Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12,291, Jesse Brewster, New York
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New York
Brewster, Jesse 
S12291
carded
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14850  New York
Jesse Brewster
Of Sterling in the state of New York who wa a private in the compy commanded by Captain  of the Regt commanded by Col McLaughlin in the New York line for 9 months private 4 months, 12 days corporal, 4 months Sergeant
Inscribed on the roll of New York at the rate of 66 dollars 10 cents per annum to commende on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of July 1835 and sent D Robinson Fort Byron N.Y.
Arrears to the 4th of March 33'          $132.20
Semi-an. allowance ending 4 Sep 33'    33.05
                                     (total)               $165.25
 Revolutionary claim Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Jno Cromwell
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State of New York
County of Cayuga
Be it remembered that on this first day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two before me Daniel D Waith a Justice of the pran of the county Cayuga personally appeared Mary Griegg to me personally known of the town of Victory in said county of Cayuga who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath depose and say that she is well acquainted with Jesse Brewster of the town of Sterling in said county of Cayuga and has been so acquainted with him for a great number of years and ever since she was a child that she is sixty seven years of age and that she is a sister of said Jesse Brewster that she is the widow of the late Major James Griegg an officer of the Revolution. That she lived with her father in the town of Cornwall village of Blooming grove in the county of Orange and state of New York during the revolution at which peace and at her fathers the said Jesse made it his home during the whole of the revolution when not in the service of the United States. And this deponent further deposeth and saith in the year of 1776 and in the latter part of that year as she now thinks the said Jesse Brewster went out into the service a soldier to Haverstraw under Captain Persons and Sergeant Horton that he was drafted as she thinks and was gone from home about a month.
And this deponent further saith that according to her recollection in the year 1777 he went out into the service of the United States under Captain Seth Marvin and Lieutenant Stephen Halsey and was gone out from home for three months that she thinks that he entered in first place into this last service for three months and was out this term and went as it was then said towards New York down the Hudson River.
And this deponent further saith about the month of August 1777 he the said Jesse Brewster went int the service of the United States again under Captain Thomas Horton Lieutenant Henry Brewster who was also a brother of this deponent and the second Lieutenant was one
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Halsted that the said Jesse went to Fort Montgomery as it was then said and he was gone from home about six or seven weeks and was in Colonel Mc Saugheys Regiment and General James Clinton then had the command at Fort Montgomery
   And this deponent further saith that the said Jesse early in the spring of 1778 went into the service of the United States again in Colonel Wisner's Regiment but she cannot now recollect  any of the rest of his officers and went to West Point and was gone from home till in the latter part of the sumer or fore part of the full of 1778  That she understood the employ of the said Jesse while at West Point was in uniting the Garrison at West Point and guarding the place against the Tories
    And this deponent farther saith that the said Jesse in the season of 1779 was out in the service of the United States a large portion of the time  on short terms of service but that she cannot state the precise length of time nor the officers under whom he served but she saith that the said Jesse had engaged to work for one Cooper a Blacksmith for about a half a year and she this deponent saith that she heard the said Cooper complain that the said Jesse was eleven months or there about in making out six months labour but the said Cooper said he did not know that the said Jesse was to blaim (sic) as he was called into the service and was out all the time he was not to work for him the said Cooper on the said six months service and she so understood that he was out in the service of this United States that  season when hot to work for said Cooper this she understood at that time
     And this deponent further saith that in the full of 1779 or winter of 1780 that he the said Jesse Brewster went out into the service of the United States that he went across the Hudson River but cannot now recollect his officers and that he the said Jesse
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was gone from home till late in the year 1780 and that it was said at the time he was employed in an Armorers shop
    And this deponent this deponent further saith some time after the last above service but that she cannot state precisely the time the said Jesse Brewster went away from home into the service of the United States under Captain Henry Brewster (this deponents brother) and Lieutenent Stewart in Colonel Wisenvelt's Regiment that they went as she was informed to White Plains and then went to went to the north towards Saratoga and was gone from home three or four months as she now recollects.
     This deponent further saith that the reason she recollects the particular place and times that he the said Jesse was out in the service is on account of the grief + anxiety that the family felt for the said Jesse and the rest of her brothers being out in the service of the United States in the Revolution and that when  any of the officers or soldiers of the revolution were at her fathers residence in said Blooming Grove which was very frequent the used to enquire where the brothers of this deponent were and how long they were to be out in.
