Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3082, Ezra Drew, Vt.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Vt

Drew, Ezra.

NUMBER
R. 3082

CONTENTS
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Bergen County Common pleas
State of New Jersey
Bergen County
On the 29th of Jany 1834
personally appeared in open Court before the Judges
now sitting as a Court of record Ezra Drew, resident
of Pompton Bergen County and State of New Jersey aged
Seventy four years last June. and 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 the 7th June 1832.

That he was born the 11th June 1761 at New Stratford
in the State of Connecticut according to the family Bible
(my name and birth being there recorded) kept by my father,
William Drew decd. That during the winter of 1775 together
with his mother’s family removed to the State of Vermont- that
he there entered the service of the United States in the time
of the Revolution under the following named officers and
served as here stated vis- that he entered the service
of the United States, by voluntary enlistment in a company
commanded by Capt Gideon Brunson who had the immediate
 command of a company of Artificers in the early
part of the year 1778 and joined the regular army
then stationed at and in the State of Vermont- that he
continued in the service of the United States as a
private in the corps of artificers under the command of
said Capt Brunson until the end of the war 1783
during all of which time his employment was constantly
at the Blacksmith business, shoeing horses in the public
service and various other kind of iron work for the
American army of the Revolution stationed at and
in the neighbourhood of Manchester, in the State of Vermont
and at Skeensborough in the State of New York and
other place in that vicinity when the public services required
the work of said company- the American troops
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were commanded by Col Ethan Allen at Manchester
and various other field officers whose names he does not
recollect.  That after the termination of the war he continued
 in the State of Vermont until the year 1784 when he
removed to the State of New York where he continued
to reside until the year 1800 from thence to Pompton
in the County of Bergen State of New Jersey at which
place he has resided until this day-- that he has no
documentary evidence and has no recollection of his
ever having received a written or printed discharge.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever except the present
and declares his name is not on the pension roll of
the agency of any State-- that as to the great delay
his application for a pension under the act of Congress
Of June 1832 he begs leave to state to the Secretary
of War and Commiss’r of Pensions that he did make
application to Judge Abraham Reynolds 17 Dec 1832
at Paterson in the County of of Essex next County to Bergen
who made out his declaration for him and here the business
 ceased till now last [Sept], on account of sickness
and the common infirmities of old age.  Also that he
was too poor to raise money necessary to bear his expenses
to the County of Albany in the State of New York,
about one hundred and fifty miles.  That
after obtaining the evidence of William Drew and
Wm Denman and his return to the State of New Jersey
he was informed that he must make his application
to the Court of the County in which he did reside, hence
 it is that his application is dated since the date of
the affidavits of Wm Drew and Wm. Hinman.
Ezra Drew
Sworn to and subscribed in
open County the day & year aforesaid
Saml H. Berry Clerk
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Interrogatories put to the claimant

1st-Where and what year were you born?
Answer - At New Stratford in Connecticut in the year 1761.

2nd-Have you any record of your age and if so where is it?
Answer - My age is recorded in the family Bible of my father
William Drew decd

3rd-Where was you living when called into service, where have
you lived since the Revolution, and where do you now
live?
Answer - At Manchester in the State of Vermont, after the
 termination of the war he continued to reside in Vermont
til the 1784 when he removed to the State of New York
where he resided til the year 1800 from thence he
removed to the County of Bergen in the State of New
Jersey at which place he has continued to reside to
this day.

4th-How were you called into service?
Answer - By voluntary enlistment.

5th-State the names of the Regular officers, where your
served, such Continental & Militia Regiments as you
recollect.
Answer - Colonel Ethan Allen Commanded the troops at
 Manchester, where from time to time other field officers served
whose names he does not recollect at this time, and
that he does not recollect any other particular Regiment
but that commanded by Col. Allen

6th-Did you ever receive a discharge from the service &
if so
by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
Answer - I never received a discharge at all either written or 
printed.

