submit it altogether to your [sic] sir, and 
Mr Holmes to make such arrangements as you think 
proper -- I think sir that you observed to me, ["that" crossed out] 
that there was no question but what I should succeed 
if I was ^ but poor enough I verily believe I was 
then poor enough but I am still poorer now 
for my little all is almost exhosted [exhausted] in my 
long, tedious, and expensive journey of more than 
four months. The Allegany was never known 
to be so lo [low] for so long a period as it was the last 
season. consequently I was detained seven weeks 
at Olean point with several hundred other fam
ilies [families] and many of them in miserable circumstances 
I imbarked [embarked] the first of December and after a few pleasant 
days it was extreemly [extremely] cold, and after we had goten [gotten] 
within 100 miles of Cincinnati was shut up 5 days
with the ice which had rendered it very dangerous 
runing [running]. But in kind providence we landed safely 
at New Richmond about 20 miles above Cincinnati 
on the 28 of Decr. and on the first of Jany. remained 
about 19 ^ miles N.W. on to the East fork of little miama [Miami] 
about 20 miles from Cincinnati
	Should you suceed [succeed] in giting [getting] a cirtificate [certificate] for 
me you will be so good as to send it by some 
gentleman living in Cincinnati or its vicinity, 
perhaps Mr. Morris. You will be so obliging 
as to write imediately [immediately] and confer a pecular [peculiar] 
favour, sir, on your friend and humble 
sirvant [servant]
		[signature] Andw. Sherburne
Genl. Clement Storer
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			(1)
P.S. Should Mr. Holmes be absent you 
will pleas [please] to brak [break] the seal of his 
letter as it may firnish [furnish] some idea 
that is not contain'd in yours. I have 
requested Mr. Holmes to open yours if 
you are absent.
	When you write me soon pleas [please] to direct 
your letter to Cincinnati.


			the
			res

NB
	At Cincinnati I learn that Genl. Harrison 
resides within fifteen miles of Cincinnati 
perhap [perhaps] he is most suitable Gentleman to 
send my cirtificate [certificate] by if obtained
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			Batavia Clermont Coy. O April 5th 1819
		To the Honorable the Secrtery [Secretary] of War.
	The undersigned 
excedingly [exceedingly] regrets that he is under the necessity of 
again troubling the honorable Secratery [Secretary], or the 
gentlemen of the Department: But a few days 
since ^ he recived [received] a letter from the pension office 
dated March 5th 1819 with the signature of Mr. J L 
Edwards informing me that mine of the 22 of Feby 
to the Secratery [Secretary] of war had been refered [referred] to that 
office, and that, "It did not appear from the re-
cords [records] of that office that my application had ever 
been received" Nothing could have been more unex-
pected [unexpected] to me. who was every day expecting my certificate 
from the Department. The honorable Mr. Storer 
wrote me from Washington on Feby. 20 as followes [follows] 
"Sir I red' yours of the 3d ["last evening" crossed out] instant with 
the papers to prove your claim last evening 
Mr. Holmse's [Holmes's] letter has been delivered but I have 
not seen him. I went to the pention [pension] Office 
this morning and have removed such difficulties 
as might occur and obtained a promis [promise] that your 
cirtificate [certificate] is to be directed by the Department, to 
Elder # Samuel Sherburne Cincinnati O. -- --
Mrs. Storer joins me in wishing prosperity to your family"
		your freind [friend] & Obt Srt.
		Clement Storer"
Mr. S. Sherburne."
#Mr. S. has mistaken Samuel for Andrew; this 
circumstance may have occasitioned [occasioned] some
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misunderstanding in the pension office.
	On the 23d Feby. Mr. Holmes wrote me from 
Washington as followes [follows]
	"Dear Sir
		Your Claim for pension has been attended 
to and the cirtificate [certificate] will shortly be made out 
and sent you at Cincinnati.
	It could not be made out before an account 
of those which had precedence
	I am in much haste &c. J Holmes"
Mr Andrew Sherburne"
	When I received Mr. Edwards' letter I was 
quite at a loss what to do Concious [Conscious] of the justness 
of my claim, and of having done all that was in 
my power to do, and being in a land of strangers 
and in reduced circumstances, dejection for a time 
lay hand upon me, but as I have put my trust in 
God I will ^ trust still him, and take courage. On reflection 
it, was some consolation that the department had 
noticed my address and had had [sic] the goodness to send 
an answer notwithstanding the unplesant [unpleasant] tidings 
it bore me -- The following queries registed [registered] 
them selves to my mind. What could posibly [possibly] have 
become of my first application sent on by Judge 
Thatcher almost a year ago, say April 1818.
	Why should both Mr. Storer and Mr. Homes be 
so indifirnate [indifferent], as not to inform me whether my 
cirtificat [certificate] of which they speak was to be forwarded 
by virtue of my first application, or of that
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which I intrusted [entrusted] to their care which I think was 
dated July 8th 1818. Could the failure arise from 
Mr. Storer's taking my brothers name (long 
since deceased) for mine, he was acquainted with 
us both more than 30 years ago, we having both 
lived in Mrs. Storers Father's family. Can it be 
posible [possible] that if Mrs. S could not ascertain that my 
first application had not been receiv'd, that he 
should fail to lodge my second in the Office 
And if he did why should Mr. Eddwards inform 
me fifteen days after Mr. S visited the office for 
that special &purpose of establishing my claim, that the 
record did not recognise my application, unless 
there is some mistake or that the papers have been 
over looked? May I not indulge the hope that 
diligent search may be made and that I may 
again be so favoured by the Department as to 
receive some communication from them that 
will cast some light upon the subject; that I may 
know what further measures to take
	With sentiments of due consideration
		your obedient servant
		[signature] Andw Sherburne