The word "home" + "saith" [illegible] before signing + sworn to sworn and subscribed to before day and year aforesaid
Daniel D Waite Justice of the Peace
Cayuga county   I Daniel D Waite the above named Justice of the Peace do certify that I am personally acquainted with Mary Gregg the person who
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State of New York Cayuga County
I Michael J. Myers clerk of said county do certify that Isaac Turner and Daniel D. Waite Esquires before whom the preceding three affidavits purports to have been sworn were at the dates of the same respectively Justices of the Peace in and for said county and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Isaac Turner and Daniel D. Waite subscribed to said affidavits to be their proper hand writing and signature   Witness my hand and seal of office this Twenty sixth day of September AD one thousand eight hundred and thirty two the word "three" interlined
M.L. Myers clerk P.H. Myers clk
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Jesse Brewster
admitted 24 mo. private 5.16
28 Sep
12 Dec
Denison Robinson Pat Byron NY p158
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Jesse Brewster of Sterling in the state of NYork
1. a Judge
2. yes
3. seventy seven years
drafted in 1776 Oct over 1 month ____ not recollect
volunteer 1777 Jany 3 Capt Marvin Co McLaughry
Drafted 1777 seventy Capt Horton
drafted 1778 spring thereby 3 or 4 months Col Weisner
Drafted 1779 5 months Capt Tuttle, Col Marrin, Capt Porsony
volunteer 1780 Jany nearly 9 months Capt Brewster
and various other service which he is usable to state
6. Bloominggrove
7. Haynes, Bartlett a living witness, proudly 7 mo service a clergyman certify to his veracity. Mary Grigg a living witness proudly served at various times from 1776 to 1780 included. A clergyman I nathan H Sagne certify to traditiony evidence.
D Kent
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Rev War  12.291
file no. 12,291
Jesse Brewster Priv. Rev. War
June 7 1832
col A page 47
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State of New York
County of Cayuga
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in the town of Mintz in and for the county of Cayuga aforesaid Denison Robinson of said town of Mintz who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he drew the affidavit of Mary Greigg the declaration of Jesse Brewster and the certificate of the Rev'd William Clark and Nathan H. Sayer attested to said declaration and all hereto attached by a tape That this deponent was present when the affidavit of said Mary Griegg was subscribed and sworn to by said Mary before Daniel  D Wait Esq a Justus. And that this deponent saw the said Mary sign + sworn to the same and the said affidavit of said Mary is in every respects the same as when taken by said David D Wait esq and that there has been no additions to the same since the said Justice took the same and certified the same and this deponent farther saith that he was present and said the said Jesse Brewster subscribe and swear to said declaration and that the said declaration is the same now in every respect as when sworn to before Augustus F Farris esq a Judge and that there has been no addition or diminution of the same and that the same is the very identical declaration taken before him (the said judge) and this deponent further saith that the certificate signed by Rev'd William Clark + Nathan H Sayne is the same identical certificate taken subscribed and and sworn to before said judge at the same time when the said Jesse swore to said declaration.
And this deponent further saith that the said declaration of said Jesse Brewster and the said certificate of Rev'd William Clark + Nathan H Sayres there to and the affidavit of Mary Griegg and the affidavit of Haynes Bartlett hereto attached by a tape were the identical original papers together with the certificate
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of said David D Wait esq on the affidavit of said Mary and the certificate or opinion of said Judge on the said declaration without any addition or diminution of the proeedings before said Judge that after taking said original papers + the preceeding thereon by said Judge this deponent received the affidavit of William Clark herto (sic) also attached by said tape that he presented the affidavit of said William Clark to the judges of the court of common pleas in + for the county of Cayuga then in session at the September term of said court in the term of September 1832 and the same was attached by the sanction of the said court to the original procedings of said Augustus F Ferris esq a Judge And after the said court had sanctioned the same and given their opinion on the same the identical papers before named and hereto attached by a tape were certified to by the clerk of said court in the matter of the application of Judge Brewster for a pension and this deponent saith that the foregoing affidavits declaration and certificates are the original proceedings as certified to by said clerk withour any diminution or additions either of words or paper and that there has been no paper or papers improperly attached to said certificate of said clerk until it was improper to attach the affidavit of William Clark as aforesaid  Denison Robinson
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 8th day of Feb 9 1832 
William Minor Justice of the Peace
Cayuga County I certify that I am well acquainted with Denison Robinson Esq who has signed + sworn to the above affidavit + that he is a credable person
William Minor Justice of the Peace
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Amended declaration of Jesse Brewster in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress paper June 7 1832
State of New York
County of Cayuga 
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for the county of Cayuga aforesaid Jesse Brewster who being duly sworn deposeth and saith by reason of old age and the consequent 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 three periods  mentioned below and in the following grades.