7th-State the names of those persons in your present neighbor
hood who can testify to your character for veracity and
integrity?
Answer
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Answer - Judge Martin J Ryerson, General Board, Col.
Nathaniel Board, and Jacob M Ryerson
Ezra Drew
Sworn to & subscribed in open
Court the day & year aforesaid
Saml H. Berry Clerk

Bergen County
State of New Jersey
Personally appeared
before me William Caspar a Justice of the
peace and one of the Judges of the Court of
common pleas for the County of Bergen in the
State of New Jersey Isaac L Demund
Clergyman in Pompton and Peter M Ryerson
residing in the same, do hereby certify that
we are well acquainted with Ezra Drew
who has subscribed and sworn to the
annexed declaration, that we have known
him a number of years that we consider
him to be a man of strict integrity and truth
that we believe him to be about seventy four
years of age that he is reputed and believed
in the neighbourhood where he resides to
have been a soldier of the revolution and
we concur in that opinion
Isaac L Demund
Pastor of the [illegible] at Pompton
 Peter M Ryerson

Sworn & subscribed
before me 2d July 1834
Wm Colfax-

I do Certify that the said Peter Ryerson is a 
credible witness and entitled to full credit as
 such - and Isaac L Demund is a [settled] minister
at Pompton of good standing.
Wm Colfax-
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[State of New York]  {New Jersey crossed out]
[Greene] County [Bergen crossed out]  Personally appeared
before me Dorrance Kirtland------
one of the Judges of the Court of common
pleas for the county of Green in the State of
New York, William Drew, a resident of the
Township of New Baltimore in the said County
of Greene and State aforesaid, aged twenty two
years who being duly sworn according to
law saith that he is Brother of Ezra Drew,
an applicant for a pension under the act
of Congress of June 1832. [renamed & described]
in the declaration of Mr. [said] Ezra Drew and
known to be the same person as therein described.
hat the said Ezra Drew now resides in Pompton
Bergen County and State of New Jersey.
That he well knows & remembers that the said
Ezra Drew in the year 1778 enlisted in a company
of Infantry commanded by Capt [Evelyn] Bronson [in] Col Ethan Allen’s
Regiment, in the service of the United States at the
Town of Manchester in the State of Vermont, where
as well the deponent as the said Ezra Drew
then resided. That after the said Ezra had
enlisted as aforesaid he was [illegible]
 in a Blacksmith’s shop kept by his Father
who was [again] a regular enlisted Soldier - That 
his Father was in the employ and service of the
United States and received his pay and rations as
such untill the close of the revolutionary war.
This deponent further says that said Ezra
then continued in the service of the United States
untill the termination of said war and received
his rations as a regular enlisted soldier.
William Drew
Sworn & Subscribed the 12th day of
September 1835 before me
Dorrance Kirtland
Judge of the Court of Com Pleas aforesaid

And I also certify that the said William Drew is a Credible
witness & entitled to full credit as such
Dorrance Kirtland
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State of New York
Greene County ss
I William T. B. Hermance Clerk of the said County do certify that
Dorrance Kirtland Esq. before whom the within affidavit of William Drew was sworn
and also the annexed affidavit of William Hinman was sworn was at the date of
the said affidavits First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County, and
that his signature to said affidavits is genuine
Witness my hand and official seal this twenty third
day of October 1835
W. B. Hermance Clerk
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Ezra Drew
New Jersey

Rejected
see let to Judge A Reynolds
 Apl 27. 1836

3082

Act 7 June 1832
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3082
P. O.

Ezra Drew

Service:
Enlisted: REJECTED
Discharged:

Application filed:
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O.
Recognized.
Contract.
Cert. of Dis. 
Searched for ___18
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Paterson April 15th 1836
Sir
I beg leave to present the declaration of Ezra Drew
in order for a pension.
The cause of the great delay in perfecting his papers - viz
 from December 1832 to this time is accounted for by the
 applicant in his declaration and my own affadavit dated the
 15th March 1836. And the recent delay since January last in
 obtaining the Certificate of the County Clerk was owing to the change of
office in the County of Bergen, Mr Berry having been
appointed in the place of Westervelt and having no official
from the Department to guide him in making the necessary
certificate.
The affidavit of William Drew
was headed "New Jersey Bergen County” through mistake which
 will account for the crossed lines which there
appear?
The whole are now completed in a manner I
trust that will be satisfactory and entitle Mr Drew
(who is now on the verge of pauperism) to a pension.
Most Respectfully Yours
A. Reynolds

Hon J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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33.618
New Jersey