P.S Should I be favoured with a communication it 
would be a favour to have it directed me at Cincinnati
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Honl. E Hall's
Deposition
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I Elijah Hall of Portsmouth in the State 
of New Hampshire Esqr. testify and say, 
that Andrew Sherburne late of Arundel in 
the District of Maine, ^ Clerk who, as I understand 
is an applicant for a pension as having 
served the United States in the revolutionary 
war, whom I will know, entered the U. S. 
Ship of War Ranger, some time previous 
to June 1779, and continued to serve in Said 
Ship until she was captured at Charleston 
South Carolina, in May 1780, which 
I well know having been Lieutenant of 
said Ship, & served as such during that 
whole period. ~
		[signature] Elijah Hall

State of New Hampshire
Rockinghamss [sic] Portsmouth.
	On this twenty ninth day of August 
Anno Domini 1818, before me the subscriber 
Notary Public, & a Justice of the Peace and 
Quorum, throughout said State, personally 
appeared the before named Elijah Hall Esqr. 
Naval officer, & a citizen here worthy of entire 
credit, & made oath in due form to the 
truth of the above written Deposition 
by him signed in my presence ~
	In Testimony where of I 
have signed these Presents & 
to the same have affixed my 
notarial, the day & year 
last aforesaid ~

Danl Humphreys Noty. Pu [page cut off]
	& Justice of Peace & Qum [page cut off]

[illegible circular seal affixed lower left]
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Andrew Sherburne
			Inv. File
Application for transfer
			42275
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Application for a transfer
State of New York
Oneida County ss.
	On this ninth day of March 1824 before 
me, the Subscriber, a Justice of the peace for the said 
County of Oneida, personally appeared Andrew 
Sherburne who on his oath declares that he is the 
same person who formerly belonged to and Served 
on board the United States Ship of war Ranger 
commanded by Thomas Simpson Esquire in the 
Service of the United States in the war of the 
revolution; that his name was placed on the 
pension roll of the State of Ohio, from whence 
he has lately removed; that he now resides in the 
County of Oneida in the State of New York, where 
he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to 
be there payable in future. That he at present 
receives eight dollars per months. That his certif-
icate [certificate] of being inscribed on the pension roll in da-
ted [dated] April 19. 1819, and numbered 9468.
		[signature] Andrew Sherburne
Sworn & subscribed to, before }
me the day & year aforesaid }
9468	[signature] John P. Sherwood
		Justice Peace
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State of New York
	Office of the Clerk of Oneida County.
I, Eliasaph Dorchester, Clerk of the County of Onei-
da [Oneida] aforesaid, do Certify, that the within named 
John P. Sherwood before whom the within oath 
and declaration was made & taken, now is, and 
at the time of the making & taking of the said 
oath & declaration, was a Justice of the peace 
of the said County of Oneida, duly appointed 
and sworn.
	Given under my hand and the Seal of 
the said County this Eleventh day of March 
in the year of our Lord 1824.
	Eliasaph Dorchester Clerk
	By [signature] Thomas M. Francis DP. Clk