For one month I served as a private commencing in the month of October 1776 and ending in the month of November 1776.
For not less than three months I served as a corporal in Captain Seth Marvins company commencing in the fore part of January 1777 and terminating in the forepart of April 1777.
For not less than one month and twelve days I served as a corporal in Captain Thomas Horton's company commencing in the latter part of August 1777 and terminating in the fore part of October 1777.
For not less than three months I served as a private in Colonel Mariners Regiment commencing in the spring of 1778 and terminating in July or August 1778 and I think I served as many as four months.
  For not less than five months I served as a private commencing quite the forepart of the year 1779 and terminating in quite the last of the year 1779 as set forth in my original declaration.
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For not less than eight months  and fifteen days I served as an artificer under Captain Peter Allen commencing according to his best recollection in the month of January 1780. And ending in the month of October or November 1780
And for not less than four months I served as a sergeant in Captain Henry Brewster's company commencing in the month of July 1781 and terminating in November 1781  That he served in the whole as a private not less than nine months as above stated and that he served as a corporal not less than four months and twelve days as above stated and that he served as a sergeant not less than four months as above stated and that he served as an artificer not less than eight months + fifteen days and for such service I claim a pension and I claim that my service as an artificer be first received in calculating the amount of my pension. That for the particulars of the above service reference may be had to the original declaration hereto annexes by a  tape which has this day been read to me and the same is the redundent declaration which I swore to before Judge Ferris. That he vever received a written discharge from any of the service. That he was born on the 19th day of December 1754. At Coshithton noro in the county of Sullivan in the State of New York. That he has a record of his age kept in his family bible. that he is acquainted in his present neighborhood with Rev'd William Clark Nathan H Sayre James Brinkerhoff, John Duker esq Henry Martin + Gilbert Brewster who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of my service as a soldier of the Revolution. That after the Revolution  he resided at Blooming grove as many as twenty years according to his best recollection and that town Blooming grove he moved to Romulus in the county of Cayuga then now Seneca and resided in Romulus aforesaid till six years ago last May also during to the best of his recollection and then moved to the
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town of Sterling in the county of Cayuga where he has lived since + where he now lived.  That on heresy the above read over he says before he moved to Sterling aforesaid six year ago last May he had resected few year in Troy county in the state of New York 
Jesse Brewster (his X mark)
The word a "six" subscribed and sworn "few" written on an erasure sworn to and subscribed before me this 8th day of Feb 9 1833
Darius Monroe Justice
Cayuga County 
I certify that Jesse Brewster the person who has subscribed and sworn to the above  amended declaration is a credible person and his Statements are to be relied upon as truth   Darius Monroe
State of New York Cayuga County . I Michael S Myers clerk of said county do certify that Darius Monroe esquire before whom the foregoing amended declaration perports to had been taken + sworn and that William Miner Esquire before whom the next preceeding affidavit of Denison Robinson purports to have been sworn were at the dates of said amended declaration and said affidavit respectively justice of the peace in and for said county and that I am acquainted with the had writing of the said Darius Monroe and William Miner and that the hand writing of the said Darius Monroe subscribed to said amended declaration is his proper hand writing + signature and that the hand writing of this said
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William Miner subscribed to the affidavit of Denison Robinson is his proper hand writing and signature witness my hand and seal of office this thirteenth day of February in year one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.
M. S. Myers clerk
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Jesse Brewster Pension papers 
admitted 
adm'd claims for 
9mo. pri
4.17m copl.