Ezra Brew
-
Rejected
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Judge Reeynolds
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State of New Jersey
Bergen County ss On this Fifteenth day of March A D 1836
personally appeared before me Peregrine Sandford a
Justice of the Peace and one of the Judges of the Inferior
Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Bergen
Abraham Reynolds Esq a Judge of the inferior Court of
Common Pleas in and for the County of Essex a
resident of the Township of Paterson in the said County of
Essex and being duly sworn according to law deposeth
and saith that on the Seventeenth day of December 1832
Ezra Drew a resident of Pompton in the County of
Bergen now applying for a pension did appear
before him the said Abraham Reynolds and did make
his declaration for a pension pursuant to an act of 
Congress passed June 7th 1832. That the said Ezra
Drew was then labouring under infirmities and unable
to travel, and destitute of the means to procure the
attendance of witnesses residing in the County of Albany
in the State of New York, a distance of one hundred and
 sixty miles from the counties of Essex and Bergen.
Consequently the completion of the papers
was delayed.
A. Reynolds

Sworn & Subscribed before me 
the day and year aforesaid
Peregrine Sandford Justice of the Peace

I do hereby certify that Abraham Reynolds
Esq who subscribed and swore to the above
affidavit is a credible witness and entitled to
credit when under oath, March 22-1836
Peregrine Sandford Justice of the Peace
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Bergen Common Pleas
January term 1836

In the matter of the application of Ezra Drew for a pension
And the said Court do hereby
declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter
and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War
Department that the above named applicant was a
Revolutionary soldier and served as he states.
By the Court Saml H. Berry Clerk
Hackensack January 29th 1836

State of New Jersey
Bergen County ss; I Samuel H. Berry Clerk of the
County of Bergen, and Clerk of the Court of Common
pleas in and for said County, do hereby Certify, that the
foregoing and annexed papers contain the original
proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application
 of Ezra Drew for a pension.
And I do further certify, that William Colfax
Esquire before whom the annexed Deposition of the Rev. Isaac
S. Demund and Peter M Ryerson was taken & sworn to,
was on the day of the date thereof, and still is, a Justice
of the peace and one of the Judges of the said Court of Common
pleas for the County of Bergen aforesaid, duly commissioned
and sworn, and that his signature to the Jurat of the
said Deposition as well as to the certificate thereunder written
is genuine. And also that Peregrine Sandford Esq.
before whom the annexed Deposition of Abraham Reynolds
was taken and sworn to, was on the day of the date thereof, and
still is, also a Justice of the peace and one of the Judges of the
said Court of Common pleas duly commissioned & sworn
and that his signature to the Jurat of the said Deposition
and to the certificate written at the bottom thereof is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and seal of Office this Ninth day of April
in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty six.
Saml H. Berry Clerk
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William Hinman of the Town of Coeymans in the
County of Albany and State of New York aged Seventy
two years and being duly sworn maketh oath & saith that
he was well acquainted with Ezra Drew who is named
and described in his declaration for a pension hereunto
 annexed. That he this deponent well knows
and remembers that the said Ezra Drew
in the year 1778 enlisted in a company of infantry
commanded by Capt Gideon Bronson, Col Ethan
Allen’s Regiment at the Town of Manchester in the
State of Vermont [‘New York’-crossed out], where as well he this deponent as
the said Ezra Drew then resided. That after his said
enlistment he was put into Blacksmiths shop kept
by his father who was also a regular enlisted soldier,
 [insert] and served as a blacksmith. 
That the father of the said Ezra Drew was in the Employ
and service of the United States and received his pay
and rations as such untill the close of the Revolutionary
 War. This deponent further saith that the
said Ezra Drew continued in the service of the United States
untill the termination of the said War and
received his rations as a regular enlisted soldier.
Wm Hinman

N B The word New York obliterated &
the word “Vermont” before sworn to

also the words “and served as a Blacksmith”
Interlined before sworn to

Sworn & Subscribed the 12th day
of September 1835 before me
Dorrance Kirtland First Judge
of the Court of Com Pleas of the County of Greene and
State of New York

And I the said Judge do certify that the
said William Hinman is a Credible witness
& entitled to full Credit as such
Dorrance Kirtland