4 Sergt
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Victor Sept 3rd
Robinso Esq
Counsellar at Law
Port Byron Cayuga county of NY
 upside down: 
affidavit of Reverend William Clark
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Cayuga County Js
On the sixteenth day of August in the year Eighteen Hundred and thirty five, personally appeared before me the undernamed a Justice of the peace of Sterling in said county Haynes Bartlett a resident of the Town of Romulus and county of Seneca and State of New York and who was by me duly sworn before me and saith that in the month of January in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven he and one Jesse Brewster resided in Orange County Town of Cornwall and in the village of Bloomingrove and that at that time they both enlisted as soldiers in the revolutionary War for the term of three months under Captain Seth Marvin + Colonel McLaughlin and that they both served together during said time as soldiers and this deponent further saith that he and said Jesse Brewster in the month of July seventeen hundred and eighty one enlisted at Newburgh on the Northi[?] as soldiers under Captain Henry Brewster and under Colonel Wisenvelt for the term of four months and served during said terms as soldiers and further said not
Haynes Bartlett
Subscribed and sworn August 18th 1832 before me Isaac Turner Justice of the Peace
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County of Cayuga Js
On this 3rd day of September personally appeared before the undernamed + Justice of the peace of said county the Reverend William  Clark a Minister of the gospel a resident of the town of Parthey county of Wayne and State of New York who being duly sworn deposeth and saith he has been acquainted with Hanes Bartlett of the town of Romulus county of Seneca and State of New York for the term of twenty four of five years and same part of the time intimately acquainted that he verily believes him to be a man of truth and veracity as he has never heard or witnessed any thin to the contrary and further saith not
William Clark
Subscribed and sworn Sept 3rd 1832 before me 
Isaac Turner Justice of the Peace
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress passed June 7 1832
State of New York County of Cayuga Js
On the first day of September AD. 1832 before me Augustus F Ferris on of the Judges of the court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Cayuga personally appeared Jesse Brewster a Resident of the town of Sterling in the county of Cayuga and State of New York 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 act of congress passed June 7 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That he first entered the service of the United States in the year 1776 in the month of October as he thinks as a drafted soldier and went to Haverstraw and was out on this service a month or more and was discharged but he cannot now state the officers names that there names are totally gone from his mind. That he lived at teh time he entered this service in the village of Bloomingrove in the town of Cornwall in the county of Orange in the State of New York at which Jesse was drafted into this service.
That he entered the service of the United States again about the first of January 1777 under Captain Seth Marvin and Lieutenent Steven Hulsey and ensyn Smith in Colonel McSaughry's Regiment of militia or volunteer of New York that he entered this service as a volunteer under an enlistment or engagement for three months and was discharged in the fore part of April of same year 1777 that he was in this service three months that soon after he joined his company he was marched to Tappan to Fort See on the Hudson and lay near Hackensack the most part of the said term of three months. That he at the time of the entering this service
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entered his name upon a paper called an enlistment but he now supposes he was sti_d a volunteer that he entered this service at  said Blooming grove where he then lived.
And this Deponent further saith that he entered the service of the United States again in the latter part of August in the year 1777 under Captain Thomas Horton Lieutenant Henry Brewster (who was his the said Jesse Brewster's brother) as a drafted soldier and was discharged the fore part of October in the year 1777 and went to Fort Montgomery and lay there about six weeks and was discharged upon a relief coming to take his place that he entered the service at said Blooming grove at which place he then lived. 
That in the spring of the year 1778 he entered the service of the United States again in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Wisner as a drafted soldier that he went to West Point when the fortifications were beginning at that place that he was set to work in making the fortification and remained there to work on the fortifications + standing on guard till July or august when he was discharged. That he cannot recollect any the rest of the officers at West Point service cannot state the precise length of time that he was out on this service but thinks three or four months out he entered the service at said Blooming grove as a draft he thinks he lived at said Blooming grove when he entered this service.
That he again in the year 1779 entered the service of the United States and during that year went out several different times on month tours but the precise times he went out and was discharged he cannot state but that he was out in said service five months  for he reccollects distinctly that he had hired out to a Mr Minard Cooper to work at Blacksmith work for six months ant that in performing this six months Blacksmith work he was eleven months
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before he had completed his six months engagement with said Cooper on account of being called into service and that all the time of the said eleven months which was not employed for said Cooper in doing the six months work. was in the service of the United States. That a part of the above five months service was under Captain Jonathan Tuttle in Colonel Eliku Marvins Regiment of militia and part of the time was under Captain Persons as he believes and a part of the time was under the Continental officers and cannot reccollect any more of the officers in this service. one trip that went in this last service he went to Clarkstown in Orange county that once as he believes he went to Goshen to guard the Jail from indians and where he went to other than as stated in this service he has now no reccollection. That he lived at said Blooming grove and entered the service there in these services.
That he again entered the service of the United States in the month of January in the year 1780 under Captain Peter Allen Leutenant Tepp and was set to work in the armory shop at Fishkill where he entered the service as a volunteer and there remained for nearly nine months and was discharged from this service in October or November of the year 1780 that he resided at said Blooming grove at the time he entered this service
That he again entered the service of the United States in the month of July in the year 1781 under Captain Henry Brewster ( a brother of said Jesse Brewster) and Lieutenant Stewart in Colonel Gesenvelt's regiment of volunteers or militia he does not know which nut he entered under an engagement of four months and was discharged in the month of November in the year 1781. That immediately after his service in this enga
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gement marched to White plains then went to Albany from there to Saratoga through half moon + Stillwater and remained at Saratoga the said term of four months and was discharged and returned home to Blooming grove aforesaid where he lived when he entered this service.
That he has been in frequent other service of the New York militia on short trips nu he cannot now reccollect when nor the length of times not who his officers were not positively where he went. that the most part of the aforesaid service he was a seargent and was in all the above service in the New York State Troops or militia that he has no documentary evidence to prove any of the above service  that he knows of no persons to prove his service except that he can procure the testimony of Mary Griegg + Haynes Bartlett of the town  of Romulus in the county of Seneca New York and said Mary Grieggs of Victory in said county of Cayuga.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any states
The words " villages of" "procure" "Sterling" "in the county of Seneca New York "+"said interl{?} 
Jesse Brewster (his X mark)
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Augustus F. Ferris one of the Judges of Cayuga county courts
Mr William Clark a clergyman residing in the town of Port Bay in the county of Wayne. And Nathan Sayre residing in the town of Victory in the county of Cayuga
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hereby certify that Jus are well acquainted with Jesse Brewster who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy  seven years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
William Clark N Haynes
sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Augustus F. Ferris one of the Judges of Cayuga county courts
And I the said Judge do hereby declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and I the said Judge further certify that it appears to me that William Clark who has signed the preceeding certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Fort Bay + county of Wayne and that Nathan Sayre who has also signed the same is a resident in the said town of Victory in the county aforesaid and is a credable person and that their statement is entitled to credit  And I the said Judge further certify that the said Jesse Brewster cannot attend the court on account of bodily informity 
the words " of Wayne" + "H" interlined before executed
Augustus F. Ferris one of the Judges of Cayuga county courts
and now at this day to wit on this 26th day of September 1832 before Joseph S Richardson Asahel Fitch Gersham Morse and Augustus F. Ferris the Judges of the court of Common Pleas in + for the county of Cayuga
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now sitting Augustus F Ferris one of the said Judges brimgs here into court the proceedings of an investigation before him on the first day of September instant in the matter of Jesse Brewster the above named applicant in order to entitle him to the benefit of the act of congress passed June 7 1832 And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter upon the above declaration certificates and affidavits that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the court do in all respects concur in opinion with the said Augustus F Ferris.
I Michael L Myers, clerk of the court of Common Pleas in + for the county of Cayuga and state of New York, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jesse Brewster for a pension
Witness my hand and seal of office this twenty sixth day of September AD. 1832
M. S. Myers clerk for P.M. Myers  clk
I Michael S Myers clerk of the court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Cayuga and state of New York do certify that the foregoing  contain the original proceeding of the said court in the matter of the application of Jesse Brewster for a pension as heretofore as above  certifies to by me witness my hand and seal of office this thirteenth day of February AD 1833 part of the two first lines of this certificate written over an erasure M S. Myers clerk
Jesse Brewster 11869 Declaration
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Brewster, John  Matross  Crane's continental Artillery ( Massachusetts)
warrant number 3820  Oct. 25, 1792 to--- not shown--